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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-15
loaded with rebels were captured on

loaded with rebels were captured on
Pasig river.
WASHINGTON, March 14.-Cien. Otis
cables the war department from Ma
Mia under to-day's date as follows:
Until yesterday the field operations
here since capturing Caloocan has
been Of minor nature, consisting of
driving back small bands of insurgents
with considerable loss to the latter.
Yesterday Wheaton with the Twenti-
eth and Twenty. infantry aud
the Oregon and Washington troops
with section of the Sixth artillery and
squadron of the Fourth cavalry attack
ed large force of the enemy and drove
them back and took the line to the Pa
sig river. Two improvised gun boats
in the lake captured considerable
property. The insurgent loss is heavy.
Our own loss in killed and wounded is
slight, aggregating thirty-6ve mostly
slightly wounded"
MANILA, March l4.-Gen. Wheaton
has shelled the enemy out of Pateros
and Taguig and occupied those places.
The rebels made stroog resistance.
MANILA, March 14.-Gen. Whea-
toms brigade continued aggressive op.
erations to-day. After the early morn
ing skirmish near Pasig church, the
Americans advanced rapidly upon Pa
teros and Tasuig. The Fllipinos held
on to both places tenaciously, and i,
required vigorous Smelling and 6
brilliant charge by the Fourth cavalry
to dislodge them. The Americana oc
cupied both places. Troop E, Fourth
cavalry, charged upon and dispersed 6
considerable body of rebels near Ia
guig. The inspiring mAneuver was
cheered by their comrades. Troop Z
lost one man xii ed five wounded. Thei
wounds were slight. Today 1000 insur
gents returned to Pasig from which
place they were driven yesterday, bu
were speedily driven out again by th
gunboat. They suffered severely il
killed and wounded in this action an
IA were taken prisoners. The gun
boat was ordered to destroy all vessel
in Legunda Bay and is now aciivel
engaged in that duty.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-15

Ing upon automatic machines for making
the springs but until recently 1t amounted
to naught and they still depend upon hand
made springs. X. j. Hatch, an expert ma
chinist, was employed, and, after working
upon his invention for about eleven weeks,
he now has a machine running automati.
cally by power which is making these
springs, doing daily the work OF three men.
The construction OF a second and improved
machine is now in progress. In view of
the fact that some OF the best machine max
ing plants in the country have been unable
to construct machine which would make
these springs successfully, great credit is
due to the ingenuity of Mr.. Hatch
Some idea of the output OF clothespins by
this company can be obtained when 1t is
known that an order OF one carload, or
5000 gross of pins, will be shipped to Europe
within a few days.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-15
Another Interesting Letter from
Frank II. Foster.

Subjoined are extracts from a letter witt
ten by Frank III. Foster, Company A Bat
TALON Engineers, United States Army, to
his father, Il. L. Foster:
Manila, February 2, 1899.
Things have taken such a turn here
lately, as respects the manner of govern
ment to be established in the Philippines,
that IL has thrown wet blanket upon all
new enterprises. On account of the attitude
now assumed by the Filipinos, we cannot
las supposed would have been done before
this time) establish at present any satisfac-
tory form of administration. II the natives
are permitted to make the attempt to gov
ern themselves, Improvement, continual
uprisings and failure are certain, and will
be repeated until they shall have learned
that they are incapable OF self-government.
This may take one or two years, but I am
inclined to think, that before that time, and
possibly very soon, they will voluntarily
ask for our assistance. This is the present
outlook. After the Investigating commits
sion shall have finished its work, things
may take on different aspect. We have
moved out near the trenches at Malate, and
have been under arms for the past three
weeks, in constant expectation of an attack
None but their own people are allowed tC
pass through the insurgent liues that sur
round the city. Five men Of the Engineers
were taken yesterday by the insurgents
| while out surveying, and no one vet knows
what has been done with them, although
we anticipate their safe return.
The mail service here Is the most gross
| piece OF management we have had to con
tend with. We have been led to believe
and in fact have been told repeatedly, tina
we could send articles through the mail
free OF duty. We have all sent something
in this manner, and are now informed tina
| all that matter has been confiscated at Sai
Francisco. Not only this, but all article
of value sent here, have been subjected t.
wholesale robbery. do not believe Their,
Is soldier in the Eighth army corps tina
has not been robbed Of his mail matter in
greater or less degree. 1t is an outrage up
on US, as we have no redress, and can d
nothing to recover our property.
The five engineers referred to by Mr.. Eos
ter were released after thirty-six hours de
| tentiOn
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Electric Road RumOrs.

Hon. FL. w. Lyford of Warren was in
town Monday on his way to Barre where he
is still engaged as one of the commissioners
on the French estate in disposing of that ex-
tensive property From him WATCHMAN re-
porter learned that the project Of building
au electric railroad from Newport to Rut.
land via Waterbury and the Mad River VAL
ley is by no means abandoned, although no
definite plans for building such line have,
as yet, been made.
Satisfied that the idea of building an cleo
trio line from Montpelier through Middle
sex, Moretown and Waitsfield to Warren,
for this year at least. has been abandoned,
the inhabitants Of that region are looking
to other sources to give them the facilities
they have so long needed. 1t is quite pos.
morning in the not distant future to fiud
her prospect of being terminal station OF
the Mad River Valley electric road thing
OF the past.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-15

Olney, "this country purposely takes its
stand outside the European family circle
to which it belongs, and neither accepts
the responsibilities Of its place nor Sc
cures its advantages" He showed that
this policy of isolation is not enforced
by the Monroe doctrine and is not COM
manded by Washington's Farewell Adj
dress, which was aimed against partici-
patton in the "ordinary vicissitudes" Of
European politics and against "perma-
nent alliances" with foreign powers,
trusting to temporary "allianccs for ex-
traordinary emergencies" This was
practical wisdom at the time, but the
times have changed, the condition OF the
country has nightly changed, and the
national policy must change accordingly
! George Washington and Richard Olney
would be in accord on this point. The
view Mr.. Olney was expressing on the
eve of war with Spain, year ago, has
had a powerful enforcement by the
events of the war, the issues of the
peace negotiations, and the cordial &C
quiescence of Europe and japan in the
settlement with Spain.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-15
United States Clothes Pin COmpany's
Works to be Enlarged.

Those who feel that business enterprises
in Vermont are slow of growth have an OBJ
iect lesson to the contrary in the strides
made by the local United States Clothes
Pin Company in the past few months. The
business of the concern has become so ex-
tensve that the work of construction OF
wing sixty by twenty-four feet, two stories
high, to the present plant has been begun.
DIR. Luther Newoomb became clerk,
treasurer and general manag for the com
pany last August and in the clothes pin de-
partment alone the increase in business is
readily seen in the fact that where only two
hands were employed in making pins there
are now eight, and the rders for the goods
would warrant more could the springs be
made fast enough. The company has OK
pc lded thousands OF dollars in experiment.
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PlainheId.

C. A. Foss returned from Walden last
Wednesday,
Elmer Bailey purchased a fine horse Of
N. d. Page this week.
Mrs. r. B. Little was quite sick last week
but is much better at this time.
Mrs. ID. W. Moses spent a few days last
week at Calais with her father, who is sick.
Joseph Lane, one OF the oldest men in
town, is i'll with the grip and confined to
the house.
John Worcester aud wife and Will Nye
OF South Barre were at Charles Lombard 8
over Sunday
About dozen OF the young people from
here attended the entertainment given by
the Odd Fellows at East Barre last Friday
night.
Harris Eaton while unloading milk at
the creamery last week met with an accid-
ent by can falling on him, that has since
confined him to the house.
A CARD.-We, the undersigned, do here
by agree to refund the money on a 50-cent
bottle of Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tar
il it fails to cure your cough or cold. We
also guarantee 25.cent bottle to prove sat
man Marshfleld, E. II. Leavitt Plainheld, #.
L. Carr East Montpelier, A. A, Bliss, Sodom
Moretown.
Mrs. j. G. Towle is visiting in Waterbury
for few days.
Mrs. II. o. Ward entertained her Sunday
school class of young people at her home
on Wednesday evening. A very pleasant
time is reported.
Mrs. j. G. Towle has returned from her
visit in Waterbury, - Charles Sawyer
and wife OF Barre were in town last week.
- The farmers are preparing for sugar
ing. - Miss Annie Hart has been work
ing at the home of Philander Chase in
Waitsfield for some time and will remain
there until June. Miss Hart has many
friends here in town who wish her success.
1t il expected that the singing
schools will soon close for this winter.
80 Only few from Moretown attended
tn, promenade at Waitsfield last Friday
night. u. W. Taylor returned from
Manchester, N. e., last Sunday morning
Miss Sarah Thompson Is TO move
into Mrs. Hoffman's house. =- Some Of
the young people are having the German
measles. - Mrs. Della Darling is visit
ing her sister Mrs. Phila Spear
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-15

IT looks queer to read, in the even
ing RECORD of March Is, a despatch
from Manila, bearing that date and six
o'clock P. M, as the time of transmits
sion. That despatch was received in
the RECcRD Office at two O'Clock p. M,
and was printed in the three O'Clock
and later edition, on its face several
hours before transmission. But the
telegraph had simply outrun the sun.
The difference in time between Manila
and Montpelier is about thirteen hours.
When that despatch was started from
Manila it was early in the morning in
Montpelier. The United States has
expanded, of which this circumstance
is solar illustration.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-15

THE Philippine coons are coming
down, with the celebrity the coons were
won't to practice when Davy Crockett
raised his gun. The islands of Mas
bate and Ticao, lying between Luzon
and the Visayas, have asked for The
shelter of the American flag. The for
mer is go miles long by 20 wide; the
latter 81 miles by ID. Their population
is said to be some $4,000. There are
towns having from 1000 to over 5000
inhabitants.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-15

ACCOMPANYING the President on his
vacation are Mrs. Mckinley, Vice
President and Mrs. Hobart, Senator
Hanna, at whose Townsville, Ga.
residence the party will be guests, and
several friends. How long the Presi-
dent will remain away from Washing
ton will depend entirely upon public
business. Secretary Porter remains at
the White House for the purpose Of
making Geographic reports to the Pres
ident of anything important aud receiv-
ing any orders it may be necessary to
give.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-15

CAPTAIN HIGGINsoN has done very
gracious thing in declining promotion
to the rank of rear admiral when his
fellow officers who were in the fight off
Santiago are left by the action, or nom
action, of Congress in their old stations.
BY one of the freaks of legislation Cap
tain Higginson's nomination had been
confirmed by the Senate. During the
blockade of Santiago he commanded
the battleship Massachusetts,. When
the battle of July was fought the ship
was at Guantanamo, forty miles to the
east, cosling. 1t was not in the action
at all. That was Captain Higginson's
ill luck. 1t was the fate of many
another ship and officer not to be at the
point where distinction was to be
won. Their duty was elsewhere.
On every station there were men like
Evans, Phillips or Clark and their gal
liant comrades. Opportunity alone was
lacking for brilliant achievement, fame
and promotion. Still, it has been one
of the mysteries, all along, if unaccus-
toned sea service, efficiency in great
emergencies, heroism in time of great
peril, unsurpassed gallantry and de-
cisive achievement in battle, are the
basis of promotion, how Captain Hig-
ginson was selected for advancement
and Capt. Clark of the Oregon figures
80 inconspicuously among the nomina-
tions sent to the Senate. A great
many Vermonters, and admirers of
Capt. Clark all over this continent,
would like to have this explained.
Capt. Higginson is not alone, however,
in his act of laudable self-abnegation.
Other officers who had successfully run
the gauntlet of promotion refuse to be
advanced beyond their equally mer-
itorious comrades. All this is legiti-
mate part and parcel of the splendid
spirit the men of the navy illustrated
at every stage of their service in the
late war. Even Admiral Sampson is
touched by it and begs that his nomi-
nation to the rank of vice-admiral be
withdrawn that his fellow officers may
receive the honors and emoluments
they have earned.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-15

UTAH's Legislature has adjourned
without breaking the deadlock in the
balloting for United States Senator
There is yet no election in California,
and Pennsylvania, and Delaware, too,
gives up the job for this session. In the
latter State in particular, any result is
better than the election of Addicks.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-15

GENERAL BROOKE, military govern
or of Cuba, and General Oils, of the
Philippines, have each been authorized
to enlist battalion of natives for the
regular army if they consider it wise to
try the experiment. The officers will
be Americans. In this way the great
Kitchener, with leaven of white SOL
diers, organized the army on the upper
Nile that recently gave the Mahdi and
his vastly outnumbering hordes 80 tre-
mendous a thrashing at Omdurman.
If the American army officer develops
something of the capacity of the Eng
lish in Egypt and India to create loyal
and effective armies from native raw
material the white mans burden in
maintaining the authority of Uncle
Sam in his new possessions in the trop'
les will be greatly lightened, and whole
some lessons of subsection and order
will be inculcated. The American will
rival the English captain in his apti'
tude for this business. Time will show
this.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-15

The navy department, says Wash
ington correspondent, has no informa-
ton that Admiral Dewey's health is in
a precarious condition. Months ago
Admiral Dewey was given leave to
come home whenever he desired to do
so, and he has since remained at his
post from choice, and because he de-
sired to complete the work in which he
is engaged. This is strictly official.
And it comedies with information re-
ceived in Montpelier, and recently pub
lished in this paper, called out by SEN
sational reports in other papers. II is
further suggested now that Admiral
Dewey should be given rest, put in a
glass case, sealed up and preserved for
some possible future emergency. The
post of duty as we'll as of honor for the
Admiral appears to be at Manila, and it
is certainly the post of the greatest
present service to his country. The
country is crossing an unusually swift
and treacherous stream in the Far East.
1t has no stomach for trading horses
till the solid ground of the farther verge
is reached. So, if Admiral Dewey is as
well as trustworthy official and private
reports represent him to be, the anxious
editors may properly transfer their So
licitude to other subjects, and the coun-
try settle down to the solid assurance
that Dewey is both physically capable
and periodically DESTROYS of remaining
at his post till the imminent dangers of
the Philippine situation are safely
passed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-15

In his statement concerning the
work of the last Congress, Chairman
Cannon, of the House appropriation
committee, gives more detailed state
ment of the appropriations made than
was possible for him to make earlier,
and says: "During the whole of the
four years covered by Mr.. Cleveland's
second administration, the material
and industrial condition of the coun-
try was calamitous, and its contempla-
ton does not bring satisfaction to any
American citizen. But the ffty-ffth
Congress, beginning with the admins
tration of William Mckinley, was
promptly called in extraordinary ses-
sion, as promptly enacted legislation
which has yielded the addition reve-
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nues needed to pay the ordinary ex-
penses of the government, and has AT
the same time protected American le-
Dor. With the enactment Of that leg
islation, hope and confidence struck
hands and the condition of the whole
country improved, and has continued
TO improve from that time to the pres
ent. Labor is now universally en-
ployed with increased wages, and with
such employment the means are sup
piled for increased consumption. The
vast increase of the navy, aud the
creation of an army of quarter of q
million men, together with the increase
of taxation, have not in any apprecia-
BILE degree checked our industrial ad-
vance, which began co-incidentally
with the incoming of the present ad-
mini. tration and the fifty-6fth Con-
gress.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-15

THE Cuban assembly has deposed
Gen. Gomez, declaring the old patriot
traitor to his country. A proper step,
apparently, would be for Gen. Brooke
to depose the Cuban assembly. The
assembly may depose but the Cuban
people will dispose of Gomez. He is
the popular idol and there is indigna-
ton among the great majority over the
indignity the assembly has visited up
on the old commander. The trouble
grows out of the circumstance that Gen.
Gomez accepted 100000 from the
American government for the army.
The assembly wanted $4,000 900, tried
to raise the money and failed, as it
could offer no security. 1t could get
the money only with the endorsement
of the United States. This government
will proceed with the paci6cation OF
Cuba on its own plans, and will make
Cubans its agents for the execution OF
its DEGREES 30 fast and far as they ex-
hibit capacity for public affairs and are
orderly and loyal to the real govern
ment of the island, that represented by
the officers of the United States. The
Cuban assembly seems to be a sort of
fifth wheel to the coach carrying the
Cuban people. AS at present consti-
tuted it appears to be menace to good
order and to the progress of pacitica-
ton.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-05

twig ana dead leaf Is covered with a
thin coating Of glistening ice. There
are myriads of branches so fine as to
be scarcely visible. but all are coated
so clearly and distinctly that they look
like the finest of flmy lace. e:
1t does not look like cotton lace, but
lace4of diamonds, rubies. emeralds and
pearls. Countless branches gently
move and sparkle with dazzling bright
ness. When the sun comes out with it's
pale, weak rays scarcely able to cast
shadow and passes through the ice
covered branches a prismatic effect. of
color is produced that it is impossible
70 Imagine 1t is the rainbow frozen
solid and then broken up into millions
Of pieces, each a glistening bit of float
ing, living light.
No greater Illustration of what can
be done by the accumulation Of small
particles can be found in all the world
than the great fee mountain that
formed this year at the foot Of Ameri-'
can Falls. Molecules Of water almost
as fine as those in steam have been
frozen one by one until they have piled
up nearly 100 feet into a solid hill that
weighs millions of tons. This hill. or
mountain, as the visitors call 1t, is as
round and smooth as hailstone. It is
great sport to climb this hill and then
sit down. Instantly you are at the bot
tom, having slipped over the smooth ice
as easily as though you were dropping
through space
This little feat that sends a thrill
through you more "breath-taking" than
any toboggan slide is not without its
dangers. Foolhardiness generally meets
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-05

with disaster. Early in the season
boy, not content with the speed he could
obtain by sitting down on the Ice ana
letting himself go, concluded to improve
things with the aid Of large tin pie
plate. He put this under him for a
seat and gave himself a shove. But so
little resistance did the tin pan offer to
the ice that he shot forward with the
speed Of a cannon ball, and when he
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-05

reached the bottom, instead of stopping
comfortably in a snowdrift, kept on go
ing and flew through the air for a dis
tance of fifty feet. finally humping
against a block of ice and being
knocked .senseless. He sustained
slight fracture of the skull and was
laid up for several weeks.
Naturally, during the long spell of
cold weather, the supply of water for
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-05

icy walls and softened the face Of ma
ture.
While Niagara has been in its most
beautiful winter garb the crowds or
visitors have been far greater than on
the average day during the summer.
Regular excursions have been run from
Buffalo and other nearby towns. 1t
Is also customary for parties to charter
a private car and make a gala winter
day picnic of the trip to the frozen
waterfall Parties have even come from
as far away as New York.
It is a strange sight to see the river,
that in the summer is a whirling eddy
of turbulent waters, as solid as a road
way, with thousands of people walking
about on the surface. At night the
boys build fires on the ice and light up
the whiteness of the surroundings, CIV
ing an entirely new aspect to the beau
ties of the scene.
Not content with what nature has
done with ice the people of Niagara
Falls have built an enormous ice palace
that from distance looks like a
structure of the whitest marble. In
side is a skating rink, where visitors
have the jolliest kind of times.
Part of the skating rink programme
consists of masquerade balls. OF course
skates take the place of dancing slip
pers, but the general effect ofthe merry-
makers as they appear on the floor"
is not particularly different from any
mardi gras ball. There are all kinds of
costumes, and of all the colors of the
rainbow, and over all is shed the brill
lancy of electric lights reflected from
walls of ice.
But it will all be over soon. couple
of days of spring sunshine and the iri-
descent beauty will vanish into water
whence it came