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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-08-23
The Transyaal

LONDON, Aug. %. - Information
from the colonial office indicate that
President Kruger has refused to sub
nit to The demand of Joseph Chamber
lain for the appointment of court of
inquiry. He must have done 80 diplo-
matically, or hedgingly, but that his
answer is regarded by the British gov
eminent as tantamount to positive
refusal is now an established fact.
The report that President Kruge-
has proposed new terms is indicated by
the guarded comment of the colonial
office officials, and the irritabiity dis
played there. There is not the slight
est doubt that they believe war is now
the only way to settle the controversy.
They would far rather have a curt, de-
FAINT answer, than the Incorporating re-
ply which the Boer president has sent.
With the former, Great Britain would
have plain grounds for quick COM
mencement of hostilities. Under the
circumstances, which it is believed now
exist, aggressive action needs consid.
cradle explanation to justify it in the
eyes of the world, and the English mi
nority who still declare it would be an
outrage.
But if Mr.. Chamberlain has his way
it is believed President Kruger's coun
ter proposals will meet with scant at
tention, and unless the Beers com
pletely back down, which is not likely
the crisis will quickly develop into war
CAPETowN, Aug. 22.-Sunday wal
observed throughout the Orange Free
State and Cape Colony with humilia
ton, prayer and sermons advocating 6
peaceful solution of the crisis.
A leading preacher said if war SHOULD
be declared Great Britain would com
NIT heinous crime before God and
man, resulting in civil war, in Cape
| Colony.
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The West and Expansion.

Secretary Wilson has just returned
from trip through the West to the
Pacific coast, He finds that the talk
about sentiment in the West against
the Philippine policy of President Nc
Kinley is all manufactured in the East.
He did not meet single "anti" west
of Chicago, although he met hundreds
of men in all stations in life. He found
the farmers prosperous throughout the
West, particularly in the corn belt.
The wheat crop will be little short,
but the crop of corn, oats and other
farm products is enormous.
Speaking of the annexation senti-
ment in the West, Secretary Wilson
said: 1.-THE people of the West under
stand this question better than do those
in the east. They know Dewey was
sent to the Philippines to protect our
large and growing trade with the Orient.
We have labored to build up a trade
with China and Japan, and when the
war began Spain had fleet in eastern
waters ready to attack and destroy our
commerce. She also was ready to en-
courage privateering, and Dewey went
to Hong Kong to be ready to protect
our shipping. He destroyed the
Spanish fleet as the safe way to prevent
it from preying upon American mer-
chant ships. Had the battle resulted
in victory for Spain rather than for
Dewey, the Spanish feet would have
crossed the Pacific to attack our wes-
tern ports. The people out West real
ize this, and they also realize that
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exhibition, and it is the sort OF a dem
onstration that should be prepared for
Dewey in the State and town of his ma.
tivity. Satiated with martial parade,
with "the glare and the glitter and the
tinsel" of fame, and with feasting, the
home greeting of the people, the spon-
taneous and sincere manifestations OF
their regard by their presence at the
State capital, the fireworks that burn
in their eyes and explode in their
cheers, will be grateful substitute for
the elaborate welcomes of metropolitan
munifcence. With these Vermont
cannot compete, but she can do better.
Her people can hang out the motto,
"Welcome to Vermont, George Dewey"
along the ridge of the Green Noun
tains, high as Mansfield and Cancels
Hump and one hundred and fifty miles
long, and illuminate it with the North
ern Lights. They will put their hearts
into such welcome to Dewey, which
will far surpass all the glamour and
magnificence of Gotham.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-08-23
Is It Malaria Or Aunt

Languor, loss of appetite, indigestion
and often feverisnness are the common
symptoms of a physiological condition
termed "malaria." AL, these symp-
toms may be and frequently are the
effect of the use of alum baking pow
ders in food making. There is no ques-
ton about the poisonous effect of alum
upon the system. 1t obstructs diges-
ton, prostrates the nerves, coagulates
and devitalizes the blood. All this has
been made clear, thanks to physicians,
boards of health and and food com
missions. So "highly injurious to the
health of the community" does the
eminent head of the University of
Pennsylvania, DR.. Barker, consider the
alum baking powders, that he says
"their sale should be prohibited by
law"
Under these circumstances it is worth
the while of every housewife to employ
the very little care that is necessary tC
keep so dangerous an element from the
food of her family.
A pure cream of tartar baking pow
der, which is the only kind that should
be used, ought to cost about forty-6ve
to fifty cents a pound. Therefore il
you are paying much lees, something il
wrong; if you are paying twenty-five
cents or less per pound, the powder i
certainly made from alum.
Always bear these simple facts il
mind when purchasing baking powder
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Cost of Dewey Reception.

The estimates of the cost of the
Dewey reception, not In Vermont but
in the city of New York, amount to
$1SS,0O0, and the appropriation is
$150,0O0.
Some of the items are $4,000 for ra-
tious for visiting soldiers, $4,000 for
decorating grand stands and $4,000 for
the building of triumphal arch. For
the water parade $4,000 is wanted.
Propositions have been made for dis
plays of fireworks in various parts of
the city, one costing $4,000 and an
$4,000. A large sum is wanted for
red fire to burn on the water front the
night the Admiral arrives. 1t is pro-
posed to place an electric motto, swell
come Dewey" thirty feet high and
three hundred feet long on Brooklyn
Bridge, and to illuminate public edi-
fees and Grants tomb at an expense Of
S46,50O. Five grand stands, seating
10000 persons, are to be erected at a
CObl vi IOO,UUO' lloilOohhOoeo AOh
guests will cost $4,000, the Claremont
breakfast to the Admiral, $4,000, and
the sailors smoker 81 1000.
Any display along these lines when
the Admiral comes to Vermont would
be mean and insignificant in compare
son, and the Admiral will be surfeited
with brilliance and extravaganza in
money expenditure long before he gets
up among the Green Mountains. The
celebration here can be made unique
and distinguishing by the absence of
artificial display. Vermont can show
the Admiral $4,000 and more of his fell
low Vermonters, assembled in her Cap
ital, all exuberantly glad to see him and
to welcome him home, and greeting
him with hearty and resounding Green
Mountain cheers. New York, or Phil
adelphia or Washington can't rival this
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-08-23

Dewey's victory and the subsequent
events which transferred the Philip
pines to the United States have given
an extraordinary impetus to the COM
MERGE of this country with the O.ient.
At all the Pacific ports the docks are
piled up with goods awaiting shipment
to the Orient, and we have not ships
enough to carry them. The people of
the West regard the Pacific as an Am
erican lake, which should be covered
with ships carrying the American flag,
and DON. know but they are about
right. Why, l went on one big ship,
loading at Tacoma, and found in the
cargo lumber, wheat and flour from the
State of Washington; butter and eggs
from Iowa and Michigan; fruit from
California and Oregon; steel from Ala
bama; cotton goods from the Carolinas
bicycles from Chicago; notions from
New England, and something from
more than half the States in the Union
This cargo was bound for China and
Japan, and it represented every section
and nearly every branch of industry in
the United States. 1t showed me more
clearly than had ever seen before the
general interest we all have in the orr
entail trade"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-08-23
Caution to WOOdsmen.

Look out for the woodlands during
this period of extreme drought. For
est fires destroy property and they
seriously mar the landscape. Nothing
in landscape is so offensive to the
sight as "a burnt piece" Destruction
from forest fires is slow of recovery
and in many instances recovery never
comes. The vegetable mould accumu-
lated through years of deposits is burn
ed away and can never be restored.
Forest reproduction, at it swiftest pace
and under favorable circumstances, in
this land of short season for growth,
never comes from such conditions, and
scene are barren and unsightly rocks
and lodges. New York's forestry COM
mission is looking after fires in the
Adrioudacks and employing means to
extinguish those that have been start
ed. Their work has been successful
and they have saved thousand of acres
of fine forest lands from the sweep of
the flames, with the material loss that
would follow and the vastly greater
injury that would result from the de-
struction of the States greatest and
most salubrious pleasure resort, the
refuge of invalids and the nourishing
sources of her streams. Vermont has
no forestry commission. Her noun
tain woods are the common prey of
avsrice and heedlessness. The State
makes laws, and imposes severe pen
alties for their violation, to protect
her fish and game but leaves the
homes of the trout, game birds and
deer to remorseless and unimpeded de-
struction. Appeal can be made in this
time of greatest peril to the woods
only to personal interest and personal
pride and admiration TO protect the
Green Hills from flame and destruc.
| tjOn
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-08-23

some of the most disorderly elements
in France to range thems elves, for
malevolent purposes, with the real
champions OF justice and truth. Such
is the fact, however, and Dreyfus'
cause has suffered severely during re-
cent months on account of its I'M
sought supporters among the enemies of
society. The humor of the situation in
which M. Guerin, armed with two
thousand bottles of St. Galmier water,
is successfully defying the government
OF France, does not appeal TO those
concerned in the serious event that is
being enacted here.
The defendant's lawyers are not
ready to announce how they will deal
with the important development of
Schneider's denial of the genuineness
| of document which is one Of the chief
reliances of Dreyius' accusers. 1t is
expected that they will promptly de-
mand that Genera MERCER disclose the
source of this forgery and if he does
not reveal it he and the other generals
will stand convicted of still another
black outrage.
The manuscript of Esterhazy's latest
story has been received here. He now
insists that the bordereau was drafted
by Col. Sandherr, copied by him (Es
terhazy,) sent to the German embassy
when Col. Sch wartzkoppen was absent
and thence brought to Col. Henry by 6
French spy. This was done because
Sandherr was exasperated over hi'
inability to secure proofs OF Dreyfus
treason, of which he was convinced by
evidence which it was impossible t
use publicly on account of its involving
names which could not be disclosed.
This is one of several mysteries
which the lawyers for the defense sa,
they will clear up before the trial i
finished.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-08-23
Out in Iowa.

The Brooklyn Eagle, Democratic,
discoursing on the Iowa Democratic
State convention, finds that ga little
more than the expected has happened"
in the Corn State. The convention in
dorsed the Chicago platform and then
ran away from it into antitrust and
anti-imperialistic resolutions; it favored
Bryan for denomination in 1900, and
renominated for Governor Frederick
e. White who was not elected by
large majority or any majority at all
when he was first nominated; it was a
silver crowd, "from toe nails TO top
knot, but it sianted toward the gold
men with an unfeigned alacrity to OBJ
tain their votes, and to accept their
contributions"
The plank about trusts was "solemn,
declamatory and not unspecific." 1t
demands that the trusts "be suppressed
by repeal of the protective tariff and
other privilege-conferring legislation
responsible for them," which is free
trade, and as Iowa is strong protec-
ton State 1--WE shall see how this free
trade plank will come out at the polls"
The platform utterances on Imperial
ism" are thus reviewed by the Eagle
which is an imperialist of imperalists:
Says the platform: I'VE deprecate and
condemn the war against the Filipinos."
1t would better have deprecated and con-
demned the war Of the Filipinos against u.s."
The platform declares that, "if the war
against Spain in Cuba was right, then the
war against the natives Of the Philippines
who have committed no offense, save to
love liberty and to be willing to fight for it
and to die for it, is wrong" We shall see
how far that extreme statement will pros
per in a commonwealth which has record
for loyalty and for valor, of which it has no
reason to be ashamed. Who began 1.-THE
war in the Philppines2" Not the United
States.
The Democratic party in Iowa has
got together, officially, though unofi-
cially it may lose not few quiet be-
levers in manhood, in the flag and
in growth, is the conclusion of the
Eagle. The election in November will
determine this matter, and New York,
which holds no election next fall may
profit by Iowa's experimenting with
''issues."
The Evening NeUS of Rutland, a
supporter of General Grout for the
senatorship, catches with suspicious
avidity at the very stale suggestion of
the Democratic Poultney Journal that
w. p. Dillingham; be chosen to succeed
General Grout as Representative in
Congress. This scheme will not work,
the suggestion is very old, and the an
swer was long ago made that Mr.. Dill
bingham is not candidate for Repre-
sentative in Congress, would not I'M
der any circumstances become a csndi-
date, and would not accept nomina.
ton if it should be rendered him.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-08-23
yermOnt's Dewey Day.

The State committee on Dewey's recep.
ton met in Montpelier today to confer with
the Montpelier committee and formulate
definite plans for the reception Governor
Smith and Messrs. Hooker, Stckney, Proc
tor, Wall, Stearns Cross and Blodgett OF
the executive committee and Secretary
Forbes we're present.
Col. Hooker briefly stated what the posi-
bilities were regarding the presence here OF
military organizations from out of the State
national troops and bands. l.. Bart Cross
was made member Of the State committee
on transportation.
Governor Smith stated that the trustees
OF the Langdon estate had offered the COM
mttee the free use OF the meadow across
the river for the accommodation of the mil
itary organizations
On the State committee on decorations,
Msssrs. Stearns, Lyman and Blodgett
were appointed to confer with a committee
to be appointed by the Montpelier commit
tee, to have entire charge OF all decorations
On motion OF j. G.. Brown of the Montpe-
lier committee the committee on decora-
tons was constituted committee on fire.
works. On motion OF Mayor Senter joint
committee of three was appointed by the
chairman OF the State and city committee
to determine the share of expense each
committee should assume. Messrs. Stick
ney, Proctor and Wall for the State and
Blanchard, Rowland and Sibley for the city
were chosen for this service.
The chairman OF the city committee APP
pointed committee Of i've to meet and Sc
lect the names of as many citizens OF Mont
pelier as they think best to constitute
committee on entertainment.
The Joint committee on apportionment OF
expenses made the following report which
was unanimously adopted That the State
committee bear the expense OF all trans
portation OF bands, the decoration OF public
buildings and grounds, and fire works and
that the city OF Montpelier bear the OK
pense of all private decorations and enter
tainment of bands and visiting organizs-
tons. Both committees then adjourned.
The State committee will probably meet
again in about two weeks.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-08-23

HAVANA, Aug. 18.-In view of the
fact that Colonel Bacallao, chief of the
secret police, persisted in his declar-
alton that General Jiminez, the aspir-
ant to the presidency of Santo Domingo,
was in Havana-either not having left
or having returned tine military author
tiles telegraphed to Cienfuegos instruc-
ting Captain Stamper, collector of Gus
toms there, to ascertain whether Jlmi-
nee was on the Menendez steamer and
to take him under arrest if that should
be the case. Just as the steamer was
about leaving Cienfuegos, Captain
Stamper located Jiminez and arrested
him.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-08-23
Maple Hill.

Mrs Joseph Cole is failing
Ed Maxfeld is cutting chair stock for
Wilbur Brown in place OF John Lane who
is at home, sick.
The tentmeeting which began July 20 Is
to continue over next Sunday. Ten were
baptised by immersion last Sunday by Ell
der Joseph Reid OF Stowe.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-08-23

The French governments failure TO
deal promptly and effectively with
Guerin, the anti Semitic rebel who is
making fortress of his house in Paris,
appears to have produced its natural
result in the Sunday rioting in the
French capital. These fellows construe
temporizing as an evidence of weak
ness. Napoleon better understood the
temper of Partisan mob. He wasted
on it no blank cartridges and never
fred over the heads of the rioters. And
order reigned in Paris
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-08-23
ARTHUR ROPES. General Editor.
Kansas Walls of Corn.

1t is conceded that Kansas crop of
corn this year will be 300,000,000 BUSH
els, but the statisticians of that State
are estimating how much in excess of
this enormous quantity the crop will
really be. From the crops of series
of years, the crop statisticians have es-
tabished what thay consider 100 per
cent crop. The present season, accord
ing to the last government estimate,
August 10, will break the record and
will be about LOG per cent crop.
According to report published by
the st. Louis Globe Democrat, there is
scarcely county which does not reach
100 per cent. Quite number go over
LOG per cent. The banner is held by
Jewell, on the northern tier, which has
held this proud position most of the
time in late years. Jewell has from
100000 to Is 100000 bushels of corn
maturing in her fields. The estimates
of the best informed range about a.
OUU,OOO Duouelo' EhoI anu W0oL anu
south of Jewell the "walls of corn"
run TO the limits of the State, main
tanning degree of excellence which
makes this crop greater by 100000
600 bushels than all predecessors. In
1889, just decade ago, the crop aver
aged higher than ever before, and high
hao rnNl Nha
year of 1889 made the record. 1t yields
to 1899.
The average yield of corn in fair
years is from twenty five to thirty-five
bushels to the acre. A yield of thirty
six bushels for the whole State is con-
sdered all that farmers have right to
expect from their fields. That means
100 per cent. crop, This year the
certainty is an average of forty BUSH
els. In making up the latest informa-
ton from correspondents in every
county, the State officials see that they
indicate the amazing average of forty
four bushels to the acre That, with
the increased acreage, would give a
crop of 362,0O0,O00 bushels So ii ap-
pears that that 300 100000 is the mimi
mum estimate, and that the actual re-
turns may 60 many millions more.
What the crop of BOG, 600, 900 bushels
means to Kansas, Ellen P. Allerton,
the wife of Brown county farmer,
totI - Ior Uol1 oFr -,
What do they hold, these walls of corn,
Whose banners in the breeze of morn?
He who questions may well be tod
great states wealth these walls enfold.
No sentines gard these walls of corn,
Never sound there of warder's horn.
Yet the pillars are hung with cleaning gold,
Left a unbarred, though thieves bod
Clothes and food for the toling poor
Wealth to heap at the rich mans door
Meat for the healthy and balm for him
Who means and tosses in chamber dim:
Shoes for the barefooted pearls to Irvine
In the scented tresses of ladies fine;
Things of use for the lowly cot,
Where (bless the corn) want cometh not;
Luxuries for the mansion grand,
Gifts of rare and fertile land:
All these things and so many more,
1t would fill a book to name them Ger,
Are hid aud held In these walls of corn,
Whose banners toss in the breeze of morn.
Calamity? There is no such word in
the bright lexicon of Kansas this year.
From the Missouri to the Colorado
line everybody is talking corn and feel
ing good. The discordant notes are go
few and far between they pass for jokes.
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South Woodbury..

A party from this place attended the
drama at Hardwick last Saturday evening.
Mrs Hannah Batchelder Of Barre is stop.
ping with Mrs. Farnsworth for few days,
William Dean of Worcester, Mass, Wis.
tied at B. w. Wheeler's last week, He is
now stopping at #. w. Angeles.
Quite number from this town went on
the excursion to Hardwick to see the bali
game between the Woodbury's and Hard
" ck's in which the Woodbury's won.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-08-23

Dreyfus is being tried before seven
judges, officers in the French army,
who are without exception his bitter
enemies, ard who are equally the par
tisans of his accusers, the officers of the
general staff of the French army.
When MERCER, Roget or any of their
compeers among the accusers are in
the witness box, the freedom of unlm-
tied defamation is accorded them.
They present no evidence, they simply
give utterance to their personal and
bitter hostility to the prisoner, and the
expression of their belief, unsupported
by vestige OF evidence, that he is
traitor. But when an officer whose
conscience and sense of justice prompts
him to tell the truth to the prisoners
judges, he is "called down." snubbed,
and admonished to confine himself
strictly to the legal limits of the case.
Col. Picquart, Dreyfus' defender, is
considered loo vile by these judges for
their association or courteous treatment,
but during the intermissions Of the
court they hold close conference with
the generals who appear for the prose-
cution. The documents that constitute
the 'dossier" have been shown to be
many of them forgeries, but such as
they are Dreyfus cannot be shown by
hio hittaraot 10
nection with them or knowledge of
them, and it is not shown that they
were ever delivered to Germany or any
other foreign power. But Dreyfus
must be sacrificed to the "honor" of
this gang of villains, the officers of
the general staff of the French army.
Secretary Root is giving the country
striking exhibition of what energy
can accomplish even in the month of
August, which has got to be 80 gener-
ally recognized in official circles as va
cation time. He has caused everything
connected with the sending of volun-
teers to the Philippines to be advanced
considerably from the first estimates,
and it is now practically certain that
the last of the first ten regiments will
be landed at Manila not later than Octo-
Der, and arrangements have already
been made by which the other ten regi-
ments, the order for the enlisting of
which was only issued several days ago,
will reach Manila early in December.
No troops ever took the field better
equipped than these men will be or