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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26
COTTON MARKETS NOT IN
FLUENCED BY MANIPU-
LATIVE TACTICS.
GOOD COMMON SENSE.

To accept for governing influence
idle speculations as to what might
happen, or the too common eff of
interests avowedly manipulative, and
the only ammunition of the bears in
cotton this season, against facts and
all information of an authoritative
char acter, is the essence of folly
skepticism can not go hand in-hand
with faith. Truth is what is want
ed on our side, though many show
a disposition caring not to be on the
side of truth; investigation, careful
study of figures at hand and COM
parsons with former years and past
surrounding conditions, lead to one
conclusion only, that nothing less
than a miracle can prevent our staple
from realizing in its price every
legitimate factor having a bearing
on this market.
Query as to what cotton is actual
ly worth, weighing carefully eX-
traneou, conditions, c1nvinces us
that cent a pound above the pre-
sent level is fully justified and a
much higher price than eight and
one-half cents is probability before
the later months of the current
cotton year, doubtless before com
ing May. Too many get over anx-
ious for events that, though delay
ed, none the less surely will soon be
history and such history as the most
ardent bull on cotton to day will
m ost pleasantly refer to. Theories
are all right in their place but in the
matter -of-iact commodity markets OF
this world, their claim is pre-. e.empt-
ed; neither do they add a bale Of
cotton to this seasons production OF
assist in rendering the position oi
the foreign spinner any more envi-
able.
A worlds visible under prevou:
years md daily growing less, Liver
pool stocks the smallest for years
and daily growing less, port stocks
diminishing and exports increasing
the daily movement of this crop
and every fact obtainable is exceed
ingly bulllsh and can not be ignored
The investor with both capital anC
a cool head who shrewdly takes ad
vantage of the present cotton mArke
will be amply rewarded for what Lii
friends will call "Long headednes
and foresight" when in fact it wa
only faith in facts backed by casl
investment, say Knott & Closson
Cotton Commission Brokers OF Bur
lington, VT , in their letter Of thi
week just at hand.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26
MINOR NOTES.

The state board of health is taking pre-
cautions to prevent the spread of small
pox from Canada into Vermont. There
are over 800 cases of small pox in Mon
treal, and the disease is raging throughout
the province of Quebec. Plans are being
made for general vaccination of school
children in some of the large towns.
Gen. W. w. Henry of Burlington, who
is the American consul at Quebec, comes
eonspicuously into the public eye through
his alleged declaration for the British cause
at a banquet in honor of the Canadian
Volunteers just before they departed for
South Africa. He is quoted as saying that
as long as Mckinley is President the
British will have friend behind them in
their fight against the Beers.
New Hampshire newspapers figure that
the Baptist state convention of the Granite
state will receive $13S, 900 from the will of
Daniel S. Ford of Boston, publisher of The
Youths Companion. The Baptist state
conventions of Vermont and Maine will re-
ceive the same amount as the convention
of their sister state, but the sum is problem
atical, as each convention will receive one
ninth of the residue after the specific be-
quests have been paid.
Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, author of "In
His Steps," spoke at the Christian Endeav-
or convention in Denver in favor of
"great Christian daily" with capital of
$1,0O0,OO0 Discussion in regard to such
project has led the proprietor of the Cap
ital News, the leading paper in Mr.. Shell
don's home town, Topeka, TO give the par
son absolute control of every department
of that paper for the week beginning March
13. The principal result will be big ad-
vertisement for the Capital News.
The school committee of White River
Junction have issued signed statement
in regard to a boy punished by the prin-
cipal of the High school in that place, say
ing there is no occasion whatever for the
unreasonable stories that have gone forth,
and the vile and wicked attacks that have
been made upon the principal. There is
no evidence worth credence that any un-
due punishment was inflicted, and the
story about the electrical apparatus being
! applied is without foundation.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26

ev G. Glen Atkins, who, as one of the
teachers of the Mt Hermon school was
closely associated with d. l.. Moody, re.
viewed the life and work of the evangelist at
a memorial service held in the Second Con
gregational church at Greenfield Sunday.
"Behnd the teacher, the evangelist, the
leader of men," he said, sis Moody the
man. Henry Drummond called him the
gr eatest human he had ever known, and
that judgment will stand He has kept
alive for the past 2j years more than any
other man the evangelist spirit which is,
under God, to be the soul of a new theolo-
gy. He stands in America alongside Hen
ry Ward Beecher and Phillips Brooks
Beecher was the most inspiring leader
Brooks the most beautiful soul, but Moody
the greatest man. His death was but a
pause and a transition. Earth drew off
and left him standing where he always
stood, but now with unclouded vision in
t he presence of his Father"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26

Mr.. Littlefeld, the new representative
from Maine, scored success of the prima
donna's fashion in his debut in the House
His speech in favor of seating Roberts and
then expelling him from Congress is said
to have been a masterful effort from an
oratorical standpoint Better than this,
however, was the evidence that Mr.. Little
field thinks for himself, and, thinking,
does not stultify. His reasoning was clear
and logical, and although the majority
were against him, many careful readers
will come to the conclusion that the new
ing that Congress has no right to add to
constitutional qualifications for member
ship.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26

William J. Bryan is now in the "ene-
my's country" He has spoken this week
in New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania
nd Delaware, in addition to attending
conference of party leaders in New York.
He will travel through New England next
week, his engagements calling for speech
at Montpelier Friday and at Holyoke and
Springfield Saturday. Perhaps he will ex
patiate to his Massachusetts audiences up
on the increase of $3O,OOO,OOO in deposits
in savings banks in that state the past
year. AS the banks are repositories for
the savings of working people and largely
patr onized by them this gain-the greatest
in the history of the banks-might be taken
as an indication of prosperity.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26

The House passed a pension bill Fri
day, calling for an appropriation of Sl45,-
PAS, $50. Curtis, Republican, of Kansas,
and several Northern Democrats attacked
the administration, charging lack of liberal
ity in the administration of the pension
la VS.. a A: score of members from both
sides defended the present commissioner,
and Mr.. Mahon of Pennsylvania, Republi-
can, charged that the attacks upon him
had been instigated by the pension sharks
who were robbing old soldiers. Mr.. Ma
hons disclosures resulted in rider being
placed on the bill, empowering the COM
mis- sioner, in his discretion, to withhold fees
of attorneys of record in pension cases
when he is satisfied that the attorneys
have not given personal supervision to the
preparation of the cases,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26

Rev. Wilbur f. Crafts, secretary of the
Sabbath Protective league, is a temper
ance lecturer whose Incorporate statements
have reacted against the cause which he
champions. He has been telling audi
ences in Boston and elsewhere that the
President was wine bibber and that he
drank champagne in his room at the cap
itol when he was signing bills there on the
closing day of the j3th Congress. The
doorkeeper of the Presidents room con-
fronted Mr.. Crafts with his statement, and
the latter was compelled to acknowledge
that he did not know what the bottles con-
tained which he saw taken TO the Presi-
dents room. They were filled with min
eral water, and, so far as Rev. Mr.. Crafts
knew, the President did not quaff this
harmless beverage.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26

A Massachusetts man who returned
from Alaska recently tells of a company
which has finely fitted offices in Boston,
with specimens of gold ore and dust in the
windows, which mar keted $75o,OOO in
stock. When the p1Dspector arrived in
the mining country he investigated the
operations of the Boston company, but
found that its possessions consisted of two
steam launches, and that it had no claims
All of the gold bricks are not sold to
farmers
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26

Grover Cargill, IA, was found dead from
asphyXiation by gas at hotel in Chicopee
Falls, Mass, Wednesday morning, and his
dead when discovered by accident.
Fire which broke out in the Pan Ameri-
can hotel at Fredonia, N. Y, early yester-
day morning did 100000 damage and
wiped out ten buildings, including two ho-
tells and the bank. Two persons were
burned to death, Miss Alice Hunter and
an elderly man known as "Buffalo Bill"
on account of his eccentric dress. The en-
tire equipment of the trolley road running
from Dunkirk to Fredonia was destroyed
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26

Zion's Herald, one Of the most carefully
edited denominational papers in the coun-
try, says "for nearly a week the British
army has been within the limits of the
Transvaal" The British are more than
so miles from the Transvaal border All
of the fighting to date has been in British
territory, in Natal and Cape Colony.
Spion Kop, where the last engagement
took place, is in Natal, only 10 or 20 miles
from the border of Orange Free State, and
30 miles west from Ladysmith.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26

Long lists Of bills introduced by the Yer
mont Congressman have found their way
occasionally from Washington into the pa
pers Of this state. The representatives
from this state are not the only prolific bill
producers in the present Congress. In less
than two months 10000 bills have been
introduced into the two houses, This
record eclipses anything known in the his
tory of Congress. In the first ten days
more bills were filed than were introduced
in the entire 3Sth Congress, which covered
two years. II we may judge by the record
Of the 55th Congress less than per cent
of the bills which have been introduced
will pass. Seventy-tive per cent. of the
bills now pending are private measures,
and 1t is this form Of proposed laws which
threatens to clog the wheels of legislation
and make the passage of a deserving bill a
difficult task. A well-stocked treasury is
liable to bring a deluge of pension and
claims bills and wild-eyed schemes calling
for expenditures of public moneys.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26

In connection with Miss Colburn's in
teresting account of the Chicago drainage
canal, and her suggestion as to its posi-
bilities, it is of interest to note that a
Chicago despatch of the present week an
nounces that the Federal relations" com
mittee Of that city and the "Missssippi
Valley waterway association" are taking
concerted action to secure an appropria-
tion by the present Congress to continue
the canal from Lockport to the Mississ-
ippi river. 1t is estimated that $25, ,0O0,-
900 will complete channel so that all
vessels with draft Of not more than l6
feet, United States naval vessels included,
can pass from the Gulf up into the Great
Lakes at Chicago. What this would mean
in the way of commercial possibilities,
with deep waterway outlet TO the Atlantic
coast also, by way of the Hudson river aud
New York city, as Miss Colburn suggests,
may be imagined And no doubt the
future will see possibilities of this kind
realized along lines which time will reveal.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26
Thousands OF Armed Men at Frank

fOTt.
A special train bearing more than 1000
men, carrying Winchester rifles, arrived at
Frankfort, KY, yesterday morning. The
men hail from Counties Bell, Allen, Knox,
Harlan, Whittier, Metcalf and Edmunson.
Frankfort is oVerhowing with visitors
Gov. Taylor stated to an Associated Press
representative that The men were not sol
dlers and disclaimed any knowledge of the
identity or purpose of the visitors. The
men marched to the state house, stacked
their guns and took up positions in
groups about the buildings. Adj. Gen.
Collier states that he had no knowledge of
the men coming. All wear badges and
Gov. Taylor's picture.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26
I'm THE DISTRICT COURT Of the United

TN THE DISTRICT COO1Sn OF inc Oni'eu
] states for the District or vermont
onIRREs 4 ias Hn'is5 q, so4ns, f In Bankruptcy.
Notice Is hereby given that Charles A. oS Soyss yes
bankrupt has filed his petition dasTu M Sis de5ts IN
PryrKntcV and that all creditors and other per-
o6ece g SAID dsGsss G. tSe %sy yoce Of r.
tor1 i tle ~ pailows Falls on the 18th day OF Feb.
ny y, nyue d. 1900, at O'Clock, P. NJ; and then ana
tSsrs present their O6jes;!GtP6s t6sradn any 'u'n
dlschalstn "a" JAIN dav Of January, A. ID. 1900
Daleo TINS ~' A. +. sCHWENk,
Referee In Bankruptcy
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26
TN THE DISTRICT COURT of the United
States for the district Of Vermont.
II In Bankruptcy.

In the matter of
! Bankrupt.
Notice is hereby given that Frederick II Kim
hall bankrupt, has filed his petition dated Jan.
Ss, 1900, praying for discharge from all ms debts
10 IT, 'bSnErnntcv. and that all creditors and other
Iarsons biecting to said discharge may attend
before the undersigned referee, at the ofiice OF
Il. Ryder in Bellows Fails on the l4tn d day teI on
and there present their objections II any, to such
SischaTge with their proofs thereon ,o0o
Da'eu A. f. SCHWENK,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26
New Club Rates with the New
York Tribune.

By an arrangement just made the New
York Weekly Tribune will be furnished with
The Phoenix hereafter at 90 cents a year,
or $500 for the two papers; and the new
TFl-WeekIy edition of the Tribune will be
furnished at 500 year or $3.50 for the
two papers. We recommend the Tri-Weekly
Tribune to those who do not take daily pa
per- but who wish TO keep in touch with the
general news Of the day as 1t happens.
Address THE PHOENIX, Brattleboro, Vt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26
Special Notices.
Superhuous Hair

Permanently Destroyed by EleCtrOIysis.
Method, positively safe and gentle ana endorsed
by physicians. Fourteen years experience
Send for circular. MRS. ELLYN j. BLAKE, 35l
Mas ssachusetts Ave, corner st. Botoph St, Bos
ton, one block from Music new Hall. Hours 10
to4 IS
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-26
gaanten.

M TANTED-Individual washings wanted: first
w class work; 81 Elliot st Room IS 41w
NTANTED. 600 feet 20 inch well seasoned
w WHITE ASH, not less than inches wide
or IL feet long WASON MANUFACTURING
CO, Brightwood, Mass as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-29
A SCHOOL OF LIFE.

The latest development along educational lines
is the School Of Life. which will be opened in
Chicago The leading spirits in the enterprise
q DR.. and Mrs. II. W. Thomas. Dr. Thomas Is
pastor of the Peoples Church. and the school Is
outgrowth of the liberal humanitarian work or
that church, and has been meeting at DR.. Thomas s
home The development of the idea has made II
necessary. however, secure for the school,
be used also for other branches Of the society
activities. Among these a day nursery ana
a literary and social circle.
The largest room will seat seventy-hve persons
and there the lectures will be given while the two
smaller rooms will be devoted to social chat on
current topics.
There will be no routine work. says Mrs
Thomas whose interest in the school equals her
husbands but there will be classes in literature
and sociology The winter will be occupied Win
study of Emerson man. poet. as ethical
teacher az philosophical writer. We shall consider
OF Philosophy the transcendental movement IN
New-E England, the anti-slavery agitation and the
Brook Farm experiment. Among the friends VINO
Will form q part of the study the Alcotts
Thoreau Hawthorne. Margaret Fuller. Longfelo"
DR. Charming. Oliver Wendell Holmes Carlyle and
all the intellectual and sociological progress or
studying Emerson We study the entire period
Interested in the project are eminent lawyers
physicians and scientists or Chicago who Will CO
operate by giving lectures.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-29
ENPRESS OF JAPAN.

What Japan owes to the strong hand or It's EN-
peror all the world knows: what its women owe TO
the enlightenment and commonsense OF its En-
press is not well understood. The old Iapan
thought little Of its Expresses. The list Of them
goes back for half thousand years before Christ,
but, save the King, the present Empress Is the
first who has been Empress in more than name
Mutsuhito IS the first Emperor Of his line-and
there have been hundred and twenty before
hiIn-who has given his wife seat at his table
and allowed her any voice in the national coun-
ellis She married TO him when he was seven
teen, the after his coronation. and together
they have raised the standard OF the japanese
Court-as they raised the standard OF national life
height that 1t has never reached before In
the thirty years since her marriage the Empress
Haruko has presented the Emperor with one son
and four daughters and the children are all
brought up with Western ideas The Empress
rides well makes good of gymnasium
which has been constructed for her benefit in the
at Toxic, and she has satiShed all the do
rnestic and imperial requirements OF her husband
poems her. There was a moment last week
which the Empress must have thought would DO
her last. but II turned out happily that the thing
which a mailman threw into her carriage q
simple toy of wood and not bomb everybody
feared. II would indeed be irony of fate If tho
reforming regime in Japan stained by any
foul attack the dynasty which has led the Wav
OUT Of barbaTic darkness into civilized light The
Empress, in her home and court has used
her influence for the development of Japan on
lines not less ZealouslY than her husband
II is Chiefly TO her example that the fashion
Of stained teeth and shaver eyebrows has died out
The Womer's Hospital Toxic conducted on
It's foundation and success largely 10 her patron
age Empress Haruko has great admiration for
the English Court, and the Princess Of Wales is
said to be her ideal among royaltieg.-(st James's
Gazette.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-29
RELIEF FOR THE PASSENGERS.
PLANS TO END DELAYS AT THE GRAND
CENTRAL sTATIoN-MoRE GROUND
MAY BID PURCHASED.

The vezing delays which have been experienced
by patrons Of the New-York Central entering the
Grand Central Station within the last week ow-
ing to the change in the system of running trains
into the station were done away with yesterday
The officials OF the road hoped that the change
running the trains in on flying switch TO sending
them in solid could be accomplished Without
any delay or confusion. This proved to be wrong
supposition- The managers Of the road declare he +.
the flying switch system is bad for the that
at almost any time a train may become uncontro-
liable and run right into the station. This state
ment Is made. although this system has oeer in
use for years without accident. The new sys-
tenn or running in solid has been found an abso-
lute failure. with the limited yard facilities One
OF TWO things must happen-either must
De secured or the old flying switch system retained
A return has been made to the flying switch plan
and yesterday there were practically delays.
samuel X Galloway, president OF the Central
was IN Boston yesterday. and ChaUncey NJ. Depew
was in Albany Neither could be TO express
opinion on the situation II is understood that the
Hoard Of Directors is considering the advisabihty
or acquiring property adjoining the CsntraTs train
yard In order to increase the capacity of the yard
Nothing has been decided YETI but IL is said
tnat vigorous action will be taken to straighten out
the tange and insure the prompt handling OF
trains schedule time
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-29
STOCK BROKERS HELD FOR EXAMINATION.
HUGHES AND GODFREY MAY HAVE TO SPEND
TO-DAY IN THE TOMBs.

TO-DAY IN THE ToMBs.
Charles D. Hughes and Ira D. Godfrey, the stock
brokers' arrested on Tuesday at No. p Broad-st-.
on a charge Of grand larceny, will probably spend
Thanksgiving Day IN the Tombs The two men
were arraigned yesterday before Magistrate Zelle=
IN the Centre-st police court and held in bail OF
1900 each for examination tomorrow
Hughes is hfty-t-yo years old. and lives at No.
SCI West One-hundred- and-hfteth-st while God
frey is forty-hve years old and gives his address
as Bensonhurst They were arrested late Tues
day afternoon and taken to Police Headquarters.
and will be prosecuted the charge OF 5windIing
people through the discretionary pool system.
The specific complaint against the men was made
by ], T. Anesburg. Prosecuting Attorney OF De-
fance, Ohio He IS said by the detectives 20 have
sent the firm of Hughes & Godfrey $50 to invest
for him.
Captain McClusky is authority for the statement
that Hughes was arrested in 1888 and Is now under
bail OF $3.50 and that the case against him had
not trial because OF th= practical irnDoss-
bility Of convicting him.
The Office of Ira y Godfrey az No. % Broad-st
was not open yesterday The smaller bucket shops
in Newest were doing business yesterday morn
Ing, put with less publicity than usual Il Is be-
lteved that another raid IS planned for the latter
part OF the week Captain McClusky has an
nounced that he intends 10 do this work with his
own
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-29

be Jolly she answered: They are brave men and
true, who have given up home and comfort for re-
Igion and liberty. and now in strange, cold land,
they eat their bread and are thankful.
Suddenly, she said these words Mother Goose
began to change. "Oh! OH cried Teddy, es he
watched the dear, CHEEKY features change into the
stern old teacher school. No. 1t wasn't; II was
the minister church preaching his Thanksgiving
sermon. "Oh! oh! why, goodness gracious sakes
alive it's grandpa!"
Teddy rubbed his eyes. Where's Jack, grandpa,
and the Pilgrim Fathers" Teddy almost sobbed In
his anxiety.
''Ho, no little manikin; cried yourself to sleep
here in the corner, did you? Never mind about the
Pilgrim Fathers, or Mothers, or Jacks or Nancys
either. Run along and bundle yourself up, for were
Off the farm in ten minutes for OF that old
turkey and pumpkin pie. Elsies better. playing
with the chickies in the harnyard Come. come
along and don't me into a shadow, Ted!'
Teddy did stare though, all the way up TO the
nursery, and somehow he almost sorry that
grandpa the dream hadn't waited the really
didn't know which OF them was 10 blame. to let
him say goodby Mother Goose, and thank her
for that wonderful ride the broomstick.