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Evening journal., 1900-10-13
BIG SHIPS CANNOT
BIB BUILT HERE
Harlan and HOllingSWOrth
TOnpanyhpIain Bridge
Trouble

In n communication to the War De-
partment the Harlan and Hollingsworth
Company again explains the manner in
which the present arrangement Of Mar
ket street drawbridge interferes with the
building of big vessels in the company's
The communication sets forth that il is
not a question Of width OF the draw at
the bridge, but Of approach 10 the draw
that makes an impediment, thereby linz
iting the length Of shin that can pass
through.
1t is feared that the Ss7-foot steamship
under construction in the company s
yards cannot pass through the draw
without warping. employing the use Of
tugs, etc. and with great labor and ex-
pense and possible damage. Within the
last month the company has been pre-
vented from bidding on the construction
Of two steamships more than 500 feet
long EACH because their length would
not permit their safe passage through the
draw under the present circumstances.
1t is also set forth m the letter that the
Harlan and Hollingsworth Company dis
burses over 100000 in wages yearly in
Wilmington and expresses the belief that
the Levy Court does not uesire the re-
moval Of the shipbuilding plant.
The communication also den.cs that the
proposed change in the bridge is asked
for solely for private gain. and declares
that which increases the shipping facili-
ties Of any place is a benefit TO the COM
munity and not to any individual firm.
Evening journal., 1900-10-13
JUDGE GRAY AGAIN HONORED
Appointed a Member Of the international
Arbitration Beard

Word has been received here Of the ap-
pointment by President Mckinley Of
Judge George Gray, together with former
Pre- <ident Benjamin Harrison. as a mem-
ber for the United States of the Board Of
The Hague Permanent Arbitration Com
mission.
The Hague Arbitration Commission is
the result OF the international Pence
Conference, which recommended that each
country, which took part in the confer
ence. should appoint a permanent arhi-
tration commission to meet when occa-
sion demanded it and settle, il possible.
international differences.
Judge Gray's appointment viii not in
terfere with his duties as judge Of the
third judicial circuit Of the United States
Court.
Evening journal., 1900-10-13
PROMINENT POLITICIAN
ARRESTED FOR MURDER

Key West, Fla, Oct. 1s.-Ex-Fire
Chief B. f. H. Bowers, deputy sheriff,
jailor and a prominent politician, is
in jail for killing Mrs. Charlotte
Knowles. The tragedy occurred at the
house of the Knowles woman on Fort
street, and is a mystery. Bowers was
defeated in the recent city election for
fire chief, a position he held since
1880, and since has shown marked evil
dences Of melancholia. He went to
Mrs. Knowles home. accompanied by
two male friends. Suddenly he drew
a pistol and pointing it toward one
OF his male friends exclaimed: Move
your head" He then suddenly chang
ed the direction of his pistol toward
Mrs. Knowles and fired, the bullet
passing through her head killing her
instantly. Bowers claims ihat the pis-
tol was discharged by accident.
Evening journal., 1900-10-13
STAGE FRIGHT
ENDED YOUNG MANS LIFE

Ashburn, Ga. Oct is. IL Thomas
Barnes. Is years old. a student at the
Collegiate Institute, died on Wednes-
day from stage fright. He had been
assigned as a speaker at a public
meeting. He went on the stage and
started to deliver his speech, but after
saying a few words threw his hand to
his breast and fell. expiring immedi-
ately. Physicians who examined the
body believe extreme nervous fright
stopped the action of the heart. They
could find no trace Of organic disease.
Evening journal., 1900-10-13
PENSION AGENT
SENT TO PRISON
Got in Trouble Question
inc a Citizen Of
Iowa

Washington, Oct. 13.-on motion Of
Assistant Attorney General James NJ
Beck the supreme court yesterday pass
ed until December the case OF Camp
bell against Waite, involving an i'm
portant question of constitutional law.
Waite was a pension examiner, and
while questioning citizen of Iowa as
to whether certain letters which had
been offered in proof of a claim of
disability were not fraudulent threat
ened him that unless a full confession
was made he would have a warrant OF
arrest issued. The pension examiner
theroupon was arrested under a state
law which makes it a crime to threaten
a man with criminal prosecution for
the purpose Of compelling him to do
anything against his VIII. and Waite
WIS convicted. The United States dis
trict court ordered his discharge. and
the attorney general Of Iowa appealed
90 the supreme court.
Evening journal., 1900-10-13
Noted RepubIIoans % sIalse a ddresses

The Rev. George l. Read, D. d., IL.
D.. president OF Dickinson College,
and Soiicitor-General Pickards CT the
Federal government. will make adj
dresses at the Republican rally to be
held in this city on October %. State
Chairman Churchman made the an
nouncement last night.
Evening journal., 1900-10-13
wire knocked or rbeir Hats

People who passed the corner Of Della
ware avenue and jefferson street last
evening We're greatly provoked by the ac-
tion Of several young people in stretch
ing wire across the sidewalk just high
enough to knock off their hats.
Evening journal., 1900-10-13
Yenteranr nnecnnII Gnmn..

At Pittsburg -Pittshurg, 10; Chi
cago, 6. AT Brocklyn-N York. o;
Brooklyn. 4. AT Philadelphia. 5; Bos-
Brooklyn, A. At Fhiladelphia-Phila-
delpbia, 5: Boston. Z.
Evening journal., 1900-10-13
TO Cure a Cold in one Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. f. w. Groves signature
is on each box. 25c.
Evening journal., 1900-10-13

Stephen IT, Thomas. OF Marines, n
c., who has been visiting here for
some time, win return next week
Evening journal., 1900-10-13
First A. o. Il. reception Given

Division No /, A. o. H., gave its
first annual reception last night in
Turn Hall.
Evening journal., 1900-10-13

Fer Cold in the Head, Laxative
Bromo-Quinine Tablets.
Evening journal., 1900-10-13


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CONTINUED on Sixth Page).
Evening journal., 1900-10-13

The Circulation of THE EVEN
INd JOURNAL is now 6,ooo. Cir
culation books and Press Room
open at all times to any adver-
tiser.
Evening journal., 1900-10-13

Continued on second Pagel
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-07-06

LORD ROBERTS, SOON TO BE A DUKE.
for all his triumphs TO the highlanders
and the Sikhs and the Dogras who ac.
companied him on his famous marches.
One evidence of Lord Roberts capa
bility is the uses to which he put wire
less telegraphy. While Butler. White
and other generals failed to develop
the plant sent out to them and looked
askance at the innovation. relying sole
ly on the old time heliograph, Lord
Roberts always has with him a body
of wireless telegraphists, by whom he
keeps in constant communication with
the various units of his enormous army
Several messages have been sent over
60 miles. The reports of naval expert
ments with this device are also satiE
factory, the British battleship Hannl
bal while under way clearly reading
messages at - miles distant.
1t is said by some that Lord Roberts
cannot afford. for financial reasons, to
accept a dukedom. lie is not a rich
man. In fact, it is doubtful whether
he has any fortune to speak Of. Now,
in the only two cases in which the
English crown conferred dukedoms for
military services namely, those of
Marlborough and of Wellington-he-
redtary pensions of $4,000 a year
were granted in each instance, added
to which the first duke Of Marlborough
as well as the first duke OF Wellington
received considerably over $1,000 600
apiece in the shape Of parliamentary
grants, in order to enable them to
maintain their dukedoms in a fitting
style. Besides this, they each received
valuable estates from the crown, the
Duke of Marlborough getting Blen-
helm palace, and the Duke of yelling
ton receiving Strathfieldsaye.
Now, the English government, and,
in particular, English parliament and
English taxpayers, have become much
more niggardly in the disbursal of pub
lie money and of national funds than
100 and 200 years ago. Yet, without
an endowment of this kind the gift OF
a dukedom would be something akin
to a white elephant A poor duke-that
is to say, one who has not the means ad-
equate to support his ranks an anon
ally and far worse off than a pauper,
since he has no means of fulfilling the
obligations Of his position. So thor
oughly is this realized that there are
several cases on record in English his
tory where the sovereign has deprived
a duke Of his rank on account Of his
being without sufficient property to
maintain the distinction with prestige
and dignity.
1t is likely, however, that the British
people will vote "Bobs" enough money
to keep the wolf from the door, and the
fact that they are not much given to
that sort of thing in these modern days
makes it all the more honor when their
purse strings are thus loosened.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-07-06

CONGRESSMAN JOHN F. FITZGERALD.
above are only approximately accurate
being based upon the estimates OF
church membership and other data.
1t is expected that British immigra.
ton will overcome the Dutch majority.
Assimilation of the two races is not
generally expected. In a recent speech
in London Lord Salisbury said it was
too early to prophesy the course the
policy of the government would take,
but Lord Salisbury said, he would
venture to lay down as the primary
condition governing every other consid-
GRAFTON that precautions must be taken
that would make it impossible for war
to ever occur again. What measures
would be necessary depended largely
upon the action and temper of the
Beers. Their resistance had already
gone beyond the limit to which resist
ance could wisely 60 They had acted
so that every bitterness created by the
war and every severance of the classes
and races had been stimulated to the
utmost. and as long as they went on
the task became more and more diff
cult.
Dealing with the responsibilities in
volved in the settlement, Lord Sails
bury said: perhaps our first respon-
sibility will be to protect the native
races, which have been sorely neglect.
ed in dealing with the republics. BE.
yond this we must so conduct our pol
icy as to reduce to oblivion as rapidly
as possible the terrible events which
led to the war, but all must be subject
to the condition that no secret impulse
hostile to the empire or the queen shall
be allowed 10 exist"
Commenting on these remarks of the
British premier, Congressman Fitzger-
aid said: Il do not believe that de-
feated people will care to live beneath
the heel of their conquerors. Lord Sails
bury in his last public speech stated
emphatically that every vestige of in
dependence would be taken from the
Beers.
"Great Britain will soon be in pos
session Of the South African republics,
and the Beers will either be compelled
to live under the government which
has persistently driven them from their
home or make another trek into the
wilds Of Africa. | believe that a ma
jority of the Boer people would prefer
to live under a government in which
they could within a short time have a
voice. They can Immediately upon
landing declare their intention of be-
coming citizens and in this manner
take up land in the public domain.
They will meet with a hearty reception
in any portion of the country they may
choose to settle"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-07-06
The Salon of the Old Regime.

"There used to be in Paris" says Sgd
ney Smith, under the old regime, a few
women of brilliant talents who violated
all the common duties of life and gave
very pleasant little suppers." There is
no wttier description Of the salonieres.
The salon, as an institution. is wholly
and exclusively French. The practical
mind of England always wants TO be do
ing, The mind of France is more cas-
lily content to talk. In its salons il
talks to some purpose. They are the
forcing houses of the revolution, the nurs-
cry of the encyclopedia, the antecham-
Der of the Academic. Here are discussed
free thought and the rights of men, in
trigues, politics, science, literature. Here
one makes love, regulations, bonmots,
epigrams. Here meet the brilliancy. cor
ruption, artifciality of old France and
the boundless enthusiasms which are to
form new.
The salonieres have passed., like their
salons, forever. In the rush and hurry
OF modern life there is no time even for
women to make conversation a cultivated
accomplish ent.-Longman's.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-07-06
IVNVNVNVNVNVVHVVVNVNVNVNI
, THE REWARDING :,
, OF "BOBS." $
How Great Britain May show ~
Her Gratitude to Lord =,
Roberts. ~
: BY HOWARD SPENCE SINCLAIR =,
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Lord Roberts is the biggest man i'm
Britain since the conqueror of Napo-
leon. Wellington never was to Eng.
land what Roberts is today in the
eyes of the general public. A dukedom
and the order of the Garter, at the
queens disposal through the death of
the Duke of Argyll are the least re-
wards that could be bestowed on him.
There are not more than about 30 Brit.
ish mobiles of the highest rank who are
decorated with the blue ribbon, the 9th.
er knights consisting of foreign sover.
eigns and only five members OF the
English royal family. Nor is there a
single English peer under the rank Of
earl who possesses the order, and it
may be added that neither the Duke Of
Argyll, who is the son-in-law of the
queen, nor the Duke of Fife, who Is
the son-in-law of the Prince Of Wales,
has yet been raised to this the ancient
and illustrious order of knighthood.
His popular nickname of "Bobs" i'm
plies affection without irreverence. He
is and has ever been the idol of Tommy
Atkins. In India he was worshiped by
Tommy Hindoo. In Egypt he won
similar devotion from Tommy Copt.
The deep hold he has established over
the affections of the British public
was evidenced by the enthusiasm
which greeted him when. on the milk
white palfrcy that had borne him from
Kabul to Kandahar, he rode in the
diamond jubilee procession of the
queen. He has been sung by poets, in.
Guiding Rudyard Kipling. He has been
praised by historians, all save himself
for in the autobiography which he re
Gently published he gives the credit for
his victories to the valiant men in his
command. Just as it was the custom
of the old German emperor to ascribe
all his victories to heaven, so it is the
habit of Lord Roberts to render thanks
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-07-06

that the Belgian and German railway
afraid of assassination and that work
has been suspended on certain portions
of the line now under construction. |
have alluded to this matter before,
and, while no one can justify assassi-
nation or approve the cowardly meth
DDS which the Boxers have adopted to
revenge themselves upon the foreign
devils that have invaded their cOun-
try, they can at least plead eXtraOrdi-
nary provocation, for the Germans and
the Belgians who are constructing rail
roads in the Shangtung province have
treated the natives in a most abOmi-
nable manner and have provoked the
riots of which they now complain.
That portion of China is one of the
most densely populated sections of the
earth, and the people have a desperate
struggle for existence. Every inch Of
ground is cultivated; every straw and
every sprig of vegetation Is utilized in
some way for the support of life. The
country is divided into little farms,
which are cultivated almost with a
microscope one might say, because it
is necessary for the subsistence of some
family, and the dead are buried in the
gravel hills, where nothing can grow.
Through this country and under
these conditions railways are being
constructed by German and Belgian
engineers who show a most brutal in
difference to the rights and the proper
" of the people. They run their lines
across the farms; they tear down
houses, burn villages, destroy crops
seize supplies, impress labor and treat
the people in a most cruel and arbi-
trary manner. If the same things
should occur in the United States or in
Europe or in any other part of the
world, they would be attended by the
same results. The Boxers were organ
lied to resist and aVeuge these out
RACES, and they use the only means
within their power to punish their OPP
pressors. \ Chinaman never gets any
sympathy either in America or else
where, and the consciousness Of that
fact compels him to carry on his opera
tons with as great secrecy as possible.
If the German and Belgian railroad
people would treat the poor cody
farmers of the Shangtung province in
just and honorable manner and give
them fair compensation for the proper
~ they have taken or destroyed. there
would be no need of sending fleets to
the Chinese waters or demanding in
demnity at the tsung- i-yamen.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-07-06

THE FUTURE OF
THE BOERS.
Americas Oner of Asylum
nS Compared with Brit
ish Rule.
BY JOHN F. WlLLOUGHBY.
Observation-Disclosures

That the people of the United States
have a kindly feeling for the defeated
Beers is shown in many ways. Some
of the big western railroads are under
stood to have offered extraordinary
inducements to secure Boer immigra
ton to the sections of country which
they traverse and the joint resolution
introduced in congress before adjourn
ment by Representative Fitzgerald
found many cordial supporters.
The sequel to the South African wal
will of course be annexation of the
two Dutch commonwealth to the Brit
ish empire. There will be temporary
arrangements for military government
but ultimately they will be converted
into self governing dependencies OF
the crown, like other colonial posses.
sions. As time goes on the same tend.
encies which have brought about con.
federation in Canada and Australs
will operate with irresistible force il
South Africa. There will be a new
commonwealth bill, under which tn,
united colonies and dependencies OF
the crown will have as large a measure
of local independence and legislative
autonomy as either Canada or Aus
trala. This is the order of progress in
the normal development Of political in
situations under British rule. The re
suits which are briefly outlined in this
paragraph are not vagaries of Opt
mism, but logical conclusions, which
are grounded upon English practice
and experience since the American wal
of independence. That this confedera
ton will be essentially Dutch is evil
dent from the following exhibit of pop.
ulation at the outbreak of the war:
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-07-06

Eleven millions of men are said to
Belong to the great Chinese society Of
Boxers, against which Uncle sam, in
connection with the great European
powers, has directed armed force. This
estimate was made by a Chinaman a
year ago in conversation with an Amer
lean who was then in China. The soci-
ETY. of Boxers, which nov stands for
lawlessness, robbery and murder, was
once respectable. 1t is a good influ-
ence gone wrong. Originally it was
organized as n protest and a means Of
defense against the bandits with which
the province of Shangtung was infest
ed. 1t was, in fact n law and order
league.
At that time the life and property of
no honest man were safe. The bandits
were not wild ruftians, such as those
of Italy or the American west, but on
the contrary seemed to be men of
peace. BY day they toled as shoemak-
ers, carpenters, farmers and what not,
but at night they repaired to their
strongholds in the mountains and from
them made descents upon villages in
which any man was reported to possess
a store of money worth the having.
1t was such attacks as this, repeated
over and over again in villages through
out the province, that resulted in the
organization of the Boxers. But they
were not called Boxers then. Their
name was Ia Tao Hwei which means
"The Society of the Great Sword
More recent is the name Universal So
ciety of Boxers, but the change signi-
fies little. In fact, change of name
among secret societies is frequent. One
name is kept until an edict of suppress
sion is issued against it, and then a
new name is adopted, and the society
goes on as if nothing had happened.
The present outbreak, which has
smoldered for months only to start
again with redoubled fury, was raised
In 1890. The missions had enjoyed
peace for some time and regarded the
future as full of hope, but on May 10,
1891, two nuns, who were going home
from visit to some sick people, were
maltreated by a mob, who charged
them with bewitching children. The
mission houses were plundered, and
this was the signal for the renewal of
the disturbances all through China.
These became worse and worse, eX
citing more and more resentment in
Europe until, at last, some German
priests were murdered and the mission
looted at Shangtung. This was follow
ed by the seizure by the Germans of
the port of Tsin Tau.
The Shangtung Chinese connected
these two events and swore vengeance
on the Germans, and incidentally upon
all foreigners and Christians. 1t was
at this time that the Great Sword So
ciety began to make itself obnoxious.
They had previously been prescribed
by the government for local reasons
and temporarily suppressed, but now
they became holder than ever and in
augurated a reign of terror throughout
Shangtung. Native Christians were
robbed, beaten and murdered, and
their houses destroyed. Many of them
were forced to recant and some of the
chapels were looted, but no mission
aries were killed. So bold was the ac-
ton of the society and so fragrant their
outrages that Yu Hsien, the governor
of Shangtung, was ordered to proceed
against them. AS has been said, he is
IN secret league with them and refuses
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-07-06

Miss Susan Wymar, teacher in the
Richmond school, Chicago, ILL.,, writd
the following letter TO DIR. Hartman re
garding Pe-runa. She says: "OnlJ
those who have suffered as 1 have, can
know what a blessing it Is to be able to
find relief in Pe-ru-na. This has been
my experience. A friend in need is a
friend indeed, and every bottle of Peru
ma ever bought proved a good friend
to me."-Susan Wymar.
Mrs. Margaretha Dauben, 1914 North
Superior ST., Racine City, Wis, writes /:
L feel so well and good and happy now
that pen cannot describe it. Pe-fu-na is
everything to me. have taken several
bottles of Pe-runA for female complaint.
l am in the change of life and it does me
good" Pe-ru-na has no equal in all of
the Irregularities and emergencies pc
culiar to women caused by pelvic
catarrh.
Address DIR. Hartman, Columbus, o.
Tor a free book for women only.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-07-06

and her advisers shared the resent
ment of the common people against the
foreign invaders of their country and.
while the officials have pretended to be
doing everything in their power to sup
press the outbreaks, they have allowed
them to go on until evidently they have
got beyond their control.
| realize. says Mr.. Conger, that it is n
very unpopular position, but ncvcrthe-
less there are two sides to the story of
the Boxers in China. You will notice
by the dispatches that there are rail
road riots in the Shangtung province.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-07-06
Americas Fnvorite spice.

Nutmeg is IA favorite American spice,
and 100000 pounds are annually i'm
ported into this country to supply the
demand. In Europe the consumption
of nutmegs is comparatively little,
while many other spices are used twice
as much as in this country. The nut
megs are graded according to their
size. The best quality of nutmegs runs
20 to so to the pound, and the next
grade averages 100 to 10 to the pound.
philadelphia Ledger.