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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
AsHUELOT, N. q.

Grover Kinsley is suffering from a Sc
we're case of dogwood poisoning.
Miss Ellen Polzer has completed a
course in the Keene business college.
John M. Powers has taken position in
Carriers & Rogers wooden mill at Lebanon.
Mrs. Patrick Sullivan was called to
Keene Tuesday of last week to the funeral
of her brother, John Devine of Troy.
Railroad officials were here Monday
stalking out land at the station to be leased
to proposed box shop to be established
here. 1t will give employment to rs
hands.
Friday evenings social, poverty party
and social dance at Upper Ashuelot hall
was largely attended, many coming from
adjoining towns, making it pronounced
success.
Frank G. Fairbanks has opened barber
shop in room of one of the warp com
pany's tenements at Lower Ashuelot,
which he will run in connection with his
shop at Upper Ashuelot.
Miss Catherine T. Duffee completed
successful fall term as teacher at the Low
er Ashuelot primary school Friday and
went to her home at Lo well, Mass, Mon
day for a four weeks vacation.
The announcement of the death of
Thomas M. Kidney, which occurred at
Keene early Monday morning, vas received
here with deep regret by his relatives and
numerous friends. He was born in Yer
non, VT, in 1849, being 81 years old. He
came here at an early age and was clerk
ut H. H. Pratt's store ten years, and by
his genial and accommodating ways made
many friends. Failing health caused him
10 give up this position four years ago,
when his family moved to Keene, where
he has been patient sufferer from con-
sumption. He leaves a wife and ten. scar
old daughter, mother and several brothers
and sisters. The burial was at Keene
Thursday.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14

oTlCF-came into my enclosure on the 25th
years old, high horns tip over back; the owner
requested TO prove property, pay charges and
take her away. r. NJ AUSTIN, 1ownshend. VT.
1871
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
NORTHUMBERLAND

The heavy snow of last week did some
damage, crushing in the roof to Ed Ober'i
shed and breaking down fruit trees, etc.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
To Sell or Rent.

A FARM OF 200 acres, fine location, handy 10
"A store, post ONCE and rfilroad station
Plenty spring water. r. ID. TUCKER West
Townahend. 40-s1
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14

Drop free silver, drop fuslonism, drop
the cry of government by Injunction, 4"
drop the cry of Imperialism and militia
rism, drop all discussion about the Philip.
dimes until peace has been restored; drop
appeals to the passions and prejudices of
the idle and Discontinued. Revive the
question of taxation, teach the democratic
doctrine that people cannot be made rich
by taxing them, assail the favorltism and
wrongs of high protective tariff, stand
for the control of trusts and combines by
methods not oppressive, demand enlarge
ment of the powers of the interstate com
merce commission and the liberal improve
ment of harbors, and insist on local self
government and let the next presidential
candidate remain at home during the cam
Paign.-[Congressman Catchings Of Mis-
sissippi.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
Something New
For
Girls and Boys.

nuring the past year "St. Nicholas" Magazine,
III which has been tor nearly thirty years the
leading childrens monthly magazine OF the
world (and now the only one), has introduced
several new departments which have been ex,
lremeiy attractive and have greatly increased
the circulation. One OF these Is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17
srANLEY,s REFORMED BOYS.

Governor Stanley's effort to introduce
reforms needed in the management of
the penal institutions of Kansas and
to revolutionfze the methods of dealing
with the boys in the reform school and
state reformatory is attracting atten-
ton throughout the United States.
The plan to find homes for the better
class of boys in these institutions is be-
ing exploited by prison reform papers
in this country and Europe. The fact
that Governor Stanley has already
taken four boys from the baleful in
fluence of the reform school, and placed
them in good homes is submitted. by
these publications, as proof positive of
the success of the governors plan.
Governor Stanley's ideas on this sub
ject were first given to the public
through an interview published in the
State Journal The result astonished
Mr.. Stanley. Within a week he had
applications for boys who were offered
homes and an opportunity to make
their way in the world in exchange for
obedience and whatever amount of
labor they were able to perform. In a
comparatively short time four boys
were placed with responsible farmers in
different parts of the state and accord
ing to letters received by the governor
from the boys and their benefactors all
parties to the arrangement are salts
fed and the boys happy and con-
tented.
The governor now has at his disposal
ten homes for boys in the reform school
or reformatory.
Governor Stanley has taken a fixed
look in a direction toward which his
predecessors scarcely glanced. Instead
of building anew characters in these
boys the methods of dealing with them
have often turned them more square1y
into the downward path.
The action of Governor Stanley to re-
deem some of them: to offer unfortunate
boys encourag cement and hope strikes
a responsive chord in every heart. The
majority of these boys, the governor
believes are sent to the reform school
by parents who would rather see them
become criminals than take the respon-
sibilfty of managing them. To improve
this condition of society and to make
good citizens of those boys, worthy of
any confidence whatever, is the ambi-
ton of the governor. How sincere is
he may be best judged by his own
words: IF a single boy can be saved
from a life of crime I think I have
achieved more for humanity and attain
ed a greater honor than will come to
me if I am renominated for governor by
my friends Not that I regard this
honor without proper consideration and
appreciate none the less the kindness
of my friends, but the saving of one boy
from life of crime and established
firmly in the path which leads to useful
citizenship and God, is worth more than
all the political offices in the world
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17
THE CHRISTIAN DAILY.

The Topeka Capital has announced
for many weeks that it will print in its
own columns comments on the Sheldon
experiment 1t is observed that Mr..
Sheldon and his paper are being most
severely criticised not only by the pub
lie but by the press and the pulpit,
often most severe by many in the latter.
Some preachers have gone so far as to
denounee Mr.. Sheldon as a ''pharisee
and a tool of d big advertising scheme
Those who know Mr.. Sheldon and know
the honesty, high mindedness and sin
cerity of the man, as we do here at his
own home, will take this view. Mr..
Sheldon means we'll and no doubt al
ways does, as near as human can, what
he believes to be right. If he has been
imposed upon, as some assert, he is not
a party to it.
If the Capital censors these com
ments as severely as Mr.. Sheldon has
this week censored the news, the read
ers of the Capital will never know the
prevailing opinion of the preachers, the
people and the newspapers on this re-
markable experiment. The State jour
nal undertakes to say that it will itself,
as news, publish a large amount of the
comment on this experiment Without
allowing prejudice to have its way it
will publish criticisms which commend
as well as condemn the newspaper IN
der its usual and what Mr.. Sheldon
saws. abnormal condition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17
pRoTECr HOME LABOR.

Home labor so far as practicable,
should be employed in the development
of Topeka's parks and the city council
should take action that will protect
this labor against unfair foreign COM
petition.
Last summer the building 1aborers
formed a union and placed the union
scale of wages at $3.50 per day. The
contractors were ready and willing to
pay the union scale of wages provided
all contractors agreed to figure on that
basis when making bids. The agree
ment was made and both parties to it
have kept faith with each other. The
union scale has been universally paid
by home contractors and the laborers
have refused to work for less. The
union now wishes to prevent out of
town contractors and laDorers, who are
bound by no agreement, from cutting
the wages now paid by Topeka con-
tractors. Out of town contractors have
been paying building laborers $1.20 a
day, 80 cents less than the union scale.
The union has over two hundred mem
bers and as individuals they are in
favor of the parks proposed for the city,
but they wish the council to take action
in time to prevent out of town con-
tractors from figuring on a smaller
scale of wages when making their bids;
and to prevent out Of town laborers
from coming in and cutting the price
of day labor. The laboring people with
all others wish the parks and when
there are parks on ground, instead of
on paper. win enjoy them probably
more than any other class. They Will
pay their share toward the building of
them and they should reap the benefit
of park construction; at least have an
equal chance with imported labor. The
city council can make assurance that
the work will be done by home labor
by passing an ordinance, similar to the
eight hour law, placing the price to be
paid laborers on municipal work at not
less a fixed price per day of eight
haurS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17
wIT.I. rHERE BE TRouBLEp

The Capital under the undue man
agement of the past week, in order to
conform its advertising to its editors
ideas, has been called upon to violate
and set aside a number Of foreign adj
vertisements which the regular man
agement had contracted to carry for
year. The paper, it is stated by one OF
the Capitals staff. hoped to persuade
foreign advertisers to remain out of the
paper during Sheldon week. Only
very few of them, however, consented
Inasmuch as some of these advertisers
We're entitled by their contract to in
sertions in the issues of the paper this
week the business management, after
the experiment, will be under the neces-
sity of making the best peace it can
with, the advertisers thrown out during
a week in the year, when the space
is more valuable than it would be in a
hundred issues of the ordinary Capital.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17
MUCH TO DEMocRAcY.

The announcement that Mr.. Grover
Cleveland has decided to support Mr.
Bryan for the presidency this year
means much to the Democracy and
pressages a close union of branches of
the party that were far apart in the
campaign of 1896
This new attitude of the ex-president
will add little strength to the cause of
the party in the west But on the
other hand his influence will be power
in the close debatable states of New
Jersey New York and Connecticut.
Statistics, it is claimed, show that had
Mr.. Bryan received the vote of the Gold
Democrats in the east four years ago
he would have been occupying the
White House today. It is fair to assume
that no member of the party in the east
was more radically opposed to the
Bryan movement than the ex-president
The return of Mr. Cleveland to his
fold viii call other tsinsurgents'' and
make the task of the Republicans more
difficult a united race and close and
exciting presidential election struggle
are now indicated more strongly than
ever. Mr. Cleveland's announcement
may be considered one of the most i'm
portant political events Of the year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17
PARKs-wE MUST HAVE THEM.

For many years Topeka has been
proud of the title of The Prettiest City
in Kansas but no one in Topeka has
been oblfvious to the knowledge of a
serious flaw in its symmetry. Topeka
has always been virtually a city with
out parks. Visitors have been surprised
and the people have complained but
until a short time ago little has been
done to improve a condition to which
Mrs. Gage, in her goodness. called mark
ed attention. by a. generous gift.
For the first time in the history of
the city the people are soon to have an
opportunity to express themselves ON
the question of parks. In little more
than two weeks the election will be
held at which the park proposition will
be submitted to a vote of the people.
There is nothing complicated in the
question upon which the people are to
vote. It simply places at the disposal
of the five park commissioners a sum
which they will be authorized to use
as they please for the Improvement of
the parks or for the purchase of more.
With the knowledge that men like NJ. A.
Low and Edward Wilder comprise the
park board there is no danger that the
peoples money viii be squapdered or
injudiciously expended.
The universal sentiment is that the
City Park should be improved at once
and the board will make that it's first
duty. The improvement of the City
Park will be the first duty of the new
park board if the people support the
park proposition on April 8. The i'm
provement of the other small parks now
owned by the city will be the second
consideration of the commissioners and
there should be no reluctance on the
part of the people. The park PROPOSE
ton should receive universal support.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17
A GIANT-BoRN AT TOPEKA.

The statement made by Mr. Edward
Wilder, treasurer of the Santa Fe, that
the directors of that road intend to in
crease the dividends On preferred stock
from three to five per cent, and with
continued prosperity Will declare a
dividend on common stock within an
other year, brings forcibly to mind the
enormous strides made by that Kansas
railway since the receivership.
Burdened with debt, the result of
hard times and gross mismanagement,
the Santa Fe road six years ago was
forced to give up Independent existence
and seek refuge in the arms of the fed
eral court. Here it remained for a per
iod of fifteen months. At the end of
this time the publication process was
complete 1t emerged relieved from it's
watered stock and that cancer of
indebtedness. with new vigor, ready for
the new management. In the meantime.
advantage had been taken of the pro-
lection afforded by the courts to i'm
prove the line physically. A much bet
ter property passed into Mr.. Ripley's
control than had been turned over to
the receivers.
The task which confronted the new
management on Dec. Y, 1895. was of
that of placing the reorganized road on
a paying basis, and the present excel
lent condition of the property shows
how well it succeeded. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that Mr.. D. B. Robinson
accomplished much in material and
mechanical Improvement during the re-
ceiyership, the several millions spent by
the new company in betterment of track
is proof that only a small portion of the
necessary work could be accomplished
in fifteen months time.
Retrenchment was naturally the or
der of the day at the opening of Mr..
Ripley's career as president. So soon
as the most noticeable of the unneces-
sary features We're done away with, the
attention of the management was
turned to details. Thousands of dol
lars of annual expenditures were cut
cut by this attention to little things
The economy now practiced on the San
ia Fe in minor matters forms an i'm
portant factor in making the proposed
dividend increase possible.
As a result of four years of conserva-
tive management, coupled with an era
of general prosperity, the Santa Fe is
now one of the most prosperous of the
western roads. It can boast a physical
condition second to few roads in the
country. This viii be greatly improved
by the reductions in grades and curves
to be made this year. The opening of
the line into San Francisco means
greatly increased coast traffic. The
| absorption Of the Santa Fe-Pacific,
Southern California and San Joaquin
/ Valley lines, by the parent organization,
will add strength to the already great
! system. A line to st. Louis, branching
from the main line at Lexington juno
ton, is by no means improbable in the
near future. A line from Chicago to
New York-by purchase or construc-
tion-would make the line born at To-
peka, the giant of railways.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17
socIErY,s RECESS.

The custom of keeping Lent is OBJ
served in but two or three churches,
yet society at large is affected by it in
no small degree. For a week OF two
beforehand the society maid is in a per-
feet whirI of gaiety: morning card par
ties, luncheons. receptions, and dances
followed by midnight suppers fill every
day But with the dawn Of Ash Wed
nesday, the sun of the society belle sets
for the polar nights of forty days With
the advent of Easter Sunday she is
again in sunbeams gowned anew for
the giddy whirl in the pursuit of pleas
ure.
The Lenten season, unfortunately, in
culcates hypocrisy in the minds of
many who profess to its strict OBJ
servance
The girl who gives up amusements
and her favorite dishes is known to in
dulge her tastes on the sly. But the
publicity of the newspaper is her bug
bear. If she be smart enough to dodge
the reporters and keep her name out of
print, this fair hypocrite feels justified
in behaving exactly as though it were
not Lent. There are other society girls
though who lead lives of seclusion the
entire time and attend several services
every day; but these are the exception
During Lent, socially speaking. To-
peka is the most quiet of places.
Girls are known to resort to all kinds of
queer amusements to pass away the
time. Consulting the trance medium is
one of the fads of the hour. They go
in parties of three or four. They walk
slowly past the house, anxiously peer
ing up and down the street If the
coast be clear they dodge quickly in
fearful of discovery. But one thing they
forget: many pairs of curious eyes
watch them from behind the rows of
windows in surrounding Office buildings.
Another fad, palmistry, is occupying
the minds of the boarders in a fashion
able apartment on the west side.
When a couple is discovered, holding
hands. with a far away look in the eyes,
it only means the two discovered a
new line and are puzzling over the
meaning of it.
Lent has its advantages, and disad-
vantages. a. wholesome custom withal,
strict observance of which is not. very
generally considered essential by even
the best of church going people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17
IT IS DISHONEST.

An impression seems to be prevalent
in the minds of many property owners
that it is a sign of shrewdness to de-
ceive the assessor The idea that it is
both morally and legally wrong appar-
emily does not occur to them. If one
can list his property at one-fourth the
amount for which it should be listed,
it is considered business the wrong
in getting caught.
Every dollar that one man gains in
this manner must be made up by some
other more honest''-and, as a rule,
poorer-taxpayer. For instance, when
the Topeka Water company escapes
with an assessment of $125,000 although
it makes affidavit to the secretary of
state that its plant is worth $500, 900,
the tax levy has to be made sufficiently
higher to raise $4,000 more from other
taxpayers. In other words, other people
have to pay $4,000 OF the water com
pany's taxes.
1t is charged that in Wyandotte eoun-
ty the big packing houses control the
assessors, and it is a fact that plants
in which are invested more than a mil
lion dollars are assessed at $50, 000 The
well to do and poorer classes must make
up the deficiency.
The Misrepresentation, however, is not
confined to corporations and capitalists
The assessment rolls of Wyandotte
county, which has a population of TO-
900, shows less than 400 gold watches
and only three bicycles in the county.
The man who suffers most is the mer-
chant who has all his money invested in
his stock, for him there is little chance
to escape full assessment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17

William E Curtis in Chicago Herald.
The real and only reason for the report
and the bill of the committee on ways
and means was to establish a precedent
for legislation in the interest Of the su
gar and tobacco men of this country
when congress was compelled to deter
mine our relations with the Philippine
islands It is proposed to prohibit the
importation of sugar and tobacco from
the Philippine islands into the United
States by a very high duty. and the
committee on ways and means realized
that it would be in a predicament if it
did not place a duty upon sugar and to-
baceo from Porto Rico also. The cues
ton of right and wrong did not enter
into the controversy so far as the COM
mittee was concerned. The sugar and
tobacco men demanded protection from
the sugar and tobacco growers of Porto
Rico and the Philippine islands, and
the committee on ways and means, of
which Mr. Tawney is a member, at
tempted to give it to them. This is the
whole thing in nutshell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17

fered for the existence in the Porto
Rican government bill, of the section
1evying a duty equal to Is per cent of
the Dingley schedule on the trade be-
tween the United States and this newly
acquired territory. One of the main
contentious of the supporters of the
latter bill is that the people of the is
land need the money for carrying on
the public administration of their af-
fairs. The bin just passed gives them
upwards of $2.000,000 which should last
long enough to enable them to adopt
some system of internal taxation ade-
quate to their needs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17

As long as the Beers were winning
victories European nations remained
quiet and enjoyed the fun, but since the
tide has turned a number of them seem
anxious to take a hand in the scrin-
mage. They evidently realize that if
they ever expect to humble England
they must do it now. Russia is not
yet prepared for war. and France has
her exposition on hands, but events
won't wait. The iron is hot and it is
time to strike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17

One of the first things man does af-
ter leaving Kansas is to write a book
The latest addition to the list is L. l..
Hopkins, who formerly lived in Topeka.
He has published a volume called 1.-THE
Coming Trust" which is dedicated to
the Wealth Producers of America" It
is printed by the Advance company in
New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17
THE PORTO RIoAN BILL.

The bill providing for the return to
Porto Rico of the money collected from
the islands commerce through the
medium of the custom house, up to
January /. 1900, has passed the senate
and needs only the signature of the
president to become law.
The enactment of this measure re-
moves the only plausible reason yet Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17

There is not a politician in Kansas
who can not tell exactly who will be
elected to all the offices this year from
president down. The politicians pro-
phecies are about as reliable as a Kan
sas zephyr