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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-06-22
C,TATE on VERMONT. Ma,Lhoro. 81

- BY the Probate Court for Said District
To all persons interested Ia the es ate Of JO-
SEPH G. NORM. late Wards horo, 10 said dis
trict. deceased, Greeting
Whereas Lucy b NORM mas presented to this
court an instrument purporting tn be the last will
Of said dece lsed, for probate:-You are hereby
notified that this court will decide upon the pro-
bate Of said inst rumsnt at the session thereof,
to be held at the Probate Office ia Bra tlehoro. ia
said district, on he 23d day Of June. A. d. 1900.
when aud where YOU may appear and contest the
same if you see cause.
"a = SOUVENIR psgistar
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-06-22

missionaries are still in prison. The disor-
derby elements have secured the upper
hand at Wuhu and Czechuan, where the
native Christians have been massacred.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-06-22
legal Notices
CTATE or VERMONT. Marlboro, IS.

CTATE or VERMONT, Marlboro, IS.
y BY the Probate Court for Said District.
To all persons interested In the estate Of
SARAH a. HALL, late Of Brattleboro deceased,
Greeting.
Where as Emogeue E. White has presented to
this court an instrument purporting to be the
last will OF seid deceased, for probate:- You are
hereby notified that this court will decide upon
the probate Of said instrument at the session
eteof, to be held at the Probate Office in Brat
tleboro, in said district, on the Goth DAY Of June
A. d. 1900, when and where you may appear and
contest the same, IL you 81 cause.
~ A. +. SCHWENK. Register.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-06-22
ANARCHY RAMPANT IN CHINA
Legations Burned and Ministers Murdered.

Foreign Sen and Capture
May Dned the WOrdSeveral Iurryng Toops 70 ua
9th Regiment Ordered FrOmM Manila.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-12-06
BIDS TO Be OPENED FOR
ELEVEN Inn0RED SHIPS
atJu pEas ARE ASSEMBLING At
wAsHINeToN TO WATCH
THE STRUGGLE.
Lsrges. Amount involved Ever Let
by Any Government at One Time
-wha, the Pacific Coast Builders
Are After.

NEW YORK. Nov 2s.-Eleyen az
mOred ships TO cost about sss.9gso COO
when finished are attracting shipbaild-
ing experts to the navy department
this week. saws a tribune special from
Washington They viii make final
studies OF the plans and specifications
TO win the great competition eleven
DAYS hence. when the bids viii be
opened for perhaps the largest con-
s;ruction contracts ever undertaken s..
a single time by the government
The amount at stake at noon on
December It'll. according 20 the con-
gressioaaI appropriation. for hulls and
machinery alone, Will aggregate Si2.-
600 900 and within this sum the bids
will be confined, the remaining s24,-
600 900 required 10 furnish the guns.
armor, equipment and stores OF the
vessels being reserved By the navy
department for expenditure after the
vessels are launched and nearly ready
for service.
Certainty OF brisk competition has
been brought about by the peculiar
wording of the two appropriation acts
authorizing these ships and by the de-
lay in designing the two classes of
cruisers and battle ships. of which the
department took advantage in stipu-
lating that all bids be opened on a
single day The act of March 3, 1899.
provided for three battle ships and
three armored cruisers, and the act of
June Z, 1900, added two more battle
ships and three armored cruisers, each
class under both acts being identical
and the limit of cost for bulls and
machinery for each vessel being 49,
100000 in the case of the battle ships
and s4,0O0.00 in the case of the cruis-
ers
The probable distribution of the
construction of the eleven big vessels
has become very interesting in view
OF ali Interpretation of the two acts
of congress by Judge Advocate Gen
eral Lemly of the navy. He finds that
the Pacific coast. under the two acts,
can secure three battle ships and one
cruiser, or three cruisers and one bat
| tie ship, or two battle ships and two
| cruisers. That coast is entitled to not
more than four vessels, being limited
| to two under each act. The remaining
seven vessels must be built on the
Atlantic. Each act imposes additional
restrictions as to the number of yes
sells which may be built by one con
tracing party, and in this particular
ACCORDING to Captain Lemly's findings
single bidder on the Atlantic may
secure as maximum four battle ships
and two cruisers. or four cruisers and
two battle ships. making in all 81,
vessels. but no bidder can secure three
of one type and three of another, OF
five of one type.
The SCOTS of San Francisco declare
they want more Lhan tour ships, ant
if their bids appear to entitle them t;
more than that number the secretar,
of the navy will submit the matter 4
the attorney general for decision. ant
if this goes against them the builder
of the Oregon will appeal to congress
to place them on an equality witt
their Eastern competitors.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-12-06
News of the Town.

Arthur Harrison viii soon leave for
trip TO the coast
Concrete for the foundations for
the Young block IS being put in place
James Thompson. deputy clerk of
the circuit court. IS thinking about
forming a company Of national quarts
Goodan. q uIuiatto. was reprimani-
Ell By Judge Wilcox yesterday for
using questionable language in public
George Robertson of c. Brewer &
Co. is on a vacation on Hawaii. where
BE wis. remain q month o. so for his
health
At meeting of directors OF the y
W. C.. A TO be held this evening the
proposed boarding home for girls viii
be discussed
DR.. Noblitt was arrested yesterday
afternoon for practising medicine
without a license His trial will be
held before Judge Wilcox this morr-
ing
Toma Abey, the japanese police Of
hcer. has been unable to report Tor
duty since Thanksgiving. He ate over
ripe duck for his dinner that day and
has not been out of the house since
Kauwila, native boy. charged with
stealing bicycle from j. Wirli.
waived examination before Judge vii
cox yesterday. He was committed to
the circuit court for trial at the next
term.
The final game of the Gentlemen S
Doubles will be held on the court Of
the Pacific Tennis Club SATURDAY,
commencing at O'Clock. Tea will be
served by Mrs. G. P. Wilder, assisted
by Mrs. A. NJ. Brown and Mrs. J. s,
invited to be present.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-12-06
ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE.
Burning Questions That Are Agitating
the Church of England.

NEW YORK. Nov. 2S.-The proceed
ings of the Round Table Conference
summoned by the Bishop of London
for the discussion of burning questions
agitating the English church have
been published in authentic form, says
the Tribune's London correspondent
The nearest approach to a compro-
mise was the offer of Lord Halifax and
Canon Gore to accept the hrst prayer
book of Edward VI as an alternative
in the communion service and to dis
solve the English church union, a high
church body which has excited the
hostility of low churchmen- The i'm
preston is strengthened that the only
effective peace conference viii be
an enlarged convocation with ancient
rights fully restored.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-12-06
The Best Plaster.

A piece of fiannel dampened with
Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bound
to the affected parts is superior TO anS
master. When troubled with lame
back or pains in the side or chest. gre
il a trial and you are certain TO De
more than pleased with the prompt
relief which it affords Pain Balm
also cures rheumatism One appfca'
ton gives relief. For sale by Benson,
smith 4 Co. general agents for Ter
ritory OF Hawaii
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-12-06
NEW GOODS
JUST ARRIVED

White Euameled Iron Beds from -.
Wool Mattresses. the very thing Tor com
fort and health this wet weather, double
81. Jingle. $3.50. Wire Springs from -.
Wool Pillows, Feather Pillows. Hair
Pillows. Straw Pillows. Excelsior Pillows
Meat Safes. Ice Chests. Refrigerators,
bookcases. Chifoniers, Extension Tables
Raby Carriages. Baby Chairs, Hatohets'
Wrenches and every description oil
Hammers. Levels, Planes. Rules Files.
Wrcnehes. and everey destruction OF
HARDWARE, at Prices that Defy Con'-
pefifiOH.
Circulating Library, hooks lent TO
sad. &c per volume.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-12-06
PORTO RICANS LEAVE
FOR HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

o SAN JUAN, Nov. 24.-One E
. hundred and fourteen Porto 2
. Ricans of both sexes, bound for {.
. Hawaii, are due at New Orleans {.
. on the steamer Arkadia on No {.
(. vember 18th. They are routed {.
{. for San Francisco by way of {.
the Southern Pacific. 1t is not {.
. considered PROBABLE that they |.
. will be detained ny the treasury {.
. agents at New Orleans on the {.
y groun. that they are contract {.
{. laborers. Should the expert {.
{. ment prove satisfactory, thou (.
% sands of Porto Ricans will I.
. probably be sent to Hawaii
cogoco o<><
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-12-06
RINOlA.'

New this year. Forty (iol games on
one board Holiday stock now open
Come early. Wall. Nichols Co., Ltd.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09

without very weighty reasons"
''Jack-do something anything to break
it off,
''Why?"
Isabel rested her head on my shoulder
and sobbed out:
Because love him! And I am so
helpless! didn't think cared, until
until this came
Then suddenly she lifted her head.
Jack, I am the other one George
mentioned?"
How should I know?'
"But you do?"
''WeIl-weIl-I shouldn't wonder -
''Then why didn't he ask me, Instead
of that ugly, specialized thing?"
ST think there were many reasons. IN
one case he gives social position for
| money. The whole affair Is a business
transaction. With you it is different;
he does not know you care for him (you
are little contrary at times, sister
mine), and if he did he is too honorable
to drag you to poverty"
but my money
t'He does not know of its existence.
And he has to think Of his mother
Isabel made a most unkind remark
about Georges mother and tore herself
away from me.
AS the summer days slipped away
became very anxious about my sister.
Her high spirits vanished, and she spent
most of her time sitting idly on the
cliff, gazing with sad eyes over the sea,
She implored me to have no visitors, and
I was at my wits end to know how to
rouse her and bring back the old merry
! laugh and saucy speech.
! Then came another letter from George,
| giving an early date for the marriage.
l broke the news to Isabel.
| GA nasty pill IS best swallowed quick
| w. I remarked.
"And you must take honey afteTWard
to get rid of the TASTE she replied, Bit
terly, and went out of the house again
| to her seat overlooking the sea. She sat
| there nearly the whole day now, and the
| roses faded in her cheeks and her eyes
grew sad. I cursed George, for loved
! my sister dearly. About a week before
| the wedding, at my mothers invitation,
George and his fiancee came to visit US.
| They were to stay one night and return
to town early the following morning
Isabel refused to meet them, and fed
to a neighboring aunt.
The moon was shining brilliantly as
George and I walked along the cliff,
smoking a last cigar before going to
bed. It was the hour when men wax
confidential, and George told me all his
sorrows.
'eNWhy are you marrying so soon?" In
quired.
"Old Hepburn insists on 1t. 1t appears
Mary got to flirting with some foreign
chap abroad, a music master, and the
old man wants her married and safe
from him. It's a queer case. The fell
low is hanging about London and Mary
has been kept almost a prisoner in the
house. She's out on bail now, and I'm
surety for what's that, Hetherpridge?
George caught my arm and pointed
along the cliff. looked, and the moon
| lcrIof CHI
; woman, walking quickly away from
US.
'"rhey came from the house, said
George, excitedly.
!, zone of the servants and her lover
! I said. Its rather late, but this moon
gets into their heads"
'Its-it's Mary gasped George.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
NIGHT IN THE CITY.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The evening shadows blanket all the
town,
The weary husband homeward takes his
way
In fear his waiting wife may call him
down!
Behind the billboards on the vacant lots
The hold-up crouches with his bag Of
And clustered round the corpulent jack
Sit anxious men. with pictured cards in
And lovers stroll beneath the starlit skies
And feed each others ears with honeyed
lies.
The arc lights spit and spIutter overhead,
The noisy tramcars roll along the street,
The big policeman Of the funeral tread
SWipes peanuts from the stands along
Within the washee house the snowy shirt
With spray from puckered mouth Wun
Lungee vets,
And providers pick cigar stumps from the
dirt
Which, later, we will get in cigarettes,
And DER the fragrant, greasy, steaming
Of mystery stands the hot tamaIe man.
In moisture joints where glasses clink we
hear,
AS through the dimly lighted streets we
walk,
Men curse expansion Ger their lager
DS9rJ
With tongues expanded till they scarce
can talk,
And heelers, flush with cash of candidate,
To drink with them the red-nosed
FOUNDERS press,
And in their slangy eloquence diIate
Upon the ballots guarded sacredness,
And ask the bummers to do all they can
To land their pure, unspotted, honest
man.
The night creeps on; the hackmen at the
call
Their sleep baked eyes with chilly fin
gers rub,
Then speed away with rafting wheels to
haul
The men with tangled legs home from
the club.
The tired barkeeps close and lock their
doors,
The buns themselves to Decent beds
betake.
The weary cop ir darkened hallway
And dreams Of clews he sees not when
awake. .-. t,
The wicked town relinquishes its sins
To eaten a nap before the day begins
Denver Post.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
GAMBLING HOUSES
Pay OF Their Employees
After Each Days Work.

After Each Days Work.
New Orleans Times-Democrat
why is it, I WONDER" said a member
of little group in a cafe last evening"
that poOlroomS and bookmakers always
pay their employees by the day instead Of
replied a turfman at the other side of the
table, land applies to all kinds of gam
bling. Every night a properly conducted
house winds up its accounts exactly as
If it was going out of business. 1t set
ties all its bills, pays off it's help adjusts
any disputes-in short, it closes the led
ger. If the proprietor was found dead in
his bed there would be no trouble in
reason of it, persisted the questioner
We'll no." said he turfman; the gen
eral reason for winding up business every
night is the uncertainty of any form of
gambllng-be it pool selling or dealing
the bank. The strongest establishment
might be wiped out before dark by some
phenomenal run of luck, so, naturally. it
is one-day business, closing every night
morning. But the particular reason for
paying off employees by the day is that a
large percentage of their wages are inva-
riably played back against the game The
proprietor of one place told me lately
that he got back at least half. You see,
the help receive extraordinarily large
wages, considering the work they do, and
it s a case of come easy, go easy. Take
here last season for the bookmalzers and
getting their $40 a day regularly. You
may be surprised to know that there
were mighty few of them who had
enough money left to get out of town at
the end of the meet. They all intended to
lay by little for that purpose. but the
temptation to pick winners was too
strong, and they kept putting 1t off from
day. to day, until the closing found them
broke. Most Of them borrowed railroad
fare. Since then they have been working
all summer in the North, yet 1 am willing
; to bet they are in exactly the same con-
d1uon today that they were in last spring
They will have to borrow car fare to eel
back to New Orleans. The average man
thinks $40 a day is an enormous salary
for bookmakers' clerks, and he wonders
why they don't get rich It's all on ac-
| count Of the daily pay roll If they were
paid, once week the chances are they
would hang on to some of the money,
bank it or give 1t to their wives. Then
wages would have to be cut at least 50
per cent
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
AN ASSISTED EL0PEMENT,
The King.

The King.
81 say. Hetherbridge, do you think
could earn my own Iving?"
Great Scott, no." L replied. Then I
added, to soften matters: There's so
much competition nowadays. Everybody
wants to live
''Well I've got to do it, said George,
sadly.
Things have been going on badly?"
L inquired.
They've gone. And there's the mater,
you know
pulled at my cigar in silence.
cts come so suddenly" continued
George, 81 must do something The
mater can't manage on a nttle.'
You must marry" 1 said, with de-
cision.
4 hate that idea," said\ George. petu-
lantly.
But for the sake of the mater?''
That's just it. l want to get work Of
some kind, which would mean-well Just
old Hepburn's daughter, whom I've never
seen. He's a neighbor of ours, with a
lot Of money made out of cheap boots,
or something
where is the lady?'
con the continent undergoing social
sandpapering She'll be home in a few
days now. The old man is awfully keen
on it, I believe
1T seems all right I observed eau
tiously:
Its beastly," said George.
"Any prior attachment
George blushed Gle is quite young.)
''Well, chap can The began. Then
he stopped, and left me uncertain as to
the limitations Of a chap.
''And the other LADY," I inquired, TAX
ing certain facts for granted
How could I ask her now?"
'But you propose to ask Miss Hep
burn.
That's different It would be an ar.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
DID NOT LIKE THE BRITISH.
Inhabitants of Mauritius Detest the
Members of the Ruling Race.


The British possession of Nautilus Is
at present the round of a campaign
against everything British. The French
childs copybook, which gives a picture
of the alleged British atrocities at Lady
smith, is being widely used and this is
not the only .monstrous publication that
is being issued with a view OF fostering
hatred of things British.
The newspapers, Of which there are
nine or ten published here. are with two
exceptions violently anti-British. They
constantly speak of the ''undying ha-
tired" of the natives for the English, and
stigmatize the British residents as pigs,
thieves, drunkards, and almost every
other Objectionable thing they can imag-
me.
Although Mauritius has been a British
possession since 1910, it is as anti-Brit-
ish as ever. Out of a population Of
sac 0G0, 10000 are Indian natives engaged
In the sugar industry. About $4,000 Of
the rest are white and coiored creoles.
Not only the creoles, but an enormous
number of the Indians, as well as the
Chinese shopkeepers, use the French Ian
guage, and all the newspapers, except
one, are published in French.
IN all law cases In which an English
man is involved the newspapers invaTia-
bly, side against him and heap abuse on
his head so long as the matter remains
before tho public.
Sir Charles Bruce is constantly de1ided
and ridiculed in these dsgracefuI jour
nails, which, indeed, vie with the gutter
press of Paris in vituperaton ana ca
lumny.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09

"Ohr' said Isabel, coldly.
''There is also another lady" / added
'Who's that?" asked Isabel, turning
quickly toward me.
l mentioned no name.
Then he is going to marry that girl
just for her money.
ct is a useful thing to have in the
house.
81 call it acknowledgement III
never speak to him again.
Isabel left me, very angry, and I sat
in her chair, gazing out at the blue sea
glistening in the sunshine, and think
ing how contrary things were. For I
have great affection for George. Pres
emily l felt two arms slipped round my
neck and heard voice behind me-.
You're sure he said there was another
some one else?" it said.
"Why, certainly said /. ''He's awfully
upset; doesn't care a bit for the Hepburn
girl; only he thinks it is the right thing
to do"
You're an old DEAR" said the voice
And then felt kiss on my forehead,
and the voice came no more.
Now, 1 wonder why Isabel called me
''an old DEAR
A few days after came a letter from
George announcing his engagement to
Miss Hepburn, and inclosing her photo
graph. Isabel and 1 regarded the letter
together.
HE can't care for girl like that"
said Isabel, whom I strongly suspected
of having lately INDUCED in tears. Some
how the photograph seemed to cheer her
a little.
''She is not handsome, certainly" I
conceded. 'She may be very nice, how
ever
But spectacles-and that hideous hair
And then look at her dressP'
HE will marry her, now they are en-
gagged. George is not the kind of man
to consider a promise can be broken
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09

she declares, neglected her interests, and
she determined to fit herself to han
Ole the case. For two years she read law
ana IN the meantime learned TO operate
typewriter. Then she prepared a brief
consisting of f1fty-two typewritten pages,
and submitted it to Vice Chancellor Pit
ney. The vice chancellor told her that
Gerry.
Mrs. Mattsen then served legal notice
on the defendants that she would apply
to the supreme court to have the case re-
opened, and last Wednesday she person.
ally appeared before that court in Tren-
ton and made her motion; The court
Judgment, giving her the privilege of fl
ing new declaration, which will bring
for trial.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
LOST HER PROPERTY,
And Then Mrs. MattSen Studied Law
and Had Her Suit ReOpened.

New York Herald. 6h ea
Indignant at the manner in which law
yers conducted her case, Mrs. Clara
Mattsen, of No. 1G7 York street, Jersey
City, studied law for two years and then
went into court as her own counsel last
week. The result was that she OBJ aimed
an order to have the suit reopened.
George G. Perry, owner Of the house
Matsen lived, assigned to the New Jer-
sey Title Guarantee and Trust company
in 1881 the rents OF. the property. The
trust company on July %, 1891, obtained
Judgment against Mrs. Mattsen for S71
for rent.
At that time she owned two houses in
Van Horne street, Jersey City, on which
there were mortgages held by a building
and loan association. The trust company
obtained an order from the court Of
Chancery restraining Mrs. Mattsen from
collecting any of the rents of the two
houses. These rents amounted to $48 q
month, and on them Mrs Mattsen de-
pended to pay the taxes and interest on
the mortgages.
For three years the trust company kent
the matter in the courts, and when
finally Mrs. Mattsen's counsel succeeded
in having the restraining order dissolved
she found that the building and lean as
ISOLATION had forecl0sed its mortgage on
the houses and sold them She alleges
that she never received notice Of the fore
closure proceedings, and she set to work
to have them set aside,
Mrs. Mattsen retained seVe al Iawyc RS t g,
conduct the case for her. Ali of them,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-09
she, looking on the ground.

49, AOOkA11l9 O1t CIlS SIOuHQs
[ Whistled.
And he has accepted" she continued.
"A most improper proceeding" 1 re-
marked severely.
''It was the only way"
Isabel looked UP ct me. Was it the
roses come back or only transitory
blush?
SO you are about to contract a mesal>
lance" 1 said.
Yes, please" replied Isabel, dropping
a courtesy.
Then she put her arms round my neck,
and whispered in my ear, 81 am so
happy, Jack
Does he know about the money!
Not a word, That is a, surprise for
our wedding day. He is going to work,
and the mater will stop with us, and he
is the very best and dearest fellow that
ever lived, Jack"
II think you are right" said I.