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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-09-05
Moretown.

A good many from town attended the
Old Maids Convention at Waitsfeld last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philo Towle of Waterbury
have been in town for a few days.
Mrs. Frank Martelle of Boston and Mrs
John Barber of Waitsfeld visited at G. d.
Ashley's, last week.
Mrs. Charles Sawyer and son Karl OF
Barre, have been visiting relatives in the
village.
Miss Lors Clark is visiting in town.
Mrs. Birney Griffith is still confined to
her bed with badly injured ankle,
Harry freeman returns to Bellows Falls
this week, after having spent his vacation
with his parents.
The Republicans held rally and flag.
raising at the town hall last Saturday af-
ternoon which was we'll attended. The
speakers we're A. G. Fay of Barre and 8.
W. Flynn OF st. Adams. The Waitsfeld
band furnished music
Miss Richardson, who is canvassing the
town in the interest of the Vermont Bible
Society, spent Sunday with Rev. and Mrs.
ID. @. Thatcher.
Those from town attending school at
Montpelier are Harold and Howard Hay
lett; Josie, Maud and Howard Buckley;
Maude Johnson and Harry Bruce, all of
whom are attending the Union school.
George Ashley and Addie Freeman are
studying music at the Montpelier Semi
nary. Our town seems to be well repre-
sented.
Village schools commence this week with
Misses Jones and Thompson as teachers.
Washington.
Miss Ethel Egerton has returned to her
home in Newton Center, Mass.
Mrs. A. e. Winship of Boston visited
here last week. Mrs. Winship was for
several years resident Of this town.
Quite company of young people are at
Fairlee lake this week.
Harry Cloud of Barre was In town over
Sunday.
Joseph Decoteau has rented the house,
owned by Plymon Seaver at the lower vii.
lage, and has moved his family there.
Several from here attended the fair at
Bradford last week.
Parties from Graniteville have been TAX
ing some timber for derrick from the
woods on l.. K. Cheney's farm during the
past few days.
have returned from their visit at North.
Hampton, N. III.
q. X. Huntington has been making Inn
provements on his house in the shape of q
large bay-window.
A. E. Curtis lost one of his mich COWS
last week. A fractured leg was the cause
| The Ladies' Aid Society gave dinner al
the town clerk 3 offiae on Tuesday for the
benefit OF the voters.
W. A. Goss Of Chelsea visited in town las
Monday.
| Miss Claire Carpenter returned on Mon
day to her work as teacher in the Mont
pelier graded school.
The following students are attending
school out OF town: Olive Calef, Grac,
Stanley, Annie Flint. lila Downing, Ethe
Hanson, q. q. and Mark Carpenter. ant
Dean Seaver at Goddard Seminary; Ethe
Huntington at Montpelier Seminary snC
Bessie Mcdonald at Mortified High school
I Shady Rill.
Mrs. j. P. Flint has gone to Massachusett
for vacation among relatives.
| Mr. and Mrs w. K. Folsom and son Elme
of Barre were at j. w. Maxham's ON Monday
Several young people from this place attend
ed the Washington county Christian Endeavo
convention at Waterbury last week.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-09-05
THE GULF HOUSE.
AT WILLIAMSBURG gulf SPRINGS.
IN THE MIDST OF WILD and PICTURESQUE ATTRACTIONS.
FAMOUS SPOT IN VERMONT NATURAL SCENERY,

the which entirely The
spacious finished natural wood There wide,
Corridors large sleeping single and commodou dining
office, toilet and bath with best furnishings
nue beds and bedding new fresh stylish Table
and service good as at the best hotel in Vermont.
No desirable for recreation any
Cool and breezy in the hottest days.
Terms regular 50 per day. Board So according
Special rates to families parties
Carriages from oil trains Wilamsown
For full particulars call for descriptive circulars,
proprietor
Z. j. GALE,
Gulf House, WiIamStown, VT,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-09-05
COME IN WHEN IT RAINS

And see Sun and Rain Umbrellas. They are indis-
pensabe in this New England climate of Experience,
dear teacher drives many here buy umbrellas who should
have come in the first place.
Buy one here and you will need another for a long
time Barring accidents but then you will come here again
Good Umbrellas for women Of fast black English Gloria
steel rod and neat handles 90 cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-09-05

Silk Umbrellas (that means ALL SILK in changeabe
colos green red brown, etc. descent effects glorious as
rainbow delicate and dainty handles in al the newest con-
ceptons
The steel rod and frame staunch, and the umbrella
does not feel if it coming pieces in fact is as
strong and beautiful umbrella could WISH and the
price instead of being $500 is 1928.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-09-05

OF course there many umbrellas between these two
all good umbrelas-and at the price we ask-bargains
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-09-05
East Brookheld.
PlainneId.

PlainfeId.
Mrs. John Whitcher and daughter, Mrs
Osborn of Bradford, ILL.,, are visiting at G..
W. Whitcher's.
Frank Holbrook of Palmyra, N. Y. visit
ed his aunt, Mrs. DR.. Smith, the first OF this
week.
HThe Democrats will hold a rally Saturday
evening. j. H. Dunbar of Claremont, N.
H., and G.. A. G.. Jackson of Montpelier
will speak. The Msrshf1eld band will be in
attendance.
The Republican rally was well attended
last Wednesday evening. A beautiful flag
twelve by eighteen feet, with Mckinley &
Roosevelt's portraits on 1t, was raised.
Waterbury Center.
Mrs. Mary Fiddock of Richmond visited
her father, Daniel Town, and her brother
and other relatives in town last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. Gile are to be con-
graduated upon the birth OF a daughter
born August 81.
Mrs. Jessie w. Hayes and son Leslie
spent part OF last week with the Shaws,
at their summer home.
DIR. and Mrs. o. l.. Watson OF Montpelier
visited their daughter, Mrs. Jessie w. Hayes
last Friday.
Henry #. Hill has pair OF steer calves
one born February 16 and the other Febru-
airy 49, which weighed September 1, SIC
pounds. They are OF the Holstein breed
| and are fine pair.
Il. b. Moody lost bull by lightning last
week Monday, as Is supposed, az the ami
NAL was seen the day before, and there wat
| thunder storm In that part of the town OF
| Monday of last week, and he was fosnl
dead few days after.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-09-05

Mrs Harriet Ssnborn has returned from
her trip to Barre and Lebanon, N. FL.
Mr.. and Mrs. Evan Thomas OF Essex
Junction were guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. Gran,
Vile Powers, last Wednesday and Thurs.
day.
Miss Louise Wsshburn, formerly of this
town hut now OF Manchester, N. H., is the
guest OF Mrs. .. G. Sargent
On Saturday, Sept. l, the Republicans
held a rally under the shade of the trees
about the Academy in the presence OF q
large crowd. The speakers were j. W.
Gordon OF Barre, c. III. Robb OF Bellows
Falls, and j. X. Darling of Chelsea. Music
was furnished by the Corinth drum corps
and the East Corinth band.
Carl Corliss went to Tunbridge on Wed
his bicycle.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-08-03
Chinese a. Jokers.

A writer in the London Sketch, who
speaks of having spent several years
in China, writes of Chinese servants
and their ideas of honesty and prac'
teal jokes.
'The most ominous sign preceding
the present outbreak says the writer,
was that the boys in Tien Tsin left
their masters, as they are also doing
now in the south Of China. A Chinese
boy Is a faithful servant, and when
he leaves his master for no cause there
is sure to be mischief abroad, general
~ with a secret society ut the bottom
Of it. IL a master in China trusts his
boy implicitly, the servant generally
responds by being absolutely honest;
but II the master thinks he can take
care of his own valuables he finds that
he Is mistaken. ] had at Hongkong q
first-class boy whom generations oil
subalterns had nicknamed Scamp the
only name / ever knew him by
Scamp II trusted with money, would
| always account for 1t to the uttermosl
liI ~ Oi' 4" ~ @ J'F' o''o''
the Chinese New Year, the only time
at which the Cinnamon make holiday
and spend their savings brought
home some bank notes and put then
in a drawer. The next afternoon
looked in the drawer for the notes
hut they had vanished. called
Scamp who appeared with an abso
lutely impressive face. He knew moth
ing about the notes, and, instead o
allowing me to lecture him, read me
lesson. Master he said, 40 this side
go that side; he no savvy what he d.
with his money. More better mex
time, give Scamp take care Of tool
his advice and never lost any NOR
money"
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-08-03
. LIFE OF CRIME.
slLvA'S BLoopTHiRSTv BAND
ExTERMINATED.


Gov. Otcro of New Mexico has re-
,eiyed official notification from the
governor of Durango, Mexico. OF the
execution In that place, on a recent
late, OF Aurelio Miguel Lucas. for the
crime of murder. Notices like this are
not uncommon. but the incidents lead
Ing up to the fate OF this man Lucas
form one Of the most thrilling chapters
Of the history of The great southwest.
II is the close of the last chapter OF
the most notorious and remarkable
band Of outlaws Of the present genera
tion, numerous IA have been the law
less bands Of that section of American
domain.
This band OF outlaws was organized
by Vincente silva, as carefully IA II
paves the way for a business enter
prise. Its purpose was to rob cattle
and horse ranchos.t to break into banks.
To hold up trains. and to do these
crimes so adroitly that suspicion would
not rest upon the guilty. Vicente silva
was several years planning his work.
He had lived on the border all his
life, and he had known bandits from
his youth. He thought he could Inn
prove on their ways. He chose for his
gang men who were bold and resource
full. who would murder when 1t was
convenient, obey orders, and especial
ly who knew how to escape arrest.
When Col. w. A. Adams and his to
stalwart sons were found dead ut home
on their sheep range, near Los Ceril
los, and the CORY bodies had bullets II
their heads and stabs in their chests
II was generally believed that Pueblo
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-08-03
| CrickS Of
borSe Graders
DECEITFUL
RESOPTED TO
BY DEALERS

The shoe is taken off the Sound foot
and a small nail driven into the quick.
The shoe is put on again, and only an
expert veterinary surgeon would know
what had been done. AS a consequence
the animal limps on both feet, with the
result that the lameness is impercep-
tible TO the unskilled buyer.
Then the low horse dealers have a
method Of filling up the holes which
age produces in the eyes OF the horses.
This is done by continuous pricking,
which sets mp Inflammation, and the
holes are temporarily concealed. There
is a barbarous practice OF taking" a
-winded horse by giving 1t
three to five ounces OF shot In order tn
weigh down the stomach. and thus pre-
vent the expanding and lifting of the
abdomen when the horse labors In
breathing. The shot causes infiamma-
ton. and presently the horse dies.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-08-03

10 the murderous scheme was quickly
altered. Trugello was sent TO tell
young Sandoval that he was wanted
by a sick friend. The young man re-
sponded to the call. Just az he was
passing along "A narrow. dark street
silva leaped from n dark retreat and
stabbed him. The body was dumped
into a cesspool from which 1t was dug
out six months later.
After washing his hands at Police
man Chavez's house Silva fastened to
his wife. lie protested his devotion
To her and told her how he had risked
his very. life to- como and see her
again. He coaxed her to leave with
him for the mountains. No one knows
what occurred on that ride. When
silva returned to his followers tn"
next day he said he had finished the
job. and there would be no more
"suucaling in Las Vegas Two
months later when Las Vegas jail was
filed with members OF the bandit band
and there were confessions OF crime,
the body of Mrs. silva was dug from n
shallow grave near San Pedro. A doz-
en- stabs about the chest told the story
OF her death.
Both Chavez and Juan Nalpardo, an
other member OF the gang, came to an
untimely end In 1897. when the sheriffs
of San Miguel and Santa Fe counties
caught them in a cold -blooded murder
and pursued them until they were tried
and hanged. The silva gang soon quar-
relied IL their enforced hiding place.
The men with Silva knew that he had
made thousands OF dollars by their
own brigandage. II Is natural that
c~ovetousness possessed them. Gonzales
do Boca aud Guadalupe Caballero each
testified that Silva was shot In the
head while he was cooking a meal ear
ly in 1897, and that from his body
about Sl3. 900 was taken.
Thenceforward the dissolution OF the
band was rapid. Twenty arrests were
made in IA few weeks. -Four made full
confessions. Three were convicted and
hanged. four were not convicted, three
had their sentences committed to life
imprisonment, and FIVE are In the pen
itentiary.
And now there comes from Durango,
Mexico. the news that the last Of twd
escaping members has beer hanged il
Durango for fresh crime.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-08-03
REMARKABLE EXPERIMENT.
Showing the Power of Fear to Produce
What IL Dreaded.

A most remarkable experiment was
once tried In England during an cpl
demic Of smallpox. Seeing that the
people were becoming panicstricken as
the number OF victims increased daily,
certain leading physicians came to the
conclusion that fright was killing al
most as many as the disease itself, and
they determined to ascertain by al ex-
pertinent whether this conclusion was
correct. So they applied to the gov
eminent for permission to experiment
on n condemned criminal. and their
request was duly granted. The crimi-
nal, 1t Is said. was promised "a pardon,
II he survived the ordeal which he was
about to undergo. And this ordeal.
he vas told, was nothing less than to
sleep one night in a bed in which a
person had Just died OF smallpox. The
man consented. and hat night he
slept, or rather iay. for, presumably.
he did not sleep. In the bed assigned
to him by the physicians. The result
was that In the morning he was found
to be suffering with smallpox. and OF
this very disease he died a few min
utes later. Yet the bed in which he
had lain and the sheets and blankets
on 1t had been purchased expressly
for this very purpose. and had never
before been used by my person.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-08-03

expected turn of fortune came. A
company of American soldiers arrived
in the city. Some OF our men, firing
of the siege, had wandered off into the
city to seek diversion and refresh
ment.
When the new American soldiers
came they found some Of N men in
the streets and chased them out of the
city. Then they came on to the o n
vent, and when we saw them We
jumped up and ran. Some OF us
reached the beach and made our es-
cape back to Luzon, where we had
come from.
THAT Is all | know about the fight at.
the Catubig convent. but it will live In
the memory of every Filipino soldier
who was there as the most terrible
bloodshed and the braycst fighting
that ever took place in these blood
washed islands"
The three days siege in and about
the old Catubig convent resulted in
me heaviest loss OF life sustained by
the American army I'm any one en-
| gagement since the war began. The
following men are known to have been
killed:
Sergeants Dustin l.. George and Will
liam J. Hall, Corporals Herbert II. Ed
! wards and John +. j. Hamilton, Cook
Burton Il. Hess, Musician Burton II.
Wagner, Privates Treffle Penslow, OF
to b. Loose, stephen Aperti, Joseph
NOEL, John t.. Kuhn. Ralph II. Zim,
Edward Brnman, Chester A. Conklin.
w. +. Collins, ]. J. Kerins, Henry Du-
mas. Philip Sailing and George A.
Slack.
Others, whose names have not as
yet been given out, were wounded. The
entire detachment of thirty-one was
taken from Company II, Forty-third
Infantry. This company, with its reg
iment, was enlisted at Forth Ethan
! Allen, Vermont, Oh the 18th Of No
vember. 1899. II embarked on the
transport Meade on the 18th of the
same month (November) and reached
Manila on the 10Th of December.
From Manila the Forty-third was
sent to the island of Samar, and
broken up in detachments to do gar
rison duty and form scouting parties
quell disturbances here and there. and
otherwise preserve the peace. Major
Henry T. Allen, commanding, was
made military commander of the Is
land.
Catubig is a port town. Major Al
len considered 1t safe enough and lef
only "a small force there to give a mil
itary color to the place and remind the
inhabitants that Uncle Sam was afoo
/, in the land. The invasion Of the reb
|, els from Luzon was n complete sur
prise, Lieutenant sweeney. witt
headed the party which came to tn,
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-08-03

to be n thousand rifles shooting out of
those windows. and all of them were
hitting us. | could hear the bullets
slapping into the bodies near me, and
could see the bodies whirling around
and falling. Men rushing up the con
ven stairs were shot as they ran, and
they kept right OF going until their
faces bumped on the steps and they
turned over on their sides and rolled
down in a heap at the bottom-dead.
1--WE had lost nearly a hundred OF
our bravest men. the leaders in the
attack. and a hundred more were
bleeding from wounds. limping, hold
ing their hands to their sides and
heads. clutching their broken arms or
w%rithing, all doubled up, with the pain
Of the dying.
There was nothing for us to do but
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-08-03
THE GALLANT DASH OF THE AMERICAN TRROPS. WHO WERE
DRIVEN FROM THE CONVENT BY FIRE.

continue the fight. as we had begun 1t,
and try to drive the enemy out of the
convent or kill them inside of 1t by "a
united raid on the place we sur
rounded IL and plunged in from every
side, hurting ourselves blindly into
the very muZzles of their guns ana
getting torn down in rows for our
pains.
Might came while we were still
vainly rushing against the building.
only to fall back each time behind "A
cloud of smoke, leaving a wriggling OF
legs and arms, a struggling of torn
bodies and a groanin1 of dying men on
the ground. With the coming OF the
dark, we retired behind the walls
again to rest and see what was left OF
our 800 men.
"In the morning we thought or a
new plan, and this was the only thing
we could have done to get the enemy
out of the convent.
I'VE got into the church, which
stood only a little way-a few feet-
from the other building, II here we
! lighted big punches of hemp and hung
them from the windows on the con-
vent roof. Soon they set fire to the
place and then Il men ran out 10
shoot the Americans down when they
should leave the doomed building.
out they came from a door on the
side IF the convent that was next to
the river, and made a run for the
uoter whpra there were some boats,
They faced us as they fell away, rum
ming backwards, and kept mp "A biting
fire from their sure-killing guns all the
while. They killed three men to oui
one and wounded a dozen more; but
we shot down almost half OF theii
number before they could reach any
shelter. Three men who reached 1
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-08-03
Heroic flight in Filipino War
Ga1lamG Defense 0G a Ba1nd oil Thirdy-@me Hnmeri@anns.
Who For Three Days Successfully Resisted
900 Natives amdo DriWem FrOmm SheGefo
Fought Their May Back t0 Freedom

relief OF the little band at the convent,
was %astounded at the sight that met
his gaze when he marched into the
city. There were dead Filipinos and
dying Filipinos and badly hurt Fill
pinos lying and crawling in every
street. The town seemed to have been
stricken by the plague.
All this had been done by %thirty-one
American soldiers %intrenched in an ex-
convent.
Was ever n more wonderful triumph
Of man over w%olf-pack recorded. even
in American military history, which
CLOVIS with deeds of men rather than
Of armies, with sidelights Of individual
achievement, with flashes of inspired
daring such Is the world never sees
except when Americans go to war?
u. S.-Gcn. Macarthur has Since re-
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-08-03

zon. whence most of the attacking
Marty had come in the first place. He
was captured in IA skirmish not far
from Manila:
Many of our men came from Luz
xon. We were thinking it would be
better fighting on one OF the smaller
islands. where your people were not so
strong. SO we went to Samar, and
got together a large company. l think
there were 600 men or more. We also
had a cannon, which the Filipinos on
the island furnished us. About 200 OF
our men had rifles, good ones, and
plenty of bullets; and the rest were
armed with knives and pistols II
swords and clubs-anytning they could
find. We made a strong company al
together.
I'VE knew there was only a small
company of American soldiers sta
toned in Catubig. which is a town
containing about 10000 people.
They were quartered in a convent.
II was a good place to defend them
selves in, being a heavy building and
having plenty OF windows for port
holes. There was a wall around 1t, too,
and next to it was a church. The
Americans were well armed. They
were not expecting to be attacked,
though, and our first rush into the city
was a surprise. We should have killed
all right away, while they were disor,
ganized and not ready for us, but
somehow they succeeded in driving us
back from the doors and in organizing
against us, wen while we were charg
ing upon them.
Then followed a fight so terrible
that | cannot think of it now withou
s%huddering. Men fell around me 81
thick that | could not walk withou
stumbling over them. There seemed
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-08-03

No greater exhibition of heroism; no
Drawer defence: no more thrilling
chapter of war history has ever been
written than the deeds of the little
band of ~thirty-one American soldiers,
who, i~ntrenched in an old convent on
the Island of Samar. stood off over
500 Filipinos armed with rifles and
cannon. The siege, which lasted near
ly a week. is replete with individual
cases of heroism. and only the bare re-
port of the affair was sent to Wash
ington by General Otis, but following
details were obtained from Felipe
Guardez, a Filipino prisoner. He re-
ceived a slight wound in the arm dur
ing the siege, but managed to escape,
and subsequently made his way to the
beach and crossed with some other
%Filipinos in a boat to the Island of Lu-
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-08-03
THE EVIL N E.
Hideous Conception of the Devil and
Ills wife by East Indians.

N"
Ills wife by East Indians.
silva IL typical both OF destruction
and OF reproduction. But the lattep
attribute was doubtless n later addiJ
ton to the sum of his qualities. The
original conception of this deity was
that OF a power ~delighting In destruc-
ton, In the achievement Of physical
evil and wrong, and in hurting death
and devastation upon the people and
their land. He IL represented In the
sacred books of the HipdoOs as the
terrible destroyer"-the m who de-
lights I'm the destruction Of men," But
in all this there Is no whisper as yet
of any moral qualities OF evil. The
conception Is entirely one of physical
power, used with the utmost malevo-
lence and injustice against men.
Along with his principal wife, who Is
variously called Dew, Durga, Una and
Kali, he Is portrayed as the incarna-
ton of physical evil, wrong, injustice
or misfortune. In the "Puranas' silva
Is described ms wandering about sur
rounded by ghosts and COLLINS, In
ebriated, naked and with disheveled
hair, covered with the ashes Of a flu
neral pile. ornamented with human
skulls and bones, sometimes laughing
and sometimes crying. Devi. his con-
sort, is represented with n hideous
and n terrible countenance, streaming
with blood. encircled with snakes.
hung round with skulls and human
heads, and In all respects resembling
"A fury" rather than a goddess. The
only pleasure which silva and Devi
feel Is when their affairs are drenched
with blood. which. Of course. could
not be shed without the destruction of
some form of Observation-Disclosures Re-
view.