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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-02
Sporting Blood Up.

Any Yankee who, before the two
speed trials between Shamrock II and
Columbia, and especially the race on
Saturday, felt indifferent as to the final
issue of the pending cup contest. with
leaning toward cheerful resignation
il Sir Thomas should, indeed, "lift"
the cup, must now have his sporting
blood up above the highest point reach.
ed in any preceding battle between
challenger and defender.
Gallant old Columbia was the victor
in Saturdays race, after having run te
and passed the turning mark behind
her rival. She was the victor, not only
by virtue of the time allowance in her
favor, but by virtue of having sailed
the race in quicker time and crossed
the finish line thirty-seven seconds
ahead of Shamrock. When her time
allowance of forty-three seconds is
added, Columbia's winning time was
one minute and twenty seconds. This
time allowance of forty-three seconds
is on account of Shamrock's greater
spread of course and other advantages.
The race, all the reports agree, was
marvellous exhibition of skilled sea-
mans1ip, with honors nearly even.
Shamrock got Columbia under the lee
at the start and held the advantage
throughout the run to windward. Had
Columbia obtained this initial advan-
tage she might have led at the mark by
thirty-nine seconds instead of Sham
rock. The defender displayed excel
lent judgment in sticking as close to
the challenger as he could, despite his
unfavorable position. Once around
the mark Captain Barr nursed his
charge carefully and skillfully, and
slowly obtained lead that Captain
Sycamore could not overcome and that
finally won the first race of the series
for the American boat.
The race is not yet over but there Is
good ground for assurance that Column
bia will win two more out of the re-
naming four of the series. The Eagle
is entitled to a preliminary scream of
gallantry over the wonderful achieve
ment OF his star spangled represent
alive on Saturday.
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Columbia.

1t was a grand race, worthy of the
two colossi. In the savage struggle to
windward Shamrock took the lead and
held it to the outer mark, beating Co.
lumbia by thirty-nine seconds. That
was battle close enough and hot
enough to warm the heart of the cool
est captain that ever handled wheel or
stick. Every expert and every layman
with any knowledge of boats and their
ways fame ed that, after the turn of the
outer mark to wind ward, the race was
practically over, and that the Sham
rock, with her immensely superior
spread Of canvas, her nine feet greater
height of topmast and her five feet
greater length Of spinnakerlpole, would
run away from Columbia before the
wind. But that was not to be. The
apparently impossible sometimes hap
pens, and in this case it happened TO
watt Columbia to the fore.
Shamrock proved slower before the
wind. She was an easy mark for the
American boat. This for Sir Thomas
and his sympathizers was disappoint-
ment. For everybody else it was
q surprise.
But now that the first round is over
and the Irish boat left in the rear, don't
let us lose respect for her. Her per-
formance yesterday must tend to create
the suspicion in the minds of yachts
men that sac too may have some sur
prises concealed, if not in her spinna-
ker, at least in her mainsail. And, by the
way, che has four or five mainsails, all
beautiful, while Columbia has one good
one that we know and which has already
seen veterans service. But Shamrock
did what, barring the Livonia's contest
with the disabled namesake of our pres
ent champion and Valkyrie HIS with
the disabled Defender, was done only
once in the twenty-five heats for the
Cup, namely, lead to the windward
mark. Valkyrie III did this 10 the Wig.
liant of noble memory.
The contest is not over yet and after
Saturdays magnificent race, one that
ranks With Puritan's, Genesta's, Val
kyrie lbs and Vlgilant's, we may be
sure that the battles to come will be
"red hot."-New York Sun.
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British herdings of the Boer people,
and the little children are plainly being
exposed to conditions making for
speedy determination.
A death rate ten times as high as the
normal, or say elk or seven times as
high, after making ample allowance
for the larger proportion of children
and old men TO be found in such an as
sepblage of people-this is the admit
ted record. IL is what lies to Great
Britan's account In the war of South
African conquest among the weak and
the helpless, to say nothing of the loss
es inflicted upon comb itants. Where
reproduction has stopped, such death
rate means that the Boer population
will be wiped out in consiG erably less
than ten years. 1t is war of exter-
minstion waged simply and solely for
the glory of an overgrown empire aud
as cruel and damuable as the Span
ish war in Cnba, and much more
excuseess. The British papers used
to point to the Weyler proceedings as
evidence of the innate cruelty OF the
Spaniard, but here are the same meth
DDS now under British employment
with as deadly or deadlier effect, and
the masses of the English people would
doubtless be as ready as ever to mob
protestants against this unholy war af-
ter coming into full kno Wedge of what
is going on.
So brutaizing are the effects of war
upon the best of people, and our own
people are in no position to marvel
about it. The campaign of extermina-
ton is thus likely to go on without in
reference with the British govern
ment from at home and with no more
than verbal protests from abroad. But
the black record that'is being made up
against the offending nation will stick
aud sting, and time will not fail to
work out revenges fully commensurate
with the trangression Of the moral law.
Springfield Republican.
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A JUDGES WIFE PELVIC S{1{ al4 SI
She Suffered for Years and
Felt Her Case Was Hope
IeSS-Cured by
Fortuna.

Mrs. Judge McAllister writes from 1917
West 33rd ST., Minneapolis, Mimi, as fol-
lows:
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small Of my back and right side. 1t in
terfered often with my domestic and
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Although started in with little faith, 1
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and am happy indeed to be able to say
that 1 am entirely cured. Words fail to
express my gratitude. Perfect health
once more is the best thing could wish
for, and thanks to Peruna 1 enjoy that
now."-MINNIE e. MoALLISTER.
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-02
A Perpetual Crop.

The Boston Journal objects to criti-
cism Of Massachusetts, because the
great body of the wretched anti-im-
perialists who had spent their time and
venom in defaming the late President
were men Of that State. With q show
OF justice the Journal maintains that
the two and half millions OF the old
Bay State should not be judged by the
handful OF men within her borders
who have for years been stirring up
sedition there, spreading it broadcast
over the country and into the new re.
gions across the seas. They will die
the Journal says, aud will leave no
successors.
Is the Journal sure of this2 Once
before, in time of great national
peril, during the last war with Great
Britain, Massachusetts Matched SINH
lar brood of seditious paople. She fur
nished the largest contingent, some
what more than majority as We re-
call it, to the reasonable Hartford Con-
vention of 1914, which denounced the
government in unmeasured terms, IA
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lndicts the Whole Nation,

Booker 7. Washington, of the Tus-
kegee Normal and Industrial Institute,
has given out statement in reference
to the assassination OF President Nc.
Kinley, in which he says:
sin all sincerity, l want TO ask, is
Czolgosz alone guilty? Has not the en-
tire nation had part in this greatest
crime OF the century? What is anarchy
but a defiance Of law, and has not the
nation reaped what it has been sowing?
According to records, 2,516 persons
have been lynched in the United States
during the past sixteen years. There
are or have been engaged in this an
archy OF lynching nearly 125,sO0 per-
sons.
"To check the present tendency, it
seems to me there are Two duties that
face us. First, Tor all classes to unite
in an earnest effort to create such
public sentiment as will make crime
disappear, and especially is it needful
that we see that there is no idle, disso-
lutte, purposeless class permitted in our
midst.
Second, for all to unite in brave
effort to bring criminals to justice, and
where supposed criminal is found to
see that he has fair, patient, legal
trial.
"Let US heed the words OF our de-
parted and beloved chief, as he lay
upon his dying bier, referring TO his
murderer; Il hope he will be treated
with fairness
"If William Mckinley, as he was Of
fering up his life in behalf of the ma
ton, could be brave enough, thought
full and patriotic enough to request that
his assailant should be fairly and hon
estly tried and punished, surely we can
afford to heed the lesson"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-02
A War OF determination.

The London dispatches of Thursday
contained one little official item to the
effect that the British concentration
camps in South Africa held 1877 ,619 per-
sons during August and that the deaths
therein numbered 2,345, of which 1873
were children.
That was all, but of the precise sig
nificance OF these figures there is more
to be said which London may be par
doned for striving to conceal. Deaths
for one month to the number of 2, 345
in a company of 1919 persons con-
stitute death rate of about IL per cent
a month, or about 20 per cent year.
This is equal to a rate of 200 per 900
living persons, while the normal annual
death rate in England or the United
States or Holland is about 20 per 1000
living persons.
These concentration camps are popu-
lated by non-combatants and largely BY
women and children. They are thus
herded as war measure, as Weyler
herded the non-combatant Cubans, and
the hardships to which they are sub.
jected by the conquerer are ref acted ia
these figures as they were in the death
reports from the Cuban concentration
camps which shocked the whole civil
lied world. Exposure to inclement
weather, insufficient food and medical
attention, suffering, starvation and
death characterize the situation in these
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-02

was to "destroy every altar, to ex-
tinguish every religion, to tear God
down from the heavens" What right,
lie said, would any man have to govern
other men, unless God gave him that
right? "Down with God" In this
Most was only a rabid echo of Karl
Marx. The assassin OF President Nc
Kinley, like Emma Goldman, has been
blatant in Protesting his atheism, de-
claring that there is no God, that he has
"no use for God"
1t is a remarkable fact, and one that
will not soon be forgotten, that just
when the assassin imagined he was de-
ing something to usher in the new So
cial condition, in which there would be
neither God nor government of any
sort, there came from the heart of the
President such an Acknowledgement of
God as had the effect to awaken in the
hearts of all the people such sense of
the relation Of 6 I'd to human affairs as
had never before in our history found
more impressive utterance. -Chicago
Tribune.
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TRUE AS PREACHING.
Some Facts OF the Publishing and
Print Jg Business Plain.
ly Stated.

Societies and all kinds OF organiza-
tions are dependent upon the press
for publicity. Notices Of meetings,
public gatherings and many items cal
culated to advance their interests are
gladly published by the newspapers,
but when these organizations have a
small JOB OF printing it is often given
to printing Office which has no con-
nection with a newspaper. Take for
instance the recent meeting of the
Washington County Veterans Associ-
alton. Every newspaper in the coun-
ty gave 1t liberal space, publishing
the program and many items OF inter-
est relating to the proposed reunion.
1t had small amount OF printing and
it was natural that 1t should 60 to q
Montpelier printing office, because
those ia charge we're residents of that
city. The two newspapers there have
large and modern job offices in connec-
ton with their plants, but the printing
was placed with small job office,
while the newspapers gave the associa-
tion free of charge twenty-five times
the publicity that resulted from the
printing. The amount received from
the printing is small consideration,
but an appreciation of the efforts of
the newspapers to make such gather
ings as great a success as possible is
highly valued. The case is not Intend
ed as specific criticism, but simply an
illustration OF what sometimes occurs
through the thoughtlessness OF the
committee or party haying the adver-
Using in charge Mortified News.
The association in question has many
companions in the foregoing criticism.
The representatives of church, liter
airy, temperance or similar associations,
sin the market" for flyer, program,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-02

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Mrs. William Kenning, Mt. Clemens,
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Congressman Thad. NJ. Mahon, Of
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-02

lro ops prevented. The condition in
Samar, as now explained, all suggested
extreme caution and preparation for
savage and acute hostility.
A ijutant-General Corbin, who is just
back from the Philippines, said that
Simar had been left to the last by the
military authorities ia their work OF
pacifcstiou, and it has been "a matter
comment for some time that Gen.
Hughes, who commands the depart.
msnt of the Visayas, has not had suf-
icient troops with which to wage an
active warfare against the rebellious
natives OF that islaud. Almost ever
since the island was opened to COM
merce, more than year ago, troops
have occupied little more than certain
ports and have made but slight effort
to penetrate the interior OF the island,
1t is further stated that it was under
stood a few months ago that Gen.
Hughes forces were inadequate to
meet the situation in Samar and orders
were issued for the formation of bat
talon from the Ninth infantry to go
there for field service. 1t was thought,
however, that with the rapid improve
ment Of conditions in Luzon the rebels
in Samar would not need much fighting
to compel them to surrender. But Gen.
Hughes had not been satisfied with the
situation, and all his reports show that
that there had been little improvement
in Samar, for the reason, it is alleged,
that there had been practically no ex-
tended aggressive movement against the
rebels on this island.
The Ninth infantry has had many and
severe experiences. 1t was in the as
sault on San Juan hill, tn the Cuban
war, was active in that eventful cam
paign, aud after the surrender of San
tiago was designated as the regiment
to march into and occupy the city. In
the March following the close of the
Spanish war the regiment was ordered
to the Philippines and saw mnch hard
service there. II was sent to China on
the breaking out of hostilities there,
rendered effic ent service in the relief
of Pekin and there its gallant COM
mander, Col. Liscom, was killed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-02
Anarchism and Atheism.

Anarchists are always ath eists. Their
fundamental proposition that Their is
no rightiul government begins with the
assertion that there is no God. If there
is no God there lie no moral govern
ment of the world, and in the general
chaos 1t is every man for himself. II
anarchy has any logic, anything besides
its brutal hatreds, that is it.
When that typical anarchist, the I'M
savory Johann Most, was in Chicago,
in meeting of anarchists, speaking
freely in German, he declared that the
first thing they as anarchists had to do
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-02

vored the dissolution OF the Union, and
was for "raisinI Cain" generally. The
Safe has been the scene OF other
de nonsCratlons ayains. government,
when its policies Or purposes ran coun-
ter TO the notions of some of It's people.
The auti-imp 5rialists are the Successors
OF these m &C liet-makecs, and the les
sons or experiences OF history each
that the B1uCwels and Bradtords and
Sanborns have s0wn seeG that will per-
petuate the species and in luture crises
raise new crops of evil msl-contents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-02

or any incidental printing, the gross
cost of which is mere bagatelle, will
spend dollars worth of time, if their
time were worth anything, in canvass
ing the different printing offices to see
if, by pitting them against each other,
they can, perchance, save five cents on
the job. The chances are the mighty
contract will be placed with "a small
job office" in town or in "Jericho," to
''save" the nickel, and the contracting
parties will then hand into the news
paper office a fifty cent or five dollar
notice, according to what the matter in
hand may be, become as ;onished when
a suggestion of charge for publishing
is made, and-if a church supper or
something of similar moment-kick
like steers if twenty-five cents-half
price-is exacsed. This is not fancy
sketch, but a condition steadily con-
fronting the newspaper publisher.
Promoters of church suppers haggle
over a twenty-five cent charge for a
reading notice that must inevitably add
twenty times that sum to their receipts,
and the same pattern of shrewd fnan-
ciering is applied to other similar en-
terprises.
The difference between "the large
and modern job office" and "the small
office" was illustrated recently in this
wise: A certain town at distance
from Montpelier applied to the WATCH
MAN office for the price for printing
town reports, STIMULATING that the re-
port must be delivered two weeks be-
fore town meeting. The regular price
was quoted. The copy was sent. In
settling for the printing the inquiry was
made, "Why did you not take this job
TOY" whose imprint the previous
years report bore. The answer EN-.
bodied these facts: The former years
report had been promised by the
printer, who was the proprietor of one
OF these "small Offices" two weeks be-
fore town meeting, to permit OF distri-
button. The copy was furnished in
ample season but the printed reports
came to hand barely in time to be dis
tributed to the voters on the day of the
meeting. The contractor got his re-
ports from the WATCHMAN Office when
they had been promised, and said the
getting in the desired time was worth
So of additional cost. This company
in that year produced 500 pages of
town reports in ten days time, besides
its other work.
To do this, to deliver work on time,
in good form, requires large plant,
large quantities of type, large press ia
cilities and stable corps of workmen,
ample quarters and stock Of material.
Such an equipment costs money. Des-
patch in furnishing work is thus a ma
terial item OF cost, and if it is worth
anything to a customer he ought to be
willing TO pay for the same, as was the
customer in question.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-02

The flying columns of the British
army in South Africa, according to
Kitchener's proclamation, are equipped
with pianos, cooking ranges, and sim
liar helps to celebrity of motion. To
Increase the mobility of the "fying
quadron," in the West Indian CAM
paign, IN 1898, an Eagle that conld not
fly was attached to Schley's little feet,
with which he was expected to fluid the
Spanish division under Cervera and
when found to lex it, or securely plug
it up in some indention of the Cuban
coast. This decrepit bird, that could
not fly or swim, and which was imped-
ing the flight from Cienfuegos 10 San
tiago, Commodore Scbley finally Or
dered to go TO Jamaica to brace up and
then to return to Key West. Who
saddled this Eagle with clipped wings,
and ships half supplied with coal, on
to the commander of whom 80 much
was expected?
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Defeat In Samar.

Army officers, the reports say, have
been prepared for some time for bad
news from the island of Ssmar. Fore
warned, as they appear to have been,
to layman it is strange that they
were not also forearmed, and the prac-
tical extinction of body Of gallant
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-02

There is work for the Audubon So
ciety again. Millinery dealers are try
ing to encourage the slau ghter OF our
birds by exposing their bodies for sale,
against the law. The wearing of dead
animals on the person is bad taste, and
the fashion of it should be permitted to
die out. Indeed, it is not fashionable
auy longer am ng women of refine.
menL.-bIooklyn Eagle.
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The war departments fifty per cent
reduction in the tariff on certain class
es of agricultural implements entering
Cuba ought to convince the islanders
that America is laboring to restore the
islands industries to their natural state
of prosperity.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-02

In true democratic fashion, Presi-
dent Roosevelt has sent his children to
the Washington public schools. He
simply desires that they become good
and patriotic Americans.