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Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01


Out of all the tumble Of con tradiC
tory testimony In the Schley case fou
facts established by the prosecution =
own witnesses stand out clear tha
show remarkable state of things II
our navy during the Spanish war,
either that it was honeycomed with
petty personal and factional divisions
to decree that approached treason oil
with shiftlesSneSs of management
that seems incredible in view of the
splendid achievements in battle. These
fact sare
! Schley was sent to Cieufuegos to
learn if Cervera's fleet was there and
an arrangement made with the CubauS
to get and communicate the informa
ton. Yet Schley was never told of the
arrangement or of the signals arranged
for the comunic alton, and so five days
ware wasted while Cubans were con-
stantly making signals that nobody
understood
2 When Schley reached Santiago
the Pnior officer in command there,
Capt Wise, had positive information
that Cervera was there And yet he
admits on the stand he never gave it
to Schley and the latter started for
Key West, as he claims, with the only
information he had to the effect that
the Spanish feet was not there.
Scbley's failure to more closely
engage the Colon as she lay in sight
in the harbor. for which has been so
rancorously attacked was under specific
orders from the department not to ey-
pose vessels to the fire of shore bat
teries or endanger them in any way
until after decisive engagement with |
the feet. This order is claimed to |
have been nodified later, but Schley |
claims, and thus far nothing appears
to the contrary, that he never received
this order of modification.
Schley seemed to be aware of this
feeling, for he told one OF the witnesses
that if be went to Key West he expect.
ed to be courtmartialed; so whether
mistaken or not, this movement was
evidently mare under an oVerpowerirg
ss1se of duty.
Such failure to get indispensable or
der and information to the one man to :
whom they should be sent might be
explained as oversight or accident if it
had happened once, but occurring over
and over again within critical fort
night, and then concentrating
attack on him Nth official sanction
for not oheying the or6ers-how is it to
he explained consistently with the a
honor of the men who were above him? Q
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01
pisGoS etc

Actually il is said to be fact that
tne sleeping car porters are organiAips
to nrevent tips. The travelling puplic
nav open its eyes in wonder, but inc
truth is that the porters are 'ahlns
fine sensible and logical course. ms
rorter is not the only man who knows
that be gets tip. The company hnos
it out and sooner or later wages y"
down in consequence and he makes
m mora than before while his re-
cain.s. instead of being steady, become
extremely variable. This is paftlcu-
lsrly hard on poor man. me result
has been simply to enrich the com
ranv at the expense alike OF the pun
lie, and of the poor porter VINO WAS
Sunnosed to be reaping harVes1.
Roth alike will benefit when the por-
ter, if he ever does, gets upon sell
respecting basis of definite wages TOT
definite work, and makes a man OF
himself instead of lackey. The Whole
Tipping system is un-Amerlcan' uh-
ma1ly. a badge of servitude UNJUST 10
honest labor, a cheap copying OF the
old world idea that the laborer has 40
right except to receive lordly largess
But it is hard, perhaps impossible 10
eradicate because of the disposition on
this side to copy the ways of old world
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01
Secretary Cages Idea and Its Defe CT

Secretary Gage has devised a schem
which be will press upon congress t.
avoid the embarrassment of the de
pendent sub-treaSury system which al
ways becomes serious when the gov
ernment has surplus revenue, by
drawing money from the avenues OF
business, and hardly less so in times
of oeticit, as proved few years ago,
when the government is at the mercy
of speculative operations. The secretary
would keep at al times in the public
treasury some $50, 900, 900 as daily
working cash balance and would then
place the balance of any surplus rev
enues in the national banks, which
would be required to pay the govern
ment say two per cent en- the deposits,
and to make the governU ent's claim
prior to all others 90 the assets of the
depository banks, and which would
then be relieved of the present require
ment to deposit United States bonds
as security for treasury money held
by them. Now Uncle Sam gets moth
ing on the deposits, and the bond re-
quirement for deposits operates to
n aterially enhance the premiums on
bonds SO that he is MIXED again when
he undertakes to get rid of the surplus
by goirg into the market to buy them.
Mr. Gage figures that if his plao had
been in force for ths past SO years the
government would not have lost a dol
lar from failures-the first lien pro-
vision would have fully protected it
while at the same time $4,000. 600, |
instead of nothing, in interest on de-
poSitS would have been received. But |
the defect in the scheme would APP
pear sharply when the time comes
for the government to withdraw the
deposits, as it must sooner OF later,
Unless the idea is one of sort of
subsidy. The banks would
lave the money loaned out and the
necessary calling of loans would not
all to create widespread disturbance.
Nj experience has shown tbei
endency Of banks to handle such {
deposits differently from those that {
ONE in the ordinary course of bust =
ess. underlying which there is I
umething of an automatic regulator in =
he nature of supply and demand As t
etReen deposits and loans. Even {
side from that, the fact that the =
oyernment deposits are such large | {
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01
Rob EVANS ON THE STAND
IN THE SCHLEY CASE.
HIS TESTIMONY STRONGLY
AGAINST THE ACCUSED
ON SOME POINTS

But ON the Decisive COaling auesuo'
| Rather in His Favor-LOt of Contradict
ing Testimony Bsaped UP ny Govern
m,nt Itself On THIS Point-HOw th'
| Case stands Now.
The evidence in the Schley case al
Washington since Friday has been di-
rected chiefly to his rstrograde move
ment towards Key West, after reach
ing Santiago rcslly the only Ioint
II left in the case against HIM and
back of that Whether the movement was
necf s,ary to enable HIN to supply his
fleet with coal or whether he could have
cosled at sea. A majority of the gov
ernment's witnesses have testified
that conditions off Santiago and
Ciepfuegos were not such as to pre-
vent coaling. Some even have sworn
that good weather prevailed all the
time while their entries 10 the log
books in some cases show that at sew
eral periods it would have been i'm
possible TO coal without greatly en-.
dsngering the vesSesl.
Capt McCalla has been one of the
witnesses to most severely criticise
Schley and yet be admitted on cross
examination Saturday that he dis
obe,ed the department order to remain
at Cienfuegos, because he thought 1t
dangerous. Sutherland also sduitt'd
18th reference to the attack on Schley
for the slowness of movement from
Cienfuegos to santiago that his ship,
the Eagle, was half full of water SO
che couldn't go any faster.
Ircidep tally it was shown Saturday
that Schley's cant obey" order
reached the department exactly as 1t
was printed ard as it was sent from
X ingston. And yet Schley's letter
press copy shows that it was altered
after it left him.
Incidentally also a question OF We
racity or defective memory has been
introduced or limited at. Capt Sigsbee
ia MS be did tell Schley the Spanish
feet was in Santiago, and Schley SAYS
ne did not and it is said will produ
written substantiation to that effect |
rom Sigsbee.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01
HoM's Thin!

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
Z. J. CHENEY Il CO, TO'edO, O
We, the undersigned, have known T. J. Cl 2.
ney for the last Is wears, and believe him per
tectly honorable In all business transactions
aDd financially able TO carry out any obligations
made hv their firm.
wIsT TRTAN wholesale Druggists. Toledo.
O. WALDING, hINSAS Il MARVIN, WhOlesal e
Druggists. Toledo, ..
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. Testimonials sent free. Price &c
Ter bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Hal's Family Pills are the bg.t.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01

a San Francisco chemist says there
Is only one refinery in the world that
makes absolutely pure sugar. The
mandatory is in Germany. and it
supplies chemists and druggists with
sugar for solutions which must be I'M
clouded. This chemically pure article
would not find much sale for table use,
as it is a dirty grayish white in ap-
pearance. When dissolved, it gives a
clear solution, there being no artificial
coloring matter in suspension.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01
Accounting For Ii.

ut may be merely fancy" remarked
Mrs. Selldom-Elolme. but since my
husband began drinking the water
from that iron spring he has seemed to
De ten times as obstinate as he used
10 be-"
Perhaps" suggested Mrs. Nexdore.
the water is tinctured with pig iron"
Chicago Tribune.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01
Arrested on Serious Charge.

Albert Day. % was arrested Sunday
night ar North Adams on the charge of
rape. the alleged victim being Anna NJ
Hopkins, l3. The charge is that the
girl spent the night of the Sd at DAVIS
home, Day being a married man, and
that the crime was done the rext
morning in the house, while his wife
was outside.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01
sums makes them dangerous to mon
kew with.

hey with.
1t is greatly the fashion nowadays
to denounce the Jacksonian, lientoniar
independent treasury idea as the
source of our financial woes. But Nj
Cages scheme or even the establish
ment of another great national bank
as advocated by many authorities
will only introduce other evils and
embarrass nents just as serious and
of much the same kind. The simple
fact is that there is no way Of getting
right relations between the government
and the money market but to ADJUST
revenue and expenditures at somewhere
near a balance, and it Is one of the
great defects of the present system OF
taxation that that is impossible.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01

In short the complications thicken on
every side for the empire, Nemesis is
sometimes leaden- footed, but she gets
there sooner or later, and wrongs and
expressions such as British greed has
so ing inflicted on "inferior peoples
have their sure penalty.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01
MhAt,a Your FACE WORTH

Sometimes fortune. but never, if you
have a sallow complexion, a iaundiced
look, moth patches and blothes on the
skin.-all signs of Liver Trouble. But
Or Kings New Life Pills give Clear
Skin, Rosy Checks, Rich Complexion.
Only % cents at Holden's Drug Store.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01

| l'Ftslubnt hOO>bfeI mas lHNlttl ildll 10 IN
| White House to talk over New York politics
| making the appointment for Saturday or Sun
| day.
1t Is stated of the 800 latest arrIvaIs IRON
| the Alaskan gold district of Nome that moi
one of them brought back as much money a.
was taken out.
Kitchener has ordered his officers tc
stop carrying their pianos around with
them. The Beers are furnishing all the
music he needs.-N World.
Manchester, N II, despatch states
that the final report of the claim com
mission of the Granite State Provident
Association has been approved and its
affairs are to be closed at once. The
general creditors will be paid in full
and shareholders to get about 20 per
cent.
Miss Helen Morton, daughter of
former Vice President Morton, and a
granddaughter of Vermont, and the
fiancee of the second son of the Due
de Talleyrand ct Sagap. great grand
son of Napoleon famous minister. was
educated in Paris and is an accom-
plIshed musician. Size is of literary
turn, too, and an expert at manysout
door sports. -
Congress Babcock of Wisconsin,
who has been taking advanced position
on the subject of dealing with the trusts
and tariff, has Just returned from an
investigating tour Of Europe. On his
return be Tenews expression of his opin.
ions in favor of the tariff revision. He
says what | saw and heard in Europe
in regard to trade interests and the in
fluenc. exerted upon old world industri-
al conditions by American competition
has served only to strengthen the views
| have long entertained, that our tariff
should be revised to meet new condi
tons. Indeed, regard that as conclu.
sive.'
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01

Jinks-How much do you think O
minister ought TO get for marrying q
couple?
Filkins-Well, If wholly unacquais
ed with them perhaps he might be let
OF with six months.-Exchange.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01

In the afternoon Rear Admiral Evans.
who as captain commanded the battle
ship Iowa during the Santiago cam.
paign, was Oh the stand. His testimony
covered the entire period from the time
the Iowa left the port of Key West on
the Goth Of May, 1898. until the 9Th of
July, when, Admiral Evans testified,
he had a conversation with Admiral
Schley concerning the battle of the Sd.
He described IN detail the principal bat
tie of Santiago. and also gave particu-
lars concerning the bombardment of the
Colon on the 3 lst of May. He SAID that
so far as he knew nothing was done to
determine whether the Spaniards were
at Creufuegas and nothing to prevent
the completion of the enemy's batteries,
except once TO line up against them
without firing single shot, that he
coaled his ship from the Merrimsc with
difficulty on the 23d. and that on the "a
-26th it was too squally, and that no
effort wa, made to communicate with
the insurgents at Santiago. With refer
ence to the Brooklyn's loop in the bat.
tie of July Sd, he said the Iowa was en-
dangered at one time and the three
ships in bunch. He also pronounced
the official chart of the battle inaccurate
and worthless.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01
THE REFORMER
pi RtISiiED TUESDA . AND
FRIDAYS.

Kitchener has issued an oruer 10
tbe British officers in South Africa
that to keep up with the Beers IN
mobility they must stop carrying
round furniture. kitchen ranges
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01

Yesterday the chief witnesses we're
Commander NJ iller of the Merrimac
and Jewell of the Minneapolis. The
former stated that some vessels did
coal on the 23d and oath but the 25th
it was too nasty. Jewell, who wss
ons of those quoted by Scbley as stat.
ing that after a weeks watching they
could find 10 signs of Cervera at San
tiago, denied giving such Information
or any Inform alton whatever on the
subject, nor did he know that Sigsbee
made such report, and for himself
he never authorized it.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01

81 Sterling. Morton in The Con-
sentative,

The difference between anarchy and
Bryanarchy is that the former belle yes
in no govern ment at all, ard the latter
is no government without Bryan.
No government is bad enough and
why any sane either should yearn for
anything wore is beyord compreher-
sion.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01

Lewis Ockerman. Goshen. Ind" DeWitt's
Little Early Riser- never bend me double like
| other pills but do their work thoroughly and
make me feel like a'boy." Certain, thorough
gentle. Greene's drug store.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-01
NOTINGs.

President Roosevelt has invited Plat to the
White House to talk over New York politics
making the appointment for Saturday or Sun.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-11-23

National Afro-American Council and
National Press Association, which are
to meet here next August, was held
Monday night in the Court House:
There was a good representation of
the members of the city present. from
the Twin Cities. The object Of the
meeting and duties of the committee
were explained by Mr.. # l.. zMcGhee,
after which the committee permanent
ly organized by electing the following
officers, Chairman, f. L. McGhee;
first vice, Mrs. George Barnett; sec
ond vice, Mr. John H.. Wright; secre-
tary, Mr.. j. @. Adams; treasurer, Mr..
George w. Day. The executive COM
mittee will consist of the chairman,
secretary and treasurer of the general
committee and the chairman OF the
various committees that may be ap-
pointed. The only committee appoint
ed Monday night was the finance COM
mittee, as follows: T. H. Lyles, D. E..
Beasly, S. J. Cuthbert, Rev. j. G. An
derson, Rev. w. D. Carter, Rev. tThos.
A. Printon, w. J. Utley, Mrs. T. H.
Lyles, Miss Scottie P. Davis and Miss
Fannie Dodd, of ST. Paul; Jasper
Gibbs, Scott Blake, Robert, Lee, Henry
Richardson, Henry Mosely, Rev. r. D.
Butler, Rev. M. W. Withers, Rev. J. E.
Reeves and Mrs. Minnie Plummer, of
Minneapolis. A meeting of the Finance
Committee is called for Monday night
at the residence Of Mr.. F. L. McGhee,
and the aboye-named members are re-
quested to be present. The next meet
ing of the general committee will be
at the call of the chairman. . s
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-11-23
ST. JAMES NOTES.

Gospel service will be conducted
Sunday at II a. M, and at p. m. the
Mems Sunday Literary Congress will
throw open it's doors to the ladies, the
OCCASION being Ladies' Day. ..
Sunday, Nov. "a, Ladies' Day, Mems
Sunday Literary Congress-, at St.
James chlrch. Address by DR.. R. S.
Brown. Music by Renix Bros. Man
dolin Club. Eighth avenue, near
Washington avenue south. Free seats
Public invited. --..
A splendid program of music will be
furnished by Renlx Bros Mandolin
Club, after which DR. r.. S. Brown will
deliver the address. The affair prom
Uses to be very rare treat, and spe-
cial invitation is extended to the pub
lie in general, and the ladies in partic-
ular. - <..
The pastor and members of ST.
James will worship with Bethesda
Baptist at that church Thanksgiving
morn. At 1920 o'clock in the after
noon ST.. James will serve the best
Thanksgiving dinner in Minneapolis at
their own place of worship on Eighth
avenue, near Washington avenue
south. The public is invited.
Ex-Mayor Eustis has extended a
favor of very great worth to the St.
James A. M. E. church. Four rooms
on the ground floor of the three-story
red brick building on Eighth avenue
between Washington avenue and Third
street south, has been donated for
their use. It comes to Rev. Butler as
| timely and pleasant thing in that he
will have sufficient space to carry on
his industrial work. One room will
be used for religious services, another
for cooking and sewing and one of the
| others will be divided between a job
printing department and a reading
room for men, which will open every
day and night. Workmen have been
busy for the past two weeks getting
the quarters in satisfactory condition
and Sunday, Nov. oath, will be the first
day of their service there, everything
having been already transferred from
405 Sixth avenue south, where they
I have held services for more than I
| year. '-..5-" 49,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-11-23
MINNIE "a 2 is.
sDOINGS IN AND ABOUT Thu
GREAT Fl OUR CITY.
Matters Social, Religious and Genera,
Which ''h Have Happened and are to Happen
Among the People Of the City on thu
Falls.
Miss Maggie Freeman is on the sick

Miss Maggie Freeman is on the sick
list.
Room for rent; excellent1y furnished
Apply at 707 E. 18th 81.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Mann. a
daughter. Mother and child doing
well.
Pride of Minnesota, k. Of: P. No.
5, meets first and third Thursday al
1O4 Hennepin avenue south.
The Christian Endeavor meets every
Sunday $50 p. m. at Bethesda Bap-
fist church. You are most cordially
invited.
The ladies of Bethesda Baptist
church will serve turkey dinner on
Thanksgiving day to which everybody
is invited.
Miss M Jackson, milliner and mo-
diste, ladies' tailoring. French clean
ing and curling feathers speciality.
No. 1409 South Fifth street,
DR.. r. S. Brown has moved his offic,
into the Century Building, No. 81
Fourth street south, rooms 4O5 and 4Ok,
Office phone, N. W.. 327l-J-1 Main.
Rev. Reeves, pastor Of ST. Peters
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-11-23
ANNUAL CHURCH FAIR
And Sale of Pilgrim Baptist Church.

:
To the Members and Friends of Pill
grim Baptist Church: You are here
by notified that the annual fair and
sale of the above-named church, .locat-
ed on Cedar street, near Summit ave-
nue., will open Monday night, 25th
inst, and will continue each evening
during the week.: The ladies, with
Mrs. Lula King as president, are spar
ing no pains in making this the grand
est fair in the history of the church.
You will have an opportunity to buy
many of your Christmas presents, as
articles of all descriptions will be
available. Quite an excellent program
will be rendered each evening, with
the exception of Thursday and Satur-
day evenings. Tuesday evening there
will be a program rendered in the
auditorium by the young people of the
city under the auspices of Miss Lula
Howard, and promises to be an enjoy
able affair.
Turkeys, Ducks and other eatables
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-11-23

1t prices that guarantee to be absolutely right.
Look at these prices and see for yourself. Get what
'ou want now and pay for it later.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-11-23
BETHESDA NOTES

Sunday, Nov. oath, will be Silver
Day at Bethesda.
Don't forget the Harvest Festival.
Nov. rs, ~ and 49, Good program
each night You and your friend are
cordially invited
Prof. w. Ne. Boley, president of the
Lowry Institute and Industrial School
Of Mayesville, S. c., will speak at
Bethesda church Sunday night at 8
o'clock
The union Thanksgiving sermon
will be preached at Bethesda, IL a. M,
Thursday, Nov. %, by Rev. DR.. Reeves.
of st. ePter A. M. e. church. After
the services dinner will be served by
the ladies Of the church.
Pastor Rev. NJ. w. Withers will
preach in morning. Subject. eau
tumn;" and in the evening the follow
ing sacred concert will be rendered:
Anthem, by choir; invocation, Rev. M.
w. Withers; solo and chorus, Mrs.
William Helm, Withers, Uptergroye
and Brown; cornet solo, M ". Eng
lish; solo, Beyond the Gates" Mrs.