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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-07-05

You know What .yOu are Taking
When you take Groves tasteless Chill
TOric brcause the formula is plainly
printed on every bottle showing that it
is simply Iron ani Quinine in tasteless
or III. No cure noIay. soc. 43.1
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-07-05
Local Schedule for Passenger Trains.
TRAINS FROM COLUMBIA,

TRAINS FROM COLUMBIA.
Arrive 9:15 a. m. Depart 9:15 q. m
:40p. m. coop. III
TRAINS FROM sPARTANBURG.
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11

where the death penalty existed, but
there are several States in the Union
where he could have been punished
only by imprisonment for life. The
end of federal legislation, is there
fore, obvious. Senator McComas' bill
provides the death penalty for an as
sault on the President with intent
to kill, whether it succeeds or not. He
will address the Senate on the sub
iect this week. Senator Hoar's bill is
on the same lines, but goes further,
providing twenty years imprisonment
for urging assassination of the Presl-
dent and the death penalty for aiding
an assassin to escape. me text OF
Mr. HOar's bill has not been published
but by urging assassination, lnclte-
ment in speeches is probably meant
Senator Burrows advocates the deport-
alton of alien anarchists. The first
section of his bill reads as follows:
"That no alien anarchists shall here
after be permitted to land at any port
of the United States, or be admitted
into the United States, but this prohi-
bition shall not be so construed as to
apply to political refugees or political
Offenders other than such anarchists.
Under the bill of Representative
Wilson of New York, suspects are to
be deported. If they return, four
years term of imprisonment will
await them, followed by deportation
again. One clause is likely to excite
opposition. 1t provides for twelve inn
migration agents at a salary of 80, 800
| a year, who shall go abroad, investi-
gate anarchy, and report intending
emigrants who have anarchistic ante
cedents. Representative Graham S
bill deals with the subject gener-
| ally, with what may be called dy-
Mantle clause attached, which pro-
vides that the death penalty shall be
! imposed for destroying a building or
! attempting to destroy it, "where the
loss of the life of any Federal official
would be a consequence. Repre-
sentative Gibsons proposals are dras'
! tic. He wants to make those who at
tend an anarchistic meeting equally
responsible for the act of an anarch-
list who afterwards commits crime
as the result of Indictment or conspir-
acy at the meeting. The penalty fol
any anarchistic act, or completely i'll al
act, other than an attempt to Kill the
President, is to be punishable with g
fine of $40, 900, or imprisonment Will
hard labor for ten years. Anarchist:
are not to be allowed to sit on jurie'
or testify in any suit involving anarch
ism in any Federal court. Mr.. Brom
well of Ohio is in doubt as to the pow
er of Congress to llegislate in the pre-
misses He proposes to amend thu
ninth clause of Article | of Section
of the Constitution of the United
States so as to give Congress power t.
define and punish an assault or at
tempted assault upon the person of thu
President or Nice-President of thu
United States, the principal officer
of any Executive and the Chief Jus
tice or other justices of the Suprem
Court
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11
A SPECIALIST WANTED.

Arthur Pue German, who is hailed
as the coming Moses of the Demo
cratic party, is a candidate for Unit
ed States Senator, but if the Demo
cratic majority of the Maryland
Legislature should elect Mr.. German
he would not be able to take his seat
until December, 1903, or about six
months before the national convention
of his party. But the election of Mr..
German is by no means assured, for
there are enough independent Demo
Gratis in the Legislature to hold the
balance of power, and they are in
clined to be hostile to him. They
might prefer to vote for Isidor Ray
ner, who is being urg d as a comprom-
Use candidate. But there is we'll
defined presidential boom in Washing
ton for German Senator Joseph W.
Bailey, of Texas, is the chief en-
gineer, and Representatives Richard
son of Tennessee, and Bankhead of
Alabama are the care takers. good
many Western and Southern Demo
Gratis are willing to take hold and
push the boom along. This is their
point of view: 1.-The party is weak
and disorganized. We must have lead
ers who can lead and organize before
we can hope to gain control of Con-
gress or elect President The Demo
Gratis of the South and West have con-
fidence in Senator Gorham and his
skill as political leader. He is the
strongest man in sight for national
leader and we are going to nominate
him for President in 1904 and elect
him"
Hope springs eternal in the human
breast
Democrats never are, but always to
be, blest.
The old party is so sick, weary
and disUraught that when it finds
that it has willy politician, one who
knows the ropes and can draw on a
long experience of men and events for
ways and means to organize and re-
habilitate and scheme out policy, it
jumps to the conclusion that he is the
logical presidential candidate and
could be elected. The Democratic
party today certainly wants a doctor
to prescribe for it, and who so clever
and ready as DR.. German? In the
past he has been considered too subtle
and devious, and therefore too intan-
gible to be the acknowledged leader
of the party and its candidate for
President, but desperate cases require
new remedies. AS doctor, Mr.. Bryan
professed too much and performed too
little. He was a general practitioner,
with a large stock of nostrums that
did not seem to help the patient. In
fact, his condition became more
hopeless the more DR.. Bryan prescrib-
ed. He called in no one for consulta-
ton, and wouldn't change his treat
ment, with the result that his patient
was almost in extremis when DE- Bry-
an was relieved from attendance. DIR.
German is, on the contrary, a special
list, and if he does not cure the pa
tient he will surely kill him. But
some friends of the patient are willing
to let him diagnose and prescribe.
New York Sun
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11
SMALL POX.

New Brunswick, N. j., Dec. O.
Twelve cases of smallpox in the viii
lage of Sayerville caused such rush
to be vaccinated Saturday and Sun
day that the town board of health had
to hire the town hall. Three hundred
and seventy-fv persons were vac
cinated up to noon of Sunday.
There are two handkerchief factor
les in the village of South River, aud
many of the Sayerville people work
there. On the recommendation of
physicians the management of the fac
tories served notice upon the employees
from Sayerville that they must not
return to work until the epidemic
was under control. This order affect
ed about three hundred hands, most
of them the support of families.
The people sobbed and begged the
foreman to let them work. They de-
clared that to enforce the order would
mean that their children would have
to go without gifts for Christmas and
perhaps without food. Women be-
came hysterial and one girl dropped
on her knees and prayed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11
THE SMALL POX SCARE.

The hope that small pox would not
reassert itself with the approach OF
cold weather has long since been dis
PEELED. So nearly as Judgment can be
formed from the telegraphic reports,
the disease is again prevalent to an
alarming extent in many and widely
separated localities.
1t was thought but few years ago
that the malady was etfectually sub
dued so far as the United States was
concerned. So strong had the feeling
of safety from the scourge become
that negligence regarding vaccination
arose. When the disease appeared,
therefore, it found the people not
only in a great measure unprepared
for it but in some instances adverse to
taking the one known precaution
against it. The idea of vaccination
had lost force, simply because the
need of anything to ward off small poX
had not been manifest for so long.
The people in many cities became
aroused last winter to the situation.
Vaccination was readily sought by a
great number of persons. AT the same
time a feeling against vaccination
too strong to be ignored expressed
itself in various ways, and is still ex-
pressing itself There is a consider
able number, too who, though keep
ing discreetly silent on the subject,
feel repugnance toward vaccination
that leads them to prefer for them
selves the risk of infection.
1t will be seen that there is an ethi-
cal question involved. If person
does not fear infection so far as he
himself is concerned, what then is his
duty toward the community? Be-
coming i'll, he may expose to the con-
tagion those in his household and
others besides? If he does not owe it
to himself to be vaccinated, does he
not owe it to the community 1t
seems as though there were but one
answer possible. Neglect in respect
to vaccination is really selfishness, and
selfishness of dangerous sort.
The few who do not believe in vac
cination should remember that the
greatest medical authorities of the
period endorse it, They declare that
the person who has been properly
vaccinated is virtually immune from
small pox. Personal opinion should
be set aside, and the disbelieyer, rec
ognizing his own liability to error,
should do his duty to the people about
him and bare his arm for vaccination.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11
Wednesday, December II, 1901.
ARTHUR ROPES, General Editor.
THE COPPER SITUATION.

The recent sensational developments
in the London market for copper have
done nothing toward clearing up the
situation They have simply demon
strated that in England, as on this
side of the water, the necessity for
vigilance is fully recognized, and that
interested parties there, in their ca
gerness to be abreast of the times, are
too readily influenced by rumors
which indicate that the more than
half-expected change has actually
come, or is very near at hand. The
late excitement was, i'll fact, due to
stories now only half credited, of a
large sale by the Amalgamated Com
any at an appreciable decline and
a consequent inference that the trust
had changed its policy.
The elements of uncertainty, indeed,
are even more numerous than hereto
fore, for they extend to current as well
as future values In other words, no
one seems to feel sure at what t1g-
ures the United Metals Selling Com
pany is willing to business i'll
large way. 1t is both vigorously as
serted and strenuously denied that a
bid of fourteen cents would be favor
ably considered, but nothing definite
can be ascertained. As to the future,
all is obscure as ever, facts which
would help to a conclusion being still
carefully concealed. As to the pro
portion of the whole output controlled
by the Anal gamated, the surplus
stock on hand and the nature OF the
agreement, if any, between the differ
ent producers as to values, there is nc
official information, and without II
nothing can be intelligently predicted
The few facts, however, which II
has been impossible to keep from con
sumers, prompt them to proceed witt
great caution-that is, to buy only a.
necessity dictates; and the longer thi
state of things continues the great
er, of course, will be the tax on thu
strength of the trust. Accurately tt
measure its powers of endurance-ant
on this all depends-is at this stage o
the game impossible.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11

the hymn GLORIOUS things of Thee
are spoken" and the benediction by
the newly installed pastor, closed the
services After the benediction had
been pronounced, large number of
Mr.. Reed S parishioners went forward
and extended to him cordial greet
ing. This was not confined wholly to
the members of Bethany church, but
was participated in by the pastors and
people of other congregations. The
new pastor of Bethany church enters
upon his work under most favorable
auspices, and successful, enjoyable
and fruitful pastorate is confidently
predicted for him.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11
LIVINGSTONE-PAGE CASE

At Bennington Friday morning Judge
Rowell delivered his opinion on the
motion entered by counsel for Page,
asking that the case be taken from the
jury. He decided III favor of the de-
PENDANT as far as the amount called
for in the bill presented by Living
stone about $500, for space in, and in
fluence of the Reformer, thus taking
it from the jury. The verdict was
directed against the plaintiff because
the contract was against public pol
icy, and therefore void.
In the matter of the note, pleaded
in offset, the court decided that there
was nothing due Ex-Governor Page on
it.
In his opinion, as given, the Judge
stated that the contract claimed was
intended by both parties to be kept Sc
cret, which was proof of it's illegality.
The judge alluded to the secrecy en-
joined as an element of evil toward
good public policy and citizenship
that the reader who paid for Demo
cratic newspaper was entitled to the
honest opinion of the editor from an
editorial standpoint, and in this case
the evidence of the plaintiff showed
| that the aforesaid reader received a
"mercenary" opinion while paying
| for an honest one.
The court scored the circumstances
developed by the testimony such as
one would expect from a member OF
! the Vermont judiciary The case will
be taken to the Supreme Court to de.
termine whether the contract is le
gal one or not. 1t is certain, how
ever, that Livingstone secured 500 fol-
| 1,i-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11

That Livingston Page suit at Ben
nington is one of the oldest bits of
litigation that we have heard of for
many moons If Livingston wins, his
vindication will be at the expense of
good journalism in Vermont. The
offer of the sale of an EDITORS privi-
lege of individual Judgment is not a
particularly dignified act. The editor
who would coin his heart beats into
gold and who goes to law in order to
enforce the minting, has much to
learn in the field of ethics A news
paper whose political opinions are de-
termined or fortified by counting room
and advertising considerations plays
losing game from the start There
are some things which are never for
sale i'll well-regulated newspaper
office Livingston, if he wins, will
only receive a mess of pottage, but
what will become of his birthright?-
Rutland Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11
COLDS.

To diminish excessive sensibility to
Colds, says an English writer:
FIRST-Free exposure to the open
air daily enables the body to resist
the invasion of Cold. SECOND
The morning cold sponging of the body
is an invaluable protection against
changes of temperature THIRD
This wise man did not know that a
few doses of "77'' will prevent, or,
taken at the beginning will "break
up" cold. At all druggists, or mail
ed on receipt of price, 25c, DOC
New York.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11

The fact that a Georgia man is
still alive at eighty eight who had
to leave school when boy on account
of delicate health, and though broth
er of the late Bob Toombs, could not
fight in the war because of his feeble
ness, is subject for more or less jok-
ing. But it is not an unnatural cir
cumstance. The old saying, that a
man who knows he has a chronic dis
ease is pretty sure of long life, is true
in way. If it makes him careful,
he has an advantage over great many
healthy people who are careless.
Probably Mr.. Toombs learned the les
son that if he wanted to live into the
next year he must live rightly this
year, and by following the rules to
accomplish this result, found himself
an old man before he knew it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11

Gen. Leonard w sd, Try gov
ernor of Cuba, probably speaks more
by the card than some of the lesser
lights who have been giving their
views recently on the condition of
Cuba and the necessity for its annexa-
ton. The real ultimate destiny of
the island is truly mystery. The
United States has never said that it
intended to annex Cuba, and in fact,
has said quite the reverse. But should
the island desire to be taken into what
Mr.. Dooley calls our glorious and
well-fed republic, it is not likely that
the desire would be refused.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11
WATCHMAN, TELL US OF THE
NIGHT.

1t is nearly time for Brother Ropes
of the Montpelier Daily Journal to
climb the battlements of the Capitol
and as Waterman" view the politi-
cal cohorts gathering for the fray.
His keen vision and the eminence from
which he gets view enables him to
see which way the dust is drifting
from the political arena. O Watch
man." tell us whether it is "star"
or a Pullman that points your way
Groton Times.
In the supremacy of oleomargarine
literature in the last political canvass,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11

Men who fight best in times of war
are generally strong advocates of
peace. Grants name will forever be
associated with his memorable "Let
us have peace. The President S
message contains earnest and eloquent
pleas for peace among nations, which
are all in the spirit of the final SEN
tence: I'm the midst of our Attic
tons we reverently thank the AL
mighty that we are at peace with the
nations of mankind ; and we firmly in
tend that our policy shall be such as
to continue unbroken these interna-
tional relations of mutual respect and
good will"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11
The effect of the United States SUI

The effect of the United States su-
preme court decision, is by general
agreement, that all merchandise which
has been brought into the United
States from the Philippines, since
the treaty with Spain was ratified,
was not subject to the payment of a
duty. The point is that by that
treaty the Philippines became domes-
tic territory A result of the deci-
sion duties will have to be refunded
on all imports from the Philippines
between August 20, 1898, and the pres
ent time, or on about 81, 900, 600 worth
of goods. Congress, however, has
the right to impose tariff tax, as in
the case of Puerto Rico, and after
such legislation, merchandise import
ed from the Philippines will have to
pay the duties levied by Congress.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11
PROTECTING ROOSEVELT'S
LIFE.

In commenting on the bills intro
duced in Congress for the protection
of the life of the President of the
United States, the New York Sun
says:
Such general concern to protect the
life of the President signifies that one
of the first laws put upon the statute
books at this session of the Fifty
seventh Congress will be measure to
punish imitators of Czolgosz with
death, and that it will be supplement-
ed by law to exclude alien anarch-
lists. The assassin of william McKin-
lev paid for the crime with his life,
because it was committed in State
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11

Minneapolis and ST. Paul are now
engaged in a sharp rivalry as to which
shall have the larger area in parks
and parkways. 1t is about the most
commendable rivalry that these enter
prising cities have ever taken up, it
might even be initiated profitably by
other cities that are less additionally
competitors
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11

1t was only few days ago that the
announcement came from Washington
that the President had replaced fiji
teen hundred positions in the war de-
partment on the classified civil SER
vice list. Mr.. Roosevelt's devotion
to the merit system is proved by a
second order, amending the rules in
regard to the Indian agencies so that
all the agents and acting agents will
be within the classified service as
the superintendent now are. 1t
does not cover so many positions
as the first order, but it is fresh proof
that civil service reformers need not
fear that Theodore Roosevelt has
changed his ideas in regard to their
principles since he was the efficient
head of the commission, fighting with
Secretary Carlisle and others who
did not approve strict enforcement
of all the provisions of the law of
1888. President Roosevelt has done
much in two months "to extend the
reform wherever practicable, as the
Republican platform Of 1896 express
ed it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11

Delaware having no Senators at
present, there are but eighty eight
members of that body, of whom fifty
six are Republicans and thirty-two are
Democrats, There are no Populists
or Silver Republicans now, all having
gone back to the Republican party,
or fully into the Democratic party.
In the House are 1877 Republicans,
l52 Democrats and eight so-called In
dependents, who will vote with the
Democrats. The Republican majority
is ample in both houses, if it can
be kept together.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11

The Hon. Thomas B. Reed is almost
completely out of sight in his politi-
cal retirement, but his famous rules
show conspicuous vitality at the
opening of each new congress that
promise to make for him an enduring
monument.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11

w. b. Wall is receiving consider
able free advertising these days as the
man who "knows who the next Re-
publican governor will be, but won't
tell" For one who has been Repub-
lican so short a time, w. B. appears
to be mighty prominent in Republi-
can politics. 1t seems to us that he
ought to serve full probationary
term. -Morrisville News and Citizen.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11
The NeW-YOrk Tribune Farmer

Clarence Mudgett has the contract for
carrying it. 1t is expected the creamery
will soon start up in this place.
John Stmets from Randolph was in
town last Wednesday to purchase milk to
go to Boston for the Brigham Company.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11

the EDITORS hymn book was lost or
mislaid. Continuing the Times alle-
CORY, the subjoined colloquy, stanza
from noble hymn which we quote
from memory, seems to present briefly
both the contemporary inquiry and
the reply
Waterman, tell us of the night,
What it's signs of promise are.
Traveller, DER yon mountains height
See the glory beaming start"
In the Judgment of the Waterman
the beams of the star will not alone
"gild the spot that gave it birth, J"
but, high in the skies of the coming
summer, 10, its radiance will "burst
DER all the EARTH" or at least DER
all the regions of Vermont. But we
wot not of the "star' or the "Pull-
man" of the discourse of the Gravel
ler'' of Groton. Meteors of the lower
atmosphere of politics may have
caught his wandering eye.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-11

assistance and carried him home.
Drs. Mayo and Judkins were summon
ed and found the femur to be broken
close to the hip joint. Mr.. Wiley has
the sympathy of his many friends
in his painful misfortune.
Miss Gerty Rich, who has been
keeping house for Lee Wiley, went
last week to Massachusetts. Mr..
Wiley, who expected to be away for
some time visiting friends in New
Hampshire and Massachusetts. has
postponed his visit indefinitely be-
cause of his brothers. accident.
AFRO Simonds has just received news
of his grandson, Murray, whom he
had not heard from for some time, al
though he had often written to him.
1t seems that the young man had left
orders with his landlady to call for
his letters and keep them until his re-
turn, had then gone out on a boat,
been capsized, and his companions
drowned, while he was picked up
more dead than alive and taken to a
hospital in Washington, d. @. Mr.
Simonds has not yet heard whether
he has recovered from his experiences
Mrs. Hiram Perry and son of Han
cock were in town last week, after a
colt which she purchased recently of
H. G.. Ellis.