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New-York tribune., 1901-11-28
NEW DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION.

An independent Democratic organization for Es-
sex County has been started in Newark with sew
enty-echt members. Charles F. Herr. lawyer
md former member of the Board OF Works. is
president II is expected that the membership will
be increased to fifteen hundred or two thousand be-
fore spring The purpose is to make a organ-
zaon for the party in Essex and drive out the men
charged with betrayal of Seymour In the state cleo
tion. The orgaoization will 1t Is believed. in time
absorb the voting strength of the party and capture
the old party organization.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-28
NEW METHODIST PASTOR FOR BROOKLYN

Word came to Brooklyn yesterday from New
Haven of the acceptance by the Rev. Gardner s.
Eldridge, pastor of the First Methodist Church
there, of the call of the Sumner Avenue Methodist
Church, of Brooklyn. MIR. Eldridge will assume
his new charge at the close of the current
ence year. He has been pastor of the First Meth
odist Church OF NoW-HaXen for four
New-York tribune., 1901-11-28

afternoon service which will begin at 2:3o O'CLOCK
and at the evening service. beginning at O'CLOCK
programme OF short speeches on topics OF interest,"
in the missionary field has been arranged me
general subject for the evening meeting VIII oe
practical Claims of Our Several Mission fleIds-
Opportunity for general discussion Will ne given
after each speech.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-28
A DEPARTURE IN NAMING TRAINS.

Trains Nos. and g. running between this city and
Buffalo the Lehigh Valley Railroad heretofore
known THE Exposition Express will In the
future have new names. No. 8. eastward will be
THE New-York and Philadelphia Special" No. ;.
westward. THE Buffalo Train This last name is
something III railroad nomenclature and a de.
cded departure from the custom I'm vogue among
railroads of naming trains.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-28
PRINCETON GLEE CLUB CONCERTS.

Princeton. Nov. - (SpeciaD-The manager of the
University Glee Club announced to-day that the
following concerts will be held before the Christ
mas vacation: At Plainfeld. y. J.. in the Casino
December 3: Orange in the Orange Music
Hall. December 5: at Morristown, in Lyceurn
Hall. on December 13. and at Brooklyn in Memorial
Hall. on December II.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-28
ALASKAN SCHOONER STRANDED.
AID NEEDED FOR 115 PERSONS ABOARD TIE
RALPH J. LONG.

AID FUR no tEhSO~'o @hH0-A--0 ---
RALPH ]. LONG.
Seattle. Wash, Nov Z7.-Advices from the nortn
bring news that the long overdue schooner Hspn
r Long from Nome. lies stranded at UnaiasAa'
with lis passengers. The vessel Is out Oh l09a'
the passengers have spent all their money 10 oOaa
tho absolute necessities Of life, and they now ap
neal for help 10 the War Department L. fFalA
Brown. of this city. presented resolution 10 ~
Seattle Chamber of Commerce to-day recilins tH'
facts in the case. and urging the necessity oi In na
mediate aid for the passengers and crew -
1890, OF the Chamber were unanimous IN fsvor
of acting upon the matter at once ana ,e4u's'
will be made to the authorities at "asnns.o. Io.
asking them to send revenue cutter or % sG,T Isr
ernnent vessel TO bring down the stiIHatsb C1ebsr
sons The Long reached UnaIaSk4 on 80 ron.
ont os food and water since that e-s t.e az rat
ditons have grown worse. The StCFeheeYe-s - a.
noint refuse to advance enough pTovis4q'o srS the
low tbe schooner to reach Puget Souno, LaI,sss
nssesn1ers are afraid to venture out IN Heip'''
condition
New-York tribune., 1901-11-28
MOTHER AND SON REUNITED.

Beleville, Nov. 27 (SpeciaD.-After separation
of twenty-five years William D. Lister. of this
town and his mother have been reunited, and up
to a few weeks ago each thought the other dead
She IS seventy years old. and few days ago came
from her home in England to spend her remaining
days with her son. who had crossed the ocean to
bring her TO his home in Belleville.
New-York tribune., 1901-11-28
DUTY on HOPE DIAMOND.
IMPORTER PAYS s13s1s-ITs APPRAISED VALUE
s13els2

The famous Hope blue diamond, bought from
Lord Francis Hope by Simon Frankel of No. SIS
Nassau-st-. and brought to this country by him on
Tuesday on the steamship kronprinz wilhelm was
taken TO the Appraisers Stores yesterday for ap-
praisement The weighing and examination of the
stone was made under the personal direction of
P c. Worden assistant appraiser in charge of the
second division. and the duty assessed on the gem
was paid by Mr.. Frankel After the stone is reset
IL viii be placed exhibition.
The diamond. which weighs 442s carats was in
voiced at fS6O0, or s39 1S2 There is 10 per cent
ad ralorem duty on diamonds. cut. not set' and
on the stone. '
New-York tribune., 1901-11-28
FOrR ESCAPE FROH TIE BEIG.
IMPRISONED SAILORS F. q THEIR WAY I'D
LIBERTY IN THE NAVY YAED.

y vas learned Yesterday that, while the storm
,-as gine on Monday night four prisoners es-
o.,e5 from, the brig on the cob dock in the
RrookIvn NAVY Yard They are John j. Jehle,
William Thomas F. E. Doerrer and T. B. Nc
Garty. The men. who are sailors, are stu at
large 1t is believed that the sentrles sought
shelter from the storm in one OF the sllaii
houses provided for that purpose, ana ieIt d
clear road for the escape of the prisoners ne
prisoners evidently had file. with whIcn t tles
severed the lock and broke three OF tne oai "a, , ,
across the window of the brig. Once out or the
hr;y # is supnosed that they vaulted the stone
fence about the yard and reached the street:
Two Of the sailors had been in the guhuhou9e
for several months. while the other TWO were
RECENTLY transferred from the Hartford
New-York tribune., 1901-11-28
ROLLER GETS SEVEN YEARS AND FINE

Charles L. Roller real estate dealer in Newark.
who absconded five months ago while under bonds
on charges OF forgery. and who was arrested IN
Newark Tuesday night. sentenced 10 seven
years State prison and to pay nne OF Slow by
Judge Skinner in the court at Newark yesterday.
Roller gave himself
New-York tribune., 1901-11-28
T0 L4Y 4 CORNERSTONE.

Glen Ridge, Nov q (SpeciaD.-The cornerstone of
the addition 10 the Congregational Church in this
place will be laid tomorrow morning The Rev.
Elliot W. Brown, the pastor, will preside and lay
the stone. The proposed addition will cost in the
netghborhood of SS5 go
New-York tribune., 1901-11-28
CONFERENCE ON FoREIGs MISSIONS.

An all day conference in the interest Of foreign
missions is announced for December al the Marble
Collegiate Church Twenty-ninth-st- and Fifth-ave.
There will be three services A morning session
for prayer wiz be held At 10 o'clock For the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-04
the stiletto are too much in evidence
among people of excitable tempera-
meut who cannot speak English.

The Milwaukee Sentinel says if it is
true that American producers sell
their products abroad at lower price
than they charge for them in this
country the articles in question ought
to be placed on the free list The
Detroit Journal agrees to this conclu-
sion but expresses a doubt as to the
premises being true. We did not sup
pose it was doubted or could be de
MED. Manufacturers not only do this
but think they make a good argument
in defending it. The matter is some
what involved in questions of eco
nomic conduct of the manufacturing
business. But the main point we be-
lieve is that u factory can be run at
better advantage if run steady from
beginning to end of the year, that this
also is better for the employees and
that where the market is limited it is
necessary in order to insure this long
and uninterrupted term of employ
ment to find foreign market. So
that, if in order to obtain it, it is nee
essary to sell for less, there is enough
made in the way spoken of by unin-
terrupted operation and enough advan-
tag obtained for both employer and
employee to warrant the comparative
loss involved in marketing the goods
abroad We are not prepared to say
that the case is made out, but are only
interested to show that what the Sen
tinel names as a possible condition
and what the Journal doubts, is an
admitted fact.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-04

In no civilized country in the world
is the practice of carrying concealed
weapons permitted to the extent that
it is in the United States. The Gus
tom is largely confined to the west
and south, where it has been in times
past justified to some extent by con-
ditions inseparable from the settle
ment of new country. In the north
and east, offenders of this sort are
more commonly found among that
class of Europeans whose antecedents
and habits ill accord with the higher
ideas of American citizenship. In
some parts of southern and eastern
Europe, human life is held so cheaply
that slight insult or fancied wrong
can only be avenged by the blood of
the offender. In Tennessee and South
Carolina public sentiment has recent
ly been aroused to an unusual degree
against this cowardly habit. In Mas
sachusetts it has likewise received
attention and legislation looking to
| the restriction of the sale of firearms
has been proposed. 1t is believed that
| if dealers were required to keep a
record of all sale of firearms, to be
held responsible to certain extent
for such sales, possibly to be required
to procure license lawfully to deal
in goods of that nature long step
| would have been taken toward a
mnch needed reform. Vermont, which
has always been found in the front
rank of superior civilization, should
be prompt to do her share in this re-
form. The ever ready revolver and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-04
PROSPERITY IN KANSAS.

Kansas has more ready money on
hand at this moment than it ever had
before i'll all its history. Its banks
are filled with cash. There is on de-
post in the national and state banks
of that State about 1888, 600, 600, which
is in the neighgborhood of $50 for
each man. woman and child i'll the
state. This is far ahead of all past
records. On a bank capital of about
SO, 700, 900 in the State there is a
profit and surplus item of over So, 600, e
600. These figures were never closely
approached before in all Kansas ca
reer.
OF course, the amount of money on
hand in the banks of community is
not necessarily measure of that To-
cality's prosperity. Often the bank
deposits are large when there is a
stagnation in business The lack of a
demand for money i'll trade will send
the cash to the banks, and it will pile
up there in big boards. But this is
not altogether the case i'll Kansas at
this time. The failure of the corn
crop has injured the state to some ex-
tent, but there has been large yield
of wheat, and although this does not
make up for the loss in corn, it goes
a good way toward meeting this de-
ficiency. Even in the corn shortage
the loss to the farmers will not be so
great as it is commonly supposed.
Short crops make high prices. Corn
is selling at figures now which were
out of sight year ago. Most of the
loss in shortages in the great food sta
pies falls on the consumer who has to
pay the higher prices.
Kansas, like all the rest of the west,
and like the country i'll general, is
feeling the stimulus of the Republican
prosperity which is diffused all over
the United States. All sorts of bust
ness has been active through the past
two or three years. Crops, on the
whole, have been good, too, in this
time. Big crops do not always bring
big money to the producer, for unless
the wage earners of the country are
actively employed at fair wages their
purchasing capacity is small, and
prices of all sorts of articles, as a con-
sequence, are low. Prices, however,
of farm products, as well as of all
other staple commodities, have been
fairly high in the past few years,
and profits, for the farmer, and for
all other workers, have been good
The west is having greater prosperity
at the present time than it ever en-
ioyed before in all its annals. This is
one of the reasons for the recent drop
in the Populist and Democratic vote
in that region, and for the gain in the
Republican total
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-04

of the Shepard family. Let all who
come be prepared to do or say some
thing to gladden. his heart and give
him pleasant recollections in the re-
manning years or days of his life.
Who knows but it may be his last
birthday?
DIR. Corwin of Chelsea was called
here last Saturday to see Mrs. Lizzie
Gaddie who is i'll at her uncle's,
Adoniram Litch's
Mr.. Williams, who has been con-
fined to his bed several weeks with
rheumatic trouble is gaining very
slowly.
Mrs Mary Wilson has returned
from her visit in Boston and is at the
home of w. Remission.
w. Remission is one of the petit
jurors from this town to attend the
Orange county court at Chelsea, be-
ginning on Tuesday.
CABOT.
H. C. Cotton and wife of Montpelier
were guests of DR.. and Mrs. S. L. Wis
well over Sunday
The Christian Endeavor society is to
y.
Homemade adornments, candies, etc.,
will be in the bill,
A ladies cape has been found in the
highway and left at Morse Brothers for
the owner to claim and prove.
The electric light poles have arrived
and will be placed in position soon.
Dean Blodgett is i'll at Hardwick, where
he has been working, with typhoid fever
w. o. Walker is taking care of him.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet will Mrs. S. l.. Wiswell
next Friday afternoon.
The adjourned meeting of the Congre-
gational church and society is to be held
next Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock.
As officers of the new corporation are to be
elected at this meeting large attendance
is desired,
The marriage is announced of B. G
Webster and Mrs. Cora Meade.
Schools reopen this week with but two
or three changes.
A. B. Collins has in a new stock of
sleighs
An alarm of fire was given last Friday
afternoon when it was found that the viii
lage school building was on fire in the hall
and in ventllator shaft next to the chin
ney A burning out of the chimney oc-
cured igniting some flats that was leaned
against the chimney where thimble was
put into an unused stove pipe hole. From
these flats it set the sheathing of the shaft
OH fire. f. T. Paquin was at work in the
building so discovery was soon made and
few pals of water soon put out the
blaze Damage about So
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-04

The presidential canvass in Cuba,
which has Just started, and which
will last till February, promises to be
exciting. There is a chance, too, that
the contest may not be confined to
the present candidates, Palma and
Maso One or two others, it is init
mated, may get in the race before
the finish. Yet when Cuba reaches
the stage that she will assist in the
election, as a state of the American
Union, of President of the United
States, her canvasses will attract
much more attention from the world
at large than they can under present
conditions. That time may not be so
far distant, either, as some persons
imagine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-04

which men kill and main others in
the pursuit of sport in this country,
without the fear of any penalty being
inflicted, is fast becoming unendur-
able. Every season long lists are sent
from the northern woods of those who
have fallen before the rifles of enthu-
siastic hunters. That victim was
mistaken for deer is an all sufficient
excuse, and the ardent sportsman
whose quarry he was is free to per-
form another exploit of the same kind
as soon as the opportunity presents
itself To be sure, in this case all
take equal chances, and the dead shot
of today may be the dead man of to-
morrow.
While the scorching automobilist Is
quite as careless in regard to the in
jury he may infict ON others on the
ground that eff they don't want to
be hurt they can keep out OF the
way" he does not run equal risks.
! This is not quite n fair division of
fun; one class ought not to have more
of it than another and chances should
be evened up. If, therefore, an auto
mobilist by driving his machine along
country road at mile minute
finds pleasure at the risk of another's
life why should not that other be al
lowed to enjoy with impunity little
target practice at the risk of the
scorching Chauffeur?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-04
SOUTH DUXBURY.

w Toben, who has lived with Mr.
Louizel's people for the past two
years died November is. Funeral
services were held in the Catholic
church in Waterbury.
William Corliss has purchased Will
liam N. Wards farm and will take
possession in the spring,
Mr. and Mrs. H. G.. Ward spent
Thanksgiving with his parents and
sister in Waitsfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. Hart and Mr.. and
Mrs Ed Miner were at Waterbury
Center on Thursday
Miss Vienna Butler has been at home
for a week
The school in district No. 3 began
this week with Miss Ida Boyden MS
teacher. Miss Bertha Rowell of Mont
pelier will teach in district No. 6.
Miss Bessie Bruce is at home for a
short time.
Rev. G. A. Emery spoke at the church
Sunday evening.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-04
ARTHUR ROPES, General Editor.
LAW, BUT NOT JUSTICE.

A few days ago woman from the
adjoining town of Berlin was brought
into Washington county court under
Indictment for keeping an unlicensed
dog. To this indictment, acting on
the advice of an attorney who had
volunteered to defend her, she pleaded
guilty. In conviction in such cases
the statutes provide fine of Sl5, five
dollars of which shall go o the
complaining witness and ten dollars
to the town in which such unlicensed
dog is kept. Judge Munson had no
discretion in the matter and imposed
the statutory penalty, with the al
tentative sentence, as he was in duty
bound to do.
A subsequent investigation of this
case disclosed the fact that the wom-
an who pleaded guilty to this offence
had no knowledge that she was break
ing any law until she was, arrested
and taken into court, that she was
without means, and had not friends
gone to her assistance and paid her
fine and costs, she would have been
obliged to serve more than two
months at hard labor in the house of
correction at Rutland, and that the
complaining witness had personal
grudge against her. Tt is probable
these facts were not known to the
prosecuting attorney, to the grand
jury that indicted her, nor to the
Judge who imposed the sentence Had
they, however. been known to the
latter, after an indictment had been
found and the respondent had been
brought before him, with a plea of
guilty. he could have done no less
than impose the penalty the law pro-
vides in such cases.
This is the law-it may be good
law-but it is not Justice. Consta-
bles in towns. and policemen in
cities, of the State are warranted in
shooting at sight all unlicensed dogs.
Surely that ought to be sufficient to
protect the State against any great
number of CANNES on which the own
ers have not paid the tax provided by
law.
After the law makers of 1902 have
tinkered to their hearts content
the woodchuck, muskrat, hedgehog,
moose, deer and caribou laws, amend
ed the age at which a puppy becomes
a dog, framed a new set of rules for
road commissioners, legalized the
grand list of few towns in which
the officers did not know their duty,
and decided whether or not it is wise to
spray fruit trees in blossom, they might
do worse than to repeal outright this
law pertaining to unlicensed dogs,
which is sure to work hardships in
individual cases. and has done so in
one instance during the present term
of Washington county court.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-04
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

The Watchman gives to it's readers to-
day in supplement form, the message
of President Roosevelt to Congress,
delivered Tuesday afternoon, and be
speaks for it careful perusal.
This document has been in the
hands of the editors of every daily
newspaper in the country since last
Saturday. AS special mark of cour-
tesy to the press of the country, Presi-
dent Roosevelt directed that this, his
first annual message, be furnished the
press associations sufficiently in adj
vance to enable them to mail instead
of wire it to their clients. The press
associations accordingly pledged their
faith in writing that the message
should not be published, either in
whole or in part, nor should any syn
opsis, summary or even intimation
of it's contents, be published or given
out prior to it's presentation to Con-
gress
The editors Of the country were thus
put upon their honor to keep the mes
sage secret until the reading of it
should be begun in Congress. To
their credit be it said that not so
much as a eve predict" regarding
any important feature of the message
has, so far as known, appeared in
print.
No penalty was attached to viola
ton of this confidence, so far as the
editors were concerned, except a sure
blacklisting as regards any such favor
in the future. Newspaper men every
where are alive for scoops and pub
fishing part or the whole of the
message in advance of their Compel
itors would, in one sense, have been
the greatest scoop" of the year. The
fact that every one Of them, so far as
known, kept faith with the news
agencies from which they received
the message in advance is not only to
their credit as body, but will assure
such favors in the future.
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ter family is to place fine memorial
window in the new church for their
father and mother.
at Bradford on Thursday, assisting at
Thanksgiving service at Windsor
Corliss'
Ottie Bagley has finished work at
the farmers exchange at Bradford and
is at his home.
N P. Philbrick went to Montpelier
for a visit ON Saturday.
Frank o. Spaulding has purchased
the Reformed Presbyterian church
farm of Freeman Cunningham, and
has moved from his place in the vii
lage to the farm.
Asa Williams and Ed Wright are
cutting lumber for George X. Church
in Washington.
S. M. Hood has been ill for a few
days, but is able to be out looking af-
ter business.
The sleighing from here to Barre
is fine but south of here wagons are
used.
DR.. r. +. Willard and several 9TH
ers were called to Barre ON Thursday
to testify in the State case against
Fred A. Downing for rape. Down
ing waived an examination and carried
the case to the county court. r. NJ
Harvey of Montpelier is counsel for
Downing.
Water is very low and mill owners
are having a hard time to do neces-
sary work
w. H. Chalmers has his new en-
CINE on the ground but it is not set
up.
Fannie Chalmers came home from
Montpelier on Friday. She expects
to go to Boston in the future to make
her home with her aunt.
DR.. R. f. Willard was at East Tops
ham Saturday making examinations
for life insurance.
Fred Rowe and A. j. Screwton go
to Chelsea on Tuesday as jurors from
Topsham.
+. p. Cunningham has his new
block nearly ready to occupy. He has
large commodious store and a fine
tenement on the second floor.
Rev. James Boyd preached good
Thanksgiving sermon ON Sunday,
MI. anu mIs. "a.
speut Thanksgiving with Mr.. and
Mrs. o. ID. Wiley.
WEST CORINTH.
A son of Rev. Wilbur Harding of
Corinth Meadows is to teach the win
ter term here, commencing on Mon
day.
Mrs. Minnie Virgins entertained
h parensts, Mr.. and Mrs, Cross of
Vershire, also her brothers and sisters
on Thanksgiving day. Mr., Cross had
the misfortune to lose his horse on
that day 1t was sick only few
hours.
Friday, December 6, will be the
ninetieth anniversary of the birth of
Rev. Almon Shepard, pastor of the
Free Baptist church here. He is ex-
pecting several of his relatives from
Barre and Williamstown, also friends
from other towns to visit him on that
day. On account of incapacity to en-
terrain them at the parsonage dinner
will be served in the church, after
which Father Shepard will speak of
olden times and give short history
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-04

They educate people down in Geor-
gia at least the Binghamton Herald
quotes the following which it says is
unique sign displayed on a build
ing in Georgia settlement; "School
of learning. Lessons given in poetry
writing and noveltry. Also will teach
music to you and dramatics Hides
and wool taken for cash. Also, as the
winter season is coming ON, oak wood
and kindling." The Herald thinks
this must be the pioneer of the edu-
cational department store.