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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-10-27

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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-10-27

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NEW YORK, October q.
STOCKS. BID ASK.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17
vermOnters and Expansion.

Sons of Vermont are playing a con-
spicuous part in the dew, lopment and
pacfcation of our oriental Dependent
encies. To Admiral Dewey is due the
necessity for the taking Of the islands.
He and Prof. Worcester, another Yer
monter, were members of the first
Philippine commission. On the sec
ond commission is Judge Taft, the
chairman, and civil governor, who de-
seconded from an old Windhsm county
family, Prof Worcester and Judge Ide
of st. Johnsbury, who is the author of
the new civil code of practice for the
Philippine courts. Former Lieut-Gov.
Bates was recently appointed a judge
and assigned to the Iloilo circuit. For
mer State Superintendent of education
Mason s. Stone, was recently made
division superintendent of instruction
and assigned to the leland of Negros.
Several high school teachers have re-
ceived appointments and have been as
signed to different parts of the archi-
pelgo. Rev. Walter G. Clapp, YER
monter, has just been appointed as the
American representative of the Epis-
copal church for the thanksgiving
field Republican.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17
AGUINALDO.
How lie Has Behaved Since His
Capture.

Aguinaldo has ceased to attract official
attention in Manila and Washington.
SILL, he enjoys the somewhat anoma-
lous position of being prisoner of
war and under formal arrest, although
he has taken the oath of allegiance,
has urged all his recent followers to &C
cept the sovereignty Of the United
States, and is manifesting q lively am
bition TO fit himself for American Cit
izenship. When Funston won his star
by capturing the insurgent president,
on March %, at Paranan, Aguinaldo
had already become thoroughly dis
gusted with his part as liberator, and
had practically deserted his generals
by hiding as far as possible from the
scenes of activity, without trusting
himself TO the ocean and its great risk
Of falling in with alert naval patrol ves-
sells.
For the first TWO months after he
was taken to Manila on the gunboat
Vicksburg he was confined to Mala-
canang palace, the residence and office
of General Macarthur, now the exec
utive mansion of the archipelago and
home OF Governor Taft. One of the
wings of this building was reserved
for the Governor-Genorals aids, and
here Aguinaldo was confined luxur-
iously. At first he saw none of bis
countrymeu except Arellano, chief
justice of the supreme court, who IL
duced him to take the oath of sllegi-
ance on April 1. From that time old
friends, former insurgent leaders, who
had long ago abandoned the cause, wis.,
tied him freely, and after thoroughly
convincing himself of the advan tagef
that American sovereignty would
insure to the people of the island
through the protection of strong
power, with greater freedom and liber'
ty that could ever be possible in the lii.
tie independent, defenceless govern
ment Aguinaldo had hoped for, he is-
sued his manifesto to the people or
April 10 urging them to accept and
support American rule without reserva
ton. For the last month AguinaldC
has lived in house near the palace
provided by the military regime, an(
while still treated as a nominal pris
oaer his guards are intended more as
protectors than as jailers, for some o
his old subordinates have manifested {
| disposition to assinate him.
Aguinaldo has formally applied fol
permission to visit the United States
and it is thought that his request will
be granted in time to have him come
back with General Corbin in Septem
Der.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17
A Lost Chance.

at was when | was new on the Stock
Exchange" said an old broker, "and l was
newly married, too, that l INDUCED in an
occasional fier for pin money. One
morning | saw chance to make a good
turn on Erie, and plunged. Before the
day was over | had cleaned up $4,000.
1t was like finding 1t. When / reached
home, | asked my wife to come down
town with me the next morning and pur-
chase as handsome diamond necklace
as my $4,000 would buy. She said that
such a purchase would be extravagant
and that she really didn't care for such a
necklace.
81 knew my own weakness for blowing
In money that was velvet, but | could
not convince her that it was wise to buy
the necklace. The next morning when
the exchange opened that $4,000 both
cred me. plunged again, not on my
Judgment, but because l happened to
have that money, and this time | not
only lost it all, but half as much more.
l have never felt flush enough since that
time to indulge in diamond necklaces.
My wife has always said that it was her
fault and that IL | ever offer to buy jew
elry for her again she will accept even If
we have no bread in the house. New
York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17
The American Soldier.

The London Tines correspondent,
William Russell, the man whom the
Americans nicknamed "Bull Run Rus
sell" afterward, said early in 1861 that
the United States soldiers were the
poorest he ever saw on parade, but the
best in battle. He spoke, of course, of
the volunteers, for the regulars ut the
beginning of the war of secession were
30 few and were scattered over 30 wide
territory that it was difficult for any
body to get glimpse OF any of them.
The same encomium was passed on
them by other foreign military critics
later on in the war, With this difference,
that there was no dispar agement then
cast on their appearance on either pa
rade or in battle.
Lord Wolseley, the highest military
authority in Great Britain, has just
paid fine tribute to the American
army by declaring that it was the best
fighting force for it's size in the world.
He directly referred, of course, to the
armies which have done the fighting
in the Spanish and Philippine conflicts,
composed of regulars and volunteers.
The praise is well deserved, as other
critics have frequently testified in The
past year or two. In recent book re-
viewing the performance of the SOL
diers of the different nations in the
wars of the past three years-in Cuba,
the Philippines, South Africa and
China-the first place in general efli-
cheney is given to the fighting men OF
the United States.
A new army has just been created in
this country which will be superior in
some respects to any which has ever
been raised in this or any other coun.
try. 1t consists of 5000 men, all reg
ulars. A large proportion of the pri
Yates and non-commissioned officers in
this force have already seen service in
the recent wars OF the United States
The men are picked, physically and
mentally. With population OF rs,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17
How Some Regulations Are Made

Admiral Crowinshield, head of the
"bureau of fabrication" in the face
tious phrase Of the Washington Post,
tells at some length when, where and
how be, himself, wrote the order to
Dewey, closing with the injunction to
use his utmost endeavors to capture or
destroy the Spanish vessels defending
the Philippine islands.
Secretary Long was out of the city,
and the President was in council with
a number of persons, including Crown
inshield, as to matters in tho Far East,
Dewey having cabled his government
that he had been ordered to depart
from Hong Kong. The outcome of
the confab was that Crowninshield was
asked to write dispatch informing
Dewey of the situation and instruct
ing him as to what the government ex-
pected him to do. So the admiral
framed the order which was finally al =
proved, signed by Long and transmit
ted to Commodore Dewey. Secretary
Longs recollections run somewhat
counter to those of Admiral Crownin-
shield, in some particulars, but he
seems inclined to accept the circum-
stantial story of his chief of the "bu-
resu of fabrication"
1t all goes to show that there was
something of a happy-go-lucky state of
things in some of the departments,
about some matters, and that Secretary
Long vas possibly nearer right than he
intended to be in his Fourth of July
speech ascribing important results to
the unheralded efforts and services of
"obscure servants" of the government.
These "obsurities"-th captains on
the ships, the Dick Wainwrights and
the men behind the guns, as we'll as the
subordinates at headquarters-have pro-
Yided the majestic fgureheads in the
departments or bureaus, or on the
quarter deck of the flag snip, with 6
great deal of capital for the popular
adulaton they have been receiving
The order to Dewey, which Secretary
Long didn't write or suggest, the mod
est declaration respecting the achieve
ment of''the feet under my Command
by the man who wasn't in the nava
battle of Santiago, AMI his Fourth Of
July gift to the nation of the Spanish
ships destroyed by others whose name
he left in obscurity, are illustrations
of some of the devious ways through
which honor and fame are pumped int
. the figure heads of oilicialdom.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17
An Irishmnn,a pexice.

A writer in the London Times recently
gave some interesting "Recollections Of
Last Century" the early part of it, Of
course. Speaking Of Smthfeld, he tells
us of the wonderful shows Of Bartlemy
fair, "where for sixpence we could see in
20 minutes a tragedy with a ghost and a
pantomime. or riding circus, or Womb
wells menagerie. or the latest woman,
the tallest giant and the smallest dwarf,
shaven beas learned pig and |
know not what wonders besides
The crowd to be passed through was
enormous. Even chimney sweeps, fresh
from their work, found 1t hard to
make way through 1t, and only one per-
son, as was reported, ever completely sue
ceeded in doing so easily. This was an
Irishman who knocked out the top and
bottom of cask, drove nails through 1t
from the inside and all over and, getting
into il, hung ii by straps on his shoulders.
so attired, he brandshed his shillalagh
and passed freely through the close pack
ed multitude"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17

the British war, which, with other cir
cumstances in the case, account for the
enormous expense her predatory war
is entailing upon Great Britain. To
Americans, this is an extremely sug-
gestive manner OF sizing up the terri
BILE drain Of the Inflated enterprise into
which the British people were in
weighed, by the Mephistopholes of her
statesmen.
The American civil war was the most
gigantic armed contest in all history.
Armies so vast were never before put
in the field; battles 80 terrible, in which
the numbers Of combatants we're so
great and the losses were so appalling
never before had been fought. In
single engagements the embattled
forces were sometimes as numerous as
the entire army Great Britain las
had in South Africa. In single en-
gagements the dead and wounded were
as large as the common estimate OF the
Boer military forces when the South
African war began.
The grotesquely enormous disprOpor-
ton between the demands Of this South
African war and the numbers of the
combatants, or the size OF the engage
ments, or the results achieved, fully
entitle it to the distinction the contest
has earned as the biggest little war in
history. Some of the figures of other
wars in which England has been one Of
the belligerents illustrate the force of
this Characterization of a contest which
has put heavy strain upon Europe's
most powerful empire. Wellington
had fewer than TWEEN y-fve thousand
British troops at Waterloo, and his to-
tai force, of all nationallLies, was 3d.
400. Lord Kitchener's army in South
Africa on May was composed of 250,-
416 men, including 100000 mounted.
The total number of troops placed in
the field on the British side is officially
reported at BAT ,66l. Up to May l the
British casualty list was 1922 killed and
1920 wounded. There had died of
disease or wounds 1886 and 47,739
had been sent back to England invalid
ed. The number in hospital on March
Is was 1897.
There was nothing sensational in
President Kruger's statement of the
cost of the subjugation of his country
by Great Britain. Possibly the grim
old Boer himself is staggered by the
appalling truthfulness of his prediction.
And the end is not yet. Some twenty
thousand hostiles scattered over the
Transvaal and the .Orange Republic
have yet to be dealt with. The cost to
England is as great as at the meridian
of the struggle and no man can predict
the end. England is up against the de-
scendants OF the men who brought
Philip III of Spain to grief.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17
A Burning Shame.

The Montpelier JOURNAL rightly
wants to know how long Captain Clark,
our Clark, is to remain captain. LIS
burning shame that the gallant hero,
the bravest gentleman OF them all
should not be promoted to the position
of rear-admiral, when men who never
smelled powder even at Santiago by
are raised above him. Perhaps when
this great seaman approaches the por-
tails of death, when his day of useful
ness ia past, and he has left only a
name than which none shines brighter
in the annals OF American history, the
powers that be will see fit to honor him
as he should be honored. Let it be
Admiral Clark This is the united cry
OF the American people, and LEI us wish
that our hopes may be realized in the
near future.-Fair Haven Era.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17
SWELL HOUSES IN MANILA.
built with View to Being Gobbled
Up by Earthquakes.

As to the way people live in Manila
few lines of description will not come
amiss. The skyScraping tower Of stone
and iron, which is becoming so common
an eyesore in American cities, has not in
Vaded that land of the earthquake and
the typhoon and is not likely to do so
soon. These perilous visitants govern the
character and the size OF the houses,
which are very rarely more than two
stories in height, even in the best quar-
tiers of the city. OF these the ground
floor is used as a coachhouse or to lodge
the native servants. 1t is apt to be too
damp for the family, who live on the
upper floor, which is divided into a spa
cious hall, dining and reception rooms
and bed and other private apartments.
The kitchen Is often a separate building,
with rooted passage leading to the house.
Beside it is the bathroom, an apartment
much in demand among the Filipinos,
with whom cleanliness is one of the chief
virtues and bathing q daily duty.
These houses were formerly of stone,
but since the great earthquake Of 1880
only wood has been permitted in the Sec
ond stories. These are fitted with sliding
windows all around, to permit the freest
entrance of air. At the same time, to
keep out the hot glow of the sunlight,
glass is replaced in the windows by trans
lucent seashclls, through which only a
modicum of light can filter. Corrugated
iron roofs are common, but they are very
hot. To obviate this many roofs are COW
cred with a thin layer of nipa palm
matching, which is cooler though dan
gerous in case of fire.
In the native quarters of the city the
houses are much simpler in design, eacl
being composed of a single story, lifted
from five to ten feet into the air The
house is built upon four stout posts ant
put together without nail or peg, thu
frame being of bamboo, tied togethe
with rattan. Npa palm leaves or wovei
bamboo strips form the sides, and tn,
roof is matched with nipa leaves or co
gon, long grass
The floor is made of bamboo strips
with their rounded sides uppermost an,
tied together so as to leave wide crack
between. Swinging shades which. can b
propped up during the day, serve for win
dows. A ladder takes the place Of stairs
Ventilation is the important thing that
constantly sought.
Often there is only single room
which serves for cooking. eating ar
sleeping, the fire being made on Il heap
earth in one corner. and, when in use
filling the house with smoke. In the bet
ter houses there are two or more rooms
There is one great advantage in tbes
houses-in case an earthqua.r shuul
shake them down or a typhoun toppi
them over no one is likely to be huri
The materials are too light to do an,
harm. And they are so open to the nj
as to make them much cooler than clos.
built dwellings,. Ledger Monthly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17

former resident of Montpelier, will be
among the guests of Vermonts capital
during Old Home Week. Admiral
Dewey has also been invited. Mont
pelier is setting a good example in the
celebration Of Old Home Week. Other
cities and towns in Vermont may not
claim as guests three such distinguished
men as those TO whom the capital offers
a glad welcome on the occasion. Yet
almost every town has sons and daugh-
tiers who have won abroad, if not fame
or wealth, reputation for integrity of
character, usefulness in he community
in which they reside, and an influence
for good. Their presence on Old Home
Week would be most welcome.-Land-
mark, w. II. Junction.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17

600 900 to draw from, and only $4,000
men to obtain, the government has
had larger liberty OF choice than was
ever presented to any other country in
selecting fighting force. The officers
of this new army are all either West
Pointers or a-e men who have seen SER
vice, long or short, usually two or three
years or more, in the ranks. Some of
them have been in the service for
many years. An army Of IS, 600 of this
sort of men can, it is easy to see, ade-
quately meet all the requirements
which are likely to present themselves
in the near future, and If more men
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17

There are some things in Tom John
sons program which, outside of parti-
san politics, are likely to find accep-
lance. Here are some ideas he has de-
veloped in recent article in one of
the monthlies:
In many cities the water supply is
public business; in some cities gas and
electric lights are manufactured and
furnished by public authority; in many
cities of Europe and Australia, street
ra lroads are owned and operated by
the public.
Why not go on in this direction till
there shall be no more private property
in special grants or franchises, and till
ali business requiring such grants
shall be carried on by the municipali-
ties? Under present conditions the
adoption of this policy would require
the taking over, by the public, only of
the water, gas, electric light and power
supply, and of the telephone aud street
railroads.
The evils which great many timid
people fear, as likely to arise from en-
larging the scope of the functions of
municipalities, are trivial in compari-
son with the evils which are insepara-
BILE from the present system.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17
Cost OF the South African War, Actual
aud Relative.

The figures presented by the British
war department show that the war for
the subjugation OF the Beers and the
theft of their gold mines is costing
Great Britain about one million dollars
a day. In this connection the circum-
stance is recalled that the cost of the
war, on the federal side, for the pres
ervation of the Union, at the zenith of
expenditure, was about two million
dollars a day. The circumstance is
recited, further, that the cost of the
South African war 10 on gold basis,
while that of the war for the Union Was
measured in a paper currency worth in
gold about fifty cents on the dollar
This brings the per diem cost of the
war of Great Britain against the Beers
and the war for the preservation of the
government OF the United States on
to the same dead level-one million
dollars a day.
The difference in the size of The
armies of Great Britain, in the ont
case, and of the United States, in thu
other, and the variation in the exten
Of the operations, need not be pointed
out. England is waging war som,
thousand miles from home; the Unite'
States was fighting in its own terri
tories, circumstance that may accoun
in part for the relatively larger cost O
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17

The "tariff war;" as the ants de-
lighted to call it, which Russia declared
against the United States, and which
has 30 gladdened the hearts of men
who are "agin' the government" as a
matter Of course, has been declared off
by Russia herself. The explanations
of the officials at Washington have
shown the Russian minister of finance
that he was wrong in the retaliatory
measures he adopted, and he offers to
vacate the increased duties recently
impos ed on American goods.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17

Shamrock ii seems to have
proved to the satisfaction of the people
over the waters that she is faster than
her predecessor of the same name. In
the race yesterday, on the American
side, the dead certainty previous trials
seemed to establish as to the superior
heetness Of the Constitution and the
slowness of the Boston "scow" was Sc
riously unsettled. Columbia was first
and Constitution won against indie
pendence under circumstances and by
margin that were hardly victory for
the leader in the previous races. Cham
pions of Independence are in conse-
sequence much encouraged, but the u
innate event will be, with hardly a
doubt, that in the further trials Con-
stitution will vindicate her claims to
superiority.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17

of a convention nomination, for the Of
flee of Chief Executive of the United
States, hut he has captured the conven-
ton of the Democratic party of the
State of Ohio, persuaded it TO ignore
Bryan, and has thus made something
of q stride toward securing similar
control of the national convention of
his party in 1904. II he should become
the dominating power Of his party
when next its representatives meet to
name candidate for the Office of Pres
ident, and should receive the nomina-
ton, there would be close and striking
similarity in the career of the mayor of
the city of Cleveland to that of Grover
+ Cleveland, once of the near by city OF
Buffalo. Would the parallel be COM
pleted on the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in November 1904? That
is what is interesting Mr.. Johnson, Mr.
Bryan, the newspapers, and the couu-
try generally, in languid sort OF way,
just at this time. At present, Mr..
Johnson is the most interesting ex-
hibit the Democratic party has before
the public and there are things about
the man personally and the ideas he is
exploiting that have made him in Ohio
very popular man, and, if in Ohio, why
not, in the eventful by and by, in the
wider field of national politics2 Time
and events will show.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17
MRS. BONNIE INDICTED.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE grand
jury this afternoon returned an indic-
ment against Mrs. BONNIE for the mut-
der of James Seymour Ayers, Whose
dead body was found in local hotel
recently. Mrs. BONNIE confessed IT,
shooting Ayers in his room.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17

Montpelier's old home week celebra-
ton is sure to be an unqualified sue
cess. Capt. Clark of the Oregon and
ex-senator Thurston of Nebraska will
be there and Admiral Dewey has been
Invited and may be able to come. Good
for Montpelier. -Csledoni
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17

Mayors have sometimes become can
didates for the presidency, and some
time they have been elected. Mayor
Tom Johnson Of Cleveland, Ohio, has
not yet become candidate, by virtue
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17
A Good Example.

Senator Thurston Of Nebraska, and
Capt. O. Il. Clark Of the Oregon,
whose home Is In Bradford but who is
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-07-17

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