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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29
Tear off a Yard of Ragtime.

Well have no more of ragtime, the big musi-
clans say;
No airs but those called classic from hence
forth they will play.
No longer Mr.. johnson they'll Ask to Turn
Me Loose?
No more All Coons resemble each other?
WHAT'S the use?
And shall the Eyes called Goo Goo grow
sleepy on the shelves?
Tear off a yard of ragtime, and let's enjoy
ourselves,
When we must sit through Wagner our pos
ture must be prim,
And when they play Beethoven our faces
must be grim.
Or while they give us handel or Chopin
Bach or List,
From attitudes respectful our forms must not
desist.
But when we tire of mystic affairs of gnomes
and elves
Tear off yard of ragtime and let's enjoy
ourselves!
Tear off yard of ragtime-let's Take Our
Clothes and CO.
1t Certainly Was Good to isl Guess You
Ought to Know
1t cannot be that ragtime must Leave Its
Happy Home
And with the Coal Black Lady through dark
oblivion roam.
Not muchl You man who fiddles, or with he
drumstick delves,
Tear off yard of ragtime and let's enjoy
ourselves
Josh Wink in Baltimore American.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29
North Montpelier.

Our creamery is doing rushing business
now and employs the fourth man in the
work. They are making between 1900 and
100 pounds Of butter daily. We can justly
look back with pride upon the workings OF
this creamery. 1t was the first to be built
and started in this vicinity. We employ
the same butter.maker and have nearly the
same board of directors and officers we
started with five years ago this month. UP
to the present time we have carried on the
enterprise to the apparent satisfaction OF all
the patrons, at least there has never been
any appearance OF the least dissatisfaction.
II. g. Hollister received on Monday of
this week four cans, about 100000, wall
eyed pike from the Hatchery at Swanton:
A part was placed In our pond here, and
the balance in Curtis Pond, Calais.
The creamery has had an addition Of if
teen or twenty new patrons during this
month.
Our neighDor G. 8. Gray, who has been
suffering for several weeks past with
sore hand, is 80 as to be out again.
Several from this village enjoyed a fish
ing trip to Sabin's Pond on Tuesday.
Mrs. Emma Nichols and daughter Ma
dine are in the village, called here by the
serious illness OF Mrs. Nichols sister, Miss
Mary e. Davis
1t was found necessary to change the
date from the announcement given of the
special service at our church from next
Sunday to week from next Sunday on Gc-
count Of not being able to complete the re-
pairs.
A special service will be held in our
church week from next Sunday at two
o'clock P. III, in recognition II the recent
repairing and beautifyipg OF the inside of
the church Rev. Dwight Ball, State SUI
perintendent of the Uniyersalist churches
is to be present. Rev. j. Edward Wright
OF Montpelier is expected to assist. 1t is
hoped there will be general turnout.
Oliver Buttertield OF Walpole, N. H., is
here assisting his brother, j. W. Butterfield,
In placing the machinery in the new saw
mill. They expect'to have it in running or
der now in the course Of a week or two.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29
AN ANCIENT FAMILY TREE.
The O'Neils of Ireland Took Great
Pride in Their Great
Antiquity.

T. L. O'Brien, of Dublin, in speaking
of the antiquity Of some of the Irish
families, according to the New York
Tribune, told the following story:
There lives in the north of Ireland"
said Mr.. O'Brien, "a family named
O'Neil Their greatest claim to prom-
inence lies in the fact that they are
the oldest family in the United King
dom. When Plantagenet, Tudor or
Guelph was not the O'Neil was. They
ruled as kings before even William
looked with covetous eye across the
English channel toward the white
cliffs of Albion. This long line of de-
scent has bred in the family rever-
ence for their ancestry that approach
es idolatry. The handspring of their
life and action, the pride of their be-
ing is that long line of dead and long
since forgotten O'Neils carry them
back in the direct line TO the dark
ages.
"As may be imagined, their family
tree is colossal in it's proportions. 1t
has length of something like IS or 10
feet, and when 1t is unrolled at the
castle a holy hush falls over all. To
visitor there some years ago was, In
due course of time and as special
mark of favor, shown this marvellous
pedigree. Stretched on the enormous
billiard table, it Tapped full three
feet at each end. The visitors eye ran
back over that lengthy line of O'Neils,
long since turned to dust, and he Won
dered why they took so insane pride
in their descent. just then he be-
came conscious that that thought had
occurred to other aliens who had be-
foretimes seen the O'Neil family tree.
A penciled note in the margin, about
halfway down the tree, caught his
eye. 1t read: Just here came ADAM"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29
The Oldest Papers.

The Vergennes Vermonter was sew
enty-nine years old last week. We be-
lieve there are but two papers in the
State older than this-the Windsor
Journal and the RutlandHerah.- -Ne,oS
and Citizen.
In matters of fact the contemporary
should speak by the record, not by his
beliefs. The Vermont Journal was es-
tablished at Windsor in 1888 by Hough
& Spooner, and for many years was
called SpOoner'S Vermont Journal.
Undergoing several changes in propri-
etorship it was issued uninterruptedly
till 1885, when publication ceased. Sub
sequently the Spirit Of Seuenty-Sir and
the Vermont Times were started at
Windsor, but each expired after brief
existence. In 1874, Charles Merrifeld
began The publication of newspaper
in Windsor, and in order to give the
enterprise prestige conceived the idea
of reviving the name of the old Yer
mont Journal and beginning the pub
LEGATION as new series of the old pa
per, though it was in fact as mucn q
new publication as had been the other
papers which had followed the old
Journal. The paper of that name now
in existence, or the Windsor Journal,
as it is called in the later nomenclature
of identification, began publication in
1874.
Many papers, representing various
phases of public opinion, or represent
ing merely the struggle of individuals
for fame, fortune or bread and butter,
came into existence in the early times
of the State. Most of these by their
fate demonstrated either the lack Of
any adequate reason for their exist
ence, or proved the insufficiency of the
mental or financial backing of their
projectors. Only in rare instance or
two hes Vermont newspaper estab-
lished in the early history Of the State
come down to the present day. OF
these the Rutland Herald, founded in
1894, is the oldest.
The next in point of seniority is
the VERMONT WATCHMAN, whose pub
LEGATION was begun in 1906, in the first
quarter century after the town Of Mont
pelier had emerged from the forest
primeval." Under succeeding pro-
prietors it has descended to the present
times without a break in its issues
Papers have come and papers have
gone, but the WATERMAN has stead
tasty maintained its post on the walls
of this Jerusalem, excepting the Herald
of Rutland the oldest newspaper CT
continuous publication in the State and
now nearing century of existence.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29

Peace folds her wings over the con-
troversy about the Independence. The
Lawson yacht will go into the trial
races. One element in the settlement
Of the question, it is said, was a per-
sonal letter from Upton, in reply to a
personal letter from member Of the
New York Yacht Club, in which Sir
Thomas stated that he did not want to
leave America winner and feel that
there was a better boat behind. He
thought that some way should be found
of smoothing matters over and allowing
the Boston boat to enter the trial races.
Lawson has made some concessions,
and apparently the New York gentle
men are the best satisfied of any over
this conclusion of the matter--as they
ought to be. Meantime bad luck sticks
like burr to Shamrock ii. Yesterday
it was reported that fire had destroyed
some of her outfit in the shipyard in
which repairs are to be made. This
story lacks confirmation, but the Sham
rocks men want new boat. Her bad
luck has taken the heart out of the
crew.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29

sus Ireland's population is found to
be 1856, 546, decrease in ten years
of somewhat l,ss than the popula-
ton OF the State OF Vermont. For
sixty years this has been the IN
varying tale of Irish census statis-
tics. In that time her population
has been reduced nearly one half. In
1910 the island had nearly eight and
one half million Inhabitants. During
the famine period, in the decade ended
in 1861, the shrinkage was nearly
twenty per cent, and each succeeding
decennial enumeration has shown a
continuous decline, retrogression to-
ward solitude. While England has
been doubling her population, Ireland
has been losing half her inhabitants.
The causes are political, not physical.
Ireland has fertile soil, healthful
climate, streams that afford abundant
water power for manufactures, coast
line Astounding in good harbors from
which the island rivers may be entered,
close proximity to great markets and
lines of traffic. But England's tradition.
al policy has made Ireland dwarf that
England herself might become giant
ess. The great famines of the forties
were the consequences of England's dis
elimination against Ireland in her in
dustrial and economic policies. The
hegira of Irishmen to America and
other lands was the combined effect Of
these policies and of a most injurious
system Of landlordism.
England seems committed to course
that is destined to produce in Ireland
an enlarged edition of Goldsmith's De-
serted Village, and in his recent speech
on the status Of British public affairs
Lord Salisbury was congratulating Eng
land on her achievements in this direc-
ton.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29
McClellan replied, strangely enough: |

Mcclellan replied, strangely enough:
81 do not remember; it is possible l
may have BEEN" In diary Of the
surgeon of the Galena, however, it is
recorded under that date, that McClel-
Ian came aboard at nine in the morn
ing, that at ten O'Clock the vessel moved
down the river with the general, "who
being considerably fatigued, has gone
into the cabin for a little sleep" In
the afternoon he went ashore in re-
spouse to message calling for his i'm
mediate presence. Gen. Hooker tes-
titled before the same committee that
if the battle had been followed up
Richmond would have been ours be-
yond doubt" Instead, McClellan's
order was for retreat to Harrison's
Landing, to which, testified Hooker
further, tive retreated liks a parcel Of
sheep, and few shots would have
panic-stricken the whole command"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29
A SUPPLEMENTED BARON.
True to His Faith and Very
Charitable.

Perhaps the most typical Rothschild
of all his distinguished race was the
late Baron "Willy" Won Rothschild,
who died recently at Frankfort-on-
the-Main, says q London exchange.
He was noted for the simplicity of his
life and his extraordinary devotion TO
work. When his brother, Baron Meyer
Carl, died in 1886, Baron willy" be-
came sole head in Frankfort and at
tended TO every detail, great and small,
of his banking-house. He himself
signed every letter and document and
opened all correspondence. Power of
procuration was given in the firm only
q few years ago to facilitate the dis
patch of business, and even then was
made use of only during the baron's
rare absence from Frankfort.
Many stories are told of the bar
on's orthodoxy in religious matters.
The business was always closed on
Saturday, no matter what sacrifices
it might entail. On Sabbaths and
holy days the baron always walked,
riding being forbidden on these days
to the strict Jew. More striking still
was his adherence TO the Jewish pre-
cept TO give literally tenth of ones
earnings to the poor, so that the dispo-
sition of his bounty gave him much
hard work. A great deal of his char
ity was anonymous. Baron Won Roths-
child was at work on the evening be-
fore the day of his death, giving per-
sonal attention to the reports of bust
ness and distribution of charities. The
funeral few days later was charac-
terized by absolute absence of dis
play, and even the simplest flowers.
Yet crowds of people, from personal
friends to the poor he had helped,
thronged the street to witness the
passing of the cortege.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29
A BOWL OF SOUP.
Suddenly Rich Social Affair That
Was Intended to De Way Up.

This is the story of a bowl of soup:
Incidentally and preparatory to it,
q man of family had "struck it rich" in
coal lands. He was getting ready to
move with this grown-up family to an
atmosphere with less coal smoke in it
and to horizon that was not bounded
by hill farms. A Chicago doctor tells
the story, says the Tribune,
The man who had coal TO burn was
getting ready to leave the scenes of
his early youth, where he had been
called "Bill." He was getting a roy
atty on black diamonds sufficient to
support exceedingly white ones, and
in leaving the old home he wanted the
latter end of his stay to be q good deal
more kaleidoscope than was the first.
To this end dinner dance was CIV
en- to the elect of his choice. A chef
and several assistants were imported
from the nearest metropolis. The or
chestra came from the same place, and
the menu at last was so full of French
epiglottis that guests took the whole
course for granted, ate the strange
dishes as they saw their neighbors eat,
and had one of the most uncomfor-
table times of their whole lives.
When it had made nearly every
eligible society person in the village
ashamed of his ancestry, the man who
was going away in compartment
sleeper concluded that he would have
the chefs and the orchestra come back
and repeat, this time in honor of his
daughters friends.
Nearly everybody who was invited
came. They were all young and mex
perienoed of the world, including the
hostess. AS a starter, bowl of brule
was set before her to serve.
For the benefit Of the uninitiated,
brule is thick soup. In serving it q
good deal of the black art Is intro
duced. When it is brought on alcohol
is poured over it. The dining-room
lights are turned low. A little more
alcohol is put into the soup ladle, q
lump of sugar is dropped into that,
and then with waX-taper the ladle is
set alight, with its thin, blue-green
flame. Carefully the ladle Is sunk In
to the bowl, upon which the whole
surface takes fire, burning off the al
cohol in weird fashion and warming
the dish.
But the young hostess on this occa-
sion was nervous. She had no diff
Guilty In setting the ladle alight, but
when she attempted to light the bowl
the fame went out.
The taper was gone. The guests had
real country appetites. The hostess
was crimson with embarrassment.
So, as a way out of the predicament,
the lights were turned up again and
the brule served as 1t was.
Restraint at table had been pain
full to degree undreamed of by the
humane society. Guests who all their
young lives had eaten pie with fork
reserved from the discarded meat
plate saw too many dishes lined up for
use. The menu was appalling.
1t had been awful up to the time the
light went out.
But somehow" says the doctor,
who tells the story, tive began TO have
an awfully nice time after we drank
the soup. I didn't like the stuff, az I
remember, and I don't suppose any
one else did, but in IS minutes after the
soup plates were gone we were all hav-
ing the line of our lives"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29
Instructing the British Heir.

The cable compliments published on
May Is between President Mckinley
and the Duke of Cornwall, who is visit
ing Australia, are somewhat instruct
i've. The Duke cabled to the Presi-
dent:
Il thank you, Sir, for sending your fine
cruiser, the Brooklyn, to Australia"
The President answered:
"I thank you for your kind appreciation
of this Governments action in sending the
Brooklyn to Melbourne" q.
1t is not surprising that Mr.. McKin-
ley's alert mind was quick to place the
ownership of the Brooklyn correctly.
But it is surprising that the heir to the
British throne was 80 ignorant of things
in this country that, when addressing
the President, he should speak OF the
Brooklyn as "yours."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29

People who have been troubled at
the failure Of Shamrock III to prove
herself very much better than Sham
rock l, should remember the first race
between the Columbia and Defender
On the first leg to windward down the
New Jersey coast while the wind kept
true the old boat fully held her own.
The prospect for the new boat seemed
gloomy indeed; but before long she had
been put in tune, and then the race
was over. Shamrock II, we imagine,
is showing enough quality to satisfy
her friends and we may look forward to
a good race next August.-New York
SIM
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29
Growth and Decline.

England and Wales are regarding
with satisfaction the confirmation the
figures of the recent census bring of
increase in population. The present
population is found to be 80, $780, l6,
an increase since 1891 of 3,523,191,
This is said to be the largest deoennial
increase ever recorded. A century ago
England had somewhat less than 9,000,-
600 inhabitants. Scotland, also, has
made a small increase during the last
decade.
But the figures across the Irish sea
tell another story. By the recent &c n
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29
Poor Old Kansas.

Poor old leading Kansasl The To-
peka Capital has interviewed lot of
bankers about the condition Of things
in the State. AS was to be expected,
these miserable minions OF the money
power have had but one tale to tell.
Prosperity RACES all over the Grass
hopper domain. Farm values have
gone up from 10 to so per cent. The
banks sag with money; have 80 much
they don't know what to do with it.
The farmers are getting rich. There is
more work than there are laborers.
There is building boom. There is a
mercantile boom. Immigrants are
rushing in. Everywhere everybody is
doing well. The good times are solid,
not speculative. Poor old leading
Kansasl-New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29

Pope had issued a somewhat vain
glorious proclamation on assuming the
command of which Mcclellan had been
deprived, and this circumstance had
not helped to reconcile the friends Of
the former commander to the placing
OF the boastful westerner over them.
Pope's fall after the second defeat at
Bull Run was as sndden as his rise had
been brilliant. Pope, Porter and Nc
Clellan we're trinity of victims of the
woful events OF the dark summer Of
1862.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29

lently stimulated by the poor showing
of Shamrock II, the new challenger,
and the misadventures which have be-
fallen the yacht, or by the wordy quar-
rel on this side Of the waters over the
eligibility OF the Independence as a
candidate to defend. Some Of the old
saws will have to be enlisted to help
out the new challenger's prospects. II
"a bad beginning makes good ending"
always and invariably, Shamrock II
may take courage. But the infallibility
of this particular maxim will need first
to be established.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29
Fitz John Porter.

What associations does the an
nouncement of the death of Fitz Johu
Porter revivel The battle of the sec
ond Bull Run, with its appalling srcri-
fee OF life, the dispiritiug influence OF
the defeat, one of long series of disas-
trous reverses in that battle summer OF
1862, the fierce anathemas spoken
against Porter for his failure to come to
the support of Pope, the trial and dis
grace of the unfortunate officer, the
long contest in Congress for The reno
val of the stigma the court martial az
fixed to his name, are recalled in the
temporary publicity the tidings OF death
have given the name.
The offense of which the court mar
tial convicted him was committed in
1862. In 1878 court of inquiry re-
viewed the findings of the court mar
tial, and acquitted Porter of the
charges on which he had been tried
and convicted. In 1881 General
Grant himself, after long and careful
review of all the facts and circum-
stances, reversed his own judgment,
which had been previously adverse to
Porter. A bill removing his disabilities
was passed by Congress, but was ve-
toed by President Arthur on the
ground of lack OF authority in Con-
gress. In 1886 q bill restoring the gen
eral to his rank in the army was finally
passed, though it encountered to the
last the vigorous opposition of Cen
eral Logan, than Senator of the Uni
ted States, and many 9th ers.
So, after a quarter Of century, the
dlsgraced general was legally rehabili-
tated. Many of hio contemporaries
sincerely believed in his innocence of
wilful dlsobedience of Pope's orders to
march to his assistance. The CONVEX
sion of General Grant was great gain
for tho accused officer. The conclu-
sion of the court of inquiry, composed
of Generals Schofield, Terry and Getty,
preceding the reversal by General
Grant Of his own judgment in the
case, paved the way for vindication,
but 80 strong had been the feeling
against Porter, so bitter were the griefs
wrought into the fiber of the people Of
the North by the terrible disasters in
the summer of 1862, 10 which it was
firmly believed Porter had wilfully con-
tributed, because of pique at the super
session of Mcclellan by Pope, that five
years passed before final restoration
came. There was then still u feeling
that the act was rather the result of
the softening of the asperities and jeal-
ousies the war engendered rather than
of real conviction of the innocence of
the accused general.
Porter was one of the clique OF gen.
erals in the old army of the Potomac
who took in high dudgeon the removal
of Mcclellan from the command of the
army of the Potomac after the disas-
trous campaign against Richmond, who
were accused of willingness to see
his successor defeated by way of vindi-
eating their former chiefs reputation.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29
Help for Women
Who Are Always TireAs

81 do not feel very well, am so
tired all the time"
You hear these words every day; as
often as you meet your friends just so
often are these words repeated. More
than likely you speak the same signif-
can't words yourself, and no doubt you
do feel far from well most of the time.
Mrs. Ella Rice Of Chelsea, Wis,
whose portrait we publish, writes that
she suffered for two years with bear
ing-down pains, headache, backache,
and had all kinds Of miserable feelings,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29

Mob violence in Ohio is becoming
somewhat expensive to the commun-
tiles which tolerate it. The lynching
of negro at Urbana, some time ago,
has cost the county $4,000 damages, a
sum recovered by the heirs of the vic
tim of murderous disregard of law.
The Supreme Court of the State has
sustained the judgment of the lower
tribunal. Now, at Bellefontein, jury
has awarded damages to the three vic
tins of tar and feathers episode, two
masculine persons Of color and one
woman in white. The colored victims
recovered, one SO 900, the other $1,000,
and the woman $1,000. Possibly, as in
some less serious cases demanding re-
form, the effective way to teach people
submission to the law is through the
pocket.