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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30
Not Bryan, but the Democratic Party
IFrom the Springfield Republican,

lrlOm IHe opIluBuelu hepuDucan.I
1t is seldom in these days of Mr..
Bryan's political discontinue, after
the defeat of 1900, that his old follow
ers do him even scant justice. Hence
it is that the following paragraph in
the Baltimore News attracts ones at
tention:
Some day perhaps the quondam fol-
lowers of Mr.. Bryan will learn that
the indignities they are now pleased
to heap on him reflect on their own
intelligence even more severely than
on his leadership. Had he won, had
events sustained his theories, prob
ably the very men who groaned the
loudest at the mention of his name in
the Sth Virginia district convention at
Norfolk would have been bowling
louder still for Office and proclaiming
In stentorian tones the parts they
played in contributing to his success.
This is aptly said particularly of
those Sth district Virginia Democrats.
1t is often, indeed always, assumed,
that Mr.. Bryan personally was respon-
sible for the course of the Democratic
party after 1895. But that is too
great a tribute to his power. The
Democratic party is itself responsible
for silverism being made a cardinal
tenet of party faith. Mr.. Vest of Mis-
souri, has discarded silver and Bryan,
yet who is there to forget that Mr..
Vest was at the Chicago convention of
1896 nominating as the Democratic
candidate for president the celebrated
"Silver Dick" Bland? Daniel of Vir-
ginia, Morgan of Alabama, and the
rest were in full cry for free silver
long before the young Nebraskan was
heard of as a party leader. The re-
sponsibility for the past six years
rests upon them and upon the rank
and file of the Democracy. Any one
would think, though, in hearing the
talk of these hoary old silverites,
that they who are seeking a new re-
spectability, were inocently led into
the scrape by that young fiend of a
Bryan. Their cowardly meanness is
rather striking.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30
Pomona Grange Meeting.

Windham county Pomona Grange
met at Jacksonville yesterday. The
morning session opened with 80 pres
ent. After the general business had
been transacted, there was lively dis
cussion of the question: Are the
children of the farmers as healthy as
their parents were? If there is any
difference, why is it?" The afternoon
session was open to the public and
in charge of Mrs. Gillett, lecturer of
North River Grange. After listening
to songs, essays, readings, and recita-
tions, the question do farmers neglect
their opportunities more than other
classes? If so why?" was discussed.
The sentiment of the speakers was to
the effect that the farmers do not
thus neglect their opportunities, but
as class are keeping up with the
procession and are abreast of the pro-
gress of the times. Eighty were pres
ent at the afternoon meeting.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30
BRATrLEBoRO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30. 1901

The frills and furbelows have been
cut out of the annual muster of the
Vermont National Guard. The en-
campment is for work, instruction and
training, not for pleasantries and the
cultivation of social graces. In this
connection the st. Albans Messenger
says: THE officials are among the
brightest of Vermont's progressive
young manhood, earnest in the study
of the soldiers life and diligent in the
care and training of their men. An in
fluence Of progressiveness, order, sys-
TEN and hard work radiates from the
headquarters of Col. j. Gray Estey
and permeates the rank and file.
There is no more junketing. The Off
GERS work and the men work with
them. The entire aim of the organiza-
tion, the direction in which all its ener-
gies are bent, is to prepare nearly
500 young Vermonters to take the field
at a moments notice if the country
should ever need them"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30

The Storrs agricultural college in
Mansfield, Conn. has gained scandal
Gus notoriety. If half that is charged
against the institution is true, the au-
thorities ought to close its doors at
once and withhold from it all state or
government funds available for its sup
port. At a convention of Grangers in
Berlin, Conn, a few days ago. dozen
speakers told of the disorder they had
seen in the institution the past year,
and the Connecticut Pathological So
ciety, the largest agricultural organiza-
tion in the state, by unanimous vote
asked for the discharge of the presi
dent, George w. Flint DR.. r. F.
Morse of Shelton, a former member
of the legislature, said that when his
wife walked through the main corridor
of the dining room with him she was
obliged to life her skirts to keep out
of tobacco juice. The boys of the
school were smoking, swearing, drink
ing, telling vile stories, and in other
ways corrupting the morals of the
more orderly. There was no order Wis
ible day or night.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30
MINOR NOTES.

There has been a partial rupture of
the diplomatic relations between
France and Turkey by the departure
from Constantinople of M. Constans,
the French Ambassador to Turkey,
following the failure of the Sultan to
comply with the demands of France;
and a cablegram from Paris says that
the Turkish Ambassador to France
(who is temporarily absent from his
post) has been notified by telegraph
not to return to Paris.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor
of the telephone, who has been study
ing aerial navigation, says of NJ. San
tos-Dumonts recent tests: 81 think
that NJ. Santos-Dumont has demon
strated that aerial navigation is possi-
Bile, but that the balloon part of it is
not essential. Never before has there
been an aerial ship with a balloon so
small and a motor so powerful. He
has shown that @rial locomotion is
not so much a question of a balloon as
motor"
John Barrett, who has been appoint
ed commissioner-genera for Asia and
Australia, in the interest of the Louisi-
ana purchase exposition, had an inter-
view with Secretary Hay Saturday re-
garding his mission. Mr.. Barrett re-
ceived his appointment from the expo
sition commissioners, but is to have
the assistance of the state department
i'll the prosecution of his work. He
says the st. Louis exposition offers a
fine opportunity for bringing to the at
tention of the world the new condi-
tions in the Philippines and the far
east
Bradstreet's Journal in summing up
the business conditions at large says:
Evidence multiplies that the tide
of trade has turned and that it is
now setting strongly in the direction
of an enlarged business at steady or
higher prices. At the great Eastern
centers distribution is going forward
in as good, if not better, volume than
year ago. A more favorable view of
crop results, continued good railroad
earnings, and the growing belief that
the steel strike will be soon ended,
create renewed confidence. Bank
clearings show a gain of two per cent
over last week of 35 per cent over this
week year ago and of 10 per cent
over 1899. Net railway earnings for
the half year are 14.9 per cent over
year ago."
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30

st. Louis people are already bending
their energies to make the Worlds
Fair, which will be opened May /,
1908, to commemorate the centennial
of the purchase of the Louisiana ter
ritory, exceed in size, scope, beauty
of buildings and grounds any exhibit
tion hitherto held in any part of the
world. The enterprise will represent
an expenditure of upwards of $50 0,000,-
600, The financial part of the under
taking appears to be assured, for al
ready 100000 of the sum required
is in hand. OF this, the United
States contributes $5,OOOOOO; st.
Louis, S5,OOO,OOO; Missouri, 81 1,OOO, 900,
and the subscriptions to date exceed
$5,00O,000 more. Eleven hundred acres
of the most picturesque land around
st. Louis have been set apart for the
exposition grounds, and $40 acres of
this are to be occupied by buildings
and other attractions. These figures
indicate that the Louisiana purchase
exposition will hold about the same
relative position toward the Columbian
exposition as that vast enterprise in
Chicago held toward the Centennial
exhibition in Philadelphia.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30

Prof. G.. Clark Hall, president of
Clark University, gave a deserved re-
buke at the Sanderson Academy din
ner in Ashfield, Mass, Thursday, to
Prof Charles Eliot Norton and Ex-
Gov. Chamberlain OF North Carolina,
preceding speakers who had given
vent to their pessimism Mr.. Hall said
he had criticised the Cuban and the
Philippine wars, that he abhorred Kip
lingism and Rhodesism, that the policy
with the subject races should be de-
velopment rather thanrepression, and
that he deplored the determination Of
savage races. But when the Presi-
dent of the United States is referred
to as he has been this afternoon,
have more respect for the office, be-
lieve in accepting the inevitable with
joy, and l cannot follow the more ex.
treme expressions of the afternoon" )"
A little later President Hall said he
had been referred to as a Mugwump.
but, he declared, 'If this is Mugwump-
ism I am to be counted no longer as a
Mugwump." And the applause which
followed showed that a large part of
the audience was in sympathy with
him.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30
Robbers Tortured Victims.

Five masked men entered the home OF
Philip Stiles, in Deshler, Ohio, and after
torturing the family of six, left with $50.
Mrs Stiles was awakened by a noise,
and when she and her husband got up
they were seized and bound in chairs
while the four children were bound and
thrown on bed. Then the robbers de-
manded $3.50. which they insisted was
hidden about the premises. Stiles told
them where they could find $50, which
was all he had. They lighted matches
and held them to- his bare feet. Mrs.
Stiles demonstrated and was beaten. The
men started a fire in the stove and
threatened to burn the three-months-old
babe alive. The pleadings of Mrs. Stiles
finally prevailed and the men departed.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30
Harrv N. PlIlshurv. the chess chnm

Harry N. Pillsbury, the chess cham
pion, has made up his mind to end his
professional career and study law, but
he gives himself two years more of
chess, in the course of which he will
no doubt play a match with Emanuel
Lasker for the worlds championship.
Pillsbury's career has been in many
respects like Paul Morphys, and Nor
ply likewise took to law, but too late
to recover in its lighter labors the
overwrought tension Of his mind. I'm
til Pillsbury he held the record for
blindfold chess, but nothing equal to
20 games at once, without sight of
boards or men. Pillsbury is said to
intend to handle 80 games Of chess
in this way before he retires. He may
easily overrate his endurance. His
fourth tour of America will be about
September 1, after his return to New
York from the midsummer meeting of
the New York state chess association,
where he will play with number of
leading players.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30

a parade of 10000 plumed knights
marching to the music of three score
brass bands marked the formal opening
of the twenty-eighth trienniaI concIave
of the Knights Templar in Louisville,
Ky, Tuesday.
1t is stated that the longest railroad
tunnel in the United States will be built
through the Sierra Nevada mountains
of California, If the plans of e. II. Harri-
man are carried out The tunnel pro-
ject, which will involve an outlay of from
s., 100000 to IS, 100000 contemplates the bor-
ing of a hole 1900 feet in length through
the heart of the Serras. Besides saving
a climb of 1900 feet, the tunnel will
shorten the Southern Pacific line about
seven miles.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30

The Canadians are bitterly disap-
pointed in their census figures, which
show a gain of only 505,644, in ten
years, and total population of $685.
SS3. Quebec has made a gain of 1872
435, in addition to supplying New Eng
land mills with laborers and sending
colonists to the neyly-developed sec
tions of Canada. Ontario gained only
56,G57; New Brunswick only $780,
Nova Scotia only S72O; and the popu-
latlon of Prince Edward Island is less
by $500 than it was in 1891 The
growth in Canada is westward, as in
the United States. The territories
have gained 7S,2O1; the unorganized
territories 43,S32; Manitoba 93,95S;
British Columbia 91,S27, nearly doub-
ling her population in the ten years
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30
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BRATTLEBORO,
FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1901.

The Greenfield Gazette has made a
discovery. It's leading editorial last
week appeared under the caption,
"The Ethics of Base Ball"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30

automobile Making in America" is the
subject of well-informed article by j. A.
Kingman in the Review of Reviews for Sep
tember. The subject has especial timeliness in
the automobile club of America, in the form
of jOO-mile run from New York TO Buffalo
1t also has general local interest for obvious
reasons.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30

Mrs. Flora Adams will soon occupy the
upper tenement in the Rockwell house.
Major l. e. Webster and wife of Gains
Vile Florida, visited at John Barney's
Monday.
Mrs. Stark has moved from Mrs.
Whites house to one of Austin Pratt's
tenements.
Frank Farnum and family and Henry
Cain and sister spent the week at Bert
Miller's cottage at Sunset lake.
Mrs. Cook, the victim of the accident on
the electric railroad two weeks ago, is
failing and her recovery is not expected.
B. S. Miller and family and Henry Hal
laday and wife are at Sunset lake to re-
main during the camp meeting sessions.
Mrs. L. a. Barney is visiting in Green
field few days. She will go from there
to Portland, Maine, accompanied by her
sons wife.
The Baptist ladies' aid society will
meet in the chapel Tuesday afternoon
and evening, Sept 8. Supper from $50 to
80 p. m, followed by a social Every
one is invited.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30
WEST BRATTLERoRo.

Road Commissioner Perry is laying
a concrete sidewalk from the cream
cry past Charles Cones house.
The fall term of Brattleboro Acade-
my will open next Wednesday, Sept.
4, with Frank E. Perkins as principal.
The Misses Lottie and Lizzie Suiers
are spending the week in Worcester
and Springfield.
Mrs. ]. p. GoodenouG&l went Tuesday
to the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Bass, in Randolph. She will leave
there next week for Niagara Falls,
where she will visit Mrs. Alice Cross
Shedd. She will also attend the Pan
American exposition before returning.
Ernest Francis Goodner, the three
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs Ivan W.
Goodner of Pierre, s. D., observed his
birthday anniversary Tuesday, at the
Deerfeld farm cottage, by giving a
party to a number of little people.
Games were played and a birthday
cake was cut.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30
THE VERMONT PHOENIX
Published every Friday at Brattleboro. Vt. bv
o. L. FRENCH.

TERMS $3.50 per year in advance. II
not paid within the year, s..
Rates of advertising furnished on ap-
plication. Births, deaths and marriages
published free; Obituary Notices, Cards
of Thanks, ETC., rs cents per inch of 10
lines or less.
entered at the Brattleboro Post Office
as second class mail matterO
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30
Bustnrss GarUs.

JAMES coNLAND, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office in Crosby Block. Hours to 0 Il.
m, to p. m. Residence, Walnut st
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30

c. S. PRATT, M. D.,
Is No. Main St, Brattleboro.
Office hours: l to 2.30, $50 to 8.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-30
WEST DUMMERsToN.

The schools will begin Tuesday,
Sept, 8.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-09-05
"Fighting to a Finish" i'm a Big
Strike.

Unfortunately for all, capital no
less than labor, and worst OF all for
the public interest, labor leaders,
outside OF one wel-managed srail-
road union. never understand that
labor can stand a short doubt or
delay easier than capital, with it's
multifarious contracts and respon-
sibilities, so that the latter breads
most brief interruption; but that
when the blow is struck, and con-
tracts and business adjusted to it,
capital can stand o long delay far
easier than labor. The chances for
capital were less with many mill
owners, some weak. Consolidated
in one corporation, the advantage
is all with capital. Time and money
break any strike. From "Tbe Steel
Strike" by Talcott, Williams, in the
American Monthly Review OF Re-
views for September.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-09-05

Man born OF woman is much the
same the world over, despite his
profession, OF this or that. For in
sta nee there are those two reform
ers, w. j. Bryan and Chus. Towne,
who arc "dead agin" money, plut-
ocracy, etc. .,ssupposed to represent
ali the radical and impractical ideas
OF the thoughtless people who say
that no mar can possess over a
meagre sum unless he obtains it dis
honestly. Well, Mr.. Bryan has in.
vested in the Wyoming oil fields
and Mr.. Towne has done the same
in Texas. Both expect to become
suddenly wealthy. We hope they
will-it.for do other reason than as
an illuStration OF how foolish their
former claims hare been.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-09-05
~NNNNNNVVNNNNN3

Col. John II. King, OF Huron,
bought 104 quarter sections OF
South Dakota land the other morn
ing before breakfast, paying there
fore $65, 900 in cash. And yet there
was time when Col. King had no
higher ambition than to go to con-
gress. "There's a divinity shapes
our ends" no matter how we try -
shaggle or mutilate them Ralph
Wheelock.
And in the early history OF Cham.
berlain Col Kings ambition was to
get ont the best paper once week
in Brule county.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-09-05

Yankton is Just now enjoying one
OF those unsavory scandals that ef-
feet communities occasionally. and
which causes the gossip mongers,
the narrow souls, and the little
minds. to revel in the slime they like
to wade in. The Yankton Gazette
says some very sensible things
anent the question, as follows: "a
newspaper is not conservator OF
public morals, neither is it a Judge
to try each breach ofdiscipline in it's
field and give a virdict, for or
against any certain person. MOI
should the fair paper from which il
is made BE smirtched and stained
with the nasty, alleged details oi
every scandal that is talked on the
street corner and whispered in the
sewing circle. No matter what may
be said OF yellow journalism in New
York or Chicago. the small country
village or town is not the place for
its lurid exploitation.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-09-05
One OF the seasons interesting
things is to read the home papers
explanation OF "why our base ball
team did not win."
The Kind That Wins.

Mitchell Gazette 1T is not every
one who can expect to command a
million dollar salary, like Schwab,
the steel trust manager, but every
boy OF ordinary ability may succeed
in life il he SO determines. Schwab's
success. while phenomenal, is not
accidental, 1t is the result of energ Y
nd determination. When q young
draughtsman in the Carnegie works,
Schwab, with other draughtsmen,
was asked to do extra work In an
emergency. The manager made
inquiry OF the Immediate foreman
how the draughtsmen took this ex-
ira burden. The foreman replied,
"they are all grumbling about it ex-
cept one young man" Who is
he ? asked the manager. 'Schwab"
was the reply. "Send Schwab to
me-" said the manager, "he ID thu
man ] want" From that time his
rise was rapid. The young man
who tries to do as little as he pos
sibly can do, and still "hold his
|job," need not expect advancement.
II Al the one who does all he can who
succeeds.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-09-05

r. A. Tubbs, the telegraph opera :
tor who was sentenced for 2 years
to the penitentigry for sending an
obscene letter through the mails,
was released this week He had y
very strong petition for pardon
from people OF Alcester. where the,
incident occurred, and it is said the
President will yet be asked for a
pardon. He had only served seven
months OF the two years, but the
penitentiary officials state that his
time began when he was first con-
victed. Railroad men who knew
him say thar Tnbbs is straight,
Industrious man, but had obtained
the enmity OF some tough characters
at Alcester who put up the job on
him and swore him into the pen.
He run the station at Miller for a
few weeks last yeal, and seemed like
a gentleman to every body here.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-09-05

The social liberties OF the Ameri-
can child are one of the evils OF this
country. Children's dances and
children's parties, once given In the,
afternoon, have intruded into the
evening, and are sending thousands
OF children to their beds in state
OF excitement which mems no good
for their future. It stands to reason
that no child can, with his or her
uniformed strength, burn candle
at both ends.-September Ladies
Home Journal.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-09-05

What n monotonous thing life
would be, anyway without these
blessed souls to keep US movin, as
described by the Kimball Graphic !:
"The individual who gets the few
est letters makes the most CON-
plants to the postmaster; the man
who never has a square neal at home
grumbles at the hotel accommoda-
tions; the person who complains
most of his neighbors is the mean
est of the lot; the church member
who pays the least to the preacher s
salary finds the most fault with his
preaching and always complains OF
the bad management OF the church /;
and the subscriber who is the slow
est to pay his subscription finds the
most fault with the local paper"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-09-05

The two-y year old daughter of'Ex->
Mayor Lien was killed in Sioux
Falls Monday, run overin the street
by a wagon. The PRESS will take
this occasion to call attention Of
parents to be careful OF their small
children playing on the streets OF
Miller. During the past few days
the remark has been heard several
times: "Some Of these little ones
win surely get hurt il they are not
kept out of the way OF horses and
wagons"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-09-05

A copy OF the Niagara Falls Ga
zette received at this Office contains
an account of party ofpeople who
visited the Falls. They had won
tickets to Buffalo and the Falls by
guessing upon the number to at-
tend the Pan American on July 4th.
Among the number is given the
name "Miss Katherine Sewell, Mil
Ter, s. d." Does any OF our readers
know her? The Press reporter does
not-unless it is a daughter Of w. A.
Sswell, the musician who attempted
to run a, farm in Alpha township in
the early eighties.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-09-05

At last through the persistent eff.
forts of Congressman Burke. the
postoffice department at Washing
ton has placed additional help on
the Hawarden Huron mail cars. and
it is expected the mail west OF HUI
ron can now be handled properly.
This relieves the long run OF agents
Buell. and Holcomb from Pierre to
Parker, and they will be better able
to handle their own mail from Hu-
ron to Pierre. To gain this conces
sion Congressman Burke secured a
strong request from the entire state
delegation. His efforts will be duly
appreciated.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-09-05

For the week ending Aug II. 1901
the following letters remain uncalIed
fer in the Miller postoffice.
Mrs. j. b George.
Peter H. Peterson. r
Parties calling forabovewill please
say advertised. -
j, A. BUsHFrELD, +. ~