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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-09-21
Affaebmenf for Ink Boffles.

Both from a cash and space point OF
view it IS not always convenient OF de-
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-09-21

A sheep raiser in Guadaloupe
County. n. NJ. is shearing his sheep
with power furnished By electricity.
lie has established a camp on the Rock
Island extension two miles from Juan
Pals and Is there shearing $4,000 sheep.
TIE machine secures about three
ouartors OF a pound more wool from
each sheep than did the old hand
method. One man can shear 200
sheep a day.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-09-21

GeoIogists. after a careful study Of
the question. have given Il as their
opinion that the new Oh belt. which at
present Is doing So much 60 boom
Texas. extends from Beaumont down
tie Gulf Coast 70 the mouth Of the
Rio Grande and far into Mexico.
Should this prove true that country
mas before It aperiod OF prosperity such
as its people never before dreamed or
American prospectors are already az
work. and are sinking pipelines In
hundreds OF places in the State of
chihuahua.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-09-21
Famous AufbOreGs PalIss.

Eliza Allen Starr, the Chicago au-
thoress and art critic, whose works
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-09-21

Two French physicians have made
experiments which led to the conciu-
sion thai a nutritious meat diet and
al. olute bodily rest are the best means
cf arresting consumption.
Three aluminium electric transmits
sien lines have recently been Installed
IN Italy near Naples. The lines trans
nit power at 800 volts from three
horsepower turbines to the valley Of
Pomen. to Sarno, and 10 Torre An
nunziata. The lengths Of these lines
are two miles. nine miles and two
miles, respectively.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-09-21

n'he prize Of $500 offered some time
ago by the Association des Indus
uielles OF France for the best insu-
lated glove for electricians was won
by Mr.. Franz Clouth. Of Cologne. The
prize-winning glove had an electrical
resistance Of $500 megohms and in a
break down test 1t withstood q pres
sure OF 1000 volts for three minutes
and l2,2OO volts for one minute before
being penetrated. The glove Is Of rub.
Der lined with tricot.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21
The Strike and the Public.

The officers of the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION, the men who have ordered q
foolish and futile strike into which
they cannot drive the fair. minded men,
bers of the association, assume in their
call for help that the public sympathizes
with the strikers. The assumption is
as VIGOROUSLY untrue as another as
sumption OF Shaffer and his partners in
folly that the steel trust is waging war
on the labor unions and trying to ex-
terminate them. The public knows that
the Amalgamated Association, an ex-
ceptionally favored body of workmen,
has no valid cause of complaint. It's
leaders seemed to have determined 10
show their power, and are showing
their powerlessness. Wages and hours
were satisfactory, but there were mills
in which the association did not rule.
1t must rule in the whole plant. The
company must sacrifice its nor-union
men to its union men. AS it would
not, the union men were ordered to
break their contracts. A new 'higher
law" doctrine was propounded by Snaf-
fer. The obligation to the association
transcends the obligation Of contract
between employee and employer.
The public cannot accept this nor
strous doctrine. The best and greatest
victory that has been won by the labor
unions in many day is the defeat Of
Shaffer by the refusal of the associs-
ton men in South Chicago, Joliet and
Bay View to break their contracts. Ii
employees are to break their agree
ments to their employers at the COM
mand of trades unions, trades unions
cannot stand. They cannot live and
do business if they are to be dishonar-
able, shifty and untrustworthy. They
are doomed if they are mere irrespor-
sible bodies ready to violate contracts
at the within of harebrained leaders,
There is responsibility on one side.
There must be some sense Of it on the
other.
The public cannot be made to believe
in any "right' of organized labor to
inflict a wrong upon unorganized labor,
to bulldoze employers or non-union
workmen, to break lis word to employ
ers; and the public sees that the fail
ure OF the steel strike is a necessity.
To be successful in the long run a
trades union must have business honor
and moral sense. OF leaders OF the
Shaffer type, emotional impulse and
unreliability seem to be the main char
acteristics. They can produce rhet-
oric copiously, but they can't be de-
pended upon.-New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21
The Myth Of Appomattox.

Among all the historical misstate-
ments of events OF the civil war few
have obtained more general credeAce,
South as we'll as North, than the thea
h ical story OF Genera Lees protfer OF
his sword to General Grant after the
surrender at Appomattox and the lai-
ter's chivGlrous declination of it. Re
Gently Mrs. Jefferson Davis started the
story afresh, calling out counter
statement from Colonel Charles Mar
shall of General Lees staff and his
secretary, who was present at the sur
render.
Colonel MsIshall ailirms that at the
famous meeting of April 8, 1865, the
circumstances did not call for any sue
demand and it was not made. In the
terms OF the surrender il was expressly
provided that the officers Of the confed-
crate army should retain their side
arms, and, in Colonel Marshal's words
"to have ffered to surrender his sword
would have been an offer on General
Lees part to do more than had been
demanded Of him" But General Grant
himself has settled this matter beyond
all dispute. In his memories he says;
"No conversation--not word-passed
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21

fulfillment OF prophecy. His voice and
sword and example have nightly con-
tributed to the conversion of prophecy
into event. He is nearing ninety-two
years OF existence, serene in its later
times, sometimes eventful, stirring
often when
1.-The trumpet's martial b cath
Calls to glory, calls to DEATH"
in the conflict Of great armies fighting
the battles and winning the victories
that "have made and preserved us
Nation" Gen. Thomas is loved and
revered by every old soldier, and he is
an interesting figure in all their con-
claves.
At Dewey Park, on Tuesday evening,
the veterans of all associations revived
the experiences of the camp, the march
and battle, and many others that al
ways come out when two or three old
soldiers are assembled together. The
songs of wartime we're sung, and with
story ard "Reminiscences they "talked
the night away" These reunions OF the
survivors OF the civil war are the most
interesting feature of this week of So
cial feslivity.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21
The Summer Art School.

The Rutland Herald republishes the
general part of Prof. Burgess letter re-
Gently printed in the JOURNAL and
commenting thereon says:
We have little doubt but that the
citizens of Montpelier will taAe up this
admiral suggestion. There is posi-
lively nothing in the way of success if
Montpelier wants such a school. The
Herald has suggested summer
school for modelling in this city,
There is no reason why we should not
have one. Marble is our specially in
the line OF natural resources and we
could easily develop the artistic tastes
and skill Of our young people, as we'll as
offer inducements TO art students from
other States to spend the summer with
us to the profit OF themselves and US.
There is nothing absurd or improbable
in the prediction that a school OF mod
cling would soon produce designs in
clay that would keep force of artisans
at work upon marble productions.
Thus art and business would go hand
in hand. We shall see whether Mont
pelier or Rutland takes the first step
toward summer art school.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21

between General Lee and myself either
about private property, side arms, or
kindred subjects. The much -tal ked-of
surrender ring of LEES sword and my
handing il back-this and much more
than that has been said about it's the
the purest romance" n
1t is because the story is the purest
romance aud because mankind dearly
loves romance and esteems nothing 80
highly as a pretty fiction masquerade
ng as truth that the narrative of the
Lee-Grant episode has not only become
matter of folklore but has gone into
history and formed the staple of many
a poem and painting, Col Marshall and
even General Grant, TO the contrary,
Notwithstanding. The melodramic story
though 'of the stuff that dreams are
made Of" will not down at the bidding
of the literal atter-of-fsct critics. It
will go down in song, legend and his.
tory to posterity, because it is dramatic
and is just what people would like to
believe occurred. They will cling to 1t
as they do to the kindred myths of
George Washington and the cherry
tree, Pocahontss and the rescue of
CJptain John Smith, William Tell and
the apple. Sectionalism cannot be Of
Tended by it, for, after all, there is as
great admiration for General Lee in
the North as there is for General Grant
in the South. Chicago Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21

warned by the fate of the Vizcaya, be.
fore another discharge should land a
1l00-pound missile amidships, the Co.
Ion lowered her colors, some fifty miles
from the place where the chase began.
This seems to be the answer to the
Tribune's inquiry, "Who sunk the
Spanish vessels, anyway" and at the
time same to establish the fact that
there was fight at Santiago. The facts
recited are sho wn by the chart and su =
tanned by the true story Of the battle.
None of the Spanish cruisers abandon
ed its Efforts to escape till the Oregon
had either come up with II, as in the
case of the Teresa aid Oquendo, , nd
had completed its destruction, or, as in
the case of the Vizcaya or the Colon,
had got it at the mercy of her 13.in
guns.
The Oreyon's speed, her armament,
the spirit of her crew, the skill and ac-
curacy of her gunners, her captains
supremacy 10 essential matters of de-
tail, in courage and professional skill,
in capacity for command, with all that
the phrase implies, gave to the naval
bat lie of Santiago de Cuba it's grim de-
cisiveness. On Friday Montpelier we
coined to his old home at the Capital
Clark of the Oregon, dearer to Yer :
monters as Captain than if the Admit
ral's stars he has 80 abundantly earned
shone flom his shoulders.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21
Every Latch String Out.

Writes a veteran Of the civil war, a
man with record for patriotic and
gallant service, and for success and
civil preferment in the western city n
which he took up his residence after
the close of the was:
Editor Wstchman, Dear Friend:-.
There are three Vermonters in this
county, all ex-soldiers OF the union ar
my, all successful business men. None
of US has received any notice or invita-
ton to "Old Home Week." Guess we
are not wanted. None of us will go
now. Vermont seems to be making q
izzle OF this thing, too.
1t is due to Montpelier and all the
Central Vermont region to state that
the writer of the foregoing was from
the south part of Vermont. But Meth
the locality of his birth and early resi-
dence, nor any other, has probably,
from wilful neglect or any other mo-
tive or purpose, omitted to invite the
writer, or the others to whom he refers,
to come back to the State during Old
Home Week. 1t is somewhat surpris-
ing that the town or county OF this
mans nativity and enlistment into the
Union army, if the locality is making
any pretense Of observing the week,
has not remembered him and sought
his return to the old hearthstone.
Each locality, it has been assumed !,
would look after it's own in the matter
of formal invitations, which, after all,
are only matter of form; the latch
string is out for every son, or daughter
of Vermont, specially invited or not.
1t would not be surprising if, after the
utmost care had been taken, here and
there one would be overlooked. Ger
tainly our friend and his comrades
would be welcome in any community in
Vermont. He, and they, would have
been made thrice welcome in Mont
pelier had it been understood that the
parent localities were unmindful of their
| own.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21
HOw's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. j. CHENEY u CO. Props, Toled o,
o.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
J. Cheney for the last 10 years, and be-
lieve him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions, and financially
able to carry out any obligation made
y their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, o.
WALDlNG, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucus surfaces Of the system.
Price Is cents per bottle. Sold by all
druggists. Testimonials free.
HALLS Family Pills are the best.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21
Fighting Their Battles Ger.

In a recent editorial article on estate
Issues" the DAILY JOURNAL remarked:
" Vermont is strangely unmindful
of her own highest interests, or utterly
dead to those interests. Appeal to the
freemen of the State on my issue Of
national Importance, industrial, eco
nomic or financial land they will astonish
the world with the zeal and fervor of
their response. They will surpass Clan
Alpin's warriors in their readiness and
eAgerness 70 respond to the signal of
national danger. Every battlefield on
which they are present or can reach by
forced marching they will make Ben
nington or Cedar Greek. When the
State Legislature convenes in time OF
national peril, and patriotic law max
or proposes to raise half million dol
lars for the national defense, some
Stephen Thomas, OF prophetic vision,
will move TO make it million dollars,
| and with bounce the Solons will vote
the amendment. This is history"
And the JOURNAL might have said,
and ought to have added, that tie
mover of the amendment would depart
from the legislative chamber to raise
the troops and fight the battles for
which his State had provided the
sinews of war; and with him would go
his fellow lawmakers and his fellow
citizens throughout all the borders Of
the State. The willingness to vote
money and the patriotic readiness to
back it in the field are one and the
same thing. This, also, is history,
"writ in FURNISHED rows of STEEL" on a
hundred battle6elds of the civil war.
Today the survivors of this regiment
the Eighth Vermont, this man of the
hour, Stephen Thomas, raised and led
at New Orleans, Port Hudson, Ope
guam, Fishers Hill, Cedar Greek and
in many smaller engagements, hold
their annual reunion, and tonight
around the camp lire they will "re'
count their battles and deeds Of valol
DONE" and among them will appeal
their old leader whose prophetic vision
and fiery zeal in Vermont Legisla
ture placed million dollars at th,
States disposal for lighting rebellion
who in the forefront Of battle Away
led them, and at all times, on the marcl
or in the bivouac, shared their hard
chips. His days have been wonderful.
, ly prolonged. His eye has seen thu
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21
THE VERMONT WATCHMAN
Comments on Old Home Week Edition

We cannot print them all. Here are
few Of the later ones:
Col. Fletcher D. Proctor, Proctor:
"Am very much pleased with the pa
per. 1t is good, it is all right, first rate
in every respect"
Maj. A. B. Valentine, Bennington:
81 think it very creditable publics-
ton, the best OF the kind have SEEM"
Barre Telegram: "The VERMONT
WATCHMAN has done itself proud in
it it's special Old Home Week edition."
Barre Times: 1.-The Montpelier
WATCHMAN celebrated Old Home
Week by issuing souvenir illustrated
edition of twenty pages full of matter
OF interest throughout the State. Each
of the large towns is represented by
illustrations and reading matter devot-
ed to the indus tries of the place. The
paper is well printed and creditably
gotten up"
Mortified NeUs: 1.-THE Montpelier
Waterman has issued an Old Home
Week, illustrated 20 page edition,
which is credit alike to the office of
publication and to Vermont journal
ISM
The News and Citizen, Hyde Park {:
"The Old Home Week edition of the
VERMONT WATCHMAN is certainly a
credit to the State,as well as to the pub
fishers. 1t is handsomely printed, well
illustrated and contains much valuable
information. 1t is handsome souvenir
and everybody should have one. Send
ten cen 8 to the Montpelier WATCHMAN
and get copy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21
As to Weather Reports.

The Boston Herdld's editorial page
is always interesting-after the reader
passes the extremely sophisticated lines
OF the heavy quill drivers. Anent
weather reports writes the man of
lighter vein:
From Washington comes the report
that farmers who live on the lines of
rural free delivery mail routes are to
have the advantage of the weather
bureaus forecasts. Well, they are wei
come to them, and rather than have
some po-r farmer go without his daily
folks in town who would let him have
theirs. As a matter of fact, there are
lots of people who consider weather
report as something that busy man,
working under cover, can get on with
out. Certain it is, the weather wise old
farmer is not going to trade his stock
of tried and true signs for some tailor
made weather report sent out from
Washington. Every farmer knows that
the wind is going to blow when he
hears the hens singing vociferously;
that it is going to be cold when the pigs
are carrying straw, or the dog lies with
his nose to the fire; and that it is going
to keep on raining when the rooster re-
fuses to go out in the wet. Every
dumb creature about the farm is ba-
rometer, to say nothing of the informa-
ton impaired by the tongues in trees.
The isolation of the average farmer
makes him bit suspicious, and by the
time this patent professor-made weather
report has lied to him several hundred
lines he will cease to have much faith
in it. Can we blame him?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21
"Fighting Bob" and "Stinging BILL

The row between Admiral Evans
and ex-senator Chandler of New
Hampshire has much of the character
and consequence of opera bouffe. Ev-
cry body but Chandler and Hackett
seems inclined to levity over the set-to
between the truculent seadog and the
man of gall. For the moment Mr..
Dooley is eclipsed. The Chicago
Record Herald sizes up the encounter
at about it's true dimensions:
1t will interest the American public
to know who authorized the hitherto
unknown Hackett to write expressing
the displeasure of the navy department
over certain structures passed upon
William e. Chambers acts when that
peppery gentleman was secretary Of
the navy. There certainly was no
pressing call for an acting secretary to
pass upon the controversy between
"Fighting Bob" and "Stir ging Bill"
Bills complaint was that Bob's stric-
lures upon his conduct while secretary
OF the "navee'' CONSTITUTES "cooduct un-
becoming an officer and a gentleman"
Upon that complaint both Bill and
Bob had right to be heard. But Lot
before Acting Secretary Hackett, who,
clothed in little brief authority, Sec
rotary Long having taken to the woods
seems to have swelled himself into the
whole navy department, court Of in
quiry and sentencing judge in one.
The letter of Mr.. Chandler upon
which Mr.. Hackett has acted is spicy
reading. Billy's comment upon Bob's
book, "a Sailors Log" that it con-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21

I'm settin here watin JUS beside the old frontdo
I'm rein' while II wonder if they II Gomez"
ken hear the ktle hummn an I've done up
Sides a scrapin forty ,uds o of gum.
Wes stirrn the pancakes maple sugars ppin' hot
You JUS ought to see the vitles the Shelves
An the cream from best Jersey already getin'
O, II wonder they'll Gomez an help themselves!
1t don't much mint children dear
Askn questions an a aggn srom';
Right here I've an rocked babes,
Now wonder if they hear the like in town.
remember TOMS first breeches want the little proud
kin recollec' the day Ben away;
An the twins dru though thy d their dad loud
How wonder if I'll seen them all today!
There's sight of folks comm friends neghbors
Butt shan't much about it I'm afraid;
If them I've spanked scodcd Though hated God know)
Don't come home get the welcome have made.
believe them cummin' heart thumps awful bad,
(Ain't l glad we've got them pancakes an the gumD
Thank the Lord this Old Home Week brings the
Now ain goir to uonder, for they we
Lou B. HAYDK
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21

vinced him that Bob was tour greatest
self-confesst and self-recorded naval
hero of the war o. 1885," is irony red
hot, and will cause Bob to hurl broad
side of strange oaths into Billy's hem
GOOD,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21
" WHEZ ~
WALK a MILE"

Is laconic definition of toboggan ride.
It's quick work going down the slide,
but it's long climb back to the starting
point. 1t is very much that way with
health 1t is quickly lost and slowly
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21

re a II e d. When
the first symptoms
of failing health APP
pear, proper care
m ay prevent tn e
d e s c mt to utter
weakness and debil-
ity. Usually tn e
complication of dis
ore ers known as
general debility has
its origin in a dis
eased condition of
t h e stomach and
other organs of di-
gestion and nutri-
ton. These diseases
are perfectly cured
by the use of DIR.
Pierce Golden
Medical Discovery.
1t cures through the
stomach disorders
which have their or
igin i'll a diseased
condition of the
stomach.
There is no alco-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21

Mrs. Melsuina Fay Pierce wrote the
New York Sun in July, anent a recent
negro staying, letter in which che
"tbanked God every time read that
southern manhood has avenged and by
80 avenging continues to protect south
ern womanhood, )" and much more in
the same line. On the 18th the Sun
published, under the appropriate head,
"An Appalling Letter from Woman"
what purported to be another letter
from Mrs. Pierce, justifying the recent
burning of negro in Alabama. Mrs.
Pierce denounces this letter as a forge
ry, the Sun being unwittlngly the
victim of some person who was reduc-
ing Mrs. Pierce's former logic to it's
logical and barbaric absurdity. 1t was
naughty, but it was simply sending
Mrs. Pierce's chickens home to roost.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21

with Devoe's Gloss Carriage Paint. 1t
weighs to 8 ozs. more to the pint than
equal to new work. Sold by Abbott &
Bailey.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-21

The English are ACCUSE ng the Beers
OF shooting wounded British prisoners,
and in confirmation thereof Lord Kitch-
ener is citing "rumors" and "affl-
davits." No rum RS or effidavits were
needed in verifcation of the fact of the
promiscuous and wanton stabbing of
Beers, after they had been overcome
by The British lancers at Elandslagte,
in the first weeks Of the war. The
English soldiery gloAted over the cir
cumstance as "pig-sticking" in which
they had great sport. 1t is another
thing when Briton happens to be
given his quietus by vengeful or ex-
asperated burgher, MAD from burning
sense of the greatest wrong one people
can do another. If communication
were as direct from the other side as
from the English, what tales might not
be unfolded OF British barbarity to
Boers2 Enough is already known to
'stagger humanity"