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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30
FOREIGN.

London, July 26.-Captain Strong
is stopping at the Carlton under an
assumed name. He denies his iden-
tity except to one or two friends.
Scotland Yard detectives are still
shadowing him but no application for
extradition has been made.
London, July 26.-Central News to-
day denieslthe report that Colonial Secre-
tary Chamberlain is seriously indispos-
ed. The secretary continues to be weak,
owing to loss OF blood from the recent
accident, but is able to to official business.
London, July 26.-The Cairo cores
pondent OF the Daily Telegraph says that
the utmost CONSERVATION prevails owing
to the terrifying progress of the cholera.
All hope OF localizing the disease has been
abandoned, and there is no doubt that
Egypt will have to meet a devastating
epidemic. The disease appeared Thurs
day in practically every quarter Of Cairo,
forty-two new cases being reported. Sew
eral natives fell dead at their work.
Temporary hospitals are being erected.
The British regiments at Cairo will leave
to camp in the desert at the soonest pos
sible moment Slightly better reports,
according to the Telegraphts correspond
{ It, have been received from upper
Egypt
Cowes. July 26.-The meeting of the
p.iyy council was held TODAY, on the
Kings yacht with a view to proclaiming
August 9 a public holiday.
Vienna. July 26,-The Neus Weiner
Tageblatt says that DR.. Sellim, a profess
or at Vienna Univ, who is exploring Pal
estine in behalf Of the Imperial Academy
OF Sciences, has discovered the walls and
gateway of the ancient temple OF SOL
onion, IN the neighborhood Of Janohah
in Samaria.
Paris, July 26.-Six thousand extra
troops have been ordered to Paris to re
inforce the garrison on acCou t Of the
religious disturbances that have grown
out of the enforcement OF the associations
law. The trouble is extending to the
country districts.
Paris July 26.-The expulsion Of the
is postponed because of preparedness
there to resist the orders. Sisters in some
of the other schools departed in carriages
after hearing the decree, Other schools
were found vacated.
London, July CA dispatch to
the Times from Montreal says it is
understood that the Canadian Pacific
railway at the request of the Canad-
ian ministers now in London has tel
egraphed an offer TO establish and
work a weekly fast passenger service,
composed of four steamers, with the
most modern equipment and with a
speed of twenty knots an hour, be
tween Quebec and Liverpool III the
summer and Halifax and Liverpool in
the winter, together with a freight
service comprising ten or eleven
steamers of good speed, fitted with cold
storage and all other modern appli.
ances. 1t is admitted on all sides that
the present movement was fastened
by, if it was not the immediate out
come of the formation of the Ameri-
a shipping combine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30
OUR DEBT TO OUR MOTHERS

Iran Maclaren in The Christian En-
deavor World paid the following beauti-
full tribute to mothers:
"The person to whom you 1--WE more
than you can ever pay or even imagine is
your mother. She endured more for you,
served you more patiently, loved you
more fondly, thought of you more brave
ly,than any other person you have known
on earth or will ever know save your wife
or your husband, if indeed they can al
ways be excepted. If your mother be
spared to you, then are you bound to
make her a first charge on your life, as
you desire a peaceful conscience and as
you shall answer before the judgment
seat of God, She must be encompassed
with every observance Of comfort and
honor aud gentleness and love, with sac
rifces also, if so be it will please her, of
lasts and occupations and time and even
friendship, and after you have done all
that you can think of and anyone can
suggest you will still remain a hopeless
bankrupt for the love wherewith she
loved you"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30
JEFFRIES WON.

San Francisco, July 26.-After a
battle of eight rounds that was fought
with brilliant and courageous work,
Robert Fitzsimmons Friday night
forfeited his last claim upon the heavy
weight championship. He was knock
ed to the floor by James j. Jeffries
and counted out after he had so badly
punished the champion that 1t was a
foregone conclusion among the specta-
tors that the Cornish man must win.
Bleeding from a number of gashes
in the face, apparently weakening,
and clearly unable to cope with
Fitzsimmons' superior skill, Jeffries
delivered two lucky punches as Fitz-
simmons paused in his fighting to
speak to him, and turned the tide.
The battle was brief but noteworthy,
and will live in pugilistic history.
San Francisco, July 26.-The En-
aminer this morning says, Wv. W.
Naughton, a sporting write learned
Thursday night that the fight was pro-
grammed for Fitzsimons to go out in
eighth round Information came
from the Jetfries people. Naughton
wrote out the programme, signed 1t,
sealed it, and put it in custody of
Mayor Schmitz. The fight came off
according to programme. In the
eighth round, when there had been
no severe fighting, Fitzsimmons drop
ped his hands, turned and spoke tC
Jeffries. Jeffries hit him, and Fitz.
simmons went on to his hands and
knees and stayed down until declared
out. Then he got up, Walked around
the ring, his eye clear, voice strong,
and not a bruise on him. After the
fight Mayor Schmitz opened Naugh
tons statement which follows July
pa, l received today intimation tina
the fight between Jeffries and Fitz
simmons was to be won by Jeffries il
the eighth round, and that one of thu
men who was with Jeffries at Harbil
Springs had told my informant to be
that Jeffries would earn the decision
in the round named"
The Examiners view that the igh
was a fake is not shared by those VIII,
saw the fight. Both fighters deny TIL
story of a fake fight as absurd. jeff
ries' share of the receipts amounts t
314, 346. Fitzsimmous' 50, 564. TIL
gross receipts were S31, $50. Jeffries
nose was broken, probably early i
the fight, but he knew nothing about
until after the fight was over whe
he was examined by.physicians
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30
A PACIFIC GABLE.

Government officials in Washington
regard it practically certain that the
United States will have cable commu.
nication with Hawaii by the first of
January, 1903, and with the Philip
pine Islands, and presumably with
Guam, two years later. The death of
Mr.. John ". Mackay caused for a
time some uncertainty as to the future
of the Commercial Pacific Gable Com
pany, but the vice-president of that
company has assured Attorney Gener.
al Knox that the death of its president
would in no way interfere with the
execution of the plans of the com.
pany.
The attorney general expects to
secure the Presidents approval Of
his intention TO sanction the opera
tiOns Of the Commercial Gable Com
pany and probably his consent to turn
owe to that company the cable survey
made some time ago 10y a United States
naval vessel. The guarantees which
have been eXacted from the company
by the attorney general are the ocCa-
sion of much satisfaction to the adj
ministration, as they appear 10 insure
liberal treatment of the government
and Of commercial interests, while
they do not bind the government in
any way. BY their provisions, the
company is bound to charge not to
exceed fifty cents per word between
Honolulu and San Francisco, and to
reduce that rate to thirty-five cents per
word after the cable has been in oper.
alton for two years. 1t is further
bound to charge not to exceed one
dollar per word between Manila and
China and the. United States, and to
charge the government for official
business but half of these rates. NJ
merous other guarantees are furnish
ed, all making for just treatment of
governmental and commercial bust.
ness.
The only objection to the plan of
the company lies in its %presumable
recognition of the claims of a Spanish
company which contends that, by vir.
tue of an ante-bellum grant, it pos.
sesses a monopoly in the Philippines
which will entitle it to charge a roy,
atty on all messages sent there. 1t is
further feared that the Commercial
Company intends to recognize, in q
similar manner, the monopoly granted
to a European company by the Chinese
government, which monopoly is re
garded as a violation of the treaty
rights Of the United States.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30
AN AMERICAN FUNCTION.

County Fair time in the rural
districts of the United States, is now
beginning, and this peculiarly Ameri-
can function for farmers opens with a
border of peculiarly brilliant sunshine
on the almost universal rain clouds.
There are two thousand five hundred
counties in the United States, and
with few exceptions, every county
in the country has a fair, in the sum-
mel or fall. There are, besides, the
State fairs, and there are the city and
local fairs. indianapolis has this
year a fall festival Portsmouth, Va,
has a street fair and there are tri-
county, district fairs, and fair exhi-
billions given in parks in the large
cities.
The county fair season opens in
July, usually about the 10th, and
continues, under an arrangement of
dates which do not conflict, until the
close of the harvests. a fair lasts
three or four days. 1t is managed
by farmers, patronized by farmers
and their families, and the profits, the
sport and all the benefits are for farm
ers. To those who criticise the bust
ness ability of American farmers,
their up-to-date financial manage
ment of fairs, the chief item-of reve-
nue. from them, the sale of ''privi-
leges' for side shows, is a proof
of their error. Here is a list of some
of them, each of which brings money
to the fair associations Golfers:
Glass blowing, lunch counter, fruits,
exclusive of watermelons and cante-
loupes), peanuts, candies and chew
ing gum, watermelons and cante-
loupes, soda water and ice cream,
lemonade, oranges, cider, wiener
wurst, race score card mot to be sold
for less than ten cents, daily program
of exhibit rings mot to be sold less
than five cents), baggage, hitching,
confetti, souvenir canes and whips,
badges and buttons, name-plate ma
chimes, whistling and toy balloons,
cane and umbrella rack, knife board,
baby rack, cat stnd, "nigger" head,
shooting gallery, notions, wire jew
elry, tin types, opticians and palms.
try.
From the sale of privileges, nearly
the whole expense of a fair the rent
of grounds, the payment of employees,
the expense of prizes, electric current,
transportation and advertising are
provided, and there is usually a bal.
acne carried over to the ensuing year.
At most county fairs there are horse
races-trots-on the outcome of which
there is usually much profitable bet
ting, i. e., profitable to the fair.
The census brueau issued last Mon
day a circular of unprecedented cheer
for these homely functions. No Won
der that we. have county fairs, with
crowds of prosperous and g~ood-spirit-
ed visitors when we have III the
United States 3, 739, Coz farms valued
at SIG Cbillions), GA, $50, pa, of which
s. (billions) $50, 19S, 1911 represents the
value of the buildings; and in adj
dition there are S761, POI, $50 worth
of farm implements and machinery
and 50 billions ,01S, 050, OIL worth of
live stock, or $50, 5l4, 00l, OBS III all.
There are other statistics of inter-
est, but it is time for the fairs
n. y. Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30
MOUNTAIN

An interesting incident of Admiral
Olark's visit to Lake Mansfield was
the christening of a mountain peak OF
the main Green Mountain range in
his honor. The summit thus distin-
guished lies some two miles to the
south of Mt. Mansfield, and is the
first elevation of note to the south of
the old wood road leading from Stowe
to Underhill, being the highest emf
in view from the lake. 1t was a
very becoming honor, gracefully ac-
cepted by the Admiral, and the noun
tain bowed low in recognition of the
high distinction that had so suddenly
come to it. Venerable Mansfield
henceforth will cease to monopilize
the honors of that region. The Ad-
miral's mountain will be pointed out
to the tourist with a pride and inter
est in which the mighty monarch of
the Green Mountains must, for the
first time since his regal eminence be-
gan, find himself a figure of second
| airy consequence.
The festivities of the day comprised
a trout dinner to which some thirty
eight people, from Montpelier and
Stowe for the most part, sat down
and there were trout beyond the ca
| paclty of the company TO partake.
The occasion was entirely informal.
1t was a period of real enjoyment to
the guest of honor, who was charmed
with the wild surroundings, and the
Stowe people were charmed with the
unaffected ways and genial cordially
of their sailor visitor.
The party returned to Montpelier,
on Monday evening, coming via car
riage to Moscow, thence by electric
railway to Waterbury and by the Cen
trail Vermont to this city.
Lake Mansfield is an artificial body
of water. Some two or three years
ago a party of Stowe and Montpelier
gentlemen bought a tract of wilC
land, about four miles to the south O.
Mt. Mansfield. Through the trac
ran a mountain trout brook. This wa
damned and a large artificial lak'
created. a club house has been bull
and in this locality the members o
the association and their fortunate
friends enjoy the sports of the wild
woods, the fishing, the rest and TIN
varied pleasures of 1.-THE forest prime
val -
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30
ARTHUR ROPES, General Editor.
WILL 10, 900 REPUBLICANS DE.
SERT?

When a bolt by Clement became an
assured fact, the Daily Journal gave
the figures of the State election of
1900, showing that the aggregate vote
in that year was g., 099, a majority
being 33, 500. OF this aggregate the
Republican vote was As, 441 Demo-
cratic, II, 1879; Prohibitionist, $50 /;
Social Democrat, 567; scattering, IL.
In the pending contest, with respect
to McCullough's fortunes it makes
no difference how many Democrats go
over to Clement. What counts against
Mccullough is the former Republican
votes which may be cast for Clement,
or candidates other than Mccullough.
On the basis of the vote of 1900, Nc
Cullough can spare IA, 1911 votes to
Clement, or others, and still win the
election on the popular vote. There
are no indications anywhere on the
political horizon, at this present writ
ing, that Justify the assumption that
nearly 10, 900 Republicans will desert
to the bolter Clement-and this pros
pect will grow dim to the vanishing
point as the canvass nears the day OF
election. 1t makes no difference If
eighty per cent of the Democratic
vote-as is predicted-shall go over to
Clement, or if the entire Democratic
vote should be cast for him, or if all the
forces opposed to the Republican
candidate in the election of 1906
should go over to the bolter, he would
still require IA, 1872 Republican votes
to obtain a majority. Can he get
them:
No man in his senses believes thai
nearly one-third of the Republican
voters will go over to Cement, under
the circumstances of his bolt as they
exist today; only a lunatic will
maintain that so large a body of Re.
publicans will desert their color'
under the circumstances as they vii
exist after after the canvass that vii
be made in the weeks preceding the
day of e~lection-and the person would
be a lunatic in some larger degree
who could prophesy that any consider
able number of thousands of voters, OIL
the second Tuesday in September, vii
be found in the camp of the Rutland
imposter.
No Republican need be greatly con
cerned by the prediction of a detection
of eighty per cent of the Democratic
vote to Clement. The spirit of TIT
leaders at the Burlington convention
is an earnest that the plea for regular
ity, strong in fact as we'll as morals
which will be made in every part O
the State, will avail to keep Democrat
in their own ranks. Democratic vot
ers are too loyal to surrender thei
birthright for the miserable mess o
pottage Clement can offer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30
CLEMENT SUED.

Boston, July 6.-Percival W. Glenn
ent, tho independent Republican and
local option candidate for Governor
of Vermont, has been made defendant
in a SANDER suit for $50, 600 damages
brought by Samuel d. Wilson of Cam
bridge, Mass.
Wilson, while serving as a detective
employed by the State to ferret out
illegal liquor sales, shot and killed a
man named Goshen at White River
Junction last December, in self de-
Tense as he claimed, was tried by
jury and acquitted on the charge of
manslaughter. Wilson charges Glenn
ent with having called him publicly
in his speeches a murderer and with
having made other similar charges
against him.
He has engaged ex.Mayor b. b
Johnson of Waltham as his counsel.
The papers in the case were served
today and the trial will be called on
the first Tuesday in October at Bur
lington, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30
TROLLEY CARS WRECKED.

Rochester, n. Y July 2S.-An at
tempt by five men to wreck an incom-
ing trolley car at the Rifle Range, a
short distance north of this city on
the Rochester x IrOndequoit railway
late last night, resulted in a rear end
collision in which seven passengers
were seriously and several others
slightly injured, and TWO score or
more passengers miraculously escaped.
Shortly before ten o'clock car 451
left ~Summerville, on Lake Ontario,
bound for the city, heavily laden
with passengers and with orders not to
stop at the Rifle Range which is a
flag station only. As the car approach
ed this point the motorman discovered
an obstruction on the track amp
brought his car to a stop just in the
nick of time. The obstruction, which
consisted Of several lengths of picket
fencing and other material had been
placed on the track by five men under
the influence of liquor, because OF be-
ing unable to stop the cars by tagging,
and determined TO make sure of the
next attempt. While the crew of car
45i was trying to clear the track in
order to proceed out of the way, car
454, also in bound, came along at a
rapid speed, aud crashed into the rear
of the car ahead. The vestibules on
both cars were smashed and their in
teriors wrecked. Most of those injur-
ed were caught IN the wrecked yesti-
bules and between the seats. The
police are making every effort to APP
prehend the five men who placed the
obstruction on the track. They disap-
peared Immediately after the wreck
and have not yet been captured,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30
PRESS CONGRESS-.

st. Louis, July ga cablegram
from Walter Williams, at Berne,
Switzerland, announces that the In-
ternational Press Congress, in session
in that city, has accepted unanimous
ly the invitation of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition to hold its SEES
sion in 1908 at the Worlds Fair
Grounds, St. Louis. The congress,
representing twenty countries of the
world, is made up of 300 delegates
from press associations, leagues and
clubs in the several countries.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30

When sending Representatives to
the next General Assembly be careful
in selecting men who are not quit
ters'' for you know what the illus
trious Jones of Rutland said, "God
hates a gutter, - and it is true. The
people of Vermont hate this type of
men so vote for those who will stand
sary. BY the way is joe a candi
date?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30
DEMOCRATIC HARMONY"

Republican politicians throughout
the country are amused and entertain
ed by the harmony dinner held re-
Gently by the Democrats at Nantasket.
The beauty of the affair is the entire
absence of harmony which has prevail
ed on each occasion. Mr.. Cleveland
has gravely Urged a harmony which
included the entire elimination of Mr..
Bryan from the councils of the party,
and Mr.. Bryan assures his fellow
Democrs IS that Mr.. Cleveland is a
traitor to listen to whom is treason.
Senator Carmack assures the Demo-
Gratis that the Philippine question is
"the paramount ISSUE" but Mr..
Shepard confidently states that the
tariff issue is ~"irrevocably at the
front" Mr.. Bryan rather cautiously
lodges committing himself to any
issue and at the same time adroitly
leaves open a loophole by which to in
troduce his free silver folly whenever,
in his judgment, the people desire a
change. Mr.. Villas has emerged from
his obscurity and announced that the
old fashioned Cleveland Democracy,
which had for its cardinal principle
tariff revision, is the brand to con-
quer with. Senator Teller writhes at
any mention of a lowering OF the
tariff duties while Senator German,
who will be the Democratic leader il
the mex Senate, will %staunchly supp.
ort the Senator from Colorado.
So, Democratic harmony is the
same old delusion it was when Mr.,
Cleveland was defeated, and that il
was when, after numerous %unsuccess
full c%aucuses, the Democrats in the
ffty-seventh Congress were compelled
to abandon all idea of a congressional
platform on which all could unite.
This is the harmony situation il
the ranks of the natinal democracy, a
outlined by a promineant Republican
and it is not unlike the harmony
that prevailed among the delegate
and in the convention of the Vernon
democracy at its recent convention.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30
NO PAPERS SERVED.

Rutland, July 2S.-P. w. Clement
when asked Sunday evening if it was
true that a suit for $50, GOO had been
brought against him by S. ID. Wilson
of Cambridge, Mass. for Islander, gave
the following statement for publioa-
ton. He said
Il have had nc papers served upon
me, l know nothing about this ex-
cept the stories which | have read in
some of the opposition press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30

% Rutland county local op%tionists are
studying that valuable little pocket
compendium, First Aid to the Injur-
ed or What to Do Until the Doctor
Arrives"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30

Reports seem to be coming in slow
from those local option missionaries
who started out a few days since.
Start up the quartette. Strike the
loud cymbalsl
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30

If Senator Proctor will defer his
address, which he is to give at Barton
Landing on August 81, six days he
will know the answer to his subject,
"What Will the Har vest Be?"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30

If Peabody, Mass, don't care for
that $50, 900, East Montpelier will
doubtless be willing to comply with
the requests and provisions of Mrs.
Chas. B. Hayden's will.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30

The New York Sun evidently had
"Our Own Percy in mind when in
the course of an editorial paragraph
it said
THE penalty of fame, the fine that
goes with the joy, if JOY it be, of
being pointed at by the finger of the
passer-by, was paid by a great and
famous la last Friday. In London
by the hobbies from the squeeze of a
London crowd
But the Sun, if it was thinking of
the Hero of the Grand Isle, should
bear in mind that Mr.. Clement is ex-
ceedingly careful how he mingles
with the common herd.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30

Those Kentuckians are continually
on the alert for excitement and even
such a common place event as a fam
lily picnic is supposed to yield its
quota to the general fund, as was the
case on Saturday when the festivities
We're interrupted long enough for one
Of the guests to kill a couple of his
friends, after which, a bystander in
jected three nee of lead into the
system Of the first mentioned gentle.
man.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-07-30

The Jersey City suicide who left a
note, to the coroner expressing his
regrets for causing him trouble and
another bequeathing a can containing
a pound of cyanide of potassium to
the Suicide Club of New York dis
played a nonohalance that a Ger.
tainly striking.