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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10
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VERMONT'S PORTIA.

The Frank Shaw Communication case
was the subject of another protracted
hearing in Representatives Hall on
Wednesday evening, and the appear
ance of Vermont's POrtia, Mrs Jessie
l.. Bigwood, who came to plead the
condemned mans cause, and the pres
ence of Shaw's sister gave an added
interest to the occasion. Emmett Nc
Feeters of Enosburg. chairman of the
House judiciary committee, presided
and the hall was well filed with leg
islators and outsiders. At the begin
ming Mrs. Bigwood read several aft
davits and letters from various places
where Shaw had lived, testifying to
his good character and gentle DISPOSE
ton. The condemned mans sister,
Miss Josie C.. Shaw of Glenn's Falls,
N. Y, also told the committee of her
brotherss good disposition ana char
acter.
Then came a number of witnesses
who testified concerning the empty
shell alleged to have been found in
the rifle used by Deputy Sheriff Hoff-
man after the shooting, which Shaw's
attorney, G.. A. Davis of Windsor,
contends is evidence that Mr.. Hoff-
man fired the first shot and thus in
vited the fatal snot fired by Shaw
Thad M. Chapman of Addison coun-
ty rehearsed the tragic story OF
Shaw's capture in Middlebury, and
how the fugitive defended himself by
firing at his pursuers on all sides
when he was surrounded, and did not
cease firing until he was wounded.
Mrs. Bigwood then made the open.
ing plea for Shaw She considered
the death penalty as essentially unjust
and did not believe the State had 8
right to take human life under the
guise of law. She pleaded earnestly
in behalf of the condemned mans
, mother whose hair, she said, had
turned gray under the sorrow, and
for his sister and others of the family
whose lives would be blighted if the
sentence was executed.
Mr.. Sargent and Mr.. Stickney ther
spoke for the State, emphasizing the
idea of upholding the law, and Mr.
Davis closed the hearing with al
| earnest plea for Shaw.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10

Paymaster General Bates adds his
testimony in behalf of the army can
teen rs a promoter of good order and
fewer assertions. His opinion is
based on the amount received from
soldiers home dues, fines and forfeit
ures, which, during the fiscal year Of
1902, since the adjustment Of the can
teen, have increased $3.50, 426 over the
previous year and with a decreased
number of men to draw from. With
the W. O. Z. u. on one side and the
war department on the other Con-
gress will have high time settling
the matter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10

human anatomy. II one member suf-
fers all suffer, and it is equally to the
advantage Of each to keep his fellow
in good health and strength. The
only just and rational ground for COM
plant in respect of these ubiquitous
taxes" is perversion of the funds from
the purpose for which they are raised
and distributed. 1t is incumbent on
the State to see that it's we'll designed
purpose in respect of these taxes is
faithfully carried out
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10
DON'T HANG SHAW.

The favorite fling of the ultra anti
prohibitionist is that the law creates
crimes out of acts that are not crimes,
and Furnishes men for crimes that
are purely statutory. 1t often hap
pens-if, indeed, it is not the case in
variably-that these men who ON this
score inveigh against the prohibitory
law are the authors of laws creating
other crimes that are purely artificial,
the creators of offences out of acts
that are innocence itself in COMPARE
son with the deeds which the pro-
hibitory law makes offences. II these
contemners of violations of the liquor
law are not always the men who have
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10
BRYAN FOR CLEVELAND?

In the Commoner, Editor William J.
Bryan makes this comment on Mr..
Cleveland recent advice to Demo-
Gratis:
If the reorganizers regain posses
sion of the Democratic party Ia pos
sibility so remote that no one should
assume it) Mr.. Cleveland should be
the nominee for President, for he in
his own person represents the wounds
and bruises received by the reorgan-
izers as we'll as their aims and meth
DDS.
If there is to be a complete aban-
donment of the party's position, if
the party is to stand for an absolutely
changed policy, then no other candi-
date should be considered. He COM
bines, as no other living person does,
those peculiar and, let it be said with
gratitude, rare intellectual and moral
characteristics which embolden pub
lie official to betray the voters Of his
own party and deliver his country in
to servitude to the money changers.
"Of all those whose party enthusi-
asm rises and falls with the stock
market, he is the only one Of prom
inence who is shameless enough to
pose as Democratic leader or offer
suggestion to those who give a valu-
able consideration for the money
which they draw from society. "
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10

DR.. Charles Stiles, zoologist of the
National Bureau of Animal Industry,
and well known in the medical world
as the discoverer of uncinariasis, or
the hook worm disease, made the as
tonishing declaration before the SAINT
airy conference just closed i'll Washing
ton, that the presence of this disease
among the poor whites of the South
is the cause of the inferior develop
ment of physical and mental powers
and the proverbial laziness of those
people known as Crackers" and Dirt
eaters" The suspicion that laziness
is only misnomer for what is really n
disease has appealed to some other
people, who will rejoice to learn that
science supports such belief. The
good old man who said he was glad
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10

A Massachusetts firm has shipped to
an Arka nsas man what is said to be
the biggest pair of shoes ever made.
They are seventeens of extra width ;
and nearly whole "side" of leather
was used in the soles. We record
these facts not merely in the interest
of statistical SCIENCE, but out of kind
ness to the Hon. David Bennett Hill,
who may be seeking adequate means
of kicking himself to express fully his
remorse for that coal plank. New
York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10

Children should experience good health
in order to grow into strong men and
women. People are often sickly and
weak because of their frail constitution
when children. The body when growing
needs all the nourishment 1t can get, for
that reason parents should be doubly
careful about their children's physical
condition. "Blood Wine" is relished by
all children, and there Il nothing that
will do them as much good. IL gives
them strength Of body and brain. IL
stirs up the circulation, keeps the stom.
ach in good order and the bowels right.
Next time your child is ailing just try
"Blood Wine" on 1t. 1t contains no
wine and Is perfectly harmless.
Mr.. Michael McCue, of 688 Lakeview
Avenue, Lowell, Mass, has a rugged
little child who few months ago was
trail and sickly.
This ID how 1t happeneda
nMy little girl has been siling for a long time
and 1t gave us the greatest uneasiness for there
was no way of compelling her to take medicine.
She had been given dose of some very dis.
sickness and from that day she absolutely re.
fused to take any prescription the doctor left
for her. Try as hard as we would she could not
sembance to medicine until Blood Wine was
recommended. After much coaxing, she de.
cided 1t would do her no harm, and once tasted,
medicine time! Her strength has come back
TO her, she Is bright and cheerful as a cricket
ana grows fieshier every day. We are moro
feel thatitis wholly due to 'Biood wine.H'
Every child should take It as blood
maker-a tonic and laxative. Fifty cents
bottle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10

Murray D. Clement who was elected
mayor of Waltham, Mass, on Tuesday,
for a second term, is a native of Bar
net and subsequently lived in Ryegate
and West Charleston. He is pay
master of the American Waltham
Watch Co., and is lieutenant-colonel
of the 9Th Reg't., Massachusetts, Ma
tional Guard. Mayor Clement is a
cousin Of Representative F. H. Glenn
ent of Danville.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10

Baron Max Won Oppenhein, the
German diplomat, author and explor-
er, who has been spending the better
part of year in this country, sailed
for home the other day, and as a par
ting word gave his opinion of men
and things in the United States.
Among other things he said: I
have been astonished at the versatil-
ity of the American business man and
mechanic, and l especially think the
American business man has a singu-
lar adaptability for anything that
turns up, so that for the moment
each one is a specialist in his line.
Everything here is on a grand scale.
You can't appreciate your own vast
ness unless you have the perspective
of the foreigner. can easily under
stand now what is meant by the siren
uous life.
Perhaps the Baron can explain to
his country and other European ma
tions, the cause of an effect that has
been disturbing them for some time.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10

The lesson of the Worlds Fair in
Chicago ought to be remembered in
making the States appropriation for
the proposed exposition at st. Louis.
Vermonters will have little use for a
$25, 600 State building. They will go
to the fair to see the exhibits, not to
loaf in any structure the State may
erect But $25, 600 expended in dis
playing products from Vermont would
be highly creditable and beneficial to
the State. Phoenix. And the produ-
GERS of the products are able and will
ing to spend their own money for their
advertising
If Vermont has $25, 900 or S 80, 900 to
spend for advertising the State let her
spend it in legitimate field, and
not donate it to booming st. Louis
or the St. Louis Exposition. These
expositions are becoming too numer-
Gus to be of lasting benefit. The mon
ey could be used much more effective
ly on our highways, or i'll any one OF
dozen ways which could be mention
ed. -Reformer, Brattleboro.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10

glory-not in an official corps or q
house the wonderful creation of an
aspiring architect, or more aspiring
patron.
Millions for State improvement at
home; not one cent for outside show.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10

Recent developments may make the
word strike source of confusion
to foreigners when they try to learn
our language. They will hear that
a strike of oil in the southwest re-
lieves somewhat the fuel stringency
occasioned by the coal strike. They
will also read in the school readers the
famous line of Halleck S Marco Boz
zaris, 'Strike-for your affairs and
your fires Youth Companion.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10

The Wheeling, w. Va, Telegraph is
up against the real thing early in it's
existence. The Telegraph made its
bow to the public Wednesday even
ing, and the next day it was made
the defendant in S25, 600 damage
suit brought by James J. Corbett, the
pugilist- actor, who says his reputation
and trade mark, Gentleman Jim !,
has been damaged grievously by the
Telegraph's statement that he acted
unexpectedly toward women on a
Baltimore and Ohio train
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10

The foot ball record is more glori-
Gus than ever this year, for according
to the Chicago Tribune, twelve were
killed, one fatally and eightyfive
seriously injured, in 1902, whereas
the record of last year was only eight
killed and seventy-five seriously in
jured.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10

there was one day in the week a man
could rest and not be called lazy"
would, il in the flesh, fully appreci-
ate this revelation of science.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10

Every family should have its house
hold medicine chest-and the first
bottle in it should be DR., Woods
Norway Pine Syrup. Natures remedy
for coughs and colds.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10
DECEMBER MAGAZINES.
II. n. SHADE

The new story by Alice Caldwell
Hogan, author of Mrs. Wigs of the
Cabbage Patch, " will begin in the
December Century. 1t is named from
one of its characters, Lovey Mary,
an inmate of charitable institution
who is said to have as many interest
ing characteristics as Mrs. Wigs
She runs away and becomes an in
mate of the Cabbage Patch, so
that Mrs. Wigs and her children,
with Miss HAY, Chris and the rest, be-
come characters in the new story,
which is said to be fully up to the
mark of its author previous success.
For seven consecutive months Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch has
been among the six best-sellipg
books in the United States.
Howard Pyle believes that the re-
production of his paintings in the
December Century is the high-water
mark Of color reproduction. The
printing is said not to be done by
TYPOGRAPHY, but from plates, printed
by the De Winnie Press, on which
careful engraver has spent many
weeks.
The North American Review for
December is number of phenomenal
Importance, and it is not easy to
avoid the use of superlatives in des-
cribing it. The subjects could not be
better adjusted to the varied inter-
ests Of the hour, nor could more cap
able pens be found to deal with them
than those represented by the unex-
ampled array of eminent names which
appear on the title-page. The
achievements of President Roose-
welt First Year" are judicially con-
sidered by two distinguished writers,
whose identity, beyond the fact that
they are respectively, A Progress
sive Republican" and "A Jefferson
ian Democrat, is withheld Ex-
Speaker Thomas B. Reed asks What
Shall we Do with the Tariff ?" Mark
Twain makes some characteristic
comments on Christian Science"
in the first of three papers he has pre-
pared on that subject. Out of the
abundance of her practical knowledge
of that drama, Marguerite Merington
answers the question, What Constitu-
ties Play 2" Joseph S. Auerbach criti-
cises some recent utterances of Presi-
dent Roosevelt ON the Trusts and
Henry @. Adams, Professor of Poll
teal Economy in Michigan Univ
ersity, unfolds the nature of Public
ity and the administrative measures
through which it may be successfully
realized This is but a partial list
of the contents of this number.
The December number of Scribner S
/ is striking because of its color print
ing, particularly beautiful in its del
. icacy of coloring and variety of SUBJ
jects. The illustrations by Jessie
Wilcox Smith tell their own stories
without text of "A Mothers Day. ="
The number contains several short
stories, charming i'll makeup and sem
timent, besides special articles, among
them an unpublished poem by Robert
Louis Stevenson, written in his youth.
The Point of View contains little
essay by E. s. Martin in his most
delightful vein, entitled A Christ
mas Contemplation, and The Field of
Art has discussion on Fine Artsaa and
Universities by Will H. Low.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-15
OETLAWRY OLTWORN.

The reported intercessiOn at Oyster Bay for
the fugitive convict Tracy by lariat loving
relative suggested for the moment that blood
was indeed thicker than water-as thick as
wood. Happily the story met the denial it
roundly deserved. 1t was too preposterous to
live even as a yarn. For what blockhead
would a cousin be who sought out the Pres-
dent to plead that this desperate kinsman
should be permitted to surrender without fear
of rough handling! Should Dick Turpin become
Beau Brummell? No, good coz, rather pro-
claim it through the host that he who hath no
stomach to be caught in a grip of iron should
not break Jail, kill right and left drag sheriffs
posses up hill and down dale, into woods, over
tracks and through waters, browbeat children,
order dinner at the muzzle of a Winchester, and
pepper the nostrils of the hardworking blood
hound. 1t were insult to such master of
outlawry TO ask that his capture take on the
formal delicacy of a process serving: an insult
and more-a blunder in art
Tracy belongs to the old schOOl-Single handed
by preference picturesque to fault, with a
brutal sense of the ridiculous and q savage
delight in daring all mankind. The type is
passing before the cleared forest and the
lengthening lines Of rail and wire. His fast
nesses are broken into, and his audience is
dwndling; though no hardheaded contempt can
make good the denial that sympathy remains
where romance still plays into his hands Did
not the goodly danes of Italy but few weeks
ago weep and pray for Mussolino? He had
been deadly mountain epidemic in his not in
extensive sphere Of influence for years. Yet
the heart was touched that manacles should be
clapped on such spirit. Even the judge was
apparently attracted, and imposed no more
than an eight years sentence. These are the
last vestiges of n respect which the patient
outlaw took centuries to inculcate. But, with
the knight at arms, the stage coach and the
watering pot. he has been pushed to the wall
We live in days of speed, precision, immensely
We arm a Creedmoor marksman with smoke
less powder rifle board a car that gives its
own sound vibrations a hot chase, and trench
whole counties into irrigating bitches. What
should a reckless outlaw do to-day-aside from
going on the stage? The style has changed
one lives in industrious as a millionaire,
involves the best bankers and lawyers, eats in
terminable dinners and entertains the nobility
and heads Of state Then, when the crash
comes-when the fraud is out the bluff is
called-one leaves word with ones butler that
one has left town. and eudes the professional
pride of the worlds detectives in an ocean
going steam yacht Thus 1t was with the
New-York tribune., 1902-07-15
UR. BALFOUR'S MINISTRY

The accession of Mr.. BalfOur 10 the Office Of
Prime Minister may, from the personal point of
yiew-which is usually the most obvious and
the most interesting. though not always the
most significant important-be said 10 mark
a change of eras in British politics. Upon both
sides Of the House there has now been al
most complete disappearance of those whom
we may call the Old Guard. Almost the last
link connecting the present with the times of
Gladstone and Bright and Forster and Disraeli
and Peel and PaImerston is gone On each
side one historic figure of the first magnitude
remains. But these are now, and in all human
probability forever. out of governmental office
and quite removed from dominant or leading
place on the political field. One other figure of
prime Importance was contemporary with those
earlier statesmen and is most active and
puissant. but he is even yet "A comparatively
new man in Parliament, and cannot be regarded
having belonged 10 that former era. Yet
one other may be recalled who figured in Glad
stonian and Disraelian days and who is still
in office: but in the House of Lords he has lost
most of the aggressive prominence which once
marked him IN the Commons.
The change is however, more personal than
political. Indeed, no material change of policy
has been made or is TO be anticipated. The
Marquis of Salisbury retires, but with a single
exception DIS cOleaSueS remain, ana tnat one
exception, though personally important, is prob
ably of no political significance whatever
There is no reason TO doubt that Sir Michael
Hicks Beach would have been glad to follow
Mr.. BalfOur as Loyalty as he did the Marquis
OF Salisbury. But he is sixty-five years old, and
has long been in unsatisfactory health. 1t is
an open secret that he would have been glad
10 lay down, the burdens of his place a year
or two ago, and only refrained from doing so
because of the personal desire OF the Prime
Minister and because of his own unwilingness
10 seem to scuttle out of the Treasury while
the latter was in the midst Of the embarrass-
ments caused by the Boer war. Now, with
the war ended and with the Marquis of Sails
bury resigned, it is not strange that Sir Michael
also steps out. 1t would be far more strange IL
he did not do so. There may, of course, and al
most certainly will, be some changes in man.
ner of treasury administration. We may expect
to see more generous estimates For the sup
port Of the army and navy. snd perhaps Of
New-York tribune., 1902-07-15

Washington, July 14.-Dr Holleben. the Ter
man Ambassador. called at the State Department
to-day to say farewell Secretary Hay before
sailing for Germany to spend the summer IHe
ambassador brought to the department. Baron hd'-
ter, secretary of the embassy, who VIII pe chdrse
d'affaires here in DR.. Won Hollebens absence
The President has issued a commission to Di-
rector Merriam under the new permanent census
law as director of the census
The German Ambassador has informed the Secre-
tary of State that Generals Corbin, Young ana
Wood. who have been invited by the Emperor to
witness the maneuvres of the German army. are
each expected to be accompanied by an officer as
aid
Surgeon John F. Urie the attending physician TO
President Roosevelt and mis- family has been de-
taehed from the naval dispensary in this city and
ordered to duty assistant to the chief of the
bureau OF medicine and surgery in the Navy De
partment, relieving Surgeon G. D. Gatewood. VINO
has been ordered to duty the Lancaster Under
his detail Surgeon Uric will be almost con-
stantly occupied at the Navy Department, and
fessional attendance on the President and the
members of his household 1t has not yet been
announced who will succeed him in that capacity
Adjutant General l. c. Dyer, of the Spanish war
Veterans. has received encouraging news concern
ing the coming encampment in Detroit President
Roosevelt will receive Il hearty and frdternal Wei
from his comrades. The encampment is to
dent will be there on the 22d. and after viewing the
parade will make address The Spanish war
Veterans now have about $4,000 members in the
Tinted States