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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10
Why Must IT be a Majority?
+ st. Adams Messenger, Sept A


With several towns still balloting
for representative in the general as
sembly on this the second day after
the freeman's meeting and with sever
al other towns left without any rep
resentative-elect by reason of failure
to choose one at the polls after sew
eral ballots, the attention OF Vermont
citizens is again directed to the ques-
ton whether it is wise to continue
longer in force the law that provides
that the successful candidate for city
or town representative must have a
majority of the votes cast for all the
candidates. When in the general as
sembly of 1900 Representative Fleet
wood of Worthwhile ably championed
q bill to authorize an election by a
plurality vote if majority was not
secured on the first ballot, he summed
the whole situation up in a few words
by saying, THE purpose OF an cleo
ton is to elect"
There isno mystic potency attached
to the ma j0rity idea, no sacred signlh-
canoe, in the fact that a candidate
has more votes than all his competi-
tors together. If it were so, then we
should be confessedly organic ng our
government on various grades OF
election and some officers would be
elected and some half-elected, because
most of the officers are not elected by
majority vote, but by plurality.
To The Messenger it seems a mere
matter of common sense that, II a
town cannot make choice of repre-
sentative one way, it should be per-
mitted to do so in the other. Every
body recognizes the wisdom and JUS
tice of having the towns represented,
and everybody can recognize the in
Justice done to innocent citiz Ems
whose rights should be protected in
the legislature but who are debarred
from any representative whatever be-
cause three or more politicians get
about the ears. 1t is possible for a
designing man to deliberately prevent
an election by inducing enough can
didates to stand to split up the vote.
Evil disposed persons may thus take
advantage of some fellow in order
to humiiate him by preventing his
election, or they may spite a whole
town for mere "cussedness. Then,
too, these two or three-day battles of
the ballots breed the very mischief in
local aft airs, a mischief born of mere
transient political excitement, it is
true, but mischief that survives the
heat of election day too often and be-
comes serious factor of disturbance
in the local life of the community for
many years to come. We have
enough politics in this country now,
too much, in fact. This everlasting
row over offices is one of the serious
evils of American life. But it seems
as if it were simply the part of sensible
expectancy to trim our election laws
into that shape that will serve all
the purposes of permitting the people
to designate their choice without
hedging it about with mischief breed
ing conditions. At any rate this is
one of the matters of law-reform that
is worth more than passing
thought.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10
Annexation Movement.

The annexation idea, realized
through the application of military
and naval force as to Porto Rico, and
to be translated into fact as to the
Danish West Indies, is said to be
spreading in that insular region. Ad-
vices from Kingstown, Jamaica, are
to the effect that during the past two
or three months the American annex
alton project has been the subject of
earnest consideration and discussion
in two of the largest and most i'm
portant of the British West India
possessions, Trinidad and Jamaica.
Planters and business men on these
islands, it is said, point to the grow
ing prosperity of Porto Rico under
American auspices, and by the way
of contrast point to what they claim
to be the inefficiency of British col
onial government. They also con-
plain of the depressed state of the
sugar industry and the deplorable
condition of the people. They declare
that the only possible chance of re-
viving their fallen fortunes lies in an
nexation to the United States. The
natives, however, are represented as
being decidedly hostile to the idea of
annexation.
The agitation is not of recent date,
but began some years ago with the
decline of the sugar industry through
causes which the home government
has been unable or unwilling to
remedy. The question OF annexation
to this country is of course one for
thatgovernment and the people of the
island to settle for themselves. This
country makes no overtures in the
matter, but if the British government
and the people of the islands favor
annexation, the United States would
perhaps not object to the extension
of its territory by the peaceful acquis-
ition of the islands named.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10

Inequality OF Congressional repre-
sentation reaches it's top notch in
some of the Southern States. The
Democrats of Alabama have one Rep
resentative in the present Congress
for every 10,700 votes they poll,
while the Republicans with $4,000
votes get none. In Arkansas the
Democrats get five Representatives
with 81, 142 votes, while the Republi-
cans with A 800 votes get none. In
Georgia each 1920 votes elect a
Democratic Congressman, while 49,
600 Republicans elect none. In Ken
lucky the Democrats have one Rep
resentatiye for every 23,400 votes
they poll, while the Republicans have
one for every 100000. In Virginia
100000 Democratic votes elect ten
members, while the Republicans with
lis, 900 votes elect none. In this
Congressional District about forty
two thousand votes are cast for can
didates for Congressman.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10
What One Woman Did.

How one bright and energetic wO
man can transform town Is told by
Rev. George Hodges, writing in The
Pittsburg Dispatch 81 have in
mind a college woman in a country
town who has transformed the town.
1t is a little common country town
in New England, which is not even on
a railway. The people who live in it
are most of them poOr-plain farming
folks and mill hands-and the sum
mer boarder has not discovered it..
But am personally acquainted with
women in that town who will spend
a Monday morning over a washtub,
and in the afternoon, at the meeting
of a society of which the college wo-
man is the heart and soul, will read
a paper on the spiritual poems OF
George Herbert. The other day they
published a book about their town,
made up of their own Investigations
into it's past history. The little, dull
town was found to be place of i'm
portance, with an air of dignity and
romance about it which nobody had
perceived. Thenceforth, though the
people may not have lived in a new
earth under new heavens, they walked
up new streets in the shadow of new
hills. They had verified the true say
ing that no life is commonplace when
it is intimately known. And the
most cheerful inhabitant of the place
is the woman who came back to it
from college. She might have made
herself miserable. She might have
sat down and moped. She might
have detested all her neighbors, and
been detested by them in return. But
she took up her life in the spirit of
service. She believed Him who said
that it is better to give than to re-
ceive. She quietly asked herself what
contribution she could make to the
happiness of others. And in making
others happy she entered with them
into that wide way which leads
straight to the realms of pure de-
light"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10
HOOD FIRM
Condition POWDERS
The Best CONDITIONED.

Make horses eat, expel worms, when fed as
directed, increase the milk supply in COWS,
make stock healthy prevent sickness and
distemper, keep young stock on the gain,
prevent and cure Indigestion, make hens lay
By increasing the appetite and aiding the
digestive and assimilative functions they
enable all kinds of stock to get the greatest
possible benefit from feed consumed.
my horse had scratches and was run
down. L gave him Hood Farm Condition
Powders and noticed change for the bet,
ter in few days" A. A. COVE, Montpe'
lier, vt.
Prices 25c., SOC. and 81. A IS ID. box
sells for S.. Prepared by C. l. Hood Co.,
Lowell, Mass. For sale by SLAYToN d
SANDERS, Morrisville, Vt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10
GARFIELD.
na1n,,nI

N. H. Hull and family visited friends in East
johnson recently.
James Perry and family of Morristown Wis,
tied at N. II. Hull's recently.
Miss Lessie Davis has gone to Browning.
ton, where she has position as teacher.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. C. Munson spent the past
week with their daughter, Mrs. g. A. Keller
in East Craftsbury.
man from Morrisville (don't know his
uame) was in town recently taking orders for
U. s. mail boxes, in view of the fact that we
are to have rural free delivery in this place
but as the people for the most part are well
satisfied with the present mail system and do
not want change, he got few orders.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10

Saturday afternoon the funeral of
Mrs. C. E. Conant was held from her
old home, POT Clay street, at 4:30
O'Clock, Rev. Chas. M. Sheldon con-
Quoted the services. In a short talk
he spoke of the ways in which God
comforts His children in time of
troubles; of the universally of sor-
row; being the lot of all human be-
ings and part of human experience;
of the Joy and comfort of human
friendships; of the promises of the
Bible for future happiness; of Jesus
as character, suffering the sorrows,
living the life and dying the death of
mankind, bringing him nearer to all
humanity and of the Holy Spirit as a
comforter. He said there were many
things worse than death, that it was
not a thing to be dreaded or to be
feared.
The attendance was so large that
all could not get into the house and
many stood outside during the entire
services. The many friends gathered
together and the masses of flowers, a
last Offering to the departed, bore a
silent testimony in tribute to the life
which had been so full and yet so
short
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10

Scratch, scratch, scratch unable to attend
to business during the day or sleep during
the night. Itching piles. horrible plague
Ooan's Ointment cures. Meyer falls. At any
drug store, so cents.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10
HIS SAD JOURNEY HOME.
Prof. COnant Arrives With The Body of
His Wife.


His Wife.
The following account Of the death
and burial of the wife of Prof. e. b..
Conant is taken from the Topeka
(Kansas) Daley Herald and we re-
print the same for the benefit of the
many friends of Mr.. Conant, who, with
his parents, was formerly resident
of Morrisville and has many relatives
in this vicinity
Prof. C. E. Conant arrived in To-
peka August 70 at about Z O'Clock
with the remains of Mrs. Conant,
formerly Miss Dorothy Tuckerman of
this city. The funeral services will be
held at the G. Tuckerman home, 2O7
Clay street. at 4 O'Clock this after
noon.
Mrs. Conant died on the island of
Negroes, one of the Philippine group,
in the CITY Dumaguete in the early
part of the summer. At the time she
became i'll she was living in the city
of Bats, and was later removed
to Dumaguete. On March 10, Mrs.
Conant, then Miss Tuckerman, ar
rived at Manila, and was met there
by Mr.. Conant, formerly a Washburn
college professor. They were married
in Manila the next evening and left
for Bats on the fifteenth of the month.
Professor Conant says his wife was IN
her usual bouyant spirits and seemed
Io. n hnr
fatal illness. She was just beginning
to get used to the country when the
change of conditions, climate, ETC.,
broke down her health and brought
on a sickness from which she never
rallied. Professor Conant was in the
island for about year, and was we'll
and hearty all the time. Although
Mrs. Commits illness was during the
dry season, the weather was very
damp in the island.
The trip over here was made in I'M
usually good time, taking only about
month. They arrived in San Fran
cisco on August Is.
Prot. Conant lett here about year
ago to teach in the government
schools. From friendship in Wash
ington there had developed a strong
er feeling between him and Miss Tuck
erman, who was then one of his pupils,
and she left here to fulfil the plans
they had laid. Married in Manila on
March 2, they began life at Bats. Up
to the middle of May, Mrs. Conant
was we'll and things looked bright
and prosperous. Then came the fatal
illness. Mrs. Conant had planned to
teach in the schools there and would
have entered the work on June 2,
when the school opened. Mr.. Conant
stated that he did not know yet
whether or not he would return and
had laid no definite plans for the fu-
ture.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10

Don't delay a minute. Cholera infantum
dysentery, diarrhoea come suddenly. Only
safe plan is to have DR.. Fowler's Extract of
Wild Strawberry always on hand.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10

What was probably the first public
library in the United States was
started in Charleston, S. c., in 1749.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10

Bad blood and indigestion are deadly en-
emies to good health. Burdock Blood Bitters
destroys them.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10
Teaching the Gospel.

Learning is before teaching, but in
acquiring the knowledge of Christ it
need not be long before. Thus the
gospel has spread from man to man,
for when man acquired the grace of
God be first impaired this fact to his
most intimate friend and attempted to
bring him in personal contact with
God. This was but natural, but yet
the apostles did not confine their teach
ings to men of their own race alone.
So Christianity spread over the world,
beginning, as the gospel tells us, at
Jerusalem, but the gospel says nothing
as to where it shall end.-Rev. Z. @.
Moore, Congregationalist, Providence
r. /.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10
First Sin the Hardest.

The first lie is the difficult lie to tell,
not the tenth, not the twentieth, not
the fiftieth. 1t is the first glass of
whisky which is the hardest to drink,
not the one which the drunkard takes
just before he enters the reptile in
habited dungeons of delirium tremens.
1t is the first seed of sin which is hard
to SOW, not the fiftieth nor the one hun
dredth.-Rev. DR.. Frank De WIT Tai
mage, Presbyterian, Chicago.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10


We cannot emphasize too deeply the
difference between, remorse and re-
pentance. If sorrow for i'll doing could
give assurance of absolution, we might
believe that not only Judas, but all
others who have felt the overwhelming
pain of retribution, will be received into
the heavenly city, but the sorrow for
sin which commends itself to God is a
sorrow which takes cognizance not
merely of the sins consequence, but of
it's heinous character as offensive to
God.-Rev. DR.. Bufrell, Dutch Reform
ed, New York.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10
The Enninment of Life.

The knowledge that seeks no express
sion in service is absolutely worthless.
Highest thought and highest knowl-
edge are the equipment for life. We
must live nobly. All vocatiOns must
be considered sacred. Industry is the
flower of the conscience OF the race,
which you are to stand by and serve
Rev. Dr. George A. Gordon, Boston, to
Harvard Seniors.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10
The Spiritual Sight.

Reason is better than sight. Rea
son is spiritual sight. Reason builds
evidences on which faith, which
is simply confidence in God or right
reason leaning on God, can rest salts
fed and secure.-Rev. DR.. Landrum,
Baptist, Atlanta, Ga.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10
For Poor ms Wen MS Rich.

Christianity was made as much for
the poor man who cannot make re-
search as for the wealthy and cultured.
The church is not narrow. She is only
loyal to God and the teachings of
Christ,-Rev. William Pardow, Roman
Catholic. New York.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10
UnseIfsh Service.

Nc man or woman can center into
life" have eternal life, unless there Is
some unselfish service in their lives.
This unselfsh service is what gives
life it's chief interest, brings us into its
kernel, does not feed us on husks.-
Rev. A. Bflkovsky, Universalist, Bal
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10
Intellectual Honesty.

Intellectual honesty is intellectual
proportion, clearness and vigor. 1t is
ability to know how to relate the truths
of life, so as to give to each its due
honor in clear and constructive tone.
1t is to be courageous and make the
expressed belief of the church conform
to the deep faiths of the heart of which
man has never been wholly barren and
which, under Jesus Christ's teaching,
have been in the life of man.-Rev q.
E. Cunningham, Universalist, Kansas
City, Mo.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-09-10

1t is a blessed comfort to know that
the large majority of the people desire
an unchanging reliable truth that will
hold both in life and in death. Only
let the anchor hold fast and we shall
rest.-Rev. J. L. Lee, Presbyterian,
New York.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-02-22
Notice for Publication.

United States Land Office, Oregon City, oregon
February II, 1902.
Notice is hereby given that in compliance with
the provisions of the act Of congress OF June s.
1875 entitled can act for the sale Of timber lands
in the states of California, oregon, Nevada ano
Warrington Territory as extended to all the
Public Land States by act of August Z, 1892, Al
vim Robinson, OF Fails City, county OF Polk, sta te
OF oregon, has this day Hled In this office his
s~efn rHatemeHt No. 1896, for the purchase OF
the q u OF section No II, in:township No. IL
3, range No. ", and will offer proof to snow
that the land sought is more valuable for its
timber or stone than for agricultural purposes
and to establish his claim to said land Defor
the Register and Receiver of this office at Ore
gon City, Oregon, on Tuesday, the 9Th day OF
May, 1902. He names as witnesses:
Carey, of Philomath, Oregon,
Iohn w Hyde, of !" 's
w Robinson of Falls City" &c
Robinson, IS
Ehy and all persons claiming adversely the
above described lands are requested to file their
claims in this Office on or before said 9Th day OF
May, 1902. CHAS. B. MOOREs,.
Register.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-02-22
Summons.

In the circuit court of the State of Oregon for
Benton county.
Lucinda Evans, plaintiff.
VS..
M. G Evans, defendent.
To NJ G. Evans, the defendent above named
IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF OREGON:
YOU are hereby summoned and required to ap-
pear in the above entitled Court: at the Court
room thereof in the City OF Corvallis Benton
County, Oregon on or before Monday the oath,
day of March 1902 it being the first day OF the
next regular term of the said Court, ard to an
syqer Piafntins Complaint now file in this
SUIT. and il you tail SO 70 appear and answer Tor
want thereof the Plaintiff VIII apply to the Court
for the relief prayed for in her Complafnt:-To
wit:-For decree annulling the marriage con
tract now existing between the Plaintiff and De-
fendant, and decreeing herthe care and custo-
dy of Earl, Ada and Reta Evans, Children of
said parties; and for her costs and dis6urse-
ments in said suit.
This summons is published by order OF the
Hon. E. Woodward, Judge Of the county court of
the State of Oregon for Benton county. made on
this 7th day of February, 1902. To be published
for six successive weeks and the date of the first
publication thereof shall be February Sth, 1922.
W. s. McFadden & j. N. McFaddeu,
Attorneys for plaintiff,
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-02-22
Notice fer Publication.

United States Land Office, Oregon City, Oregon
February II, 1902
Notice is hereby given that In compliance witt
the provisions of the act of congress of June g.
1878, entitled can act for the sale of timber
lands in the states of California, Oregon, Nevada
and washington Territory" as extended to al
Public Land States by act of August 4. 1892,
Joseph F. White,,of Portland, county OF Multno
nah, state OF Oregon, has this day filed In this
office h4ssworn statement No. 1854, for the pur
chase of the E u Of section No u, in township
No. 13 s, range No 7W, ana will offer proof to
show that the land sought is more valuable for
its timber or stone than for agricultural purpos-
es and to establish his claim to said land before
the Register and Receiver of this office at Ore.
gon City, on Tuesday, the 9th day of May, 1902.
He names witnesses:
John W. Hyde, of Philomath,i Oregon,
Spencer of
N Flynn, Of
Freeman w Robinson. of Falls City.
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
above described lands are requested to file their
claims in this office on or before said 9th day OF
May, 1902. CHAS. B. MOOREs,
Register.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-02-22
TO HOME SEEKERS.
A Few More Bargains in Farms IL Sold
Soon.

a Een MOIe Bargains IN MS IL SQ1u
Soon.
No 1o1-9oo acres, $50 in cultivation,
so acres in the bottom, 2 acres in clover,
fair houses, barns, good family or
chard, 800 acres open land, the balance
timber and pasture, all fenced, so head
cattle, Hereford bull, z head horses.
15o head sheep. all ewes, 100 head hogs
all the grain, so tons of hay, all farm inn
plements, binder, mower. hay rake
and fork, 1 4-horse wagon, 1 2-horse
wagon, seated hack, gang plough,
1 4-horse steel harrow, new Hoosier
seeder, II miles from a good town,
miles from railroad depot, miles from
R R siding, this is spendid bargain at
$4,000.
No $3.50 acres, 200 in cultivation
good residence, furnished, 2 barns,
good orchard, balance pasture and tim.
ber, all fenced. creek runs through the
farm, 40 head cattle, $50 head of sheep,
Is head hogs head horses, 2 wagons,
chickens, 4 horse harrow, seeder, 80
tons hay, harness, etc, all goes for
S., 300, this joins No Isl.
No I32-1oo acres, 40 in cultivation,
fair house and barn, good fruit and
water, good timber and pasture, creek
runs through the farm, price $500, 2
miles from town.
Real Estate A ent. Philomath, Or.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-02-22
Summons.
In the Circnit court of the State of Oregon for
Benton County.
Ethel NJ, May, Plaintiff
vs..

Benton County.
Ethel NJ, May, Plaintiff,
vs..
Arba P. May, Defendant.
To Arba P. May, the above named defendant.
In the name of the State of Oregon, you are
hereby summoned and required to appear and
answer the complaint of the Plaintiff in the
above entitled suit in the above entitled court
now on file in The Office Of the Clerk of said
scribed in the order for publication of this sum-
mons made by the County Judge of Benton
county, State of Oregon, (being the county
where the above entitled suit Is pending in the
Circuit Court OF said county and State) which
said order Is hereinafter referred to, towit; on
or before six weeks from the day of first publica-
ton hereof and you are hereby notified that if
you fail so to appear and answer the said com /.
plant as herein required, for want thereof the
plaintiff will apply to the above entitled court
for the relief demanded In his said complaint,
namely, for decree of divorce from the said de-
fendant forever dissoiying the marriage contract
existing between the plaintiff and said defend
ant; that plaintiffs name be changed to thai of
Ethel May Stricken; and that plaintiff recover
and have her costs and disbursements OF this
suit from defendant; and for such further and
different relief as to the court may seem proper,
This summons is published in the Corvallis
TIMES once week for six successive and con-
secutive weeks, beginning with the issue of Feb
ruary s. 1902, and ending with the issue OF March
g. 1902, under and in pursuance OF tne d1rec.
tions contained in an order made by the Hon. e,
Woodward, County Judge OF Benton county,
Oregon, being the county where the above en-
cult court) dated February Z, 1902 Date of first
publication hereof is February 9, 1902
Attorney for Plaintiff: