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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-10-29

The St. Adams Messenger very
pertinently asks, Will the new map
of Vermont show any easier route to
Montpelier" We hope the time is
not far distant when the means of
reaching the state capital will be
somewhat better than now. Imag-
inc other states with their capitals
situated as Montpelier! 1t occurs
to us there would be either a new
location or better facilities for reach
ing there from all parts of the state.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-10-29
JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL.

Among the II bills passed by the
House, is that abolishing the office of
Judge Advocate General. The Senate
will doubtless deal with the bill in
the same manner as the impression
prevails that on the rare occasions
when the service of such an officer is
needed, the Governor can appoint
from the National Guard, without
his having to be carried on the stat
ute book as STEADY company"
TRUSTEE PROCESS.
The workingman scored a point
in the House in the defeat of the bill
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-10-29
Women as Well as Men
Are Made Miserable by
H. Kidney Trouble.

Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis
courages and lessons ambition; beauty, vigor
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-10-29
PURITY IN ELECTIONS.

Senator Emery of Orange county
is anxious to take the financial ele-
ment out of politics as completely as
possible, and has introduced a bill
looking to the purity of elections.
He would restrict the candidate to
necessary personal expenses such as
are concededly legitimate, and pre-
vent his lettering chance for nomi-
nation or election by the use of
money. The Senator's bill touches
the newspaper man, too, shutting
out any arrangement between him
and the candidate for advocacy in
the columns of the press for anycom-
pensation, direct or indirect. The
passage of such a bill would I'M
doubtedly do away with a great
many sample copies" and play
havoc with circulation figures.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-10-29
LISCUM PORTRAIT.

The unwilling of the portrait Of
the late Gen. E. H. Liscum, in joint
assembly on Wednesday afternoon,
was an impressive ceremony, among
those who participated being Mrs.
Liscum, widow of the gallant soldier
The unveiling was done by Gen. T s.
Peck, and was followed by a brief
speech by Ex-Gov, Stickney, who
turned the portrait over to the state.
Gov. Mccullough accepted in behalf
of the people, and Col. Benedict spoke
concerning Gen. Liscum's life and
services. The speakers emphasized
the bravery and devotion of the de-
parted hero, and touched upon the
useful lessons to be drawn from his
career, ''
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-10-29

reducing the trustee process basis
from ten dollars to five. Quite
little debate ensued on the question
of passage. Most of the speakers
held that the ten dollar limit was
well enough, that the workingman
who intended to pay his bills should
have some sort of show, that re-
duction to five dollars would be an
injustice, that the business man who
trusted anybody ran his own risk,
and that there was a better way of
handling =" dead beats" than by pass
ing this bill
PLURALITY ELECTIONS.
The Senate has not been quite Ger
tain of itself on the bill making plu-
rality elect the Town Representatives.
After debating the matter and pass
ing the bill in amended form so as to
provide for election by plurality after
the first ballot, the Senators took it
all back, reconsidered the bill and
made it the special order for this
afternoon. 1t was thought, with
every Senator in his seat, the measure
might possibly be passed in its origi-
nal shape-that is, settling the cleo
ton by plurality on the first ballot.
What the smaller towns will do with
this bill when it gets into the House,
isn't quite clear, but a favorable con-
sideration is rather looked for.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-10-29
OTHER IMPORTANT BILLS.

A glance at the other more import
ant bills introduced since our last
was written will be of interest as in
dicating the run of attempted legis-
lation. Here they are: Payment of
total losses by fire when there is no
indication of criminal intent on the
part of the insured; providing for
closer attention to duty by Road
Commissioners, with fine for neglect;
allowing the catching of trout under
six inches and closing the season
August IS; changing Listers term
of office to one, two and three years;
throwing safeguards around the use
of boilers and requiring engineers to
be licensed; allowing cities or towns
to pool their issues for the improve
ment of roads; knocking out the
$500 limit in the matter of taxing
deposits in savings banks; taking
off the injunction feature in liquor
prosecutions; improving school con-
veniences with the idea of making
cleanliness easier; making it possible
to commit fraud in the sale of garden
seeds-or at least repeating the pres
ent law to prevent that sort of fraud;
relieving buyers or sellers of real es-
tate or personal property, on which
there is mortgage, of all liability;
making Town Superintendent elect
i've by popular vote at the March
Meeting; committing sentences Of
two convicted murderers, Frank
Shaw and Frederick Eastwood COM
polling more regular attendance at
school; Incorporating the Vermont
Internal Improvement Co., with cleo
trio power and light and gas fran
chises covering Rutland, Washington,
Windsor and Orange counties; allow
ing women to be Town Treasurers;
creating a tuberculosis commission
of five and requiring physicians to
report all cases of this kind which
they are called to treat; and appro-
priating SITS, 900 for the immediate
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-10-29
THE LIQUOR QUESTION.

The latest arrival in the way of "a
liquor bill was ushered in by Mr..
Battell of Middlebury. 1t is a meas
ure containing many excellent fea-
lures and is likely to get favorable
consideration atthe hands of the COM
mittee 1t has lots of restriction in it
and that's what the people of the
state want in any bill which they are
to be asked to pass on finally. 1t
calls for county boards of liquor COM
missioners elected annually by liquor
electors chosen at March Meeting
provides for state stores in towns
voting to establish them-one store
to each 5000 of population and one
in towns of less than that number
which want such stores; defines all
liquors with more than one per cent
of alcohol as Intoxicating; allows
state stores to deal only in pure liq-
uors; puts the -storekeeper under
bonds and gives him a salary in no
way depending on the amount OF his
sales; permits druggists and hotel
keepers to buy liquors at the state
stores (under license from the county
board), the former to resell it for
medicinal purposes and the latter to
serve it to his guests at meals; allows
towns to restrict the sales at state
stores to such limits as they please;
provides for a state board of COM
missioners and a superintendent, who
shall have general supervision and
control over the liquor interests of
the state, the superintendent giving
a twenty-five thousand dollar bond
for the faithful performance of his
duties; all profits from sales in the
state stores are turned into the state
treasury, to be subsequently distrib-
uted among the towns according to
population.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-10-29

by druggists, in fifty
cent and one dollar
sizes. You may have a
sample bottle by mail
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-09
A YOUNG LADY'S LIFE SAVED.
At Panama, Colombia, by Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy.

DR.. Chas. H. Utter, prominent ply
stefan, of Panama, Colombia, in a re-
cent letter states: Last March 1 had
as a patient young lady sixteen years
of age, who had a very bad attack of
dysentery. Everything / prescribed
for her proved Intellectual and she was
growing worse every hour. Her par
ents were sure she would die. She
had become so weak that she could ut
turn over in bed. What to do at this
critical moment was a study for me,
but 1 thought of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrnoea Remedy and as
a last resort prescribed it. The most
wonderful result was effected. Within
eight hours she was feeling much bet
ter; inside of three days she was upon
her feet and at the end of one week
was entirely we'll" For sale by John
Coughlin, III Water street; j. c. Hou-
helan, Gardiner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-09

being worried to buy. Now in London
this is not encouraged. although theoretl-
cally one is invited TO inspect the goods,
inspection invited" But if you indulge
IN inspection you find you are invited to
buy. The goods are not displayed 10 any
extent on the counters, but are kept be-
hind in stacks of green boxes. Thus, if
want to buy a scarf l walk up to the
counter and definitely ask for the particu-
lar kind of scarf l require. The girl Will
always show you q selection of articles,
but would feel very aggrieved If you
walked out without buying anything.
Here in New York the counters are piled
with waists, linen, and other goods from
which you select without the aid of the
shOpgirl. An American lady came to
London recently, and, walking into a
fashionable shop commenced to examine
some of the articles she saw on the
counter, not yet put away in their boxes
The shop girl came up Immediately. do
yol require one of these, madam The
lady made answer that she did not yet
know, whereupon the shopglrl commenced
to put the Articles back in their boxes,
not with any rude intent, but simply be-
cause goods are not allowed to litter on
the counters. But then English shops
make much more display in their win
dows, novelties being put in the windows
every day. At q West End shop women
often stand three ard four deep gazing
into the windows.
Now the American system is surely bet
ter than the English, for customers are
tempted to buy by not only seeing pretty
things. but by handling them. But the
shopgirls for this very reason are not SO
anxious to wait on a customer. for, in
deed, they cannot tell whether she will be
a customer. And the shopgirls are not 50
Immediately under the eye of the shop
walker. In London he is the absolute
master of the girls, debating what they
shall do and when they shall do it, and
woe to the girl who questions his au-
No a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-09
FRESH AIR IN COAL MINES.
The Quantity the Miners Need and
How It is Supplied to Them.


In the operations of coal mining,
which. in the United Kingdom alone,
produce something over 235, 100000 tons
n year, and find employment for nearly
three-quarters of a million of people.
there is nothing of more vital i'm
portance than the continual supply of
sufficient volume of fresh air for di-
luting the noXious gases prevalent in
the mines and for enabling the under
ground workers to breathe COM
paratively pure atmosphere. 1t may
be said of modern mines that the eff
forts to provide this air have, in the
majority of cases, been attended with
so much success that the atmosphere
of a modern coal mine is superior to
the atmosphere of the forge or factory
on the surface.
The particular amounts of air re-
quired at the various collieries depend
somewhat upon the nature of the
mine, whether non-gaseous, or slight
iy gaseous, or very gaseous; also upon
the number of human beings and ami
mails employed in the mine; and on
the amount of coal produced, which is
not always in proportion to the num-
~ u lDCi ooAio SliSseStd Iheltlil
Taking all classes of coal mines a. ia ir
and liberal consumption is from 500 to
1000 cubic feet of air per minute for
each human being employed in the
mire. Authorities differ very much as
to the quantity, and even the lesser Of
the amounts stated will, in many
-quaSters. be considered excessive; but
they ARE not exaggerated amounts, and
there are exceptional cases where even
the, larger quantity could, with ad-
vantage. be greater rather than less.
Taking the total number of persons
employed in and about the mines of
the United Kingdom as three-auarters
OF a million, nearly 500, 900 of this num-
Der will be employed underground. and
the consumption of air, on the lower
basis stated, for such an army of
workers will amount to something like
eighteen thousand million cubic feet
per hour. representing in terms of
weight more than half million tons.
Making a comparison between the
weight of the coal raised and the
weight of air which passes through
the mine in the length of a year. it has
to be remembered that while coal pro-
auction IS not continuous, and in many
cases occupies less than half of each
tWenty-four hours, and not always six
days in the week, good ventilation at
collieries means that the current is
practically continuous from January /
to December 81, day and night, Sunday
and week day. Following out the fig
ures given above, it is found that the
weight of air which ought to pass
through the mines of the United King
dom in year is not less than four
thousand million tons, or something
like twenty tons of air for each ton of
coal produced.
1t is not too much to say that. taking
the coal mines of the world, the
weight of air passing through them for
purposes of ventilation exceeds the
weight of all the minerals raised, even
if the generous, although necessary.
maximum estimate of one thousand
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-09
WEST POINT ON HORSEBACK.
Story a Retired Army Officer Told
Recent Graduate.

One of the recent graduates of West
Point tells this story:
II fell in with an old army officer al
ter the exercises. lie looked me over
and asked me a good many questions.
Among others he asked how l came TO
be appointed and l told him that IL
came about in the usual way.
ga recommendation does not nee
esSarily mean merit, ne Salu.
Il assented to this.
81 do not think that passing an ex-
animation always means merit ne
added as a crusher.
Il said l supposed not. l had re-
solved that l would not violate any VI
the rules by getting into an argument
with an old regular, now on the retiieo
list.
81 knew young man VINO Sot mere
he continued, just after the ClEii war;
because he was mentioned by the COM
handing officer in an engagement lor
bravery, and the youngster never IN
tended to be brave-he did IL because
he did not know what he was dolng' OF
because he could not help 1t. lie IS
dead now and l do not mind telling you
about It.
He was at headquarters IN the
army of the Potomac, and as he was a
Good sort of fellow he got in with n
genera, of one of the divisions who
lived pretty high. He and this young
man went on a bat on one occasion.
Not to speak disrespectfully OF the
dead. the young man got as drunk as
sailor on shore leave.
".While he was in that condition the
division got orders to go to the front
and this young fool was put IN the
saddle and told to go in the other d.
rection But the engagement came on
| quickly and the horse on when ne SAT
being like Jobs war charger, smelled
the battle and turning, dashed into the
thick of the fight.
| The young fool who rode him had
| Just enough sense to hang on ana the
horse plunged and neighed into the
| fray 1t was a miracle that horse anc
rider came out of it alive.
1.-The commander of the division
| witnessed what related, and in his re-
port to Grant he made special mention
of the daring of the fellow. The result
was that the fellow was appointed
cadet. He was a graduate, | believe
of the Missouri university before he
|
went into the army, SO he was able tt
pass here.
But what l want to impress upor
you. young man, is this, if this fellow
had not been drunk he would have KEEP
| his horse from being so reckless. Anc
| in that case he might not have beer
mentioned for bravery, and conse-
! quently he would not have been APP
! pointed a cadet.
| He was a good fellow-peace to hi:
soul-but he owed his education by the
| government to his horse
"'And to getting drunk l added.
! "'Well,' said the old regular, 'yol
| know what Lincoln said when some
| body told him Grant got drunk
"And with that he turned away. evi
| IDENTIFY satisfied with his lecture. New
York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-09

developed great Importance in the tele-
graph system of the world. 1t lies 1890
miles south of Hawaii, and, to be geo.
graphically accurate, is situated in lat
itude degrees 81 minutes % seconds
north, and in longitude 10 degrees Il
minutes 80 seconds west. On this is
land the Pacific Gable Board, by which
name the English cable company is
called, has determined to establish it's
midocean station, expanding thereon
between 100000 and $4,000 in San
Francisco.
The plans for the buildings have been
prepared in this city by Henry H. Mey-
ers. and provide for quarters for the
Geographic staff, including the oper-
ating room. q dwelling for the superin-
tendent OF the station. a carpenter
shop, lighthouses, a lamp-room, kitch-
ems and a large reservoir for the catch
ing and preservation of rain water for
drinking purposes. The walls of these
structures are to be of coral obtained
on the island, but all the other mate
rial viii come from San Francisco.
The coral will be covered with cement
on the exterior and the buildings will
be made as nearly fireproof as possible.
They will be for the most part two sto-
ries in height.
The telegraph cable station will be
located at English harbor, the only
shipping entrance on Tanning island,
although it is 81 miles long and miles
wide. \ popularity of the place is
that it is not above two or three feet
above the level of the ocean, excepting
on the outer coast, where the rim of
the coral has been thrown UP by the
action of the sea to the height of 10
feet in some places. There are trees
On the island, but they are mostly CO.
coanut, so that fuel. as well as drink
ing water, is a scarce article. The coral
isle has been a British possession since
los.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-09
HELD BY A SWAPPING TURTLE.
A Frightened Negro Who Got Release
Only When His Trousers Gave Way.
Wa Shinoton POStO

ApropOS Of the recent discovery that
the dragon fly is a destroyer of mos
quitoes and as such is entitled to all
the protection that can be extended, 1t
is interesting to learn that the investi-
gators and scientists Of the army and
navy hospitals have been forestalled in
this discovery by the negroes of lower
Louisiana. The dragon fly is known
under different names in different sec
lions of the United States. In some
sections it is known under the name Of
snake DOCTOR" in others the name of
''Sig-head fly prevails, while dragon
fly is, perhaps, the most general desig-
nation under which this insects known,
but in Louisiana it is known as the
mosquito hawk" to the exclusion Of
all other designations.
The name dragon fly is unknown in
lower Louisiana, where the insect has
never been known under any other
name than that of Mosquito hawk"
and where it is the object of what
many have considered a myth, but
which, in the light of recent investiga-
lions, turns out to be a bit of good,
sound reason and fact. For a long time
the negroes OF that section have chung
to the belief that the mosquito
hawk is a destroyer of mosquitoes,
and that to kill one is to court misfor-
tune and i'll luck. 1t is said that this
was formerly the belief of the Atttaka
pas Indians, a tribe now extinct, but
which at one time occupied the whole
of lower Louisiana, and that the ne
groes received the myth from them.
AT all events, the dragon fly is pro-
tected in Louisiana, just as in other
states people are not allowed to modest
the buzzard. They believe that the
mosquito hawk hovers about pools of
waters, capturing and devouring the
young mosquitoes as fast as they
emerge from the water, and, for that
reason, it is looked upon as a bene-
factor to mankind.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-09
QUIET FOR TELEeRAPHERs.
Such VIII Be Their Life on a Little
Coral in the South Pacific.
(San Francisco Chronicle ,

The little coral reef in the South Pa
enc ocean, known as Tanning island
is 10 be a resting place for the English
submarine cable to stretch its long
length from British Columbia to the
Australian Commonwealth. Although
a mere speck on some maps, and en-
tirely absent from most aliases, it has
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-09
To the Honorable Board Of Ralr.

To the Honorable Board Of Ralr.
Commissioners:
The Madrid Railroad Company resPa
fully represents that its line of railrosi
the location of which has been appruVd
by your Honorable Board, is laid Y
across The highways and other pub
ways ana points thereon described as 4
lows:
No. l. Town road in the town |
Phillips near n. X. Whittemore's house,
No. 2. River Road in the town 4
Phillips near Fields Bridge
No. g. Lake Road in the town |
Phillips near c. L. Dill's house.
No. 4. West Phillips Road in the irEl
of Phillips near c. e. Dill's house.
No. 5. Lakin Road in the town l
No. 6. West Phillips Road in the ~
of Phillips near the foot Of Fish Hill
No. Z. West Phillips Road in the ln
of Phillips near ID. +. Hodges house
Your petitioner respectfully repres'
that it is impossible to so construct
railroad as to pass either over or uHa
said ways. Wherefore your petitioner
quests that your Honorable Board, al
notice and hearing, will authorize
crossing at said ways at grade
further, that your Honorable Board
determine the manner and condition u
said railroad may cross such ways
how the expense of building and na
tanning SO much thereof as may be
in the limits Of said railroad shall
finally borne.
Phillips. Maine, July &c, 1902.
MADRID RAILROAD COMPANl,
HEATH & ANDREW
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-09
HEATH & ANDREW
Its Afford
the foregoing petition.

On the foregoing petition,
Ordered: That the petitioner cau s,sI|
be published a true copy OF said peua1]
and this order Of notice thereon
days successfully in the Daily kennfa
Journal a newspaper published al !
gusta in the county of Kennebec- the
publication in said paper to be al
five days before "Wednesday, the w. WI
seventh day of August A. d. Hg
which day the Board of Railroad
niissioners will be In session az tne ~
in Augusta at ten O'Clock in the for OFT.
for the purposes indicated in SAID peIsIi
Said petitioner snail send copies ~ u
foregoing petition and order y uls
nicipal officers OF the town Of Phinps
JOSEPH +. PEAKS, Chairlln HARM.
For the Board of Railroad Commlss''
Of Maine.
Dated this fourth day Of August
1892.
A true copy,
ATTEST:
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The processes now in use for collect
ing tin from the waste of sheet tin by
electrolysis is comparatively costly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-09

cubic feet per minute per indiVldua
be reduced one-half.