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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-12-13

TUESDAY, Dec. Q. 1902
The Rev. Charles Il, jefferson, ID. D..
formerly of Chelsea, Mass, elected Il
fellow of Yale university.
Tug underwater arrives safely at
New York.
Moses Rugsles, aged SO, throws him.
self under train at Athol and is killed.
L. r. Cannon. a brakeman. killed ut
Dedham, and w. B. Smith conductor,
injured.
Death in sydney, n. $. W.. of Charles
j.. Fisher, connected with Jernegan
in the sea water gold scheme. is re-
ported.
Report of death Of Mrs. Alice FREQ.
man Palmer confirmed.
No territories will be admitted to
statehood by this congress.
Senate advances Immigration bill; a
head tax adopted.
Slaughter Of diseased cattle will 5c-
gin at Barre, Mass.
Cornelius Vanderbilt i'll with typhoid
in New York.
En- Mayor Crandall of Norwich, Ct.
has not been seen in that city for Il
month.
Death of Commander Gilbert NJ. L.
Maccarty in Cambridge.
Judge Holmes takes his seat on the
United States supreme bench.
New Hampshire constitutional con-
vehtion receives many proposed amend
ments.
Government will vccall navy yard
contract with T.. G. Coburn L. Co., as.
signed.
Stories of harsh treatment of men
by Markle & Co., to)i by witnesses be.
fore strike commission.
Harvard mans cheek pierced by a
foil in a fencing bout.
Case of Alexander Terrio. convicted
OF murder year ago, to be argued be-
fore Maine law court.
Death of Mr.. Clongh at East Kings
ton. n. H., may have been caused by
foul play.
House of representatives honors the
memory of Thomas .. Reed in brief
session and Immediately adjourns.
New Hampshire constitutional con-
vention adopts resolution honoring the
memory of Thomas b. Reed.
Several persons barely saved from
foundering barges off Clinton, CT.
A public tribunal for settlement CT
labor troubles proposed by Charles
Francis Adams.
The first regular train to Havana
recently left Santiago. 1t is believed
that the opening of he road will lead
to the rapid development of the in
terror.
Suffering from eynosnra Antonio G..
Masgagni, 25 years old, was found by
an officer of station lying on the
sidewalk on Congress street, near
Farnsworth street. South Boston. Mas
gagni Is q seaman on the steamship
Bedouin. lying at pier t. He had tried
to return to the ship. but was over.
come by the cold and would probably
have frozen to death but for the poi
ice officer
John Baldwin of Quincy dropped
dead while cutting down tree on
the "Old Wach road" near Adams and
Quarry streets. He was 90 years OIL.
Heart disease was pronounced to be
the cause of death.
The price of bread in London has
been raised | cent per loaf in the
East end of London today. thus in
the distress of the persons
who are out of work.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-12-13
Suspected Of Killing Children.

Philadelphia. Dec. 10 John Will
ian,s and his wife, charged with having
poisoned two of their children in or.
lives. were yesterday committed TO jail
to await the action OF the grand jury.
The attending physicians reported that
the children died from symptoms of
prsenicdl poisoning.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-12-13

When Russian family moves it Is
the custom to carry the fire from the
hearth Of the old house in closed YES.
sci to the new residence.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-12-13

London, Dec. 1l.-Great Britain is
practically at war with Venezuela. but
there is no disposition here to regard the
situation as serious Tho morning
papers recognize the possibility of
awkward complications, but are dis
posed to believe that President Castro,
after making a show of defiance, may
be brought to reason without the allied
powers having recourse TO seizure of the
customs.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-12-13
Closed for Lack Of Coal.

South Manchester, Conn.,, Dec. H.
The American Writing Paper company
was compelled to shut down its mills
at Oakland because OF lack of coal.
About 125 persons are thrown out of
employment.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-12-13
BRIBERY SCHEME
Good Positions and Money TO
Coal Strike Breakers.

Evidence Before Arbitration Commits.
sion of Attempt to Get Two Miners
Presidents to Betray Their Fellows
Presidents Were Promised Fore.
manships and $25oo If Each Induced
10 Men in Their Local Union to
Vote to End Strike, the Latter to
Receive From 500 to 5000 Each for
Their Scrvices-Statit les Of Miners
Earnings Given by Operators.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-12-13

The postmaster general has issued an
order requiring that "Whcnevcr any
woman employed III the postal service,
either as postmaster or unclassitiod
clerk. marrles, she must take the oath
Of Office anew"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-12-13

passed the bill prohibiting snprcmc
court judges, state attorneys and mem
bers of the legislature from accepting
pasSes OH the railroads.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-12-13

FIJI" in the heart of the down town sec.
ticn of Atlanta wiped out almost block
of business hcuscS, causing loss esti.
mated at between 500, 900 and $500 900.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-12-13

Rome, Dec. 11..-The government has
instructed the commander of the Ilnl.
IAN cruiser Giovanni Rausan, which ar
rived mt In Guaira Tuesday. to fully
protect Italian subjects in Venezuela; {;
to TAX" them aboard. or. if necessary,
to land blucjackcts for their protection.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-12-13

Thirty-five manufacturers Of toys,
novelties and hardware supplies, met
ut New York and organized the Amer
lean Novelty company, which will have
a capitalization Of $5,OOO,OOO.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-12-13

New York. Dec. 11.-Abra ham 8.
Rosenthal and Martin l.. Cohn, Il silk i'm.
porting firm. have been indicted by the
federal grand jury OH charges OF enter
ing silks OH worthless or fraudulent in.
voices and of conspiracy with c. @.
Browne. former silk examiner.
Browne is also indicted on two counts.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-12-13

Things are not always so bad as
they appear OIL tueir face, from which
fact homely people take much conso!a
tion.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-12-13

Three thousand newspapers and 1000
letters are received by King Edward
every day.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-12-13
Universal.
'PaDa. what Is an ncinnns

Papa. what is an octopus?"
Nowadays my boy. it's almost any,
thing that takes our money. New
York Herald.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-12-13

The gigglng girl generally has pret.
ty teeth.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-12-13

neld, Mass" and caused Il damage OF
about $1,000. The fire was of unknown
origin. The snow delayed the fire
department The damage to the house
was amout $1,000 and to the furniture
$1,000, all covered by Insurance.
The Washington times., 1902-10-30
What Does Johnson Mean?

AS the campaign rushes on to its
close il becomes more evident and sig
nificant that to the irreconcilable Bryan
men. East, West, North. and South, the
Hon. Tom johnson is the object of
greater and graver solicitude than any
other half dozen Democratic statesmen
combined. Il is conceded on all hands
that Mr.. johnson has made queer lot
of nominations in Ohio. Apparently,
wherever the opportunity has been pre-
sented he has chosen a hardy handed
son of toll as the fttest person to lift
high the standard of Democracy and
flaunt it defiantly before the protruding
ewes of the amazed world. 1t is stated
by persons competent to speak that in
one of the Cleveland districts Mr.. John
son has thrown away the chance to elect
a Democratic Congressman by making
one of his characteristic nominations.
The conclusion has been reached by
some capable judges that what the Hon.
Tom johnson really is up to this year is
so TO strengthen himself with that in-
determinate political entity known as
the labor element us to have these two
noble Romans, the Hon. Mark Hanna
and the Hon. John X. Mclean, on the
The Washington times., 1902-10-30
AN ANEcpoTE OF HEINE.

Ughetti's work, With Physicians and
Clients contains an anecdote about
Heine which Is not yet worn thread
bare. Returning from a journey TO the
south of France, Heine met a friend.
a German violinist, in Lyons, who gave
him a large sausage that had been made
in Lyons, with the request to deliver.
it to a mutual acquaintance, a homoeo-
pathic physician, in Paris. Hetna
promised to attend to the commission
and entrusted the delicacy to the care
of his wife. who was travelling with
him. But the post chaise was very
slow and he soon became hungry; on the
advice of his wife, both tasted Of the
sausage, which dwindled with every
mile. Arriving at Paris. Heine did not
dare to keep his promise. So he cut
off the thinnest possible since win
his razor, wrapped it in sheet OF
vellum paper and inclosed it in an en-
velope. with the following note:
Dear Doctor-From your scientific In
vestigation, we learn that the millionth
part Of a certain substance brings about
the greatest results. / beg. therefore.
your kind acceptance of the accompany
ing millionth part of Lyons sausage,
which our friend gave me to deliver to
you. II homeopathy is truth, then
this little piece will have the same ef-
feet on you as the whole sausage Your
Heinrich Heine.' e.''-Philadelphia Record
The Washington times., 1902-10-30
Senator Hoar's Other Speech.

Two Of the speeches of the Hon.
George Frisbie Hoar on the same sub
ject. but on Numerically opposite
sides, doubtless are being read and care
fully compared by tens of thousands of
voters today, who probably will become
more perplexed than ever as to just
what some of the main issues of this
called that the venerable Massachusetts,
statesman made speech N the Senate
last spring on the Philippine question
which was eagerly seized upon by the
Democratic managers as one of their
most important campaign documents.
At Boston, Monday night. Mr.. Hoar
made another speech on this interest
ing subject, in which he paid his re-
spects TO the Democrats as follows:
"The Democratic party during all its
history has been the creator of griev-
ances, never the redresser OF them. Has
it cured political evil in State or ma
ton for sixty years? 1t has caused a
good many. 1t has threatened us with
a good many. Slavery and rebellion.
and notification and secession, and civil
war, and hard times, and discomfort,
and fiat money, and debased currency,
and the free coinage/of silver, and free
trade, and socialism, and violence, and
fraud at elections. These are all Demo-
cratic children. The men who wanted
such things Joined the Democratic
party. And the men who wanted to cure
or prevent such things joined the Re-
publican party"
The Washington times., 1902-10-30
of Town Points. Postage Prepaid.
EVENING EDITION.
take many tons of cure to outweigh
grain of prevention.

take many tons of cure to outweigh :
grain of prevention.
Lips were made to kiss and hands
were made to squeeze" but an anti
septic glove is cold greeting fol
Phyllis to extend to Corydon, and
more than poor weapon for the
woman of the world with which to
meet her dearest foe. We have been
taught that 1t is wrong to kiss and
tell, but there our education ceases
and we need no postgraduate course
even at the feet of this Gamaliel OF
Hahnemann.
AS to the doctor who introduced
this resolution, he was brave man,
blessed with the courage of his con-
victions. What the wife of his bosom
said to him when "he kissed her once
beneath the roses, and said that they
must never kiss again." does not ap-
pear in the published proceedings,
but it will doubtless be seen later in
the rude annals of some divorce court.
Meanwhile, with his strength of will
and indomitable belief in his own
force of character. he need not de-
spair, even If the Grape of popular dis
approval clings to the door bell of his
Office. Other paths Of life are open to
him, where women's lips are not beat
ing in unison with funeral marches to
the grave. He can embark in the
wholesale manufacture ef the chlo-
rides, or he can set up his modest
shingle in Ober-Ammergau, and ap-
pear at ladies' matinees as Joshua
commanding the sun to stand still,
with practical illustrations of his
power of enforcing obedience to his
wishes.
The Washington times., 1902-10-30
Pattison Predicts.

Another prophet has arisen In Penn
sylvania to contest the honors OF proph-
ecy with that famous seer and astrolo-
gist. the Hon. Matthew Stanley Quay.
This new prophet is none other than the
Hon. Robert E. Pattison. Il will again
be elected your governor, my fellow cit
izens," declared Mr.. Pattison without q
blink of his eyes in the course Of se-
ance in the eastern end Of the State the
other day. Then he proceeded to give
some cheering figures. He foresees that
he will come up to the Philadelphia line
with plurality of 100000. but he con-
fesses that he is not able to foresee what
will happen at that line. He intimates,
however, that unless they are carefully
watched the sons OF William Penn will
juggle the ballots and figures and thus
beat him out of the governorship. Tho
statement has been made once or twice
before that occasionally the huge Re-
publican majorities of Philadelphia have
had a suspicious look about them. Mr..
Pattison, who has twice been elected
governor of Pennsylvania. believes he
knows how to watch the count In Phila-
delphia, but he acknowledges that he
can't be at every poll at the same min
ute, and that therefore his election Is
somewhat immersed In the haze Of
doubt.
The Washington times., 1902-10-30
Cousins Follows Suit.

Following the example of Secretary
Shaw, the Hon. Rober. C. Cousins is en-
gagged in the lively task of repudiating
the Iowa platform. He goes even fur
ther than the Secretary, and declares
that there is no such thing as "the Iowa
idea"-a phrase that is having a popu-
lar run in the Hawkeye State, either
through local pride or real conviction.
Mr. Cousins, however, is making his
reputation before audiences in Ohio. He
has not been known t6 do so in Iowa
The Democratic managers in Iowa seem
to have some faint belief that they will
beat this fowery young orator. who is
accused of affecting the Thomas Brack-
ett Reed drawl of speech, and who.
taken by and large. is the handsomest
member of Congress. barring, possibly.
the Hon. "Bertie" Adams. of Pennsyl
vania in the House. and the Hon.
George Peabody Wetmore. of Rhode ISL
and. in the Senate. But it is being OBJ
served with interest that Secretary
Shaw and Mr.. Cousins are the only
Iowans of note who have repudiated
'the Iowa idea''-except, of course. the
Hen d. B. Henderson, who repudiatcd
il and then drew out of the game.
The Washington times., 1902-10-30
THE SULTAN OF PcRAK.

A man of fifty-three years of age, he
has passed almost exactly half MS lie
under the new regime inaugurated by
Great Britain. man with eyes where
with to see and mind wherewith to
Judge. compare and think. he is proba-
bly- among the most enlightened rulers
of the native States of the East. :-nd
convinced apostle of British rule. he
has seen in his own time his country
pass from a mere wilderness OF forest,
threaded sparsely by sorry footpatns,
into a land surprisingly wealthy and
prosperous. over the face OF which ROADS
and railways run crisscross, ike tne
meshes of a net. He has seen lawless-
ness brigandage, rapine and constant
internecine strife vanish and be replaced
by peacefulness unequaled in Picca-
div. He has seen the spear and the
kris which once ruled his world, laid
aside in the glass cases of museums or
brought out only on state occasions TO
deck courtly ceremonials. Moreover. he
has seen his own ancestral lands, which
of old lay fallow under dense jungle.
opened up and made TO produce rich
revenues; blacklist ignorance replaced
by education, lack of sanitation by q
wise respect for the laws of hygiene,
and dire poverty by wealth and COM
fort Though the sentimentalist may
mourn the disappearance of much that
was attractive. yet these be wonderful
changes for any man to have witnessed,
still more to have had big hand in
bringing to pass: and without dispar-
aging the wisdom and self-devotion OF
his European advisers. it must be ad-
mitted that Perak owes large share
of its prosperity to the personal efforts
of its present Sultan.-Blackwood
Magazine
The Washington times., 1902-10-30
How Many Were There?

Governor Odell may say "Zu Zu to
the Grocer Man." or may not. The Hon.
Bird S. Coler may favor the coal mine
plank in his platform, or may not. Hill
and Platt may be the respective bosses
of their parties, or may not. None OF
these erstwhile burning questions seems
now to form as distinct and stirring an
issue in the politics of New York city
as this question: How many people at
tended the Hon. William Randolph
Hearst's rally at Madison Square Gar
den Monday night? Mr.. Hearst counted
them and found that there were exactly
SO, ,000 Various of his rivals and critics
counted them and found that there were
exactly 10000. 1t is complained by simple
minded folk at this end of the line who
are trying their level best to arrive ut
some conclusion as to the political drift
that il the figures and predictions pre-
sented daily by the Hon. William Ran
dolph Hearst and his rivals and critics
are based upon the same basis of calcu-
lation as that of the estimate of attend
ance at Monday nights rally, then how
are the plain people hereabout to know
anything political in New York in ad-
vance of its actual happening?
The Washington times., 1902-10-30
Caused Lively Guessing.

The subject of iiveliest interest dis
opinion in Washington yesterday was
the rather unexpected admission of the
New York Sum- stanch Republican
organ, that the contest in that State is
Suns" figures, published by The Times
yesterday morning, private Repub-
lican poll" of the entire State shows
that Odell will be elected by plurality
of $500. lower by about 1000 than was
a similar poll which presaged the elec-
tion of President Roosevelt to the New
York governorship in 1898 by 1880.
Basing its estimate upon the Roosevelt
vote, the Sun" writer claims victory
for Odell by about 1900 plurality-a
dangerously close margin. it is submit
ted. in total vote of more than a mill
lion.
Apparently the Suns" figures have
had no perceptible effect upon the bet
ting on the New York result While the
odds have fallen from to 1 to 10 to
within the past week, they were net
budged notably yesterday by other re-
ports from New York, which seemed to
show plainly that the Democratic cause
is looking UP in that State. 1t is sug-
gested by some old political foxes that
the Republican managers are represent
ing the contest as extremely close with
the view of frightening out big vote
for their candidates next Tuesday. At
the same time it cannot be denied that
Democratic confidence of victory in New
York is growing rapidly.
The Washington times., 1902-10-30
A Rash Reformer.

The recent resolution of some
homeopathic medical societies to
abolish what they, in their infinite
wisdom and dignity of language, are
pleased to term ''osculatory apposi-
tion," seems to us to be rather arbi-
trary exercise of assumed power, as
kissing, we have been led to under
stand, goes rather by favor than by
legislation. The homeopathic mills,
like those Of the gods. grind slowly,
and they also grind exceeding small !;
but In this case they seem to have
undertaken to produce very much
larger grist than they will be able to
deliver, and we also doubt If the
younger members o. the persuasion
will be willing to practice what their
elders preach.
That there may be germs and MI
crobes, like the worm l. the bud, ~
ing hidden in the Cupid's bow of fresh
warm lips, we are not in position to
deny. But the American youth has
been always willing to run the
chances taken by the classic monkey
with the baboons sister, and should
he fail now we cannot help thinking
that he is in need of treatment, and
that these most impotent, grave, and
reverend seigneurs Of the Missouri
Valley should turn their professional
attention to the administering to him
of No. X and No. VI, or whatever
may be the sugar-coated equivalent
of their strongest tonic. Men have
died and worms have eaten them, but
not for love, and in these cases it will
The Washington times., 1902-10-30
Bible in -Four Strange Tongues.

From the London Telegraph.
Four hitherto unknown tongues. so far
as print is concerned. are now being
added TO the list of languages in which
the British and Foreign Bible Society
prints the gospels, and of these three
are for the benefit of subjects of his
majesty The New Testament is to be
turned into Nyanta for the tribes of the
Shire River bank, Nyassalaud. and in
this work the Livingstonia mission OF
the United Free Church of Scotland. the
Blantyre mission of the Established
Church of Scotland and the Myera mis-
sion OF the Dutch Reformed Church are
collaborating. version in Yuluuka is
nearly ready for natives of the Falaba
district of Sierra Leone and in BugotuI
for the inhabitants of Ysabel Island. on
of the Solomon group. Lastly trans8'
lation into Visayan. spoken by some
1000, 600 persons in the Philippine archi-
pelago, is being undertaken. All are
enterprises of great interest to philoio-
Sists.
The Washington times., 1902-10-30

That feature of General Haywood 8
annual report 10 the Secretary of the
Navy calling attention to the unsani-
tary condition of the Marine Corps
Barracks will doubtless receive prop
er attention and hasten the necessary
remedy. The commandant of the Ma
rine Corps in effect repeats the warn
ing issued by the Surgeon General OF
the Navy, and Secretary Moody will
not be disposed to disregard this Joint
expression. General Heywood's sug-
gesticn that the present building be
abandoned and a new barracks erect
ed on land recently acquired may be
especially valuable in view of the
probable increase in the enlisted
strength of the Marine Corps at the
session Of Congress which begins in
December.
The Washington times., 1902-10-30
Our Stun Problem.

No city can be really great until II
has purified or eliminated those local
ities commonly described as slums
However beautiful a municipality
may have been made, architectarally
and otherwise, the presence Of these
physical and moral disease spots re-
mains a blot on twentieth century
city life.
The Secretary of the Associated
Charities delivered a lecture the other
night in which he advised the colored
residents of Washington to establish
settlement houses for those Of their
race who were stepped in the contain
nations of alley vice. He demon
strated what the settlement enter
prise has done in other cities, and in
dicated that the need of such sys-
tenn was quite as urgent here as else
where.
In his message to Congress last De-
cember President Roosevelt recon-
mended that provision should be
made to turn the inhabited alleys, the
existence of which is a reproach to
our Capital City. into minor streets,
where the Inhabitants can live under
conditions favorable to health and
morals" Mr. Roosevelt, it appears,
aimed only at the elimination of the
class Of persons who make up the
population of the Capitals slums ard
the sanitary reform of the localities
at present inhabited by them While
the betterment of the sections them
selves is to be ardently wished, the
betterment of the human beings
therein is to be desired as well. The
improvement of the alleys only would
simply serve to transfer the slum dis
trict to those quarters and environs
of the city where rents are cheapest.
The Associated Charities secretary,
Mr.. Weller, We believe, has the right
idea-the reclamation OF the people
themselves. If the poorer classes of
Washington, colored and white. can
be interested in the settlement idea,
it will not be long before the alleys
will become clean and wholesome,
and the present slums will be pervad-
ed by new and unobjectionable at
mosphere