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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-03-20
FOR CHAMPI0 NSHIP.
BrattIeboro Defeated St. Johns.
bury in First Game Of Series.

Score was YIN c. A. 80, Company D
14---RemarkabIe Work by March
and tafford---Prnters Won Local
Championship.
The nrst leg ON the basket bail cham
p!0uship of Vermont was taken by Brat
t.naro y. NJ. c. A. from Company ID
of ST. Johnsbury Wednesday night ON
the local floor, the score being 3O-l4.
In the other game the Printers landed
the local league championship by de-
feating the High school 2l-1S.
Six hundred spectators, who filled all
available space in gallery and ON floor,
were surcharged with excitement, and
cheers and shouts of encouragement
made continual din.
The crowd rooted for the High school
boys, the tail enders of the league, who
battled pluCkily with the leaders. The
students never played better and they
were always within striking distance, al
though never in the lead. Toward the
close of the last half two baskets in
quick succession brought their score up
to Is points, only one behind the Prin-
tiers. but a goal from free try and one
from field settled the contest in favor of
the Printers.
In interest and excitement this game
was equal to any played on the home
floor this season. The quality of play
work in advancing the ball and then
making long, straight throws aroused
the enthusiasm of the spectators. l..
Cundiff was in almost every play and
combined good judgment with his play
ing.
There was the strained intenseness
which one feels at the start of race
when the whistle blew for the state
championship game. 1t was apparent
at once that the Y. NJ. c. a. had worthy
foemen. and within a minute Capt. Beck,
the great basket thrower of Company
D. had Gagged the bail. The next basket
was also thrown by Beck. The Brattle-
boro boys soon started the scoring and
at the end OF the half had the figures
to in their favor. They completely
outplaNed the visitors so far as retain
ing possession and advancing the ball
was concerned, but seemed to have
streak Of hard luck. as the men who are
reliable in throwing baskets would land
the spheroid on the rim, and it would
whirl around and drop outside the net.
In the second half two fresh men came
out for Company ID. Suldham at centre
and Buckley at left guard. a throw
from near the centre of the field by Sud-
ham brought the score close to even
terms. but the home players then cut
loose and soon had lead that made
them comparatively safe. The playing
was hard and fast at all times, with
more roughness than usual, Parks of the
visiting team being the worst offender
in this respect. Toward the close of the
game the Y. NJ. c. A. lads were play
ing harder than ever, while some OF the
visitors seemed well pumped out
Suldham was easily the star of the
visitors Three times he threw sensa-
tional baskets half the length of the
hall March played the game of his life
He kept him man covered and guessing
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-03-20
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-03-20

The Easthampton Turner's had played
three consecutive games and six games
in ten nights previous to coming here.
Several enthusiasts including Arthur
Iiough came from White River June
ton. The White River boys have had
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-03-20
Capt. Chamberlain. Formerly Of Fair
lee. CHARGED with Smuggling.

uuartitv of silks silver and uouors
brought from Hong Kong on the t. 5.
TRANSPORT Seward has been seized hv the
collector who has ordered the arrest of
capt Harry Chamberlain and the quar-
termaster of the vessel on the charge of
smuggling The goods We're bought in
Hong Kong at the request of prominent
army officers who deny any attempt to
defraud the customs. The officials say
smuggling is frequent on transports and
regular navy vessels and they are de-
termined to put Il stop to it, Captain
Chamberlain is son-in-law of Gen. H.
H. Gilmore of Fairlee. He was former
ly captain of the Bradford company in
the Vermont National Guard. lie served
in the war with Spain as quarter-master-
sergeant III lhe hlrSI infantry vermont
' oIuI'eeI9' anu "hie j." ser. zee WIN
inns regiment WIS hl"ue P"aI'erih"N V'I
WIN rank oil captain. -N''r me war ne
received com 'llSs'o" III ,'e '-"''i
army '"u St'N'" l"l '''''v ~ y uo' '''
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Josiah Grout OF Derby is president of
the Nevada Consolidated copper ana
Gold Mining aud Milling company
The license commissioners in Rutland
are Or. j. T.. Thompson. Charles w
Pennington and James +. Sawyer. TheN
nave uNed the rate Tor hfst class licenses
at Sl-oo'
Newton d Austin's general store i'm
Georgia and an adjacent building were
destroyed by fire Friday night. The
loss is partially covered by Siooo insur-
ance.
Loretta. 4. daughter of Patrick col
Inns of Fairhaven. fell from a second
story window Friday, striking Is feet be-
low squarely on her head on the slate
sidewalk She is still alive but recovery
is doubtful.
Deputy Marshal Luke Parish of Ran
doiph arrested j. \. Hutton of Newburv
on the charge OF using the mails for
fraudulent purposes. 1t is alleged that
his record is similar to that Of G.. W.
Norton of South Wallngford
Michael Norman. TO- of Montpelier
found a dynamite cartridge carried il
around i'm his pocket a week and then
ATTEMPTED TO pick it TO pieces. II ex-
ploded. and the thumb and two fingers
We're blown from his left hand.
The horsemen of Barre. ST. Johnsburv.
Norrisville and Parton have formed a
circuit and will hold three stake races
this season. They will be as follows:
. 20 mace. nurse $500: o. trot $500. free
for all $500 They will also hold several
class races in addition to the stake races.
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Grand Army encampment to he held i'm
San Erancisco August II is exnected
that 100 Vermonters will make The
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-03-20

HiIdreth's Printers. High School.
Crosier If rg Mack
T. Cundiff IF lg Sanders
L. Cundiff C Kaine
Wood liz IF Scott
Brooks rg If Frost
Score, Printers 81. High School IS.
Goals from field, l.. Cundiff 4, f. Cum
diff ., Crosier 2 Wood, Brooks, Scott 4,
Mack, KANE Frost, Goals, from fouls,
T. Cundiff Frost 4. Referee Sanders.
Umpires Ferriter Daniels. Timer, Dun
leavy. Time, Commute halves.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-03-20
Scott Farm for Sale

''HE farm is - miles from BrottIehoro
= " CONSISTS of 1874 acres of land IS =;
story 'i1y house, large and convenient barn. RIM
Ilsh pond, sugar orchard ana rood Vol rs.
farming tools will be sold with fam If DO
slieu on rural delivery route. For furtb ue
PartlcuialS call AT the house or address Oh
w. SCOTT 8 Congress ST., CireentielI MI al AS
lib N''
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-03-20

Score was Y. M. c. A. 80, Company D
14---Remarkab Work by March
and afford---Printers Won Local
Championship.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-03-20

DIR. David kennedy's salt Rheuu Cream cures
Old sores, Skin and ScrOfulOus Diseases soc.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-03-20

Score, Y. NJ. c. A. 80 Co. D II. Goals
from field, March 8. Tufts 4, Stafford 3,
Ellis, Suldham 8, Beck ?. Goals from
fouls March t. Parks 4. Referee,
Sanders. Umpires, Gum, Daniels.
Timer Sulloway. Time, Commute
halves.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-06
BRIGHT BITS.

-Would-be Artist: Did you get any
thing for your last poem?
Ditto Poet; Yes, I got many happy
returns.-Harvard LampoOn.
The Landlady: Which part of the
chicken do you prefer, Mr.. Lanks?
The Boarder: Either half will do,
thank you, Mrs. Hungerford.-Puck.
Beyond the Average.-"Your broth
er is quite an enthusiast, is he not?"
yes, quite. I've known him to cling
obstinately to a fad for a whole
month. Brooklyn Life.
First Lawyer: These people are
kicking because we don't settle the es-
tate.
Second Lawyer: AS if we didn't need
the money as much as they!-Life.
Scene at an Art Exhibition.-He
Well how do you like Browns pic
ture?
She: That one? Why, I thought it
was yours! Very bad, isn't it?-Punch.
Remember said the optimist,
every day'n be Sunday, by and by"
Yes" groaned the pessimist, "and
I'll bet therell be morning and even
ing services right along, too. Chi
cago Record-Herald.
II am fixing up surprise for Gohn
but 1 am afraid that if he stays around
the house he will discover me-"
That's all right. You just tie a
towel around your head and ask him
if he can't stay at home to-day and
help you take up the carpets. '-Balti-
more News.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-06
PER SONAL.

John T. Trowbridge the author, at
of his home in Arlington, is engrossed
in the preparation of his autobiography,
or, as he felicitously puts it, My Own
Story"
Thomas F. Folger, for forty years
driver of the prison van at Boston.
died the other day, leaving a handsome
fortune He was a great reader, but
never in the course of his life was
known to buy a newspaper
Senator Alger of Michigan has an
nounced that he will give SIS year
until further notice for the purpose
of providing medals for the six honor
men who represent the University of
Michigan in the annual intercollegiate
debating contests.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon of To-
peka Kan, says that after he had
married couple not long ago the
bridegroom fumbled in his pockets
nervously without producing anything
and finally admitted that he had neg
lected to provide for the clergyman's
fee. But" he added, Frightening up,
Il can show you how to fix your gas
meter so that it won't register"
Instead of staying home and be-
coming a candidate for Congress
Steve" Cave of Haskell county, Kan
sas, skipped into Missouri. Il decided
after a close, personal inspection" he
says, that l wasn't extremely good
congressional timber and figured out
that if l got in the race 1 would spend
d lot of money and set what the little
boy shot at. The easiest way'I saw
to escape my friends was to get out
of their reach. l ducked."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-06
Got the wrong Man.

Secretary Moody. Postmaster Gen.
era! Payne, Senator Hale, Representa-
tive Cannon and several other states
men We're on the way to Charleston,
S. c., there to embark on the Dolphin
for a fishing cruise, says the Washing
ton Post. AS they Travelled F. L..
Fishback, who is Mr.. Moody's private
secretary, said:
"Once, in my early youth, I desired
to change my boarding house Rooms
in a certain house were advertised,
and at this house 1 called. A woman
of middle age received ME.
L wish to state she said, after
everything had proved satisfactory
and l had engaged a room; I wish to
state that you will find one drawback
here, sir. My husband is a drunkard.
He often comes home late at night in
a shocking condition. Aside from this,
l know that you will like my house
IT assured the woman warmly that
! would overlook her husband, and
that afternoon 1 moved in. 1 went to
bed early, and about midnight L
awoke to the sound of loud singing.
This sound from without. I looked
from my window and on the doorstep
of the house 1 saw a drunken man.
He lay on his back and sent forth on
the still night air an incredibly ear
splitting song.
That 1 murmured, is the drunk
en- husband. I'll fetch him in
80 1 slipped my trousers on over
my pajamas, stole downstairs and out
upon the step. Come in to bed l
said. and took the fellow by the
shoulder and brought him to his feet
He seemed a little stubborn, but l got
him into the hall and shut and locked
the door.
Now, upstairs you 60 said 1, but
he resisted here. However, l was de-
termined. I picked him up bodily and
began to ascend the stairs, carrying
him. He fought. He kicked, pulled
my hair, tried to trip me with his legs
indeed, we had a time of it. And In
the midst of this scutfie I heard my
landlady's voice. and, looking up, saw
two faces peering close together over
the balustrade of the second floor.
d" Mr.. Fishback, what on earth are
you doing" said my landlady.
" I am bringing UP your husband
madam He is drunk again., said L.
Then another voice, the voice OF
the Nomans companion, exclaimed
sternly:
" What do you mean, young man!
l am this lady's husband
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-06

At a recent dinner in Washington,
says the New York Mail and Express,
Capt -, of the United States navy,
told the following story about a GER
tain shallow-pated naval chaplain, who
was looked upon with scant respect
by his brother officers. From travel
ing salesman the man had turned
preacher and backed by influence,
came to Washington in Mr.. Cleveland's
time to get a naval chaplaincy. When
he was introduced at the White House,
Mr.. Cleveland looked him over in his
grave, penetrating way, and said:
Mr.. -, this. is no case for favor
itism; we want a man of merit and
ability for this post
The applicant rejoined:
Mr.. President, if it is Gods will
that l go into the navy, neither you
nor any one else can keep me out"
The President eyed him for a mo-
ment and then said dryly:
We'll, Mr.. ", I'll do my part, any
way. Good morning"
THE cream of the joke is" said the
narrator, that the fellow-whO really
did get into the navy later-told the
story himself with all seriousness, add
ing, And as l left that room l had a
strong conviction that it was not the
will of Providence that 1 should enter
the navy at that time"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-06
The Niuht EDITORS Criticism.

From the Baltimore American.
The poet writes: Il sat upon the
shore
And watched the long, green combers
of the sea
Come swiftly in and break upon the
lea"
There's something that would interest
me more:
Now. if he'd sat upon the raging sea
And watched the great big combers of
dry land
Come splashing DER the water near at
hand,
That would have been worth while, it
seems to me.
But writing of thing so common
place
Is such a wicked waste of ink and
space.
He also writes 81 sat beneath tree.
And, with a book in hand, watched
a bird
Fitting from bough to bough-his song
/ heard"
This beats that wretched drool about
If but the bird had sat beneath the
tree,
And, with a book in hand, had watch
ed the man
Amid those branches do a wild can
can,
That would have been worth writing
yes-sir-eei
But, when the bird and man were each
in place,
To write it up seems almost disgrace.
Again: ct held a trimming glass in
hand,
1 drank it's sparkling burden at a
draught-
My soul was lifted even while
quaffed."
Some more rank twaddle of that same
old brand.
Now, had he held the liquor in his
hand,
And quaffed the glass-there were a
story, sure;
For no physician could that poet cure
When once that tumbler in his midst
should land.
In half an hour the poor fool would
be dead
That story would be worth double
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-06
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Chattanooga Times (Dem.) says:
4" Senator Bacon of Georgia thinks it
is time, if success is to be won, for
the Democratic party to leave off dead
issues and address itself to live and
practical questions says an exchange;
wherein the Senator displays his usual
level head and sound judgment"
The Indianapolis News (Dem) says:
"Mr. Root seems to think that we had
better bear the tariff and trust evils
we have than take chances of Earring
our prosperity by lightning our bur-
dehs. In this respect he is quite in ac-
cord with a large number of eminent
fmanciers in the country, who have
given a good deal of thought time and
capital to the subject of the making
of tariff. Still, everybody does not
seem to be fully convinced"
The Louisville Courier-Journal
Dem.) says: 1.-THE second rule laid
down by Mr. Root is that the tariff
must be revised by it's friends. BY
that he means the friends of trusts
and monopolies. The country has al
ready had far too much of this sort
of revision, which always means an
other turn of the screw in the direction
of shelter for monopolies. 1t would be
left as it is than to have it revised by
the sort of friends represented by Mr..
Root. They would be certain to make
it worse"
The Philadelphia Record Oem.)
says: Gould President Monroe have
anticipated all the endless babble over
his doctrine he might have paused be-
fore proclaiming it. There were, bow
ever, two occasions on which the doc
trine was grandly enforced without
any unnecessary pialaver as to it's
meaning. The first was when Secre-
tary of State William H. Seward quiet
~ notified the Emperor Louis Napoleon
to get out of Mexico. The second was
when Secretary Richard Olney called
a halt on Great Britain in Venezuela.
These two acts are worth more than
all that has been spoken and written
about the Monroe doctrine for three
quarters of q centurUf
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-06

The New York papers are now talk
ing about Philadelphia as suburb of
their city. That sort of talk cannot be
pleasant to Philadelphiaus. 1t has
some foundation. however. 1t seems
that when the Pennsylvania Railroad
tunnel into New York City is complet-
ed trains will run from the heart of
Philadelphia to the heart of New York
in an hour and half. 1t will be n
pretty easy matter, therefore, for
Philadelphians to attend the theater
in New York and return home the
same night.
Philadelphians, however, have very
good theaters of their own, and plenty
of them 1t will not happen often,
therefore. that they will go to New
York for the sole purpose of attending
the theater.
The country all around New York
will in the course of a very few years
become thickly settled. The tunnel in
to New York will enable trains to be
run thirty miles into the country from
the center of the city in forty-five min
utes. 1t takes about that long to so
from Wall street to Harlem.
One of the Pennsylvania Railroad Of
ficials is quoted as saying that the
whole of Long Island will look like
continuous village in a few years. The
tunnel will bring about some remark
able changes. The Pennsylvania has
great faith in its plans. This is shown
by it's preparations to spend $4,000 coo
on the tunnel and the station in New
York. And its stockholders have faith
in the great improvement it has under
taken. They showed it by the prompt
ness with which they subscribed for
the stock which was offered them.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-06

Recently published statistics show
that the people of the United States
are great drinkers and that the con-
sumption of drinks, both hard" and
soft" is increasing faster than the
rate of growth of population. Since
1880 the consumption of alcoholic bev-
erages has, been almost doubled. In
that year the per capita consumption
was a small fraction over 10 gallons. In
1902 the figure had increased to 1913
gallons, or over SO per cent During
the same period the consumption of
coffee had increased 50 per cent, while
that of tea had decreased nearly As per
cent. In 1902 it is estimated that the
country paid for stimulating bever-
ages" of all kinds-tea, coffee, cocoa,
etc, as we'll as alcoholic drinks-near-
ly 81. $40, 600 000 OF this sum S1,t72,-
00O. 600 was for alcoholic beverages and
the balance for the non-alcoholic sort
1t is calculated that one out of four
of the population is a consumer of
strong drinks in some form, either oc-
casionaly or habitually, and the per
capita cost of drink to the drinkers is
placed at $69.32 per year, or 10 cents
a day.
During the past five years there has
been a relative decrease in the con-
sumption of whisky and a correspond
ing increase in the consumption of beer
and wines. Students of the matter af-
feet to see in this a reflection of the
prosperity of the country, arguing that
when times are good the people drink
wines and light liquors, but when they
are bad they indulge in spirits to keep
their courage up" Statistics are
quoted to show that in 1898, when
there was depression and dissatisfac-
ton in the commercial and industrial
worlds, much more whisky and brandy
were consumed than in 1900, when
times were easier.
But drinking propensities of the
American people are not confined to
the stimulating beverages. The soda
water bill is something enormous,
while the retail cost of American min
eral waters consumed reaches the COM
Portable total of upwards of $40, 000,-
600 year. More than So, 00O 900 gallons
of mineral waters were shipped from
the springs of this country last year,
in addition to which a large business
was done in imported waters and man
ufactured, artificial mineral waters
The Americans, it is claimed, are the
greatest water drinkers in the world,
and the information goes to show that
a great many of them also take lit
tie something on the side"