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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-09
LOYAL To THE LOST CAUSE.
Sample Teachings IN Country Schools in
the SOuth inst After the war.

The country school teacher IN the South
at the close OF the OWL war was still loyal
to the Lost Cause, said professor in one
of the leading universities OF the South
who was guest in this city few gifts ago
1T is little wonder that the sectional lines
disappeared 40 slowly when one remem-
bers some Of the Instructions given in the
backwoods schOolhouses the first year
after the war.
In one Of the border States such instruc-
tons as these were given by the teacher,
orally, for there were no school books for
quite while after the war:
Who was the first PrcsidentY IL the
pupil answered George Washington the
teacher replied rather sadly: Yes he was
the first President at tho time you speak of
but the first President of the South was
jefferson Davis
Then he would ask Who was the great =
est soldier in the world? and he would
answer himself Gen. Lee
When the class In geography was called
and the question was asked: Name the
greatest cities In the country, the class
was instructed to say: New Orleans, Rich
mond and Charleston The longest river
in the United States was given as the Lower
Mississippi and the class was further in
structed that the'capital Of the country was
Richmond.
"The greatest product of the country was,
SO the class was instructed, cotton, and the
teacher that l knew always added that
sugar and New Orleans molasses cane
next.
1.-The teacher in those days sci the texts
in the old copy books for his pupils. All
had some connection with some event in
the South.
"In all these instructions there was never
any reference to tho North No harsh
words were spoken OF Lincoln, or Grant,
or Sherman, or of any Of the great events
simply ignored. If at that time some one
had come along with a proposition to build
a Chinese wall along Mason and Dixon's
line I think the people in some parts of the
South would readily have given their time
and labor 10 the work free.
1T is not strange, repeat. that sectional
feeling in some regions died out slowly"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03
COUNTY COURT.

County court resumed work once
more on tuesday after more than a
month of comparative lnaction on ac-
count of the session of Supreme Court.
Judge Wendell z. Stafford, Of St.
JohnsDury, will preside owing to the
fact that Judge Haselton has been as
signed elsewhere for the December
term. Burton f. Bailey, acting for
the States attorney, will call mp the
two Barre cases in which the charge
is resisting an officer and if possible
will put one of them on trial. 1t is
likely that the two murder cases can
Whitney began his labors as deputy
county clerk. He has been stu
dent in the law offices of Dillingham;,
Huse q Rowland and Fed S. Stanton.
Alexandra GarrettC was arraigned
in county court on Wednesday and
pleaded mot guilty" to two charges,
the murder of Eli Corti, and an at.
tempt to murder Emilio Vorhini.
The prisoner was calm, though very
anxious looking, and shook his head as
he said the two words. He Was taken
into the court room free.of handouts.
Immediately after his plea was given
Judge Stafford announced that the
court had decided his case must be
tried this term, and suggested next
Monday as date for beginning the
trial. W. A. Lord and F. L. Laird,
counsel for the respondent, thought it
would be very hard for them to be-
ready then and the court left the date
of the trial undecided John II. Sem
ter and r. A. Hoar appear for the
State in the case.
On Tuesday State VS.. Taisey and
Jacques charged the resisting an off
Ger in Barre was taken up and proceed
ings were not completed at time of
going to press. B. E. Bailey and
W. Scott for State; M. W. Gordon
for respondent.
In the case of Bartholomew Oroto
the State has asked the court to COM
init the respondent to Waterbury for
examination as the plea of insanity
will be made.
Eugene Davis, NoIthfield, and Neil
Knapp, East Montpelier, pleaded
guilty to the charge of burglary.
Sentence deferred Albert Leger
pleaded guilty to larceny in Barre
and was sentenced to not less than six
months nor more than one year in
Rutland. Joseph DeCelle, Wafer
bury, charged with assault has been
pronounced sane by authorities at
asylum at Waterbury and is in Jail to
await trial.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03
TYPHOID FEVER GAG ES.

Butler, Pa, Dec. l The epidemic
of typhoid fever which broke out on
September 10 last, increases. Over
1000 cases and eighteen deaths have
been reported. This means that about
one out of every seven of the bor~
ough's inhabitants has been stricken.
One physician has sixy-five fever pa
tients; four doctors have brogen
down under the strain, and weakened
have been easier victims of the
scOurge. The relief committeeman.
clergymen and doctors say that the
worst is yet to come; that the cpl
demic will not subside until April,
and that 1000 day will be needed to
muse and feed the sick.
In reponse to appeals, nurses are
arriving ON every train, but domestic
help to wash the clothes and bedding
of the patients is as badly needed as
nurses. The State board of health
found that the epidemic was caused
by pollution of the wafer used by
most citizens. This pollution is
traceable to cases Of the fever near
Thorn Run Dam, the reservoir Of
the Butler Water Company.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03
THE-BOY DESPERADOES.

The Chicago boy bandits, who have
so calmly revealed a story of crime of
such terrible horror, have caused much
comment throughout the country.
And we'll they might, for the mere
thought of boys with such bloody rec
ords is enough to cause shudder.
With murders and hold ups and minor
crimes innumerable to blacken their
record they coolly await death and
amuse themselves by telling the story
of their lives. The grand jury has
done its work quickly and the boys
stand under several indictments for
murder but they meet all with bravado.
AS the Boston Herald remarks: "They
appear to be utterly bereft of all man
illness, except the courage common TO
some men and the most ferocious
brutes. Undoubtedly they will suffer
a quick penalty; but how many other
young men are being schooled to emu
late their wickedness.
The New York World comments on
CD9 aHdlr III uluer6ub N6lu AS lOl-
lows:
"Young Niedermeier, the Chicago
boy bandit, has been giving informal
testimony which adds materially as
printed to the literature of success
First as to the courtesies of the game
of "holdup." Says the enterDrising
youth: 81 never raise my voice when
holding people up. l try to be polite
and use nice language. always act
as gentlemen when l rob" The
suave and persuasive promoter of UNI
certain stock -jobbing operations will
recognize here one of the first princi-
pies of polite poiteness as applied in
his own trade"
And farther advises the promoter
to follow in the steps of Niedermier
who said
Il am always cool. let the other
fellow get excited l build my plans
on the theory that he will get excited
La the thick of the most exciting iu-
cidents l can always think straight
and shoot straight. That accounts for
whatever success | nay have had in
my life as a highwayman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03
GALLINGER'S SCHEME.

Senator Gallinger, of New Hamp-
shire, has introduced bill in Con-
gress which is intended to help in the
enforcement Of State liquor laws, espe-
cially those that are prohibitory. 1t
is fact we'll known and widely adj
vertised that those persons who vio-
late the State laws generally take the
precaution to first get what is known
as United States liquor license or,
more properly, tax receipt from the
collector OF internal revenue in his
district. Having thus made peace
with the government, the liquor traffic
proceeds in spite of State authori-
ties. Senator Gallinger proposes to
have no collector OF internal revenue
deliver such eax receipt to any man
until the would-be dealer exhibits a
license granted in the regular way,
authorizing him to do liquor bust
ness under the laws of the State
This would prevent any liquor dealer
in prohibition S ate from making
peace with Uncle Sam, and would ma
terially assist the State officers in
keeping down the traffic.
Senator Gallinger will probably
meet with plenty of opposition before
he gets his measure passed. The ac5
would undoubtedly mean a consider
able loss to the government in revenue
and that will make good handle for
its opponents. Besides, the facts that
the payment OF internal revenue dues
and the granting of licenses in license
States do not occur at the same time
and in local option States changes are
frequently made, might make the law
very difficult to enforce. If the law
could be passed, however, it would
undoubtedly aid in the enforcement
Of State liquor laws
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03
SANTO DOMINGO.

The Dominican Republic has new
government. By the way, please
don't call it San Domingo. There
are four masculine saints names in
Spanish which take "Santo" instead
of San" aud Santo Domingo is one
OF them.
Santo Domingo has been rich in
governments. although her Consul
here boasts that the stability of the
republic 10 such that has had only
three revolutions since 1899. He
might have added that all of these
disturbances have taken place within
a year and half. Santo Domingo has
had the luxury of four Presidents
since Roosevelt drove his stakes in the
White House. Mr.. Jimenes held
that exciting post last year. Mr..
Vasquez threw Mr.. Jimenes out in
May. /, 9O2, and ruled Tor no less than
year. Then Wos y Gil thought il
was time for change and evicted
vasquez. Now Wos y Gil has Joined
the illustrious order OF Presidents,
to DO succeeded temporarily by Nor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03
FOREIGN.

Paris, Nov. 80. 1t is learned from
reliable source the Minister of War
Andre, who is going over the docu-
metns comprising the secret dossier of
trial of Capt. Dreyfus at Rennes, has
discovered that ten of the documents
are forgeries wholly or in part.
Among the forgeries is the famous
bordereau supposed to have been
written in Emperor Williams hand
and alluring to "that oanaille d..
1t is now established that the words
originally were THAT camille g." the
letter "g" having been scratched in
an effort to transform it into I'd. "
This new development promises to
arouse sensational agitation, and aid
in the revision of the original sentence
against Capt. Dreyfus.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03

Bryan has visited Croker in Eng
land and discussed with him the pol
itical situation. The Tammany boss
is reported to have urged the former
free silver champion to again be a
candidate for nomination for Presi-
dent and to have promised him the
aid OF the Croker influence. Bryan
was told that if again nominated he
would be elected, being young, Wig
orous, and with greater personal IN
huence than any other Democrat.
Bryan went to England chiefly to
secure Croker's support for candi-
date other than himself, but the boss
cast aside the name he proposed as
utterly out of the question. Bryan,
in many ways, is a remarkable man
and one to be admired, but if Richard
Croker thinks he could be elected
President he is in error. Ii is to be
noted, however, that Croker says he
could be elected IF nominated He
probably realizes that he could not be
nominated again,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03
VERMONT.

Rutland, Dec. Although the
men engaged in the search for Henry
b. Kingsley OF Rutland. who disap-
peared at New York city, Saturday,
November ID, are working harder
than ever, no clews have been dis
covered for several days. A New York
paper stated in Sundays issue that
the reward OF $500 which was offered
by Hugh Fl. Baxter would be doubled.
Circulars containing q description and
q half-tone picture Of Baxter. together
with an outline OF the circumstances
connected with the disappearance,
will be printed and distributed
throughout the country.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03
WEST BERLIN.


Miss Addie Hewitt is at home from
Montpelier for few days.
David Bean Jr.. has moved on to his
fathers farm.
Fred Stone of Williamstown teaches
in district No. 4. He is boar.nug AZ
e. o. Dewey's and will assist him
with his farm work.
Little Mayo Drew, youngest son of
M. ID. Drew, has been sick since last
August. first having typhoid fever
about three weeks, then confined in bed
eight weeks with rheumatic fever.
Now the little fellow must 90 to the
hospital and have piece of bone re-
moved from his right arm due to
fever sore.
The ladies aid will meet with Mrs.
II. B. Ayers next Friday afternoon.
WORCESTER.
Miss Bertha Symonds of MONTPELIER,
spent Thanksgi with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. 7. Symonds.
Miss Ada Conner visited in Barre
recently.
Milo Chandler of Walden was in
town on Monday.
l.
cius Goodwin on Sunday.
Schools opened OH Monday with the
following teachers: Miss Flora Scagel
and Mrs. Carrie A. Towne in the vii
lage school; Ray Hall in the Brook
district; Clair Templeton in the Par
son district and Edgar Burnham on
Hampshire hill.
b. e. Gillette and wife, and II. e.
Austin and wife spent Thanksgiving
in Moretown.
Miss Sadie Gross of st. Johnsbury
has been visiting her parents for a
few days.
e. y. Moore began his duties as
mail carrier on the rural delivery
route, December /.
Let everyone remember the Christ
mas sale to be held in the town hall
on the AFTERNOON and evening of De-
cenIber and o. There will be useful
and fancy articles offered for sale. A
musical aud literary entertainment
will be given each evening, and light
refreshments will be served. Come
and bring your friends.
e. a. Harrison has gone to Burling-
ton for two or three days on business.
Hauling logs has already commenced
at A. II. Camps mill, also at E. A.
Carr's mill. the Shedding being very
good on the main roads in that vicin-
itv.
II. l.. Abbott is in town on business.
Miss Maud Vigeant is at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. n. H..
Vigeant, in Gilmore.
VI ACrIrNrYrnnNr
F. G. Huntington and wife spent
Thanksgiving at East CorintE.
Mrs. Elizabeth Huntington remains
about the same.
Miss Gertrude Hill of Bradford is
teaching the village grammar school
this term.
Despite the cold weather there were
LOG out last Friday night TO attend the
Grange meeting.
Nathan Carter spent Sunday at f.
O. Huntington's
A. S. Martin of Orange has sold his
farm. Consideration, SIS, 600.
HARDWICK
Miss Gertrude Lawson is at home
from Montpelier for few days.
Howard Farr and wife spent Thanks.
giving with his parents at West Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Shipman anC
daughter, Theda, spent Thanksgiving
in Whitman, Mass.
Mrs. Fred Angel is very dangerous
| ly ill with pneumonia.
One of the pleasant events of The
week was the marriage of Miss
Maude Brush and Charlie O'Clair
both of his place.
The dance at the Sons of Veterans
hall on Thursday evening was wei
ate nded.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03
Greatest Of All Physicians.
Eminent Discoverer of
PAINE'S CELERY
COMPOUND

Prof. Edward E. Phelps, M. D., IL. D.,
was born in Connecticut and graduated at
Yale,
His unusual talent soon brought him reputa-
ton and prominence. First he was elected to
the professorship of anatomy and surgery in
the Vermont University. Next he was APP
pointed lecturer in Dartmouth College. The
following year he was chosen TO the most
important professorship in the country, a
place that he occupied when he made his
world famed discovery of Paine's Celery Com
pound.
This infalible cure for those fearful ills that
result from an impaired nervous system and
impure blood, has ehdeared the great doctor
to the world.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03

ales and with more or less perma-
hence - probably less - by Jimenes
again
Rapid rotation in office is popular
in Santo Domingo, and two or three
leaders often play puss-in-t he-oorner
with the Presidency, each one holding
it again and again as he finds opportu-
nifty to catch his predecessor out. One
of these intermittent incumbents once
undertook to sell the republic to Spain
at time when the attention of the
United States was otherwise engaged.
The Spanish experiment in conquest
precisely conceded with our civil war.
It began in 1861 and ended in 1865.
But the Domiuicaus maintained their
own independence without needing to
call " on us for even so much help as
we gave to the Mexicans against Lou is
Napoleon. They showed then that
they had some solid material for a
republic that deserved to live. Their
condition is by no means as hopeless
as that of the Haytians and if they
can cure themselves of the revolution
habit their country may yet take rank
with Cuba. New York World.
Medical officers of both army and
navy are intensely interested in the
experiments in nutrition now being
conducted at Yale university. A de.
tachment of hospital corps men, under
an assistant surgeon of the army, il
aiding in these tests, and the young
men who are subjects of an economic
al diet, which is part OF this the
DRY, are in fine condition, and there
is nothing to indicate loss Of
strength or viRor They take part
in athletic sports, and are having, in
general, good time, although neces-
sarily they are under some restric-
tioDs, and are still amenable to mill
tary authority. Surgeon General
O'Reilly, of the army, says that SC
far as the experiments have gone they
indicate that the theory of a reduced
amount of food is fully sustained. It
has been found that instead of twenty
five ounces of food, health and vital.
ity can be maintained on nine ounce:
day A full demonstration Of this
will have an important effect on the
subsistence departments of the army
and navy, to say nothing, says Gen,
o. Reilly, of the advantage it would
be to the world Mt large. Granite
State Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03
FISH AND GAME LEAGUE.

Burlington, Dec. AT the annual
meeting OF the Fish and Game League
held last evening at the Van Ness
House, officers for the ensuing year
were elec.ed as follows: President.
f. l.. Fish, of Vergennes; secretary,
Fl. G. Thomas of Stowe; treasurer,
O. F. Lowe of Montpelier; vice pres
idents, J. W. Titcomb of Washington,
d. O., d. @. Hawley of Burlington,
G. R. Wales of Bellows Falls, f. l..
Greene of st. Adams, George Atkins
of Montpelier, M. e. Wheeler of
Rutland, F, .sButterfield of Derby
Line; executive committee, T. M.
Chapman of Middlebury. W, E.
Hawks of Bennington, E. N. Garter
OF st. Johnsbury, F. H. Wells of
Burlington, e. M. Bartlett of Island
Pond. f. M. Mitchell of Richford,
Juan Robinson of South Hero, o. E.
Luce of Stowe, Nelson Bailey of Wells
River, f. E. Alfred of Newport. e.
S. Kinsley of Rutland, l.. Bart Gross
of Montpelier, f. W. Childs OF Brat
tleboro, o. W. Daley OF White River
Junction. The report of the treasurer
O. +. Lowe, shows the total assets of
the league to be $449 lS; receipts for
the past year $a,9l4.9S and expend
lures $29S0. 50. An interesting letter
WAS read from J. W. Titcomb, former
president Of the league. written from
Buenos Ayres
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03

And now certain opponents of foot
ball, and advocates as we'll, say that
the girls should not be allowed to
attend football games. On the one
hand it is said the game is brutalizing
to watch and that the girls are losing
their tender compassion by being
spectators, while on the other hand it
is said that the game Is injured by
the presence of the fair sex because it
has tendency to cause rough playing
by making the players ready to do
anything rather than be defeated,
whether according to the rules of the
game or not, because the girls only
understand victory or defeat and not
the science OF the game.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03

The Hardwick Gazette briefly COM
ments on socialism aud anarchism and
their connection with organized labor
as follows: THE American Fedora
ton of Labor rejects socialism. turns
it down hard Organized labor is
founded on common sense ideas; So
cialism is not, Organized labor is all
right; socialism, while perhaps not
all wrong, is very near that - it's
whole superstructure rests ON fallacies,
and borders on the dangerous. An
acquaintance of the writer's. who has
had much actual dealing with the So
cialists and anarchists of Barre, insists
that 1.-TWO beers makes an anarchist
of every socialist
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03

If the recommendation OF the board
OF ordnance and fortification are fol-
lowed, the United States will have a
field artillery equal. if not superior,
to that of any other nation. The new
gun for that branch of the service is
a three-inch rapid-fire rife which has
been thoroughly tested and found su-
perior. The board, besides recon-
mending change of guns, speaks for
more target practice, and greater
reserve supply of ammunition. - -
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03

papers of the Middle West commend
che President regardless of political
affiliations For instance, the Detroit
Free Press, Democratic paper, says ::
The position of the United States on
the continent justifies all that has
been done and more With the in
terests at stake, no other nation in
the world would have dealt so lenient-
ly with Colombia as the United States
has dealt" Many OF the Democratic
papers in the South favor the Presi-
dents action, though others bitterly
attack it, On the whole the Presi-
dent is receiving the support of the
great majority throughout the country
and may we'll feel satisfied.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03

Two handsome young stenographer
girls in st. Louis are earning together
$50 week and are living on $2.10 a
week for room rent, car fare, and
food. For food alone they pay only
81, or fifty cents each. They claim
to be perfectly healthy and to be
gaining in flesh. That may all be so,
but when the ordinary person can be
induced to live OH any fare that can
be bought for fifty cents week the
business in insane asylums will in
crease rapidly.