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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11

In baccalaureate sermon before
the graduating class Of Princeton on
Sunday. the Rev. DR.. Henry Van
Dyke Damed a lesson which Vermont
more than ever, needs to learn, when
he said: There are monstrous evils
and vices in society. Let intemper-
ance be for us the type of all, because
so many of the others are its children.
Drunkenness ruins more homes and
wrecks more lives than war. How
shall we oppose it? l do not say that
we shall not pass resolutions and
make laws against it. But l do say
that we can never really conquer the
evil in this way. The stronghold of
intemperance, lies in the vacancy and
despair Of mems minds. The way to
attack it is to make the sober life
beautiful and happy and full of inter
est. Teach your boys how to work,
how to read, how to play, you fathers,
before you send them to college, if
you want to guard them against the
of strong drink and the
many shames and sorrows that 60
with it. Make the life of your COM
munity cheerful and pleasant and in
teresting. you reformers, provide rec
reations which will not harm them if
you want to take away the power of
the gilded saloons and the grimy
boozing dens. Parks and Fairgrounds,
Libraries and reading rooms. clean
homes and cheerful churches; these
are the efficient foes of intemper-
ance."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11

Company has been robbed of thousands
OF dollars by a conspiracy between
officials of the pay department and
workmen. Stuffing the pay rolls was
the method employed, and the scheme
was to make out dummy checks which
were presented by Mexicans. Dectec-
tives were employed to investigate the
matter and discovered that these Mexl-
cans divided the spoils with men en-
ployed by the company. Several ring
leaders have been arrested.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11

A report has been received at the
war department at Washington from
Gen. Sanger, who has had charge of
the census in the Philippines, in which
he states that the work of taking the
census of the islands is progressing
very well. Gen. Sanger says that the
reports thus Tar received indicate a
Christian population of 7, 900, 900. The
population of Manila is, in round
numbers, 22O, 600.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
Vigorous Old Age

Paine's Celery Compound makes the old
feel young, and cures their ills. 1t has added
years of health and enjoyment to many life.
Use this great medicine regularly, and its invig-
Grating powers will fill your declining years
with health, strength, and happiness. Read
what George F. Morse, 81 years old, writes:--
WELLS & RICHARDSON Co.,
Gentlemen just a word in favor of
Paine's Celery Compound, hoping it may catch
the eye of some afflicted person, and they
may receive the same satisfactory benefit.
Some IS years ago l had a combination of
malaria, chills and fever, and grip, which con-
tinued for year or more; meantime lost in
weight about 90 pounds, trying different medi.
cines and doctors with unsatisfactory results.
Paine's Celery Compound was recommended,
and, after using little 1 began to improve,
gaining about a pound week. In year |
had regained so pounds of the lost weight and
good health, and have been we'll man ever
since. Yours truly, GEORGE f. MORSE.
LEoMINsTER, Mass, Oct. 81, 1902.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
FOREST FIRES

Plymouth, N. H., June S.-The
forest fires in Franconia Notch are
under control this morning and it is
thought that the danger point is
passed Local showers have STONED
the spread of the fires but were not
sufficient to relieve the crop situation.
Plattsburg, N. Y, June S.-A good
hard rain fell throughout the Adiron.
dack region last night practically ex-
tinguishing the forest fires.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
MORE INDICTMENTS.

Washington, June S.-The Federal
grand jury has indicted Samuel A.
and Diller B. Croft for conspiracy to
defraud the government in connec.
tion with Machen, the former super.
intendent of the free delivery division
Of the postoffice department. The
Groffs are proprietors Of patent mail
box fastener by the sale of which to
the government Machen proflted.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11

The government is not alone in the
matter of dishonest officials who prac-
tice fraud to fill their own pockets at
the expense of their employers. The
story comes from California that Hun
tington's Pacific Electric Railway
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
THE STUDY OF FORESTRY.

Following the lead of Cornell and
Yale, Harvard has established course
in forestry. Like Cornell the course
will embrace four years instead of two
as is the case at the Connecticut uni
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11

Dyspepsia-bane Of human existence.
Burdook Blood Bitters cures It,,
promptly, permanently. Regulates
and tones the stomach.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
MILK EIGHT GENTS.

Bennington, June 9.-The milkmen
OF this town have raised the price Of
milk to eight cents q quart.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11

Monarch Mixed Paint is the best be
cause 1t goes the farrhest.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-11

argosy would come that morning.
When the sun rose, the turbaned and
gaily robed throngs on the stone quays,
the roofs of the citadel and the ada
cent cliffs made out the incoming
steamer. She limped into the harbor,
the first steamship to put in there in
many a year. Intermingling with the
enthusiastic cheers of the mutitudes
ashore the new aTgosy's anchor cable
ratified through her hawse pipes. The
little harbor, which in early days had
sheltered fleets, was scarcely large
enough for the big steamer to swing
in.
The crew aboard caught the enthus-
iaSm of the masses ashore, who had
planned such a welcome as was given
1to the argosies of old. Flags and ban
ners flew to all the masts, cannons
were fired. and the harbor echoed the
cheers or sailors and populace in turn.
The bells Of the ancient monastery, on
the rocky ledge jutting out into the sea-
changed a wild chorus of metallic peals
and the old abbot, in white cossack,
blessed them all from the walls of the
monastery.
Soon the harbor was dotted with
small boats covered with colored avn
ings and loaded with stalwart men and
exceptionally beautiful women of the
Spanish blonde type, with golden hair
blue eyes and creamy brown skins, al
going out to obtain a closer view of
the big steamer, the first many had
seen. The foreign sailors, few of whom
had ever heard of Ragusa before ship
ping, answered every cheer from the
tails
That day a great celebration was
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-11

have staggered to her new home with
out mishap, but she had yet to cross
the Bay of Biscay, where many better
vessels than she have foundered.
On the third night out a storm arose
and tossed the old steamer about Big
seas washed over her decks. The deck
seams had not been pitched for years,
so the water entered freely and began
to fill the hold, laden, not like the
argoses of old, with Turkish and In
dian silks, spices and fruits, but with
English coal.
The crew attempted to set the
steam pumps going, but they refused
to work. The water rose, put out the
furnaces and the engines stopped.
Then all hands set to the task of ba1
ing out with buckets, forming a chain
up the engine room companion. Thus
they labored for two days, resting
little and sleeping none at all. 1t was
a fight for life, in which even the cap
tain's daughter was obliged to take
part.
and the crew gained on the rising
waters in the hold. Then they rested
rested one whole day, lying almost
senseless about the decks, while the
old ship rolled aimlessly in the sub
siding seas.
Finally the men were able to resume
their labors, the pumps were put In
order, wreckage cleared away, the fur
naces rekindled and the engines again
started going. The Balkan" resumed
her course.
Seven days later a crowd of citizens
of Ragusa stood watching the sea
from the walls of the town. News had
reached them by telegraph that their
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-11

ternational association. Some of them
are also members of that associations
executive committee, and other MEM
bers of the association attended Thurs
Gay committee meeting for con-
sultation.
In the sense that the cooperation of
the International Fine Arts Associa-
ton will place additional and peculiar
facilities at the disposal of the man
ayers this years show will be in the
nature OF an inaugural exhibition, for
although not given by the Internation-
al association it will be in part under
its auspices and will be the first ex-
hthtlon with which the association
has had to do. There is a strong prob
ability that the association may bring
over some portraits from private COL
lectlons in Europe to be exhibited.
II is the desire of the energetic gem
tlemen who have undertaken the man
agement of the exhibition to make this
portrait show the equivalent of what a.
portrait show held at Burlington House
would be, when the best portraits held
in private possession in England would
be assembled as a matter of course
IL is now pretty generally known that
there have come to be owned by pri-
vate collectors in this country some
of the worlds finest paintings NOT
housed in permanent museum homes,
ana that these private galleries hide
portraits worth journeys to look upon
The efforts of the committee and their
collaborators are directed to the end of
putting this exhibition upon a plane
such that owners will deem it an honor.
not less than a favor, to loan their
paintings for the portrait show in flu
ture. Much attention is to be given to
hanging the pictures, and the commit
teemen feel confident in promising that
there will be no danger of having fine
portraits obscured by bad position.
More than the ordinary safeguards
are to be thrown about the canvases
loaned for this show. Besides fire in
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-11
PLAN A FINE PORTRAIT SHOW.
Private Collectors VIII Loan Rare
Paintings.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
New York is to have a portrait show
this fall which will prove a memoir
able one if the plans of those having
the arrangements for it in charge are
accomplished in their fulness. The ex-
scutive committee, whose members are
Charles 7. Barney, Stanford White,
James Henry Smith, Frank L. Wither-
bee and Thomas E. Kerby held a meet
ing on Thursday afternoon. and now
make the announcement that the eX-
hibtion will open in the American Art
Galleries on Thursday, Nov. II, and
that it will be distinguished one
among New York portrait shows.
1t is nearly five years now since
the last portrait show, which opened
n December, 1898, in the old National
Academy of Design, and the coming
one is to be held, as former ones were,
for the benefit of the Orthopaedic Hos
pital. The executive committee is to
be aided by an artists advisory COM
mittee made up of Francis Lathrop
William NJ. Chase. Benjamin c. Por-
ter J. Carroll Beckwith, Wilfred c.
gon Glenn, whom Sargent praised high
" when Mr.. Won Glenn accompanied
Sargent to this country last winter,
and Frank D. Millet.
The notable change in the prepara-
tons for this years portrait show
which particularly distinguishes it from
former similar affairs, however. is to
be found in the fact that the manag-
ing committee has the cooperation of
the recently organized international
Fine Arts Association. All of the mem
bers of the executive committee of the
portrait show are members of the In
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-11

held aboard the old Balkan" Wine.
fruits, music and flowers were brought
aboard by the prettiest girls of the
town, who afterwards danced on the
decks with the sailors. The men who
had safely navigated the ship home
were as highly honored and as much
feted as were the ancient mariners of
the middle ages.
In the evening a ball was given, to
which came all the city officials, sons
of the old aristocracy that governed
hundred years ago. The grand
daughter of the last rector. who was
elected monthly to govern the town
when Ragusa was a republic. and
whose power Napoleon crushed, danced
with a common sailor. Each member
of that crew, confirmed vagabends
most of them, will ever remember when
he came to RaguSa on the first of her
new argosies.
Since then the same firm that bought
the "Balkin" has added several more
steamers to its fleet. The old Balkan
still sails the Mediterranean. nosing
into all sorts of out-of-the way ports
with odd cargoes. Her official flag is
the little old banner of ancient Ragusa
She has been much repaired and tink-
cred with, but is only a question of
a few more years before she. too, will
join that old fleet of the past. the
ancient argosies.
But at present the Ragusians are
extremely proud of her-almost as
proud as they are in their knowledge
that in all that region which the Turk
once overran they are his one uncon-
quered foe.
Albert Sonnichsen.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-11

end, it will be with a proud flourish
and a triumphant note:
"Ragusa, mark you. has never been
conquered by the intides."
The traveller. the while he listens.
cannot help thinking of the contrast
the prosperous Ragusa of the time of
the Crusades and several centuries
after, the first port of Christendom and
of the argosies: the Ragusa of to-day,
dwindled from 10000 to 1000 souls, a
port into which only deck1ess coasters
put with any regularity, and from
which scarcely dollars worth of
merchandise is shipped to the markets
of the west. The reflection of former
glories is seen everywhere in this
mountain and seabound town of a race
who, though never a warlike people.
and given more to commerce than to
the sword, would not and did not bend
to the yoke of the Turk when seeming
ly more powerful communities about
them sucCumbed before the onslaughts
of the invader.
The reflection of former deeds has
, been resting on Ragusa since the DAYS
of the Armada, when the Raguasians
turned many of their argosies into
ships of the line, and Joined fortunes
with the Spaniard. Swiftly, after that
defeat, trade swerved to Venice: the
argosies dwindled and crumbled,
plaques swept the republic; earth
quakes tumbled the town about the
heads of the inhabitants; it became
involved in the Napoleonic wars: Rus
STA besieged it; the French took it:
and fianally, on Napoleons downfall.
1t passed into the hands of Austria
with the rest of Dalmatia, and ceased
forever to be an independent power.
But now this little city, whose willy
dlplomatlsts and fortifications. which
are still strong saw to it that the
Turks never enered its gates except
as drivers of caravans loaded with the
precious products of the Orient. is,
arousing itself from its long lethargy.
Along with the introduction of West
ern dress by travelled Ragusians
among their turbaned and Killed fell
low townsmen, the big, muscular, dark
skinned and fair eyed descendants of
old Romans, old Greeks and Slavs
have caught the modern commercial
spirit. They are endeavoring to re-
vive, in part at least some of their
former supremacy on the seas
FIVE years ago a company of Ra-
GUSTAV merchants was formed with the
express purpose of sending out mod
ern argosies. They would have a line
OF ships belonging to that port that
would bring the name of Ragusa once
more before the commercial world
So the president of the company went
to England to buy a big steamer. TAX
ing with him a captain and mate to !
officer the ship back. All Ragusa wait |
ed for months ahead anxious that the |
return of the first modern argosy
should be received with a memorial |
welcome. |
The president fixed his choice on the |
old Liverpool steamer, known under |
the British flag as the Lord Napier" |
She was big-over 1000 tons-but that
was the best that could be said of her. |
For two years she had been laid up |
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-11

"Ragusa?" said the man who was
listening to the traveller in out-of-the-
way places. Where is it,
The traveller told him it was a Dali
matian seaport on the Adriatic.
"Wel?" queried the man.
In that well" was summed up what
the world at large to-day knows of
the once famous little republic that
was the Turks one unconquered foe
when the terrible Mohammedan in
vader overran Southern Europe.
But the twentieth century deacen-
dants of the handful of men who baf-
fed for years both in battle and di-
plomacy. the outnumbering hordes of
onsweeping Turks are perhaps
prouder of this glory of their ances-
tors than of the fact that their fathers
owned and sailed and their town gave
its name to the famed argosies of old.
Their sentiment is that one of their
councillors of state:
we are an exceedingly proud peo-
pie. We have a right to be. We are
In the very heart of the region south
of Venice and east of the Adriatic
that, since the coming of the Turk, has
been an almost continuous battle
ground between Christian and Mussul-
man. Our Slavonic legends are. full
of bloody battles and heroic deeds.
Few localities there are south of Ger
man Austria that have not been under
Turkish rule at some time or other.
Iltrf Il Il ft1 Of
in our palmiest days-have never
been under Mussulman rule. The
Turk has never entered our gates eX-
cept as a peaceful merchant. He has
not left his impress upon us except in
the matter of dress, and that we got
second hand from the people about
us: The Turk? Let us oppose him
in Macedonia, and he will run from
Ragusians."
Let the infrequent tourist within the
gates of this once famous town listen
long enough to a native, and he will
hear many interesting things. He will
be told that Ragusa for over two thou
sand years was an independent repub-
lie, with a government similar to that
which existed in ancient Sparta at tho
time of the Persian invasion. He will
learn that Ragusa was the gateway
Of the Orient's trade with the Occident
ana that It's little rock bound harbor
was filled with fleets of argosies for
centuries. He will hear how the Turk
laid covetous eyes on the rich port,
and struggled for it's possession. all in
vain; how once it was besieged for
fifteen months by Saracens from the
sea, and Turks from the land. all In
vain. In short. the eulogist of the
deeds of his fathers will continue
ating historical facts until the listener
tires of how Turkish commander after
commander and envoy after envoy met
with discontinue at the hands of the
Ragusians of old: and when he does
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-11

treacherous and soft-footed leopardess.
and, frequently, even the generous lion
ess herself-the life of a baby wild
animal becomes sometimes a tale of
bloodshed and tragedy. Nagged and
CALLED by prison bars. by narrow con-
fines that make exercise impossible.
and by the excitement of throngs of
sightseers, these naturally nervous and
high strung brutes become overwrought
to a pitch where they satisfy an I'M
natural cannibal appetite on their own
flesh and blood. Like little bundles
of sunshine the kittens of these fero-
Cious brutes appear, mewing plain
lively with tight-shut eyes and cropping
in the darkness. Thousands of them
have been born behind the bars of
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-11

menagerie cages-no fault lies with
the stork himself-but most frequently
the irresponsible, crazy mothers
pounce upon and devour them. or else
injure them beyond hope of recovery.
When the watchfulness and a. pitch
fork of a keeper succeed in rescuing
one of these kittens, it is given in
charge of some big mother dog who
adopts the stranger and rears him. Now
and then. however. some strong,
healthy, intelligent member of this fe
rocious family ceases to worry and
fret at captivity, and, the maternal in
stinct cropping to the fore, the care of
a litter Of cubs becomes a welcome re-
lief from the stern monotony of prison
life.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-11

on the mud flats of the river Tyne
condemned as unseaworthy by British
maritime laws.
A crew was picked up in Newcastle
on-the-Tyne. The sailors consisted of
one American, a Spaniard, a Brazilian,
a Russian and Turk. The firemen
were Swedish, italian, Austrian, Ar
gentinian and German The cabin boy
was Scotch. With this motley crew,
the new argosy, renamed the Bal
kan, left England, her rusty engines
protesting at every revolution. The
old worn sails were pulled out of the
lockers and attempts were made to
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-11

set them, but a puff of wind snuffed
them as though they had been spider
webs. Occasionally, the engines stop
ped to rest, the Steering gear refused
to work, and the Balkans course
was like that of a drunken snake. The
boats creaked and split open as they
swung in the davits. The masts toss
ed back and forth from want of proper
support. The sailors growled and
cursed their officers openly for bring
ing them out on such an unseaWorthy
tub. Thus did the first of the modern
argosies start for home.
The old battered Balkan might
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-11

I Surance and the usual precautions tax
en- at the galleries when important col
lections are housed there, there will be
representatives of the fire patrol on
hand day and night, provided with ev-
cry appliance and prepared instantly
to remove or protect the paintings.
1t is the intention of the committee
and the International Fine Arts Asso-
citation, together, to make the exhibit
ton a notable one, their wish being
even that it shall be of so distinguished
a character that collectors might fairly
desire to have their pictures in the
Portrait Show of the future as a sort
of criterion establishing their quality.
In short, it is their determination to
make the portrait show a go, and
glance at the names of the committee
and at the list of the membership of
the international association, which in
cludes, among the others, William c.
Whitney, John L. Cadwalader and
James l.. Breese, will give the New
Yorker a pretty sturdy idea that it will
be a go.
The exhibition will comprise portraits
in oil and pastel. and miniature por-
! traits. The potent element of interest
in such a show which is embodied in
the exhibition of portraits of society
women will not be neglected, but the
fiat has gone forth that every portrait
of the women of society that is shown
must be the worthy work of an able
painter.
The International Fine Arts Associa-
| ton, whose organization was only eff
| fected last month, has received the
| promise of some portraits for this eX-
| hibition from owners of private collec-
| tions abroad, but important negota-
| tions looking to the loaning of art
works are not carried on there with
Yankee celebrity, and it is possible that
| the association will produce this time
| only treasured canvasses from private
galleries in the United States. But if
the European negotiations can be COM
pleted in the limited time at disposal,
the painting from over the water will
be brought here.
| Among the patrons of the portrait
show are Mrs. Aston, Mrs. Robert Ba-
con. Mrs Edmund L. Baylies, Mrs.
| Stuyvesant Fish, Mrs. A. Cass Garfield,
Mrs. r. Fulton Cutting. Mrs George
Croker. Mrs. George B. De Forest.
| Mes Edward D. Adams. Mrf. l.
] Townsend Burden Mrs. Morris Is. Jes-
/ up, Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay, Mrs. j.
Frederic Kernochan, Mrs. Pierre Lor-
lizard, Jr, Mrs. Seth Low. Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney. Mrs. Frederick Van
derbilt. Mrs. George L. Rives. Mrs.
! Douglas Robinson, Jr., Mrs. w. s.
Cowles, Mrs. Burke Roche. Mrs. Will
liam Rockefeller, Mrs. ]. Kennedy
Mold. Mrs Louis c. Tiffany. Mrs.
Orme Wilson. Mrs. Julian Story. Mrs.
William Rhinelander Stewart, Mrs.
William Jay Schieffelin. Mrs. James
Speyer and Mrs. William D. Sloane.
why Captive CarnivOra Stay Their
Cubs.