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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07
EVENTS OF 1902.

In a land of hills and mountains
each summit, individually, might be
worthy of note. Collectively it is the
towering peaks which attract the eye.
In all departments Of activity men of
note have passed away during the
year Just ended. The mortuary rec
dor is long and distinguished one.
Is it because he was among the last to
fall, or because Of surprising emf
nence in the land that the death of
Thomas B. Reed produced, appar
emily, the most profound impression
throughout the length and breadth of
the Union? That he was the last of
the eminent to bow his head to the
Grim Reaper brings him close into
the foreground, but his death was the
sudden sinking from the view of one
of the most notable Of the mountain
peaks in the landscape Of the great
men of America The death of Mrs.
Grant and of Mrs. Fremont stirred
memories of times such names alone
could fully awake.
The destruction of life and prop
erty by volcanoes, floods and storms
has recalled the most notable events
of natures fiercest moods. Five times
Mt. Pelee shook the regions of the
Caribbean and tens of thousands
persisted. The tornado as we'll as the
volcano has claimed its thousands of
victims and it's millions of property.
These seismic disturbances and their
sister demons, the hurricanes and
floods, in their number and violence,
and the extent of the loss of human
life and the destruction of property,
have been the most notable features
of the year, and 1902 will rank with
the periods when Pompeii and Her.
culanum, Lisbon and their com
panions in disaster, became historic
In industrial affairs the strike of the
anthracite coal miners, beginning May
IL and ending October 30, is the most
notable event of the year. The extern
to which it has involved the who'll
mark the beginning of concerted
efforts by the government to brini
conflicting interests under such stronI
control that they shall not again b
able to subject all other interests, an
life itself, to hardships that follow i
the train of devastating war.
The South African war passed beloN
the horizon of military events by TN
conclusion of peace in May, but as tn
new year comes in wars wrinkle
front frowns along the South Amer
can coast, and rears his menacing hea
in other divisions of the earth. |
the final reference Of the Venezuela
difficulties to the tribunal at TIL
Hague Peace hath won victory MOI
renowned than War.
In respect of all that is good, ma
the New Year be as kind, and in n
spect of all that is evil, may it be mo-
merciful than the Old.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07

Attention is next called to Sec. 81.
eff complaint is made in writing and
under oath to justice, or by an officer
or private citizen, that he has reason
to believe and does believe that intoxi,
eating liquor is kept or deposited in a
dwelling house, store, shop, steamboat
or water craft of any kind, depot rail
way car, or land carriage of any kind,
warehouse or other building, for sale
or distribution contrary to law, such
Justice shall issue a warrant to search
the premises described in such COM
plant, and if intoxicating liquor is
found therein under circumstances
warranting the belief that it is in
tended for sale or distribution con-
trary to law, the officer shall seize
and convey the same to7some place Of
security and keep it until final action
is had thereon. Provided, that if the
premises be an occupied dwelling
house, a search warrant will not issue
unless the complaint is sworn to by two
reputable citizens. :"
Under this section the sole result of
search and seizure will be the con-
domination of the liquors. The officers
cannot forthwith arrest the person
found in possession without a warrant
unless he be person whom the search
ing officer (See Sec. 72) "finds in the
act of selling, furnishing, transport
ing, or distributing intoxicating
liquor But under Vernon Statutes
Sec. 4490, in the event of such seiz
ure, "The officer shall apprehend anC
bring forthwith before the judge OF
justice the owner and keeper and al
persons having the custody of or ex
ercising any control over the liquo
seized. either as principal, clerk
servant or agent. " Which is tn
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07

If the remote prospect of the IL
censed sale of Intoxicating liquors in
this State is so demoralizing as some
of the newspapers are accounting it to
be what will be the harvest of de-
bauchery if the license act should be
put into full operation by the vote of
the people on the first Tuesday in
March. There is food for reflection in
the signs of the times, and reflection
should give pause to any purpose to
give life and activity to the proposed
law
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07
A SUCCESSFUL REFERENDUM.

Peoria. H., Jan. 2.-The referen-
dun vote of the Brotherhood of Lo-
comotive Firemen on the $25, 600 APP
preparation for the erection of home
for aged and disabled railway en-
ployes, has been counted. The result
is the passage of the appropriation by
10, 600 majority.
The home is now at Highland Park,
a suburb of Chicago. The trainmen
and conductors, at their last conyen-
tions, appropriated $25, 600 each, a nd
the total of $50, 900 will be used in the
purchase of ground and the erecti on
of suitable building.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07

Naturally enough the officials of the
New York Department of Health look
with suspicion on the theory of the
Chicago physicians that lemon juice
will kill typhoid germs. The head
of the archaeological laboratory in
the metropolis sarcastically says: i
think that it will still be cheaper and
safer to boil the water than to be
chasing after lemons. To the aver
age New Yorker no good can come out
of Chicago.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07

The Standard Oil Company starts
the New Year with plan to pension
it's old employers. When an employer
reaches the age of sixty-four years
after service of twenty live years
for the company he may retire on half
pay for one year. After that the
regular pension Of one-fourth pay will
be allowed. 1t is said that this is
the first instance where one of the
great industrial concerns of this kind
has offered pensions to its employers.
The applause of the populace at this
outburst of generosity will doubtless
be tempered somewhat by the recent
rise in the price of oil.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07

Each voter is requested to read YER
mont Statutes, Sec 44S7 to Sec. 4501
inclusive and satisfy himself as to the
more effectual method.
The old scheme of defeating seizure
by replevying the seized liquors can be
used, because Vermont Statutes 1900
1901 will have beeu repealed.
1t has been urged that under the
license law all sales by a licensee will
be open TO the public. To be sure
these sales must be made in a room on
the street floor, and the entrance must
be from the street; of course through
a door, but that may be an ordinary
solid door, and where under Sec. 81 Of
the license act is there any cause
requiring any window opening toward
the street, or, if a window should be
required, how many panes of glass
shall be used or the size of the panes?
The Mass. st. Oh. 10, Sec. ~, under
similar circumstances, provides that
no obstruction shall be maintained
which "may interfere with a view of
the interior of the premises. This
/ is left off from the proposed law.
| Was it by design or accident? l am
accusing no one. Whatever the fact
is, it is omitted.
Gilbert A. Davis,
Windsor, VT, Dec. 81, 1909,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07
CLUBBING LIST.

The following offers are for the
benefit only of subscribers to the
Waterman (weekly) or the Jour
nal daily who pay all arrearages and
years subscription in advance. One
or more of the publications may be
ordered, but the money for each, at
the club rate must invariably accom-
pany the order, with all arrears Of
any, due on either paper and full
year in advance. To the " Club Rate y
add 81 30 for the Waterman, or So. 90
for the Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07

That designation, it is true, is usu-
ally applied to punishments which
infiict torture, such as the rack, the
thumbscrew, the iron boot, the
stretching of limbs and the like,
which are attended with acute pain
and suffering. Such punishments
were at one time inflicted in England,
but they were rendered impossible by
the Declaration of Rights adopted by
Parliament ON the successful termina-
ton of the revolution of 1888, and
subsequently confirmed in the Bill of
Rights. 1t was there declared that
excessive bail ought not to be re-
quired, nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments
inflicted. From that period this doc
trine has been the established law of
England, intended as perpetual Sc
curity against the oppression of the
subject from any of these causes. II
is embodied in the eighth amendment
to the Constitution of the United
States, and in the constitutions of sew
eral of the States, though Mr.. Justice
Story states in his Commentaries OF
the Constitution that the provision
would seem to be wholly unnecessary
in "A free government, since it il
scarcely possible that any department
of such government should author
ize or justify such atrocious conduct.
Section 1908. The inhibition is di
rected, not only against punishment
of the characters mentioned, bu
against all punishments which b.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07
III. A. SHADE

more effectual statute for the suppress
sion of the illegal sale of liquors?
Under this section. 1890, not only
may the liquor be seized and con-
demned, but also "the cask or vessel
containing the same shall be for
feited" (See Sec. 449S)-while
under the proposed law the officer
Selling liquor would be a trespasser if
he carried off the casks or vessels con-
tanning the same
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07

Three hundred and nineteen enlist
ed men at Fort Slocum on Long Island
SQUAD have presented Miss Helen
Gould with silver loving cup. 1t is
"a high, worthy and we'll earned place
this daughter of New York has in
the hearts of our soldiers and sailors
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07

In Bennington county they still
speak of the Committee of Fifteen
as the committee of safety, and
have just discovered that the county
has representative on it. Wonder
if they have heard of the referendum
yet.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07
Windsor, VT, Dec. 81. 1909.
RHEUMATISM CURED IN DAY.

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Neuralgia radically cures in to 3 days.
It's action upon the system is remarkable
and mysterious. IL removes at once the
cause and the disease Immediately disap-
pears. The first dose greatly benefits. 20
cents and Sl.00. Sold by Harry A. Slade
Druggist, 10 State street.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07

Poor Rudyard Kipling is under the
ban again. This time he has referred
to the Germans as THE Goth and the
shameless Hun" in poem on the
Venezuelan affair, and a German YER
sifier says in a poem that Kipling S
name will never again be mentioned
in the Fatherland
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07

"For years l suffered humiliation from the
condition of my face, which never seemed free
from little boils and pimpes. 1t looked terrible
and felt worse. tried all kinds of washes and
ointments with no relief. I took every sort Of
medicine advertised as a cure, but my face re.
NAMED uneightly. Myphy stefan said 1t wc5 my
blood but whatever they gave me only seemed
to make 1t worse. Really, gave up in Despair,
l didn't know what to do with myself. One day
a friend told me about Blood Wine,' and
told her would try It, / got bottle, and the
effect 1t had upon me was wonderful. Almost
Immediately the pimples commenc d to dlsap-
pear and my skin became clearer. con-
tinued until 1 had taken six bottles and was
thoroughly cured. My general ath, too,
improved from the beginning, and today am
healthy, happy woman, with clear skin, free
from sore or disbursement n proof of the far
reaching effects of Blood Wine.'"
This is the way it works on all people
whose blood is impregnated with disease
or impure matter. 1t absorbs all the
germs and passes them out of the
system. Try it today for any form
of diseased blood, bad complexion or
skin, and watch it's marvellous action.
BY sending your name to the Louis
Daudelin Co., Worcester, Mass, you can
have your blood examined free by an
expert under the microscope.
BLOOD Wine'' costs fifty cents bottle.
q" ~ III
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07

A lazy liver makes a lazy man.
Burdock Blood Bitters is the natural,
never failing remedy for lazy liver.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07

New Hampshire awoke some time
ago to the fact that the wholesale
Strengthening of her forests was fast
wiping out one of the States chief
charms. The result was State fores-
try commission and according to BIZ
ennial report just issued the large
land owners, almost without excep-
ton, have been brought to realize the
folly of the policy of denudation
which characterized former timber
operations, and hardly one can be
found who is not observing systematic
method in the removal of the timber
crop, while some maintain corps of
trained foresters to direct the work of
the chopping crews. There is in this
timely lesson for Vermont.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07

The case of State VS.. o Neil is re-
ported in 90 Vt. l40. The opinion of
the court, was delivered by Oh. j..
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07
HIS COLOR Is PROHIBITION.

In business letter, respecting the
late campaign and the license act
pending before the people, Fl. b.
Howard of Randolph writes:
81 did not vote for Mccullough, nor
did l vote for Clement, but 1 shall
vote NO in the referendum in Febru-
airy, as prohibition is my color, and
the flag is nailed to the mast. And
here let me prophesy that if the ma
jority is for the license law Vermont
will sup sorrow to the dregs, murder
ers will increase, taxes also, state and
town expenses will increase, paupers
will multiply and the old State will
lose her good name that has been pro-
tected by the prohibitory law for
nearly or quite fifty years.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-11-16
Eagle River to the Front.
Rhinelander Herald:

Rhtnelander Herald:
A Hersld representative, who was
at Eagle River this week, reports that
place Us showing evidence of pros
perity. Several blocks of cement side
walks have been pun in this summer
and new heating system has been
installed in their handsome school
building. MC. Innis of this place has
the contract for their heating system.
Sam Smith has put in a new set of
closets and bathrooms in the Hotel
Smith, and now has an up-to-Gatc
hotel aS there is in Northern Wiscon-
sin. 1t is electric lighted throughout
well heated and with all the modern
conveniences. Mr.. Smith reports a
good business this year and now, with
the hunting season approaching, has
more guests than be can accommodate
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-11-16

/ Merrill Advocate:
These who are enlarged in working
up a sentiment to farther entrench in
power the most merciless political
boss this day and age ever saw, make
much out of the fact THAI there will be
no state taxes levied this year. This
is nothing new to Wisconsin. This
has occurred frequently in the past.
When the surplus gets big enough so
that state taxes are not necessary to
keep the machinery of the government
in operation for year the surplus is
drawn on and no taxes levied. But
we will, for the sake of argument,
conceed that it is due to the present
laws and the economical admlnistra-
tion of the affairs of the state by the
present administration. We give
Little Bob credit for the whole
thing. Whsre then in the name of
heaven and common decelcy is the
reason for the howl about railway tax
alton? While IL is true that no state
taxes will be levied this year, and it is
no thing, it has occurred frequently in
the past; why is all this hue aud cry
about increased taxation of the rail-
roads? The railroads will have to
pay their taxes whether the people are
taxed or not, because the new Bob La
Toilette law has not gone into effect
yet-the railroads are still paying tax
es under the old license system. If in
the future the state will have a sur
plus big erough-but it will never
have it, until it returns to the old IL
cense systemic pass year and not
impose any taxes the railroads will es-
cape as well as other people. As
matter of fact the most damaging
thing that has come up to discredit
Little Bob" is the fact that no taxes
will be levied, because il people will
and they most surely will-they can
see that Little Bob" has put no mon
ey in the state Golfers nor has any of
his reform measures became operative.
1t is due not to Bob but to the work
ings OF the old law, principally the Ii
cense system OF taxing railways that
the people will pay no taxes this year.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-11-16
Western Publisher. An excbano

Western Publisher: An exchange
gets off the following: IF men are
the salt of the earth, women are un-
dOubtedly the sugar. Salt is neces-
sity, sugsT is luxury. Vicious men
are saltpeter; stern men are rOcksalt;
nice men are table salt. Old maids
are brown sugar, good natured ma
irons are loaf sugar and pretty girls
the fine pulverized sugar. Pass the
pulverized sugar. please"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-11-16
Beet Sugar Industry.

Eau Claire Leader:
More than five thousand million
pounds of sugar were brought into
the United States during the fiscal
year just closed, fo= which there was
paid over 500. 100000. Every dollar
of this vast sum might have been
kept at home if the capitalists would
furnish the money TO erect sugar beet
plants. The farmers of this county
stand ready to furnish the roots il
some one will furnish the factories.
This is plain business proposition
and one worthy of the closest consid'
Grafton. Wisconsin farmers can b'
relied upon TO do their share.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-11-16

While Mr.. and Mrs. Mart Hirzel
were visiting in Milwaukee last week,
their house was broken into and ran
sacked from top to bottom, but the
only article so far discovered missing,
was a gold watch chain of Mrs. Hir-
eel. As this is the second time with
in n few months that houses have
been entered, and on both occasions
the occupants were away. and the
thieves have enjoyed lunch from the
preserves and delicacies found in both
houses, the thieves must nave been
the same ones on both occasions, and
are no doubt familiar with the time
of leaving and returning of everybody
from home. II the guilty partie;
could be caught, they would be giver
the full limit of the law.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-11-16
ADDITIONAL rRAIS SERVICE BETWEEN

ADDITIONAL TRAIN SERVICE BETWEEN
pULCrH AND ASHLAND on n n. Il.
A nsw passenger train has been put
In service on the Northern Pacific, be-
sWesn Ashland and Duluth in both
directions. daily except Sunday.
This train will leave Duiuth Fast
bound ct o'clock A. NJ. arriving at
AEhIaad at Il 90; beave Ashland West
bound at 4 o'clock z. NJ. arriving in
Dnluth st SIS p NJ
Thi. will give this territory the
best passenger train service it has EN-
Dyed fer long time.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-11-16
CALLS FOR THANKSGIVING.
President Roosevelt Issues Seasons
PrOciamatiOn-fiOIiday Falls on
November ~


Washington, ID. c., Nov. 2.-The
President has issued his annual
Thanksgiving proclamation in the fol-
lowing terms:
BY the President OF the United
States of America-A Proclamation:
The season is at hand when accord
ing TO the custom of our people it
falls upon the President to appoint a
day ofp raise and thanksgiving to
God.
During the last year the Lord has
dealt beautifully with US, giving us
peace at home and abroad and the
chance for our citizens to work for
their welfare unhiudered by war, fam
inc or plague. 1t behooves US not
only to rejoice greatly because of
what has been given US, but to accept
it with a solemn sense OF responsible
litv, realizing that under heaven it
rests with US ourselves is show that
we are worthy to use Alright what has
thus been entrusted to our care.
In no other place and ut no other
place and at no other time has the ex-
pertinent of government of the people
by the people aud for the people been
tried GA so vast a scale as here in our
own county in the opening years of
the Twentieth century.
Failure would not onlybe a dread
full thing for us, but n dreadful thing
for all mankind, because it would
mean loss of hope for all who believe
in the power and the righteousness of
liberty.
Therefore, in thanking God for the
mercies extended to US in the past, we
beseech him that he may not with
hold them in the future and that our
hearts may be reused to war stead
tasty for good and against all the
forces of evil, public and private.
We pray for strength and light so
that in the coming years we may with
cleanliness, fearlessness and wisdom
do our allotted work on the earth in
such manner rs to show that we are
not altogether unworthy of the bles-
sings we have received.
Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roose-
welt, President of the United States.
do hereby designate as day Of gen.
eral thanksgiving Thursday, the 26th
day of the coming November, and do
that throughout the land
people cease from their wonted &C.
and in their several homes
and places of worshiy tender thanks
unto Almighty God for his manifold
mercies.
In witness whereof l have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal OF
the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
S1st day of October. in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and three and of independence of the
United States the one hundred and
twenty-eighth.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
BY the President:
JOHN HAY, Secretary of State.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-11-16

Ben Jones was down to Wausar
Tuesday and proved up on a stone
and timber claim before the Register
and receiver at the Land office, A. A.
Denton and Pat. Gaffney were down
as his witnesses.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-11-16
Money ir Pumpkins and Squashes.

Money IT. Pumpkins and Squashes.
Eau Claire Journal:
There is a factory in this city which
is imparting a valuable object lesson
to northern Wisconsin. 1t is engaged
in the canning of squashes and pump
kins for the English market and is
making something from nothing. as
these vegetables can be raised in the
same field with corn and require no
cultivation, the only expense being
the hauling to the factory. The OPP
ening of market for these articles
will put thousands of dollars into the
pockets of the farmers and will give
employment to a large number OF
hands at remunerative wages.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-11-16

GATHOLIC CHURCH. 81. PTTERs Ser
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nonth High Mas and Sermon 81 10 =. ~.
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sIon Alp. "a drst Mas Is said 81 SO q N.
ca sac nrnt Sunday OF each month-On Holy
days HtEh MaSS. Sermon and BanedictiOn az
T.aA o. Mas on weekdays az O'Clock IN
aammer. and I'D In the winter. Stations OF
ahs cross every Friday evening during Lent St
raw. FATHER ToPLAkA. Pastor.