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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-10-15

LONDON Oct, Is. Japan view
says the morning Post, discussing the
far eastern situation, Is that Korea is
OF vital interest to her, but Manchu'
ria Is not, and she Is not inclined g
pull ehestnuts out Of the fire for
Great Britain and the United States
by Issuing an ultimatum. or taking
action in regard To Manchuria, except
in cooperation with other powers
whose interests are equally involved.
Ii is believed that neither nation de
sires war, not only on account oi
financial difficulties, but because o.
doubt as to what course China would
take in such a war.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-10-15

ST. PETERSBURG, Oct, ia dis.
patch from Port Arthur says advices
from Toxic show the feeling in Japan
10 be more tranquil. and reports that
extensive preparations for war are de-
MED, The japanese war minister has
requested the newspapers to be more
eircumspect In their utterances.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-10-15

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

1t is reported that the Carthusian
monks, who were recently expelled
from the Monastery of the Grande
Chartreuse in accordance with the
new French associations law, have
purchased Iona Island from the Duke
of Argyll and will reestablish them
selves there. If this be true the
world will not be deprived of the cell
ebrated Chartreuse, liqueur which
has become highly priced.
The island OF Iona, sometimes
known as Icolmkill. belongs to the
Hebrides group and is in the county
of Argyll. Across the Sound of Null
from Iona is the Ross of Null, where
the hero Stevenson Kidnapped"
began his adventures in the high
lands. In the middle ages Iona was
known as the Holy Isle and venerated
as the place where st. COLUMBIA, in
the sixth century, founded monastery
which became the centre of mi ssion-
airy work in Britain. Here the work
of education was carried ON, and the
abbey became famous for its copyists
A nunnery was added in 1903, and the
last prioress, Anna Macdonald, died
in 1913. 1t contains about 2,00C
acres, from which the Duke of Argyll
at present receives an average rent of
fifty cents an acre. The ruins of the
cathedral and abbey, which are OF
much later date than st. COLUMBIA S
buildings, are still standing. Iona
was long the burial places of kings
and it is said that as many as forty
eight kings of Scotland, four kings
of Ireland, and eight kings of Nor
way are buried there,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11

we confess to doubts. Randolph Her.
aid and News.
1t is extremely gratifying to find
one paper in favor of tempering JUS
tice with mercy. AS the years go
by, the need of temperance work along
practical lines will be more apparent
in Vermont. The temperance en-
thusiasts of the State haye heretofore
bent all their energies to preventing
the source of all intemperance from
getting a hold in Vermont. Their
methods of procedure were more or
less impracticable and they failed in
consequence. The liquor traffic is le-
galized and the way is clear for the
temperance societies to work for their
ideals along lines approved by those
who have been successful in other
States.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
STRENU OUS.

The Burlington Clipper pays its re-
spects to an unwilling resident of
Montpelier as follows:
Barney S. Smith of Plainfield is
eating three square meals day and
sleeping on good mattress in the
Montpelier Jail. Smith has lost his
freedom because he violated the person
of the twelve year old daughter of
Martin Pike. He couldn't furnish bail
and must wait the action of the grand
jury. Presumably the majority of
that jury will be fathers. They may
have youthful daughters, but will the
verdict be against Smith? The fire.
quency of like occurrences seems to
have calloused the feelings of many
men, especially jurymen of Vermont.
How rarely do we hear of the rape
fiend receiving long sentence. The
blasted life of the victim fades into
mere nothingness when the trial is
reached and, in many cases, mere
fine is imposed upon the culprit.
There is only one punishment, proper
and just, for the rape fiend. Tar and
feathers, a chance for liberty closely
followed by bloodhounds and hang
ing when capture is made. Just one
such example and the inhuman brutes
will settle back into dociliuy and the
young women and girls of the State
need have no fear or molestation.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
THE PRESIDENT AT HOME.

President Roosevelt is at home again
after his long visiting tour in the
west. He is in the pink of condition,
not even tired after a journey that
would have completely exhausted a
man of less robust constitution. He
journeyed nearly $4,000 miles and
made 263 speeches but is physically
none the worse for it. The people
of the west have enjoyed the Pres
ident's visits for as a man Mr.. Roose-
welt appeals to their unconventional
and vigorous temperament and they
have shown their liking ny giving
him a hearty welcome.
AS Mr.. Roosevelt again takes up
the reins Of government he finds no
easy task before him. An appalling
scandal has developed in the post
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
CRITICISES NORWICH.

Principal Edward Ellery of Ver-
made public complaint against Nor
witch University on the ground that
the Mortified school attempted to
draw students away from the Rocking
ham academy. Following is portion
Of letter published by Mr.. Ellery in
the Bellows Falls Times:
A week ago a representative of Nor
witch University, acting upon the au-
thority of the University, came into
our school and without reference to
the principal or anyone else, APP
preached two of our boys and practi-
cally offered them their expenses if
they would leave this school and en-
ter Norwich University next fall.
One of these boys is a senior. No OBJ
lection on our part IN that instance.
The other boy would naturally return
to us next year. Does it not seem
that any institution must be very hard
up for students when it will stoop to
such methods as that in order to get
them? One of two things must be
true. Either Norwich University
does not do any higher grade of work
imam is uODe III NerIuOHl ACdueIuy, IL
students who cannot succeed in their
studies in the latter are so anxiously
sought by the former, or Vermont
Academy is doing the work of col
lege. OF course the latter supposition
is not true to fact. 1t therefore fol-
lows that the former superstition
stands, and the name university is
misnomer. OF course the fact that
the young man approached is good
football player is not the reason that
Norwich University tries to get him. 1
submit that that method of doing bust
ness is not worthy any institution or
business firm that makes any pre-
tense to respectability. In the COM
petition now going on for students in
all States, respectable institutions
fight in the open, and l know of but
one other institution in which the
method employed by Norwich Univer--
sity has been tried and in that in
stance the institution long since died
natural death. "
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
CIVILIZATION PROMOTERS.

Kings and emperors over in Europe
are running about, visiting each
other; millions of dollars are being
shot away and otherwise squandered;
and the shallow sycophants Of the
European press are recording the
vast increase of international comfy
as the result of the meeting of their
majesties AS these visitings are
costing US nothing, as the clamor of
cannon and the hurly- burly of salut-
ing soldiery are too far away to dis
turb our slumbers, we of America can
have no cause for complaint.
The peoples of the earth are slowly
coming to understand one another, to
grasp the great common-sense truths
of the brotherhood of man and the
folly of fighting. But the visiting of
princes and presidents are not helping
this on. One of the most wearisome
ironies of history is the oft-repeated
spectacle of kings kissing on the eve
of their subjects leaping at each
others threats. The way for prince
or peasant, for president or private
citizen TO promote civilization, is by
setting a good example and wasting or
encouraging the waste of as little
money as possible-especially of other
peoples hard earnings.
The King of Italy blowing in"
hundreds of thousands of lire, wrung
from wretched Italian peasants, TO
entertain Edward, who left a country
where one of every four of his Eng
lish subjects is a pauper, or to give II
good time to William, millions of
whose German subjects envy the
domestic animals, which are at least
we'll fed-to call this civilization
promoting is to indulge in one of
those satiric figures of speech which,
as Bunyan said, make the fancy
chucklo while the heart doth ache. -
Saturday Evening Post.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
A TWO-FOID DUTY.

A united demand is being made by
the supporters of license for the ar
rest, conviction and punishment of in
toXicated persons. There is no reason
to doubt the sincerity of this demand.
1t is one in which every friend of law
and order will join. But if the mani
fest effect of the new law should
be to greatly increase the cases of in
toxication, the people of this State
would hardly be satisfied with pun
ishing the poor fellows who fall VIC
Tins to the opportunities it opens.
The slave of drink is not and never
will be considered as an habitual
criminal, to whom only the stern
penalties of the law should be melted
out. Instead, he is regarded as an
unfortunate whom It is the duty of his
family, of his friends, yea, of the law
itself, to guard from temptation. 1t
is not enough that the State should
threaten him with punishment if he
falls; it should do what it can to
keep him from falling, for his own
sake, for his family's sake, for the
States sake. Vermont cannot estab-
lish drinking places, fold her hands
and look on calmly while the drunk
ards file out from them in growing
number year by year. She has duty
to perform; not only to punish men,
but to- do what she can, in the best
way she can, to save men. There il
strange incongruity in system
that encourages drinking on the one
hand, and that turns about and stern
ly Furnishes the weak ones who do moi
or cannot exercise moderation on the
other hand. II may work we'll, bur
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
SENATOR PROCTOR.

The Messenger very much doubts
that the people have grown weary of
the public services of Senator Redfield
Proctor and are restlessly looking
about for his successor. Vermont has
long steadfastly adhered to the policy
of keeping her strong men ID the
United States Senate as long as they
desired to serve her there, and, as a
natural consequence, this little State
has for decades welded superior in
fuence in the upper house that is per-
haps best measured by the accomplish
ments of say Edmunds, Morrill,, and
Proctor himself. Senator Dillingham;
is apparently now grooming for the
same long tenure of office. There is
no reason why this policy should be
discontinued. There is every reason
why it should be maintained, Com
mon sense and experience show plain
" enough that civil government is a
science to which men may we'll devote
lifetime of study and practice, and
that the State is wise that retains in
her service men of special fitness and
ability who have matured and mel
lowed i'll public Office of this kind 1t
is difficult to see just what Vermont
is to gain by any prospective change
in the United States senatorship, and
it is easy to see that such a change
would retire tried and true man Of
national reputation and great value as
legislator for one who had yet to
make the beginning. 1t will be time
enough to break in a new man when
Senator Proctor cannot or will not
continue to give the benefit of his ex-
perience and talents. Meanwhile,
The Messenger will not believe that
any so called move to unseat Proctor
actually comes from the heart of the
people. 1t may be that some politi-
clans want new office, but it is very
doubtful if the people want new
Senator. st Adams Messenger.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11

and become consummate fool This
was true under prohibition and it is
just as true under license; and fur
thermore the man who reported every
drunk he saw or heard of would be
frowned upon just as much under the
new regime as under the old. Human
nature was not changed when license
succeeded prohibition, and whatever
liquor laws the Legislature may frame
il will always remain as it has been
since the days of Adam.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11

office department during his absence,
fore he left Washington, but which
no political considerations induced
him to attemrt to smother. Regard
less of the fact that the country was
approaching a great election, an elec-
tion which would determine his own
political future, he gave orders to
probe the Irregularities in the post
Office to the bottom, to hew to the
line with but one end in view, the
publication Of the service. Warm
political friends urged him to permit
existing conditions to remain undis-
turbed until after election but he re-
fused Theodore Roosevelt is alone
! responsible for the relentless investi-
CATION into post office methods now
being pursued and it is with bad
grace that partisan papers attempt to
cast reflections on an administration
which has dared to uncover the sore
that it might be healed.
August w. Machen, former general
superintendent of free delivery, stands
today indicted by grand jury on nine
separate counts, and evidence of other
criminality sufficient to secure many
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow and his inspectors. Thomas
W. MoGregor and @. Ellsworth Upton,
two of Machen's subol dinates and in
innate friends. have been arrested for
stealing $S, 200 from the post.office de-
partment. Their methods having been
similar to Machen's. They purchased
mail bags in Baltimore, worth less
than fifty cents each, and paid for
them ninety cents, receiving COM
mission from the maker of forty cents
on each. Postmaster General Payne,
who was himself reluctant to believe
that there existed what he would con-
slider actual dishonesty, that is malad-
ministration for personal gain, has
been forced to admit that the condi-
tions which the inspectors are daily
uncovering are appalling" and it is
believed that the ramifications of Ma
chen's dishonesty will eventually lead
the inspectors into the homes of men
prominent in State and federal politi-
cal affairs The grand jury is now
considering the case of Croft brothers,
the men who paid Machen a commits
sion on the letter box fasteners, and
their conviction is confidently expect
ed. Smith, the man swho sold the
mail bags to McGregor and Upton,
will be prosecuted and in every IN
stance as earnest an effort will be
made to mete out justice to the bride
givers as to the bride takers
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
THE WHITE ROSE-B USIT.

You see when the white rose blooms
again,
A sweet old-fashioned flower of
June,
That has smiles of love for the wind
and rain,
And is somehow with bees and birds
in tune.
1t isn't tie rose for the florists shop,
1t is meek and lowly and has no
pride;
But treasure its petals as they drop:
1t was grandmother rose, when she
came a BRIDE
Leaning so tenderly on his arm,
When grandfather brought her home
to the farm.
She was little, and lissome, a gold
haired girl,
With eyes that we're bits of the skies
so blue.
She had given herself to the wooer
bold
Who had pledged his word to be
fond and true.
The rose-bush tapped in a friendly
way
On The pane, when their first home
meal was spread,
And it waited its perfume many a day
To the wife as she kneaded her sweet
home bread.
They told their love, their secrets
dear,
Oh, years and years, where the rose
could hear.
Patter, patter, came tiny feet
Running over the kitchen floor;
Prattle and lisp, came voices sweet
Echoing round the kitchen door.
And dimpled fingers clutched at the
bloom
When summer by summer the white
rose smiled
And added it's gladness to roof and
room
Gay with the grace of many child.
Through sunshine and snowfall the
children grew,
And they knew the rose but never
the rue.
The children are scattered wide and
far;
There are strangers now in the dear
old place:
Men born under a distant star,
Women who come of an alien race.
The old folk sleep on the hill-slope
where
The windy dirges wall at night;
Side by side, with never a care,
They fell asleep in the waning light.
Deep and peaceful is their repose
l would 'twere under the old white
rose.
Almost over, it's life full soon
Will end like theirs; it has its day,
This exquisite wilding child of June,
A rose already of yesterday.
These people whose toll is all for gain,
Will plant cabbage where roses
shea
Their subtle fragrance in sun and rain /;
And the sky will smile just over
head,
Smile unheeding. for Nature keeps
No tally, though here one sows or
reaps.
Grandmother rose No Jacqueminot,
Nor fair La France, nor other gem
OF the gardens treasure, to me can
show
A look so fit for diadem
AS this pale bloom, with its yellow
heart,
It's petals pure as the driven fleece,
That stirs my thought till the swift
tears start,
Though my heart is rapt in perfect
peace;
For grandmother goodness is with us
yet,
And the rose of her life is our anu
let
Margaret E. Sangster in Every
where
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
OHIO FOR ROOSEVELT.

Columbus, o., June 4.-Boothman
withdrew before the Republican State
convention met and consented to pre-
sent the name of Senator Harding for
lieutenant governor assuring his nomi-
nation by reclamation. The platform
presented approves the Republican
ADMINISTRATION in the State and Nation
commends President Roosevelt, favors
his nomination in 1904 and promises
to support Senator Hanna for re-elec-
tion. The convention nominated My
ron I. Herrick for governor by ac-
olamation.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
NEGRO LYNCHED.

Greenville, Miss, June 5.-John
Dennis, negro, was lynched here
yesterday afternoon by mob of 200
men. The negro had attempted a
criminal assault. He was arrested
and placed in the local Jail. In the
afternoon, while the streets were
crowded with women shoppers, a body
of 200 men went to the Jail and de-
manded admittance. This was re-
fused, and members of the mob So
cured railway rail and battered
down the door of the prison. Dennis
was taken to the telephone exchange
and hanged on the cross arm of tele-
phone pole. Many women witnessed
the lynching. The negro only asked
time to pray.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11

tent of several others. In fact, up to
the present time, only few of Mr..
Plumley's friends have talked his
candidacy. The situation has changed
materially, if what one hears is to be
believed, since his appointment on
his departure for the south, This
much is significant. Plumley and
Senator Proctor are friends. Plum
ley has always been political advo-
cate of the Senator and he believes
in him thoroughly,
To the writer only few weeks ago
he said: Vermont is indebted to
Senator Proctor more than the people
are aware. If it hadn't been for
Proctor the State would not stand
anywhere near where she does in ma
tional affairs" The question was
asked, what are the conspicuous ben
efits that have come to the State
through Senator Proctor? Hun
dreds of them," exclaimed Mr.. Plum
ley, L could not begin to name them
to you. will you name one?" was
the query. But aside from men
tioning his part in the establishing of
Fort Ethan Allen the question was
not answered. But whether Senator
Proctor has done much or little for
Vermont Mr.. Plumley believes in him
and it would not be strange in the
least that the Senator should favor
the Governor candidacy of Mr.. Plum
ley. The Senator wants the Legis-
lature of 1904 and to have a Governor
favorable to reelection is quite es-
sential
Mr.. Plumley' career has been one of
honor, He is a man. of ability He would
make Vermont good Governor with
out doubt. A gentleman who sits in
the councils of the mighty politicians
and is listened to with marked inter-
est said to the writer the other day in
speaking of the candidacy of Mr.
Plumley: AS you know, the east
side will nominate and elect the next
Governor This talk about breaking
the mountain rule is merely hot air
and will amount to nothing. The
mountain rule will not be abolished
in your time or mine. Several men
have been mentioned for the Governor
place and there will be fight to
secure the nomination, but if Mr..
Plumley wants the place he is sure to
get it in my opinion. This talk of
Stanton advancing from lieutenant
governor will meet with some encour-
agement, but it will never succeed.
Stanton is all right, but he muslin t
expect to be an office holder for all
time. It's time he gave way for II
little while, and in my line of think
ing that time has arrived. Plumley
will have something to say about this
candidacy when he returns from Ven
ezuela, but if the situation continues
to improve as it has the past week or
so he cannot refuse to accept the NOM
ination, which will be practically a
gift"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
PLUMLEY FOR GOVERNOR.

The appointment of Hon. Frank
Plumley of Northfield on the Venezu-
elan commission by President Roose-
welt, says the Burlington Clipper, has
again brought that Vermonter to the
front as possible Governor candi-
date in 1904. Among the many men,
toned for the place Mr.. Plumley's
name has figured, but not to the ex-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
Letters from
Women

Cured by the use Of Kodol are received daily.
Their troubles nearly all begin with Ind ges-
ton or other stomach disorder.
II the food you eat fails to give sire ngth
TO your body II is because The juices So
creted by the stomach and digestive organs
are inadequate to transform the nutrient prop
critics Of the food into blood. That 10
indigestion. The system is deprived Of tho
amount Of nourishment required to keep up
the strength, and the result is that one on
more Of the delicate organs gradually grows
weak, and then weaker until finally II IL
diseased. Here great mistake Is made.
That Of treating the diseased organ. The
best doctors in the land make this very
mistake. Why should they7 1t is so easy
to see that the trouble is not there.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11

The heavens these days are nightly
suggestive The land is canopied with
smoke, and the wide horizon around
is dense with smoke and at night, in
places lurid with flames A twilight
gloom prevails though at times 81 the
sun like conqueror looms on the
night" Even the stout hearted if
they have Lot been particularly good,
tremble in their boots, and the timid
quake and listen for the final notes of
Heavens commanding trumpet, long
and loud" The present losses of the
lumbermen are very great and genera
tions will be required to reooup the
State for the disaster to its best asset,
the forests.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
LYNCH Err GETS TEN YEA RS

Carthage, Mo-, June 5. Samuel
Mitchell, white, who led the mob that
lyuched Thomas Gilyard, negro, at
Joplin recently, was ON Thursday SEN
fenced to ten years imprisonment in
the peniteutiary. Mitchell was
charged with climbing the telegraph
pole and adjusting the rope with
which Gilyard was hanged.