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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-15
THE PIKE FAMILY.
Reunion of the Members to Be Held
in Boston in September.

The next reunion of the Pike family
is to be held at the American House,
Boston, Mass, Sept. 81 and 28. 1904.
A cordial invitation is extended to all
persons bearing the name of Pike and
to all descended from or connected
with the Pike family. The associa-
ton was formed on Sept. IL, 1900, at
Salisbury. Mass, and the organization
now has a membership of nearly 800.
Edwin B. Pike of Pike, N. H.. is
president, and DR.. Clifford l.. Pike of
Saco, Me-, is secretary and treasurer
of the association. DIR. Pike has the
genealogy of the family we'll in hand
and all information and inquiries per-
tanning to this matter should be sent
to him. Tuesday, Sept. 81, the first
day of the reunion, at business meet.
ing, officers will be elected. A banquet
will be served at noon and it is ex-
peoted that in the afternoon an excur-
sion around the CITY of Boston will be
made. Tuesday evening there will be
social gathering in the parlors of
the American House. The second day
will be devoted to the reading of in
teresting papers. speaking and vocal
and instr dmental music.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-15
THE END OF Il SHOW.
Forepaugh-Sells Circus Will Be Sold
Out After Thirty-Two Years.

Montpelier people, who took in Fore.
paugh q Sells Brothers circus few
months ago, probably saw the show
for the last time. After thirty years
of campaigning, some of 1T stormy
work and hard pulling, the circus
will end it's days within few short
weeks. A well authenticated report
comes from Columbus, Ohio, where
the show has its home and winter
quarters that the continued serious
illness of Peter Sells has completely
discouraged his brother, Lewis Sells,
and that the big circus will be
brought to New York, bag and bag
gage, and sold here at auction on
November 10.
The shows since their consolidation
eight years ago have been owned by
four equal partners, Lewis Sells,
Peter Sells, W. W. Cole and James A.
Bailey, the last two men being the
heavy stockholders of the Barnum
SHOW.
Inc utter and complete ending OF
big and profitable enterprise because
there is no longer memLer of the
Sells family to carry it on is one
of the real tragedies of business life.
There is note of tragedy about the
affair that is intensified when one
remembers that there are canvasmen
who were with the Sells Bros. show,
or the Forepaugh show, when they
started and who have stuck by the
ship, rain or shine, summer and win
ter, fighting it out. until this END
that was quite unforeseen. 1t will
come hard to some of these old fell
lows, veterans of the road, each of
them, to see the old show go by the
board. 1t will mean for them facing
the world anew with an unequal
chance for fresh start and their
best friend forever gone from their
sight.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-15

members Of the crew were drowned.
June 8, twelve men were killed
sud ten severely injured by the mali
oious explosion of dynamite in the
railroad station at independence,
Col, the victims being non.u union
mine workers.
June IL, the Steamer Canada, run.
ming on the st. Lawrence river, was
sunk in collision near Sorel, Que,
and five members of the crews were
drowned.
June 16. One thousand and thirty.
one lives lost in the burning of the
General Slocum.
July 8, Steamer Norge, from
Scandinavian ports for New York,
600 lives lost.
Small disasters will easily bring
this total of 1898 to over 3, 0O0, an
average of 220 per month or over eight
day for the past eight months.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-15
VIRILITY IS in DEMAND.

This is the heading of a leading
editorial article in the Brooklyn
Eagle. The editor bemoans the pres
ence of supineness in the DemocI alto
party-following the ebb of the GAL
vanic energy infused into its members
some Of them-by Parker's tele-
gram to the ST. Louis convention.
Picturing the CONSERVATION" the
telegram carried into the ranks of
Republican leadership, the Eagle
says:
The Republicans realized that the
country had been electrified and they
took alarm accordingly. 1t happens
to be fact, however, that they have
recovered from their CONSERVATION.
They are not jubilating.' There il
not much limit to the satisfac tion
with which they allude to the returns
from Vermont. Nor is there much
limit to the confidence with which
they anticipate the returns from
Maine. Possibly they are taking too
much for granted, but 1t would be
idle to assert that the citation of one
side is the only evidence of the drift
of things There are corresponding
misgivings in the other. The World
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-15

pictures Parker as asleep in the
shadow of a hsystack, undisturbed by
a fash of lightning from Vermont.
Its editor urges that he will in the
next sixty days be even more than
heretofore the peoples leader and
teacher; their tribune and advocate. )
The Times is clearly apprehensive.
1t declares that something must be
said and something must be done to
convince the independent voters that
the country will gain by change at
Washington. Other newspapers,
equally ardent in their advocacy of
Judge Parker, give expression to views
identical in tone If not in phra6e-
ology. To say that all this is not
sufficiently ,ominous would be more
than sufficiently fstuous.
The Eagle bemoans, at length, the
lack of force and energy in the Demo-
cratic campaign. So, also, do the
Times and World. The Eagles de-
mand is for "vIrility" WELL the
contemporary will find enough OF this
admirable quality in Roosevelt's let
ter to inoculate the whole country.
Virility animates every word and
phrase of his magnificent letter of &C.
ceptance. This great and ever ad.
vanuing American nation, with oil its
wonderful virility, is typified in
Roosevelt, in his physical strength
and vigor and in his stalwart mental
ity. The Eagle should turn to Roose-
velt It's quest for virility in Parker
is like looking for figs on thistles.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-15
VAR.

st Petersburg, Sept. 12.-An off,
cial despatch received today denies
the report that Gen. Mistchenko, who
commanded the Russian east at Lao
yang, was killed September 3. Lieut..
Gen. Sakharotf reports that the Jap
enese have not yet penetrated north
of Yentai in any considerable mum.
bers. They have, he says, several
large camps on the railway south of
there towards LiaoyanP.
st. Petersburg, Sept. IL The
war office is reluctantly disposed to
admit that with the defeat of the Rus
SLAMS at Liaoyang departed practically
all hope Of turning the tide of the
war this year. Patiently and logged
ly, in spite of successive reverses by
land and sea, General Kuropatkins
friends had pinned their faith in his
assurances that when he accepted bat
tie victory would crown Russian arms,
but failing in his attempt to turn the
scale they face another indefinite
period OF waiting Kuropatkin must
retire, await reinforcements and pre-
pare for new campaign next year.
But, disappointed as they are and dis
couraging as the situation is, no word
Is heard in favor of making peace.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-15
CAMPAIGN NOW OPEN.

Chicago, Sept. 12.-The Republi-
oan national campaign formally. opened
today with the issuance of President
Roosevelt's letter of acceptance. The
national committee will now assign
speakers efter the various State organ
izstions have arranged for their
meetings. Michigan, Washington and
Montana will begin on September 10 |;
Nebraska and West Virginia on Sep
TENDER II; Indiana and Iowa on Sep
TENDER 20; Pennsylvania on Septem-
Der 81; Minnesota on September "a,
and Ohio on October 1. In Missouri
and Kansas work already has begun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-15
GREAT DISASTERS.

Commencing with the Iroquois
Theatre holocaust in Chicago on the
afternoon Of December 80, every
month since has seen some disaster on
land or sea with subsequent loss OF
life or millions in property. In the
Chicago fire more than 600 lives ere
lost.
Jan. % the four-marter schooner,
Augustus Hunt, was wrecked near
West Hampton; l.. L and fifteen men
were lost.
Feb. z, the Baltimore fire, which
destroyed $780, OCO, 600 of property,
broke out and was not extinguished
until the greater part of the business
section was destroyed. No lives were
lost.
Rochester, N. Y, was visited by
fire in the business district Feb. 20,
the loss in property being 50, 600, 600.
There was no loss of life.
Six men went down to deayh in the
wreck of the schooner Benjamin O.
Cromwell of Bellport, l.. L., Feb. 80.
April ID, during target practice off
Pensacola, Fla, there was an explo-
sion in one of the turrets of the
United States battleship Missouri,
which killed thirty one men.
Fire destroyed $40, 600, 600 in prop
erty at Toronto on April 1, but no one
was killed.
The steamer Turret Bay went
ashore on st. Paul's island, north of
Cape Breton on May 20; thirteen
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-15

Once, in a great political emer-
gency, in the graphic phrase of the
times, Maine went hell bent for
Governor Kent In the same fashion
the Pine Tree State in Monday e
election, in the name of Gov. Cobb,
piled up $4,000 plurality for Roose-
welt and Fairbanks. Oregon, Rhode
Island. Vermont end Maine, the
splendid vanguard of the great COL
umn of States that, in November, will
take up the march again for Republi
canism and four years more of nation
al glory and prosperity.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-15
WILL RAISE THE" MAINE. .

Washington, Sept 10. THE United
States Battleship Maine Salvage Com
any has been incorporated with a
capital of 100000. The purpose of
the corporation is to raise the wreck
of the Maine in Havana harbor and to
donate to some organization or the
United States Government sufficient
material from the wreck for the cree
ton of permanent memorial made
wholly of such material
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-15
AN INVALID OBJECTION.

The objection to the Australian bal.
lot law, that it DISTINGUISHES citizens,
is fairly met by the objection to the
old go-as-you- please system, that ii
enfranchised men who were not en-
titled to the voting right Of citizens.
The law. as part of voting system,
may be defective in details, but the
great defect is that a detached frag-
ment of system, the first and most
important part of whicn should be an
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-15

The newspaper discourses on the
reported INSTRUMENTATION OF the Yer
mont regiment at MANASSAS, in refus-
ing to march from its encampment to
the place of the review, by reason Of
the crippled condition of the men.
make interesting reading. in the light
of the real facts of the case The
Vermont boys heard Of their insnbor
dination only after their arrival
home.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-15
EGAN CHAMPION.

Short Hills, N. j., Sept 12-Chand.
Ter Egan, the Harvard golfer. won the
amateur championship on Saturday in
a brilliantly played contest with Fred
erick Herreshoff. Egan was nine up
on Herreshoff at the end of the first
round of eighteen holes.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-15

The return of the regiment from
the msnoeuvres at Manassas is re-
minder of the feet that some 775
voters were out of the State at the
time Of the election in Vermont. AS
suming that, politically, these were
divided in about the same ratio as the
great body of the voters of the State,
some 500 of the guardsmen were Re-
publican, and very likely would have
voted--and would have voted with
their party. In that event the Re-
publican majority in Vermont would
be entitled to an increase OF some SEQ,
carrying it some 400 votes above
30, 900.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-15

further by providing them with an
elected legislative assembly; and
surely we had better await the results
of this experiment--fo il is a wholly
new experiment in Asia-before we
make promises which as n nation we
might be forced to break, or which
they might interpret enc wsv and we
in another"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-15

Mary had little lamb,
She named the cute thing Lii !;
But one day Mary got a jolt
And since she's called il Bill.
Kansas City Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-15

A Texas preacher says that some
newspaper mems only chance of get
ting into heaven is on press ticket,
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-03-15
- 60 of the Best Varieties at
$3.50 per dozen. Call and select
~ your seed. Write for cataog.
PACIFIC SEED & FLORAL co. sts SECOND ave. SEATTLE

for fires this spring. believe that we
have demonstrated that fires which
will make heat are better than wet
smudges in a dry climate such as we
have. If we can do nothing more than
cause current of air we may do some
good.
There is much complaint over the
fact that the governor of the state has
appointed an irrigation commission
and utterly ignored the people who are
engaged in the work of irrigation. 1t
is true that Walter N. Granger is on
the commission, and ought to be, but
Mr.. Granger is the paid representative
of the Washington Irrigation Com
pany. There is fight between this
company and many of the people in
terested in irrigation in Yakima coun-
ty. Both sides to this controversy
should be represented, or neither.
Some claim that this move is to boost
the interests of the Washington Irri-
cation Company and beat the great
mass of the people of Yakima county.
1t looks that way to the writer OF
these notes. An irrigation commits
sion with the practical irrigationists
left out must be viewed with suspi-
cion by every honest man. Either this
thing is intended or it was a blunder.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-03-15
Travellers

By the Northern Pacific are never disap-
pointed in the service or accommodations.
Dining and observation cars, Pullman and
Tourist Sleeping cars on all Overland trains.
Three daily trains both east and west. For
all information and tickets, call on or ad-
dress l. A. Nadeau, Genl. Agent, Seattle.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-03-15


now to spray for the San Jose scale,
but not for the codling moth or the
apple scab. No fruit inspector should
tell the people when to spray unless
at the same time he tells what they
are to spray for and what kind of spray
| to use.
A certain professor in one of our ag-
ricultural colleges east of the Rocky
mountains has been experimenting
with sprays for the San Jose scale and
has found that to spray with sulphur,
| lime and caustic soda he can kill the
scale. And then he tried sulphur, lime
and salt and killed the scale equally
| we'll. So he concludes that salt is
an efficient remedy for killing the scale
and as it is much cheaper than caustic
soda he recommends it's use instead of
the more costly article. Now, if he
had left out both the soda and the salt
he would have found that sulphur ano
lime are not only efficient remedies,
but sufficient We read in the BibIe
that wise men came from the east
suppose that is true yet, but no men
ton is made of how many are not yet
ripe enough to get away
Now is the time to cut scions for
top working your apple trees. They
should be cut before the buds begin to
swell. AS this is a backward spring
the probability is that it is not too late
to do that work now. They should be
tied up in punches and properly Ia
beled.. The best way to keep them is
to put them into boxes of sand not too
damp and then set them away in
cool place in the cellar. The grating
need not be done for some time yet
Even after the leaves start the dor
mant sciOns may be put into the limbs.
Wax the wound well with grating
wax. Don't cut any limbs over an inch
in diameter. Large limbs will not heal
readily and the new graft is likely
to break off within few years.
March and April are busy months
on the fruit ranch. There is much
to be done now that cannot be done
later. All brush from pruning should
be hauled off and burned. 1t is a
good plan to cultivate the orchard
early. We first use disk harrow and
then follow with an Acme harrow. This
leaves the surface well pulverized,
which is an important thing in an or
chard. West of the Cascade range
spray for the apple scab just as the
buds are bursting open and then again
in about two weeks. Use Bordeaux
mixture.
Peaches will be scarce in the east
this year. The winter has been so
severe that not only the peach buds
are killed but many of the trees will
not survive. Good Pacific coast peach
es will find good market in Chicago.
Since peaches will be high the coming
summer it behooves those having
peach orchards to take good care of
them and produce as fine grade of
fruit as possible. One of the serious
things to contend with is the frost at
blooming time. Can anything be done
to prevent, or at least lessen, the dam
age by frost? That is a hard question
to answer. The writer, in former years,
has tried fires in his peach orchard,
but the results were not satisfactory.
Some years the crop will be lost in
spite of all our efforts to save it. Last
year we made no fires in the orchard,
| and thought that we had ESCAPED. But
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-03-15
WE HAVE THEM! WHAT

Hand forged pocketknives and razors, made
in our own factory, guaranteed of superior
quality Made of best English steel, ground
and tempered by hand by skilled workmen,
and have and will hold a good keen cutting
edge We will send you fine three blade
knife for ST. or two-blade brass. lin ID one me
for 75c. extra fine conceived razor for w, all
prepaid. G. PLATTS' SONS, Eldred, Ia.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-03-15

quite frequently and ask the question::
what is the best time to spray?"
am compelled to ask: What do you
want to spray for?" 1t is the time
now to spray for the San Jose scale,
but not for the cooling moth or the
apple scab No fruit inspector should
tell the people when to spray unless
at the same time he tells what they
are to spray for and what kind of spray
to use.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-06-05

DR.. ]. A. Fulton yesterday filed with
Auditor Anderson a mild protest
against the manner In which the Inn
provement Of Franklin avenue between
Ninth and Twelfth streets was made.
DR.. Fulton says that the street is not
up to grade in places, and that the
specifications have not been lived up
to by the contractor In several re-
spects. The suhgrade was never prop
erly raised. DIR. Fulton says. and the
improvement is not such as should
be accepted by the council. The doc
tor declares he does not want the
council to gather the impression tina;
he Is an obstructIonIst, but that he be-
lieyes the Improvement should be al
least substantial. The letter will be
presented TO the council Tuesday
night. It seems there has been more
or less complaint because of the man.
ner in which the Improvement was
made. and the contractor has been
Jumped" by wrathy property owners.
He insisted, however. that he had
made the Improvement in accordance
with the plans. and in support Of his
statement displayed papers from which
certain sections had been obliterated.
He explained that these sections had
been stricken out by agreement with
the city officials. but some of the prop
erty owners say Auditor Anderson de-
clares there has never been any such
legal agreement. II is plainly the in
tention Of the property owners to in
sist upon an improvement in accord
ance with the plans. and II the council
does not heed DR.. Fulton's protest,
more vigorous action will be taken.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-06-05

A treat is in store for all lovers of
Shakespeare in this city, as a lecture
on that most interesting play king
Lear" is to be delivered by the Rev.
H, H. Cover, rector OF Trinity church,
Seattle, next Tuesday evening, June Z,
in the Sunday school room Of Grace
church. The lecture is to be given
under the auspices OF the Young Mems
Brotherhood of the church, and the
well-known ability of the lecurer in
sures good attendance. Tickets at
50 cents may be procured from any
member OF the brotherhood. Seldom
II ever has such a high-grade lecture
been delivered in this city at such a
modest figure, but Mr. Cover is in
terested in brotherhood work and mani
tests 1t in this practical and instruc-
tive way. e8
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-06-05
PERSONAL MENTION.

D. ]. Moore was in the city yester-
day.
N. p. Sorenson is in Portland on
business.
Captain Tabell was over from Ilwaco
yesterday
c. c. Masten of svenson was in the
city yesterday.
Chop Stockton came down from Bug
by last night.
Charles A. Payne was over from
Chinook yesterday.
Arthur Madden of Portland was in
the city yesterday.
w. w. sweeny of Portland was in
the city yesterday.
NJ. J. Colquin Of San Francisco was
in Astoria yesterday.
Mrs. Hardy Hilliard OF Bling Slough
is visiting in Astoria.
Nicholas Clinton and wife were up
from easide yesterday.
f. A. Kenny OF San Francisco is a
guest at the occident.
j. H. Thatcher and wife were down
from Portland yesterday
G. D. Croker and wife Of Portland
are in Astoria on visit.
Charles Elliott of Charleston was In
the city on business yesterday.
d. c. Pelton of Portland was regis
tered at the occident yesterday.
Robert Campbell and Mrs. Camp
bell went to Portland yesterday.
P. H. Schuldermann and wife Of
Portland are in the city on visit.
3. C, Blackford and Miss Blackford
of Clatskanie were in Astoria yester-
day.
Mrs. Hattie Elder of Seattle arrived
in the city yesterday for visit with
friends.
Mace Grant came down from Port
land last night He will be in the
city for few days.
w. ]. Clark secretary of the Call
fornia Fruit Gamers Association, is
expected to arrive in Astoria today.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-06-05

Senator Fulton yesterday consented
10 deliver the address TO the gradual
Ing class OF the high school. The ex-
ercises will be held at Fishers opera
house next Friday night The high
school baccalaureate sermon viii be
delivered at the First Presbyterian
church thls evening by the pastor
Rev. II, II, Brown.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-06-05

L. o. Dickinson and A. v. Allen, tr,
have opened a tailoring establishment
at iSO Commercial street, and are pre-
pared to furnish the very best Of
clothing to the gentlemen OF Astoria
It win be the aim OF Messrs. Dickinson
& Allen to carry constantly in stock
samples OF the very latest creations
in the way of fine clothing and to give
satisfaction of all times.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-06-05

Tomorrow night the Empire Stock
Company win open its four nights
engagement at Fishers opera house in
the great comedy-drama and eastern
success. entitled Capital VS.. Labor"
The company comes well recommend
ed by press and public wherever they
have appeared. and no doubt they win
play TO crowded houses, Prices are
only rs and s5 cents. Seats on sale at
GrIffin's book store.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-06-05

Charles II. Hall, one Of the promi-
nent members of the Astoria Rod &
Gun Club. expresses the opinion that
some of the west side lakes ought to
be stocked with black bass. Several
of the 90 or rs lakes there have no
outlets. Mr.. Hall says, and he believes
they would make excellent ponds for
black bass. This fish is regarded as
the "gamiest" Of all from the view
point OF the sportsman, and Mr., Hall
is satisfied II proper effort were made
the lakes could be stocked. 1t is
highly probable some action in line
with the suggestion will be taken, and
that the lakes of the west side will
be made attractive for fishermen,