Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-07
Mrs. Eddy Explains Her Isolation

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Pleasant View, Concord. ~ IL, W.
following statement; Miss Wnp'', =
courteous and correct expiaha.'" 'a,,.J
secret of my isolation from the woriu.
leaves one feature TO be repeated. MY
seclusion is not at all ON accouh, y,
INV age,-but solely for lack OF u,ns
wherein TO accomplish what 40 To-
humanity, and then have moments w
which 10 regale myself win the sw.u,,
intercourse of society. MY hrsl, az"
forever message Is one and the same.
and l expect to reiterate II next year,
and so on l beg TO thank the press 10,
its honors conferred on me; but mus
decline to write for editors Oh nIasa
zines and newspapers at present so'.,y
for lack of time. otherwise Wou''
gladly serve them.
Secretary of War Taft and his party,
Including Miss Alice Roosevelt, started
from Washington for the philippines
Friday, June 80.
The Cook county. ILL.,, grand jury
which for a month has been investi'
eating the cases and conditions OF the
present Transfers strike AZ Chicaso'
returned its report Saturday night
July /, and with II 40 indictments
against men connected I'm various ways
with recent labor troubles In Chicas"'
Thirty-five thousand delegates from
all states in the union assembled az
Asbury Park y. j., Monday. July d.
at the 44th annual convention Oh th1
National Educational association, 10
continue for five days. Papers were
read by prominent educators at the
meetings of the various departments
of the association.
| Secretary Taft has appointed John
| r. Stevens of Chicago, cher engineer
of the Panama canal commission with
residence on the isthmus. Stevens
succeeds John +. Wallace. whose res
ignation was accepted last week ana
the appointment takes effect at once
Stevens will also be made general
manager of the Panama canal commas
sion. His salary will be 100000 year
He has had large experience as an
expert i'm railway construction. In
requesting Mr.. wallace's immediate
resignation last week. Secretary Taft
administered a severe rebuke to the
resigning engineer, charging him with
changing his position ''for mere lucre'
and with being Influenced solely by
personal advantage"
The annual adjustment of salaries
of the presidential postmasters has
been completed at Washington. The
Vermont salaries to be raised and the
amounts are: .Middebury. from $1,000
to $4,000: North Bennington, from 81
500 to $1,000; Stowe from sl.10O TO
$1,000; Barton Landing, from $1,000 to
81, 800: Ludlow, from $1,000 to Sl,7OO;
Essex Junction, from $1,000 TO Sl.400;
Newport. from $1,000 to $4,000; Rut-
land. from s., 800 to $4,000; West Rut-
land. from $1,000 to s1,400; Bristol,
from $500 to $1,000; Northfield, from
s1700 to $1,000, Springfield. from 81.
900 to $4,000. The Vermont postal
salaries to be reduced after July l are
Lyndonville, from $4,000 to $1,000;
Putney. from $1,000 to LOO; Proctor,
from $1,000 to s1s00; St. Adams. from
$4,000 to $4,000 and Castleton. from
ST. 400 to $l.100.
Many of the delegates from the
American Asiatic association. repre-
senting the cotton textile industry and
the iron and steel trade of the United
States. have protested to President
Roosevelt against such an ENFORCE
ment Of the Chinese exclusion laws
as might imperil the export trade OF
this country with China. 1t was
pointed out that the commercial or
ganizations Of China were threaten
ing to boycott American made goods.
especially cotton and steel products.
unless arrangements were made
whereby Chinese merchants. students.
literary men. and travellers could en-
ter the United States without the
serious difficulty which they now en-
counter President Roosevelt took ex-
ception to the intimation that the inn
migration officers were too insistent
in the enforcement of the law. but in
other respects agreed with the dele
CATION that it would be proper for this
government to encourage friendly re-
lations with China. He promised to
take up the subject with Secretary
Metealf of the department of COM
merce and labor. and other officials
and to do all possible to remedy the
difficulty.
H. NJ. Mott, counsel for Louis Shap-
by. who was sentenced to not less than
six nor more than eight months in the
house of correction in Rutland by
Judge Lee S. Tillotson of st. Adams
recently on charge of furnishing in
toxicating liquor has appealed the
case. and, as the point he raises is one
of law and not fact, will probably take
the case directly to the supreme court.
Shappy, who is under $500 bail. bought
a half pint of liquor for John Riley,
who was at that time awaiting hear
ing on a charge of intoXication. Riley.
who was confined in Franklin county
JAIL gave Shappy rs cents with which
to purchase the liquor. Shappy went
to a second class license liquor store
and purchased the liquor giving it to
Mrs Riley who, in turn. gave it to her
husband. Mr.. Mott claims that the act
was a legal one and that it did not
furnishing under the law.
He claims that Riley. not being on the
list of convicted drunkards, had n
right to purchase liquor, that the
dealer was within the law in selling
the liquor and that Shappy acted sim
ply and purely as Rileys agent and
that there being no illegal act in either
the purchase or the sale he had a right |