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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27

standard OIL Disclosures.

Some interesting facts have been
brought out in the government investi-
cation Of the Standard Oil company, now
in progress in New York 1t appears, for
instance, from the report Of the govern
ment experts who have been examining
the companys books, that the earnings
of the oil trust in the last % years have
been between $500, 900, 600 and 5000 600, OOO
From Wesley IL. Tilford, the treasurer of
the Standard Oil company, Frank b. KEEL
logg, the attorney for the government
has drawn out the information that of
the 972, S54 shares of Standard Oil capital,
Mr.. Rockefeller owns 256,S5l shares, 26.3
per cent. of the total The last reported
sale of Standard Oil stock was at $44O a
share, par value being 500 a share At
the present supposed marked value MIR.
Rockefellcr's stockholding represents a
total of about $lO7, S4S,IS4, which has
yielded him the handsome income since
1882 of $1I3. 499, 95I, or an average yearly
return of nearly $4,000, 900 up to 1899, and
of more than 100000 900 annually since
that year. This return is from Standard
Oil alone and takes no account of what
other investments Mr.. Rockefeller may
have made i'm the securities in which II is
known he and his associates are interes-
ted And a knowledge Of this aggregate
will go a long way to explain the equa-
nimity with which MIR. Rockefeller may
be supposed TO have regarded the decline
in the market value of his STANDARD Oil
stock, since 1901, of fully 100 per cent.
These figures in a certain sense possess
a double interest for the public as indi-
eating from what source have come his
known public benefactions which amount
to a total of $lO2, O55, 600 His largest
single gift was $I3, 600, 900 to the General
Education board, and the next a total Of
$2l, 400, 900 to the University of Chicago
1t is a surprise tc know how small are
the Standard oil holdings Of most of the
company's magnates. Ii. II. Rogers, for
instance, is the next largest stakeholder
after John u. Rockefeller, with only
O20 shares. William Rockefeller owns
/ 700 shares and the holdings of Henry
NJ Flagler, Oliver II. Payne and Charles
H. Pratt vary from 5000 down to 5000
shares each.
Of the standard Oil company for its sys-
tcmatic war Of destruction on the indie
pendent companies will be that the indie
pendent companies We're the first to cut
prices and that the Standard then retail
lated in self-defense.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27

The summary OF the report just sent to
the printer by the United States bureau
of labor, of which Charles =. Neil is
the head, covering the year 1906, shows
that the prices Of food were generally
higher during every month OF that year
than in the corresponding month of 1905.
The price in December was was As per
cent higher than the average for the year
1906 and the year as a whole showed
higher average than any since 1890, the
period covered by the bureaus investiga
ton. The increase of last year applied
unequally to twenty-five OF the thirty ar
ticles included in the investigation. Those
articles showing the greatest advance
were lard, evaporated apples, pork, ba-
con, ham, fish, mutton and butter. The
retail prices Of food were 29 per cent
higher than in the previous year.
The report deals also with the question
OF wages for manual workers, and gives
figures showing that the advance in
wages per hour over the preceding year
was greater than the advance in the re-
tail prices Of food That is to say, the
purchasing power of an hours wages as
measured by food was greater last year
than the year before. The increase in
this purchasing power is IA per cent.
As compared with the ten years average
from 1890 10 1899 the wages per hour
were 24.2 higher and the number OF en-
ployes 42.9 per cent. greater and the aver
age hours OF labor week 46 per cent.
lower. In the principal manufacturing
industries Of the country the average
wages were As per cent. higher than in
1905 The greatest increase was in the
manufacture OF cotton goods, where the
wages were 1l.2 per cent. higher, and in
only one industry. that OF paper and
wood pulp, was there a decrease, namely
IL per cent.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27
PLAGUE IN INDIA.
1882 Died From it In Six Weeks.

The greatest catastrophe the world has
ever known Is in progress at this present
moment, and the world recks little or
nothing Of it, says Pearson's Weekly.
This is the plague epidemic in India,
which has now been raging for more
than IL years. and which, so far from
showing any tendency to die out, keeps
steadily increasing in intensity. Thus,
during the six weeks ending May IL last,
4Sl,S92 persons persisted from it. or at the
rate of over $4,000 deaths a week.
Nothing approaching the appalling hor-
hor represented by these figures has ever
been recorded before The nearest TO II
was in 1905. when. during the last week
in March, the epidemic was responsible
for STOP deaths.
No pestilence of ancient or modern
times of which we have any knowledge.
has slain so many millions of people as
mas TINS one and the end of which, mind,
is not yet.
The Great Plague" of London. for ex-
ample, about which everybody has heard,
killed at the outside some so, 900 people in
seven months, or about as many as are
dying weekly in India from a disease
which Is Identical with il in every re-
sepect.
The BLACK Death" is said to have stain
one-third of the then population of Eng
land-say 100000 persons; but this is
doubtful Even admitting the correctness
or the estimate, however the mortality
OF the present epidemic in India has al
ready more than doubled this huge total.
What will be the end no man can fore
see or venture to forecast. 1t may be
mat all that has gone before and all
lhat Is happening low, ineXpressibly aw-
iul though 1t is, is but the prelude of
worse to follow.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27
There's No Servant Problem In Paris

And once installed housekeeping Is de-
lshttully easy. II maid of an work. a
pohhe tout fare. is part of the plan. the
lHtelIlsehce office, bureau d emplacement
VIII furnish one who, for wages of Sc to
- month, cleans the rooms daily, cooks
CUES on al errands, and in her leisure will
mend. Her time is her employers. but
she nhes every Sunday afternoon as n
holiday. The Sunday OUT is sacred
or rather an unsacred, institution for
II Is on Sunday that all working Paris
amuses Itself; 1t is the day for family
reunions and festive meals; it is the dav
lot htte dinners at the restaurants. for
ttlps on the river or promenades in the
bols' So II you wish your maid to have
a contented mind, do NOT deprive her Of
her Sunday out
Ut emitting maid, a woman, femme
ut hehanse, at seven cents an hour, is
dI"ays obtalnable and will come daily or
as required ready TO do all kinds of
nousework and TO market IF madame
ueslres But IL is wise for madame
HlSt To inform herself fully regarding
values by personal inspection of the mar
Aet ana shops and this is not a disagree
able detail of the Partisan housekeeping
me outdoor market is a centre of lively
bargaining and movement. The market
""ineh are portly editions Of their fore
Inothers OF the Revolution, and look as
ready 10 sing La Carmagnole" as to
sell you peaceable cabbage. We soex
III vain Tor the supprest type of female we
are wont to pity in the European 'un-
emancipated.' The French woman of
the so-called lower classes is a capable.
business like individual, who runs the
family affairs, husband included. and
whose utterance has edge and SAVIOR
tDeoigiaha Homer in the April Circle
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27
The Effect of Bull Run.

The blow to the North was a staggering
one and its effects at this time can nard-
ly be realized. But it was the best turn
in the wheel of fortune for the North. 1t
eliminated vainglory and pulled off the
mask from all those deceptive allure
ments of war, and in their place substi-
tuted resoluteness, and drew the curtain
displaying the glories which shine at last
in the faces of generations which yield
to and follow the high moods. We did
not see it so then, but we do see it so now
l mean its proyidential ordering; for had
we gained a great victory at the outset
or at any time until slavery had exhaus-
ted every element of strength of the people
on which she had fastened, enduring
peace could not have been established
between the North and South.-[Gen. Nor
ris Schaff in the Atlantic.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27

1t is given out that our young friend
G.. Herbert Pape of Barre is to head the
delegation of Vermont Democrats at the
next national Democratic convention.
1t is too bad that such good material as
Pape is made up of should be wasted
on the desert air" BY the way, we
wonder what the Vermont Democracy
will be for anyway at that convention?
VIII it he for Bryan, with his free silver
ana government ownership of railroads
notions, or for some other Democrat OF
dlstinctively opposite NORTHUMBERLAND
News and Citizen.
Perhaps the Vermont Democrats may
be a little slow about getting their cue
next year. They took the initiative once
and declared for sound money in their
state convention. Then Bryan swept the
Democracy off its feet with his cross of
gold and crown of thorns speech and the
Vermont Democracy stultihed its eX-
press convictions and hurrahed and voted
for Bryan and free silver.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27
The Kind of a Savings Bank
for Vermont

The Brandon Union thinks that the
Lamoille County Savings Bank G. Trust
Company typifes the kind of bank which
Nermonters should be interested in. 1t
says:
on July II the assets OF the Hyde Park
oank passed the $1,000, 600 mark. Bear
In mind that this is an all Vermont insti-
tuition, not dollar Of its capital is or
ever has been invested out of Vermont.
and II holds the enviable record OF never
having lost dollar by a poor note An
institution OF this kind is, Of course. lf
great value and convenience 10 Yer
mont and Vermonters. If an individual
or corporation has assets and needs cash
they can get 1t, and at a low rate. The
average depositor wants his money where
II Is absolutely safe and also where he
can get 1t on call.
This bank pays 4 per cent. compound
ed semi-annually on deposits of 500 or
more.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27
sweet Kitty 9eIaIrs" at the Auditorium
tuesday Evening, Oct. 1.

There will be presented at the Auditor
ium next Tuesday evening, Oct. /,
Sweet Kitty Belairs," the famous
comedy from the pen of the greatest
American dramatist, David Belasco, with
all its delightful features of old English
costumes, brilliant dialogue, elaborate
scenic effects and all the same dash and
realism which made Sweet Kitty Bel
lairs" the idol of New Workers for an en-
tire season. The veteran critic, William
Winter, in the New York Tribune, wrote
this about the celebrated Belasco play:
while it satiates the vision with luxur-
lance of ornament and color, it sets a
truthful and piquant picture of manners
in the jeweled framework of a story at
once credible and romantic, humorous
and tender merry and grave. The central
purpose of it is the display of a study
in womanhood, an exceptional female
character, "A peculiar and fascinating
type. The dashing coquette Of old Eng
fish fiction lives again in kitty Bellairs" /;
not precisely Lady Froth, Lady Bellaston,
Mrs. Rakett or Mrs. Delmaine but a
purified, glorified ideal of those gay, tan
talizing roguish DANES, a creature of
sensuous beauty and reckless behavior,
whose whole occupation in life is the be-
wilderment of man"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27
ADVANCE IN WHEAT EXPECTED.
Miller in the Northwest Notifies Crosby
& Co. That the Western Canada Crop
is Failure.

& Co. That the Western Canada Crop
is a Failure.
f. Crosby & Co. of Brattleboro, under
date of Sept p, sent the following cir
cular letter to their customers:
Sometime ago we sent you a copy Of
a letter from small country mill in the
northwest which we represent and it
proved that the information we received
was absolutely correct We have received
a further letter today from the same
source reading as follows:
I'VE have just come into possession
of what we consider reliable Information
to the effect that the wheat crop of West
ern Canada, which has been for the past
two years a prominent factor in the
worlds market, is practically a complete
failure"
Our informant states that before the
crop was matured, frost that was very
much more severe than the newspapers
reported. practically destroyed the wheat ;
that up to the present time not a sample
of wheat from Western Canada has been
received by the elevator companies that
does not show frost damage.
1t is also said that this news is being
Suppressed for fear of injuring land
values and restricting immigration.
We give 1t to our customers for what
it may be worth.
If conditions are anything near as
bad as this report would indicate, the
facts will come out sooner or later and
will mean an advance of from 10 cents
to 20 cents per bushel in our markets
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27
COUNTY COURT.

Newfane, September %.
The past five days have been fully oc-
cupied with the case of c. II. Shepard
son VS.. Dorr Derby of South Newfane
This has been one of the hardest fought
cases that has been tried in this county
for years and has attracted crowds of
people to the court house.
On October 20, 1906 the defendant shot
and killed the plaintiffs dog and claim
ed that he was justified in killing it be-
cause the dog was vicious. The jury
returned a verdict this afternoon for
the plaintiff to recover of the defendant
one cent damages and his costs, watch
amount to some 5000. Frank e. Barber
and Charles S. Chase were counsel for
the plaintiff, A. f. Schwenk and A. E.
Cudworth for defendant.
When this case was finished court took
a recess until Friday morning at 8
O'Clock.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27
Six Dollars to See Sarah sernhardt

During Mark Twain's stay in England,
where he went to receive a Doctors de-
gree at oxford, the English have been
bubbling with laughter over host of
entertaining stories in regard to the great
humOrist
Among those which seemed the very
funniest was one told by Mark Twain in
regard to the appearance of Sarah Bern
hardt at Hartford, at a time when he
was a citizen of that town
Theatre tickets We're three dollars
apiece-and a widow and her daughter,
delightful and kind-hearted folk, neigh
bors of Mark Twain, were keenly de-
sirous of seeing the great French actress,
but feared that it was not quite right to
spend six dollars on a one-night theatri-
cal treat when there were poor and
hungry people in the town. So they took
the six dollars and sent it to a poor
family whom we may term the Smiths.
'Whereupon the Smiths" concludes the
story, took the money, and bought tick
cts to see Sarah Bernhard"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27
He Set a Date.

\ merchant in a Wisconsin town who
had Swedish clerk sent him out to do
some collecting. When he returned from
an unsuccessful trip he reported:
YIN Honson say he will pay ven he
sells his hogs, YIN Oleson, he will nav
ven he sell him wheat, and Bill Pack saw
he viii pay in january"
Well said the boss, that's the first
llinS blll ever set a date to pay, Did he
really say he would pay in Januarv?"
VEIL aye tank So" said the clerk
He say 1t ban dam cold day ven You
get that money. l tank that ban in
january, '-[Harper's Weekly.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27
ITS ACTIVITIES SUSPENDED.
Committee Appointed to Attend to Closing
Of Y. M. c. A. Rooms-An important


Of Y. N. c. A. Rooms-An important
Resolution.
The activities of the Y. M. c. A. were
suspended for an indefinite period by the
directors of the association in special
meeting Monday evening. This was in
accordance with the recommendation Of
the conference of representative men of
the town who recently considered the flu
ture of the association with respect to
the good of the community. IL was then
decided that it would be best to close the
rooms but keep up the organization in
the expectation of raising money to erect
building at some future day. TIE
directors were of the same mind and the
rooms will be given up as soon as conVe-
nient The woman's auxiliary were repre-
scented in the meeting by several members
who said that the auxiliary would go on
with their work as planned and would be
ready to do their best when the time
for a new building arrived. State Secre-
tary Louis Heb was also present and
approved of the plans. E. c. Crosby w.
A. Gilbert and S. w. Edgett were elected
a committee to store or sell the furniture
in the rooms and attend to closing the
lease.
The directors took another important
action in passing a resolution favoring
widening the limits of association mem
bership. The resolution was as follows:
Resolved. That it is the sense of this
board of directors of the Brattleboro Y.
NJ c. A. that the test of active member
ship should be so modified as to admit to
active membership members of other
churches now excluded by the Portland
resolutions but who are in entire sympa-
thy and accord with the purpose and
work of the association.
Resolved That a copy of these reso-
lutions be sent to the international COM
mittce and to the state committee with
the request that the same be presented to
the forthcoming international convention
to be held in Washington Nov % to 25.'
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27

Henry W. Denison, formerly of Guild
hail. who is called the power behind
the throne" in Japan, where he is ad-
visor in international law to the Mikado,
has recently been rewarded by the Jap
anese government with gift of $40. 600
and an annuity of $40 in recognition of
his conspicuous service in the Russo Jap
anese peace conference at Portsmouth,
n. H. Mr.. Denison at the present time
is one of the japanese representa- ives at
the Hague peace conference.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL NEWS
FAVORABLE TO DIR. H. D. HoLToN
Judge William n. Taylor, Superior Judge,
Confirms the Decision Of the Probate
Court.

Judge William n. Taylor, Superior Judge,
Confirms the Decision Of the Probate
Court.
In the case of Mrs. Mary Blakeslee
piggott against Dr. Henry ID. Holton
trustee, the decision of the probate court
is confirmed and DR. lIolton is allowed to
recover costs through a decision rendered
Saturday by Judge William H. Taylor of
Hardwick, superior judge. 1t is probable
that the case will go to the supreme court.
1t has been on the docket of the county
court several years.
Mrs. Piggott was a little girl when her
father, DR.. c. S. Blakeslee, died DR..
Holton was appointed trustee of her share
of her fathers estate, amounting to
about $22, 900 She was supported out of
the estate until she became of age 10
years later, when DR.. lIOlton was ready
to turn over to her the property which
amounted 10 $4,000. IL. G. Barber of
Brattleboro, John Il. Gale of Guiford and
Gilbert A. Davis Of Windsor, counsel for
Mrs Piggott, demanded a detailed ac-
counting, alleging that Dr. Holton did not
exercise sufficient prudence in making
some investments and should be held
responsible for losses which resulted. c.
c. Fits acted as counsel for DR.. Hoton
and the accounting was reviewed before
the probate court From the decision of
this court Mrs. Piggott appealed to the
county court and y. Il. Cudworth of South
Londonderry was appointed commissioner
to take testimony. lie reported his find
ings Of fact and at the request of the
court filed a supplementary report and
Judge Taylors decision is based upon
these findings.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27

The greatest race of the century will
be run a distance of 500 miles between
Omaha and Chicago, at an early date,
and the prize will be a contract from the
government for carrying the mails, valued
at a round million dollars Six railroads
have a mileage of but a little difference
in distance between the cities and at
least four of them will start huge loco
motives on the test run.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27
500 Re,uard- sfnn-

The readers of this paper will be pleas
ed to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
aule to cure in all its stages, and that is
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being consul
tutional disease, requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood
thereby destroying the founda ton of the
disease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and assist
ing nature in doing it's work. The pro-
prietors have so much faith in its cuTa-
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that 1t fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
Address +. ]. CHENEY & CO..
Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, Use.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27
The British Devotion to Merchant Snip
pima.

For free trade people our British ltas-
men are astonishingly rigid in their pro-
tectonism wherever the ocean is cone
cerned. Two or three years ago t.r
British government gave to the Cuulrt
steamship company an enormous subsidy
OF Sl,lOO,00O a year for 20 years, TO keep
the British flag flying on fast ships ia
the transatlantic service. Now the fact
that the subsidized Cunarders run Ia die
American port of New York and not o.
the British ports of Canada is stIrli0s
up the wrath of a patriotic parliament
Ihus the old policy of British subsidies
Tor British ships is in a fair way 60 .e
stl1ened TO the policy of British saa5I-
dies for British ships only when ongts.
In British commerce. This is the deep
rooted sentiment which gives promise ol
ultimate success to the new Imperial
dream of a Red Line" of British steam
ships encircling the world. with the help
OF an annual subsidy OF five million col
lars. The devotion of the British pe'p.
and their government to their mercHt"
shipping is a splendid thing.-[Bosio"
Transcript
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27

j. Pierpont Morgan paid Sl55 for having
10 trout illegally in his possession at his
camp in the Adirondacks last week That
was fine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27

The Richmond Times Despatch and the
Houston Post are quarreing over the
question as to whether Virginia or Texas
Is the older, 1t must be admitted that
Texas Is larger for her age, anyhow
Manchester Union.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27

The steamer W. b. Kerr recently car
ried from Duluth the largest ore cargo
ever taken from a Lake Superior port
1t was 1928 gross tons, the draught be-
ing 10 feet 9 inches forward and 20 feet
aft.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27

If you once try Carriers Little Liver Pills
for sick headache, biliousness or constipation,
you will never be without them. They are
purely vegetable; small and easy to take
Don't for get this.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27

Local post cards and silver Souvenirs
II. II. Thompson's. Tel. Sem