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The National tribune., 1907-08-01

Montana has a case which may find
already divided the community into two
jarring factions. a Justice of the Peace
had a witness before him who laughed
hilariously in answering the most Sc
rious questions. He got worse and
worse. in spite q remonstrances as
to the dignity of the Court, and finally
the Squire landed one on his jaw which
sent him out of the room, the Squire
aiding his exit by vigorous kick in
the bust of his pantaloons. The Jus
tice has since explained that he did not
strike the man in the righteous anger
of offended judicial dignity, but that he
was told that the witness was an epilep-
tic, who laughed immoderately when u
fit was coming on. This could be ar
rested by a blow on the head. which
the Squire gave him purely as reme-
dial measure This opens up a wide
field of acrimonious inquiry. which the
'Squire's political opponents are work.
ing industriously. Does laughter pre-
cede an epileptic fit? Did the Squire
know the witness was an epileptic? Is
pounding on the jaw of any efficacy in
epilepsy? If so who knew about it,
and when did the Squire make the
pathological discovery? And admitting
all that the Squire alleges, what had
the vicious kick. at point quite re-
mote from the head. to do with the
treatment? These be pregnant ques-
tions, which may we'll be discussed on
every storebox in the County. and pos
sibIy influence the vote of Montana in
the next Presidential election.
The National tribune., 1907-08-01

Philadelphia has had a sample Of
what municipal ownership means She
has been collecting the ashes by mu-
nicipai employees, and finds that IT costs
her 6S cents yard, the highest rate in
the country Cleveland had followed
the Philadelphia plan at a cost of II
cents a yard. She changed this to 4
business method. and got it done moro
satisfactorily for 45Is cents. Buffalo
has contracts at 81 cents Milwaukee
has changed TO the contract system, and
saves s5o,6o0 a year out Of The $l5O.OOO
she has been spending.
The National tribune., 1907-08-01
MUSTERED OUT.
power.

In sending in death notices corre-
spondents should be particular to speci-
fy the regiment to which the deceased
veteran belonged. This gives vastly
more interest to the announcement, as
all our readers carefully sean the COL
umn to see if any of their old comrades
of their regiments or even brigades are
gone. To say "a soldier of the civil
war; or "a member of the G. A. r."
gives them no information.
The National tribune., 1907-08-01

Watterson says that the Democratic
Party can not survive another defeat.
The old woman when demonstrated with
for skinning eels alive said that she
had ben a-doin' it now for night on to
40 year, and I reckon they. have got
purity we'll used to it, The Democratic
Party has been surviving defeats now
for over 40 years, and should have ac-
quired the habit.
The National tribune., 1907-08-01

The Navy has its bitter internal dis
sensions as well as the Army These are
possibly inseparable from military estab
lshmcnts. Probably they are more bitter
in the Navy than in the Army At least
the naval officers always seem to have
more rancor when they are discussing
matters connected with the manage
ment of the Navy THE Navy" period
ical. said to be inspired and controlled
by clique Of high officers, has stirred
up matters by serious charges against
the Naval Constructors with whom the
line officers are generally at odds. The
Navy" says that the ports of some of the
vessels. particularly the Kearsarge and
the Kentucky, were made so unnecessa-
rily large as to endanger the turret
crews from the enemy's fire. The buoy
ancy of. some of the vessels has been so
miscalculated that when they are fully
loaded the water line mark is far out
Of sight under the water. Rear-Admi-
raj Brownson has felt the necessity of
answering the charges, but he has had
to admit the truth of some of them. He
says that many mistakes were made. but
after all the wonder is that they were
so few, considering that they were the
first battleships built in this country.
The armOr is misplaced. because the
ships were being made to carry much
heavier loads than was estimated for
when they were planned. 1t is sought
to discount much of what is charged by
saying that it comes from clique who
want to create a Naval General Staff,
which will be the whole Navy Depart
ment, and reduce the Bureau Chiefs to
lnonentities.
The National tribune., 1907-08-01

Fice-President Fairbanks's adventure
with the insidious cocktail has sug-
gested "a buttermilk cocktail. which is
warranted To be as harmless TO a Pres
fdentiai boom as the physicians pro-
nounce castoria to be for children. The
recipe is:
Take tail. thin glass. Place in the
bottom chunk of ice Lay over il a
long. thin slice of cucumber. Fill up
with fresh buttermilk'
No man was ever known to go home
and beat his wife after a drink of that.
Whether he had Il spell of ager" were
not SO sure.
The National tribune., 1907-08-01
son OF COMM0DORE MACDON-
OUCH.

Augustus Rodney Macdonough, son
of the late Commodore Thomas Mac
donough of the United States Navy. who
was in charge of the United States fleet
in the battle of Lake Champlain. Sept.
II, 1914, died in New York July %,
from ailments due to old age. He was
81 years old. For many years he was
prominent in the practice of law in New
York and he was secretary of the Erie
Railroad Company up to hve years ago
The National tribune., 1907-08-01

under the old Constitution of South
Carolina. which was not abrogated until
Reconstruction times, everything was in
the haze Of the Legislature, a small,
aristocratic body of 45 Senators and
124 Representatives. The Legislature
elected the Governor. Lieutcnant-G Gov
eruor, Judges. and Presidential Electors.
To be Senator man had to have $500
in real estate. A Representative had to
have 500 acres of land, 10 negros. or
real estate worth f150.
The National tribune., 1907-08-01

Senator Dollivcr tells this story on
himself: Last Summer he went back
to the West Virginia town where he
was born. and, of course. had 20 make
a speech to meeting of his old friends.
How well l remember these old fl
miliar scenes," he said. Here is the
house where 1 was born. Here is the
old well and there the garden patch.
Yonder are the woods and there is the
meadow. Along the meadow is the row
of stately trees where I picked chest
nuts when was mere lad
YES broke in an old neighbor, who
seemed to be bit bored, land you have
been peddIing them ever since"
Whereupon the meeting closeds
The National tribune., 1907-08-01

The best thing that the Hague Con-
ference could do to promote peace
would be to make it absolutely COM
pulsory upon any man who talked war
to go TO the front and stay there until
peace is declared
The National tribune., 1907-08-01

The Constitution had hard time in
being accepted by the various States.
1t was three years before the last State
Rhode Island-ratified it, and she
did it only by vote of "a to 70 New
Yori1's vote stood 30 to %. Virginia's
SO to 80, and Massachusetts, 1877 to
1e2
The National tribune., 1907-08-01

The way Turkey dodges her obliga-
tions reminds one that a chief product
of that country is Turkish slippers.
The National tribune., 1907-08-01
END OF THE HAYWOOD TRIAL.


The noted Haywood trial has come
to an end. in the acquittal of the ac-
cused Tho the Western Federation of
Miners made the most extraordinary
attempts to prejudice the people against
courts, the tria! was conducted with
dignity, fairness and lack of sensation
that everyone must approve. The pro-
ceedings were watched with the closest
attention all over the country and
there is small criticism of any of the
methods or incidents. The prosecu-
tion was vigorous but not vindictive
The strongest criticism is that the
State did not enter all the evidence
that it had nor make as much as it
might have done of the facts at it's dis
posal. There was also little criticism
of the manner in which the defense
was conducted, except that Mr. Dar-
row, who is a pronounced Socialist, was
obnoxiously n-American in his denun-
citation of the Constitution, laws and our
methods of justice. 1t is sufficient
commentary upon this that in spite of
the strong presumption OF the defend
ants guilt he was acquitted under the
Constitution, laws and methods of pro-
cedure, which the counsel for the de-
fendant so violently denounced. The
State iabOred under the greatest dis
advantage, since by our laws, and par
ticularly those of Idaho, it is very diff
cult to convict on conspiracy to mur-
der. This is the gist of the whole mat
ter, and there is little doubt that Hay
wood had criminal knowledge of, and
completely with, the Steunenberg mur-
der. The jurymen themselves say so
since giving their verdict.
They did not believe, however, that
the State had proved, beyond a rea-
sonable doubt" such guilty knowledge
and completely. Therefore under their
oaths, they had no other course but TO
acquit.
In other words, it is an old-fashioned
Scotch verdict of mot proven And
it is fundamental principle of our
law that it Is, better that 80 guilty men
shall go unpublished rather than one
innocent man Should suffer.
This ends The matter SO far as Hay
wood is concerned. and Mover. the
President of the Western Federation of
Miners. has been admitted to bail in
the sum of $4,000. Pettibone, the
third of the defendants. will be prob
ably tried oni Oct !, when it is expected
| that stronger evidence will be produced
| ~ tiiS ctite III the haywood una.
Senator Thomas c.. Platt first broke
into politics as the leader of a campaign
glee club. While quite capable music
leader, he prided himself on being more
of singer. and one of his favorite
songs was That's Gratitude" then a
popular lyrid, and which began:
Columbus told the court of Spain this
| world was round he knew,
And so they sent him over here in four
| teen ninety-two;
| They thot that he was crazy and the.-
said He'll surely fall
But when he brot them wealth and
fame they threw poor Chris in
Jail.
That's gratitude. that's gratitude
They sent him out exploring ana he lid
right WELL
When he got hack they put him in a
dungeon cell.
That's gratitude, that's gratitude
He won great fame and died in chains
That's gratitude.
| They say he huns it over now, with
sorrowful reference to the way the peo-
pie have treated him
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-23
Ideal or Practical !?

Ideal or Practicalf
THAT gu n g
man is a brilliant
poet"
"Old or new
school ?"
What is the diff
ference?"
Blue sky and
kisses or soap ano
breakfast foods"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-23

Quite a Difference
"She a | w a y s
presses her hus-
bands trousers"
when they are
on or off 2"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-23
Where He Fell
Down.

Strange t h a t
Bilks, who has
seen so much of
the world, Should
be so shy"
"I thought he
was bold enough"
ooh, I mean shy
of money"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-23

Guest-Here, waiter, this steak is alb
solutely vile won't pay for it. Where
is the proprietor?
Waiter-Hes gone out to lunch. sir.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-23

Came Natural to
Her.
"Why didn't the
stenographer come
down to work ?"
She had a bad
SPELL"
"F u n n y s h e
should stay home
for that. She has
one every day
when at work."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-23
One Kind.

He has gone to
a stockbroker to
have a little dem
tai work done"
"a stockbroker!"
! Yes; he is hav-
ing his eyeteeth
cut"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-23

Reason For It.
FL e suff e r S
dreadfully fro m
stage fright
Afraid he will
forget his lines 2"
mo; he fears
the boys in the
gallery may be
armed with stale
vegetables"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-23
Good To Himself.

Good to Himself.
1T doesn't take
a smart man to
| hold four aces"
| UNLESS he is the
dealer"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-23
Getting Ahead Of

els she in love
with the doctor y
ooh, no."
"Then why does
she let him call so
often 2"
Just for the
novelty Of having
him come without
having it cost ST."
i
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-22
Intercity Defeated Crescents.
23 to 3
AMATEURS STAGE-STRUCK
Slippery Ball Made Game Full Of Costly
Errors. Fraser Hit In One Inning.
Leaguers Had NJ Trouble with
Reid and Brown.

Barre Montpelier failed to score in
only one inning Saturday afternoon
against the Creseents, but the other in
nings they Tailed 23 times, which was
perhaps enough. Meanwhile the Cres-
cents were scoring three runs. The
comparison makes the Crescents look
rather puny, but ID do them justice IT
must be stated that on top Of having q
more OF less crippled team they went I'M
to the game like a young actor tTeading
the stage for the first time. OF course,
they were outelassed by the leaguefs,
but they were stage-struek, out and ont
stageystruck The appearance of the big
fellows put butter on their fngers and
butter on their bats.
In only one inning did they show any
ability To hit the ball. and then they
raped Fraser hard, Singles by Clarity
and Duncan, two.bagger BY Reid and
an obiging error on the part Of Shea
gave them their trio Of runs. Other
times they were out of the game, The
leaguers had no trouble III hitting both
Reid and Brown and scored at will. Also,
If the whole number Of stolen sacks were
accounted for 1t would send them over
for a hundred years at hard labor.
Rain fell during part Of the game and
the slippery ball can BE- held responsible
for some OF the large crop 81 errors.
Garrity was the best man Tor the Cres
cents. A crowd 81 about $50 people wit
messed the procession, and shouted good.
naturally for the under dog but it
wouldn't do any good. The scores
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-22
SHORT STORIES.

Cedar Gap is the highest point In
Missouri It Is 1853 feet above sea
level.
The women OF North America are
claimed to hive the smallest hands In
the world
1t Is calculated that 6,S00,000,O00
men have been killed in battle since
the beginning OF the world.
There are fourteen provinces and ten
territories In the Argentine Republic
The president has salary Of $4,000.
The pumps used for clearing the an
thraclte mines OF Pennsylvania handle
over 500,O00,00o gallons OF water per
day.
II Is claimed by grocerymen In Mex
leo that asparagus is being imported
from France In large packages and
canned Ia the City OF Mexico under
American labels, as though coming
from California.
A newly imported wood, used for
high class cabinet and plano work, Is
the TasmanlsB myrtle. II Is OF q rich
pink color, moderately hard and very
close grained, taking good finish and
working well and smoothly.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-22
An InHammabis Nose.

A man with an infammable nose re.
Gently created excitement on the Bou-
levard st Michel, Paris. He was light.
ing cigarette when his nose became
suddenly ignited, and II and his beard
were soon on fire. The man jumped
about in great pain and was carried
through Mortified crowd to a drug.
gist's shop. where the blaze was ext'n.
guished. 1t was then found that he
had a celluloId nose. The real nasal
organ had gone under In street fight
and he went to a flesh patcher FOR an
artificial nose. He had been supplied
with one OF celluloid instead Of horn;
hence his mishap
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-22
FEAR or GHOSTS.
Harmless Visitors From Whom we ~
Shrink IN Terror.

Shrink IN Terror.
Deep down iii the heart OF man there
nbideg firm belief Ia the power Of fhee'
dead to walk upon the earth and a.,
fright, IL such be thelr pleasure, the
souls of the living Wise folks, veraed
ID the sciences ana fortified ~ mind
against faith la aHght that sayors p
the supernatural, laugh ideas "A flae
kind to scorn, yet hardly Onesof them
will dare 10 walk alone through
graveyard iii the night. or II one pc
found SO bold be will surely hasten BIS
footsteps, unable wholly ~ subdue tbe
fear Of sheeted spectera which may
rise frons the grass grown graves or
emerge from moonlit toinbs and follow
on. for, strangely enough the dead II
not actually hostile TO the living, are
esteemed dangerous and dreadful To-
encounter.
Itused to be the fashion, says writ
err III Lipplncott's Magazine, 70 sweep
away all such notions By saying that
they had their origin In the childhood
of the race and that they sprang from
fear of tile unknown This unQueSr
tionahly was the easiest way to dis
pose Of them, but was 1t falr2 The
subject possesses intense Interest for
great majority Of mankinds and, though
the existence OF ghosts " improved,
there is undeniably a vast deal Of tes-
timony iii their behalf that deserves
serious and respectful consideration
Fortunately. within the last few years
the attitude Of science toward the
problem las altogether changed and,
actuated by a new spirit a Inquiry the
wise men have been engaged thought
fully and without prejudice, in study
ing it out.
While 1t cannot be said that any final
and definite conclusions have az yet
been reached, an immense amount OF
evidence has been sifteds enough to
show pretty conclusively for one point
that the traditional specter Of the Cock
Lane school, with clankfng chain and
attributes disagreeably suggestive Of
the grave, has no basis la fact. On the
other hand, there are certain phantoms,
altogether different in their character
lstics, in whose behalf mass Of testi-
mony is addnced far greater than
would be required to establish COM
plete proof In any ordinary case In a
court OF law. Nothing short Of abso-
lutte demonstration In such a matter
can be satisfactory. but the evidence
In question certainly staggers mere
dulity
Our fear Of phantoms appears to
spring from a dread Of the unknown,
the mysterious and the intangible.
That it is a groundless terror IL proved
by the fact that in many thousands OF
cases Of alleged spectral appearances
subjected during the last few years to
painstaking investigation not a single
instance has been found In which an
Injury was inflicted by the ghost upon
the person or persons To whom it pre-
scented itself So that, even II we are
to accept apparltions as veritable. we
ought TO regard them with curiosity
rather than with apprehension, and In
stead of trying to avoid such supernat-
ural visitors we should eagerly seek an
opportunity to be haunted for the sake
of observing for ourselves phenomena
SO intensely interesting.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-22
PlTA AND POINT.

II any one gives you more than he
gets In return, rest assured 1t Is coun-
terfeit.
About the only thing people borrow
which they are not expected to return
Is trouble.
When a man has bad luck his friends
think they have done their duty when
they say TITS too badF'
1t occasionally occurs to a man that
all he ge,s for doing q thing well is
to see lot Of encouragement given
bis imItators.
Are you one OF the kind Of people
who know It all? Then you may de-
pend upon 1t that you get 1t good and
proper behind your back.
The first day we know secret we
are high minded and wouldn't tell Ii
for the world, but after a week or two
we usually don't think 1t amounts to
very much.--Atchison Globe.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-22
Houses 0f Ministers Burned
10 the Ground
STUDENTS INFL AIMED MOB
Streets Of the City Patrolled by Troops.
New Emperor Shows Little Strength
Coreans Sack and Burn Houses
Of Ministers.

Seoul, July 22 The streets Of soeul
we're being cleaned Saturday when de-.
suItory riie firing was heard IN different
sections, presumably from deserters
from the Ping Yang regiment, WHOSE
plotting continues. a concentrated Ell.
ioft was made at 2 p. ia. to murder the
entire cabinet. After haranging at The
Temple of Heaven mob Of two thous
ana marched d mile To the mansion oi
I.wanyung, which they sacked and burn
Cd. The same fate was then visited on
nv house of W. Manw Yung ana 9TH.
ell. The same mob then proceeded to
the house of the minister oil war and
were met by Japanese guards, who re,
pulsed the rioters, wounding and kill.
ing many. The premier sought refuge
Id the palace, the other ministers going
to the Japanese residency general. The
cracks Of rifles continued and it was
believed that a collision had occurred
between Japanese police and Korean
soldiers.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-22
Hats with rannnrn.

There are hats with tempers, as ev-
cry woman is aNare-the hats that
Ego on" beautifully one day (for pref.
erence in the hat shop Eve minutes
before they are bought and which in
the next refuse to assume the right
pose and poise for love or money.
There are few conditions more trying
than to fall under the ban Of a hats
dlspIeasure. The only thing to be done
is to put It away for week or so
and wait till it has recovered from its
temper like naughty child. One can
not argue with hat and smacking is
not to be recommended. London
Queen.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-22
Rnlanrin.

From the latest published statistics
Bulgaria does not seem to be a work
ingman's paradise. The number Of
town work people men, women and
chiIdren--is only 6,149. The average
wages are exceedingly low. about 20
cents for a twelve hour day for men
and women and 10 cents for children.
Scarcely 15 per cent Of them earn Is
cents a day, and these are all skilled
mechanics.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-22
MONEY

The frst English coins were minted
In 1857.
The first American coins were made
In England in 1912 for the Virginia
company.
In 1881 the invention of milling the
edges Of coins, to prevent clipping. was
introduced.
English coin was first made legal
tender in 1916. Before this rents were
paid in produce
The coinage Of trade dollars began
In kag4 and was discontinued in 1873
They we're originally intended for use
In CON uerce with China. India and ia.
pan. ..a
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-22
Cotton Stamina.

Oldham, seven miles from the town
hall Of Manchester, England, is noted
as the greatest cotton spinning place
in the world. 1T has nearly 200 mills
containing 100000 spindles. These
factories give employment to 1880
persons. whose annual wages amount
10 SO. lG6,250. Oldham is also a great
town for the production OF textile ma
chinery. one such shop employing
about 1900 machinists and another
nearly 1900.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-22

Easily Travels the Distance Over Slow
Track in ga 3-5.

Boston, July 2e. Alfred Shrubb, the
English runner, beat the American re-
cord for the two-mile run over Il slow
track, which measured 10 yards over
the mile at the st, Augustine parish
field day in South Boston Saturday,
shrub went the two miles without ap.
parent effort in nine minutes ga 80
seconds. The American professional re-
cerd Of nine minutes and 80 seconds was
made BY j. Grant in1s90. Shrubs
time for the half mile was 2.10; mile
4.3s; mile and half 7.07; two miles
0.34 3.5 Melvin w. Shepard OF the
Irish athletic association ol New York
won the $50 yards run III one minute
"A 40 seconds. the best time ever made
on the track for the distance
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-22
ne Manatee "a Inoroasinu.

A few years ago the manatee was
thought to be near extinction. Now ii
is often seen and is increasing. l am
personally acquainted with about fifty
specimens, a fair proportion OF which
are calves. Their shyness protects
them from the rifle Of the tourist, A
heary penalty for the wanton destrue-
ton OF the manatee deters some, and
just germ Of public sentiment on the
coast restraints Others from seeking to
kill them.--A. W. Dimock In Century.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-22
National League Standing.
Summary ParasoIs.

Some Of the dalntlest pnrasols for
use with airy summer frocks are Of
plain taffeta in delicate color, bordered
by group Of eight or ten very narrow
overlapping tueks, In pink, light blue,
etc, these pnrasols accompany delight.
fully plain or lowered muslin In cor.
responding colorings. -