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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-03-31

The Rev. E. J. Ranslow, well-known
throughout the state, is writing some
very interesting letters to the Swanton
Currier, from the southland, where ne is
spending the winter, descriptive of that
country, its people and their customs.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-03-31

The Barre Times says: Governor
Hughes of New York has continued a
precedent established in his state by
Governor Roosevelt and followed by
Governor Bell of Vermont, by refusing to
interfere with the sentence of death of
woman convicted of murder; and he
seems to have avoided much of the dis
tressing clamor which surrounded the
Rogers case in Vermont. Misguided and
hysterical sentimentalists seem to have
learned lesson from the decision of
Governor Bell"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-03-31

There "were streams of liquor ankle
deep with good swift flow when Sheriff
Winch destroyed two wagon loads taken
in a raid at Hardwick January 20" and
destroyed the same at st. Johnsbury last
Saturday by order of the court Now
listen for jokes and puns about the lily
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-03-31
Where compromise Ends.

I would compromise war. / would
compromise glory. l would compro-
mise everything at that point where
hate comes in, where misery comes in,
where love ceases to be love and life
begins its descent into the valley of
the shadow of death. But 1 would not
compromise truth. would not COM
promise the right.-Henry Watterson.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-03-31

The Barre Times intimates that Hon.
H. c. Idle is as much of Vermonter now
as he ever was, he being engaged in pub
lie duties when not here. Granting this
to be true, will the Times inform us if Mr..
Ide Voted in Vermont at the last State
and National elections He wasn't in the
Philippines at that time, and if he really
wanted to he could have come "home"
to vote,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-03-31

Several of the graduating classes of
high schools in Vermont are spending a
week in Washington, getting acquainted
with the methods OF law-making and
carrying on this government. This takes
the place of the old stereotyped gradual
ing exercises and is decidedly more bene-
fetal "A special train, known as the
Vermont Special" went into Washing
ton the latter part of the past week
carrying some 500 students, teachers and
friends. The Montpelier Journal well
says: GAS an educational avocation
nothing could be more beneficial than to
get little idea of law-making at first
hand which will last a lifetime while the
instruction in civil government is forgot
ten over night in many cases,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-03-31

The Listers of Lamoille county have
agreed on a system of assessing property,
Now if the Listers of the state will agree
on a system, Vermont staxation problem
will be 1ninimized to a great extent.
Much of the difficulty of the present
arises from the wide variance of the
methods. Barre Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-03-31

Itching piles provoke profanity. but
profanity won'tcure them. Doan's ONT
ment cures itching, bleeding or protrud-
ing piles after years of suffering. At any
drug store.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-03-31

The cheaper the shoes the louder the
squeak.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-03-31

No matter how well mother may feel
she is continually on the mend.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-12
Points in Reply Of Tillman to
ArTaignment by Roosevelt

ctT HAD nohing to do NTH the change in The
lam, of whch the president complains, in
regard 10 The secret service. So The pres-
dents dnnus is not against me on The same ground
for which he has attacked Messrs Tawnep. Smith
and Others IN The house but Of personal malice
engendered By hatred because Of my course in the
senate during the last seven years
'Wheher I ever got amp of the land or moi does
moi matter if Hartman and others Of that il are made
to disgorge the large holdings phch they have stolen
and are attempting TO hold
The phO announces 10 congress that he.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-12
BITTERLY OPPOSED
TO HETCn tETCHY
Robert Underwood Johnson
Leads in Fight Against Grant
ing Sierra Water Supply
Especial Dispatch 10 The C,,l

NEW YORK, Jan 1.-THE grant
made by Secretary of the Interior Car
field to San Francisco, governing the
northern half of the Yosemite national
park for water supply purposes, will
be fought to the finish, according to
Robert Underwood Johnson of the Cen
tury Magazine today. johnson and his
associates in opposition to the scheme
say that if the Garfield grant is ap-
proved it will mean the despoiling of
some of the most beautiful scenery in
the world in the Hetch Hetchy valley
and Tuolumne meadows near the
Yosemite.
If Secretary Garfield's grant goes
through" said Johnson today. the en-
tire watershed will pass into the con-
troll of San Francisco. which would
mean the acquisition of the northern
half of the national reservation. The
opposition is led by the Sierra club
OF san francisco, the American civic
association of which J. Horace McFar-
land of Harrisburg, Pa, is president;
the American historic and scenic pres
erVatlon society and the Appalachian
Mountain club of Boston.
objections to the grant are based on
the ground that Secretary GARFIELD has
not acted with the proper consideration
for the public interests. Conditions Civ
ing the secretary authority to grant
water rights are always governed by
public interest. This view, in its large
aspect, appears to be taken by Repre-
sentative Herbert Parsons, member of
committee, and opponents of the meas
ure are looking to Mr.. Parsons for a
vigorous defense of the peoples rights.
whether or not San Francisco accepts
the Spring Valley company's plan is i'm
material to the opponents of the Garfield
grant. Our one contention is that the
remedy should be found elsewhere than
in the dissertation of the wonderful
piece of scenery and diversion of the
park from the uses to which 1T was
unanimously dedicated by congress in
1890"
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-12
Will Be No Court Martial

1t has been agreed between Captain
Thomas S. Phelps. commandant of the
Mare island navy yard, and Naval Con-
structor Evans that the scandal in
volving the name of Lieutenant Frank
lin Wayne Osburn, chief engineer of
the U. S. S. Cheyenne, should not be
further circulated and that no court
martial should be called to examine
into the indiscretion committed by the
handsome naval officer in kissing Mrs.
Evans on Christmas day
With the knowledge that she is not
to be entirely deprived of the solace of
her children Mrs. Evans was cheered
perceptibly yesterday, but she had a
pathetic plant to make against the
laws OF California.
Why is 1t" she said, that while
he (Evans) can at any time during the
year have the divorce decree set aside.
can do nothing. no matter how much
might desire, TO have the case dis
missed? 1t seems one sided / was on
trial, but l have no voice in the mat
ter"
From that it would seem that Mrs.
Evans would invite reconciliation
with her former husband, but she de-
MES that she would do that
The Osburn incident was but a small
matter compared to our growing incom-
patibility," she said. "Mr. Evans was
q man VINO never should have married.
He is brilliant man in his profess
sion and he was wrapped up in that
to the neglect of his family"
From discussion of her own marital
troubles Mrs. Evans conversation
drifted naturally into the broader chan
nels of navy women's lives She is
peculiarly adapted to have learned the
life thoroughly and with fresh impress
sions. Practically she stepped off the
English stage into the navy yards of
the United States. AT the age of IS
she was leading woman in musical
comedies of the Gaiety girl type. play
Ing in the larger cities of the British
isles. At Glasgow she met and mar
ried Evans.
Mrs. Evans is handsome young
woman with large dark eyes and much
dark brown hair. Her figure is girl
ish, her spirit vivacious She SAYS
that she has no intention of going back
on the stage. Her father is an actor
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-12
AUTOPSY REVEALS
ANATOMICAL FREAK
Surgeons Find All Vital Organs
in Chinese Body We're
Misplaced
Rare Case Discovered and Doc.
tor Plans Scientific Articles
on the Case

OAKLAND, Jan. 11.-An autopsy per-
formed upon the body OF Lee Wah.
Chinese clerk aged %. who died Of
pericarditis last week. has disclosed the
fact that the young Celestial was an
anatomical freak Dr. e. G. Wood.
who conducted the autopsy. found that
Lee Wah had been born with nearly all
Of his vital organs in unusual locations.
almost every one being In the opposite
side OF his body from its natural po-
sitfon.
The liver was in the left side or
the body instead Of the right. while the
spleen and the stomach were in the
right side. The vermffOrm appendix
was in the left side and the heart was
considerably to the right OF its normal
place. Lee Wan was left handed, his
left eye was larger than his right. and
his left leg longer than its mate.
DR.. Wood, in summing up the ind
ings OF the autopsy, said;
Everything that was left OF Lee
Wah was left. except what was right.
and it was all wrong"
He intends to write a scientific ac-
count OF Lee Wah's remarkable organic
ARRANGEMENT for several medical jour
nails. Cases OF general organic dis
placement. such as Lee Wah's, are pro-
nounced extremely rare by medical ex-
perts.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-12
$2o,0OO,0OO FOR NAVY
GRANTED BY COMMITTEE
House Body Adopts Program
for APPROXIMATIONS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.-An increase
Of the navy TO the extent of 5000 OOO
was agreed upon today by the house
committee on naval affairs.
The following naval program for ap-
preparations at this session was adopted
by the committee: Two battleships OF
26,0OO tons displacement $4,000, 900:
hye torpedo boat destroyers 1000. 900
three golfers, $4,000 600; four subma,
rines, $2,000,000; one subsurface boat,
Two battleships are recommended by
the committee instead OF four, as recon-
mended by the navy department.
The estimate for destroyers was cut
IN half, the navy department asking for
10.
An ammunition ship, a repair ship and
two mine laying ships, estimated for by
the navy department were refused by
the committee. The estimates for the
three coiliers and the four submarine
boats were agreed to, except that the
committee added one subsurface boat
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-12

VALLEJO, Jan. 11.-Naval Construct
or Holden A. Evans and Mrs. Maude
Evans were divorced early this morn
ing by Superior Judge Frank r. Devlin
of Solano county sitting at Fairfield
The interlocutory decree was entered
a few minutes after o'clock. At the
last moment Evans relented and stipu-
lated that his wife might visit and have
temporary possession of the three chill
dren of the couple at any time she
should wish, although nominally they
were awarded into the custody of the
father.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-12
EVANS GETS DIVORCE
FROM PRETTY WIFE
Husband Takes Stand, Testifies
to Kissing Incident, and
Decree Is Granted
Says He Will Permit Former
Spouse to Have Children
When She Wishes
MRS. MAUDE EVANS ON WOMAN'S.
PART OF NAVY LIFE

A naval officer should marry
rich girl.
have always found the navy
women TO be cordial and
friendly.
There are few large families In
the navy set-the life Is con-
ducfye to race suicide.
The fashionable side of navy life
may look very fine, but to those
behind the scenes IL presents a
very, very different view.
The social life of a navy woman
mt N station is quite restricted
unless one has the same tastes
that the other women have.
At the Mare island navy yard
there are more elaborate en-
tertainments given than at
other stations where L have
lived.
Naval officers believe 1t is part of
their duty to their flag to have
their families make a good So
cial appearance. but that Is DIFF
ficuit on the salaries paid.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-12
Disputes TiIIman's Version

WASHINGTON, Jan ll.-That the
.'Dorr case in which Senator Tillman
was involved was brought to the pres
idents attention for the first time De-
cember Is, 1908, was asserted tonight
by Postmaster General Meyer in a
statement In response to an inquiry
from the Associated Press.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-12
ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
lSpeciaI Dispatch 10 The CalLl
WASHINGTON Ian

WASHINGTON. Jan. ll-Upon mo-
ton Of John L. Lott OF the district of
Columbia Charles Marion Fickert of
San Francisco was today admitted to
practice before the supreme court.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-12

steel trust absorb its greatest rival contrary to lam doubtless woud
hesitate help his dear friend Hartman holding 900 900
public because Ben T1an had contemplated
buy 400 The president having convicted 7ndn proceeded
clear DOr both contrary TO the facts and ngy stalls from
The the Dh his greatest delight occupu and
pacenu looks have the american people and The give their
approval of his perdc dwdt that verdict calmly and Without fear
and mill gladly abide BY it,
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-12
RHO GRANpE srRIlxE ORR

DENVER, Jan. 1.-THE strike of the
shopmen of the Denver and Rio Grande
system which has been in effect since
last March. today was declared off after
a two days conference between strikers
and representatives OF the railroad
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-12

Try Murine Eye Remedy
For Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Ewes.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14
Rreakfastina in Bed.

Those indolent persons who have
been in the habit OF breafasting In
bed can now do so with an easy con.
science-if they haven't done it before
A German specialist informs us that
the practice is beneficial to nerves and
temper. and that those energetic per.
sons who pride themselves on appear.
ing promptly and virtuously at the
family breakfast table, all groomed
and equipped for the day. are only
digging their own graves. The re.
cumbent position it seems Is so favor.
able to digestion and to that peace of
mind that should accompany the pro.
cess that other specialists are recon-
mending it for all meals. We ought,
they say, to recline upon couches at
our feasts, as the Greeks and Romans
did, but as that is manifestly impossi-
be In the dining room of the ordinary
fiat, the best the ordinary mortal car
do Is to breakfast In bed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14

When the announcement was made
several months ago that Mr.. Taft
would use an automobile during his
term as President, much rivalry de-
veloped among the leading manufac-
turers for the honor of selling him a
car and the public watched with in
terest to. see what Mr.. Taft's choice
would be. The knowing ones predicted
that the White Steamer would be Sc
lected and they pointed out that Presi-
dent Roosevelt had used White Steam
ers for two years at his summer home
at Oyster Bay and had recommended
this make to Mr.. Taft as the most de-
sirable.
This prediction proved correct, al
though Mr.. Taft did not rely solely
on Mr.. Roosevelt's recommendation
but, with his usual thoroughness, de-
termined to have an investigation
made of all the principal makes. Ac-
cordingly, he asked several officers OF
the War Department to look into the
matter for him, and they tested many
makes of cars, visited a number OF
factories so that they might see what
materials were used, and, finally, they
investigated the records of the differ
ent types of cars in public contests
and in private service.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14

Steamer, except that his car has this
United States coat-of-arms painted
on either door. In other words,
when we make car for the Presf.
dent of the United States there is mo
way in which we can make 1t any
better than the car which you, or
anybody else, can purchase from us.
"Some of those writing to ma
about Mr.. Taft's car say that, al-
though they are very DESTROYS Oh
having a car like Mr.. Taft's, they
are afraid that such car Is some.
what larger and more expensive than
they desire. In reply to such letters.
point out that our Model o. 20
horsepower car is exactly like our
40 horsepower model, except as re-
CARDS the size of the different parts.
The principle of construction is ex-
actly the same and the smaller car
possesses all the desirable qualities
of our larger model. In other words.
one can secure an exact duplicate OF
Mr.. Taft's car for $4,000, or car OF
the same qualities, but of smaller d.
mansions, for only $4,000. Judging by
the demand for Whit0cars, good pro-
portion of those desiring to purchase
| automobiles are quite content to trust
President Taft's Judgment as to the
best and most desirable make"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14

When their labors were completed,
the officials reported unanimously to
Mr.. Taft in favor Of the White, and,
accordingly, car Of this make was
Immediately ordered from the manu-
facturers, The White Company OF
Cleveland.
The new car was delivered to Mr..
Taft in Washington a few days be-
fore his inauguration and since that
time it has been in almost constant
use. There has not been a day when
the President or some member of
his family have not been seen riding
around the National Capital in the
new car. 1t is limited that Mr. Taft
likes fast travelling and that when
he rides out into the open country, he
does not always insist that the speed
Of the car be kept within the legal
limits.
w. J. Urquhart, manager of the west.
ern branch of the White Company, 239
Michigan Ave, Chicago. Ill, said re.
Gently to a correspondent of this
paper: 1--WE are receiving many in
quiries each day asking for full de
tails regarding the construction Of
Mr.. Taft's car and in reply we are
sending copies of our catalog. Mr.
| Taft's car is exactly like any Other
Model M 40 horsepower White
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14
MID RUIN AND FILTH

Narrow, winding streets, dirty and
i'll kept, lead to the Seven Towers, an
old Turkish fortress, at one time the
Byzantine citadel, which is rented by
the government, with the adjoining
moat, to a market gardener who adds
to the small income derived from the
sale of his vegetables by charging FIVE
piastres GO cents), for sight Of his
property.
Passing through the gateway Of the
Seven Towers you find a broad cob
blestone road skirting the walls out
side the city, which is better than
many within her gates. At frequent
intervals along this road are little red
wooden sheds-guardhouses erected
by the Ottoman Reggie to prevent the
smuggling OF contraband tobacco-and
a too close inspection of these is apt
to bring you shot in your ribs from
the guardian of the law.
On the road itself. plodding along
under heavy baskets of far, produce
are many hamals-human beasts OF
burden-whose travelstained rags and
unwashed appearance induce you to
| give them a wide berth. And when
nearing Top Kapu gate you come in
sight of a doubtful looking encamp
ment containing, as you presently dis
cover, the surplus population of the
gypsy quarter within the gate you are
inclined to give this sti1l wider berth
for were it not that strong, strange
odor of cooking assails your nostrils
as you look down upon their novels
from the walls you would expect tt
find yourself in the vicinity of the re
Gently vacated outhouses of farm.
You are not surprised at the dis
eases and sores which disfigure many
of the women and girls who follow
you, dressed in long, baggy trousers
asking for backsheesh as YOU hurr,
your footsteps past the stencil tina
rises from what appears to be the
refuse heap of the great city,
Sickened with these sights anC
smells you turn around a slight benz
and thankfully see the little cafes anc
j booths outside the Adrianople gate
through which Mahammed the Con
! queror rode in triumph and through
which each succeeding sultan at hi.
accession to the throne has ridden Il
the palace after being girded with the
sword of Osman at Eyoub mosque.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14
IT WAS NOT HER BACK.
Woman Had No Idea Of Being Proxy
for Medical Treatment.

A missionary, discoursing upon
India, told of a woman who had come
to her complaining of a very sore
back and desired that she pray for its
cure. This Mrs. Jackson did. but the
woman again appeared before her and
declared that the back was still in a
bad condition. Mrs. Jackson advised
the use OF an application of iodine.
and brought out bottle of the drug
to apply upon the afflicted part of the
woman's anatomy. But she regarded
the bottle suspiciously and acted as
though it would hurt her were she to
use it. To allay her fears upon this
score Mrs. Jackson applied some OF
the drug to her own finger and showed
her that it would not burn, and that
she had better allow her to put some
of it upon her back.
But" said the woman, at would
do no good"
How so?" inquired Mrs. Jackson,
sympathetically.
Because" replied the woman, 1T is
my old mans back that is sore"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14

earthquakes and time. They consist
of a double line of magnificent walls
and terraces, fianked by nearly 200
towers. extending from Seven Towers
Nedi Kouleh) on the Marmora to
Eyoab on the Golden Horn
Probably no other city in the world
possesses such picturesque military
ruins as these grand old towers and
walls, about whose base have en-
camped the armies of surrounding ma
lions. Arabs, Persians, Goths. Turks,
Bulgarians and Greeks have fought to
possess the Queen city of the east.
AS one notes the decay and neglect
that now prevail on all sides it is al
most impossible to believe that
through these gates caravans have
passed bearing the wealth of two con-
tinents
On the land side, covering hills and
valleys. is a bewildering mass of crazy
looking, weatherbeaten dwellings. one
or two stories in height. Struggling
hither and thither like groups OF Gen.
tenarians or inebriates each house
feebly props up fits neighbor which ap-
pears as IL about to collapse from
sheer inability to stand alone. Here
and there a new house is seen; it
stands for the moment yellow, crude
and aggressive beside the tumbIedown
wooden structures that surround 1t,
and one wonders how soon it too, will
Join the tottering throng.
Then at the back of the town, like
crowns resting upon the summit Of the
seven hills on which the city is built.
are gigantic mosques. while the domes
of thousands of smaller ones rise up
from the city below. their innumerable
minarets pointing like warning fingers
toward the heavens.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14
Inviting.

Recently two well-known Washing
ton society women making calls ar
rived at the house of a certain friend,
and, after ringing the bell, waited. No
answer. They rang again, and after
considerable delay the door was
opened by the new cook, who asked:
'Phwat do you want?"
Upon being told of the nature of the
call. the girl replied:
"Oi! Stick yer cards between me
teeth. DIVE been making bread
Harper's Weekly.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14
Ground Plan and Front Elevation.


and If 1t accomplishes what is hoped
by the countries which were repre-
sented at the Central American peace
conference in Washington in Novem-
Der and December, 1907, it will mark
the most forward step toward interna-
tionaf arbitration that has been taken
in modern times.
One of the other agencies for &C.
menting the interests of the various
states together is the International
Central American bureau, of which
Ricardo ]. Echeverria, C. E., of Costa
RIGA. is president. The other mem.
bers are DR.. Jose Pinto. Guatemala;
DR.. Benjamin F. Zeledon, Nicaragua;
DR.. Carlos CULLEN, Salvador, and DR.
Manuel F. Barahona, Honduras.