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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-06

Tom Cowler, dragged into our midst
by Jim Corbett, will have to 10 a lot of
natural high n LOFTY nentlng II he
would overcome the nevcrfailing Corbett
jinx. Jim Corbctt is a notorious picker
of losers. The only fight he ever called,
including the winner. was that little
New Orleans affair with "1ll be yours
ever truly. John l.. sullivan"
Corbett did get by with that one. but
IL was confined strictly to a family hope.
Perhaps the only outsider who guessed
IL and had nerve enough to say so was
the late Langdon Smith.
Corbett IL bubbling over with enthu-
siasm about Cowler. jim Is wise enough
to say that he doesn't want to start him
In fast mpan just nov. fast from his
standpoint being the willard ring.
"Ill be perfectly contented to heap
Cowler onto the tcn-twent-thirt crowd,
boys like CoTey, Reich. Flynn and Bell. -
said Corbct to n crowd that was drink
ing In Jim's puglistic wisdom yesterday.
II know I've Hoped in picking them be
fore, but I felt ia just naturally stumble
across a live one some day. Cowler Is
the real thing. | have only to ask that
everybody get in line when he makes
his first start. Now there must he
something to him or | wouldn't tote him
from Seattle to Australia and back
again. now, would |? Not me. Not little
! James j."
Freddie welsh was all smiles in the
dressing room after his fight with
Charley White at Brighton Beach sat
urday night.
We'll. that's three tries hat this
worlds hardest hitter has had to knock
me out" said Welsh. I'm tell YOU now
az I've told you before, I've got that
fellows number lie cant land n knock
out on me and he knows 1t. I've got him
hypnotized, that's all.
Just to show you that he has given
up landing on my jaw as a bad job. he
went to my body most Of the time. It's
about "A million to one that | lose my
championship through q knockout some
night. hut charley Whites name never
win be written INTO the record hook AZ
having turned the trick
Soldier Bartneld will have ten pounds
the worst of it when he meets Jimmy
clabby at Brighton Beach saturday
night. Giving away weight Is a pasttme
with the soldier. He donated eight
pounds to the fjbbon cause when Mike
met him in Brooklyn. yer the Soldier
made every Jaw drop, including Sf
Mikes. when he just naturally scam
pcrcd home with the victory. II n" can
trim Mike lis hard to soc where he Is
going to lose any sleep over this clabhS
tiT. James is one Of Mikes special
marks.
Ac ording t. that truthful citizen Jecr'
Johnston. who pilots the des,irt's OF the
~ \irnnlas e. Al Reich has beer
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-06
RUTGERS PLACE GYMNASIUM.

Potato Race. seniors-won by ] Sis
kind VI. Maslin. second; :. katz, third.
~elowitz d. K%lveloNitz. second II. PEN
sky. third.
Indian club Race. Seniors-Won by NJ.
R%sbinowitz; J. siskind. second b letter
third.
Junior All Up Race-Won by J. Ashe-
rowitz. / Katz, second: u klvcloMitz.
third.
Running Broad Jump. seniors-Won by
:. Levine, IL feet lOis inches. NJ. Rabino-
WITT, II feet 8 inches. second. NJ. August.
10 feet III inches. third
Running Broad jump. Juniors-Won By
f.. Kaselowitz. IL feet 81 inches; J. Ashe-
II feet. second. N. Burros. 10 feet
10 inrhc. third
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-06

wicki, Clark House. third. Time. 81 sec
onds.
70 Yard Dash, Playground Boys. ITO
round Class-Won by NJ. A. Isevanosky;
G~ottesman, second: c. Jacobs, third.
Time. = seconds.
80, Yard Dash. Public Schoois-won by
" LevAnosky, Commerce; s.. Gotesman,
80 lhs, second. l.. Cohen. 4. 5. 100.
third Time. 8 seconds.
40 Yard Dash. Playground Boys. 1870
round Class-Won by c. Jacobs: NJ. Man
pWitz' second. IL. Schneiderman, third.
Time. u As seconds.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-06

j T. Johnston. Bronx church House.
third. Distance, 80 feet ) Inches.
100. Yard Dash. Park Playgrounds-Won
by. W. Moore; Daube, second. l.. Raskin,
third. Time, 10 2-5 seconds.
40 yard Dash. Park Playgrounds-Won
BY Louis Levine; j.. Ezcchel, second,
Thomas Dawson, third Time. / minute
! 2-5 seconds.
so Yard Dash. Park Playgrounds-won
by \. Greenstein. W. Moore. second; Il. j.
Guterman, third. Time, q seconds.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-06
Gudea wins Flag Handicnp y.

WlIlrE PLAINS. y. Y. July "a flag
handicap AZ the Gehney Farms County
club tr-It, was wou by n : Ci,dea
There Was , O." for second place he
tween + W Duffy and Ioin Mc''ret
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-11

Next to being deserving Demo
cra," the best-paying proposition
down South is lending money. Inter
es, charges in Dixie net the banks all
the way up to 100 per cent. w. 7. 6.
Harding, one Of the Southern and
Democratic members OF the Federal
Reserve Board, is authority for this
statement---he having told the Raleigh
Chamber Of Commerce that there are
FIVE national banks in Alabama tMr.
Harding's own stateD whose maximum
rates of interest average 26 per cent,
the rate in one case being 60 per cent
and in another % per cent. The aver
age rate Of interest which one Of these
banks was charging on all of it's loans
amounted 10 IL per cent and another
10 percent In Arkansas one national
bank admitted making loan at a rate
ms high as 100 per cent, another one
at 80 per cent, another at 60 per cent
and another at 20 per cent. In
Georgia there were eleven banks
where the average maximum rate Of
interest was about 80 per cent. The
maximum rate charged by one of these
banks was 40 per cent, and the aver
age on all loans was Is per cent. No
bank in South Carolina admitted
charging more than Is per cent. In
Texas a number Of banks reported
rates in excess of 100 per cent. And
yet the South pays less, far less, in
come tax than any other portion of
the country; and whenever the cotton
crop is to be moved, the South let's out
a loud roar demanding Federal help.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-11

ton IL behind most Of the other towns
Of the state In road improvement
This fall, after ten years Of effort,
Bennington Of last has coed road
from the village 20 the Pownal line.
The road TO the SALISBURY line is n
disgrace. The road to the Hoosiek
line. beyond that built by Mr. Colgate,
is at present unsafe The road to the
Woodford line is 20 short and near by
that il seems a shame that il is not
better. We doubt II there is another
town in Vermont where the chief high
way inlets are not in better condition
than those provided by Bennington for
those who come into the town for bust
ness or pleasure. Brattleboro,a town
no bigger and far less wealthy than
Bennington, has good main roads in
all directions and is twenty years
ahead Of Bennington in the matter of
roads. There is something wrong
with the Bennington way OF handling
the road question and II is time we
found out what il is and get together
TO correct it. We ought to be asham-
ed to lag behind Woodford and Glas-
tenbury and Stamford, SALISBURY
and Pownal in road building Ben
nington Evening Banner.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-11
RIGHT YOU ARE /.

II Bennington is really interested in
having good highway across the
mountains at this point the first step
and most important as a proof Of hon
est interest is to build a good road
from the village TO the Woodford line
near the point of rocks. This road up
through the valley is the most attrae-
tive short drive from Bennington, but
has always been less used than it
ought to be because Of the poor road.
In wet weather it is particularly bad
because the thinness of the surface
material which allows every stone in
the bed to make itself manifest. At
that the road is better this year than
for several years past. There is no
use Disgusting the fact that Benning-
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-11
LINCOLN-SIXTY YEARS AFTER

In 1856, Abraham Lincoln, in a
speech delivered at Chicago, said:
"All of us who did not vote for Mr..
Buchanan, taken together, are a ma
jority Of 100000. But in the late con-
test We were divided between Fremont
and Fillmore. Can we not come to-
gether for the future? Let every one
who really believes and is resolved
that free society is not and shall not
be failure, and who can conscien-
tionsly declare that in the last contest
he has done only what he thought best
Jet every such one have charity to
believe that every other one can say
as much. Thus let bygones be by
cones; let past differences as nothing
be; and with steady eye on the real
issue let us reinaugurate the good old
central idea of the republic. We can
do it."
In 1916. 60 years after these words
were spoken, they should come to the
men Of Lincoln's political faith and of
Lincoln's party as both an admonition
and an appeal
All of US who did not vote for Mr..
Wilson are majority of nearly two
and a half millions. Those of us who
voted as Republicans and Progressives
are a majority Of nearly million
and half. If we alone will take Lin
coins counsel we shall "reinaugurate
that good old central idea of the Re-
public"
Let as do as Lincoln would have us
an
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-11
LIABLE TO HAPPEN,
IN MANY PLACES

There was a special village meeting
last night. Measures of interest to
every taxpayer in Swanton village
were voted upon--every measure, be
it big or small, calling for vote in
village meeting is of keen interest to
the legal voters of Swanton--
Last nights meeting was sad. There
were present just TEN legal voters
from all the corporation. OF these
TEN legal voters there were EIGHT
who had to be there The EIGHT who
had to be there were the president Of
the corporation, two of the trustees Of
Swanton village, the clerk of the viii
lage, the superintendent and three
members of the special committee.
This leaves a grand total of TWO out
Of the TEN legal voters who did not
have to 90. The matters for consider
alton in the special warning concerned
the all-important question of High
gate power-a question of more seri-
Gus moment than you taxpayers rea-
lie at Swanton's present industrial
stage. Yet there were just TWO
voters present who did not HAVE to
be there. That looks good for a town
that gaily boasts itself on the map.
Now, there are those who make
knocking regular practice. There
are those who claim that the trustees
are running things-and that they
don't know enough to. There are
those who lambaste the president of
the village and giggle at the clerk.
There are those who make faces at the
special committee. And there are
even those who stand on the curb and
kick and kick and kick. Why do not
the chronic kickers leave the curb and
do their ballyho where they are sup
posed to--in village meeting.
Here is one serious trouble with
Swanton. No matter how minor the
import of the meeting, every voter
that can possibly be on hand SHOULD
ALWAYS ATTEND. Wouldn't it
look better if you were all there with
your little yes or mo- instead of leav-
ing it to mere sad handful? Would
Mt that be showing the proper spirit :?
The management of Swanton village
is quite a business. No business can
succeed without spirit. One of the
best methods for supplying spirit to
the business of Swanton village is for
you to answer all calls for special vii
Iage meetings and to GO. Do not turn
your back on the village meeting as
though it were some morgue, and then
consume every energy in wall and
criticism.
The village meeting last night is
one of which every loyal resident of
Swanton should be heartily ashamed.
-SWanton Courier.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-11

There % more Cstsrrh in this section Of
the country than all other disease put to-
setber ard until the last few years WAS
suprssesi 10 he incnfAbls. For great many
yea, doctors pronounced IL local disease
ana prescribed local remedies. and by con-
.tan,ly failing io cure with local treatment
pranoune~1 Us lncurahle. Science has PROV
en- cAtarrh 10 b. n constitutional disease and
therefore requires constiteiiOnai treatment.
HslIs Cstarrh Cure. Manufactured ~ y. J.
e1hsnsy A Co. Toledo Ohio 10 the only con.
stitu;ioanl cure on the market. IL IL taken
Internally ia doses from 10 drops TO tea
sp.onfnl IL acts directly on The blood and
Ysuruous surfaces Of the system. They offer
on. hundred doiisrs for Any case II falls 10
~nr~ send for circulars and testimonials.
address y. j. CHENEY a &C.. Toledo. o.
Nos By Druggists. Tic.
Tsls Il alis FAMILY Pills for corstips,ion.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-11
NOTICE
NOTICE

My husband, Frank Cadoret, saw ft
recently to post me, saying that he
would pay no bills of my contracting,
and that | had left him. In the IS
years Of our married life have never
been trusted at any store without his
consent. When ] left home it was
only upon the advice Of my physician
and friends who said that | could new
or recover my strength following an
operation | had early in August,
while living under the conditions
was obliged to in his home.
MRS. FRANK CADORET.
Manchester Center, VT.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-11
SENATOR PAGE DISCOURCES
ENTERTAINMENT
Becomes Reminiscent in Recent Letter
to Veteran Editor

Becomes Reminiscent IN recent Letter
to Veteran Editor
Editor News and Citizen:--
The death of Ex-Governor Stewart
last week suggests line Of thought
in which old-time Vermonters find
food for some very interesting refec-
tons.
During the later years of Gov.
Fredk Holbrook's life it was my Gus
tom to write to the Governors of the
several states in the Union suggesting
that a birthday letter to the Governor
who was for several years the mes
tor Of all the Governors Of the United
States-would give him a great deal
of pleasure. His friends used TO tell
me that for weeks after these birth
day letters came to hand the Cover
nor would call in his friends and show
them these epistles. That they afford
ed him an immense amount Of pleas
ure during the last days Of his life
is unquestionably trIe. Gov. Hol-
brok was sc at the time Of his death.
Gov. Stewart was born in Novem-
Der, 1926, and was, therefore, 80 years
old this month. Whether at the time
Of his decease he was or was not the
oldest living Governor in the United
States have not taken the pains to
ascertain; he probably was.
A few weeks ago Vermont might
have bcasted Of twelve living Ex-
Governors, but the deaths Of McCul-
Tough and Stewart reduces the number
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-11
STATE NEWS

Six cans of spotted catfish, a game
fish that comes from the West, have
been placed in Joe's pond as an ex-
pertinent. They grow to weight of
from to 10 pounds, but are difficult
fish to propagate and attempts in
other places have been unsuccessful.
Others have been placed in the hatch
cry at Lyndon Center
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-11

70 ten-thc smallest il has been for a
generation.
For many years we enjoyed the dis
tinction Of having more than twice az
many living Ex-Governors as any
other state in the Union. On one
occasion when ! was writing 10 the
Governor Of Michigan in regard 10
Governor Holbrook suggested the fact
that we had IL living Ex-Governors,
he replied that Michigan had only one
and that he was a native son Of Yer
mont.
Our living ES- Governors to-day are
Pingree, ormsbee, Dillingham;, Page,
Grout, Smith, Stickney, Prouty. Mead
and Fletcher
We have the same number Of living
Lieutenant Governors, consisting
Of Pingree, 0rmsbee, Fiske, Allen,
Stanton, Stearns, Prouty, Mead,
Slack and Howe.
OF Ex-United States Senators only
one-the venerable Edmunds-sur-
wives, while Of Representatives to
Congress there are four-Joyce, Ty-
Ter, Haskins and Plumley.
There has been an article going the
rounds of the press Of late stating
that only two delegates to the Repub
lican National Convention of 1860,
which nominated Abraham Lincoln,
wer living, and that both of them were
Vermonters. These two members were
John w. Stewart and Edward B. Saw
yer. If this statement is correct, our
own Hyde Park has the distinction of
not only having the only living mem
Der Of that memorable convention of
1860, but since the death of Col. Wal
bridge of the End Vermont, and of
Generals Ripley and Henry, all of
which occurred within the past two
years, Hyde Park also has in Colonel
Sawyer, the only living veteran Of the
civil war residing in Vermont, who
was commanding officer of either
regiment, brigade or division.
Dispatches from Council Bluffs,
Iowa, which reached us last week, an.
nounce that General Grenville M.
Dodge, who resides in that city, is
probably on his death bed. General
Dodge was not native Vermonter
but | think he was at ne time in COM
mand of brigade or division con-
tanning Vermont troops. He was
graduate of Norwich University.
Major General Lewis A. Grant now
resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota. So
far as | can recall he is the only living
Major General who ever commanded a
Vermont regiment in the civil war. |
have met General Grant several times
within the past few years and al
though, as a matter Of course, the in
frmities of age are gradually begin
ming to be manifest, as they are with
Col. Sawyer, they both enjoy an ex
cellent measure Of health for their
years and we may all hope that kind
Providence will long spare these two
living monuments of the Civil War.
Vermont may well feel proud of the
honors she enjoys in the matter of dis
survivors. In the veneer
able Edmunds we have the last of that
ong line of constitutional lawyers
which made the Senate of the United |
States memorable during the last half |
IF the last century. Senator Edmunds |
Is now nearly SO and | am told is in
he enjoyment of excellent health.
Long may he be spared.
CARROLL S. PAGE.
Ryde Park, VT, Nov. 2, 1915.
Hyde Park News and Citizen.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-11

The fern-picking season in southern
Vermont is at an end, over 60 cars Of
them having been sent from Benning-
ton since the season opened. The con-
tinued cutting Of ferns is said to be
rapidly depicting the supply and IL il
estimated that If the picking contin-
ues for five years more the particular
kind Of fern used in floral work will
be extinct from this part Of the
country.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-11

Clarence, the 23-month-oid son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Paquette, Of Bethel,
Gilead, was drowned Saturday by
falling into watering kettel near the
house. His older brother aged six
years found him with his head under
water and pulled him out. His
father was away and his mother, who
had missed him, was searching else
where. Doctors from Randolph and
Bethel soon arrived but their efforts
were unavailing.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-11

Almon Robinson has shot another
bear. Up to Saturday he had killed
but nine this year, but small trap set
for a bobcat in West Wardsboro
caught a tenth on Saturday, which
weighed 120 pounds and which drag
ged the trap about a mile before the
hunters found it. William Duncan
and Frank Gould, Jr., caught black
bear in one Of their traps in South
Wardsboro Nov. /. 1t weighed about
200 pounds.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-11
BEREAVED

Written in memory of George T,
Buskirk, by request Of his widow, Mrs,
May Buskirk.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-11

Mrs. Louise Augusta Stevenson,
wife of the Rev. Thomas Stevenson,
pastor Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of Vergennes, who died Satur-
day night after long illness. was
born in Port Of Spain, Trinidad, Wes.
Indies, and met Mr.. Stevenson when
he served as a missionary in that Brit
ish colony. Mr.. and Mrs. Stevenson
worked for a time in the West Indies
and eight years in Porto Rico. Beside
her husband, Mrs. Stevenson is sur
vived by six children.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-11
NOTICE
To Our Advertisers

Sin order 10 insure their being made,
sIl changes for advertising must be in
hand not later than Monday night Of
the current week. II Is our desire TO
assist our advertisers in every way
possible. but they must do their share
and have their changes in on above
day.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-11

The dark, dark angel Death
Into our midst has come,
And husband, father, friend,
Has taken from our home.
No more we hear his step,
We see his face no more,
In vain we watch for him
At window or at door.
His kindly eyes are closed,
Folded his busy hands;
No more his care provides
What still our need demands.
His lips no more can speak
To us in love or cheer.
We tread lonely path
Without his presence near.
Yet this we surely know,
God gives but what is best,
And in our deepest grief
On His our hearts must rest.
&C. NJ. X.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-05
Voting Under the Flag. (Pittsburgn Dispatch.)

That order by Chicago court
 that American flags must wave from
 each polling place, displayed both in-
 side and outside, on primary day,
 comments itself to public attention.
 Surely if there is one place and one
 time when patriotism should be evoked, it is in casting ones vote in
 the ballot box. Patriotism has been as-
 sociated too much and too exclusive
 ly with the idea of militarism, of ag
 gression and force. The results of
 that kind of misguided, one-sided
 patriotism may be measured on the
 battlef1elds and in the desolate homes
 of Europe It is the same sort of
 distorted perspective which makes a
 hero out of 8 worlds champion in the prize ring Physical strength, force and skill are admirable in their place, but there are other qualities, both in nations and in individual ls that make more for progress and civilization. Men can do more to make their country great by a pa triotic purpose at the ballot box than by prating of victories, vicariously won on the battlefield. Less vain l glorious flag waving in defiance and 1 more reverent respect in practice for the institutions and principles the l flag represents are in order, and the l Chicago suggestion should be emu- 1 lated nation wide.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-05
BuTrov Like WoOdchucks in Earth
(From "The New Conditions in War, by J. F. J. Archibald, in March
 Scribner.)

(ETOm ''Ine NeW COnu1uOnS Tn war,
 by J. F. J. Archibald, in March
 Scribner.)
 I had already pictured in my mind the enorrn ous bodies of troops com prising this vast army, and as we ap preached the main position 1 felt that I had been cheated, for, with the exception of a few struggling battal- ions and an occasional supply-train, there was no army anywhere to be seen. There were more than two million men somewhere in the vicin- ity, and yet there were but a few thousand in evidence. I could not be- Eeve that We were at the front. I felt sure that we were being deceived by the genial Ober- r-lieutenant Kliever of the General Staff, who conducted us into the active zone of operations There was no use to ask any ony re- garding the disposition of the forces, for the only answer would be a shrug of the shoulders and an apparently sincere 'Ich weis nicht." Perhaps they did not know, but certainly I did not. When the first French aeroplane scared over our heads, I realized that I was seeing an entirely new phase of warfare, new conditions and new problems. I then realized why I had seen no troops. They were hidden under cover of the many thick forests which beautify the hills of France. The entire Germany army had bur- rowed itself into these hills as hun ted animal would hide from hawk When the army moved, it came out from it's cover at night or during the gray mist of the morning. When it struck it was when the air above was free of the watching eye of the aerial l observer. I shall never forget my feel ing when I first approached one if these forests which gave cover to th . tens of thousands of the eyer-readv German spldiery.