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HERALD AND NEWS. JUNE 6, 1901. n S.S.BALLARD, General Agent, Vermont. Assets, - $19,900,890.10: Liabilities, -17,899,825.21 Surplus, - $2,001,064.89 BUSINESS CARDS. II. M. CHASE, M. D..D.D.S. DENTISTRY A SPECIALTY Ikthel, Vt. E. 0. BLANCHAR0, D.D.S. DUBOIS & GAY'S BLOCK, Randolph, - - Vermont. ). WALTER M.KELTY, DENTIST. RANDOLPH, - VERMONT. Preaerrsitlon of the natural twlh a peclalty. Prepared to du all kind, of plate work. Ovr the Buck Printing Co., Merchants Row. O. M. KICK, DENTIST. Chelsea, Vermont. At Wet Fairlee the la.t three working day. ot each month. Particular attention iriven to regulating and preserving the natural teeth. Beat of ane.thetU'K given. F. L. BECKWIT1I, DENTIST. Office : Hatch's Block, CHELSEA, VT. finwinl BltHnilon iMvtii tt all hranoh of heiitiMry. All work Kt tb year of cratt-tli-e. JOHN P. GIFFORO, A. B., M. D. Rpecial attention given to Eye, Ear, Ncwe and Throat, including the Hcit-ntitlc Fitting o( QlafiHfa. OFHCE IN TEW KSHI RV'S I1UICK. Office Hours: 10 to 12 A.M., 3 to 5 and 7 to V P. M. Telephone connection Residence, Highland Ave., Randolph, Vt GEO. W. SCOTT, M. D., Homeopathic Physician & Surgeon Office, Scott's Block, Main St. Office Houra until 9 A. M., 1 to 2 and 7 to t P. M. Itenidcnce, corner School and Bummer Hta. Telephone connections. Dhs. HA I LEY & ALLEN", rilYSIC'IAXS A SUU(JEOS. OFFICE, Cor. Main St. & Merchants' Row. Open from 7 a m. to 9 p. m. DR. F. C. ANGELL, Office, Stewart's Bl'k., Main St. Office Hours: 8 to 10 A. M., 2 to 3 and 7 to 9 P. M. Residence. 9 Frospect St. Telephone Connections. YillS. L.A. HUSSLOW & C.J. HUM RILL, PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS. Office Hours, 8 A. M. to 8 P. M. No. 5 Merchants Row. D. L. Burnett, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. ftpectal .Mention given to Pie..en of Women and Ui Hinea,. of the Kye and Ear and tae ax'iTilinc titling of tilaMe. Ottlte lli.ur tiU a. m., 1 to t and t to t p. Da. Telephone.Conneclionf. Offlca at Resldenea. So. Royalton, Vermont. CANCER, TUMOR nd all' maligajant growths scientifi cally treated and cured without the naw of the knife. Patients visited by appointment in any part of the state. H. B.ESM0ND, M.D., F. R. S. Sc.Eng., Milt St., West Fairlee, Vt. J. K. DARLING. B. K. DARLIIG DARLING & DARLING, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, 01ielaiee, "V7"t. COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY HADE. II. L. BIX BY, PHOTOGRAPHER. Srtnml at Cneua 0eo Tanrartaya and Satardaaa. At (lout HuyaJWa, Ta.iil.jw Al ilraokaead, laKliiewava. Okctaa, Tl. e .ill , ' vm n aei u t .aw i r ; twit r i'tfc? r s" fa-v "-"V' It. -- ! i.-iWf. t.-a ' ! Terms, Advt Rates, etc HERALD AND NEWS. - - - Raadolph, Vt, UKtblN MOUNTAIN STATE, :. r j(,RRn!. Publlaher. THE BBThbL col KltK. - - Balnel, VL OCT WlLeOM. rUDIUB.r. ROCHESTER HERALD, - Hochester, Vt E. M. HakvkT, Publisher. WHITE RIVER HERALD, South KoyaltoB, Vt M. J- (mum, Pubtuher THE CHEL5KA HERALD, - Chelsea, Vt HaaKSKT O. BlXBT, PUDIU1MI. Actual eTeraa-e combing clroulatloa tor the year ubacriDtlon, - -. l!.MprIii . ..L . antllil, Aff VarOll.UL I All ub.crijlion. pi peradieauutiDuefl wh ...hie id Advance and all pa en time eauirea anleaa reueweo AIVEKT1W1.U RATES SPACE. ALL HAM AVY OTUBB PAPbUS. Par In. per jr. $6.00 $160.00 $8.00 $120.00 ta.oa $100.08 "Col.Wln.yr. I Minimum coarse ie 60c -Additional Rale, for special po.ttlnn. beading netlce. double rata. Jl and Loral Adrartlaln. r.ltvrKliia. no.tin. and e.UaT nuUOeB, $1 for week.; e.tale notice., $J; special leiral notice., 10c per line for $ week., ot'ltuane. ordinary length, $1 ana w cople rurn..oea; re.uin"-, of thank.. 5c.unoliciled poetry, 6c. per Una. Mo in U'mil'l Aolnmfl fir At held of .I.T tOWBCrtr re.pondence 10c. per line Brat insertion when live 101......1 i,.... . Kr ..h Muhaeauent insertion., Ine.or lee. are uiea. wots u.u, c ...... ., . , , ... c. per line If three line, or more are . " not. luo. ner line nor week for three week., altar that 6c. per line. i II. Jdii.tNU.i. i-rniineior. a Randolph, Vt. EDITORIAL NOTES, Lawson said he wouldn't, but ho did Kx-Senator Hoss is getting deserved credit for outlining a course ot reason ing that has now been adopted by the federal supreme court, divorcing the constitution and the flag. A Chinese student at Vanderbilt University won the medal in a recent oratorical contest, taking as a theme China's woes. He undoubtedly felt the inspiration of his subject. The St. Albans Messenger calls on Lieut. -Cov. Allen to resign his otBce, so that, while Martin F. Allen may be tried lor eiiibezzlement.the lietitenant- aovernor will not stand in the prison er's dock. There is a renewal of the periodic discussion about a union ot churches. It might be helpful, but all the experience of the past teaches that there will be more churches, and more denominations, instead of less, as time goes on. Seven thousand one hundred and twenty-three persons were killed and 4t,620 injured by the cars in this country last year, which brings out especially the fact that this is a mighty big country when such slaughter goes on unheeded. Keep your eye on Northfleld. Ten years ago that village hadn't a single industry that employed over half a dozen hands. Everything was deader than hay. 'The calamity croaker found it a paradise and held full sway. The town was doomed, sure. But about that time a tew enterprising citizens got together to improve matters, if possible. They encountered the usual discouragements at the start. Their first efforts failed and the croakers gloated, but they kept peg ging away. A small granite concern was induced to locate there and work Iiarre granite, sheds, etc., being provided lor it. After a time, others followed. Now they come ot their own accord. Probably 2X) cutters are working there now at wages that mean plenty of money in circulation. A new shed 200 feet long Is being built, which will mean 100 hands more. A little effort put forth at the right time landed a corn canning factory, which has proven very advantageous to the farmers. Northfleld has a fine deposit of slate, and the quarries are being reopened by Vermont enterprise. The town Is very prosperous, with bright prospects ahead. What Northfleld has done other towns can do. To mope doesn't help matters. Get up and hustle. THE PATH OF EMPIRE. The decision of the federal supreme court in the insular cases and the present relations with Cuba are direct ing attention again to Uncle Sam's experiences in the governing business. Though it happens that they have no near relation to each other, both are matters ot prime interest and Impor tance to this country and the islands involved. To take np the court decisions first: Their import was about what the country anticipated. The surprise is rather that the court was so evenly divided Ave to four and that those justices who are commonly regarded the strongest were most of them among the minority. In brief, the majority opinion justifles the adminis tration's policy and method of expan sion. It holds that territories acquired as Porto Rico was may be added to the national domains geographically, but that it is within the power of Congress under the constitution to prescribe what customs regulations shall govern them, and .that it may raise a tariff barrier between the states themselves and the new territories. It lays down the principle lor the first time that the constitution is for the states alone, and that it can be withheld from the territories, either wholly or in part, by action of Congress. The provision of the constitution requiring that all : duties and imposts shall be uniform J within the United States is avoided by declaring that territories, like Porto Rico, are not a part of the United States within the meaning of this provision if Congress shall decide to regard them otherwise, as it did Porto Rico under the loraker act. levying a 15 per cent tarifl against her. Iiy a deeifion in another case handed down at the same time, it is established that after territories have been acquired aud until Congress acts, as it did by the Foraker law, trade is free between the "old" country and the new accessions. It therefore appears as if the constitution does "follow the flag," but that there is a string attached to it, which Congress can pull at any time, depriving the new territories pt the rights of commercial freedom that they have enjoyed up,to that time. Thus, if the United States should annex Cuba now wouiu uecomo a part of the nation and entitled to send goods here duty free until Congress could meet and determine otherwise. Congress has not yet placed a tariff barrier against goods coming in from the Philippines, and if this Porto Kieau case is to be followed as a precedent there is nothing to prevent wholesale importation- from that direction, even of European products, which may come in that way to avoid duties. A spee'al session ot Congress to guard against this is not at an unlikely. It seems to us that the decision ol the court can only be justified on grounds of expediency. The court has pointed out how the United States an become an empire and hold olonles in any part ot the globe with out endangering itself politically or commercially. For this judicial authority to enter upon a course of olonizatioh.the court is to be thanked. if the end is a happy one. It also lets us out of a bad hole, for we should be in a heap of trouble if it were found that the constitution applied with full force and scope to those islands that we have joined to us on the map, but whose inhabitants we do not wish to greet as American fellow-citizens, entitled to all the privileges we enjoy, including freedom to trade in our markets. But, it seems, only expe- iency could dictate such findings. Judically, they are lame. The court finds that territories aud by territories is meant all of our domains not admitted as states of the union, including the District of Columbia- are within the union, and yet not of it. They are mere colonies, to be legis lated for or against, as Congress may decree. Congress may admit their peoples to as little or as much of the beneficences of our constitution as it ees fit. They can claim nothing of right; it is all a matter of gratuity, to lie bestowed or withheld by Congress according to its caprice. Congress possesses the same absolute powers over the territories all of them that Great Britain and the other European governments have over their colonies. he United States is to Porto Rico and Alaska, Luzon and New Mexico, what England was to the American colonies prior to the Revolution, with Congress as the avenue through which authority is exercised. All this is wholly foreign to our earlier conceptions. AVe have con sidered the territories as much within the constitution as the states, except that while they were attaining the stature of statehood their form of government has been under the direction of Congress. That it would have been constitutional to impose tariff duties against Alaska has never for a moment been considered by anj one. And in spite ot this latest decision of the federal supreme court no one has the least faith that such a tariff enactment against any of the older territories would be sustained, if it came before the court a year hence. It would then be discovered, in some way or other, that the older territories occupy a higher place than the insular possessions, sufficient to include them within the United States for customs purjioses. It is perfectly plain that the consti tution made no provision for the hold ing of colonies as such by the United States. It was drawn by men who had a bitter experience as colonists frerh in mind. To guard against the very discrimination in trade privileges that England had imposed on them it was specifically laid down that all duties and imposts should be uniform within the United States, which meant, if it meant anything, within all lands under the jurisdiction of the United States. Congress itself was created by the constitution, which carefully guarded against possible usurpation of authority by reserving all powers not directly vested in Congress to the several states and their peoples. Where is the constitu tional authority of Congress in the important matter of extending to new territories the civil and political rights guaranteed by the constitution? It appears nowhere in the original document. The court has legislated it in now, but it was not there before. It's a queer twist given our framework ot government to adapt it to conditions never contemplated when it was drafted and adopted. The path to empire has been cleared, it is true, but some misgivings still linger. Turning to the Cuban question, a great deal might be gaid. We are on the brink ot what may be serious trouble with the people of this island. A very unfortunate state of affairs exists. Cuba wants to be free. For over a generation she struggled against Spanish tyranny. When she was being wasted by Weyler, America intervened, justifying' action on the high ground of humanity and calling the world to witness, by the Teller amendment, that not territorial aggrandizement, but justice, was the purpose of intervention. After the victory had been won and Spain forced out of Cuba, a change was manifest in the attitude of the United States We were not half so anxious to see Cuba libre" as we were when Spain held the island. We contracted misgivings as to the capacity of the Cubans for eelf-government. We insisted on holding Cuba for a period until order was restored. The Cubans curbed their natural desice for immediate independence an J submitted to American military authority with the expectation that it would soon cease and their fond dream would be a reality. Time flew on. The Americans held on. Finally, a Cuban constitu tional convention was called to create a framework of government for the island. It was all done under Amer ican supervision. X lie grip never relaxed a moment. Last winter Congress adopted the Piatt amendment, in which, far from acknowledging the tree Cuba promised by the Teller resolution, it named conditions under which, if accepted by Cuba, our troops would be withdrawn. These condi tions amounted to at least a partial protectorate, and, being in the nature of pressure, were extremely distasteful to the Cubans. The Cuban constitu tional convention was disposed to reject the Piatt amendment, but finally sent a deputation to Washington to consult with the administration officials. These latter explained the provisions of the amendment so plausibly as to efface the objections of many leading Cubans, who supposed they were receiving the word of authonty. On the return of the commission, a report was made and the Piatt amendment accepted by a narrow majority of one vote, with the modifications embodied in the admin istration's explanation. Instead of endiug the matter, it is announced that the United States cannot accept the action of Cuba, aud that it must ratify the Piatt amendment just as it passed Congress without change of any kind. In the present temper of the Cubans, this is altogether too much to expect. They feel keen resentment at the treatment they have received and charge bad faith. It looks to them as if, having imposed conditions that we felt certain they would not accept, we have been dis appointed by their virtual acceptance and are determined not to get out of Cuba as long as there is the least excuse for staying. As to the modifi cations made by the convention, they say they only embodied in formal manner what was prom Ned them by Secretary Root, and it is not their fault if he spoke without authority. They will not be likely to accept the Tlatt amendment unmodified. We do not blame the Cubans for their posi tion, nor do we see how the adminis tration can take a different course at present. If the Cubans can wait until Congress meets, we feel confident that the really slight grounds of disagree ment can be removed. The United States ought to take all reasonable precautions to protect itself, but it has been trying to driv a pretty hard trade with Cuba, which may not inure to our advantage in the end. 8?-A This signature is on every box nf the fen ulna Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tabieu the renxxiv that tuna cM la mmm atrnj BLOCKS WE STAND ON, What can be Rose Wnea Foundations Weaken. Mr. Joseph Coldwcll, of Matteawan, N. Y., suffered from some digestive malady. He felt heavy and tired. The relish for his meals was gons and food didn't Uate as it used to. When he did eat he had pain in the stomach, chest and sides, a had taU in the mouth, sis-lUtrfpddiness and other -,,i,i fi,, tk. ..;. . i wiawwMi-w .vvmuu, ea 41V iUUUUaUIUUa V. health were growing shaky under Mr. Cold, j well. Mrs. M- Kagle ot the pleasant Tillage of Monroe, K. V., wasopaet and worried with loea of appetite and dizzineea. She had -. - ---oi -.;.i'ii which go with her complaint. She was ; feeble and weary. The pedestal of health rocked nnder her feet. l et, these people were completely cored hjrZ 7lL V7 cohered by t. Uand Kennedy. How 1 clearly these instances show as that good health ia the block we must stand on if we j would be happy and osefoL Watch the j early signs of ill health, and Use Calcnra 1 Solvent befor disease has cast you down Utterly. If your druggist is out of Calcura 8ri. Tent, send tl.oO to Dr. David Kennedy-, j Kennedy Row, Km -Ion, N. Y. , express prepaid. M rite for tree sample bottle. j PRESS COMMENT. Struck by Frost There is no danger of anyone being mentioned for Lieutenant Governor this week. Waterbury Record. Savo Its Bacon. As state treasurer, John L. Bacon, like many of his predecessors, is all right. The state always show good wTsdom and never better than in the present case in selecting its state treasurer. There will be a general shaking up in the other otli(vs next year, but the Republican party will "save its Bacon." Morrisville News. Dope Victims. We agree with the Herald and News and will go them one better. For every drunkard, made so through alco holic stimulants, there are two drug victims in the state of Vermont today. And the strangest part of it all is, a large per cent ot these victims of drugs in their various forms are those who are crying the loudest to put down the evils of strong drink. Newport Ex press. Agricultural Colleges. Is a liberal education along agricul tural lines essential to success in fanning? Evidently the agricultural class ot our st-ate does not so consider it. The recently issued catalogue of the Department of Agriculture of the I .diversity of ermont and btate as- ricultural college shows that during the past nine years the total number ot graduates has been 31. 1 he snow ing is certainly a surprise to those not previously informed in the matter Even ot the small number who have availed themselves of a full course in this department only one in three ha followed farming as a profession In file, there's something radically out ot tune somewhere when the lar, annual appropriation set aside by the I uited States government lor educa tion along the lines ot agriculture makes such a meagre show ing of re sults as i' docs in ermoiit, where farming is a leading industry. Lortiiieiu .New s. Punishment of Defaulters. The astounding developments from the Vergennes bank wreck again direct attention to the need of amendment to the law dealing with such cases. If in some bank one employe steals one hundred dollars aud another a million, the former cannot get less than five y ears or the latter more than ten, and the longer the sentence the worse for the government which must support them in Idleness, i he crime Is usually such that the accused must plead guilty, and In consideration of that fact the sentence is reduced. So Silas M. Waite got only six rears for the widespread ruin he wrought, Mussey and Met lure only seven years tor wiping out the Rutland bank, and such of the Vergennes trio asarefouud guilty will probably not get much more. T here ought to be more lati tude in the sentence, and it ought to be for bard labor. It is a mockery of justice and a source ot inlinite demor alization that these great bank thieves have to be let off so easily. Brattle boro Reformer. AROUND THE CAMPFIRE. The Orleans County Veterans1 as sociation will hold its annual reunion at Glover June 5. Sergeant Gardner Gates, who served in the ii'ith Inf. with Capt. Brownell. has written to his father that he will arrive in Burlington this week. The veterans of Barre propose to erect a '.'0,((K) soldiers' monument of home material, and a committee of Grand Army men has been appointed to raise funds. Fnsign J. Hannibal Holden. who is now visiting his parents at Burlington, is to be advanced to be lieutenant in the American navy. In the Cuban war ho was aboard the Scorpion anil iter was attached to Admiral Dewey's flagship, the Olvmpin. He afterwards saw service on the Oregon, the moni tor Monterey and finally on the Brook lyn. Lieut. A. M. Mason, who returned with the sr.th regiment from the Phil ippines, is now in Sheboygan, Wis., where Mrs. Mason is seriously ill w ith typhoid fever. As soon as Mrs. Ma son recovers, he exoccts to take his examination for entering the United States army, and will probably visit his parents in St. Albans in a few weeks. Corporal C. Wilkie Louis, formerly ot the -tilth U. S. Inf. whieh hn been stationed in the Philippines, and pre vious to that a member ol Co. A of the V ermont regiment during the Spanish American war, has received a civil service appointment in the Philippines and w ill leave for that place next Sep tember. Mr.Louis was formerly clerk in J. v. hnnght s law office. Vermont Pensions. Additional, ( has. A. Bnrnell, South Pomiret. 10; increase, Gilbert I). Is ham. St.ieorge, 17; Alson S. Mc Ionald, East Peacham, i; Isaac W. Raymond, Brandon, fwt; original, widows, special accrued. May li.Lucy Vi,.hfr Puut 1traiiru .14. .1 Henry S. Mills, dead.' Rutlan l ti: increase. Chas. W . Gerrow, Rutland! tl'2; Gideon E. Lee. North Chester - ; original, widows, etc., Polly A. If d,0ft": Morristown, 23; Stefla I. Mills, Rutland. US. wawawawaaw. 8tat of Ohio, Citt op Toledo, LrcAs Cor ntt. Fbask J. Chexkt makes oath that he is Chp.net A Co., doing buainea in the Cit i ue i-inor tanner ol tne firm of F. J ui,, .iiu mi. aioreaid, ana ,n,t "aid firm will pay the sum of ONE H L tKEH IOLLA RS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by lne ' Hall' CLJ.R Ci Sworn to before ndbe in my presence, this 6lh day of Dumber A li.. Inns. ' uwsemuer, A. I . ) A. W. GLEASOV BKAl Notaky Pvbuc. ' I 11411 " Catarrh Cure is taken internally and act. directly on the Wood and mucous T'U'm- feend tot p j CHFNPYAm . - Sold by d'Vg"ia. S ' HaU s Family piUs are the beat. YOUR HONEY BACK IF YOU DON'T BET STRENGTH BY USINO SMITH'S GREEN MOUNTAIN RENOVATOR. , Strength to muecles, nerves inn brti. It cores. Nature's own remedy. Atk0 drugRist-60 cents and one doli.r writl Bt. Albons Remedy Co., Bt.Albir Vi about OUARAVTS-p f., "S . wbuhuu inig Pp. SPECIAL CLUB RATES. THIS PAPER and liARnirA.. DAILY TKLKGKAM.one year U.W THIS PA PIC R and Rl'TLAaB. . WKKKLY HKKAf.n one year,$15 Sot giod la wentern Vermont ) THIS PAPKK and MIRUOU AND. KA BMKK one year 1 5fl THIS PAPKK and THE BOSTON,',. WKKKLY JOl KAL) one year, l.jjfl Good only In Venunut. THIS PAPKK and KKW VOfthl ft 1 HKK K-A-WKKK WOULD I.E. one year, THIS PAPFR and THE SKWl ot VOHK WKKKLY TUIUl'ftEuS one year, THIS PAPKR and the I1VRMKG.1 or TON WKKKLY HiKK I'HKSfcliO. one year, Add 25 cents w hen papers are un addresses without this state. SEND DIRECT TO ME OR PAY YOUR POSTMASTER. L. B. JOHNSON, nnmlolpU, Vt, that PKOTKcrS. Policies Are Sight Drafts J at Maturity. i Surplus Fund (from which dividends arc to be paid) Over $65,000,000. Por ply to Protecttoa ar Eatplorm'.l p- f. e. Dubois, r-. , , i a r a. Kanuoipn, vi, i About Builders' Hardware. Think of us juit ss quick a any detail cornea to mind. We help in this way sell you the thing, you need as cheap i your nearest merchant can buy them. You pocket his profit. We're very strong in every thinif in Hardware, Hoofing nl Kheathing Paper. Weaeli a (rood heavy paper for 80 perroU of 600 aqua re feet. Another thing ia door trim mings. We furnioh a splendid "old copper" front door 't fur fl.TS. Come and see as when is Burlington. GEORdE I.HAOAR ESTATE, Burlington, Vermont. The old Hardware Place, Opposite Y. M. C. A. DIRIGO OIL STOCK. It maraothewliIelTltnown that eiirM m'! the t. a "I Ihe Anx.U oil "" , ii, K on the market at lav. a .hart-1 !. i' hiK flow luic well -a elrwrk. iuinie.l.lel' n rr whk h nt. k a.lvum-ed witb a lii " l.eo a .hare. The IHriKo C..mnliv I. i-'" th Ar.-..la, ami nn.ler the ame nuMW . . .ii ... ..,.,.. lHtrr.l !i'T lv M f-l fri.m the Artvila N. I. Late.1 a-..un u. mat on win iw .ir.it-. r' -, , The Dina-oCo. I. now aeinnn a .mail , of .k k at lie. a .hare, ami th-e r""" with matter ot thl. nature tnliv rea.ire , tlie mo l alvantx.Hu lime u. t'U? ,! " BEFORE OIL IS STRUCK- It la now l.ut a few da.r. before J""1 InteDdlu- puivhaiwa lioul.l aw' '"" S.H.SparliawkKo., St. Johnsbury, Vermont. To leara Bookkeerlna- a Shecthan-l r, , w tio for rood p.!ltii, whk-k ar oe 9 tkem. Seekin. dunne entire Tear 4 ' . t.-. rermredat rtime and chara-eo 'r par ntraacw. Twent-two open. ' I catalogue addrwaa Cumu a Horr, "' P BiroBfe.t la the fTlL r M)Equitalilel I fcS Life. Yaung Mas and Wemea wanted ! Or.. V x,r