Morning journal and courier., 1893-12-06
VERMONT NOTES.
Vermont SOciety-Talk of the Natives -Ltterary Clubs-VermOnt Villages The Liquor Law, and the ''Ver- mont Bump.c

VERMONT NOTES. Vermont Society-Talk of the Natives Literary Olubs-VermOnt Villages The Liquor Law, and the "Ver- mont Bump.o
 The vermonters are 8 hardy, pushing and enterprising race. They are the de- scendsnts of Connecticut men who left comfortable homes to settle in the wilds of ''New Connecticut" Thro' the wilder ness they made their way on horseback and on foot, in little parties of two or three, with bag of meal and pork, se- lected site for their new home, built a hut of boughs or logs, felled the trees, planted between the stumps, and returned the next year for their families. "Blood is thicker than water''; and the descend ants of those sturdy pioneers have inher- ited the industry and perseverance of their ancestors.
 I Irecognizs in the talk of the people the Yankee accent and phrases used to hear in Connecticut. A New Haven lawyer who spends his summer vacations in Yer mont told me that he was once sitting on hotel piazza in Blanktown, when he heard a man say "So-and-so is as crazy as Old Tillie.'" Asking him where he got the phrase, the Vermonter replied that he had "always heard it." The New Havener then informed him that there was an old crazy woman who lived in Hamden, Conn, more than hundred years ago, and that ''crazy as old Tillie" was a com mon sinicle in that locality. whence some Connecticut emigrant had probably car ried it to Vermont.
 The soil of Vermont Is very rich and especially good for grass, which is much gresner and mors luxuriant here than in Connecticut. Door yards which are plowed up and seeded down, in very few weeks are covered with excellent turf.
 Vermonters are very cordial and hospit- able to strangers. They are not so reserved and distant as the Connecticut people. A stranger soon feels at home in Vermont.
 The courts are carried on much the same as in Connecticut. The ''terms" are opened with prayer; the lawyers rising on the en- trance of the judges. The jurors sit, how ever, during the delivery Of the judge's charge, and it is no uncommon thing to zee the soles of twelvs pairs of shoes star ing at the bench and bar. And when there
 
 the courtroom the spectators producs their pipes and light up for smokel
 Almost everybody smokes in Vermont, the teamster On his wagon, the workman at his bench, the merchant in his store and the banker in his counting room. And for unm!tigsted abominableness commend me to a Vermont cigar. I mean Vermont made!
 Vermonters arc nothing If not literary especially Vermont women. How the lat. ter manage to keep their houses in order and attend the weekly seances of the Cha tauqua, the Topical and Reading clubs, tho Kipg's Daughters, the Christian Endea vorers, the Daughters of the Revolution the Woman's Relief corps, the Easterr Star. the Daughters of Rebekah, the w. 0 T. U. and the Whist clubs Is beyond m, l comprehension. I know woman who be longs to eight societies, and hose house i always in order, but then, sh- and her bus ! band take their dinners out.
 Society here is very democratic Ther | is hardly any caste-spirit. Almost ever respectable family is t'in the swim" And the manners of ths Common peo | pie" are delightful They are more polishe than those of the country towns of Connee l ticut. Even the women of the poere class carry their card cases in making thei "calls." Particular deference is paid t the clergy. The man or boy who does nc dof his hat to a clergyman is an exceptio to the rule.
 There is an air of thrift and neatness all the Vermont villages, the absence c which is often, too often, noted in Connet ticut. Sidewalks are maintained, and th ! edges down to the roadbed are kept turfe and clipped.
 ! Tr %o- 1S If ants (Montpelier) there are more Than fort college graduates, a University club, lodge, chapter, council and commander and several "York rite" bodies of Masonr, and Odd Fellows lodge, encampment an canton, club with we'll. appointed clu house, G. A. R. post and Relief corps, St.John Baptist society of Canadian Frencl a chapter of the Daughters of the America Revolution, and numerous literary and s, cial societies.
 Vermont has stringent liquor law, br drunkenness is quite as prevalent (sul rosa) as in the license states. There al several Keeley institutes, all of which al doing thriving business.
 The sale of liquors is kept out of sigh but 1t is not kept down. Two years ago ! over thirty places known or reputed to liquor saloons.
 The rumsellers have for protectlt against ''raids" an apparatus known
 the "Vermont Dump" All the liquor kept upon a small platform or ''trap which is over we'll in the cellar. co under the bar runs to this platforr which. at a pull by the barkeeper, is u get, dropping the demijohns, jugs, al bottles into the we'll below. Near t bottom of the we'll is large bottle
 spirits of ammonia which Is shattered the falling articles. The we'll Is thus fill
 with ammoniacal gas, which Is too suffocs ing to allow the deEcent of the officer
 discover evidence of liquor being kept
 the premises. And thus it is that many
 rumseller escapes detection.
 The popular play IA Temperance Tow is founded upon liquor trial and convi tion in one of Che Vermont courts. Up, cumulative sentence" (thirty days f each glass sold) man was sent to the hou of correction for over sixty years! Aft serving some six or seven years the gove nor has pardoned him out, in difference . unfavorable comments in the newspaper
 Per contra, man was sent up for [, : years for killing 8 neighbor, by the sar l judge who imposed the sixty-ye senten for rum-selling A. N. l..