The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-09-26

A Rutland county correspondent aprippa
the alarming intelligence on the commons
wealth that my knotty old friend Dele
hanty OF Castleton Is incubating another IL
cense bill for presentation. II this il trne.
L can easily see the finish Of all license
measures before they are begun. The suc-
cessful license measure will never emanate
from Democrat and Mr.. Delehanty's ef-
forts Will only serve to McGearyize and
hoOdoo everything In that line.
In order to give all sides a fair hearing
reprint the following from last evenings
Barre Times:
"rutti soci della giovane cansglia soon
lnVita0 ad un meeting ipmortantissimo che
81 terra Giovedi, 20 September, ada ore p
Comitato."
can only hope there will be good at
tendance and no lives lost.
My friend Langley OF the suburb-up-the.
creek hears this:
Work on the electric road from Bethel
to Rochester is to be resumed under agree
ment OF the contractors to have it complet-
ed by December 30. The development OF
the trolley In Vermont is slowly but surely
progressing and the coming Legislature is
likely to be called on for new lot OF char.
ters for electric roads"
Simply as guaranty OF good faith and
good sense it might be we'll to build some
of the roads already chartered before put.
ting up another job lot Of bluffs.
The st. Johnsbury Cdledonian has troubles
OF its own to take care of. Hear 1t;
I'VE should not favor choosing member
OF the House as chaplain though Mr.. Lewis
is capable Of filling the office. 1t has been
many years since Caledonia county furnish
ed the chaplain and we have a candidate in
Rev. George Patterson of East st. Johns
bury He is a scholarly and up-to-date
clergyman and would fill the office with
dignity and grace"
believe Brer Patterson is number six in
the entries.
II look upon bread as an article OF food
destined to be completely abolished before
many years." said New York doctor, "for
the number OF persons who are willingly
giving up the use of it increases every
year" This sort of wise rot is what is Civ
ing me look of advanced and senile old
age. one can scarcely take up a paper
without being hit by it. IL fraction of
the stuff alleged to be put out by physicians
were true, either the earth would be de-
populated in three months by starvation,
or the race would degenerate into drooling
Idiots. AS an illustration the, most utterly
Dralnless fad that ever related to health is
| that which has flooded the world with doz.
- pun
unfortunate oats and wheat mashed and
pounded and distilled out OF all semblance
in taste, even, to decent human food, and
tens OF thousands of victims of the craze are
made to believe that this sort of pap is q
necessity. Grape nuts and concentrated
tablets" of all sorts Of jackassery are "pre.
scribed" and the doctors and grocerymen
wax portly and annex much shekels Tens
OF thousands of people are starving them
selves to death with different varieties oil
so-called "hygienic" foods, mass of Shiny
pabulum which abuses taste, offends every
sense and deies digestion In the good old
days before the public went crazy over
health foods" good wheat and corn bread
and graham was eaten and people nevel
knew they had a stomach. Now they buy
everything in this line of rot that they set
ADVERTISED, drench their systems with i
and drag out a miserable existence til
death claims them. Bread is now attacked
potatoes and beefsteak will soon follow
and the humbugs will in time have US liv
ing on concentrated pepsin and solicited
extract of blood in the form of cougl
drop. Verify and seriously, "What fool
we mortals bel"