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Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-08-13
BRATTLEBORO. VERMONT. TUESDAY. AUGUST 49, 1901.
THE GREAT STRIKE
NOT SUCCESSFUL.
SUCH THE PRESENT
APPEARANCE AT LEAST.

Hardly Half Iihe Men Expected Have
Gone out-Lenders Admit They are Dis
Hppointsh-LarRe Numbers OF Plants
Runn'nC-MHny Employees FlatIy Re.
f"s. to obey Strike orders
The developments of the past four
days 10 the great steel STR ike have been
unfavorable to the men and strongly
| IN favor Of the trust. The oruer to go
out Saturday evening has met thus
far with disappointing obedience.
There is some dispute over the Gg.
ures. but today's dispatches say only
1900 men in oil have obey ed it, in ad.
dition to the 5000 that oheyed the
first two calls, making GO, 600 in ali.
The strike leaders claim only sG, 600
now to be OFT, where it was expected
that the strike would include about
lCO, 600. But they assert that there
are large nun bers that will vet 90
out
1t is certain that the steel workers
10 South Chicago and many other
points in the west and the emplo, ees
at the Scottdale and Old Meadow
plants Of the American Sheet Steel
company at Var dergrift, Apollo,
Leechburg, Hyde PARK anu Salisbury.
the homestead and many other plants
are all running full time either with
non Union men Or old employees who
nave refused to obey the strike order.
The policy of the Anerican Fedora |
ton OF Labor has not yet been fully |
disclosed, and that fact contributes |
another element Of uncertainty to the |
President Shatfer Of the Amalgamat. |
ed association hoseyer says it is q
tight to the finish aud il will either
WIN out or ceasa TO exist -
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-08-13
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for sutriIsy issue, by Thursday noon. Those
who get Il in earlier and avoid the rush slysvs
10 We the most artistic service.
Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-08-13
Do You Send

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boy or girl or relative or friend at some distant
pOints IL -. We can do it better and cheaper
for you by mailing direct from the Office and at
the other end they will get 1t while 1t is new
and fresh. Write for terms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27
THE COLLEGE aRoorER.n


Baseball games have started and the
day of the .'rooter' is here. A baseball
game would not be a game without the
''rooter.'' But there are rooters and
''rooters." Topeka fans have only the
college games to go to and if there is
anything about a college ball game that
is distinctive it is the roofing" It is so
distinctive that it jars overnice people.
who think that college boys are no use
on earth except to be berated for their
exuberance and plenteously cursed for
antics and their hideous noises.
College boys are more use than that.
They can be tolerated, even by those
who are dyspeptic, as a necessary evil
in the expansion Of the thought and in
tellect of the universe. They can be
more than that; they can be compli-
mented on having better ideas of true
sport and furnishing genuine athletic
enjoyment than all the contests of skill
between professionals. There is an at
mosphere about a college ball game
that is different from any other. There
is more pride at stake and more enthus-
iasm let loose to the square inch than
the championship contests of the league
players.
But there are some old-fashioned folks
that believe the games the thing. They
think one bit of the exuberance Of a
college ball game could wisely and with
profit be cut out. That is the talk
ativeness of the players while playing
the positions. A college game. as far as
the players themselves are concerned,
should be as much more degnified than
the ordinary corner-1ot small boy game,
as the league game is than the college
game. 1t may be considered a hardship
Il -,1-,x~ 70
silence while each one is on the tiptoe
Of expectancy and their baseball shoes,
eager to be the fellow to make the next
put out. But the desire to win by wit OF
tongue as we'll as the skill of play seems
too strong in the college boys on the
diamonds in this part of the country
to care much for appearances. They go
beyond the bounds of manners in this
extreme desire too frequently and give
the "kickers'' against college boys on
general principles additional material
for questioning the utility of the college
boy in the social, intellectual and ma
teriaI scheme of the world and its edu-
cation. NO one would have the college
boys descend to the cold. unfeeling re-
preston of spirits that characterizes the
players in the league games. But there
is too much froth on the bucket as it
stands now.
Washburn can start a reform with it's
gentlemanly ball players. When the
college men get the idea that the game
of ball is a game of chaff and billings
gate, the game suffers. The place for
the roofing to be done in a college ball
game is on the bleachers and sidelines.
There is no objection if the crowds Of
supporters on either side crack the un-
verse with their howls- College games
win always be games of bowls and a big
hurrah for the side that can howl the
loudest. But the bowling and guying is
not for the men in uniforms to do. It is
their business to play ball.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27
TAX ON LIQUOR DRINKERS.

Kansas has been accused Of doing
many queer things but it is doubtful if
any bills passed by the legislature can
compare in frealxishness with a law re-
Gently adopted by the Arkansas senate
requiring each citizen who drinks in
toxicating liquor to pay a SIS license fee.
The bin makes it unlawful for any per-
son to drink intoxicating liquors as a
beverage without first taking out a IL
cense and contributing i've dollars to
the state treasury and for each viola
ton thereof a fine OF SIS is imposed.
OF course every dram drinker viii not
care to pull his license out Of his pocket
every time he slides up to the bar so ne
will be given a tag much after the man
ner of collar in a dog tax case, and
with this little emblem of authority
pinned on his coat there is naught to
prevent him from getting all the liquor
he may care for always providing he has
the price.
As a scheme for taxing the topers and
placing a portion of the burdens Of the
state on the drinker the bill is excellent
but it has its weakness as well, which is
apparent to a superficial observer. And
the point in question is the gross injus-
tice in its unequal distribution of the
tax burden. For instance the "old soak
who consumes twenty-five or thirty
drinks of whisky or eight or ten quarts
of beer a day pays no more than the
moderate consumer who takes a few
light ores" to celebrate the departure
Of his mother-in-law or possibly to
drown his sorrows upon the occasion of
the defeat Of his favorite candidate.
A far more simple and consistent
plan. it would seem, would be for the
state to get out a dram Communication
ticket, much after the plan Of restau-
rants. to be punched every time he in
duiges in alcoholic irrigation.
A thirst tax of this sort would seem
fair both to consumed and state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27
SMALLPOX AND VACCINATION.


The spread of smallpox in Topeka dur
ing the past winter was pretty well held
in check by the city health authorities.
And at no time during the winter
months, the time during which the dis
ease is most prevalent. did the cases ex-
coed So. Physicians say that vaccina-
ton is responsible for this state of af-
fairs. A Chicago writer who
discusses vaccination in the re-
cent issue of the Philadelphia
Medical. Journal, says: November 1900
until April 1all, the period of the recent
epidemic in that city, III cases of small
pox had been reported, of which 14O
cases We're in persons who had never
been vaccinated. OF the remaining 81
cases, 20 were in adults who had only
imperfect scars if any at all. Hence Of
the III cases only two presented marks
Of successful vaccination. One of these
patients was 40 years old and had not
been vaccinated since childhood; the
other, 50 years old had been vaccinated
successfully when a child and unsuc-
cessfully three years ago. One Of the
Chicago papers which has been investi-
eating the subject says that the disap-
pearance Of smallpox from the public
schools of Chicago has been coincident
with the enforcement Of the compulsory
vaccination law This act went into eff
feet in 1867 and from that date until
1881 there were only II cases of small
pox and varioloid in the public schools
These statements are sufficient answers
to the critics who oppose and the mad
men who resist vaccination. The SUI
preme court in this state sustains the
right of a school teacher to exclude an
unvaccinated scholar from the public
schools
In this connection it may be added
that according to the public health re-
ports there has been more smallpox in
the United States during the past fall
and winter than during the correspond
ing period one year ago The total num-
Der of cases reported up to March %
was 1854, as against 1919, for approx
i'm ately the period last year.
Smallpox has been prevalent in all
parts of the United States, but every
where it has been in very mild form.
and in Topeka this has been especially
true The mortality has been exceed
ingly low. for of all cases in this city
during the past winter only two re-
suited in death. One was the case Of
a young man whose system was in such
fight the disease germs. The other was
the case of a man who neglected tax
Ing the proper care of himself.
The disease has not been prevalent to
any extent in the public schools.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27
IN BLOSSOM TIME


Last night through my lattice a moonray
And into thine eyes flooding lustre swept.
When it kissed thine image with velvet
Yet seemed to be vised with an ardent
clutch,
Some fragrant incense nIed the room
That breathed Of meadows and orchard
bloom
So I look in my garden today to see
Why q breath from the southland ~
They are leagues away but know with
The same blossoms are out. the. sky is
Happy birds are piping their roundelay
Half-hid by the blossoms Of almost May.
Bushes in clusters see on a bough
In the garden below. Yet fairer brow
Ne'er had marble Hebe than sister
More ' pale than nerveless pOItroon's
And far more pure-to compare were base:
No unholy thing breathes in this sacred
place.
While biushing buds nod unto snowy
As my iady's aigrette to her Sir Knights
This heart-throb is not OF the garden
Perhaps by " the moonpath telephone
Came the solace i have and to hold this
In the time of the blossoms comes bridal
f II. C.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27
KANSAS, Hall OF FAME.

why shouldn't Kansas have Hall OF
Fame2 Certainly the state has cele-
brities enough to properly furnish such
monument of past greatness with the
Of pictures OF people whose fame is as
yer un0Sing.
There is plenty Of room in the state
house for a state gallery of notables. To
be sure the Historical society is doing a
great work in preserving all data of in
terest about Kansas people but the so
ciety has not the room for gallery.
Why should not large portraits OF the
states celebrities be gathered and hung
in the state house where they could be
viewed by alp Not make a gallery Of
horrors Of 1t but a collection OF portraits
that would be 20 the state what an an
cestral gallery is TO families of a long
lineage. Kansas has the right to such
q collection of distinguished persOnsges
in oil. Commence with John Brown.
pass on down with Lane and Realf to
Plumb and ingalls, and then perhaps to
AIRS Lease and Mrs. Nation and for The
slime being close the list with Funston.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27
FUNsroN's FEARLESS MARCH

IAIinna Irving, in Leslie's Weelzly.l
Fred Funston bucIzled on his sword
And called his trusty men.
Lean veterans brOnzed with trop1c heat,
Their number was but ten
Where Aguinaldo and his chiefs
II Luzon hidden lie
We &c. my boys he tersely cried.
ITO capture him or die
Through steaming swamp and thorny bush
And muddy streams they marched.
Their khaki clothes in tatters hung,
Their lips were hot and parched.
Along the wooded island coast,
Alert. in easy hail,
The gunboat Viclsburg 1oitered by.
With idly-happing sail.
They found house among the palms,
A sentry gun in hand,
And AguinaldO there at bay.
With all his sWarthy band.
AS prisoners a little while
They chose a part to play,
Then rose and ringed him with their steel
And carried him away
Fred Funston and his trusty ten
Marched back and toward the sea,
That soaked them to the knee.
They needed not the drenching rain,
Nor yet the ScOrching sun,
For what an army failed to do
These daring few had done
The Vicksburg spread her canvas wings
And flung her banner wide.
The splendor of its colors shown
Reflected in the tide.
Saluting with a kindling eye
It's stars above his head
" Twas for the glory Of the flag"
The Kansas soldier said.
Oh. when the stirring tale is told
Of men who do and dare
Paul Jones and Captain Isaac Hull,
A brave and dashing pair,
And Hobson and the Merrimac-
Let gallant Fnnstons name
And the story of his fearless march
Be handed down TO fame
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27
POINTED PARAeRAPHs.
IFrom the Chicago News. J

TFrom the Chicago News.l
A wonan's silence seldom spells any
thing
A key Of gold win not unlock the gates
of wisdom.
Nothing is more to be dreaded than
aged infancy.
Society worships success, but seldom
forgives failure.
The wisdom of a fool is always con-
spieuous by its absence
Never shed tears over split milk.
There is enough water lost as it is.
The rooster makes two-thirds of the
noise, but the hen does all the work
Love in a cottage is all very well as
long as the -four barrel isn't empty.
Man may require but little here below
but when he dies he is apt TO get lot.
The trouble with too many young men
is that they try to lead s25 existence
on a So salary.
man who leaves the theater before
the curtain is down on the last act
jumps at conclusion.
If a girl has two strings to her beau
there is danger of some other girl get
ting hold Of one of the strings
Old age commands universal respect.
Even cannibals draw the line at mis-
sionaries over so years of age.
Why love laughs at locksmiths IS be-
yond all understanding. There isn't
anything a little bit funny about the
average locksmith.
It has been said that brilliant and i'm
pulsive people usually have black eyes
or if they don't have them they are apt
to get them if they are too impulsive
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27

ty gold pieces but it is a fact. neverthe-
less.
A story comes down from Woodbine.
where Grant Gillett once made such
meteoric flight of a hound chasing
rabbit under a flying train, the only
damage being the loss OF the caudal APP
pendage to the dog.
A Troy negro was given IA years In
the Denitentiary for breaking Into
house and stealing a few simple articles
and yet Captain Carter protests most
vigorously against his alleged crime Of
stealing thousands Of dollars
Considerable excitement was created
at Ness City the other day by the west
bound passenger train gliding into the
depot nearly an hour ahead Of time.
The engineer apo1ogized and explained
that his locomotive was new one and
he couldn't control il.
Lyon county jumps into the reptilian
spring circuit thusly: "As County Sur
veyor Alva ]. Smith and his assistant
Mr.. Cousins, were nearing the Columbia
bridge southeast Of town. they discov-
cred six big blacksnakes up tree. They
secured clubs and killed the entire out
ft.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27
DEPREDArIoNs OF WATER.

The prevailing high waters along the
west slope Of the Allegheny mountains
in the Ohio river basin is proof that wa
ter is one Of the most unruly of the ele-
ments. Nearly every spring or sum
mer. in some part Of the country, this
reminder occurs. Last summer il was
strongly emphasized by the terrible dis
aster at Galveston. So far. the Missouri
has not begun depredations against the
territory drained by it.
OF the Ohio, which resembles in many
ways the Big Muddy. this much can
not be said. For a week it has been ris-
ing steadily until Thursday evening at
Cincinnati it had reached about Q feet
above the low water mark and 10 feet
above the line of safety Already there
has been enormous loss Of property,
and it has become necessary in some Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27
JAYHAWKER Jors.

The strongest organization in Wa
mego is the onion club.
A public ordinance prohibits the town
herd from running on the streets of Ne
osho Falls after May l.
Topeka doesn't pretend to be a sea-
deck at most any old drug store.
Now John Bull is buying hogs in Gray
county. The Transvaal troops have evil
IDENTIFY grown weary of mule meat.
Miss Doran of the Adacksville Argus
fed the press with her fingers and didn't
swear a line-but my how she cried.
The most extensively advertised boy
in Beloit is the one who does the family
washing and ironing when his mother IS
sick.
An army Of elm worms has appeared
at ottawa and are only awaiting the
day for the first young leaves and
sprouts to appear
How kind Farmer Robinson of Butler
county is to the travelling public. He
has planted 500 peach trees along the
roadway of his country ranch
The Junction City woman who at
tempted to smash a saloon explains in
defense that one of her sons was robbed
in a gambling game thereabOuts.
lola is credited with having the worst
conditioned streets in Kansas. There is
not a team of horses in the town big
enough to haul the new fire engine
along
A Decatur county farmer took %
young lambs in his house the other
night to protect from the cold and the
racket would have drowned a brass
band
Mr.. Reeder declares that he has a
cinch on the congressional denomination
but Statesman wellington hobs up long
enough to announce that his address is
not oblivion street" yet, by any means
Mrs Nation from her dungeon at
Wichita can well exclaim with the pr1s-
oner of Chlllon: Even my very chains
and / grew friends, so much a Iona
communion tends, to make US what we
are"
It may not be a creditabIe advertise
ment for Kansas abroad to know that
a patent medicine vender in the south
! tier is wearing s22O in f1vesten adm TWEEN
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27
FOR CHILDREN

Nothing. that comes in a
bottle, is more important for
children than SCOTS emulsion
of cod-liver oil.
And important" means that
it keeps them in even health.
Whenever they show the least
disturbance of even balance of
health, it promptly restores
them.
It is to be used as food,
whenever their usual food does
not quite answer the purpose
Of food.
Wen send you a little to try. II you Ike.
SCOTT s BOVINE ~ Pearl street, New York
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27
QUAKER REFLEcTToNs

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
It's wise child that doesn't ask
questions.
The cream Of a book is not obtained
by skimnling.
In cooking. as in singing. a great deal
depends on the range
A fool can make money. but it takes
a wise man to spend it.
Be sure you are right and then-be
certain that you're sure.
You can take lazy man to task but
you can't make him work.
What's done can't be undone. es-
pecially if it's a hard-boiled egg.
A mans house may be his castle. but
that doesn't make him nobleman.
s'This air is very familiar" remarked
the musician as the wind took of his
hat.
The topper objects to having body in
the wine and the prohibitionist objects
to having wine in the body.
Il haven't the cheek to kiss YOU
said the bashful sutton. What's the
matter with your lips asked the pert
maid
THE difference between a street and
a woman" says the Manayunk Phil
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27

the larger cities to rescue the people of
the lower districts in boats The NOR
tality lists so far are small. but even
though the loss of life directly may be
SMALL the effects of the inundatien may
cause much suffering. Following such
floods there is likely to be sickness and
distress, despite the general precau-
tions.
The rise Of the Ohio river is notneces-
sarily an annual event. That is gov
erned entirely by conditions prevsi.ing
along the stream itself and its affiu-
ents. photographic say that ages ago,
much of the territory now drained by
that stream. formed Lake Erie basin.
Then. it is believed, the present West
Virginia plateau was drained by a river
which flowed across the present state
of Ohio and into the lake bordering
thereon. But glacial action came about,
and many of these streams were turned
back to their present courses. Over the
Ohio basin a storm of terrible severity
swept more than week ago. Tribu-
tary streams which have their source
in the mountains became swollen on ae-
count of melting SHOWS. and after
reaching the valleys copious rains fell
Unlike the st. Lawrence. there were no
lakes to equalize the discharge so that
the whole volume water has come at
once The rivers being unable to empty
themselves, have backed up with the
results above indicated. It will require
some time Tor normal conditions to re-
turn. but reports of clear weather
along the Ohio have been given, and it
is now only a question of endurance
until the flood abates, with the people
of that section.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27

Mr.. Eugene Smith Of New York. in a
PAPER recently read before the National
Prisons association. estimated the cost
of crime to the taxpayers of this coun-
try at 5000 600 600 a year This includes
the cost of the courts. the prisons and
the time of the legislative bodies de-
voted to criminal legislation; but it
does not include the indirect cost of de-
struction and impairment of property
and loss Of productive capacity caused
by crime. which would be several times
zarrar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27

The rate at which Santa Fe stocks are
advancing in price may lead some PEG
pie to think that Mr.. Geo. Phillips Of
Chicago is interested in them-but he
isn't Tt is just the result Of prosperity
and good crops in Kansas and through
out the southwest and 5udicious action
on the part of the management.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27

President Diaz viii be too busy to
come up to the border and meet Presi-
dent Mckinley. The head Of the Mexi-
can republic is setting an example Of
industry and attention to business
worthy the emulation Of Office holders
n both countries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27

Borrowing money and watering stock
seem to have l'+tle effect upon the secur-
tiles Of railways indulging therein un-
less it be to advance them in the mar
axet When the speculation fever once
gets a good hold on the public, buyers
Tor anything in the market become
plentiful
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27

"Whewi" exclaimed Senator Hanna.
as putting and blowing he reached the
top of the well-knovn White House
stairs. Hanna" said a friend who
was with him, why don't you get. the
president to put an elevator in this
building?" Well said Senator Han
ma, Il suggested it to the president. but
he remarked that he noticed that got
here just the same
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27

Col Bryan has decided to retire and
leave Grover Cleveland in peaceful pos
session OF the record as the man who
has oftenest run for the presidency
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27

The money which America is sending
to Europe in the form of marriage set
Elements viii return in the shape Of in
terest on national loans 1t is not often
that John Bull gets the better OF your
T-ncle Sam
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-27

Queen Wilhelmina. in refusing to pay
her husbands debts. has set & pace for
the papas of American heiresses who
marry European titles.