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Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12
A Democratic Proposition That Was Turned
Down for An Expensive Farce.

tRev. ID. l.. Sanford of Bellows Falls. ]
The best law which l have seen on
the liquor question provided for rigid
and frequent inspection of all liquors
sold and exceedingly heavy penalties if
local dealer was to blame, and publ
cation throughout the state with abso-
lutte exclusion from the right to do fur
Their business here if the criminal was
an outside wholesaler | am persuaded
that II such law were enforced it
would be first felt in many lunch-rooms
and pool-rooms, which sell non -alco-
hollc beverages, and in many drug
stores which sell patented tonics whose
outcome | have known to be a sad case
OF delirium tremens and softening of
the brain and a so-called drunkard's
grave.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12

Will the temperance press of the state
please explain why they are all misrep-
resenting the referendum to their read
are printing paragraphs to the effect
that the So called Conland bill is to be
forced upon the public whether the
vote be yes or no. This is absolutely
untrue and these papers know it quite
as well as anybody. If the vote is no,
then the bill does not go into effect
until 1906, giving two sessions of the
Legislature an opportunity to repeal it.
There is nothing quite so mean as a
mean good ~ man.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12

present. Our tariff, he says, is only
five years old; it is carefully drawn
and has served us we'll, bringing us
away up on the hillside of success. In
the House of Representatives, on Dec.
|, Mr.. Reed is reported to have made
to House leader the following satiri-
cal comment on the proposed trust leg
islation
can indefnable something is to be
done in way nobody knows how and
at time nobody knows when. That,
the trusts The opportunity is so
broad l should think you could not
miss it. -
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12

A pathetic little story from Vienna
is going the rounds which should open
the eyes and hearts of wealthy people
When the Emperor Francis Joseph was
leaving church, a lad pushed his way
through the crowd and ran up to the
carriage and handed letter to the en-
peror. 1t ran as follows: Dear Mr..
Emperor My mother has been very
i'll for many years, and no hospital will
admit her because she is an incurable.
| can earn enough for myself, but |
cannot earn enough to give my sick
mother the things she needs. | beg
you, dear Mr.. Emperor, to order that
she shall be admitted to some hospi-
tai Two hours later an ambulance
arrived before the lads house and con
veyed his mother to a charitable insti-
tuition, where she can end her days in
peace
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12

1t is fortunate that sufficient mum
Der of representatives from the smaller
towns realized the injustice Through
the grab of license fees and penalties
of thus robbing the license towns OF
the means of enforcing the law, to say
nothing about taking their private
property away without making due
compensation therefor, so that the
amendment was saved by small mar
gin. If only ID more little towns
like these had voted against the amend
ment, it would have been lost. st. AL
bans Messenger,
Correct. And suppose you just re-
member that these representatives from
small towns who did it were Democrats
and Clement men, while some three
fourths of all the Republicans from
both small and large towns voted for
the provisions that had no excuse and
no purpose but to make it a rotten sys-
TEN and thereby kill it, Thirty one
Democratic votes from small towns
were on the right side. If less than a
third of them had been like. three
fourths of the Republicans the result
would have been the other way.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12

The man who does not know now how
to stand on the license question, won't
know any more about it in February
or next September for that matter.
Somebody will have to tell him how to
vote, for if they do not, he may not
yota
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12

1t is really and truly shocking to a
wicked Democrat to hear some of the
good people of Vermont advise their
party to resort to trickery of all sorts
to defeat the high license bill.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12

r. G. Dun & Co. figure out that the
cost of living is at least one per cent
lower than a year ago. This sounds
comforting, but we find that the in
crease in the cost of coal alone, not to
mention beef and few other trust
controlled things, has increased the
cost of living more than two per cent.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12

What we need in Vermont is less law
and fewer lawyers, less politics and
more industries and summer boarders.
Who will help to bring about the need
ed changes?
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12
Jeffersonian Estimate of Roosevelt

/ 4 writer in the North American Re
view, whom the editor calls probably
! the ablest Jetfersonian Democrat in the
untry, reviews the presidents first
year as follows;
What view, then, is likely to be taken
of Mr.. Roosevelt's first year in office
by oldfashioned Jetfersonian Demo
Gratis: His treatment of the Cuban
reciprocity question, his forbearance
toward China. his firm adherence to
the Monroe doctrine, and his cordial
attitude toward England will be APP
plauded. His apparent desire to revise
the tariff will be commended. His Ill
innate exhibition of wish to curb the
trusts through the exercise of powers
conferred by the constitution, rather
than through a constitutional amend
ment will also be regarded with APP
prevail. On the other hand, his ap-
pointment of the anthracite commits
sion should be looked upon by all low
ers of our federal institutions, not only
with profound regret, but with severe
disapprobation. 1t is a first step in
the perilous pathway that leads to the
assertion of autocratic authority, an
act that seems destined to give the
Roosevelt administration a bad emf
hence in American history.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12

The last public utterances of the late
Thomas B. Reed on the dominant sub
jects of trusts and tariff are of uni
versal interest. In the current issue
of the North American Review, he
discusses the tariff and concludes that
Congress should let it alone for the
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12

And now that the Vermont Indus
trial Association has been chartered,
we may expect real estate BOOM
/ Well, we need one.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12

DR.. +. A. Rich of Burlington has
been appointed by the United States
bureau of animal history to investigate
the foot and mouth cattle disease.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12

The 10th anniversary of the First
church at Bennington was celebrated
last week. This is the oldest church
in Vermont.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12

The "home rule' idea should be
good enough for Vermonters. Is it?
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12

Time works many changes. Two
years ago the opponents of prohibition
sought the repeal of some of the I'M
usual features of the law, such as the
injunction, prima facie clause, states
attorneys certificate, etc. They were
met with a decided MOI from the
prohibition majority. Bro. Morrow
issued his command that under no pre-
text should the teeth" of the law be
drawn, and he was scrupulously obeyed.
This year it is the prohibitionists
themselves who are urging, under the
Ross bill, the repeal of these same pro-
visions, and it is the license men who
now decline to do what two years ago
they strongly advocated. Beneath it
all is a very pretty play of politics.
The supporters of the present law want
to dress ii over so as to make it accept
able to the voters when the test comes,
while the opposition, desiring its over
throw, prefer to have it go to the trial
unshorn of the features that have made
it Objectionable. Randolph Herald.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12

The prohibs are really alarmed about
the outcome.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12

If the Ross bill is dead, please leave
it in peace
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-02-21
fNaTass tsTS TTfTE-7Fssa
LET THE LAW ALONE.
uNcoMPRoMls,No ATTITUDE OF
ORTHODOX PRoTEcT,oNlsTs.
Tariff Revision a Deplorable Blunder.
While General Reciprocity Is Char.
acterized az Leap in the Dark sure
to Land Us ON Free Trade Ground.

The attitude of the American Protec-
tive Tariff League on the subjects Of
tariff revision and reciprocity is plain
ly defined in the preamble and resolu-
tions as reported by a special commit
tee appointed by President Moore at
the regular annual meeting of the
League. The committee consisted Of
Messrs. F. s. Witherbee, John \. Slei-
cher, George j. Seabury and L. z.
Cowles, and the resolutions are as fol
lows:
Whereas, At a time when the entire
civilized world is fixing it's attention upon
the extraordinary condition of prosper
ity prevailing in the United States as Il
direct result of the economic policy for
which this organization stands. and when
our foreign and domestic and
tradn have increased to Il degree far he
yond previous human experience in this
or any other country; be it
Resolved, That the American protec-
tive Tariff League earnestly protests
against the insidious attacks upon ihe
principle and policy OF protection TO
American labor and industry that have
made themselves manifest in IL marked
and unusual degree within the past year.
II there ever was Il time when Tie prili-
ciple and policy of protection had justly
earned public confidence and approval,
and had demonstrated its value as an
agency for the highest material welfare
Of the country, that time is now. AS
the recognized representatives of that
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-02-21
SHE SAW A
Girl Thought There Was One in Pro:
pcct and Tried to Helm IL A1,r..

Girl Thought There Was One in Pros.
poet and Tried to Help 1t AIorw,
II have made my last attempt to
please people not closely hound TO me
by ties of friendship or consanguinity."
said the girl with red hair.
Yesterday l put myself to no end
of discomfort for the especial couven
fence of a couple who were total
strangers to me.
about 3 O'Clock ! was coming uortl,
In a Broadway car. At goth street we
took on a regular mob of passengers.
among whom was Il splendid-looking
man and n handsome. we'll gruulmed
woman. They hung to adjoining straps
directly in front of me for awhile. and.
although they did not exchange IL word.
their furtive glances made 1t quite
plain that they were just dying to
strike up a conversation.
Now. as IL rule. l am very se,latc
and conventional. disapprove of
chance a%cquaintances on general prin-
ciples. but 1t occurred t. me that the
situation gave promise OF 81 omanc
too pretty to be nippcd iii the bud by
cut-and-dried conventions. and l de-.
cided to nourish their mutual admira.
tion with u regular spring %ircsllct of
be%nevolence. Presently the man sit.
ting beside me left the car and the
woman took his place. Still. neither
She nor the man at the strap opened
their heads.
IL fancied. however. that II they
could only ride sideeSoy side for n few
blocks their %bashfu!ness would vanish
and they would find u way to cement
their embryo friendship. so l began to
scheme to that end. At last l hit upon
a heroic measure.
"In the fullness Of my sympathy"
said the girl, according to the New
York Times. II arose and offered the
nan my seat. and then. on the pre,ext
Of needing fresh air-fresh air, mind
YOU, on n day like that went out and
stood on the rear platform till had
recovered. Soon l got so chilled and
damp that 1 couldn't stand the Expos
ure any longer. and was forced to 80
inside. To my disappointment ! found
that my prot"ges were still shy. Their
timidity worried and vexed me. aud
when. d little farther on. Il friend of
mine came in l dolefully explained the
situation. He nearly had n lit.
"'Great Scott. Laura he said. what
a goose you are! Why. l know that
couple. They've been married for ten
years and fight like cats and dogs. Ill
bet they're on n tantrum now. That's
the cas- they're not saying anything
to each other
"And do you think that l shall ever
again offer to assist any one Mt flirting
or love-maklng? Not a bit of it,"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-02-21
Saved His Money.

Many boys have been thrilled to
slceplessness by stories Of the Alistral-
ian bushrangers. George Il. BoXa!i's
historic study of these lawiess baiids.
1.-The Story Of the Australian Bush
ranger" contains material enough fol.
u dozen volumes Of adventure. Here is
one episode:
A man named Michel who went to an
inn for food found the Place in the
hands of the b%ushrangers. Fourteen
guests were already disarmed and were
being searched in order. Michel was
compelled to take his place in line.
The bushrangeryy sanded him a pan
nikin full of te9&s aas+ they took ms
money. KnoYS !: was coming.
he held the pk as If the tea were
too hot to dr ..: and when the leader.
OF the highwaymen was looking away
dropped his roll Of bank-notes into it.
He stood very quietly. and when the
b%ushrangers came to feel his pockets
there were only "a few shillings in them.
The robbers appeared satisfied. and al
lowed him to sd. He carried the pannl.
kin out with HIN. took his none and
put 1t in his pd cket without being Oh
served. Then be mounted his horse,
gave informo1t1Vh.
Eyer NO &c how. in winter. you be.
comdd Tor q brass bandi
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-02-21
WOMEN WHO LOVE 70 CLIMB

Many of Them Take Delight in a Mos.
Dangerous Pastilnc.
Notwithstanding is one of the mas.
times in which women Of the present
day take Il keen enjoyment. although,
attended with danger. To he a good
mountain climber one must possess
strong will-powcr. firm footing, a
steady head and IL sound heart. Among
the women who have obtained distinc.
ton as Observation-Disclosures are several
of royal birth, such as the late empress
Of Austria, eX-Queen Margller.ta OF
Italy and Queen Helene of Italy. Frau
Aurora Herzberg of Bavaria is one o
the most enthusiastic of mountain
climbers and celebrated her 7Uth. birth
day by climbing IL mountain OF consid
cradle height.
Woman's interest i'll mountain-climb
ing is Of recent date. but every yeai
new are added to the list OF those
making the ascent of celebrated meu.
tains. Those living in mountainous
countries are most apt to become good
climbers. but it is foolhars5y TO ut,
tempt amy ascent. v e OF Il slight liza.
ture. without training. and NO one who
has q predisposition to dizziness ought
cver to attempt to climb Il mountain
or pass. To those who can stand the
fatigue and face tho danger the de
light OF standing III one uf these i'm
mense heights, breathing the pure
fresh air. and enjoying the scenery rs
compensation for all the Trouble Incl
den: to the ascent.
Queen Helene of Italy is Il skillfu:
moIntain-climber and in her girlhooG
often accompanied her father and bro
ther ON mountain expeditions in Mon
tenegro in pursuit of game.
The usual dress of the woman noun
tain-ciimber is Il very short cloth skirt
with coat. and small Tyrolcse hat.
\ number Of English women have
proved themselves as courageous alG
skillful as their sisters in mountain.
climbing. says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. and American women have
shown also that they possess the re-
uuisite qualities for successfully as.
cending mountain peaks.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-02-21

deal Of time to cit upon his cab seat
let a silk handkerchief dutter from his
throat and wink at every pretty farm
er's daughter he saw. This IL the new
rule:
ut IL doubtful IL climbing upon the
seatbox for a short sitting after each
fire. is really as restful as some tire-
men imagine. Evidently a man does a
great deal Of extra work when, In
climbing up and down of the seatbox;
he lifts and lowers his body two or
three feet 200 or 800 times a day."
The popping" Of an engine, u sound
extremely offensive to people when the
machine is In u city. Is the blowing of
of surplus steam through the safety
valve. The sound generally indicates
that a poor engineer and an incompe-
tent fireman are in charge Of the en-
CINE. 1t has been found that the waste
Of steam usually when an engine
pops" or blows off surplus steam is
equal to the loss of about eight pounds
of coal-half a shovelful. or Mt the rate
of a shovelful a minute. Safety valves
usually remain open about half a min
ute, when they are raised by surplus
pressure. and the loss of heat In the
escaping steam equals every second
that derived from the burning a quar-
ter Of a pound of coal.
In a little book issued by the Wis
consin Central to its firemen and en-
CINE men engineers are particularly in
structed rs to the cause Of boiler explo-
sions. Both wrought iron and steel
boiler plates rapidly weaken when
heated hotter than about 400 degrees.
This is the temperature of steam ut
:2S35 pounds pressure. 1t is known that
there is no weakening of the strength
Of the boiler plates at this tempera-
ture; the weakening begins utter the
sheet is heated over 400 degrees.
When 1000 degrees hot the strength is
reduced 80 per cent, or four-iifths.
Water covering completely the heating
surface of n boiler prevents overhead
ing, says the Black Diamond. But
with a hot fire and a bare crown sheet
probably ten or twenty seconds would
give time to heat the metal to u tenn
perature at which its strength would
be weakened enough to give way be-
meath the heavy pressure upon it. for
with 100 pounds working pressure
there is owe ten tons Of pressure ON
each square foot of the crown sheet.
Most explosions occur this way.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-02-21
A LOYAL CITIZEN.
Philadelphia Man Refused yine Posi-.
ton Under Russian crn,n

y Aakl AshSSA IN IOSls
ton Under Russian Government.
Samuel Humphreys. who. in 1924.
lived in Philadelphia, was not only Al
great naval architect, but as the fol-
lowing story from the Philadelphia
Record shows, a fine type of man. The
incident is related by one who was
then a student in the law office of Rob-
ert Peters. and was himself present at
the interviews which he describes.
One morning the Russian minister,
Mr.. Izakoff, dropped into Mr.. Peters,
Office, and the conversation turned
upon the subject of naval architecture.
Mr.. Izakof asked how 1t was that the
ships Of this country only could rival
those of England in speed and dura.
bility.
Better builders and designers re-
piled Mr.. Peters. Most of the ships
which have been built and launched
from this port were designed by a
client of NINE"
Mr.. Izakoff asked If he could meet
the man. Certainly. sir. certainly"
and an interview was arranged.
The next morning Mr.. Humphreys
entered Mr.. Peters office. and was in
troduced to the Russian minister. Mr..
Izakoff informed Humphreys that he
had solicited a meeting with a view to
engaging him in the service of the EN-
perOr Of Russia, to found and organize
a navy for Russian defense. He said
his instructions were to procure the
best talent, regardless of cost. He was
prepared to give a salary of $4,000 u
year. with such p%erquisites as the dig
nifty of the station demanded.
AS perquisites he named a city resi-
dence. with coach and servants, and a
country place with similar appendages.
all to be paid for and maintained out of
the imperial treasury, and frankly
added that IL the terms were not salts
factory he would make them so.
In reply Mr.. Humphreys said the
proposition was all new to him; he had
received no intimation of the matter,
but he would think It over and give his
answer the next morning at the salne
time and place.
MI. Humphreys reply was given.
slowly and with an emphasis which
left nothing for further argument.
'The salary is more than I earn; more
than I need; than l want; more
than ! could use. As to the town
house. I need but one, and that should
be near my place Of business. AS to
coaches and servants. / always walk
and wait upon myself, and should find
myself unable to govern a multitude of
servants. I do not know that / have
the talents my friend Mt. Peters
ascribes to me, but, 1 do know and feel
that whether my merit be great Of
smlIl, I owe s. all to the dag Of my
country, and hat is as.sebt ! must pay
This tptsryl IN and As. Humphreys
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-02-21

inoble answer came to the ears Of the
Prseident, John Quincy Admins, who
soon after made a visit. unannounced
and unattended, to Mr.. Peters. 1t was
not long before a change was made In
the Navy Department. Samuel Hum.
phreys became chief naval constructor.
and retained that position until his
death. in 1916.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-02-21

principle and policy, We protest against
the covert assaults upon protection that
are being made in the name OF tariff re-
vision and reciprocity, and urge that the
friends of protection throughout the com
try should more than ever show the faith
that is in them by vigorous and unceasing
resistance to all efforts to ~unscttle or in
any way discredit the policy for which
we have stood and shall continue to
stand.
To seriously. agitate the question of
tariff revision at this time is ill advised
and mischievous, Willie to deliberately en-
ter upon the REIMBURSEMENT of the schel-
ules of the Dingley law would be a legis-
lative blunder certain to be productive
of deplorable consequences to all indus
tries and all trade.
Reciprocity is the handmaiden of pro-
lection" only when devised aud executed
in absolute harmony with the principles
and equities of protection; when conceiv-
ed in accordance with the Republican
national platform of 1900-viz., "in nrti-
cles which we do not ourselves produce;;''
when carried out on the line laid down by
at Buffalo, Sept. 5, 1901. "by sensible
lTuuO arrangement NlllCl VIII IiDL tAilSl-
rupt our home production and whereby
1--WE should take from our customers such
of their products as we can use without
harm to our industries and labor" i
procity in any other form Or on any II
basis would be Il dangerous eXperily "a
breach of faith on the part oil the gov
eminent toward those who rely Upon the
measure of protection guaranteed by the
Dingley law, a long step in the direction
of unrestricted competition by foreign
producers, a leap in the dark which will
land us squarely on free trade ground.
On the subjects of the restoration of
the American merchant marine, the
creation of a department of commerce
aud the construction of an isthmian
canal the resolutions are as follows:.
Resolved, That present and future COM
mercial interests imperatiyely demand, in
justice to our immense volume Of export
and import trade, and as a means of fur
Their stimulating and increasing that
trade, the creation of an American built
merchant marine, not alone for the trans
port annually Of over 81, 500,O00.COO of
our varied products. but to prevent the
annual export in gold of $500, 100000 in
transportation charges, mud to restore to
our country the maritime independence
and supremacy which it enjoyed prior to
1861; furthermore (sce history Of the war
with SPAIN, to provide an adequate sys-
tenn Of transports in time Of war.
Resolved, That the erection Of a de-
partment OF commerce as an adjunct to
the executive branch of the federal gov
eminent is imperatiyely demanded in be-
half Of trade, commerce and industry.
Resolved, That the early construction
Of an isthmian canal, supplemented by
cable communication with our Pacific
possessions and with the countries of the
far East, is indispensable to our CONNER
cial supremacy.