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Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-21

If the fee system is good one in
the administration of state and NUM-
cipal business why not adopt it in
church affairs. Pay the minister a
salary and allow him s1.14 for every
sermon, so cents and six cents a mile
the church gains new member; and
pay the soprano three cents "A word for
every solo.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-21

We have no desire to see the exc
cution of the license law placed in the
hands of state board of license COM
missioners as is done under the New
Hampshire law II local authorities,
elected by popular vote. cannot enforce
liquor law no one can. The more
power is centralized the more open to
corruption it becomes.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-21

village authorities from the place of
American Catholics appears from his
treatment of our own Cardinal Glib
bons of Baltimore and his desire that
the cardinal should remain in Rome
until he, the Pope, might become in
formed regarding questions of inter-
est to the church in America. The
new Pope has created most favorable
impression by his modest unassuming
manner and promises to prove an APP
and political pontiff who preceded him.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-21
Because II Wasn't True.
Londonderry Sifter.1

Such morsels as this are frequently
found in license journals IN reference
to the license law:
1t is no fault of the law IL 1t doesn't
work because the execution of the law
is wholly with local authorities.
This is from the Brattleboro Re-
former and the st. Adams Messenger
says, That's 1t exactly" Why didn't
these papers have this to say about
the prohibitory law?
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-21
A Kindly Suggestion.

The unions have issued ukase for
bidding undertakers from shaving
corpses They say 1t intcrferes with
the business of union BARRIERS. Why
not forbid man dying until first being
shaved by union barber? This would
get there" just as quick and might
save the feelings of the undertakers.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-21

A man of known prudence and abil-
ity, with ideas on the subjects of taxa
ton and liquor selling, with a convic-
ton that his ideas are practical and
Percival w. Clement in the last cam
paign for governor. can be elected
governor of Vermont in 1904. Where
is he? Don't all speak at once. please.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-21

tMorrisville Messenger

Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, editor of the in
fluential NJ. L. church organ, lions
Herald, is of the opinion that If the
Allen theft teaches his church to adopt
modern business methods in the man
agement of its trust funds, the lesson
of the crime will not be wholly lost.
Protested piety in a tiduciary agent is
good thing, probably, but the BUSH
ness world has more confidence in
duly executed bond.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-21

A Windham county newspaper
prints the following statement every
week: 1T costs no more than others,
yet contains more local news, more
BY actual measurement its last issue
contained $50 inches of matter of all
kinds set up in its own office; last
weeks Reformer contained 6S6 inches
Of local, state and general news and
editorial. all set UP in it's own office.
The type of the two papers is of about
the same size. The other paper is a
good one, too.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-21
Shut Out the VioIaters.

Rutland license holders are, some of
them. violating their licenses. Make
them pay the penalty Shut them
out of the game; there are plenty will
ing to do business and conform with
the law.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-21

| They have a faculty up in Vermont
| of landing law to meet the demands
of almost every agitation that may DE
instituted. Each time public senti-
ment becomes crystallized in form Of
demand for any particular regulation
of the money or morals of the state.
some enterprising attorney discovers
that a former legislature has made
provisions for just such an emergency.
The latest discovery of this kind is an
anti treating law. Some weeks ago
the temperance advocates of the state
started IA movement against the pre-
vailing custom of inviting your friend
to have something" All of the ster-
eotyped arguments in support of this
particular method of discouraging
overindulgence We're rehearsed, and
the temperance people became con-
WINGED that excessive drinking would
be no more if there We're only a law
making ii a misdemeanor to purchase
stimulant for another. The senti-
ment started a search of the statutes.
and ii was discovered that the Yer
mont license law contains a clause
which has until recently escaped at
tention, apparently waiting to present
itself in response to the demand.
The above is copied from the Times
of Leavenworth Kan. and is interest
ing as an example of how far from the
truth it is possible to stray, even with
the best intentions.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-21

Justice Brewer makes a sensible
suggestion about the remedy for
lynching.. Briefly it is that the priv
ilege of appeal in criminal cases be
judge be given direction to convene
court at once and put the accused on
trial. The only objection to such
methods is the possible punishment of
the innocent, but if by risklng this les
ser evil we should avoid the greater
one now existing the risk is justifiable.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-21

The Brattleboro Reformer says
Senator Proctor will keep his seat
until some superior claim is filed by
politician of equal or greater power"
Surprising the word power to mean
ability, let the Messenger ask what
would be the justification for and what
would be gained by swapping off Sem
ator Proctor for another man, just as
good" but no better?-St Adams Mes
senger
Why suppose the word power to mean
ability? Why not suppose il to mean
power? We are not attempting to
justify the probable action of future
legislature, but we repeat that when a
politician of equal or greater power"
files a superior claim to that seat in
the senate, Mr.. Proctor will have to
not before. The change
depends on the power the gain de-
Ponds on the ability.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-21
MATTERS OF OPINION.
Selected from the Editorial Columns
of Our Esteemed Contemporaries.
So Is Christmas.
Huntington Clipper

All things come to him who waits.
Even summer is showing signs of APP
proach.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-21

1t was Sunday morning last, in the
postoffice. Such an Internal smell. Did
it come from the lookup beneath? No.
it wasn't so loud" as that. The clerks
were puzzled. They thought of dead
rats, cats. mice. stale crabs some of
the other things that one may think
OF. But the smell kept up. Opening
OF windows did no good. The thing
was right there-there could be no
mistake about it, 1t was certainly
close by, directly in front of their nos
trils. But, like other fellows who go
on schedule, they went at work and
began sorting the mail Pretty soon
they came upon a box. rather smaller
than shoe box. and then they knew
they had struck it. 1t was addressed
to one of Brattleboro's daughters. a
well known and much esteemed Young
woman. After some elaboration il
was decided to send for her father.
He had gone to church. but he was
hastily summoned and went to the
postoffice. Examination of the mack
age disclosed a fine black bass. but a
very dead one. 1t was pitched out OF
the window and down the hank with
out ceremony. 1t appears that friends
of the recipient, who had been spend-
ing week or two with her at a camp
where fish are nibbling, sent her this
particular fish just to let her know |
that she was still in mind. She will |
never forget the kindness. nor win the |
rest of the crowd.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-21

The recent case in court in which
well known citizen was pulled in and
fined for fast driving strikes an observ-
er as nothing less than comical, when
il is n notorious fact that there are OH
the same stretch of Main street a
dozen instances a day of much faster
and more reckless driving, with no
official interference whatsoever. The
bother with the first case noted was
that the man and his companion were
overturned by miscalculation. The
other fellows are too swift and get
away easily.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-21

A local hotel man says that if things
keep up the way they have been going
of late it viii cost him s25 to replace
the keys to rooms which have been
carried off Intentionally by bridal
couples, who seem to regard the num-
bered keys as legitimate souvenirs of
their honeymoon. Many a brides
den" on their return from the we'd
ding trip. is ornamented with a big
brass key, tag and name of hotel at
tached, and during the season the loss
is very considerable. not to mention
the discomfort of the busy landlord
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16

The distracting headaches from which
90 many women suffer make life dails,
purEatory. If men suffered with head.
ache a. women do, business wonid be
almost Mt stanstill. Does not the fact
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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16
SLAP HIM ON THE BACK.
5AMHs wHrrcoMB Riley.

When ou meet a fellow with troubles
flag unfurled,
An, lookin' like he didn't havea friend
in all the world,
Go up and slap him on the back an
holler: "How d'you dof'
And grasp his hands SO warm he'll
know he has friend in you.
Then ask him what's hurtin' him an
laugh his cares AWAY
An tell him that the darkest hour is
just before the day.
Don't talk in graveyard palayer, but
but say it right out loud
That God viii sprinkle sunshine in the
trail of every cloud
This world, at best, is but a hash oi
pleasure and of pain,
Some day are bright and sunny and
and some all slashed with rain.
And that's just how it ought to be for
when the clouds roll by
Well know just how to 'preciate the
bright an smilin' sky.
So learn to take it as it comes, IAN
don't sweat at the pores
Because the Lords opinion doesn't
coincide with yours;
But always keep rememberin', when
cares your path enshroud,
That God has lots of sunshine to spill
behind the clouds.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16

Another way to catch the man
you want-the b,st way and decid-
edly the most uncommon-is not
to go for him at all but to let him
catch you.
II you are going to get him at
all. this is the only way to do it.
end if you don't get HIM you can
wait for another.
For the secret of the science of
catching m ME that no man
can be caught--unless he wants.to
be, and the only way is to sit down
at home and wait for him toicatch
you.
1t therefore means simply mat
ter of waiting.
The one whom fate has chosen to
fall to our lot will come and lay
himself and his possessions at our
feet but on no account will he be
hurried.
II is only the impetuous youth
who rushes into an engagement
without duly weighing the conse-
quence of his acts.
Just as General studies his
plan of action several days before
he he makes his next move, 80 does
the man of today carefully exam
anime every side of the matrimon-
ial question.
This is the man to marry.
Wait patiently for him and he
will come; but do not spread out
your nets to capture him for he is
a-timid bird and will avoid your
snare.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16
She Had Noticed.

He was talking to the pessimis.
tic, sharp tongued damsel.
Have you noticed" he asked
"that as rule, bachelors arg
wealthier than married men2"
81 have" she replied.
"How do you account for it3'
he inquired.
"The poor. man marries and the
rich one doesn't" she answered. /.
"a man is much more disposed tc
divide nothing with a woman thar
he is to divide something, you
know"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16

1 have on hand four hundred thous-
and red cedar shingles, one hundred
and fifty thousand white 1S-ineh hem
lock shingles, two hundred thousand Of
the Baily cut poplar and one hundred
and fifty thousand 16-inch white pine to
take the place of poplar, for 25e more
than poplar. This makes the cheapest
shingle ever offered in the market. I
have dimension cedar shingles, plast-
ering lath, general hardware. doors sash,
glass, paints, oils and varnishes.
Come to the factory TO buy funeral goods
and save the jobber's profit. You can
select from three hundred finished cas-
kets and finer goods. Embalming and
the best attendance with fine hearses
and good hacks, fine horses and plenty
Of men. / make fine g. A. r, casket IN
the national colors for soldier burial. /
am the only maker of this casket in the
state. have one of the finest under
takers rooms in the state All under
takers goods delivered at all points free
Of charge. / am closing out 80 sets of
buggy harness below cost.
B. H. BIGGS,
PonaeEoy, Chic.
July . 4mo.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16

The Depreciation of silver in
Mexico has led President Diaz to
authorize the railroads to increase
their tariffs. in most instances, 10
per cent. for the remainder of the
present year. What President of
the United States would dare do
such thing?
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16
How to Propose to Girl-A Bach
elor's Recipe.

Lno iudn WIZ 10 tontty III ioNe
never knows where or how to pro-
pose. This, young lady, you can
take as sure sign of the genuin.
eness of leve. The man will slut.
ter and stammer, he will blush, he
will appear uneasy, he will pay
lame compliments and he will be
painfully conscious of the fact that
they are lame.
All this perturbation man can.
not assume; girl with any sense
can always tell.
A man genuinely in love cannot
"play" the object of his passion as
a fisherman plays trout.
A man genuinely in love will do
all sorts of rash things and blund-
or about like a bull in a lady's
boudoir; he will be indiscreet and
tactless, clumsy and irritating to
all about him.
I don't say all men will.
Don't my fair Phyllis, imagine
that because Adolphus isn't clum-
sy and isn't nervous that he isn't
in love with you.
But bless you, a girl with a
head on her shoulders can always
tell.
Women are endowed with intui-
tive qualities. which in love affairs
are peculiar to them.
Men are not thus endowed.
Men are altogether of ooarser
fibre. Yes, but what 1 sat down to
say was that in affairs of the heart
girls behave very differently to
men.
Women are born actresses, even
the most transparent of them.
A girl may be passionately in
love with man and yet be able to
veil her feelings under an exasper
ating expression of coolness or
naughty indifference.
If a man proposes to girl in an
offhand way if he asks her to be his
wife just as he would ask her to go
to concert or a golf game with
him. is it matter of surprise that
she refuses himP
No. don't propose in an offhand
way. my male friends.
Show the girl that you are in
downright earnest.
Show her that she is-as she
ought to be-your whole life to
you.
Show her that her answer will
make you either the happiest or
the most miserable man in this
wide world of our.
AS rule men give women cred
it for possessing far less penetra
tion than is actually theirs.
A girl may not be able to talk
about Plato or Wagner's gloomy
operas; she may not be versed in
Meredith or Shelley, but is super
ior to man in this one overwhelm.
ing respeot-that she is a woman.
And when it comes to affairs of
the heart woman scars triumphant
lover man.
Nature says it shall be 30 and it
has been-ever since Eve was made
out of rib.
| OF Ofcourse all men are not dense,
but most are.
| If man can see exactly what is
passing through woman's mind
do not think he can be properly in
love with her.
Never was there truer saying
than that "love is blind"
AlasI love is blind.
Oh, yes; man oonstrues girls
Isimplest actions and looks and say.
ings as favorable to his suit merely
because his eyes being afflicted
with a peculiar affection, magnify
4 Occasionally it is the other way
about, and he won't see that she
likes him, although she does every.
thing in her power short of actual,
4 ly proposing to him to show that
lhe is king of her heart.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16

Excursion tickets will be sold
for special train leaving Point
Pleasant at 10 p. m. eastern time.
Another opportunity to spend all
day Sunday in either of the above
cities. Call on AGENTS, b. & o.
Railroad for full particulars.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16

If they're going to fight over IN
Turkey it would be relief to the
public. to hear that it is started.
There is nothing SO wearies read
ers as the continuous quarreling
without action.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16

Mr.. Roosevelt is said to be con.
sidering MIR. Kohlsatt, "the pie.
man" for Postmaster General. Mr.
Roosevelt should have had painful
experience enough, paying MIR
Hanna's political debts.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16

The serene confidence in the re.
suit of next years election display
ed by the Republicans is harmless,
but it will receive somes eyere jolts
before the coming session of Con-
gress adjourns.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16

Since Mary Anderson has been
offered $500 each for one hundred
readings in this country. there is a
great demand for elocutionists.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16

There are now operation in the
United State sos national banks
with capital aggregating 1885,
100000. During the existence of
national banks 392 have gone into
receivership.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16

8uccAb 90 CuhlO AAouA eac kA41o
ril g to ever greet her ears. She
had NO ambitions that took her
from her duty She simply work
ed and stuck to duty and by these
and that mother love which is past
finding out. she fought fight
that pugilist has never known and
won a victory which has given to
the world blessing in the oharac.
ter of her daughters that is beyond
and above all the prize rings of the
world or the winnings" of all the
pugilists.
1 have mentioned this one
widow-th1usands in this land
could be mentioned who are just
rs deserving as she. but they are
not mentioned. 1t is a strange
thing to me that human nature is
such that these real heroines and
heroes as well, do not make such
impressions as to cause their
names and their deeds to be faunt-
ed before the the world. The
colonels and generals and honor
ables and governors and senators
seem TO impress the average mind
that these are all the ones that
should be made large and have
honors thrust upon them when we
are longing for our ideals of mas
outline superiority, while the lead
ers of the fads, the dressers in the
fashion. the splendid singer OF
fine musician are the ones we select
when out for our ideals of feminine
superiority.
This should not be so
Last Wednesday me and Brown
travelled in buggy through the
portion of our county known as
Arabia. just why the name Ara
bia was given in this region is lost
in the ravages of time and the con-
fusion of memories, but it is just
such section and peopled with
the people that suit my purpose
here.
There yet remain in this section
many old people who fought wolves
and panthers and wildcats, and
felled the forest with gun stand
ing against the nearest tree to be
ready for any emergency and when
1 heard them tell of those pioneer
days it struck me that the world
had never produced a breed the
equal of those men and women
who settled this land. Their hard
hands made hard from the splitting
of rails and the cutting down of
the forest, and those quick eyes
which have not ) ct lost their quick
ness, for men there now in the
seventies and close to the eighty
mark can shoot squirrel in the
eye from the tallest pines or popu-
lars. As 1 contemplated these
and considered their peaceful
achievements it struck me that
suoh as these are the ones to make
large and magnify upon the honor
roll of Georgia,s great men, and
the blessed old women who yet re-
main to remind us of the courage
that protected the babe in the
cradle while the man was in the
field, and spun and woee the
clothes,. cooked the meals and
blessed the world in the children
they gave it-these are my heroes;
these are my heroines, and may
the good Lord bless them and set
US back to the example they set.
They are greater than pugilists,
greater than the leaders of fads-
brave champions for the best in
morals, for the home and for God.
SARGE PLUKErT.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16
Soldiers Reunion at Middleport, O.,
September Is, 16 and IL.

For this occasion agents of the
K. & M. Ry., will sell excursion
tickets to Middleport and return
from Charleston, Corning and all
intermediate stations Sept. IA and
15 at rate of one fare for the round
trip; tickets good returning until
Sept. 18th.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16

At Avellino, near Naples, girl
19 threw herself from third floor
window into the street. She fell
upon a workman and was not
seriously injured, declaring after.
ward that she had been impelled
to the act by hypnotist.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16

Admiral Dewey contributed an
article to the last issue of the
Navy League Journal in which he
shows from facts and figures thai
our navy is inadequate and not to
be compared with those of Great
Britain, Germany and France.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16

The great problem of today il
the city. The city is like a Low
place in the land, to which all
streams flow. All Glasses drift to
the large towns, and it is here that
the wicked gather to find theil
prey. =
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-16

Mr.. Carnegie says the United
States should be annexed to Great
Britian. but he rather got the cart
before the horse. 1t reminds one
of the tramp who asked to have a
shirt sewed on his button.