Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-20
TIMELY STATE TOPICS.
And What Vermont Editors Have to Say Con-
corning Them.

iceberg resulted in the freight depot
being broken into and the stealing OF
cask of rum. It's an awful thing to
cut off the rum supply of prohibition
state. bennington Banner and Refor-
mer.
We can almost see those summer no,
tells looming up in the perspective ana
hear the clink of coin from the my
white fingers of the city guest. -Lyn-
donville Journal.
1t certainly looks as though we were
destined to record breaking summer
tourist trade in Vermont this season.
Let us treat the casual sojourner so
we'll that he will want to come again
-Vergennes Vermonter.
Pine Bluff, North Carolina, has set
the country, and especially several Yer
mont towns, an example worthy of iml-
tation. The citizens of that town, by
practically unanimous vote, petit
toned the legislature to pass an act
giving the town the right for several
years to lay special tax to be used IN
advertising its advantages and attrac-
tions as winter resort. The act was
passed, Talk, bout the South not be-
ing progressive! Vermont is not IN IT
with Pine Bluff. Middlebury Regis
ter.
1t has been aptly remarked that
three factors are at work through many
of the agricultural districts of the coun-
try to bring the farmer into more I'M
mediate relation with the world s work
and the stirring events OF the DAY,
These are the telephone, the rural mali
delivery and the live local newspaper;
The grange should also be mentioned
as another factor which does much IN
various ways in promoting the inter
ests of the farmer-the best way OF all,
we think, is the frequently meeting
and comforting with each other as to
the best way Of obtaining results that
are of practical benefit to the farmer.
-Morrisville News.
In Burlington and Barre the license
commissioners have very properly nXeu
the fee for licenses of the first class al
the maximum figures permitted under
the law. $1,000. The same action VIII
doubtless be taken by the Rutland com
missioners. This is far from high
tariff, taking into consideration the
privileges such license gives in city
| like Rutland. The license fee here
should be at least 81, 900, but the com
missioners will be entirely right in Tx.
ing it at as high point as the law VIII
allow. At 1920 it is safe to say that
there will be at least thrice as man!
seeking licenses as there VIII De IL
censes to grant. Rutland News.
st. Johnsbury citizens have already
taken steps to provide for the sale Of
liquor in the drug stores, and othel
towns in the county will undoubtedly
do likewise. As the Caledonian ha;
previously remarked, the open saloor
is the most objectionable feature o.
the new law, and we are glad there IL
one county in the state where they can
not exist for the next II months. st
Johnsbury Caledonian.
Those thirsty people of ST. bloomsbury
who are taking steps to provide for the
sale of liquor in drug stores Will flne
their mistake before the year Is over
If they tritle with the law we shall SCI
some east side druggists in the worl
house Rutland Herald.
The underpaid schoolma'a has
plenty of newspaper champions anyway
OF course, the question of the prope
pay of teachers is a local issue in it
primary aspect. Every community will
probably continue to make the bes
bargain it can. But the consequence
are some day to be reaped. Even pro
verbal Yankee shrewdness cannot &c
something for nothing, and there viii
come a stage in this business whert
this same Yankee shrewdness will Ger
leap itself. A school taught by two
! mr.
the pupil graduated from it has two
cent education. 1t is the simple ope
ration of the simple law of cause ant
effect. And here is where the question
broadens out beyond local lines ant
becomes of state Importance. The maj
with the two-cent mind helps to maxi
laws for the whole commonwealth. l
would be a pretty difficult matter t.
establish the precise basis of lega
right by which the whole of tn
state could impose upon communitie
the payment of certain fixed salarie
for teachers, but there would be nj
difficulty whatever in showing how i
might like to do so if present condi
! tions are allowed to continue. The pa
tient schoolma am is worthy of he
hire. St. Adams Messenger.
Nowadays one frequently lights upoi
, odds and ends of items in the newspa
pers that give a significant hint of tn
great changes that are quietly takin.
place in Vermont For instance, recall
the fact that this Green Mountain stat
is supposed to be inhabited by descen
dants of the original settlers of New
England, if any state in the Union cal
claim that distinction. Remembe
that for generations it has been said o
Vermont that her population has beer
little affected by immigration and tina
her old settled families run their root
straight back to the British isles with
out intermixture of other blood. Re
member that it has been popularl,
supposed that Vermont had proper
tionately more genuine Yankees of thi
kind in her population than any othe
state in the Union. And then conside
the significance of news item tina
starts with the sentence, 1.-THE stats
tics of births for 1902 in Montpelie
show that there were almost twice al
many parents native born as foreign
born" 1t has now become an objec
!, of interest, it appears, to learn, no
how many are of the old stock, TO
that's out of the question, but to learr
how many were at least born in thi:
country. The change had gradual,
stolen in upon us and nobody had paio
much attention to it. The old New
England stock is fast fading into fee
BILE minority in the very land that it
ancestry redeemed from the wilderness
St, Adams Messenger.
Mrs. Gardeners Palace Illustrated.