Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-02
PLAIN TALK FOR PLAIN PEOPLE.
Crisp and Breezy Comment on Mat
tiers in the Public Eye.
written for the Reformer.)


Crisp and Breezy Comment on Mat
tiers in the Public Eye.
written for the Reformer.)
Governor Bell is qualifying for
ing mind of his own. even If it's
sometimes a wrong mind. Here he
has been vetoing "A bill! The nerve
of IT, What's a governor for except
to sign bills and pardon folks? And
the legislature Immediately lined up
and place kicked our chief eXecu-
tive down the field for 80 yards,
The bill was correct enough and any
man whose time isn't worth $500 n
day isn't fit to be a witness, but the
governor thought differently and
vetoed it. The farce of the present
system appears in the fact that
while Mr. Bell isn't permitted even
an occasional voice in the states
legislation, he can yet overset the
carefully prepared criminal cases of
the highest courts and maladminis-
ter justice by the abuse of pardons
But he says he won't, for which de-
cision | say Good for Gov. Bell"
Two-dollar Bill of the Burlington
Clipper thinks that the Londonderry
Sifter's principal bid for fame lies
in the fact that John has given us
some mighty good reading along
back--that is, he has stimulated
plain Talk TO say some decidedly
Pat things about the outfit of the
SITTER" This Is the unkindest cut
of all My neighbor Shanks GER
tainly isn't making a bid for vica-
rious fame and what he had to say
wrong and narrow as 1t often was,
stood sturdily on its own merits and
attracted attention by its quaint ana
ancient flavor. BY the way, | see
that 81 Clone, the Sifter's self-ap-
pointed censor from Dorset Valley.
does huge weeps In the last issue OF
the SITTER under the Shanks man
agement.
ST SAYS. Dear friends: Our old
SITTER is to pass into other ana
strange hands and the odd fogyism
may be dropped, | shall be so years
old the last day of 1904, yet l feel as
young as some men at forty. Ana
so he proceeds to shed seniie tears
for about six sticks. 1t just goes 10
show you. Mr.. Shanks has permit
ted this antiquated pessimist TO run
torial column and ST got to think
that he owned the paper. Look at
this: Il relieved Sitter John of some
of this truth telling, and IL he tells
the truth as ! think he does, l have
added to his exchequer and subscrip-
tons a goodiy number" II there's
one business more than another that
needs n man to run II, alone and
without assistance, It's newspaper
II can't be run on the crossroads
congress plan.
DIN Merrill isn't what you might
call delriously anxious to give up ms
little SIS, 900 per from Uncle sam,
and sympathzing papers in Franklin
county are rubbing ii into the Mes
senger regardless. In column ana
a quarter of fribulous vagary the
Messenger declares that ia meneg
"innocently suggested that WheI
Merrill had completed eight years Oh
revealing in the fat and greasy lux,
ury of the collectorship. ne shoui1
take his feet out of the trough ana
Give somebody else chance" Glass
sic but pertinent remark. DIN mas
had his: now let the lean and hun
gry. who deserve equally with olin'
have slice of the shortcake,
{.
II seems likely that the extra ses-
sion of the legislature from now
henceforward will accomplish more
than in the whole time devoted TO
experimental, useless and private
measures that now clog the whole
machine of law making. At sLooo
per day, Vermont gets about the
smallest value for the investment OF
any concern | know.
NV neighbor and good advertiser,
q II. Grimm of Rutland, has been
experimenting with sap flow ana de-
clares that maple sugar can be mace
in the fall. Speak to Jake Uliery
about it, but tell him to caution ms
New England Farmers not 10 re-
verse the whole routine OF the year
work till they hear further sap
flows for a specific purpose. Trees
need sap in their business IL Jus'
occurs to me that semi annual ap--
nlication of the reamer and spout
might give the honest maple that
DIR. Pinkham's Pale Pills for PINK
People feeling. What?
A dog over in Warren barked the
family awake in time enough to see
their horse barn and outbuHdinss
go up in smoke. Who was that caus
tic-bitted young woman VINO salu
the more she saw Of men the more
she liked dogs?
My old friends, AFRO Jehoram
Markham, erstwhile the bullion
throated warbler of the late cam
paign. and John Excalibur Harris,
wanst a strenuous publicist, have
floated dreamily to their mind-rack-
ing labors in Washington. AFRO
guards the Senators gallery and re-
fuses to let anyone less INDUSTRIOUS
than ]. Pierpont Morgan, Marsnai
Yamagata or Frank stiles get III,
while Harris thinks great thoughts
in CONJUNCTION with certain stair
WAYS and elevators and broadens
out mentally and otherwise. Poor,
overworked boys. l had to. work
once. That's how 1 got my start.
A memory of the Mckinley cam.
paigns comes to me in the prier
kilograms from Havana, where John
Barrett, ex-minister to sam anu
ex-ten or a dozen other things, is
running Uncle Sans end OF the
trade and acting picturesque, as
usual. The following version OF
Barrett's handling of the recent
revolution" isn't vouched for by
the Associated Press but every one
remembers him well enough TO rec
ognize some personal touches that
are probably true.
II seems that President Amador
of Panama had a General Huertas at
the head of his army. Huertas
mixed it up with the secretary of