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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04
JONES AND LICENSE.

The campaign for license or no licen
in Rutland promises to be hot one.
On Wednesday evening a mass meet
ing attended by several hundred voters
was held in the opera house in oppo-
sitiou to the open saloon for the CON-
ing year. The interesting fact about
the affair was that the speaker of
the evening was Joseph @. Jones. who,
during the re-convention canvass
two years ago was chief lieutenant to
P. W. Clement in his fight for license.
Mr.. Jones was very earnest and en-
phatic in his denunciation of the way
the open saloons have worked during
the past year in the Marble City. He
stated that during the past nine
months there were 229 arrests of resi-
dents of the city for intoxication as
against 81 for the year 1902, while the
number of non-residents was likewise
much increased. Many fold more in.
toxicated persons were on the streets
than there were the year previous.
LAO WOhu Oh w soy OhaO iiC hhu oOOh
many boys in their teens drunk on the
streets, men standing at the bar drink
ing until intoxicated, men assisted
from saloons by their friends because
too trunk to walk, and other sights
showing that the law was not being en-
forced, the conditions being much
worse than under prohibition. He
said he wanted the law to have fair
trial by the city adopting the alterna-
tive, provided that under the local op-
ton provisions and voting no licenses
be issued this year. After remarking
that the law is still young and that
both sides of it should be tried, he
said, 81 know that in Rutland, license
is failure and would like to see
how no license would work. -
According to the Rutland News
there have been charges made that
Mr. Jones is not sincere in his new
stand but is disgruntled at some action
of the other license leaders and is get
ting even. The News, however, be-
lieves him sincere. There certainly is
no reason to doubt his sincerity if the
stand he has taken is the only ground
upon which the charge can be based.
There is no reason why a man who
fully believes in the license local OPP
ton law should not also believe thai
no saloons should be allowed in hi
own town.
The rsllying cry of the local option
men has been "home rule" In other
words the basic principle is that the
wishes of the majority in each towi
shall control the treatment of the liquo
traffic, no town to be obliged to hav,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04
AN ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
avs The Bennington Banner {:

Says The Bennington Banner:
Yesterday The Banner spoke of a
reform which has resulted in saving
the State thousands of dollars. An
| other reform that would save the
State much more is much needed
change in our grand jury system.
There is no sense or excuse tor the
States paying out thousands Of dollars
every year for the Investigation of
trivial matters. Important crimes
shout be placed before the grand jury
and no Others. 1t is probably too
good a graft, however, for cheap law
yers and small politicians to be gotten
rid of easily"
Right in this connection, The Mes
senger might add that the State of
Vermont will begin to save money in
/ the expense of administering justice
and get more justice for the money
she does paw out when she institutes
the office of attorney general. 1t is a
singular thing that level headed citi-
zens, business men, professional men,
men who by education and experience
ought to know better. will engage only
the best lawyers their money can hire
to prosecute their own business in the
courts, and then turn right around and
consent to the farming out of the law
business of the whole State of Yer
mont to any fourteen men that need
the money
"But it is a fact that the aver
age citizen does not exercise due
care and caution in selecting or voting
for the State attorney for his county
it is fact that this Office is too many
times left to the mercy of politicians
and is filed in consequence by inoom.
patent men whose incompetency not
only costs the State money but does
not insure the proper enforcement OF
law or administration of justice. And
just so long as this is true. just sc
long as the people of the counties will
persist in this folly, the State may
wisely have recourse to creating the
office of attorney general for its owr
protection, and institute system
whereby important cases to be prose
cuted on behalf of the commonwealth
will be conducted by him ur under hil
direction. st. Adams Messenger.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04
LICENSE IN RUTLAND.

There is one blot Oh the otherwise
good financial balance sheet of the
city last year and that is the burden
of additional police and city court eX-
penses incident to the license policy.
Leaving out of consideration the
profits to the city from the liquor
agency in 1902 and from half of the
license fees III 1903. the comparison of
the two years is very much to the ad-
vantage of 1902. The expense of police
in 1902 was SO, 0S2. 70 but this was de-
creased $537 63 by receipts from city
courts, leaving net expense of 3d.
$40. 16 on the two items, police and
city court. In 1908 the expense for
police was SO, 40l. 55- $3lS.76 NOR
than in 1909 and the expense OF city
! and Justices court was 81, 322. 60.
But these expenses were offset in part
by receipts from city court of 81,
729. SO. Thus the combined cost OF
police and courts, $7,724 90, less the
receipts in fines and costs from prs
oners. left the city 1894. 81 to the
bad. These are figures worthy OF
consideration and careful thought Of
all taxpayers. They represent fairly
we'll the dollars and cents cost Of the
license policy in this city. The police
and court expenses in 1908 were
exactly 80, 449.4l more than they we
in 1909. 1t should. Of course, be un
derstood that this deficit is not a los
to this city directly, for the Stat
treasury makes up the deficit. -Rut
land News.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04

its size when he first knew it, The
answer is always that the stream is
much smaller now. There are hun
dreds of little brooks in Vermont
which now are hardly big enough to
furnish water for a six-inch trout to
swim in which sixty years ago were
goodly streams. Follow along the
banks of those brooks and old, long
useless dams will be found. Once
busy mill wheels turned there. Now
the water that flows through the gaps
in the tumbled down stone or rotted
timbers is trifling amount.
some day when it is too late to be
of the greatest benefit the Legislators
of Vermont will appreciate the neces-
stiles of the situation and will take
action looking to the protection of the
forests, and the encouragement of peo-
pie in the planting and care of others.
Perhaps they will go even farther and
take some of the woodland into the
possession of the State as has been
done in some States already. The
National government is doing good
work so far as it goes. The States
should supplement- this work and go
much farther, for it is their people
that are primarily interested, and
they should begin at once.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04

1t was getting late il the evening
and the woman of the house, who had
been busy sewing, laid down her work
with the announcement, I'm hungry.
I've got to have something to eat be-
fore l go to bed. -
The father, who had been doing
over his paper, walked up at this,
Pm hungry, too" ne said. What
have you got?"
II don't just know" said the
mother, "but. I'm going down to the
kitchen to investigate. "
She went to the stairs and had just
reached the bottom when a small voice
f1oated after her.
Mamma, mamma,' it said.
What is it, dear? ?" she called back.
I'm hungry, too. mamma" said
the voice. Won't you bring me up
a piece of the 'vestigate?'
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04
THE FARMERS TRADE.

The enormous value of the farm and
forest exports of the United States is
brought to light by the recent bulletin
of the department OF agriculture, which
deals with foreign trade in farm and
forest products The statistics given
in the bulletin show that in the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1903, the exports
of farm products amounted to $97S,
479, 45l, those of forest products to
SOS, 26l. 1874, or a grand total of 1896,
200, 575. Such sum representing
actual value, not the bubble values of
some of the CREST corporations, can
hardly be appreciated. 1t means
that the surplus products of American
farms shipped to foreign countries are
worth enough to give to every man,
woman and child in this great coun.
try ten dollar bill and some change
to put in the pocket with it.
The total imports of farm and forest
products during the year we're $527, =
617, BAT so there was a trade bala nee
$409, 0S3, 1913. The exports as given
above comprised 67.3 per cent. of the
total exports of the country, while the
imports were 5l.9 per cent. The inn
ports were the largest ever recorded
in those two classes, and the exports
were the largest with the exception
of the year 1901. The increase in the
imports was especially noticeable and
was mostly in sugar and molasses,
silk, tea and wool. There was a
very marked falling off in the imports
substitutes for coffee now on the
market. Among the exports, cotton
led during the year with total value
of $3l7, 065, 27l, with grains and grain
products 1921, 495, 086, and meats and
meat products $17S, 456, 536. The ex-
/ ports of meat and meat products are
not 80 much as the year previous by
nearly twenty millions, while live ami.
mails exported fell off about ten mil
lions. Dairy products and hay also
fell off decidedly.
The changes from the year previ-
GUS in the amount of exports or i'm.
ports of any one product are explained
in various ways. The American wool
growers are feeling the effects of for
eign competition more severely every
year. The great wool growing regions
of Australia and South America are
cutting in on the American markets,
and the wool growers have to fight al
home. Sugar, meats, meat products
live animals, dairy products, hay
fruits, and tobacco each have theil
own reasons for increase or decrease
some of which are due to changed in
ternational conditions and some tC
temporary reasons, poor crops, etc
But when it is all summed up the fac
remains that to the farmers of the
country is due the great credit of tin
trade balances They support them
selves and do large part towart
feeding the world besides.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04

Judge Willis M. Ross, of the Rut-
land city court, says he is pretty we'll
acquainted with all the "drunks"
that come before him and that by far
the largest proportion of them are
Rutland residents. He vouches for
the truth of the recent public utter
ances of j. @. Jones on this point.
Judge Ross ought to know whereof
he speaks. On the other hand Grand
Juror j. Walter Lyons states that he
has kept personally record of the
homes of all the DRINKS arrested and
that very small proportion of them
are bonafide Rutland residents, des.
pite the fact that every warrant he is
sues states that the offender is sol
the city of Rutland. " Under the cir
cumstances. on the face of it, OIL
whom is the burden of proof?-Rut
land News.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04
DOMESTIC WORK AND BEAUTY,

Some people say that domestic work
spoils beauty, and many women who
really would enjoy active occupation
in their own homes are hindered by
the fear of sponiling their comeliness
Let them be treasured. Homework IN
moderation is one of the best ways of
cultivating beauty. Bed making is
magnificent exercise for the figure,
Shoulders, body and limbs are all
brought into play and developed by
mattress turning and pillow shaking.
The folding of sheets and blankets and
the spreading of them on the bed all
| give the arms just the right exercise
to develop the muscles in the soft
roundness and pretty curves which are
the chief beauty of woman's arm.
Tennis and other athletic games are
not nearly so good, and, indeed,
there are athletic girls (happily only
few whose arms, though white and
smooth, are quite hideous from being
developed on manly instead of on
feminine lines. Perhaps you have
never realized how unlike are mems
and women's arms. If not just com.
pare them, and you will see how ugly
the manly arm looks when the girlish
owner of it is in evening dress and it
is fully exposed to view. For arms,
! fingers and wrists the washing and
wiping of teacups and saucers are ad-
mirable exercises. The water should
be fairly hot, and soda, which is in
| furious to the skin, need not be used.
The water, combined with the exer.
else, is especially valuable in giving
suppleness to the joints of the fingers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04
Kodol Digests What You Eat.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.

saloons unless a majority of its citi .
zens want them, or to go without tn EN-
if majority is in favor. Mr.. Jones
has been and still is a license man,
but, while last year he believed open
saloons would be best for Rutland he
now believes they should be barred
out and the prohibitive side of the
law tried instead. He may be right
or lie may be wrong in his judgment,
but there is no apparent reason why
he cannot be perfectly sincere in bis
declarations.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04

The anti Roosevelt forces made
their first fight on Wednesday evening
in Kansas City, Missouri, in the
primaries for the election of delegates
to the national convention. The vote
stood Q, 1874 to 202 in favor of the two
Roosevelt candidates, and they were
elected. Such showing at the first
encounter is hardly likely to give
much encouragement to those politi-
clans who would like to see the Presi-
dent defeated for the nomination.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04

The Stock Exchange is not the mob
of thieves and robbers which it is
popularity accredited with being. The
board OF managers of the Consolidated
Exchange in New York has barred out
one of the great steel corporations
one in which, Charles M. Schwab is
a director and his brother che presi-
dent. The members of the great or.
ganization intend to have only reput.
able stocks on the boards Schwab
has been getting some pretty stiff
whscks from them lately as we'll as
from the public.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04
ACT BEFORE TOO LATE.

a committee of the board of trade
of New York city has just made re-
port concerning the forests of that
State, and especially of the Adiron-
dacks with view to suggesting
legislation that will protect the for
ests and the water supplies dependent
upon them. The committee forcibly
presents the fact to the attention of
the public that the water supply is
largely regulated by the forests. The
woods are the natural conservators
of water. In wooded country the
rain witch falls soaks in and then flows
off gradually during the dry weather.
The springs depend upon the rains,
and when the woods are cut off the
rains are lost to the springs because
the water runs off uselessly in fresheti
and overofiws instead of being saved
and dealt out gradually.
How true this is every person whC
has ever taken the trouble to motto,
what happens must know. Take any
valley in Vermont where small
stream flows and ask man who ha
lived there sixty or seventy years how
the size Of the stream compares will
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04

AS a result of the recent railroad ac-
cident in Michigan, due to a disregard
of signals, some of the railroad COM
panies are giving the subject close at
tention just at present. On the Lacka-
wanna road over twenty men have
been discharged for violating che rules
regarding signals. The trainmaster
and numerous assistants have been
along thu line of the road and applied
various tests which caught many en-
g'neers and conductors mapping. 1t is
wise course to pursue. Regulations
regarding signals are of value for the
protection of life and property only in
so far as they are enforced--and the
unusually large number of railroad
wrecks during the past year indicates
that there has been negligence. Some
of the accidents have been due to neg
ligence. some to improper equipment,
some to inadequate working force of
employees. All of these causes should
be done away with as nearly as pos.
sible so that only the act of God OF
the natural frailty of man. should re
main.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04

if prices are advanced in proportion
to the increased cost the standard
workingmen' apron overall, now sold
with as narrow "A margin of profit as
any article, will bring SO dozen
instead of $50. AS the retailer at
present sells this article for 10 cents,
it is evident that the price to the con-
sumner will of necessity go up or else
the quality of cloth in the overalls
gtmuso down.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04
STRIKES.
Mr.. Jones struck oil,

And his men, so they say,
Struck for eight hours work
And for nine hours pay.
Jones struck his horse
And struck for the spot;
The horse struck with fear,
At once struck trot.
The clock had struck five;
He was wet to the skin;
From his blue flannel shirt
The color struck in.
Some baseball players
Struck up shout;
The batter struck pose,
And then he struck out.
Jones struck bargain,
But soon struck snag--
For it struck off his profits,
And he struck his flag.
And now you have struck
On this history true,
How, striking balance,
Does it all strike you?
Edwin L. Sabin in February S
Nicholas.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04
EIGHTEENTH CHILD.

Maiden, Mass, Feb. 1.-Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel Mccarthy of Montrose
avenue are rejoicing over the birth of
a son, their eighteenth child, nine of
whom are living. Mccarthy is forty
two years old. President Roosevelt
has been notified.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04

Whitaker Wright has evaded the
law of man. He will serve no SEN
tence for defrauding the public as a
promoter. But he has escaped one
judge only to go before another who is
all seeing, all-kuowiug and with
whom technicslities are useless. He
was convicted by men, but he will
take his sentence not from human
judge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT
SERVING.

The sweetest lives are those to duty
wed,
Whose deeds, both great and small,
Are close-kn strands of an unbroken
thread.
Where love ennobles all.
The world may sound no trumpets,
ring no bells;
The book of life the shining record
tells.
Thy love shall chant It's own beati-
tudes
After its own life working. A chld's
kiss
Set on thy signing lips shall make thee
glad.
A sick man helped by thee shall make
thee strong.
Thou shalt be served thyself in every
sense
Of service which thou renderest.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04

The high price of cotton is likely to
be brought home to the people soon
in way that they can not fail to APP
preoiate The manufacturers are al
ready figuring how much the price Of
common articles of wear will of neoes-
sity be advanced. 1t 10 calculated that
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04
Women Do r1Ore

and endure more than men. They are
the stronger and more efficient. When
they dc break down it is commonly
through the nerves, or bad treatment
of some sort. DR.. David Kennedy's
new medicine called Oal-oura Solvent,
is the remedy for women's ills. Write
to the Cal-oura Company, Rondout,
N. Y, for free book and sample bot
tic.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04
= lTHuR ROPES General E1itor
CLUBBING LIST.

The following offers are for the
benefit only of subscribers to the
Waterman (weekly) or the Journal
daily who pay all arrearages and
a years subscription in advance. One
or more of the publications may be
ordered, but the money for each. at
the club rate, must invariably accom-
pany the order, with al arrears or
any due on either paper and full
year in advance. To the "Olub Rate >
add 81 90 for the Waterman, or So. 90
for the journal
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04
AG4IN THE SEALS.

Passage of Dillingham; Resolution.
Bill for Protection of Fur Bearing
Animals. Proctor's Bill and Claims
of Officers. Other Vermont Mat.
tiers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04

THE LADIES favor painting their
churches and therefore we urge every
Minister to remember we give lib
eral quantity of the Longman & Mar
tinez Paint toward the painting.
Wears and covers like gold
Don't pay 81. 90 a gallon for Linseed
Oil worth 60 cents which you do
when you buy other paints in can
with paint label on it.
q make IA, therefore when you
want fourteen gallons of paint, buy
only eight of L . & NJ, and mix six
gallons pure Linseed Oil with it, and
thus get paint at less than $l.20 per
gallon.
Many houses are well painted with
four gallons of L. & NJ, and three
gallons of Linseed Oil mixed there
with
These celebrated paints are SOLD. by
Barrows q Peck Montpelier
Palmer Pharmacy Waterbury
Fred Perrin Plainfield
Howard & Brown-Ludlow
II. @. PieIce-Barton. 2
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04

Vermont Senator's bill will be given
early and favorable consideration.
Senator Proctor has introduced bill
to provide for the settlement of GER
tain claims of officers and enlisted
men OF the army for the loss or des-
truotion of property belonging to them
in the military service of the Unied
States. This bill provides that SOL
diers in the Spanish American war,
and since, may be Reimbursed for
property which was lost or destroyed
through no fault of theirs. The bill
has been referred to the committee on
military affairs of which Mr.. Proctor
is acting chairman.
Congressman Haskins has introduced
a bill to authorize the President to ap.
point Maj. william Austine, retired.
to the grade of colonel in the United
States army and place him ON the re.
tired list as such.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Robert B. Farquharson of
United States marine corps.
Senator Dillingham; has introduced
private bills granting an increase of
pension to Roswell b. Bradley of John
son, Norman B. Davenport, Of Chel-
sea and Mrs. Anna II Lyman. The
latter is the widow of that gallant
Vermont soldier, Major WHY'S Ly-
man, of the 10th Vermont Regiment,
who afterwards reached the same rank
in the 9Th United States Infantry
Mrs. Lyman now lives at Chevy
Chase, Maryland, and is in very frail
health.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04

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