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The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01
ALVA ADAMS,

perpetual motion" in politics. His chief recommends
ton is his genial smile and the facility with which
tell jokes These excellent campaigning qualities,
but they scarcely be taken guarantee that Mr.
Adams has lost his tmidty in the of Socialist
delegation, they be regarded guarantee
Alva would suppress outlawry with stern hand.
The people of Colorado have tried Governor Ava
Adams and tired of him and the whole Adams family
They accorded him the distinguished honor of being
feated in against Congressman Brooks years
The fact is that Governor Adams is politically a
in and should undertake to make another campaign
his pleasing personality. The people him
rather pointed hint two but he prefers the
embrace of avalanche before taking the hint
1t supposed that something would occur the
that perhaps he might smell mice when he
found that Hughes declined and else wanted the
nomination but he did not and is to the people
again to retire this lovely teller this
Nghtful lady.like gentleman from Pueblo county
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

Queer coincidence, Gustave Fran
cote, special envoy of King Leopold,
who has been sent over here Oh a
peace mission" arrived here on the
day Of the Munroe-Jeffries fight.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01
STATE POLITICS

alton of Miners and also have referred the price
paid by Mr.. James F. Burns the western federation
didate electoral ticket.
the ranks of party Of the unerrfed which joined
the day before he nominated.
Whatever final analysis of this sounspiring allit
erative may be- there question but that it
will go laundering down the corridors of time like
can dogs tail.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

The fashion journals declare that
hutunn cloaks will reveal the figure
Aud when the figure is revealed the
man that has to pay for it will fire.
suently do good deal of grumbling.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

1t is said that a diet of apples is
sure cure for alcoholism Then
think of the heroic attempt your little
boy is making to refrain from being a
drunkard when he fills up on the half.
ripe fruit.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

The great czar is, after all, only
= forked radish with a head fantas-
tically carved" says the New York
American. St Petersburg papers
will not copy
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

Panama has invested $4,000, 900 of
her $1O,OOO,OOO in New York real es-
tate. Now what will she do If New
York gets recalcitrant some day and
refuses to pay the rent?
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

one of the Chicago papers prints
two column article on Learning the
Art of Conversation" but what people
really ought to learn is the art of keep.
ing still.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

King Edward has conferred the
Chain OF the Royal Victorian Order
on Emperor Nicholas and Emperor
Francis Joseph. This is the modern
way of putting emperors in chains.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

Those who thought the Uruguayan
revolution would not amount to much
forgot how many political jobs are al
stake.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

We are told in the beauty columns
that young lady can as easily ac-
quire the graceful round as the un.
graceful fiat waist. 1t is also probably
much more agreeable in the acquir-
ing.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

The New Jersey cranberry crop this
gear will be only about half as big
as 1t was year ago. Bad news for
New Jersey, good news for Cape Cod.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

The latest thing in drinks is the
"Jefries punch" Properly landed
under the belt it is said to give one
tho blind staggers all right.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

The report of battle in Uruguay,
IN which 6.O00 men were killed and
wounded lacks one important ingre-
hient. 1t doesn't bear the Chefoo
date mark.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

Other ambitious prize fighters are
trying to find out what brand of gum
Champion Jeffries chews
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

Lewis Nixon is making ships for
the czar; his partner will make ships
for the mikado. Uncle Sans boys
always strive to please.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

An eastern scientist asserts that the
woodpecker has a nerve extending the
entire length of it's bill. Just like the
gas collector,
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

One beauty about mimic warfare is
that no large pension list follows in
its wake.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

Last month there were only forty.
two suicides in Chicago The forti.
tude of the Chicagoese is something
marvellous.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

Oklahoma day was great success
at the worlds fair After all, what is
so great an attraction as a bunch of
beautiful women?
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

Three hundred gypsies landed few
days ago at Ellis island. This is the
largest Romany Rye crop thus far re-
ported.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

There are some new rules in foot
ball this year, but the old directions
for first aid to the injured still hold
good.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

With 1000 men killed in one battle
the Uruguayan revolution promises
20 rise TO the dignity of a real war
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

That foxy young czarevitch got his
pa to abolish flogging before he was
old enough to get his share.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

Nicaragua and Honduras are threat
ening to go to war, but may think bet
ter OF it and agree upon a postpone
ment until they can get somebody to
look.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

We may be shy on wheat. but who
cares so long as the apple crop is
larger than usual
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01

Partisan politics does not into the
for against those who defy the
who attack the state authorities for attempting to
enforce Either the law the dynamiter prevail
in
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-01
PLATFORM PYRoTEcHNIcs.

fhe Democratic platform adopted in Denver last week
referred to the awlessness of pef and passion
ming riot in sections of unhappy commonwealth"
believed by that this plagiarism either John
Most, Czolsoz, Emma Goldman, w. d. Haywood James
F. Burns OF it is well known fact that peace
and security reign in county in the state and that
owing to the practical certainty Of the reelection of Gov
Peabody, prosperity is rapidly returning but plat
form writer's must have some license.
1t is of no consequence that one knows what law
essness of pef and passion The fact that there
is nothing running riot in this state the present
overflow of Democratic casshatreu oratory
be overlooked and the further truth that
wealth is not unhappy except in contemplating the
possibility of Democratic also be ignored in
of this kind. Such trivial matters these
be allowed to interfere with the poetic flow and the
alliterative alignment of beautiful soul inspiring
tence like this.
On the other hand, 1t is stated that this single
is from the lurd of Hon. Tom ODonnell whose
glossy dome outshines the spendor of
this is true the Hon Tom perhaps referring the
"lawess passion which riot in the Democratic
venton, and the awlessness of pelf undoubtedly
ferred to the $4,000 which the Democratic state committee
recently received from the of the Western
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-14
GOOD ROADS.
The Bill Now Pending in Congress
Some Misapprehensio Respecting
the Situation.

In view of existing local agitation
of good road matters, through the re-
cent organization at Burlington of a
new association for the betterment of
the highways, and as this association s
purpose seems to be to solicit support
for the good roads bill now pending in
Congress, the Journal is requested to
republish the following editorial ar
ticle from its issue of March H. There
seens to be some Misunderstanding or
lack of understanding, as to just what
that bill proposes. AS the article is
question states the terms of the meas
ure and discusses its propositions, it
is reproduced for the information of
the inquirers and the correction Of
transformation. 1t must be borne in
mind that the proposition to give a
State national aid is conditioned on
the States appropriating a similar sum
from its own treasury. The proposed
measure is cooperative. The State
must put up its own money, also, but
must intrust the expenditure of the en-
tire sum to the national commission.
1t must be remembered, further, that
the Brownlow bill, under which Yer
mont would have had $3.50, 900 a year
from the national treasury, if the
State also appropriated $3.50, 900 yearly,
was some time ago withdrawn. 1t was
proposition of such colossal extrava-
ance its promoters became alarmed
and the scheme for national aid was
cut down, for a starter, to the di-
mensions outlined in the article here
subjoined:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-14
RECORDS OF CONVENTIONS.

The Journal has received from Hon.
Redfeld Proctor a unique volume,
bearing the title, early Vermont
Conventions, 1776-1777." The rec
ords of conventions in the New Hamp-
shire Grants for the independence of
Vermont, 1776-1777, are reproduced in
fac-simile from manuscripts in the
library OF Congress, written and at
tested by Jonas Fay, clerk of the con-
ventions, with other documents, and
an explanatory statement, arranged
and presented by Redfeld Proctor,
Washington, D. G."
In his statement respecting the rec
ords, Senator Proctor says that he was
informed, in July last, that the
Peter Force collection in the Ii
brary of Congress contained manu-
scripts of interest to Vermonters,
among them record of certain con-
ventions, on the back sheets of which
farmer had kept accounts. From
the sheets Senator Proctor found in
the congressional library the litho-
graphic copies were made which he
has had bound in the book in question.
The Senator speaks deprecatingly of
his capacity for Historical research
and the study of ancient archives, -
but in this-to him-"a new field, "
as he says, he has produced work of
great interest to students of the early
times of Vermont, as we'll as of re-
publican government in general. The
documents presented mark some of the
early steps in the evolution of state
among sturdy yeomanry, and they
contain many names of men of cour-
ageous hearts, whose minds and hands
we Q omnipotent, IN council and in
action. in carving out among the
Green Mountains a republic entirely
unique in origin and character, and
the stanchest in the whole history of
republicanism.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-14

Evidently the desire for Canadian
reciprocity is not quite so strong in
the Republican ranks in Massachusetts,
as its advocates have claimed. In
yesterdays primaries Colonel Benton
defeated Eugene Foss in the election
of delegates to the State convention
which wilt in turn elect delegates at
large to the Chicago convention. Foss
ran on reciprocity platform specially
drawn for him and the canvass was
on that issue. Even in Boston, the
supposed center of reciprocity feeling,
Benton got 1859 out of POI delegates.
This merely goes to show that the
effort in that section to swing the
Republican party away from protec.
tion is being largely made by the DEM
ocrats.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-14

1t is very evident that the Rus
slams are playing waiting game
in the far East. Reports state that
they have practically abandoned
Korea to the Japanese and without a
struggle of any consequence. Upon
the approach Of the Japs they have
quietly left forts that could have been
held for some time, even against
greatly superior numbers. and have
slipped away across the Yalu river.
What will happen when the pursuing
troops cross may be a very different
story. With all the waiting there
has been it is likely that when the
fight really begins in earnest there
will be bloodshed enough for almost
anybody. japan and Russia are both
rushing troops into the war area as
fast as possible and it is impossible to
get accurate figures as to the number
already there.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-14
ALLEGED SPINDLE.

Brattleboro, April S-Herbert n.
Grenn, a former real estate agent in
Brattleboro, was arrested iu Guilford
Wednesday night on complaint of Mr..
and Mrs. H. NJ Seymour of Ran
dolph, who alleged that he swindled
them out of money in selling property
in Melrose, Mass, through false rep
resentatlon. Grenu expected TO ar
range to furnish bail of 81, 600 but the
sheriff of Orange county started
prosecution of criminal nature and
he concluded to 90 70 New fame Jail to
await the grand jury term of Or.
ange county court. He was taken
t'ore Yesterday by Deputy Sheriff
Mcclure.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-14

State would pay more than its proper
tionate share of the original sum,
however, because the State is
weather., according to its popula-
ton, than the average of the States.
So much for direct results. Sub
stantially all the provisions of the
bill under section 2, which composes
all but the provisions for appropriate
ing and using the $24, 000 600, are
found in the annual agricultural ap
preparation bill for years past and for
the current fiscal year. The money
necessary for those purposes is provid-
ed and each State has the right to
avail itself of its benefits That is
as far as the best and most conserva-
tive men in Congress have considered
the general government had the con-
stitutional right to go in the matter of
highways within the States, and some
even have questioned it's power to go
thus far. The best constitutional
lawyers hold that an appropriation
ious States under governmental con
troll would be unconstitutional as
taking from the States one of their
prerogatives.
This present bill is but the entering
wedge for new and dangerous class
of legislation which once begun would
have no end If the government
should build roads for the States, why
should it not run the schools and the
police and other State and town
matters? The Journal has long been
an advocate of better roads, but it is
not in favor of government aid in
the construction because it believes
such aid would result badly in the
end through the opening of the door
to the thousand and one other things
that would naturally follow when
roads were admitted to the fostering
care OF the high salaried commissions
of the government.
The Journal believes Vermont able
to build her own roads, and believes
that il she can be aroused to the ne
cessities of the situation she can build
them as we'll and much cheaper than
any government commission down in
Washington could do. But even were
Vermont unable to raise the money TO
build roads, how would this bill help?
Vermont must not only put an equal
sum at the disposal of the government
officials but she must pay her share of
the national taxes, which would be
greater than her share of the money
received back.
No, the scheme of the substitute
bill is little worse than the original
bill, and it is to be hoped that the
nations law makers will kill it in
spite of the stereotyped literature that
has been sent all over the country in
favor of the bill and which undoubt-
eddy will favorably impress all friends
of good roads until they stop and con-
slider carefully. But that is what they
should do-consider it carefully-and
then ask their representatives in Con-
gress to vote against the bill.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-14
THE WRONG PRINCIPLE.

Satisfied that it had no cnance of
becoming law, the promoters of the
Brownlow Good Roads Bill, so called,
have withdrawn that bill from both
houses of Congress and have intro
duced in each substitute bill. This
substitute bill, which is in the nature
of compromise to bid for votes, is
far less sweeping in its provisions but
the same errors in principle are there
exposed which the Journal pointed
out in the original bill.
This bill provides in section for
the establishment in the department
of agriculture of bureau to be known
as the bureau of public highways. In
section 2 it is laid down that the OBJ
ject ana purpose of said bureau shall
be cooperate with the various States
and Territories Of the United States
in the construction and improvement
of permanent public roads, according
to the provisions of this act, to make
Investigations and experiments in re-
gard to the best methods of road
making and the best of roadmaking
materials. to cooperate with the
States and Territories in the construc-
ton OF object lesson roads, to publish
and distribute bulletins and reports
on the subject of roads and road i'm
provement, and to bring about, as far
as may be, a uniform system for the
repair, improvement, and construction
OF roads.
Section 3 provides that the said
bureau shall consist of three COM
missioners of highways" each with
salary of So, 600 a year, and who
shall appoint "such other officers,
agents, and servants as may be re-
quired to carry into effect the provi-
sions of this act. - The other Sec
lions provide an appropriation of
twenty -four million dollars for the
purposes of this act, eight millions to
be available in each of the years
1904, 1908, 1906, This appropriation
30 w cO uA'iuOb 81 pildb 1NO Dtdtt VI
Territory shall receive in any one
year larger proportion of the sum
appropriated than it's population bears
to the total population of the United
States, )" provided that each State
provides sum equal to it's share and
places 1T at the disposal of the United
States for the purposes of this act.
1t will be seen that this new bill is
about like its predecessor except that
the appropriation is cut down to $24, =
600, 600, and the distribution is accord
ing co population instead of as before
when the States with small popula-
tion were favored The population of
the United States may be taken at
so, 600, 600, then under the last census
by which Vermont is credited with
34S, Gal population, this State would
get S34, 364 10 each year for three
years, which would build not over
eleven miles of good macadam road
each year or total Of thirty three in
all through government aid. The
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-14
Sd VS. END IS NEAR.

Chicago, April 8.-The end of the
world in ninety years has been pre-
dicted by DR.. John Robertson at the
evangelic services at the First Presby-
terrain church\in Austin.
1.-THE day of judgment is at hand, "
he said. Roughly speaking, about
1900 years have elapsed between each
coming of the Lord. After he had
created man it was 1000 years until
He appeared again, and 1000 more
until the coming of Christ.
Reasoning by inductive analogy,
the end of the world and the coming
of the Lord are not far distant. He is
about due for the fourth time, and
this time He will come as judge
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-14
ARTHUR ROPES General Etltor
KILLING THE FAIR.

Reports from st. Louis indicate
that the citizens of that city are talk
ing about the worst possible course to
make the Louisiana Purchase EXPOSE
tion success 1t is said that rents
have advanced from 100 to 100 per
cent and that the hotel people have
raised their schedules from double to
five times their customary rates. So
greedy are the people showing them
selves to be, that sober-minded bust
the pains to look up conditions state
that the Worlds Fair will show,
The greatest exhibit of greed ana
graft and laundering Incompetence the
world ever saw. " A railroad pas
senger agent is quoted as saying, "We
will not bring people here, at cut
rates. to be robbed.
1t conditions are as reported, and
there is little reason to question the
reports, the citizens of the exposition
town are making big mistake. No
fair can be a success without the lib
eral patronage of the public. Crowds,
monster crowds, must attend a fair
the size of the one in st. Louis in
order to give it chance to pay ex-
penses. The great majority of the
visitors must be. from the ranks of the
common people. Millionsires are
comparatively scarce, and even were
they not, their attendance at the fair
would not help much, for most If
them will go in on passes. The COM
mon people cannot afford to pay ten
dollars a day for a room or two dollars
each for meals. The school teachers,
the clerks, the farmers. the stenog-
raphers the great bulk of the would
be visitors will be frightened away
from st. Louis it the expenses of mere
sustenance are to be so heavy. The
fair will be killed unless such rapac-
ity is put down by its friends. Prices
were not so low in Chicago at the
Columbian Exposition as they might
have been but still the common people
were able to go there and secure de-
cent quarters and fare for prices that
were not entirely beyond their means.
1t is to be hoped that the policy of
St. Louis citizens will be changed be-
fore the fair opens.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-14
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.

by the inevitable loss of the feet now
in or about that port. The Russians
must fight or accept loss that they
can i'll afford.
The japanese at the opening Of
hostilities had three objects in view
to get command of the sea, to secure
Korea, and to meet the armies of the
Gar in Manchuria. Two of these
objects have been fairly we'll gained.
The Japanese navy has had the best
OF the strife so far and while it cannot
be said that its victories have not
been such as to be absolutely decisive
yet they have given Japan the com
mand.. The Russian fleets have been
kent apart when junction Of forces
would have made them dangerous.
They have not only been kept apart
but bottled up so that transports have
passed to and from Korea undisturbed
with their loads of japanese soldiers.
A very recent report has it that some
transports have been attacked and
captured but this is only unconfirmed
rumor and can we'll be discredited.
But there can be no question that
the japanese have control OF all
Korea. The Russians have vacated
almost without blow. They have
been outgeneraled, menaced at critical
points by superior forces, and outdone
in scouting. Now the real contest
the decisive struggle which will decide
the fate of an empires to begin.
This will be no boys play.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-14

1t seems as though the New Jersey
Legislature has been called together
for special session on pretty small
matter. The only reason apparent is
somewhat general public demand
for the passage of bill to prevent
the slaughter of pigeons at pigeon
shoots. OF course it is measure
that every person without the heart
of beast ought to favor, but to call
an extra session of the Legislature for
it is another matter. Vermont sports
men will probably get along with
trap shooting and clay pigeons instead
of using the live birds to make their
scores on.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-14
THE WAR TO DATE.

There seems to be a strong prob
ability that there will be great land
battle fought between the Russians
and the japanese before long. AL
though the Russian commander has
called for great number of men for
reinforcements it is unlikely that he
can much longer avoid a clash in
folce with the enemy, for it will not
do to retreat much farther ON account
of the connections which would be
severed. 1t would not do to abandon
the garrison at PORT Arthur, for the
fall of Port Arthur would be followed
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-14

The Boston Herald, which has
decided Democratic tendencies, adj
mits that, though the Roosevelt ad-
ministration has its faults, shielding
its friends or relatives from RESPONSE
bility for their sins of omission or
commission is not one of them. OF
course the Herald hates to admit it,
but the President is much inclined to
seek to have justice done regardless of
whom it effects.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-14
Relief.in SIX Hours.

Distressing Kidney and bladder
Disease relieved in six hours by New
Great South American Kidney Cure. F"
1t is great surprise on account of
its exceeding promptness in relieving
pain in bladder, kidneys and back, in
male or female. Relieves retention of
water almost Immediately. If you
want quick relief and cure this is the
remedy. Sold by Harry A Slade,
Druggist, Montpelier, Vt.