Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-28
PLAIN Talk FOR PLAIN PEOPLE.
Crisp and Breezy Comment on Mat
tiers in tho Public Eye.

OUT OF Itiht lht 't ~ i'''
prevent the miraculous.
Republics are ungrateful; so are
states The newspapers have given
many hundred dollars worth of free
advertising to Vermont. They have
generally printed political, agrlcul-
tural and town business notices free.
Now they have asked Vermonts leg
islators to provide for the payment
of certain needful public advertise
ments, to be inserted In the papers.
And our legislature, In its God-given
discernment arose In its sovereign
Reubenosity and slew the first bills
of that character introduced. What!
Pay newspapers for printing public
notices? We should say not
Here comes narrow, squnt-eyed.
tortuous human nature again. II II
had been the state that was going 10
pay those bills there isn't whisker-
decked CRATER from Pownal to Ca
naan that wouldn't have holered for
Ii. and ~ till the saffron breezes
famed his epiglottis, but the town
TO pay them-our town-Jee- NINA,
whatter them dashblamed newspap-
ers thinkin' Of? Whatter newspapers
fer eff faint to print the news?
wish there were enough printable
adjectives to characterize such In
sular, myopic views of public policy.
1 wish my family would continue to
cad me Paw II | said what | really
think. And | wish mostl., that some
cheerful jollier with sea green moss
adjoining his spinal column comes In
presently and wants me TO Just
some eleemosynary snide
that he wants exploited by way Of
the deadhead route. He'll get IT.
where skirt improvers won't repair
his figure.
| ought to have said little some
thing last week about Joseph Clark,
D. D., who brought along couple Of
full of personal magnet
ism from Columbus, o., and galvan-
lied a Sunday school convention by
he time he had said ten words.
Busy Icy wouldn't be half a title
'or the doctor. He made four ad-
lresses, inaugurated new way OF
'aising money, sold a big parcel of
his book, Timothy Standby, and
sent the delegates home walking
among the fixed stars by
way of preparation for another years
work. How'd he do il? Personality
again, just pure, double multiplied
I'D electrical rule of progress along
he path of least resistance.
Emotional? Yes. Crude? Yes.
Unfinished? Yes But a great big,
warm hearted man with a great big
OBJ on his hands that has all the
nonsense cut out. He's a Methodist,
redhot, shouting Methodist, and he
wouldn't give a cent for any other
lind But he's more An actor born
{ one ever was, his word pictures
urn with life. An exhorter of parts.
lis clarion sounds true and certain
tote. A humorlst, his quaint say
ngs and odd touches of nature for
yer swing the pendulum of dis
curse from grave to gay. wit,
attire, pathos, inspiration and real,
Id fashioned damnation make up
lis talks For example:
OH NeTIflDIltIS nave 81 mum
and you have to pile it up on edge
Men are being damned not be-
ause they ought TO be or they have
o be but because they choose to be.
| saw a girl in the Baptist yard but
hardly dared to climb over the
BAPTIST wall for fear some one would
brow a pail of water at me and say
Get out of here,'
Go fishing with your boy. You
nay not catch any fish but you'll |
atch the boy.
Some boys are tied TO their moth
RS aprons strings. So is a kite tied. |
tut the kites string and see what
appens.
I started out to attend the great I
aminine and legislative roundup at |
1ontpelier this week, but | couldn't /
ute make It. really wanted to /
,atch the manly chivalry of Yer
lont engaged in the distracting OPP /
ration of earning his salary and 1
quaring things with his folks. |
during the SESSION. isn't |
xactly Colchester at $3.50 p. m, and |
ne seekers for life's giddy whirl gem
rally find it. Ladies' week the card |
AlnpS ld1lSulSfl anu lHt iEttt suFPtiS /
{ Billy Millers have to be cut out. |
would be good thing for some |
eople If ladies' week lasted till |
1t looks as though that house
leaning, so often promised by the
they got into power,
-as at hand in the measure intro
uced by Senator Bill Lord. There's
othing small about Bill He don't |
ant any of the familiar whitewash |
nd complimentary slush that has
enerally followed Vermont investi-
atoms. He aims to give the COM
,ittee inquisitorial power to dig into
he books examine witnesses, In |
pect, probe and dissect till they |
ant rest. Frankly, l don't believe
ney'll find a thing, except that alb
tate supplies ought to be purchased |
he haphazard buying of individuals
Just a story, a true one. My |
eighbor. Hyland Smell died last |
eek He was a union soldier in the |
ig war; didn't hurry to enlist, was
bout the last man to sign the roll,
ut he certainly was a most discour-
ging feature in the rebel landscape.
Iyl was a crack shot and often |
down gray sharpshooters
rom trees when they got too per-
istent. One day a particularly an
Dying rifleman was hidden in tree
n a flower garden and had been
licking the boys off. His captain
aid: Smell, see if you can't stop
hat" Hyl sighted on the next puff
( smoke, fired and down came the
ohnny, batfashion. There" said
Iyland. pick We bouquet" Grim
Dke, wasn't it?
I notice that John G. Sargent, who,
v the way, is the only man in Lud-
wv tall enough to make me feel
mall by inspecting the bald spot |
T. al