Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-08
PLAIN TALK FOR PLAIN PEOPLE.
Crisp and Breezy Comment on Mat.
tiers in the Public Eye.

tcFo w tHc TupfC Glo.
(Wrtten for the Reformer)
With Greene of the st. Adams
Messenger publishing tales of the po-
lltlcal campaign of 1856 and Greene
OF the Rutland Herald tracing Ma
sonry back to Hiram Ably. who can
say that editors don't make history?
Speaking of mlscegenation IN pol
tiles. what can thoughtful men say of
the nuptial embrace OF Hearst. pan
derer. demagogue and voluptuary,
and Bryan, ''as pure ms Ice and rs
chpste as snow?
Political marriages sometimes en-
tail offspring which ride their par
ents roughshod forever after
a Touch of Nature: big, stoid
train conductor was telling Ver-
mont court about a railroad wreck:
I'VE done our work." said he, IAN
/ told him (the engineer) to go to
Burlington, turn, clean his fire, get
water and come back after Go (the
nyer) come"
Then came the story of the engi-
neers fearful mistake. his collision
Will the llytT anu the uTlellaDle nor | ,
rors of the accident
when / found | couldn't do moth
ing for Chase or Cochran l went out
to find my engineer He was lynn on
his face. right arm under his head,
left arm lynn out fiat. l said, Boys,
here's my engineer We couldn't help !
him none"
Simple story. wasn't it? And yet !
there We're plenty of wet eyes when /
he told It. with his rough. unsehooled \
voice breaking queerly, and unaccus- (
toned mists gathering over his sight
After which he blew his nose ylgor-
ously and for all that know. went
to lying with fine discrimination for
his employer, the gulleless railroad
Though l don't really be-
lieve he lied much at that
Get below mems calous hides and,
parsons tell us. some quaint touch of Y
sodliness is found, whatever else of $
;ordid growth abides. y
M
The curse of civilization and the r
yhee-d drag on industrial progress eC
he man who blunders Every one ci
loes? Not much. Some men can't. II
)ne such man is a train dispatcher. M
mother is a harbor pilot Another gC
S n bridge builder. One of the latter as
Numbered at Wallingford the other Ell
ay and allowed a steel girder to get to
way and fall changing into the river ac
ust little piece of some ones bung- tn
ng and 500 tons of costly steel was
crumpled ruin Some men can't
lunder-and live. but 999 incompe-
ents in every thousand are deter
lined to try.
Yc
Hays, the syndicate celebrity, he of
helps-accursed and newspaper IN
sted Junction habitat. has a palmate
ir. slanted pendulously hereward. SUI
avs is expecting things. He pre- an
INES TO ponder that Dan Days best coi
,ituary Will be written by me- And the
by? Empty walls and echoing halls We
ng back the futile query. Why me? an,
nei
oW
| will say this; just as a play-goer ate
no first sees Bernhard can trace mo
ok to the fountain-head the sweeps mo
d swoops, the clinglngs and appeal me,
gs, the imperious finger and the of :.
gal rage, the angle-solving draperies her
d the nothngness of petticoats that inn
m the stage equipment of the aver
e SIS per week repertoire emotion
81, so when man saw Dan DAILY,
aimless foolerles, the jokes that A
YER arrived. the feeble limitations, Il
, bare-faced robberies of the half gar
'usand alleged comedians were all bees
ssesteu' suggested by their differ sma
e from the real thing! no
FOR DAILY was the hall-marked ar the
e; he was original. Crude in meth in {
at times broad In his style of hui the
r. often touching coarseness. he ever
forgiven all when he created the farm
and unhackneyed, as he did And yet
is about all. suga
. form
We can spare a whole lot of people , ~
} try to make us think, but the man s s.,,n
makes us laugh is really missed 49,
worl
he Honorable Mr. Mantaljni yvop,d Som
the back number "demnition VIII
,ival" Bear firmly in mind the cents
that the fittest does not ALWAYS seast
i've and there are plenty of dem the ,
On survivals holding down fat
to-day.
~ a. poiis' learned Jurlst TIL
rt,,, a.ats lo2o OF thereapout Foste
800 ns ~ Ia iIto law ana after
an,,,os lol DIoateu of 81
and belongs to a lawyer of to- ordar
~ 80 '''"' iopeu anu thre" firm
ing [
any
cause he used to be good? Be- may
e he knows law and juries and and |
a fine old crusted front that siding
d dent q battleship? Search mo whent
witnesses with the MIN fere
prightliness of decapod engine their
wits revolve twice regula
our like belated sea-beacon. He eral n
elaborate traps for witnesses
Get wise" printed In 60-point IA.
C at every turn. Badgering at
US worry his serene and Peruna-
rived countenance into a frequent The
e. Younger counsel associate mende
selves with him, then lay back the va
watch the old 12-pounder thun- togeth
But the Survival keeps on sur basis
and drawing the salary. taxatit
. standil
, Waller ,,o 49,. be anC
nIv unatoI or,, nm aIe throug
lore unekal than others ,loth ~
towns
ul.oer OF people gave the scorn- the ide
1ortle when l asked my hypo- praisal
al question about Clement and county
- ITn,ihs Pollticai rooms to- the WI
!, uI.iess my prophetic soul has should
oo l.lhs, stranger thihgs than fertile
"a happen peiore we see the work /
u haIcp hsalh' the tan
unexpected is the only thing p
n figure on with unaffected GER u
No o
band-wagon this wear will bava war pc
vel by motor nower No ,nare there /