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Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15
A Big Job to Tackle.
[st. Adams Messenger,l


And back of'all the moral and ethi-
cal features of the drink question lie
great causes of intemperance that have
their origin In the physical and social
conditions of environment and heredi-
ty. These must be searched out and
understood before much can be done by
way of reform that can be looked upon
MS enduring. Ii is not simply original
sin, weakness. or pure cussedness that
leads a man to drink He is seeking
the qualification Of natural impulses In
his indulgence. and the great object OF
true temperance work is 10 discover the
cause Of those impulses, the best and
safest means of their indulgence, and
then 10 provide substitute for strong
drink that VIA do all that strong drink
does by way of qualification of natural
desire. and still leave the man clean
and whole There is something TO this
business besides preaching.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15
How 1t Ought to Be.

l-dtlit HtttCt 81 = N'A'l
The prerogative of pardon should
be restricted and surrounded with all
possible safeguards, if the penalty for
murder is to be reduced At present
when the extreme penalty is osten-
slbly imposed. there is always fear
that a mistake may have been made
in the conviction, and the legislature,
very properly perhaps. prefers TO err
on the side of mercy. Should life inn
prisonment be substituted there would
be less reason for the interposition of
ciemency. AT present only one side
is heard. that of the prisoner There
ought to be a full hearing before a
small competent board, and pardons
ought not to he granted except for
unmistakable cause. Restriction of
the pardoning power should properly
accompany reduction of the penalty
for murder
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15
COOP N EWS.
Many BrattIeboro Readers Have Heard
II and Profited Thereby.

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II and Profited Thereby.
Good news travels fast" and the
thousands of bad luck sufferers in
Brattleboro are glad to learn that
prompt relief is within their reach.
Many a lame. weak and aching back
is bad no more. thanks to Doan's Kid
ney Pills. Our citizens are telling the
good news of their experience with
the Old Quaker Remedy Here is an
example worth reading:
Charles Affair, now retired. living in
Vernon, lower end this state, says:
when | went 10 George +. Greene's
drug store and asked him if he knew
of anything TO cure backache he
handed ne out box of Doan's Kid
ney Pills. I positively asserted | was
nearly dead with pain through my
kidneys and loins. l was subject to
attacks for years. some Of them so
bad that l was If rot confined to bed
at least to the house for days nj
time. Latterly the aching was almost
continual and there was added TO IL
trouble with the kidney secretions.
undoubted proof that my kidneys were
in a very disturbed condition, despite
the fact that l doctored and used
more Than. one medicine. Now / can
not positively say that Doan's Kidney
Pills have radically cured me, but of
this ] am certain the treatment has
brought infinite benefit and If recur-
rences take place now know what to
use TO check them"
For sale by all dealers. Price. 80
cents. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo. I
New York. sole agents for the United Z
States.
Remember the name Doan's and |
lake no other.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15
Doubtful Confidence.
tswanton Courier.l

The ST Adams Messenger processes
10 believe that the men nominated
for senators by the republican county
convention last week can be counted
upon to retain the local option law
Ii bases its belief on the plank in the
party Platform advocating the reten-
ton Of the law. Let US hope the Mes
senger is correct, but the friends of
the Law would feel just as safe if two
men had been nominated who were
not such out and out prohibitionists,
Somehow platforms seem TO be lost
sight of after the election is over.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15
investigation Called For.
[Montpeller Argus.l


Some time ago the st. Adams Mes
senger threw ont strong hints that
things were not as they should be al
the Waterbury asylum. Now is the
time to agitate these matters so they
can be corrected by the next legisla-
ture. Swanton Courier
There is sufficient detail for the
present in the bare statement of the
fact that the per capita expense OF
the insane at the Waterbury asylum
is much greater than in other states,
almost twice as great as it is in
states that have carefully developed
system of caring for the insane ac-
cording to modern ideas. The gross
amount of the expense for the care of
the insane looks large for state the
size of Vermont, The per capita ex-
pense looks large in comparison with
other states.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

In spite of the widely circulated
warning of the state board of health
previous to the celebration of lnde-
pendenee day, reports show that two
little Vermont boys. at least, have
died Of lockjaw resulting from
wounds received at that time from
cartridges exploding in their hands
Boys of ten years are too young to
be trusted with dangerous means of
celebrating the day, Parents would
better devise some less hazardous
way of satisfying the independence
day need of the small boy than by
toy pistols and cannon crackers. Bet
ter be little too cautious than to
lose the boys.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15
"Thad's" Pretty, Pastoral Plan.

Chairman Chapman has an excellent
idea TO carry into effect and one that
wll be peculiarly fitting in the present
campaign II is expected that farm
ers' clubs" viii be organized In prac-
tically every town In Vermont, and II
is not improbable that in every county
picnic Publications somewhat similar
to that held in Walden will be arrang-
ed in the course Of the campaign. With
Bell as the candidate for the governor
ship, effective appeals can be made TO
the farmers OF Vermont to make an
unusual effort TO get out big vote;
and inasmuch as it is in the rural dis
tricts as rude that the stay-at- home
vote Is frequently felt, this programme
ought to be unusually effective.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

what II says. : II the contempo-
rary win only read ''should be given
In the future tense as most people do,
the first part OF Its doubts will dis
appear.
IL the liquor law plank means Eek
aotly what II says" why change the
tense In reading II?
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15
Another Drastic Remedy.
[BurlIngton News.l

The government department of agri-
culture has developed the idea OF
fighting the cotton boil weevll by inn
porting the Guatemala ant, which feeds
on the weevil The planters, some of
them, NJ least-don't approve OF the
idea. one man. I'm Calhoun county. has
applied for an injunction TO restrain
the government from introducing the
ants. He says they will bite the bare
footed, bare-ankled negroes and child
rem in the fields aud make cotton
picking next 10 impossible.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

If the democrats have really made
such hopeless mess of it in their st.
Louis proceedings as the republicans
would have the public believe. why is
it necessary that Vermont should work
the farmer grange-ben idea to it's
utmost. keep the soldiers at home from
Manassas to vote and hoist flag of
truce over the liquor law battlefield in
order that the state may make a good
republican showing? Why so strenu-
Gus. if the games dead easy?
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

Funny men and cartoonists who jol-
lied Judge Parker as the Silent Candi-
date are now wishing he hadn't step
ped out of the character and parafyzed
the party with his gold standard tele-
gram. When a silent man begins to
talk. it's well to stand from under.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

The state loses two good men this
week in the deaths of ex-Lieut. Gov.
F. Stewart Stranahan of St. Adams
and Maj. A. B. Valentine of Benning-
ton. Each in his home town was val
liable and public spirited citizen who
could be depended upon to take a
large share of the work of improve
ment for the common good. Each was
a brave and noble worker for state
and country and an example for the
growing need Of good citizenship.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

The Barre Times denies the truth
of certain statements, as far as they
apply to Barre, made by George w.
Morrow in his recent newspaper re-
ply to C. H. Davenport's review of
the states year under the new liquor
law. 1t declares that George says
things because they sound nice to
his side" not because they are true.
In regard to Mr. Morrow's charge
that thousands of dollars have been
drawn from our savings banks and
drunk up" it says that Sin Barre
alone the deposits in one savings
bank gained nearly 100000 the past
year and a substantial gain was
made in another. A new bank was
also started during the same period
As to Mr.. Morrow's other charges it
says that "at no time since the street
car line was opened between Barre
and Montpelier has there been so lit
tie drunkenness on the cars as since
license went into effect May l, 1903"
and that more DRINKS have been ar
rested and fined in Barre under IL
cense than under the same period of
prohibition. but If more had been ar
rested under prohibition perhaps the
law might have been retained longer /
than it was" If we rate the value Of
Mr. Morrow's declarations throughout
the state on the Barre ratio the ap-
praisal viii apparently be low.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

The Vermont Bar association have
secured an interesting feature for
their annual midsummer meeting in
an address by Justice David j.
Brewer. He is said to be master
ly speaker as well as thinker and his
broad and helpful views as recently
published on some of the leading is
sues of the day have given him a
high place in popular esteem.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

The democrats. republican journals
allege, have lodged" the currency
question in their platform. When re-
publicans cannot agree upon the con-
struction of any portion of their plat
forms, they do not leave out plank,
but put in passive" one One meth
cd of harmonizing things is said to be
a 'cowardly evasion" The other is
probably wise diplomacy.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

There isn't one of those republicans
who, before the state ticket was nomi-
mated, scoffed at or protested against
the farmer movement, or who MAIN
tanned painful silence on the subject,
but what is now eloquently magnifying
the farmers candidate and calling
with a crafty eye on the farmers vote
in September
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15
MATTERS OF OPINION.
Selected from the Editorial Columns
Of Our Esteemed Contemporaries.
Read the Amended Version.
INergennes EnterprIse. ]

The platform as endorsed by the re-
publican party at the recent convention
recommended that the license law be
continued. These resolutions We're ac-
cepted and adopted without the slight
est opposition.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15
A Leap at the Unattainable,


ls7N' J'lHNbhAN iNNfb''N"fi
The Brattleboro Phoenixs psyeho-
physical moment has been again post
poned The Phoenix Is now for Bell
just like the common people
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

The St. Adams Messenger says;
There is no use trying to get up any
stir over the proposition that the
liquor law plank in the republican
state platform does not mean exactly
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15
Taindham Gountg Yetormer
THE VERMONT PRINTING CO., Publisher.

Subscriptions.-Per year, si,ooi six months
70 cents; four months, 20 cents; per copy cents
All subscriptions are payable In advance. sam
pie copies win be mailed free ON request.
The Reformer charges five cents per line OF
seven words for resolutions, obituary poetry or
cards OF thanks, cash In advance; classined al
yertisements two cents q word for the nrst M
sertion, aud one cent word for each subse-
quent insertion. Display advertising rates on
application.
The business offices and editorial rooms are IN
the Ullery building. Brattleboro, Just below the
American house, the mechanical department
and the Reformer Print shop are N the ullery
annex In the rear of the Ullery building.
Printed every Friday afternoon
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15
BRATTLEBoRo. FRIDAY, JULY is, 1904,

tsres1D At ssArrlesoso POST OFFICE AS SECOND CLASS W"
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

The question Of change from one
to two sessions is for the prudential
committee to decide. although the con-
seusus of public opinion taken by a
vote In the school meeting would prob
ably be respected. II is extremely
doubtful if the majority of parents in
the district would be in favor of such
-n retrogressiYe movement.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

That's the sort of thing that is 60
ing on in union circles all the time
and yet we wonder at the foolish
moves of unionism. Until these
wormy- drained agitators and high
priced official loafers are weeded out
of the unions. we shall have trouble
with them because the very existence
of such men depends on making trou-
BILE. not avoiding it.
Yours for common sense,
II. L. Hindley.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

1t surely looks like serious tronble in
the marble business this summer. The
issue is piece work against a daily
wage, and the unions insist that the
former must go. The Proctors, who
control the marble business in effect,
refuse the demand and the strike is on,
There seems to be a renewal of the
white slave" business of two years ago,
as President Fitzgerald of the Marble
Workers says: Think of his going
down to Cuba and submitting n re-
port on conditions that brought on a
way. while back in Vermont he knew
he had a plantation of white slaves
that We're in even in a worse condition
than the Cubans." And presidential
year. too.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

There's nothing personal about this
4 little roar | never was n candidate
for office and never expect to be. II
there's anything that interferes with a
mans best work IN business or a
profession, II is getting tied up with
a measly, nasty, caraway comtit polit-
zeal scrap The newspaper man ought
10 be an observer and a trained. accu-
rate reviewer of all events political
and otherwise, but the closer he sticks
to the plain. unvarnished news value
thereof. the better for himself and his
paper.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

Ny sole experience in unionism dates
back to the telegraphers' organization
on the Central Vermont. There We're
about 80 telegraphers in every 100 or
ganized and the boys meant business.
They had the support of the train
engine-men and public, didn't ask for
anything unreasonable and stood a
good chance of getting it. Enter a
long-haired westerner with a wide
brimmed hat, a staggering gait and
the title of president. He rolled into
the general managers office. said.
Where's Fitzhugh?''. put up at good
hotels. rode on a c. V. pass and drew
his salary. He talked, bluffed and told
what he used to do. Meanwhile all the
local leaders of the movement were
quietly fired and had to hustle round
for new jobs. And the buffer? Kept
on drawing his salary, smoking his
good cigars, drinking his two-dollar
whiskey and probably killed the union
idea in that telegraph department for
all time.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

If Vermont newspapers know their
business they win put an early end to
this political puff game simply because
some tiresome verbalist wants an Of
flee. They viii speak a good word for
men only who deserve IL. They Will
Quit being organs and become newspa-
pers The idea of party loyalty. that
compels a newspaper to support GER
tain state ticket, even though that
ticket reeks with corruption. incompe
tency and graft, is played out. What
does any party do for any newspaper
that its editor should suppress his
Heaven-sent opinions and boom its
candidates, regardless of fitness. de-
cency or public purity?
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

The democrats of Windham county
have made good move in ignoring
the county seat and calling their con-
vention to be held in Brattleboro. Ii
this plan had been adopted by both
parties several years ago there would
be no trouble in getting the county
buildings moved to Brattleboro
where they belong. It's certainly a
step in the right direction.
The Meddler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-26
WIN FOREIGN RECOGNITION.
The Investigations of the Geological
Survey.

Survey.
The importance and value of the practical
and scientific Investigations of the United
States geological survey are winning recog-
milton not only in this country but in for
eign countries as well. Requests for the
statistics and other data relating to geolo-
gy, photography and NEUROLOGY are re-
ceiyed from the chiefs of bureaus in for
eign countries engaged in the collection of
similar information.
Recently request came from the coloIiai
government of Bermuda for data concerning
the probability of securing artesian water
on the islands. Within the past year rep
resentatives from France and Mexico have
visited Washington for the purpose OF IA
miliarizing themselves with the methods
followed by this government in this work.
short time ago a letter was received
from the government of Peru stating That
that country was about to organize de-
partment of NEUROLOGY on plans similar to
those developed by MeSsrs. Fuller and Oar
ton. hydrologists of the United States geo
logical survey Experienced men were
needed to organize the new department and
correspondence was opened with the diree-
tor c. D. Walcott, requesting that he rec
ommend efficient men to take charge of the
Peruvian work. The director has recon-
mended several among whom is a scientist
who for a number of years has been In
charge of important work for the survey.
1t Is understood that Peru will adopt the
methods at present in vogue in the survey.
which have proved so successful in this
country, and 1t Is expected that an efficient
bureau will be formed In the South Amerl-
can republic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-26
THE SENATE.

Mr. Hepburn Qdaho} addressed the Sem
ate today on his resolution directing stay
of proceedings on applications to patent
numbered sections of the public lands
In lieu of odd numbered sections surren-
dered by railroad companies in forest re-
serves.
He criticised the practice of permitting
railroad companies whose roads pass
through forest reserves to take lieu lands
elsewhere in solid blocks. He also COM
planned of the fact that the present law
permits the railroads to surrender worth
less lands and take UP other territory of
much greater value.
The resolution was referred to the COM
mittee on public lands.
The resolution presented yesterday by
Mr.. Tillman asking information from the
Secretary of War concerning the appoint
ment of General Wood and other army
officers was taken up and passed without
debate.
Mr.. Stone (Mo.) then addressed the SEN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-26
Defends the Administration.
CLUB LICENSES GRANTED.
Three Applications Approved and Ac.
ton on One Deferred.


The District excise board today granted
licenses to the Iriquois, the Chamberlain
and the Washington Jockey Clubs Action
on the application of the Brightwood Driv-
ing Club was deferred until tomorrow, when
a hearing will be granted the representa-
tives of the club and the AntiSaloon
League. The league has entered protest
to the granting of the license to the Bright
wood organization.
The officers of the Metropole Club today
requested that the board reject their appli-
cation for license, as the club proposed to
cease operations. The officers stated that
the club is not paying expenses and under
the new rule of the excise board the con-
ditions for financial success will be even
less favorable than formerly. The excise
board acted upon the request of the Metro
pole Club, rejecting application as stated
A hearing will also be granted tomorrow on
the application Of the manager of Stoneleigh
Court, who desires a license to sell liquor to
the guests of the hotel. The law provides
that no license shall be granted for a bar
room within 400 feet Of a church or house
of worship. 1t Is claimed that the Shiloh
Baptist Church and the Academy of Vista
ton are almost If not quite within 400 feet
O. Stoneleigh Court. This question will be
decided tomorrow by the excise board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-26
The Portrait of James smithson.

To the Editor of The Evening Star:
In your editorial of the 25th instant In
relation to Smithson's tomb, you state that
sft is unfortunate that no authentic por-
trait exists today of James Smithson. else
his actual features. sculptured in stone or
bronze, might with entire appropriateness
crown the memorial structure. But in the
absence of reliable data from which such
a portrait should be produced the tomb can
yet be made eloquent of the man and his
work."
I cannst imagine the authority for such
statement as it Is entirely unfounded. The
institution possesses several fine portraits
of its founder.
l. In the costume of an Oxford Un.ver-
sity student 1856.
q An oil painting by Johns, painted in
AK la Chapelle. 1916.
8. A bust from a medallion found in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-26
THE ARMY BILL PASSED.
Proposed Consolidation Of Offices
Stricken From the Bill.

The House yesterday afternoon passed
the army appropriation bill, carrying APP
proximately $75,OOO,OO0. The bill was I'M
der consideration for three days in commit
tee of the whole and was amended in a
number of particulars. The amendments
made in committee were all adopted by the
House when the bill was put on it's final
passage.
adjutant generals department and the rec
ord and pension Office of the War Depart
ment into one bureau, to be known as the
military secretary's Office, was stricken from
the bill on a point of order raised by Mr.
Grosvenor (OhfO)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-26
New Road Project.

On application of Martha Ellen Van
Voast. S. c. Ball, James E. Clements and
about thirty others. residents of Alexandria
county. for a new road from west of Ar
lington toward Carbon Springs. the county
r. Veitch, J. F. Haney and George E. Gar
rett commissioners to view the proposed
road and to report to the next term of the
court. 1t is understood the establishment
of this road will open up a new section Of
the county.