Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-03-25
PLAIN TALK FOR PLAIN PEOPLE.
Crisp and Breezy Comment on Mat
tiers in the Public Eye.


hat effect The much advertised
senator may be personally clear OF
LItahs scarlet shame but II he lived
% manhood untarnished in that state
ne deserves the title of st, Anthony
If the great Salt Lake.
AS matter of fact it's nobody's
business but Utah's II she proposes
% sanction polygamy. A sovereign
state can do anything, from disfran-
,hising negroes to regulating the
egal length of Holsters, II she only
cts alone the federal constitution
md doesn't actually levy war on her
,wn account OF course. II Reed
smoot had been practising polygamy,
lie could be unseated, but 1t seems ne
hasn't,
Here's proposition; Surprising
Clement and Proctor, for purposes
offensive and defensive. form an ALI
nee this year? Produce the candidate
who would care to trlfe with that
People can talk of platforms all
hey want to, but, get down to bust
1ess, and it's the personal equation
hat counts, The republican party
quilt very ingenious platform two
,ears ago: 1t was trimmed and bor-
Tered with great care. very line
Did gentleman mounted the PLATFORM
md accepted the nomination for gov
,rnor. Then a certain crude reformer,
With n coon quartet and brass bands.
lid various unkind things to the fine
I'D gentleman and his platform.
That's history and you know what
history does.
"Amshure theatricals," as my friend
Mulvaney calls them. are having their
annual outbreak throughout Vermont.
About one amateur in one hundred
las any license to exploit his talents
IN the public stage, but ninety-nine
tut of a hundred are willing to take
,hances. That their efforts lead so
,ftcn to financial success and so sell
ION to devitalized eggs must be due
o an indulgent public. I'VE like to
Tee what our boys can do" said man
o me. IF they do well, it's a great
hing: If they do badly, we can excuse
hem" and that probably tells the
whole story.
Flowers may be born to blush UNI
een, but most of them are willing to
,e discovered.
Making maple sugar has become
10 much of an exact science that /
sometimes think half the romance
md poetry is gone. can remember
IN old fashioned sugar orchard
mail wooden troughs did duty for
zap buckets, a hollow plug represent
d the modern sap spout; puncheon
" stone boat gathered the sweet
liquid and a huge. black. iron kettle
accomplished the sugaring- off There
vas generally only n rude shelter of
labs for the lads who tended fire
md the sugar pans were of the crud-
st. Twigs, moss and the occasional
mber added odd flavors to the boil
ng sap. but that old-time sugar,
yaxed on snow. was about the sweet
st thing / ever tasted. But 1t
command a third grade
rice in market to-day. That's prog
ess.
Then there were crisp, GREATNESS
lights when the great sub-chorus of
he wood was almost still; when the
ember or breaking brand
ormed the only sounds; about one,
he sable mysteries of the trees,
,verhead, the matchless beauty of
tar pierced armament. A log thrown
IN the fire sent millions of soaring
parks aloft, a sudden blaze suggest
d odd shapes and weird presences In
he gloom: poets We're made and inf
lite thoughts were born in the old
ime sugar-camp, now gone forever
n the rush of the age toward scien-
ific production and Industrial econ
my.
And perhaps it is just as we'll Poets
nd great thoughts are lofty and in
piring, but they don't really help
olks who have a payroll to meet
very week.
Did you feel, see or sense the earth
uake shock Monday morning. If so,
ont lie about your experiences. One
nan told me it rolled him out of bed.
mother said it smashed crockery in
he dresser. A lady declared it shook
own plastering. AS a matter of fact,
t was only slight tremor; no one
nows just how long it lasted and the
My thing it broke was some peoples
equation for veracity.
ooh, yes" a lady said the other
ay, II employ Doctor Jones; he's so
When l am very i'll, |
m beyond sympathy. but when 1 am
ust trifle under the weather | like
physician who will sympathize with
ne. visit little, prescribe a little and
oh well, sort of generally shed sun
hine." Queer. isn't it, that a doctor
f the most pronounced skill will fail
0 make even a moderate success If
e doesn't seem to sympathize. | say
eem to sympathize, for it is out of
he question for busy doctor to act
ally cultivate a personal and sympa-
hetic interest in every case. If he
i'd, he would be a physical wreck in
tx months. | think a proper adjunct
D every medical college would be a
chool for oratory. where the budding
ealer might be coached in sympa-
hetic expression. for the fact Is in
isputable that a physician may be
BILE to cure, but If he can not act he
viii never reach the high places of
is business.
| am not quite sure. but If there is
nough definite evidence against
ames Davis of Bennington, accused
f criminal assault on the person of
17-year- old girl. l am inclined TO
he belief that extraordinary meas
res ought to be taken to make him
II example. This abominable bust
ess of violating young girls has gone
o long unpublished in Vermont, that
:. in any adequate sense of punish
1ent. that We shall presently find
urselves with a first-class lynching
n our hands. Let us have quick and
xemplary justice in this case.