Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-04-21

and calves. BUY loss commercial fertlliZerS
and you will have more money and better
farms.
HARMONY WITH A CAPITAL II.
(From the Barre Times)
Harmony, with large capital II, is
what is actually needed in the Republican
party of Vermont.
THE ITINERANCY.
(From the Barre Telegram)
My reverend brother Davenport Of
the Barre Telegram is filed with in
spring thoughts by the conference
appointments Of the Methodist Church.
Says they make him think of the dis
ciplined troops Of "A great army 60
ing forth to battle. cheerful, unQues-
toning and prepared. He might we'll
have added. prepared for the worst
What of the time and treas ures vast
ed in sending these men back and
forth about the state? What of the
heart burnings. disappointments and
bitter tears that follow on the sever
ing Of ties established through few
years residence In a loved and loVable
field? The thumbs of Nero's courtiers.
as the mobiles lolled about the amphi-
theatre, were never watched with
more anguished suspense than the lists
~ INC bAHA''P - ott9c-
boro Reformer.
The paragraph OF Brother Hindley's COM
ment which succeeds the one noted above
is we'll deserved, and in its eulogy the
writer OF this note fully concurs. But the
figure of speech about "Nero's thumbs,
while very effective rhetorically, is hardly
true TO life. The bishop is not a car
making appointments regardless OF the
wish OF the preacher. tho condition OF
the church. or the recommendation of
the presiding elder.
The writer was for four consecutive
years a member OF the bishops cabinet
Each year upwards of 40 men on his par
ticular district were sent to their appoint
mcnts. In but one instance was an APP
pointment made that was not recon-
mended by the writer, and in that case
to second choice which he made was
selected by the bishop Beyond this, in
all that time not a preacher on that dis
trict had to wait until the appointments
were read before he knew whore he was
going. The writer talked over the matter
with him always once. and usually many
times H.. advance the fna fixing" of
the appointments. and sought to take into
account all of the features Of the sltua-
ton Not always could the desires OF
the preacher be granted. nor the wishes
of the church, but requests were never
ignored, and persistent effort was al
ways made by the entire cabinet to COM
ply with.
THE LATEST SPOTTER CASE.
N'rom The Brattleboro PhoeniX)
Orleans county has a malodorous spot
ter case. As a result of the evidence Of
two men who came from Boston II. w
Darling was fined 5000 for selling liquor
1850 frcm the State funds, and the New
port Express d. Standard mtimates
broadly that they were paid enough from
other sources to make the amount $500
The spoilers worked II weeks in Newport
North Troy and other towns. and the
Express & STANDARD is authority for the
statement that they used false repre-
sensations to procure liquor, that they
used liquors to excess and we're guilty
of other ''improrrieties, 1t is about time
to cut out the spotter business in all parts
Of Vermont. II states attorney sus-
poets illegal liquor selling there are ways
enough TO detect it II he will use his wits
He might be excused under some condi-
tons for hiring legitimate detective work
done, but there Is no excuse for sending
out men to induce others TO violate the
law so that the yiclaters may be prose
cuted. Whatever the legal status Of the
spotter Is. his operations are mighty re-
pugnant to most men.