Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-08-12
PLAIN TALK FOR PLAIN PEOPLE.
Crisp and Breezy Comment on Mat
ters in the Public Eye.
written for the Reformer.)

mine expressed Il patty when asked
him If they had organized clup IN
his town as yet. mo, we haint sald
the man of affairs. I'VE he'd an IN
formal meetn' raound hay-raek up /
10 Seth Wilkins's place Saturday ana I
allowed 10 get together later on but
the fact is it's sech derned ketchin +
weather we got TO get hay I'm when It's
cuored." And I'm free to say that at
tending closely to ones own partlcu-
lar. individual business win pay a
heap better in the long run than or
gnnlzing farmers clubs, proper as the /
latter may be in their way.
As a matter of fact the farmer isn't |
much on clubs. II has taken a long
while for him to accept the grange as I
serious affair and turn out to its
meetings and, while the outside vote 7
has generally been dependable when !
it comes to election, the farmer likes 1
to Just run in TO n rally or flag 1
raising soak up a lot of oratorieaI /
brilliance and then set raound the /
store evenins and Jest naturally ehaw
| IL up with the boys. In other words. I
he let's the practical political men do 4
the organizing, furnish the fun and /
| fireworks, oratory and red fire. while I
he keeps right on getting in his late !
hay and attending to other little cam
paign duties on the farm. But he'll .
4 turn out election day-don't worry.
All the patriotism isn't furnished by
/ the experts i'm enthusiasm Quiet .
men. who keep right on working can 4.
vote Just as hard as the verbal type. I
| who saves the state every evening be-
4 tween seven and nine o'clock.
/ That damnable affair at Whining I
ton, where valuable horse was
/ killed BY having fence stakes driven
/ into it's body. is that kind Of night
mare that seems too frightful TO be 1
/ true. | hoped when | read the first "
brief account, that the poor animal
/ had done the thing accidentally but I
\ the further details make that belief (
impossible That unscorched devils I
from the nethermost he'll might do
/ the deed was believable. but that men. F
born of tender women. could accom- +
plish it. without being blasted by the
breath of an outraged Heaven, is
something that makes man look .
round for a llnout, sjambok, rawhide.
mule whip or something adequate for
[ their punishment, Human law fans
/ us in a case like this. Suppose the
/ thrice damned wretches are discov-
( cred. what is there in a futile statute
/ to punish them sufficiently What I
they need is pain, fierce, agonzing and
protraeted That's what they served
out to the dumb brute that died in
anguish that morning, innocent and
helpless. And I'd like to swing the
whip a couple Of times myself
Vice presidential nominee Davis
plays poker every night for chips, no
money value attached What reck-
less desperate old sport he isl
Mammals boy, What pervasive
nuisance he is. He's generally prod
uet of the rational" method of child
education and has been duly trained
with colored woods, modelling clay ana
nature studies. He talks beautifully,
is polite, pigeon-toed and looks Just
lovely. The only thing he doesn't I'M
derstand is an order. Mamma requests
him to do this and that, and If ne
protests in that deeply injured baby
voice, reasons with him for fifteen or
twenty minutes, when a simple Git
from Dad is what he ought to hear
But Dads so busy he doesn't notice
and he'd have Mamma in his hair II
he spoke rudely, any way, so little
Willie turns himself loose on quiet
neighborhood with the idea that he
owns it, To wit;
He ran into a store one day recent
" and, noticing the smoothness of the
counters ran up and down on top oil
them several times, laughing with
childish glee. Say, you get down of'n
them counters said the proprietor
1t was a foreign language. Willie
didn't understand it. Mamma ana
Papa never talked that way He kept
on running. The proprietor said
again: You quit that, young man.
or you'll get pitched out Of here!
Then Willie had new inspiration.
He dropped on to the floor and began
to ravage the candy case Mamma
never licked him for helping himself
1t was all right. About that time
small man in Russian blouse ana
little cute panties sailed through the
door. projected collar and trousers
slack-wise through space. He lit on
his ear and howled hideously. And
I'd Just like to know, for instance
what Mamma said TO the ruffian who
coerced Willie.
It's all very lofty and uplifting to
read things like this, from the St
Johnsbury Caledonian: The manage
ment of Forepaugh's circus have es-
tablished a high standard of morals
and the employee who is caught
drinking or using profane language is
Immediately fined S. The same
rules prevail in Ringing Brothers
show and as a result the employees OF
both circuses are gentlemen as well
as skilled laborers and performers
But I'd like my Brother Stone to be
on the lot some wet morning when
the pole wagon sticks fast and the
big top can't go up till it's free. There
are times when foremen and boss can
vasmen don't notice. Not but what
it's better nor what it ust to be-"
Harry Parker extends the grip OF
hay fever sympathy across the border
and says he's it, too. Come up to my
rest camp -sidehill, Harry, and
we'll have something down the well
for the occasion.