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Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-09
PRESBYTERIAN Church Federation.

The commission representing the
seven branches of the Presbyterian
church in this country at its recent
meeting in Pittsburg, Penn, decided
on a plan of federation for the vari-
Gus churches. The plan provides for
the establishment of a council which
will be called the federal council
of reformed churches in America
holding the Presbyterian system.
This council will have no power over
the worship, creed or government OF
the churches which will remain the
same as they always have been. The
council will be practically board
of arbitration. 1T will be composed
of four ministers and four laymen
from each of the denominations rep
resented. with an additional minis
ter and elder from each church for
each 100000 communicates over 200,-
000 In mission work the federation
will be powerful factor. The con-
stant aim will be to guard against
duplication of agencies Instead OF
having missionaries from the Pres
byterian, United Presbyterian and
Dutch Reformed churches in the
same places, the federation will d.
vide the territory and assign various
parts of it to the different churches.
Each church belonging to the fed
GRAFTON will retain its own identity
in all things.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-09
All One Country.
IPoultney Journal.1

If state can prevent a non-resi-
dent from purchasing spruce trees
another can prohibit anyone from
buying cotton, another potatoes, still
another beans. If man must be
a resident to purchase anything, also
resident to sell anything the
whole country would soon be tied
up in an inextricable tangle. 1t was
not the intention Of the founders OF
this great nation that these re-
strictions should be placed upon
traffic and the doctrine of state
rights was shot to death upon a hum
dred battle fields, and to-day we
are a nation not little states by our,
selves The citizen of Ohio ana
New York has as much right to do
business in Vermont as has a citizen
of this state as long as he is willing
to comply with it's legal require
ments, and the law that debars him
from so doing is an invasion of his
sacred rights and a violation of that
also sacred document the United
States Constitution.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-09
Convention Of National W. c. 7. U.

The national Woman's Christian
temperance union, in convention at
Philadelphia last week, requested
President Roosevelt to see that con-
gress observes the existing treaties
with the Indians prohibiting the sale
of Intoxicating liquors before grant<
ing statehood rights to Indian terri
tory. Department reports reviewed
the work of the year in the expose
of the alcoholic nature of many pat
ent medicines and effective work be-
ing done in the politics of commune
titles by the colored people. The re-
port was heard of the committee on
resolutions which reaffirmed the po-
sition of the union on the canteen
question and protested against Reed
Smoot retaining his seat in the
United States senate. The reso4u-
tions request that the pending bill for
the admission into the union of Ari--
zona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and
Indian territory should be so amend
ed as to give franchise to women,
and also encourage the furtherance Of
the movement of the organization Of
temperance societies as adjuncts to
the labor organizations. They also
"deplore the tendency of modern
writers of fiction to assume that the
bottle and the pipe are necessary adj
juncts of many of their characters"
and recognize the statements Of DR..
Crothers, the well-known authority
on inebriety, that the use of alcohol
is influencing literature of the day:
The executive committee announced
that the convention Of 1905 will be
held in Los Angeles. CAL
The union reelected it's general
officers for another year, with the
exception of its treasurer who re-
signed, Mrs. Harriet Wright Brand
of Indianapolis being elected to
succeed her Mrs. Elizabeth Preston
Anderson of North Dakota was elect
ed assistant recording secretary,
Mrs. Frances E. Beau
champ of Lexington, Ky. The con-
vention approved pledge with
drawing the patronage of the mem
bers of the union from any store that
sells intoxicating liquors.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-09
Twelve cats we're killed

and three men were injured ny explosion OF a
oas tank into which basket OF cats were being
lowered for painless death by Society for
Prevention of Cruelty. etc. This teaches that
even in acts humane. there is danger Hence
insurance. and thence Annuity. 54ihy year, doing
busin IS in 3s States. National Life Ins. Co. OF
VT. (MutuaD.
n. z. TAYLOR Il SON, Gen. Agts.
CROSBY BLOCK. BRATTLEBoRo. VT.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-09
Administrators. Executors. Commissioners.

II you are a friend Of the Reformer or its
publishers and wish to favor us with your
business in the way Of Probate, Commis-
sioners, or Executors Notices. it viii be
necessary for you TO instruct the probate
officers to send all such notices for publ
cation In the Reformer
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-09

The illness of Henrik Ibsen, the
famous Danish author, has assumed
the form of a dangerous paralysis,
and he is unable to speak, read or
write.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-09
STATE GRANGE MEETING.
Program Of the Annual Session at
Bellows Falls Next Week.

The 33d annual session of the Ver-
mont state grange will be held at
Bellows Falls Dec. IL. Is, 10. 1904.
The order Of exercises Is as follows:
First Day, Wednesday, Dec. n.
First session, IL o'clock. Opening
grange In sixth degree. Calling the
roll. Appointment OF committee on
credentials. Report of executive
committee.
Afternoon session. 80 o'clock. An
nual address Of worthy master. Re-
ports Of officers. Reports of deputies.
Report Of special committee on con-
stitution and bylaws.
Evening session. 1880 o'clock. An
nouncement Of standing committee.
Introduction of resolutions without
debate. Reports Of Pomona and SUBJ
ordinate oranges.
Second Day, Thursday, Dec. is.
Morning session, o'clock. Unfin-
ished business. Election of officers
and two members Of the executive
committee.
Afternoon session, 80 o'clock. Re-
ports of the committees on creden-
tials. dormant oranges. agriculture.
education, good of the order, Coop
Grafton, transportation, publication,
taxation, appeals and grievances
Conferring the sixth degree.
Evening session. 1880 o'clock. I'm
parting of the A. W. disqualification
of the first and second degrees by
Fall Mountain grange, No. 297. Third
and fourth degrees by Pleasant Valley
grange. No. 242.
Third Day, Friday, Dec. 16.
Morning session, $3.50 o'clock. In
stallation of officers. Reports of the
committees on mileage, finance and
resolutions. Transaction of all nec-
essary business.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-09
BY REQUEST OF MANY FRIENDS,
JULIUS c. T1MSON
Licensed Auctio n e e Z

Claremont. n. H., formerly OF Brattleboro. VIZ
will do auctioneering in Brattleboro and vicin-
ity at LOW PRICE and guaranty satisfaction.
NJ years experience. Please make engagements
in advance by mail or telephone. Price salts
factory or no pay
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-09

The director Of the mint, in his an
nual report at Washington SHOWS
that the output of coinage mints at
Philadelphia, San Francisco and New
Orleans, which were in operation
throughout the fiscal year, was the
largest on record. The net con-
sumption of gold and silver in the
year is estimated to have been: Cold
s24,377,962; silver 20,749,743 ounces
Gen John M. Wilson of the United
States army is to have practical
charge of the presidential Inaugural
ton arrangements, his appointment
as chairman of the inaugural COM
mittee having been announced by
Chairman Cortelyou of the republican
national committee. The Inaugural
ton of President Roosevelt is ex-
pected to be one of the most bril-
liant ceremonies of this kind the
national capital has ever seen.
Gen. Porfirio Diaz was inaugural
ed president of the republic of Mex
leo for the seventh time Dec. l.. the
first time in 1879, and Don Ramon
Corral was installed as its first vice
president. Heretofore Mexico has
not felt the need Of vice president,
but realizing that Diaz cannot live
forever, and at his suggestion, Cor
raj is put in line of succession. HIS
recent tour in the United States was
a part of his training for the place
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-09

The 33d annual session OF the Ver-
mont state grange will be held at
Bellows Falls Dec. II. Is. 10, 1904.
The order OF exercises Is as follows:
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-09
WANTED, FOR SALE, TO RENT, Etc.

NIRL WANTED for light housework and care
u Of children in private family. GEORGE
ANyFw 40 II
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-09

vJyO RENT-Desirable place IN West village
Good barn, hen house, garden etc; n
F, WEATHERHEAD. oI-u
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-09
TO RENT.

rv,O RENT-Sx room tenement on Grove ST.
i Also cottage house on Prospect Hill. no
aetf s. W. EDGETT u co.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-09

clerk. Apply at BROOKS
U HOUSE. 4S-lt
New-York tribune., 1904-09-25

convinced anyone You have to feel things in religion
before YOU believe them, maybe
Il don't know how | am going to feel-at least
do know just how am going TO feel-when take up
nv paper and read things like these, SAID the other
Great fire in such city, thousand families home
less terrible railroad accident such line SO many
killed and injured; dreadful panic in such theater,
women and children crushed and burned; collapse of
building on such a street, a hundred working girls
buried in the ruins; crime the increase; shocking
murder: child run by automobile; shameful
embezzement of the widows and orphans fund, and
all the rest And YOU think there is loving Father
overseeing il all in tender relations to each indiv iua
How is it possible believe that there Is an al-seelng
and al-powerful ruler who also is not evi-dsposed
one?" And Mrs Flanders threw down her paper and
adjusted her hair with cOmposure.
Il don't see how you be happy moment,
feeling So said her friend
Il don't what my feeling happy has to do with
New-York tribune., 1904-09-25
By Harriet Pres

own mental equipment. 1t would have tried another
person: il did try Mary Bruce. Sometimes she felt
that she dwelling in the tents of Kedar but again
she doubted if it not a field for work. and for
the boy-for boy he in spite of his twenty-one
years and more-it made her heart ache to suspect,
to know. the truth.
Dear" she said her friend the night before
she leaving having extended her stay long
it possible. Il don't suppose argument ever
New-York tribune., 1904-09-25
\
n n RS. FL A N D E r S
Vl was in her first
youth when she

lost her husband With the lapse Of years instead Of
sorrow he became a pleasant memory. She re-
lnained in seclusion for awhile and then. after
long season of travel with her boy and of life after
ward while he in college in a villa terraced
gardens where the shadow of the ilex-trees made
brighter the sunshine of the orange, where simply
breathe the lemon-laden luxury and where the
nghtingales sang all night long she came home and
opened her house with frequent gaetes. fine dinners
New-York tribune., 1904-09-25

1t mattered; but in this
lp to everyone to take care of himself
t seem TO be anyone else 10 do it. If
mt want to be taken care Of in the style
e in every morning paper. And | rather
: there is no ruler of the universe at all
cruel one as to make people suffer"
in this moment OF suffering there is a
| know there would be
When thou passest through the waters
ith thee; when thou walkest through
the fire thou shalt not be burned" "
But they are burned"
Well don't suppose the fact of
the existence of ruler of the universe
depends upon whether one believes it
or not.
" 1t does for me"
How came the universe here?"
| suppose that's a conundrum," "
she sad, pulling out gray hair as she
looked in the glass - | neI er was good
at guessing conundrums
Some one must have created it."
And left it to run itself! | don't
know what the some one is about, but
as to fancying that he is STOPPING to
help me downstairs or upstairs, |
don't"
You admit, though, that he would
have TO stoop."
Oh, don't admit anything, l don't
deny anything, except that we are
dealt with as individuals"
suppose, Helen, that when YOU
60 downstairs YOU hope not to fall'
Isn't that dealing with you as an indi-
vidual- filling YOU with hope which is
so constant that YOU are not even
aware of it,
And when | do falls" said Mrs
Flandc.s triumphanty There you
are YOU sect I've read Of a snake
that had four rows of teeth, each carry
ing poison. Very good for the snakes;
but no. about the man he bitcs?"
The snake may be a survival Of
the period when monsters wallowed in
the slime, and may cease as other
monsters have done.
You don't know that it will "
The others have. Plainly the phys
ical world has worked up cut of slime;
and that is what the human world is
doing, and the spiritual world is doing,
don't know why the world was made
that way. But am sure that if there
had been better way II would have
been used. If we were perfect in the
beginning, what angels and archangels
we should bel 1t would be harder TO
understand than the fact that we are
working up toward perfection. But
we are going to be perfect through
constant struggle. The muscle doesn't
grow that is not exercised. The worm
never would become a butterfly that
didn't struggle out of his sheath. And
Just as the whole body may have
developed from a cell, the soul may
develop from its primal spark to that
full light of which, you know, he
'maketh his ministers flaming sword. ;"
You have it all cut and dried. |
k you were quite in the counsels"
curse if you love God you have a greater
/ say?-intimacy."
notionl" cried Mrs. Flanders,
jeweled chain through her fingers like a
Intimacy with the mighty Maker of
beyond universe? Intimacy"
d you say mighty dear; because then
fruit1cSS If Is 70 Si1DDoSa Won can fathOm
New-York tribune., 1904-09-25

should think you quite in the counsels :"
"Well. of course if you love God you have greater
what shall say?-intimacy"
What a preposterous notionl" cried Mrs, Flanders
running her jeweled chain through her fingers like
rain of light. Intimacy with the mighty Maker of
this universe beyond unverse' Intimacy"
i glad you say mighty dear; because then
you how frutess it is to suppose you can fathom
that mighty thought As if that ant creeping along
your skirt knew where you were going or what you
were thinkng!"
'Well, really, there is some difference between an
ant and mel"
perhaps not much you think. The ant is
called the most intelligent being after ourselves.
L guess that ant fathoms my thought enough to
know | going to kill him, by the way he runs
How in the world he got in here"
why not let the little fellow liver"
oh according to your idea that nothing IS lost
Just dismiss him to a higher form of life. There!
New-York tribune., 1904-09-25

and theater parties. and now and then
a costly ball, and evenings in which
she held a sort of salon and sharpened
her Wit in the encounter with that of
men and women OF more or less cele-
brity. Pleased with her success, she
permitted few people TO see the other
SIDE Of her nature, a nature whose chief
exercise was IN complete alteration
Of her son Paul, boy who had inher-
tied so much of his mother that some
times he seemed another self
She had not been completely salts
fed with Paul's college career. She
was fond of respectability, and hOnored
the conventional. She would not have
her boy a milksop, as she phrased 1t;
bat she wished him TO have the strength
L. go so far and no farther; not TO
hold himself back. but not to wish to
g. forward where II was distinctly i'll
bred and more or less injurious. Since
he had been a part Of the gay life at
home. too. there had been more than
one occasion when her sensibility had
been cruelty shocked by his want of
self-control.
Hardly more than twenty-one, still
q boy in his affectionate, caressing ways,
with great power Of loving, a singular
attractiveness and much talent, he was
made 10 help the world along, and yet
he was already making himself felt as
a part Of the evil in II. OF late II was
only one chance in a hundred that he
would come home at night master of
himself His mothers heart stood still
with horror at the thought the certain
knowledge, that there was nothing
before her boy, the darling of her soul,
but an inebriate asylum or a drunkards S
grave.
She was not woman given to
expression The boy himself did not
know how dear he was TO her. If he
thought at all about il, he thought her
interest centered in her social life, in
her salon, in making her dinners and
receptions brilliant, without much ten
derness, but always animated concern
ing politics, books, music, the new
play laughing at what she styled
seutimentality, the childishness of re-
ligious belief, of attempting to prove
the unknown, Cf assuming the spiritual
when everything we see Is material.
All the same, in this way he adored
her Ny mother believes in nothing"
she once heard the boy say, when
his tutor wished him TO 60 10 the
morning service. Il believe in moth
ing too" She did not know why
that was unpleasant to her. She
Ieproached herself for a weakness in
She still was young, and fair to see;
gray hairs were coming; the first lines
into the smooth face, with terror anC
her boys behavior. But when she deli
10 the subject, he smiled in superior v
man, and man must see life. When
for her sake 10 put a check upon his IL
poured out another glass and drank her
She begged him for the sake of his c
arrest himself, he replied that he knew
about, and he would not be dictated t.
most brilliant woman in the world.
She was in an unhappy frame when
friend, Mary Bruce, a woman of some
IN the world, came TO visit her. FindiT
- ] 1
New-York tribune., 1904-09-25

the truth. However, |
shouldn't be if | thought
it mattered; but in this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-19
MISSOURI RELIEF FUND.
Paymaster General Harris Has Re-
ceived About SO, 500 In Subscriptions.

Paymaster General Harris, chief of the
naval bureau of supplies and accounts,
has already received about $4,000 in sub
.criptions to the fund for the benefit Of
the dependent relatives of the men who
lost their lives on the battle ship Mis-
souri, This does not include the pro-
ceeds from the theatrical entertainment
at the Lafayette Opera House yesterday,
estimated at about 81 900. Admiral Har-
ris states that this is a special fund in
the case of the Missouri men, and can
not be used for the relief OF the depend
ant relatives of the men who lost their
lives in similar accidents on the battle
ships Iowa and Massachusetts,. He states
also that unless otherwise specified in the
subscription, the entire FUND for the Mis-
souri, will be distributed to the relatives
of the deceased enlisted men. In sew
eral Instances the subscriptions were for
the benefit of the relatives of Officers
and men" Such subscriptions will be d.
viSed equally between the two classes.
Where men" only is specified, 1t will be
construed to mean enlisted men only and
not officers.
Additional subscriptions to the Missouri
fund are announced as follows: W. EN-
len Roosevelt of New York, $500; Rear
Admiral H. z. Manley, So; Whitelaw
Reid, 500; seamen gunnerS, Washing ton
navy yard, $50; officers and men of the
u 8. s. Sylph, $16.50. and the officers and
men of the Mayflower, S120; Mrs. c. MGR.
Winslow $50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-19
THE SENATE.

In his opening prayer in the Senate today
Chaplain Edward Everett Hale took cog
nizance Of the fact that the d. A. r. would
lay the cornerstone of their national hall
today. and in addition read the closing
passages from Solomon's prayer at the ded-
ication of the temple in Jerusalem.
Mr.. Morgan presented a memorial from
missionaries located In the Congo Free
States praying for an investigation into the
unsatisfactory condition of the natives and
of American citizens In that country, and
in connection with it resolution referring
the question to the committee on foreign
relations with instructions to investigate
and report to the Senate. The resolution
was agreed to.
The conference report on the army appro-
priation bill was agreed to, which passes
the bill.
The following bills were passed:
Regulating the practice of medicine in
Indian territory.
Permitting the Ozark and Cherokee Cen
trail and the Arkansas Valley and Western
railway companies of Indian territory to
sell their roads
Authorizing the erection of a monument
to the memory of Commodore John Barry.
Extending to Oregon, Washington and
California the privilege of telling and re-
moving timber on the public domain for
domestic and mining purposes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-19
ASKS FOR A JURY TRIAL.
John Bell Charged With Resisting Ar
rest by an Officer.

While attempting to place John Bell, col
ored. under arrest near the government
printing office last night for misconduct
Bicycle Policeman Lauten of the third pre-
cinct, who was off duty at the time. was
attacked by the colored man. and nearly
lost the end of his little finger during
desperate encounter which ensued
Policeman Lauten was Off duty yesterday
and during the evening visited some friends
near the printing Office While there his
attention was attracted by disturbance
on the street and he made an investigation
TO find the cause of the trouble Bell. for
some unknown reason. was at war with The
world and making threats of what he in
tended to do If anybody interfered with
him. He declined to accept the officers
kindly advice to go home and behave him
self. and Ii was decided that the best thing
II do under the circumstances was to send
nun TO the station house until ne Quieted
Down.
He declined to go. and it was necessary
Tor the officer to make a show of force
The colored man resented the interference
and resisted arrest. After sparring for a
short time, with neither having an adyan-
tage over the other. Bell suddenly seized
the officers finger in his mouth and held
on to IL. 1t was only after being stunned
by the policeman's blows that he released
his hold. Other officers arrived on the
scene VI the coniiict, ana the coiored man
was sent to the sixth precinct, where a
charge of assault and battery was lodged
against him. Lauten. who was suffering
considerable pain, went to the Homeopathic
Hospital, where his badly lacerated finger
was dressed
Bell asked for jury trial when arraigned
in the t'olice Court today. and hearing of
the case was postponed until later date
there being no Jury on duty in that branch
or the court at present. Unless he is able
to furnish bond of $500 for his appearance
when wanted. Bell will have to remain In
jail until the case Is called.