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Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-10-27
Should Be Promptly Put to Work.
rMnptpaIier Journal

For thirty-eight weeks a man has
been confined in Jail for the non-pay-
ment of a tax of s2.40 and now he has
borrowed $3.50 to get out. of course
1t would have been a good plan for
him to have started out on borrow
ing expedition when the tax collector
landed on his collar. and the bill was
in its infancy. but it is not right. how
ever to deprive man of his liberty
for so long a time for so small an
amount and not give him chance TO
recover and work out his salvation.
You can't tie a man to a chair and ex-
pect that he will pay up. especially
when he is sinking deeper into the
rnire of debt all the time. You might
Just as well stuff cotton in a mans
mouth and command him to sing and
lay on another stripe each time he
fails to respond II is a forlorn hope
for the man. The legislature next
fall ought to give the victim of the
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-10-27

The laws OF the state of Vermont
forbid the sale of cigarettes TO minors.
This information Is for the benefit OF
those who sell cigarettes to boys OF
school age.-Middlebury Register
It ought also to be interesting to
those who like to have wise laws en-
forced. Where do the boys get their
cigarettes? is n question all citizens
with desire for the promotion
of good citizenship should be asking.
DR.. Shaw of Indianapolis. who is in
vestigatng cigarette smoking in the
grammar schools of the cities, reports
that 90 per cent of the boys In nine
schools in Providence. r. l.. are con-
firmed smokers. The lowest percent
age he has ever encountered IN any
school was IS. Whatever may be the
degree of harm existing in the cigar
cite. no one questions its pernicious
effects in the case of the growing boy
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-10-27

1t turns out that the young New
sand dollars from her employers is a
liar as well as a thief; for her sick
and aged relatives deny that she has
aided them with money as she asserted
last week, and she now admits that she
gave her plumber to a young man and
that she helped him spend it on pleas
ure trips Alas. for the peculiar SYM
pathy" that has been wasted on a case
which merely calls for a stern admin
istration of justice!
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-10-27

1t is noted, in connection with the
recent capture of Elroy Kent who let
himself out of the Waterbury insane
asylum by means of key made from
piece of steel taken from the
inside of his shoe and screw driver
made from a buckle. that locks invul-
nerable to amateur key makers have
been put on the doors OF the criminal
wards at the hospital. Sagacity as
again exemplified by officials of Yer
mont institutions!