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Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-07

w. j. Bryan has been active, recent
~, in arranging for the organization
of democratic clubs, or, as he puts
It, "a getting together of the aggres-
sive elements of the party in active
preliminary work for the great battle
of 1905"
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-07

Mrs. ID. c. Pierce of Rutland recent
ly found the manuscript of sermon
delivered in that city more than
century ago. The manuscript belonged
to her grandfather, Henry Dodd, a
printer. Data written on the back of
one of the sheets shows that the
preacher delivered the sermon at
Bradford March IL, 177O; at Rutland
September 90, 1889, and again in 1895
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-07

Ezra Brooks, recently custom tall
or at st. Johnsbury, has been brought
back there from Littleton, n. H., to
answer to charge of running n lot
terry and disbursing of goods by
chance. He went through bankruptcy
shortly before leaving st. Johnsbury
and investigation by the local officials
showed that his business dealings
Were of a questionable nature.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-07

The quarry workers of Barre have
made a new demand upon the quarry
owners, the present agreement ex-
piring July /. The demand includes
a continuance of the present eight
hour day and a regular bill of wages.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-07

More than 200 natives of the Green
| Mountain state We're present at the
annual sugaring off of the Vermont
association of Boston in the dining
hall of Hotel Westminster Tuesday
evening, April 4. 1t was voted to in
corporate, and that the annual trip
to Rutland should be made the first
week in August A musical entertain
ment was a feature of the program,
which included the serving of maple
sugar and syrup from the home state.
Arthur Ropes, editor and publisher
of The Montpelier Daily Journal and
The Vermont Waterman, died Satur-
day April l. at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. John P. Adams, at the age of
81 years. Mr. Ropes had long been af-
ficted with tuberculosis of the bones
and several painful operations had been
necessary. Death, however, was due to
acute nephritis. In spite of his suf- |
fering, Mr.. Ropes had, until very |
kept in close touch with |
his newspaper work. He was a /
native of Newbury and engaged form
arly in banking and mercantile BUSH
ness. His connection with The Watch
man began in January, $780, under the
of Joseph Poland as a
editorial work. After the sale of The
in 1885, he projected the
Vermont Publishing Co. which began {
he publication of The Rural Vernon z
er, May 26, 1886, was general editor t
# that paper and manager of the af- a
airs of the company. When, in July, I
SIS, the Watchman Publishing Co. a
vas organized for the purpose of buy t
ng The Rural Vormonter and The s
Termont Waterman, Mr.. Ropes was c
made editor of the consolidated jour- a
ais and business manager of the new r
ompany of which he was director and b
Jerk. This position he held until the Ii
ompany was dissolved in June. 1897. V
nd he then became the manager of C
he Vermont Waterman Co. and edi- Il
,r. which positions he held at the time s;
his death. Since 1S49 The Watch Il
ian had issued daily edition during 81
lie legislative session and this daily W
sue was continued after the session iy
1898. Mr.. Ropes married in 1864 al
iss Mary Hutchins of Waterbury. II
no survives him, with two daughters in
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-07

The Victoria Fails railway bridge,
projecting from cliff to cliff over the
Zambesi river, was safely Joined Sat
urday, April /. The new bridge will
carry the Cape-to Cairo railroad tracks.
1t is of the cantilever type and is the
highest bridge in the world, being 42O
feet above the river at low water.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-07

Frank +. Gokey, who holds first
class license in Winooski, has been
placed under $4,000 bonds, which was
| furnished, for selling liquor to minors
on several occasions. The case is re-
turnable at the September term OF
Chittenden county court.
Mrs. n, c. Tabor of Montpelier finds
in an old history Of that town that dur
ing the period from 1887 to 1860, four
epidemics of disease visited Montpelier,
one of which was spotted fever. now
so prevalent. At one time there were
over 70 cases in the town.
The funeral Saturday, April l, Of
Maj Curtis b. Hoppin, 18th U. 5. cav
airy, was one of the largest military
funerals ever held at Fort Ethan AL
len, practically the entire command be-
ing present. The body was escorted
to the tram III Burlington ana sent
to Washington for burial.
The grand jury at Burlington Fri.
day, March 81, reported a true Dill
against Dennis and Louis Trombley
charged with the murder of their
brother in law, Louis Lamora, in WI
nooski Jan. s. The trial of Benjamin
Williams charged with the murder OF
Policeman Patrick McGrath at Bur-
lington, May IL, 1904, has been set in
Chittenden county court for April lS.
Hon. Horace II. Dyer, son of Edward
Dyer, one of the earliest settlers of
died there Wednesday March
20, aged eighty-five. He was one of
the organizers of the Killington Ma
Lional bank and the Rutland Trust
He had been state senator
He was a younger brother of Rev
Palmer Dyer, an Episcopal clergyman, |
Who ofiiciated at the first Episcopal |
service held in Chicago,
Town Clerk w. D. Tyler of Irasburg, /
me of the oldest town officials in this
state, observed his S0th birthday March
Z. When Mr.. Tyler was first elected
own clerk in 1868, Irasburg was the
most important town in Orleans coun-
y There was held the court and the
all and other county offices were there.
During Mr. Tyler's term of service all
hese institutions have been removed {
0 Newport. Mr. Tyler is a lawyer. He
erved in the general assembly, 1874 1
5.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-07

L. E. Reagan and Frank Wheeler
who, 1t is claimed, swindled Nathan
Saunders of Bennington out of his
house in South SALISBURY, We're in
Bennington recently with the inten-
tion of settling the matter with Saun-
ders. The attempt was not a sue
cess. 1t is said that they offered $500
to straighten things up, and this Mr..
Saunders was not willing to accept.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-07

Secretary Wilson of the department
of agriculture at Washington, who has
given closer attention to all questions
pertaining to agricultural products
than probably any other man in the
country, favors the development of the
coffee growing industry in the pos
sessions of the United States, with the
end in view of supplying the American
market and producing condition that
Will put money in the pockets of the
islanders who are dependent upon the
United States. He believes in creating
a market by admitting this coffee
free and taxing that from all other
countries.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-07

d. NJ. Silsby of Lyndonville has
decided to the town of Lyndon his lot
as a site for the library building. His
livery stable will be removed from
the lot by June Is, leaving the dot I'M
encountered Eber Cobleigh, who
some months ago gave $4,000 for
library. has just given $500 towards
the purchase of the site and others
have given most generously toward ii.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-07

After long and distinguished service,
Rear Admiral A. S. Barker. command
erin chief of the North Atlantic fleet,
hauled down his flag on the Kearsarge
Friday, March 81, and was placed on
the retired list of the navy Admiral
Barker will make his home In Wash
ington. Rear Admiral Robley D. Ev-
ans, commonly known as Fighting
Bob" has assumed command of the
fleet, at Pensacola, Fla
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-07

Policy holders of the Equitable Life
Assurance company of New York con-
tinue to express dissatisfaction with
the management of the company's af-
fairs and Vice President James II.
Hyde, who has not been forced to re-
sign, has compromised with the pol
icy holders by promising them NUT
utilization in two years instead of four
as was at first agreed. All sides now
claim victory in the fight over the So
ciety's affairs. Hyde made public
Wednesday, April 5, a statement to
the directors alleging that President
Alexander has originated a plot
against him and accusing him of dis
loyalty to the directors.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-07

At the annual gathering at New
York, Thursday evening, March 30, of
the New York Alumni association of
Norwich university at Mortified, it
was announced by the president of the
association that Andrew Carnegie
would contribute $4,000 for a library
for the university and $4,000 for cleo
trical equipment for the engineering
department.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-07

As a result of the conference on
rural progress that was held in Provi"
dence, r. l., recently, a conference
that will embrace all the New England
states is likely to be held The Provi-
dence conference. held in the halls of
Brown university, considered rural
progress along the lines Of religious,
social. educational. moral and business
activities. Such meeting will prob
ably be arranged for in Boston in the
near future. That these conferences
be made regularly occurring conven-
tons to be held in each of the New
England states in turns is also sug-
gested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-12
A Wonder of Japan.

One of the wonders of Miyajima Is an enormous structure called Thousand Mat Hall Q name which means that one thou sand of the regulation three by six foot rice straw mats are required to cover it's floor. All rooms in Japan are measured In this way instead of by feet, so In talk ing about houses one always says ''six mat room" or three and half mat room" |" until one begins to think In divisions of eighteen square feet. Thousand mat hall was erected in the sixteenth century out of the wood of a single camphor tree, says the Japanese records, that are al- ways so full of such perfectly wonderful details. If this be so, camphor trees must have grown very large In Japan in the sixteenth century, since the building rests upon a hundred or more piles, each a giant tree trunk in itself, beside which the roof Is upheld by at least fifty pillars that were fifty forest monarchs once upon a time. Then there Is floor in the struc- ture made of eighteen thousand square feet of cedar blanks foot and half wide and five inches thick, so that one must needs believe that its builder out miracled the loaves and tho fishes if Japan's sober records are to count for anything.
 The walls of this ancient hall have doubtless echoed the sound of many a priestly orgy, since 1t adjoins the temple and is guarded by richly wrought seven story pagoda, enshrining Amida Butsu But the most glorious thing in it's history seems to be the fact that Hideyoshi, the Napoleon of Japan" used 1t for a council chamber during his remarkable in- yasion of Korea. Now 1t is merely a show place." standing empty and open and gaunt, overlooking the sea-a roost for sacred pigeons and chattering spar rows. It was during the China Japan war that troops first began to be guartered on the island and several regiments, for want of better barracks, were encamped in this old historical structure. One even ing, in half jest, half earnest, a soldier nailed his rice ladle (meshi toru) to one of the pillars. with prayer that he and his regiment might soon be sent to help conquer meshi toru, with different in- fiection) the Chinese. His comrades fol- lowed his example and since then it has become a custom for every visitor to the hall to buy a rice ladle, and writing his name and date of his wis., upon 1t, with. of course, 'Dai Nippon Banzaii' tack 1t up somewhere in the vast building. The effect is better imagined thaa described and 1t Is I think, unique beneath the sun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-12
Skating Popular.

Skating has been taken up this winter and in fact all sports of the season ar, popular. As soon as Saturday arrive, the tired debutante goes to the country to pass a day or so in healthful exercise and getting ready for another week O. dance and dinner. As in other year. Newfoundland is very popular. and Mir and Mrs. Cross have had a series of part ies at their great house there and the inr has also been crowded. The excelleni skating and sleighing have kept up the In ter.st of society. even though that plac, is a bit bleak in January For several winters 1t was the custom of many of tn, New York hostesses to remain in towr and receive on Sundays and to dine in tn, evening at one of the fashionable restau- rants. Not so much of this is being don, this year. as every one who can get out out of town. Up at Hyde Park on tn, Hudson the Rog-rs lee boat club Is hay. Ing a good run. and even when societ, gets back to town on Monday there os gathering at tho St. Nicholas rink. wherl the skating club meets and where Mrs Barger Wallach has given several mati rec patineuses. There have been not { few who have gone to the Adirondack and several parties have been made III for Montreal Over Washington's birth
 day there will be many such excursions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-12
REST If SEAS0H
 WILL BE QUIET Society Will Experience LuII in
 Winters Gaiety MANY VISITING FLORIDA sketing Has Been a Popular Form of Ameusement, as We'll as All
 Other Sports of the
 0eason.
 
MANY VISITING FLORIDA
BY pIEpalcH kNIckERsockER.

ew York, February u.-There will now be a Hull in the gayety of the winter. The season will pass away gently. and the caterers and florists and musicians and the others of the corps de ballet will act as did Longfellow's Arabs.
 And yet Lent Is nearly thirty days away. The threads of the flag end of dancing classes will be picked up these February evenings, and society will set- tel down to dinners and small dances, to the enjoyment of the remaining evenings of the opera. the musicales, and the in- evitable bridge. with its kindred euchre and their numerous notifications in the way of "hid' games. Palm Beach has al- ready started on it's spring career; the Riviera and Egypt are filled with tour ists, and each departing ship has boolxins of well known New Workers. MT. and Mrs Anson Phelps Stokes and MT. and Mrs. Harry Symes Lehr have sailed and very shortly MT. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Jr.; MT. and Mrs. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs will sail. Aiken Is looking up. and ai- though 1t Is reported that 1t Is dull there. it has always It's little round of amuse- ments. 2Mr and Mrs. c. Oliver 1sein fingered this winter in New York, as they brought out Miss Fanny Iselin, the se- cond daughter of the house. Mrs. Will liam E. Iselin, who has not entertained for some years, Is to give a dance. Be- sides Miss Fanny Iselin, she has two young relatives of her own. 2Miss Lydia Mason Jones and Miss Hasell, who are de- butantes of the season. The verdict Is that so far as 1t has been a very gay winter, although the rush" season has been brief, and 1t is becoming shorter and shorter every year,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-12
LEAVES FROM A REPORTERS
 NOTE BOOK
New Version of Brer Rabbit and the Tar BabyBeng the
 Only Interview Ever Granted to the Press by Uncle Remus
Ethel Armes, In the National Magazine.

and a large purple magnolia tree. and then we went around to the back. There arc five acres around his place. He has vegetable garden, an orchard, straw berry patch anf little strip Of pasture ground for the Jerse. cows and the little gray donkeys that are the childrens pets.
 There are several little houses for the pet rabbits and guinea pigs and quite good sized chicken house for the Plymouth Rock7. Pretty soon we re- turned to the porch.
 Have you a big library" Iasked MT. Harris.
 No library ct all" he answered. "nor any den or study I do all my writing in my bedroom, there, just off the wincows."
 Everyone in Atlanta says that you never see people at all Not a soul--vhy should 1?' '1f I come again would you see me?" He appeared uncertain. If l should bring many little children to see you would you see them?" Yes" And talk more to us?'' "See you-but won't talk.'
 "Goodbye-anG thank you" held out my hand. "Goodbye-you are wt.,ome." That was all,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-12
Plans for St. Valentines Day.

St. Valentines day-February His se- lected to be one on which many entertain ments are to be given. Mrs. M. Orme Wilson will have a musicale, and Mrs. Henry Shoemaker a dance. There will be theatre parties galore. and dinners and other festivities. But in the way of large gatherings there is nothing on the tapis The opera will run on until March, and there will be the celebration of Washing tons birthday at the Metropolitan Club. There Is some plan of reviving several Of the Lenten clubs which have always proved popular in late spring. As for any Easter season, such happening is now impossible. Easter Is very late this year. Already the coaching will have been in augurated and 1t will be but a few days from the paradS of the Coaching Club and the opening of Belmont Park.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-12
eiIIiards-Ancient and Modern.

John Henry Freese in February Outing. The game of billiards may lay claim to
 great antiquity. for in Anthony and Cleopatra" Shakespeare makes Cleopatra say: Let us to bi. .iards;" and so, un- less we accuse the great poet of an error in chronology, we have traced the game back to a period before the Christian era. In early times a similar game was played on the grass or turf with stones
 and later with balls of lignum vitae and other substances. Howe to apply the
 right twist" or English to the cue ball is one of the most interesting and i'm portant elements in the art of good play ing. In the early times only two white
 balls were used. and each player sought to simply pocket the ball of his opponent. The red ball was introduced as novelty to keep the game from dying out. As time has gone on, the game has had varied development in different countries. In Spain they play with three balls and fiev wooden pins which are set up In the
 middle of the table. In Russia they play with five balls. two white and a red, blue and yellow one The English game Is played quite differently from the American and French gar es. It is a com bination of the American games of both
 pool and billiards, being played on table having pockets as in an ordinary pool table, and points scored in both of the American games being counted. The French and American games are played with three balls upon q table without pockets and only "canons" or "caroms'' are counted. as hereinafter explained. In America the game of billiards has un- dergone a rapid development on account of the great skill attained by American players. Early .n tlc last century the game was commonly played With four balls upon a pool table, more or less like the present English game. for both pocketing balls and making caroms were counted; but in time this r'yle of playing proved so simple that a table was adopted without any pockets in it-and caroms only were counted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-12
A MARX TWAIN ANEcDoTE.
Osteopath Proved to Be Neither
 Fish Nor Bird.

From Harper'J Weekly
 The following story comes from York Earbor, Main: Say yer know thet lt- errary chap thet he'd the Furness cottage Iii, on the hill. two years ago last summer -Marg Twain, I b'lieve they called i'm. Gee, yed never think ter look tt i'm tbet he could write books!
 Wall he uster come over ter my house an' set fer hours to time while I spun yarns an told i'm abaout York folks an th.ngs Seemed ter be reel sociable like liked te- smoke an talk. an joke with an old fool like me.
 wal. one day he come ter me lookin' kind O worried like. an his hair was all ruffied up like led been aout in stiff nor easter. an he sez: 'Cap'n Brooks. car
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-12

observe Ye sir afraid spOi your right through the head and hattened itself on the wall picked up outto revolver bullet perceive Watson There's genius that for who would expect to find such your assistance And now watson let g s for there are several points which should like to discuss thrown off the seedy froclcoa of old in the mouseooured dressing gown which he took from ms
 The old shikas nerves have not his their said with laugh he inspected the shat the smack through ugh the brain and expect that there are few better l, in London o Have you heard the name'"
 well we'll is But then, remember right had who had of the brains Just down my index of biographies
 He turned over the pages lazy leaning ing @ s91t clouds from o m Ss cigar fine said he o himself here the pooner Cross and finally here is He handed book Sebastian, Col o9e m e 1s Bn hPpa Pesn Jowa Campaign Afghan Cam Came Came of the Western Hmalaya 1ss vile. the Bagatele Card Club"
 written in Holmes precise hand "The second Ths astonishing said back the volume "rhe It is Holmes answered. Up certain point @ he he did well well drain after wounded tiger There denly unshy ecceuty You will see often in hu mn the whole procession of ancestors to good % or sy stands % % sms ong oge % h % % ne @ Of @ @ history of family"
 it Whatever the Moran bos1p bo % 5 s0 h He and asan ana eS % to whom @ for time he of the staff Mor supplied him literally with and mpa 5ea h@ @ y dp m @ % ~ ySy % as 5 a the death of Mrs Stewart of Lander 1887 No? proved Colonel concealed when that date when called upSn % n g @ your ] how put the knew e-acy a h 6hd 6 I H When we were in Switzerland followed us with Moarty undoubtedly he who tho
 'H You ny think that papers attention during the heels London life would oTer me- and ap es a n0 se Opeg nm They f s e0 @ of what would Ppead & them to be wild suspicion So him Then came the death of had done tta s s He had There was was not a doubt bn of it & came me on @ to my presence could fail return with his e@ q @ s 0 @ o S' ad th aous v9n weapp @ vs @ n wap S no @ l h % excellent Watson you SIoted their @ for observation dreaming that he spot @ @ his attack Now Watson does me to explain" .vou have not made it clear what - 6,.o, ,, motive in numbering the Honorable Ronald Adair?"
 Watson there eve we come into bis own hypothesis the evidence "You havc formed then?'
 q think not difficult to explain the facts. Now Moran undoubtedly foul discovered that Moran cheating Very likely he had
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-12

Best on earth or anywhere else. Tn, Gawk Engraving Co. Peoples phone Ug
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-12

ycu tell me if there is an osteopath at the Harbor?' 'We.l' sez I, the mebbe. but ain't never ketched one on 'em an I've been fishln' here nigh onter forty years lie lookedat me kinder queer. an then sed he guessed he'd go up ter the drug store an enquire.
 w all. I went home an told the old woman abaout 1t it, an she sez: You big fool, Jed Brooks. tain't fish 'tls bird. So then I went inter the best room an took daown the cyclopedium my boy Stve he'd when he was ter Harvard col- lege. an I'll be durned if 1t want no fish at all. nor no bird neither, but new fangled kind of a doctor.