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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-04-06
HARLINGEN BRANCH.
Spring in Town.

The countryside lies buried deep
Beneath bleak Winters pail;
Spring has not reused it from It's sleel
With the first thrush's call:
Yet here we catch on every street
The hutter of her gown,
And spy the imprint of her feet.
For Spring has come TO town.
Edith Child in Outlook.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-04-06
She Knew Why.

The New Maid: Madam, your
husband is lying unconscious in
the library, with large box be-
side him. and crushing a paper in
his hand.
Madam: All, my new hat has
come.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-04-06
Dissolution Notice.

The partnership heretofore ex-
sisting between Y. L. Crixell and
Louis Crixell, under the firm name
of Y. L. Crixell & Bro conduct
ing the White Elephant Saloon, IS
this day dissolved by mutual con-
sent, Louis Crixell retiring from
the firm. V. L. Crixell will con-
tinue the business, collect all bills
due the firm, and assumes all in
debtedness. Y. L. CRIXELIa
3-2o-4-S LOUIS CRIxELI-.
Promissory and Vendors lier
II L, - &f,s, 49,
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-04-06
LAND BARGAINS.

10000 acres land in Hidalgo
county. For sale in large or small
tracts. Apply to john CLosNER,
3-50-tf. Hidalgo, Texas.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

1t is not enough to endorse by
words the work which the state board
of health are doing for the enforce
ment of the pure food law. We should
second their efforts to drive fraud ana
authorizations out of the state mar
kets by noting the results of their IN
vestigations, which will be given 10
the public in their June bulletin, ana
by refusing to use any OF the gooos
declared deficient. If citizens continue
to buy articles of this stamp ne
cause they may be considered harm
less and are cheaper, they cannot eN-
pect to see the evil of fraudulent anu
poisonous food, drink and medicines
checked. The experiments at wash
ington showed the difference TO the
human system in a diet of pure foods
as against one of the preserved ana
adulterated goods that flood our mar
kets. We can not afford to hazard
health for the sake of a few DOLLARS
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

Repeal the law providing for capital
punishment and there will not be so
much insistence upon examination Tor
insanity.-St. Adams Messenger.
The character Of the penalty I'M
posed should have nothing to do with
it. If it is justifable to hang MUIR
derer at ALL it is no more of an in
Justice to hang one whose mental bal
ance is uncertain than it is to put him
into prison for life. If this point OF
mental responsibility is to be raised
in murder cases at all. except where
decided symptoms appear, 1t should
be considered impartially. There are
those who declare all crime to be the
result of abnormal mental conditions.
and We believe most criminals who
succeed in securing expert examina-
ton benefit thereby in the matter OF
punishment. Until we are ready to
accept the theory that crime is dis
ease and to turn our prisons into hos
pitfalls. it would be better to cut out
the consideration of these fine lines Of
responsibility in our criminal cases
1t Is well known that most cases 50
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

The testimony in the Bronson muir
der trial at Guildhall shows that there
is need of some practical missionary
work right here at home, especially
in some of our back towns where tne
most primitive ideas Of justice and OF
right and wrong prevail -Lynooh-
vile Journal.
We fail to see any superiority ex-
listing. from a moral standpoint. among
the testimony offered at murder trials
in Guildhall, Bennington and Bur-
lington, respectively, or even IN the
New York city case of Nan Patterson.
The ideas of justice and of right ana
wrong" that prevail in centers of pop
ulation may not be primitive" but
thew have too often developed and ex-
handed into views as far removed
from the true ones, and as repulsive
to morality, as was the imperfect con-
ception of the savage. Nevertheless
we admit that good use might be
made in Vermont of some OF the
scorned and tainted Standard OH
money. The need is not all in the
back towns, though.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
written for The Reformer.l
lawn D. an tn Heethen Chinee.

(After James Russell LOVELY
Tn American Board helps tn heethen
Tn ways NV tn civilized folks fur
away;
Ez is us'aHy true. they hain't money
to burn.
An they need all tn dough" they kin
git, so they say,
An lawn ID.
Rockefeller, he
Seq. Here's big wad fur tn heeth-
en- Chinee."
Thar's objection NV course tew tn
man an tn gift
Fer some seq he stole 1t, an others
don't care
Ez long ez he gives the pore heethen
lift,
Let the source NV tn money be here
or be thar
But Jawn d.
Rockefeller. he
An Washin'ton GLADDEN. can't never
agree.
Eff tn motive is good an tn money
Is his'n-
'Tain't sayin his methods tn best in
tn world.
But. so fur. he's managed to keep out
Nv prison
IT don't matter what epithets at him
is hurled
Fer .Jawn D.
Rockefeller, he
Seq. Don't let this affect yure opin-
ion NV me-
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

considered are largely matters OF con-
lecture, even To experts, We know
that eminent authorities on mental
conditions have been deluded time and
again by sane persons who feigned
insanity for purposes OF their own We
believe that such examination IN the
majority OF cases. while II might be a
measure Of relief 10 many conscien-
tious and tender hearted citizens
would be indeterminate and merely a
form of justice. Why not be satisfied
with the facts that n person apparent
IA snne has committed murder?
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

The MONTPELIER Journal seconds the
motion of the St Adams Messenger
for n revival of Revolutionary thousht
and custom in our celebration Oh 'he
Fourth of July this year. A typicai
old time fife and drum corps in con-
tinental costume is suggested, with
the music of Yankee Doodle and other
historic tunes, and the reading OF the
Declaration of Independence, Inc
plan is an admirable one and ought
to "go," from very picturesqueness'
The simple spirit of primitive inde-
pendence embodied in the Declaration
falling upon the untrammeied articie
exhibited by modern Young America
would be infinitely refreshing, also
Let us try it.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
w1NDHM COUNTY REFOsMER FRIDAY MR 20 -

schools, that shall include not only the
elements. but the practice OF farming
This II sensible move, but II Is al
ready In practice In many parts oil
Europe with great success, ana an
elaborate system OF instruction ny
travelling professors has sprung up IN
some countries. based upon the actual
results so far. as well rs the posslbili-
ties OF more careful and extended IN
struction.
The above clipped from the Bristol
Herald shows conelusiveiy that the
fools are not yet all dead. Teaching
farming In the schools Is along SIDE
OF the other fads of cooking. crochet
Ing and their ilk. Immense idea' I'M
agine one Of our graded school teach
ers out In the fields giving boys IN
structions In the sublime art OF catch
Ing potato bugs, or helping them In
the intricacies Of milking Kicking
COW. The true and only mission or
our common schools, supported by
taxing the people as n whole, Is to
give our children thorough educa-
ton In the English branches, leaving
the frills to those who want them and
can obtain them at their own expense.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

Common sense admits that Pr'si'
dent Tuttles claim for railroads u
reasonable, as a business propos''loh'
The prosperity OF the patrons OF a
road is undoubtedly the prosperity o'
the road and the latter should natural
~ seek TO promote. by Its service. the
business interests OF the former YET
why has the public come TO consider
itself the victim, In a sense, OF rail-
road corporations? Have the corpora
tons always conducted business on
the wisest policies?
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

Governor Bells Arbor Day procia ,
marion which requests the people OF
Vermont to suspend their customary
"ayocations" on April rs leaves open
the question as to what we are 10 uo
about our customary vocations' one
could cut off the former for the aay
and not notice the change'-barre
Times.
Webster's international dictionary
defines the plural of "avocation rs
pursuits; duties; affairs which oecu-
nv ones time; usual employment vo-
cation" These are the only sisniiica-
lions given the word in its piura'
form which Gov. Bell used. The au-
thority of Webster is quite geheraiiy
accepted.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

Now that the tide of educational
sentiment is beginning to turn NIUE
away from the arts, and friils OF
learning. the poor children are threat
ened by an onrush of industrial en-
thusiasm Advocates of agriculture
theory and practice and of domestic
science are seizing this opportunity 70
present with renewed vigor theif
claims for representation in the com
mon schools. Between these ihsisl
lent extremes there seems to be httie
chance for our children to grasp 'he
golden mean of a common Engiish eu-
ucation. Yet they need this first, ana
most of anything.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

liver oil preparation. for. while the
disagreeable taste of cod liver oil Is
entirely eliminated. it seems to retain
all the life giving elements, 1t purifies
and enriches the blood, tones up the
stomach and adds new life and vigor
to failing health and strength. I can
not recommend it too highly"
We guarantee Vinol is the best rem
edy for stomach troubles. because
where oldfashioned cod liver oil.
emulsions and sickening drugs upset
and derange digestion. Vinol finds a
welcome and is readily assimilated
by the weakest stomach.
As Vinol contains in a concentrated
form all of the healing and strength
creating elements of cod liver oil. act
ually taken from fresh Gods liyers
but without oil or grease. IL has gen.
uine vital principles that enable IL to
heal and tone up the irritated. worn.
tired stomach.
We wish every person in BrattIe-
boro suffering with severe stomach
troubles would try Vinol. on our guar
antee to return the money IL II fails
George E Greene. Druggist.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
Essentials" Given Short Shrift.
fPoultney Journal


In plancing over the school report
of Prof Schneider, we note that the
high school course given by him does
not include a single ordinary branch.
We observe that he says they are
taught in the grades below. Perhaps.
But our experience is that 1t does not
do to assume that because a boy at
twelve can solve problems In arith-
metic quite glibly, that it will do to
permit him to drop II forever: Ihat
is the great fault of the so called re-
gents course In the New York state
schools. As soon as a pupil can at
tain a standing of IS per cent the sub
ject is dropped forever and new one
lis taken up, and it is found that in
two years over half of what was learn
ed so early is forgotten. Would 1t
not be wise for the pupils in the com
mon schools to be well grounded IN
common branches before they wander
i'm foreign tongues or grope in abstruse
mysteries?
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

Two men were sent TO the mousse Oh
correction from st. Adams last week
for beating the women of their nam
lilies. They should be compelled 10
mn, IN some solid days work whiie
there. for hard labor is what they are
probably suffering for. The human
creature who beats his wife Is usuahy
n loafer whose wife supports the nam
ily by washing or scrubbing' An ~
innate acquaintance with work might
make a man OF him. Work has done
much for disappointment and sorrow
!, might do much more for crime.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
MATTERS OF OPINION.
Selected from tho Editorial Columns
Of Our Esteemed Contemporaries.
Real Patriotism Well Defined.

Real PATRIOTISM WeN Ce""eo'
(St. Adams Messenger
Real patriotism IL not noisy, Real
patriotism is not all gunpowder ana
lighting and flags and hurrah. heal
patriotism more than often thinks
and plans country's welfare anu
labors for its Accomplishment whiie
enduring In patient silence the heart
less Indifference or even cruel perse-
cution of an unappreciative genera
tion. hoping for light to break upon
the generation to come. Real patriot
ism sometimes reluctantly stays AT
home when the boys In blue go march
ing of TO the front because a higher
duty calls to minister to them that the
soldier leaves behind than to go 10
the field with him. Real patriotism
sometimes suffers and sometimes dies
for home and country with mute lips
and with weary heart while swinging
the cradle OF the fatherless In some
obscure little corner of the world That
Fame never heard Of. Real patriotism
always consists in the steadfast per-
Torrance of the duties and obligations
of citizenship and true manhood ana
true womanhood whether anybody
ever hears of II or not. Patriotism Is
not noisy, but what is not heard on
the breath of every passing breeze
may nevertheless be felt forever
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

Rare Joe Jefferson" is gone, and
his genial MAY you live long ana
prosper" will be heard no more on
any stage. Few in his profession have
been able to invest worthless char
acter so entirely with their own win
ming personality as to make it lovable
but this Mr.. Jefferson did for Rip
Van Wrinkle. He was an honor to
his profession, both as an artist and
q man,
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
Somebody Ought To.


Will Mr.. Rockefeller hear this home
missionary appeal from the Vermont
Methodist conference now in session.!
The call comes from the confession of
one of the rural clergy, that. unable on
$500 a year to support a wife and fam
lily and keep a team for riding the
circuit" he is eking out living by
coaching baseball team and acting
as umpire.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

After paying heavy but protesting
tribute to the beef trust FOR so many
years for the satisfaction of their APP
petites, It would be but characteristic
of the self indulgence of Americans
If they were to turn about now ana
rend the monster to fragments with a
health fad!
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
He Is Not Altogether Wrong.
New York World.l

Victor Morowetz, chairman of the
executive committee of the Santa Fe
railroad. when asked by Senator Ell
kins If illegal determinations and re-
bates would cease IL traffic managers
were compelled to make sworn re-
ports, said: Il do not think so. The
traffic managers would perjure them
selves. and those who would not do
that would not take the office" What
kind of company has Mr.. Morowetz
been keeping that he thinks perjurers
are so plenty?
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

In a sermon at Boston Sunday on
the acceptance of the Rockefeller gift
to the American board of foreign mis-
sions, Rev. Charles A. Crane said Il
pray the curse of Almighty God to
rest upon this unholy alliance of rob-
berry and bastard Christianity" Ii
a layman had expressed this desire
In the three short words usually en-
ployed, we should have called IL
swearing
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

The New York World processes TO
be mildly shocked at Mr.. Morowetz's
easy expectancy of wholesale perjury
in the case of an exacting rebate law.
Yet recent disclosures in connection
with various CRAFTS in this country
bear him out in his belief that per-
jurers for business gains are plenty
Most Americans seem to have a sec
ond-and exceedingly elastic-con-
science for business purposes.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

John Barrett-Our John, from Graf
TOMS said to have stepped in ana
ended a revolution, at Panama last
fall. by the mere power of American
prestige, promptly and forcefuily
presented. Can it be possible that
the administration objects to his en-
forcement of peace by the big stick
policy? Surely. rumor is misinformed.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
Must Have Them.
[Middlebury Register

More interest has been taken in the
question of good roads, judging by the
attendance at the recent meetings OF
the road commissioners in the several
counties, than ever before. Give YER
mont good roads and not only will the
summer tourist business be doubled
and quadrupled but business will be
expedited and the cost of transporta-
ton of farm and other products great
ly reduced. Build good roads.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

1t is fitting that Vermont, which
produces the best maple sugar in the
world and whose name has therefore
been used as the stigma of adultera-
tors all over the country, should he
first to provide a method of de-
lection for such adulteration State
Chemist Jones has done great ana
valuable service to the country at
large and to the state in particular.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

Hon. Charles A. Prouty having de-
MED. as was expected, authority for
the Brooklyn Eagles Washington
despatch concerning his congressional
aspirations. The Mortified News
seeks to further undermine Mr.. Has
kins's sense of security by suggesting
that John Barrett may want the place
IL recalled from Panama. II this
should happen. the question is settled
of course: for John always gets what
he wants
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

If it is true that physicians now
make affidavit to the effect that Mary
Rogers was insane few days before
she murdered her husband, 1t is In
comprehensive that they should nave
once allowed the woman to be con-
victed and sentenced to death with
out uttering a word In her behalf. But
this is not the first, and possibly not
the last, incomprehensible published
phase of the Rogers case.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
Should Be the First Consideration.

President Roosevelt in addressing a
crowd in Indian Territory said You
cannot afford to let any man represent
YOU in public life if he is crooked
That message should be carried to
every part of the United States. 1t
should bear fruit in Oregon and Miss
ouri in New York city and in Pitts
burg, in every state and territory and
city and town where the qualification
of honesty is not the first one consid-
cred before the other points which
mark a man as fit for public office are
put forward.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
And Whitewash Will Not Do Il.
I Boston Record. ]

A board of inquiry finds no mutiny
at Fort Ethan Allen. That may be,
but something should be done to I'M
prove the morale of the garrison. In
recent years it has richly earned It's
reputation as one of the most bother
some garrsons in the country, source
of annoyance to military authorities
and a nuisance to Vermonters unfor-
tune enough to live near 1t. Some sort
of cleansing is necessary.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
60lindham Gomtp Reformer
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The business offices and editorial rooms are IN
the Ullery building, Brattieboro, Just below tns
American house; the mechanical department
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Printed every Friday afternoon.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

"Subdued." long ago, the Moros stu
have spirit enough to fire into and dis
perse an officers club BAH at Jolo, ana
to reorganize and defy the Americans
When will the Moros be permanently
"subdued?" When the last one mas
been slaughtered
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

The movement for union of the
Blue and the Gray in national order
of civil war veterans is strong testl-
monial to the union of the nation In
sentiment as we'll as in fact. Its sue
cess will prove the possibilities of the
American nature for charity and
large heartedness Maj. ID. X. Lowell
formerly of Rutland, is one of the
originators of the project
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
Quite Right.
[Lyndonyille Journal

The first thing to do IL to pay such
Estate PRISON. officials proper salary
and require them TO find their own
board. The present method of IN
GLIDING In the salary board for the Of
fetal and his family is responsible for
much of the present scandal, and al
legged looseness of management.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

The old old story of the shoulder
ing fire and the kerosene alternates,
with unpleasant monotony, with that
of the small boy and the supposed-to-
be-unloaded firearm, upon the record
of each weeks current events. Yet
the climax is always new and surpris-
ing to someone. And in this fact the
ego of human nature becomes strongly
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
TBoston Herald

1t must be sad for the trust to hear
that smart people" who lead the sim
pie life have given up beef. The fash
ion now, and 1t is no joke, is to feed
on fruit, rice, cheese and macaroni.
Meat is given the cold shoulder, and
the consequence is the doctors are
scared and the new vegetarian is hap
pier than a cricket.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

The Waterbury liquor prescription
case is said to be the first of the kinu
10 come UP under the local-option IL
cense law. Let us hope II may be the
last to occur, even undetected. There
ought not to be law-breakers among
our physicians.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
Rockefeller Doesn't Think So.
[Lyndonville Journal

A man can get riches by any meth
cd he pleases now-a- days, and then
buy a good name and immunity from
criticism by endowing colleges and
making gifts to missionary societies.
At least such is the opinion current
among goddess sinners and they seem
TO have some reason for their belief.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28

Many men applaud the sentiment of
Burns's "a mans a man for a that,
but few wealthy ones are willing TO
apply 1t to the practical affairs of
their own life and family. Andrew
Carnegie testihes to the sincerity of
his belief in 1t by his approval Of the
marriage Of his niece to man who.
. though sober. moral and well-doing.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
No Law Unenforced Would.
Montpelier August

al Sps'J
Another mysterious death mas oc-
Cured in the state that may prove to
be a case of murder Retention of
capital punishment by Vermont does
not appear to act as an effective de-
terrent
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
Where Do They Get It?
[Fair Haven Era.

Fair Haven is having an unusual ex-
perience-a raging thirst 5000 strong
and yet not one word of complaint
from the people
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
.11slo Az sa.TTllsOsO posr Ofeos As sseos0 Gus. '.
BRArrLEBoRo. FRIDAY, APRIL %, 1905

In the death OF Senator Plat the
president loses strong and Loyal
champion from a quarter where sup
port is most needed. He is not likely
TO get such support from success
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-28
eeneraIities, Not speeiaIties.

There Is a general demand among
speakers and writers on agricultural
subjects. for the adoption of some sys-
TEN Of instruction in our country