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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-30

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or ont of order, YOU can understand how
quickly your entire body is affected and
how every organ seems to fail to do Its
duty.
taking the great kidney remedy, Dr-
kil1ner's Swainp-Root, because a5 soon
as Your kidneys are well they Will heip
all the other organs to health. y trial
will convince anyone.
If YOU are sick you can make no mis-
take by first doctoring your kidneys:
The mild and the extraordinary effect OF
Or. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great
kidney remedy, is soon realized. 1t
stands the highest for its wonderful! cures
Of tie most distressing cases. and Is sold
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-30

Oh its merits by all
druggists in ffty-cent
and one-dollar size
bottles. You may
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-30
Often The Kidneys Are
Weakened by OYer-WOTk.

Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.
It used to be considered that only
urinary and bladder troubles were to be
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-30

have sample bottIe Home Of swampKoot
IL mail free. also a pamphlet telling You
how to find out if YOU have kidney or
i,I,dder trouble. Mention this paper
when writing 10 DR.. kiliiler s Co. blilg-
I,,,utou y. i. Don't make any mistake,
but remember the name, Swamp Root
ID. Kilmers Swamp Root, and the adj
dress. Bingl,anton, \. ", on every bottle.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30
Let the board Of Trade Act.

A suggestion has been made this morn
ing by prominent business men of the viii
lage which it seems might solve this whole
water question in a manner which is per-
fectly just to all interests and will salts
fy men Of all opinions. 1t is, in brief,
that the Brattleboro board Of trade, as a
board and not as individuals, through it's
proper officials. have drawn charter
amendments which will allow the village
legally to own its own water supply, fully
protecting Mr.. Crowells interests and
those of the village at the same time.
These amendments should provide for
ownership by the village of Mr.. Crowelrs
system at n price which it is actually
worth TO the village. but this owner
ship need not necessarily be made COM
pulsory at present II thought best ba-
sis could be arranged under which the VIII
lage could contract for hydrant use of the
Crowell water for a term of years at an
equitable price. at the same time per-
mitting Mr.. Crowell to complete his sys-
tenn and develop it as the growth of the
village may require. and providing for a
just maximum sum at which the village
may take over the system at any time
within a stated number of years. Such
amendments ought to be drawn impair
TALLY, with due regard to the opinions
and wishes Of all interests involved.
If the board OF trade would take this
matter up promptly and agree upon a Sc
ries OF amendments of the general char
acter here suggested, and go to Mont
pelier next Tuesday, presenting such
amendments as those sanctioned by the
board and representing and protecting all
the village interests. we believe this ac-
tion would carry with the legislative COM
mittee and with the legislature itself. be-
cause It would be recognized that such
amendments were free from personal pref
udice and were intended to represent and
protect all the interests of the village.
Such course, we believe, would be every
where recognized as a business-like so
luton of this problem, which has been
under discussion at different times for
more than 20 years and during the past
year has been a constant source of con-
troversy and disagreement
If the decision should be for the village
| to enter into an agreement under which
| Mr.. Crowell may complete and, for the
present, own and operate his water sys-
tenn, it would be wise for the agreement
to include provision fer the election by
the village of a water engineer, who
should be empowered to see that the future
work OF development and extension is done
| on a scientific and business-lil1e basis,
and in the inter ests OF the village as well
as of Mr.. Crowell. In this way the sys-
TEN. when completed, would be a village
| Nd oot1ld ~ froe
take it over as such. knowing just what
it was buying.
It is the legitimate province Of the board
of trade to act for the village in any
emergency like the present one, and its
action would command respect at home as
well as in Montpelier.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30
New vork's Election a Warming.

The election of che Republican candi-
date for governor of New York was not a
definite triumph of good over evil; 1t was
only a temporary deliverance from inn
pending disgrace; above all. 1t was a
warning II could not have been achieved,
for example If "a the present governor
had accepted the nomination rendered to
him, or (2) practically any candidate
other than Mr.. Hughes had been nomi-
mated, or go precedent had not been ut
terly disregarded by the national admin
istration, or (4 the radical candidate bad
possessed character as well as daring, or
(5) conservative Democrats by tens of
thousands had not placed patriotism above
partisanship, or (6) the radical candidate
had never Lee loose the torrent of per-
sonal abuse which, too late, he abruptly
stopped, or "a close association with dis
reputable bosses had not vitiated his
claim of independence, or (S) Democratic
and independent newspapers had not
been lukewarm, or even perhaps (9)
the weather had been inclement.
In not ALL but any one of these
contingencies, barring possibly the
last mentioned, the appeal of an utterly
discredited political adventurer to the
spirit of discomfort would have been made
not in vain. Surely the wrath of God was
upon us for our sins; why 1t failed to de-
scend, or how long it win be withheld He
alone knows
Despite undying faith in democratic
government, we find the outlook from
condition that induced 100000 citizens Of
a single commonwealth to swallow the
personal disgust they must have felt, that
they might make public protest against the
existing order distinctly unfavorable, II
not indeed depressing. In such circum-
stances surface indications count for
naught; underlying causes must be sought
and, when found removed-tGeorge Har-
vey in the North American Review.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30

stlll the Water Question.

The adjourned hearing before the COM
mittee on municipal corporations on the
bill to amend the Brattleboro village
charter will be held at Montpelier next
Tuesday 1t Is understood that some of
the members of the water board will ap-
pear and ask to have the bill reported
and passed substantially in the form in
which It was introduced It is not with
in the range of probability that the COM
mittee will consider such action favor
ably or that either the committee or the
legislature, having all the facts before it,
will give the village authority TO con-
struct an Independent competing system,
or to own its system. without first treat
ing with Mr.. Crowell on an equitable ba-
sis. At least four members of the water
board, and probably more are convinced
of the folly of persisting in an attempt
to construct a new, competing system,
recognizing. as they do, that it would be
against the public good to do so, and that
the project would be strongly opposed
by our leading business interests which
would have the bills to pay. Least of
all can there now be any thought of
legislating the present water board in
to legal or permanent existence. The
board is so hopelessly divided against it.
self that no further operations on its
part could command the confidence or
support of the village or even be taken
seriously.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30
Twin Plaques.

In an address given before the Amer
lean international congress on tubercu-
losis recently. DR.. T. d. Crothers, the
head of an institution for inebriates in
Hartford. emphasizes the close connec
ton between alcoholism and tubercu-
losis. He terms one the great white
plague and the other the great black one.
and says that the TWO together consti-
tute a menace to civilization. The two
are so closely associated. he says. that all
measures of prevention and treatment
must recognize this relation, If they
succeed. He warns consumptives against
the use of alcohol as a means of relief
declaring that all preparations of syrups
containing spirits increase rather than
diminish the disease. He notes that a
very large per cent. of the so-called cured
inebriates. or persons who have stopped
drinking, die of consumption or pneu-
monia, while large number of consunp-
tives become inebriates and die suddenly.
Alcohol seems to weaken the blood
vessels of the lungs and invite consump-
tlon. The lungs of an excessive drinker
being in the same coEgested state as
that of his faceI a chill or any special
disturbance Is apt to induce pneumonia.
Alcoholic parents are followed by con-
sumptive children and consumptive PAR
ents have alcoholic children. Statistics
show that at least a third of the descend
ants Of inebriates have consumption and
fully one-fourth of the children of con-
sumptives become spirit drinkers. Alco-
hol and drugs are pronounced to be very
active causes of consumption. for the
reason that they diminish the vitality of
the body and the power Of bacteria inva-
sions, adding at the same time to the
tontines and poisons of the systems. Bad
air and contact with tuberculosis VIC
Tins are adjudged insignihcanC causes of
tuberculosis compared to alcohol and un-
healthy living.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30
Opportunity"

The statement that no generalization
was ever more than half true Is an in
stance of its own meaning. 1t is sell
dom that there are not two ways of look
ing at a text and expounding from 1t
helpful but diametrically opposed philos-
ophy The sonnet Opportunity" by the
late Senator John j. ingalls,. is one OF
the finest and most-quoted bits OF occa-
sional American verse. A copy of It.
mounted under glass, is. II we are not
mistaken, one of the few things upon the
walls of the Presidents Offices in Wash
ington. From one point OF view the poem
is an exhortation to action, from another
It is heavy with pessimism. Lest any
have forgotten 1t here 1t Isl
Master Of human destinies am
Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps
wait
Cities and nelds walk; penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and passing by
Hovel and mart and palace soon or late
I knock unbidden once at every gate.
If sleeping, wake IL feastng, rise before
1 turn away. 1t is the hour Of fate
And they, who follow me, reach every
state
Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
Save death; but those who doubt or
hesitate.
Condemned to failure penury and woe,
Seek me in vain and uselessly implore;
There is truth from one side.
At a recent convention in Louisville,
KY, Col. r. J. Lowrey, a banker Of Al
lanta, Ga, closed an address in these
words IT want to say for our people
that we are optimists by nature: we
turn to the bright side even in the sorest
trials; we see books in running brooks,
sermons in stones. and good in every
thing My old friend. the late Senator
John J. ingalls, of Kansas. said to be
something of a pessimist. wrote a poem
on Opportunity" which I am disposed
to read to you. and then I want to read
a reply to 1t by a southern jurist-poet,
Judge Walter Malone of Memphis" This
is the reply, truth from the other side,
open to no charge OF pessimism, and
while of less poetic value than Ingallss
lines. yet worth association with them
They do me wrong who say come no
more,
When once I knock and fail to find
you in;
For every day stand outside your door.
And bid you wake and rise to fight
and win.
Wall not for precious chances passed
away;
Weep not for golden ages on the wane;
Each night burn the records of the day;
At sunrise every soul is born agin.
Laugh like boy at splendors that have
sped:
To vanished joys be blind, and deaf and
dumb
Ny judgments seal the dead past with
it's dead,
But never bind moment yet to come.
--[Springfeld Republican.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30
Reporting WeddInas.

What this language needs is some more
adjectives suitable to accompany a first
class report of a wedding. Too many of
those now in frequent use are not only
tired, but decidedly superfluous. For ex-
ample, we have observed during a career
OF about 1877 years that when a couple are
married in a private house, 1t is almost
invariably conceded to be a pleasant
home" wedding. Now, now what's the
use of either OF these words? Would
anybody on such an occasion write OF an
unpleasant wedding or Of an unpleasant
home-whichever the adjective may be
taken to refer to? It is an old rule of
correct writing to go through the article
after II is drafted and eliminate every ad-
jective not needed to tell the story APP
plying this treatment to pleasant home
weddings they would appear simply as
weddings. The rest goes without saying
Similarly the frequent explanation that a
wedding occurred at high noon" seems
to be about one word too long. Is there
any other than one kind OF noon? When
does low noon come in, IL 10 o'clock is
high2 We have observed, too, that when
people are married they are very apt to
receive wedding gifts" What else
would the gifts be at that time? The
reporter who wrote Of some one who sent
a Christmas gift for an unpleasant we'd
ding In a homeless house at low noon
would experience a fall in his "profes-
sion" Every capable dictionary is
abundantly cutfitted with adjectives. But
still those exactly suited to these festive
occasions do not seem to present them
selves at the time when their services are
especially required.-[Hartford Courant-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30
eThe Everyday FrankIIn." !"

With all Benjamin FraniSlin's honors
among his countrymen today, many of his
services to his kind are not matters Of
common knowledge. Under title Of ''The
Everyday Franklin" Rebecca Harding
Davis has written for readers OF the
December ST. Nicholas, the Christmas
number, of those human traits and home
ly deeds of Franklin which should be
more generally known, how he started
the first circulating library I'm the world,
and founded the first public hospital in
the United States; how he introduced the
basket willow and the broom corn into
this country, and something of his prin-
ciples-principles which could well be
revived and used for our betterment to-
day"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30

The representatives of 30 states of the
Union, appointed by their respective gov
ernors, will meet in a few days in Des
Moines, pursuant to the invitation of
Gov. Cummins of Iowa, 10 consider tNo
question of popular election of senator's.
Popular election of senators can be ac-
complished only by an amendment to the
constitution. On application by two
thirds, or 80 of the states, constitution
al convention must be called by Con-
gress, and three-fourths, or "a of the
states must ratify the action of the con-
vention. Within recent years seven
states, through their legislatures, have
states. must ratlfy the action of the con-
vention, and, in addition Il states have
memorialized Congress- to the same eff
feet Moreover, 10 states have already
adopted the practice of selecting their
senators by popular primary elections,
which are confirmed, as a matter of
course, by the legislatures
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30

The legislature made no mistake in
electing Il. L. Waterman a judge of the
new superior court. Judge watermans
knowledge of the law. speaking in the
broad sense. has been equaled by but few
men at the Vermont bar. He is distinct
lively lawyer. and in addition to this
fundamental qualification he possesses
another equally important-that of a
mind by nature judicial and apt to weigh
both sides of every question and trained
to be judicial by long practice of his pro-
fession. Judge waterman's friends in
Windham county have long felt that his
proper place was on the bench. and they
are glad that this honor has now come to
him
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30

Gov. ]. c. W. Beckham Of Kentucky.
who is assured OF election to the United.
States Senate to succeed Senator Nc
Creary is a prodigy in politics. He was
a page in the state Legislature at nine,
speaker Of the House at %. governor at
2s. and when he takes his seat In the
Senate at Washington he will be "a. He
will hold the record as the youngest
United States senator Of the present gem
GRAFTON, but there is a record of an earlier
Kentucldan, Henry Clay, which he will
not equal. Mr.. Clay was allowed to take
his seat in the Senate at 30, notwith-
standing that he was under the consti-
tutional age limit of 80.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30
GRANGE NEWS.

The Grange Dramatic club will hold a
meeting in Grange hall Friday evening,
Dec. Z, at 8 o'clock, followed by a social,
with cards and dancing. Every member
of the Grange is cordially invited to be
present.
The next meeting of Protective Grange
will be held Wednesday evening, Dec. 5.
The third and fourth degrees will be con-
ferred. followed by the harvest supper. to
which all members are requested to con-
tribute without solicitation
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30

The general impression that the In
dians are dying out in this country is
not borne out by the census figures.
The first census Of the Indians was taken
in 1880, when their population was found
TO be 253, 400. In 1860, at the beginning of
the civil war, there were 254, 200 Indians
in the country. Twenty years later, in
1880. there were 256,127. In 1900 there
were 272,02S. Today, by count Of the In
dian agents on the reservations of the
reason why he should. The Indians OF
the new state Of Oklahoma are intelligent
and wealthy. and they will be heard from
In national AFFAIRS.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30

Brattleboro's backwardness in coming
forward for public offices has been the
subject of pleasantly, raillery and sar-
casm to such an extent in certain To-
calities less modest that we have come
to read such utterances with the broad
liberation of the man who was prone to
remark that he always liked that joke"
1t is true, as has been intimated, that the
making of nominating speeches and the
acceptance OF nominations is a part of
the course in the public schools of the
town, but there is an unwritten law that
no lawyer in Brattleboro need expect
official recognition, and this is so rarely
broken that occasionally a Brattleboro
lawyer practices law for a living. AT the
present time Lawyer Martin is judge of
the United States courts, Lawyer Tyler
is Judge of the Vermont supreme court,
Lawyer Waterman is judge Of the YER
mont superior court Lawyer Schwenk is
booked for judgeship Of the probate court,
Lawyer Haskins is representative in
Congress. Lawyer Fits is attorney gem
eral of the state, Lawyer Stowe is ref
cree in bankruptcy Lawyer Bacon is
states attorney elect. Lawyer Gibson is
town representative, LAWYER Hooker is
chairman Of the board of selectmen, Law
yer Waterman (jr) is but recently out
OF government position in Washington
and the office OF register Of probate which
Lawyer Schwenik now holds will go to
some other lawyer
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30

The fifth biennial report of Prof. George
II. Perkins state geologist, contains
large amount of interesting information
and statistics regarding the mineral
wealth of the state, which in 1905 yielded
a revenue of $9614,OO0 in addition to small
returns not available At present the
II large firms quarrying marble in the
state furnish more than three-fourths of
all the building and monumental marble
used in this country. In 1880 the granite
industry Of the state was represented by
II quarries which had annual sales of
less than $6O,OOO while in 1905 over 100
quarries were in operation and the sales
of this stone aggregated A9S5,OOO. About
40 companies are engaged in the slate
business in Vermont and the production
from this state is second only to Penn
sylvania. Mr. Perkins devotes chapters
TO the limestone, sandstone, tale, soap
stone, copper and other mineral deposits
in the state, and a study of the asbestos
beds on Belvidere mountain.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30

Manager Riley expects that Davey and
Haggerty, two former favorites, will Join
the team at an early date The Martens
brothers and Corcoran will play with
West1eld.
The Athletics will go to Turner's Falls
Dec. s. Turner'S Falls will come here the
following week. No game will be played
on the home floor next week. owing to the
engagement of the Auditorium each night
by the Lorne Elwyn company.
Company D of st. Johnsbury journeyed
to Barre and Montpelier last week, and
on Thursday night defeated the Crescents
of the former city 25 to "a, and the
next evening ran away from Comp my H
of Montpelier "a to IL. Miller was the
star basket thrower for Company d,
caging the bali five times at Barre and
II at Montpelier. Carl Ellis scored or
throws from field three times in each
game
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30
THE VERMONT PHOENIX.
UPON REQUEST

The Phoenix will be mailed FREE
for four weeks to any person not
now a subscriber who wishes to
see the paper with a view to sub
scribing for the coming year. The
paper will be stopped at the end of
four weeks unless we receive a re-
quest to continue it.
Any present subscriber in Wind
ham county may have the paper
sent to friend at a distance who
formerly lived here, under this Of
fer, which will remain open to
Jan. 1, only.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-30
stanton Released From Jail.

A despatch dated Newport, N. H., Nov.
2S appeared in the Manchester Union of
yesterday: ~. ]. Stanton, who was ar
rested here about a month ago on the
charge of stealing a team from the firm
of Howard & Yearly OF Brattleboro, VT,
was released yesterday by Sheriff Gun
nison, having settled things satisfactor-
lily to the Brattleboro firm. He has been
held here awaiting the action of the Yer
mont authorities since his arrest but
they have shown no disposition to make
any effort to come and get him as Stanton
would not go to Vermont willingly. He
secured the necessary funds to clear him
self from his mother, who lives in Phila-
delphia, IA. She refused at first 10 help
him but through the efforts of his at
torney, F. o. Chellis she was persuaded
to send him enough money to settle up.
Howard & Yearly, the firm from whom he
took the team, agreed to settle for $25.
In addition 10 this his mother sent him
enough to take him to Philadelphia When
he came here he posed as a doctor and
registered as G. w. Gilbert, M. D. Of
Boston, hut as appeared later his real
name is Stanton. From his conversation
with some of the local physicians, he ap-
pears to be we'll versed in that profession.
When he was arrested a young womans
watch was found on him which belonged
TO young woman in Springfield. This
is now held by Sheriff Gunnison, who will
return 1t to its owner, as she has put in
a claim for it, Stanton left yesterday
presumably for his home in Philadelphia. ="