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Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19

chief cause of its anxiety, Who Is the
labor men y candidatei
Last week The Montpelier Journal an
nounced the circulation of u rlimor that
Gov. Bell, master of the state grange,
would be candidate for reelection,
1t will be remembered that at their re-
cent convention, the labor men voted to
endorse the grange in the stand taken
by the latter on matters of public pol
ley. Is there any significance in a pos
sible combination Of these purposes and
forest
II the grange were q political organ
ization-which IL is not (O in any
sense--it might find pleasure and profit
in proving factor in the reelection
of an official whose influence, such as 1t
is, would never be directed against ag'
ricultural' interests and whose constant
presence at their meetings would be a
source of pride and an impetus to en-
deavor. Gov. Bell would be an ideal
candidate for the labor man, for he is n
working man himself. He has even
worked at governing. Being a farmer,
he might not favor the s-hour day de-
mand, but perhaps a compromise might
be made on this issue and that Of week
ly payments.
If the grange should conclude that its
interests demand its entrance into
politics and should combine with the
ten or fifteen thousand labor men in the
state to form a peoples party which
would attract those citizens who are un.
willing to support either a machine can
didate or bolter, The Caledonian
might have some reason to fear for the
safety of the Proctor candidacy.
Can it be that The Caledonian has
suspicionsl Otherwise it seems to be
suffering needless anxiety, Clement S
candidacy having fallen (D and the
labor vote in itself being an inadequate
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Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
People VS.. Machine?

The st. Johnsbury Caledonian is ex
periencing hot flashes of righteous in
dignation because the Vermont Union
Signal, the official organ of the state
labor unions, has dared to attack the
candidacy of Fletcher D. Proctor fol
the governorship. The Caledonian de-
clares that the effort of The Signal to
undermine Mr.. Proctor because he is an
enemy to the laboring man is boom,
erang which will fly back to the pit of
the stomach of the Signal g candidate.
As for the candidacy of Percival w.
Clement, that, it says, has fallen fatter
than pancake-and at any rate Glenn
ent could not have the temerity to set
himself up as friend of the laborer.
OF course not!
Then, after fashlight picture of the
peace and content among Proctor s en-
ployes, The Caledonian discloses the
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19

How can it be considered humane in
hopeless cases to keep up respiration
by artificial means and thus add few
hours of agony to the life of the victim
Bellows Falls Times.
Because there are few cases in which
human science is absolutely sure there
is no chance whatever for recovery.
Even if the attending physicians be-
lieve a case hopeless, the relatives and
friends of the patient may not do so,
and would not be satisfied unless every
chance for life were given. The fact,
well known, that recovery has been
made after science had pronounced the
case utterly hopeless is reason enough
for prolonging a waning life to the ut
most in the hope of final rally of vital
forces. Life is precious and few hours
of agony should not weigh against its
possible salvation.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19

The Brattleboro Reformer takes an
unwarranted stand in the recent Allard
murder case in Windsor county. The
contemporary would have us believe
that drunkenness of criminal at the
time he commits crime mitigates that
crime. y If the Reformer desires
to be understood that our statutes make
difference in punishment between the
crimes of a cool, calculating murderer
and those of 'whiskey crazed fend, -
then we beg to differ.-Londonderry
Sitter.
Either The Reformer has been vague
to it's statements or The Sitter dull of
comprehension. Allard was not charged
with murder in the first degree and the
testimony in the case showed no evil
dence of generalization. The Reform
err commended the prompt disposal of
the case and the justice of the sem
tence which, whether the man were a
brutal murderer or dangerous lunatic
Gas is yet uncertain) provided at once
suitable penalty for the crime, restraint
of dangerous parsonage and protec-
ton for the public.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19

In reporting the attempt of a 49,
year-old inmate to break out of the
Bennington Jail where he was confined
for trying to run away with locomo-
tive, a state newspaper says: cit is
a question whether Phelps is vicious
criminal or a partially demented youth,
who has become irresponsible through
the reading of trashy literature We
have no sympathy with the present
tendency to attempt to attribute ire
sponsibility to persons who prove them.
selves dangerous to the community by
the commission of criminal acts, in a
state where no provision is made for the
separate care of such persons. What
difference will it make whether Phelps
is a "vicious criminal or a partially
demented youth" in the treatment &C.
corded him in case he is convictedq
What difference does it make to the
public whose safety he has threatenedf
When we show that we realize a differ
ence in the responsibility of wrongdoers
by taking some definite step toward the
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
A Polygamist in the House.
Rutland Herald

In their zeal against Senator Smoot, mil
lion women having petitioned that he be un
Of the agitators that a more obnoxious mem
Der of the Mormon church has taken his
seat in the house without protest. Bishop
Joseph Howell, representative at large from
Utah, took his seat last December and up ia
this time no one has made him the target OF
stack. And yet Howell is not only a mem.
Der of the Mormon hierarchy, but has testi-
fed as witness in the Smoot hearings that
he has been living in polygamy since the
manifesto against plural wives. 1t would
seem to be an easy thing to make out q case
against him but thus far he appears TO have
escaped the notice of the anti Mormon agita,
tors
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
MATTERS OF OPINION.
Selected from the Editorial Columns OF
Our Esteemed Contemporaries.
Thinks We Are Lavish.
TRutland News.

Bratteboro too has the water question
That village proposes to expend sum not
to exceed a quarter Of a million of dollars
for a new and adequate water works system
There will, of course, be strong objection TO
assuming such terrific load of debt ana
at this distance il seems as If an entirely
sufficient and satisfactory water system
could be constructed for much less sum
than the amount named. But that commun'
ity is unwise which does not when II rs get
ting lis water supply, get one that will be
ample for many years to come and one that
will be above suspicion as to purity. IL IS
superluous to. say that it is better to sxpend,
il necessary, $3.50, 900 for such supply than
half the money for an inferior one.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19

Brattleboro can of course claim re-
lationship with the joint football rules
committee chosen last week. E. X.
Hall, the Dartmouth representative, is
a son of Capt c. P. Hall, former Brat
tleboro resident, while James A. Bah
bitt, the member from Haverford col
lege, is son of Rev. J. II. Babbitt, for
merly pastor of the West Brattleboro
Congregational church. st. Adams Mes,
senger please copy.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
Eggs and Gospel.

Down in bleeding Kentucky the members
of the Women's Missionary society sell all
the eggs their hens lay on the Sabbath for
money to keep Japan supplied with mission.
aries From the way Japan has been acting
lately we suspect that she contemplates send.
ing missionaries to us; still, the scheme
and we would willingly forego some of the
boiled eggs that are passed out to us at this
season to egg on some reformer to his task
of enlightening a world that lives mostly on
rice. Four Kentucky missionaries will walk
on eggs to their new field of labor in the
spring. Why are we not emulous of the
Blue Grass statel Have we no citizens who
will forego their Sunday beer to teach civil
ization to Japsl
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
Sees Trouble Ahead.

The past history of the Mormons tells us
that trouble has arisen between them and
the common, law-abiding citizens of every
state and community in which they have TAX
en- up their abode. The question is, will they
gradually make Vermont place of refuge
as they are driven from their quarters in
Utah and Idaho where the light is being
turned in upon their shameful conduct II
from them as has every other locality of
their habitation.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19

When the president of the United
States, with all the glamor of his great
office, steps into the presence of an
American mother he is in the presence
of his superior.-Representative Shep-
pard of Texas.
Perhaps this statement explains why
the president does not always step into
the presence of American mothers
when he is summoned There are a few
inferior ones.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
Col. Clarke Around.


Col. Albert Clarke of the Boston Home
Market club is not so ubiquitously active as
Wakeman, but he's around, He informs the
New York paper that the demand for tariff
revision in Massachusetts, comes from pol
iticians and not from the people. IF il
were not he says, "for the hope of the
shoe manufacturers that revision will bring
free hides, l believe that the demand for il
in this state would be almost wholly confined
to the democratic party He further in.
forms the New York paper that the republi.
cans of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Rhode Island and Connecticut are solid-as
far as he can see-against reciprocity with
Canada and tariff revision
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19

proper treatment of the irresponsible
II will be time enough TO begin to draw
distinctions. At present II is an Inn
pertnence TO society. Responsible or
irresponsible, such persons are unfit to
he at large.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
Paradise at Proctor.
Tst. Johnsbury Republican. !

The Vermont Union Signal opposes the
governor because it thinks he is the enemy of
organized labor and the working mans in.
terest
What makes this statement absurd on the
face of it is the well-known and universally
acknowledged fact that nowhere in the in.
dustrial world is capital and labor more sat
isfactorily blended and both parties more
contented and prosperous than at Proctor
where this same Fletcher d. Proctor is the
head of the Vermont Marble company, the
states largest industrial enterprise.
out2
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
A False Position,

lMOntpeler Argus.
Perhaps the press agent of the Clement
campaign did not attempt to acquire any of
the space of the Free Press for advertising
purposes. This might account for the posi-.
tion which that journal has taken as against
the selling of space for political advertis.
ing; But. when the Free Press says that
such as the requirement of such space for
such purposes is illegal, it probably does not
think that the statement will be taken Sc.
riously. The Free Press does not belieYe the
statement itself, no matter to what extent IL
quotes legal enactments
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19

Is political advertising right Mont
peler Journal.
Not in Vermont. The political ma
chine which manages this state thinks
it would be wasteful to advocate its
candidates and does not wish to en-
courage competition.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19

People who believe in the maxim of
live and let live are inclined to deride
the Audubon society for its attitude to-
ward the English sparrow. 1t seems that
some of the members of this organiza-
ton are leaders in the campaign of ex-
termination which is being waged
against this feathered pest, and the live
and-let-liveites think that such action
on the part of the bird lovers is ineon-
sistent. As a matter of fact the Eng
fish sparrows do more to drive away
song birds than all other causes com
bined. The more dead sparrows, there
fore, the more live song birds. The
Audubon-ites win probably agree with
The Meddler that the only good Eng
fish sparrow is dead English sparrow.
The Meddler.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
A Matter OF Necessity.


IBUfIlnEIOH FTtt IIE6a'I
The Bennington Banner wonders whether
the Vermont AntiSaloon league is lighting
for temperance in the wisest way. There viii
always be a difference Of opinion with refer.
ence to methods OF work by organizations OF
this character, but so long as the work OF OPP
posing the saloons is effective, it makes little
difference in reality in what name il is ac.
complished When business concerns insist
upon total abstinence, however, there is little
room for argument as regards its merits.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
Poor Show for Leland.
bennington Banner

Col. G. f. Leland may amuse himself by
being a candidate if he chooses to, but since
Honest John Merrifeld has announced his
willingness to be candidate, the Banner
opines that any other will find it hard sled
ding Vermont has few citizens who have
earned the esteem and respect OF the voters
as has Mr., Merrfed.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
The Towns Yearly Problem.

The local option part of the license law
will soon be in operation again. II is time
for the fair.minded citizen to think over the
situation in his town TO see If it can be bet
tered by change II is every voters duty
10 vote and then the result viii be representa-
tive Of the desires OF the majority.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
Definition Wanted.


St Albans Messenger.
I'm order to have the local option law an
entire success, every town and city in the
state must vote no-lieense. Londonderry
Sitter.
What does local option mean-any color so
long as il is bluel
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19

Perfection can only be attained in the
physical by allowing Nature to appropriate
and not dissipate her own resources, Ca
thartics grippe, weaken-dissipate, while De-
Wits Little Early Risers simply expel all
putrid matter and bile thus allowing the
liver to assume normal activity. Good for
the complexion. Sold bv George Z. Greene.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19

In the matter of choosing counsel the
board has done a rather surprising thing
if reports and appearances are to be
read Alright Instead Of engaging the
village attorney to act in its behalf the
board has retained Waterman 4 Martin.
There is nothing the matter with this
firm as far as its ability is concerned,
and one of its members has stated pub
liely that he has no interest in the
question one way or the other, but 1t
would almost seem, in view of the fact
that the board is acting for the village,
as if the attorney who is supposed to
represent the village in legal matters
could have been depended upon to do
the proper thing in this ease. But never
mind; the board has right to employ
whomsoever it wishes and probably has
a reason for doing as it has. The Med
dler is not finding fault; he is simply
showing surprise.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
Working for Its own Interest.

tVergennes Enterprise
And what business has labor union in
politics anyway
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19

Montpelier Journal
George F. Leland of Springfield persists
in being candidate for Acknowledgements
or. John II. Merrifeld persists in nothing of
the kind, unless the people want him but he
is pretty good man for the people to persist
in having.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
Flowers Will Follow Bouncing.

TMOHIptTleT ArguS.I
Over one million women have signed their
names to the petitions asking congress to
bounce Smoot. Poor Smoot, if he was only
in Jail he would receive flowers.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
Light Breaking In.

1t seems to be slowly dawning upon the
minds OF several West Point and Annapolis
cadets that the idea they must be towards
and bulies in order TO be soldiers and sailors
is an erroneous one.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19

The village water board is full OF
business already Its first meeting was
held last Saturday evening when organ
ization was perfected and various sub
committees chosen, and since that time
there has hardly been night without
gathering of some sort. In pursuance
of vote taken at the initial meeting
the members are keeping mum as TO
their plan of campaign, and none OF
them will say word as to what has
been accomplished thus far. This en-
forced silence must be severe trial to
some of the members-more so, in fact,
than to the public which has become ex.
tremely tired of hearing the question ar.
gued. However, when the water board
actually accomplishes something the
voters of the village will have right
to know what has been done.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
PROBATE NOTICES.

The charge for probate notices of the
usual length in the Reformer for the three
weeks required by law is $500. This in.
cludes Commissioners Notices, Will Notices
to have you direct tn Register of Probate
to send your notices to this office.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-19
THE MEDDLER,
"UMe roaf ms jon PIT " on

The hullabaloo that resulted from inc
statement in the Boston Sunday Herald
that the Valley Fair association was
A 500 behind the game would aiihos'
lead one to think that the officers "e ne
worried about holding their jobs, VI
course the statement was absolutely
false and nothing but misunderstahd,
ing caused its appearance; yet nla''ol'
would have been just as wen II the az,
sociation 3 officers had not gone TO such
lengths to brand il unjust, UNFAIR UNI
,rue incorrect and sensational, Ihere
IL no reason 10 believe that the valley
fair is going out of business ON account
of n deficit of "A few hundred dollars,
and nearly everybody who is interested
in tbe fair knows that the balance on
the wrong side is no larger than that'
When statement to the contrary APP
peared simple statement OF fact was
all that was necessary from the manage
mont There was no occasion for hyste'
ria.
In n letter to the Reformer this week
Mr. Pierce states that he will not be a
candidate for the senate this year Inc
Meddler is glad to see that Mr.. Pierce
has made this decision. There is M
doubt that he would make good man IN
the upper branch of the Legislature,
beneftting probably from his expert
ence there last term; but as he wisely
saws his candidacy FOR second term
would break well established preee-
dent and no doubt cause feeling in some
quarters. Besides, Mr.. Pierce is a
young man yet-as politicians 60
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-02
How Martinique Recovered.

When on May morning four years
ago an expedition which had been hw-
ried to the scene Of the st. Pierre di.
saster brought the ruins into view,
there was SO much OF utter desolation,
such drifts OF scoria and volcanic ash
over all of the scared and blasted region,
Shat the generally expressed opinion
was that never green thing could ever
grow there again. The writer, who was
member OF that first expedition,
has been offered an opportunity of visit
ing the ruins again. And such marvels
has this tropical nature wrought
throughout these last four vearsl
Greenness everywhere save on the slopes
Of Pelee itself and in the deep swales
and elevations of that lava river whose
turbulent brown pillows look as though
they had been suddenly stiled when in
the moment of their utmost action. Over
the gray walls green things have crept,
bushes, some Of them twenty and thirty
feet in height, have sprung up in such
rank profusion as to make difficult a
passage through Them and beneath the
grass is matted two and three feet deep.
a few years more and the place will
look more like Il primeyal wilderness
than the site OF "A once populous city,
and which Pelee within d few moments
covered into a cemetery OF thirty thou
sand dead. Rochester Post Express.
T y
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-02
MlN0T CHOSEN CAPTAIN
OF HARVARD TRACK TEAM
Is the Best Mile Runner in His College
and a Consistent Point Winner
in All His Races.

Cambridge, Mass, William Minots
Harvard or, Of Boston, Haryard's best
mile runner Of the year, has been unaiii-
mously elected captain Of the Harvard
varsity track team for next season.
The only candidate against Minot was
N. III. Stone, Ilarvads two-mile man,
hut on an informal ballot which pre-
coded the ballot for election, Minot
showed tho greater strength, and upon
the formal ballot that followed Minot's
election was unanimous.
Harvard's new track captain prepared
Tor college at Noble and Greenough's
school, but in his freshman year at coli
lege failed to make the varsity track
team. Last year he secured place on
The team, but was not among the point
winners at either of the big meetings.
He has been running much better this
spring and won the mile in his class
games, repeating the performance when
the Harvard team met Vale week ago
last Saturday. In the Intercollegiate
at the Stadium, last Saturday, Minot
finished fourth, scoring a single point for
Harvard.
Aiinot Is very popular with the stu
dents at Harvard. and is member of
the Institute of 1170 of the Hasty Pud-
ding Club, of the D. X. Il. and of sew
eral other college societies.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-06-02

Lady NicOtine's venomous Sisters.

The cutlery IS always the same
Nicotine. But many other of the prin-
eiples of tobacco are as pernicious as
nicotine and when. IL comes to that
Il would be equally peruicious to smoke
rye straw or any other simple, because
(for one of several reasons) there is a
continuous production of oxide of carbon
wherever there Is imperfect combustion.
The smoker carries in his mouth a
/ little furnace, whose fires are fed with
oxide Of carbon; the fire shoulders I'M
der ashes, and the smoker fans it by
means of the steam of his pipe or the
vent ri his cigar or cigarette. Year at :
ter year, and all the year, the furnace
is in place. burning oxide of carbon, and
the smoker is working the bellows with
part OF the force of his respiratory
organs. The combustion of tobacco
smoke is complex. Analysis gives:
Nicotine. pyridic bases, formic aldehyie,
ammonia. methyamin, pyrrol. sulphurst-
ted hydrogen, prussic acid, butyric acid
(butyrin), earbonic acid, oxide of ear.
bon, the steam OF water, and etherized
empyrenmatie oil and larry or resinous
products. among which we detect small
quantities of phenoI. OF all the products
OF tobacco the most venomous are nco-
tine, pyridic and methyIamin bases,
prussic acid, sulphuretted hydrogen,
oxide OF carbon and cmpyreumatic oil;
and all that we draw into our lungs
with more or less satisfaction.--iIar
Weekly.