The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-08
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The man who recently applied to Tow
| Clerk Newton for marriage license anC
| came near getting hunters license in
stead can sympathize with the Holyoke
Mass, resident who in his hunt for a mat
rimonlal sanction wandered by mistake
into the office of the city inspector Of
plumbing and asked for license. The
inspector looked at the applicant a min
ute and then inquired whether he desired
a new license or simply wanted to have
his old one, renewed Neither of these
applicants, however, were put through
the course OF sprouts described in the fol.
lowing clipping from the Chicago Daily So
calist:
Smiling, Pat strolled into the examina-
ton room where candidates for the police
force underwent their physical test.
Strip" ordered the police sergeant.
,"Phwat's that?" demanded the uninitiat-
ed.
Get your clothes off, and be quick about
it,"
Mumbling and muttering, Pat disrobed,
and the doctor proceeded to the test.
Hop over this bar!' ordered the doctor.
Pat did his best, which landed him on
the small of his back.
Now jump under this cold shower"
ordered the doctor.
,"Shure, that's funny" muttered the APP
plcant, as he obeyed.
"And, now, concluded the doctor,
run round the room ten times, to test
your heart and wind"
Pat hesitated, then
coil, mott" he blurted out. "Oi'll sthay
snglen'
'Single?" inquired the doctor, mystifed
Eyes, singe!" repeated the Irshman
What's all this, fussing go to do wild a
marriage lcense?"
He had strayed into the wrong office.
Never again, perhaps, will the Connecti-
cut and its setting be as gorgeously beau
tiful as the present week has seen them
Despite the absence of sharp frosts, deft
painters of brilliant autumnal pictures, the
foliage this year is unusually vivid in its
coloring red in all shades being the pre-
dominating hue. Brought out in all its
beauty by the crystal atmosphere of rare
October days, the glorious display along
the river has been douby Respondent
through its counterpart in the mirror sur
face of the stream the water of which laps
the very leaves themselves and makes it
well nigh impossible for the spectator to
discern the dividing line between reality
and reflection. Another year. and this
perfect picture is likely to be a thing of
the past, for the floods of spring will no
doubt uproot many of the trees whose bril-
liant foliage at the rivers edge adds so
much to the wondrous vista, leaving a
well defined mark between land and wa.
ter. Even those trees that withstand the
freshet's force will GRADUALLY die from he
inc submerged at +Ip roots ca tbo+ the
scene will never be as marvellous as If is
Just now. The men who control the mech
anism at the dam could not have chosen
more appropriate time for installing adj
litional fashboards and thus setting the
water back. Had the river been at its
present height all summer its deadly effect
upon the trees along the shore would be
apparent even now. As it is the water
ouches foliage in all the grandeur of its
raiment, and with the help of
he sun creates spectacle worth travel
ng miles to see.
Twice last veel, the fuses at the Vernon
md Of The mower line from the dam Ia
he Estev oracn factory were blown ont bv
hort .circuits cansed bv nieces eos" Of wire