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The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29
Cannonism Doomed.
Burlington News.l

William Allen White, the Kansas editor
declares that the state of Kansas will make
clean sweep and elect no Cannon repub
licans to the 63d congress. Emma Gold
man in her palmiest days." says White
never made so many anarchists as Uncle
Joe The people are tired of Cannon
They are going to retire him from public
life. Here in the west and middle west
the great movement for progress is well
progressive element of the republican party
will be in control. The end of things re-
dictionary is in sight"
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

At the annual meeting of the state auto
mobile club last week Secretary of State
Guy w. Bailey made the statement that
out-of-state automobilists should be made
to pay nominal tax to Vermont as soon
as they entered it's boundaries, so that the
state can keep track of them through their
registration. We heartily disapprove of
this plan. Vermont's poor roads send
enough auto traffic elsewhere without the
assistance of additional regulations. The
state ought to do everything possible to in
of considering the formulation of annoying
rules that will tend to keep them out.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

Experiments made by scientists prove
that germs of grip, pneumonia, diphtheria,
tonsiltis, tuberculosis and other diseases
Turk in public drinking cups and are spread
by their use. Massachusetts,, New York,
New Jersey, Michigan and several other
states through their boards of health have
abolished the common drinking cup for
use on railroads and may well prohibit its
use in other public places. On many rail
roads machines for vending individual cups
made of paper and covered with paraffine
have been installed, but unless we are mis-
taken the Anticipated, germ-distributing
method is still in vogue in Central Yer
mont stations and passenger coaches.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

Some men may carry around more
than normal supply OF brains, but
few possess heart larger than Uncle"
Horace's. Bailey's blood is red. 1t is
OF consistency that buys hungry
man plate of beans and cup of
coffee. If Horace gives you a cigar
it's good one. If you want to make
him birthday present send him some
good smoking material. Horace holds
a cigar as though his fingers were ossi-
fed. He smokes one like an expert.
He has been hustered but once in his
llfe.. On that occasion--one gray No
vember afternoon in l902-Horace was
occupying his seat way back in the cor
ner of the house of representatives at
Montpelier, when breezy effort upon
the part of Emmett McFeeters of
Enosburg stirred the atmosphere
around Bailey. The Enosburg man at
tempted to be facetious at the expense
of the W. G. T. U. of Vermont. Mr..
Bailey began to display symptoms of
anger, 'apoplexy and fight before he
got his feet disentangled from his desk.
When he got onto his feet what he said
to McFeeters was plenty, and it
tended to curb the rest of the funny
ones. Mr.. Bailey's tribute to the
womanhood of Vermont on that No
vember afternoon made him solid with
the fair sex.
1t is said that one bank in st. Johns
bury has all it can handle in the way
of savings accounts, and that Horace
Bailey as a trustee of the institution
doesn't tend to drive business away.
Horace is something of politician. 1t
takes a politician to land the job of U.
S. marshal with Vermont field of
hungry ones chasilg after you. The
appointment of Horace was one that
Senator Proctor never regretted.
Though, Mr.. Bailey was not a member
of the kitchen cabinet, he was trusted
with the secrets of the inner shrine,
and his ability to weigh and measure
men compelled the house of Proctor to
call upon him more than once for coun-
sci. When it became known that Hor-
ace must submit to surgical operation,
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29
Money in Apples.
(St. Adams Messenger

NFIV' -fIFJ'IIIS -'I01fF7NI15NT'T
There is money in apple culture and it is
safe to say that many a farm in Vermont
that is barely paying its owners keep to
day is of soil peculiarly fitted for the
profitable growing of this fruit. To be
sure, it takes times to get an orchard un.
der way, it takes labor and patience and
careful unabating vigilance to keep it un-
der proper tillage and free from pests, be
cause the only way to grow apples is to
tend each separate tree as if it were a
plant, as it is. But the ambitious Yer
monter that is willing to mix brains with
sweat can raise apples in this state that,
under the skies where this delicious fruit
cannot be made to flourish, will sell as
oranges do with u.s.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29
Inconsistent HapgoOd.
bennington Banner.)

Hapgood exclaims about the deer, 1e-
claring them to be the paramount attrac-
ton in Vermont, but personally we cannot
see as it is any worse to shoot a doe than
to catch and kill female trout filled with
spawn. Hapgood is the owner of several
sawmills and does not hesitate to turn
sawdust into our beautiful mountain trout
streams, and sawdust destroys amounted
millions of trout fry every year in this
state. Could these trout be brought to
maturity we believe they would attract
more visitors to Vermont than the glimpse
of wild deer three times a day.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29
statement?

The Valley Fair association will have to
choose new president at its annual meet
ing in January. James F. Hooker's deter
mination not to seek reelection has been
known to the officers of the fair association
for several months but the understanding
was that he should not make public his
resignation until short time previous to
the annual meeting. The importance of
securing an active, progressive, broad
minded man as head of the fair associa-
ton cannot be overestimated. The fact
that the association showed a profit this
year does not mean that any less energy
can be expended hereafter nor that fur
Their retrenchment is all that is necessary
to bring about increased earnings. Wise
management is of more importance now
than ever.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

In their annual report the trustees of
the Thompson fund devote paragraph to
tuberculosis, closing as follows: ut does
when he says tuberculosis" And we add
for the benefit of the trustees themselves:
'It does not cure the disease to require
patient to give up her family doctor if she
wishes the benefit of modern treatment
such as the Thompson fund is helping pay
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29
Plain Truth.
Manchester Journal.)

There seems to be great deal of incon-
sistency on the part of many farmers
throughout the state inasmuch as they are
now posting their lands to keep people
from shooting deer but are continually
bringing claims against the state for dam
age done by deer. 1t seems to us as
though if they did not wish their crops
damaged by the deer they should at least
welcome the destruction of these deer in a
legal manner. If man posts his lands he
should be declared from collecting damage
from the state for injury to his crops.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

out was indicative of wisdom and virtue.
Mr.. Adams was one of the few members
who made names for themselves by consist
emily opposing the outrageous salary grab
Moreover, he is man of strict integrity
and wide legislative experience, one of the
kind who form their own opinions care
fully and adhere to them.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

The 32d annual meeting of the Vermont
Bar association will be held in Montpelier
Tuesday, Nov. .. The first session will be
held in the Washington county court house
at o'clock. The annual banquet will be
held at the Pavilion hotel the same even
ing. A good meeting is anticipated, and
it is expected that all the supreme court
will grace the occasion with their presence.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

Although it is almost year too early to
begin talking county politics many people
viii be interested to know that Edwin p.
Adams of Marlboro has practically decided
to be candidate for. state senator from
this district Mr. Adams was member
of the notorious legislature of 1908, but in
his case the connection cannot be worked
to disadvantage because his record through
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29
Pretty Poor!
Rutland News. J

Who recalls having seen Halley's comet
in lS35?-St. Adams Messenger.
1t 'passed through Brattleboro," and all
of the truthful citizens of that village
with any sort of local pride saw it and are
intimately acquainted with it. In fact, it's
tail was born in Brattleboro and passed its
formative period there. 1t was the orig
inal Brattleboro fairy tail.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

the annual meeting of the Vermont State
Teachers association in Burlington Satur-
day: President. F. G. Ham of Randolph:
vice-president, f. b. Smith of Brattleboro;
treasurer d. T. Page of Bakersfield; sec
rotary. \. H. Hartman of Niddlebury;
executive committee. f. NJ Roscoe of
Springfield. G. s. Wright of St Adams
and \. f. futile of Bellows Falls
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

From the way the state newspapers are
lining up on the governorship question it is
apparent that Uncle John Abner of Rut-
land is not going to have the support of
the organization. Though possessing few
ardent champions the lieutenant governor
finds a majority of the republican papers
against him. To be sure, they have not
come out openly yet in favor of any par
ticular candidate in opposition to Uncle
John, but that is only because the organ
ization isn't ready to have the announce
ment made just yet. The popular upris-
ing for Gates which was started at the
Fish and Game banquet seems to have run
short of yeast, so silence has been decided
upon as the wisest course from now until
Col. DIN Merrill of Enosburg announces
his candidacy He isn't going to run?
Who has authority for making such
statement2
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

Frank +. Chamberlin of st. Adams has
been appointed manager of the construc-
ton company which is now building the
Grand Trunk Pacific railroad, with head
quarters at Cochrane, Ont Mr.. Chamber
lin was formerly general manager of the
tary to Gov. f. G.. Smith during his term
of office
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

By the way is anything in the world of
literature falling quite so fiat as the adven-
lures Of Bwana Jumbo in the sable CONT
nent Rutland Herald.
Some of the Burlington Free PRESS at
tempts to be funny are almost as bad,
though perhaps not quite.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

The Thompson fund trustees are of. the
opinion that their work in Brattleboro has
been hindered "by many irresponsible
statements by outside parties as to what
the trust was or was not doing" and
therefore ask those who wish to know what
the trust can and will do ''to find out, if
possible, at first hand from the trustees or
their agents." Has anyone yet found it
possible to find out definitely what the
trust can or will do, either by asking the
trustees or their agents? The agents al
ways refer inquiries to the trustees, whose
spokesman, Mr.. Bradley, is apparently
about as familiar with lucid English as a
caterpillar is with the Apostles Creed.
1t is Mr.. Bradley's inability or unwilling
ness to make himself understood on mat
tiers connected with the administration of
the trust locally that gives rise to many of
the irresponsible statements" mentioned.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

1t is said that monkey at Chicago has
starved himself TO death because of the
death of his owner. This will make the
New York society crowd sit up and take
notice.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

United States Senator w. p. Dillingham;
has just returned from visit to the Ha-
waiian Islands where he has been inves-
tigating conditions relative to immigration.
News despatch.
Is the chairman of the immigration COM
mission at last doing little real inves-
tipatinp2
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

Someone has taken to calling M. j. Hap
good the tinker" of Peru-a very appro-
pirate nom de plume.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

Entered as second class matter, January A,
1907, at the post office at Brattleboro Vt,
under the act of Congress of March 2, 1879.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

While the weather is mild the teeth
should receive care. Do not begin the
winter with aching teeth nor permit chill
dren to do So Defective teeth may cause
nervousness, Indigestion, deafness, trouble
with the eyes and throat, and l know not
how many other ills.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

must keep the same principal invested and
only use income unless he elects to take
his one-third. Would he feel in any degree
handicapped under such circumstances
He might feel that she had no right to
touch more than half of their joint
property to give away. But thinking so.
would not make it so, unless the laws
agree. He might fare better to accept UNI
der the will than to contest it. If any
man would imagine himself living under
are desirable and progressive. Some wom-
Some might not be able to manage prop
erty or business if they had it. Many,
however, develop talent in this direction
Why should not marriage be a full part
nership in property as well as care and
responsibility and labor? The expression.
with all my worldly goods / thee endow"
sounds real enough, but simply means
with ''one-third of my real estate. / thee
endow"
The Sacramento Bee gives women's clubs
the credit of instituting many reforms ''in
way men would not think of doing"
The Dallas Culture club is referred to as
Kidding the locality of mosquitoes by
sprinkling all pools with kerosene, and they
were gone 1t adds: That is a peculiar
ity of women; their suddenness. They
don't like to consider and hem and haw
and whereas about thing. Once they
have their minds made up; then is the
time to act Resolve and execution 90
right along. hand in hand. which. after all,
is the surest way of getting anywhere"
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

Subscription Rates-$1.50 per year; six
months, rs cents; four months, so cents; per
copy, cents. All subscriptions are payable
in advance. Sample copies will be mailed
free on request
On and after February l, 1909 all sub
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unless renewed and paid for in advance.
Advertising Rates-Wanted, For Sale, To
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and cents per line for each subsequent in
Bertion. Announcement at head of local col
umn, same rate. Resolutions, obituary poe
try, etc, 5 cents per line. Card of thanks,
so cents. Display advertising rate on APP
plication. Cash must accompany all orders
from, parties not having an account with us.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

Have you ever baked beets instead of
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

Gray with jet is especially popular with
women of 80 or over. Where blue Is most
becoming blue with jet is much used.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

When you embroider, wear a dainty
apron.
Wash buttonholed edges before cutting
them out.
The embroidery needle must be perfect,
both as to oval eye and smoothness.
Keep an emery in the work bag for fire.
quent reference.
When braiding dress panel or waist
put canvas underneath to insure smooth
ness after the work is done. If hoop Is
used it must be carefully padded so as not
to crease the goods.
Lydia Eliot.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

In caring for the sick always have the
tray scrupulously tidy. Never fill cups too
full nor allow anything to slop over. Carry
cream in a small pitcher rather than pour
II over the cereal
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29

The present vogue in couture is called
the mop style. The best effect is pro-
duced, it is said, by buying one on gauze
ready to pin ON, for there is much labor in
arranging it from ones own hair.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29
OUR HALL OF FAME.

p. 81 am sending you hind-quarte
by eXpress collect.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1909-04-22

First get your moisture, then raise a
crop on it, " is the formula adopted by
one successful farmer. He told how he
had plowed twelve inches deep. had
narrowed and cultivated and then
raised thirty-five bushels of wheat,
fifty bushels of corn, and generous
crops of rough feed on each acre,
finally starting a profitable fruit or
chard all this on a rainfall of less than
fifteen inches annually. Year after
year moisture preservation has in
creased his supply and the soil-bed has
constantly grown richer and deeper. -
From "'The Truth About Dry Farm
ing" by Chas. NJ. Harger, in the
American Review of Reviews for Apr.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1909-04-22
After College Days, What?

What to do next 1t is big prob
lem, isn't it? And to the girl on the
eve of graduation, it is a problem that
assumes appalling proportions. Yet,
really, if we look it straight in the face,
it isn't such an awful question after all.
BY we, | mean girls of average intelli-
gence-not geniuses seeking careers,
but girls who either by choice or neces-
sity decide to earn their own living in
some way.
1t is ignorance of the requirements
and of the advantages and disadvan-
tages connected with the various phases
of professional business and home life
that seems to be the cornerstone of
perpleXity and the cause of failure in
many cases. You must take time to
study the different occupations and thus
decide for which you are best adapted.
The sooner the artist by choice realizes
that she is a housekeeper by ability,
the better it will be for pride and
pocketbook. The first thing, then, for
the college girl in choosing an occupa-
ton, is to find out what she can't do;
then, by the eliminative process, TO de-
eide for what line of work she is best
fitted, considering temperament, train
ing, home conditions and opportunity in
general. The Delineator for May.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1909-04-22
DODGEVILLE NEWS.

From the Snn-kepublic.
The windstorm Sunday did consdera-
BILE damage in various localities. The
p M. church sheds were tipped over
and A. J. Phillips new barn was moved
from its foundation.
The New Stratman Vehicle company
shipped IL milk wagons Saturday, 10 on
Monday and IL the following day, a to-
tai of 80 in three days, which isn't SO
bad for a ''dead" town.
Supt. E. ]. Perkins has received no
tice of an order from the state board
of control to the Rock county asylum
for the transfer of eleven LAFAYETTE
county patients from that institution to
the Iowa county asylum. The transfer
was made this week. Thirty patients
from various other asylums in the state
viii be transferred in the near future.
At SO per week for each patient neat
income will accrue to the county as a
direct result of the new addition to the
asylum.
From the Chronicle
All applications for saloon licenses
were withdrawn from the city council
thereby leaving the city without sa.
looms again until July first.
The building formerly used by the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1909-04-22
What dry Farming" Means.

In all of the discussion of the term
dry farming" much misunderstanding
exists. At the recent congress there
was an attempt to change the organi-
zation' S name to "Arid Farming Con-
gress. In simple phrase it means a
method of farming that shall include
deep blowing and frequent pulverizing
of the top soil out of as well as during
the growing season. 1t is based on the
principle that the moisture falling in
rain or snow may sink into the earth if
the soil be loosened Then that there
shall be kept above that moistened bed
close. fine blanket of dust that shall
prevent evaporation. If the burrows
be turned at right angles to the pre-
vailing winds of winter, the snow may
be caught. and if the pulverizing har-
row be sent over the field after every
rain, the seed is certain to receive a
maximum amount of sustenance. If it
does not get enough in one season, it
may in two, and a crop every alternate
year. if a good one, is ample return on
cheap land. OF course there must be
good soil as basis only irrigation
can conquer sand.
To accomplish all this special machin-
cry has come into use. Horses could
not pull plows biting deep into the
tough. century-dried soil, % powerful
engines that roll majestically along
with two dozen plows en- train are in
their places. Press drills that plant
the seed deep; pulyerizing harrows that
break the surfate into powderlike fine
ness. and other appliances are used.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1909-04-22
City Government by commi..;,n.

The plan of city government by com-
mission is commencing to attract
good deal of attention in this state.
There is now pending before the state
it optional with cities in adopting this
form of government, and from the
numerous comments noticed in the
state papers it would seem that there
is considerable sentiment in favor of
the adoption of this bill. Where the
commission plan has been tried it has
resulted so satisfactorily, and has APP
peared to be such great improve
ment over the old plan of city govern
ment, it has set the people everywhere
to thinking about this new system.
And if the Wisconsin legislature should
adopt the necessary legislation to allow
Wisconsin cities to try this commission
plan there is little doubt that not few
places in the state would hasten to
undertake the experiment.
A very strong boost to the commits
sion plan of city government has re-
Gently been given by the official
report of.Des Moines, Iowa, where this
system has been on trial for the past
year with unusually satisfactory re-
suits. 1t is estimated, for instance,
that by having the commission form of
government there has been saved to
the citizens of that place at least
500, 900 during the past year, and
where the city finances were in de-
plorable condition when the change
was made to the new system, there is
now gratifying balance in the city
treasury, while public improvements
have gone forward at a more rapid
rate than even when the old ward and
council system prevailed.
There can be no question that the
present system of city government is
faulty and Objectionable in many re-
spects, and the evidence secured by
experience seems to prove conclusively
that the commission form Of munich
pal government is great improve
ment. There are cities in something
like half a dozen states that are now
operated under the commission plan,
while in many other places the plan is
being agitated and discussed and
movements have been started to make
the change. Wisconsin, as a progress
sive state, should not hesitate to give
its own cities the opportunity to adopt
this new system, if chey so desire, and
this is all the pending bill before the
legislature contemplates.