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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13
IS BARTER STILL LEGAL?

Purely as a matter of public con-
venience the Journal is printing the
time of the arrival and departure
of trains. This is done without any
compensation other than the knowl-
edge that in so doing this paper rem
ders a service to it's readers. 1t Is n
right to expect compensation FROM
the railroads, and one for which the
railroad companies would gladly
pay in mileages were it not for what
the Journal believes to be an absurd
and illogical construction of the law,
whereby the Railroad Commission has
refused TO permit the railroads to
make such an exchange.
If farmer may exchange his but
ter or his eggs for the grocer's tea
and sugar, why may not the newspa-
per exchange it's advertising space
for mileages? 1t does not seem to this
paper that the higher courts would
bear out s lch a construction of the
law, for it strikes at the roots of bar
ter. the oldest kind of trade in the
world. Not all business is done on d
cash basis. Even now the farmer. for
example, often has more produce than
ready money, and will buy certain
goods only on condition that he may
pay for them in the articles which he
raises on his farm. Railroads some
times find it easier to pay for advel
Using in mileages than in money.
Why should this right be refused?
A bill legalizing such exchange was
before the last Legislature and was
beaten by methods not at all credit
able. The contention that newspa-
pers would be subsidized by permit
ting fair exchange of commodi
ties ought to be too ridiculous for
serious consideration. Apparently it
was believed by members of the last
General Assembly. In earlier days,
when publisher took a cord Of
wood from farmer in payment for
his paper there was no hint of an
improper transaction. If a man who
owns a newspaper chooses to take
from merchants who advertise with
him book or a dress pattern, a box
of pills or bag of beans, instead of
money, he ought to have the privi-
lege. Because one party to a transact
ton is a railroad the principle in
volved is not different The meu
who sought to conjure up dark
plots and disGreditable transactions
out Of fair and open business meth
ads did not add to their fame as
statesmen Or TO their usefulness rs
citizens, The question merely res
solves Itself into a matter Of NOOK
keeping, and is so simple that 1t
ought to be easy for any person to
understand the merits of the case,
If the publisher may take the money
of a railroad for services rendered
he is not likely to be debauched by
taking mileagcs and turning those
mileages into money.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13

and drummer routes are in many
cases running away from "acres of
diamonds" under their feet.
Take any fairly we'll salaried man
| in Vermont Industrial or business
life. Unless of extraordinary thrift or
particularly fortunate as to oppor-
tunity, he will work all his life for
good salary, pay out all he can
earn for the upkeep of his home and
family, with the occasional spell of
sickness or misfortune to act as a
drag and will finally decline into a
penniless or laborious old age, with
practically no possible provision made
/ for retirement. There are of course
the exceptions, whose families are
small, who make fortunate invest
ments or who acquire little proper
ty, but the average salaried mantle
sort that the farmers boy runs away
from home to become-will live and
die practically as outlined
Suppose on the other hand he stays
at home. Let him get the best edu-
cation going, practical and theoreti-
cal, and he will presently succeed to
the homestead, or a part of thereof
that will give him his start. With mod
crate intelligence and application, he
must at the worst make living. With
any reasonable industry, he should
come into a nice property with his
old age, with sons and grandsons to
take up the burden and permit him
to walk placidly down the sunny side
of the hill of life, with little real
anxiety as to the future.
There are positive advantages
about farm life in Vermont, and the
frequent specialist who not only
makes living and acquires
property, but who makes a
snug fortune is not beyond
the aspiration of any farmers boy.
The agricultural calling is something
that ought to call into service the pick
of our citizenship, because, despite
our recent strides as an industrial
State, agriculture will be for many
years the industry that employs the
bone and sinew of our population.
Between existing on a salary, as
good as such things average in this
State, and making a living on the old
place, with the chance for independ-
ence and real competence that it Of
fers, the boy who neglects the chances
that are offered on the farm is throw
ing away opportunity with both hands.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13

megalomania can a government clerk
maintain that he is responsible NOT
to his superior officer in the bureau,
but to the people of the United
States. 1t is Mr. Taft, who was elect
ed president, that is responsible to
the people, and his administrative
subordinates are responsible to him.
If they disapprove of his policies,
they should resign in case they wish
to conduct a popular agitation on the
issue. But for them to remain in
office and assume that they are res
ponsible to the people alone" rather
than to the appointlve power, involves
so preposterous a situation that it
may as well be dismissed with a
smile.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13
(EnOsburg Standardl

The appointment by President Taft
of the Hon. o. M. Barber of Benning-
ton as one of the five judges of the
Federal Customs Court recently Great
ed by Congress, is a most excellent
one and it is hardly necessary to say
that it is decidedly satisfactory to Ver-
monters. Mr.. Barber is eminently
well qualified by natural ability, legal
training and wide experience to per-
form the duties of this new position
in a manner to establish a creditable
judicial record; in short, he will make
good.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13
Grandmothers and crandathers Who Believe in pe.ruua

S1T CAN recommend Peruna as good
medicine for chronic catarrh of the
stomach and bowels. 1 have been
troubled with it severely for over year,
and also cough.
"Now my cough is all gone, and all the
distressing symptoms of catarrh of the
stomach and bowels have disappeared
az will recommend it to all as q rare
remedy Mrs. F. E. Little, Tolono, Ill.
IlT HAD catarrh of the stomach, bow
els and lower internal organs. Had
q great deal of pain in my right hip,
which felt like rheumatism. Also, pain
in my internal organs. The water was
highly colored, my back was weak, was
constipated, and very restless.
81 commenced to take Peruna accord
ing to directions, and began to improve.
have taken ten bottles of Peruna and
think l am cured."-Mr. w. G. Hemp
hill, Louisville, Miss.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13

MFRS. H. G. GREEN and family, OF
1vA Lewis Creek, Ind, write: 1--WE
cannot express to you our thanks for
what Peruna has done for mother.
when she began your medicine she
was not able to be up all day, but now
she is helping with the work and at
present has gone on visit. Her health
is improved in general. No discharges.
Good appetite, Sleeps well and looks
WELL"
t1PY following your instructions and
- taking your Peruna and Manalin
l am cured of catarrh.
81 had catarrh for twelve years and
quite bad cough SO / could not sleep
nights. do not have any cough now.
If feel anything in the throat 1 take
swallow of Peruna and am all right.n
Mr.. w. d. Smith, ST., 244O Forest ST..
Port Huron, Mich.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13
(St. Adams Messenger.)

There will be very general satisfac-
the selection by the President of
Orion NJ. Barber of Bennington to be
one of the five judges of the newly
created Federal Customs Court. Mr..
Barber has long been acknowledged
among the leaders of the bar in this
State and has built up very large
and remunerative practice. In his So
cial life he is among the most genial
and comfortable of companions and
his acquaintance extends into every
part of Vermont He has worked hard
at his profession and he has frequent
ly given the best of his talents and
much of his time at just as hard work
in some service for the State.
To be named as the New England
Representative in this important ma
tional tribunal is very high honor
to come to any man, signal recogni-
ton of his professional ability and his
personal worth. In dill the requisites
of personal fitness that the President
could consider, Mr.. Barber is amply
qualified, and this, with the fact that
reasons of political expediency so oft
en- influential in these matters did
not initiate against the award of
this office to a Vermonter, make the
choice at this time particularly graf
flying one.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13
VALUE OF FARM PROPERTY.
(Rutland Herald.)


"The New England Homestead
prints an American farm census
which shows the number of farms
in Vermont in 1910 to be $4,000, the
same as in 1900. The value Of these
farms has increased in ten years from
$1OS,O0O,0OO to 1925, 100000 on a very
substantial gain while the value of
farm products in 1910 is 100000, 900
as compared with $33.OO0,0O00 in 1900.
cultural products has nearly doubled
in ten years, a record that needs no
apology. Montpelier Journal.
About the time that people in and
out of the State began to stop talk
ing about our abandoned farms, which
existed, in fact, mostly in magma
ton, there came revival of success
full farming in Vermont that has gone
steadily forward until, judging from
the above figures, we are very rapid
ly coming into our own in an agricul-
| tural way.
Farming in this State is not SIM
pie or highly profitable trade. The
Herald has freely said that it takes
more brains to run a farm success
fully than it does to run railroad
This, of course, is true only in degree,
dollar for dollar invested, perhaps,
but 1t is true, and there is no finer OPP
portunity for advanced, scientific and
highly specialized farming than in
Vermont today. Boys who are leav-
ing the farm to take clerkships. desks
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13

He had often told his family that he
never knew whether it was lost on
the march or stolen, but the loss was
one that he never failed to regret.
devotion to the Union cause that he
wanted, but death claimed him be-
fore the medal was returned to the
possession of his family.
About the middle of November, two
months ago, Mrs. Taylor received a
letter from the postmaster at Pow
nal, Mr.. Hathaway, enclosing the fol-
lowing letter:
Norfolk, Va, Nov. 9, 1909.
Postmaster, North Pownal, VT.
Dear Sir:-I have in my possession
war medal, 1S61) inscribed with
the name of ]. G. Taylor, Company A
14th Vermont Volunteers, North
Pownal, VT This medal was dug up
in Berkeley ward of the city about 2G
years ago. it then being the town Of
Berkeley, Va. If you can give me the
address of any of the descendants OF
the above l will be very glad to turn
the medal over to them.
Yours very truly,
TEMPLIN LICKLIDER,
Box 422, Norfolk, Va.
This letter revives old memories in
the minds of Mrs. Taylor and her
family and they Immediately wrote in
answer receiving last week the medal
and long letter describing the find
ing and history of the medal so
far as it could be determined by Mr..
Licklider.
The medal was dug up by an old
negro who was engaged in the work
of digging a trench and he showed it
to an agent who gave him s. for it
under the impression that it was a
gold piece. All this happened 26 years
ago. 1t remained in possession OF
this agent for years and finally came
into that of Mr.. Licklider who appre-
ciated the intrinsic value of the bit
of metal and wrote the first letter of
inquiry. In his second letter he told
of the discovery and of the manner
in which the medal had come into his
possession and expressed regret
that it had not been his privilege TO
return the relic years ago
The Taylor family moved TO Ad-
ans some years ago, and son, Jesse
Taylor is now employed in the dress
ing room of the Warehouse & How
ard mill on Eagle street, North Ad-
ans.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13
HUGHES ON INCOME TAX.
burlington News.)

Huntington N6WS.)
1t is true as one newspaper has
said, that Gov. Hughes argument
against the proposed constitutional
amendment to legalize the income
tax, is unanswerable The amend
ment in authorizing the collection of
the tax contains the words from
whatever source derived" A good
part of the income tax will without
doubt be derived from the interest
on bonds issued by States, and
municipalities which are the crea-
lures of the States. Under the COM
prehensive words we have quoted the
Congress would have the undoubted
power to tax the income of such
bonds. This power therefore gives the
Federal government authority to tax
the States themselves by taxing the
bonds they issue for State purposes.
1t is argued by some papers that
the tax upon incomes would be only
very little tax and therefore not
worth consideration. Another paper
suggests that perhaps Congress could
be induced not to exercise the powet
in that direction. Both these argu-
ments are wholly aside from the real
case. 1t matters not that the sum
might be small or that Congress
could agree to withhold it's delegated
power, it is the principle that is at
stake The principle being conceded
the Congress might go to any length
it chose when it had the power.
The argument of Governor Hughes
ON this point cannot be answered.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13
THE PINCHOT CONTROVERSY
(Springfield Republican


Mr.. Pinchot's sincerity is every"
where conceded and his great services
praised, but his conduct
as an administrative officer continues
to excite bewilderment. The doctrine
that he preached to his former clerks,
when saying farewell to them, points
straight to administrative anarchy.
He is reported to telling them never
to forget that they were "the SER
wants of the people of the United
States, responsible to them and 10
them alone" Stay by the work. he
admonished them. "Never allow your
selves to forget that you are serving
a much greater master than the de-
partment of agriculture or even the
administration" In plain words. this
is the doctrine of INSTRUMENTATION. If
it were followed consistently into
practice by the thousands of bureau
chiefs and clerks in Washington, 1t
would be impossible to run the gov
eminent. Administrative efficiency
would be ruined by the lack of ad-
ministrative discipline and harmony,
end there could be no worse chaos
than $4,000 clerks appealing to the
country" over the heads of cabinet
ministers and the chief magistrate
himself, whenever any of them felt
that the government work was not
being managed in accordance with
correct principles. The truth is that
only by curious development OF
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13
EAST CABOT.

Mrs. C. d. Fitzgerald and son
of West Barnet are at the home of
her father, S. e. Houghton.
Mrs Ed Paquin of Cabot is at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
e. e. Hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. r. Glidden, OF
Barre, who have been visiting az
Charles Adams, have returned home.
Clyde Hill has been out of school
the past week on account of Illness.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13
ID. P. THOMPSON.
(GrOton Times.)

The Montpelier Daily Journal has
done a good work in bringing to light
son in Montpelier cemetery is I'M
marked by a fitting memorial. d. p.
Thompson was a writer who put life
and reality into his works and has
brought the State much honor by his
historic fiction, which every lover OF
the Green Mountains prize. Let Yer
monters take hold of this project and
erect a fitting memorial to this noted
sou.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13
The Blossom.
CDR. Henry Van Dyke.)

Only little shrivelled seed
1t might be flower or grass or weed;
Only a box of earth on the edge
OF a narrow, dusty window ledge;
Only a few scant summer showers,
Only a few clear, shining hours
That was all. Yet God could make
Out of these, for a sick child's sake,
A blossom wonder as fair and sweet
AS ever broke at an angels feet.
Only life of barren pain,
Wet with sorrowful tears of rain:
Warmed sometimes by a wandering
CLEAN
OF joy that seemed but happy
dream
A life as common and brown and bare
AS the box of earth in the window
there;
Yet 1t bore at last the preefous
bloom
or perfect soul in narrow room
Pure as the snowy leaves that fold
Over the flowers heart of gold.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13
springfield Reporter.)

1t is peculiarly gratifying to the
many friends of Hon. o. M. Barber
that he should be selected for mem
Der of the United States Customs
Court. Mr. Barber rs a man of in
dependent mind and of great learning
in the law. The appointment is as
fitting as it is deserved.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13

seen, but the possibilities of added
trouble are somewhat disquieting.
The Journal believes that Republic
cans generally ought to stand by the
President, upholding him in his neces-
sary task of maintaining discipline
and defending the dignity of his high
office.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13
NEW YEARS GREETINGS.
(GrOtOn TimeS.)

1t was thoughtful New Years
greeting the Montpelier Daily Journal
and the Morrisville News and Citizen
sent to their brother publishers. May
the New Year bring to them the same
prosperity and happiness" they have
wished to others.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13
A GOOD NEWSPAPER.

(Morrisville Messenger.)
The Barton Monitor was thirty
eight years old last week and grows
Gil0in has made the Monitor an ideal
country paper since he assumed rs
management.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13
AN INTERRUPTED MERGER.
(Vergennes Enterprise.)

The great bank merger at Rutland
was caught in the act of swallowing
the Baxter bank owned by Lieut. Gov.
John Abner Mead is off. There will
be no consolidation. Now is the politl-
cal merger between the same parties
off?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13
RUMOR OF THEFT.
bennington Banner.

1t probably isn't true that DR.. Mead
took one of his milking machines up
to the dairymen's convention and that
some of his retainers stole it to use
on the doctor later in the campaign.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13

Woman loves a clear, rosy complex
ion Burdock Blood Bitters purifies
the blood, clears the skin, restores
rudy, sound health-adv.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-24
COACHES NAMED FOR
COLORADO COLLEGE

Denver, March 29,-Henry Buckingham,
former Princeton star who lives in
Memphis, Tenn, has been signed by the
Colorado School of Mines for football
coach, according to information which
reached Denver this morning The Gold
en- authorities refuse TO confirm or deny
the rumor, but Memphis dispatches credit
the statement to Buckingham himself,
who has just returned TO his home for
& rest.
simultaneously with the announcement
CT the Mines coachship being filled comes
another report to the effect that Le-
vine, an eX-Yale football player, has been
selected to succeed Coach Richards at
Colorado college.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-24
Additional
Sports
INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE
CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

New York, March 2S.-Some unfor-
seen changes have been made neces-
sary in the personnel of the American
team which viii represent the univer-
sites of this country in the annual
cable chess match against oxford and
Cambridge next month. w. II. Hughes
OF the University of Pennsylvania has
been found to be Ineligible and the
team viii be weakened by his absence
A substitute has not yet been chosen
by the intercollegiate committee.
The match between Burgess and JET
fersOn of Yale TO decide which of them
should be the sixth member of the
American team has been settled in IA
vor of Burgess
At the suggestion of the English
team, April 16 has been selected for
the date of the contest.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-24
BELMONT WINS.

Nottingham, March 23.-The Eastwood
Park Plat, a handicap of 106 for g.
year-olds ana upward, distance five
furlongs straight was won here today
bY August Belmont's Hasty Pudding.
Rossetti was second and Hard Riding
Dick third. Fifteen horses started.
The Newark Plate, a handicap of 800
soveig ners for years and upwards,
distance the straight mile, was won by
Duddun. August Belmont's NOrmani II
was second; Tambn third.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-24
ENPxsRoE EEHWcI5.

Theodore Roosevelt is today the best
known and undoubtedly the most popular
man in the world, and his triumphal in
vasion of Europe has no parallel in his
has ever been offered the honors and the
attentions he will receive, and he will
bear them off as galiently and as grace
fully as any human being could do. Gen.
erai Grant received a great many hOnors
and he left a permanent impression upon
every class Of society wherever he went
by his simple dignity, his reticence and
the prestige of his military renown, but
Roosevelt represents the other extreme
of American individuality and his recep-
ton and entertainment will correspond.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-24

his arrival to pay homage to this one
strongest PRESERVATION in the world today.
He has received invitations from nearly
every city of prominence in the United
Kingdom and the principal countries of
Europe. He has been asked to lecture at
universities. He has been invited to BAN
quets and to balls. He will be the guest
of the khedive of Egypt, the king of
Greece, the king of Italy, the emperor of
Germany, the president of France, the
king of England and various other poten-
tates of lesser Importance, and all the
ambassadors In Washington, except Mr..
Bryce and Baron Rosen, have been sum-
moned home by their sovereigns to act as
masters of ceremonies.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-24

n ONE, March 2S.-Every preparation
is being rushed to welcome Colo
mel Roosevelt here on his return.
The date is set for April 2 al which time
he will be received by the king of Italy.
According TO the present plans he will
visit the pope the day following.
ROOseVelts trip through the continent
of Europe is to be one grand triumphant
welcome. Never since Alexander the
Great entered Babylon, with the one ex-
ceptiOn of Julius Caesar, has the conti-
nent been so stirred up by the prospects
of a visitor as il is now in arranging the
receptions of Americas ex-president
Kings and emperors, college professors,
scientists, soldiers and statesmen await
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-24
RREAKs HIS HAND.

Baltimore, March 23.-PhiI Mc6overn
the young Brooklyn pugilist, broke his
right hand in the first round of his
contest with Young Britt" here last
night, and as a result his fight engag e-
ments for the next month Will have to
be cancelled. Despite his injury, Nc
Govern continued until the 10th round,
the decision being q draw.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-24
BREWERS START WORK.

Urbans, Ill, March 23-The Milwau-
kee American association team is here
for its spring training. which will in
clude the annual series with the Uni
versity of Illinois. Manager McClOskey
and his followers took their practice on
Illinois field for the first time yester-
day. The Milwaukee team will open
the series here Saturday with the fresh
men.