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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-06

There doesn' t seem to be any limit
to the effrontery of the Chicago crook
A prosecuting attorney was recently
robbed of his pocketbook while pre-
senting two pickpockets in court. If
an officer of the law ism t safe from
thieves in court, what chance can the
ordinary citizen stand of keeping his
money while on the street?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-06
WILMINGTON.

The graduation exercises Of the vii
mington high school will take place
Friday evening, June Is, in Memorial
hall. The graduates are Minerva
Louise Allen, Goldie Josephine Courte-
manche, Laura Frances Spaulding and
Mabel Irene Stetson.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-06
Bids Wanted, Sidewalks

Bids are asked for repairing and re
surfacing sidewalks inside and outside
the state house grounds at Montpelier,
the minimum amount being 1000 square
yards, and the maximum amount being
5000 square yards. The material to be
used is asphalt. All particulars by
inquiring of Sergeant-at-Arms F. T.
Parsons, State House, Montpelier, VT.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-06
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

It is the aim Of the management TO
secure efficient service in the delivery OF
the paper each night, and it solicits the
CO. opera ton of subscribers to that end
Prompt report should be given Of each
failure TO receive the. paper on the morn
Ing following the omission, in person, by
telephone OF postal card. thus enabling
the cause Of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the
proper remedy Immediately applied Il
is only by this method that the pub
Usher can secure the desired service
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-06

Phoenix, Ariz, has voted in favor
Of license in spite Of the fact that the
women have a right to vote there. 1t
is harder work to forecast how the
women will vote than it is to figure
On the attitude of the men, which af-
ter all is compliment to the women.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-06
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run Of paper,
so cents an inch for first insertion; rs
cents an inch for each subsequent In
sertion Limited space on first page at
double rates.
Space rates on application.
Classified advertisements = Five cents
line first insertion with so per cent
discount for each subsequent insertion
without change Of copy.
Reading Notices-Ten cents line first
Insertion with so per cent discount for
each subsequent insertion without
change of copy.
Position, 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-06

Funny how the styles change in the
method of suiciding. Just at present
the bichloride of mercury route to the
hereafter seems to be decidedly popu-
lar
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-06

Some day there II be Society of
the Prevention Of Cruelty to Angle
Worms.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-06

Daily Thought.
Men do less than they ought unless
they do all they can.-Carlyle.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-06
OUR QUESTION BOX

How high is the Bennington monu-
ment?
The Bennington battle monument,
built of native stone, is 3O8 feet high
and IS the largest battle monument in
the world
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-06

How can 1 salt peanuts or almonds2
They are so much better done at
home.
Use one tablespoon of melted but
ter to one cup of nut meats. Let stand
one hour. Then sprinkle with salt and
place IN baking pan and cook in a
hot oven.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-06

Can you tell me when West Point
academy was formally opened and
when the act was passed authorizing
additional money to be spent in its
reconstruction?
West Point as formally opened on
July 4, 1902 with ten cadets and five
officers as instructors. An act of Con-
gress authorizing the expenditure of
SIS, 500, 900 for the reconstruction of
the United States Military academy
was passed in June, 1902, and at a
later session of Congress $1,7OO,OOO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27
SELECTION OF FEDERAL
JUDGES,

The constitution Of Arizona is differ
ent in one respect from the constitu-
ton of every other state in the union
in a provision for an advisory vote on
federal judges. The federal constitu-
tion lodges the appointive power in the
president with the concurrence of the
senate. 1t would therefore be neces-
sary to amend the federal constitution
TO provide different method of selec-
ton.
N has been the custom for years in
Vulnerable for presidents to appoint as
federal judges men recommended by
the states delegation in congress. Cor
porations naming the latter, they have
done the bidding of the corporations in
their recommendations. When this has
not actually been the case, they have
at least recommended men not objec-
tionable to the railroads. While there
have been exceptions to this procedure,
It has been so generally the custom as
to give IL all the force of rule. And
the results of it are garnered in the
very general criticism of the federal,
district and circuit benches as being
out of sympathy with the people and
attuned TO sympathy with the corpora
tons
Arizona went as far as it could to-
wards getting On the bench men &C.
ceptable to the people. There being a
vacancy on the federal bench there
now, Senator Ashurst has called Pres
ident Wilson's attention TO the consti-
tutional provision and suggested that
the president can encourage its use.
| Doubtless he will act on the sugges-
ton in line with the spirit os the Ari,
iona constitution, because he will be
more solicitous to know whom the vot,
4 ers of the state want for the federal
bench than to know whom the poll
ticians and the corporations want.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27
STATE GRAND ARMY HEAD
AT SEVENTY TAKES WIFE

Springfield, Ill, May 27.-James H.
Crowder, recently elected grand com.
mander of the Illinois department,
Grand Army OF the Republic, at its
annual encampment at Alton, married
Miss Annie Williams OF Springfield
township yesterday. The ceremony was
performed by Judge ]. B. Weaver.
Mr.. Crowder, who is a resident of
Bethany, is 20 years old, and his bride
is several years his junior. The ecu
pie were friends a quarter Of a cen
fury ago. They met at the state en-
campment at Alton and agreed to meet
in this city and be married. Com.
mander Crowder wore his C. A. r.
uniform and medals Won for bravery
in the civil war when he appeared at
the court house and applied for the
license.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27

age. He is one of the youngest of the
comrades" alive today. AND yet, when
he finishes his present term, he will
be ~ years old. 1t hardly seems pos
sible that the next administration will
be able to find one among a company
of men all older than Y years who
will have he physical strength to per-
form the duties of this responsible
Office.
1t is a pathetic thought, but one
appropriate at this Memorial day sea
son. For so years it has been the chief
the blue to occupy this important post.
Most of these must now understand
that they must go to their graves with
their ambition unrealiGed. When Salt6-
gaber quits he must pass the Office
on to a civilian, probably the son of a
veteran, who will dispense the gov
eminent ministrations to the fast
thinning ranks of the grand army.
The veterans are dying now much
faster than their comrades fell before
confederate bullets from 81 to IS.
But Gaylord NJ. Saltzgaber is still
in his rugged manhood. To look at
home one would predict that he is
good for many more years OF active
life. Physically vigorous and mentally
alert, he will prove to be one of ouI
greatest commissioners of pensions,
thoroughly believe. He has a thick
! compact body that has known scarcely
days illness in IS years. And this
| body is surmounted by a fine, big
round head. His hair is white, his
mustache cropped and grizzled. The
flesh of his face is firm and almost
unwrinkled. His fine gray eyes
agleam with keen intelligence, be
speak the mans bodily and menta
power.
/ had a talk with Mr.. Saltzgabel
shortly after he was appointed BY
President Wilson, and l was mucl
impressed by him. Woodrow Wilson
is fortunate in being able to secure
man of his ability for the pension
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27
CAPITAL COMMENT

commissionership. After he had told
Mr. Saltzgaber to relate some Of his
war stories.
81 haven't done much fighting since
'65," he said laughingly. Some of
the boys like to talk over the old
days constantly, but I have had too
busy life, and consequently l have
forgotten many of the details of my
experience But when l got him
started, he related many thrilling adj
ventures of the war. Some time l
will relate some of these adventures
in my letters.
Mr.. Salt geber was the youngest OF
six brothers whom his patriotic par
ents sent out with the union army
Four of them, including the new COM
missioner, were wounded; but all re-
turned alive at the end of the war
The preliminaries of the war made a
powerful impression on the youthful
mind of young Gaylord. The fall of
Fort Sumter burned into his soul
There was the call for volunteers.
Gaylord disappeared from home. The
next day his mother received a letter
from him saying that he had enlisted
in the Third Ohio cavalry. This was
! in September of 1861. Young SaltE-
| gaber had celebrated his 18th birth
! day the preceding March, but he was
! big for his age, he could ride a horse,
| and the recruiting officer accepted him.
The mother was nearly crushed by
| the occurrence. But she bravely did
the best thing she could do, she sent
three of Gaylord's older brothers,
Samuel, Thomas and William, to en-
list in the same regiment and COM
pany, if possible, to look after her
baby. The two other brothers had al
ready enlisted in other regiments, and
this left the parents, alone.
Al! through the war the boys watch
ed out for each other, and all came
back to the rejoicing parents in Ohio.
! At the end of three years Gaylord
had had enough of war, and planned to
be mustered out at the end of his en-
listment. But at Pulaski, Tenn, Cap
tain Culver of his regiment made a
speech urging the soldiers to reen
list to help preserve the union; and
Gaylord Saltzgaber. then only IS years
old, but veteran soldier, gave up his
dreams of home and signed to fight
until the end of the war He was
mustered out with his regiment in
August, 1865.
Among the battles and campaigns
in which Commissioner SaltGgaber en-
gagged were Shiloh, Corinth, Perry
vile, Stone river, Chickamauga, endina
with General Wilson's campaign il
lower Alabama and Georgia.
Returning from the front, Mr.. Saltz
gaber took up blacksmithing as
trade. He then attended a bushes.
college in Poughkeepsie, N Y, anc
returned to Ohio to be a teacher H,
studied law and became one of tht
best known attorneys of the Buckley,
state. His long and useful career il
western Ohio brought him forward DO
litically. Though he never sought OF
: fee, he was elected mayor of Van
? Vert at the age of %, and for fou
years he served in the Ohio senate
A dozen years ago he was the choic,
. of his party for United States sena
/ tor, but was defeated
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27

Postmaster General Albert S. Bur
Lesson is heartily in favor of one cent
letter postage, He so announced him
self to a delegation representing the
National One Cent Letter Postage
association which waited aL him in
Washington a few days ago.
Il am heartily in favor Of enc cent
letter postage declared Postmaster
General Burleson, who went on to ex-
plain that he hoped to bring it about
jGst as soon as revenues OF the de-
department could he adjusted.
The postmaster general told the
advocates Of one cent letter postage
that he had .ong believed that their
contention was right. He stated,
however, that as head Of the depart
ment IT was his business to see that
sufficient revenue was raised to meet
all expenses and while he admitted
that there was a big surplus received
from first class mail eaca year he
added that it would be necessary TO
make such an adjustment of rates as
would put the department on g bust
ness basis.
Postmaster General Burleson is
strongly in favor Of putting the postal
department on an efficient basis. He
also favors adequate. compensation
for postal employees, and such a re-
adjustment Of rates as will permit the
operation Of the department in a
business like manner.
II is the purpose OF the present post
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27

Cease TO lament for that thou canst
not help.-Shakespeare.
What if the thumb you pounded hurts
you still?
Does fTe,tting help to stop the painful
But yesterday an old friend used you
Yet is the matter mended by your Sob
bling?
The maiden whom you loved has run
away
With one already married to another;
But will your grieving or your wild dis
may
Restore her innocent to you, oh, broth
er?
The fortune which you hoped might come
to you
Has all been lost in foolish speculation,
But 1t will not, because you make ado.
Return to set you flee from deprivation.
The eye you lost by jumping ere you
thought
Why fret about the worthless stock
you've. bought?
The moneys gone, you may as well
forget it.
What if your bank account is over
drawn?
Send word that you did not intend to
do IT;
And so that trouble wifi at once be gone
1t can't be helped and so there's Moth
ing to it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27
PENNY POSTAGE

Office administration to establish civil
service rules throughout the depart
ment, applying eventually even to
first class postmasters.
Senator Theodore E. Burton from
Ohio, and Representative Charles L.
Bartlett from Georgia, have reintro-
duced one cent letter postage bills in
the senate and house of representa-
tives. These bills call for the in
augura;ion of one cent letter postage
by July of this year.
Senator Burton has long champion
ed the battle for one cent letter post
age, while Representative Bartlett has
favored the cheaper rate for many
years.
A strong advocate for the slower
rate has appeared in the person of
Hon. James J. Britt Of AsheviIle, n
c. Mr.. Britt recently retired from the
position of third assistant postmaster
general. Upon being asked for his
opinion OF one cent letter postage, he
expressed it In no uncertain tone.
81 am heartily in favor" declared
Mr.. Britt, "of the immediate reduc
! tion OF letter postage from two cents
an ounce to one cent per ounce fol-
these reasons:
1T will promote general intelli
gence, and will improve the social re
laticns of the people;
1T viii advance the business inter
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27
ONE AVAILABLE BRIDE.

Punished in the courts, overwhelm-
ed at the polls and steam-rollered in
the house Of representatives, the pro-
tected trusts and combines. are max
ing their last stand. as usual, in the
United States senate. SO comments
the New York World
There is a nominal democratic ma
jority Of size in that body, all pledged
TO tariff reduction. There are seyeraI
ostentatious progressives, all noisily
committed against privilege and plum
der Yet the trusts aud combines
have hopes and they even begin 20
name the men en- whose prospective
perhdy their expectations are based.
While the lobby is attempting to
convince these gentlemen that treach-
cry 10 people and party is going 10 be
profitable, The World would admonish
them that whatever their reward
may be, it is certain to be acquired at
the expense OF popular condemnation.
The trusts and combines may not have
put over" their last United States
senator or opened their last Jackpot
but with direct primaries and cleo
lions their ;riumphs hereafter are TO
be few.
Emphatically will this prove true in
democratic and progressive states.
Straight republicans may bonorably
serve the interests favored by extor-
tomato tariffs, for they profess an
economic creed which justiies the
system. But the democrat or pro-
gressive who joins them betrays a
trust and convicts himself out Of his
own mouth.
In most OF the states at present rep
resented by democrats and progres-
sives, what chance would German, a
Brice or a Smith have Of reelection by
popular vo.e? What chance do the
senator's now 'honored' by the sus-
picion OF their fellow citizens expect
that they VIII have at the polls even
~ they can gain a denomination? Most
Of those who burked tariff reform in
the past were repudiated under the
old system. We have seen very re-
Gently what happened 10 James Smith.
Jr.. in New Jersey under the new.
Sugar as sugar cannot carry
Louisiana. Wool as wool cannot carry
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27
ROOSEVELT AND HIS LIBEL
SUIT.

The spectacle of a man who has
twice been president CT the United
States and who has been honored as
have few men in the worlds history,
coming out from New York with a coterie
Of intimate friends into Michigan ana
seeking to recover $4,000 from "a
weekly paper which, in the heat Of a
political campaign, said unOecoming
things, is edifying 10 say the least.
come of the suit, it is difficult TO con-
ceive Of what satisfaction a man who
has held the dignifed position that
Roosevelt has, can gain by hearing
such evidence as may be produced
rejecting upon his personal habits
brought out in court. On the con-
trary, it is lamentable spectacle.
The Marquette editor has upon his
shoulders the burden of proof, as he
not only accused Colonel Roosevelt of
getting drunk, but mot infrequently."
While it is not commendable
to accuse any man Of being drunk
ard, the colonel has, on the other hand,
reserved to himself the peculiar privi-
lege of saying very uncomplimentary
things Of whomsoever may have dis
agreed with him.
Indications are that politics will IN
avcidably cut some figure in the dis
position of the case from the jury
side, and from the court side it may
be based largely on technical con-
struction. In the light of these facts the
trial will determine little so far as
public impression is concerned. II
may not vindicate Roosevelt on the
enc hand nor convict him on the 9TH
| CT.
| AS TO the effect of any evidence that
I is admitted, the public will be left to
draw its own conclusions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27
May ~ in American
History.
History.

lSl3-General Henry Dearborn. with q
force OF 1900 Americans. stormed
and captured Fort George. Cana
da The British garrison lost near
~ 1000 in killed. wounded and pris-
onefs
1S19-Julia Ward Howe. poet. lecturer
and philanthropist. born: died 1910
1S63-Federal assault on the fortified
lines of the Confederate army at
Port Hudson failed The assail-
ants lost a.099 men.
1896 Southern Illinois and eastern
Missouri devastated by q tornado.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27

ests of the country. by lowering the
cost of communication;
The rate OF enc cent an ounce for
letters, with the increase of mail
matter which the reduction will il
duce, will defray the cos. Of heading
and transportation.
But few public questions are of
such vast concern to the great body
OF the American people, and / earn
estly hope it may receive the early
and serious attention of the congress. 4"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27
M'G0VERN VETOES A BILL
FOR SECOND REFERENDUM

Madison, Wis, May 27-Governor
McGovern vetoed a bill ordering a ref
erendum in 1914 on the question of
extending the ballot to Wisconsin wo-
men. The governor objects to the bill
on the ground that suffrage having
been defeated by a majority of 81, 900
in Wisconsin last November, another
referendum on the subject so soon
would be unwise and result in a more
emphatic rejection.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27
All in the Family.

He rises early and is gone
Before she quits her bed;
She works at fancy things while he
Tolls for their daily bread.
She wears a sealskin coat for which
Three hundred piunks were paid;
He wears an overcoat that cost
Nine dollars ready-made.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27

President Wilson's appeal TO the
American people TO watch the lobby
which, in behalf OF the protected inter
ests, is operating vigorously in Wash
ington to defeas the tariff bill in the
senate, should not fall on deaf ears. 1t
Is not a new experience-these lobby
ists-but it IS a new experience to
have a Waterman for the people in
the White house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27

Warsaw Bulletin republican,: Hon.
Clyde H. Tavenner, representative in
congress from this district, delivered
his maiden speech in congress on May
G. the house having under considera.
ton what is known as the Underwood
tariff bill. Mr.. Tavenner devoted his
remarks to the income tax feature of
the measure and made a very credita.
Bile presentment Of his views on the
question.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27

has just taken the
oath of Office. He
is Gaylord N.
Saltzgaber of Van
Vert, Ohio, a
splendid specimen
of the type of gal
liant soldier and
later public spirit
ed and patriotic
citizen which the
civil war produced
in such abundance.
When l say that
c o m mi S S ion e r
Salt:igaber is to be
the last of this line
of great men l
think / speak with
in reason. Mr..
Saltzgaber enlisted
in the union serv-
ice at a very early
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27

CONTENT As ALWAYS FOR THE OTHER FELLOW.
BY CHARLES GRANT MILLER.

New Yorker celebrated for his many millions,
declares that the rich well of as the poor,
who have not such heavy responsibilities to worry
And every poor man believes exactly the opposite.
To the man without money his responsibilities ap
pear heavy indeed, while thought Of wealth is like
dream OF glory.
Is it deep question? No not even skin deep.
The commonplace fact is that nearly every one o.
is less dissatisfied with his lot and jealous
y thinks the other fellow has the best of it.
In youth long for maturity, and in maturity We
yearn for happy DAYS childhood Whatever is be-
You'd reach seems somehow just thing needed
to complete happiness
Every fat woman to get thin. Every thin
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27

II is announced that owing TO the
multiplicity OF other important legisla-
ton. the present congress will be I'M
able 10 do anything in the matter Of
minimizing flood damage. Another
year and there will probably be no SER
ious food and the whole question will
be forgotten, Just as people rebuild
houses on the sides of Mt. Vesuvius as
soon as the lava cools after a disas.
far
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27

Montana Lumber as lumber cannot
carry Wisconsin. If we are to have
treachery in the senate this year, let
no traitor imagine that his rich ana
powerful friends will be able to re-
munerate him with further political
preferment.
Thanks TO the seventeenth amend
ment, that is one bride which Is no
longer IN their hands.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27

T Fifty years later finds the union
and the confederate soldiers march
ing together. Brave men all, sturdy
foemen in war. sincere friends in
peace, equal citizens of the greatest
of countries, they are as high a type
seen
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27
DIDN'T Make = Hit.

Young Mr.. Sissy Ito his pretty cons
inl-l say. Mande. Cow did my song.
Home Again From Foreign Shore"
seem to impress the company: Pref
ty Cousin Well. some of them. Char
ley. looked as if they were surry that
yon ever came back London TeIe-
graDb
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27

Andrew Carnegie would give his
millions to be young again. And youth
would take his years to get his money
Money never has discovered to the
discontinued old Ponce de Icons foun-
tain and youth never did appreciate
it's heritage.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-27
GETTING THERE.

Il hear that
your son is having
quite remarkable
success in litera-
ture lately"
Yes. If things
keep going as well
for him as they
are going now he