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VERMONT WATCHMAN & STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 10, 1902
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Vermont Mniclmutu.
Wedncsdny, December 10 190a.
ARTHUR ROPES Qenera Elltor,
TO IIELP THE STATE.
Tho bnsinoBB of "holping" tlio Stnto
through uppropriations for Stnto ro
prosontatiou nt gront oxpositious bo
gau iu 1870, tho contonuinl of tho Doc
laratiou of Indopondonco. Tho Legis
laturo decliued to uppropriato monoy
for 11 Stnto "fihow" of nny kind at
Philivdolphiii. Col. N. T. Spraguo, Jr.,
of Brandon, tlioroupon furniBhed$2,500
for tlio orcctiou nud mniutonnuco of n
hcadquartors bnildiug nt tho Exhibl
tiou. Tlio Logislaturo suhscquoutly
approprinted monoy to ropny Col.
Spragno, in wholo or iu part, if vo ro
mombor corrcctly.
Lator 011, in 1882, tho promoters of
tho Cotton Contonnial at New Or
leans got tho ear of tho Qoueral As
Bonibly and porsnaded that body to np
proprinto $5,000 for an oxhibit of Vor
niout's chiof agricultural products
at tlio Croolo city show. Tlio divi
donds woro iuappreoiablo. Tho Stato
wns ont $5,000 and oxhibitors in snms
uuknowu.
Thou cnrao tho Colunibian Exposi
tiou at Chicago aud a stiff flght for au
appropriatiou. Adinouishcd by ox
porionco tho Logislaturo did uot tako
kindly to tho spidor's boguiliug in
Yitatiou to "walk into my parlor, "
but flnally nu appropriatiou for 5,000
to which tho origiual propositiou
of much uioro muniflceut proportious
had beoii reduced rau tho gauntlot of
logislativo coutrovorsy ou this sub
joct. Tho "Stato prido" patriots
woro uiuch disgruutlod. At tho spo
oinl session iu August, 1891, called to
rccoivo iuto tho troasnry a sum of
niouoy tho Unitod Statcs covorimiont
had placod at tho accoptanco of tlio
Stato, tlio "prido of Vorniout" rallied
and socured tho addition of $10,000 to
the sum provioiiBly approprinted.
A roviow of events contemporaueouB
with tho oxhibitiou would show how
prido had its fnll, how tho otornal
fituess of things was observed in tho
orcctiou of a "Romau villa" to typify
rugged old Vormout a leaky, bedrag
gled composition of lath nud stalf aud
very wretchod tasto tho object of
ridioulo iu forty-five States, aud tho
sourco of largo unrequited expondituro.
Admonished again by oxporiouco,
the LoKisIatnro of 1000 slowod np
when tho attompt was ruado to tap
tho troasury iu tho iutorost of
the Buffalo Pau-Anioricau advortisiug
solienio aud appropriated tho sousiblo
sum of $5,000 for a copartuorship
"houso. " Tho enterpriso of Vcr
niout's cnptnius of andustry, including
tho niaplo sugnr production, supplied
tho Stato's truo reiirosontntion. Tlioy
asked 110 Stato aid aud wantod none.
Vormout's ropresentatives at Buffalo
say that tho offlcial State hoadquar
tors, costing $5,000, was tho last placo
ou tho oxhibitiou grouuds to fiud a
Vermoutor tho last placo in which
solf-exiled Vermoutors sought tlieir
kiudred or tokous of tho mothor Stato.
Tlioy found both iu tho oxhibitiou
preciucts. Tho ruou who had practi
cal oxperieuco iu tho Pnu-Amoricau
exhibition seo uo uso for a costly Stato
roprosoutativo buildiug.
Now, in the nmtations of time, St.
Louis, to disport itself boforo tho gazo
of tho continont, and draw tho oycs
of tho curious, tho commorcially and
tho iiidustriously iutorestod, uuto
itself that is to say, for its own nd
vortisomont 011 a largo scalo soizes ou
tho contonnial of au importaut 11a
tioual ovont, wltich by sonio decades
autodated tho ovolutiou of tho big
oity ou tho bank of tho Father of
Waters, aud to which it holds ouly au
iucideutal rolatiousliip. Vormout is
askod to contributo to tho glory of tho
spoctaclo uudor tho gniso of "pro
moting" hor own gonoral wolfaro.
Tho "prido of Vormout" is again nt
tho front aud asking for a largo ap
propriatiou for a "houso" and thocus
tomary corps of drum mujors for ex
liloitiug tho glory of a docaying coui
niuuity aniong tho Greon Monutains.
Ask thoso ropresentatives of Stato
pride for au appropriatiou of $25,000
to begin tho work of roturning to pro
ductivoness tho two million acres,
moro or loss, ono-third tho Stato's
area of Vormout's unproductivo
lauds, and tlioy ivould laugh tho poti
tionor to scoru. Ask tho iudividual
ndvocatos of this ridiculous proposi
tiou of a $25,000 appropriatiou for tho
St. Louis Expositiou for a small sub
Bcriptiou, from thoir own pockots, to
tho capital stook of tho Vormout Iu-
dnstrial
Associatiou, recoutly char
tomd to assist iu tho
Bubtantial roou
poratiou of Vormout, and from inost
of thom what would tlio solioitor got
for a reply? Eoho anw6rs, What?
Tho concluBiou of tho wholo mattor
is this: If Vermont has $25,000 it is
oagor to spond for tho tho real bono-
flt of tho Stato, tho monoy had bost
be iuvestod at homo, in fortilizing
tho Stato's own soil, rathor than in
Bupporting a falso Stato prido out on
the banks of tho turbid Mississippi,
Liko charity, tho work of ronovat
ing Vermont must bogin at homo.
Tho Stato's industrial iutorests, iu
ovory olnss, through thoir own rop
rosontatives, aro both ablo aud will
ing aud probably mnch profor to
lniino thoir own oxhibitions at St.
Louis. In thoso is Vormont's ohiof
glory not in au ofllolal corps or n
houso tlio wondorful crcatlon of an
aspiriug nrchltoct, or nioro asplrlng
pntron.
MilHoiiB for Stnto improvomout nt
homo ; not ouo cout lor ontsido bIiow.
STATE AID TO TOWNS.
A Bnggestivo ft-nturo in tho procood
ings of tho Logislaturo is tho nuinbor
of applicntious by towns for tho ro
palr or coustructiou of thoir high
ways. Somo of thoso appeals for fiuaucial
ltolp aro from towns whoso roads havo
beon damaged or dostroyod by lloods
and doluging rains. Thoy all prosont
conditious which appoal moro or loss
roasouably nud forcibly nu iudivid
ual community to somo 240 follow
conimuuities, most of thom prospor
ous, or at louBt in a woll-to-do coudi
tiou as to lnuulcipal debt and taxn
tion. Tho relativoly small nmount of
monoy tho applicants seok would bo
almost nn iuappreoiablo tax ou tho ag
grogato communitios. Tho roal dan
gor in tho mattor is tho possibility of
nbusing tho Stato's bounty.
It is not always possiblo for tho
mombors of tho Logislaturo to dis
covor cloarly tho roal morits or do
morits of oach iudividunl caso. Iu
tho naturo of things thoy must pro-
cood rathor moro by faith in. tho rop
rosentations of intorestod porsous
thau by sight of tho roal circuni
staucos. Thero is always tho suspi
ciou that a towu is seokiug to unload
upou tho Stato burdous it should boar,
aud is itself ablo to boar, alono.
Thore is alwnys tho iossibility of
unfair and nujusfc discrimiuation.
Tho woak may fail in a good causo ;
tho strong may Buccood iu tappiug tho
Stato troasury iu a bad or less worthy
causo. A soction of tho State that
can pack tho Capitol with a power
ful lobby almost iuvariably succeeds
soouor or lator ; a mountaiu towu,
withont tho "third Houso" ncces
sorics, without tho means or tho
standiug to secure strong allies, or to
impress itself upou tho Gonoral As
Bonibly in a bettor cause, may bo
"tnrnod down. " An undovcloped
I sectiou of tho Stato, lacking iu ac-
cumulatod wealth but possessiug nat
tiral resources, nsks for holp to bnild
a road which would shorten distances
aud briug tlio regiou into moro direct
couuuction with busiuess ceutres. Tho
road wonlrl savo long circuitouB jour-
novs to tho chiof market places. It
would invito settlomont aloug its
routo. It woujd tend to increnso pop
ulatiou, production, aud houce mcreas
ing valnos and increasing revonues to
tho State. Tlio npplicant sectiou can-
not support a lobby at Moutpolior, it
has uo strong political supportors, it
has no pull. It doesn't get nu ap
propriatiou.
Auother soction, rich iu resources,
richer iu its meaus of iufluonco, abuud
autly ablo to iuvost iu intorual im-
provoments and conuection with its
noighbors, comos to tho Logislaturo
with an appoal for holp to build elnb
orato nud costly connections with tho
rest of mankind. It is ablo to organ-
izo a lobby, to porsundo tho Gonoral
iVssombly to go bodily to tho locality
of tho desirod "holp, " a laud flowing
with milk and honoy, and with barbo-
cues aud liko convincing appeals to
tho most sensitivo sido of a logislativo
bodv it wins ont and places undor
heavv contributiou tho flrst nnmed
soction of tlio Stato as woll as othors
Vory mnch doponds ou tho "pull."
Grand Islo couuty was vastly bottor
ablo to fpay tho cost of nnitiug its
uiombers by bridgos than is Essox
county to build a road that would
briuc its scattorod communities into
market and into noighborly proximity.
But tho ouo shall bo takou aud tho
othor vory dooidedly loft.
As a gouoral rulo, whou woll ascor
tained facts Bhow that n little boost
ing by 215 municipalities will holp to
mako tho conditiou of tho 240th moro
tolerablo in tho midst of nniiropitions
circumstances, or nnder orushing mis-
fortunos, it is mighty good, wiso aud
benoficcut policy for tho Stato to
strotch out its flnancial arm in uu
grudging assistauco.
Tho faot that Lincoln's portrait is
to bo placod in tho Mississippi Hall of
Famo is takou as auothor sign that
" thore is no longor a North aud South,
but ono couutry. Tho great mou of
that titauic strugglo aro honored by
all those who havo'como aftor them
Tho genius of Leo, equally with tho
goniusof tho great Prosidont.is partof
tho glory of ouruatiou. " Tho sign
sontinieutnl nud tho sign practical
ofton vary widoly. Now nnd thou th
couutry is up against iudicationB. that
tlio "lost causo" Btiil nnus mouruors
iu Dixey.
DON'T HANG SHAW.
Tho favorito fiing of tho ultra auti
prohibitiouist is that tho law croates
crimes out of aots that aro not orimos
and puuishos mou for crimos that
aro puroly statutory. It oftou linp'
pons if, indood, it is not tho caso iu
variably that thoso nion who 011 this
scoro iuvoigh ngniust tho prohibitory
law aro tho nuthors of lawB oroating
othor orimoB tliat aro puroly artifloial
tho oreators of oltoucos ont of acts
that aro inuoconco itsolf in compari
son with tlio uooas wiiieli tlio pro
hibitory law makos offouccs. If tliOBO
contoranors of violatious of tho liquor
law aro not always tho mon who lfnvo
nindo orimos out of tho simplo mnttors
of shooting a partridgo, or catohing
flsh nndor oortain forbiddon circum-
staucos of slzo or Benson, or killing n
door, ovon whon tho nulmal is n tros
passor and a dostroyor of proporty, or
thor sinillar acts, thoy aro tho zoal-
ous supportors of tho laws in qnostion
and iusistors ou thoir rigid ouforco-
mout.
Ono Frauk Shaw was chargod with
violatiou ot tho gamo law of tho
Stnto in ouo partlculnr. Ho was ac
cusod of shooting a door undor cir
cnmstances that mado tho act a crimo.
IIo wns nrrostod nnd conflned in jail.
As most mortals who lovo thoir froo
dom and havo it when thoy can got
it would do, ho broko jail nud es-
cnpod. With riflo and hounds tho
shoriff nud his posso wout in pursuit.
Shaw was hnutod liko a wolf. Aftor
chnso of mauy days tho huutors
camo np with thoir qnarry. A parloy
onsuod, shots woro oxchangod and a
doputy shoriff was killed. Tho cir
cumstnucos of tho killing aro in dis-
puto. Tho shoriff, tho hoad and prop-
or spokosmau of his posso, was paci-
fic iu purposo aud spcoch. Ho was
sookiug to forcstall furthor violouco,
to socuro a poacoful surrondor. An
impulfiivo doputy, by a display of bol-
ligoroucy, drew a fatal shot from tho
fugitivo. Shaw was triod for murdor,
convicted, nud is now undor soutonco
of denth. His deod was mauy ro
movos from cold blooded murdor. It
was uot promoditated, it was tho deod
of a huutod nian at bay, tleoiug from
imprisonmont for a "statutory of
fouco, " a deod tho fruit of tho doliri
um of a long chnso, of huugor and
liardship, of a violout propositiou
from tho pursuing party to "boro him
full of holos."
Shaw.'s caso is not uuliko that of a
poachor on tho gamo prcsorvos of tho
nobility iu tho merrio timos of Old Eng
laud. Of whatevor othor trespass ou
the laws n vngabond might bo guilty,
sunriug n rnbbit or slnying a deor in
tho forbiddou forosts of nobility was
tho ouo for which thore wns uo-nppeal
to morcy. This episodo in tho crimi-
ual history of tho Stato is au ocho
from thoso old days of modioval bar-
barism. Shaw is unfortunato. IIo
may havo beeu Bomething of a vnga
bond, who would catch a trout fivo
aud threo-quartors iuches in lougth
aud without stopping to measuro pnt
t 011 his striug. If ho could shoot n
partridge or kill a doer out of season,
aud wnnted mont, ho might uot bo
nblo to resist tomptatiou ospecially
if tho folt suro ho would uot bo found
out just liko his prototypo, tho
poachor ou the presorves ot duko or
earl, or tho Kiug himBolf. Shaw is
not guiltless, but in his caso commut
ation is moro just thau hnuging and
tlio Logislnture should bo both just
aud morciful.
A SURLY GROWL.
But whon tho coutemporary iudulgos
in ploasant ruminations noout tno
'miuhtv.cood.wiso, and bonencent pol
icy for tho Stato to strotch out its flnan
cial nrm 111 ungruuging asisstauce,
it must not foriret that this "flnaucial
arm" mreality is notimg moro nor icss
thau tho taxpayors 111 a comparatively
few towns who aro already heavily
taxed undor tho mquitous highway
nud school tax laws and aro strug
clinc undor nlentv of debts of thoir
own besides. Nobody ever ooes into
tho Lecislature with a bill for tlieir
roliot trom anytlung. Tlio btnto treas
urv aud its "linaucial arm" is t
pleasaut faucy, a picturesqno bit of
nolitical noesv. but it has a sternly
practical nspot't tlmt a few peoplo do
not nud so ciiarming. 11 moaus roo-
binc Petor to pay Paul. St. Albaus
Messeuger.
Thus tho coutemporary, on a part
of tho Jourua l's editorial articlo 111
holping ovorburdoned towns, suffer
iug nudor fresh disastor.
SVhy this coustnnt mourning ovor
the "henvy taxatiou" uuder "tho
iniquitous highway aud school tnx
laws?" Tho vehemeuco of tho cou
temporary's rhetorio argnes something
wrong with his promises. Theso "iu-
iqitous" taxes aro in part for bottor
roads, nnd tho roads arouud tlieso
mourniug big towns lead to tho busi-
ness contors, St. Albaus among
thom. The mnch oofamed "robbor"
small towns, tho chirf beneflciaries
of thoso taxes, aro feedors of tho com
plaiuing largo towns. Anything that
iiromotos the thrift of tlieso nbused
nnd Btruggliug small municipalities in
iuorensiuyg rntio contributos to tho
growth of tho uiuch begrudging larg
er communities. "Givo aud yo shnll
reoivo. " Bettor sohools mako better
citizous.
Tho largor towns are Bupplied from
tho rural environmont. Look ovor tho
mou of promiuonco iu busiuess or pro
fosional lifo iu those ovor scolding
largo communitios aud see how mauy
woro"to thomnnnorborn, " how mnny
cnuio from tho hills nnd vnlloys of tho
small towns. Look ovor tho clorks
iu tho storos and busiuess ofllces, tho
young peoplo of oithor sex holding
placos of trust and reBponsibility,
tho teachors in tho publio Bchools, and
how many aro natives, boru aud roa'r
od intho placos whore thoy aro labor
ing? Wheuco do thoy cbmo? Not
from tho oitios, but from tho hillB and
up among tho vnlloyF of tho towns
who aro tho bonoflciarios of thoso
"iniqnitouB taxos." Lot thifl "iu
iqnity" onduro, and Potor coutiuuo
tho robbing of Paul.
This Stato is all ouo political body;
towu liuos nro aB puroly artifloial as
the dlvidiug linos of tho organi of tho
iumnu nnatomy. If ono mombor suf
fors all Buffor, nnd it is equally to tho
advantago of oncb to koop his follow
iu good hoalth aud strongth. Tho
only just and rational grouud for coui
plalnt in rospoot of thoso "iniquitous
taxos" is porvorslon of tho funds from
tho purposo for which thoy aro raisod
and distributod. It is iuoumbont on
tho Stato to soo that its woll designod
purposo in rospoot of thoso taxoa is
faithfully carrlod ont,
BBYAN FOR OLEVELAND?
Iu tho Commouor, Editor Willinm J.
Bryau lnakes this commont ou Mr.
Olovolaud's rcccnt advico to Doiuo-
crnts :
"If tho reorganizorB rcgain posses-
sion of tho Dcmocratio party (n pos
sibility so romoto that no ouo should
nssumo it) Mr, Olovelnnd should bo
tho nomiuco for Prcsidcnt, for ho in
his own porson represonts tltowounds
aud bruises recoived by tho roorgan-
izors ns woll as their aims and moth-
ods.
"if thoro is to bo a comploto abau-
donmout of tho party s position, if
tho party is to stand for nu absolutoly
chaugcd policy, then no otlior candi
dnto should bo cousidorcd. Ho com
bino3,as no othor living porsou doos,
thoso peculiar aud, lot it bo said with
gratitudo, raro iutollectual and moral
characteristics which omboldon a pub-
lio offlcial to botray tho votors of his
own party aud dolivor his couutry iu
to sorvitudo to tho monoy changors.
"Of nll thoso whoso party enthusi-
asm risos and falls with tho stock
market, ho is tho ouly ouo of prom-
inenco who is Bhamoloss ouough to
poso as a JJcmocratic leauor or ouor
suggcstiou to thoso who givo a valu
ablo consideration for tho monoy
which thoy draw from socioty."
Tho lossou of tho World's Fair iu
Ohicago ought to bo rcmoinborod iu
makiuc tho Stato's appropriatiou for
tho proposod oxposition at St. Louis,
Vormontors will havo little uso lor a
$25,000 Stato building. Thoy will go
to tho fair to seo tho oxhibits, uot to
loaf iu nny structuro tho Stnto may
orect. But $25,000 oxpeuded in dis
playing products from Vermont would
bo highly creditablo aud boiieflcial to
tho Stato. Phoouix. Aud tho produ-
cors of tho products aro ablo nud will
ing to spond their own monoy for thoir
ndvortisiug.
If Vermont has $25,000 or $ 50,000 to
spond for advertisiug tho Stato lot hor
spond it iu a legitimato flold, aud
not donate it to boomiug St. Louis
or tho St. Louis Expositiou. Theso
oxnositious aro becounnt' too numor-
ous to bo of lasting beuofit. Tho mou
oy could bo nsod mnch moro offectivo-
ly on onr highways, or in auy ouo of
a dozeu ways which could bo mendon
odi Roformor, Brattleboro.
Baron Mnx vou Oppeuhoiu, tho
Goruian diplomat, author and oxplor
er, who has beeu spending tho bettor
part of a vear in this couutry, sailed
for homo tho other day, nnd ns a pnr-
tinc word cavo his opiniou of mou
nnd things in tho Uuited States.
Among othor things ho said: ".
havo beenastonished at tho versatil
ity of tho Amoricau busiuess mnn nnd
mechanic, and I especially thiuk tho
Amoricau busiuess muu has a singu
lar ndnptability for anything that
turus up, so that for tho moment
each ono is a specialist in his liuo.
EverythiiiK hero is on a grand scalo.
You cau't apprcciato your own vast
ness unless you havo tho pcrspcctivo
of tho foreiguor. I can cnsily uudor-
stnnd now what is meautby tho stren
uous lifo.' "
Porhaps tlio Baron can oxplaiu to
his couutry aud othor Europenu ua
tious, tho causo of au oiTect that hns
beeu disturbing them for somo timo.
Dr. Oharles Stilos, zoologist of tho
National Bureau of Auimnl Industry,
and woll known in tho modical world
ns tho discoveror of nucinarinsis, or
tho hook worm disoaso, mado tho as-
touishing doclaratiou boforo tho sanit
nry conferenco just closod iuWashing
tou, that tho prosouce of this disoaso
amonc tho poor whitos of tho Soutli
is tho causo of tho inforior dovolop
meut of physieal aud meiital powors
and tlio nroverbial lnziuoss of thoso
peoplo known as "Crackors" andDirt
oaterB. " Tho suspicion that laziuoss
is ouly a misnomor for what is roally a
disoaso has nppealed to somo othor
poople, wlio will rojoioo to loarn that
Bciouuo supports such belief. Tho
good old man who said ho wa "glad
. rl will not have uny subitltutc, for I
hive u3d It. my latlier ustxl It, and thcre
.n r UMh.HlillK n ....
Sv'fl cvrry whcre. 35c. mmi go. bUle,
j Not I did not ask for a bottle ny B
,;licuper, ur twice as large, I did mk Ur 1
thoro was ono dny in tho wook a man
could rost and not bo callod la,y"
would, if in tho flesh, fully approol-
nto this rovolntiou of solonco.
Paymnstor Gonoral Batcs adds his
tostimony in bohalf of tho army cnn
toon ns n promotor of good ordor aud
fowor dosortions. His opiniou is
basod ou tho nmount rocoivod from
Boldicrs' homo dnos, fluos aud forfoit
nros, which, during tho fiBcal yonr of
11)02, sinco tho nbolishmont of tho can
tcon, havo iucroased $100,420 ovor tho
provious ycar- aud with a docroasod
numbor of mon to draw from. With
tho W. O. T. U. ou ouo Bldo aud tho
wnr dopnrtmout on tho othor , Oon
gress will havo n high timo sottliug
tho mattor.
A Massachusotts llrm has shippod to
an ArknusaB man what is said to bo
tho biggost pair of shoos ovor mado.
Thoy aro sovoutcens of oxtra width ;
and noarly n wholo "sido" of loathor
was usod iu tho solos. Wo rocord
theso factB uot moroly iu tho iutorost
of statistical sciouco, but out of kiud-
uoss to tho llon. David Bnnuott Ilill,
who mny be seokiug ndequato moaus
of kicking himself to oxpross fully his
romorso for that coal plank. Now
York Sun.
Tho Wheoliug, W. Va., Tolegraph is
up ugainst tho roal thing oarly in its
oxistenco. Tho Tolegraph mado its
bow to tho publio Wedncsday ovon-
ing, aud tho uoxt day it was mado
the dofendaut in a $25,000 damago
suit brought by James J. Oorbott, tho
pugilist-nctor.who says his roputntiou
nud trado mnrk, 'iGentlonian Jim",
has beon damaged griovously by tho
Tolcgraph's stntemeut that ho acted
disrespectf ully toward womou on n
Bnltimoro nud Ohio train.
Recont dovolopmouts may mako tho
word striko a sourco of coufusion
to foroiguors wheu thoy try to learn
our lauguago. Thoy will hear that
n striko of oil in tho southwest ro
lioves somowhat tho fuol striugcncy
occasioned by tho coal striko. Thoy
will also rend in tho school rcaders tho
famous liuo of Hnlleck's "Maroo Boz-
zaris, ' ' ' 'Striko for yonr altars aud
your lires!" Yonth's Compauion.
Murray D. Clemont who was elected
mayor of Wnltham,Mnss., ouTuedny,
for a second torm, is a nntivo of Bar
net and subsequeutly lived iu Ryegato
aud West Charlestou. Ho is pay
master of tho Amoricau Waltham
Watch Co., aud is lieutouaut-colouol
of tho 5th Reg't., Massachusotts Na
tional Guard. Mayor Clemont is a
cousiu of Ropresoutativo F. H. Oleni-
out of Danvillo.
Tho foot ball record is moro glori
ous thau over this year, for nccording
to tho Chicago Tribnuo, twolvo woro
killed, ono futally aud oighty-flvo
seriously injured, iu 1002. whorcas
tho record of last year was only oight
killed aud soventy-ilvo seriously in
jured. CATTLE BILL HEARING.
Ropresoutntivo Deau of Forrisburg,
chairman of tho Houso committeo ou
agricnlture.presided at a publio lionring
beforo that committeo, iu Represouta
Hvi'k' Hnll Tnesdnv ovoninc. 011 Sena-
torltussoll's billtoereato acattlocom-
mission. Tlns bill nas passea tno
Souato and been ordored to n third
reading .by tho Houso and is ono of tho
most importaut measures to bo acted
npon during tho closiug dnvs of tho
session. The chiof intont of tho bill
is to do away with tho compulsory
test for tuborculosis.
Georgo Aitkou of Woodstock was
tho flrst speaker nnd his romarks woro
iniiinly descriptivo of tho foot nnd
mouth disenso and its nppearauco iu
Vormout. Ho rolntod liis oxporiouco
a n menibor of tho board of ngricul
ture, in uttempting to stamp out tho
discaso, practically aB publishod in
yestorday 's Journal, and read Gov.
McCullongh's quarnntino ordor. Ho
objccted to tho Russoll bill becnuso it
gavo tlio coninnssion no powor 10
qunrantino in caso of cpidemics, nud
drew nu illustratiou trom tlio
presout
situation. Ho said that tho foot nnd
mouth disease was ouly ono of mnny
that may como at any timo, and ho
boliovod tlio timo wns not far distant
whon wo would bo cnlled npon to
orndicato tuboiculosis. Ho said ho
wns not a candidato for roappoint
nient ou tho board of agriculturo nnd
would not sorvo if rcappoiutod. so did
not criticizo tho bill becauso of tho
olllco. Ho mcutiouod that tho gov
ornmeut would not furnish tnborculin
nuless tho test was compulsory, aud
objocted to tlio provisious which al
lowed tho ownor to koop tho cnrcass
of animals killed. Ho snid ho could
not seo tho good of a cattlo conimis
sion thnt had 110 power to nct, nnd
spoko of tho bill which had beon pro
parod by tho board, which ho thought
tho Logislaturo should iuvostigato,
thou thoy might docido which wns
tlio bost.
Mr. Altkon was then intorrogatod
by soveral concorning tho foot nnd
mouth diseaso nnd gavo intorosting
informntion coucorniug its history in
Europo and tho Uuitod States.
O. J. Boll, latoly a mombor of tho
board of ngrionltnre, oritioi.od tho
Russoll bill and Sonator Russoll do
foncled it. Thou a followed a sharp
dobato botwoon Mossrs, Boll and
Aitkon, Sonator Russoll and sovoral
othors, during which Sonator Russoll
oloquently dofonded liis bill, nnd do
nouncod tlio prnotico of comjralsory
tostiug for tuboroulosls. IIo said that
an ainondinont would bo offorod by
Mr. Abboy, providing for Ja qunran
tino in caso of opidomlo or a conta
gions disoaso. Tho audiouco was
composod mainly of mombors of tho
LogiBlatnro aud tho disonssionB pro
voked a livoly intorest.
IS IT FAIR?
Editor Dnily Journal : Will tho
rcforondum voto ou Jnnuary 0, noxt,
givo timo for "thorongh discussion
nnd mnturo doliborntiou by tlio peo
plo, ' ' ns solemuly doclarcd in tho Ro
pnblican platfprm of last Juno?
Ohanging tho wholo principlo of tho
liquor lnw, aud with colnmns of do
tailB concorning tho law, can tho peo
plo voto intolligoutly in ouly a fow
wccks 011 a mattor that has takcn
months to, formulato? If not, why
not? Why is this carly datodomnnd
od? Is it becanso tho circumstances
at that timo will bo loss favorablo to
tho couutry towns for reaching tho
polls. This inforouco is cortainly
legitimato. Is thoro a fear of tho
couutry voto by tho advocates of high
licouso? Do tho politicians of our
oitios and largor towns kuow tlmt tho
couutry voto is cleaner and more mor
al, and becanso of it do thoy wish
to provout its oxprossiou ou this rcfor
ondum ?, If thoy do not know this wo
can iuform them that.it is thought to
bo truo by tho facts of history and tho
judgmunt of wiso statosmon. Einor
sou says, ' 'Tho city is recruitcd from
tho couutry. Tho city would havo
died out, rotted aud oxplodod long
ugo, but that it was roinforced from
tho flolds. It is only couutry como
to town day boforo yestorday, tlint is
city court tomorrow. " It is n sciou
tiflc fact, acknowlodged by all sooiolo
gists, "That ouly tho agr'cultural
classcs posscss pormanent vitality,
from its ovorflow tho city populatiou
is formed, displaced, renowed.
"Auy city populatiou, if left to itsolf,
would dio out iu four geueratious. "
"Tho oity is aninlnudlako,fedbycon-
staut stroams, but without an outlet.
This stroam of humauity becomes
moro aud moro polluted ns it ilows to
tho contors of populntiou, just ns ptiro
wators from tho mouutnin sidcs bo
coiuo less vital nud moro fetid ns thoy
nenr somo dead sea.
Presidont Roosovolt said in nu nd
dress ou "Tho Meuaces of Civiliza-
tiou" : "in au attompt to reform tho
cities by law, uiuo-tenths of tho city
membors would bo hostilo to it. Tho
ouly hopo of reform lies in tho actiou
of tho couutry mombors. Tho nvor
ago grado of our politiciaus is a sori
ous menaco lo good govornniout. Four-
flfths of tho ropresentatives at Albany
from Groator Now York can bo do
ponded upou to voto on tho wroug sido
of overy questiou". Has tho day
como of which Weudoll Phillips proph
esied, when ho said that "our great
er municipalities would yet strain our
iustitutious as slavory nover did?"
Wo wnnt a full voto from tlio green
hills of Vermont. If wo aro to havo
high licenso wo wnnt tho will of ull
the peoplo bchiud it. It is ouly fair
to givo the little towus au cqnal
cliauco to oxpress thoir will upou tho
questiou at issuo. A little towu, a
voico from tho hills is God's method
of keopiug tho lnrger towns and cities
from rotting iu less than four gener
ntious. Tho questiou seems to be,
Will tho sowago of tho cities flow
backwnrds iuto tho couutry, or shnll
tho mountaiu streams tlow down to
cleanso and purify municipal couges
tion and corrnptiou? At least, thero
, uu u,, ,u .hu l,"n
latter uy lusisiuig umi. 1110 voio xui'
tho referendnm bo takou in less than
six wecks, and nt a timo wheu a child
kuows that full voto of tho rural
1 towns cannot bo had.
K .Fullor,
1002.
Windsor, Vt., Dec,
OASTORIA.
Bears tbe ,4 9 Kind You Hav8 Always Bought
VERMONT'S PORTIA
Tho Frauk Shnw commutatiou caso
was tho subject of nnother protracted j
heariug iu Ropreseutatives' Hnll on
Weduesday ovoniug, nud tho nppear
nnco of Vormont's Porti'i, Mrs Jessio
L. Bigwood, who camo to plead tho
coudeninod man's causo, aud tho pres- !
euco of Shaw's sistor gnvo nu added j
intnwsr. tn tho npoiiKinn. Eminott Mc- 1
1 ji'eotors of Enosburg, ehnirmnn of tho
Houso juaieinry coninn
litteo, prosided
fllled With leg -
and tho hall was woll
islntors nnd outsidors. At tlio becin
niug Mrs. Bigwood road sovernl nlll
davits aud lottors from vnrious placos
whoro Shaw had lived, testifyiug to
his good charnctor aud gontlo disposi
tiou. Tho coudoniued man's sistor,
Miss Josio P. Shaw of Glenn's Falls,
N. Y., also told tho committeo of hor
brotliers's good dispositiou ann char
nctor. Thon cnmo n numbor of witnessos
who tcstificd coucorniug tho ompty
sholl allegod to havo beon fouud in
tho ritlo usod by Doputy Shorilf Holf
mnn aftor tho shooting, which Shaw's
attornoy, G. A. Dnvis of Windsor,
coutends is evidonco that Mr. Hoff
miui llred tho flrst shot nud thus in
vitod tho fatal snot lirod by Shaw.
Thad M. Chapiuau of Addisou couu
ty rohearsod tho tragic story of
Shaw's capturo in Middlobnry, and
how tho fugitivo dofondod himBolf by
flriug at his pursuors ou nll sidos
whon ho wns Bnrroundod, nud did not
coaso iiriug uutil ho was wouudod.
Mrs. Bigwood thou mado tho opon
iug plea for Shnw. Sho considorod
tho denth ponnlty ns ossontially nnjust
nnd did uot boliovo tho Stnto had a
right to tako luuniin lifo undor tho
guiso of law. Sho plondcd onmostly
in bohalf of tho coudoniued man's
mothor whoso hnir, sho snid, hnd
turnod gray undor tho sorrow, nud
for his sistor nnd othors of tho family
whoso livos would bo blightod if tho
soutonco wns oxoontod. ,
Mr. Sargout and Mr. Stioknoy thon
spoko for tho Stato, omphaBizing tho
idoa of upholdlng tho law, aud Mr.
Davis closod tho lioaring with nn
oaruest ploa for Shaw.
BLOOD W!FE
Makes Ghildren Healtliy
Childron should exporlenco goodhealth
in ordor to grcw Into strong mon and
women. Peoplo nro ofton elckly and
woak becfttisa of thoir fratl oonstltutlon
whon childron. Tlio body when growlng
noeds nll the nourlshment it can got, for
tlmt reason paronts should bo doubly
caroful about tlieir chlldren'i physlcal
condltion. "Blood Wino" is rollshed by
nll childron, and thore li nothlng tliak
will do thom ns much good. It givos
them itrongth of body nnd braln. Ifr
stlri up the clrculatlon, koopi tho stom
nch in good ordor nd tho bowols rlght
Noxt timo your child is aillng just try
"Ulood Wino" on it. It contains no
Wine and is porfoctly harmlesi.
Mr. Miohaol MoCuo, of 088 Lakoviotr
Aveuuo, Lowell, Masi., hai a ruggod.
little chlld wha a fow monthi ago waa
lrail and lckly.
Thi li how it happonod
"My little glrl hao bocn slllns for a long tlmt
and lt gnvo us tho grcntcst uncaslncsa for tliera
VA3 no WftV Of ComnQlllnir hcr tn tnkn mprtlptnn.
ous uaa uecn sivon a ao
a dose of lome vory dls.
agrooable taatlng rcmocly during a prcvloua
E.v.,iuia uu Atum biiub uay buo auBoaueiy ro
fuaod to tako any prcscrlptlon tlio doctor left
for her. Try as liard as would ho could not
uo pcruuadod to swnllow anything that had a
sotnljlanco to mcdlcino untll'lllood Wlne'waa
rccommcndcd. Aftor much coaxlng, she do.
clilcd It would do hcr no harm, and onco tastoil,
sho has novcr fallcd to remlnd us that lt la
'mcdlcino timo.' Hor strongth hai coma back
to licr, sho la brlght and chccrful as a crlcket
and grows Dcshlcr evcry day. Wo aro more
thnn nanpy orcr her complcte rccoTcry and
Jeel that Hl wholly duo to 'lllood Wino.'"
Every child Bhould tako it as a blood
maker a tonic and laxativo. Fif ty centa
a bottle.
II. A fil iAHM
DECEMBER MAGAZINES.
Tho now story by Alico Caldwell
Hegan, author of ' 'Mrs. Wiggs of tho
Cabbago Patch, " will begin in tho
December Ceutury. It is uamed from
ono of its characters, "Lovcy Mnry, "
nu inmate of a charitablo institution
who is said to havo as many iuterp,st
ing characteristics as Mrs. Wiggs,
She runs away and becomes nn iu
mato of tho "Cabbago Patch," so
that Mrs. Wiggs nud her childrou,
with Miss Hazy,Chris and tho rest,be
como characters in tho now story,
which is said to bo fully up to tho
mnrk of its author's previous success.
For soven consccutivo months "Mrs.
Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" has
been nmoug tho six best-sellyig
books in tho United States.
Hpward Pylo bolieves that tho ro
productiou of his paiutings in tho
December Ceutury is "tho high-water
mark of color reproduction." Tho
priuting is said uot to bo dono by
lithography, but from plates, priuted
by tho Do Vinno Press, 011 which a
careful engraver has speut mnny
weeks.
Tho North American Review- for
December is a numbor of pheuomoual
! importance, aud it is uot easy to
, . . ,. f
avoid the uso of suporlatives 111 des
cribiug it. Tho snbjects could not bo
better adjusted to tho varied inter
ests of tho hour, uor could moro cap
ablo peus bo fouud to denl with thom
thnn thoso ropreseuted by tho unox
ampled nrray of emiuent unmes which
nppear ou tho titlo-page. Tho
achiovomonts of "Presidont Rooso
volt's First Year" aro judicially con
sidered by two distiuguished writors,
whoso idontity, boyoilcl tho fact that
they nre, respectively, "A Progres
sivo Ropublicnu" nnd "A Jefforson
inu Democrnt, " is wthhold. Ex
Speaker Thomns B. Reed nsks "What
Shall wo Do with tho Tariir?" Mark
Twain makes somo characteristio
commouts on "Ohristinu Scieuce"
in tho flrst of threo papors ho has pro
pared ou that subject. Out of tho
nVirmrl.mrn of her nrncticnl kuowledco
of t t dninw Mnrguorito Meriugtou
1 hnntn,tmn
tesa Play?" Josoph S. Auorbach criti
oises somo recout uttornuces of "Presi
dont Roosovolt ou the Trnsts' ' ; and
Ilenry O. Adnms, Professor of Poli
ticnl Ecoiiomy iu Michigan Univ
orsity, nufolds tlio nnturo of Public
ity aud tho administrativo measures
through which it may bo sucessfully
rcalized. This is but a partial list
of tho contouts of this uumbor.
Tho Deccmbor numbor of Scribuor s
is strikiug becauso of its color priut
ing, particularly beautiful in its dol
icacy of coloriug nud vnriety of snb
jects. Tho illustrntious by Jessio
Wilcox Smith toll thoir own stories
without toxt of "A MothorsDny."
Tho numbor coutnins sovernl short
stories, ciiarming iu mnkoup nud sou
timont, besides specinl urticlos, nmoug
thom nn unpublished poom by Robort
Louis Stovouson, writtoniu hisyonth.
Tho Poiut of Viow contaius a littlo
ossay by E. S. Martin iu his most
dolightfnl vein, eutitled "A Ohrist
nias Contomplatiou, aud Tho Fiold of
Art has a disoussiou ou Fino Arttand
UnivorBitios by Will H. Low.
Evory fnmily should havo its Iiousq
hold modioiuo ohost aud tlio flrst
bottlo iu it Bhould bo Dr. Wood's
Norwny Pino Syrup. Nnturo'a romody
for oonghs nud oolds.