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The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08
WORK THAT TELLS.
Plenty of 1t Has Been Done Right
Here in Brattlehoro.

Cures that last are cures that tell
To thoroughly know the virtues of a
medicine you must investigate the
cures and see if they prove permanent.
Doan s Kidney Pills stand this test,
and plenty of proof exists right here
in Brattleboro. People who testified
years ago to relief from backache, kid.
ney and urinary disorders, now declare
that relief was permanent and the
cure perfect. How can any Brattle-
boro sufferer longer doubt the evil
dence?
Mrs. f. E. Whitney, living on the
Bonnyvale Road about four miles
from Brattleboro, Vt, says: "In a
testimonial l gave eight years ago l
told the people of Brattleboro what
wonderful benefit Doan s Kidney Pills
had given me. l had been annoyed
for years with attacks of pain in the
small of my back and with other
symptoms which plainly showed that
the kidneys were not acting properly.
I commenced using Doan S Kidney
Pills and they helped me from the first
and continued taking them until had
used several boxes. l am getting
along in years and can hardly expect
complete cure but Doan s Kidney
Pills are certainly the finest remedy l
know of and it is blessing to know
of medicine which brings such
prompt relief. I certainly speak well
of it to my friends. "
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan sand
take no other.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08
BE CAREFUL.

The new form of ballot was no
wholly responsible for the delay il
counting the vote east for town Off
GERS Tuesday. Something else retard
ed the work of the tellers and caused
the annoying adjournment until next
Monday. The inability of the board
of civil authority to determine the re
suit of the election Tuesday evening
was in part due TO the closeness OF
the vote for seleetmen and the appar
ent inaccuracy of the count as it was
first made.
According to the first tabulatlon Mr.
Vinton had $40 votes to Mr.. Hooker
5O4, the former lacking three of the
number requisite for election. On all
the tally sheets used in counting Mr.
yinton led Mr.. Hooker by a very
small majority, except ON one who
the vote stood GO to 80 in Mr. Hook
er's favor. That one sheet should
vary so widely from the others
aroused in the minds of some of the
tellers the suspicion that mistake
had been made, and when It was found
that there was discrepancy in the
total number of votes cast a recount
seemed imperative. This second count
revealed the fact that Mr.. Vinton had
been deprived of 80 votes cast for
him, while Mr.. Hooker had been
credited with II more than belonged
to him. There was comparatively lit
tie change in the vote for other can
didates for selection. Each tally
sheet used on the recount showed
slight advantage for MIR. Vinton ex-
cept one on which the vote was tie.
The recount determined the fact
that three selectmen had been elect
ed, and an examination OF the vote
for other officers showed that one au-
ditor and second road commissioner
were the only positions that had not
been filed. Had this been apparent
on the first count there would have
been no necessity for an adjournment.
There is no doubt that the task of
tabulating every vote east Tuesday
was a difficult and tedious one. Nor is
it surprising that mistakes should have
been made. 1t does seem, however,
that an ordinary amount of care would
have prevented any such glaring error
as that which occurred in counting
the vote for selectmen, especially
since the mistake seemed to be con
fined almost wholly to one tally
sheet. Brattleboro citizens will prob
ably be cOntented to consider the mat
ter in the light of an annoying blum
der that very fortunately was discov-
cred before it was too. late to correct
it. But the occurrence should be
warning to all those who ever have oc-
casion to participate in such an impor-
tant task as that of determining the
will of the people as expressed by
their ballots. Carelessness at such
time is likely to cause suspicion.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08
WHITE MOUNTAIN FORESTS.

Speaker Cannon determined oppo'
sition to the Appalachian and White
Mountain forest reserves project was
successful in preventing any definite
action on this matter by the 59th con
gress, although friends of the idea
succeeded in getting an appropriation
of $4,000 in the agricultural bill for a
second survey of the tracts. II is
probable that these forest reserves will
ultimately become reality, but the
wholesale slaughter Of the White
Mountain forests will continue for an
other two years at least to the detri-
ment of scenic beauty of that section
ms well as of the manufacturing in.
dustries dependent upon the rivers
that have their sources there. In com
menting upon this matter the Man
chester. n. H., Union is inclined to
take an optimistic view of the situa-
ton. 1t says:
The bill providing for the creation
of a forest preserve in the White
mountains and for another at the
southern extremity of the Appalachian
range failed in the congress just closed
bv reason of the stubborn opposition
of Speaker Cannon. 1t had passed the
senate, and il was known that the
house was in favor of it, but Speaker
,,,n,,1I narmtt II I'm
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08
Western Massachusetts Elections

1t was March town-meeting day in west.
ern Massachusetts Monday and about sc
towns held their annual business meetings.
The meetings were as a rule well attend
ed. There were but few changes in the
| license vote. Belchertown and Wendell
voted Yes, and auckland and Athol swung
over into the No column. Conway, which
last year voted No by a safe margin, re-
mains in that column, but the vote was
tie. With but two exceptions the Frank.
lin county towns held their meetings Mon
day, and there were a number of i'm
portant matters taken up by the voters.
Greenfield, in addition to determining the
site and cost of a new schoolhouse, named
committee to consider the question of a
library building and took further action
relative to the Rocky mountain park. AT
Mortified, where the extension of street
railway to Greenfield was under consid
Grafton, it was voted to grant a franchise,
so far as the town could do it, by vote
of SO to A. 1t is said that the town can
not grant right of way across the North
field bridge, special act of the legisla-
ture being required for that purpose. At
Charlemont it was voted, for the first time
in the history of the town, to establish
a high school, and an appropriation was
made for the purpose. AT Bernardston it
was voted to be the sense of the meeting
to leave to the trustees of the Cushman
fund the matter of providing special in
struction in agriculture at Powers lnsti.
tute. At Colran the matter of the town
purchasing the Memorial hall, which was
built by the Grand Army post, was re-
selectmen, Lorenzo Griswold and j. E.
Davenport. This committee will make an
investigation and ma Ike report at fu'
ture meeting
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08
Railroads
BOSTON & MAINE RAIL ROAD
In effect October 8, 1906

Trains leave bfhtlltbofui
Montreal and Quebec. via c. V, and q. ] Ri
I'll iOa. m &C 2,25 y. m. HOS p. m.
Montreal & Quebec, via Newport and c P Ill
ill IOA m. ttl0ls y. m.
Quebec. via Sherbrooke and G. ]. Ry., ll.,5ts
ftl0,ls p. m.
Quebec. via Que. Cent. Ry.-tii.i0 a, No. .iIa
y. m.
Greenfield, Northampton. Holyoke. SpHhgit
Is 2s a. m. 1907 a. m. fl0,l5 a. m, i2ap,
t423 p. m. 1929 p. m.
Bellows Falls, Claremont Junction, Wjh5q
White River Junetion-tli.l0 a. m. asp,
1885 .. m. lois p. m.
Wells River. St Johnsbury. Lyndonyiie-
a. m. f225 .. m. tl0.lsp m.
Newport, Sherbrooke-ill.i0 a. m. tl0lspr
Boston-'A SIS a m. IA l0.l5 a. m. tB 2Gt
m. "A 423 p. m.
DAILY. Daily except Sunday. iDai.y eI,ss
Saturday. { Sunday only. A via GreeHfed .
via Bellows Falls. G Montreal only.
Detailed information and timetables may b .
tanned at ticket Offices.
d. J. FLANDERS, c. NJ. BURT.
Pass Traf Mgr Cen Pass Az
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08
A Difficult Task.
montpelier Journal.)

A man who has been confined in the
Brattleboro Retreat for some time has
been summoned to court in Maine to
show cause, if any there be, why he
should not be adjudged insane and
committed to an asylum in that state.
1t looks as though the chances were all
against him for when an insane man
starts out to elucidate in detail why
he is not insane he usually ends up on
the arms of an attendant.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08
Too Much Redmond?
(St. Adams Messenger.

In all fairness to the chairman of
the railroad commission, who is an un'
doubted good citizen and competent
public servant, would it be unreason'
able to suggest that, in little state
like Vermont with few posts of honor
and revenue to distribute among ambi'
tious and deserving men at the most,
it is something of limitation of other
men S opportunities for him to be
both railroad commissioner and report
err of the supreme court at the same
time?
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08

is certainly employing no press agent
to keep him before the public. II he
h more or less eonspicuously in mind
today, even after a whole generation
of comparative rest, u must be be
cause the accomplishments of the good
old man in his active years are still
gratefully remembered.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08
Legal Notices.
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

Estate of W. Z. BINGHAM
The undersigned having been appointed by
Marlboro Commits soners, to receive, examine
and adjust all claims and demands Of all per.
sons against the estate of W. E. Bingham,
late of Newfane, in said district, deceased,
and all claims exhibited in Offset thereto,
purpose aforesaid at the residence of Linus
Bingham on the 9th day Of March and on the
18th day Of August next, from Q clock p.
m,. until o clock p. m. each Of said days,
and that six months from the 18th day OF
February A. D. 1907, is the time limited by
said Court fer said creditors to present their
claims to us for examination and allowance.
Dated at Newfane this 10th day Of Febru-
airy, A. D. 1907.
c. X. STEDMAN
W. f. WHEELER,
8-10c Commissioners.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08
The MeddLer
III the eoaf fiis yoa. put IL on. ="

Without half trying The Meddler
has counted no less than ~ people
among them some of the most impor'
tant pcrsonages in town, who have
laid themselves liable to a fine of $40
by violating the provisions of Act No
ls7 of the laws of 1906 Hardly a
day passes without evidence Of how
little this statute is held in respect,
All kinds of people violate it repeated
" without thinking. The Meddler is
planning to publish next week list Of
the offenders who have already been
apprehended.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08
Without a Precedent.
(MOntDelier ,Journal.)

A woman who took a cent s worth
of goods from a store in Brattleboro
many years ago repented of her sin
the other day and sent the merchant
10 cents with an explanation. 1t is
seldom you hear of a dry goods store
being troubled with a conscience fund.
AS a general thing, it is more common
for a merchant in that line to receive
back goods which were bought many
years with the request that they be
exchanged for something else.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08
Needs No Press Agent.
(St. Adams Messenger

Frederick Holbrook of Vermont is
getting altogether too much fame as
"the only living war governor. Gov.
William Sprague of Rhode Island has
had a much more famous and pictur-
esque career than has Governor Hol-
brook, and the last of the once great
House of Sprague should not be SO
soon Observation-Disclosures Bulletin.
The venerable Ex-Governor Holbrook
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08
Beer and Baseball.

Book beer and baseball talk indicate
the sometime coming of spring. The
Northern league is trying to raise its
bruised head once more, and all wish
it revival. There's no sport like the
national game, but like other good
things-bock beer included-it must
be taken with discretion.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08
Book Notes,
(St. Johnsbury Republican,

(st, Johnsbury Republican,
The latest addition to Vermont bib
biography is the valuable set of histor'
zeal works just issued from the office
of The Rutland Herald.
1t is copyrighted by Percival W,
Clement,
II is proof read by i, $. Pratt.
II is monotyped by Senator Redheld
Proctor,
1t is published by Judge w. W,
Miles.
1t bears the imprint of the Rutland
county court.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08

Rev. Levi B. Steele, II, retired clergy
man man died at his daughters Hg home in But
mont Baptist churches for 43 years when
he retired in 1904 after five years pas
torate at Sharon. Rev. Mr.. Steele was
born at Buxton, Me-, April %, 1929. He
had presided over churches at johnson.
SALISBURY, Pittsford and West Bolton.
He moved to Rutland from Pittsford two
years ago having been pastor there from
1885 to 1890 Mr.. Steele is survived by
two daughters, Mrs. S. R. Kendall Of
Rutland and Mrs. j. Frank Leonard of
Winsted, Conn, and two sons, Philip of
Chicago, and Charles G. of Tempe, Ariz.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08
Tough Cheese!


Brattleboro "fell down. for some
strange reason. One plum, not Juicy
politically or financially however, has
fallen elsewhere. A Rutland man is
Vermont member of the touring board
of the Automobile Association of
America.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08
Prophet Finn.
(St. Johnsbury Republican }

Brattleboro high school pupils are
visiting Washington on an educational
sight seeing trip. This lends point to
the statement of f. b. Finn of Spring
field in the last republican state con
vention that politics is part of the
curriculum in the Brattleboro public
schools.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08

We offer our condolences to Lewis
H. Lynde. To be turned down as town
treasurer after making such a good
showing as he did in Dummerston last
year is pretty tough. However, we
have no doubt that Mr.. Lynde will sur
vive the blow and continue to be one
of Dummerston s best citizens.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08

An anti-pass law has been intro
duced in the Maine legislature. 1t will
be interesting to see whether it fares
any better than the one introduced in
New Hampshire.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08

If You Don t Succeed At First Try,
Try Again, is a motto which Mayor
elect Bigelow of Burlington believes
in, no doubt.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08

A local man who is interested in
souvenir post cards recently sent to a
friend in Australia a card portraying
Vermont sugar making scene. The
man in the antipodes in acknowledg.
ing the card, wrote that a merchant in
the city of Sidney did thriving
business in selling hot buckwheat
cakes and "genuine Vermont maple
sugar" AS an advertisement the
merchant had in his window large
cake of the alleged saccharine product
and the following sign; "This is real
Vermont Manle sugar. Can you tell
it from a bar of soara'
The Meddler.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08

The Meddler has received from a
friend in a nearby town an interesting
example of English "as she is wrote
in Brattleboro. 1t is an envelope used
by n local business man and bears the
following lucid statement; "You might
do a Worst thing that to Read this
and you Probably will if you Don't. "
The man who composed this sentence
might do a worst thing but he prob
ably won t, is he does.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08

Rutland went license Tuesday in
spite of the fact that John D. Spell
man spoke for it the evening previous.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08
"clOBE.ocARINAn

Send for one today. ANY one can play
this wonderful futelike toned instrument
with five minutes practice. Postpaid IS
cents. Globe Specially Co., No. Al. Sd
darks Place New York
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08

An illustration of what imagination
will accomplish took place number
of years ago when a party of local
veterans were attending G. A. r. en-
campment in Burlington. There was a
large attendance at the convention and
it became necessary for five or six of
the local delegation to occupy one
room in a hotel. After all had retired
and the lights had been extinguished
one of the party averred that he
couldn't sleep unless the window was
open. This didn't meet with general
approval, since the weather was ex-
tremely cold, but after threshing
about for some time the freshair fend
jumped out of bed, threw open one
window and then retired again. The
effect was marvellous and the believer
in open-air treatment was soon fast
asleep. The next morning his friends
were more than a little amused to
find that he had failed to discover a
storm window outside the one he had
opened the night before.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08

Vernon instead of Guilford will be
Brattleboro s principal suburb the
coming year.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08

The sugaring season is approaching,
and The Meddler is tempted to relate
the old story about the man with the
first new sugar. He used to come
down town long before the thought of
maple sugar had entered the heads OF
most people, with a few cakes of the
"real article" which he was willing
to dispose of for 10 cents cake. One
clustering day in the latter part Of
February the man called on a local
merchant with a small quantity of the
product. "Don' you want some real
new maple sugar'" said the visitor.
81 don t believe / do want any SUI
gar" said the merchant, "but |
should like a quart or two of sap TO
drink" For moment or two the
sugar,maker looked at the merchant
and then said in disguised tone as
he left the store, How in hell do you
suppose sap will run this weather."
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08

The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt issued shows that at the close
of business Feb. 2S, 1907, the debt,
less cash in the treasury, amounted to
$920,6i4 .s54, which is decrease of
$6.797,352 as compared with Feb. J.,
1906. This decrease is accounted for
by the increase in the amount of cash
on hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-25

As a result two fallaces have spread: There must be some one thing, 1t is sad, which is tho true" and sure" cure fsr q particular disease; and, again. any doctor who gives a patient medicine that does not cure doesn't know his bust ness' Many silly schools of medicine coctlons have been patented and many these superstitions. We even hear some cranks condemning all medical science as bosh because of it's failure to dis cover specifics and to succeed with every individual case.
 If anybody wants to be convinced that all men are not created equal, or even on the same stock plan. let him inform himself how differently various individ- uals react to different things. Some per sons arc thrown into mysteries by the odor of lilies; some are made violently i'll by the taste of fish; some faint away at the smell of rose some develop an eruption on the skin from eating straw berries; some are passionately fond of e-ting spiders and snakes and are ap- parentIy unharmed by the diet: some suffer violent indigestion by drinking pure m lk; some contract a dangerous fever and deafness from the smallest possible dose of auinlne; some are literally stun ned by the sound of certain tones of moderate loudness. These are only sman fraction of well-known idosyncra- sies. Nobody can believe them without also maryellng at the minute number of patients who perish by the millionth chance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-25
THE MILLIoNTH CHANGE.
Imposslblllty of Positively Forecasting
 Effect of Drug Upon Any Person.
New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
 If anybody should venture to censure Dr. q. Lenox Curtis for having adminls- tered cocaine to a boy in an operation for adeniods, and thereby having mad yertently caused the patients death, he would in so doing proclaim his own folly. The operation which Dr. Curtis per- formed Is one of the simplest and com honest in surgery, and the procedure from start to finish Is well established The tragedy was due to the mlllionth chance, namely. thl remote possibility that mild administration of cocaine in the throat might Induce an abnormal re- action. Instead of discredlting modern medical science or proving the careless ness of surgeons, the lady's death demon strates simply the wide range of indiyid- ual differences and the impossibllty of positively forecasting the effect of any drug or article of diet upon any person.
 Although a commonplace to all phy- sicians, due weight is too seldom given by laymen to this fact of idosyncrasies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-25
sucoIlc Style.
the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 ''The farmers made fortunes on wheat. didn't they?"
 'r-es, indeed" replied the railroad off cial, and by a little strategy we are getting them to ride in our parlor cars. You know the farmers have always been prejudiced against parlor cars"
 "Why was that?''
 Well, they said the cars didn't look anything like parlors at all. That set us to thinking so we fitted up several spe- cial parlor cars with wax fruit, horse hair furniture and old-fashioned photo- graph albums and now you couldn't pay the farmers to ride in any other car but the parlor."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-25

plays by such well known authors as Charles Klein, George Broadhurst, Jr.' James Forbes, Augustus Pitou, Sr., and Stanislaus Stange.
 The Hudson theatre, which was last season the mecca for social gatherings, which incluUed lectures, musical after moons, amateur college productions, etc., will this season be given over to much the same entertainment, one of the prin- cipal attractions being Ruth St. Denis, who has during the last year appeared before nearly every crowned head in Europe. Miss St. Denis will be presented at the Hudson for a series of special matinees of her East Indian dances. and will later be seen in the larger cities of the United States and Canada.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-07-30

Ask for special folders regarding
Okanogan irrigation project and
Lake Chelan district.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-07-30
WAR AGAIN IN
CENTRAL AMERICA
Republics of Nicaragua and Salvador
on Brink Of Fresh
War.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 29.-From
the officers and passengers of the
steamer City of Panama which ar
rived here from Ancon yesterday
comes the information that when the
steamer left Acajulta, three weeks
ago, the republics of Nicaragua and
Salvador were on the brink of war.
President Zelaya of Nicaragua has
just given orders for the gunboats
-AsIa sul pug gI9Suv .ramnIgmoN
enth Of July to proceed from Corinto
to Acajutla in Salvador, AID after
bombarding that port to land ma
rines to join his army in an attack
upon San Salvador territory Presi-
dent Zelaya refused to restore the
Salvador commentaries boat which
had been seized and it is still being
kept in Corinto. The refusal to re-
turn this boat to Salvador is one of
the causes of the renewal of hostil-
tiles.
The United States armoured crris
er Milwaukee and the s-15oat YORK;
town We're both in the harbor at AGA
Julia looking after American inter
ests.