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XUANTED-M Man for season. Apply to j.
w II. RICHMOND, HOughton Farm. Put
ney. VT. i5-tf
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VNANTED All ONCE-First- class millinery
w trimmcrs. MRS. II. f. BASCOM, S3 Main
ST., second floor. l7-lw
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NTANTED-Jun La competent second girl
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BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1907.
idd1anted.


w ANTED-,At once, man to work on
WANTED Work by the day or hour. NJ.
w +. B.. 3S Clark st. 1915
HXyANTED-Junc "a competent second girl.
wv MRS GEOkGE u. CtOWELI. l6-tt
WANTED Man for season. Apply TO J.
w II. RICHMOND, HoughtOn Farm, Put
ney. VT. l5-tf
WANTED-C Carpenters Tor inside work,
w, long job. WASON MFG. CO., Bright
WANTED All ONCE First-class millinery
w trimmcrs. MRS. II. E. BASCOM, S3 Main
ST., second floor. l7-lw
WANTED-Go Good. sober and industrious
w man to work in the ice business. Apply
TO II. e. WHITNEY, Frost Place. l6-tf
ITO RENT-Near the car line. room with
4 heat and bath. Pleasant outlook Ad-
dress MISS c. NJ. PARK. Townshend.
WTANTED-At once, firstclass sawyer;
w also two or three men to work around
sawmill. HOLDEN Il MARTIN, Brattleboro.
WANTED-Ten or l2 cattle to keep during
w the summer Excellent pasture. W. ID.
Newton, r. F. ID. No 4 Brattleboro, Vt.
WANTED- TO buy spruce. pine. hemlock.
w basswood, and oak in log, or standing
timber. HOLDEN MARTIN. BrattlebOrO
WANTED good boy about 10, to do
wages. j. A. VElNOT. South windham. l2-tf
Wy TANTED-Teacher for West Dover
w school Address ]. c. BARTLETT,
West Dover, VT. 1916
Wy TANTED-Country boy to learn the
w Clothing business. Address H
Phoenix Office. 16-1w
WTANTED-w Woman for general housework
w in family OF two easy place and good
wages. Apply TO A. +. HILL, corner western
Ave. and Melrose St., West Brattleboro. 1917
WTANTED-Lxper carriage wood
w workers, carriage painters and cab
met makers. Write Y. NJ. G. A. Employ
ment Dept, Springfeld, Mass l6-1w
Wy ANTED-Girl to assist in house.
| w work for family Of three; near rail
road station, South Acton; price $3.50.
MAR9iy MR9s' to Mrs A. MeFFi5T; is1iw South Acton
NTANTED-In union shop. Q hour day.
| w good cabinet and bench hands; Best
of wages paid. THE II. b. PORTER &
| SON CO, Norwich, Conn. 1916
NyANTED-Traveler for established
w house. Twelve dollars weekly to
| start. Expenses paid. References. Ad-
dress G. CLOVIS, Brattleboro, VT.
NXTANTED-we have customers fr farms
| w located on high ground, reasonable
priced. II you have real estate of any kind TO
| sell write us. There is prospect of good
| farm sale this season. 5. w. EDGETT co.
| NTANTED-By April /. a good trusty
| caretaker for an invalid; one used to the
| country and needing a home rather than
| high wages. Address Box 45, Deerfeld,
| Mass. 1916
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NY ANTED-At once man to work on
w farm. Address &C." Phoenix office.
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WANrED work by the day or hour NJ
w +. B.. 3S Clark st. 1915
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-04-19

" ANTED-To buy spruce, pine. hemlock.
w Eastwood. and oak in log, or standing
timber. HOLDEN & MARTIN. Brattleboro.
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TTNO RENT-Near the car line. room with
4 heat and bath. Pleasant outlook. Ad-
dress MISS c. NJ. PARK. Townshend.
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"ANTED-At once, a frst.cass sawyer;
w also two or three men to work around
sawmill. HOLDEN II MARTIN, Brattleboro.
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Wy TANTED-Country boy to learn the
w Clothing business. Address H
Phoenix Office. 16-1w
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"ANTED-A good boy about Is, to do
w chores; must know how to milk. Good
wages. j. A. VElNOT, South windham. Eff
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w WANTED-Teacher, for West Dover
w school. Address ]. c. BARTLETT,
West Dover, VT. 1916
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"ANTED-Ten or IL cattle to keep during
w the summer. Excellent pasture. W. ID.
Newton, X. f. ID. No. 4. BrattleborO. Vt.
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WTANTED-W Woman for general housework
w in family of two; easy place and good
wages. Apply TO A. +. HILL, corner Western
Ave. and Melrose ST., West Brattleboro. 1917
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NTANTED-hxperie carriage wood
w workers, carriage painters and cab
met makers. Write Y. NJ. c. A. Employ
ment Dept, Springfield Mass. l6-1w
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Wy ANTED-Girl to assist in house
w work for family OF three; near rail
road station, South Acton; price $3.50.
Apply 10 Mrs. a. Merriam, South Acton,
Mass. 16-1w
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Ryther Block, 5rattIeboro, VT.
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we knew just where to go and we went
straight there.
After dinner we walked around'town for
a time sufficient TO smoke a couple OF stogies.
! suppose we ought to have gone back
TO the railroad station aud chartered one
OF those carryalls and driven around and
taken q look at some OF the fine places out
side OF town, but VIC hadn't time.
What we did was to take a walk and
Iook along some OF the pleasant streets
that lead of from the business centre,
and then we were ready To be on our way
making another trolley for
Tarrytown, which they told us was about
saven miles distant. and which proved
to be another very pleasant little journey
through a rolling and wooded and green
country much like that which we had al
ready ~traversed. and with the trend Of
h ridges and valleys, here as there. north
and south.
s.. az Tarrytswn lies 20 the west or north
west of White Plaius, in making this Jour
ney you cross the ridges and go more up
and down hill. The trolley road is single
track, with %urnouts On this day. Sunday.
TO accommodate the extra travel the cars
were run in lunches Of two, the two cars
OF each bunch keeping close together,
- that pairs moving 10 opposite direction
would meet and pass without loss OF time
at the tlHnouts. But on some OF the hills
the motorman OF the rear car Of a pair
would slow down and 40 cas- at the foot
of a hill. giving the man ahead all the power
coming along the wire to climb the hill
with; and when the head car had got mp
the rear man would hustle along up after
him and close up again.
A little church that we passed at one
point on this trip, where electric lights
In buildings would he the very last thing
you would rave expected to see. had a
bunch OF incandescent light bulbs over
it's front door; the church was lighted by
electricity. But really this was very simple,
as IL got the current for its lights from
the trolley wire.
looking west from the top OF one tall ridge
that we had nov reached. we saw beyond
and below us In the near distance broad.
open water-the Hudson, with the high
hills beyond, And then we began to
descend. zigza gging to make the descent
right OF way. until we came TO the head
of Tarrytown's main street, which took
us to our trolley journeys end.
From Tarrytown we might have crossed
other bank. but we didn't: we walked
around Tarrytown a little and then we
blew ourselves to a ride home on the steam
cars Of the Hudson River Railroad. this
the most expensive part OF this little trip,
for II costs so cents 10 ride from larry
town TO the Grand Central Station. the
distance being twenty-five miles. But
we had that ride from T~arrytown to Spuyten
Duyvil. a stretch OF fifteen miles or more
along the river. with the high hills and
the Palisades across all In view, and all
the varied craft on the water; and then
We skirted the busy Harlem River. taking
on an electric engine at High Bridge and
with that coming In on time 70 i25th street.
Close by to where we had started on the
trolley.
Il cost us q dollar apiece. this little trip.
including the dinner, and We thought we
had had our moneys worth.
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stroke Of the hour. Up ct GEO. breakfast.
At 7. boat at 7:so. subway at Q. once az s:ts.
That's my programme
II K~ingsbrtdge man sat up and turned
around In his seat.
You don't mean to tell me- he said,
that you camp out and 60 to your ofice
every day, bothp'
That's what I do replied the fresh
faced mar cheerfully. -It's precious little
outdoor life I'd got II l didn't.
Things are in such shape at our Office
now that l can hardly get a day of. much
less a week or n fortnight. Besides. with
the Tour Kids and the missus. l couldn't
stand the freight at a summer hotel ever
II could get a couple Of weeks.
You soc the beauty Of our little camp
over there oil the Hudson is that it costs
us next to nothing md gives me a chance
TO spend my Sundays. my Saturday after
Moons and all my evenings outdoor while
sticking TO the job every weekday. The
life Is certainly setting me mp in fine shape.
As for the missus and the kids say,
you Just ought TO see them. Kids as brown
as Indians from head IN foot run around
in their bathing trunks all day long swim
like ducks. every one of EN-. down to my
little ci~ght-year-old girl. They're in and
out Of the water all the time never dry
from morning til night.
oh. you just ought 10 see them. Our
only regret ia that we can't stay more than
our eight weeks"
Fight weeks' Why eight wests?"
-oh, that's IN" rule Of the Palisades Com
mission. or course you know thar the land
along there is a public pax held jointly
nv tho pponls Of Now Vol; S.at~ mud
JERSEY
The commission gives the people the
privilege Of 90 nping o, the reservation
free Of COS. bu; as there is "A limited amount
OF land and an almost unlimited number
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conditions collect in a day from eight 70
ten pounds of rough gum. which on clean
ing will shrink two pounds, worth 81 a
pound in the cities. Before starting out
TO operate a gum orchard a picker must
spend one spring in marking and soaring
the trees, 80 as TO make sure of finding gum
enough to Pay for his labor when he calls
around a year later. This is lone by climb
/ ing a thrifty tree to above the old limbs
and high into the sunlight and soaring the
south side of the trunk between the
whorls of limbs with deep incisions shaped
like a V.
The spruce sap exudes from these wounds
and moving downward along the cut Is
dried in the sun until a pitchy crust is
formed, which tends of the bits of bark
and spills blown about by the wind and
prohibits the entrance Of inquisitive bees
and other insects. Thus protected from
harm. the embryo nugget of gum continues
to grow from the inside by fresh supplies
Of resinous sap and to harden from the
outside by slow evaporation. The sun
goes away south, winter arrives and the
sw eetening frosts remove the pitchy and
acrid taste. leaving from a score TO n hum
dred of sweet and ruddy and crystallized
"teats" of genuine spruce gum.
here are GOD reasons why the har-
vesters should choose April as the month
for the tasks. IL is then that the gum
is in its ripest and best condition, not 80
old as 10 De hard and crumbly, not 30 young
as TO he soft and taste OF pitch. The scaly
crust above the winter snow banks among
the trees is then as smooth as glass. carry
ing all the gum which escapes the hand
OF the picker into the hollows among the
drifts and holding them safely in plain
view until they can be picked up. Before
the end Of May the coming sun will have
warmed the tree runks and set the old
wounds to bleeding new sap, thus spelling
the harvest for another year.
II he is an old and at selling in the city
he gum hunter will charge from 81 to
81 80 a pound for his gum. IL he Ia new at
the business ne may sell to some sharp
broker or druggist for rs cents a pound.
II he likes to haggle he will call around
from place TO place and in a day or more
can sell out for 81 a pound.
Years ago when spruce trees we're very
much more abundant in northern Maine
than they are now Bangor used to be the
chief market for gum in Maine. as many
as five tons having been sold there a year.
With the disappearance OF the spruce trees
and the introduction Of patent" gums the
trade has fallen of greatly. amounting to
a ton or less in n season. In spite Of the
decline Bangor druggists and many Of the
Bangor grocers are glad enough to accept
clean spruce gum as legal tender and to
pay cash.
Most of the surplus gum bought in Bangor
goes to Boston.
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Of peopb TO use IL, they have to restrict tho
time for each party to eight weeks in order
to give everybody q fair chance
As the rule 10 just and right we are not
making any kick, although II there hadn't
been a time limit we should have planned
to spend the whole summer. As 1t 10
we're taking July and August
But" objected the Kingsbridge man,
III the camping privileges are free to all
don't yon get a pretty rowdy sort Of crowd
over tbere7"
The fresh faced man turned a shade
pinker through his sunburn.
Now. sec here. Smithors, " he said, laying
his hand inpressively on the K~inGsbridge
mans knee, Edo you suppose hat I'd be
leaving Mrs. Binks and my -four little
children over there alone all day if there
was a rowdy ROW about?
"A large number OF our n%eighbors are
decent, quiet, unpretentious people like
ourselves, who like outdoor life but who
can't AFFORD to 40 way to a resort for the
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is green and teautiful, as though nobody
here had ventured TO mar natures smile,
even with plough and harrow.
a Maybe such real farming as there liz here
is dairy farming, though we didn't see a
COW on the trip, and another thing that
surprised me a little was the absence Of
streams. In such a country l should have
expected TO see moro watercourses-we
saw but few but perhaps that was because
We kept to the ridges. while the streams
would naturally be in the valleys, and then
perha pa | don't know what ought to be
found in such a country, anyway. l being
more familiar with the topography Of
lands Of brick and mortar.
But what we did see on all hands as we
humined along the old post road was a
beautiful green rolling country, smiling
everywhere. We passed through q little
village or two and came upon old houses
standing by the road, but saw more newer
houses Standing back, with trees around
and awns i'm front. ard here and there we
"a m- upon other roads leading OF, down
or up, into other pleasant stretches. A
fIom Mount Vernon to White Plains through
the W~estchester hills.
In due time we came TO the houses on the
outskirts Of White Plains, q keeping on,
soon came 10 the centre and then. the car
~swinging around a corner, we found our
selves rolling along the main street OF the
/ town. to bring up finally at the Harlem
Railroad station.
And we found White Plains a bigger town
than we had expected to see. OF course,
we knew that White Plains was quite u
place. county seat Of Westchester county
aud all that, but IL was more of a place than
we had looked for. S~kyscrapers?
Well, we law two or three buildings on the
main street six stories high, and one build
ing hat IL seems to me was seven stories,
and along that main street solid blocks OF
buildings, big and little, devoted 10 the
various PURPOSES Of rad IL was Sunday,
yol know. the day We were there, and 30
you couldn't tell, but this looked like a
place where they do business.
We have seen newer railroad stations
than the one az White Plains, but all rail-
road stations, new or old and big or little,
are attractive TO me. j never tire OF railroad
stations: and 40 we went in and surveyed
this one, and walked along The platform
among the people waiting for trains, and
took note of the public carriages waiting
at the station and here in numbers, these
are Surveys and carryalls such a. you
might see AZ a county fair or standing
singly outside OF real estate Offices waiting
TO carry people o. to look at the lots.
Inc then we looked for a minute AZ the
trolley cars standing in the street, this being
the stopping and starting point Of the
trolley lines that centre here, all these things
together making OF the railroad station
and it's immediate neighborhood the beating
heart OF the town, and by that time an in
ward monitor prompted us-we didn't need
much prodding-that It was time to get
something to eat.
Coming down the main street We had
kept an eye out not only for Ggns Of
business enterprise In general. but In par
ticulsr for what. in our judgment. 40 far
as w could tell from an outside Wow. wa
the best restaurant In town. and % now
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We'll. that certainly is a novelty"
calculated the Kingshridgc man.
Not particularly" said the other.
There are lots Of other family camps like
ours all along the river. Better come over
with me and nave a look at them.
They're really worth a visit. The missus
will give you a prime dinner in real camp
style and we'll manage a campers bed for
you somehow - a shakedown in a corner OF
the tent or a blanket out in front OF the
campfire. What do you say"
Why" began the K~ingsbridge man.
I'D like TO frst rate, but you see I'm not
on my vacation. I have to be Town at the
shop whe the whistle blows"
'Oh, that's all right" said the fresh faced
man. I'm not on my vacation. either.
In fact, ! don't get any vacation this year.
That's one Of the reasons we went over
across the river. It's the desk for mine
every morning at 0 sharp six days in the
week.
You come along with me and III guar
antee to deliver You at your Office at the
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summer and whose, chief breadwinner has
10 stay on the Job hot weather and cold.
To We sure. thore are a lot Of boys camps
all along the line, but they're made UP of
decent, clean self-respecting, we'll behaved
young chaps who would resent any attempt
to introduce the element Of rowdyism into
the settlement as much as l would.
Resides, most Of them are of at work
during the day. As n matter OF fact. OF
week days the place is practically in posses
sion Of the women and children from 7
in the morning until 0 at night. Right
away after breakfast most o. the men jump
for the boats and make for ga. ten Duyvil,
where they take the subway for their
Offices downtown
But don't you find the Sunday crowds
very %annoying2' asked ths K~ingsbridge
man.
"On the contrary. We find them verv
amusing" replied the o.her. They are
not At all lik, thn ordinary Sunday crowds.
The SUNDAY hoodlums and the beer drink
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CAMPS OUT And COMMU?ES
PLEASURES or LIFE IN TENTS
INDER THE PALISADES.

A Man VINO Can't Get Aw ny From che City
tine River In Jersey Flight Weeks OF
outdoor living st Small Expense.
Hello. Binks.' said a strap hanger on a
Kingsbridgc express Of tho Subway as the
crowd surged out at Ninety xth street
and he dropped YEARLY into a seat beside a
stout, fresh faced, middle aged man who
had been hidden behind a newspaper. what
in the world are you doing here7 thought
YOU lived downtown"
The man behind the newspaper looked up
with a grin.
$50 | do ten months in tho year" he said.
shut just now I'm committing"
-Commuting'- exclaimed the other. ITO
Kingsbridge? thought commuters aIwavs
vent 20 Jersey"
We'll. " said the fresh faced man. IL am
going 30 Jersey. I'm going TO get on the
train al Spuyten Duyvil and go over IN n
boat. That's the way | commute. Want 10
come along?"
Maybe answered the other cautiously.
'Iell me what I'm up against"
"Oh. a taste Of roughing il over on the
Palisades" said the fresh faced man care
lpssly;" Tve got a camp over there"
A camp over on the Palisades? why. I
thought that nobody hut boys ever camped
out over there. What are You doing chap
eroning a Sunday school outingl"
NO oh. no said the fresh faced man
easily. I've got nv family along with me.
We've got quite an establishment over there
a tent 20 sleep in, a ny to eat under and a
lean-to Kitchen for the cooking
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INTHE WOODS FOR SPRUCE GUM
MEN WHO MAKE 4 BUSINESS
or THE APRIL TRIP.

From 25 TO 80 Work the Maine Woods Each
Spripg-IRasrs From the Lumbermcn-
May Pick ~ Worth In a Day - Less
Than a Ton New Gathered In a Year.
In the early days Of April from twenty
five TO fifty athletic. nvas clad young
men start for the up-river woods from
Bangor. Me-. and nearby towns to collect
spruce gum from the more than ~, 600. 900, 900
feet Of spruce timbers still standing in
the northern forests of Maine.
Not a few Of these men are the well to do
Sous Of old families, who go cumming"
partly for profit and partly ms n pastime.
A majority. however. are trained climber
who know the woods and who break away
from sidewalks and electric lights to gain
health and money at a time of the year
when numbering operations are drawing
to a close and before the streams open up
for driving.
Instead Of being a solitary and silent
man the gum picker as a rule is az laxative
as a book agent and as ingratiating as a
poor kinsman in straitened circumstances.
says the Boston Herald. For, in order to
secure exclusive control over the gum
territory he desires to ~monopolize. the
picker must claim lease over spruce timber
lands whose owners he has never met.
Before he can do this he must ingratiate
himself into the favor Of the camp bosses
and their subordinates. A man who can
sing n rollicking song or tell lively story
IL welcome.
The travelling outfit Of the gum picker
IL very light. A set OF steel climbers. sue
as are used by linemen. a heavy and broad
Ratchet for cutting of tho gum and for
soaring the trees for the making Of more
gum the next year-these with tobacco.
pipe and matches. complete his rig. His
God and lodging are given TO him by the
boss of the camp where he chances to stop
over night. his cheerful ways and the news
he brings from the outer world more than
paving for all dues.
The picker h gieans ms harvest from
the same trees year after year enhances
the value OF the holding greatly. though
I his value applies to the gum alone. for
the trees are not materially affected. The
owners Of the woods are too busy to spend
time In allotting gum areas, and "a the in
come from gum picking Is never large and
the time OF picking lasts but q few weeks
the harvesters cannot AFFORD to pay the fees
for drawing the leases. to say nothing OF
giving tribute for the gum.
A smart" man working In an old gum
orchard Of thrifty trees that are scattered
widely enough TO admit sunlight for ripcn-
ing and hardening the gum can under fair