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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09
SOMERSET.

The United States Civil Service
commission announces that on Sept. Is
an examination viii bc held at Brat
tieboro as a result of which it is cX-
pcotcd to make certification to fill a
contemplated vacancy in the position of
fourth class postmaster at Somerset,
and other vacancies rs they may dccur
ut that office, unless il shall he decid-
al in the interests Of the service to
fill the vacancy by reinstatement. The
compensation of the postmaster ut this
office was %lS6 for the last fiscal year.
Application forms and fun informa-
tion concerning the requirements OF
the postmaster ut Somerset and the
local secretary ut Brattleboro, or from
the L. s. Civil Service commission,
Washington, y. &.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09

John F. Morse and son, Kendall, ar
rived home from Boston Saturday
morning.
John T. Kelsey of Claremont. \. H.,
has been at Linus Bingham : a mum
Der Of days.
Ernest and William Mellen of Brat
.tleboro are guests of their aunt, Miss
Matte Metcalf.
f. c. Clarke went Tuesday to North
field, Mass, where he was auctioneer
for large sale.
Mrs. BOYLE and grandson of Keene,
\. H.. have been visiting her uncle,
sumner G. Shepard.
Frederick Sim of Troy, \. Y. and
Leon s. Dexter of Overbrook, Pa, are
guests Of Z, Milton Dexter at Dexter
Hall.
Mrs. John f. Morse is at Sunset
| lake this week as chaperone for a
party of young people at one Of the
cottages
Mrs. Charles ". Ingram of Dover
was the guest Wednesday of Mrs. Ella
Is. Willard with Mrs. Blake and Miss
Jessie Blake.
Herbert F. Packard and daughter,
Miss Ruth Packard, after visiting Mrs.
7 Merton Ingram. have returned to sun
i derland, Mass.
/ Mr.. and Mrs Leon S Dexter We're
guests of Mr.. and Mrs John Lewis
Morse ut their summer home Tuesday
and Wednesday.
| Samuel II. Morse is moving into the
house recently bought of Ernest Tuttlc,
and Sidney Jones is moving into the
| farm house which Mr.. Morse vacates
Frank G. Morse, Henry Gates of
Chicago, f. Milton Dexter and II. JUL
an Morse motored Thursday to Ben
nington via Peru and Manchester, re-
turning via Wilmington Mr.. Gates
lett Sunday for Chicago.
Dwight f. Bailey and family and
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bailey left Sun
day for West Brattleboro, planning to
complete their carriage drive and reach
their homes in Agawam, Mass, and
Suffield, Conn, early this week.
Theodore Allen and son, Charles T.
Allen, Of Bellows Falls, Henry Allen
and son, Clarence w. Allen, of Spring
field, Mass, who are touring in Clar-
lence w. Allen automobile, visited
Wednesday the Allen farm, now owned
and occupied by Herbert Pierce, which
was the early home of Theodore and
Henry Allen. They also called upon
old acquaintance and neighbors.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09
Why Married Men Live Long.

The reason married man lives long
er than single man is because the
single man leads q selfish existence.
A married man can double his pleas
ures. Any time he has streak of
good luck it tickles him all over, but it
makes him feel twice as good when he
tells his wife about it. And she is so
pleased and proud that he feels like {
two-year-old. There isn't Glance
IN the world of q mans arteries hard
ening or his heart weakening when he
can get million dollars worth of
pleasure out of making his wife hap
py.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09
THREE WONDERFUL MIRRORS.
Used In Place of Telescope In Mount
Wilson Observatory.

From Los Angeles by trolley car and
burro back up through the pine forests
one reaches the Wilson observatory.
No dome or gigantic telescope greets
me visitor when he gains the summit
A huge Noah's ark of canvas destroys
all preconceived ideas of what an OBJ
servatory should look like, and within
three wonderful mirrors take the place
of the great tubular telescope of other
observatories.
The observatory building is con-
structed of canvas, the sides being set
in the form of tiers of steeply overlap
ping caves. This arrangement is cal
culated to allow for perfect ventilation
ard is REINFORCED by a vertical wall
ST canvas, which can be raised or low
cred at will to obtain an even tempera-
ture.
/ The peculiar arrangement of mirrors
that replaces the familiar telescope is
the center around which all interest in
the observatory revOlves. These mir
rors are constructed at the Yerkes OBJ
servatory and are the finest products
of the opticians manufacturing skill.
The enlargfng mirror, wTffeh K sup
ported 10y a pier of stone at the farther
end of the building. is of concave
glass; four inches thick, and the scien-
lists tell us it is of twenty-four inch
aperture by sixty foot focus.
The glass is polished ever so often
with jewelers. rouge upon pads OF
channels skin and is FURNISHED every
week or ten days, in order to remove
all possible dust In addition a gal
vanized cover Is kept over it when II
is not in use.-Christian Herald
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09
ALFALFA BEST CROP
FOR ATLANTIC STATES

when a new industry is established in
a town or city.
Il had chance to see alfalfa grow.
ing under what seemed to me about
the toughest chance you can give a
plant. The city of Syracuse was buy
ing gravel from a nearby field, to
use on the street. The workmen were
digging right into the hill, and it re-
quired hard labor to pick up this
tough, hard soil. AS they dug they
followed the roots of the alfalfa down.
Some of the roots were quite as large
as my thumb, and l am sure that
many of them had gone down twenty
feet at least into this tough soil.
"On other farms | saw alfalfa grow.
ing at the top of steep clay hills,
which were formerly almost useless
for farm purposes unless heavily ferti
liked with stable manure Now that
alfalfa has been started these hilI-tops
have become about the most profitable
fields on the farm. At another place
saw fair crop of alfalfa growing in a
| thin streak of soil over a rocky ledge.
| There were not 10 inches of soil GOV.
ering the solid rock, yet the alfalfa
was thriving I have been told that
| this is the condition under which al
| falfa will not grow, yet here it was
giving more forage than any red clov,
| er we can grow.
Gives Greater Profits.
AS | said alfalfa is changing the
character of farming in central New
York. 1t is not easy to realize just
what this means without visiting this
favored section. This new forage
plant brings fertility and feed to tht
farm. 1t is just like having a fertil
izer factory and feed store drop gu
of the skies upon the farm, to get this
alfalfa well started. 1t you'd not be ;
very bright farmer who would con
tinue to grow wheat or some other an
nual crop which brings him $25 pc
acre when permanent crop like al
; falfa will guarantee $50. Some farm
, ers are quicker TO see this than 9th
. ers, but in the end the majority o
! them will see it and then we will Sc
, change. These alfalfa farmers ar
i teaching a great object lesson on thei
farms"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09
WORK OF THE TELEPHONE.
Its Magic Has Enabled Us to Snap Our
Fingers at Space.

Just how modern is the essential and
ubiquitous telephone-now connecting
over a half million houses and offices
N New York city-there is casual
line in "Pinafore" which serves to in
ilicate When the kindly chorus is
condoling with Ralph Raekstraw on
his separation from his Josephine it
chants these words to picture the ter
ror of his lot:
mo telephone connects with his dun
geon CELL"
The line falls fat today But Pima
fore was produced for the first time
in 1873, and in 1876 the Bell patents
for the first practical telephone were
Issued Thus when the words We're
written they related to new and
startling invention that was the talk
of the day. and the Gilbertian line was
really a gay. topical jest
1t is safe guess, however, that very
few of the people who laughed at
''Pinafore" in the seventies foresaw
what the telephone would really prove
to be. The years of the telephone are
few. But already it has transformed
business method and social intercourse.
The railroads, the fast trains, the tele-
graph wireless, the automobile. all
helped to make the nineteenth century
a century of accelera ton.
The telephone worked more real
magic than all the rest together The
discovery of astral bodies would hard
~ have done more to multiply humcI
effectiveness and enable US to SNAP
our fingers at space.-New York Trib
/ uQp
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09

There is no set rule by which to
grow alfalfa; nor is its adaptability
confined to any certain type of soil
or climatic condition. 1t is grown
profitably in evey country in Europe,
in Central Asia and in every state and
territory in the United States, and in
Canada. Everywhere, results have
shown by the actual experiences of
farmers, that it ought to become
staple crop on every farm.
Alfalfa Grows Everywhere.
In many parts OF the United States,
enterprising farmers have for years
found profit in its growing. No crop
will contribute so much to the agri-
cultural improvement of the Atlantic
states as alfalfa. BY giving back to
the crop-worn soil the elements of
which it has been impoverished, by
the continuous growing of a single
crop, a new era of prosperity will fol
low
Live stock farming will be taken
up and the fertilizing elements of the
barnyard will be returned to the fields;
larger crops will be raised; worn-out
farms, many of which are today aban-
doned. will be converted into high
priced productive lands.
In speaking of alfalfa seen growing
in the vicinity of Syracuse, N. Y, the
editor Of the Rural New Yorker said;
Changes Farm Methods.
whether it means that the soil in
this locality is well suited to alfalfa
or that farmers have learned how tc
grow it, it is a fact that the croI
makes a wonderful showing there
You find it everywhere-in great bill
Lowry fields of green, along the road
sides-even in vacant city lots. Thu
crop crowds in whether the seed il
sown by hand, dropped from passing
load of hay or scattered by the wind
The majority of the farms show grea
fields of it, and the character of farm
ing is slowly changing as more an
more alfalfa is grown. On fruit farm
or small private places the crop /
changing methods and habits. In fac
the most interesting thing about thes
alfalfa fields is the way they ar
changing the entire conditions of tn
country. 1t is similar to what happen
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09
Too Thorough.

"Why don't you try to make your
constituents understand problems Of
government"
That's what / have done" replied
Senator Sorghum. Il have been too
thorough about it. A lot of them now
think that they can give advice in
stead of taking t.''-Washington Star.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09
EAST DOVER.
Annual Picnic Aug. Is.

The annual hasket-picnic viii be held
at J. g. Brown s Wednesday, Aug Is.
The women of the Methodist church
viii sell ice-cream ana fancy and use
ful articles. There Will be ball games
at 10 a. IN. and at > p. IN. Everybody
lis invited
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09
Very PROMISING,

Zones strikes me as a very promis-
ing young man"
He strikes me that way too. But
he never pays it back - California
Pelican.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09
EearfulIy Eoxv.

II work a foxy scheme on myuboy.
He'd rather wash the dishes than
wash his hands, so let him wash the
dishes"
Whats the foxy part?"
why. he gets his hands clean."-
Louisville Courier-J ournal.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09
HOLDEN PLANS TO PUT
ALFALFA ON every farm
Plan to Unite All interests in Nation Wide Campaign
for the General Growing of Alfalfa.
Extension Department to Aid Any Community Interested in Con-
Quoting Campaign to Encourage the Growing OF Alfalfa
No More Difficult to Grow Than Clover and
Gives Double the Yield.

WorkSchedues to
Will Be Formed
Wk-FieId Men Experienced in
Wherever Possible
in Extension
he York.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09
SOUTH NEWFANE.
Shortage of Freight Cars.

LAUNDERING interests are suffering Sc
vcrely by reason of a shortage Of
freight cars for shipping or inability
of the railroad to place ears at the
station. Not only the shippers, but
those who have ordered lumber for i'm
mediate use. are greatly incon-
vienienced by present unfavorable con
ditions.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09

Talent is that which is in mans
power. Genius is that in whose power
q man is.-LOwell.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09

Miss Louise Bardwell is visiting in
Worcester.
Miss Myra Stacy is guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Fisher
Hoken. the Barton place, has been
bought by Northfield seminary.
Mr. and Mrs Frank Crelan are Wis
iting Mr.. Crelan ; mother here
Mrs. Martha Gillett is entertaining
Miss Marion Russell Of Harwieh.
Miss Persis Washer Of Williamsville
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. &. II. Kid
der.
The new state road has just re-
ceved a coat of oil and gravel, which
puts it in fine condition.
Harland, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Williams Of Worcester, is visiting his
cousin, Barbara Williams.
Mrs. II. c. Gates and son of Athol
are spending two weeks with Mrs.
Ellen Stebbins at Crane cottage.
Mrs. j. B. Cross and daughter, III
eanor, of Brooklyn are guests OF Miss
Eleanor Nichols at the Green Gate
tea rooms.
G. y. Kidder has tent on the
street to the auditorium, where he
offers souvenirs for sale. Miss Bertha
ITolton is in charge.
Mrs. Lorinda Freeman who ha'
/ spent the summer at PrOvincetown
returned today to the home Of hel
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09

q For the Land s sake-use Bowker 5
Fertilizers. They enrich the earth and
those who till it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09

What lot of hot air it takes to get
some good resultsi
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-09
NORTHFIELD, MASS.
Mr.. Coffin,s Voice Has Baked.

The announcement in the daily pa
pers several times this week that y
F. Coffin Of Keenc is conducting n
song service at the auditorium each
evening is erroneous. Mr. Coffin has
temporarily lost his voice and has not
conducted the song service since last
week, and it is doubtful if he viii be
able to do much during the rest of
the conference. George c. Stebbins
has full rharge of the singing with a
fine chorus ard a male quartet to
assist him.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-05-18
japanese CrOICd
HawdiiaH Schools


JAPANESE pupils now form the
most numerous element in the Ha-
j waiian schools and they are in
creasing az a more rapid rate than
ans other race. according 10 state
ment by Governor Walter +. Ffear
received at the United States bureau
OF education. The Japanese now have
considerable lead in the school pop
ulation. with over - per cent Of the
total. the Portuguese following with n
little less than per cent. the ila-
waiians come noXt with "a per cent?
purt liavniians comprise IA per cent
Chinese per cent, aud all the athcr
nations If races 3 per ccut-
Governor lfrear gives other inter
csting Information about Hawaii's
schools HE shows how. after the cs-
adjustment Of the territorial govern
ment In 1900. the public schools Jared
worse and worse until 1907 when
with increasing popularity for the ISL
ands. more ample provision was made
for education. Finally. in 1911, a
new method of financing the schools
was adopted, under which there has
been decided gain in the number Of
teachers. in salaries aud Ia general ef-
ficiency
Industrial schools that are partially
SELF supporting are a feature OF the
Hawaiian school system. There are
three such schools, and IN addition
the Normal school, the College OF
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. two
high schools and i5l schools of ele-
mentarV Crude 4 number IF the
schools maintain city or county gov
crnments conducted hy the pupils iol
practice ia citizenship and patriotic
exercises are emphasized IN all the
schools.
There are now nearly 10000 chill
dren tn the Hawaiian schools, about
twice as many as there were at the
time the territorial government was
established. twelve wears ago pht
territory last year spent $5s2.0s6 for
education. and the counties them
selves <4i,4as additional. These iis-
ures are exclusive OF expenditures for
the College OF Hawaii which now oc-
cnpies a permanent site Ia the suburbs
Of Honolulu and has graduated iis
first class.
The Hawaiian schools are up to the
American practice ia length Of term
their school year is ss weeks At
tendance is compulsory from g to II
years of age. the maXtmum age hav-
Ing been raised q year ago. Good at
tendance records are the rule, the
average last year was SO per cent OF
the enrolment IN this and other re-
speets tn, schools Of Hawaii compare
favorahly with the best In the United
States.
HofeI Denver. Rooms. 81 week up
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-05-18
oun UNrRirNREpNEss.

Great meetings are bring held in
Japan 60 discuss the California nna-
alien land bill The leading men ad.
wise against war talk. but an say
that there must be an end 20 the np-
preston OF the other races hy the
white men. They declare that all men
are created equal and that unless
that equality Il recognized the pur-
pose 81 the universe Is failure The
bnehins ~ negroes Ia the southern
states is pointed 10 as indicating the
disrcaHrd ef the whites for either races
When tho seriousness Of the Japan.
csc situation is hroaehcd. il Is not un.
common for those who believe that
God mkea care Of fools and children
and the United statos 10 dismiss IA
With the SNUG remark that Japan is
too poor G. go 60 war
within thirty days from the mo.
mvnt war was declared. Japan would
have selzed enough territory Ia the
philippines. the Hawaiian islands and
on "Nt fHftllr coast 90 finance a war
with the United states. considering
The fae, that japan can maintain a
hundred Thousand men in the field
at lees thnn one.tenth of what ID
would cost ihe United states to main.
tain an army q similar size
The seriousness Of tho situation
aas realised Ia Washington during
lhe Roosevelt administration and
iafcr white Mr. TAFT was president
hnt when an effort was made t.
have this nation make some sort Of
preparation Tor such emergency. tho
idea was secuted aud one hatilcshlp
was voted instead of two.
We are ln about the same state OF
preparedness that We were when tho
war of 1919 was declared and about
ihe same sort 81 tunatle statesman.
ship preceded that war. though every
one knew Il was probability that
has marked the siatssmauship Of tho
past two years
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-05-18
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE.

Chicago. May i7-Signs that pow
erful Interests were taking the best
offerings on every dip caused hy weak
cables, gave the wheat market today
a decided rally The close WAS steady
az prices varying from IA cent under
last night to 3-s cent advance Latest
trading left corn les cent off TO a like
amount up. oats unchanged To- is
cent higher. and provisions with a
gain Of i-2 to i5m17 - cents.
Spectators who had been hguring
that some Of the wheat at present In
Chicago would be available for de-
livery on July contracts received "a
jolt from predictions by high authori-
ty that unless there was a general adj
vance in new prices. every bushel Of
the old wheat would be advanced 60
considerable premium over July 70
be entirely sold by July 1st.
Definite settlement Of the draft
controversy that has hampered eX-
ports TO Great Britain tended further
10 discourage the wheat bears who
early In the session seemed to have
the whip hand. owing 20 ideal wealth
er in both winter and spring crop
territory. The settlement was 10y
on seven-day drafts in
stead OF sight.
Soaboard ciearances Of wheat and
flour TODAY cQualled l.o3S.00o BUSH
els: primary receipts Of wheat were
4G4. 600 bushels; a year ago, $4,000
bushels
Corn traders had the narrowest
market Of the week Doubt as 20 the
truth Of talk Of large receipts soon
from the west prevented any material
setback. Shorts IN oats covered. and
so wiped out the bearish influence
Of showers in Illinois and Indiana.
Provision prices were pushed high
er. Actual transactions. though. We're
few.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-05-18
Einanclcr's Report.

New York May 1.-THE Financier
tomorrow, viii say:
The clearing house banks Of New
York made a very favorable state
ment for the week ending May 18th.
The movement of currency to this
center was reflected In the gain OF
x6.Sas,000 in cash which, consider
ing the gold exports. was somewhat
larger than had been anticipated. The
dullness of local exchange conditions
was reflected in the decrease Of So
2SS600 in loans. Net deposits. prin
cipally because Of receipts of cash
rose $4,000 600 and the result OF the
changes in notes was to increase re-
serve BY S5,T76.S00, bringing the pres
ent reserve above the 25 per cent
minimum, to s25.579,400.
The reserve figures on the basis
OF daily averages stands at S24547-
400, the Increase for the current week
having been s7,606.s0O II is worthy
OF comment that the trust companies
are strengthening their cash position
The gain in specie and legals for The
week by those institutions having
been nearly four and one-third mil
lion dollars. This reserve at this time
ls somewhat higher than for a num-
Der OF weeks past
Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-05-18
WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT

New York. May 1.-THE statement
OF the actual condition Of clearing
house banks and tizist companies for
the week shows that they hold S25,-
51g. 400 reserve in excess OF legal re-
duirements This is an Increase of S5.-
77G.S00 from last week. The state
mcnt follows
Actual Condition.
Loans. $1,s17s90,0 decrease.
S3.23S. 000
Specie, sSSS.6ss,000; increase. ST.
$4,000
Legal tenders SS4.6iC.OOO; increase.
S1.G64,OO0.
Net deposits. sl.76G.s2G.000. in
crease. s5.390.000
Circulation. s46,s2S, goo increase,
$1,000
Banks cash reserve in vault $685.
$4,000.
Trust companies cash reserve in
vault. 1861 900.
Aggregate cash reserve, Sf2s,254,-
600.
Excess lawful reserve. 25,599, 100;
Increase, S5,77e,SO0
Trust companies reserve with clear
ing house members carrying 25 per
cent cash reserve, $54,324,OO0
Summary of state banks and trust
companies in Greater New York, not
included in clearing house statement.
Loans, S571.s14,S0O; increase, So
0s0.000.
Specie, S66,s72, 40O; increase, s51S,-
100.
Legal tenders. sS.1lO.sO0; decrease.
S22,400.
Total deposits $ei7,s6o,ooo; in
crease, SS35,000