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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-31
COOMBS PRESIDENT
OF LETTER CARRIERS
Vermont Branch Held Annual Meeting
in Buriington-John 7. Austin At
tended Meeting of Clerks.

F. II. Coombs Of Brattleboro was elect
ed president Of the Vermont Branch Of
the National Association Of Letter CARR
ers at the annual meeting held at the
Van, Ness house in Burlington yesterday.
John T. Austin Of the local Office attend
ed as delegate the annual meeting Of
the state branch Of the National Associa.
ton of Post Office Clerks, which was held
at the same time and place
In the evening a banquet was served
at which Mayor James r. Burke extend
ed a welcome to the delegates Other
/ speakers included Postmaster Buel J
Derby, II. +. Quinn, chairman of the ez
ecutive board Of the National Letter
Carriers: r. r sharpe of Pittsield
Mass, postotfice inspector: Eddie Con
nors OF Boston. representing the nationa
association Of Post Office Clerks. ans
Congressman Frank Plumley.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-31
PERSONAL.

Fred Dnlback is recovering from an
attack Of measles.
Ray Greene of Springfield, Mass,
visited his mother over Sunday.
Mrs. A. NJ. Marsh of Townshend
visited Mrs. G. A. Waitmau Wedues-
day.
Eugene Wilcox returned Thursday
after few days visit in New York
cisv.
Miss Bride Curry is taking a To-
days vacation from her duties at the
Retreat.
Miss Annie Park has resumed work
at Mann S store after an illness with
measles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter c. Halliday
went Thursday to East Dover to stay
over Memorial day.
Miss Nellie Redding went to he
home in Hinsdale Memorial day. Sh,
will return Monday.
T. L. Houghton and Houghton Seav
ems will 90 Sunday to Syracuse, n
Y, on a business trip.
Miss Caroline Winslow came Thurs
day from Springfield, Mass, 90 visi
her mother, Mrs. Louise Winslow, un
til Monday.
Or. James c. Austin Of Spencer
Mass, visited his mother, Mrs. Marti
Austin of Grove street, Wednesday, re
turning Thursday.
James Denning spent Saturday an
Sunday with his aunt, Mrs. f. T. Fore
in Hanover, N. ii. While there he al
tended the high school track meet Sat
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Williams IN
two children of Conway, Mass, cam
Thursday to visit at Pearl ClapP
They went today to Jacksonville
visit at the home Of Frank Cross.
Anton Hector, Miss Anna johnson
Miss Hilda Anderson, Miss France
Peterson, Mrs Hulda Gustafson, Mis-
Hannah johnson and Miss Sigma Pete
son left Brattleboro yesterday mornin
for New York and sailed from that POI
today on the Carmania of the Cunar
line to spend the summer at their oil
home in Sweden. Mrs. Hector and chi
dren have gone to Brooklyn to spen
the summer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-31

Thursday afternoon at the church par
Tors.
Several from here attended the stock
holders meeting of the Brattieboro q
Whitehall railroad in Brattleboro to-
day.
A. 3. Stark. r. J. Daggett, VI. L.
Howard and J. b. Muzzy have been
having the street oiled in front Of their
houses.
The clam chowder supper AZ the Bap-
tist church Wednesday evening was
well attended i'm spite of the rain and
was enjoyed by all.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-31
IN MY WORK AS NURSE
| ALWAYS RECOMMEND
COMFORT POWDER

Elizabeth c. Andrews, Trained
Nurse of So. Manchester, Conn, says
In my work as nurse I recommend
Comfort Powder constantly. For ba-
bies it is comfort and blessing.
have never had a bedsore when i
have been called in time, and even
after the skin is broken Comfort Pow
der is a great help.
For all skin soreness of infants OF
adults Comfort Powder is a healing
wonder Be sure you get the genuine
with signature of L. s. Sykes on box.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-31
JAMAICA.
Mrs. Eddy Entertained Glass.

Although the day was very rainy, not
one of Sunday school class No 2 re-
manned away from the home of their
teacher, Mrs. David Eddy, who had
given them an invitation to come to her
home Wednesday afternoon. An excel
lent supper was served and pleasant
surprise was given the class by their
teacher, each one receiving an envelope
with beautiful gold class pin with
star pendant and their initial. The
class presented their teacher a pretty
collar pin as a birthday gift and to
show their esteem for her. The day
will be pleasantly remembered by all
present.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-31
BuriesOn Makes Charges
Against HitchcOck's
Bookkeeping
POSTAL SERVICE
NOT SELF SUPPORTING
Statement That Efficiency and Morals
of Postal Service Were Sacrificed
to Ruthlessly Enforced Policy of
False Economy

False Economy.
WASHINGTON, May 31.-Postmast-
er General Burleson today made public
report of the special investigation
into the fiscal affairs of the postal ser
vice, charging that during former Post
master Hitchcock 5 administration the
service, did not become self-supporting,
as has often been asserted, but that in
1911 there actually was a deficiency Of
more than $4,000.
The report charges that the apparent
surplus was attained by unjustifiable
methods of bookkeeping, and that the
efficiency and morals of the postal ser
vice were sacrificed to ruthlessy en-
forced policy of false economy.
Mr.. Hitcheock,in his reports during
his administration, claimed that in 1909
the deficiency approximated 81, 500 and
that this was entirely eliminated and
that in the fiscal year 1911, a surplus
of more than 100000 was attained
The report of the survey made by
\ Mr.. Burleson saws that at no time has
there been a legitimate surplus in the
( postal revenues since 1884.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-31
David Eddy is very i'll at AIS writing

David Eddy is very i'll at this writing.
Mr.. Blake of Boston is spending q
few days at his summer home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Muzzy of West
field, Mass, are guests at James A.
Muzzy s.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Cheney of
Jewett City, Conn, are visiting at
Wales Cheney's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whittemore of East
Mortified are guests, at the Jamaica
House few days.
The woman s missionary auxiliary of
the Congregational church served tea
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-31
HUNTING FOR LOBBY.
Senate Committee Looking for Men De
nounced by Wilson.

WASHINGTON, May 31-The SEN
ate Judiciary committee today began 4
hunt for the tariff lobby which Presi
dent Wilson declared threatened the
integrity of the tariff bill.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-31
THE WEATHER.
Fair Tonight and Sunday With Mod
crate Winds.

Washington. May 31-The weather
forecast: Fair tonight and Sunday;
light moderate west to northwest
winds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-31
SHIP DASHED TO PIECES.
Went Ashore Near Yarmouth, N s, in
60 Mile Gale.

60 Mile Gale.
YARMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA, May
31-The Norwegian ship Freida, which
went ashore yesterday at Sunday Point,
near here, in a Go mile gale, was liter
ally dashed to pieces during the night.
The cargo of lumber, valued at upwards
of S32,0 0o, was strewn for miles along
the coast. Capt. Olson, his wife and
crew escaped The Freida was a three
masted full rugged ship. She was bound
from this port for Bahia Blancha with
lumber.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-31

OF enough 70 live on as long as you live. then
you lose the rest of your property you can revs'
crime TO want. National Life Ins. Co. Of vi
tMutual,)
u. Z. TAYLOR & SON. General Anents
Crosby Block, BTstsleborO, VT.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-16
Who Is Independent? Nobody
We Are Never as Foolish as When Trying to Prove How
Independent We Are
Copyright, 1879

We all have moments of imagining ourselves INDIE
PENDENT characters We take pride independence and
are foolish when trying prove how independent
we
Every man, begin with is born absolutely at the mercy
his ancestry You have not thing you and you
will have thing you that you did not inherit from
of the thousands and thousands of ancestors all of whom
dimly stored away in your complex makeup.
may develop marveousy the faculties which they gave
you.
But you ARE DEPENDENT those who brought you
the world, and upon those back of them.
Kafhr sober industrious, honest with all the
rolled up within him. has not fragment of chance
thousand billions of equang the achievements of tenth
white whose ancestral start was better
After birth you start with dependence your ancestors
and after youth you dependent your education
Facts your tools and you cant work without them
your mind has the right formation if your pro
vdsd with the deep convouons and good luck has supplied
you WIKI good education youth the whole thing depend
your heahon your liver your stomach other
part of your internal machinery.
Very often your dependent on your temper and
tact These depend your digestion Digestion of course
depends your cook
You may FEEL absolutely independent and THINK you
independent when OF you are eraby de
Rendent the mood of the person who your food
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-16
Look at Your Mosquitoes Legs
Studying Those Legs May Save Your Children From Maana
Copyright.
,Copyright. 1879

Fathers and mothers you know that malaria the great
America is in this country what the bubonic plague
is in Asia the sleeping sickness Africa the yellow fever
in the West Indies.
The germ malaria the blood deadens energy stunts
growth Injuries the brain Millions of American children have
been poisoned and being poisoned with malaria.
You know also of course THAT ONLY MOSQUITOES CAN
GIVE MALARIA.
could sleep in socaled malaria swamp for year,
and you would not get malaria if mosquito bit you
Your children could sleep the edge of and ponds
and mosquitoes did bite them they would have malaria
you place for your country home in summer,
or better STILL FOR YOUR ALL THE ROUND COUNTRY
HOME the first thing that you should ask yourself, is
will my children get malaria here?"
everywhere the United States there mosqui
toes,
They could be destroyed but the Government thus far
too stupid to do the really important work.
To find place free from mosquitoes the big cities is
difficult.
But remember that ONLY ONE KIND OF MOSQUITO
GIVES MALARIA Here is that mosquito. Look at him.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-16
The Birth of the Drama
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY

a ESCHYLUS, the Father of
n the Drama" was born
twenty-four hundred and
thirty eight years ago, July II,
B. c. 525. His birthplace was
the little demos of Elusia, some
ten miles from the Athens he
was to help make the intellec-
tual glory of the world.
The youth of Aeschylus coin
cided with the most thrilling pc
riod that the world has ever
known-the uprising of the
Greeks against the attempt Of
the Oriental despots to reduce
Greece to the degradation of a
Persian satrapy. While in the
bloom and vigor of his young
manhood Aeschylus, taking his
place as a common soldier in the
ranks, helped to win the immor-
tai victory at Marathon, and,
ten years later. assisted in de-
stroying the mighty armament
of Xerxes at Salamis.
1t was a glorious thing, that
triumph of the little nation of
Greece over the great empire
that tried so hard to enslave
them. and it is not TO be Won
dered at that the men who had
won the amazing victory were
wondrously elated. lifted up. as
it were, into a new life trimming
with a strange, uncomfortable
sense Of gladness and power.
OF that new life, with its
bursts of great heart" and great
av n-reaChing aspirations,
AesChylus wa< 49, Voice. He
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-16

wrote because he could not help
it any more than the bird sing
ing to the sunrise, and out Of his
teeming mind came play after
play, some seventy in all, the
first real plays ever written by
man.
OF these seventy pieces only
six or seven remain, but among
these is the 'Persians." the
most unique combination of
poetry and patriotism to be
found among men," the Prone
theus," considered by many to be-
the sublimest production of the
human mind, and the "Agamem-
non," the dramatic power Of
which is to this day unsur-
passed
Aeschylus was a gentleman Of
the old school, a great con-
sentative, a staunch believer in
the ultimate supremacy of the
moral law. He was always very
serious and very much In ear
nest and had he lived to wit
ness the brilliant ribaldry of
Aristophanes. or the powerful but
unblushing skepticism of Eu-
ripides, he would have been
shocked to the verge of extinc-
ton.
When old, Aeschylus became
completely bald, and legend has
it that one day as he sat out in
the fields thinking, an eagle.
flying over him with a tortoise
in her claws and mistaking the
poets bald head for a stone.
dropped the tortoise, with the re-
suit that Aeschylus was killed.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-16

thinks all the world Of the girl,
too.
Il asked him one day, How's
your sweetheart? and he says,
I've two, you know and he meant
the little girl, too.
Well, Laurelia's all crippled up
with rheumatism; been so for
four or five years; can't walk a
step. He got her wheel chair,
tho, and whenever the circus
comes to town. there they both
are big as life, and If anybody
has more peanuts or lemonade
than Laurelia. l don't know who
it is.
Il saw her the other day riding
around with him in his mendin'
cart. He'd rugged up a seat in
back for her and hoisted her into
it someway, and she had on a new
pink hat with roses on it. same as
a girls.
Il spoke to him about it just
now and he laughed just like a
boy and said, Yep. amt it purity?
She's got three nice hats, but I
like that one best, so she always
wears that when I take her out
a-ridin'
Her three sisters is all mar
ried now-married well, too far
as money goes One of EN- lives
up in the city and has a house
bigger than the hotel. they say;
but l saw her once in a store up
there a-shoppin and she look
ed kind of long faced and peak
ed They amt no children, and
they say he boards it against
her.
The others husband drinks,
for all he's so well off-and the
third ones man ran away with
some circus girl or actress or
other and now she's home herself.
They say Laurelia offered her a
home, but it wasn't good enough
for her.
Il never did see a husband like
Laurelia's. He never seems to
think of a thing outside his work
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-16

Before you buy the lot upon
which you intend to build the
house, look around for a mos
quito resting at his leisure upon
the wall. If you find him with
four legs fastened to the wall,
and two legs hanging clear, as
in this picture-get your lot
and build your house some
where else.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-16

THAT the cause of suffrage
has been materially injured
by the actions of the mill
tants in England seems evident
to almost every observer.
Where ten people spoke with
favor of Equal Franchise a year
ago (even when not actively in
terested in the work. nine of that
number to-day are too disguised
and disturbed with the vandalism
and hysteria of the militants to
maintain their interest.
And yet it is a curious fact that
many people who dwell in the in
ner circles Of English political life
and who claim to know the his
tory of all progressive movements
there declare there is no way to
gain a point where habit and ira
dition must be changed save by
brutal and violent methods.
A former member of Parlia-
your English lawmakers down;
you must kick and beat them on
the head, and then they will rise
up and ask you what you want.
But until you do this they viii not
even listen to you"
That is the only way, he de-
clared, that Ireland has ever
gained any point with England.
But the speaker was himself an
Irishman and violent agitator.
Views of His Daughter.
His daughter was an active
militant. So one must not take
his views too literally.
But many other people have
expressed similar views regarding
the absolute indifference of the
English lawmaker to any new pro-
gressive idea, and the necessity
for drastic methods if one wishes
to be heard is quite widely ac-
knowledged.
Several people claim that the
militants are nearer gaining the
goal they seek than ever before,
but to the outside observer it
seems far less hopeful than it
was year ago.
Those who declare any interest
. in the cause now hasten to ex-
plain that they. are opposed to
militant methods, and everywhere
there is a murmur Of disapproval
and discomfort over recent occur
rences. and in all public places
the suffragists meet with less
consideration and more insults
than previously.
1t seems incredible that women
of good birth and good breeding
and with good brains can per-
form such acts as pouring paint
into letter boxes, cutting and
tearing vehicles, and breaking
windows and blowing up houses.
The methods of the American
suffragists seem wonderfully dig
nified and admirable in COM
parison.
When an American refers to
this fact, however, and says the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-16
Let No Man Hope. "

Let no man hope to hinder, let
no man bid them pause;
They are moUed By a hidden
purpose, they foIloU resistIess
ldUs;
And ont Of the 1creck and chaos,
of the order that used to be.
A strong neI0 race shall take its
place in toorId zoe are yet to
see.
oh, eUer has man been leader.
get failed as toOman's guide.
1t is better that she step for1oard
and take her place at his side.
For only from greater aComan
shall come the greater man;
Thro' We's long guest they
should loGIE abreast, as 4oGs
meant by the primal plan.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-16

Her folks wouldn't nave her
around and it looked kind OF hard
for Laurelia for a While, but one
day this mendin' man met her and
her baby, and first we knew they
was married, and he put up the
neatest little house for her you
ever ,7fr SEQ
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-16
:: THE MENDING MANS SWEETHEARTS ::

girl. blue-eyed and yellow
haired, and kind Of trustful and
easy goin' She went to town to
work in a milliner's store and she
got into some kind Of trouble some
way and came home carryin' the
prettiest little thing of a girl you
ever see
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-16

but how to please her. New
er like to let him go by with
out speaking and askin' after
Laurelia. I kind O. like to see
him smile when he speaks her
name"
The vegetable woman has a
story herself, they say; I heard
that afterwards. She knew the
man who mends things when she
was young and her skin wasn't
so tanned from working in her
garden as it is now. But she was
delicate and couldn't ever marry,
the doctors said. so she just
planted flowers and vegetables
and had her little house and took
care of her mother-and now she
stops and asks after Laurelia
and is happy to see how Laure-
LAS husband cherishes her and
loves her.
A Narrow Life.
What a queer, little, narrow
life they lead. the vegetable
woman and Laurelia, and the
man who mends things, and their
kind! No theaters, no operas. no
books, not much music, never
heard of a good picture. never
ate a really good dinner in their
lives, couldn't do a one-step or a
bunny hug to save their lives,
wouldn't know cabaret if they
met it in Broadway.
And yet, somehow, there was
something about the smile in the
eyes of the man who mends
things that made me feel as
used to when l read about brave
knights who went forth to sIay
dragons and came back on horse
back to a fanfare of trumpets.
I wish somebody would find
the man who mends things and
pin some kind of a decoration on
his coat; but, I suppose, he'd take
il off and make Laurelia put it on
a new hat for herself, and then
smile all the more sweetly-some
men are SO odd, aren't they?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-16

This mosquito, with Tour
legs fastened to the wall, and
two legs hanging clear, is the
mosquito which fathers and
mothers should learn to identi-
fly and AVOID.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-16
LOOK AT HIS LEGS.

Where this mosquito lives children not live safely. His
bite search of your chds blood puts the germ of malaria
the blood And then the child is the victim of fight
against disease that lasts throughout m and may end in early
death.
Brazil the Government has known enough to fight the
mosquito really big scale And thus hundreds of thousands
have been saved to cultivation and thousands of lives
saved also
This picture of the mosquito have taken from in
tensey interesting article by the famous scientist Sir William
Ramsay published the current number of Hearst Magazine
William Ramsays article in the Hearst Magazine is
titled Making the Mcrobe Work for the Good of All Man
kind This article which intelligent and women ought to
read extraordinary of useful information
More will be written about it in this column. Get the
Magazine and read the article yourself Meanwhile
mosquitoes your house. and watch their hind legs
as they sit the wall.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-16
Sisters All Married.

They've got two boys now Of
their own, but the mendin' man
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-16
Written for The Atlanta Georgian
Bv Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1913. by Star Company.

cause is gaining ground with US
by the dignifled mode of proce-
dure, we are again confronted
with the statement that the
American lawmaker is quite an
other being from the English
man, and that to be heard at all
the English suffragist must be
violent.
Homes are divided and society
agitated over this matter.
A bright and cultured woman
INDUCED in some strong anti
suffragist expressions at a lunch
con one day, and then, almost in
tears, explained that her married
daughter had become a suffragist
and a militant.
Wife Utterly Changed.
She was such a sweet girl,
and came up believing woman
had only two duties in life" the
mother said, ito be kind and to
look pretty. Now, since her mar
rage, she has gone off on this
tangent, and makes speeches in
public, and forgets to take care
Of her appearance, and we are
all quite heart broken. There is
no pleasure in seeing her any
more"
One could not help feeling sor-
ry for this mother, as one might
feel sorry for the mother hen who
sees the duckling she has Matched
swimming away down the riveri
And the end is not yet
For cain is the cry of the Mas
tiers,
And UaB the plea of the
hearth.
As the ranks Of the strange Neto
Woman 90 stoeeping oUer the
earth.
They hare come from hall and
hoUel: they hare pushed thro'
door and gate;
On the toorId's highaCay they are
crOioded to-day, for the hour is
the hour or fate.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-08-22
PULLED FROM GATORS JAWS
Head Keeper Falls Into Pool, But ES-
eapes With Most of His
Trousers.

New York.-A dozen alligators and
three big swapping turtles we're swim
ming about the pool in the Central
park menagerie when Head Keeper
Billy Snyder went into the enclosure
to clean up before going on his annual
vacation to his old home in Dutchess
county.
The pool is surrounded with a ce-
ment border and a slippery scum had
formed on this which caused Snyder
to lose his footing as he stood at the
edge with an iron rake to pull out the
leaves. He splashed into the water
and attracted the attention pf the
saurians.
They gathered around him and one
of the biggest set his teeth in the
slack of Snyder's trousers and pulled.
Snyder was getting upon his feet
again, but the gator gave a tug and
the keeper went sprawling once
more.
Several Of the smaller alligators
took a nip here and there at the mans
clothing, but did not reach the flesh.
Bob Hurton, Snyder's assistant, and
Policeman Lohmeyer chased the rep
tiles away with sticks and gave the
head keeper a chance to scramble out
before anything serious happened.