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plowed and narrowed fields with clumps
of evergreen trees Intervening you see the
big red brick hospital building of the
home.
A little to the south is the small white
house with the red shingle mansard roof.
which stands on the hill. 1t is two stories
high and the Notwithstanding runs verti-
cally instead of horizontally and the
spaces where the planking joins are strip
ped This house is occupied now by
William B. McGrath. superintendent of
the Soldiers Home farm.
The Soldiers Home was created by act
of Congress of March 3. 1851. The insti-
tuition at the outset took over the farm
of 90 acres owned by George w. Riggs.
Additions were made to the grounds In
1868 and 1866 and in 1872 the government
acquired HarevOod. 100 acres. which was
the summer home of w. W. Corcoran.
This little house on the hill was that in
which Mr.. Corcoran lived during num-
Der of summers.
The farm had been bought by Mr.. Cor
coran in 1852 from the heirs of the Brack-
enridge family. Mrs. Breckenridge was
Eleanor White. daughter of James White,
who owned this land and larger acreage
in that locality. 1t was by his marriage
that Mr.. Breckenridge came into posses
sion of the land. The old White ana
Breckenridge house probably stood on or
near the site of the Corcoran house. but
this is speculation, although the nearness
of the graves is an indication.
In a paper on the Beginnings of the
Presbyterian Church in the District OF
Columbia" by w. B. Bryan. which was
read before the Columbia Historical So
ciety, April IL, 1904. Mr.. Bryan said
For a period OF sixteen years, namely, from
the year i795. when the pioneer church of the
city Of Washington. down to what is known as
the First Presbyterian Church. the Information
Is scanty, and is cleaned almost exclusively from
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tree and have got the right to pick on
the warmest places in these branches:
"Oh. go off to the woods and let the
owls eat you!" says another. I've got a
permit from the District Commissioners
to sleep here, and one more chirp from
YOU and I'll pull out another of your tan
feathers" Then an angry sparrow, IN
dignant as an eagle and with feathers
standing on end. is screeching: I've got
license from Mr.. Rapley and major
ity Of the property owners on this SIDE
of the Avenue to occupy the contest twls
in this tree, and I'm going to defend my
rights till the last feather comes out and
my bill gets dull. l don't care hang
about this twig. but it's the principle OF
the thing with me-
"Ah, go long wild YER says another
sparrow, you amt got any more rights
here than canary or an American song
bird. Chase yourself into another tree or
I'll whistle for me gang"
ooh. such slangy language, and you an
English sparrow says another. 1t S
birds like you that have brought down
on our feathered tribe the anathema of
the purple grackles, the robins. the pig
cons AMI Of all American ornithologists.
You twitter as though you belong to the
gashouse gang of sparrows. Get off the
perch! You amt fit for hawk food"
And so it goes till the sun has gone
down behind the Arlington hills and the
great lights and the garish cigarette and
strong drink signs glow along the Ave
nue..
man looking up in the trees at night
will see hundreds of little feather balls. all
motionless. They are sparrows rolled up
in their gray and brown clothes. Not a
sound comes from the tree. unless 1t be
the winter wind singing werdly through
the dry branches. until some green and
gray rose light begins to come into the
sky above the Anacostia hills. Then the
twittering and hopping and shaking and
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sirable youthful recruits for the National
Guard. Wherever this work has been
carried on, especially in cooperation with
the local National Guard authorities, 1T
has been found that the boys became in
terested in the rifle practice and after
leaving school joined the National Guard.
so to be able to continue this work
a little expense to themselves.
With the purpose of enarging upon
this work which the National Rifle AS
ISOLATION has begun, the national board
has decided to establish national tro-
phies to be competed for by school rifle
clubs under the jurisdiction of the Ma
tional Rifle Association of America.
The one great hindrance to the fur
therance of this work is the lack of or
ganiZers, ranges and instructors 1t is
thought that the class of men who would
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be most interested, and i'm the position
efhclently TO carry on the work. would be
the inspectors of small arms practice OF
the National Guard. and this letter il
addressed to you with the idea of finding
out If this class of officers I'm your state
could volunteer for this work. and
whether they would cooperate with the
War Department i'm the development OF
the proposed practice and competitions.
This is asked because IL is believed
that by so doing YOU will also be building
up the National Guard of your state by
making available very desirable class
of recruits. BY throwing open your
armory ranges TO the schools during
certain part of the afternoon, and ar
ranging for proper instructors to be pres
ent to take care of the boys and teach
Continued on Seventh Page
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Value of the Pine Tree.

THE value of the pine tree. the cedar,
the spruce, the fir. the yew and the
holly in landscape gardening is more OBJ
vious in winter than in summer. In the
season of sunshine and flowers the few
conifers that grow in the parks of WASH
inston are submerged. effaced. overshad-
owed or eclipsed by the splendor of the
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EACH the school,
boys of the nation
to shoot,
This is the cry of
help which has just
been carried to the
governors of all the
states i'm the coun-
try and to the
national Congress.
Vigorous efforts are
to be made by the
national board for
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smooth road of oiled rock screenings past
the gatekeepers quiet lodge and on 10
the left The general course OF the roao
is to the northwest. but it swerves TINS
way and that. as is the custom with park
roads. Soon off the right hand you VIII
sec the barns-the dairy barns and STA
bles of the Soldiers Home farm, Ii i
a prosperous and distinctive group Oh
buildings. ON hill that looks down on
the road YOU are travelling is smaii
homclikc house, with porch and Wood-
work painted almost white and a smaii
mansard roof of shingles painted reddish
brown. You will notice that from the
main way over which you are walking
or it may he. riding an avenue or old
spruce trees leads up the hill toward that
house passing it on the west side ana
bending around grove of evergreen
trees at the north front When you nave
reached the top of the hill YOU may see
to- the northwest in broad, Open grassy
field a small group of gray-white grave
stones Just the suggestion OF pain
leads through the field to that spot
1t is "a plot of perhaps fifty feet square,
hedged on its four sides with small mrs.
among which honeysuckie vines are
climbing There is an opening In the
hedge on the north and south SIDES, and
although no path has been worn In the
turf, YOU will see that you are not the
first person who has strayed that way.
The turf is a thick mat of various grass
es and honeysalckle. Two old cedars with
dark tops are standing there. and thelr
ash-gray bark is creased and folded ana
many knots show where limbs have been
Topped off.
Two tall headstones. one taller than
the middle of the plot. The taller tomb
stone is inscribed:
In Memory of the Reverend John Bracken-
ridge who died May end, 1874, aged seventy-fi
years.
He was the first Presbyterian minister in
Washington. fully supplied the Congregation at
Blandensburg for near forty years. The Rock
willie Academy reared under his superintend-
ence He sleeps after a prudent. useful. pious
life. beside his wife-the Orphan Asylum III
Washington. her unassumng labour Of love: -
His shall perish from the dust and ne
shall have no name In the street,
He shall neither have son nor nephew among
his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
''Oh. that my words were now written-that
they craven with an iron pen and lead in
For know that @y REpEEMER lveth and
earth: And though after my skin worms destroy
this body, yet in my flesh shall see God. job.
xix ch."
The shorter of the sravestones is thus
inscribed
I'm Memory Of Eleanor. wife of Rev'd John
Breckenridge who died September 81, 1917, the
81 of her age X - of her marriage.
AT her left lies her daughter Mary"
No stone marks the grave of Mary. The
stones at the graves of Mr.. Breckenridge
and his wife are upright except that at
the foot of the grave of the wife. which
has an inclination eastward of about ten
degrees out of the perpendicular.
From this quiet spot you see to the
eastward the yellow-walled, white-roofed
barns of the Soldiers Home farm and
perhaps you hear the lowing of cattle.
To the northeast about 600 yards across
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y. the southern sec
ton of the Sol
diers III o m e
ground are two old
tombsstones t n a t
tell an interesting
story. If you en-
ter the grounds by
the iron gates on
Michigan avenue
near the head OF
1st street west you
should follow the
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densburg was fought sixty-two years
after his death and on which Fort Lin
coin and Battery Jameson were built in
1881 and on which the Industrial Train
ing School for Boys stands today.
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NEAR-QUADRANGLE of cOun-
try, two and half miles long
southwest and northeast. and one
mile wide, lies from the Bladens-
h,,rrr wood 70 tho E,o of arn branch
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-09-30
Mrs. Ffske at Princess Theatre.

The patrons of the Princess are
enjoying the spendid program, the
five-reel production of Tess of the
ID 'Urbervilles. The New York Herald
says in part: Before the Famous Play
ers' production of Tess of the Dur
bervilles was given special showing
at the Lyceum theatre on September 2,
there were admirers of Mrs. Fiske who
believed her histrionic power could
not be transferred to the screen with
ont loss of vitality They
argued. and with a show of reason,
that her method of expression was
not suited to pictures, that the absence
of her voice would be an insurmount-
able handicap, and that, in short,
those who witnessed Mrs. Fiske in the
film version of Thomas Hafdy's drama
would get but a faint reflection of Mrs
Fiske in her flesh. To these skeptics
the first unfolding of the tragedy in
five reels of film was a revelation, and
even to others who expected more, il
was a glorious surprise. When the pie
ture had been run at the Lyceun
theatre the only differences of opinion
| evidenced were as to whether it wa:
the greatest film drama ever produced
in America, or only one of the creates
which, after all, is matter of indi
vidual choice. Certainly it is an ex
ceedingly fine work of art in substance
and treatment. If director j. Scarf
Dawley never directed another pic
ture this would be sufficient to stam
him as master of photoplay arrange
ing clearness no detail of settingCA
ment. The story is told with unfai
ing elearness, no detail of setting o
cotuming has been sighted, and tn
acting of minor characters as well a
principals is Away acceptable.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-09-30
SKELETON FOUND
BY NUT HUNTERS
Body in Woods at Warwick That of
H. A Felton-Committed Suicide
Four Years Ago.

ORANGE, Mass. Sept 30. n Leslie
and Maxwell Iram two small sons of
Henry Tram of Brush Valley in War
wick, found the skeleton Of man
while out looking for chestnuts sun
day afternoon in the woods on the high
hill at the rear of Fred Gould i house,
which is located on Barber Hill On the
road to Warwick Center The body had
evidently been there three or four
years and was on a ledge in n veritable
wilderness. 1t IS very difficult of ac-
cess and a place which hunters seldom
frequent. The boys father notified the
Warwick selectmen, who notified Med
zeal Examiner s. J. TenBroeck of Or
ange after going to the spot Monday
morning. DR.. TenBroack went to the
scene, and evidences were found which
indicate that the body was that of II.
A. FELTON,, who disappeared three or
four years ago. The theory is that he
committed suicide by poison 4 lauda-
nun bottle was found, as well as a load
ed revolver. but there was no incision
in the skull.
| A small satchel, leather coat. tennis
shoes which were well preserved, some
false teeth, pipe, pocketbook con
tanning five half-dollars and a green
back, the amount Of which could not be
deciphered, and hat We're also found.
/ Mr.. FELTON, had lived with Mr.. and
Mrs. Gould previous to his disappear
ance, and the pipe, revolver, hat, coat
and tennis shoes were practically iden-
titled by Mrs. Gould. A can of to-
bacco was also found of brand used
| by Mr. FELTON,, according to Mrs.
Gould. The false teeth proved to have
been the work of DR. J. A Bement Of
Orange, and he identified them, stating
that they resembled in every particular
those which he had made for Mr. Eel
ton.
Mr. FELTON, was well known through
out the section and was born and
brought up in Warwick, where he
spent practically all his life. He was
"a years old and was never married
leaving no near relatives. For MANY
years he lived in the large farmhouse
at the top of the hill on the Warwick
road at the further end of Wheeler pond
where he ran the farm. He was mu
stefan of ability and played the violil
He was a member of several orchestra,
at different times in Orange and vicin
ity, and also gave lessons. During tn,
last part of his life he had bad luck il
money matters After he had sold hi
farm he went South, remaining a Will,
and then returning to Warwick. H
lived for time with Mr.. and Mrs. Ere,
Thaver, helping Mr.. Thayer about hi
work Because of his rowing DISPOSE
ton it was Thought when he disappear
ed that he might have gone Soutl
again, or to the West, concerning whic
he had talked and made plans
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-09-30
MASCAGNI'S THRILLING OPERA
Masterpiece Cavalleria Rusticana, to Be
Heard Here Oct. 7.

When Maestro Pietro Mascagni wrote
Cavalleria Rusticana, he gave TO the
world its greatest short grand opera
Astounding both in glorious melody and
in thrilling dramatic tendency. Indeed,
the composer calls it "a Melodrama in
One Act but it is really in two
scenes, connected by the beautiful in
termezzo which all music lovers know
so well. In the grand opera festival
| by noted stars of the Boston Opera com
pany at the auditorium on Tuesday
evening, Oct. Z, this opera is sure of
perfect presentation.
| The scene is set on Easter morning
in a little Italian village The eharac-
tiers in the story are all we'll drawn and
true to the hot blooded Southern type.
Turridy, the tenor, is a young villager
who has some time previously become a
soldier. He is the son of old Mother
Lucia, the wine shop keeper and Is the
lover of Lola, wife of Alto, the team
ster. Lola, once betrothe4 to Turridv.
marries during his long absence in mil
itary service, and when he returns and
wins the affeetations of the beautiful
Santuzza, Lola decides to win back the
affections of the young soldier. On
Easter morning, Santuzza, desperate be
cause Turiddu has wronged and de-
serted her, comes to see him at his
mother s Wine shop. He spurns her and
then she bctrays his intimacy with Lola
to her husband, Alto, the teamster En-
ragged, Alto challenges Turiddu to a
duel and kills him.
The opera will be rendered in its en-
tirety and the east will be as follows:
Santuzza Nine. Maria de Gabbi; Lo
la, wife of Alto, Mile. Ernestine
Gauthier; Turiddu, the young soldier
NJ. Giovanni Gatti; Alto, the teamster
NJ. Romeo Malpica; Lucia, Turiddu 5
mother, Mile. Dondero.
Other stars who will contribute t.
making this year S feature success ar,
Nine. Gertrude Hutcheson, coloraturs
soprano, and M. Umberto Sacehetti, the
leading tenor of the entire Boston Op
era House organization.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-09-30
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

One of the fine bay horses belong
ing to the DIR. Bowen farm died last
week.
The funeral of Mrs. Rhoda p. Bing-
ham was held yesterday at , p. m.
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Walter II. Haigh, on Washington
street, with whom Mrs. Bingham had
made her home. Rev. George f. Tom
kinson, pastor of the First Baptist
church, officiated. Mr. and Mrs. Ar
! thur l.. Maynard sang two selections,
Rock of Ages and Saved by Grace. The
j bearers were Norman Knight of An
isonia, Conn, Roy |. Pike of Springfield,
Leon Pike of Newfane and Mr.. Lowe
of Dummerston. Those who attended
from out of town were Calvin and
Silas Pike. brothers of Mrs. Bingham,
of jamaica Mrs. NJ. A. Allen, a sister,
of Jamaica, Norman Knight, Roy Pike
and Miss Jessie Pike of Springfield,
Mass. Mrs. Abbott and Miss Allen of
Springfield. Mass, B. f. Pike of Rut-
Hand, Mr. and Mr.. Lowe of Dummers-
ton, Mrs Mehuron of South London
lderrv. and Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Pike of
Newfane The burial took place in the
family lot in Prospect hill cemetery
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-09-30
PERSONAL.

II. F. Jordan is in Springfield, Vt,
today on business.
Raw /. Greene of Springfield, Mass,
is in town TODAY ON business.
- H.. ~ oro :,
: nelt -, W. '''''' - ~" fo;r
Mason stevens If Richmond This
s+a+a colloa On Fditb and Georre
pro,,rh 80 1os+ of +bo uaa<
MISS Florence NJ. SKINNER went yes
terday TO Mohfpehef 10 act as Stehog-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-09-30
To Consider Question of Re-
ductiOn of Rates in
Vermont
BEFORE PUBLIC
SERVICE COMMISSION
Claim Made Yesterday That the Gov
ernor Had No Authority to Dismiss
Charles D. Watson or to Appoint
His Successor.

MONTPELIER, Sept. 30-The New
England Telephone & Telegraph com
pany and its subsidiary companies IN
Vermont and independent telephone
companies, numbering over 100, have
been summoned here for the hearing
today at the state house to show
cause why an order in respect to lower
residence and business telephone rates
and a 10 per cent reduction of toll
rates, should not became effective
! December |.
The New England company, which
is The largest in the state, has engaged
/ % rooms at the Pavilion hotel for
experts, officials and counsel. The
hearing will take place before Chair
man Robert c. Bacon, William R.
I Warner and Park c. Pollard, members
of the public service commission
1 The order calls for a maximum rate
of SIS to $33 for business telephones
and $12 to $24 for residence tele-
phones per annum, the price depending
on the line. 40 public service hear
ing for a long time has aroused so
much interest, largely due to the fa+,t
that the former chairman of the board,
| Charles D. Watson, was dismissed by
Gov Fletcher for not issuing the order
againt the telephone companies. and
George H. Babbitt resigned. Warner
4. Graham, the governor 5 secretary of
civil and military affairs, and Gov.
Fletcher are here.
surprise was sprung at n hearing
before part of the commission yester-
day afternoon, on the petition of the
Consolidated Lighting company to
cross certain farms within its trans
mission line, when the defendants
raised objection to the commission pro
ceeding on the ground that the gov
ernor had no authority to dismiss
Charles D. Watson or to appoint his
successor and that his act was in VIC
lation of No. 10 of the public acts OF
1912.
The act referred to is TO the effect
that all officers appointed by the gov
ernor, with or without the advice OF
the Senate, shall hold office for their
respective term of office and unit
their successors are appointed anc
qualified = The act repeats all acts
inconsistent with this act, which i,
construed to repeal the act under
which the governor dismissed Mr.. Wat
son. One of the counsel for the pc
titioners in this case is f. l.. Laird
senator from Washington county, a
member of the legislature which fran
ed the act. The other counsel arc
: Theriault & Hunt and City Attorney
z Bailey, all of this city. The hearing
was adjourned until Tuesday evening
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-09-30
AGREE TO REPORT TONIGHT
House of Representatives Hopes to
Finish with Tariff Measure.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - The
House met today with the expectation
that it would agree to the conference
report on the tariff bill before add
journrnent tonight. The large Demo
cratic majority made it certain that
the report would be accepted without
change. and the Democratic leaders
expected that the House would en-
dorse the proposed compromise in cot
ton futures and ask the Senate for a
further conference on the income tax
plan.
Under the agreement made at the
opening of the session to limit the
debate to four hours and half it is
expected that a vote will be taken
about 4 this afternoon. The disagree
ment between the House and Senate
over the cotton futures tax will then
be taken up. 1t is evident from the
demands made by the southern mem
bers for An opportunity to debate OF
amend this provision that it would
provoke the most vigorous debate OF
the dav if no attempt is made to SET
La limit Oh the debate.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-09-30
Take Part in the Battles in
the New State of
Albania
GREEK GIRLS ALSO
FORM A COMPANY
Many Women Participated in the
Encounter in Which 1900 Servians
Dibera September %.

VIENNA, Austria, Sept. 30.-Wo-
men are taking an active part in the
fighting in Albania, according to des-
patches received here from Avlona,
the Albanian capital. Many Albanian
women armed with hatchets fought
shoulder to shoulder with their hus
bands, sons, brothers and sweethearts
during the fighting at Dibera Sept.
%, when 1900 Seryians We're killed
and 300 taken prisoners. The Greek
women in Southern Albania are also
displaying a warlike spirit. At Kor-
itza, held by the Greek troops, 60
girls formed company, declaring
that they would sooner die than to
permit Koritza to be incorporated into
the state of Albania.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-09-30
Hope to Save the Life of
Thomas Tosheasky
EntOmbed Miner
FED BREAKFAST
THROUGH A TUBE
He Was Supposed to Have Been
Buried When Fall of Coal Occurred,
But Late Yesterday When Men
Were at Work Rappings Were Heard

CENTRALIA, Pa, Sept. 80. Res
cuers were still hard at work today
trying to save the life of Thomas Tos-
heasky, the miner who has been en-
tombed since last Friday in the Con
tinental mine of the Lehigh Valley
Coal company. \ hole has been bored
through the wall behind which he is
imprisoned, and tube inserted,
through which he was served this
morning with breakfast of milk and
eggs. The slow work in reaching the
miner has been due to the constant
shifting of a large quantity of coal
and refuse that closed him in When
the fall of coal occurred it was be
lieved that Tosheasky had been buried
beneath it. Efforts to reach him, how
ever, We're not abandoned, and late
yesterday rapping was heard, and
the rescuers redoubled their efforts