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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-20

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- Windham County.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE BOX co.
COOK LUMBER COMPANY AND
W. A. DAVENPORT, Assignee.
In Chaneery
Petition for Foreclosure
Whereas, The New Hampshire Box Com
pany, a New Hampshire corporation having
its principal place of business at Winchester
in the County OF Cheshire and State Of New
Hampshire has brought its petition for fore
closure setting forth that the oath day of
! April A. ID. 1912 the Cook Lumber Company,
a corporation organized under the laws Of
/ the State of Massachusetts. of Greenfield IN
/ the County Of Franklin and State OF Massa-
1 chusetts, duly executed to said New Hamp-
| shire Box Company mortgage deed Of Ger
tain land situated in Jamaica in the County
/ OF Windham and State of Vermont, and de
scribed follows: All that piece or parcel
of land, commonly known as the Depot Pas
tire, bounded on the North by land OF H. J:
Sage, formerly owned by Lewis Phelps ana
the Jamaica Lumber Company East by
lands Of the Jamaica Lumber Company and
estates Of Osmon and Aurelius Howe. South
by lands Of f. W. Prouty and the Brattleboro
& Whitehall Railroad Company, and the
| West by lands of said Railroad Company. the
highway leading from the Railroad Crossing
to the house of Addie Gardner, and being
the same premises conveyed to the said
Cook Lumber Company by Henry J. Sage by
his deed dated April oath 1912. conditioned
for the payment Of the sum of Six Thousand
Dollars payable at the keene National Bank,
six months from the oath day of April, 1912,
in the promissory note Of the said Cook Lum-
Der Company Of date with said mort
Igage. which said note is Justly due and
lowing and has not been paid according TO
the effect of the same; and further setting
forth that on. to wit. the lSt day Of January
tIqI4 the said Cook Lumber Company made
an assignment for the benefit of creditors of
IaH its property, real and personal, 10 VIII
liam A. Davenport OF Greenfield. Massachu-
sets. and said petitioner is informed that
the real estate described in the mortgage
aforesaid is included in said assignment.
and has been conveyed to the said William
A. Davenport. hut that said conveyance IS
subsequent to the giving OF the mortgage
aforesaid, and praying that the equity of re-
Idemption of said Cook Lumber Company and
William A. Davenport, Assignee, III the prem
Uses may be forecIosed agreeable to the pro-
visions of law.
IT Is ORDERED that the said Cook Lum-
her Company and William 4. Davenport,
Assignee are hereby required to cause their
lapDearance to be made with the Clerk of
said Court and to answer said petition or
before the 18th day of August. 1914, and
that notice be given said defendants Of said
petition and order by publishing the sub
stance thereof in The BrattlebOro Reformer.
a newspaper published at BratebNro in said
iWindham County. for three weeks successive
w. the last Of which publications shall be at
least twenty days previous to SAID 18th day
of August. 1914.
Dated at Brattleboro in said County this
!. 18th day Of July A. d. 1914.
T. D. E. STOWE, Clerk.
A. F. SCHWENK
Solicitor for Petitioner
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-20
Cemetery Tournament Tomorrow.

The tournament committee has arranged
for a cemetery tournament Tuesday after
noon. The players viii be given a handi-
cap. Each player viii carry a flag and
when he has played his last stroke in ac-
cordance with the handicap his flag will
be set up to mark the point where he fin
ishcd The player whose flag is in the
lead viii be the winner.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-20
TO SUBSCRIBERS,

1t is the aim of the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery of
the paper each night, and it solicits the
cooperation of subscribers to that end.
Prompt report should be given of each
failure to receive the paper on the morn
ing following the omission, in person, by
telephone or postal card, thus enabling
the cause of the error to be promptly and
accurately discovered and the proper
by this method that the publisher can Sc
cure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-20
TO ADVERTISERS

Transient advertising-Run of paper,
so cents an inch for first insertion; 25
cents an inch for each subsequent inser-
ton. Limited space on the first page at
double rates.
Space rates on application.
Classified advertisements Five cents
a line first insertion with 80 per cent dis
count for each subsequent insertion
without change of copy.
Reading Notices-Ten cents q line first
insertion with so per cent discount for
each subsequent insertion without change
Of copy.
Position, 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-20

Certain extraordinary facts with re
spect to Mars have, already been es-
tablished by the astronomers. 1t is
known that the size and density OF
Mars are so much less than the size
and density of the earth that a man
weighing 200 pounds here would weigh
only - pounds there.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-20

The Carman Indictment for manslaugh-
ter is one of the things that the ordinary
lay reader cannot understand. To most of
us from the evidence revealed through
newspaper reports the woman was either
innocent or guilty of murder
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-20

People of Formosa want education
The English Presbyterian mission i
founding a high school in Tainar
which will cost 100000. Toward thi.
sum no less than $4,000 has been con
tributed by non Christian Chinese.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-20

A Washington correspondent has it that
the Swiss government has officially de-
clined our invitation to send its navy to
san Francisco, explaining with regret
that its only fleet consists of airships
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-20
Section Hand Drowned While Bathing
Alone.

Angelo Fierrera, a Central Vermont
section hand, went bathing alone in the
Dog River, near Montpelier Junction
and was drowned Sunday. His cousin,
F. Mungibi, found his clothing on the
bank and could see his body in the
water, He had been dead two hours
when taken out. He was aged 2S years
and has a wife and other relatives in
Italy.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-20

The passing of time is emphasized again
in reading that the original Little Lord
Fauntleroy is soon to be married and that
he is 3S years old
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-20

Last year 4 300 foreign students at
tended the United States colleges and
universities.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-20

China will soon start to mint more
than $700,00O,O in silver.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-20
HOW MEMBERS
OF CONGRESS- PAIR
And Why This Old Custom
Came Into Existence.
A GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT

Theory Is That if Senator or Repre-
He Must Do the Next Best Thing,
Which Is to Keep One of the Oppo-
sition From VOTING.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-20
LEGAL NOTICES.

STATE OF VERMONT.
- Windham County, SIS
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE BOX co.
VS.
COOK LUMBER COMPANY AND
w. A. DAVENPORT. Assignee.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-20

4. F. SCHWENK.
Solicitor for Petitioner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
MAKING SOAP AT HOME

FROM the Kansas Industrialst.
Inc right kind of soap and washing
solutions make wash day easier In many
homes soap making has gone out of
fashion, but If strict economy is desir-
able, the custom might well be revived.
Laundry soap may be made easily from
the Fat that accumulates in cooking. 1t
Is very economical and entirely satisfac-
tory. The fat first should be clarified
by adding to the melted fat a few slices
of raw potato. The melted fat then should
be heated gradually until it ceases to bub-
BILE and the potatoes are well Drowned.
Strain it through a double thickness of
cheesecloth and set it aside to cool un-
til the temperature is 100 degrees. The
process may be repeated If necessary.
To make soap, dissolve the contents of
a can of lye in two and one-half pints of
cold water and stir until the lye dis
solves. Lye irritates the hands, hence it
is well to protect them, by putting paper
bags over them. Cool the solution to
about so degrees. Slowly pour the dis
solved lye into the grease, stir until the
lye and grease are thoroughly combined
and the mixture drops from the stirrer
like honey. The mixture should be stirred
slowly, but not too long, for there is
danger of separating the lye. From five
to 10 minutes it's enough, depending on
the grease and the weather.
A small quantity of soap may be nodded
in an agate pan, which should be wet
before pouring in the mixture. Set the
molds away for a day or two. After that
time, it may be unmolded and cut up as
desired. Agateware or wooden utensils
should be used in making soap, as lye
will eat the tin and ruin the utensil In
dividual round cakes may be made easily
by molding the soap in granite gem pans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
PaschnI shook for President


"Paschal Shook, In my opinion. Is the
IDEAL candidate for the presidency OF
the Chamber of Commerce" said busi-
ness man yesterday. "He has proved
in many ways that he is progressive
and that he is a business mgn of no
mean ability is not doubted.
Mr. Shook is chairman of the audi
torium committee of the Chamber OF
Commerce and the work he did with his
committee in the days prior to the
election which authorized the issue OF
the bonds was largely responsible for
the result An auditorium at the pres
ent time is one of Birmingham's great
est needs, and President Harding made
Mr.. Shook chairman of the auditorium
committee of the chamber because he
knew a man who was progressive was
needed at the crucial juncture. The vote
for the bond issue was overwhelming
ly in its favor and the matter is now
being held in allegiance pending de-
cision of the state supreme court as TO
the validity of the proposed issue
The nominating committee, which,
l understand, is headed by Mr.. Henry
Key Miner could do nothing better
than to give to Mr.. Shook the nomina-
tion, and | believe he would be unani-
mously accepted by the membership of
the Chamber of Commerce"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
Breaking I'm yarrnncx

Nearly 100 negroes arrested during the
past few days in pool rooms as loiterers
We're acquitted yesterday morning in the
recorders court because there was no
ordinance broad enough in the city code to
punish The arrests had all been made
by the strong arm squad of Chief
Eagan, composed of DAILY, Christian Nc
Gill and Garner.
I'VE will go after the vagrants and the
loiterers," said Chief Eagan, land if there
is no law to punish them we will work
to pass law that will carry punishment
OF these idlers. Birmingham is a work
ingman's city, and as such there is no
room within its borders for vagrants and
idlers whether they be white or black
1T l. to the vagrant class that much of
the thievery in this city can be attributed
1t is to the hanger-on in pool rooms that
we must look for our. .picSpockets and
street corner mashers. 1t Is the idler
fl ON whow lawbreaking can be expected
at all times. Therefore, l deem it my
duty as acting chief of police to exert
to the fullest my authority in Kidding the
city of this class of unemployed. II
we cannot convict them we will harras
them so much that they will be glad to
go to work or leave the city. The time
has passed for the well groomed vagrant
to hang around pool rooms throughout, the
day. thinking up schemes to wrest few
hard earned dollars from workingman
in safety. These parasites must co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

The practice of hazing is almost as old
AS civilization itself, but it is trowa
under many different names, AZ West
Point it is called Crawling" in England
1t is designated as Tagging" and when
Augustine. the celebrated ecclesia st, went
to school at the University of Carthage
in the fourth century it was known as
'wrecking." Augustine in his Confess
sions says: II would take no part in the
wild doings of the wreckers-a crutl and
devilish game, which was looked upon
as the stamp of the best set. | went
about with them and of some of them
made friends, yet | always disliked
their ways of going on their wrecilines.
their wanton attacks upon the shyness
of freshmen and the unprovoked af-
fronts with which they carried on their
malignant amusement. Nothing could be
more like the conduct of devils AMI what
name could be fittsr for them than wreck
ers."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
NEW WAY TO DATE TIME,

From Popular Magazine.
His first name was Dick, and his great
failing was too much familiarity with
alcoholic drinks. He realized his fault
but persisted in cultivating it with en-
thusiam.
One Tuesday morning he found in his
mail an invitation from his friend Harry
to run down to Harry's cottage at the
seaside and spend the weekend. Four
hours later he arrived at Harrys cottage
Harry greeted him politely, albeit sus-
piciously, and introduced him to the wife
and children.
After dinner the two men went into the
town and imbibed too freely, with the re-
suit that they were afraid to return to
Harry's hospitable home. They spent
the night on the beach and they awoke
at dawn and looked at each other across
an empty beer case
Harry" said Dick, sadly, II didn't
know what was a weekend. And l came
down here as soon as I got your in
vtation so as to make sure of not being
late"
Yes" said Harry, vindictively, looking
timidly toward his cottage mile away.
Harry's wife had decided views on tenn
perance.
Harry" said Dick, sadly. caressing
his aching head, when does the week
end?''
For your inquired Harry. with con-
centrated malice.
Yes, tor me-"
Right now!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
voMoRRow-rR1AL OF THE MARCHIoNEss DE BRINvILLIERs

having been supplied by government de-
partments and specialists who had
studied particular fields. One OF Inc
most interesting sections of the report
deals with the worlds coal reserves, the
total of which is given as 7,397, ,os3.000,O 900
tons OF the anthracite fields Asia, with
the great Chinese fields. has by far the
greatest supply of any of the great con-
tinental divisions, furnishing 4O7,S37, 900 80
tons. g5
The world production of coal for 1910
was about !, 1s5,00o. 900 tons. SO that. allow
ing for areas which cannot be economi-
cally mined. there is still enough left for
many hundreds of years. In Individual
countries, however, the end is tn sight
already.
Great Britain is estimated to have
reserve of 1S9,5s4,O0000o tons, most of
it bituminous, while France has I7,5s4,Oo0.-
600 tons. also chiefly bituminous Switz-
erland has almost depleted it's coal1 zup-
ply, while Turkey has large quantities OF
brown coal and cannel-like bitufninous.
Germany's actual reserve is a. ,fO0.c30
tons of brown coal, though it Is said to
be probable that there Is a large, further
reserve. The reserve of Russia is given
as 235,997, ,000, 900 tons of all grades.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
Downtown Houses of Worship

The question of the advisabiity OF
downtown churches is one that has for
sometime invited considerable discus
sion, and the subject has found many
strenuous advocates pro and con. 1t
would seem, however, that the house
of worship in the center of a business
district is growing in disfavor and
point in question is the proposition Of
Mayor-elect Curley of Boston to sell
the public park of that city for $10,-
100000 and after purchasing a more
accessible site for new park at half
that amount to deposit the remaining
$5,OO0,00O in the Boston treasury.
While the park is not church the
same reason for its disposal will ap
ply for getting rid of the downtown
house of worship.
The Boston park is in the very heart
of the city which necessitates its fire.
quenters either walking a long dis
tance or spending extra car fare to
enjoy its pleasures. Then again stu
ated as it is among business houses
exclusively it is exceedingly gloomy
at nights when the mercantile places
are all closed.
As with the park so the location of
church great distance from its
members renders access thereto incon-
venient to an extreme degree. Earlier
preparations must be made to attend
divine service as the time for trans
portation must be taken into consid-
Grafton. The building so located does
not seem to be in accord with its en-
vironment and casts damper more
or less over the service, and the noise
and confusion incident to traffic, even
upon the Sabbath, disturbs the wor-
ship.
Nor is this all; most always en-
route downtown and returning dam
gerous railway crossings are to be
encountered and parents fear to ex-
pose their little ones to such risks
unattended, so that the child must
have an escort or remain home. FIRE.
quenting familiar business districts is
not provocative of spiritual thoughts
and to that extent is deterrent of re-
ligion.
But lastly, as with the Boston park,
the property becomes too valuable for
the purpose for which it is used. Not
that churches are by any means to be
regarded as an investment, but it is a
policy open to criticism to allow a
vast sum of money to remain tied up
in an inconveniently situated building
when much more eligible location
can be secured elsewhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

poles of the earth have reported the
peculiar actions of the compass needle
which in one case the explorer desis-
mated the needle as crazy 1t pointing
south instead of north
This astronomer claims that this ae-
tion of the magnet needle when the
poles of the earth are approached Is
due to the explorer approaching, and IN
some cases beginning to turn around, the
lip of the hole in the earth's crust The
lips of both these alleged holes he
claims to be water and that II a snip
would keep straight for the pole II
would sail clear over the edge of this
lip, and as soon as it gets on tue
other side of the center of the earth $
crust it would enter the interior of the
earth and be going south instead of
north without having changed the
direction of its course.
Other proof he offers is the aurora
borealis, which he states is the ref1ec-
tion of the light from the interior of tile
earth shining against clouds of vapor
which have fioated out of the opening,
and such strange phenomena as float
ing flowers and green wood in S1e polar
waters and icebergs with dead animal Is
on them which could not live but in
climate much warmer than any within
thousands of miles of where they have
been found unless they came from the
regions inside the earth's crust
In an imaginary picture of what life
is inside the earth, assuming for the
purpose that his theory is true, the au-
thor draws a world picture of tropical
and agricultural luxury, with no sea-
sons of the year, as on the outside.
Whether not the theory is nothing
but wild dream, it at least is ex-
ceedingly interesting.
His explanation of the original for
nation of this shell sounds logical
enough, the only difference from the
popularity accepted theory being that
the motion of the body of gas which all
scientists admit the earth once was,
was such as to throw it all to the out
side leaving a vacuum in the middle
and at the poles where there was no
turning motion at all; the gas was not
held together so that when the gas
finally commenced to harden into mat
ter there was no gas at the poles of
the great ball and none on the in
side of 1t either. His estimation of the
thickness of this crust of the earth is
several hundred miles"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24

have converted us into nomads; we
are as nomadic as the savage whose
wandering life and lack of home con-
Germ we once denounced as barbarous
characteristic.
We will never return to the old life
for conditions have rendered this i'm
possible; the unseen goal toward which
we are advancing demands that in our
march we keep time to the quickstep
of unceasing change and the tattoo of
the drum is the voice of evolution.
The battlefield of life has become
international in its stretch, flanked
only by the great oceans, and the
bugle call reaches from pole to pole.
This is the great problem for the
socialist. Profit sharing and joint
ownership may possibly command
commendation, but with that owner
ship goes the right of direction, the
knowledge of production and the abil-
ity to distribute judiciously. Control
in unfit hands is fatal and unless the
right of direction is divorced from
joint ownership the laborer must edu-
cate and equip himself for the COM
plexities of trade and the diversified
channels of control ere he many de-
mand such ownership.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
QUAKER BOOTS GO UNPUBLISHED

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Philadelphia doesn't keep its shoes well
polished Washington and Boston do very
much better in this particular.
A merchant who knows whereof he cal
culates is authority for saying the Hub
buys a great deal more shoe polish per
capita than does this city of independence,
and Washington surpasses the home of
the baked bean.
Even without these trade statistics, it
would be apparent to any observer that
there are more busy bootblacks in Wash
ington and Boston than can be seen in
Philadelphia. The great number of long.
thin boot shine 'parlors' in those towns
have no substitute here.
But Europe beats all of our towns in
keeping a perennial shine on its shoe.
That, / imagine. is due to the prevalence
of the custom in all hostelries of having
boots" He shines while you slumber.
and I'm ready to wager that you never
were able to escape from any European
inn, howsoever small. without encounter
ing the outstretched hand of, boots
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
WHAT COULD HE DO.

From the Youths Companion.
Nearly everyone who has travelled in
Russia has, at some time other, run
afoul of the official red tape" of that
country.
His trunks had been examined, and
the traveller was about to pass into the
city when an official who had been scan
ming his travelling papers stopped him..
These papers contain Irregularities, -
said the official sternly. You cannot stay
in Russia
Very WELL" said the traveller. IT shall
take the next train back to Berlin"
Good! Let me see your passport en-
titling you to leave the country.
VERY we'll. Then it is quite impossible
for you to leave Russia. l will give you
"a hours in which to decide what you are
going to do
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-24
Finds sFnrmers for Underwood

zone of the biggest surprises of my life
occurred to me today when l stopped a
few minutes to talk with one of the best
known prohibitionists In town. said w.
II. Abernathy yesterday Il found him
an enthusiastic Underwood man, and he
told me he had just been touring north
and east Alabama, and believed Under
w,od would carry these sections by prob
ably three to one majority.
He stated that Hobson's main strength
was in the towns and smaller cities of
the section through which he had trav-
eled, but that in many of these. reputed
to be great Hobson strongholds, Under
wood would get majority. He said that
in the country among the farmers was
where Underwood's strength was almost
Overwhelming. There are dozens and
dozens of those country boxes he said, in
which Hobson will not poll a single vote.
Those country fellows don't pay much
attention to what either one of the can
didates has been saying In the campaign
speeches. They believe in Underwood and
they are going to vote for him. In the
towns Hobson for awhile made some
votes through the strength of his oratory,
he said but he added that there was no
doubt the Merrimac hero was losing votes
now every day through his absence from
the floor of the House of Representatives,
where he ought to be with Underwood
representing his constituents"