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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05

Rosecrans w. PilIsbury takes defeat
philosophicaIly and will not bolt the
nomination of Spaulding for the Repub-
lican nomination in New Hampshire
Pillsbury has been beaten so. often
that it has become habit.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05
Guarding Against Famine.

the garrison cannot be obtained
Guarding Against Famine.
The greatest menace to a city in a
state of siege lies in the possibility OF
starvation.
Paris has long been preparing for the
present threatened German attack by
boarding and increasing its food sup
ply and driving into the city herds of
cattle ready for slaughter as the de-
mand may arise.
In spite of the fact that the food
supply is sufficient to sustain the people
for reasonable length of time those
who went through the last siege cannot
help recalling with horror the grim
picture of those days when provisions
were exhausted and the population was
reduced to the extremity of eating
horse flesh. This period of starvation
fell upon the city in winter. Said a
New York Tribune correspondent at
the time, 1T was piteous-unhappily it
is a too common sight-to contemplate
the long rows, three and four abreast.
of Shiyering women and children
awaiting the opening of the butchers
shops to be served, in rotation, with
the mite of horseIesh which is to
suffice them for three days"
Horrors of Last Siege.
Depicting the horrors of Paris under
bombardment the same correspondent
gave this graphic description:
"A cantiniere "a girl who carries drink
for the soldiers) is in her bed sound
asleep and dreaming doubtless of her
gallant regiment shell kills her in
her sleep. \ dozen people are drinking
in a cabaret; comes n shell to scatter
them. \ mother is sitting at table
with her two daughters; shell smash
es into the room, but does no harm. In
a house hard by it burst on two babies
asleep in their cradle; the mother
pushes in terror stricken and swoons
with joy to find that her babes are
unhurt- In one Of the houses some
soldiers are cooking their dinners, a
shell comes tumbling into the pot and
the dinner is dissipated. but the sol
diers are untouched. We have become
seasoned to suffering, hardened, and,
like the dyer's hand, subdued to what
it works in"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05
TO ADVERTISERS.
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim of the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery of
corporation 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
remedy Immediately applied. 1t is only
by this method that the publisher can Sc
cure the desired service
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05

We don't wholly agree with the man
who says that Max l.. Powell : can
didacy for the governorship nominal
tion has accomplished something by
killing off Rufe Brown. How are you
going to kill a dead one2
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05
Member of the Associated Press.
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER .. 1914.

Cornelia remarks that sometimes it
" that makes high prices.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05

Danny Fists, W. c. Camp.
The story of a quicktempered, red
headed boy, nicknamed Danny Fists.
He is in school at Manor Hall and the
crack player on the football team; in
the game he shows sportsmanlike
spirit. does good team work, and finally
learns to control his temper.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05
he Guns of Bull Run. !. Altsheler.

The Guns of Bull Run, j. Altsheler
The Guns of shiloh. i. Alt>heler.
The first and second books in a series
Of four, giving a vivid picture of the
Civil war in story form to interest
Young readers. The accounts are un-
preludiced and straight history as it
is seen through the eyes of the Young
heroes
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05

Helen Over the Wall. b. s. Gilchrist
Imaginative. quick-tempered Helen
goes >orrowfullv to spend her vacation
with an invalid aunt, hut much to her
surprise and delight, she discovers a
fairy godmother and most enhancing
family lover the wall" and has the
happieSt summer Of all her life.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05

Who has announced his candidacy for
representative from the town of
Roc bingham.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05

ter of 1870 TO 1871, when Paris was in
state Of siege for 1872 days, and since
then the government has added a third
belt or zone of defenses covering a
much wider are and therefore necessi-
tating the employment of a greater
force on the part of potential foe.
Old Defenses and New.
The defenses of Paris today, COM
pared with the forts of 1870. are as
much of an advance as the modern
magazine rifle is upon the old muzzle
loading muskets of century back. The
circle formed by the forts of 1870,
lying beyond the walls of the city at
distances ranging from one to three
miles, then had an arc of something
like forty miles, and within their COM
bined zones they sheltered an area of
about 1870 square miles, of which quite
half was overspread with fairly thick
ly populated suburbs. Then the region
had in the neighborhoOd of 100000
inhabitants. including the soldiers
present for the city's defense. Be
yond this enceinte of forts, at a ju-
dicious distance, lay the investing Ger
mans, and allowing 5000 men per mile,
and the are one of about fifty miles,
that meant permanent force on the
firing lines of 100000 troops.
Today Paris has a population of
quite 100000 souls, and the Outermost
fortified zone covers more than double
the distance of that embraced by the
detached forts of 1870. Indeed, the en-
virons of north, east and south Paris
are divided into three great intrenched
camps, with their margins protected
by many new permanent batteries and
forts.
Much of the system of Notifications
about the capital is secret The space
between and in advance of the main
forts is dotted with small preserves
forbidden to the public, in which bat
teries are mounted. Va! lines of field
works are designed for the intervals
between the forts.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05

sued by William H., German
emperor, to his troops
The London Times correspondent at
Ostend sends this as part of CONVEX
sation at second hand with German
officer from Brussels.
Paris stands without a parallel
among fortified cities and is the great
est climax of military engineering cum
ming, says the New York Sun. Hence
arises the question, Can the Germans
reach their goal? And if they get
within striking distance of Paris can
they invest and starve the city to sur
render as they did in 1871?
Even if the Germans reached Paris
they would not necessarily be in con-
troll of more than one-tenth of the ter
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05

Pennsylvania s railway system i
spending $4,1OO,000 for new rails.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05
Traps For the Enemy.

While formerly the big guns were all
fought from within the fortress. it is
necessary in modern warfare to place
them where their positions can be
changed as the fortunes Of the battle
change. For this purpose there Is
about Paris a military belt line rail-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05

India S cotton crop is estimated at
5,20l 900 bales.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05

ADVERTISE YOUR TO RENT
In THE REFoRMER
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05

the enemy. supplies, ammunition and
men TO fill the places of the dead in
the garrison cannot be obtained
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05

Helen and the unlimited Guest, b. B.
Gilchrist.
y sequel to Helen Over the Wall. Tells
how Helen 5 grand plans for keeping
house all 10y herself for her older
brother and the twins during her
mothers absence are upset 10y the un-
looked for arrival of eccentric. deter
mined Mrs. LanhurN.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05

Jane Stuart, Twin, G. NJ. Remick.
Mother Stuart loses her property. so
she is forced to accept the offer of a
cottage, rent free, near the shore. She
goes reluctantly with her four children
to find the old house a treasure aud
life there a delight.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05
PREP AREDNESS OF
GERMANS ACE
Defenses of Steel BeIted City
the Climax of Engineer
ing Cunning.

r< AXE Paris or die" are declared
to have been the orders is
sued by William H., German
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05
At the Library
New Stories for Boys and Girls

The Boy Editor, W. NJ. Kirkland.
The story of how brilliant, selfish
boy develops character.
A Boy Scout in the Balkans. John Fin
nemOre.
\ young English boy whose father is
an engineer engaged in irrieating pro-
Jeets, spends his summer near Adriano-
pie. The Balkan war breaks out and
Tom Yorke goes on a commission for
his father and has innumerable adven-
lures and miraculous escapes in many
battles and skirmishes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-05
HOW PARIS is PROTECTED FROM THE ATTACK OF AN ENEMY.

No. G7-Fort Villeras.
No. 3S-Fort du Haul Buc.
No. 39-Batterie Bouviers.
No. 40-Fort de St Cyr.
No. Il ]
No. a Fort de Marty and batteries
No. 44-Fort Valerien.
No 45-Fort Agreement.
No 46-Fort de rHautie.
No. 47-Fort de Vadvres.
No. 4S-Fort Redout de st. Cyr.
No. 49-Fort de Domont.
No. 50-Fort de Montlignon.
No. 5l-Fort de Montmorency.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12

any time now to hear that water is
running over the spillway. 1t has
passed the sixty foot mark and the
water is. still running in Butte creek.
Nearly 10000 acre feet Of available
water are now in the big pond and
even if the full acreage of the segre-
cation should be farmed it would in
sure two years supply. Some idea
of the immensely of the lake, can be
obtained when it is known that J. v.
Sayler's gasoline launch can now run
five miles up the reservoir and at
places it is over a mile wide. This
area taken with the fact that at the
dam there is sixty feet of available
water shows some water supply if
you will stop to think. No irrigation
project in the west has made such re-
markable showing in the past six
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12
LAMAR LOSES
First Full Game Las Animas Has Won
from Lamar


The Lamar boys after their easy
victory at Las Animas on Thursday
were overconfident of the game Sum
day and as result lost by narrow
margin. Fred Littler was not fully
recovered from the hard game al
ready pitched and proved quite easy
for Las Animas in the first three in
nings. They netted five runs off him.
Bud then went into to pitch and Fred
caught with the result that Las Ami
mas was unable to do much more. La
mar however made little Roadway
either until the famous rally in the
ninth. Skinner was first up and he
pounded out triple to left field fence.
This was followed by hard hits by
Bud Littler, Caulk and Sharkey in a
row, which netted three runs and
Sharkey on second with no one out.
It looked like it might be won as only
one more was needed to tie and two
to win, but Cummings, Hines and
Coleman all made easy outs without
giving Sharkey chance to even get
to third and the score was to 2 in
favor of Las Animas. The box score
follows:
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12
Miss Creta Williams of Osawato-

Miss Creta Williams of Osawato-
mic, Kansas, was the week end guest
of Mrs. d. A. Mclean. She will be
remembered here as sister of Mrs.
M. C. Ward. She went on to Pueblo
Monday, where she will join friends
for motor trip in the mountains.
Died-On last Friday the infant son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Massar of
Carlton. The funeral was held at
Lamar on Saturday and the little one
was laid to rest in Riverside ceme-
terry. The sincere sympathy of their
friends goes out to the parents in
their great loss.
A party of fair boosters went to
Pueblo this week to advertise the big.
gest fair in Colorado. Chas. Maxwell,
N. N. Mclean, w. F. McCue, d. l..
Silver and L. E. Butler were among
the boosters and they let the people
of that burg know where the biggest
fair is to be held.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12
The General War

The war has spread until now the
countries engaged with their colonies
constitute about So per cent Of the
globe and about SO per cent Of its
inhabitants. South America is the
only continent not seriously embroil-
ed as only the Guianas in that conti-
nent are owned by Europeans. Eighty
per cent Of the fighting navies Of the
world are involved and almost ninety
per cent Of the general ocean ship
ping. Never before has such world
war been known.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12

The W.. M. Dickinson Lumber Co.
are advertising with every Malleable
Steel Range purchased next week,
they will give absolutely free, a beau
tiful $12 set of Aluminium Ware. 1t
is understood that this big, wide
awake store will have experts in
charge of their exhibition booth at
the fair grounds demonstrating the
South Bend Malleable Steel Range,
De Laval SeparatOrs and other lines
carried exclusively by them and show
ing that Its little farther, but it
pays to walk"
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12

DR.. w. E. Hickman of Wiley is the
author of very interesting historical
romance of the Arkansas Valley in
the year 1879, which is now on sale at
the Lamar Drug Co. The volume
will well repay anyone who buys it.
The Doctor is writer Of merit and
will soon have in the press a much
more pretentious work, history of
the Western Slope Of Colorado from
the days when it was first occupied
by the Ute indians until the building
Of the big government tunnel.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12

base hits, B. Littler. Sharkey. Struck
out, by +. Littler. 3. b. Littler 6. Re
nell q. Double play, Curry to Keller.
Hit by pitcher. caulk. Turner. J. Eel
Ter.
Lamar 900 3 o 0 81
Las Animas 032 l o 2 0 0--8
The teams play at Las Animas on
Sunday, August 16. Rocky Ford as
usual found La Junta quite easy and
is now full game in the lead for
the first time this year.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12

The Ten Talent Dramatic Club will
give "The Country Kid" at the opera
house on Wednesday evening, Septem-
Der 8. The club is composed of some
of the very best local talent in the
theatrical line and with this popular
play will give an entertainment that
will be very pleasing to all who at
tend. The club will give series Of
plays during the coming season.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12
Going Up

Those people who thought foreign
war would bring prosperity to this
country have another think coming
when they look over their next
months grocery bills. We are going
to pay war prices for everything that
we eat and if it lasts long for what
we wear also, and just where any of
us, who don't happen to be loaded up
with stock in some fortunate trust,
are going to get even is as yet un-
explained.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12
NOTICE
Mr.. Farmer and Rancher:

Mr.. Farmer and Rancher:
have opened a cash Grocery at
206 Main street, Lamar, and ask you
to let me figure on any bill Of grocer
les you are going to send to the mail
order houses in the east. l will fill
your order for the same price it will
cost you from the east. Bring in your
bill and let me show you the gro
ceries. You get the goods same day
ordered. Come in and get acquaint-
ed.
GIL. HOSKINS.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12

The Intermountain Railway, Light
& Power Co. is preparing greater
display of lights than ever before for
fair week and the Main street in La
mar will be like Broadway at night
next week. They are also running a
special line to the fair grounds to en-
able the working of the high school
picture machine.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12

FOR SALE-9 choice lots on 9th
and 10th streets, between Olive and
Oak streets, at prices from SIPS to
5000 on per cent monthly payments
or 10 per cent quarterly if desired.
Also the B. F. Cooper residence cor
ner 9th and Olive streets. E. E. Pike
or Liggett & Cole.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12
Investigating Mustang

Dick Creaghe took John F. Campion
and other Denver capitalists down the
first of the week to look over the
Mustang oil field. The Denver men
were much pleased with prospects
there and expect to make further in
vestigations of the section.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12
Big Demand

The premium list demand this year
has been unprecedented and for the
first time the supply is getting short.
1t proves the interest being shown and
is an assurance that the displays will
be the biggest ever known.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12
Who's Next?

The young lady aviator is anxious
it is said to take passenger up with
her each day and w. E. Corson and
o. F. Mitchell have volunteered for
the last two days provided some man
will take the first days job.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12
Big Class

The Knights and Ladies of Security
initiated class of thirty new menu
bers on Tuesday evening at the Fra
ternal Temple. 1t was a big addition
to the order and most pleasant even
ing's program was carried out.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12
Base Ball Sunday

The Lamar Feds, the crack second
team of Lamar, will play the Two
Buttes team at Association Park in
Lamar on Sunday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock. Nobody has to catch a train
and fine game is assured. The ad-
mission will be % cents.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12
Too True

Sherman said "War is hell" and
anyone who reads the poetry which
the English writers are hurting at
Emperor Bill will acknowledge it.
Whosever fault the war may have
been the British public doesn't deserve
such torture as the reading of those
efforts must inflict.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12

For Sale-Spitz Puppies, 2 months
old. At my place y mile north and
Y mile east of Wiley. F. j. TUCKER.
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12
Still Rising

Late reports from the Two Buttes
reservoir brought in by visitors are
to the effect that we can expect most
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12
MONEY TO LOAN
Pienty of Cnsao Money tor
sSod Farm and City Loans
JAli and eOo ms.s
l.. WRIT MARKHAM

l., WRIT MARKHAM
E. G. Henkins is in New Mexico on
a business trip.
Dick Creaghe left yesterday for
Denver for few days visit.
Mrs. Ray Flint left today for a visit
with her parents in Holly.
C. F. Wheeler, the Villas merchant,
was here last week on business mat
tiers.
Sam Wright of Oakdale, Califor-
MIA, has been visiting the past week
with Lamar friends.
w. c. Gould has improved rapidly
in health the past week and is now
away taking short vacation.
Will Murphy and E. Love of the
Las Ainams newspaper fraternity
were down Sunday with the base ball
team
John H. Wood, proprietor of the
popular Ben-Mar Hotel, returned yes
terday from business trip to Kansas
City.
Mrs. Chas. S. Smith is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. r. C. Goodale She is
on her way home after spending the
Mor;fDr
At the regular conclave of Malta
Commandery on Tuesday evening the
Black Cross degree was conferred up
on E. G. Meyer.
Mrs. C. A. Coker has returned from
q visit Of several weeks in Kansas.
E. M. Mears started south today
bound for the Mustang oil field.
Mrs. Henry Huddleston Of Neosho,
Missouri, is visiting with her fther,
D. w. Apologize, and her brothers,
Ed and Hubert, in Lamar.
Miss nellie Goodale returned this
week from two months trip with
ntI pdTcutS III VIC CSoS' ~hAA' 1870
Mrs. Goodale are at Excelsior Springs
now and will be home in short time.
Maurice Velut has purchased the
North Side barber shop. Maurice
needs no introduction to the people
here and is assured of good patron
age.
w. A. Leonard returned yesterday
from the western slope and immedi-
ately Joined the fair boosters in their
trip today to the eastern part Of the
county.
Perry M. Smith of Cripple Creek
is visiting with Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w.
Hunter and looking after his land
near Lamar. Mr.. Smith is nephew
of Mr.. Hunter.
= Rev. w. S. Crozier of Hobart, Ok
lahoma, will fill the pulpit at the
Presbyterian church Sunday morning
and evening, August 10th. Members
of the congregation are especially
urged to attend.
DIR. and Mrs. Orne, interested In
work among the delinquents, are mere
for several days and will lecture at
the high school auditorium on Sunday
afternoon. They visited the Lamar
Jail and pronounced Sheriff Simpson
q model jailer.
Marshal Cal Downing has been maxi
ing considerable Roadway this week
in the big job of weed cutting. The
excessive moisture of this season has
grown more and larger weeds than
Arkansas valley ever saw before ana
Calls Job is a strenuous one.
D. L. Silver, Fred Kelsey, Frank
Wheeler and C. v. Newman accom-
panied Jack Ford on booster trip for
the Prowers county fair Monday OF
this week. They took in number OF
towns on the Missouri Pacific and
made a fine advertising and pleasure
The Lamar register., 1914-08-12

Three base hits. Skinner caulk.
First base on balls. off Renell i. Two
The Holly chieftain., 1914-02-13
SPORT.

The new date set for the Packey
McFarland-Mike Gibbons bout is
March 9.
The Colorado Agricultural five de-
feated the School of Mines quintet in
a rough, fast game of basketball at
Fort Collins.
SPEEDY" Swift, an -ex-Cheyennc In
dian. has gone to Casper, where he
viii organize a semi.professional base
ball team which is expected to be the
fastest in Wyoming.
Lured by the offer of $1,000 a year
for three years, Harry Cassidy, retired
outfielder of the Denver Cubs, cut
short a Information that began only
two weeks ago and joined the Federal
league.
The Central High School basketball
team defeated the Alamosa High
School team, in a well played game
by score of II to "a. The game was
played in the Central High School
gymnasium at Pueblo.
The Wichita Western league base
ball club was purchased by Wichita
business men, who by their action
made it certain, they said, that that
city would be represented in the
league during the coming season.
Outfought, outhit and outroughed
for seven rounds. Stanley Yoakum
was given draw decision in his bout
in Denver with Joe Sherman OF Men,
phis on the strength of his comeback
in the latter half of the fifteen-round
battle.
The Holly chieftain., 1914-02-13
FOREIGN.

The German minister to Mexico
requisitioned the German steamship
Ypiranga for the removal of German
subjects from Tampico.
The latest military Zeppelin airship
attained an average speed of sixty
five miles an hour on her eight hours
trial trip from Friedrichshaven.
The Belgian government announced
loan amounting to $50,0O0,000 at
three per cent 1t is to be issued at
seventy-seven and to be redeema Bile
within twenty-five years.
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, daughter of
the militant suffragette leader, an
nounced her secession from the Wom-
ans Social and Political Union, the
militant woman's organization in Lon
don.
The charred bones of Mrs. Lee Car
ruth and her five children were found
in the Cumbre tunnel and the bodies
of eight other Americans and sixty
Mexicans are still in the ruins at
Cumbre, Chihuahua.
A statement issued by Christabel
Pankhurst. the militant suffragette
leader, and made public in London,
says the secession from the Womens
Social and Political union Of her sister,
Sylvia, will bring about no change in
the policy of the union.
The report of the investigation in
to the alleged Irregularities in the
commissary department, of which
John Burke is manager, is In the
hands of Col. George w. Goethals,
chairman of the Panama canal com
mission, who will decide what action,
if any, is to be taken.
An attempt was made to kill Senor
Ossorio- Callardo, who was governor of
Barcelona at the time of the disor-
ders in 1909. The ex-governor es-
capped. and in his stead an inoffen-
siye citizen was shot dead. A serious
riot ensued at the conclusion of a
meeting Of the partisans of Antonio
Maura, the former premier, which was
addressed by Senor Ossorio Callarlo.