davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-08-25
WOMAN WANTS
TO HELP OTHERS
BY yelling HowLydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound
Restored Her Health.

Miami, Okla. 81 had f e m a ] g
trouble and weakness that annoyed
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-08-25
Central Vermont RV.
Corrected to June q, 1914.
Trains Leave Brattleboro.


700 a. m. Except Sunday. For South
Londonderry.
4.25 a. m Daily. seashore Express for
New London.
Jam. Except Sunday For New
York.
9.25 a. m. Daily. For South London
derry.
1910 a. m. Except Sunday For New
London.
400 p. m. Except Sunday. For New
London and New York via
New London.
600 p. m. Except sunday Local for
the Norwich Line Steamers.
Broiler buffet parlor car to
South Londonderry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-08-25

NAUHEId SANITARIU8I, As Forest
Park Ave, Springfield, Mass. Pleasant.
quiet, airy rooms. Best of care offered
Latest splendidly adapted for
care and restoration Of worn nerves and
all chronic conditions. Insane not ad-
mitted. 110-1Gl
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-08-25

10 RENT = First-elass tenement in
Esteyville. Apply G. G. Fits. Soft
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-08-25
To Rent

TO RENT-Tenement J. l.. Bar
hey, west Brattleboro. 90-tf
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-01-23
DI)R y

Serpentine Crepes, Owe
values at per va
Duckling Fleece, usu
value at per var
ga Unoleached Pe PC
this sale per yar
So inch Cotton Rd39c
special per yard
Toile du Nord Drd ma
sale only per yai :
Fast Colored Ores pc
this sale per yar
Linen Finish Cha4Oc
this sale per yal0
Brown Suiting (alFid
value at per yaf
Cotton Flannel, I'D va.
this sale per yari
Real Heavy Canto1c '
special per yard :
40 inch Lingerie, 4 tt
15c value, at pei :.
Yard wide Bleache Sc
value at per yara
American and SinaSt
at per yard =
Outing Flannel, al Gen
at per yard =
The Washington herald., 1914-10-20
How to Secure Good Bushes, Lawn.

The speakers before the convention of the Ma
tional Association of Stationers who declared that
business legislation should be framed BY men who
know something about business, were not unreason-
able 1t is as impossible for one who knows nothing
of the processes of digestion prescribe for dys-
pepsia as for one who knows nothing of trade to
make laws govern it. Yet il does not necessarily
follow that the man who knows nothing of ANYTHING
save his own business draft business law that
would be fair to men engaged in other trades A
business administrator" has frequently proved more
satisfactory than politician and men with no legis-
lative experience have made a worse botch of law
making than political experts who have learned from
business what needed and then framed tine
proper statutes to cover the case
The plague from which the country is suffering
is the multiplicity of 'reformers" and "uplift" en-
huSass who wish to enact everything they call go
cial justice" into the laws In their eagerness TO
bring about the millennium in a week they refuse
take the trouble to learn anything of existing con-
ditions As result they upset business without COM
pensatng advantage either in justice or in uplift If
sincere lawmakers will begin their work with the
belief that business is lawful and the average busi-
ness honest it does not matter much whether
they had their preliminary training in the counting
room, the law school, the newspaper Office They
will accept the honest advice of the men whose occri-
patton they propose to regulate and refrain from
penalizing the innocent and long-standing customs
of trade simply because abuse occasionally arises
under them, or on account of perfervid desire to
force ehanss1-Pnhlir INdGer-
The Washington herald., 1914-10-20
A Voice from the Past.

1t is seldom, nowadays, that the Hon. Peter
Stenger Grosscup emerges sufficiently from his re-
trement from public affairs to participate in the dis
The judicial habit however will not permit him to
remain silent in an instance so vital as the dsgrunte
ment of Herr Herman Ridder, the intransigent pro-
prietor of the New York Staats-Zeitung In recent
issue of that ultra-Pan-Germanistc paper the Chi
cago jurist declares frankly that he perceves moth
ing but stern necessity in the German violation OF
the treaty of London, and the law of nations, and
that there has actually been nfraction of any
moral law by the Berlin government.
The following extract from Judge Grosscup's
praiseworthy effort to relieve Herr Rdder reninis-
cent of the jurists best ex-parte effort.
Some abstract rights have to yield, on OCCASION
to greater concrete needs Whether Germany was
morally right in attacking France is question;
her military necessities in she morally right
in the attack is another and different question
And that public opinion lacks all sense of proportion
which holds that, however morally right the attack
on France may have been, and whatever the necessity
of going across Belgium, there is a moral wrong in
trespassng on Belgums abstract right of territorial
inviolablity, compensation being guaranteed.
That seems to be even little stronger than the
attempt to do something generous for Herr Ridder
demands when it is recalled that Belgium bound
as a signatory of The Hague treaty of October IS
1908, to oppose Germanys demand to permit the
passage of her troops Belgian soil. Herr Ridder
himself in his most irreconcable moments,
has not attempted to show how Belgium might have
responded favorably to the Kaisers demand without
violating her international obligations and thereby
getting into tangle from which she would find it
impossible to extricate herself There is every rea
son to believe that the unfortunate little kingdom
rsked her safety in order to do what she believed
to be her duty, and that conclusion will be likely to
hold, quite regardless of Herr Ridder's deplorabe
choler and it is nothing less than heroic for Judge
Grosscup, in behalf of Herr Ridder, to affirm
that there was no moral wrong in trespassng on
Belgums abstract right of territorial inviolabity
compensation being guaranteed. The sophistry of
such an argument does not require demonstration.
1t is probable that this Grosscupian view is
trife radical even for Herr Ridder No German
of prominence has ever made such claim publicly
The chancellor of the empire declared in the Reich
stag: I'VE are breaking the law of nations" 1t
has remained for midland American jurist to make
an unsolicited gift to Germany of vastly more than
she ever claimed-and ali on account of Herr
Ridderl
The Washington herald., 1914-10-20
HISTORY BUILDERS.
Famous Men Subject to Stage Fright.
CwLtten ExpresSiy for The HeraId.l
by DIR. Il. J. EDWARDS.

~ NV ne - Ell " AANDFs
The late Rarke Goodwin. who in the
mIdyears Of the past century was asso-
cIated with George William Curtis as edi-
tor Of Putnam's Magazine. and in that
connection was brought into intimate
companIonship with Thackeray at tho
time of the novelIst's second visit to the
United States. told me some two years
before his death that Thackeray had said
to him that he had never known the SEN
sation which is called stage fright when
he was delivering his lectures on the
-Four Georges" or the English Humor-
lists" Thackeray told him, however. that
he had heard that Dickens was some
times AFFLICTED with ills nervous weakness
for few moments before he began his
after-dinner addresses Mr. Goodwin
opened a subject which was Of much
interest TO me because had heard some
who had gained reputation as after-din-
ner orators say that they were frequent
ly almost overcome with stage fright
before they began to speak.
knew that Mr.. Goodwin himself had
been numbered among the popular lee
turers of the time when the lyceum plat
form was a well-establIshed American
institution, and / thought he might be
turers OF his time was thus afflicted. He
said in answer to my inquiry:
II never had stage fright, but George
William Curtis sometimes found himself
a little nervous before he began to de-
liver a lecture. He told me, however, that
he was not troubled in that way when he
spoke before a political convention. He
was then able absolutely to forget him
self.
rFwL l.
Fiction. 1t is like that curious nervous
sensitiveness which is far removed from
fear from which many persons suffer
when a thundershower Is coming up.
There are various forms Of II. Wash
ington Irving broke down completely at
the first dinner to Charles Dickens in
New York. although he had carefully
prepared his speech Of welcome and ap-
parently had not the slightest nervous
trepidation when he began to speak. His
attack OF nerves came as soon as he
heard the sound Of his own voice, and it
overcome him.
II have been told that Hawthorne was
so fearful that he would be unable to
stand before an audience and make even.
a few remarks that he always declined
invitations OF that sort. Yet Hawthorne
made a brilliant and purely extempora-
neous speech upon one occasion while he
was III LhBiaHu anu Nhen ne was lne
guest at some function given in his
honor. presume he did not have time
20 think Of himself. and probably the as
sociations were perfectly congeniaL
Il remember to have been told that
Emerson was incapable OF making an
impromptu speech. and that whenever
he did speak he always prepared himself
beforehand. He did not have stage
fright. but apparently he lacked an ex-
temporaneous addres. He was once called
upon TO speak at a literary gathering in
Boston. He arose. looked at each face
he saw before him, and then, after a few
moments OF silence. sat down. His ST.
The Washington herald., 1914-10-20
Progress of the CoIored Race.

According to the preliminary report of the Cen
sus Bureau, just published. the colored population
of the country have been making good record of
progress measured by the returns of the decade with
whose development it deals. They have increased
in numbers though at a much lower rate than the
native whites, and far below the record of the for
eign-born whites In the ten-year period the total
value of the farm property operated by negroes has
more than doubled, and now exceeds very consider
ably SI.ooooOooOo. But perhaps the most encourag-
ing gain of all is the advance that has been made in
education. Mr. Vardaman and some others NAV not
regard this gain at all but according to the ac-
cepted standards of civilization ii be gener-
ally considered So In 1000 more than 81 per cent
of the blacks reported as ilterate That has
now been reduced to little 30 per cent If the
1920 census shows well for them the white people
may find themselves left behind, least in elementary
education.-Boston Transcript
The Washington herald., 1914-10-20
CIVIL WAR DAY BY DAY
Fifty Years Ago.
October TO- lsCOnedae TroOpe Under Gen Sterling Price, Who
Had Invaded Missouri One the Most Notable Cavalry Raids of the
War; Towns Lexington independence
Near the BOrder-The Water Mark of the Raid
written expressly for The washington Herald,

Fifty years ago today Confederate
troopers under Gen. Sterling Price. who
had invaded Missouri from Arkansas on
one of the most notable cavalry raids
OF the war. camped between the towns
Of Lexington and Independence, near
Kansas City.
The raid had reached its high-water
mark. The CoRfederates had swept
north across the State. destroying rail-
roads. bridges, and even entire towns,
until they had been halted almost at the
doors Of ST. Louis by a threatening Fed
eral army under Gen. William 5. Rose
Grams. Then they had turned west. fol-
lowing the general course of the Mis-
souri, River, carrying the sword into the
western counties and leaving in their
wake ruin. disaster and a trail Of blood.
Since September ls. when Gen. Price
and his 1900 men crossed Missouri's
southern border. intent upon capturing
St Louis. the State had been in alarm.
Guerrilla bands, of which the State had
not been free since 1861. pursued their
work with added zeal: vendettas broke
out afrcsh and no life nor fireside be-
yond the Gordon Of Fsderals was safe.
Gen. Rosecrans reported that at the
time in a single subdistrict in Missouri
no less than 100 Union men were killed.
manned or run on by the Confederate
guerrillas in a space of six weeks.
But the activity of the Confederates
had given the Federals warning of the
danger, and when Gen. Price reached
Pilot Knob. the terminus Of the Iron
Mountain and st. Louis Railroad, seven
ty-five miles north of the latter place,
on September 26, he was repulsed by the
Federal garrison, which afterward re-
treated in the face Of gathering Con-
federate host.
Raiders Turu Toward Kansas.
Passing north. tearing up the railroad
track and destroying all Federal property,
Gen. Price learned that st. Louis was
garrisoned by a much. larger force than
he had at first supposed. Gen. Rose
Grams had detained a part OF the Six
teenth Army Corps en- route from the
Red River to Sherman's army in Geor-
gia for the city's defense.
The Confederates now determined TO
strike out for Jefferson City. the capital
Of the State. about 100 miles west of
St. Louis. Passing through Potnsi and
Richwoods and sending OF expeditions
to cut the railroads to the east, the raid
ers reached the Usage River early in
the morning of October G. Gen. Joseph
O. SheIby's division was in advance. the
other divisions under Gems. James F.
Fagan and John S. Marmaduke having
gone off to do work of destruction.
The river was guarded by a small force
of FederaIs. and against these Shelby
advanced with his usual dash. Dis
mounting two regiments as support and
sending two others In at the charge,
the Confederates swept down upon the
Federals upon the opposite bank. The
ford was won.
In the fight Gen. David Shanks, a
prominent figure in the war in the West,
fell dead at the mead of his men.
The Washington herald., 1914-10-20

anything he could have said. It was not
stage fright. but a curious incapacity to
formulate his thoughts into words while
on his feet Just think Of it, Here were
Washington Irving. Hawthorne, and
Emerson. the three foremost men OF
American letters of their time, who for
different reasons nevertheless found
themselves incapable OF making an I'M
promptu address or of delivering. as was
the case with Irving. an address which
had been carefully prepared"
(Copyright. 1915. b. Z. ]. Edwards. An rights re-
seved.)
Tomorrow DR.. Edwards will tell How
Arctic GrinneI Land Got It's Name"
The Washington herald., 1914-10-20
Dotnss Of Society !
- @@8@ 8se $50 se 98

, tober II. at Rutland. VT The bride
Is granddaughter Of the late William
NJ. Everts, Of Vermont, former Senator
and Secretary Of State.
Mr.. and Mrs ]. Marshall. Of Chicago.
are guests at Hotel Powhatan. for q
short stay.
Capt. Henry c. Whitehead. U. s. A.,
Mrs. Whitehead and children who have
been in Germany for the past two years
where Capt. Whitehead was on special
duty. have returned and are passing q
snort time at Burlington, VT. Later
they will go to Fort Robinson. Neb.,
where Capt. Whitehead will Join the
Twelfth Cavalry.
Mrs. William PEBBLES Hall. who passed
most of the summer at West Point, has
returned TO town and opened her resi-
dence on R street for the winter.
Miss Virginia d. Upreas. Of Pitts
burgh. is visiting friends in the city and
is at Hotel Powhatan.
Mrs. Thomas n. Wood and her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Robert Dunlop, have returned
from Cazenovia. n. Y, where they
passed the summer.
Holy Cross will receive their friends
at tea on Wednesday. October p, from
: 10 O'Clock p. m
The hustesses will be the Misses
Evelyn Stone. Claudia LieUtaud. Lor-
retto Liomin, Mathilda KniH, Helen
Flammer. StellG Ameres. Edna Reiter.
Katherine EeIher. Jane Troy, Cornelia
skinner. Madeleine Skinner, Virginia
Roush. Mamie Keefe and Rea Won Culin.
r E. Rogers. L s Y, and Mrs
Rogers. who reached Washington on
Saturday. will BE- at the Hotel Powhatan
for tac reDr vccs.
Mr.. and Mrs. a. B. Butler. after an
Absence Of several years, are again in
Washington to occupy for the coming
winter the new residence just completed
on New Hampshire avenue and r street.
This is one Of several splendid homes
just opened in this vicinity.
Among the delegates to the National
Law Association now in session in this
city is Mr. Ralph Norton, Of New York,
who with Mrs. Norton are guests of Mrs
William f. Green. 1892 Seventeenth
street.
Mrs. Harold p. Norton has Joined Capt
Norton at their home on Nineteenth
street after passing the summer at her
cottage at OsterviLIe. Mass.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Edward Gheen
have reOpened their house on New
Hampshire avenue, where, with their
daughters. they recently arrived from
Atlantic City
Mrs William Alden Smith will 60 10
the Virginia Hot Springs for a stay OF
several weeks prior to joining Senator
Smith at their home at Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Mrs Charles Warren. of Boston, wife
OF the Assistant Attorney General. has
arrived in town and Joined Mr.. Warren
at the residence I5T Eighteenth street,
which they have taken for the winter.
Mr. and Mrs. George Y McLAnahan
and family have returned TO their home
on Q street after passing the sum-
mer at their place. at Watch Hill, R. I.
The marriage is announced on Sunday,
October Is, of Miss Rose Schaffer and
Mr. Myer Kaminsky by Rabbi Silver
stone. Miss Leah Saminsky was maid
The bride wore white crepe de chine.
trimmed with pearls and carried a
shower bouquet of lilies Of the valley.
CONTINUED on PAGE FIVE.
The Washington herald., 1914-10-20

The project of those public spirited citizens who
are seeking to induce large portion of the people
who usually go abroad to spend part of the coming
winter in Washington should have the support of
ali the business interests of Washington The Capital
offers innumerable attractions that are not ap-
precated by persons who spend the winters in travel
ing about in search of pleasant sojourning places
1t would mean a great deal to Washington if a
thousand or so of them could BE- convinced of the
aro6t and pleasure which winter spent here offers
The Washington herald., 1914-10-20
1t is the spirit that counts.

When was boy used to keep at home in the
kitchen closet big wooden box filled with string all
kinds of string all colors Whenever wanted string
l would go to that box. Often | had good deal of
trouble drawing out piece from the mesh
In thinking of human character, l am sometimes
reminded of the string in that box.
1t is a mesh.
In this regard the character of even reformer is
Ike every other human character.
This commonplace observation may explain some
mysteres-even why reformers are hard to live with
The Washington herald., 1914-10-20
aunntrIn and Jesse james.

enemy.
QuRntrIII and Jesse james.
California. Bonneville. Jonesboro. Arrow
Rock, Georgetown, SedaIia, Glasgow.
Marshall. and Waverly in turn fell into
the hands of the daring raiders. and in al
most every case Shelby's men played i'm
portant parts.
At Bonneville. where the garrison took
refuge within a small fortihcation, which
the Confederates prepared to lombard,
''matrons having sons there and beauti-
full girls having brothers and sweet.
hearts there crowded about Gen. Shelby
and implored him in melting tones and
with streaming eyes to send a flag of
truce demanding surrender" This was
done. and the garrison surrendered and
was paroled.
The following day. October 10. Gen.
Price arrived on the scene and at once
armed bands of guerrillas came pouring
in to join the expedition. There was
Quantrill's gang, of which the afterward-
notorious James boys. the bandits. were
members; the Youngers, who later WED
with the Jameses in their outlawry. and
Anderson, another noted wartime guer-
rille leader, who boasted the number of
men he had killed.
While these men were being instructed
as to the work laid out for them, Shelby,
in conjunction with a force under Gen.
Clark. attacked Glasgow on the north
bank of the Missouri River, where il was
thought a supply of Federal arms was
stored. Shelby reported: Just as the dis
tant east gave token Of the coming day
l opened upon the sleeping Fed
erals. the silent town and the rough and
rugged fort" Many citizens were killed
in the bombardment. After the town
arms had been destroyed by Are
The great railroad bridge over La Mine
River, which twice before had been de-
stroyed by the Confederates, was again
visited by part of Shelby's command
under Lieut.. James Wood. He charged
upon it in the dim dawn OF a dusky
morning and woke the tardy sun by
a mingled mass Of flame and smoke and
cracking and splintered timbers, and
crumbling arch and abutment. His work
was complete. The destruction Of 1883
was re-enacted in 1864. and the same old
river swept on to the sea telling great
tales Of how the grayjackets came over
the border" This is an extract from
Shelby's report.
Passing through waverly, SheIby's old
home, all the while sklrmishng with
the Federals, the Confederate raiders
swung into Lexington late in the after
noon OF october ~. and camped for the
night in the vicinity of the town.
There news was received from a spy
just in from st. Louis, that the Federals
were hot upon the trail of the raiders.
This man, Private James Ward one of
Shelby's command, had entered the
Union lines and talked with Gen. Rose
Grams himself. Learning of the forces
gathering to cut of the Confederates, he
had returned TO Gen. Price to warn him
that the time for retreat had come.
Practically the raid had reached its
climax. The Confederates were to reach
the most northerly point in their route,
Independence, the following day after
sharp fight at the crossing OF the little
Blue River. Thence they were to make
their way back to Arkansas, from
whence they had come.
Copyright. l9ll.l
T"morrOw-Confcd raid on
The Washington herald., 1914-10-20
Reformers.
By JOItN d. DARRY.

n NE Sunday night took
" supper with a reformer.
He was very successful in busi-
ness and he lived in a beautiful
house. Since moving there he
had become a believer in the
simple life. He used to COM
plain a good deal about the
house and about his way of liv-
ing. Among his friends, it was
said that he wished to go to a
less fashionable quarter and to
live plainly, letting his wife do
her own work. 1t was also
The Washington herald., 1914-10-20

The trial of of the most dramatic murder cases
this country has ever known was begun yesterday
and the woman accused of shooting another through
a window appeared in court beautifully gowned"
David Belasco wouldn't have staged the courtroom
scene in just that way, but the verdict of the jury
means more than the verdict of theater audience
The Washington herald., 1914-10-20

Charles Wagner, author Of THE Simple Life "
expressed what seemed to sound thought when
he said that the millionaire riding in his carriage
might be leading the simple life truly and sincerely
the laborer walking along the street.
Rudyard Kipling once said that there were nine
and ninety ways of writing tribal lays, and every
blessed one of them was right.
We can't go far in morality before realizing that
right is a relative thing. and that those who dis
agree with may be striving for it earnestly as
we are ourselves
1t is the spirit that counts
The Washington herald., 1914-10-20
A Line o Cheer Each Day o
the Year.
TOO CHEAP.
Written Expressly for The HersldJ
By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.

TOO CHEAP.
Copyright, IsliI
A BEGGAR falsely whined his tale,
And by his wall
Won pence and sympathy from you
With words untrue,
And now you've lost your confidence
In human nature with your vanished
pence?
All. friend, cheer up! Poor BEGGAR, he
Knows misery
Far deeper than his poverty.
Not only doth he need the pence you gave
His life to save,
But need Of help in spirit, too,
To hold him TO the true:
And as for human nature, well,
Just think II over for a spell,
And Judge it not by his act mean and
base,
But by your own Of kindliness and grace:
Nor let this confidence in man you weep
Go quite so cheap
AS that small price in pence you spent
to speed
That poor old derelict from out his need!
The Washington herald., 1914-10-20

Congress can confer no honor upon Thomas A.
Edison, the greatest inventor of any age The whole
universe has been paying him homage for years The
people of every land give him daily thanks for the
blessings his genius has bestowed upon them Any
thing Congress may do will be mere empty for
mality.