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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-19

The Boston Globes Daily Lesson in His
tory yesterday was devoted to Elizabeth
Rowell Thompson. the philanthropist, who
was born in Lyndon, Vt, Feb. n, 1921,
and who died in Littleton, y. H., July 2l,
1880. But it didn't say a word to the
effect that Mrs Thompson and her hu--
band, Thomas Thompson, were Brattlc-
boro's great benefactors. and that as re
suit of their interest in the town upwards
of so, 900 is available each year in the
highest type of humanitarian work.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-19
Cooperation Among Farmers.
Barre Times.)

1t is rather a novel manifestation of
the cooperation idea when the potato
growers of Vermont county get to-
gether IN an organization, whose pur-
pose shall he to market. their product
and procure fertilizer for the lands of
the members; vet that scheme is being
tried oet in Windham county, where
the Farmers have organized for mutual
benefit. The plan has been tried in
other sections of the country with a
degree of success and
there is no reason why it should not
be likewise fruitful of good results in
Vermont, especially since many parts
tof the state are located at quite n dis
lance from the large markets and the
individual. producer, working single
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-19
MORE DEER KILLED.
State Total $50. Windham County
Leading with SO

ST. JOTfNSBURY. Nov. Returns
given out from tfle~otfice of State Fish
and Game Commissioners J. W. Titcomb
show that there have been 127 more deeI
killed at tins time than there We're III
1913, a total OF .Hi2. Only L. does have
been reported killed. Bernard Wilson OF
Victory killed at 325-Pound buck in his
own town
Returns by counties are as follows .
Addison II. Bennington IT Caledonia Ia,
Chittenden Is. Essex 2l Franklin 20,
Lamoille %, Orange 81, Orleans -. Rut-
land "a. Washington ~, Wmdham 40
and Windsor IS. $3.50
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-19

On the other hand, Burlington and
Chittenden county have had but one
speaker since Vermont became state
Of the Union-though we do not regard
this ms an argument. His statesman
like name is George Franklin Edmunds
and he was speak in lS17-G0. Burliug
ton like Middleburv took the hcst-and
may the two eminent statesmen live
for many coming wear 10 enjoy the
respect and admiration of the state.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-19

Nobody but Jack Harris. who has re-
Gently been called to preside eyer the
editorial destinies of The Advance,
would have been guilty OF perpetrating
the following: The Brattieboro Re
former wants the marriage laws chang
ed 50 that nobody within the borders
of the state or coming into the state
for that purpose can get married with
out due and sufficient notice to all
parties concerned and unconcerned
Muzzlc another infant industry?''
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-19
The Outcome of Splendid System
(Rutland Ncws.)

INWIIdUV NNWN.I
The formation by the farmers Of
Wmdham. town in the county of the
same name, Of a potato growers asso-
citation, is one of the outcroppings of
the splendid system of having county
agricultural advisors. The object of
the association will be cooperative. en-
abling farmers to buy their fertilizer
in wholesale quantities and to find the
most remunerative market for their
crops. The town of Windham. in which
"a very high quality OF potatoes is
grown. hut in which there are no ex-
tensive individual producers. has set an
example which should be followed by
many other Vermont towns.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-19
A LARGE CONTRACT.
What Wilfred T. Root Wants Every
Person in Brattleboro to do.


When Mr.. Root, the euterprising
druggist, first offered 50-cent pack
age of Dir. Howard 5 specific for the
cure of constipation and dyspepsia at
half price, and guaranteed to return
the money if it did not cure, he
thought it probable from his expert
ence with other medicines for these
diseases that he would have a good
many packages -- returned. But al
though he has sold hundreds OF bot
ties. not one has been brought back.
To those suffering with dizziness,
headache, poor digestion, constipation
and straining, DR.. Howard 5 specific
offers quick rehef.~Et Is an invaluable
boon to all who feel uncomfortable at
ter eating, and is today the popular
dinner pail in all the large cities.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-19

Frank c. Williams of Newport, state
bank commissioner, is optimistic as to
the effect of the new federal bank re-
serve system in this state. lie believes
that it will he favorable to increasing
confidence and extending business, and
that the heavy reserves that the ma
tional banks were required to maintain
viii now be released to q great extent
and the money be placed in loans OF
other channels of legitimate business.
Hope he is right.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-19
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim of the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery of
CO. operation of subscribers to that end.
Prompt reports should be given of each
failure to receive the paper on the morn
ing following the omission, in person,
bv telephone or postal card, thus enabl-
ing 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
secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-19
INDIAN STUDIES AVIATION.
His Only Fear is of Being Mistaken For
a Mexican.

George I4onebone of BartleSville.
Okla, full blood Delaware Indian, is
in st. Louis TO study aviation. He is
twenty-one years old and says he has
an income of $500 a month from Okla
homa oil lands which he owns When
be has qualified as an aeroplane opera
tor. he says. he will endeavor 10 have
himself attached to the United States
army aviation Sorns.
LongbOne says one purpose in max
ing known his identity and intentions
in visiting st. Louis is TO prevent per-
CONS from installing him for Next
can. His broad brimmed hat ami
swarthy skin frequently cause this
mistake TO be made.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-19

handed, is somewhat handicapped in
selling his product, as well as in pro
curing the things needed for the de
velopmemt Of his farm Another salts
factory result ought TO be the sinking
of petty jealOusies and the develop
ment of a broader spirit among those
engaged in the enterprise. Farmers can
wen afford TO get together in this way
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-19
New Aid to Surqery.

An apparatus which should prove of
considerable service to the surgical
profession has been invented by NJ.
Shirn Friedricksen. 1t photographs
the interior of the stomach through the
mouth, thus enabling doctors accurate
" to locate cancers, ulcers and other
abnormal affections
The apparatus has been tested and IS
said to have given successful results.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-19

Not every fellow who carries hammer
can crack joke
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-19
The GOOD Old Times Again.

bennington Bannerl
In his recent address in the Methodist
church Rev. Ora Gray paid his respects
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-19
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
Copyright. 1914. by James Morgan)
Drove Ok Team Across Plains

One seldom meets n. more interesting
character than John Hyde Braley OF
Pasadena, Cal, who is at the New will
lard. says the Washington Post.
Old enough to have driven an OK team
across the plains in 1si7, he, was one OF
the earliest settlers of the territory
now comprising the state OF California
onr would not think him half hts real
wears to observe his brisk step, straight
carriage and endurance. Almost daily
te can be found on some golf course
playing an 's-hole game. or on walls
through the country for eight or ten
miles at brisk pace
Mr. Braley has faith I'm the Pacific
coast country
california Is the most interesting
state In the union and Is 'soon to bs-
come the most important" he said.
westward the star of empire has al
ways taken Its way. The white mans
face has always been toward the set
ting sun from the earliest migration to
beyond the Euphrates. the cradle Of ma
tons, until he has come to the stop
ling place on the Pacific coast There
he must delay That is the Occideut:
there the sun sets There his pioneer.
ing must cease. No more the western
wilderness and lands for him TO con-
puer and possess. Therefore California
is TO be teeming population center.
for still westward these white men go
with silent tramp. tramp, tramp:
And there are millions of them There
also is to be-must be--development
tf the highest type of civilization the
world has ever known. The boldese
spirits and the best blood have always
led that band. Therefore II Is fate ana
1t Is destiny that the highest develop
ment of the human race is to be
achieved on the Pacific shores. Cali
fornia, occupying the gem OF the shore
line of the Pacific is to be the center
nf that wondrous development.
In California we have woman's sur
frage. The high destiny. the glorifica-
ton Of humanity could never be at.
tained exceAt by the full CO. operation
feet equality in all departments Of life
ond government"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
The COrsican Lover

1t was not long before Murat was
speeding on the way to Paris with this
complete surrender-and letter to Jos
ephine, clamorous and threatening, be-
cause she had not taken wings and
flown across the Alps. ''Why do you
not come to meg he demanded 'If it
is lover that detains you. beware of
Othello's dagger!"
This outburst of the 26-year-old Cor
sican amused the 32-year-old Creole Inn
mensely, and she read the passage to
the poet Arnault-she delighted to show
his love letters-and Arnault said in his
old age: IT seem to hear her once more
say, with her Creole accent while she
smiles, How funny Bonaparte is -
Sardinia pledged herself to forsaSe
the alliance-rwith Austria and to dis
perse her army and ceded Savoy ard
Nice to France. Napoleon loudly insist
ed on stipulating also that he should be
permitted to cross the River Pc in pur-
suit Of the Austrians at a certain point.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
The Riviera Today

followed "The Path of NAPOLEON" to
the headquarters of the army of Italy,
along the exquisitely beautiful and fra
grant Rivieran shore, its graceful head
lands crowned with villas and its steep
mountain sides covered with fields of
flowers grown to make the famous per-
fumes of France. But when he passed
that way there were neither villas nor
flowers; Cannes, Monaco, Mentone and
Nice were but poor fishing villages, and
the whited sepulchre of Monte Carlo had
'eaot risen in its outward beauty on the
barren rocks of the Mona gesque shore.
All that lovely winter playground of
Euripe was then only lonely and ster-
ile stretch of the Mediterranean coast
There was vet no Grand Corniche drive,
winding it's wondrous way about the
brow of the Maritime Alps, and 'The
Path of Napoleon" was but a rough and
narrow lane over the rocks by the waters S
edge. Along that rough shore trail he
sped past Centimille, past the palms of
Bordighera. past the sleeps of San Reno.
past Vado and its superb prospect of
the shore clear to the harbor of Genoa so
mil IS away
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
His First Stratagem

From Nice to Genoa there rises a long
mountainous range with it's head in The
clouds and its feet in the surf of the
Mediterranean. This is the wall of Italy.
In all that wall there are only four or
five gates one of which opens at Savona.
But Napoleon fooled the enemy by noisly
demanding from the government of Ge-
noa a free highway through another pass
% miles to the east.
Beaulieu, the n-year-o Austrian COM
mander, was as delighted as the French
generals were disgruntled when the re-
public sent a boy to whip a man like
himself who had been a warrior for 50
years, and he assured the King of Sar-
ciiia that he would make quick work of
the youth.
II won't take off my shoes" the old
general boasted, until I get to Lyons
which is more than half way to Paris
When he heard of Napoleon's demand
ON Genoa he flattered himself he saw
through the young mans scheme S
clearly as through the rungs of a ladder.
He was trying to steal around him, and
the veteran commander at once began TO
move his main force toward the east to
head off the French.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11

into a hail of grape and canister from
the Austrian guns. The carbineers fell
in heaps, and the grenadiers paused be-
fore this ghastly sbarricade. While they
hesitated. several officers. Lannes. first
of all, and then Massena. Berther, Ger
voni and others rushed by them with
waving swords, leaped over the stricken
carbineers, and led the grenadiers into
the very mouths of the Austrian guns.
The gunners were bayoneted, every gun
was captured and the enemy put to flight.
1t was in the twilight when Napoleon
rode out of the town to viist the camp of
his army.
Dismounting, he sauntered up to a
group of captured officers. They did not
recognize the young French officer, who
asked them how their army was getting
along. An Austrian captain replied, mot
very well. But then this young general
of yours is violating every rule of mill
tary operations. We never know where
to find him. Sometimes he is in front OF
u.s. sometimes in our rear and again on
our flank. We can't tell how to place our
selves. This. way of making war is out
rageous."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
"The Little Corporal

Napoleon passed on from the prisoners
to his grenadiers who cheered him fer
vently. Plainly he had touched their i'm
agination when he hurled them upon the
smoking cannon OF the foe. They had
promptly held council. as they were In
the habit of doing when anything was
happening. and decided to promote him.
Wherefore they acclaimed him now by
the new title which they had admiringly
conferred upon him, THE Little Cor
poral,'
The dash across the bridge not only
aroused the army, but IL electrified Paris.
The directors, alarmed by the sudden an
folding of their young generals genius,
had reproved him for making peace with
Sardinia, and jealous of soldier who
knew how to attend their business as
we'll as his own. now proposed to curb
him by sending another general to snare
the command with him. Kindly suggest
ing that his task was too heavy for one
man, they offered to send General Keller
man to pursue the Austrians and let Ma
poleon wander down toward Rome and
Naples with half the army.
Every man." ne replied. has his own
way of making war. General Kellerman
has had more experience and will do it
better than 4 but both together. we shall
do it badly"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11

viding their extremely light rations,
which were supposed to consist of bread
and soup with a swallow of brandy and
tumbler of wine at night.
The new commander, without means to
feed or clothe or equip them properly
for a campaign sought at once to dis
tract the thoughts of the men from their
wretched condition by promising them
the spoils of victory in ringing proea-
nation, which disclosed the 'lion's paw"
that some one has said marked all his
messages to his troops:
Soldiers: You are naked, badly fed /;
the government owes you much; it can
give you nothing. Your long suffering,
the courage you show among these crags
are splendid, but they bring you no glory;
not ray is reflected upon you.
Il wish to lead you into the most fer
tile plains in the world! Rich provinces,
great towns will be in your power; there
you will find honor, glory and riches!
soldiers of Italy, can you be found
lacking in honor. courage or constancy?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
A Grandstand Play

The directory's proposal and the re-
port of tho victory passed each other
on the road. The latter effectua1ly an
swered the former, and instead of de-
grading the victory the directors. awed
by the enthusiasm of the public, de-
creed a great pagan festival on the
Champs de Mars in honor of his vic
tories.
Yet the celebrated passage of the
bridge of Lodi was only a. theatrical
exploit or grand stand play against
merely the rear guard of the Austrians.
The AIDA could easily have been
crossed somewhere else as the Po was
without the loss of man.
His campaign had been a remarkable
intellectual feat, but 1t had not fired
the Imagination and, as he said, Jim
agination rules the world" He wished
to dramatize victory for the great pop
ular audience, and this bridge at Lodi
offered an admirable stage setting.
So he covered 1t with the dead bodies
of Frenchmen sacrificed to make a
spectacle. But with what other ink
than blood has the warrior ever writ
ten his name on the beadrol1 of fame?
Pooling his ever gullible foe. he next
crossed the Mincio as he had crossed
the Po and the Alps, by making a
pretended movement in almost the OPP
posite direction to his real line of ad-
vance. Beaulieus resistance thus was
brought to an end. and Napoleon en-
tered upon the siege Of Mantua with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
His First Treaty

"soldersr' Napoleon exulted, 'In a
fortnight you have won six victories.
taken q flags, SO guns 1900 prison.
ers and killed or wounded 10000 mepl
You have gained battles without
guns, crossed rivers without bridges,
made forced marches without shoes. biv-
ouacked without brandy and often with
out bread
In the hour of victory, in the presence
of the first indisputable proof of his ge-
MUS, his thoughts turned to France-and
Josephine. Longing for an approving
smile from each of his mistresses, he
dispatched Junot, formerly the Toulon
sergeant, with captured flags for the d.
rectory, and kiss for his bride.
Joseph Bonaparte went with Junot, and
Carnot opened his waistcoat and showed
him a portrait of Napoleon which he
wore on his heart Tell your brother he
is there" the director said. Il foresee
that he will be the savior of France"
After pushing the Sandman army back
on Turin, Napoleon had hardly sat down
in the fine Salmatori palace at Cherasco,
95 miles from the capital. when an old
Sandman marshal made his appearance,
and announced to the little commander
of the French that his King was thinking
of proposing terms of peace. "Terms!"
roared the young man, as he pounded a
desk, 'it is I who name terms; accept
them at once or Turin is mine tomorrow"
When the Sardinians tried to haggle
with him he drew out his watch, and
tapping its face with his finger COM
manded them to sign at once II may
lose battles, but I will not lose min
utes."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
His First Battle

Then Napoleon shot his main force like
a bolt at the center Of the allied ar
mics.
Riding out of Savona at midnight, he
climbed IL miles in the shadows of a deep
ravine. the towering crags Of the Ligurian
Alps rising about him, crowned church
steeples and ancient villages. each a ref
uge of civilization in the dark ages when
the corsairs of the Saracens were the
terror of the Shore
AS the day broke that April morning
over the nights of Montenotte the SOL
diers of the Austrian right opened their
eyes upon the bluecoats of France before
them in overwhelming force. The clash
of battle reberberating among the noun
tains reached the ears of Beaulieu, miles
away, where he was leading the left wing
of the army toward Napoleons pretended
point of attack. He awakened too late
to the humiliating fact that. the boys had
played trick on him. In vain he put
forth every effort to unite his forces, join
his ally and present a solid front to the
French.
My nobility dates from Montenotte -
Napoleon boasted in all the after years.
Like an agile boxer sparringwith two
antagonists at once he fell upon the
oaroinlans the very next day, and drove
tnem back. His army now stood like a.
"eoge between the two allies and
stronger than either alone. In strict ac-
cordance with the schedule he drew up
at MS desk in Paris he had separated
inc Austrians and the Sardinians
hannibal crossed the Alps" Napoleon
reminded his troops, I'VE have turned
them"
AFTER another thrust at the Austrians
ana another at the Sardinians he had the
aiiies IN full retreat by roads which car
ried them farther apart with every mile
they marched. The Austrians of neces-
sity fell back toward their base at Milan
ana the Sardinians toward Turin. their
capital. In three or four days they had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
The Ringo Contempt Case

FROM the Sterling, KY Advocate.
Members of the local bar. Just re-
turning from the Menefee circuit court,
nre authority for the following story.
In which he was one of the principal
participants:
AT recent meeting of the Menefee
fiscal court Esquire Ringo and the
county attorney, Judge Caudel, be-
came involved in a heated argument.
and 1t was necessary for County Judge
Wells TO assess a fine of IS against
each of them to restore order Esquire
Ringo promptly paid In cash and tho
county attorney gave assurances OF an
early settlement. In few minutes n
matter in which the judges brother
was interested camo up for consider
alton. and the Judge vacated the bench
In favor of Esquire Ringo. who imme-
tiately delivered himself thusly:
My first official act will be to set
eside the fine just imposed against the
county attorney. My next official act
will be to set aside the fine against
Esquire A, J. Ringo."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-11
"Fit For an Asylum

S, THE Path of Napoleon along which
ssne sped from his wild dreams of coniugal
happiness to his suddenly awakened am
bition for martial glory was cut not by
his sword but by the keen edge of his
wits. His commission as general-in- chief
OF the army of Italy had been won not by
his whiff of grapeshot ON the thirteenth
Vendemiaire nor yet by his cannonading
at Toulon, but with the pen and paper at
his desk in Paris where he drew up a.
brilliant scheme of war and statcraft
= combined.
An Austrian army was ready for the
invasion of France and operating with
the army of the most martial of the
Italian states, the kingdom of Sardinia
whose territory stretched from the Lake
of Geneva over the Alps and down into
the plain of Piedmont. Napoleon pro-
posed that the French forces, which held
only the narrow strip of Mediterranean
coast known as the Rivera, should pro-
ceed through a pass in the mountains
that lay between them and the enemy
divide the allied armies, compel the Sar-
dinians separately to make peace and
then drive the Austrians out of Lom-
bardy which they had held for so years.
He had developed this plan of cam
paign with no thought. OF carrying it
out himself, but for the consideration
of older and more experienced soldiers
The veteran General Kelerman returned
1t to the government with the blunt re-
tort that its author was a fit subject
for lunatic asylum and the veteran
General Scherer, rejecting it with biting
'irony said that "it was for him who had
drawn it up to come and carry it out
!, Carnot, the director in charge of mill
tary affairs, determined to accept this
challenge and send the youthful author of
the pigeon-holed plan to put it in execu-
tion.
Best of all. in the eyes of the impover-
1shed directory, it was to cost nothing
for Napoleon promised to-make the Ital-
ian dukes who were in alliance with Aus
tria support the army. directors, there
fore, gave him only $4,000 with which to
get him over the mountains and within
reach of the ducal treasures of Italy.