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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20
Sporting NeWs
NOTES.

Rabbit Maranville is employed as
plumber in Springfield.
One department store in Chicago has
eight tioorwalkers who have been UNI
pires.
The baseball peace plan is develop
ing and the news from New York
within a day or two should contain an
announcement of the details.
With Callahan managing the Pirates
and Moran the Phillies, Fitchburg fans
ayers are natives of the Massachusetts
city.
James E. Gafney, president of the
Boston Nationals, is authority for the
statement that the Federal league has
lost 100000 since starting the base
ball war.
The baseball Hague has been trans
ferred firm New York to Cincinnati.
Peace seems to be located at a eonsid-
cradle distance from the frequent con
ferences of the baseball magnates.
Catcher George Gibson of the Pirates
was one of the ball players who early
took to the farm. George has had
enough of farming and has sold his
"place' and has bought town house
The sum of $417,518 was hung up in
stakes and purses for the 1915 Grano
Circuit meetings. More than so pei
cent of the amount was won by Drivers
Murphy, Cox, Geers, Mcdonald and Nc
Mahon.
The Giants and Highlanders have ar
ranged series of three exhibition
games to be played on the Polo ground.
| A. II
a series had been arranged between
these teams.
Old Cap Arson Is to put on a new
vaudeville act in which his two daugh
tiers are to be featured. All of whicl
reminds US that time has flown since w
have watched the greatest Roman o
them all play ball.
The University of Vermont and Mid
dlebury have both written for foot
ball game with New York upiversit
to take the place of Trinity. Trinit
has been dropped from the New Yor
university schedule because of tn
Brickley matter.
While it appears just now as
Tad" Jones was leading as tn
choice for the Yale football coach
is improbable that any man will b
chosen for that office until after tn
holiday season. Jones is now coac
at Exeter, where he has met with su,
Ecess-
A faint idea of just how much trave
ing Con foot) a big college eleven doe
in a season may be culled from II
statement that the Syracuse tea
rushed the ball nearly two miles and
half in the past season. To be exae
the Orange carried the bah exactly Il;
yards in u games.
Only one thing could be harder tina
the job of selecting q football coach f,
Yale who would be satisfactory to g
concerned The choice of a basebs
manager for Twin State league bias
ball team would make the other ta
look as easy as for B. A. to pass
= first grade examination.
". Charles T.. Courtney, veteran rowiI
4 tutor of the Cornell navy, is to reti
\ at the close of the spring season. ]
I will be 81 then. 1t may prove tn
Courtney will not be able to do mu
I coaching in the spring as the result
! his accident last spring in which he 81
4 tanned a fracture of the skull.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20

member of the various Masonic bodies
in this town and of the Congregations
al church.
He married Miss Fannie Smith of
Monkton, who survives. He also leaves
four children, Miss Grace Buttolph and
Lucius Buttolph of Twin Falls, Idaho,
Clayton Buttolph of New York city,
and Miss Caroline Buttolph Of this vii
lage, and sister, Mrs. Fremont Ham
ilton of Brattleboro.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20
]. E. BUTTOLPH OF
MIDDLEBURY DEAD
Road Commissioner and ex-Legislator
Brother of Mrs. Fremont Ham
ilton OF Brattleboro.

MIDDLEBURY, Dee. 2O.-John Ed
wy Buttolph, So, Addison county road
commissioner, died yesterday morning
in the Mary Fletcher hospital in Bur
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-20

The value of all property in the United
States and its possessions is placed at
S1S7, 739, 100000.
The Pulaskian., 1915-12-03
AMID DIN OF BATTLE
PEERS MUSIC AROUSED INTER.
 EST OF CORRESPONDENT.
American Ambulance Drivers Give Vivid Description of Scenes They Witnessed in Land Where
 Death Is Common.

These vivid sketches of battle scenes ard Norton and w. R. Berry, who are attached to the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance corps, which han dled 5000 wounded men ill the i've days of the main allied drive in France last September. The letters were received by Eliot Norton, of Rector street, this city. Richard Nor ton writes
 "StilI another picture that rises in my mind as l write is of one cloudy morning when, after a very tiring night, I was sitting on the roadside watching rather heavy bombardment near by, and suddenly through the din rose the sweet clear notes of a shep- herds pipe. It was the same reed pipe have heard so often on the hills of Greece and Asia Minor, and the same sweetly sad, age-old shepherd music telling of Pan and the nymphs and the asphodel meadows where Youth lies buried. The piper was an ordinary piou-piou, a simple fantasin, mon vieux Charles with knapsack on back, rife slung over his shoulder. and helmet on head strolling down to the valley of death a few hundred yards beyond
 MT. Berry pictures the stream of wounded
 "One last scene shall not forget, he says. There was white chalk road between black pipe trees, and on it, moving towards us, were two groups of shuffling men, a blood-red sunset at their backs. Our car slowed down to pass between them, but when we saw, we stopped-and let them pass.
 "On one side moved muddy, blood stained company, where blue-clad fig ures dropped in saddles, or clung with both hands to comrades Stirrup leather. I saw a broken sword and empty carbine holsters, and I saw, too, eyes glazed with fatigue that stared from dead-white faces. On the other passed a second company, muddy and blood-stained like the first, but there were gray-cIad figures stagger- ing in step, the stronger with their. arms around their comrades I saw the ribbon of the iron cross, and I saw again eyes glazed with fatigue that stared from dead-white faces.
 "So passed us by remnant of the Hussars' charge, and a group of Ger man prisoners Victors and van quished-with only the white road be- tween them" ."-New York Evening Post.
The Pulaskian., 1915-12-03

few vines are better to grow than the Madeira and the Columbian climber.
 Their foliage is of a very rich, glossy green, ard the delicate white flowers, or rich clusters, of the Ma. deira vine are not only abundant, but deliciously fragrant. Both vines are easy to grow. and in a fairly good soil will attain height of 20 or 25 feet.
 Although the asparagus sprengeri produces only tiny flowers, it's foliage is so glorious, so green and restful to the eye, that it is a plant much to be desired. Not requiring a great amount of sun, it can be placed back of other plants and, if somewhat above them it's rich beauty will act as a charming foil.
 It is doubtful if there is any other one thing in the culture of house plants so little understood as the proper application of moisture.
 Generally, the best way to determine when plant needs water is to take a pinch of the soil and rub it between IAC tuuDiU Ctuu DISt nllSOI. II LII y enough to become powdery, water should be applied; but if it is still sc damp as to hold between the fingers, no more water will be needed for a time. Lilies, of course, are an excep. tion to this rule, and in fact, almost all kinds of bulbs.
 Pansies are a desirable flower to have, and five-cent package will be sufficient for one ordinarily to grow. They want to be started indoors in a box full of rich soil, and kept in a slightly-shaded place.
 The dirt should be damp all the time, to insure which it needs frequent watering, and when the pansies are planted out it is better on this account to have the bed on the north side of the house.
 There if given little care, they can be made to bloom till frost comes in the fall.
The Pulaskian., 1915-12-03
Foreion Children Are Healthier.

The death rate among children born in New York city of native American parents is higher than among children. of foreign parents, according to re- port by Dr. William H. Guilfoy, regis trar of the health department. Chil- dren of native white parents, the re- port says, die at the rate of A males and 35 females out of every 1000 be- fore attaining the age of five years. The death rate for native parents, both white and negro, is 7S males and 65 females. Children of foreign-born parents show mortality during the five years of 39 males and 32 females. The lowest mortality rate is given hy the records to Russian-born mothers. The birth rate among fcreign-born mothers is almost three times greater than among native mothers. New York Times.
The Pulaskian., 1915-12-03

PIG feet, and it's greatest width eighty nine feet.
 In places were rooms original ly three stories in height, the final story at present having no roof ex- cept the top of the cave, but most of the rooms now to be seen are on the first floor, although in some places a second story is still standing There hay Naen traced IA separate rooms in tn tt structure, besides eight sub ter. yan ceremonial chambers, known as kivas. It has been estimat- ed that the building had a population of about $50 natives.
 Cliff palace, the second of these inn portant ruins, is nearly three times the size of Spruce Tree house, and has over 200 rooms. It was repaired in 1900 and now presents very re- spectable appearance to the visitor Like Spruce Tree house. it is in a cave, the roof of which arches about seventy-five feet above it, and is lo- cated in Cliff canyon, the floor of which is several hundred feet above the level of the canyon. It is ap- preached by means of steps cut in the rock, and ladders.
 Deep under the debris which GOV cred the lower entrance of Cliff pal ace the excavators found the ancient entrance to the building, which leads by gradual slope to the center of the village.
 These wonderful archaeological ruins present to the visitor unusual opportunities to see the early type of dwellings, and offer to the student op- portunity to study early life, construc- tion in buildings and religious and secular ceremonies of the ancient cliff dwellers.
 Castle Is Most Wonderful.
 Only recently there has been discov- cred, across the canyon from Cliff pal ace, the most remarkable of these re- markable ruins-a cut-and-polished stone citadel, already known as the castle
 The stone edifice is built in the shape of an enormous ID" The yer tical line of the "D' measures 132 feet, while the circular wall measures 245 feet, a mammoth affair covering
The Pulaskian., 1915-12-03

Y T APPEARS strange that the
 greatest of American prehistoric
 ruins, those now inclosed in the A Mesa Verde National park in southwestern Colorado, should have escaped discovery until 1888. Years before, innumerable ancient ruins left in several other states by the ances- tors of the Pueblo Indians had been described and pictured. They had been the subjects of popular lectures; they had been treated in books of science and books of travel; they had become a familiar American specta- cle. Even the ruins in the Mancos canyon in Colorado were explored as early as 1874. w. H. Jackson, who led the government party, found there many small dwellings broken down by the weather. The next year he was followed by Prof. w. H. Holmes, later chief of the bureau of American eth nology, who drew attention to the re- markable stone towers so character istic of the region.
 But these discoveries attracted little attention because of their inferiority to the better-known ruins of Arizona and New Mexico. Had either of the explorers followed up the side canyon of the Mancos they would have then discovered ruins which are, in the words of Baron Gustav Nordenskiold, the talented Swedish explorer, so magnificent that they surpass any thing of the kind known in the United States"
 This explains why delivers in H. braries find so little about the Mesa Verde Most books and magazine articles were written when cliff dwell- ings were a novelty.
 Monument of Bygone Ages.
 Baron Nordenskiold thus describes in his book, "The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde the discovery of the wonderful dwellings in this side can yon of the Mancos:
 'The honor of the discovery of these remarkable ruins belongs to Richard and Alfred Wetherill of Man. cos. The family owns large herds of cattle, which wander about on the Mesa Verde. The care of these herds often calls for long rides on the mesa
The Pulaskian., 1915-12-03

and in it's labyrinth of canyons. Dur ing these long excursions ruins, the one more magnificent than the other, have been discovered. The two larg- est were found by Richard Wetherill and Charley Mason one December day in 1888, as they were riding together through the pinyon wood on the mesa in search of stray herd. They had penetrated through the dense scrub to the edge of deep canyon. In the opposite cliff, sheltered by a huge massive vault of rock, there lay before their astonished eyes whole town, with towers and walls, rising out of a heap of ruins This grand monument of bygone ages seemed to them well deserving of the name of the Cliff Pal ace Not far from this place, but in a different canyon, they discovered, on the same day, another very large cliff dwelling. To this they gave the name of Spruce Tree House, from a great spruce that jutted forth from the ruins.
 During the course of years Richard and Alfred Wetherill have explored the mesa and it's canyons in all di- rections They have thus gained a more thorough knowledge of it's ruins than anyone Together with their brothers, John, Clayton and Wynn, they have also carried out excavations during which number of extremely inter esting finds have been made
 Like Great Apartment House.
 Spruce Tree house has distinct likeness to gigantic hotel built in a cave with a crescent-shaped roof, the floor of the cave being fifty feet above the bottom of the canyon ard the rooi eighty feet high. It's total length $
The Pulaskian., 1915-12-03
Soils an Id Soil
 Fertility
Eight Studies in Fundamental
 Agriculture.
EDIToR,s NOTE.


 The Extension Division of the Uni- versity of Arkansas, in cooperation with the United States Department Of Agriculture, will offer this year through this paper. a free correspond ence course in Soils and Soil Fertil- ,ty, consisting of eight lessons or ar ticles. Those who wish to take this course should write to the Director of Extension Work, Uni versity of Arkansas, Fayetteville. stating name, age. occupation, and a word about his Cor her) gem eral education. and stating that he tor she) proposes to carry the work through for the eight lessons. A farm CTS bulletin will be sent to supple iment lesson No. 1, and later for each lesson if the question blank be return ga for the preceding lesson. These blanks will be sent with each bulletin. The lessons on Soil and Soil Fertility Will consist of the following: CD Or lgins and Functions of Soil, CD How Plants Feed and Grow, (3) Tillage. (4) Drainage, (5) Organic Matter, (6) Crop Rotation, CD Barnyard Manure, (o Commercial Fertilizers
The Pulaskian., 1915-12-03
Those Shade" Cartoons.

The property room of the cartoonist Is scene of great activity these days. Mars, the war god, has been brought out and dusted, and his face touched up to look more fearsome than ever. All the war shades of the past have been working overtime, and death, Frankenstein, Mars and the devil have been very busy. The shades of Wellington, Nelson, Bismarck, King Edward, Julius Caesar, the vet erans of 1870, have been taxed to their utmost, while the portly shade of Ma poleon, through many calls on his serv- ices by the worlds cartoonists, has been worn to a mere shadoY.-C Car toons Magazine.
The Pulaskian., 1915-12-03

nearly city block. The architecture is perfect, the stones are polished to marble smoothness and every stone joins it's neighbor with exactness.
 The walls are hollow and filled with tiny rooms, from which doors open into the main court. So far no doors have been found through this outer wall, and it is supposed that en- trance either was made from the top by way of ladders or through tunnel down under the walls.
 Inclosed in the walls are circular stone rooms, called kiyas, supposed to have been meeting places for the men, Probably twenty such rooms are in. cluded in the main court
 Pottery of exceptionally beautiful design and workmanship has been found in the interior of the walls. Excavation has not progressed far enough down to reveal other examples of the craft of the extinct cliff-dwell ing tribes.
 The finger prints of the women, who evidently laid the stones, are in the clay between the stones.
 No inscriptions have been found al though several of the stones bear tri angular designs and other markings. The discovery of the castle opens again the question of whether the toll | ing hordes of the cliff dwellers' were warlike race. No reason can be giv. en for the erection of this pretentious
 work except that it was intended as
 refuge in time of war No warlike
 weapons, however, have been discov.
 cred in the ruin. Their energies seem
 to have inclined toward pottery mak
 ing, basket weaving. soil tilling and garment making.
The Pulaskian., 1915-12-03
Even in Germany.

I had been in the country on busi- ness for three days and had not seen an up-to-date newspaper in all that time. My anxiety to know how the war had gone in the meantime was, as you may imagine, somewhat keen. My wife was at the station to meet me. 1 rushed up to her. What news, my dear?" I cried What news?"
 "Oh, darling" said she, what do you think? Skirts are being worn shorter than ever"
The Pulaskian., 1915-12-03
Wisdom of the Wise.

Rhymer-I seem to be troubled with bad memory of late.
 Spacer-Losing your mind, eh?
 Rhyper-No, not exactly, but often my best thoughts fail to return.
 Spacer-Oh, is that all? l used to have the same trouble until I got into the habit of inclosing stamped en- velope with all my manuscript.
The Pulaskian., 1915-12-03
POPPING SOIL

Lay in a supply of potting soil now. so if need arises for soil when the ground is frozen or covered with snow it can be met. Equal parts of good garden soil. old, well-rotted manure leaf mold and sand should be stirred well together, sifted through coarse sieve and stored under sheltsr 1T boxes and barrels.
The Pulaskian., 1915-12-03
Where Ignorance Is Bliss.

What know about running an au- tomobile would fill book" said the reckless young man at the steering wheel.
 Yes" said the policeman who had gathered him in, land what you don't know about one would soon i'll tho morgue.'
The Pulaskian., 1915-12-03

like a potato in need of shave, be. cause the skin is hairy. Dasheen seed has been distributed by the az ricultural department. It can be cooked in many ways and the taste is very meaty and rich.
The Pulaskian., 1915-12-03
THE DASHEEN PLANT

By E. VAN BENTHUYSEN.
 The dasheen is the new food plant. It is a vegetable much like potato. It is semi-tropical vegetable rather
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-01-23
PARENTS DAY AT LoneFeLLow.

PARENTS DAY At LOsGFELLOW.
For a number % years following
the close % the nrst semester. the
eighth grade a LongfelIow school has
enfertain@d AZ parents day in tire
school To each family represented 10
the school an invitation vas seat and
about zoo people responded % and at
tended the affair arranged for them
last evening The school gymnasium
was utilized and had been very beau
tifuily decorated b. Carl Anderson.
who II a graduate % the school with
the assistance % the pupils and teach
srs. yellow and white crepe paper
was used 20 form a lattice work that
covered the entire ceiling and vas
drnp@d on the side walls. The chan
ceiiers were draped IN yellow and the
Ights we're shaded 90 give soft. mel
low light In each o. the rooms o. the
school the work OF all the grades was
on exhibition and specially attrac-
tive was the manual arts display. the
boys having done themselves proud
under the direction Of Mr.. Adams.
their teacher The company was en-
tertained with "a program that began
with several victroia number. follow
ed By a talk on What the L0rEfeilOw
School Means 90 the Community by
Rev. W. ~ Tope- Mrs ~. G.. HlEbee.
cello. Miss inez Benson. violin. and
Miss Leona Haywood. plano. gave
delightful selection and tlen followed
an Indian club driu By the eighth
grade a violin and piano duet was
given by Chester Olson and Everett
Bo~es. Miss Marie william pleased
with q recitation AID superintendent
r. q. Fisher closed the program will
an excellent address. ~ the close %
the program coffee and cookie made
by the pupils % the eighth Erade were
served and we're thoroughly cuIoyed .
These parents meetinEs have proven .
wonderfully successful 40 LonEfeiiOu .
school. the parents and friends % the
pupils being Afforded an excellent OF.
portuuity 90 learn OF their work and
become acquainted with the teachers .
under whose supervision they are
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-01-23
SCRIPTURE


Now after the death OF Moses the
servant Of the Lord il came to pass,
that the Lord spake unto Joshua the
son of Nun, Moses minister, saying.
Moses my servant is dead; now
therefore arise, 20 over this Jordan.
thou. and all this people, unto the land
which ] do give 10 them. even TO the
children of Israel.
Every place that the sole OF your
feet shall n cad upon, that have I given
unto you. as / shall unto Moses.
From the wilderness and this Leba-
non even unto the great river. the
river Euphrates. all the land OF the
Hitutes. and unto the great sea toward
the going down o. the sun. shall be
your coast.
There shall no any man be able to
stand before thee ali the days of thy
life: as / was with Moses. so / viii
be with thee: ! will not fail thee, nor
forsake thee.
BE strong and OF good courage:
for unto this people shalt thou divide
for an inheritance the land. which I
sware unto their fathers to give them.
Only be thou strong and very
courageous. that thou mayest observe
to 90 according TO all the Law. which
Moses may servant commanded thee:
turn not from it 10 the right hand or
10 the left, that thou mayest prosper
thou goest
This book of the law shall not de
part out of thy mouth; but thou shalt
mediate therein day and night, that
thou mayest observe to do according
10 all that is written therein. for then F.
thou shalt make thy way prosperous. .
and ,hen thou shalt have good success. +
HIVE not I commanded thee? Be
strong and o. good courage: be not
afraid. neither be thou dismayed; for
the Lord thy God is with thee whittier
soever thou goest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-01-23
SIMPLE HOME REMEDIES.


Beneficial Bath Procure at a drug
store a bag of sea salt. Take a cup of
this salt. dissolve it in enough soft
water 20 thoroughly saturate an ordin-
airy bah towel Let towel dry. After
a regular tub bath. use the sailed"
towel TO dry the body. Refreshing as
wei as beneficial.
For Cold on Lungs Chop SIX onions,
put in spider over hot fire. add same
quantity rye meal and enough vinegar
to form thick paste Stir thoroughly
five or ten minutes. Put in two cot
ten bags large enough 10 cover lungs.
apply as HOT as patient can bear.
changing and relocating the poulices
until perspiraiion starts from chest.
Cough Medicine-Get scent pack
age hoarhouud. same of mulliu. put in
about TWO quarts Of water and steep
mot bcil down to about enc quart.
Turn into clean salt sack. squeeze out
liquid, then ada one quart New or
leans molazses and cents rock cand-
dy boil down until like syrup Put
It in three or f0ur-ouDce bottles that
children can handle When the little
ones have a cough or cold set q bottle
where they can reach 1t and cell them
to help themselves. It is fine for Group.
as you can give big doses and very
often, because you know there is moth
ing in it to hurt The muilin quiets
and the molasses physics, which is
very good in colds. (Keep in cool
place..
Cough Remedy-One ounce each OF
syrup Of sQuilis syrup of tolu, syrup
CT Wild cherry. and paregorIc. Take 4
enc teaspoonfuI every three or four
hours. 1t is very good for Group.
G7or CONSTIPATION - One teaspoon
powdered rhubarb, one teacup water
tfull;. one teacup graduated sugar:
simmer these. then add one teaspoon
peppermint, one teaspoon baking soda.
You viii find this excellent to give
children as cathartic once a week:
7ne teaspoonful before breakfast.
Keep in cool PLACED