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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-08
EVIDENTLY A HOPELESS CASE
Obstinate Man Determined Not to Ad.
nit That the Dictagraph Had
Helped Him.

A certain young man of Columbus
who is so hard Of hearing that he oft
times carries little dictagraph in
strument with him to help him follow
the conversation of his friends, was
among some of his rural relatives last
week. There happened to be farmer
in che vicinity who had not heard a
word for years. The Columbus man
was introduced to him and referred
to his little instrument which helped
deaf persons. and offered to demon
strate it to him.
Il can't hear through those things.
! have tried them all and none of them
are any good" he said.
Put this UP to your ear and try it,
anyhow suggested the visitor. The
farmer hesitated a while and then put
one end of the instrument to his ear.
To the surprise of the Columbus man
the deaf farmer replied, when asked
in a tone hardly above a whisper
Can you hear what l say"
Nope, / can't hear a word. These
things don't do me any good"
Would you acknowledge it If they
would help your" was then asked him
in still lower tone of voice, and the
answer came back promptly: Ger
tainly would, but can't hear a word
you say"
The Columbus man put the instru
ment back in his pocket and said tc
his rural friend, "A hopeless case."-
Columbus Dispatch
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-08

fiscal wear the Union Pacific carried $,
95l. 364. passengers without the loss Of
a life. The Southern Pacific is justly
proud of the remarkable record of hay
inc not one fatality among passengers
in seven years, during which time 1t
carried yearly 300.00O,00O travellers an
average Of ~ 10 miles each, and dur
ing the past year only 81 employees ont
of nearly $4,000 lost their lives on this
road. The Pennsylvania railroad, which
has established a high safety record,
offers its employees thousands Of dol
lars annually in prizes for the best work
in conserving life.-Leshe s.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-08

Lester Jillson visited his parents
ever Sunday.
Arthur jackson of Northampton was
at c. Jackson S over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Miner were visi-
tors at w. j. Weatherhead s recently.
Mary Scott has returned home, after
spending several days at the Melrose
hospital.
Miss Lenore Ayers of Brattleboro
was weekend guest at Mrs. A. B..
Gould s.
Percy Tyler and John Frost were
among the hunters to get deer late in
the season.
Mrs. Edward Frost and children of
Boylston, Mass, were visitors at John
Frost S over Thanksgiving.
School in district No. will close
Dec. II. The children will trim a tree
and have Christmas exercises.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-08

/ will open Christmas sale and
sale of fancy and work aprons and an
entirely new line of fancy articles and
bags tomorrow. Miss Susan Houghton,
1872 Main St.-Adv. 235-240#
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-08

LOST - Blue mackinaw Dec. s, be-
tween Michelman store and corner
Flat street Finder return to MeRae s
store and receive reward. 239"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-08
DEATHS.

In Apopka, Fla, Dec. ), Mrs. Lille Isl
monds) Harvey, 90, OF Brattleboro, wifi
Of Albert f. Harvey.
In West Brattleboro, Dee. s, George I
Winter, 81.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-08
SOUTH VERNON.
Deer Bounded Into Automobile.

One evening last week a deer bounded
across the highway near L. w. Bailey s
and landed in R. L. Blodgett s automo-
bile, being blinded by the bright lights
of the car, no damage was done except
to scratch the machine
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-08
Hay Ideas.

Il have been promised a Job in
the forest service" said the politi-
cian
What are your duties to be?'
don't know much about the propo-
sition. I have been told that l was
to be sent out to inspect government
preserves
For what purpose?"
ITO see If they comply with the
pure food laws, l suppose
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-08

a Pennsylvania scientist is TRYING to
raise Australian eucalyptus trees in THAI
state.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-08

The Philathea class of the Baptist Bible
school will hold.a food sale in the chapel
Saturday at 3 o'clock. Adv. 239
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-08

Grip and hard colds arc prevalent
throughout the village.
Miss Effie Lowe of West Wardsboro
has begun work as table girl at the
Townshend Inn.
Miles Cone Of Manchester came
Tuesday to visit IN the home Of his sis
ter, Mrs. A. D. Benson.
Allbee & Fitch as usual are exempt
flying their belief in the "early bird .
and have a display of tempting Christ
mas goods.
Little Evelyn and Arthur Chamber
lain, who spent two weeks with their
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Beebe of
Winhall, returned home Monday night
Birchard post, c. A. R.. win meet in
the home of John Grout Saturday af
ternoon. Birchard Woman's Relief
corps will meet in the vestry of the
Congregational church the same after
noon. The annual election of officers
will be held in both organizations.
Miss Mary Bane and Miss Jessie
Hawley are rehearsing with their music
pupils in the seminary for a recital
which will be held in this village in
January Solos, quartets and choruses
will be included on the program. The
teachers have been doing excellent
work in training the seminary glee club
and the recital win give an opportunity
to listen to the class, which all music
lovers will be glad to accept,
The seminary seniors are making
plans and working hard to make the
annual Christmas bazaar a complete sue
cess. 1t will be held Wednesday even
ing. Dee. Is, in Academy hall The fan
cy-work table will include many ar
! ticles suitable for Christmas gifts and
there will be on sale homemade cook
ery. candies. ice cream and popcorn
The proceeds will go into the seniors
treasury to be used for the expenses
of commencement week.
The fall copy of the L. G. s. Mes
senger has been published and is OF
sale by the students. The number is ;
creditable one, containing, besides al
unusual number of editorials, term top
les and locals, accounts by several del
egates of their trip to the state Boys
and Girls Exposition in Rutland. Tw
of the original stories which reeeive'
prizes in the short story contest appea
in this issue. The alumni column is un
usually complete, while the energy o
the business managers is shown in tn
advertising department.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-08

Electricity was first used in a mine in
1879. when Scotch colliery was lighted
with it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-08
Hundred Deer Shot in This Town.

Final reports from the assistant game
warden give the total number of deer
reported shot in this village during the
three weeks of hunting as Il. OF these
% were bucks and 48 does, and IS
were shot by citizens of the town. Four
were secured by residents of other
states, two going to Massachusetts and
.wo to Connecticut. OF the rest two
were shot by residents of Brattleboro,
one went to Westminster, one to High
gate, four to Athens and one to Sax
tons River.
Four women, Mrs. Richard LaRose,
Miss Eva Reandeau, Mrs. f. H. Law
renee and Mrs. Alonzo Chamberlain.
were among the lucky hunters.
About 30 deer were shot in West
Townshend, making total of about zoe
for the town.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-08

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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-10-02

THE IOJRNAI takes and prints
snty hours and thirty min
uies 81 exclusive Associated Press
leased wire service each week
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-28
TRAVELETTE
BY NIKSAH
DAMASCUS

Damascus, born of a stream that
gushes from a mountain side and loses
itself in the sand; Damascus. the old
est inhabited city in the world; Da-
mascus, the pawn of nations since the
dawn of the world, may find itself
new master at the close of the present
war.
And. should Britain or Italy awake
at the end of the war with this prize,
it would be possessed of a wonder-city
the equal of which there are few in
the world. Damascus is in Syria at
the eastern end of the Mediterranean
The occidentals have pushed a rail-
road across the sixty niles of desert
that separate it from the sea and
| threaten to continue it 10 Mecca and
haul by rail the thousands of Mo-
| hammedan Halls who congregate here
each year for that pilgrimage.
The record of man tells not of the
founding of Damascus. Yet it is
known to have been born of water, for
the river Barada gushes from Mount
Anti-Lebanon, above it. flows for ten
miles in a straight channel, then
spreads out like fan upon the high,
| desert plain.
This spreading out of its waters
converts the desert into a garden of
productivity such as is known only
where irrigation is brought to alluvial
plains. A hundred and fifty square
miles of grove and garden here exist
and have through the centuries fiaunt-
ed to the world their fields of blood
red poppies, their scarlet pome-
granates, their yellow apricots: have
yielded their figs and walnuts and
grain.
In the midst of this productiveness
has grown a city of 100000 souls.
sufficient unto itself, yet the trading
! center of the sheiks of the deserts for
hundreds of miles around. Plain and
| unattractive are the houses of Da-
mascus viewed from the outside. But
he who bends his back and enters the
| low door will be led into an enclosed
garden of floral magnificence at the
! head of which is the throne-like seat
of its master and off of which omen
| the quarters of the women of his
harem. and where this large family
| live in magnificent comfort.
Damascus will probably bloom "like
| tree planted by the waters" as is
! said of her. under a new ruler. She
has witnessed the passing of many
peoples that have conquered her and
| still survives-Nineveh, Babylon, Sa-
maria, Greece, Egypt and now Turkey.
all have possessed her in the days of
| their glory and all have fallen. Yet
! the West knows her only because
! there is named for her a rich, red rose
| that 1t sends to its sweetheart, a plum
| that II finds on it's breakfast table. or
| the silks that are borrowed from its
| masterwork in fabrics.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-28
Thin Folks Who Would
Increase Weight

every one of those single Sargol tab
let. In two weeks note your weight.
Sargol does not of itself make fat but
mixing with your food its purpose is
to help the digestive organs turn the
fats, sugars and starches of what you
have eaten, into rich, ripe fat produc-
ing nourishment for the tissues and
blood-prepare it in an easily assimi-
lated form which the blood can readily
accept. A great deal of this nourish-
ment now passes from thin peoples
bodies as waste. Sargol is designed to
stop the waste and make the fat pro-
ducing contents of the very same
meals you are eating now develop
pounds and pounds of healthy flesh
between your skin and bones. Sargol
is non-injurious, pleasant, efficient and
inexpensive. G.. \. Gorgas and other
leading druggists are authorized to sell
it in large boXes-forty tablets to a
package - on a guarantee of weight
increase or money back.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-28
SIMPLE DIRECTIONS EASY
TO FOLLOW

Thin men and women - that big,
hearty, filling dinner you ate last
night. What became of all the fat
producing nourishment it contained ?
You haven't gained in weight one
ounce. That food passed from your
body like unburned coal through an
open CRATE. The material was there,
but your food doesn't work and stick,
and the plain truth is you hardly get
enough nourishment from your meals
TO pay for the cost of cooking. This
is true of thin folks the world over.
Your nutritive organs, your functions
of assimilation are sadly out of gear
and need reconstruction.
If every way you've tried to put on
weight has failed try these simple di-
rections. Cut out everything but the
meals you are eating now and eat with
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-28
George c. Eager 3 Sons
Harriahup6
harrlSburg

served to the guests. In the receiving
line were Miss Abigail Hemminger,
president of the association. of Green
castle; Miss Tirzah Grove. of Green
castle; Miss Vida Koser. Of Arendts-
Vile; Miss Naomi Wolf. of York: Miss
Edith larger, of Greencastle; Miss
Lana Grove. of Mercersburg; Miss
Katharine Speights, of Westover. Md; {;
Miss Ruth. Brandt, of Hagerstown,
Md, and Miss Madeline Fetter, OF
Telford.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-28

rendered the new students .and the
faculty by the old students, when
games and dancing were features of
entertainment Under the auspices of
the st. Cecilia Music Club a victrola
concert was given on Thursday even
ing of the opera I'll Trovatore." with
q history of the same by Professor
IF. c. Harper.
This morning marked the formal
opening of the siXtieth year of the COL
lege and the twenty-fifth year of the
president, DR.. E. f. Campbell.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-28
Irving College Opens Goth
Year With Social Reception
Steeial 20 The Telecraeh

Mechanicsburg, Pa, Sept. 2S.-Stu-
dents at Irving College have COM
menced the new term with a delight
full social time in addition to taking
up regular study. On Saturday even
ing the Young Women's Christian AS
sociation gave an informal reception
to the students and refreshments were
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-28
HIGH PERCENTAGE OF PUPILS
Special TO The TeieRrdbh

Hummelstown, Pa, Sept. 2S.-Hum-
melstown schools ended their first
month on Friday last with a total en-
rollment of 463 pupils, of which 75
were high school students. The per
cent. of attendance in the grades and
high school was 81; that of the high
school alone 81. The grammar schools
girls attendance was 100 per cent. In
the high school 56 pupils had perfect
attendance and 239 pupils in the
grades attended every day. The bor-
cugh teachers have organized a class
for the study of the school problems
and methods of instruction.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-28
Mrs. Hartman Loses
Suit Involving $6O,OOO
Special to The Telcernbh

Rochester. N. Y, Sept. 2S. - A ver-
Hartman and the estate of her hus-
band. the late Edward H. Hartman,
railroad magnate, was rendered by a
sheriffs jury yesterday. Mrs Anna N.
Lauer, of Penfield. brought the action
to recover damages. alleging that false
representations were made to her re
chased fgrom agents of Mr.. Hartman in
No defense was entered by Mrs. Har-
riman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-28
ID. $. CABLE KILLED
SpeciaI b The TcLcernhh

Byfeld. Mass. Sept 2S. - BENJAMIN
s. Cable. Assistant Secretary of Com
merce and Labor under President Taft,
was killed in an automobile collision
here yesterday. Richard T. Crane, Jr.
of Chicago, in whose machine MIR.
Cable was riding. and DIR. and Mrs.
David L. Edsall were injured. Mrs. Ed
sails leg was broken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19
TO KEEP SKIN 4EALTHY.
 YOUTHFuE. WRINkLELESS

Now that the social season is here be especially careful to keep your skin in fine condition. You know how com sricuous complexion defects appear un- der the bright light of the drawing or ballroom. Also how very evident are some makeups when similarly illuminated. have myself discarded cosmetics en- tirely. using a process which gives far better results, and which leaves no trace on the skin. At night I smear on . thin coat of ordinary mercolixed wax, washing it off next morning. This gradually ab- serbs the devitalixod particles of surface skin: just as gradually the more youth full skin beneath comes forth. providing . complexion as clear. smooth and dell cately tinted as young girls. Get an ounce of mercolized wax at your drug gist's and try this remarkable treatment.
 Remember. too. that wrinkles. even the finer lines, are not easily concealed in q brilliantly lighted room. You can quickly obliterate these hateful marks by bath- ing your face in solution of powdered saxolite l ox.. dissolved in witch hazel. # pt And your face won't look sticky as after using pastes.--Aunt Sally in Woman's Realm.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19
Long-Tailed Wasp
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
 The other day fearsome insect made its appearance in the window of local chemists shop. The chemist. placing a little chloroformed wad near the invader. soon reduced it to a comatose condition. In color and shape it was much like a giant hornet with very long sting. It was specimen of the giant-tailedt wasp (Sirex gigas), which is getting much more common than it was some years ago. The larva is wood feeder. and is supposed to have been introduced to Great Britain in foreign timber.
 The perfect insect is about two inches in length, has four membraneous wings, and long. yellow antenpae. The body is blueblack, with yellow stripes, and the long boring apparatus used by the in- sect for piercing hole into the timber in which to deposit its eggs has. to the unin- itiated, the appearance of terrible sting. When matched, the grub bores it's way into the interior of the timber. where it enjoys itself for three years. or even longer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19

the man who went across the shell-swept field to get drink because he was dared to by his companions. I can't stand hearing them crying
 At F had given up all hope; one gun on the ridge, and we should be smashed to pieces. At l o'clock I got 10000 more rounds from the fleet, and the Lam cashres were appearing over the ridge to the left from Lancashire Landing. We saw IS men in window in the castle on the right by the water They signaled that they were all that remained of the Duhlins5 who had landed at the Gambler at Seddul-Bahr. At 8 o'clock we got 150 men alive to shore and great chunks were flying out of the old castle as the
 15 shells from the Elizabeth plastered the 1O-foot walls. We watched our men working to the right and up into the castle ruins--at each corner the officer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19
BATTLE ALL NIGHT

Then night came. but a house in Sed- dul-Bahr was burning brightly and there was full moon. We disembarked men at once All around the wounded cried for help and shelter against the bullets. but there was no room on boats or gang way for anything but the men to come ashore. For three hours I stood at the end of the rocks up to my waist in water, my legs damned between dead men, and helped men from the last boat to the rocks. Every man who landed that night jumped onto the backs of dead men, to the most horrible accompaniment in the world. It was then that I first learned the shout of Allah for the Turks charged. All night long the battle ragged. On shore everyone was firing at they knew not what. Our men went up the kill through the Turks: and the Turks came down through ours to the beach. Over and past each other they went, sometimes not seeing, sometimes glad to pass on in the darkness. One party of our men were found by daylight at the top of the gully on the left in touch with the Lancashires. It is not necessary to burn your boats to ensure the conr- age of desperation it as as good to have your ship, firmly aground. The paladins of that nights fighting knew this and knew what was their position.
 You must remember that for two nights no one had slept; and then an- other day dawned. We were firmly ashore at Lancashire landing. and at Du Toit' s battery to the northeast; and the Aus Hans were dug in at Anzac. An end had to be made of V beach, The whole fleet collected. and all morning blew the ridge and castle and town to pieces. And all the time that wonderful infantry went forward up the hill and through the ruined town. The troops that went in that attack had already lost half their strength; the officers that led up those narrow streets, lodging first through gateways, across the openings. and beck oning when safe for men to come on Iwere nearly all killed. Dead beat at l clock. before the final rush. they hesi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19

hiring and firing building up an organi- zatipn by Init and miss" method, has gen orally two immediate results: Men, hired because they did not want to starve, per form their tasks indifferently, merely avoiding gross neglect and, therefore. the actual efficiency of the plant is short of
 the inherent efficiency of equipment; and frequent changes of employees, either be-
 cause of their low efficiency or because of a fancy to advance a good fireman to a position of bad engineer, result in lack of thoroughness, lack of pride in their
 profession. and in extra expense in train- ing unfitted men,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19
Makes 'Em Young Again

rOnl CH6 NEW IOTK WUrIu.
 Chicago.-The result of IS years study of the evolutions of life are con tained in "Senesoence and Rejuven- escence.' 500-page volume from tho pen of Charles Manning Child, asso- ciate professor of zoology in the Uni- vcrsity of Chicago.
 Certain experimental methods have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19
Hiring and Firing

From the Engineering Magazine.
 Personnel is. in fact, the all-important element of plant equipment. Selection of
 employees should rightly require more study than selection of boilers and gener- ators. Unfortunately the art and science of hiring Is so young and the basic princi- pies yet so vague that the great majority of companies operating plants still con tinue to waste enormous amounts of money and dissipate natural resources in addition to doing a great social injustice In this respect. Time honored habits of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19
Splendid Tribute Paid To Turks as Fighters by Com
 mander WedgwoOd
MORE MERCIFUL THAN
 ENEMY IN FLANDERS
Only Once Does He Mention Battle field Atrocities and These Were Committed by Foreign Off,
 cers With the Turks

London, December 15.-- Correspond ence of the Associated Press Jour schoolbooEs told us that the bloodiest battle in history was that between the Confederates and Federals at Sharps- burg during the American civil war; when one third of all the men en- gaged were left on the field But Sharpsburg was a joy ride compared with Seddul-Bah
 Thus begins an account of the Gal lpoli venture by Lieut.. Com. Josiah Wedgwood, the liberal member of Par liament, who has made the House of Commons ring with criticism of the Dardanelles campaign since he re- turned with special mention for brav- cry and the coveted striped ribbon of the D. S. O. Distinguished Service Or der) at his breast
 He pays a splendid tribute 10 the Turk: "The Turks are the finest fight CTS in the world save only the Canad- ians and Australians" And again ''The Turks could easily have killed su these who went to the wounded, They did not fire on them sometimes a and then a burst of Hf Then and afterward
 pd 4Ht4 extraordinarily merci fz eeset Il with the enemy in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19

tatcd Then our last colonel, staff man, Colonel Doughty Wylie, ran ashore with a cane, ran right up the hill. ran through the last handful of men sheltering under the crest, took them with that rush into the trench. and fell with bullet through his head. But the Turks ran and the ridge was ourS''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19

crouching in front with revolver in rest. One watched them through the fire and held ones breath and pressed the button of the maxim.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19

but they are also capable. of growing young. The process of aging can be- fo- tarded or inhibited experimental and old animals brought back to a copdl.
 tion of youth and made to pass througbI tho life cycle again and again.