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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-20
Prairie Dotted With Buildings

Inland for 100 miles and over a zone reaching nearly 100 miles on each side of Houston. the vast flat south Texas prairies are dotted with crushed buildings, many isolated trees have their branches whipped almost bare of foliage and the whole country is still teeming with water from the effects of a rainfall of about seven inches which accompanied the hur- ricane. Today. for the first time since the storm. the intermittent rains. gales and alarming black clouds disappeared and the sun shone brightly.
 During the hurricane the wind was so cold on the prairies that many hardy persons nearly perished from exposure from standing for hours in water and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-20
loVcmdnJ Joseph SLoeb'
 Today! Laird-Schober $5 and 50 Linen Pumps $3.95

The Shoe Store offers these fine Pumps in the first sale of White Pumps this store has held this season. Laird, Schober & Companys name is suf- ficent assurance of worth These Pumps deserve
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-20
SEA AT GALVESTON RETURNS TO NORMAL ANDRAIN. FOLLOWING
 HURRICANE STOP s
tContinued from Page one)

pact of huge waves and a roaring wind between midnight and a. m. Tuesday.
 Refugees from Galveston today de- scribed the early hours of Tuesday, when the center of the hurricane was passing
 John E. Green, federal district attor- ney, who, with several thousand other persons, spent Tuesday night in the Hotel Galvez said that during the height of the storm the band played to keep up the spirits of the people ma rooned there.
 Spraying Over Wall
 'We reached the hotel Monday after noon at o'clock" continued Green. "At 5 o'clock the water commenced spraying over the sea wall. The work of bringing women and children to places of safety was then undertaken. They were carried to the courthouse, the fed eral building, the big office buildings and large substantial residences. Large numbers were brought to the Hotel Gal veg.
 Tuesday morning bread line was es- tablished in the hotel and we all passed through the kitchen for free bread and coffee. As the water was scare and had to be economzed, we all washed in the rain water.
 "The high water soon began to recede and now is all out of the city"
 Archie McDuffy of Waxahatchie, Tex, said he spent the night in the Terminal railroad station at Galveston. He esti- mated there were 5000 persons in the upper floors of that building. When the storm was at it's height hundreds of negroes on the lower floors of the building for hours, sang the song "Old Time Religion. :.
 The refugees watched fires. which red dened the spray and rain which whipped high over the city, from the windows of the building but there was no panic. As the men entered the building all were searched for liquor. One man refusei to enter without his flask and waded away to seek other shelter.
 At daybreak one of the refugees swan, across the street to fruit stand and dragged two crates of cantaloupes to the sta tion The fruit furnished breakfast for many of the women.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-20
DAVIS INTRODUCES BILLS
 FOR RELIEF OF CONNECTS
By HUGH W. ROBERTS

Montgomery, August 19.-(special l, For the actual relief of the convict, Mr. Davis of Walker this afternoon intro- duced a. series of bills which, if en- acted, would ameliorate conditions which are generally admitted to cer- tain degree at any rate to exist
 The first of these bills would prevent the working of a convict in a miEe more than 12 hours per day. The in- dividual or corporation which violates this provision may be subject to fine of $500. The second of his series pre- vents any one or any corporation put ting one convict-in position of author :. ity over any other convict. This bill would break up the practice of ap- pointing convict pit bosses to enforce the tasks imposed on other convicts.
 The third of his bills prevents the leasing of conyicts after January |.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-20
DO NOT POLL ALL
 YOUR VOTES NOW

reserve vote.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28
The War And English Hotels.

Not so nanyi years ago eaddish
prejudice obtained in London against
Americans and American manners. OF
course in many. habits, tastes and
practices the inhabitants of the two
countries We're Numerically opposite, if
not antagonistic. England ridiculed
our accent, our pronunciation of Eng
hsh names, our American demand for
ice water the first thing in the morn
ing, cur ignorance of their money. our
eXtravagant and sometimes absurd tins.
and many other small essentials neces-
sary TO the life, comfort and happiness
OF heterogeneous and self-complacent
people. They overcharged us for
articles we could purchase at home at
less cost and lampooned our senseless
waste of money until the damaging i'm
preston spread throughout the king
dom that every American must be a
millionaire. condition that was empha-
sized when impoverished English noble
men brought over ambitious American
wives to restore their ancient castles.
hit their mortgages and pay their
debts
England was a long time discovering
that there were Americans and Ameri-
cans, that all Americans were not snobs.
or tutt hunters, or reckless with their
money. Today the most famous hotels
III Great Britain are suffering by the
loss cf American trade. The Carleton
hotel and the Savoy in London have
passed their dividends because of the
absence of American patronage The
East Coast hotels have been so badly hit
by the loss of business that an appeal is
under consideration to the Government
for relief. Nor are prospects encourag-
ing even should the war end.-Albany
Journal.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28
f s HIN G.
I HOWIard LRalIl

Fishing is a popular form of relaxation
which enables tired business men to forget
the efforts of the expense account to
swamp the bills receivable This is because
IN order to fish successfully one must re-
move to some spot several miles distant
from the nclsive voice of the cash register
and the blighting presence of the sight
draft.
In the infancy of our country, when time
was worth not to exceed 10 cents on the
dollar, fishing was more popular than it is
IN these days, when a man can hardly find
time enough to screw down the grease cups
and oil the transmission before starting on
another JOY ride. As a result, fishing now
adays is largely confined to the leisure
class who are able to travel 1000 miles in
compartment sleeper in order to reach
the abode of the snub-nosed pickerel and
Jerk him from his watery shoot with
demountable fishpole and reel which au-
tomatlcally advances the spark.
Fishing Is a great comfort to men who
like to get away occasionally and think
about something which is not related to
the dollar sign. After a man has been
away on fishing trip for two weeks and
has met personally all of the mosquitoes
Protected by The Ada
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28
A Barometrical Month.
(Rutland Herald.)

Next week comes a batch of state
elections which ought to be extremely
informing in the light which they NAV
throw on the trend of public opinion
In Massachusetts, two very important
issues are pending, to wit, the reclaim
ing of the state by electing a Repub
hcan governor and the question of
whether women shall be admitted to
equal suffrage.
The extreme personal popularity of
Gov. Walsh is relied upon to make the
gubernatorial issue interestine while
the vigorous and organized campaign
of the suffragists tends to make
the vote IN the Old Bay state some
what pivotal.
New York and Pennsylvania also
vote on suffrage, while the former has
the so-called Root constitution up for
final consideration. The opponents
of the former secretary and senator
are making the purely constitutions /
question more personal than seems
warranted by the situation If the
constitution should be rejected it will
inevitably put Mr.. Root in the position
of defeat, while its acceptance bv the
voters would make him a state and
presidential factor distinctly to be reck-
oned with
Besides the election of governors in
Massachusetts, Maryland, Kentucky
and Mississippi, whole or part of the
state legislature will be elected in New
York, Massae husetts, Maryland. New
Jersey, Kentucky and Mississippi. In
PENNSYLVANIA and Ohio important con
stltutional questions will be voted on.
All In all, next Tuesday s elections
IN eight states will be observed with
the keene3t interest on account of
their indirect bearing on national is
sues, fairly certain to be pre-eminent in
1916.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28
STATE NEWS NOTES.

Articles of incorporation have been
fled with the secretary of state by the
B. A. Robbins Lime Co., Inc. to manu-
facture products from limestone. The
place of business is Cavendish, and the
capital stock is $4,000, divided into 80
shares. The ineorporators are D. 4.
Robbins and Alice L. Robbins of Cav
.endish, c. 5. Frost and J. D. Cote of
Bellows Falls.
Buel H. Day, who died in Jericho
Monday, represented that town in the
legislature of 1872 and in 1884 was a
senator from Chittenden county. He
was engaged IN the mercantile and man
ufacturing business many years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28

The Rutland Herald printed an ex-
cellent editorial this week under the
caption Forget It" The Herald
might have added something to this eff
feet; "When you hear a bit of idle
gossip, forget it Few people in
dulge in malicious gossip, but it is a
pretty general practice to ''pass along
a choice bit of scandal, about which
the narrators have no real knowledge
In this way innocent characters are
smirched and sometimes ruined. An ex-
IRENE case is noted in the press de-
spatches this week, where a woman in
Western Springs, ILL.,, shot herself, and
the jury, after investigating all the cir
cumstances of the case, returned YER
dict CHILLED by idle gossip And the
people who peddled the gossip had a
part in the killing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28

eligible to military service within a radius
OF 2Co miles, his mind will be entirely de-
tached from the daily cash sales and he
will cease wondering if the new stenogra-
.pher has learned to spell in the English
language during his absence
1t requires more ability to fish and pro-
duce new business than it does to sell old
line life insurance without Relating the
first years premium. Many a man has
started out on fishing trip fully equipped.
from hip boots to spoon hooks, and re
turned home with nothing but four sun
fish and a stone bruise, while half block
down stream some farmers boy with 10
cent pole and a can of grasshoppers was
snarlng pike in fat-bottomed scow and a
pair of linen pants. This is a monstrosity
OF nature which has driven many a man to
the golf links and the self-playing piano.
Fishing is great aid to meditation.
Hundreds of men take to fishing. because
they cannot mediate at home without be
ing interrupted by dressmakers' bills and
ragtime music. Women do most of their
fishing prior to the wedding day and are
accused of 1t with great frequency by hls-
bands who forget that their love letters
are still in evidence
rs Newspaper Service
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28
Member of the Associated Press.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2s, 1915.
THAT PEACE RUMoR.

The London despatch claiming that
Won Buelow, ex-chancellor of Germany
is soon to submit to the United States
and to Spain the statement that Ger
many is prepared to receive peace over
lures from the entente, is a London de-
spatch. AS such it is not to be given
unlimited credence.
The exaggerated tone of confidence
that the German newspapers have been
engaging in of late might be suspected
of having for their purpose the prepare
tion of the ground for the first move
toward peace. But it is extremely I'M
likely that, when the Germanic powers
have in contemplation any such step
as this, there will be any advance in
formation of it in England.
Such a decision as is suggested in
this cablegram would be known, prior
to the act of submitting the PROPOSE
ton to the neutral agencies deter
mined ON, to only very small circle.
1t is extremely doubtful if half a
dozen men in Germany would know
of it. How, then, is any hint of such
an intent to come to use by way of
London!
1t is not the possibility of Germany
having had enough of the conflict OF
of her seeing at this time an advan-
tageous moment for peace measures
that is altogether out of the question
it is the idea that London would know
of such a purpose before the govern
ments of the United States or Spain.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28
WEST BRATTLEBORO

Miss Mary E. Stearns is visiting rel
atives in Saxtons River this week.
Mrs. James Lovett and daughter,
Miss Alice Lovett, of Boston are guests
at Hervey Harris Is.
Mrs. N. A. Crosier will come from
Springfield, Mass, tomorrow to visit
Mr.. and Mrs. F. R. Mann.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. Andrews returned
yesterday to their home in Greenfield,
after visiting Mr.. and Mrs. F. r. Mann
few days.
Mrs. Henry Smead of South New
fame, who with Mr.. Smead is spending
the winter at Roscoe Fisher S, has been
Ill, but is improved.
Miss Florence Ethel Follett of Yves
ton IS expected Saturday from Rut-
land, where she is attending the teach
ers convention, to spend the weekend
IN town as guest of Rev. J. NJ Comp
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Mofitt and Mrs.
Homer Thomas and Miss Holden. both
teachers in Guilford went by automo-
bile to Rutland yesterday to attend
the teachers and superintendent con-
vention.
Miss Florence Ethel Follett of Yves
ton, who was heard with much appreci
alton last spring, will give readings in
the Baptist church Saturday evening.
Oct. so. Her selections will be inter
spersed with music.
On account of incIement weather
Tuesday evening but few from here
attended the chicken-pie supper served
by the women of the Congregations
parish in Marlboro, so another supper
was served last evening.
W. L. Walker s men are at work
getting ready to put in a new cement
sidewalk in front of the Baptist church
extending as far as the house occupied
by George G. Harris. This walk will bt
greatly appreciated as the old concrete
walk has long been in a bad condition
First Congregational church. Minis
ter, Rev. Henry Lamb. The services fer
| Sunday are as follows: Divine wos
ship at 1890 with sermon by tn,
pastor. Session of the Sunday school Al
11.45. In the evening at clock thu
| Christian Endeavor meeting will bt
/ held Topic, Increase and Efficiency
Two Permanent C. +. Ideals Scriptur,
| reference, Eph. 4: 1-16. Leader. vii
/ lard 5. Richardson.
| Relatives here have received news OF
the death of Harry Stowe, 40, of White
stone, Long Island. He leaves a wifi,
and son and daughter. Mr.. Stowe wa,
on the staff of the New York World Z
number of years as a reporter. H,
/ formerly lived in West Brattleboro, be
| ing a son of Oscar and Susan Gerry
Stowe of this village, and with his fam
lily had visited here summers. H,
leaves also two uncles, A. Wells anC
/ Alonzo I. Stowe, and an aunt Mrs
/ Thomas J. Miller, all of West Brattle
/ borO.
Baptist church, Rev l. NJ Compton
pastor. Morning worship at 1890, Text
Rev. %: l. Subject, Life Source Sun
day school at noon. Evening servic'
at o'clock Reference, Eph. 4: 10
/ Subject, Increase and Efficiency: TIVE
/ Permanent Christian Endeavor Ideals
| Leader, George Allen. Midweek praye
meeting Wednesday evening at 80
Subject, The Significance of the pres
4 emit Time and Our Relation to 1t
| Reference, as written on the hearts an,
minds of men. This meeting will b,
/ led by the pastor.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28
DOING THEIR DUTY.

Scores of Brattleboro Readers are
Learning the Duty of the Kidneys.
To filter the blood is the kidney $
duty.
When they fail to do this the kid
Teys are weak.
Backache and other kidney ills NAV
follow;
Help the kidneys do their work.
Use Doan s Kidney Pills-the tested
kidney remedy.
Brattleboro people endorse their
worth.
Q. F. Bailey, los Canal street, Brat.
tleboro, says: "'I suffered from back.
ache and duh pains over my kidneys
In STOPPING or lifting sharp pains
caught me and l could hardly straight
en- again. The kidney secretions we1.
annoying in their frequency of pas
sage. Doan's Kidney Pills, procured
at the Brattleboro Drug Co., removed
the pains, regulated the kidneys and
improved my health. - Statement
given Sept. 25, 1909.
Over two years later, Mr.. Bailey
said: 81 haven't had any kidney
trouble for over year, now, thank
to Doan S Kidney Pills. -
Price so cents, at all dealers. Don t
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr. Bailey had. Foster Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28

Ex-Gov. Frank w. Rollins of New
Hampshire, whose death is recorded
this morning, will long be remembered
as the father of Old Home week. The
idea was not strictly original with him,
as Wilmington, Vt, and some other
towns had followed for years the Gus
tom which he advocated, but his argu-
ments coupled with his standing as
chief executive of his state, brought
the plan of town reunions into prom
inence and general observance, par.
ticularly in his home state.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28
TO TURN FOG INTO RAIN
Million Volts of Electricity to Be
Used at San Francisco

L
Blasting the fog in San Francisco
bay with the greatest voltage of cleo
trlc energy ever attained will be at
tempted within a few days from an ex.
perImental station at the Panama-Pa-
clic International exposition,
A million volt transformer radiatino
an electric force heretofore considered
impossible will be used in the tests,
The initial experiments will be made
at night.
shed, constructed of wood and al
most without a nail or metal Fastening
OF any sort, has been erected north,
east Of the Palace of Machinery. The
transformer has been installed in =
huge vat of concrete, which will he
hlled with insulating oil, immersing the
transformer.
The transformer will hurl its mil.
hon-volt thunderbolts through antennae
attached to big telephone poles. which
have been erected in a circle near the
shed.
1t is believed that the densest foo
will be precipitated into rain bv the
action of the electric current.
The experiments with the chained
lightning will be conducted by c. TT.
Ihordarsen of Chicago, designer ana
builder Of the transformer; Prof. F.
g. Cottrell of Leland Stanford univer.
slty, and a corps of assistants.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28

A despatch from New Haven tells
about plans for a closer utilization of
Yale, Princeton and Harvard in athletic
affairs. By forming a close corporation
and playing among themselves two of
the three big institutions - Yale and
Harvard-might avoid the humiliation
of defeat in football by rivals once de-
spised.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim of the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery
of the paper each night, and 1T solicits
the cooperation of subscribers to that
end. Prompt reports should be given OF
each failure to receive the paper on the
morning following the omission, in per-
son. by telephone or postal card, thus
enabling the cause Of the error to be
promptly and accurately discovered and
1t is only by this method that the pub
Usher can secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28

a resident of Springfield, Missouri,
who was railroad man in White Riv-
er Junction in 1854, is revisiting Yer
mont. The st. Johnsbury Republican
suggests that possibly he can remem-
Der the time when they began to
talk about the new union station at
the Junction.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28
IAekxsE'EGnEN
IyaE6ABENET
Newspaper Service

We may happen to be very duh
folk, you and I. and probably are
unless there is some particular reason
to suppose the contrary. But we get
glimpses now and then OF a sphere
or spiritual possibilities, where we.
duil as we are now, may sail in vast
circles round the largest compass OF
earthly intelligences.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28
GRAFTON.
Mrs. Selinda Salter.

Mrs. Selinda Salter, Of, died Saturday
night IN the home of her son, Quincy Salt
ter, after an illness Of one week She was
porn IN New York state nearly % years
ago and had been a widow AZ Years Sbo
had made her home with her son "A vaa,s
She enjoyed seeing her friends and was in
possession of all her faculties to the very
last. She leaves one son, one prandcbiJ
and one great-grandchild Funeral services
were held at the house Tuesday MORNING
at 10 o'clock. Rev G.. Y. Washburn off.
ciating. Many beautiful flowers testified
to the esteem in which she was held
The burial took place in Houghtonvire.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28

Charles Hakey lost a horse by death this
week
Dean King zelIer has new Smith motor
wheel
Miss Ethel Follett spent Sunday at F.
o. Merriheld's
Miss Hosmer, an artist of Boston. has
been in town a few days painting pictures
of Grafton scenery.
Mrs. Eta Hall and Avery Park returned
Monday from a visit to Keene, Westmore-
land and Bellows Falls
Rev. G. Y. Washburn and Mrs. Wash
burn left Tuesday for four-weeks' vaea.
tion in Boston and vicinity.
Mrs. G. G. Wilson, who had been in
Grafton two weeks, returned to her home
IN Cambridge, Mass, Saturday.
Miss Myra Sumner of NORTHAMPTON,
Mass, visited her sister, Mrs L. A Walk
er, from Wednesday to Sunday.
Rehearsals are in progress for a farce To
be given in the town hall next "Wednesday
evening, Nov. 3, by the Christian En-
deavor society.
Miss Clara Converse, a native of Graf
ton and missionary from Japan. will sneak
in the Baptist church next Sunday morn
ing. Everybody is welcome
Mrs. [. d. Preston sang solo Sunday
morning in the Congregational church,
also one at the Christian Endeavor service
IN the evening, very acceptably.
Mrs. T. D. Preston and child, Mrs. J. f.
Calvin and child of Londonderry and Mrs.
Frank Cutler and two boys of Brattleboro
were guests Sunday of Mrs Helen l..
Clark
A party consisting of Mrs. G.. G. Wilson,
Miss Ruth Parker, Mrs. Otis Wilson and
Miss Marie Wilson went by automobile to
Williamsvllle Friday evening to attend the
dramatic entertainment
Mrs. R. Lockerby gave her husband a
surprise party Monday evening, it being
his birthday anniversary Guests were
present from Saxtons River, Townshend,
Athens and Cambridgeport
Mrs. Clifford Woodward has been in
town several days visiting her mother.
Mrs. Adm Culver, and Mrs f. E. Aiken.
Mr.. Woodbury. came Sunday, returning
with Mrs. Woodward to their home in
Bellows Falls
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-28

and all the water
is absorbed. Put
into a bowl one
small glass of cur
T a n t jelly, pour
over it one cupful
of boiling water.
stir rapidly until
the Jelly is dis