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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28
A Tribute to MIR. DeBoer.
(Walter H. Crockett in Burlington Ere
Press)

(Walter H. Crockett in Burlington Ere
Press)
Among the greatest losses that can
come to Il state is the loss of a strong,
brave, vigorous leader of men, cut
down in what appears to be the perio
of his greatest usefulness. Such q loss
Vermont has suffered in the death Of
Joseph A. DeBoer of Montpelier. Born
in another country, beginning his ca
reer amid great hardships and dis
couragements in another State. he
was able to enter so thoroughly int
the true life and spirit of Vermont
that no descendant of the Green Noun
tain Boys had a clearer understanding
of all the elements that entered into
the formation of this commonwealth Or
greater admiration for its founders
than did Mr.. DeBoer. He was a truer
Vermonter than many of those ''to tn
manor born
It is seldom that there are united in
one man the qualities of great bust
ness executive, a profound scholar and
| a brilliant orator. but such a union was
exemplified in the life of Mr. DeBoer. 1t
was always a delight to listen to his
public addresses His enunciation was
clear and distinct, his argument was
/ logical and his familiarity with the
masters of literature, ancient ana mod
ern, enabled him to adorn his speech
with apt and graceful quotations. For
several years he was president of g
! literary organization in Montpelier
known as The Club, and his introduc
tions of the speakers were a dehgh
to his hearers, showing as they did, h s
lwit. his humor and his versatility.
I Mr.. DeBoer believed thoroughly il
the future of Vermont and was inter
ested in all that pertained to its de
velopment. His political ideals were
high He stood firmly for what he be
lieved to be right and his career takel
as a whole is splendid example O
faithful and efficient service in public
and private life TO hold before youns
men, He was faithful and a lova
: friend and as one of the many who ha,
the privilege of enjoying his friendship
| / desire to testify my sincere apprecia
E ton of its worth.
We cannot estimate in our ordinar,
terms of valuation the worth to
: State of its best citizenship; but Yer
f mont today is poorer in the qualitie
of highest value because of the pass
ing of Joseph Arend DeBoer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28
Inventors Heart In His Work.

RamsGen. the father Of the modern
screw. was an unusual inventive geni-
US. and the demand from all parts
Of Europe for his Incompatible inven-
tions was greater than could be sup
piled by the constant labor of SO work
men. His life was ono of extreme
frugality He ate and slept little
and studied much.
Most OF Ramsden's evenings were
spent drawing plans by the kitchen
fire, a cat on che side. mug OF por,
ter and plate of bread and butter
on the other. while some apprentices
sat around and he whistled or sang,
After explaining a design to a work
man he would say: Now. see, man,
let US try TO find fault with it, and
intelligent suggestions generally led
to amendments. But il a completed
instrument fell short Of his ideal it
was invariably rejected or destroyed.
with the exclamation: 'Bobs. man,
this won't do: we must have it again!
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28
FISH KNOCKS OUT FISHERMAN
Gives Man Black Eye and Breaks Its
Own Nose-WiII Be Kept as
Trophy.

It was a starlight night and Joe"
Rivers good launch Yankee lazily slid
through a succession Of oiled waves.
Biff. and Skipper Jerry Shively at the
wheel measured his full length of six
feet FIVE upon the deck Bang, Some
thing careened off the spokes of the
wheel and lay fiuttering in the soup
pers
who did that" beloved Jerry as
he arose to his feet and glared down
upon the covering crew.
Something from overheard timor-
ously replied William Askerson, able
seaman Seen it come aboard"
A few turns of the wheel and the
Yankee settled back to its course,
while the crew began to search and
finally came upon the futtering thing
in the scuppers.
It was flying fish, and not large
one at that But it had sent a man
who weighed over $50 pounds to the
mat for the full count of ten and had
given him the blacklist of eyes in the
bargain.
The flying fish and the black eye
were brought into port here one day
last week by Mr. Shively. who pro-
poses to keep the first and is making
every effort to rid himself OF the Lat
ter. The flying fish had its nose
broken in the encounter and only lived
4 few minutes.-Los Angeles Times,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28
T III r HIR Ed GIRL

The hired girl of the present dav is
A lone remnant of once populous
species which roamed from home to
nome at 50 per week Twenty
years ago good, plain hired girls q
serious purpose and complicated fea-
lures could be rented at any hour Of
the day without making it necessary
to mortgage new, pin-oak upright
piano. Life is becoming so complex,
however, that today it is harder to
find hired girl who is willing to work
ior anything less than the wages of a
master brieklayer than it is to locate
! solvent American in Mexico.
In the effete and highly-cultured
east the hired girl has disappeared
entirely from the haunts of man The
maid who dresses in silk poplin and a
naughty mien has taken her place, ana
IS giving general satisfaction in homes
where the homework is not allowed
70 interfere with the moving picture
show. If an uncouth westerner in Con,
gress shoes should stray into an arts
tocratic home in Boston, Massachu
sets, and address the maid as hired
girl, he would have to be shipped back
to his relatives, showing 4 total lacf
of animation and four front teeth. The
Protected by The Ada
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28
NOT ALL HAVE JOYOUS TIME
Where Beeuty, Not c!everness,
Is Sought Out.

The fourth dance was nearly over,
and she was still sitting by the wall.
her hands clasped in her lap and her
blank program dangling By her side
The expression of pleasure which had
been spontaneous at the beginning of
the evening, had become fixed and
strained through the long period of
waiting At last the music ceased
and the dancers, flushed and laughing,
scattered about the hall
The girl rose stiff1y and tried to
mingle with the crowd A few ac-
quaintances nodded absently, then
moved away Bold in her distress,
she elbowed her way into a noisy
group and laid her hand timidly upon
the arm Of one Of the girls
That's a pretty dress. Marie" she
said, trying 10 smile Thank you.
Are you having a good timer" Love
ly," she answered, with a brave at
tempt to smile. Her friend hesitated;
then turned deliberately to her own
coterie.
The waIlfiower stood awkwardly
outside the closed circle: then pushed
toward another group. The music
started up; there was mad confusion.
and the girl was caught in a scurry
( of young men finding their partners
/ Left alone in the middle of the floor
i and buffeted by the dancers. there
was nothing for her to do but seek
4 the wall again.
Her cheeks burned in confusion as
/ che found herself again surrounded by
vacant chairs She moved to the
side of two girls sitting farther down
the hall For a moment she felt less
conspicuous: but both girls were
claimed by their partners and she
was again left alone against the wall
Pretty girls glanced at her with genu
inc pity; girls Of uncertain popularity
eyed her scornfully as they passed.
At last, blinded by a rush Of hot
tears, she arose and went from the
music and merriment into the silence
of the deserted dressing room.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28

was best expressed by the New York
Sun in the following statement:
Were the Babe of Bethlehem lyine
in manger III Judea today there
would come to his ears the hideous
thunder of the twentieth century gun
telling not story of peace on eartl
but of man s inhumanity to man
There are those who assert that the
noise of battle that would disturb the
slumbers of the divine child proves
that the mission of the Christ upon
earth has been the saddest, most trag
ic failure in the history of mankind
But they reason from false premises
and their conclusion is illogical. Beth
lehem as his birthplace is immortal, a
a battlefield it is ephemeral.
In saving that He came to earth to
bring not peace but sword the Chris
recognizes the eternal conflict that pre-
walls in the soul of man between good
and evil. Whether there be in the ma
terial world war or peace that strug
gle between right and wrong is for
ever being waged with the weapons OF
the spirit.
Christ came to give new strength.
new weapons to the armies of the
righteous, to those who fight in the
spirit against the powers of darkness
Had He brought to earth the kind of
peace to which He referred it would
have been surrendered to Satan, wha
offered Him the Kingdoms of the worl
| in exchange for the souls of men
! Christ was. Christ IS. The sword He
gave to man is mightier today than
ever heretofore. It is being wielde
/ in spiritual warfare to the greater
| glory and ultimate triumph of those
/ ideals that give to the Yuletide it
| sweetness and its joy.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28
The pretty "Pan -

The prefix pan" is derived from the
Greek "pas" (panD meaning all" 1t
is a combining form found in words OF
Greek origin. and is also used before
English adjectives, as pan-harmonic
(embracing all harmony or every mode
of harmony The meaning is similar
in such words as American, Pan
Egyptian. etc. but does not apply to
Panhandle, this being the name given
to a narrow strip of one political di-
vision extending between two other
divisions, as the Panhandle OF West
Virginia, the Texas Panhandle.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28
DRAW MOISTURE FROM WATCH
TImeplece IS Not Necessarily Ruined
If Unfortunately II Has Been
Water-Soaked.

What to do with a water-soaked
watch is often a problem when one is
caught II the wilderness. or in a com
munity where no jeweler is to be
found. Lack of knowing what steps
to take often results in much expense.
If not in the utter ruin Of the watch
Watches made with both a screw
face and screw back may be dried
easily by removing the front and back.
emptying the watch Of as much water
as will run out. reversing the crystal.
screwing it on the back IF the watch.
and then laying 1t where the sun will
have a chance to reflect through the
crystal
The heat Of the sun on the crystal
will draw the moisture from the works
in fifteen cr twenty minutes. says the
Technical World If water still re-
mains Ia the works. the crystal may
he unscrewed. wiped and replaced.
and the process repeated
After the sun fails to draw any
more of the water out OF the glass it
Is safe 10 conclude that there is no
more in the works. and the oil origi-
nally on them, warmed by the sun.
lubricates the parts.
There should be no more trouble
with the watch, although it is adyis-
able to have it examined by q jeweler
at the earliest opportunity.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28
Sheep Made Much Trouble.

The exploits of the proverbial bull
in the china shop have been emulated,
if not surpassed, by the raid of
sheep on the Rugby (Eng.) branch of
Lloyd's bank The sheep dashed in
to the rear Of the bank premises, with
two drovers in hot pursuit. Gaining
entrance to the kitchens, 1t made
terrific clatter among the pots and
pans, and then leaped through win
dow and turned on water tap. The
drovers were capsized in the struggle
which ensued, and the sheep bolted
through another door and got into
the main Office. A dozen bank clerks.
aided by rulers, induced the animal to
return to the kitchen, where 1t was
eventually cornered. trussed up, and
ANONYMOUSLY carried away, after haV-
ing kept the bank staff busy for nearly
two hours.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28
ONLY ADVERTISING OF VALUE
Must Be Absolute Truth Is the Un.
varying Experience of American
Men of Business.

The only kind of advertising that
has any real value is that based OIL
the truth, so that when the convention
of the Associated Advertising Clubs
of the World in session at Indianap-
oils, reaffirmed truthful publicity" AS
their slogan they but formulated the
unvarying experience of the business
world. Lincoln's famous remark to
the effect. that you can fool some of
the people all the time, and all of the
people some of the time, but you can
not fool all the people all the time, y
is peculiarly applicable to the publicity
field; the attempt to fool the people by
means of dishonest advertising is Gu
mulative in its retribution and the adj
vertiser who tries it spells his own
ultimate confusion This is by no
means a mere assumption, for Stats
tics prove that the public is quick to
detect the fraudulent variety; faint
earmarks of insincerity and mendac-
ity soon become conspicuous warnings.
and the truthful advertisements bring
results cut of all proportion to those
which fail to keep faith with the buy
err Even without the laws here and
there aimed at the dishonest practice
/ of the fake advertiser, the business
world is learning quickly that the sue
cess won by the trickster is transi
/ tory one, while the firm foundations
are those that are built upon truth
and sincerity.-Philadelp Ledger.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28

Boston Transcript once accepted
Want al. calling for a rugged, plain
visaged hired girl at $12 per week fer
a family of two, with washing and
ironing sent out and beds made on the
second Tuesday of each month. and
the editor has not been heard of since
In the teeming and frost-bitten corn
belt of the middle west, where fresh
creamery butter is accepted as collater
al on a promissory note, great induce
ments have to be held out in order to
restrain a hired girl who intends to
strike Immediately prior TO house
cleaning time. Many depressed hus-
band, after night of toll over the
pool table, has found it necessary to
build four fires, grind the coffee set
the table and offieiate at the wringer.
so that blase and unfeeling hired
girl may be conciliated with the at
mosphere of the home This is a very
expensive form of Cancellation, and
leaves heartburnings and chilblains in
its wake.
1t must be admitted, however. that
neat, highly muscled hired girl with
four speeds forward and no reverse is
worth her weight in gold, and usually
gets it.
ms Newspaper Servicel
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28

The Pennsylvania road in a state
ment on the freight congestion says
that it is accepting little but food
supplies and coal until the masses of
freight along the lines have been
cleared If shippers will forward only
such freight as can be disposed of
promptly upon arrival in the New
York district, everyone will be bene-
fitted. On the other hand, if they per
sist in forwarding freight which is
not needed at destination, and which
cannot be disposed of upon arrival, the
congestion will probably be repeated,
and a resumption of the restrictions
will again be made necessary.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28

Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
says that he believes that his an
nouncement of his willingness to de.
posit 30,0O0,0OO in gold in federal re-
serve banks to be loaned on cotton was
potential factor in the steady rise in
the value of cotton from s cents to II
cents pound. Thus we have dis
covered means of saving an industry
from depression. Next the market for
apples or hay or potatoes or onions
drops down close to or below the cost
of production, let US have an announce
ment of the secretary of the treasury
that he is willing to deposit few
millions for loans on those products
and we shall Immediately have a
steady rise in the value, similar to that
which took place in the case of cotton
We can lift ourselves by the boot
straps if we only have Secretary OF
the Treasury to show US how.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28
DRINK A GLASS
OF REAL HOT WATER
BEFORE BREAKFAST.
Says we Will both look and feel
clean, sweet and fresh
and avoid illness.

Sanitary science has Of late made
rapid strides with results that are Of
untold blessing to humanity. The lat
est application of its untiring research
Is the recommendation that it is as
necessary to attend to internal santa
ton of the drainage system of the hu-
man body as it IS to the drains of the
house.
Those of us who are accustomed to
feel dull and heavy when we arise,
splitting headache, stuffv from a cold,
foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stom-
ach, can, instead. feel as fresh as a
daisy by opening the sluices of the svs-
tenn each morning and flushing out the
whole of the internal poisonous stag
nant matter.
Everyone, whether ailing, sick or
WELL should, each morning before
breakfast, drink a glass Of real hot
water with a teaspoonful of limestone
phosphate in it to wash from the stom-
ach, liver and bowels the previous
days indigestible waste, sour bile and
poisonous toxins; thus cleansing
sweetening and purifying the entire
alimentary canal before putting more
food into the stomach. The action Oh
hot water and limestone phosphate on
an empty stomach is wonderfully in
MIGRATING It cleans out all the SOU
denominations, gases, waste and acidity
and gives one splendid appetite fo1
breakfast. While you arc enjoying
your breakfast the phosphated ho
water is quietly extracting a large vol
ume of water from the blood and get
ting ready for thorough flushing O.
all the inside ORGANS
The millions of people who are both
cred with constipation, bilious spells
Others who have sallow skins, bloot
Idisorders and sicklv compilations ar
urged to get q quarter pound Of lime
stone phosphate from the drug store
This will cost very little, but is suffi
Gent to make anyone a pronounce
crank on the subject of internal san
citation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28
Roped and Tied.

The men engaged in cutting off the
ends of protruding ties on the ele-
waited railway at New York were ex-
plicitly instructed for the sake of in
nocent passers-by on the street be-
low never to allow a piece of tie to
fall to the street without a rope at
tached to it.
One day, as the end of tie was
sawed of, the man on the job threw
the rope, tie and all, into the street.
"Hy, there, what er you doin' ?"
yelled an indignant foreman.
I'VE told me not to let anything drop
to the street widout a rope attached, :
rejoined the man in a surly tone.
We'll, amt | obeyin' orders?"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28
Water Main Trouble Overcome

The curious pulsations of a 50-inch
water main, which regularly rose and
fell like thu chest in breathing, were
brought to notice by w. F. Wilcox, an
Alabama engineer. The variations in
pressure at each pump stroke gave a
motion of five-thirty-seconds inch
which seemed much more. and the al
ternate fattening and expansion
caused a crack two miles long on the
surface of the ground. The trouble
was remedied by providing a suitable
air chamber to take up the pulsation-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28

Ex-Gov. John Abner Mead appears
again in the role of a public bene-
factor. His gift of the Mcintyre prop
erty as a community center on non-sec-
tartan lines for the young people of
Rutland will provide just the kind of
an establishment needed to give the
rising generation place for whole
some entertainment and recreation. The
gift represents value of $4,000, and
the eommodious buildings will be used
for club rooms, committee rooms, read
ing rooms, gymnasium, ETC., while the
grounds are of sufficient size to furnish
u playground where tennis and other
! exercises may be enjoyed outdoor.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28
Old Age Pensions.
burlington News


Will the United States follow Europe
in the matter of old-age pensions?
At the election in Massachusetts,
last month the proposition for an old
age pension was placed on the ballots
used in six localities as a sort of re-
ferendum for legislators as TO what po-
sition they should take if the subject
should come before them. The vote
was strongly Affirmative, practically
four out of every five favoring the
idea. and in six places seventy Eve
to eighty-seven per cent of those vot-
ing at all voted on the proposition.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce
has expressed itself strongly against
the proposition: cit is the assumption
of the State of responsibility that
properly belongs to the individual; it
would discourage thrift and industry
it would impose an intolerabIe expense
upon the people. The tax burden would
be so great as to drive people out OF
the State. -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28
Refractor for University.

The astronomical observatory of the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
hopes ultimately TO possess a 24-inch
refractor, thanks to the generosity or
r. P Lamont Of Chicago. This tele-
scope was ordered in 1911, and the
latest report of the Jena glassmakers
was that the crown disk had been
made, while q mass of flint glass sufi-
GENTLY large for the flint disk had
been produced. The completion of the
latter disk would require some months,
even under normal conditions. and the
war will probably cause further delay.
Meanwhile the mounting has made
good progress at the observatory shop.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28
Too Much Land.
New London, Conn, Day.

New London, Conn, Day.
Aside from the news of Villas raid
upon the Hearst ranch in Mexico com
ing more or less as a shock to those
who had assumed that the late leader
of the rebellion had really quit and
intended to leave the warpath for
good the most significant feature of
the affair is the size of the property
involved. It appears that the Hearst
ranch contains no less than a million
acres. million acres means 1875
square miles and such an area is equal
in extent to a tract As miles long by
more than 40 miles wide.
That is what is the matter with
Mexico. The Hearst ranch is a mere
bagatelle compared with some of the
holdings of individuals before the rev
olution. Too few people owned the
land; too many people lived by suffer
ance of the landlords. It is a condition
that makes for trouble, war and mis-
cry wherever the experiment is tried.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28

Albert L. Gutterson, the greatest
athlete Vermont ever produced, who
won the world s championship and es-
tabIished a new Olympic record at
Stockholm Sweden, three years ago, is
to make another leap-this time into
tnatrimonN. Mr.. Gutterson as nows con
nected with the Office force of the
Jones & Lamson Machine company in
his home town in Springfield, and his
bride-to-be is Miss Florence Greer
teacher of English in the Springfield
high school.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28

Admiral Dewey grows old gracefully
He celebrated his 18th birthday ami
versary on Sunday and the Washing
ton dispatches state that there has
been very little change in his general
appearance in 4 decade. He is very
regular in his habits and is a hard
worker, arising at + o'clock each morn
ing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-28
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