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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04

Mrs. \. p Eddy and two children visit
ed one day last week in Dunmerston
with her father.
Miss Sophy Johnston and friends of
Washington, ID. G., who spent a week at
the Johnston home on Ames hill, returned
to Washington Saturday.
Rev. Nh Clark CT North Bennington
preached in the congregational church
Sunday morning, III the absence Of the
pastor, Rev. Henry Lamb, who IS Ill
with grip.
Mrs. Adam johnson, who underwent an
operation in the Melrose hospital five
weeks ago for gall stones. was discharged
from that institution Saturday and went
to her home in Brookline.
The annual business meeting of the Bap-
tist church will be held in the vcstry to-
morrow, Tuesday, evening. This meeting
should have been held last week. but was
postponed on account of the weather.
Mrs P. W. Chase Is expected to return
Tuesday from St. Johnsbury, where she
went to attend the funeral of her aunt.
Harold Chase, who spent the holidays
with his parents, has returned to Dart
mouth college.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r. Prentiss and
daughter, Miss Ruth Y Prentiss. re-
turned Saturday afternoon from West
Rutland, where they had been since be
fore Christmas with their daughter Miss
/ Prentiss spent several weeks with her.
a
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04

paign speaker, who happened to be in
Bristol early in the fall, asked where he
could buy newspaper and was directed
to Bisbee's store When he returned with
his small purchase he was asked by ma
tive, well, did you get a drink" What
the native meant was a little more appar-
ent to the chance visitor short time
afterward when he read of the awful re-
suit of dispensing wood alcohol as bev-
erage With this common knowledge of
what was going ON in Bristol it looks at
this distance as if some of the authorities
ought to have investigated proceedings
long ago We wonder if the men who arc
charged with seeing the law enforced in
Addison county ever stop to think that
the prosecution of Bisbee no farther back
than last September would have saved IL
lives and untold suffering? And not be
ing acquainted with local conditions in
Addison county we are also wondering
whether there are any other pest holes
there similar to the one which fiourishec
! i'll Bristol?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04
Studying Cost of Milk Production.
(Rutland News.l

The owners Of herds in Vermont are
deNoting a good deal of study TO the
question of the cost of production OF
milk, as is evidenced by the large at
tendance at the conference on the sub
ject held in Rutland and elsewhere III
the state. The discussion of the cost
of milk to the producer is well worth
thoughtful attention. Farmers are en-
titled to fair profit from their
dairies. One element entering into the
high cost of milk to the producers III
Vermont is indicated by the failure of
the creamery company at Poultney,
owing as it does q matter of $4,000
mostly to farmers. This is by no means
the only heavy loss sustained in a SINH
lar way in this part of the state. In
fact, number of business failures
have contributed to the loss side Of
the farmers milk accounts. Among
other things needed to bring the cost
of milk production under the price re-
ceiyed, apparently, are better business
methods in dispoBing of the products
to distributors.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04

Canada built more miles of railroad
track last year than the United States,
and it was the first time it ever did So
Railroad building in this country is at the
lowest mark since the Civil war, and it is
not because the country is fully supplied
with railroads. Vast areas west of the
Missouri are in need of railroads. The
1914 road building was about half that
of 1913, which was also poor year The
great railroad building of this country
took place in the decade prior to 1890. 1t
was done on cheap money, and it resulted
in opening up SO much new land that
corn sold at IL cents bushel in Kansas
and Nebraska. The farms multiplied so
fast that the supply Of grain exceeded the
demand, and the prices of all foods
dropped to the lowest on record New
foods are very high, and an increase III
the farm area and production would be
peculiarly pleasing, But it will not come
| through railroad extension. There vii
never be any great railroad building a,
| long as first class railroad per cent
bonds sell to yield about 40 Good ant
bad times depend more on the cost O.
capital than we think.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04
A War Alphabet.

4 IS for Antwerp, leaguered and shellcd.
Il IS for Belgium, valiantly held.
C IS for Cracow, cruelty crushed
ID is for Dinant, trembling and hushed.
Is for Essen, home Of the krupp.
+ IS for France, how bitter her cup.
G is for Germans. strong in their might.
III is for Heroes. battling for right
is for Italy, biding her time.
J is for Joffre, cool as a lime
X is for Kaiser. warrior bred
/ Is for Liege, conquered, not dead.
NJ Is for Money, cause of all strife
is for Nothing, the cost OF a life
O is for Ostend, 10 longer gay.
IS for Paris that feels the same WAY
Q Is for Cutters, which none of them are
r Is for Reason, she's no kin TO War
5 is for Strasburg, once it was French
I is for Tommy. who lives in a trench
I is for Union, to Europe unknown.
| Y IS for Victory, and that counts alone.
W IS for Widows, many there be
y Is for NerXes, an amateur. he.
Is for Youth, the first to defend
II is for Zero-what's gained at the end
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04

The demand from the United States
government that the British fleet accord
American commerce more consideration,
insisting upon an early Improvement in
conditions, and intimating that heavy dam
ages will be assessed for detention of load
ed ships, has created a sensation IN Eng
land where its announcement took prece-
dence over the news from the front.
While astounded at our demands, English
papers express the opinion that the note
viii be accepted III the same spirit OF
friendliness in which it was sent, and
every possible effort made to assist our
Shipping.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04
The Worthless Dog.
(Rutland Herald. J

That slight eccentrieity of a pei
dog, which takes the form of savage
and unprovoked attacks on defenseless
pedestrians, never appears quite sufli-
eient in the owner S eyes, to merit
death.
z lie never bites unless some one
annoys him, says the dog owner,
even when The annoyance takes the
simple form of daring to occupy the
same sidewalk with the vicious brute,
and so soft-hearted or timid people
drop the matter until some child is
torn and manglcd, or some attack of
public and Hnmistakable feroeity Is
made for which the owner cannot es-
cape responsibility.
Section $500, CT the statutes:
a person may kill dog that sud
denly assaults him while he is peace
ably walking or riding, without the
| enclosure of its owner or keeper, OF
a dog found worrying, wounding oil
killing sheep; and no action shall be
sustained against such person for Kill
ing such dog
The difficulty is that thoroughly
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04
Longer Meeting Next Time.
(Springfield Reporter.)

A Washington despatch to the
Springfield Republican states that the
Democratic state committee have filed
a protest with Senator O'Gorman of
the Senate postoffice committee against
the nomination of Major Fred w.
Childs at Brattleboro. The despatch
significantly adds that "this appears
only another of the rows over patron
age, for which the Vermont Democrats
have become notable at Washington
This promises to be q most interesting
ease as Major Childs was appointed by
the President with perfect knowledge
of the situation and q desire on his
part to give Brattleboro the best pest
master he could find in the Democratic
party. If the last session of the Dem.
ocratie state committee. lasted unit
sunrise the next one promises to need
an even longer meeting to harmonic
the situation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04
BENNINGToN's NEW SCHOOL.
Building Dedicated FRIDAY Evening
Cost $4,000.

Bennington IS new high school build
ing was formally dedicated Friday
evening at exercises in the assembly
hall.
A large number of residents inspect
ed the building. C. 5. Perry, chairman
of the trustees, presided at the exer-
cises, which consisted of reading of
the financial statement by the treasur-
er, III. III. Webster; short addresses by
President John NJ. Thomas of Middle
bury college, and Mason S. Stone OF
Montpelier, state superintendent of ed
ucation, also music.
The building is of brick, two stories
high and the eight rooms have seat
ing capacity for pupils of $40. The rs
sembly hall on the first floor has a
seating capacity of 500. The treasur-
or IS report showed that the total cost
of structure and equipment was $685.
600.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04

The anthracite coal business is in the
fortunate position that the more it pays
for wages and taxes the more profit it
makes. When the miners get an increase
of wages amounting to nine cents ton,
the companies add u cents ton to their
prices. When the state leyies tax of 21a
per cent on anthracite, the companies add
10 cents ton to the price, and they keep
the proceeds of the advance an price pend
ing litigation to test the constitutionaity
of the law The state has got to prove
that the law is all right before it can get
the tax, but the companies can get the
additional price without any such effort
1t is easy for the companies to pass along
any assessment coming to them to the
consumers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04

Thirteen graves were dug in Addison
county as a result of selling wood alcohol,
and number Of other men who suffered
terribly recovered to certain extent
The last chapter of the tragedy has been
written in sending Bisbee to hard labor
in state prison for term of not less than
II nor more than 10 years Many of us
have argued and believed that under local
option we were getting more genuine pro-
hibition in no-license territory in Yer
mont that ever before, and this is I'M
doubtedly true in the greater part of the
state, but the affair at Bristol still has a
sinister look. There seems to be no aues-
ton that Bisbee had long followed the
practice of selling booze freely. A cam
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04
A Vermont Handicap.
burlington Free Press.

One of the leading farmers present
at the dairy conference in Burlington
explained that he had tried to dc
things here as in the West, but he
found that products could be shipped
from Chicago to New York cheaper
than from Vermont TO New York. II
this is the situation, then the farmers
Of Vermont in the coming legislature
should institute measures looking tC
the remedying of this situation.
We know that Burlington jobbers
and wholesale dealers have complained
that they could not compete with deal.
ers in the large cities, who seemed tC
have better rates to Vermont towns
than has Burlington, but if the claim
of this farmer is true then Vermont
gets it both going and coming
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04

Montpelier becomes the real capital OF
the state again this week 1t will be sew
eral days before the committees are ap-
pointed and the legislative wheels are
ready for turning out regular grist. Nc
one wishes to see the solons rush ahead
blirdly, but they have an opportunity tc
please people generally by getting to work
clpeditiously This session has seyera
important measures on which definite az
ton is expected, but everything shoulc
be cleaned up ready for adjournment
March l.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04
Keeping Resolutions.

(White River Junction Landmark)
This is the season of the year when
a great deal is said about making and
keeping your good resolutions, for it
is assumed that you have made list
of them and have assured yourself that
you will strictly adhere to them.
This turning over of the new leaf =
comes from the opposite extremes of
society. There are people of refined
and fervent conscience, who take q
moral and spiritual inventory at reg
ular intervals and on January / grit
their teeth and resolve to give Satan
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04
LAME EVERY MORNING
A Bad Back is Generally Worse in the
Morning - Rrattlsboro People arc
Finding Relief

Morning - Brattlsboro People arc
Finding Relief
a back that aches all day and causes
discomfort at night is usually worse
in the morning. Makes you feel as
if you hadn t slept at all
You can't get rid of kidney back
ache, until you reach the cause tie
kidneys. Doan s Kidney Pills are es-
pecially prepared for weakened or dis
ordered kidneys-haye been grateful
ly recommended by thousands
Testimony of Brattlebogo people
proves the merits of DoaE s.
c.. H. Bruce, South Main street,
Brattleboro, says: 81 suffered from
backache for two years Mornings,
could hardly stoop The kidney secre-
tions were unnatural and if allowed
to stand, deposited a heavy sediment.
| [ was feeling miserable in every way
when Doan s Kidney Pills were brought
to my attention and l began using
them In less than two weeks this med
ieine removed the pain in my back. =
Price soc. at all dealers. Don t sim
ply ask for kidney remedy - get
Doan S Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Bruce had. Foster Milbmn Co,
Props. Buffalo \. y.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04
Low Cost of Highway Maintenance
{ Rutland News.)

The federal department of public
roads reports that in Bennington eoun-
ty It's miles of gravel highway were
maintained the past year at an aver.
age expenditure of 5000 per mile
This is in strong contrast with the
high cost of maintenance of stone
roads. 1t has been stated by experts
that macadamized road, such as is
built in Massac husetts and New York
requires an annual maintenance ex
pense of thousand dollars a mile. Full
ly 80 per cent of the highways in thi:
state can be of dirt or gravel anc
maintained in excellent manner for
$50 mile, at the most. The figure:
of Bennington county are decidedly
striking.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

It is the aim of the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery of
the paper each night and it SolcitS the
CO. operation of subscribers to that end
Prompt reports should be given of each
failure to receive the paper on the morn
by telephone or postal card, thus enabl-
ing the cause of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper
remedy Immediately applied. 1t is only
by this method that the publisher can
secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04
Factory Inspector Report.
(st. yohnsbury Republican. )

The state factory inspector, A. Cal
houn, of Middlebury, in his biennial re-
port, urges more safety appliances and
better sanitation. The report is u com
prehensive survey of the work of the
inspector for the past two years and
the recommendations suggested are til,
result of a careful study of the con
ditions existing in the state as {
whole.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04
Member of the Associated Press.
MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1914.

Good for the Nebraska farmers. They
have horses to SELL but they refuse to part
with them at top prices for shipment to
Europe, where they would be slaughtered
in war
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-04
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run of paper,
so cents an inch for first insertion: 25
cents an inch for each subsequent inser-
ton. Limited space on first page at
double rates.
Space rates on application.
Classified advertisements - Five cents
line first insertion with so per cent
discount for each subsequent insertion
without change Of copy
Reading Notices-Ten cents line first
insertion with so per cent discount for
each subsequent insertion without change
of copy. -
Position 10 per cent extra.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-06

ton and an effort was made to exert
pressure upon the Government to STRIP
port embargo legislation. Statements
were issued showing the extent OF mu-
nitions expectations to Great Britain in
imcut was fl,Si with the Federal Re-
serve Board by ex-Congressman Fowler,
general counse for the organization
holding the redrscount of commercial
paper based on munitions exports to be
"a violation Of neutrality. The ~arg,snents
embodied a blast ugainst the Morgan
firm for It's part In the buying Of wal
munitions.
The board refused TO give Fowler a
hearing on his appeal in n curt COM
munication.
Samuel Gompers, president or the
American Federation Of Labor. repudi-
ated the council In the name OF organized
labor n some Of fts Officers began
TO resign. Representative Buchanan
himself finally retired from the prcsi-
dency and little has been heard OF 1t
since.
Attacks by President Gomrers and ru-
mors which got aioat as to the source
from which Its war bags were hlled
helped to disrupt 1t. by September Its
activities seemed to v subsidized.
The council at one period had pro.
crossed so far that II succeeded In get
ting Grange officers to meet with IL In
Washington. but the Grange people
Kicked over the truce when they heard
of some of the resolutions that the coun-
Gil wanted to father.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-06
LAUGHS AT INQUIRY.
Chicago Man says Lack Of Funds
Closed once.

CHICAGO. H.. Dc. 5.-iottlieo F..
lIumfnel. an official - the Teutonic
sons OF America. said to-day:
The nrst | heard about this investi-
CATION was IN the newspapcrs his morn
ing. I am surprised that there should
HI. an Investigation at all Certainly the
German Government was not supplying
these peopl" with funds. am close
enough To the inside to know that. In
fact. l.. T.. Straube. an otit,er OF the
National Peace Council. told me several
DAYS ago that he was having hard work
getting people % subscribe money for
the organization. n had to close up
offices In Chicago because he didn't nave
money.
the whole investigation can accom-
pllsh nothing. The German Government
spent 100000 in his country To NJ
out coal ard supplies for ships. The
Allies are doing the same thing under
cover II law. The money was spent In
this country. nobody MAS being harmed
in any wa, yet this ship Investigation
is started against the Germans. The
Germans are too rood citizens 20 blow
up ships II fomcnt trike l wish
that I'M. Italians were IN the same boat
with the Germans. DO you think that
Il ltaly's enemies were being supplied
with munitions Of war the Italians
would allow II" They would not allow a
single ship to leave New York or any
munitions 10 leave the country. the
would H., up the munitions factories
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-06
ASQUITH AT ALLIED COUNCIL
Kitchener. JOnre and DnIfour .,.o
Attended Calais Meeting.

LONDON. Dec, 5-AdditionaI details n,
the allied war council held al Calais
yesterday were given IN an official STATE.
n ent issued by the press bureau TODAY
The statement says
An important Franco-Rri,lsh cor.
ference was held at Calais ON Sotur-
day, The British representatives uer.
Premier Asquith, Mr. alfour. Lord
Kitchener, Sir Archibald MURRAY
"hief OF he General STAFF. ana
Mr. Clarke OF the Foreign Once
h French representatives were
Premier BRAND, accompanied nv
NJ, de Margerie, political director y,
the Foreign Once Gen. Gallieni
Minister Of War, accompanied by Con
Grabiani. ch.ef Of the General St,r
Admiral Lacaze, Minister Of Marine
accompanied by Admiral J~onauieres
chief of the Naval san, and Gen
Jonre. accompanied by MaIor-Gon
Pelle.
The Ministers arrived at Calais Mt
! i, NJ, and lunched together. 4 con-
ference ensued. lasting from 2:3O to
q /. NJ. The deliberations referred In
questions of IN mediate moment. A,
night the Ministers returned to Paris
and London respectively,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-06
TEXT OF ITALY'S PLEDGE.
British Press Bureau Makes AIIies'
New agreement Public.

LONDON. Dec. 5.-The official press
bureau made public to-day the text OF
the document In which Italy agrees with
her allies not TO conclude "a separate
peace. The agreement Is signed by Sir
Edward Grey. the British Foreign Score.
NJ. Paul cambon. the French Am.
Marchese Imperiali, the
Italian Ambassador. X. 1nouye. the Jam
Ambassador and Oount Won
Benckendorfi. the Russian Ambassador.
The text is as follows:
The Italian Government, having de-
cided to accede to the agreement be-
tween the British. French and Russian
Governments signed in London on
September g. 1914. which was acceded
to by the Japanese Government on
October 10. 1915. the undersigned.
being duly authorized thereto by tho
respective Governments. declare as
follows:
The British. French. Italian, Jupa-
nese and Russian Governments mutu-
ally engage not to conclude peace
separately during the present war.
The i've Governments agree that when
the terms OF peace come to be dis
cusseG no p'e OF the Allies will demand
conditions - peace without previous
agreement with each of TIE other
allies.
Done IN London. this thlrt!e,h day
OF No,'U''r l"l-.
T. GREY.
PAuL CANNON.
iNtrhlALI.
II lSoTYr.
BE%CKENDoRFF
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-06
ALLIES SUGAR SHIP
ON FIRE FOUR TIMES
Flames Start MysteriOusly in
Hold Of the birmingham
in Erie Basin.

Four fires started yesterday IN hold
No, I OF the steamship ~Tyninrham, lying
In the Erie Basin and loading sugar for
an English port. The fires were similar
to that which occurred on the steam ship
Euterpe on Novenb her 3. OF which sugar
was also being loaded FOR the Allies.
Late last night. several hours after
the first fire had been e~xtineuished. Capt.
David Jones telephoned 10 Police Head
quarters and asked 10 nave two detec-
,.vcs sent to the ship. When Detectives
Walsh and Mea!iie arrived he showed
them where three other fires had started
in the sugar and had been e%xtinguished
by the crew.
Capt. Jones was eating dinner with
the mate when the ALARM OF Are was
raised hy some lahorers who were load
ing the sugar into hold No. 4 from the
barge Anna G. Lee. 1t was quickly ex-
tinguished. with IA loss estimated n,
$4,000. Later the three others broke
out. The free will not interfere with
the sailing OF tile ship. as there wa.
no daniagc to the hull
The birmingham Is owned by Gr!mths.
Lewis 4 Co. Of Cardiff. Wales. and is in
the service Of the British Admiralty
The shipping agent here Is c. W. Bow
ming. WIN said last night that she was
10 carry about 5000 tons OF suga,. The
ship got In Saturday from Bermuda and
had already taken on about 5000 bags
when the mysterious Are occurred.
Capt. Tunney OF the bomb squad and
Fire Marshal trophy made an examlna-
t!on of the holh after the FIRST FIRE and
will continue the work to-day.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-06
GOMPERS RETICENT.
Government u WOrktng !" case
say. Labor Leader.

MILWAUKEE. Wis. Dec. 5,-"lt is not
a question will at any time discuss
for a newspaper declared Samuel
Gonpers tonight. when after a banquet
attended by the Governor, local Judges
politicians and labor leaders he WAS
asked what he knows OF the Labor Peace
Council. which is reported to be working
TO stop munition manufacture for foreign
Governments.
The Government has now taken Wy
my charges OF some months ago. IL tn
y~estigating the matter officially and l
cannot, and would not II l could. talk
of the affair any longer"
Asked what he knew of william +.
Kramer's connection with the movement
he declared. II positively will not dis
cuss the relation Of any other man to
this problem. | have already discussed
my own attitude all ! care to-"