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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-23
gCEOFULA AND ALL
! HUMORS GIVE WAY


There are many things learned from
experience and observation that the
older generation should impress upon
the Younger. Among them is the fact
that scrofuia and other humors. which
produce eczema. boiis pimples and
other eruptions, can be most success
fully treated with Hoods Sarsapa ;
rilla.
This great medicine is peculiar
combination of remarkably effective
blood purifying and health-giving
roots, banks and herbs. which are
gathered especially for it.
Hoods Sarsaparilla has stood the
test of forty years.
Get bottle today-now-from
your nearest drug store. Always
keep it on hand.-Ady
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-23

Christmas plum puddings, mince
pies and candies and those things
which you haven't had time to prepare
yourself are ready and waiting al,
Weber & Hewett's. The bakery &C.
par,ment is at your service now.-Ady.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-23

Wednesday mornings air had lit
tie more snap in it than any Of its
predecessors for the past TWO months
and the consequences vas that the ,ner-
curry dropped a little lower than it
momcter at the Rither pharmacy in
Gicated 10 above zero ii \. NJ. and
the Journal- thermometer u, but as
usual Fart" Folsom had chance to
crow over The others fcy his old re-
liable over on Arsenal street regis
tered only four degree above zero.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-23

The Augusta Fruit 90, was never in
better condition y provide Christmas
needs. The renovated store under the
Cony House probably contains more
pipes, cigars and things for men Who
smoke than any store in Kennebec
county. Candies ard fruit also form a
principal part If tho stock. The branch
store under Ii" Oper" house ana Che
latest acquisition 1t 81 Cony street at
ford every opportunity 70 obtain
Christmas treats Of RATS, candy and
fruits. as wcu a@ all Kinds If smok-
erS' articles ADV.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-23

If YOU have Your mind on cigars as
2 gift consider the imported brands at
Partrd.es drug store, under Opera
house. Thcv are genuine uav5na's, ci-
cars that anv fastidious smoker VIII
doublv appreciate.-AdV.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-23
COLONIAL THEATRE.

Theda Bara in VIM. Fox Masterwork,
THE cIemenceau Case" Alexander
Dumas Famous Novel, Friday, One
Day Only, Anna q. Nilsson in Fox
Feature, "The Regeneration" Owen
kiIdare's Romantic Story, Saturday,
One Gay Only.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-23

Asylum Lodge, No. 70, T. 0. 0. F.,
will hold its regular meeting Friday
evening, Dec "A. and among other
business Of the evening will be the
nomination Of officers
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-23
Local matters

MIR and Mrs. Joseph H. Brooks and
little daughter Of Brunswick were
among the Christmas shoppers We'd
nesday afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-23

Prof. and Mrs. Charles F. Cook Of
Concord. \. H. have arrived in the
city and will enjoy the holiday season
with Mrs. Cooks father, Frank r. Par
fridge on Chapel street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-23

More than 20 per cent. Of the refining
and smelling of Dresses and scrap metals
in the United States is carried On in the
territory east of the Mississippi and
north of the Ohio river.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-23

L. S. young makes low prices on
turkeys 2>c, chicken 2oc,' fowl 1sc, eel
cry. lettuce. Florida oranges and grape
fruit Roast pork IA to lSc Ib.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-23

Harry Walker of the clerical force of
the Maine Central freight Office is con-
fined to his home on Crosby street,
suffering from an attack of erysipelas.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-23

Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Lyman left on the
Wednesday afternoon express for Bos-
ton where they Will enjoy the Christ
mas holidays with their daughter
Florence
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-23
0ecfSeod

Eighty per cent. OF the JuNei'iie
for which children are orousH'
consist OF one or another FORM u ia., ;ni,..
MAY which is in no case eeii'''AA'
criminal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-23

Another case was heard en- a similar
charge to the. above, in which the re-
spendent was found guilty and was
given sentence Of so days in Jail, but
sentence was suspended.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-23
ADJUSTMENTS
COLONIAL THEATRE.

Frarcins Larrimore in "The Cevil's
Daring" Rialto Star Feature, Gloria
Fonda in Lsemrle Three Reel Fea-
ture, Others.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30

Alexander Miller of the Union Pacit-
ic recently gave an address to q men s
association of his home town. Natur-
ally, he dealt largely with railroad
statistics, but in such way as to
clcthe dry subject in attractive form.
His own efficiency in instructing others
was demonstrated by iudicious use
of - little levitv now and then, - in
such way as to fasten a point in the
nearer s mind One little " skid' thai
both illustrated and amused was like
this:
A clergyman was in the habit Of
preaching a temperance sermon as q
matter of routine oGce year. On one
Of these annual occasions he had on
his pulpit desk two glasses-one filled
>ith water and the other with whiskey.
IN the former he dropped live angle
worm, which wriggled around appar-
antly enjoying the bath. Then he drop
ped it in the whiskey. This was too
much for the poor worm, and it soon
straightened out and died. Holding up
he glass with the dead worm in it the
clergyman delivered a powerful an
pointed sermon on drinking, closin g
With the words, there : poison in thr
cup, my friends, there 8 poison in tn
cup The breathless silence that fol
lowed was soon broken by a thick
voice from the rear of the room, Z" Eth
Domino, mon, if ve'v finished vie the
poison pass it down quick. | m sore
Street Journal Straws.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30
There ISkVkST Army

of men and women who really never
know what it is to enjoy sound, vibrat-
ing health-who would be surprised to
suddenly gain that exhilarating vitality
that robust health brings.
Literally thousands without any par
ticular sickness live in general de
bility", as the doctors call it-have
headaches, are tired and indifferent.
To all such people we say with unmis-
taxable earnestness =" Take SCOTS
Emulsion after meals for one month and
allow its rare oil-food to enrich and en-
liven your blood, quicken your circula-
ton, stimulate nutrition, and aid nature
to develop that real red-blooded life that
means activity, enjoyment, success"
SCOTS Emulsion is not a drug, out a
pleasant food-tonic-free from alcohol
One bottle may help you.
Scott g. Bovine. bloomfield, NJ. 1881
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30
Killing Children.
Bennington Banner.

The state home for mentally defici-
ent children has been opened at Bran
don. Vermont now has two asylum
for the insane, a state prison and
house of correction for those who fai
of self control, an industrial school
for children who start on the road t
wrong, home for the deaf, the dumb
and the blind, home for veterans OF
war and now home for detectives
What Vermont has not is a home foi
normal, healthy orphan children; chill
dren of parents who die friendless ami
penniless; children of the criminal, the
insane, the divorced; children born
out of wedlock; children who, for
one cause or another, are left little
and forlorn, without a home dependent
on the mercy of relatives who have
enough burdens of their own on the
community.
Right here is where civilization
makes its worst failure-in not look
ing out for the future. Children of the
classes above referred to often have
some hereditary weakness or tendency
to fault. If sent to the town farm to
grow up with a group of human dere-
licts their fate is sealed-tney are
started on the road to hell without
even being told that there is a better
path-for the town farms must of ne
cessity be the home of those who have
failed
If they do not go to the town farm
they do not starve or freeze except
morally and mentally. They live a
furtive life on the streets and alleys, in
cellars and back rooms often among
people of doubtful character and vile
habits. The result is certain from the
first. The boys grow up to be loafers
and drunkards and, frequently
thieves. The girls too often become
prostitutes or worse Society has failed
in its most important responsibility
which is to safeguard its own future.
Thank God there are a few places
like the Kurn Hattin home and st.
Joseph s orphanage, supported by pri-
vate benevolence, which are doing all
they can and are daily proving hat
| these unfortunate boys and girls can
mostly be made decent, selfsupport-
ing and respected men and women.
But the private institutions cannot do
| it all. There are scores of children lett
to grow up, live distorted lives and
produce fruit of their own kind.
The state should provide a decent,
| healthy home and proper upbringing
| for these unfortunate kids. 1t doesn I
seem as through anybody could be OPP
posed does it, but the Vermont legis
lature has voted down the proposition
| for three successive sessions.
/ Vermont pays out more than a mil
lion dollars a year to maintain
prisons and jails and their accessories
| Most of this yearly expense could be
saved in the course of time by taking
care of the unfortunate children Of
the exceedingly poor, the vicious, the
insane and the unfortunate. It is poo
business judgment to keep handn
down a weakened legacy when it woul,
be cheaper, easier and more creditabl,
to hand down strengthened heri
| tage.
During the present war we hav,
heard much about killing children an(
women and non-combatants. Vernon
is yearly killing children and non-com
hatants in the battle Of life by neg
lcct as fatal if not as cruel as the mos
i hiaeous acts of war.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30
TIL r. IN ID I A "

The Indian is melancholy speci-
men of man $ inhumanity to man. At
one time in the history of our country
the Indian owned all Of the real cs-
tate from New York to San Francis
60, but he has been steadily pushed
back by the relentless and highly
bunioned foot of the white man, I'M
til now he is human dereliet, with
nothing to sustain him but hope
and massive appetite
The early Indian was a very coarse
person, being short on table manners
and long on the most fatal forms of
assassination. Miles Standish in his
racy and piquant memoirs, complained
bitterly Of the lack of polish shown by
the female red man, who constantly
ate pie with knife and left her spoon
IN her coffee cup. William Penn, the
only naturalized American who ever
eonsorted with the Indian for any
length of time without being succeeded
by an obituary notice, tried for years
to interest the red brother in the
quarterly bath, but failed miserably in
the attempt and passed away soon af
ter with look of chagrin upon hi
face.
The Indian made life very uncom
Portable for the Pilgrim Fathers sink
ing long, brittle arrows into them ant
Protected by The Ada
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30

In the course of his talk to the Life
Presidents Association recently. Gov
ernor Ferguson of Texas told the fol-
lowing story, which will entertain even
it the insurance connection is rather
remote:
/ remember that on one occasion a
certain Farmers Union lecturer was
telling the farmers of Texas of the mis-
takes they were making. He said
1.-The great mistake of the Texas far
mer is that he don t live at home, he
depends ON selling cotton too much.
You are continually buying something,
and you don t never sell anything
lie said: 'To illustrate what / mean.
| need but call your attention to the
fact that when you wake in the morn
/ ing it is to the alarm of Connecticut
clock. You get up and button on Chi
4 cago suspenders to Detroit overalls
| You go out and wash your face with
/ Cincinnati soap in Cincinnati wash
basin. You sit down to your breakfast
and eat from a table made in Grand
| Rapids, Michigan, and you eat Chicago
meat. And your bread is made OF
| Tennessee flour, cooked on a ST. Louis
stove. You go out and put a New
York bride on a Kentucky mule, fec
on Iowa corn, and pillow your farm al
day, which is covered with a Massachu
sets mortgage. And at night wheI
you get home you read a Bible printed
in Boston and you say prayer tina
was written in Jerusalem. And yol
crawl under blanket manufactured il
New Jersey, to be kept awake all nigh
by a damned dog-the only home pro
duet you have on the farm.
Something of an argument for pa
'tronizing home industries, as it were
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30

performing other annoying acts. When
ever Pilgrim Father went out to do
a little fall blowing, his family never
knew whether he would return at night
on his own power or be carried in on
bed quilt with blowout just back
of the right shoulder blade. Every
once in while some Pilgrim Father
who was prominent in church and so
cial circles would be tied to the stake
and converted into a reluctant bonfire,
while others We're deprived of the only
set of hair they had. This made the
Indian very unpopular, and he was sell
dom invited out
The Indian is now cared for by the
government. which furnishes him food,
iishpoles and disinfectants in wild pro
fusion. He is q total abstainer, and
| seldom drinks anything stronger than
concentrated I've. Despite his long and
intimate contact with the white man
the Indian has not advanced socially
over a foot and a half in the past two
| hundred years, and can still be found
wrapped in a red blanket and a high
state of alcoholism.
| We may well ask ourselves if we
have done our full duty by the Indian
in withholding the puckerstringed pa
jana and tuxedo coat from him and in
| Producing him to the double acting
grip and the delirirm tremens.
no NaUcyaper Snrvica7
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30
Vermont has hundreds Of state gath.

Vermont has hundreds of state gath
erings each year but it is doubtful
whether any Of them furnish more real
pleasure for the participants thar the
state checker championship, which =
now being played in Burlington. Tho
game IS seldom played in clubs, but in
homes and around the big stove in thc
village store it furnishes many con
test which is a real battle of intellects
Hundreds play bridge where one play.
checkers, but the good old New Eng
land game still has its devotees.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30
DRINK HOT WATER
BEFORE BREAKFAST
Says you really feel clean, sweet
and fresh inside, and
are seldom i'll.

If you are accustomed to wake up
with a coated tongue, foul breath or
a dull, dizzy headache; or, if your
meals sour and turn into gas and
acids, you have a real surprise await
ing you.
Tomorrow morning, Immediately up
on arising, dring a glass of hot water
with teaspoonful of limestone phos-
plate in it. This is intended to first
neutralize and then wash out of your
stomach, liver, kidneys and 80 feet OF
intestines all the indigestible waste
poisons, sour bile and toxins, thus
cleansing, sweetening and purifying
the entire alimentary canal.
Those subject to sick headaches
backache, bilious attacks, constipation
or any form of stomach trouble, are
urged to get quarter pound of lime
! stone phosphate from the drug stor,
and begin enjoying this morning inside
| bath. It is said that men and womel
who try this become enthusiastic am
/ keep it up daily. It is splen
did health measure for it is more i'm
portant to keep clean and pure on tn
inside than on the outside, because tn
skin pores do not absorb impuritie
into the blood, causing disease, Will
the bowel pores do.
The principle of bathing inside
not new, as millions of people praetic
it. Just as hot water and soap cleanse
purify and freshen the skin, so hot we
ter and teaspoonful of limestone phos
phate act on the stomach, liver, kic
neys and bowels. Limestone phosphat
is an inexpensive white powder and a
most tasteless.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30
The New England Tradition
(Philadelphia Public Ledger


In great many American cities out
side of New England New England
Society like that of Pennsylvania lives
and flourishes. The reason is not far to
seek. The men who were born and
bred between the Hudson River and
Passamaquoddy Bay feel that they owe
to the rocks and rills of the Nor h.
eastern States an Inheritance more pre-
cious than recipes for pies or pork and
beans: an output more valuable than
all the lumber that passes through
Bangor, or all the shoes that are made
in Lynn, or all the bulding-stone that
is brought cut of Vermont and New
Hampshire, or all the legal erudition
of Massachusetts. The New England
conscience is as proverbial as the
Philadelphia lawyer. 1t seems to hold
man responsible to a fixed ideal of
integrity, that burns like a lamp with
in himself and guides his ambition on
ward and upward through toll and self
denial The Puritan ideal is not a
sitting code of blue laws, but a vital
inspiration; and the stock of the May
flower is not laughing stock.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30

The interstate commerce commission
has granted the railroads west Of the
Mississippi river material increase in
rates on some classes of freight Grad.
ualIy the commission and the country
are coming to see that the railroads
cannot forever meet the increased cost
of construction and operation without
some relief in the matter of rates, both
freight and passenger. a good number
of railroads which are well managed
have had hard shedding in recent years
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30

Daniel C. Roper, first assistant post
master general, is about as modest as
some legislators that we remember.
With deficit of eleven million dollars
staring the officials of the post Office
department in the face Roper puts into
the departmental estimates of appro-
priations for the coming year an in
crease of $4,000 in his own salary.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30

three eggs very light. Season
a cupful OF mashed potatoes with
a tablespoonful of salt, add half cup.
full of milk, two teaspoonfuls of sifted
-four, little chopped parsley. pepper
to taste and lemon juice if liked. Add
well beaten yolks to this, then the
beaten whites. Add a tablespoonful
of butter to piping hot omelet pan,
pour in the potato mixture and brown
lightly, turn and serve very hot. Gar
nish with fresh parsley.
Parker Roast Beetle prevent the
meat from becoming dry in cooking
cover with pieces of suet that have
been pounded with wooden masher
until thin as slices of bacon. If long
thin roast allow eight minutes to the
pound in roasting. This applies more
to gas oven than slower heat. Serve
with fresh grated horseradish.
Another Swiss Steak--Select a two
pound steak from the upper part of
the round. Have it one and half
inches thick Scar on both sides in a
hot frying pan, then remove to a
meat board and dust thickly with -four,
pound in as much as possible with the
edge of a saucer, place in a casserole,
add one chopped onion and a cupful
OF tomato. Season with salt and pep
per, place this dressing on half Of the
meat and fold the other half over.
Add little water. renewing occasion
ally as it is needed and cook very
slowly for three hours. Thicker the
gravy and serve from the casserole.
Cranberry ReIish.-Take two parts
| of cranberries, three and a half pounds
| Of sugar. one pound of seeded raisins,
the rind of two oranges, chopped fine,
| one cupful of vinegar, the juice of two
| oranges, one teaspoonful each of gin
| ger, cloves and cinnamon. Cook until
| thick like marmalade. This is excel
| lent conserve with cold meats, es.
| pecially turkey and game.
| N1n. Nakn eeeo
Z e.. 7,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30
EoMETHING GOOD COMING

to you every time you eat at The Al
bany. Our foods appeal to your sense
Of taste and our prices to your common
sense. Somewhere there may be bet.
ter restaurant than The Albany, but
none Of our many patrons have ever
found it, and the first meal you eat
here viii convince you that your search
for the best eating place in town is at
an end
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30
For Her Enjoyment.

- wouldn t go out at the end Of
every act, my boy. Beastly bad form.
- don t go out to drink. [ telephone
home and get bulletins from the maid
about the condition of the pan under
the ice box. My wife can t enjoy the
opera unless she knows there is no dan
ger of that pan running over. Pitts.
burg Post.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim Of the management
secure efficient service in the delivery
OF the paper each night, and 1t soHcits
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
the proper remedy Immediately applied
1t Is only by this method that the pub
Usher can secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30
Member OF the Associated Press.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1915

The British government appears to
be trying to grasp both horns of di-
lcmma. If CONSUMPTION is invoked half
of the cabinet viii resign, and if it is
not invoked the other half will resign.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30

Strange, isn't it, these early deaths
among the Yale football stars? Gordon
Brown, James Hogan and Thomas Shev-
lin, three of the sturdiest and ablest
gridiron warriors, hardly lived to ma
ture years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30

The "halcyon days" were accord
ing to an old belief, a period in
December, lasting fourteen days, when
the ''halcyon,'' or kingfisher, laid its
eggs and Matched them in a nest float
ing on the sea. During these two weeks
the seas were believed to remain calm.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30

'He tried to shelter himself behind
the skirts of his wife" and didn't
succeed, ehc" NO; her skirts are all
hobbies. Houston Post.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30

Persons with money wishing to help
a deserving cause might look toward
Westminster, where the Kurn Hattin
home has room for ten more orphan
boys, but is short of the money to sup
ply food and clothes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30

what did your lawyer say when
you stated your purpose to him?''
'tHe said it was feasible. Boston
Transcript
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30

''There haven't been any automobiles
violating the speed limits for more
than a week." said the constable.
"What'll we do?''
Arrange to lower the speed limit. :
replied the sheriff Washington Star.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-30

The greatest man I ever knew
Was William Henry Black
He never cussed or turned things blue
When he stepped on a tack.
Cincinnati Enquirer.