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The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-10-08
tertainnent
Sardis School House Burns

News come to this Office last
'vening of the obstruction of the
}ardis School house which occur
ed Wednesday evening, Oct. 6.
V. A. Cruise, the teacher, dis
missed at 3:45 for the day. At
$50 parties passing there dis
covered it to be on fire and at 6
o'clock it was totally destroyed.
There was insurance carried on
The building but at time it is not
known how much.
1t is supposed to have been set
ire by some body after it was
vacated that evening.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18
TOWN SHEND.

The seminary will be closed "Wednesday
to give the students chance to attend the
Valley fair.
A corn roast was enjoyed at Maple Grove
Friday evening by the pupils of the three
upper grades Of the village school and
the three teachers.
Hunters were out in force for the open
ing Of the season Wednesday. Grey spur
rels are reported unusually plentiful and
many were brought in.
Mrs Ernest Martin of Jamaica was
taken i'll Thursday in the home of her hus-
bands parents, Mr.. and Mrs Frank Mar
tin. where she is visiting. She is convalec-
ing
A good number attended the meeting Of
West River Grange Friday evening The
program was arranged by the men officers
and included Song, Grange; recitation
Mrs b. b. Prentiss; piano duet, Miss Mar
ion Winslow and Miss Florence Howard
charades; recitation, Raymond Phillips
song, Merrill Sparks; question. Resolved
that history shows woman has made great
err advancement than man since Adam ant
Eve Committees to have charge of tho
Grange fair were announced.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18
Husbands Deserve whipping-post.

In the October Woman s Homo Com
panion Charles L. jefferson, pastor OF
Broadway Tabernacle, New York City:
writes a sermon to fathers in which he
tells as follows why some husbands de-
serve the whipping-post:
% In his home, a man shows his inner
most self in the way he treats his wife.
II he is a coarse grained, selfish boor,
his boorishness will come out in his
conduct toward her. If he is a Chris
tian gentleman, he will have daily OPP
portunities to prove it in his attitude
to her. If he puts on airs as the lord
of the house. ordering his wife around
as through she were a servant, speak
ing to his children as through he were
an Oriental despot, all his religious
professions go for nothing. Mang
men and professedly good men al
that-do not realize how tyrannieal
and unappreciativc and cruel they arc
OF all the tyrants on earth a tyrannieal
husband is the most despicable. a
man who lords it over woman, keep
ing her painfully conscious of her daily
dependence on him, holding all the
money in his hands doing it out to
her in reiucant pittanccs as though she
were a beggar, insulting her by dispar-
Iaging remarks in the presence of hen
children, is a man who deserves the
whipping post.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18

without an error, and she can make
three different kinds Of cake.
All this may seem OF only casual inter
est, bat it does no harm tc emphasize
the fact that in this degenerate age
there are few housewives who can boast
Of this versatility, especially when it
comes to reciting the Declaration of IN
dependence without hesitating and do
ing Mary s LittI, Lamb = forward and
backward. a clever and capable wife
viii Thclma be, with her recitatioRs
her old sailor 5 ability in modifying
her knowledge of consultations and au-
tomobiles and her skill with three kinds
of cake
\ peculiar fact with wonder children
is that they always Scent to be u years
old. Young Master Sidis was 70 when
he entered Harvard, little Mis- Sack
vile Stoner is 2 and little Miss Arnold
is -. This may be only chance, or il
| may signify that twelve is the conven
| tional age of Carnival with iuvcnil,
prodigies. Providence Journal
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18

been girls. One that shattered news
paper space with whole columns of text
and double-column portraits several
months ago came from Pittsburgh Win
fired Sackville Stoner is product of
natural education, and she herself is
already an educator of some distinction,
besides being mistress of a score of ae-
eomplishments. She speaks and writes
half a dozen languages, including Els
peranto, and her versatility is remark
able Thelma Arnold of Windham seems
to be chiefly product of that admir-
able organization known as the Camp
Fire Girls Where Winifred Saelkville
Stoner's education was wholly mat
ural. = Thelna Arnold s has been very
special. She has just attained the dis
tinetion of being the first girl of her
lyears to win the grade of Fire Maker,
which among the Camp Fire Girls is a
very great honor indeed, although as a
| routine domestic. accomplishment it is
not SO highly esteemed. Thelma quail
| fled for this superior rank with fine
| list of diversified accomplishments.
| She can tie a square knot without
! hesitation five times in succession: she
can tie bovine. sheepshank, u Glove
a blight; she can reeite the Declaration
of Independence without faltering; she
can point out seven different heavenly
consultations; she can operate without
help an automobile for four hundred
miles; she can reeite ssMarv s Little
Lamb . forward and then backward
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18
ANOTHER WONDER CHILD.
Twelve-year- Old Girl with Astonishing
Accomplishments

Another Wonder child'' has been
discovered. this one i'll the village of
Windham, n. Y For the past year or
two all these juvenile prodigies seem to
have been girls. 1t may have been
merely a within of chance, but it looks
as if some of the recent prodigious ener-
gy Of feminism may have taken effect.
4 well authenticated boyprodigy has
not been reported since Master Willie
Sidis matriculated at Harvard at the
age of twelve lie was already wonder
of gilt-edged intellectual attainment.
and twice since that time has he again
leomed large in public attention. Once
was during his freshman year, when he
addressed an assemblage of learned Pre-
fessors and revealed some of the alb
struse mysteries of the Fourth Dimen
sion, which he had discovered all by
himself and the other timc was two OF
three months ago, when having attained
the comfortable middle age of seventeen
years, he solemnly announced that hi
should never marry and that the charm
of woman had no appeal for him. Hay
ing declared himself with this fatal alb
soluteness. ii may be expected that h'
will hereafter relapse into the per1na
nent obscurity of uninteresting bach
| elorhocd.
The most recent wonder children haze
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18
COLLEGE, ENTRANCE TESTS.
Some Boys Who Shouldn't Go In
for Higher Education

Some Boys Who Shouldn't Go In
for Higher Education
Dir. Thwing's remark that 1.-TWO
things &c be absolutely said are these:s
The boy who lacks intellectual inter
csts or the boy who lacks strong will
should nrt 20 to college, should have
great influence in our college life.
These are the tests to be submitted to
a boy who proposes TO enter college
What re has gone over in the books or
the amount of knowledge he has in
store is not important if the boy has
40 love of truth or any viii to over
come obstacles As it is these tests
are overlooked i'll the process Of mat
REGULATION.
That phrase, " Intellectual inter,
rsts. means mere than mentality. It
means that the love OF truth should
rule boys formative life 1t is that
which leads him to choose a real booI.
instead of a novel, and to DO his own
thinking instead of letting the news
papers AMI magazine DO it for him.
If the \. +. A, just adjourned had
turned its attention to suggesting true
tests to college entrance, rather thar
waste its time on politics, war, and e
lection Of Presidents, it might have
performed 4 great work for the count
~.
The Latin or Greek test, the mathc
| matical test, the literary test de- not
| provide the conditions of future schoi
arship. This is tho meaning Of Or
| Thwing $ tes,imony-Ohio State
| journal
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18
What Happened to Camera When Uncle Sans 12-Inch
Mortars Were Fired at Fort Totten

These photographs illustrate Uncle
Sam 5 preparation for war by tho
test of the great 12-inch mortars at
Fort Totten, which protect New York
from invasion by way Of Long Island
Sound. The fort is on Long Island,
some miles from Manhattan and Brook
lyn, and it is designed for the destruc-
ton of enemy ships which might ap-
proach the city by the back door. Tho
great mortars, which shoot seven miles,
were tried out the other day. Pho
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18

that this was so-it may be said that
a good-sized fleet of superdread-
noughts was sent to the bottom of the
Sound.
For these 12-inch mortars are regard
cd as the most destructive weapons
that New York has against sea in.
vasion-by way of Long Island Sound.
There are 12-inch guns at Fort Totten
with a range that far exceeds that of
the mortars, but they cannot send pro-
iectiles heavenward and drop them on
the one vulnerable spot of the modern
warship-the deck.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18

tographers set up their cameras just
back of the guns and tried to catch
them as they were fired. The vibra-
tion was so great that the picture was
blurred.
With each terrific roar observers
from the fort could sec without
glasses the 700-pound steel projectil
rise higher and higher until it disap-
peared mere speek in the sky. Then
they would wait and watch the placid
water of the Sound. If YOU followed
their gaze and kept your eye on
stretch of blue water seven miles
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18

away you saw suddenly tower of
white water rise skyward
FThat was a hit, an officer told
you, and orders were given for the
next shot
Just what the result of the "en-
gagement were could not be told
until the official umpire of the battle
figured out the damage. But if each
shot found its mark-and those with
keen eyes and a professional knowl-
edge of what was going on were
more than little Inclined to think
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

Thirteen young people held corn
roast and bacon fry at Camp Comfort
Thursday evening.
A surprise awaits those who visit Is
land park Sunday night 1t is fea
ture not on the program, but will be
enjoyed by everyone.
Fred Hescock, agent for the Indian mo-
tocycle, has just received a new three
speed, two-cyhnder, 1916 model machine
which he viii exhibit at the Valley fair
Manager George f. Sherman of the
Brooks House announces that the piazza Of
the hotel viii be for the use Of the guests
Of the house exclusively during the fair
4 steel fling cabinet for the records
ana documents of the municipal court
was received yesterday and was put in
place this morning in the court room
The Estabrook Case, Broadway
star feature in three acts. is the at
traction at the Princess theater today
also an episode in The Hazards of Hell.
en- Mondays attraction will be tho
Paramount feature, Captain Courtesy
featuring Dustin Farnum, supported by
a star cast.
About 30 former neighbors and
friends of Mr.. and Mrs. B. J.. jerks
gave them surprise party in the fern
of house warming last evening in
their home, formerly the Joslyn place
on the West Dummerston road. Music
| and social time were enjoyed and re
| freshments We're served.
Mr.. and Mrs j. r. Craig of West
| Brattleboro invited so friends to theil
| home at the old Pettee stock farm last
evening for a corn roast The IRE wa,
| laid in the grove, where corn, frank
| furters, sandwiches, marshmallows, lcm
| onade and apples were served. Mrs
| Beryl Dunncll and sister, Miss Loi.
| Craig, did the entertaining.
The body of Orviee r. Leonard OF
| Detroit was brought here yesterday al
ternoon for burial III Prospect Hill
cemetery. Rev. Nelson Kellogg, recto
of st. Michael s Episcopal church, of
| ficiated at the committal service anC
the bearers were Odd Fellows, Charles
A. MeRae, Emory J. Eddy, Charles W
C1eaveland and George NJ. Clay. Mr.
| aud Mrs. Leopold j. Retting of Mt
\ Clemens, Mich, Allen W. Flint of De
troit and Mr.. and Mrs. Adm y Wrigh
and son, Leonard, of Cambridge, Mass
were present. Mr.. Leonard was a broth
er of Mrs. Retting and Mrs. Wrigh
and a personal friend of Mr. Flint.
Having moved to 13 Chestnut street,
Will be pleased to call on any persons VIII,
wish to buy goods for which ! am agent j
they VIII please notify me by mail L. NJ
A.,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18

Miss Edith NJ. Esterbrook will give an
illustrated talk on \ Trip to Hawaii and
will show pictures of our national parks
and Of the San Francisco exposition, IN
the Unitarian parish house Monday even
ing at O'Clock Admission Doc.
ADV. 111-1I2
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18
MARRIAGES.

In Brattleboro, Sept. II, by Carl S. Hop
kins, Esq, Walter NJ. Barnes and Matilda
f Bailey. both Of Boston.
In Brattleboro, Sept Is, by Carl S. Hop
llins, ESQ., Philip J Stanton of Keene, \
H., and Miss Eva L. Howe of Chesterfield
N LII
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18

Montenegro is the smallest Balkan
state, its area being 5,603 square miles
or about two-thirds the size of Wales
Serbia has an area of 1860 square
miles. Rumania 50,720, and Bulgaria
1851.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18

Dimpleton-It is time to give the
baby his milk and the little soul is
asleep. | want him to wake naturally
Dimpleton-That's easy. I'll snore
a few times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18
DEATHS.

Tn Brattleboro, Sept II, Mrs Maria
(Veech) Gilfeather, 73, wife of Felix Gil
feather.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18

Italy has manufactured salt CONNER
eially for more than $500 years,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18

Having moved to 43 Chestnut street, !
will be pleased to cali on any persons who
wish to buy goods for which / am agent if
they VIII please notify me by mail l.. NJ.
Carpenter. ADV. 110lI1%
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-18
A California Motion Picture Corp
FEATURE.

by arrangement with the Lieble
Co.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-09-09
ARLINGTON

Miss Eva Cole is visiting in New
York.
Fred Stickles visited at his home in
Sandgate Sunday.
Percy Lathrop is putting up an adj
dition to his house.
Miss Magdalene Walker visited in
Manchester Monday.
Miss Catherine Walker is visiting
relatives in Burlington.
The Misses Farley are entertaining
relatives from Burlingtno.
Lawyer Maurer of Bennington, was
in town Saturday on business.
Mrs. Joseph Stevens is in the Sa-
marian Hospital in Troy, N. Y.
Harold Simpson of Roxbury, visit
ed friends in town the first Of the
week
Mrs. Smith and daughter and Miss
Rose Gagnon spent Saturday in Ben
nington.
Mrs. Geo. H. Pratt and son Francis
are visiting the formers mother in
Rutland.
Miss Meta Mills of Albany spent
Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Z. G.
Woodwork
Mr.. and Mrs. John Risdon have been
entertaining niece Of Mr.. Risdon's
the past week.
John Bates, who has been in town
nearly all summer, returned to his
home in Albany Saturday.
Eli Lathrop Of Schenectady, N. y,
spent Labor Day with his mother,
Mrs. May Lathrop.
The past week has been devoted to
mission in the st. Colombo Church,
Rev. FIR. Mulligan having charge.
The refrigerator factory began OPP
erations with full force Tuesday
morning, after a four weeks shut
down.
Mr.. and Mrs. jerome Lakin visited
the past week with their daughter,
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-09-09
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER

Washington, D. c., Sept. For
two successive years surveys of min
eral resources in Alaska were delayed
and prevented by neglect Of the Dem
ocrats.
Failure to pass the appropriations
for these surveys in time to equip the
experts from the Geological Survey
made the work impossible.
Reports from the Chief of the Alas
ka Mineral Resources Division furnish
an official account Of how this import
ant activity was hindered by the neg
ligent delay of the Democratic
House.
"In 1912 the appropriation for the
continuation of the investigation OF
mineral resources Of Alaska was not
made until August a." says the adj
ministrative report for that year.
"As a consequence Of this delay but
little could be accomplished, and the
projects undertaken could be carried
out only at relatively heavy expense
"only three parties out Of the II
eventually dispatched to Alaska had
a full seasons field work. Several
other parties were dispatched under
temporary grants, but the funds we're
SO inadequate that the parties were
undermined and but poorly equipped.
Several important pieces Of work had
to be abandoned"
Appropriation for the same work
was delayed the next year. The offic-
ial description Of the way this embar-
raised the Alaska surveys is even
more striking, the report declaring
that il caused loss Of 20 per cent IN
time, heavy money loss, and a check
in efficiency that cannot be estimated.
"A careful estimate shows that the
actual monetary loss occasioned by
the delay-that is, expenditure for
which there was no return-was over
seven percent Of the total appropria-
tion. There was also a loss Of effic-
iency brought about by the delay Of
the field work and consequent change
of plans which cannot be expressed in
figures"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-09-09
HIGHER CITIZENSHIP
HIGHER AGRICULTURE"


Notable Speakers win Deliver Ad.
f dresses on This Subject al Vermont
State Fair.
/ The Vermont State Fair Commits
sion has arranged with men Of note
to visit the State Fair al White River
Junction on Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, Sept. II, 10, is
and II and deliver addresses on the
two subjects, Higher Citizenship
and Higher Agriculture"
i The addresses on Higher Agricul-
ture" will be delivered in the new pub
/ lie service building each morning Of
/ the fair at 10 o'clock These address
es, which will be mace by prominent
men who have extensive knowledge on
the subject Of agriculture, will last an
hour each.
The addresses on Higher Citizen
ship" will be delivered in front of the
grandstands, all seats on the stands to
be free each day, at II o'clock in the
forenoon. The speakers for Tuesday
and Wednesday are yet to be an
nouneed, but it may be stated that
they will be men Of note.
On Thursday Dir. Nicholas Murray
Butler president of the Columbia
University, and an educator of inter
national prominence will be the speak
err What he VIII have to say on
Higher Citizenship" is sure to have
an interest for all his hearers.
On Friday Hon. John w. Weeks Of
Massachusetts,, United States Senator
and a possible candidate for the presi-
dency, will deliver the address. This
will be a political address. The Sena-
tor will speak on the subject of
Higher Citizenship and his promin-
ence in the nations affairs entities
him to a'large audience.
The other speakers of the week will
be announced in the daily press as
soon as they have accepted the invita-
ton to speak by the State Fair Com
mission.
Everything is in readiness for the
opening of the Vermont State Fair.
With the extensive exhibitions Of cat
tie, horses, sheep, swine, poultry, ag-
ricultural and horticultural products,
the farm display will be as interesting
as in former years.
The races promise to be exception
ally good. In every event there are
large entries.
The aerial warfare exhibition will
furnish thrills sufficient to satisfy the
most exacting. Parachute drops from
balloon will also speed up the cir
culation. Vaudeville stunts will be
many and novel. The midway will be
extensive and of a most diversified
character. Captain Chauncey Red
ding, the aviator, will also give exhi-
billions of flying and from height of
three thousand feet Leon d. Smith
will drop from aeroplane, using a par
achute.
Boards Of trade and similar organ
izations from all over the state are
arranging to visit the fair in automo-
bile tours. Low rates and special
trains on the railroads are announced
by all the transportation companies.
On Thursday there will be an auc-
ton sale of thoroughbred holstein
cattle and southdown sheep. These
sheep are from the U. S. Government
farm at Middlebury.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-09-09
RREITKOPFS MOTION
PICTURE ARCADE
Monday Afternoon and Evening
September 18th, 1915
Matinee at 3 p. NJ. loc ana Zoc
Evening 7:45 and 9l5 zoc

Mrs. William Hitchcock, Of Manches-
ter Center.
Miss Irene Buck is assisting in the
local telephone exchange during the
vacation of Miss Ida Forth, who IS
visiting friends in Burlington.
Mrs. Fred Rock and daughter, who
have been visiting the formers sister,
Mrs. f. Walker for two weeks, return
ed to their home in Burlington, Sun
day.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-09-09
A MERCILESS JUDGE
One Who Shows No Favor

A merciless judge is Father Time,
Before him the weak and the wanting
20 to the wall Only the truth can
stand. For years the following state
ment from a Manchester Center resi-
dent withstood this sternest Of all
tests.
Mrs. H. j. Fuller, North Street,
Manchester Center, says: 81 suffered
from lameness in the small of my
back for long time. | also had severe
pains in my loins that made STOPPING
almost impossible. Other symptoms
of disordered kidneys bothered me.
Doan's Kidney Pills soon removed the
pains and my kidneys were restored to
a normal condition. Statement given
Aug. q, 1909.
PERMANENT RESULTS
MORE THAN TWO YEARS
LATER Mrs. Fuller said: "The bene-
fit Doan's Kidney Pills gave me has
been permanent. | have never had
any kidney trouble since"
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Fuller has twice publicly recon-
mended. Foster Milburn Co., Props,
Buffalo, N. Y. adv'-zo-z
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-09-09

Itch! Itch! Itch Scratch! Scratch!
Scratch, The more you scratch, the
worse the itch. Try Doan's Ointment.
For eczema, any skin itching. SOC a
box. adv
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-08-20
WIND RISES HIGH
WHILE GLASS FALLS
No Great Damage to Property and
No Loss of Life Reported
at Galveston.

Galveston, Texas, Aug. 16.-At 8
o'clock the barometer had fallen to
20 and still falling. The wind is blow
ing 65 miles an rtour. There is about
three feet of water in the streets OF
Galveston near the bay. No great
damage to property has occurred and
no loss of life has been reported.
A hea-. rain fell throughout the
day and tonight streets were filed with
water to curbings.
Nno estimate as to the extent OF the
storm in the surrounding country
could be made tonight by the weather
bureau. owing to an interruption IN
wire communication.
It is estimated that 5000 persons
left Galveston by train and automobile
during the last Sc Icours. Tonight
practically all of the homes, especially
those on the beach, have ben evacu-
ated and the people are gathered in
downtown hotels and public buildings
The life saving crew was neld in
readiness during the day, but there
has been no occasion for its use.
Electric light wires were put out OF
commission by the storm and tonight
the city virtually is in darkness.
Ample warning was given shipping
Of the approaching storm and no YES
sells left port today. Several ships are
due here and have been reported as
standing by several miles off shore.