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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-11
BELGIAN RELIEF
WORK REPORTS
Meeting of Committee in Rest Room
Voted to Aid Local Charities and
Continue Foreign Work

4 meeting of the Red Cross relief
committee was held in the rest room
Saturday afternoon. Reports of the
officers in charge of the relief work
for the Belgian fund were made. The
treasurer s report showed that 5255.67
had been received from the various in
dividuals and that there was balance
on hand of $685.. The sale of the
RiteNe calendars netted the commit
tee $40.
In all, 30l skeins of yarn We're knit
ted into various articles to, be includ-
ed in the long list of, useful things
sent to Belgium. Some of this work,
as well as work on garments Cf other
materials, was done by women Of New
| fame and Brookline who applied for
| the work, finished it and re- urned it
| promptly to the committee. To them
and to the local women and the or
CARNATIONS, the committee is DESTROYS
of extending thanks.
There is some work still CHI hand and
this will be finished and returned to
1 the committee. The headquarters in
the vacant store III the American
/ building will be open until further no.
tiee from $50 to 5 p. III. every Mon
day, Thursday and Saturday. Arrange
ments have been made by which more
work will be done and the materials
will he provided at headquarters and
distributed to those who will take it.
This will be in the nature of both
knitting aud sewing and will so tC
the Belgian Red Cross.
The first box which was sent, the re
ceipt of which has been duly .acknowl
edged to the committee, contained Is
outing flannel nightshirts. % surgeon ;:
shirts. IS towels. 1856 triangular sling
81 elbow Sings. 20 pairs of mules, Ii;
llanuel bands, Is helmets, IS package,
surgeon S dressings, Il erocheted muf
Gers. 80 knitted muf1iers, 40 kni
bands, 1T pairs of wristcrs, ii pair
of heclless hose. four pairs OF WOO
socks, two pairs of mittens.
Miss Anna J.. Davis, superintendent
of the Mutual Aid association, discuss
ed briefly with the committee the ur
gent need Of relief work at home. men
tioning in some detail local condition
with which she is familiar. 1t wa
voted by the committee to lend aid t
the charitable organizations of III
| town as we'll as to continue to aid fol-
/ cign Organizations.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-11
HELPFUL WORDS
From ?. Brattleboro Citizen.

Is your back lame and painful.
Does it ache especially after exer-
ton?
Is. there soreness in the kidney re-
gion?
These symptoms suggest weak kid
ncys.
If so there is danger in delay.
Weak kidneys get fast weaker.
Give your trouble prompt attention.
o Doan 8 Kidney Pills are for weak
kidneys. ..:
Your ncighbors~ use and recommend
them.
Read this Brattleboro testimony.
Mrs. A. G. Chadwick, 200 Elliot
street, Brattleboro, says: ~ had dis.
ordered kidneys and suffered con,
stantly from backache and distressing
pains across my loins. / could hardly
get around to do my homework.
doctorcd and tried several medicines
but nothing brought me relief until ]
got Doan s Kidney Pills at the Brat
tleboro Drug Co. Two boxes removed
the backachc and other symptoms Of
the trouble. -
Price soc at all dealers. Don :,
simply ask for a kidney rcmedy-ge
Doan = Kidney Pills-thc same tina
Mrs. Chadwick had. Foster MilburI
Co., Props, Buffalo, n. Y.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-11
HINSDALE, N. H.
LeFAY TAKEN TO JAIL.
Held Tor April Term, Charged with At
tempting to Assault Girl.

Charles LeFaN was arrested Friday
afternoon by Sheriff +. Q. Pack ard on
the charge of wilfully and felouiously
attempting to assault little EVELYN
Chamberlain, $. daughter of Nh and
Mrs. Ira Chamberlain, who live on the
Plain. LeFay was taken to Winchester
Saturday to have a hearing before
Judge Pierce. who found sufficient evil
dence to hold him until the April term
OF court. The respondent pleaded not
guilty and was representated by Joseph
Madden of Keene. while Charles Mad
den looked after the state : side.
LeFay was taken to the l[eenc Jail,
where he must remain until the April
term of court, this being one of the
cases in which the police Justice has
no authority to fix bonds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-11
JESSE PcMERoy's MOTHER DEAD
Long Time Convict lay &c P~m:tt2l
to Attend Funeral

BOSTON. Jan. li.-M.s Ruth a.
Pomeroy, -, whose long and unsnc-
ccssful battle for the release of her
son Jesse from state-prison has at
tracted wide attention. died of pneu-
monia at the home of her daughter in
North Weymouth last night. 1t was
said last hight that application would
probably be made to Gov. Walsh TO
obtain permission for the son. who is
under a life sentence OF solitary con
finement for murder To attend the
funeral Pomeroy has been in prison
nearly half . century.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-11

upon his return started travel lectures,
irterspersed with monologuc, which
won favor in this city.
He was born in Geneva. \. Y. ia
1889, the son of DR.. Louis de Nalois
and Mary \. (Holfann) Wilder. He
married in 1908 Miss Sophie Cornell
Hunks of Brooklyn, who died more than
Il year ago. Wilder was the author of
several books
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-11

\ famous German physician proves
that infantile paralysis is often car
ried from one household to another by
domestic animals, such as chic kens,
ducks and cows.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-11

How can YOU tell chronic Dor
rover from any other man? asked
the Old Fogy. by the sense of
touch, - replied the Crouch. - Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-11
A Little Higher.

Woodby-I don t see Wiscman ut all
now. He has dropped out of our social
set.
Goodby-He tells a different story.
Woodby-lndeed2
Goodby-Yes. He claims he climbed
out.-Baltimor News.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-11
ESTABLISHED 1870.
Exclusive Underta kinq
BOND e. SON

REGIsTERED EMBALMERa,
Mass, 1902. VI. 87 "a. N. H, 2GU
Reasonable Prices, Correct Service.
Autos in Season
Tal 2Giw BRATTLEBoRo. VT,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-11
Professional Cards

DIR. HENRY TUCKER. Residence, 10 Grove
ST.; telephone. 25S. Office, Leonard block.
Hours, $50 TO 3, aud Z to 8. Telephone,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-24
HER CHECKERBOARD
COAT GOT CROWD
First Sight of Her on the Promenade
i'm the Saturday Afternoon March,
Got Peoples Attention.

And now the woman with the
checkerboard coat has arrived. What
a spectacle she is! The first sight
of her on the promenade was great
err boon to the crowd than the first
circus of the season, observes west
ern newspaper. 1t happened on a
sunny Saturday afternoon, when the
town was absorbed in its hebdo-
madal march. So close was the hu-
man crush that locomotiOn was diff
cult. The toiling promenaders seem
ed to note little excepting the woman
with the checkerboard coat. She
was by the very longest odds the most
conspicuous, the most observed, the
most discussed and the most self-ap-
proved person in the endless throng.
How her heart must have throbb-
ed and leaped and thumped with the
Joy that always springs from Wo-
mans discovery that she has some
thing unlike the possessions OF all
other women in sight.
She has shrewdly chosen as her
comrade for the afternoon a demure
little woman with Quaker-like mod
esty of apparel and a manner OF
shrinking timidity. The contrast was
assertive. No one could have failed
to notice it. Up, down and across the
avenue they moved, followed every
where by women for whom the coat
seemed to have a baleful but ire
sistible fascination.
The coat kept herself persistently
on view until darkness settled upon
the city: and then, with slow and
reluctant march, like the long, linger-
ing twilight of a summer day. she
faded in shadow, and was seen no
more-unti1 next day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-24
REMARKABLE NERVE
FOSTER EXHIBITED
After Being Fatally Shot He Refused
to Kill His Assailant After
Disarning Him.

Observation-Disclosures who eX-
amined the body of Stewart Floyd
Foster. former University of Geor-
gia athletic star, who was shot ana
killed by Nick Johnson, declare that
he must have had the most remarka-
Bile vitality as well as the most re-
markable nerve that they have ever
encountered to have done what he dld
after he was shot.
Foster was struck twice. The nrsI
bullet. which was the fatal one en-
tered his left breast, narrowly missed
the heart. took a downward course
going all the way through his BODY
and coming out at the left hip. me
second bullet wounded him slightly
in the left shoulder. -,
Fatally wounded and shot through
and through Foster grappled with the
man who had shot him and overpo"--
cred him, actually taking the plst0i
away from him. Then, II Is saiu,
Nick Johnson got down on MS Knees
and begged Foster not to shooI ~
which Foster calmly replied that ne
wouldn't be coward enough to snoos
an unarmed man. Foster retained
consciousness until he died seVeIal
hours later.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-24
CAUSES OF DEATH TOLD
BY BIG INSURANCE COMPANIES
The Occupations and Conditions That
Tend to Shorten Life.

Forty-three of the leading insur-
% companies of the United States
d nada have compiled from their
reco4 summary of occupations
and COM Cions that tend to shorten
life. These records show that among
locomotive engineers the mortality
was 60 per cent in excess of that eX-
perienced among the insured as a
whole, which is equivalent to five
years reduction in the average life
time.
The mortality among working min
ers in underground metal mines was
more than double that among other
insured men. This means an average
reduction of nine years in their life
time. Pneumonia and tuberculosis
are the principal causes Of death
among the miners.
These statistics show that tubercu-
lOsis frequently followed an attack of
pleurisy. Among men who had par
ent die of tuberculosis the mortality
was high at the younger ages, but
normal at the older ages. And among
men 40 pounds above the average
weight at the age of As the lifetime
was but four years less than men of
normal weight. The principal causes
of death among these overweight men
were diabetes, bright's disease, heart
disease and apopleXy.
AS might be expected the increas-
ed death rate among the locomotive
engineers was due largely to acct
dents incident to their occupation.
This was not true as regards miners,
however, or most of the other classes
investigated.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-24
SOME REMARKABLE
SUICIDE STATISTICS
No Year i'm the Last Twenty-Five Has
Been Below the Record of
the One Previous.

Remarkable statistics have been
gathered as to the number of suicides
in American cities and their relation
to the number of business failures in
the same period. During the last %
years the number of suicides has in
creased in a steady ratio, no single
year falling below the record of its
previous year.
In 1891, for instance, in 100 Amer
lean cities with a combined popula-
ton of 100000, there were 1,727
suicides, or a ratio of 1875 per 1907
900 population Ten years later,
while the population had increased
so per cent, the total number of sui
cides was 1855, or a rate of he's per
100, 600.
Twenty years later, in 1911, there
were AGO suicides in population of
about 100000, indicating that the
rate had increased to 1876 per 1907
600. Although the number of bust
ness failures correspond in a general
way W tu6 UuulD6l VI SulSluCo thC 10
lation is by no means direct
A year in which there were a great
many business failures usually finds
the proportion of suicides to the pop
ulation above the normal. In 1891
the rate of business failures in the
United States for every 1000 bust
ness concerns was 1917, while the
rate of suicides was 1875. During the
years 1867 the proportion of bust
ness failures increased to 10 per l.
900, and the proportion of suicides
jumped, in the same period, to 1853.
The greatest number of business
failures in the last % years occurred
in 1908, when the proportion was
1913, in which year the proportion OF
suicides per 100000 was 21S, which
was the highest in the same quarter
of a century.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-24

is about 100 yards long. In addition
TO sweeping he would cleanse the Gus
pidors and toilets.
Like all prisoners who have mon
ey. he was sent good things to eat
and had plenty to read. Frank got
lots of mail, but was not allowed to
see any of it until it had been opened
by the prison authorities.
The deputy warden of the state
farm also asserted that Mary Pha-
gan's slayer held himself a little
above the other prisoners and that
they regarded him with more or less
enmity.
what about this fellow Creen?"
went on the reporter. WAS he a saw
age prisoner"
"No; Bill was a well-behaved, or
derby and at times good-natured fell
low | came in contact with him
great deal. We never had any troub-
lie with Bill until he made his attempt
to take the life of Frank. Green is
now in irons. That's about the only
way we have to punish man who is
doing life. He has been chained to a
post in the prisoners sleeping room
Tic ulShI liz obhoSASN
Love DIR. McNaughtOn.
Mr.. Seay stated that the prisoners
at the farm had talked to him a
great deal of the kidnapping, but add
ed that they neither expressed them
selves as being glad or sorry that
Frank had been taken out and hang
ed. 1t was when the reporter referred
to DR.. McNaughton that the deputy
waxed enthusiastic.
Everybody loves the old man, )"
said Mr.. Seay. "And he is sure to be
pardoned sooner or later He is a
model prisoner and is willing at all
times to be of any assistance he can.
You can awaken him in the middle
of the night and you'll find him al
ways ready.
'@The doc is a fair physician and
could make money practicing. He
was principally instrumental in the
saving of Franks life at the time
Green worked on the neck of the not
ed prisoner with a knife"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-24
NOISE OF CENTRAL
DIES IN CANADA
Death of the Prominent Railroad
Man Attributed to OvereXertiOn
While on Fishing Trip.

MACON.-The news of the death
in Canada Tuesday afternoon of T. s..
Noise, general manager of the Cen
trail of Georgia railway, was received
in Macon with genuine regret by his
many friends in the railroad circles
with whom he camesin contact on his
many official visits to the city.
Mr.. Noise had been in i'll health
for two or three years and had not
been physically strong for two or
three months. He was on fishing
trip at the time of his death, and his
friends here think that it was prob
ably due to over-exertion. Only a
few months ago he returned from a
trip to Europe, where he had been in
search of health.
Twenty years ago Mr. Noise start
ed out with the Central of Georgia
railway as yardmaster at Montgom-
cry and had worked himself up to
the position of general manager,
which position he has held for many
years.
The body was taken to Montgom-
cry. Mr.. Noises former home, where
the funeral took place Sunday.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-24
GEORGIA WANTS NO OUTSIDE
HELP TO PROBE LYNCHING
Governor Harris Regrets There Is Disposition TO Aid
Will Do More Injury Than 1t Win Do Good

But if the members of the mob
are brought to justice it will be
through the courageous efforts of
Georgia officials and courts, support
ed by the sentiment of the citizens
of the state, and not through the
newspaper editorials and resolutions
of indignation and offers of rewards
coming from other states.
Il am afraid these things will only
serve to aggravate a situation that
already is deeply humiliatlng to our
people, and if they continue will
eventuate in a great deal more harm
than good by defeating the efforts OF
the state to apprehend the guilty par
ties
This comment was made to the
press by Governor Harris when atten.
ton was called to a great deal that
is being said and has been said by
the press of the country, particularly
of the north and east. about the
iynching of Leo NJ. Frank.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-24

THE disposition of some people
and the press of other states, the out
side world, in their comment on the
affair is unfortunate. ! deprecate 1t,
because it will eventuate in far more
harm than good. Whatever is done
in this matter will be done by the
state of Georgia; if the perpetrators
are brought to justice it will be by
and in the state of Georgia, and not
by the people OF Illinois, or Missouri,
or New Jersey, or New York, or any
other state.
THE lynching was crime against
the civilization of our state and a
blot upon Georgia's fair name that
cannot be erased None of us ap-
prove of mob violence or lynch law,
and all OF US regret what has hap
pened. I have and will continue to
exert every power at my command to
bring the members Of the mob to JUS
tice.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-24

Beer making is one of the princi-
pal industries of Kovno. Which may
explain why the Germans were so
anxious to take it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-24
.S16,OOO,OOG HORSES
Are SOLD TO ALLIES
NEW ORLEANS ALONE SHIPPED
NINE THOUSAND TO EUROPE's
FIGHTING NATIONS.
MANY FROM SOUTH GEORGIA
The Mule That Peacefully Pulled the
PlOw in Cotton Fields Also in the
Thick of Battle in Large Numbers.
5000 Price Paid for ''Gunners. .

$500 Price Paid for ''Gunners.'
NEW ORLEANS idea of
the tremendous drain upon this coun-
try for horses to be used in the Eu-
ropean war may be gathered from
the announcement that from the port
of New Orleans alone 5000 horses
and mules have been shipped to Eu-
rope since last December, the first
to be used by the allies in fighting.
From Southern States.
The value of these horses is esti-
mated at approximately SIC, 100000.
Most of the animals have come from
the Central Southern states, though
many have come from further west
and further east 1t is estimated that
some parts of the farming sections of
Southern Georgia, which is not
stock-raising state, the number of
farm animals has been reduced about
ten per cent as result of the de-
mands of the warning nations abroad.
That, it is expected, will be reflected
in reduction of crop acreage to.
slight degree.
For the last few days there has
been a large number of solid loads of
horses and mules coming into New
Orleans. The ports at which horses
and mules shipped from New Orleans
are delivered usually in England,
Avonmouth or Liverpool, and in
France La Pallice or Bordeaux.
Agents Throughout the Country.
While, as stated, large numbers of
horses are gathered from the Central
Southern states the source is by no
means restricted to this territory.
British purchasing agents are station
ed throughout the country, and the
horses gathered are assembled at fix
ed points, notably Denver, st. Louis
and Kansas City. The price paid for
"gunners," or horses used to trans
port artillery, averages about 5000.
Twice as many ''gunners" are puT-
chased as drafts" or as cavalry
mounts. An average of SITS is paid
for a good cavalry mount. The horses
purchased in this country are brand
ed with ~, - showing that the horse
came from the United States. The
purchasing agent who bought the
horse may also be identified by this
letter, since each uses a slightly diff
ferently formed letter.
The stock yards in New Orleans,
where the animals are assembled,
cover about eight acres, and will shed
$500 animals. Horses are thoroughly
examined as to their fitness for SER
vice. both at the point of purchase
and at, New Orleans.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-24
NEGRO is LYNCHED
IN DECATUR COUNTY
Attacks White Woman as She Drives
Along Country Road. Victim
Identifies Her Assailant.

CAMBRIDGE, Ga.-SO far as is
known the first criminal assault in
the history of Decatur county occurr-
ed Monday afternoon between Am
sterdam and Attapulgus. A prom
of the tobacco men there, was the
victim.
She was driving along country
road when the negro sprang into the
buggy and overpowered her. Search
ing parties early last night captured
the assailant, and after carrying him
before the victim she identified him
after saving the lives of several 9th
ers during the day through failure
to accuse them.
The negros victim has been uncon-
scious much of the time since the as
sault, and although she was already
in delicate health is reported to be
resting well.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-24
LIGHTNING CUTS MANY
VERY REMARKABLE DIDOES
A Common Trick, Among Others, Is
That of Undressing Its Victims.

That of Undressing Its Victims.
The antics played by lightning are
sometimes almost beyond belief A
common trick is that of undressing its
victims. In 1898 two girls and an
elderly woman were standing by a
reaping machine during a thunder
storm. A lightning flash struck the
woman and killed her on the spot,
while tn etwo girls were stripped to
the skin, even their boots being torn
from their feet. Otherwise they were
safe and sound and astonished.
In 1895 a man was struck by light
ming near Vallerois, in France, and
stripped naked. All that could be
found afterward of his clothes was a
shirt sleeve, a few other shreds and
some pieces of his hob-nailed boots.
Ten minutes after he was struck he
regained consciousness, opened his
eyes, complained of the cold and in
quired how he happened to be naked.
Such instances have been recorded
again and again. In one case mn
and two oxen were struck simultane-
ously and all three killed. The man
was found stripped 20 the skin, and
his boots had been carried 0 yards
away.
I'm other words" says Camille
Flammarion, the eminent French as
tronomer, lightning has been known
to split men in half. almost as with
an axe. On June 20, 1869, this hap
pened to a miller's assistant at
windmill near Croix. The lightning
struck him and spit him from his
head downward in two"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-24
THREE MILLION DOZEN EGGS
FROM CHINA TO AMERICA

During 1914 100000 dozen eggs
were shipped from Shanghai emma
70 American Pacific coast states; their
va1uo was $4,000, equivalent to 10
cents per dozen. The freight rate
from China to Pacific coast ports wa
r - on lines is IS per ton OF cases
of eggs to the ton, making d ,a,o y
approximately 10 cents per uQ ~ ;
Refrigerator space costs $40 a tOH'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-24
DIOGENES NEED NOT
SEARCH ANY LONGER
Honest Man Sought by the Ancient
Philosopher Is Reported to Have
Been Found in Savannah.


SAVANNAH.-No longer is the
honest man, for centuries hunted by
famous philosopher, creature of
the dim and hazy past. Never again
will Diogenes' footprints be seen on
the road of life in his quest of the
honest man, whose search caused on
lockers to doubt the old philosopher s
sanity in pursuing what was appar-
emily a will o. wisp.
For Diogenes in his ramblings over
the universe in the past hundred of
years, paused recently in Savannah,
and turning the rays of his latticed
lantern upon the countenance of one
Of the residents of the city discover
eds. C. Catherwood, a fiagman en-
ployed on the Tybee division of the
Central of Georgia railway.
And here is the story. Catherwood,
who was on one of the trains which
carried the large Seaboard family to
Tybee after their recent family re-
union in Savannah, found on the
train a valuable gold watch which
had been lost by A. G. Kinyon, super
intendent of the locomotive opera
tion of the Seaboard. Upon finding
the watch the fagman turned it over
to f. H. Daniels, in charge of the
Central of Georgia's Tybee division.
Mr.. Kinyon was communicated
with by Mr. Daniels, and the watch
finally reached the owner, who, not
knowing to whom to make out a
check, inscribed upon a check for the
reward the words, Pay to the order
of an honest man"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-24
UNITED STATES WILL SHIP
MONEY BY REGISTERED MAIL

BEGINNING Monday all government
money and securities will be trans
ported by registered mail instead of
express. The express companies. who
have been handling the traffic for
over a quarter of a century, will lose
neary a half million dollars q year.