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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10

When the last tariff revision took
place there was a great cry for re-
duetion of the duty on chemicals, the
argument being that they were dis
tinetly a European product and that
it was a waste of time to make them
here. Now there is a demand for a
tariff on chemicals on the ground that
we must learn to make them, and that
we can't do so at the low scale Of
wages that have prevailed in Europe.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10

Army methods viii shape Anchorage in
to model town. 1t appears that the
officer in command of the railroad en-
terprise is lieutenant of cavalry,
rather than being of that branch of the
service which built the Panama ca
nal, the corps of engineers. So, also
the chairman of the Alaska road COM
mission, which constructs the wagon
roads and trails, is a colonel of in
fantry. Here is another reminder of
the versatile talent found III our army,
and its great usefulness in time OF
peace.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10
Wisdom.

Wisdom is not the same with under
standing, talents, capacity, ability, sa-
gacity, sense or prudence; not the
same with any one of these; neither
will all these together make it up. 1t
is that exercise of the reason into
which the heart enters; a structure of
the understanding rising out of the
moral and spiritual nature. 1t is for
this cause that high order of wisdom
that is, a highly intellectual wisdom
is still more rare than a high order
of genius When they reach the very
highest order they are one; for each
includes the other, and intellectual
greatness is matched with moral
strength.-Sir Henry Taylor
Excursion to Newport, r. l., August
&c See Ad on mace 6
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10
Municipal Efficiency.
Springfield Reporter.)

The Brattleboro Reformer with 4
persistency that is deserving of sue-
cess still keeps reminding its readers
of the advantages of the town manager
in local government. Brattieboro would
be an ideal town in which to install
this model form of government in Yer
mont and once established we doubt If
there was ever a return to the system
now IL vogue in all our communi-
ties. The commission form of govern
ment and the town manager is the last
word in municipal efficiency.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10
Tuesday.

1t is interesting to pick up trade
paper and to read in it an account of
lot of things that didn t happen at
the recent meeting of the Vermont
Press association at Barton and Viii
loughby lake. The man who gets his
information from an advance program
aud who uses the past tense in writing
is likely to riddle accuracy with holes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10
Without the Death Penalty.

The death penalty has been abolish
ed in Rhode Island since 1852, In
Michigan since 1S47, in Maine since
1887, in Wisconsin for quite number
CT years, in Kansas since 1907, in
Holland since 1860. in Saxony since
1868 and in Belgium since 1881. 1t
has been abolished In Italy, Switzer-
land, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and
Portugal.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10

The damage to highways by rain
storms will make a heavy burden this
year to many small towns throughout
the New England states. 1t is usually
the sparsely settled towns that have
the steepest hills, where the water runs
with great force and produces the
biggest washouts. y great deal of
damage could be saved by paying
more attention to the cutters.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10

People say owe have had no sum
mer," and they are right in the sense
that there has been no long-continued
period of warm, pleasant weather. But
there are signs that summer is waning,
and among them we note the announce
ment that the first Of the big Vermont
" fall'' fairs will open at Barton next
Tuesday
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10

Are you a chess player?" a landlord
asked prospective tenant. Il much pre-
fer to have my houses occupied by chess
players
NO, | am not a chess player, and |
can't account for such singular prefer
ence, replied the would-bc tenant.
1T is simple enough said the landlord
Chess players move so seldom, and rarely
without great deliberation Butte Min.
er.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10
TO SUBSCRIBERS,

1t is the aim OF the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery
of the paper each night, and 1T solicits
the cooperation OF subscribers to thai
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, 1915-08-10

In recent travels about the state va
rious remarks were heard about the
possibility of a senatorial contest next
year. If Carroll 5. Page desires to re
turn to Washington again-and there
is nothing TO indicate that he has
reached the age where he has put aside
ambition-he is likely to find other as
pirants at the starting line.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10
Member Of the Associated press.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1915.

Granite sheds around Montpelier as
IRE hazards seem to be in the same
class with portable steam sawmills III
remote rural regions.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10

dTtISLIG dUIIII do
as well as agree
able color mix
lures. Too many
colors are not pleas.
ing nor are coiorS
which clash like
beet red and car
rot. or tomato. \
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run of paper,
50 cents an inch for first insertion; 25
cents an inch for each subsequent inser-
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 per line
first insertion with so per cent discount
for each subsequent insertion without
change Of copy.
Position 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10
1TEEz: E.EEIL.IN[
I6GA 90 |lE:)I.I NET

If your own day is dark. make lit
tie sunshine for someone else. Re
fiected light is a great deal better than
no light, and sometimes it is the most
precious of all Nominations.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10
Dead Are Free From Debt.

The war will do one thing for the
men who die in the trenches; 1t will
relieve them of the burden of helping
to pay the war debt This will be
heritage to their children to the third
and fourth northumberland Pest.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10
SALADS OF DIFFERENT KINDS

In the mixing of combinations for
salads there is a vast field to display
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10
A Progressive Job.
springfield Reporter.)

In a letter to The Brattleboro Ia
former on the fast driving III the vi
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10

YOUR WANTS
IN THE DAILY REFORMER
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10

Excursion to Newport, r. l., August
&c. See Ad. on page 6.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10

Chile S production Of copper in 1914
vas 100000 metric tons.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-07

post when someone drove up to little tree at Christmas and hitched.
 The horse ate the bark around the tree trunk. Then we thought we had better set some posts for people to hitch to, if we were going to save our trees
 One of the parents, MT. Whitehouse, said he would get the posts. 9
 He got the posts, about six feet in length, and peeled them.
 Then one of the pupils took his grandpa's horse and went after them.
 little while after that Prof. A. J Brundage came and we told him what we were going to do. So he was kind enough to dynamite and blow out the holes.
 He cut a stick of dynamite in three pieces. In each end of the pieces of dynamite he put fuse and on the fuse he put cap.
 IT it wasn't for the cap, the dynamite wouldn't % off.
 After MT. Brundage had the dyna- mite fixed we took crowbar and made three holes. MT. Brundage put the dynamite in the holes. We got some sand out of the road and filled the holes.
 MT. Brundage lighted the fuse and the dynamite 1oosened the soil so we could easily dig the holes. We put the posts in the holes about two feet. Then We stood the posts up straight, We put stones in the holes and hammered them down so you couldn't move them. Then we painted the posts.
 I hope all schoolhouses have hitch ing posts so as not to have the same trouble we did.
 MAURICE WHITEHOUSE, Age 12.
 Mt Hone,
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-07

canal because they had lost all con hdence in the scheme
 In 1899 the route for canal was sold to the United States by the Re- public of Panama. Then the Amer jeans set to work to complete the canal, but they saw that they could not build it unless the Canal zone was made healthful in order that they could live there.
 The mosquitoes there carry disease. They made it more healthful than some parts of the United States.
 In 1910 there were 3S,67S men em- ployed there.
 The total length of the canal is 50 1-2 miles.
 In going from New York to San Francisco about 7.S73 miles will be saved by going through the canal instead of going around South Amer ica.
 Forty tons of dynamite set off by President Wilson destroyed the last barrier between the Pacific and At lantic oceans.
 ALICE M GORMAN, Age Il.
 Versailles
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-07
AboIishir- Fahrenheit.

IL has been suggested in a scien- tific journal that England should cease using Fahrenheit's thermometer. see ing that it's inventor was q German. and follow the French by using the Centigrade, which was invented, not, as is commonly supposed, by a. FTenchman, but by a. Swede, Celsius. It is true that Fahrenheit was born in Germany. but he lived nearly all his life in England.
 It was in England that he invented his thermometer. which for popular use is more convenient than either the Centigrade or Reaumur, as for ordin- ary temperatures it obviates the use of the minus sign. Fahrenheit fixed his zero g degrees below freezing point, and though he was quite wrong in thinking that temperature was the lowest btainable-physicist have aI- ready gone over 400 degrees lower he gave us a scale for everyday use which any one can understand.-Pa Mall Gazette.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-07
THE POOL

Grandfather Lowater makes it q practice To feed the winter citizens of The Pool. Mills have shut down. food Is scarce and although many have laid in & winters supply, still there is a long bread line. The following hap pened on a late charity expedition:
 Grandpa. teacher says the principal parts of all plants are called roots, stem and leaves: that if alive and in normal health, there is no season of the year these three plant parts can not be found. Our study of botany for the next month Is to be based on this thought, and she asked us to talk with our friends. I have been thinking about it as we walked here. These trees are bare Of their leaves.
 You are like too many others, and allow appearances to deceive you. Not only are the leaves apparently gone, except from a few oaks and the term inal tWigs of a few like the apple but We are standing where lately appeared the stems and leaves of certain her baciOus plants. By herbacious 1 mean plants with stems that are soft and not wooded as are the shrubs and trees. Those stems we will call woody
 These plants are asleep WhatA do you do when you sleep? Undress and crawl into the bed clothesi
 Let Us not be so nasty then in say 9ng. these woody stem plants have no leaves. Maybe we are deceived be- cause these woody stems, children, are Ike some humans, have undressed and t1Eo'Sn their clothing without caring where it landed, and then with sleepy eyes have been wrapped in warm night clothes and quilts prepared by others D4o you know any such boys or girls?
 Yes, Pm afraid do.
 Plents are like humans in more ways than many people think. Let us exam inc this small branch of @ woody stem, What sleepy limb of an un- dressed living thing! Not Q leaf. you say, in sight. What are these little fellows that hug this twig so lovingly? And what is this independent fellow that IS above hugging anything here at the end ?
 BCds, you say?
 Yes. but what is a bud Alice, and how did it get here?
 That's it-baby leaves, Leaves wrapped in winter clothing and put to ned uacer these warm bed clothes by others as We may see. This terminal Eeliow not only had q leaf nurse but was the pet of the food deDartment Last spring the mother plant put into fhe care ana axll of eacil leaf one of tAese babies Each leaf was a hired nurse. II fed, protected and cherished in Natures way its special baby. These babies znew. became sweIled up with their own importance and not only had worked so hard for them. (Again . think ] know oe some human children dat act tn nearly the same way.)
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-07
NO REASON FOR IT
When Norwich Citizens Show a Way,

There can be no reason why any reader of this who suffers the tor lures of an aching back, the annoy ance of urinary disorders, the pains and dangers of kidney ills will fail to heed the words of neiglhbor who has found relief. Read what a Nor wick citizen says:
 Mrs. Mary Neff, 465 Main St, Nor wich. says: For many years one of my family was subject to attacks of kidney complaint. He suffered from pains across his Joins and at times could scarcely get about on account of his back being so stiff and lame. The kidney secretions were irregular in passage and often contained sed- iment. Deans Kidney Pills, procured at N. D. Sevin 6; Sons Drug Store. proved of benefit from the first and soon every symptom of kidney com plaint disappeared. I willingly con- firm all I said in praise of Doan's Kid ney Pills in the statemene gave a few years ago. Nothing has occurred to change my high opinion of this remedy"
 Price soc, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy-get Doan's Kidney PilIs-the same that Props, Buffalo. N. Y.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-07
A History Test.

Laura and Louise were two good friends.
 Louise felt a little jealous of Laura because she was at the head of her class in history.
 1t was hard for Louise to keep up est study.
 Each year there was a history test and the smartest pupil received a prize.
 It was the morning of the history test and they were all seated in their seats as the teacher passed out the papers.
 They were all ready.
 The teacher then asked:
 When did Columbus discover Amer ica?'
 There was a scratching of pens and then all the faces looked up ready for another question.
 The teacher then asked one after another. She wrote the last few questions on the board.
 A few minutes later Lo1ise rose in her seat and waved her hand
 The teacher asked: ''What is it Louise?'
 Laura is looking in her book for the answer" said Louise.
 All the faces turned toward Laura. Laura's face grew crimson as the teacher walked up the aisle.
 Laura, did you look in your his- tory for the answers ?'' the teacher asked sternly.
 'T-I-I have finished my lesson and I took cut my library book to read
 T am glad you didn't copy said the teacher. as she walked to her desk.
 That afternoon Laura won the prize. Louise was sorry she had spoken so quick.
 Laura forgave Louise and they were Fri Tao
 DOROTHY RASMUSSEN, Age il.
 Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-07
Respect for Elders.

It happened at Athens, during a public representation of some play ex- hibited in honor of the commonwealth that an old gentleman came too late for place suitable to his age, and quality.
 Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty he was in, made signs to him that they would accom- modate him if he came where they sat.
 The good old man hustled through the crowd accordingly; but when he came to the seats to which he was invited the jest was to sit close and expose him. as he stood embarrassed, to the whole audience.
 The froIic went around all the Atnenian benches; but on these occa- sions there were also particular places assigned for foreigners.
 When the good man skulked toward the boxes appointed for the Lace demonians, that honest people, more virtuous than polite, rose up all, to a man, and with the greatest respect received him among them.
 The Athenians, being suddenly touched with a sense of Spar tan virtue and their own degeneracy, gave a thunderous applause, and the old man cried out:
 ''The Athenians understand what IS good, but the Spartans practice iti" MASTER LEONELE BLANCHETTE
 TafVille,
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-07
Yellowstone Park.

The Yellowstone Park is situated in the northwest corner of the state of Wyoming. just about midway be- tween St. Paul and Portland, Oregon. It is a large wilderness on the sum- init Of the Rocky mountains.
 or the four national parks of the west Yellowstone is the largest. It is almost as large as the state of Con- nectiCut
 This park is full of natural won ders. It was not built by man, but Iby nature. At it's lowest point it is more than a, mile above the sea, and there are mountains about it which are more than two miles in height.
 The surface of the park is a roll Ing plateau, parts of which are GOV cred with wood, while in other parts are wonderful cliffs and deep canyons.
 The most curious things about this park are it's geysers and hot springs.
 There is one hot spring which has formed a white hill about two hundred feet high As the water flows over the top of the hills it falls into a semi circular basin. The mineral matter crystallizing from the water which flows over the sides of the ba- sins has imprinted upon them all shades of blue, scarlet, green and vel low. The water at the top is boiling hot. It grows cooler as it flows from basin to basin.
 There is one spring which throws forth masses or green, StiIny mud mix ed with sulphur. The smell of this is very sickening.
 The Grand Geyser, the greatest in the world, throws forth a volume of steam and boiling water three hundred feet into the air. There are other Seysers which throw I'D quantities of mud.
 Most of the seysers build up stony fountains about them, formed of the minerals which are in the water.
 PrTTH H. CLARK, Age 12.
 Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-07
LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
The Mortimer.

Dear Uncle Jed: Away up in the northland, where the ice and snow never melt, lived little Prince Eric. He did not live in a palace as the princes in fairy stories do. In the summer he lived in a hut on the llill- side, and in the winter he lived in cave in the mountains.
 Eric liked the winter, for then the men built roaring fires in the caves and sat and told wonderful stories and sang wonderful songs.
 Why does the warm summer go away" Prince Eric asked one day; and why does the long cold winter come?''
 Tt is because the summer and the frost giants have had a battle,' Eric's father said. '"The frost giants have won the battle and have put summer to sleep. But by and by summer will wake. Then he will whisper to the trees and to the flowers, and they will send out their leaves to make the world glad again. He will breathe upon the brooks that are covered with Ice, and they will dance and sing. Then the frost giants will have to run away to their homes in the mountains, for they cannot live here when sum mer's awake"
 Little Prince Eric liked a storm. He liked to hear the thunder roar and to see the lightnin0 flash.
 The rumble of the thunder is the voice of the God his father said, 'and the Hghtnin" is the flash of His eye''
 One day Prince Eric saw a rainbow He had never seen one before and it was very wonderful to him.
 By and by when Prince Eric had grown to be man he built for him. self 8 great ship and sailed out into the open sea.
 T will find new lands" he said.
 Eric sailed and sailed till he came fn Tani icI1 af I,.z a rew home for himself and his people By and by Eric had little son. He named him Jeff. But the people al- ways called him Fries son. He liked to hear about the wonderful voyage his father had made across the sea, so upon the sea with a crew of brave northmen. He sailed out into the west till he came to Greenland. Then he sailed on and on till he came to long shore that reached north and south as far as he could see. This these northmen were the first white men that had ever come to it.
 The skrellings, as Jeff called the natives, because of the 'squealing noises they made, came down to the shore to see what this strange ship was, and why it had come.
 1t is a big dragon!" the skrellings said. See its head and tail; hoW they shine in the sunlight
 The stern of the ship too was high, and was built in the shape of q dra- gon's tail. The head and tail were covered with gold, and the gold shone in the sunlight like fire.
 The skreilines could frighten the Norsemen sometimes. One day they came down to the shore with long poles. On the ends of the poles were big blue balls which made wflizzing noise as the skreilings whirled them about.
 The noTthmen had never seen any thing like it before and they fled to their ship as fast as they could.
 In our country the northmen found more wild grapes than they could eat They had never seen 50 much fruit before. So when they went back to their own land Jeff Ericsson said:
 Behold, we have found wonderful country and we have named it Vine landi''
 FRANCIS o'CoNNELL, Age 10.
 Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-07
Kitty Cana Rack.

Dear Uncle Jed: One day when Ger trude was coming home from the store she heard someone throwing stones and heard a cat crying.
 Just as she came around a corner she saw 9 boy throw a stone at lit tie kitten. He was ready to throw an- other when she grabbed the kitten.
 One of the boys told her to put the kitten down or he would throw. the stone at her. She was afraid he would and started to put the kitten down. Then she said she would not be a coward; so she ran home as fast as she could with the kitten tight in her arms. When she reached the door she was all out of breath.
 Her mother took her in her arms and aslled her why she had been run ming so. Then she told her the whole story.
 When her father saw the kitten he told her it's leg was broken.
 Gertrude's father was 8 doctor, so he doctored the kittens leg until it was all right again.
 She named the kitten Faith. When she called the kitten would come to her.
 One day Gertrude called and it didn't come. Then she began to cry and cried herself to sleep. When she awolIe Faith was by her side, fast asleep. She took the kitten in her arms and ran into the house, saying:
 T knew my kitty would come back g
 EDITH BUSHNELL, Age 14.
 Norwich