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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13
INSURANCE.

The old saying that there is nothing
certain but death and taxes perhaps
Will have to be amended to include in
surance There is insurance now for
about everything under the sun and
everybody is taking it. 1t is fact that
more insurance was written in the year
1914 than had ever been written be-
fore. The figures are almost stagger-
ing. The new business written amount
ed to So, 496, 700, 468 in ordinary insur-
ance, and $S45, 6G9,775 industrial in
surance. Insurance in force increased
by 1878, 900 ordinary and $780,
100000 industrial, so that the total in
force on the books of the companies at
the end of the year was ST., 465 49,
S53 ordinary and $4,125,0 ,816 indus
trial, or a grand total of life insurance
protection of $21 ,591 053, 500.
To protect this vast amount of insur-
ance in force the companies hold assets
aggregating $4,934, 966, 53S. Twenty
billion dollars on peoples lives is al
most beyond comprehension. Insurance
on property is an absolute necessity.
No business man or property owner can
afford to be without insurance.
Life insurance is both a protection
and an investment. For many people
its great value lies in compelling them
to save to meet premiums. Thousands
of people in times of stress have found
their life insurance policies a valuable
asset, and thousands of families have
been kept from want by the insurance
which came to them upon the death OF
their head and chief provider.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13
More Confidence Shown.
lowell SUM-

The best and most significant news
item published for many weeks is that
the New York stock exchange has at
last decided to operate without any
restrictions. Following the outbreak
of the war, it was compelled to close
to avert possible panic and after a
long period of inactivity opened with
certain necessary restrictions. Now it
is operating as before the war. This
points to fundamental soundness in
this country, for unless there was a
decided spirit of optimism based on
fact, the New York stock exchange
would not commence unrestricted
operations. Evidently the fear that
Europe will dump American securities
ON our markets has passed.
It has also been stated in financial
journals that several large foreign
credits have been established in New
York to facilitate the trading of for
eign countries with our farmers and
manufacturers. J. p. Morgan went to
London on a business mission a few
days ago and within a short time it
is certain that vast stores of European
gold will be flowing into the Golfers of
this country. This does not mean only
the money paid for war munitions,
but for every commodity that America
has for sale; the Gripping of foreign
sources of supply must of necessity
open many new markets to us abroad
The steel trade is still reporting
progress and so is the copper indus
try. We have proof that the textile
industry is booming. Our wheat and
cotton situations have been satisfac-
torily met and time is improving every
branch of trade that felt complete or
partial stagnation after the outbrea k
of war. The crippling of imports has
destroyed the tariff arguments of OPP
ponents of the administration and the
country is manifesting general spirit
to look with confidence to the future.
There is still considerable unemploy-
ment and suffering, but the country
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13

The suggestion of the Rutland News
that Arbor day be devoted to the ex-
termination OF the tent caterpillar
sounds good, but action at that time
viii be like locking the door after the
horse is stolen. With few continu-
Gus warm days the pestiferous crawlers
viii have found Judgment in the trees.
The contest conducted by The Re
former last year, in which the school
children of Windham county competed
for prizes, was started in February and
ended April 10. The total of nearly a
half million egg masses collected and
destroyed meant that many millions of
caterpillars did not reach state of
maturity. The time to fight the tent
caterpillar is before the egg masses
develop.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13
Member of the Associated Press
TUESDAY, APRIL IS, 1915.
WE'LL CHOSEN.

The newspaper reports of one of the
Reverend William Sundays sermons in
Paterson, n j., last Saturday quote him
as saying. among other fervent and inter
esting things:
Il have often been asked why l do not
preach against the Catholics. The an
swer Is that / find too much dirt and filth
and muck in the backwards of our own
Protestants. The Catholic church is
loyal to God and the Bible and Jesus
Christ, and has stood that way through
all these centuries, and | know it will
stand loyal
The Roman Catholic church, he shout
ed, whirling himself out to the front of
the pulpit and shaking his fist, has said
high mass over the rotting, stenching re-
mains of Unitarianism in all ages of the
worlds history.
"Unitarianism is dying out and it ought
to die out That church will get no
words Of commentator from your Uncle
Fuller; no, sir, nothing but a scrap. Yes,
Unitarianism is dying, even if it has Har-
ward college back of it, and I'm going to
do all [ can to help put it in the grave
yard.
a minute or two later, according to the
report, Mr.. Sunday turned to his music
director and yelled:
''Rodey, give us a verse of the Battle
Hymn of the Republic"
Rodey, with his slip horn, Ackley, the
pianist, and Bob Slower and his wife, the
cornetists, were all ready for this signal,
and they burst into the old GLORY Halle
luiah,' with a swing that carried the
house off its feet.
There was no resisting such an emo
tional appeal as the moment presented
and the crowd shouted the chorus with a
will.
Now then" called Billy at the end OF
the first verse, while we sing the second
let everybody get out handkerchief and
we'll give God fine old Chautauqua sa
lutte Everybody now, let her GO
There can be no question that Mr..
Sunday made an appropriate selection o.
music for his march to the Unitarian
graveyard, for it happens that Mrs, julie
| Ward Howe, who wrote this immorta
Battle Hymn Of the Republic when the
country was in the stress of the Civi
war was one of the most active and ear
nest opponents of the Unitarian faith
outspoken for its principles, preaching
often in its pulpits, and for many years +;
prominent figure in its denominations
gatherings.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13
KILLED BY MOTORCYCLE.
Superintendent of Paper Company Run
Down Near Westfield, Mass.

WESTFIELD, Mass, April Is. -
James Donald, superintendent of the
Strathmore paper company mill at
Woronoco about 1880 O'Clock last
night The motorcycle was owned by
George Bolton of Westfeld, who had
Ned r. Holiday of Westfeld riding
with him.
Mr.. Donald, who was walking in the
road, suddenly appeared in front of
him and the machine struck him be-
fore they could stop.
Bolton and Holiday, in company
with half dozen other mOtorcyclists,
had been on a ride up the state road,
and We're returning when the accident
happened. They were rather dazed
last night and could tell little about it
except that the man had suddenly
loomed up on the road ahead and that
they struck him before the accident
| could be avoided. Mr.. Donald was
walking along the road near the West
| fieId-Russell town line and about a mile
east OF WoronocO when he was struck
and IL could not be learned last night
what was the errand which took him
past this spot. The body was viewed
! by DR.. +. 5. Smith, the medical ex-
aminer, and was turned over to the
Lambson undertaking establishment
| Holiday was taken to his home in
| Nestield suffering from a broken col
| larbone and other injuries. The West
| field police questioned Bolton who was
! operating the motorcycle, but decided
not to hold him.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13

A reader of the New York Sun is moved
to write his paper letter on the propo-
sition of the labor unions to call univer-
sal strike in this country, for the purpose
of stopping the war. He says: IF, after
years of careful preparation, distant for
eign nations, for purely cold blooded, self
ish reasons, choose to become involved in
fearful war, why should the shops and
factories of this country be closed and our
workmen turned out on the streets to face
want, possibly starvation, with their fam
lies This country has performed, as it
will continue to do, an unparalleled ser
vice in extending substantial aid to the
poor suffering and wounded in those for
eign lands How can this invaluable help
be continued if our shops are to be closed
and our business paralyzed?" A very sen
sble suggestion.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13
seems to be expecting speedy re
storation of normal conditions.
Women in the Chicago Election
christian Science Monitor.)

The bare facts in the election returns
from Chicago constitute an emphatic refu-
tatIon OF the anti-suffrage allegation that
II women are granted the vote they viii
not use 1T. Some semblance of confirma-
ton was given this contention a year ago
at the aldermanic election when the total
OF their vote fell short of expectations.
although on a percentage basis it was
larger than the vote cast by the men. At
the primaries in February Of this year
the women's vote was still short of what
the equal suffrage leaders had promised
but III the light of the latest balloting it
seems evident that the newly enfranchised
simply had not attained their pace
On last election day the women cast S6
per cent, the men 81 per cent Of their
registered vote. In the February primary
Robert NJ. Sweitzer and Carter I'll. Har-
rison, both Democrats had received. re-
spectively, 81 ,666 and 36.2O7 votes from
women. At the same primary, William
Hale Thompson, Republican, the victor in
the most recent contest, was given only
2o,S42 votes by women. In the election
the womens vote for Mr.. Sweitzer was
little more than the vote cast at the pri-
mary, while the women's vote for Mr.
Thompson was increased to about 10000
| The latter received about 60 per cent Of
the entire woman vote
The point to be kept in sight here is
that women granted the franchise in
Chicago have taken very full advantage
| Of it. In the largest vote ever cast in
that city, which totaled 675.0O0, the vote
Of women cast for all candidates foots up
| about 243,549, an increase Of about So
eco over the vote cast last spring So
! far as the election may be analysed at this
writing, the vote of the women was rela-
| lively as large as that of the men,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13
WEST BRATTLEB0RO

Miss Susan Clark and Mrs F. G.
Taylor will 90 Saturday to Washing
ton, D. c., to attend the national con
gress, Daughters of the American
Revolution.
A rubber social will be held in the
chapel of the Baptist church Thursday
evening at 5 clock. A short program
will be given, followed by sociability
and refreshments. Admission: Any
amount of old rubber
Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Stellman and
Miss Gladys Stellman left today for
Providence, R. l., to attend the wed
ding of Mrs. Stellman S nephew, Gin
ton B. Allardice. They expect to be
away about two weeks.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13

The fire losses in the United States
and Canada for the first three months
OF the year are very encouraging when
compared with the losses in the same
months of 1914. This year the total is
$51 ops, 250, a gain of almost $20,000,-
900 over the first quarter of last year,
when the losses were $40, 461 $50. This
speaks well for the nationwide effort
that is being made to reduce fire
causes and fire losses.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13

need to throw off all heavy winter
conditions and prepare for the new
life of spring.
1t is best to gradually drop off from
the winter foods, as too sudden a
jump may prove serious. Biliousness
and various kindred Ills may be COM
pIete1y routed by careful diet and
the free use of green vegetables.
Nature provides US in the early
spring with just the food we need Let
tuce, cress. dandelion and spinach are
invaluable if we expect to keep in
good state of health
The dandelion contains taraxacum,
the tonic which is in many doctors
prescriptions This acts directly on
the liver, stimulating it to a healthy
action.
The liver is one of the most impor-
tant organs in the body and must be
kept free to work its process of elimi~
nation. When it is clogged and slug
gish the whole body is out of order.
Dandelions also add bulk to the
| food, scraping up the digestive tract;
/ thus poisons which cause autointoxi-
| cation, constipation and rheumatism
are removed from the body The di-
| gestive tract needs flushing and often
a more heroic treatment, as we treat
! drain pipes which become c1ogged.
Cowslips are another early spring
| vegetable which does not need to be
shipped in, and then later we grow
our own spinach and pepper grass in
the vegetable garden, which should be
part of every small or large garden.
How much pleasanter it is to eat a
nice crisp plate of lettuce than to take
nasty-tasting pills or medicine. The
addition of oil TO any of the salad
| green's makes them more valuable, as
oil is healing, lubricates the tissues
and stimulates the action of the liver.
People who do not like olive oil have
undoubtedly been turned against it by
being served with an inferior quality.
Oil should be sweet and nutty in taste
and have a most appetizing odor.
ST1
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13
IeERG Ek~es4zN~
MOTHERS OF THIS COUNTRY

have through all ages past and viii
through all years to come take care
of the ordinary simple ailments in
cident to every family with their own
favorite remedy.
In almost every home in the land
Lydia E. Pinkham s Vegetable Com
pound is the recognized standard
household remedy for female ills;
their good health to it. Made from
the roots and herbs of the field, it is
simple remedy in which suffering wO-
men may place perfect confidence. 1t
contains no narcotics or harmful drugs.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13

The New York legislature has dis
graced itself in passing a bill permit
ting women and children to work -
hours week in canneries, while 81
hours only is permitted in other in
dustries If Gov. Whitman fails to
veto the bill he might as well be elm
mated from consideration as presi-
Dental possibility.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim of the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery of
CO. operation of subscribers to that end.
Prompt report should be given of each
failure to receive the paper on the morn
ing following the omission, in person,
by telephone or postal card, thus enabl-
ing the cause of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper
remedy Immediately applied. 1t Is only
by this method that the publisher can
secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13

The Mt. Vernon, n. H., farmer who
protected his chicken house with a
spring gun and then forgot about it
lived six hours after he opened the
door-long enough to realize that the
trap worked.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13
Fifty Years After Appomattox.
(New York Times. J


1t is an interesting fact, to be consid-
cred, according to ones fancy. either as a
mere political accident of no historic or
other special significance or as the result
of conditions having their roots deep in
the political life Of the nation past and
present, that 30 years after Lees surren-
der at AppomattOx the President of the
United States is a native of Virginia;
that five of the ten cabinet ministers were
born in the south; that the chief Justice
OF the supreme court and two of the asSo-
cate justices are Southern men, that the
controller off the currency Is a Nirginian;
that the ambassador to the court of St
James is native of North Carolina; that
the ambassador to Italy is a Virginian;
that the ambassador to Russia is of Nir-
ginia stock, and that the minister to
Switzerland is a Georgian that in the
Senate of the United States the states Of
Virginia, Tennessee, Florida, Arkansas.
Mississippi Georgia, North Carolina Lou
lsiana, South Carolina, and Alabama have
each chairman of an important commit
tee, and four of these states have two
chairmen each; while in the House Of Rep
resentatives Georgia and Arkansas have
each a committee chairman, Virginia has
five chairmen, North Carolina three, Ala
hama two, Texas two, Tennessee four,
and Florida three.
The men of the South are taking a high
" commendable interest in the govern
ment Of the United States
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13
TO ADVERTISERS.

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cents an inch for each subsequent inser-
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without change of copy.
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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, 1915-04-13

Consul General Frederic w Cooling, at
QuayaQuil, Ecuador, states that the SAM
taIy projects now under way are planned
for a city of 100000 inhabitants The
present population Of Guayaquil is about
10000, as compared with $1,000 in 1890.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13
Battle Hymn of the Republic.


Mine eyes have seen the glory of the COM
ing Of the Lord;
lie IS trampling out the vintage where
the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of
his terrible swift sword,
His truth is marching on
Glory! Glory Hallelujah!
Glory. Glory Hallelujah.
Glory. Glory Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
/ have seen Him in the watchfires of a
hundred circling camps;
They have buiided Him an altar in the
evening dews and damps;
| can read his righteous sentence by the
dim and flaring lamps,
His day is marching on.
| have read fiery gospel writ in bur-
nished rows of steel;
As ye deal with my contemners so with
you my grace shall DEAL
Let the hero born of woman crush the ser
pent with his heel,
Since God is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that
shall never call retreat;
He is sitting out the hearts of man before
his judgment seat;
Oh, be swift my soul to answer Him; be
jubilant my feet,
Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was
born beyond the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfg
ures you and me;
As He did to make men holy let us die
to make men free
While God is marching on.
Glory! Glory Halleluiahl
Glory! Glory Hallelujah,
Glory! Glory Hallelujah.
While God is marching on
Julia Ward Howe.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13
NE MsEE6EHEN
I2ezz1lABINET

An inward dignity Of character,
which once acquired and righteously
maintained nothing-no not the hard
est drudgery nor the direct poverty
can vanquish.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13

son, Which brings IN It's
wake many bodily ills.
The overfed body is slug
gish with the heavy VIM
tar foods and a system
housekeeping is neces-
sary. This is the time
when all nature is re-
iuYenating and We
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-13
SPRING FOODS.

It will be necessary for US soon to
think Of the spring housecleaning sea.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1915-07-02
BREED YOUR COWS TO FREsHEN
IN THE FALL.

(By G. A. Hutton, Division Of Exten.
sion, University of Tennessee,)
There are several advantages in
having the cows fresh in the fall of
the year instead of in the spring.
There is more time on the farm for car
ing for the cows and her products dur
ing the winter months, as farm work
Is not so pressing at this season.
Cows will give better yield of
milk than il they freshen in the spring.
II they are properly cared for and fed
they will milk well when fresh; then
when grass comes in the spring it
helps to keep the milk flow, so that
the fall-fresh COW will milk better
throughout the year than the one that
freshens in the spring. The cows will
be dry during the hot summer months
when pastures are short and flies bad.
More attention can be given to caring
for the calves, and they will be ready
to turn on pasture in the spring when
grass comes.
There is more demand for milk and
butter during the winter months, and
the price is higher than during the
summer. II cows are bred so as to
freshen in the fall they will give bet.
ter cash returns from the sale Of their
products.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1915-07-02
GARDNER GEMS

Mrs. Missouri Rogers was
called to Arkansas to the bedside
Of her sister, who was not expect
ed to live. She was dead when
she arrived.
A large crowd attended the fid-
dlers' contest Saturday night.
The music was splendid. The Ha-
gar band won the seven-pound
box of candy, for the best string
band. Isom Davis won the $3.50
for the best fiddler. Cletus Wag
ster and Otis Stanley won the ci-
CARS for the best Jews harp play
ers.
Verona. the six-year-old daugh-
ter OF Almus Fuqua, fell from a
wagon Tuesday, while gathering
plums, and broke her arm. Two
doctors we're called.
Singing will be held at the
Methodist church Sunday alter
noon at 2::30.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1915-07-02
EAST WEAKLY ITEMS

|
Mrs. Nolia Ward has been right
sick for the past week or two.
She suffered a stroke OF paralysis
early in the spring, from which
she has never fully recovered.
The young folks enjoyed a
moonlight party at Mr.. Josie
Lawrence's last Saturday night.
Robert Atkins and wife ar
rived Saturday. Robert is one
Of our home boys and has made
great success in the educational
world. He is principal of the
consolidated school at Mt. Arie.
Don't forget to celebrate the
Fourth of July in commendation
OF the declaration Of independence,
July 4, 1776.
Mitchell Perry and Clara Ellis,
highly respected young people Of
Henry county, were married on
last Sunday. They we're accom-
panied by two couples of young
folks and drove to Gleas on, where
Rev. HoIley performed the cere-
mony, after which they drove to
the home of the bridegroom.
where the wedding supper was
served. They have the best wishes
of their many friends. Robin
Yalo
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1915-07-02
NOT enough CHILDREN

ever receive the proper balance of food
to sufficiently nourish both body and
brain during the growing period when
natures demands are greater than in
mature life. This is shown in so many
pale faces, lean bodies, frequent colds,
and lack of ambition.
For all such children we say with
unmistakable earnestness: They need
Scott's Emulsion, and need it now. It
possesses in concentrated form the very
food elements to enrich their blood. It
changes weakness to strength; it makes
them sturdy and strong. No alcohol.
Scott & Bovine, Bloomfield, NJ.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1915-07-02
TWELFTH DISTRICT TwIOs


Mr.. Tom Crews and Mrs. Mollit
Curlee, Of Arkansas, are visiting
their old friends and Bro. R. B
Crews. Sunday, a number O.
friends and relatives gathered al
the home Of Bro. Crews and
a sumptuous dinner was served tc
about one hundred guests.
Mr.. Burns, wife and sons,
motored from Whitehorn Friday,
and were the guests Of Mr.. Ben
Jones and daughter, Elva, and
mother. Grandma Jones, who
has been visiting there for several
weeks, returned home with them.
Master James Clore and Walter
Turner Clark, are sick.
Mrs. Bette Ray is improving,
after q recent illness.
The district monthly singing
will be held at Seminary the
second Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Mary Williams and son,
Rufus, attended the funeral Of Mr..
lack Williams. of Humboldt, last
week, who was killed in car
accident.
Mrs. Emma Ray is among the
sick.