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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29
Group. Miss Mary Clark, nurse. is

with Group. Miss Mary Clark, nurse. IS
caring for her.
c. H. Aiken Of Orange, Mass, spent the
weekend ia town with his sister. Mrs. W.
l.. Pelerin, and IN tire east village with
his other sister. Mrs, F. A Betterley Of
Canal street.
Miss Florida Nichols entertained %
employees of the Holstein- Friesian offices
at sugar eat yesterday afternoon at
her home on Bonnyvale road. \ musical
program was rendered
! Mr. and Mrs \. Z. Scott Of Barre are
guests i'll town Of Mrs. SCOTS grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs f. r. Mann. They
are also spending a part Of the time with
, Mr.. and Mrs. J Earl Mann
The schools opened in town today after
a vacation of three weeks Miss Elizabeth
and Miss Alta Dennison returned last
night from their home in Bernardston and
Miss Marjorie Arms returned yesterday
from her home in Hop1inton, Mass Mis-.
Susie Clark spent the vacation at heI
home in town.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29
STATE NEWS NOTES.

The greatest net county Indebtedness in
1913, according to a federal bulletin, was
$34, SOC, 600, reported for Ohio, while New
Jersey was a close second with 3.SO0,-
600 The smallest net county indebted.
ness in that year was for Nermont,
S25, 931 The highest percapita figures
were for Montana, Nevada, New Jersey
and Arizona 500, S13.64, $3.50, and
S10T4, respectively-while the lowest,
S007, was for Vermont.
Archie Mcmillan of East Berkshire,
who recently returned from the Canadian
Northwest reports that while living at
Edmonton, Alberta he frequently met and
talked with DR.. n l.. Soule, who mystic
rously disappeared from Richford July Z,
1911. Mr. Mcmillan knew DIR. Souleswell
while in Richford and says he is, or was,
working in a dentists office IN Edmonton.
I Nearly 500 members Of the Vermont as
ISOLATION of Boston attended the annual
sugar-eat served in horticultural hal
Saturday evening. Over 300 pounds q
fresh Vermont maple sugar was served OF
snow. Carroll w Doten vice president
was master of ceremonies, and accompa
MED by Miss Laura Homes led the Crane
march into the main hall where the tables
were spread. The later evening was de
voted to dancing The reception commit
tee was composed OF Charles r. Huiburd
David T Montague, Frederick A. Saun
derson, Scott c. Carbee, Bradford {
Patch, Edmond A Burnham, Edward +
Rugg, Fred w. Montague, Charles J.
Huff and Dan E. Sullivan.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29
WEST BRATTLEBORO

-, n Isl, -
'oi'N n'"ine Spout 'lle U'y 3"'uA
""h -
Aired hltchcoch OF SpflneneId, Mass
was guest over sunday at T. T. Main
q
LES. !ss isaoIi Cole Vi 2Iilieiu, Goi'l -
s..aiiis M 'i'e nome u hei ""eie' - '
'''orN'' 'l,,
Mrs Ellen horton OF DummerStoh
\ : CbambeTlr
r:e..-,.. -. ......, lido, ~. A..
- 'ee e :, PEI '0I-S w. ~ ,loeG ~ e''e
80 80 70 ~ - -'-'s
Nv q IT Conar.,d ,r,s disoLar,,od
S,tnrd,,. r.n,, tha Iiairo., LnsritaI ,,lorn
She had bean for, ,roel,.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29
BIG LOANS TO ALLIES.
France May Get 100000 anu ether
Countries Large Sums.

France May Get 100000 ana Csher
Countries Large Sums.
NEW YORK, March % - Confer
cnces among bankers here have brought
near conclusion arrangements for the
extension of credits TO Great Britain,
France, Italy and other countries, in
addition to a $l0,o00,o00 loan 20 Ger
many.
The French credit, it is expected,
will be the first to be closed. The
amount has not been definitely fixed.
but may, it is said, be as large as 500.
100000.
The English credit, it was said, may
be twice as large as that for France.
Negotiations are in progress for a loan
to Russia in addition to the $25 900. 400
she recently obtained. Italy is likely
to obtain a credit. Most, if not all. of
these loans are expected TO take Il form
in which they can be sold to the pub
! lie.
Bankers engaged in these negotia
tions say that, it is greatly to the inter
est of both capital and labor in this
country that the European countries
should be put in position to continue
their purchases here. Labor, they be
lieve, gets the lion 5 share of the moner
so spent, and the extension of thest
credits makes il possible to keep mill
running and Workmen employed tina
would be idle except for the cxtraordi
nary demand due to the war.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29
silver Wedding Observed.

Mr. and Mrs. Leon b. Merritt were
pleasantly surprised Saturday evening,
when a party Of their friends including
large number of Odd Fellows, Of which
order Mr.. Merritt is a member, visited
them at their home on Glen street to help
them observe their silver wedding ami
vegsaTy. The guests received hc7 ~
welcome and an enjoyable evenin A.
spent. Refreshments were served Mr..
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29
HINSDALE, N. H.
o'cOnnor to Manage Ban Team

A meeting Of young men interested IN
local baseball was held Friday night u
Foresters' hall. It was voted to organize
team wholly from town talent except a
pitcher, and Patrick O'Connor was elected
manager and Walter A. Brooks captain
1t viii be possible to place a strong nine
in the field and one that Will be above the
average found in a country town.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29
CHESTERFIELD. N. H.

The Sunshine society will serve a
bean supper at it's poverty social Fri.
day evening, April ?, in the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Guild. Supper will
be served from to 5 clock. All are
expected to appear in their poorest ap.
parel A cordial invitation is extended
to all.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29
HE WHO HAS BUT A MOMENT

to live does not dissimuiate. he s in-
terestel only IN the truth. Every uar
would be insured II he looked THE trath
in the FACE. National Life ms Cee
Of VT lMutual) EARLE 5. kTNE
LEY, General Agent. Rutland. VI
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29

failed 10 keep his agreement 10 leave the
state, was placed under suspended sen
tence on the charge Of selling liquor lie
gally, was sentenced TO six months i'm
prlsonment Friday, the sentence to begin
that day
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29

1t has been calculated that nearly
100000, 900 feet, or more than $4,000
miles, Of film are used up yearly TO
satisfy the world $ demand for moving
pictures
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29
DEATHS

III Asavam. Mass. March -. Mrs
Fannie Whitaker Fay. wife 81 WEI
Fay, a native of Newfaae, and daue
ter Of the late Foster Whitaker 81
Newfane
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29
GRAFTON.
Covey Files Bankruptcy Petition.

Adelbert NJ. Convey ftnis town, a
farmer fIede a petition in bankruptcy
Friday with Clerk F. S Plat of the Unit
ed States Court He gives his liabilities
as S1O,395 81 and his assets as $16,271 ST,
of which 81 800 is claimed exempt He
value, his real estate at $:i,T30, but it IS
mortgaged for $500.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29
cooper Gets Six Months.

Oscar Cooper, who since Dee - had
been in Heene Jail, where he, having
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29
BIRTHS.

In Brattleboro, March Is, a son, Fred
Rising Newell, jr.. to Dr. Fred r. and
Charlena (Hall) Newell.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29

and Airs. Merritt were presented -uB
stantiai sum 81 money.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29

Take rest; field that has rested Yields
a bountiful crop.-Ovid.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29

A great many wells are found on
Spruce Swell fitted, well made and
well styled, by Taylor, the Tailor.
Adv 24-3+
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-29

Private sale of household goods. Mrs.
NJ. p. Davis, IA High Lawn road. Tel.
65S-M. ADV. 25.tf
The day book., 1915-10-01


bride system is full of horrors"
That's the American girls side Of
it. Last night an English girl, who
has two brothers at the front, listened
to what the American girl has told
me.
There was a queer little smile on
her face as she began to grasp her
American sisters viewpoint. Then
she said:
"They don't understand. They
never would unless they come to
England or unless their own country
was at war.
''In the first place an English girl
is proud to do something for Eng
land, no matter how small If her
man is to die, she's proud of having
given him.
But she'd rather give England her
husband than her sweetheart And
the baby is part of him; if he must go,
there's the baby. England has lost
one man, but she has put another
man or woman in his place; she has
filled the gap in the fighting line. You
know, English girls find something
awfully thrilling in that idea.
81 love what the Scotch newspa-
pers are doing. Over their birth
columns they put the headline: More
soldiers for England You see an
American girl can't understand how
we feel because she doesn't under
stand what change war can make in
a woman. You wait and see, you'll
find that these babies of the war
brides will be the finest babies Eng
land ever had"
did you try to tell your American
girl friends how English girls feel
about it?" she asked.
81 did, and they said that a man
would always take the wrong side of
the question"
"Of course they said that. They
couldn't understand. But English
women now think just as English
The day book., 1915-10-01


BY WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD
United Press Staff Correspondent
London, Oct. I. The "war
brides" question is loaded with hu-
man interest.
Two weeks ago, in the United
States l heard American girls giving
their opinion of the war brides" sys-
TEN. Since then I've talked to Eng
lish girls about it.
''It's simply terrible" said one
American girl, eff l understand it
right. Is it true that young Eng
lish officers come home from the
front, get married, stay home only
six or seven days and then go back
to the front?"
Eyes, that's the war brides sys-
tenn"
Its awful" repeated the New
York girl l don't see how the Eng
lish girls stand it"
What makes it seem awful to an
American girl?"
"Well, in the first place, here's
girl, unmarried and perhaps unen-
gagged. Her life is going smoothly.
Maybe she becomes engaged to the
soldier while he's at the front. He
comes home. They're married. Then
he goes back to the front again. Her
husband has become her whole life.
And there he is, under fire. 1t must
be terrible.
''In the second place, suppose
there's baby. What kind of baby
can be born of a mother who is wor-
rying during all the months that she
ought to have peace of mind? It isn't
fair to the baby who is coming. The
mother has two terrible things to
worry about, it seems to me. One is
whether her husband will live. The
other is whether the baby will be
weakened and made inferior because
of the fact that she is worrying. And,
between these two worries, it seems
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
WHY CHILDREN LEFT SCHOOL
A Test In New England Town Showed
an Arithmetic Course Which Elk.
perts Didn't Know.

At a recent school conference in
Philadelphia DR.. Leonard p. Ayres of
the Russell Sage foundation told an
interesting story.
He and his staff, he said. had been
asked to examine the school curri-
culum of certain large New England
town. He discovered that most of the
children dropped out of that school at
the seventh grade. Probing further,
he found that the course in arithme-
tic in that grade dealt almost wholly
with the various tables of measure
ment. He took ten representative
problems from this course and submit.
ted them to ten business and profess
sional executives in New York city,
men whose salaries range from $4,000
to $4,000 a year. The story con.
tinues:
THE highest mark was scored by
the secretary of well known propa.
gandist society in social work. His
grade was twenty-five. There were
several zeroes. Two Of the problems
were concerned with buying and SELL
ing paper in bulk. One of the men
who took the examination was the ed
itor Of magazine and another was
the head of book-publishing house.
Both failed on these two problems.
They declared that the terms employ
ed in the problems had not been In
current use for fifty years. Each of
the ten men explained his low grade
I, by saying: 81 learned that stuff once,
but l haven't had any use for II
SINCE"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
HIS FALSE FRIEND
Time Proved Him to Be All Good,
but Very Easily In
fluenced.
BY GEO. ELMER COBB.

Il will never trust q friend again!
1t was a broad and bitter declaration
for = man, young, ambitious, In love
with life and all its pleasant promises
and rewards to come; yet at that su-
preme moment of disappointment and
loss, Lane Percival meant every word
he spoke.
He stood in the room where he and
Duke Vernon had spent many q hope
full, happy hour during the past year.
They had been like brothers. Each
had come to the city from q country
home to carve a way to fortune. To
one of them. Lane Percival, had come
as we'll the glory of youth-love. deep.
tranquil, abiding. Even in that the
faithful Vernon seemed to share his
Joy and take Myra Little to his hearts
thoughts as q cherished sister.
And now-this! An opened disor-
dered drawer in the bureau. an over
turned tin box with its strong lock
broken-and empty. Two days before
it had contained $500, the savings of
two years. Percival had got leave OF
absence for day to escort Myra to a
town forty miles away. where she
was to spend a week with an old
school friend, and he had returned to
nnd Duke Vernon faithless.
He has taken it ALL" muttered Per
cival, dark browed, and his heart for
the moment was filled with cruel hate
II couldn't have believed 1t of him
He knew that | drew the money out OF
the bank yesterday to pay on the little
home Myra and had decided to pur-
chase. I suppose he has also drawn
his own funds from the bank. He
has sold his friendship, his honor. his
future for paltry four hundred dol
lars"
On the sill Of the open window was
an overturned ink bottle. and Percival
concluded that the false friend had
been writing there a check to draw
his own savings and disappear with
everything in sight. That night he
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
CRlCKETS SING FOR JAPANESE
Males Arc Kept in Cages to Furnish
Amusement for Their
Owners.

One Of the most curious things to
be seen in Japan, alike in the houses
of rich and poor is small cage Of
bamboo fibers which houses the sing.
ing cricket. The male only has the
voice." which can hardly be called a
singing voice, because the sounds
emitted are much more metallic than
those which ordinarily proceed from
the throat Of bird.
The westerner who hears these
sounds for the first time starts up un-
der the impression that he Is hearing
an electric call bell, an exchange
states. In order to execute his song
the cricket goes through a very anus
ing performance. He raises himself
on his front feet, grasps with the 9TH
ers kind of platform" arranged in
the cage for his convenience, expands
his wingshells and rubs them against
each other with great rapidity. The
rhythm of the movement varies with
individuals, and this explains why the
sound produced offers certain varie
ey In meter as we'll as in pitch.
The Japanese have reared this in
sect from time immemorial. For q
long time the expectation Of these
crickets was prohibited under severe
penalties, originally because a relig
ious superstition against 1t existed
among the peasantry. The imperial
family has cultivated the most tunefu
species, but no one but member o.
the royal family has heretofore beer
permitted to own a specimen. Thu
recently deceased emperor was de
voice OF natural history, and 1t Is sale
that he sometimes amused himself By
taking the key from the cricket ant
evolving musical exercises from III
pecullarities. These little insects pas
the entire day in song IL care is taker
to maintain their food supply, which
consists Of lettuce leaves. with thos'
| Of the tomato, carrot and cucumber
Salt puts an end forever to the SOM
| of this little insect
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
"it's Called the Cash Annunciator."

invest what was left In some practical
business, she broke the engagement.
I'm bound to win," insisted Alvin.
Why, the Specially Manufacturing
company has a standing offer of ten
thousand dollars for my patent the
minute the courts give me clear
title"
The decision was pretty near now.
Then there came about situation
where Alvin drifted up close to Miss
Barton once more. as he phrased 1t.
md was glad Of it.
Alvin and Viola went to the same
ehurch. 1t had run down because it's
pastors had been slow-going. easily
contented r(en, and the congregation
had been spoiled thereby. Finally a
new minister was assigned. 1t turned
out to be Edward Barton, a favorite
brother of Viola.
He was an up-to-date, energetic. am
bilious young man, and quickly reused
his flock out of the doing and dream
ing rut. His parishioners accepted
him with complacency and even fer
vor, but at the end Of two months he
told Alvin one day that he was some
what discouraged.
THE church needs all kinds of re.
pairs," he confidentially impaired
land they have contributed in the last
thirty days just half enough to pay
my months salary"
Alvin reflected over all this. He
met his former fiancee on the street
She idolized her brother, and when
Alvin referred to him she forgot the
gulf between them. She was anxious
earnest, fearful, as she asked her old
lover IL something could not be done
to mend the situation.
T think I see q way" said Alvin
queer twinkle in that inventive eye
of his.
"Oh, II you only could" began Viola
and then she flushed crimson, remem
bering the past.
ooh, we're great good friends" re
assured Alvin. let us be better ones
I shall only have one opinion of you
while I live, and it urges me to de-
all can for the best man ever met
THANK you." said Viola breathless
ly, and her heart beat a good dea
faster as she watched Alvin go dowr
the street, the same generous-heartet
fellow he would always be.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
Army of Millions Compl(
Routed---NoW On the
DisorganiZed R

has completely rout,
army. Use Runs en-
mosquitoes, ants and
leave RIGHT NOV
has a pleasant odor.
will cure red bug hi,
and is indeed a boor
man family, for sale
stores for 10 cents.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
Women. Movement in Russia.

Women workers, mainly employed
in the textile trade, held "womans
day" recently. The meeting was sub
ject to various police restrictions, and
the delivery of addresses by a Duma
radical deputation and the Dvinsy suf-
fragettes was prohibited. The speak
ers dwelt upon the conditions under
which they had to work. declaring that
these could only be remedied by the
granting of the franchise to their
sex.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
my name?" repeated PercivAl

my name!" repeated PercivA
vaguely.
There they are, and the man
handed Peroival . sheet Of paper and
q check.
The latter was made out for $500
and signed by the missing Vernon.
The letter bore the initials OF the
same signature. and ran:
Dear Lane.
Il have hurry call for funds. ready
cash. Urgent. A big thing. I have
taken your money and leave you
check Expect great news"
Slowly the truth began to dawn on
the startled Percival. He had cruelty
misjudged Vernon, for there was the
check, which with the letter had been
left on the window sill and had been
blown into the court. And that tele-
gram? What could have induced the
steady-going Vernon to plunge into
some venture of speculation?
There was another summons at the
door of his humble room the next eve
ming. Some one tried the knob. Lane
Percival sprang to his feet with loud
i ly beating heart. He had recognized
q familiar footstep he had begun to
miss sorely.
He flung the door open widely. Then
he drew back. The open happy face.
, the bluff hearty tone Of his friend, re-
turned, were a reproach that made
him shrink from the extended hand.
81 can't do it, Duke" he said. Il
have wronged you"
"Wronged me?' rang out the CHEEKY
tones of Vernon. when? How?"
II believed you had stolen my mon.
ey."
I'D have done it if there had been
no other way!" cried Duke Vernon.
I've made It. No more scraping and
! saving and creeping along. Look
/ there!"
He drew forth and Haunted before
the eyes of his bewildered friend a GER
titled check.
Ten thousand dollars!" we're the
words that dazzled the eyes Of the
astonished Percival.
] O6e WIN IL uduc OuI u
Duke Vernon and Rupert Percival;
my brother!"
"Yes-the ne'er.do-well, the wild
rover, the poor fellow you lost faith
in. But had faith. He was all good.
only impulsive and easily Influenced.
He lost your money and his in an out
and out swindle. But that was educa-
ton. didn't tell you, but for a year
l have been stalking him, of and on,
up in the copper mining district-as q
partner"
| Lane Percival swallowed a bitter
emotion tinged with shame. A strang
or had been kinder to his wandering
brother than himself
| You wouldn't see him a year age
when he called here said Vernon
Hes made good-won't you see him
now?"
YES" said Lane Percival humbly
and ask you both to forgive a man
who needs to begin the study Of hui
man nature all over again. to make
himself worthy of being called friend
and brother"
And Vernon went out and brought
the wanderer back with him. It die
not take long, even after his abject
confessions, for Duke and Rupert te
cheer UP their repentant companion.
And they spent that evening in plan
ming what a lot the $4,000. received
for q claim that the $500 had come
Just in time to secure, would do fol
three young, ambitious fellows and thu
bonny girl who need not now wall
longer for Lanes start In life.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
And NoW-Thisl

wrote all the truth to Myra, with .
heavy heart telling her that he must
begin all over again, and they must
wait
Two days went by but no word was
received that explained the sudden
departure of Dale Vernon. Percival
went around to the mercantile house
for which Vernon had worked. Its
head was disturbed. almost anxious at
the summary disappearance of a val
ued employee.
Percival did not have the heart nor
will to expose his friend. He simply
left the impression that Vernon must
have had a sudden call home.
81 guess 1t Is my fate to meet with
disappointment in my friends" he
wrote Myra. You remember what I
have told you about my brother. Ru-
pert. l could never restrain him In
hts wild speculative ways, and have
stiil the mournful memory of his in
oucing me to invest my share of the
little money father left US. He lost
It all In some worthless oil we'll This
makes two bad inroads on my money
hopes. az you see. Next time shall
make you my banker, and shut out
from my life every bit Of human love
except for you"
"A telegram, sir" announced mes
ssuger boy Just as Percival was seal
ing up this letter.
a
brief dispatch. 1t was dated at point
In Michigan and 1t was signed Duke
Vernon. It ran:
Better than l left you word. We
have made It."
What word-made what? In be.
wilderment Lane Percival sought
vatnly to read the riddle. A score OF
Wild theories IS to what might be
crossed his thoughts all that night
Had he made . mistake? Had he mis-
Judged his tried and trusted friend, OF
was this some effrontery on the part
Il his missing chum!
He SLEPT q little towards morning
He arose dull and oppressed and
bothered. There was a knock at the
door.
Come In" he directed.
IT'S me-" announced the man who
cleaned the halls and washed the win
dows and kept the place generally IL
order. Il found letter. and a checl
I guess It II. in the court Just now
I'm not much Of a scholar but l spell
Cd out your name"