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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-08-19
Father Bernard s Parish, Florence Oh

Father Bernard 5 Parish, Florence Ohm
stead.
A story of youth and love in the
tenement district of New York city
The heroine is a passionate, mpulsive
Polish girl who loves the Irish express
man but who cannot resist the tenpta
tion to " fiirt" with the good-looking
men who frequent the restaurant where
she works. Father Bernard move,
through the story, giving help and sym
pathy to all, a reigning influence, effec
tive because felt rather than seen.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-08-19
DADDY'S EVENING
UEAlR TALE s.
By MARY GRAHAM BONNER
CATERPILLARS' PARADE.

"Guess who had a Parade yester-
day." asked Daddy
1.-THE Sheep" said Nancy.
Daddy shook his head mo, you're
very far from guessing. You try it,
Nick"
Well" said Nick, thinking hard"
the BOOSTERS in the Barnyard."
Both wrong" said Daddy, $50 l sup
pose I must tell you!" Both the Chill
dren smiled, for they knew something
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-08-19

Another Largest flag in the world "
has been discovered and this time it
is the one, measuring $50 by so feet and
weighing half ton, which the Can
ton (Ohio) Grand ARMY post possess.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-08-19
But How Could She Take It Away?

+ elbow did You get your husband to
consent to buy such an expensive
nome?'
Very easily. | just showed him
the built-in ice box that drains itself
and he told me to take it right away
Detroit Free Press.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-08-19

The Dark Forest, Hugh Walpole.
Hugh Walpole is working with the
Red Cross on the eastern battle front
and in this novel of extraordinarg
power and beauty cnvisions his emo
tional experiences of the war. The Dark
Forest is in Russia and it shelters the
flowing and ebhing tide of battle;
symbolically it is death, war. disaster
anything that mortals must meet and
meet with courage. Eurwald tells the
story. He. Trenchard Gan Englishman)
and the Russian surgeon SemFnov are
rivals for the love of a Red Cross nurse
Sister Maria lvancyna. She is be.
.throthed to Trenchard but throws him
over and engages herself to Semynov
Maria is killed by stray bullet and
then the rivalry between Trenehard and
ISemynOv is transformed from a rivalry
for love to Il rivalry for death, he who
wins death first is the victor. Trenchard
is terribly wounded and as Semynoy
kneels to lift the dying man, says t.
him, - You We Won - Trenchard dies il
marvellous exaltation of spirit holding
the belief that personality survives be
yond the grave.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-08-19
Behind the Bottled Door, A. Z. Nc

Behind the Bolted Door, A. E. McFar-
lane.
A very wealthy woman whose philan-
thropie work is confined to assisting ex-
convicts, is found murdered in her
swimming pool; all doors are locked
from the inside. The mystery is solved
by her friend and physician by scien-
tifc methods. -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-08-19
Didn't Better Himself

Small Ted-Did the baby come from
heaven, mamma?
Mamma-YeS, dear.
Small Ted-Huh! That kid didn't
know when he was well off.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-08-19

very different was
coming from what
they had expected.
1.-THE caterpillars
gave it-or rather
they started every
thing going. They
invited the SDi-
ders, the Beetles
and the Ants. They
had all promised
to be very friend
ly-and the Cater
pillars h a d p II t
them far enough
q D art so they
wouldn't quarrel.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-08-19

Excursion to Newport, r. l., Aug. a
See advertisement OH page 5.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-08-19
Bring Your
Prescriptions
Here

if you want them filled with the puress
and freshest drugs, and with the great
est care and accuracy-'flled precisely
as your physician orders them filled,
to produce the exact effects he desires.
We are proud of the record We have
made in our prescription department.
And yet we fill prescriptions at very
reasonable prices, and ill them quickly,
too.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-08-19

dinner in GAINESVILLE. The story pictures
admirably life abroad, especially in
Florence; and the illusions TO current
art and literature are interesting.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-08-19

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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-03-09
SECURE SPEAKERS
FOR c. E. RALLY
MISS PEARL SMITH AND z. p
GATES WILL DELIVER
ADDRESSES.
Interesting Meeting VIII be Held IN
First Christian Church Tuesday
Evening, March %.

a Christian Endeavor rally Of IN
usual Interest will be held in the First
Christian church. this city. Tuesday
evening. March "a. opening at 1880.
Joseph IL. Lucas. president OF the
Wheeling district upnion OF Christian
Endeavor societies. announced yester.
day that the principar speakers WIN
Pearl Smith OF Ohio and Mr..
+. p. Gates OF Chicago. Miss smith
Is a Junior Endeavor worker and de
Hyered several splendid addresses at
tho state convention which was held
IN this city last summer. Mr.. Gates
Is field secretary OF the state OF Illinois
and was also a speaker at the West
Virginia convention. his talks being
an inspiration to all in attendance.
The meeting is held In the interest
OF the Christian Endeavor movement,
but as the addresses will be OF inter-
est TO all the public is invited. No
admission will be charged. the ex-
pense to be met by a free-wm offering.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-03-09
W. Il. DRAWS is
In BANKRUPTCY
PROMINENT TRIAOELPHIA MEAT
DEALER AND FARMER FILES
PETITION
Commercial Bank of S~teubenvitIe
Heaviest Secured Creditor With
Mortgage on Farm.

A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed yesterday in the United
States district court by W. II. Draws.
butcher and farmer OF Triadelphia,
through his attorney. ". b. Casey.
The petition names many creditors.
the largest being the Commercial Bank
OF SteubenyIlle. which holds a mort
gage for $500 on a farm near East
Liverpool. o., valued at $4,000. Among
the unsecured creditors are in state
Bank OF Elm Grove, SaX-patterson
company and Goodhue-Reynolds com
pany. Mr.. Draws schedules his LA
bilities az sl3,70S.10, with assets at
$l6.563.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-03-09
EXHIBITION TO Be HELD FROM
MONDAY. MARCH o. TO APRIL
2. INCLUSIVE
Local Distributor Must Act Quickly
For Allotmerts-Ese,ut..e Com.
, mittee Meets To.nuaht.

An enthusiast and LARGELY attend
ID meeting - aG'om1..I. distributors
and rep@reFrrfatlye OF f.r Wheeling
district attended fto meeting ir fas
Wheeling Commercial -aa.a..Hf... as
sembiy room. y|tH'fs.a. afternoon.
when spa'rr were allotted FOR ,rr.l.
uon ~ cam or tln Wheeling t..U.Y.
bile show f1 Doc hold I'm fau Market
Auditorium from N.aias March O., fu
April 2 inclusive. Instead OF from
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-03-09
The Court OF Last Resort.

Around the o OF the cross roads
grocery Is the real court Of last re-
sort. for il finally o~verrules all others
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has
been brought before this court in al
most every crossroads grocery in this
country. n has always received a
favorable verdict. II is in the coun.
try whore man expects 10 receive fun
value for his money that this remed~
is o appreciated. Obtainable every
where.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-03-09

these. Send your contributions In
day or Saturday. Dr.. Monroe win be
assisted by Mrs. Flora williams. Mrs.
J a Moss. Mrs W D. Mccoy. Mrs.
T. s Romaine. Mrs Ida Want. Mss
Florence H0ge. Miss Carrie Zane and
others ANY Information regarding
articles Tor the sale can be obtained
from Ir Monroe, Bell phone 1Offw.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-03-09
FIRST HEARING
In Mound City Coal Case VIII Be
Held Monday, March 20, Before
Referee J. W. Cummins.

The first meeting OF the creditors
In the bankruptcy case OF the Mound
City Coal Company will be held Mon
day morning. March 20. before Referee
J. ". Cummins. At this time proof Of
claims will be filed and a trustee APP
pointed. 10 handle the case. The hear
Ing will be held at Mr.. CummirS' Of
fee, on the NTH floor Of the National
Bank OF West Virginia building.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-03-09
SPECIAL MUSIC
viii Feature Mems Meeting at Y. NJ.
c. A. Sunday Afternoon-Or.
Birmingham 10 Speak.

Special music vii be the feature or
the mems meeting 10 Dos conducted a
tho Young Mems Christian association,
sunday afternoon. Nr. John Graham.
Will give 60 trombone solo and "a NUM-
Der OF musical selections viii be give
on hy several OF the members Of mo
y. VI. q. a. Glee Club. DIT. Jacob Brit
tingham of ST. Luko's church. OF the
Island. viii speak and has chosen as
his topic some Results OF Prayer"
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-03-09

VIII address meetings at about twelve o.
different towns
Evening star., 1916-12-03
Diseases of the Trees.

rr REES have their troubles, and tho
troubles of man. The relations be-
tween trees and men are so close that
the loss of tree is loss to men The
chestnut blight. a mysterious disease
for which no remedy has been found.
and which has already slain countless
threatens TO carry off all the rest. has
caused great loss and sorrow TO the
American people.
close in the wake of the chestnut
blight followed a disease which at
tacks hickory trees. and IL has been
written that in parts of New Jersey
the hickory trees have been dying at
an ahnormally rapid rate under cir
cumstances suggesting that the chest.
nut tree blight. or disease of the
same nature. has attacked them.
Lately the Department of Agriculture
sent ont warning bulletin on the SUBJ
je"t of the pine blister rust that is now
infcstinE ard threatening to destroy
which seems to be the especial prey Of
this strange disease. 1t is said that
the blister rust which is preyinE on
the pine trees came TO the United
States from Europe and that. like most
imported diseases. il is probably more
destructive here than in the country Of
its origin. The disease is said to have
spread rapidly in the United States.
The report is made that in Massachu-
setts the white pine trees have become
dangerously affected and the disease
has been observed in all the other New
England states. It has been observed
as far west as Minnesota and Wiscon-
Evening star., 1916-12-03
Poor Comfort.

TEs RANK A. VANDERBILT, the New
York financier, said in Kansas
City during the American Bankers AS
sociation convention:
Il advocate paredness-universa
military service-but not militarism.
never militarism.
a man was trying to comfort a Ger
man American about Germany the
other day. but his consolation remind
ed me of the old lady:
An old man said to this old lady:
Yep, our Joe died last week. That's
six out of eight gone. There's only me
and Will left now 1 guess I'll be the
next to go
The old lady gave a sympathetic
nod.
Yes. l guess We will she said: or.
anyhow, yell be the next but one"
Evening star., 1916-12-03
The Good Lunch.

6s6s ERMANY is feeling the presence
VI of the allies blockade, of course.
but the stories about German famine
are exaggerations"
The speaker was Alfred Geissler.
German consul to Chicago. He went
on:
Yes. these stories are exaggerations.
Like the story, you know, of the young
Berliner who returned to the Office
after his incoming with a toothpick in
his mouth and an air of smiling refiso-
ton.
Such a good lunch as I've had he
said. The restaurants were all sold
out, as usual. but l made myself Q deli
cious sandwich out of two bread tick.
cts and a meat ticket Ach. such q
good lunch."
Evening star., 1916-12-03

aan Of

mics here have not found them out yet,
but they will, for il is natures ineNor-
able law.
They have already made their ap-
pearance in Washington state, and Will
wax fat there and multiply. Gradually
they viii spread from the east and from
the west over the whole country. and
will not respect the boundary lines OF
Canada and Mexico. but nowhere will
they appear in such abundance as in
this concentrated colony at Newport.
BY degrees they will develop their own
parasites. reducing their numbers. and
as people become more familiar with
them they will become an ordinary
nuisance. like cockroaches.
with the winter the mischief of
earWigs comes to an end. for they hi
beruate. In pairs they construct their
home. hole in the ground several
inches below the surface. They enter
therein and remain until the spring
calls them forth. The female deposits
there the eggs"
Evening star., 1916-12-03

Woods People BY Albert Bige1ow
Paine. With illustrations by J. NJ.
Conde New York: Harper &
Brothers.
Measured by the adage that last joys
are best, this should be the most won
derfuI of the Hollow Tree books, since
the author cautions his little lady"
that 1T will surely be the last one, be
cause things are so likely to go in
threes, like three cheers and three
trials and three strikes and out The
little lady, disdainful of adage values,
will consider this the best book OF the
series because it brims over with fresh
stories about Mr.. Possum, Mr.. Crow
and Mr. Coon, who do fake nature
housekeeping in the hollow tree, and
of their entertaining neighbors VINO
live in the big, deep woods Bachelor
Jack Rabbit starts out by explaining
why it is best to live alone, and then
turns the last chapter into a wedding
party which brings together all the
wood people the little lady mas
known and loved in the earlier Hollow
Tree books. together with the perfectly
new bride, a pet rabbit who has es-
caped from Mr.. Mans little girl 10
and free life in the forest. Fan
tastically delightful illustrations PIC
ture the doings of the hollow tree doih,
and include convenient map TO
show where each one lives
Evening star., 1916-12-03

clever enough to kill them off or wise
enough to confine them in ole locality.
single automobile. which has been
standing for d few days in its garage, may
carry unperceived enough earwtgs to es-
tablsh colonies along a hundred miles.
While they will not bite amy one. their
offensive presence at the breakfast table.
in the wearing apparel. books and chairs
makes them disa greeable but not
harmful visitors.
The old belief that an earwig causes
death by entering the hollow of the
ear and gnawing its way into the
victims brain came from vivid imaG-
ination and had no more substantial
foundation. The Insect is not carnlV-
orous, and if 1t should chance TO enter
ones ear it would make trouble, hut
it would be by fright and not by bite.
They are destructive to gardens and
lawns, where they bite. chew and
swallow the leaves and petals of low
growing plants, especially dahlias and
roses, and even devour the leaves of
ornamental trees. They are very fond
of sweet clover grass and Indian meal.
THE insects are nocturnal and as
soon as dusk falls they come running
from cracks and creviceS in search
Of food They swarm so thickly upon
the lawns that the sole of girls
shoe might XIII several. a man Walk
ing through the grass might crush a
regiment. They fail upon and de-
YOUR the choice flowers. and the next
morning finds the earwigs gone and
the flowers ruined.
so far man has been the earwigs'
chief enemy. He tries to find their OUT
door hiding places and drive them out
with poisonous sprays, but this method
has not been wholly satisfactory. Gar
deners have made traps by placing at
night near favorite feeding grounds in
verted flower pots lightly filled with
excelsior. The insects run into them.
and in the morning the prisoners are
shaken into a bath with fatal skim OF
kerosene on the top.
"Arsenical poison is the most effec-
tive agent against them. 1t is sprayed
over the grass, over plants the leaves
of trees and even over Indian meal, of
which they are ravenously fond. spread
out near their hiding places. After q
treatment the bodies may be
swept UP and cremated.
"Earwigs multiply here much more
rapidly than they do on the other side
Of the Atlantic; there is more room un-
der the sun for them here. They left
behind them the parasites which regu-
late their numbers. Their natural enc
Evening star., 1916-12-03
BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE STORY OF THE BATTLE HYMN
OF THE REPUBLIC. BY Florence
Howe Hall. daughter of Juiia Ware q
Howe. New York: Harper &
Brothers.
MARK TIDD's CITADEL. BY Clarence
E,dinpton Kellard, author of Mark
Tidd" etc. Illustrated. New York:
Harper & Brothers.
BELLE JONES: n Story OF Fninl,ment'
BY Allen Meacham. New York. Z.
p Dutton & Co.
AMBULANCE NO. 10; Personni Letters
from the Front. BY Leslie Buswell-
Boston: Houghton Mift1in Company
AN INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS.
By Frank O'Hara, PHI. d., associate
professor of economics In the Catno-
lie University of Ameria, Washing
ton, d. c. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
A BOOK OF BURLEsaUES. By H. L.
Mencken, author of "A Little Book
In G Major" etc New York: John
Lane Company.
Bobby Cullen with the Reclamation
Workers. BY Percy Reese Fitz-
hugh Illustrated. New York: Har-
per & Brothers.
THE wONDERBOx STORIES. BY VIII
Bradley. New York: The Century
Company.
THE POSSIBLE PEACE; Foreeast OF
World Politics After the Great War.
By Roland Higgins. New York: The
Century Company.
THE MOTHERS MANUAL. By Emelyn
Lincoln Coolidge. NJ. D.. formerly
visiting physician Of the out-pa tient
department of the Babies Hospital.
New York. etc. Chicago: The w. e.
Richardson Company.
THE RED CROSS IN FRANCE. By
Granville Barker. With preface Se,5 by
George II. Doran Company.
THE LURE OF THE BLACK HILLS.
of the Sioux" etc. illustrated by
w. L. Howes. Boston: Lothrop.
Lee & Shepard Co.
APPLICATION. By Clinton H. SEQ
veil. A. NJ. Harvard University, etc
New York: D. Appleton & Co.
MEN. WOMEN AND GHOSTS. BY Amy
Lowell, author of "A Dome Of Many
Colored Glass;" etc. New York: The
Macmillan Company.
GORsE BLOSSOMS FROM DARTMOOR.
BY Beatrice Chase. author of THE
Heart of the Moor" etc. New York:
Longmans. Green Co.
THE BORZOI PLAYS II-MOLOCH, a
Play in n Prologue. Three Acts and
an Epilogue. By Beulah Marie Dix.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
DADDY'S BEDTIME FAIRY STORIES.
By Mary Graham Bonner. With four
illustrations in color by Florence
Choate and Elizabeth Curtis. New
York: Frederick A. Stokes 4 Co.
Evening star., 1916-12-03
Submitting Nothing.

a NEW YORK editor was talking about
SA his recent rejection by the English
he was kept a week and then sent back
home.
This experience made me feel like
some of the thousands of poems and
stories I've turned down" he said. with a
wry smile. Il can't laugh any more over
a POEMS or a storys vcissitudes.
II didn't laugh the other day when a
shabby sonneteer said TO me:
I'm holding my own now
Then he nudged me in the ribs and
added:
That's cheaper than sending 'ein to
the magazines. you know. 1t saves post
age both ways.
Evening star., 1916-12-03

daZed and stunned. and for two days he
hardly knew what was the matter with
him. And then at last he realized the
awful catastrophe that had be- Lien MN
both his eyes had been blown out and
he would always he stone blind.
Before the war he had been a singer,
and again he is going to sing. At first
the future looked black and hopeless
to him. but with the encourasement
and help of Fraulein Hirsch he now
feels that there is something for which
to live. First, he had to learn to read
the raised letters with his right hand
and play with his left, and then TO
reverse the hands. Now he is learning
to play the score by heart, and he hopes
to again appear on the concert plat
form.
Many of the blind soldiers in the st.
Maria-Victoria Hospital have not be-
gun as yet to learn any trade. They
are simply being cared for and helped
until they get stronger. But trades
and positions are found for all who
want to work, and every day DR.. Slick,
who is at the head of the institute.
receives many letters from different
firms saying that they have positions
for blind mon as soon as they are
ready.
The blind men like to talk and tell
of their adventures in the war. One
little man had been on Zeppelin. He
was an engineer helper and a very
capable man at his post. He loved to
fly, and day after day he went through
the sky without an accident. He had
made two trips to London, and he tells
of the great excitement of flying over
clr cit U
at night He says that in spite of
all the enemy's precautions, the dotted
lights of the city could be seen very
Evening star., 1916-12-03

heard. AS well as the shril whistles
for cabs.
London is too big place to darken
and to silence" he says. and each
time we We're there we dropped few
bombs. just to let them know that we
the most Unfortunate way. y tank of
gasoline exploded in the Zeppelin
yards. But 1 hope to fly again, and
they have promised me that I SHALL
Besides this school for the blind
there are many other schools for SOL
diers who have lost arms or legs. The
greatest school of this k nd is at Dus-
seldorf. and there they have over 500
students all the time learning trades.
branch Of this hospital has been es-
tablished in Berlin. conducted in the
workshops. and is a sort of an inter-
mediate stage between a factory and
a hospital until the patient learns to
adapt himself to normal factory work.
All the patients submit themselves to
regular factory work systems. but the
doctor fixes the time for each patient
and every night he is examined by
the doctor when he returns to the hos
pital The wounded men live at the
hospitals and are charged no board.
They wear blue and white clothes. and
when they do hospital factory work
they wear blue bIouses. In the fac
tories the men do typewriting. type
set ting. toymaking and they are taught
mechanical drawing. designing and
music.
The less educated men learn the COM
mon school branches. such as German
grammar. spelling. composition. citl-