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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
The Long Trail.

elm Tree Monthly, Woodstock.)
Vermont has some good roads-aIo1g
the main lines of travel. at least From
town to town the way is smooth
enough; the various points of interest
are accessible, and the mountain tops
can t be hidden anyway. They can be
seen, afoot or horseback, but their
slopes and SUBMITS are not as easily
reached as they should he This is
whore New Hampshire has the ad-
vantage of Vermont. with her trails.
camps and shelters, and her multitude
Of hotels. large and small, for those
who weakly prefer to the overnight
hospitality Of the damp woods, the
porcupines and other forest providers.
The Green Mountain club began
! building the Long Trail several wears
ago, and has finished two ffty-mile sec
/ tions, TO the satisfaction, we are told
/ Of the tclderest of tcnderfcet
| The club is now trying to raise a
/ fund of $4,000, with which it expects
| to complete the remaining one hundred
and fifty miles Of trail this year.
The following facts about the trail
| are taken from the Boston Transcript:
The two sections of the Long Trail
! that are now fully accessible are ut op.
! posite ends of the range; that from the
! Massachusetts border, Just north OF
North Adams, to the vicilitv of Eaui
| nox Mountain, fortv-two miles. and
that from Camel 5 Hump, Just east OF
Burlington. over Mt. Mansfield, the
highest summit in Vermont. to Tho
iowa of Johnson, fifty miles.
Both of these sections are available
today to camping mixers, and to those
/ less strenuous walkers who prefer tC
buy their bed and board from dav tC
day along the road. From the vicinity
of Equinox Mountain north to Killing
ton Peak, the second highest summit OF
the range, no trail has vet been cut
and from killington on over Pico Peak
Mt. IIorrid, Breadloaf Mountain ant
Lincoln Mountain to Camel s Hump,
distance of one hundred miles. tn,
trail is at present not clearly define,
and pretty rough. None but a goo,
wOodsman with complete camping out
fit should attempt this section at tn,
present time. Next follows the pcrfec
stretch of fifty miles over Mt. Mans
field to Johnson, beyond which is still
another undeveloped region leading t
Bclvidere Mountain, JAY Peak. AM
Pinnacle Mountain, sixty miles and in
to the edge of Canada.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
Has An International Reputation

At the age Of 2, he let 90 his
fathers old business and began TO
devote himself more especially to
the green calfskin trade, which he
developed from the smallest begin
nings to one of the largest in the
world
He collected his raw material
from all portions Of the United
States and Canada. and shipped Il
tanners in many parts OF the world
His name became we'll known ii
Great Britain, France, Italy, Ger
many, Belgium, Holland and Tur-
key, and with his name was fixeC
accuracy of selection and absolute
squareness in dealing.
Trade journals repeatedly com
nented on Carroll s. Page as tht
largest calfskin dealer in the world
but we believe it was not the size
so much as correct business meth
.ods that the Senator took pride in
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26

"Of course he had TO be very care
full not to move so as TO step on his
new Friends for he knew 1t would be
most impolite ana not ut all Gentle
manly to step On n friend and crush
him. But as he had wanted to stay
quiet and do nothing he was very
happy.
1.-THE Hen sat proudly on one of his
ears, while the little Chickens all sat
on his head, and ran races up and
down his marvellous trunk. The Dog
got up on his back and jumped off and
on again and again. Meantime the
Elephant was sitting down in the barn
yard looking very enormous and very
much out of place.
"SoOn the little Girl, whose name
was Betty, and who lived in the White
House, came running out to give her
pets their breakfast.
"'Good morning said Jumbo, in his
most polite Elephant talk, I'm glad
to meet you. I'm q Gentleman. I'm
not doing anything, and here are my
Friends.
AT first Betty was somewhat fright
ened at seeing the big Elephant bat
then she felt that if the little chickens
were so friendly with him, he must
certainly be friendly.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
Was a Progressive Governor

In 1890 he was elected Governor,
and it was III this position that he
earned his highest honors In his
inaugural message he recommended
the Australian ballot, which, after
a hard fight was adopted.
He found III the state three so
called medical colleges, which were
dispensing cheap diplomas. After
a hard fight they were wiped out
by proper legislation. He was the
first governor ever TO recommend
the weekly payment of wages i'll
ImOney, the first to ever recommend
the abolition Of railroad passes, the
first to ever recommend legislation
with reference to child labor. All
these measures were written into
the statute books either at that time
or little later, and everyone con
versant with Nermont's executive
affairs was prompt in recognizing
| Governor Pages administration as
IOne OF the most progressive in the
history of the state. Not all his
recommendations were favorably
acted upon during his administra-
ton, as he was ahead Of his day ant
generation, but all his recommended
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26

Rather strange that Senator Page s
record, used for advertising purposes,
should be eXtolled in trade paper out
side the state, rather than in some of
the publications nearer his home with
which he has influence. All this bark
ing back to his business career and his
position as an authority on green calf
skins is hardly to the point. What he
has done i'll the United States senate in
the past eight years is what the Yer
mont people are more interested in al
the present time.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
DID GERMANY BLUNDER?

Is it possible that the German gen
cral staff, with all its skill in the
science of war, has made two big
stratcgical bluudcrs! That is the view
expressed 10y J. l.. Garvin, the London
correspondent of the New York Trib-
me.' He believes the Allies are now
on the way to a complete and absolute
victory, although he does not predict
an early end to the war lie rcioices
at what Great Britain has done in rails
ing, training and equiPping Il vast ar
my. and discusses the weakness of the
British land forces during the early
stages of the war. He says that the
British defense Of Ypres when the Ger
man advantage in guns seemed over
/ whelming was as heroic as the French
| defense of Verdun, "and one cannot
/ say more He adds:-
Even now we cannot understand why
/ the Germans failed then to burst our
\ thin lines across the road to the sea
Z Had the Germans known with what
I
/ of guns and numbers the enemy would
probably have been at Calais and Bou
| lognc long before the first year was
/ over.
This was a blunder, according to Mr.
Garvin's view, of some importance
and it was part of one of the big blum
ders. If a blunder was committed, il
was apparently due to lack of infor
nation on the part of the Germans a.
to the strength and condition of tn,
enemy, and this lack of information i.
supposed to have led to further blum
deriug. The two big blunders are thu.
described by Mr.. Garvin:-
Some military experts of very higl
authority indeed think that if the Ger
mans had made their chief effort il
the west i'm the spring of last year, in
stead OF against the Grand Duke, they
might have broken through and fin
ishcd with Russia afterward This yea
it would uuqeustionablv have been ia
better for the enemy to throw his ut
most weight on Russia. But again tn
enemy did the contrary and made, a
we think, the greatest stragetical blum
der OF the war. 1t was too late for tn
Boches in the west, as it is now to-
late in the east, too late everywhere.
There is another interesting expires
sion OF fact or opinion in Mr.. Garvin
dispatch to the ''Tribune' of yester
day. He says that the Allies are nov
on the sure road, but that their mai
object is not to gain ground. Gradua
progress in that way must come of il
self, but the Allies have no intercs
in shortening the enemy's lines, whic
would be the result of any extensiv
retirement. To force such retire
ment now, he says, would be prema
turc. 1t is better to reduce and dimil
ish the opposing forces ION the exc
bitant fronts they will try to hold,
and he counts upon their reluctance t
retire rs one of the things, 90 thu
should help Us in the end"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
His Work for the Cause of Education

1t is, however. to the cause Of
education that Mr.. Page has de-
voted his time and energies during
the past six years. The so-called
Page \ Ocational Educational Bill is
the only bill relating to vocational
education that ever passed either
House of Congress. This bill passed
the Senate January %. 1913, but
was defeated by a Democratic
House. In 1913 that part of the
bill which pertains to college ex-
tension work. and is now doing
such an immense amount of good
to the agricultural interests Of the
country, was passed The balance
of the bill is now before Congress
i'll both Houses, and is known as
the Sinith-IIughes Bill Senator
Smith, in speaking in the Senate
recently practically said that while
the bill bore his name the public
were indebted to Senator Page for
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26

one of them said he was going to be
an Engineer and build bridges. The
other little Boy had said he was going
to be Gentleman and do nothing. The
first Boy thought he was quite wrong
and very silly, but then and there
decided that it would be beautiful to
do nothing
1.-The other Elephants had asked
Jumbo how an Elephant could be q
Gentleman, any more than a Gentle
man could be an Elephant. but Jumbo
was determined to lead a lazy life.
And you see neither Jumbo nor the
little boy knew what q Gentleman
really meant.
$50 Jumbo escaped, and he ran and
ran till he reached back yard of a
lovely little White House"
I've never seen an Elephant rum
said Nick.
well, maybe they don't go very
fast" said Daddy, but they call it
running when they hurry along as
fast as they know how.
1.-THE next morning Jumbo was in
the barnyard near the White House,
and as you viii never be able to guess
the Friends he had chosen I'll have to
tell you. He was playing with a big
brown Dog, Il mother Hen and whole
lot of little Chickens.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
S N IL E s

dened with all of the known forms of
sleep-Walling dyspepsia and who is yet
able to summon u sixteen candle-power
smile whenever the s2me will help close
leal. We are reminded by this that
Carnegie medals to life-saVers aad IL
noring the sunny-tempered dyspeptic is
greater disappointment than the pres
idcntial primary.
When the smile reaches the acute
stage OF development it is called q grin.
The grin which is hooked on so that
it cannot fall off the first time that
any little thing goes wrong let's more
sunshine into the house than plate
glass front porch. Ii more young wo-
men, in picking out a bridegroom, would
look to see whether the candidates wear
a natural grin or a forced, incubator
smile. they would 20 through life with
ont knowing what the breakfast table
Crouch looks like.
If we would all smile more our food
would set better and we would be more
popular at home. 1t docsn I cost any
thing to smile, but if it did some mcf
and women we know would be in ;
chronic state of bankruptcy. There is
nothing nicer than kind hearted
neighbor with a broad, 6 by 6 smile
| for She carries a little bit of HEAVIER
around with her.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
GREEN RIVER.

Miss Ruth Page, who has been i'll, is
out again.
Mrs. Minnie Prouty's father, Mr.
Clark, is i'll.
Clinton Wallace was a guest of Ar
thur Worden Sunday.
Robert Legate is helping Arthur Wor,
den through the having season.
S. NJ. Golf of Bristol was a guest of
Mrs. Anna Page a few days last week.
Floyd Whitney of Greenfield was in
this town Saturday calling on friends
DR.. II. D. Holton and daughter of New
Haven, Conn, called at Mrs. Fife s
Thursday.
John Hall, two nieces and three chill
dren of New York came Monday for 6
brief stay.
Wilbur Burnett of Brattleboro spent
the week -end with his family and faith
er, w. w. Burnett.
Ray Gates came home Sunday morn
ing, returning to his work at W. E
Higley S Monday morning.
Mr. and Mrs David Denton and TIVE
children were guests of his sister
Anna Page, Sunday. Mrs. Page anC
daughter, Ruth, motored with them t,
the deer park.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
Started With Less Than $500

The people of Vermont have just
been celebrating the 10th anniver-
Sary of \crmont's admission to the
Union, under the auspices of the
Greater Vermont Association. Yer
mont is anxious to convince the
world that the Green Mountain
State is good place in which TO
achieve success. If she wishes 10
prove the fact by living example,
she need go no further than to her
illustrious son who is so highly
thought Of by the hide and leather
trade Of the country, Carroll S.
Page.
Here is a man who started with
less than 500 cash capital, but
with supply Of courage, persist
ency and enterprise which enabled
him to overcome the handicap of
his location in a country village.
| He has achieved a success so not
able i'll the raw calfskin trade that
the father of the late Governor
Guild said that he was as we'll
! known i'll Europe as in America as
an important factor in the hide
| trade
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26

The smile is a wide crack ii the hui
man conntenance running east and west.
1t is one Of the finest decorations which
can be put on the face, far exceeding
in beauty and charm the string mus
tachc and the bright red splashes i'm
parted by the rouge pot.
The smile is caused by two things
the mind and the stomach. When a
man s mind is all Uttered up with wor-
~ and his best customers order goods
by telephone rather than face long
threatening book account, the smile
backs into some dark retreat and curls
up in corner. But when the crop
comes in and the dulcet chimes of the
cash register fall on the cooked ear of
the proprietor, the mouth peels back
ward gently from ear to ear, exposing
the remnants of a once proud set of
teeth. This teaches us that the way to
wear Il perpetual, non-shrinking smile
is to think sweet thoughts and refuse
to look a sight draft in the face.
The state of the stomach also intlu-
ences the smile capacity Of most people
When the stomach is restless and dis
traught and acts as if il would like to
! be engaged in some other line of work
il will not be able to produce one good
radiant smile week. One Of the
greatest heroes we have is the man bur
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26

There is at least one point on which
the United States and the Kaiser are
in agreement. lie is as much down
ON hyphenism as we are. He says there
are Germans and Americans, but that
there is no such thing as a German
American. That is Just what Presi-
dent Wilson ana Mr.. Hughes are try
ing to establish, and perhaps with the
help of the Kaiser they may succeed.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
Business Career Began at Age OF IL

In business he started as his faith
er's assistant, at the age Of II years.
His father was an invalid, and the
boy had to take unusual response
bilitics. At fifteen Carroll was
sent to New York to buy goods for
his father. The experimental trip
proving successful, the journeys to
New York and Boston to buy mer-
chandise and sell hides, skins and
wool became a habit every three
months.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
Vermont Proud of Page

Vermont is proud Of her dis
tlnguished son, but not more so
than the hide and leather fraternity,
who feel that today Senator Page
combines that ability and enterprise
which easily places him in the front
rank of those connected with the
great hide and leather business of
the country.
That Vermont fails TO recognize
the standing Of Senator Page in the
business world we do not believe.
That she will fail to appreciate the
fact that no man stands higher in
the halls Of the National Senate as
an able, honorable, high-minded
worker than Carroll s. Page is in
our judgment entirely improbable.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26

Tor some time to return to his first
Friends.
We'll, this morning he had decided
to leave. For late the night before he
had heard tbs Circus he belonged to
arriving in the Village where Betty
lived.
I've had powerful good time,
said Jumbo to Betty, but | must be
OFF. | haven't done thing for weeks
anu If this is what it means to be a
Gentleman I'd rather be an Elephant
which, of course, is very easy for me
to be-as | am one, don't you see|
Now Betty didn't understand what
the Elephant was really saying, but
that afternoon when she went to the
Circus there she saw Jumbo in the
Baseball Game. and doing all the tricks
better than any other Elephant. lie
was SO delighted at having something
to do again that though Betty missed
him, still she was glad he was back
where he was happiest."
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26

Another evidence that about the only
sure way to give and know where the
money goes is to do it while one is
alive is afforded by the case of Column
bia University, which will be deprived
Of $4,000,o0O by the setting aside of
the will Of Amos T.. Emo 1t is a skill
nj man who can draw n will that can
stand the assaults of the big lawyers
if there is enough Gin it to induce
them to take hold.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
l4DDY'S EVENING
FAIRY TALE % WARY !
go 1>yIl G sosTea
ELEPHANTS WANDERlNGS.

"There was once an Elephant who
got tired of the Circus and wandered
off one night when nobody was motto
ing" commenced Daddy.
You see the Circus was getting
ready to go on to another Village tC
give a performance and it was late al
night. They never thought of an Ele
plant getting away, but they hadn't
heard Jumbo telling the other Gle
plants of late how exceedingly tired he
WIS of Circus life and Circus food and
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
Decides 10 Stay in Vermont

At twenty-one years he had be-
come an experienced business man,
with the tempting opportunities Of
large cities before him, but his af-
lection for his home and invalid
father made him decide to stay III
Vermont, where he developed a
nationwide and even worldwide
vision in affairs that never before
i'll our knowledge has been reached
by Il man living in a small country
community.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
Member of the Associated Press.

The Reformer is on sale every evening
by the following news dealers:
5rattleboro, Bratteboro News Co.
Park Drug store, c. w. Cleaveland. d
X. cutler d Co. tEsteyVilie), Brooks
House Pharmacy.
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Streeter.
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Windsor, VI. Windsor Restaurant.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
Enters Public Life at rs

Senator Pages entry into public
life began at the age OF %, when he
was elected to the House Of Repre-
sentatives of his state. He won his
first spurs in a fight to defeat a bill
which proposed to take consider
able sunl-as he believed wrong
fully-from the state treasury.
At the age of = he was agar
elected a member of the House. ant
as soon as constitutionally eligible
to the Senate he was elected 10 that
BODY
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
His Success As a Banker

He has made 4 success in bank
ing almost equally notable. After
four years service as bank exam
liner, he established in his little
home village Of only 1913 popula-
ton a bank which has today more
than S3,oo0,000 assets. and is said
10 be the largest bank i'll the world
in any country village
1t is most remarkable that one
man i'll a location remote from large
trade centcrs with an environment
so unfavorable, could have achieved
a success 50 phenomenal in two
such widely different fields Of bust
ness activity.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26

1.-THE Elephant
stayed some time
with the Animals
of the barnyard
and With Betty.
But one morning
bright and early
she found Jumbo
with an old Ball
and bat in his
great big trunk.
He was practicing
Baseball so he
would not be put
off the team when
he got back to
the Circus for he
had been planning
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
Elected United States Senator

In 1908 Mr.. Page was elected to
the United States Senate. Within
q few months after he entered the
Senate he became an acknowledged
authority on matters pertaining to
hides and leather. His speech i'll
.lllne. 1909. is looked upon as an au-
thoritative statement on that in
dustry, and was circulated in large
numbers throughout the country
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26

Circu $ paradeS.
He was not only
tired of it all but
he said he wanted
to be Il Gentleman.
THE other Ele-
plants had asked
him what a Gen
tleman was, and
this is what he
told them:
~ heard two
little Boys talking
of what they were
going to be wher
they grew up.
said Jumbo, 'anC
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
Canoe a Death Trap.
Barre Times. y

There is 4 certain challenge in a
canoe to the boy or girl with an ad
venturous spirit. SO strong is the
challenge that few of them are able
to resist if. Hence it follows that the
canoe claims its victims quite frequent
~ in Vermont as well as elsewhere.
The unfortunate outcome of demon
stration near st. Johnsbury on Sun
day is Il reminder that the canoe, which
under the most favorable conditions is
a craft full of danger, becomes little
short Of death trap when the con
ditions change to the mfavorable
Padding a canoe in calm water may
perhaps he conducted safely, but shoot
ing rapids in canoe is a Performance,
that is foOlhardv i'll the extreme
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26

department of justice, where know
ledge of legal matter is almost indis-
pensable. We do not recall a time in
40 years when q man not versed in law
has filed the position.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t Is the aim OF the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery
Of the paper each night, and 1t solcits
the cooperation OF subscribers to that
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.
IL Is only by this method that the pub
Usher can secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26
His Political Activities

Mr.. Page became early in life
actively identified with the Repub-
llcan party. In 1872 he was placed
upon the State Committee, posi-
ton he retained until he resigned
i'll 1889 when he ran for Governor.
From 1885 to 1889 he was its chair
man. and it was under his admins
tration Of affairs that the state
gave the largest Republican ma
joritv ever given up to that time
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-26

Thomas Cave, ir., of Barre, who has
his candidacy fer the Office
of auditor of accounts, will be handi-
capped by the fact that he is not n
lawyer. \ very important part of the
work Of the auditor is dealing with the