The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-28
The MeddLer
If the coat fits you. put Il on"

The Meddler rarely writes a story.
The object of this column is to improve
community conditions by pointing out
weaknesses and faults and suggesting
remedies which will be helpful. Al
though he may inject a little sting into
his communications he is governed by
the principle with malice toward none.
with charity for ALL
But we digress We heard the other dav
of an exciting eXperience-for a few
minutes-of two well-known business
men who are members of the Country
club. The day was Sunday. The skies
were cerulean. The temperature was
high, even for July forenoon, and the
humidity was intense The men in cues
ton were on the Country club s proper
ty on the hill where the "back' road
leads from the upper West Dummerston
highway to West Brattleboro. What
these business men were doing on Sun
day at this location is not explained
that 5 another story, as our old friend
Rudyard would say.
Suddenly hcartrending shouts were
heard to the south. The oolfers-we
mean business men-listencd. Then all
was quiet for a moment and our friends
started toward the clubhouse. And inst
at this moment stranger-Lithuanian
he afterward stated-rushcd up the road
and frantieally asked in broken
language whether the two men had seen
his baby. Then he explained that the
child had disappeared while the mother
was at church, and he. the father, had
been working in the field a short dis
lance away. Then he rushed at n rapid
pace up the road a distance of a quarter
of a mile.
A child lost. The pulses of the Coun-
try club men quickened. Now was their
time to give help! They FASTENED
to the road ana met the frantic father
running back.
One of the men, being of an analvti-
cal mind from his professional work,
stopped the man long enough to ask
questions. He found out that the miss
ing child was a girl only two years old:
that she had been gone only few
minutes, and that the disappearance
was called to the fathers attention bv
another member of the family. less than
four years old, who had shouted
" Baby's gone!''
Inc analytical reasoner then pointed
out that child of two years could not
have gone very far in 10 minutes. He
told the father to 90 back and to look
the house and barn over carefully-per-
haps the little one had fallen and sus-
tanned some injury. And then he and
ms companion agreed to push through
the woods on the lower side of the road
about the only place the child could
have wandered into. Through the thick
underground the two rushed in paths
~ to 80 yards apart. They were alert
every instant for any cutlery or any
movement in the bushes. Finally. reek-
ing with perspiration they crossed a lit
tie brook and came to the clearing close
to where the family lives. The man on
the inside reached the highway first. In
Il moment more came the climax.
The man on the lower side-vJe won T
call his name but his initials are C. r.
C.--came through the last barbed wire
fence in rush in the impulsive way that
rs characteristic of him. But the cruel
barbS caught in thepart of his anatomy
where no perfect lady viii try to
strike match, and as he struggled to
solld ground with large portion gone
from Palm Beach pair of trousers