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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30
THE HOME MARKET.

The home merchant. Who is he!
lie is the chap who gives YOU credit
when you are financially broke, and car
rics your account until you are able to
pay.
He is the chap who gives You back
your money or makes exchanges when
YOU are not satisfied with what YOU
have bought.
He is the chap who stands behind his
guaranty, and makes restoration of all
losses that you may sustain on the goods
YOU buv.
He is the chap who meets YOU at the
door with a handshake, and let's Won
out with n message to the kids and
real come-again goodbye.
He is the chap who meets and greets
YOU on the street every day in the year,
and takes a neighboring interest in
your family and your affairs.
! He is the chap whose clerks and book
keepers and other employees live in
your town and spend their money with
| you and with other town people.
! He is the chap who pays heavy taxes
to help support your schools, and build
your streets, and maintain your fire de-
partments and police departments and
lighting service.
He is the chap who helps support
Your churches and hospitals and charity
organizations, and Your lodges and com
mercial clubs, and talks for your town
and boosts your town every day in the
year.
He is the chap who visits you when
YOU are i'll, sends flowers to your family
when YOU die, and follows Your body
out among the trees and tombs, as fan
as human feet may travel with the dead
He is the home merchant-vour neigh.
bor-vour helper in times of need
Don't You think that you ought t
trade with him and be his friend and
! his helper in the time Of his need?
Don t you know that every dollar
, that YOU send ort of town for mcrchan
{ disc is sent to strangers-to men who
never spend 4 dollar III your town, t.
men who would not trust you for BIO,
Of matches, to men who would turn
YOU over to the police if YOU should en-
ter their offices
You don t save much frequently
! nothing, when Won send your money on
of your town and vou take all the risl
/, yourself of short weight or measure AM
of getting damaged or inferior goods
, And don t YOU know that the growtl
. and prosperity of your town depend
, very largely on home merchants?
q Out-of-town people judge your tow
! by the appearance of Your stores an
!. the degree of enterprise shown by YOU
! merchants. And your home merchant
cannot succeed unless home folks Civ
them loyal support
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30
No Merry Han" for st. Mick.

DR.. Enoch ". Pearson, director Of mu
cipal Sarah Bradshaw yesterday that
Way up in the Clouds would not be
sung any more by the pupils of the Pas
toFius school, Chelten avenue and
Sprague street. That is the merry lit
tie lay that caused row between the
parents and the teachers when the ia
theirs and mothers heard that their
children were singing a song that gave
Kris Kringle the ''ha ha
It had two lines with the '.ha-haH
in it, one of which runs: Believe in
him then if you can. Ha, hal
Principal Bradshaw said that the
song was beautiful, and Miss Mary
Buzby, who taught the little ones, held
the same view. But the parents want
ed none of that material teaching foi
their youngsters. The children all be
lieved there was Santa Claus anc
there would be no giving him the his
ha'' in Germantown if they could hell
it.
When you are sitting on a jury yol
cannot take any snap Judgment. Sc
Director Pearson waited for two davs
after the matter was put up to him
and then told the Principal:
= find for Santa Claus
Superintendent CARRIER admitted YES
terday that it was the first time tina
the school authorities had wrestled will
| Kris Kringle, and he said impressively
"And it will be the last. ''-Philadel
phia Public Ledger.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30
Something to Investigate.
st. Alhans Ncsscnger.)

Seven hours before the country
leard OF the note sending, certain per
sons in Wall Street had information.
When the note was published and was
'oll9Wed by the extraordinary cXplana
lions Of Secretary Lansing, stocks fell
Wall Street as they have not done in
many years and thousands suffered
'normous losses. \ few individuals on
he inside, on the other hand, made mil
ions When Secretary Lansing fol
owed up his first statement with anoth-
r. three hours later. explaining the ex-
,lanation. stocks took a bound upward
lad other people We're caught. The
'ea'lv big games are not played with
Brattleboro Reformer.
This circumstance Is so mysterious,
o cut Of the ordinary run of events, so
'erious in its consequences, not alone
hat many were financially hard hit,
while 4 few profited, but also that gen
val confidence has been seriously shak-
VI, that the demand for an investigation
houId he granted and Secretary Ian
sings readiness for a probe should be
AIKEN at its face value. That Lansing
onnived at any irregularitv, it is inn
possible to conceive, bat there are many
places where 2 leak might have oe
urFod. Did some foreign embassy know
+ the coming peace note and did tn,
pearl Of tip fall from some such ex
,itcd lips? It would be very interest
ng to the nation to know if some am
| 5as 3ador did learn of the President Z
contemplated action aud where he 90
| hat information. That would be his
| CRY well worth worth reading The af
air has gone far enough now and is o
'uch Importance that the facts shoult
G laid before the American people, lie
| hem hit whom they may.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30

and you know we mustn't be Seen. We
like to do our Work, and go Flying off
again, don't we. my Pretty Reindeers?'
For Santa Claus was Leaning over
the Chimney, and he had seen me /!
And then l Thought that Santa
Claus would be late for his Rounds,
and that maybe, maybe some little Boy
or Girl might miss their Christmas
because of me.
Il hurried back to Bed. And then
what Sounds and Noises I heard, but
as | Heard them, Mr.. Sandman threw
some of his Magic Sand into my Eyes,
and went Fast Asleep.
"When [ awoke my Stocking was
Filled! And everything I had asked
for was there for me!
81 heard some Queer Sounds last
night said my Daddy. They lasted
for ever so long
Il didn't like TO say that I had kept
Santa Claus Waiting because l want
ed to see him, and that the Renders
had grown Impatient and Stamped In
hurry to be off.
But at least I heard Santa Claus
come that night, and Of all the Christ
mas Ewes / ever had, that one was the
most Wonderful, and my Christmas
Presents the next day the Finest ever
a Boy had"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30

tic City protocols; aud now, when he
does Al length deign to give the matter
his attention, he sidesteps and evades
and resorts to al manner of subterfugc
Instead Of giving the direct and un
cdnivocal answer which the occasion
Individually requires.
Meanwhile, Villa continues to make
progress which stamps him, and not
Carranza, as the individual with whom
our government may ultimately have to
deal He is still the murderer who slew
Americans at Parral and Carazal. The
PeIshing expedition was sent to Mex
leo to get him, dead or alive. His
whereabouts now are known. at least
approximately. The inability, or dis
inclination, of the Carranza government
to lend any elfectual assistance has been
often demonstrated. One of Carran
IA 5 chief objections to the Atlantic
City protocol is the omission of an
agreement to withdraw American troops
from Mexico and keep them out. We
can scarcely sever diplomatic relations
with Carranza, for, strictly, we have
10 such relations in that quarter Ii
this connection the thoughtful Ameri
can is bound to feel an increased re
spect for the wisdom of those Repub-
Iican senators who refused to vote fOI
the confirmation of Mr.. Fletcher s ap
pointment as Observation-Disclosures to
Mexico under the parlous conditions
| existing. Carranza S ambassador may
| be sent back to MeXico-and the situa-
| ion, far from being clarified, will be
precisely what it was prior to the es-
| adjustment of the joint internationa;
| commission.
Carranza takes the attitude not Of
| respectful attention to our demands
but. in effect. of ignoring them and
debating terms of his own, which hi
| experience with Washington evidently
has led him TO believe will be admitted
| to garlev. To deal with him in the only
fashion which he would appreciate
would be more difficult now than il
would have been two years ago; but
/ unless Villa succeeds soon in eiminat
ing him altogether. the thing will have
to be done. In the event of Villa 7
triumph, and the collapse of the Car
| raLza government, we shall be unde
The humiliating necessity of admittin;
the unwisdom Of recognizing Carran
"a; Of withdrawing that recognition
and of treating with Villa. 1t is cas-
# choice between the frying-pan an
The fire with small room for preference
One thing. however. has long beer
,lainlv evident Moral suasiou has al
solatelv no effect on Mexico. The soor
IT the administration at Washingto
~ealizes the futilitv of trying TO quie
the turbulent republic by ordinaril,
| accepted diplomatic means, the bette
ri il viii bc for all concerned.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30

Notwithstanding Secretary McAdoo s
forecast OF a treasury deficit of $50,
100000 at the end of the present fiscal
year the Democrats in congress are
planning to rush through three pork
measures calling for appropriations OF
100000, 600; this in addition to $500,
100000 already spent on pork project:
in the past three years. What the actual
deficit viii be if the pork grabbers are
allowed to have their own way no one
would dare conjecture. The spoilsmen il
congress realize that this is their las.
opportunity and they seem disposed t.
make the most Of il. When the new
congress comes in the Democratic ma
iority win be wiped out, and then il
win not be possible to rush pork bills
j through with such abandon. Hence III,
haste to grab all they can hold while The
grabbing is good.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30
n4DDYX, EVENING
FAIRY TALE e Wary
-. S ESQ., % !! !! 3 !
HEARING SANTA CLAUS.

81 have told YOU" said Daddy, so
many Stories of the Different Christ
mas Days that little Girls and Boys
have had, and | Think / will have to
tell you about one of my very own
Christmas Days"
"Goodie," said Nancy.
"That will be splerdid, Daddy said
Nick.
Il am Glad you both want to hear
it." said Daddy, "for this Christmas
time was very Wonderful | Thought.
"But | will have to 60 back and tell
you that days and days before Christ
mas | had Written Notes to Santa
Claus and had called up the Chimney
to him-for we had a big Fireplace in
my Home. You know Santa Claus can
always get the Notes Children Write
him, no matter where they Post them.
Tie is such a Wise old Fellow,
And the thing l had asked for over
and over and over again was a
Hockey Suit and Outfit. I wanted
Skates, Knee Pads, a Hockey Stick,
and pair of Strong Gloves"
"Well," laughed Nick, Il would
cal that more than asking for a thing
l would say Several Things
$50 should T." agreed Nancy.
81 do Believe you are both Right"
| Laughed Daddy. and it was true |
had TO Write long Letter every time
to Santa Claus.
at was the Day before Christmas.
And I almost wanted Bedtime to come,
because then there would be just a
Nice Dream or tWo-and at last
would see what Santa Claus had
brought me.
81 was very ready to go to Bed as
soon as l had had my Supper and my
Stockings had been Hung up.
"And then I fell Asleep. / slept fol
time, and had the most Wonderful
Dreams, l thought I saw the Rein
deers: and Santa Claus Driving then
over the Cities and Towns-right owe
the Chimneys and Roofs.
; But I woke up suddenly! And
was still quite Dark. oh dear
: | thought to myself, it is not time TO ge
up yet. anu Thought Nouluu NIh
/ up until Morning
Then 1 Wondered if Santa Clau
had been here. ! got up out of Bet
put on my Wrapper and Slippers an
: quietly went TO look at my Stocking
;. 1t was Hanging there quite Empty.
II "Dear me- l thought, 1 haven
|! been Asleep any time at ALL
|, "And then heard a Sound. and sti
II more Sounds. They all came from Il
II Direction of the Chimney. And on Il
I Roof heard Queer Stamping of Fee
Il '"."The Reindeers.' I thought.
! 81 hurried across my Room, al
went to the Fireplace Room. The
certainly was very Queer Sour
around the Chimney.
81 Listened and did not Move
stood so still that / was Afraid almo
that my Breathing would be Hear
< And at last 1 heard a Voice I
the Chimney saying. I can't
v on vet, my pretty Renders. The
is a small Boy down here W
I wants to have Look at us
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30
Whitehill for sergeant-at-Arms.
lMorrisville M.essenger.N

With three Montpelier men scram
bling for the place and one, at least,
showing his lack of the qualifications
needed, why not elect IT, c. Whitehill
of Waterbury?
He lives near enough Montpelier so
that he could perform all the duties in
eumbent upon him easily without hav-
ing 10 reside in the capitol city
He is prince of good fellows. but
shat is not all
He is a self made man, educated in
The school and college of hard knocks.
He has the backbone 10 do the right
hing and say no when it ought to be
said
A Caledonia county boy born and
bred, he has won his success in Wash,
ington county, and made good in every
olace to which duty has called him.
Let's leave Montpelier out for once
and put in the best man; one who
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30
Bradford Opinion.O

The death of Clarke C. Fits of
@rattleboro last week. is a great loss
% the state. Tie was in the first prime
# life. a leading lawyer and business
man. He had vision of Vermont as
IN industrial state and he put his fine
mind to work on developing our nat
rral resources in the way of water
,ower. His work in advocating the
development of our water power is q
monument which viii endure, and the
'tata is great loser that his fine on
'husiasm, his keen brain and his mas
-2Fy Of details cannot longer be brought
70 bear upon our problems
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30
men7ber OF the Associated press

The ttefOrmer Is on sale every eNenint
by the following news dealers
Brsttieboro, Rrattleboro News Co,
c. ". Cleaveland. d. K. Cutler & Co
(Esteyville). Brooks House Pharmacy.
West orsttieboro. J. J.. Stockwell.
Eas. Dummerston, u. r. Brown.
loutucy NJ g Williams.
Nesvtane. ~ 81. Batchelder.
Tcwnshero, G. w. Cutler.
West TowrShend, g. II. Grout.
Jamaica, Z. J DaGgett.
South Londonderry, F. II. Tyler.
South Vernon. r. K. BnYuru.
Nest Chesterfield, N. r.. Mrs. "
Streeter.
Hlnsdsle, N. H.. w. II. Lyman.
Bellows Fails, W, Depot Restaurant
Rertujno r HertOllno.
Windsor, W., Windsor Restaurant
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30

In AN address the other day an edu
eational authority said that not more
than half the graduates IF eNomen. :
colleges ever marry and that the aver
age number of children of those who
marry is less than one 1t is thus plain
that while the women : colleges are
doing their share toward educating the
country, population viii have 10 be
sought in other quarters. With such 9
condition as this prevailing among the
precious natives it is a poor time
to propose a litcracv test for immi.
grants.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30
X Err o S enc

Kerosene is cheap, muscular fluid
which is used to dispel darkness and
encourage the sale OF carbon removers.
Before the electric light bulb was dis
covered, with its cheering radiance and
incessant output of kilowatts, the kero-
sene lamp was the only thing that light
ed up the American home except the
sunny husband with glucose DISPOSE
tion. Every home contained ) or kero-
sene lamps which required more atten-
ton than set of twins with the whoop-
ing-eough and were always falling off
the center table and setting fire TO some
member of the family Nowadays,
everybody has electric lights which can
be turned on and off with simple twist
of the wrist, without causing the meter
to hesitate in n single joint.
Kerosene is made out of crude oil and
what is left after the gasoline has been
fried out. Gasoline is not supposed to
Protected by The Ada
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30
The Crisis in Mexico.


1t is nothing new that our relations
with Mexico are described as crit
ieal.' Actually, if not automatically,
n continuous crisis in those relations
has existed for more than four years.
At times it becomes especially acute
and this is one of the times The en-.
tire attitude of General Carranza to-
ward the demands of the United States.
both before and since his recognition
by our government, has been one of
contempt. When our latest ultimatum
was sent 70 him, time limit within
which an answer was expected was set
Carranza coolly permitted the prescribed
time to expire without aceeding TO oul
demand for his approval of the Allan
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30
Clarke G.. Fits.
(Ludlow Tribune.)

The death Of Clarke C. Fits of Brat
.lehoro, briefly noted in our news col
INNS last week, removes a man of ST.
aayabundant energy, OF brilliant parts
1nd of effective activity in the bust
aesS, legal and political circles of the
.tate--a man whom his town, his coun-
y and his state were not slow to ap.
)reciate and honor The writer recalls
With interest the effort put forth by Mr.
7itts for the creation Of the office OF
'ttorncy- general. ard the unhesitating
lction of the legislature in clecting the
Brattleboro lawyer as the first occupant
If that position.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30

contain any kerosene or water, and II
is a severe shock to the unsuspecting
tourist to lay in few gallons of tank
gasoline and discover that he has paid
2S cents gallon for Pennsylvania
crude oil which will not fit his carbu-
rotor. This is what causes so many auto
mobiles to stagger up and down our
streets with an exhaust like a stutter-
ing school boy at spelling match.
Kerosene is now used mostly to start
fires, and when introduced to q steel
range under the proper conditions will
set in motion a highly successful con
Migration, beginning with the hired
girl. Some of the most profitable fires
ever held in this country have sprung
from two-gallon can of kerosene care
fully inserted under pile of japanese
kimonos marked down to 70 cents. Thi,
teaches us that kerosene should be sold
only to automobile owners with cold
IN the head.
ms NpyrcrnDpr Gor,-ioa7
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30
Gives Boy Experience.

Poultry keeping in a snail way is
not what might be termed hard work
and yet it is work that must be done
Systematically, carefully and diligent-
~. The experiences gained in this
way will greatly benefit the boy in his
future career, even though another
field of endeavor is chosen in after
years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30
In Tabloid Form.

1t is noted that if the average child
is left to its own natural intuition when
assigned the task of preparing q com
position, the probabilities are that he
or she viii go directly to the point and
say all that needs to be said within the
shortest possible compass Thus, on
the duck: ''The duck is a low, heavy
set bird. He is a mighty poor singer
with a coarse voice. Brooklyn Citi-
zen.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30
TO ADVERTISERS.
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim OK the management t.
secure efficient service IN the delivery
OF the paper each night. end it solicits
the cooperation OF subscribers to that
end. Prompt reports should be given %
euch failure t. receive the paper on tn
morning following tee omission. In per
son, BY telephone o.. postal card. thu
enabling the cause Of the error TO b,
promptly and accurately discovered ant
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, 1916-12-30
Our Language.

If the plural of shedf is sheaves,
And the plural of leaf is leaves,
And the plural of chief is chiefs.
And the plural of brief is briefs,
And the plural of beef is beeves,
And the plural of thief is thieves,
And the plural of gaff is gaffs,
And the plural of staff is stats,
And the plural of calf is calves,
And the plural of half is halves,
And the plural of hoof is hoofs,
And the plural of roof is roofs.
And the plural of shelf is shelves,
And the plural of self is selves,
And the plural of wharf is wharves,
And the plural of dwarf is dwarfs,
And the plural of fife is flies,
And the plural of life is lives,
And the plural of strife is strifes,
And the plural of wife is wives,
what sort of language have we an
low Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30

Philippine cigars are now regularly
exported to 40 countries. the bulk of
the shipments, outside the exports TO
the United States, going 80 nearby
oriental lands. The total experts last
year were 155,0O0.00 cigars.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30
{. thomas, Ph. E.
Central Vermont Ry.
Corrected to October l, 1916.

Trains leave Brattleboro
500 a. m. Except Sunday. For New
London.
100 a. m. Except Sunday. For South
Londonderry.
a.20 a. ~ Except Sunday. For New
York via Springfield.
80 a. m Except Sunday. For South
Londonderry.
0.25 a. m. Except Sunday. For Millers
Falls
TO p m. Except Sunday. For Keene,
New London and New York
via New London.
800 p NJ Except Sunday. Local for
South Londonderry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30

The Ganges is 1870 miles long and |
drains an area of 10000 square miles.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-30

knows everybody and deserves recogni
ton as one of the successful young men
OF Vermont.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-08-17
CAL0MEL SALiVATES
 AND MAKES Y0U SICK
Acts like dynamite on a sluggish liver and you lose a
 days work.

There's no reason why a person should take sickening, 3aiivating calomel when % cents buys a large bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone-a per feet substitute for calomel.
 It is a pleasant, vegetable liquid which will start your liver just as surely as calomel, but it doesn't make you sick and can not salivate.
 Children and grown folks can take Dodson's Liver Tone, because it is perfectly harmless.
 Calomel is a dangerous drug. It is mercury and attacks your bones. Take dose of nasty calomel today and you will feel weak, sick and naSseated tomorrow. Don't lose a days work. Take a spoonful of Dodson's Liver Tone instead and you will wake up feeling great. No more biliousness, constipation, sluggishness, headache, coated tongue or sour stomach. Your druggist says if you don't find Dod- sons Liver Tone acts better than horrible calomel your money is wait ing for you. (Advertisemen)
Bisbee daily review., 1916-08-17
Mining and Financial News
BY REVIEW LEASED WIRE

The result was a net loss 7s to 19sc. Corn closed Is lower to a shade higher for oats and provision irregu- lar from 25c lower for December pork to 10c up for October ribs.
 The best prices for wheat were at tained early in the session. Crop advances continued bullish and Liver pool was higher and these factors en- couraged holders forthe time being to hold back for a further rise. When it came. however. there was plenty for sale and thereafter every bulge found selling ordrs waiting.
 Corn prices covered a range of < and were influenced largely by wheat advancing early and reacting later on profit taking.
 News of the oats crop was not con significant and prices reflested the trend in neighboring pits.
 Provisions advanced early on libs eral shipments of lard and the ad- vance in live hogs with shorts leading in the buying but realizing sales later found little support and the gain was mostly lost Closing prices were at the bottom.