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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-23

kct the lonely little schoolma'am set
off down the trail toward the Tucker
place, where she boarded.
II was showing hard now and the
trail was rapidly disappearing under
the white blanket. In the deepening
gloom dark shapes appeared, approach
Ing and receding, but they proved to
be the pine trees fringing the steep
slopes.
Far below, the lights of the town
cleaned through the darkness and
then vanished. and Beruiee, plunging
out of the path To avoid a deep drift,
took a wrong turning and soon ac-
knowledged To herself with fright
ened sob that she was lost on the
mountain in a raging blizzard.
Hours afterward, she sank exhaust.
ed at the foot of pine tree and drop
ped her head on her outstretched
arms.
Il will rest for a few minutes" she
murmured drowSily.
Down in the town Mrs. Tucker
waited supper that Christmas eve un-
til nine o'clock. Then little Willie
Tucker sleepily announced that Mrs.
Halliday had invited teacher to spend
the night and cut Christmas dinner at
the Halliday ranch. Gliding Willie for
his tardy information, Mrs. Tucker
fastened to the telephone and called
the Halliday ranch but the wires were
all down, and 50 the anxious little
woman decided that the teacher had
been unable TO send word about. her
change of Christmas plans. and went
about the trimming Of the Tucker
Christmas tree with renewed activity
Bernice opened her eyes in the liv
ing room of a warm log cabin. Gay
Navajo blankets hung from the wall,
and covered the broad couch on which
she reclined before a blazing fire OF
hickory logs.
Two men were bending over the fire
one was stirring something in a brigh
tin saucepan. something hot ant
steaming which he poured into tum
bier and brought 10 her bedside.
"Bellow he smiled. Awake are you
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-23

Nice assortment of Christmas trees
at low prices. Holden & Martin Adj,
2IS252
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-23
PERSONAL.

Miss Viola Harris will spend Christ
mas with friends in Vernon.
Mrs. George H. Harris is recovering
from an illness of four weeks with
pneumonia.
DR.. George R. Anderson went today
to Plattsburg, \. y. to spend Christ
mas with his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs 5. B. Brown of Bridge
water are expected today TO visit their
daughter, Mrs. B. f. White of Grove
street.
Mrs, Mary J. Hunt of Winchester
\. H., is expected to be a guest in the
home of her son, William B. Hunt. over
the holidays.
Miss Ethel A. Wilmington went to
Greenfield, Mass, this afternoon to
spend Christmas with her sister, Mrs.
I. L. Gaines.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Whitney and Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Webster will be
Christmas guests of Mrs. Ada L. Hig-
gins in Hinsdale
Miss Nellie Griffin will go this after
noon to Holyoke, Mass, to spend
Christmas with her sister. She will be
accompanied by Miss Katherine O'Con-
nor.
Mrs Allan p. Brown was called to
Philadelphia Wednesday on account of
he death of her sister, Mrs. Elliott. of
Germantown, who was i'll two DAYS
with bronchial pneumonia.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-23

IL Schoolteacher at Rock
Gulch dismissed her pu-
pills with Il smiling face.
Behind the smiles urked
unshed tears. When the
last youngster had van
ished down the snow-cov-
cred trail, Bernice leaned
her head against the win
dow frame and the hot,
rebellious tears flooded
her soft gray eyes.
How shs hated this far
western country, with its
crude ways, its dowdlly
dressed women. its unpol-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-23
A Real Christmas
Gift
By ROBERT GORDON

RS. GOULD smiled a.
she wrapped her furs
around her and tele-
phoned for her automo-
bile. She turned to her
cousin who was going
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-23


downtown and said: 81 think it's
a good idea to get ones Christmas
shopping all done several weeks in ad.
vance. You get much better attention
in the shops, and you make it easier
for the poor tired salesgirls.''
But asked the cousin, ''do you
know what you want so far ahead of
the holiday"
"Yes, here's my list. Look at it while
l button my gloves"
"Handkerchiefs, dresses, waists,
gloves, veil-whew, for whom are all
these things?"
MY maids" answered Mrs. Gould.
"A horn, three dofls, a drum, pair of
skates-surely the maids can't use
theSe?' asked the cousin.
THE toys are for my washerwop.
ans children and their little friends
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for several hours in fhe senate to- day. but was temporarily laid aside after Senator Sheppard had sought an agreement to vote next Monday. When opponents of the measure sig
 nified that they would be ready for a
 final vote at this time Senator Jones
 of Washington, as friend of the bill
 objected to fixing the date. Debate on the measure and the Underwood amendment to priyide for a referen- dunn on the issue to the voters of the District will be resumed tomorrow Senator Shoot of Utah, declaring that the Sheppard bill is a makesh.r .rt. submitted a substitute today, which would not only prohibit the manufac- ture and sale of liquor in the capital, but also prevent it's importation for personal use.
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FRENCH TROOPS ARE
 ACTIVE AT VERDUN
MORE THAN 75oo GERMAN PRlS- OVERS AND NUMEROUS GUNS
 WERE TAKEN.

French troops again have made an effective thrust in the Verdun region.
 Striking at the German positions between the Mouse and Woevre riv- CTS, north of Douaumont and north northeast of the fortress along a front of about six miles, the French forced back the soldiers of the Ger man crown prince for a distance of almost two miles. More than 7,500 prisoners and numerous guns were taken from the Germans, Paris an nounces
 In its latest official communication the German war office admitted that advantages" had been obtained in this region by the attackers.
 A report from Petrograd is to the effect that the Russian duma has un- animously passed resolution against the acceptance of the peace offer. Buzu, an important railroad center northeast of Bucharest and an ex- cellent base from which to begin operations in Moldavia, has been ca aD- tured by the Austro-Germans. The retreating Russians and Rumanians are reported to be burning villages behind them. Four thousand addition al prisoners have been taken by Field Marshal von Mackensens army. Simultaneously with the taking of Buzeu. the Austro-German Danube army and the Bulgarians have began an offensive in Dobrudja. The Rus sians and Rumanians, Berlin states, have evacuated their positions under the pressure exerted by the advance in Great Wallachla.
 British troops have taken the of fensiye near Kut-El- -Amara, in Meso- potamia, and Turkish positions on the right bank of the Hai river, south of -El-Amara, have been taken, London announces. At one place the British are within two and half miles of Kut-El-Amara.
 The Greek government has accept ed the demands of the entente allies contained in an ultimatum presented to the Athens government Thursday, it is reported unofficially. Greek troops are to be withdrawn from Thessaly. and only a certain number are to be stationed in the Pelopen- nesus, it is said
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Villa Wants TO Make Terms With United States
Offers to Protect All Foreigners
 ard Property in His Territory.

Tl Paso, Tex Dee. 15.-A Mexican reached tine border today from Villas camp at Greet. 50 miles west of Min aca, in the Guerrero district of Chi huaaua, with proposals for the United States government, according to which Villa would refrain from the furthc~ destruction of foreign lie and property in Mexico on condition that the United States would not interfere in any way with his campaign against the CarMnza government. This was announced tonight by a representa- tive of the Government here, after Vina's proposal had been Forwarded to Washington by telegraph.
 Villa also offered to protect all for eigners and their property from the raids of irresponsible bandits. it was stated At the camp where Villa had Jeff his wounded in the Guerrero dis trict number of Carranza wounded also were being treated by Villas sur geons after they had promised to join inc Villa army. The Mexican said that Villa had 500 well armed men, 5000 rifles in reserve, a number of arr tillery pieces and a supply of shells Ter these pieces, the courier assert ed.
 From sources here known to be friendly to Villa it was learned to.
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day that Villa was anxious to put him self in q better light with the United States government and this was said to account .or the fact that no Amer jeans or other foreigners other than Chinese and Arabs were killed in Chi huahua City during the five days Villa was inccntrol
 Villa, his friends say, has realized that he could never win his campaign aganst Carranza with the United States opposing him actively. Villa partisans say Howard was killed at Farrai because he had taken an active part in the political affairs around ParrGl and had organized a small mil itary force there.
 General Luis Herrera has returned from Tepehuanes, Durango, to the Parral district of Chihuahua, accord ing to information received by the 4 varado Mining and Milling Com rany today General Herrera lief, Parral on November 2, when Villa started his advance from Jiminez {. ttat mining camp.
 Reports received here today by mil ltary authorities from western Chi huahga said Villa was preparing tc advance on Santa Rosalia, Parral and Jiminez, after which he plans to re capture Chihuahua City and take Tor reon.
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the band of three. was not in at the death" He is in the county jail. Ait. CT the second battle Short and Bailey, the latter evidently the leader of the three, had words, according to Short s statement, and short dropped out of the fight for freedom TNat was late Thursday afternoon Early Friday morning he was found lying on the ground near Biake.y creek in the west portion of this county, while the oth- CT two, each mounted, and leading the horse Short had ridden, were fighting 1t ort and racing it out with posses of 'itzens
 J9st who killed the two men brought to the city last night, was not stated. IL vas unimportant The men who were there in the fore front of the
 light were Doe Rcgers and Cul Will son, two Marble township citizens. and Sheriff Cox and a posse he hal brought from Saline county
 Sheriff T1m Bledsoe Constab e DOW teI, anu Lave <O+hs dhu OSNaI sullivan of this city, were the occu- pants of the headquarters cf the ban dits when they were killed about a mile and half away. They knew
 hat the fleeing men were making I dsperate effort to reach their camp. They knew that if the men reached their camp and secured fresh ammuu- tion and rifles. and barracaded them selves within their camr, they would be hard to capture. So these officers yesterday morning hurried out to the
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Five Different Battles Between Armed Men and Pursuers Before They Are Shot From Their Horses.
Third of the Bandits is in the County Jail Where He States That He Was Forced to Join in Cat tie Thefts By Bailey, Who He Says Was the Leader of the Trio

A tweaty-four hour chase In which a posse of citizens pursued three ban dits across the northern tier of town ships in this county and after four pistol battles, brought the chase to q termination in Saline county with a fifth and finishing fight, resulted yes te-day in George Bailey and Hamp Sparks. biting the dust in the typical -western manner in which they lived.
 Their bodies frozen stiff reached the city 'ast night at midnight,
 Thursday afternoon there were three men, strangers 10 the western section of this county, seen driving cattle away from the Robbins place, known to belong to the Robbins farm, There the chase stSfted, and in one of the most remarkable fights against tae lew known to criminal annals. a frozen rath was trod, marked here and there by drops of blood shed in the second battle, almost to the vey docr of the hiding place of the ban dits in Saline county.
 No member of the citizens posse nor any officer of the law, fell victim to the hundreds Of pistol shots fired .by the three bandits 70 stop the chase. The fleeing bandits always fired from their horses and while at high speed, never taking a deflnate stand or ground, and never following the tao tics so often resorted to by men pur- sued Or hiding and shooting from am- bush.
 Dave Short, the third member Of
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Deportation Of BelgidnS
 Is Vigorously Condemned
Germany's Actionis Compared With
 Sd10gery of the Romans.

New York. Dec. 15.-Vigorous ex- pressions of indignation were voiced at a mass meeting held here tonight to protest against the "ens,ayement of Be,gians" by the German govern ment. The deportation of the Belgian popuiace was condemned in letters read from Theodore Roosevelt, Arch bishop Ireland, Joseph H .Choate and Thomas OGorman of Sioux Falls Equally forceful were addresses de-
 ivered by Elihu Root, James NJ. PecH. former assistant general oi the Unit ed States; Alton B. Parker and the Rev William T. Manning. rector of Trinity church, who presided.
 Resolutions were adopted urging the government of the United States |, to protest with all its force the detes- tatiol with which the American peo- pie regard these abuses and to Te. quest the German government in the uAme of all neutrals to cease it's pol .cy of exportation and slavery and plcdging "our utmost support to the administration in whatever way it many conclude to act.'
 Ehhu Root was the principal speak CT
 q should net respect myself if I remained silent" Mir. Root declared, and l hope, trust, l pray that my country will not remain silent. Explain it as you may, excuse it ks you may, disg ise 1t as you may,
 reople of Belgium by the tens and
 reds of thousands are being car
 \Eay into slavery--a thing that
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lust for power. it is the duty of the sane men of the world to make this world tragedy, which now seems to many of us to have set back the clock of civilization a thousand years, the marker of a new epoch in human progress. Humanity must gather up the fragments of the wreck and must begin the work of reconstruction upon a greater plan and with a high CT purpose than any plan with which the world has ever built.
 America, by good luck, or by the Grace of God, or by wise statesman. ship, as you will. has kept out of war; but our interest in its oonse- quences is none the less on that ac- count; and our duty and responsi- Dility is all the greater. All the greater, too, because we are not en. tirely spOtless; our hands are not wholly clean. We have pursued the safe course-and have filled our cof- fers in the meantime. We have fat tened on the blood of the battle field. Our farms have been depleted of horses; our grain has sold at war tune prices; our factories have work ed overtime making munitions and our speculators have fattened upon "warbabies," The people of the Unit ed States, for all our neutrality, have participated most actively in the world war; and we cannot evade our responsibility at its close.
 Tn the natural trend of events it is highly probable that the United States government will have voice in the negotiations of peace upon the cessation of hostilities. To be in po- sition to participate in a conference Of such transceudent importance it is vital that this government and ! this people maintain an open mind, and observe in advance the most i'm partial neutrality. It is not for us now to begin dictating the details of terms of peace; we must not preiu- dice a cause which we may later be called upon to adjudicate. But cer- i tain principles are fundamental and may be discussed without prejudice to our standing as arbitrators. Fore most among these is the principle of a permanent peace. Better that this war with all it's unspeakable fright fitness and suffering should continue for years than that it should end with an inconclusive peace-in an armed truce, with the contending na- tions nursing their old animosities and ready to resume hostilities upon the first provocation of excuse.
 Upon the American people rests the responsibility and duty of leader ship in the movement for permanent peace among civilized nations. And the duty is not wholly altruistic It is no QuiXotic enterprise to which we are called We are not meddlers in the affairs of others when we say that war must cease. The interde- pendence of nations; the bonds of commerce and finance, entirely aside from the dictates of common humanity make it mIossible for this plague of war to exist anywhere upon the globe without seriously af- fecting both our international rela. tions and our domestic affairs. We can no more rely upon our geograph- ical position of isolation as warrant for indifference We cannot there fore be accused of being sentimental when we insist that our plea for peace be heard.
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PUBLICITY AS CURE ID
 SLAUGHTER
SINGLE BIC ISSUE IS SOME PLAN TO PREVENT WHOLESALE
 BLOODSHED IN FUTURE.
PUBLIC OPINION BEHIND EVERY SLAUGaTtR 0F MEN

By Creating q Sentiment of Peace and Burning This Into the Hearts of Men of All Nations, Governor Capper Sees Where Wars Would Be No More in History.
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has not been done by any nation that claimed to be civilized in modern his tory.
 Poor Belgium, peaceful. indus trious, God fearing. law abiding Bel sium, She had no quarrel with any one She sought no nations territory. She coveted no neighbours goods. She threatener no ones security, but she stood in the way of mighty nation purpose.
 'If the civilized world of the twen. tieth century is willing to stand sient ard see these things done, in cumal- at'ye progression, in violation Of tlga laws of humanity and of nations, thea 1 the civilization of the twentieth cen- tury is worse than the savagery of the Romans.
 What We have to do is not merely
 to gratify our own feelings by ex- ! pressing them regarding this treat ment of the Belgians. What we have to do is not merely to protest in the
 name of humanity It is to assert right, it it 10 cal upon the world 10 assert right a right under the aH
 of nations for the protection of hn. maaity and of civilization.
 There is but one power of earth
 that can preserve the law for the maintenance of civilization and hu-l
 manity and that is the power. ths*
 mighty power Of the public opinion # mankind
 We thank heaven our rresdrnt
 has assumed the leadership of tho.
 free opinion of American dem1 - ] arc has spoken for it to Germa
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All the War News

TEE sENTINEL-REcoRD PRiNTs ALL THE WAR NEWS UP TO 2:3o EACH MORNING, TWO HOURS LATER THAN ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER REACHING HOT SPRINGS. WHEN YOU REAc iT IN THIS PAPER You ARE READING vHE LATEST.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUST
 WILL BE URGtD|
Publishers Will Demand Settlement of the Paper) Federal Trade Commlss Take Into Consideration Situation.

Washington, Dec. 15N
 of the country's larger dai
 indicated after a day of c
 here today will oppose as \
 proposal that the federal mission undertaken supervisid distribution of American saad ianmade news print paper availl the united states. A puplishe4 mittee will meet committees ct ufacturers and jobbers and the eral trade commission tomorroS consider an apportionmenI plan gested by the manufacturersA D button under the federal ruA mission, some of the publishers of newspapers insisted today, not would be illegal, but would not $ the two most important problems i!g newspaper owners--higa &l and an alleged shortage of paper. sequently there wifi De all insis utlhuhu lGdJ tit ludAu aItui cl q to increased production by diver Of paper making machines bael the production of news print \ machines are said to have been on cheaper grades of Baper BeC there has been a greater prof their manufacture.
 Wh.fe the publishers Of the .a papers, as represented by officer the American Newspaper Pubiss Association and others. were mee smaller publishers conferred to de what should be them attitude tow the distribution proI osai, which | of their number favored s.,eeaus would assure them of at W supply of paper. Tonight
 tives of all the publishers
 CONTINUED ON >FAAGF
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w EATHE R
 FOREC A

FORECAST FOR ARkANSA SATURDAY FAIR, WARMER; s DAY FAIR, COLDER IN WEST p TON.
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CONTINUED ON ,RAcF
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LIQUOR LEGISLATION
 CONTINUES ID ACCUMULATE
CONGRESS DELUGED WITH PETI- TONS FROM ALL PARTS OF
 COUNTRY ON QUESTION.

Washington, Dec. 15.-Legislative measures aimed at destruction of the liquor traffice continue to aecumu- late in congress as both houses are deluged with petitions from all parts of the country urging adoption of the national prohibition constitutional amendment and passage of other anti liquor measures, including the Shep- pard bill to prohibite the manufac' ture and sale in the District of Co., lumbia.
 The house postoffice committee opened the door to another phase of the problem today in reporting fay- orably bill by Representative Ran dall of California designed to close the mails absolutely to advertising of any intoxicating liquors and to deny mail order houses the right to go into either wet" or dry" territory to solicit sales through the medium of the mails.
 No move was made during the day by prohibition leaders in the house regarding the constitutional amend ment reported yesterday from the Ju dietary commitGee, but Representa- tive Webb. chairman of the commit tee, plans to ask the rules commit tee for a special rule to get the reso- lution before the house soon after the holidays.
 The consensus of opinion seems to be that the bill cannot get the ne- cessary two-thirds majority in the siXtyfourth congress. Even Representative Webb is not sanguine of success now, but is con fident that the amendment wiz, re- ceive more votes than it did S;3k. last congress, when it~aaaon more than a majorit the next congress h; issue. he beliyes tn
 won. The District ! q asH
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last congress, when
 more than a majori the next congress h; issue. he belives tfl won. The District 1 hibition bill was ud