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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13
BIDS FOR AIR MAIL ROUTE.
Service to Be Installed in Bay State
and Alaska.

WASHINGTON, May 13. - Bids
were opened at the postoffice depart
ment yesterday on the government 5
first aerial mail service routes. They
would be in Alaska and Massachusetts.
If the service proves successful a
gradual expansion will follow to other
routes, where transportation is slow or
inadequate.
Seven routes in Alaska will form a
connecting link between Seward and
Nome, thence to Fairbanks and back
to Valdez. The longest route is 358
miles. The Massachusetts route is
from New Bedford to Nantucket, 90
niles and return.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13

MES of coast artillery reached here today
and pitched camp at Fort Sam Houston,
near the militia cncampment 1t was said
at headquarters that all of the other com
panies included Will have arrived by night,
making total of seven at this point Four
companies have been sent to strengthen the
forces at Marathon and FL Paso.
Maj. Gen. Funston will reach headquar-
ters tonight after an absence of more than
two weeks necessitated by the conference
at FL Paso with Gen. Obregon. He is ex-
pected to outline a program of work which
will place the state troops in condition for
service within two or three weeks
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13
RECOMMENDS RETIREMENT.
Methodist Conference Reports on Ef
fectiveness Of Bishops.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, \. y, MAY ~.
"A report Of the committee on Episcopacv
|coneerning the effectiveness Of bishops. 3
made today at the General Methodist con.
terence recommends the retirement Of
Bishops Cranston of Washington and
Hamilton Of Boston and Joseph Hartzell. a
missionary bishop OF Africa. because they
have reached the retirement age. The
committee recommended the reappoint-
ment- Of the other members of the board
of bishops.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13
BURLINGTON HOTELS
MUST CLOSE BARS
Senator Powell Notified that Licenses
at Hotel Vermont and Van Ness
House Have Been Revoked.
Especial to The Reformer.)
BURLINGTON. Nav Is

State 5 Attorney Hopkins today no
titled Max L. Powell, owner of the
Hotel Vermont and the Van Ness
House and holder of the liquor license
at each place, that he must close the
hotel bars at once, as the license com
missioners had revoked both licenses.
The local-option law provides that
licenses shall not be issued to office
holders and Mr.. Powell is a state SEN
ator. It is said that Senator Powell
will lose the $500 which he paid re
Gently for the two licenses.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13
BIG CROWD AT NAVY YARD.
Demonstration Of Preparedness Made
at oharlestown Today.

BOSTON, May 13. - The Charles.
town navy yard, in which 10 vessels
OF war had been assembled, was Wis
tied by thousands of persons today.
The principal demonstration of naval
preparedness were maneuvers OF III,
representative of tho latest type of
Submarine IN the United States The
launching of torpedos had an import
ant place in the events of both morn
ing and afternoon.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13
NOT GUILTY PLEA
ENTERED BY ADAMS
Former Brattleboro Boy Arraigned in
Springfield, Mass, Following
Automobile Accident.

Crosby Adams of p Ruskin street.
Springfield, Mass, formerly of Brat.
tleboro, pleaded not guilty to the
charge of manslaughter in police court
yesterday in Springfield. 1t was al
legged that he had, through negligent
driving of his automobile, caused the
death of Miss Mary Lynch of a23
Main street, Indian Orchard, on Bos-
ton road Thursday night. Bail was
fixed at $4,000, which Adams fur
nished.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13

MARATHON, Texas, May l3-One com
pany of coast artillery arrived here from
San Antonio. Texas today. Part of it will
60 south and join Col SibIey's expedition
AIRY force, while the remainder will help
garrison Marathon. Col. Sibley expects to
have direct communication between
Boquillas and Marathon established by
Sunday night.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13
wILLARD-ruLToN FIGHT.
Possible of Fresh Encounter to b
Taken Up at Meeting Tonight.

CHICAGO, May IA conference
between the managers of Fred Fulton
and Jess Willard is to be held here to-
night to discuss possible fight be-
tween the heavyweights at Hudson.
Wis, July 4. The HEAVYWEIGHT
champion has been offered $4,000 for
a 1O-round contest with Fulton.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13
In Odd Fellows Temple

Monday, May 8.-Regular meeting of
Wantastiquet lodge. This meeting will
be held in the new lodge rooms. A re-
hearsal of the initiatory degree team
will be held after the meeting.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13
FRENCH ATTACK REpuLsED.
German War once Tells of Successes
as Usual.

BERLIN (by wireless to Sayville) i,
May 13. y The repulse of a night at
tack by the French southwest of
Dead Man = hill on the Verdun front
is reported in today's official state
ment by the war office. Attempts made
by the French to advance in the Malan-
court and Avocourt woods were foiled.
foiled.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13
ANOTHER COOL WEEK.
Occasional Showers May be Expected
Throughout New England.

WASHINGTON, May 13.-Weather
predictions for the week beginning
Sunday say the indications are that
the coming week will be generally ov-
ercast and cool with occasional rains
throughout the east and middle Allan
tic states
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13
jury Returned Verdict Last
Night at 8 O'Clock of
Not Guilty
RETURNED ONCE
FOR INSTRUCTIONS
Mr.. Aver1l Expresses His Thanks
VIII Return This Afternoon-Was
Charged with Making Entries to De-
ceive on Bank Books.

At about 9 O clock last evening the
jury which for nearly two weeks in the
United States court at Burlington had
heard the evidence in the case of the
United States against George c. Aver
i'll OF Brattleboro, former president of
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13
Centre Congregational Church
Sunday Services.

1880 n. m.-Morning worship with
sermon by the pastor, Rev Rich
ard II. Clapp. Subject, Two
Visions of God.
.43 a. m.-Sunday school.
300 p. m.-Union Christian Endeav-
or meeting with the Juniors Sub
ject, What Does Christ Want
Us to Do? Leaders, Miss Jessie
Ransom and Sidney Nixon.
The prudential committee will meet
in the chapel Sunday evening, May IA
at O'Clock, to discuss several mat
ters, including the coming Tooth ami
Fersary of the church.
WALTER 4. GILBERT, Clerk.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13
THE WEATHER.
Frosts Likely Tonight-Tomorrow Will
be Fair

WASHINGTON, d. c., May 13.-
The weather forecast: Fair tonight
with frosts. Sunday fair. Gentle to
moderate west winds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13
GARMENT WORKERS OUT.
$4,000 in Chicago Ordered to Join s.,
900 Already Out.

CHICAGO, May IS. - Nearly 3O,-
600 union garment workers have had
orders to join 5000 who have been
ON strike several days.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13

The pet birds of this country last year
consumed 4,70f,G25 pounds of bird seed
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13
Unitarian Church
Unitarian Literature Free.

Leaflets describing the Unitarian belief
may be obtained on application to Mrs.
James NJ. Adams. Z Cedar st.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13

India in 1914 produced 555,672 tons of
manganese.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13
First Baptist Church

Rev. George E. Tomkinson, Minister
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-13

SAN ANTONIO, May l3.-Two compa-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-24
A DIME NOVEL STORY.

A boy returned from school one day
with report that his scholarship had
fallen below the usual average, and
this conversation took place: "Son,
said the father, you've fallen behind
this month, haven't you?" yes, sir. "
How did that happen?" Don't know,
sir"
The father knew, if the son didn't.
He had observed some dime novels
scattered about the house; but had not
thought it worth while to say anything
until a. fitting opportunity should offer
itself A basket of apples stood upon
the floor, and he said: Empty out
those apples and take the basket and
bring it to me half full of chips" Sus-
pecting nothing, the son obeyed. "And,
now he continued, put those apples
back into the basket" When half the
apples were replaced the boy said ::
Father, they roll off. l can't put any
more in
Put them in, tell YOU
But | can't"
Put them in? No, of course, you
can't put them in. You said you didn't
know why you fell behind at school and
| will tell you why. Your mind is like
that basket; it will not hold more than
SO much; and there you've been the
past month filing it up with cheap
dirt-dime novels
The boy turned on his heels, whis-
tied and said: "Whew! l see the
point"
Not a dime novel has been seen in
the house from that day to this.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-24

The peasant whose lot was to SOW and
to reap;
The herdsman who climbed with his
goats up the steep;
The beggar who wandered in search
of his bread,
Have faded away like the grass we
tread.
The saint who enjoyed the communion
of heaven;
The sinner who dared to remain unfor-
given;
The wise and the foolish, the guilty
and just,
Have quietly mingled their bones in
the dust.
So the multitude goes, like the flower
or the weed
That withers away to let other sue
coed;
So the multitude comes, even those
we behold,
To repeat every tale that has often
been told.
For we are the same our fathers have
been;
We see the same sights our fathers
have seen;
We drink the same stream, and view
the same sun,
And run the same course our fathers
have run.
The thoughts we are thinking our
fathers would think;
From the death we are shrinking our
fathers would shrink;
To the life we are clinging they also
would cling;
But it speeds from us all, like a bird
on the wing.
They loved, but the story we cannot
unfold;
They scorned, but the heart of the
naughty is cold;
They grieved, but no wall from their
slumbers will come;
They joyed, but the tongue of theil
gladness is dumb.
They died, aye, they died; and we
things that are now,
Who walk on the turf that lies over
their brow;
Who make in their dwelling a tran
silent abode,
Meet the things they have met OIL
their pilgrimage road.
Yea! hope and dependency, pleasure
and pain,
We mingle together in sunshine anG
rain;
And the smiles and the tears, the sons
and the dirge,
Still follow each other, like surge upol
surge.
IT'S the wink Of an eye, it's the draught
of breath,
From the blossom of health to the pale
ness of death,
From the gilded saloon to the biel
and the shroud-
Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be
proud?
-WTui0m Knox
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-24
1.-THE PAGES OF THE KING"

Do Catholics in general reflect on
the time devoted by ecclesiastical stu
dents in the seminaries to learning
not simply to celebrate the Sacred
Mysteries and the other offices of re-
ligiOn, but to celebrate them with the
utmost dignity and grace? Do they
realize the time given to training the
acolytes-whom Marion Ames Tag
CART has so happily called 1.-The pages
of the King'-that they may fittingly
bear their part in the sublime func-
lions of Catholic worship? Do they
realize the reverent minuteness of the
legislation as to the sacred vessels
and altar linen and vestments, the
adornments of altar and sanctuary,
the costume of the servers, etc.
Whence springs all this minute and
loving care to surround the tabernacle
with the utmost of beauty and SPLEEN
dor-if it can be had-but with our
best goods, anyway, and with grace
and decorum always? Surely, from
the mind of faith and the heart of love
in the Church., seeing always Emman-
uel-"God with us'-in the Blessed
Sacrament.
\ If Christians had intense faith in
the Real Presence, according to the
mind of the Church, there would be
grace and decorum in the congrega-
ton as well as in the sanctuary.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-24
THE STRANGER IN THE PEW.

But what of Catholics who will re-
fuse seat in their pew to a stran-
ger or will summarily put out of their
pew any one not a member of their
own family whom they may chance to
find occupying it on their arrival in
the Church? They probably do not
think of the possible evil consequences
of their selfishness. 1t is a notifying
thing, sometimes tempting him to stay
from church altogether, to a sensitive
young stranger who has not perhaps
friend nor more than a few chance
acquaintances in the city, and who
may have gone lonely and discouraged
into the house of God and innocently
taken an eligible place there, to be
turned out of it by some purse-proud,
overbearing creature with This is my
pew"
The church regulations in some par
ishes fortunately make occurrences
like this almost impossible, as the
pewholders have right to their pews
only at the High Mass and the even
ing services. l know one Cathedral
Church where they forfeit even this
right if they are not in their pews
wheP those services begin, and where
no worshipper, however humble, is al
lowed to stand at the rear of the
Church or in the aisles, so long as a
vacant seat can be had anywhere,
we're it in the front pew in the august
middle aisle itself. 1t is shameful for
Christians to bring their petty caste
and class distinctions into the very
house of God.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-24
WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF
MORTAL BE PROUD?

oh, why should the spirit of mortal
be proud?
Like swift tleeting meteor, fast
flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break OF
the wave,
Man passeth from life to his rest in
the grave.
The leaves of the oak and the willow
shall fade,
Be scattered around and together be
laid;
low and the high,
Shall molder to dust and together
shall lie.
The infant a mother attended and
loved;
The mother that infants affection who
proved;
The husband that mother and infant
who blessed--
Each, all, are away to their dwellings
of rest.
The maid on whose cheek, on whose
brow, in whose eye,
Shone beauty and pleasure-heT
triumphs are by;
And the memory of those who loved
her and praised
Are alike from the minds of the liy
ing erased.
The hand of the king that the sceptre
had borne;
The brow of the priest that the mitre
hath worn;
The eye of the sage, and the heart Of
the brave,
Are hidden and lost in the depth Of
the grave
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-24

Ducks sleep on open water. To
avoid drifting ashore, they keep
padding with one foot, thus making
them move in circle.
Foxes and wolves sleep curled up,
their noses and the soles of their feet
close together and blanketed by their
bushy tails.
Lions, tigers and cat animals stretch
themselves out fiat upon the side.
Their muscles twitch and throb, in
dicating that they are light and rest.
less sleepers.
Owls, in addition to their eyelids,
have screens that they draw sideways
across their eyes to shut out the light,
for they sleep in the daytime.
Our Dumb Animals.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-24
THE NATIONS PRAYER.

God give us men! A time like this
demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true
faith, and ready hands.
Men whom the lust of office does not
kill
Men whom the spoils of office can
not buy;
Men who possess opinions and will;
Men who have honor, and will not
lie;
Men who stand before a dema-
s gogue
And scorn his treacherouS batteries
without winking.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-24
WHEN ANIMALS SLEEP.

Elephants sleep standing up. When
in a herd certain number will al
ways stand watch while the others
sleep, for the big, powerful beasts are
timid and cautious at night and will
not go to sleep unguarded.
Bats sleep head downward, hanging
by their hind claws.
Birds, with few exception, sleep
with their heads turned tailward over
the back and the beak thrust beneath
the wing.
Storks, gulls and other long legged
birds sleep standing on one leg.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-24

must put forth hand to draw you
back. Nature will not bear the bur-
dens you are laying upon her.
saw light coming into her pale
face, and love beaming out from her
eyes, upon her husband. His interest
and concern were genuine, and she
felt it.
1--WE are going to take an easy ride
this afternoon he added, "and want
you to go with us. Now don't say
no."
saw objection in her face; and her
lips moved as if she were about
putting her objection in words. But
her husbands NOW don't say no."
coming as it did on his warmly ex-
pressed Interest and concern, changed
her purpose, and she said:
IF it will give you pleasure"
Nothing in the world would give
me more pleasure" replied my friend,
with almost loyer-like warmth.
There was visible already new life
in the countenance of Bertha. A soft
glow was family dyeing her cheeks,
and a mellow light tempering the un-
natural brilliance of her eyes.
when do you wish me to be
ready?" she asked.
'At four o'clock. We will ride until
six. That will be long enough for
YOU"
1t was the Bertha of other days who
talked SO pleasantly and looked SO
bright and cheerful during that ride.
At tea-time she. was another being
from what she appeared on the even
| ing before, or, indeed, on any evening
since my arrival at Fern Dale. The
ride had quickened in her mind new
and healthier impulse. She was a
lover of all things beautiful in nature,
and this had given her pure enjoy
ment, which could not soon die out.
During the evening my friend, by a
little management, drew her away
| from her nursery into the library,
where we enjoyed her company for
more than an hour. How solicitous
my friend was to keep her mind in
terested, to give her thoughts a new
direction, to call back old themes in
art and literature that once gratified
her taste or charmed her imagination!
She felt the change in him, and was,
l could see, half surprised, yet. touched
thereby.
On the next day she accomplished
us in our morning drive, and in the
lafternoon was induced, after little
| persuasion, to take sail on the river.
There was an unmistakable glow on
her cheeks as she came back from this
excursion in fine spirits; and noticed
that she took relish of tongue and
ate two biscuits at suppertime-an
appropriation of food quite beyond
anything had seen, in her case, since
my visit to Fern Dale.
you have caught ner garments ere
Eshe drifted quite away said to my
friend, as we sat together that even
ling in the library, where we had en-
joyed her company for some time.
YES" he answered with feeling;
"and | will cling to them as a man
clings to his life! She shall not get
free upon the waters again through
any fault of mine. Was ever a man
so thoughtless and stupid as l have
| been!"
Many, very many, are just as
thoughtless, just as blind as you were,
said I; and hundreds of overtasked
wives -self-tasked it may be, as in
Bertha's case-are drifting steadily
away from mortal shores upon the
sea of eternity; and in a few weeks.
or months, or years, they will be out
Eof the reach of hands that will clutch
after them in agony when it is too
late!"
-NountAH0eI Magazine.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-24
GENEROSITY TO THE CHURCH.

1t is at this time of the year that
the pastors are accustomed to read
the annual reports of the financial
conditions of their parishes. The peo-
pie are informed of the sources of in
come and are told how the moneys
have been expended.
One of the most striking features of
these annual reports is that the Church
must depend on the support of small
number of loyal, generous souls from
year to year. Others give little, but
the majority contribute nothing at all.
1t is one of the laws of the Church
that each one, should contribute to the
support of religion according to his
means. Every Catholic knows it is
his duty to support the Church OF
course no one expects the poor to give
what they have not got. But large
percentage in every congregation give
absolutely nothing who could we'll af-
ford to be more generous than they
are.
The two main sources of revenue
are the plate collections and pew rent.
In an average congregation, one-half
of those present will pass up the col
lection box and one-half of the re-
mainder will produce the smallest coin
they can fish out of their pockets,
namely, five cents. AS for renting a
seat or pew in the parish church,
that custom seems to have gone out of
fashion. So it has come to pass that
one of the greatest anXieties of the
modern pastor, burdened as he usually
is with large debt, is to make both
ends meet and to have his books bal
ance at the end of the year.
1t is not necessary to pose ''laud.
ator temporis acti'' and boast of the
good old times, but it is nevertheless
true that the rising generation OF
Catholics is not nearly so generous in
it's support of the Church as were its
good fathers and mothers. The rea'
son of the change of conditions is not
far to seek. People live more expen
-Sively than they used to. Everybody
must have an automobile. Even the
children of the poor attend the movies
several times a week. Dansants,
shows, lodges, all cost money, and
nothing is left for charity or religion
1t is usually the man who slips in
on pass who grumbles most at the
performance, and, generally speaking
it is the new generation that gives
little or nothing towards the support
of the Church who are the greatest
critics and fault-findprS Rut we pan
not look for the highest type of Cath
olics among those who are mean to
wards God. Those who are loaded
with favors often prove ungrateful be-
cause they have everything given tc
them. 1t is very profound principle
that the-more thing costs, the more
it is appreciated.
Our forefathers who paid for theil
religion at immense cost and sacri
fees even of life itself, knew it's value
aud loved it with an unselfish, un
dying love. When people hold theil
religion cheaply and are not willing
to do what they can for it, even al
some sacrifice, we can be sure that il
never cost them anything.
All honor, then, to those decent, gen
erous souls who are the salt of the
earth and are ever ready to help the
works of charity and benefcence car
ried on in the name of Christ and His
Church. May their tribe increase anG
their reward be exceedingly great
The Monitor.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-24

A kindly word and tender tone,
Only to God is their virtue known,
They can lift from the dust the abject
head;
They can turn a foe to friend in
stead.
-"KcyStone of Thought"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-24

Always act with the same tran
guilty as if the present action was
the only one you would have to per-
form, and the last of your life
Blessed Margaret Mary.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-24

After all, pews are an un-Catholic
fashion, and are endured in our
churches through a custom original
ing outside of Catholicity, as some
thing like necessary evil.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-24

True courage is not incompatible
with nervousness; and hcroism does
not mean the absence of fear, but the
conquest of it.