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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29
Trunk Line Highways.
[ Rntland Herald.l

Vermont is to receive a share of the
first year S federal appropriation of
$5000,000 for road building. The state
will get 500, S1f. Every little bit
helps but the benefit accruing will
be hardly noticeable if the secretary
of agriculture, who is to direct the cx-
penditurc of the appropriation, per
mits the money to be spent ON "small
sections scattered throughout the
state as an official announcement
from Washington says he may do.
There is no specific requirement in
the new road act that the highways to
be built shall be permanent. The
only condition is that they must be
substantial in character. - 1t is to be
expected that the highway commits
siOncr of Vermont will insist that sub
stantial roads be built or rather that
"A substantial stretch of road be con
structed with the federal appropria-
ton TO attempt to build several
stretches of highway with 500 ,s44
would mean patchwork. There has
been enough of the patchwork road
building policy in Vermont. The city
of Rutland and towns in every county
have examples of this policy.
With 100000 to be expended the
first year and the federal appropria-
ton increased $5,000,00O annually for
the next four years it can be figured
out that Vermont is likely to receive
about 100000 from the federal gov
ernmcnt. Here is the chance to show
| what we can do with 100000 in road
| work, for the state must match every
dollar received from the federal gov
eminent. There is little doubt that
the five-year period of federal aid will
be extended if the plan outlined by
| the new law proves a success.
The expenditure of 100000 on a
| continuous stretch of highway, a trunk
line route, certainly will give Vermont
claim to having something re-
sembling the estate roads, to be
found in other states. To be sure we
have estate roads, in Vermont-roads
built largely from an appropriation re
ccivel from the highway department
hut tic varying qualities and h;rds OF
material used, with CORRECTING
stretches of poor roads, spoil the gen
eral effect
For years there has been talked TIL,
need of q well-built and well-cared- foI
trunk line highway on each side of tn,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29

One of the finest estimates given
since the death of james Whitcomb Ri
ley of the real worth of his literary
work comes from the Christian Science
Monitor. 1t is put in these few lines
"The point is, he is extremely popular
with the people of whom and for whom
it was his greatest delight to sing, the
great commonalty of which the plain
town and village people of his beloved
Indiana are typical. The other elements
in American society, those Of the ave
Nues and boulevards especially, were
not long i'll discovering that the senti
ments which Irvine like rambler roses
around the doors and windows of the
Hoosier cottage were not wholly alier
to the city apartment or the suburban
mansion
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29
CA IT. JOHN SMII
Howard Liam.
and Sealin3 maX of cabbaSes- 8 kin8s
OF shoes and Ships

Captain John Smith, one of the chief
founders of the well known and highly
fertile Smith aristocracy, which now
pays taxes in every state i'll the Union
was born in England before he was
able to walk and was at once sur
rounded with every comfort, including
the mne-2ly London fog. He grew to be
a stalWart lad, with neatly curved legs
and restless, roaming nature which
finally led him to the United States.
This was in 1906
When John Smith landed on our
shores the United States were governed
entirely from Virginia and something
was accomplished every day. We did
not have congress sitting on our lap
and yelling for pie, and nobody had
thought Of those twin iniquities, the
income tax and the primary law. 1t
was blissful epoch
About the first thing Captain Smith
did after becoming naturalized was to
get captured by a Roman-nosed Indian
chief. who is now dead. This chief
! Opiechancanough by name, has left two
illustrious descendants in Opie Reed
and Opic Dilldock He was full
/ blooded Indian by birth, disposition
and thirst, and almost any day could
/ he seen hanging around mulct saloon
IN jamestown trying to trade some
Protected by The Ada
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29
EVENING
TALE s.
b. MARY GRAHAM BONNER
TREE TOADS AND FAIRIES.

"Very early one morning" said Dad
dy. the Fairies invited the Tree
ToadS to have Luncheon with them
in the Wooded Grove where they are
so apt to give their Parties. The
Tree Toads had accepted and the day
had arrived for the Luncheon.
THE Fairies wanted to look espe-
cially lovely, and fresh, and cool, for
1t had been so hot lately, and they
knew that to look cool made other
Folks and little Animals almost feel
cooler.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29

toothless but Industrious squaw for a
plain drunk. He did not retain Captain
Smith long, owing to the latter s cruel
English appetite, but turned him over
to another chief, called Powhatan.
PoWhatan was an unfecling savage
and was ninety-four per cent litter
ate, being hardly able to write his own
name. The first time he met Captain
Smith he took strong dislike to him
and gave orders that he should be laid
on the back of his neck and have both
of his brains removed with club. Just
as the removing was about to begin
Pocahontas, the daughter of PoWhatan
4 beautiful Indian maid whose feet
turned in at an angle of forty-five de
grees, rushed out in a tub-silk peignoil
and threw lS5 pounds of bone an,
muscle upon Captain Smith s neck
thus saving his life at the expense OF
his Adam 5 apple. Powhatan, deeply
touched by the scene, offered to give
Pocahoatas to Smith for wrist watch
or what have You, but the latter had
seen Pocahontas first and declined in
considerable haste
It seems to us that the brave act OF
this impulsive Indian girl has never
been fully appreciated. for if it had
! not been for Pocahontas the entire
Smith family would now be as extinct
as the carrier pigeon.
rs Newspaper service1
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29
Ignored Long Enough.
Randolph Herald.)

Two Vermont newspapers, in clip
pings published on this page, call for
the adoption by Vermont Of direct in
hcritance tax. The subject is timely
and ought to receive serious attention.
Such a proper source of needed state
revenue should not longer be ignored.
In this connection it is worth noting
that the Republican state platform of
1912, on which Mr.. Allen NJ Fletcher
was elected governor, favored a gradu-
atcd direct inheritance tax, a pledge
that was honored in the breach, and
that without any warning word from
the executive, that we recall.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29

Senator Page S speech on vocational
education, delivered this week in the
United States senate, promises to be
come something of an issue in the sena-
torial contest. There was no vocational
bill before the senate at the time, and
the senate chamber was practically
empty, only half dozen senators who
were studying bills being present. The
natural inference is that Senator Page
made the speech to show the folks back
home that he was doing something. 1t
is up to him now to explain why he
went out Of his way to deliver his
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29

with delight. What's your name?'
they cried.
I'm the little Man of the ice cream
freezer. Every time ice cream is made
in one of the freezers where | live.
come out on top Of the ice cream
dressed all up as ice cream, too
But you look good to eat, said one
of the Toad Children.
That's what I'm here for and he
looked very happy and pleased about
IL. And next time there's ice cream
I'll be here again
Yes. said the Fairy Queen. were
going to have hopping game. and
the one who does the greatest number
of queer hops will eat the little ice
cream Man +" And little Harvey Hon
Tree Toad-quite shy little fellow,
won the prize and ate the ice cream
Man, but all the toads had plenty to
refresh them after their hopping
match"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29
The Spinster, Sarah Cleghorl.

The Spinster, Sarah Cleghora.
A perfect picture of rural life in
New England in the nineties. The
heroine, Ellen, enters Radcliffe college
with the ideas of life and the expert
ence gained in a quiet Vermont village
and leaves college with the large fine
conception of what life of devoted
social service can mean to woman
with no marital ties. Her romance does
not end happily and we leave her at
twenty-nine, helpful, sincere, content
with the share of happiness she has
won from life.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29
SATURDAY,, JULY %, 1916.
ENFORCE THE LAW.

Wanted--at once, the arrest and
conviction of Il dozen or more automo-
bilsts and motorcyclists who are daily
violating the law by running their ma
chimes with muller cut-outs open. The
local traffic regulations, adopted at the
village meeting June Is contained
these sections:
"No person operating a motor
vehicle shall be allowed to use a muller
cut-out. Whoever violates the foregoing
rules and regulations or any of them
-trcfcrring back to other sections also)
shall be fined not less than $50 for
each offense."
There have been no convictions under
| this code. but the law is being defied
every hour of the day. The practice is
particularly objectionable to people
whose homes are adjacent to steep
/ grades. Operators of machines seem to
/ think that they gain power going up
grades by throwing open the cut-out,
but every experienced mechanic knows
1 that this is erroneous. The idcr
of the cut-out anyway was simply to
make the testing of the operation of
cylinders easier
\ few nights ago a motorcyclist rode
the length of a level street with his
cut-out opened. Then he stopped, with
his machine making more noise than
a dozen barking dogs, directly in front
of a house where there were particular
reasons for havcing QuietuIc at that
time When the man of the house
walked out and asked him to stop the
noise this motorcycles answered il
very Insulting terms.
From observation we should say
that the motorcyclists are more brazcn
in defiance of the law than the opera
tors Of motor cars.
In Massachusetts there is a state
law which provides that if motor
vehicle driver opens his muller cut-out
anywhere-cveG on a highway mile
from human habitation-hc is liable tc
arrest, and if brought into court the
magistrate has no option but to infict
a fine unless the driver is able to show
that there was a good and sufficient
reason for opening the cut-out.
But regardless of the Massachusetts
statute we have a law right here al
home and it is being openly violated
every day.
What arc our local authorities goins
to do? Why have they neglected thei
plain duty? If they are afraid to ac
then some of our citizens who hav,
been disturbed-to say the least-b,
the prevailing practice of man.
drivers of ears viii give them a few
complaints to consider. But this ough
not to be necessary. The law is plail
| and specific. 4 few arrests, few vel
/ low backs pulled from the pockets
| and then the law will he observed, as
ought to be.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29

many of them all around that the
Falrles can find l suppose"
Yes, Nick, you're quite right" said
Daddy and Nancy smiled, for she loved
to think Of the little Fairies bright and
early in the morning letting the cool
water that shoots down the rocks 90
all over them.
And as q special honor because
they'd been invited to the Fairies
Luncheon Party, the Tree Toads tried
TO look their best, too. They asked
the Dew Drops if they could wash
their little faces in their rare wa
ter. And the Dew Drops were very
willing, especially when they heard
that the Tree Toads wanted to look
their best for the Fairies.
Dew Drops always make the Ami
mails look SO much better, and to the
fairies they look very handsome when
they have washed their faces in the
magic dew drops that come all over
the ground each morning
Now when the Fairies saw the Tree
loads and when the Tree Toads saw
the Fairies they all gasped The Tree
loads had never seen the fairies look
Ing so lovely. They wore dresses of
very soft green which were decorated
with little purple Daisies. Their wands
matched. and their wings were the
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t Is the aim Of the management to
secure efficient service In the delivery
of the paper each night, and 1t soncits
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
Ii Is only by this method that the pub
Usher can secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29
The Seed of the Righteous, Mrs Juliet

The Seed of the Righteous, Mrs. Juliet
Tompkins.
Mrs. Gage, the amazing widow of a
philanthropist, and living near the
square in which grateful public has
erected a statue to her husband 5 mem
ory, exacts more than her due need of
attention, honor and assistance from
friends and her older children do like
wise, But Chloe, the retiring sweet
tempered daughter, rebels against her
mother s exactions for the "seed of the
righteous" and wins out by the help
of her cousin.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29
Curved Blades, Carolyn Wells.

Curved Blades, Carolyn Wells.
Another Fleming Stone detective
story in which strange murder, at
tended by most unusual circumstances,
is solved but not until after the reader
has guessed the solution. incidentally
the astute Fleming Stone falls in love
with one of the suspected women. Of
course, it is interesting to learn how
great CD detectives act when in love.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29

They of the High Trails, H. Garland.
A collection of short stories, each in
Producing a typical Western character.
We have the grub stalker, the eow-boss,
the remittance man, the lonesome man,
the trail-tramp, the prospector, the out
law, the leaser and the forest ranger.
They are good stories and also fine
character sketches by one who knows
his West thoroughly.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29
At the Library
New Fiction

The Abyss, Nathan Kussy.
The straightforward account of child
hood and youth lived in the Under
world. The book abounds in vivid de
scriptions of Hobo-land.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29

green woodland
ice cream. In
fact, l forgot to
tell you every
thing was green.
But when the
ice cream came
along, what should
be seen on top of
it but a little,
tiny old Man made
out of ice cream,
too.
How the Tree
Toads did scream
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29

speech under conditions where his state
mcnts would have no effect whatever on
the august assembly of which he has
been member eight years.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29
Twilight, Frank Dandy, pseud.

Twilight, Frank Dandy, pseud.
The strange and tragic love story of
Margaret Capel and Gabriel Stanton,
revealed through visions when under
the influence of drugs, aided by the
fragmentary confessions of the attend
ing physician and a packet of letters
in his possession.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29
Green Mansions, w. H. Hudson.

bIeeH Mansions, w. IL. 1tuuSUn.
A romance of the tropical forests of
South America by distinguished IA
turafst. We quote this from John
Galsworthy' 5 introduction, For of all
living writers-now that Tolstoi is
gone-I could least dispense with w.
II. Hudson. .......'G Green Mansions,
which immortalizes, as | think, as
passionate love of all beautiful things
as ever was in the heart of man. In
form and spirit the book is unique. a
simple romantic narrative transmitted
by sheer glow of beauty into a prose
poem. | would that every man, woman
and child in England were made to
read him; and l would that you in
America would take him to heart. As
a simple narrator he is well-nigh un.
surpassed, as a stvlist he has few, il
any, living equals
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29

$50 they had
t h e ir Shower
Baths the very
first thing when
they got up"
did they have
their shower baths
in brooks or in
Streams?" asked
Nancy.
Il bet l could
guess" said Nick.
"Where? ?" asked
Nancy.
wv h Y, the v
have their Show
er Baths under
the falls that
come down the
sides of rocks.
There are ever so
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29
People Like That, Kate Langley Bosl

People Like That, Kate Langley Bosh-
er.
An attractive young woman goes to
live in the slums of her native city to
learn chow the other half lives She
is at once involved in a slum tragedy
in which the old question of a double
standard of morals enters. The book
is plea for a more intelligent under
standing and greater sympathy on
the part of the fortunate sheltered
women for their less favored sisters
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29

color of soft, pale green, too.
and they were sitting around in
the Wooded Grove on ferns and mossv
patches of ground when the Tree
TOads arrived.
But the Tree Toads gave the Fairies
just as much of surprise, for they
wore green suits, too. They looked
quite noble for having washed their
faces with magic Dew Drops, and they
Wore green spectacles made out of
leaves with holes, to make them look
wise. In addition to all this they
carried green canes made out of young
trees, and they arrived in an old wag-
on made out of the root of q tree.
The wagon was drawn by the Green
Lizard family.
First got out Grandpa and Grand
ma Tree Toad, and then all the young.
er Toads hoped out after.
"'Glad to see you, Toads and Green
Lizards. too said the Fairies. And
the toads made very queer sounds
down in their throats which meant
We're glad to see you, too The Liz
ards wrigglcd with pleasure, for, OF
course, they had been brought along
as an excuse to draw the wagon fol-
the Toads and they We're delighted
when the Fairies said they We're glat
to see them.
"The Luncheon began of deliciou!
things made out of the best of wood
land foods, and last of all came tn,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29

Denmark is compelled to import
hoops for barrels.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29

Instead of the Thorn, C. L. Burnham.
\ wholesome love story i'll which tn,
principal characters are a New Eng
land spinster, "wise" woman, {
charming heroine, lively youngster
and several pairs of lovers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-29

Protected by The Adams Newspaper service7
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-08
Roosevelt Statement Urges Harmon
SEESCONTROLb BY.
REkCTIONARIES.
Lodges Prominence In G.. o. p.
Convention, So Construed
BY FrensdOrf

The selection of Senator Lodge
as chairman Of resolutions commit.
tee in the Chicago convention.
is most conclusive evidence that the
extreme of the reactionary element
of the Republican party has abso,
lutte control" said Edward Frens-
dorf. of Hudson, who was in Detroit,
Thursday.
IF the Republicans should win in
November, it would mean the old
standpat crowd presiding in every
of our government. II
would mean an administration
whose whole purpose would be 10
make the monopolies more secure
~ entrenched than at any previous
period in our history. The people
will have a chance 10 choose be
tween an administration which has
striven to serve all the people, and
one which would be absolutely die.
tated for the benefit Of the few.
With all the criticism showcred
upon the Wilson administration by
the reactionaries, no one has ever
dared to intimate any favoritisn
has been show big business. Or
the other hand. big business has not
been threatened with a big stick
or in anywise hampered in an hon.
est business proposition.
What do | think about the out
come of the election? To my mind
President Wilson will grow stronger
every day-sober, seriousminded
citizens will sustain him regardless
OF party. The slogan, Peace, pros
periJy and progression will sweep
the country"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-08
HARDING Is IN
The LIMELIGHT
Keynote Speech May Win Him
Nomination As Vice
President
BY c. T. scHERMERHoRN.

CHICAGO, June s. Senator Hard
ing's remuneration for one speech
delivered on the seventh day of June
in the year OF our Lord one thou.
sand nine hundred and sixteen. may
be the vice-presidency Of she United
States. 1t was good speech At
that. II had been prepared not be.
cause II was 10 be q preparedness
speech. but because it had 10 be-
taken around and read TO several
important persons before it could
be delivered That II Was studied is
very. very evident Please note the
adjectivcs all carefully chosen ana
placed to make the point under
standable while driving it home
meantime.
II was interesting To listen to Sen
ator Harding and to note the effect
Of his speech on the convention.
There is nothing brilliant about
Harding as an orator. but he cleo.
trihed those who heard this speech.
That was because the delegates are
here for that purpose. The whole
thing is so deucedly dull and slow
that il doesn't take much 10 star,
something. II diunt take much TO
start these delegates. Harding sim.
ply uncorked the ginger-iar. and
since he spoke there has been more
real talk than az any stage OF the
convention. Considerable OF this
talk has beeG Harding They would
like 10 nominate somebody who
hasn't been discussed at all. for the
psychological effect on the country,
but 1t will not be Harding lie
wouldn't be the real man. but ~
may be named for viCe-president.
That starts one from Michigan TO
calculating on just what would have
happened II Chase $. Osborn had
been made temporary chairman OF
this convention, IL Harding. with
his slowly delivered, long sentences
was able to electrify the crowd. what
would Chase Osborn have been able
TO do with that well.known viEor OF
speech and those snappy crisp,
short sentences that put so much
punch into what he says?
Think 1t over II may help you
IL you are told that in the national
party's opinion, Chase Osborn is a
great big man.
They certainly are watching these
Republicans-with the Progressive
on one side. and the Womans party
on the other.