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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-05
HINSDALE, N. H.

0. C. Robertson has been in Boston
this week.
Mrs NJ. S. Leach recently entertain
ed her brother, j. E. Hall of Brattle-
boro.
James O'Brien was called to Mon
son, Mass, last week by the death of
a relative.
number from this town went to
Keene Thursday to attend a Y. NJ. c..
4. meeting.
Several of the young people attend
ed the dance in Grange hall in Vernon
Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. J. LaChance and
Winchester Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Eames of
Greenfield, Mass, were visitors recent
Iy at A. H. Sawyer's.
J. f. Mann has been painting seen
cry for the Universalist festival in
Brattleboro this week.
| r. A. Weeks, j. w Field and L. n.
Stearns attended a Masonic meeting
in Mortified Friday evening.
Mrs. H. w. Taylor spent a few days
in Northampton, Mass, with her
mother, Mrs. Seaver, this week.
The selectmen have requested all
persons who have bills against the
town to present them before Feb. Is.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford D. Stearns en-
tertained large number sof their
neighbors Friday evening, the time be-
ing pleasantly spent with cards.
Mr.. and Mrs. Prentiss Taylor and
daughter visited Mr.. Taylor's grand
mother, Mrs. L. B. Seaver, in North
ampton, Mass. the first of the week.
Mrs. w. O. J. Martin has sold her
millinery business to Miss Flora Mo
rim, who has engaged Miss Elizabeth
Ryan of Ludlow, VT, as milliner for
the spring trade.
Several of the local fishermen caught
a string of Sc pickerel, horned pout
and perch at Round pond in Pisgah
one day recently. The open season on
the Pisgah ponds closed Feb. 1.
Parents and citizens interested in the
schools are invited to attend a par
tents meeting at the Depot street
school Thursday, Feb. 10, at O'Clock
in the afternoon.
The Universalist festival in Winchcs
ter attracted 50 from here last Friday
evening. J. Z. Scott and ). G.. Snow
of this town took part in the play. Ly
man s orchestra of Hinsdalc furnished
the music. ,r~-@.-s-. e--~..8 -~'"f s&
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-05
WEST DOVER.

Mr.. Rogers, who has been at the
Childs Tavern in Wilmington, was in
town Monday looking for trees suita-
bic to cut for paper rolls.
Warren and Homer Pease and Frank
Boyle have been cutting wood this
week for o. Z. and S. L. Hill. Orrin
Hescock and Kenneth Jones have
been helping Weston Snow.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Davis and
daughter, Quinque returned Monday
afternoon from few days trip to
Athol, Mass, where they were called
by the illness of Mrs. Davis's sister.
Candlemas day dawned somewhat
cooler than for the past week or 16
days, and was thicllly overcast. About
% o o'clock it began to snow, and at )
in the afternoon, the time of writing
the ground hog had had no chance
to hope for another snooze of sir
weeks duration.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-05
5000 eirlg Disappear Annuallv.

In the February Woman 5 Home
Companion Emily Barton Reid has an
extremely interesting article on The
Man Across the Aisle in which she
says:
General Bingham, former police
commissioner of New York, is author
ity for the statement that fifty thou
sand girls disappear in the United
States every year. That may seem
like an exaggerated estimate, but the
General has more recently repeated it
in a private letter, together with the
assertion that he believes it an under
statement, rather than otherwise Per
haps if you could share for one day
the experiences of the average officer
of the Traveller S Aid society, you
would share the general s conviction. =
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-05
NEWFANE.
Field Family Makes Contribution.

A recent contribution - the sol
diers monument fund Smes from
David Willard, who landed from
France the last of January, and his
cousin, Charles K Field of California,
namesake and grandson of the well
remembered c. K Field, formerly of
Newfane, whose characteristic ways
aside from his talent. pedigree and
noted nephew, Eugene Field, made
him -to-be- forgotten figure in
Windham county towns. The check
was sent as contribution from the
Field family. Mr.. Willard s plan is to
sail for Italy this month for the pur-
pose of establishing hospital distri-
buting statious similar to those under
his management in France.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-05
TOLEDO PLANT BLOWS UP.
Craig Oil Company Suffers SIS, 900
Loss-Fourt Tanks Burned.

TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. ). - An ex-
plosion followed by fire in the plant of
the Craig Oil company here resulted i'll
an estimated loss of nearly $4,000 and
erippling of the plant for several weeks.
Six men who were missing when
the fire broke out have been accounted
for. There were IS men in the plant
when the explosion occurred. The cause
has not been determined. Fourteen
large oil tanks containing crude oil
were destroyed. The Office was wreck
ed.
Fireman \. j. Momonee was serious
ly injured when one of the tanks blew
up. Sixty tanks containing benzine and
gasoline were saved through the en-
ployment of trenches in fighting the
blaze.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-05
Evidence Disappeared

~The Atehison Globe tells of a GER
tain citizen Of that town, by name
Judge Johnson, who, as foreman Of 4
jury in booze trial, said to the
Judge: 1.-The jury is satisfied as to
the sale of the bottle but is undecided
about the contents of the bottle. and
asks leave to examine the contents
Of the bottle The court granted the
jury Is request, and half hour later
the jury came ont again, and Judge
announced this decision: Your hon
or, we, the jury, find that there is no
case against the defendant, as there
was not enough evidence to 90
around =
The first lighthouse constructed BY
the United States government IS still
standing on Cape Henry
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-05
ON MANY SECURITIES

not only have dividends and interest
coupons been passed, but the principal
has either vanished or assessments have
been levied in cases of reorganization
Under an annuity, the income is paid
as true as YOU live, as long as you live.
National Life ms Co., of VT (Mu-
tual.) = EARLE s. KINsLEY, Gen
eral Agent, Rutland, vt.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-05
WAS FROZEN IN
JUNE BLIZZARD
Vermont Man Perished Dur
ing Snow Storm in the
Summarizes Year
PEOPLE THOUGHT SUN
WAS COOLING OFF

Overcoats and Mittens Were Worn
During All of the Summer Months
Not Enough Grain Grown for Seed
the Next Year.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-05
Central Vermont Ry.
Corrected to September &c, 1915.
Trains leave Brattleboro

Trains leave Brattleboro
600 a. m. Except Sunday. For New
London.
700 a. m. Except Sunday For South
Londonderry.
800 a. m. Except Sunday. For New
York via Springfield.
9.45 a. m. Daily. For South London
derry.
1925 a. m. Except Sunday. For Millers
Falls
40 p. m. Except Sunday. For Keene,
New London and New York
via New London.
600 p. m. Except Sunday. Local for
South Londonderry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-05

According to French statistics, only one
fourth of the aviation accidents are due to
defects in aeroplanes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-26
CANAL LOSES MONEY.

The extent to which the slide in the
Panama canal damaged this country
in a financial way is shown in the
report for the fiscal year ending with
June. There were only five months
Of normal shipping out of the u. The
tolls collected amounted to 1889 900.
The cost of operation and mainte-
nance was close to 81, 900, 900.
In the first year of the canals oper-
alton the revenue was $4,343 900. which
left a profit OF quarter of million
In these statistics we understand
that interest on the investment of
some 1915 900, 900 and depreciation are
not considered. The defensive nature
of the canal is considered as value
received" for that
The slides of last September closed
the canal at a most inopportune time
just when the war made the Suez ca
nal inaccessible to neutral shipping
The United States has no thought to
making a profit out of the canal but
the deficit Of last year makes it diff
cult to break even for several years
TO come.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-26
HITCH WON'T DO.

Eastern progressives have served
notice upon Mr.. Hughes campaign
managers that they will neither accept
nor countenance Frank II. Httchcock's
participation in the Hughes presiden-
tial candidacy.
The North American, which is
still nominally supporting Mr.. Hughes,
but which confesses that its position is
neither comfortable" nor inspiring"
condemns the selection Of Mr.. Hitch
cock as q member of Chairman Will
coxs advisory board as the most
severe Jolt progressive republicans
have recently received.
THE shock caused by this" says
the North American, lis not les
sened at all by the conviction that
the chairman Of the national COM
mittee and probably Mr.. Hughes him
self sincerely believe that Hitchcock
does represent the progressive repub-
licans and that they are pleased with
his inclusion in the list of sO-called
campaign managers.
But there is not q real progressive
republican from Colonel Roosevelt
down to the humblest voter who does
not know that Hitchcock is no more
progressive than is Senator PenrOse
or Murray Crane, and who is not won
dering from what sources of infOr-
nation the chairman of the national
committee gained the opinion and
transmitted it to Mr.. Hughes that the
progressives wanted anything to do
with Hitchcock, or could be gratified
in any way by his appointment on the
campaign committee.
The prOgressiVes attribute to
Hitchcock, because he was postmaster
general in Tafts cabinet, much of the
manipulation which brought the fed
eral office holders to Chicago in 1912
to force the nomination of Taft by
that convention. They are convinced
that if there was any underhand work
performed to bring about the nomina-
ton of Hughes at Chicago it was per
formed by Hitchcock
I'm view Of all the circumstances
this appointment of Hitchcock as a
progressive, and for the reported pur-
pose of dealing with progressive in
this campaign, is likely to cause harm
to the Hughes candidacy, unless the
progressfves can be persuaded to
overlook it as another blunder due to
the ignorance and inexperience of Mr.
Hughes campaign managers"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-26

appeared for Lowden on election day.
as to how much work was done after
voting, everybody may have a guess.
Think OF the financial sources
ready to be tapped. There is the
great Pullman company to which Col
olel Lowdeu Is closely related A
company that pays its pOrters only
$3.50 a month should be liberal with
it's dividends 10 the family Of the
founder. But besides there was a
statement from Colonel Smiths head
quarters that allied with Lowden and
supporting him were representatives
Of the Standard Oil millions, the Unit
ed States Steel corporation millions,
the Harvester millions. the stock
yards millions and the public utili-
ties millions.
1t is up to the people to decide
whether they want big business" to
run the states business at Springfield
for the next four years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-26
WHAT TAFT LEFT.

In his criticism of President VIII
sons Mexican policy. Mr.. Taft takes
account Of nothing but money and the
letter of the law. If Huerta stood for
investments and concessions, it was
nothing to Mr.. Taft that the dictator
gained office by assassination, and
that by so doing he imprisoned con-
gress and closed the courts. Enough
constitutional officers having been
murdered or forced to resign to give
the usurper a de facto title as provi-
sional president, Mr.. Taft was ready
TO recognize him and would have done
SO, he says, If his administration had
not been so near an end
This sOrdid view never occurred to
President Wilson. He saw millions
OF people struggling blindly for liberty
and land. He saw the one hope that
they had of success extinguished when
their lawful president and vice presi-
dent were shot in the back. 1t was
not the troubles OF predatory wealth
put the sorrows and wrongs of an
oppressed nation that aroused his
sympathies. His impulse was not
IKE that OF Mr.. Taft, to close his eyes
10 monstrous crime and look only at
the cash register, but TO avenge the
Justice and by kindly Offices TO restore
70 an impoverished and enslaved pop-
uIatlon the rudimentary rights of hu-
manity.
Because Mr. Taft had interest In
nothing but property in Mexico, IL is
now trutnfully said that he beaueatb-
ed dlfhcuIt problem to his successor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-26
WHEN GENIUS DIES.

Too much thought is being directed
to the great material losses the world
is sustaining in the present European
war. Too little is being cast toward
the many thinkers and doors who are
falling victims to the fury OF enemies.
Cities can be replaced. Battleships
can be rebuilt Forts can be recon
structed. Human life can increase
But think of the men of mature years
whose wisdom is being lost forever
Scientists, painters, poets, writer's, pro-
fessional men of widely noted skill
jurists, statesmen, the possessors of
minor and major genius. How will
the world make up the void their
deaths create?
Buried deep in graves in Belgium,
in France, in Russia, in Germany,
along the borders of many lands lies
the large thought of the world that
kindles progress. 1t will take a gen
Grafton to replace the ranks of these
men who have made theory science;
who have taken wood and steel and the
imagery of marvellous brains and
made engines of power; who COM
bined chemicals to the needs of man;
who wrote and painted the emotions
Of national life, or breathed national
aspirations into law.
W d. - d SudSlIy InlnS Wnen II
sweeps away mere numbers. It is
truly horrible when it takes away the
very flower of advanced races. 1t will
require the labor of generations, the
sweat and highest endeavOr of thou
sands yet unborn to make up the ma
ter1al losses of the war. But the great
and lamentable thing is that first is
lost the adventurous, from whose loins
should spring a hardy generation;
then the sturdy defenders of hearths.
and finally the highest and best of ma
tIons are swept into internal chaos.
This is a loss which spells real peril
to the worlds progress in thought
and deed.-Kansas City Post
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-26
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
The Old Old Story

nave Deen watching your column to
see If you would suggest something for
what l believe is kidney trouble. l
have so much pain in the back just
below the waist line. l have taken a
great deal Of kidney medicine without
relief / have to lie down often enough
through the day to relieve the aching
Can you recommend a good kidney
medicine?
Answer don't know of any medf-
cine which can be called a kidney
medicine-that is, l know of no medi-
cine which would be wise for any one
to take without exact knowledge OF the
state of the kidneys. But this l do
know, that backache or pain in the
back is almost never a symptom of
kidney trouble. Your letter would
rather suggest strain of the sacro-iliac
joints, or ptosis (sagging) of the alb
dominal organs dragging on the back,
or some similar static cause for the
backache. You need a careful exam
nation by your doctor.
Will you kindly print the name of an
inexpensive and in every way harmless
Answer-A safety razor is the best.
No chemical you can apply does more
than dissolve off hair. The only per
manent effects are obtained by cleo
trolysis and by the X-ray in skilled
hands. A razor is less irritating than
most depliatory applications.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-26
The Daily Story
The Old speckled Hen-By M Quad

The Thompsons and the Browns,
farmers. had been neighbors for 10
years, when in the same year Abel
Thompson was left a widower and
Aunt Martha Brown a widow. Plenty
of people said II would be only natural
for the two 10 marry after year or
so, but what the principals in the case
thought OF IL did not come out for over
two years. The farmer and the widow
saw each other every day during this
time. She continued to run her farm
by the help OF a hired man, but he was
more or less interested. They sat to-
gether Of evenings and talked Of every
thing but what other people were talk
ing about.
1t was one evening in winter after
the farmer had imbibed a quart OF
cider and eaten three or four apples
and realized the loneliness of his own
home that he hitched around on his
chair for while and then said:
Wilder, there was a windmill man
along today. He wants to put up a
mill for me in the spring"
Eyes, windmill men come along
about once in so often" she replied.
"He pears to have a purity good
mill"
"Yes?"
And the price is purity reasonable"
"Yes?"
I'VE wasn't talkin' about windmills
all the time" continued Abel, as he
motioned for another glass of cider
I'VE was talkin' about other things"
They are great folks to CAB. I've
known 'em to hang around all day and
do nothin' but talk"
THAT windmill man said folks was
wonderin' why 1 didn't git married
ag'in."
We'll, why don't you go and git mar
ried them"
Gosh hang It, will That's what I
come over here this evenin' for Aunt
Martha, we have known each other a
long time. 1 know you are a mighty
good woman, and you know I'm a
purity good man. Our farms jine, and
l can run two farms as we'll as one
You must be lonesome, too. If we line
forces then neither of us need have
any more lonesomeness."
Abel, stop right there" said the
widow kindly but emphatically Il
know you to be a good man, but 1
hain't in love with you. You haven't
teched my heart yet Until you do
don't want to talk about marriage"
Well" said the sutton as he rose up
to go. Il hain't one to drive a woman
into marriage as one drives hogs. I'll
keep right on and take your word for
it, and if you find you can't love me
I'll stay single all the rest of my days.
I'm kinder sot on you, you see, and I
don't want anybody else"
During. the next month things went
along as usual and there was no fur
Their reference 10 matrimony Then
Abel was sent for, and as he reached
the widows house she said:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-26

| Abel, my sister over at ToroL,,.
Vile Is sick and has sent for me ~.
goin' over and may be gone three nv
four days" "
Well. III run things the best 7 "a,
while you're gone" he replied
What / want you 10 look ont for q,
particular is that old specified re- -
You know I've had her for the Iast m
years, and I've learned 10 think q gooS
deal q her. She hain't well tan Ia,
now, and / hate 10 go away and lssvs
her. She's got signs Of the pjp. and -
! shonld come back and find her &C.,
IL would almost break my heart AbeI
| want you TO be kind 20 her. I want
you TO sympathize with her. / want
you 10 doctor and nurse her"
"I'll do II, Aunt Martha I'll ias, MAJ,
in all my time nursin' her 10. TN bs
Jest as kind to her as I would be 70 a
baby"
That's good OF you. She's only
critter, but when one gifts used N a
critter he can even love an Old snecL-
led hen. She amt laid an egg for fbesa
five years past, but she's got a hold an
my affections for the eggs she usad m
lay. Why, she's laid over a hundrad
with double yolks, and one time shs an
and licked chicken hawk"
You go right on, wilder. and Iesvo
IL all to me-" said the farmer. "I1t- Az
Jest as much for that old hen AZ
would for a brother / halnt sot nm
a night for the last 20 years. hut /,
she's taken bad ! shan't close my ewes
till you git back"
The widow departed and half an
hour later Abel was carving the ola
hen home under his arm. The thres
days went past, and the widow ra-
turned. She had only entered her house
when the farmer appeared with the
hen In basket He had her wrapped
in red wooden cloths She smelled az
camphor and various liniments. Her
toes had been trimmed and creased
and he had applied salye 10 her comb.
With proud deliberateness he remov-
ed wrap after wrap and finally reach
ed the last end and set the hen down
on the floor with:
There she is, Aunt Martha. and fest
as good as she was five years ago. I've
worked over her for three days, and
I'm tellin' you there hain't a hen in
the hull county can come up 70 her"
How splendid OF you, Abel-how
splendid! gasped the widow, and as
If to corroborate her words the hen
raised her head, swelled out her throat
and tried TO cackle.
See that-hear that, widder?" ask
ed Abel.
Yes, do, and, oh, Abel
"Is your heart teched, widder?7
at is, and-and"- 4
land you'll be miner"
That was in March. and they were
married in May, and the old speckled
hen was alive at last accounts and
making efforts to return 10 her duty
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-26
NEW MARKETS.

The worlds commercial geography is
being rewritten in a most sweeping
fashion for Americans. AS an instance.
China suddenly looms as a great lum-
Der market in the future American
lumbermen. having looked into Jan
anese methods. sources and produc-
ton, believe that the men of Nippon
will have exhausted their timber re-
sources in decade and that the vel
low millions, forswearing bamboo in
the south provinces and hard woods
in the north Of China, will become
users Of American soft woods. All of
which makes the wisdom of the Ameri-
cans who acquired Alaska's forests
half a century ago most impressive.
China as a lumber market is only
one fact out OF many pressing them
selves on American attention out of
the far east and the regions back of
the five seas. The English and Ameri-
can journals printed in the Orient re-
fleet on every page the swelling
growth, the bigness OF DEVELOPMENT in
Mongolia, ManChuTia, the western Chi
nese provinces, Russia, the PHILIPPINES
and even those regions that look west
ward on the great deserts of the Tar
tars- There are markets for a thou
sand-thousand things in these old re-
gions that are being touched BY the
outer world. Markets partially deveI-
oped by Europeans prior to the war
are now crying out for buyers Of prod
ucts and sellers Of factory wares.
The war drags on, giving the Ameri-
can his chance If he will take Il and
If the open door is not suddenly closed
When Eurasian armies go back to the
mines, fields and shops, the door of
opportunity In the Orient
will swing to for the American and he
must fight for what he has In the
meantime the manufacturer and the
would-be exporter is getting new
glimpses at strange markets and Is |
finding the world OF commerce 10 be /
only partially explored from an Amer |
lean viewpoint
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-26
UNEXAMPLED OUTRAGE.

Says the st. Louis GIObe-DemOcraty
a republican newspaper:
The preparation for the republican
national committee Of a film showing
President Wilson asleep at his desk in
Washington while struggling nuns
were being carried by raiders into the
bushes from a convent in northern
Mexico is such an outrage on decency
as the annals of partisanship cannot
match.
1t had been supposed by democrats
that the slogan, Anything to beat Will
SON. meant simply anything within
the rather indefinite bounds of repub-
iCan partisan deCorum. 1t was not
guessed that the words were to be
taken literally as sanCtiOning out
RACES on public morals repugnant to
the law of the land and libels of a char
acter to revolt every decent citizen
Of the republic.
The authorities Of the state in
which these pictures were prepared
should see to it that the laws against
lewd and immoral acts are enforced
The alleged participation Of members
of the national guard in the prepara-
ton of the film should be the subject
Of instant investigation. and, If the
facts warrant. of action by a suitable
number of court-martials As for the
republican national committee, the
American public will take its case in
hand and in due time render and rec
ord a verdict. That body had been
indistinguished thus far in the cam
paign; it now has the distinction of
having set a mark well below the
zero on the gauge of political deCenCy."