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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
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MAGAZINE NOTES.

The February American Magazine.
The. February American Magazine
contains many excellent short stories
and constructive articles on problems
of general interest In What 1t Cost
Me to Become a Prominent Man,
United States congressman tells how
much better off he was on small sal
airy in private life than after he had be-
come local celebrity with a good polit-
zeal position in Washington How TO
grasp the main business chance is de-
seribed in practical article by Hugh $.
Fullerton who gives some unusual early
experiences of successful Americans
in a way that makes them capable of
general application.
Dana Burnet 5 story The Thousand
Dollar Check deals in an original man
ner with matter of fact New Workers
There are also stories by Bertha a.
Rich, Marion Sherrard and Cullen \.
Cain. Olive Higgins Prouty continues
her splendid serial, The Fifth Wheel
the account of the revolt Of girl train
ell for marriage, and what she did with
her life.
For the series of practical health
articles DR.. Arthur r. REYNOLDS, for
mer Health Commissioner of Chicago
discusses the subject of badness and
its cause. For the series of articles
on the glories of the separate states of
the union, [. s. Senator John Sharp
Williams of Mississippi tells WIZ his
constituents are like the Beers and why
the state of Mississippi is free from
paupers and millionaires. Great acting
is dying, says Walter Prichard Eaton,
the magazine 5 dramatic reporter.
In The Family's Money, Interesting
People, and the department on Habits
there is a large quantity of interesting
material and the magazine as whole
Is excellent.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29

en- separately; one tablespoonful of
water, teaspoonful of baking pow
der and -four enough to roll. Sprinkle
sugar and cinnamon over the cakes,
cut with doughnut cutter and deco
rate with three almonds placed at
equal distance from each other. Bake
IN a moderate oven. These cakes not
only look very pretty, but are also
good to eat.
Almond Fringe.-Take a pound of
bianched almonds, cut lengthwise.
making shreds. Beat the whites of
seven eggs stiff and dry, fold in a
pound of powdered sugar, the almonds
and teaspoonful of fiavoring, Spread
powdered sugar on a board and shape
the mixture into rings. Place on but
tered paper and bake light brown
in slow oven.
Lunch Cake.-Here is cake for the
busy mother-take a third of a cup
ful OF soft butter, one and q third
cupfuls of light brown sugar, two
eggs, half cupful Of milk. three tea
spoonfuls of baking powder. a half
teaspoonful each of cinnamon and nut
meg, half cupful of raisins and one
and three-fourths cupfuls of -four. Put
ingredients all into a bowl and beat
together for three minutes; bake
40 minutes in a moderate oven.
Spice cakes.-Take two cupfuls of
brown sugar, one cupful of butter
one cupful Of sour milk. three egggs
two and one-half cupfuls of cinnamon
one of cloves, a half teaspoonful Of
grated nutmeg and pinch of salt
Mix as usual and bake in Individual
tins. Cover with a maple frosting
and some with plain white.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
Forcing Fairs into Deficits.
Barre Times. !

The fact that the management of
the Valley Fair association at Brattle
boro is facing deficit of $1,650 result
ing from the fair of last season leads
to the natural query whether the pub
he IS not demanding too much for
what they pay at the high-classed fairs
IN Vermont and that the management
Is required to 60 to unwarranted ends
to afford entertainment, amusement
and instruction for the people. 1t is
true that the management of the Val
ley Fair association was seriously han
dicapped by adverse weather conditions
during a part of the 1915 exhibition
and the revenues were not as great as
they would have been under reason
ably good conditions; but even had
the conditions been favorable during
all the days of the exhibition it would
nave been difficult to make both ends
meet in the final summing up Oh, ac-
counts. Indeed, it is fortunate fair
ASSOCIATION which is able to report a
balance on the right side OF the led
ger each year. More often the balance
is the other wa; and frequently the
aenclts are well-nigh staggering. Sane
business judgment would seem to de-
mand that there be slight pairing of
the expenses of the fairs in order to
make the fairs self-sustaining. If the
pupnc should be made thoroughly con
versant with the financial perplexities
tnat race the arrangements it would
take reasonable attitude and would
refrain from making unwarrante5 de-
mand5 as to exhibitions
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
Opinion, Not Law.
lNergennes Enterprise.


Attorney-General Barber has given
Secretary of State Bailey an opinion
on the election law as applied to the
right of electors who have not paid
their taxes to vote on statewide pro-
hibition and the direct primary act.
Mr.. Barber says that taxpayers who
did not pay before February ID cannot
vote on these propositions In an in
terview in the Brattleboro Reformer,
printed elsewhere IL this paper, the
attorney general says this opinion is
not intended to govern town officials.
and if they rule differently the ruling
Will stand, and that the secretary of
state has no right to go back of the
returns.
Of course, the attorney general s
opinion, while entitled to respect, has
not the weight of court decision.
Many good lawyers about the state
take issue with the opinion, and Rut-
land and Montpelier lost no time IL an
nouncing that they would pay no
attention to it, but would allow all
electors otherwise qualified to vote at
state elections to 90 ahead and vote on
the two propositions. Officials in 9th
er towns may safely follow their ex-
ample.
1t is desirable that the vote on the
questions of prohibition and direct
primary be as large as possible. With
only a small portion of the electorate
expressing an opinion an opportunity
would be given for endless discussion
and temptation to start another con
test.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
DRINK A GLASS
OF REAL HOT WATER
BEFORE BREAKFAST.
says we will both look and feel
clean, sweet and fresh
and avoid Illness.

Sanitary science has of late made
rapid strides with results that are Of
untold blessing to humanity. The lat
est application of its untiring research
is the recommendation that il is Is
necessary to attend to internal santa
ton of the drainage system of the hu-
man body as it Is 70 the drains of the
house.
Those of US who are accustomed to
feel dull and heavy when we arise.
splitting headache, stuffv from a cold.
foul tongue, nasty breath. acid stom-
aeh, can, instead. feel as fresh As
daisy by opening the sluices of the svs-
TEN each morning and flushing out the
whole of the internal poisonous stag
nant matter.
Everyone, whether ailing, sick or
well, should, each morning before
breakfast, drink glass of real hot
water with a teaspoonful of limestone
phosphate in it to wash from the stom-
aeh, liver and bowels the previous
| days indigestible waste. sour bile and
/ poisonous toxins; thus cleansing.
sweetening and purifying the entire
alimentarv canal before putting more
/ food into the stomach. The action Of
hot water and limestone phosphate on
an empty stomach is wonderfully in
vigorating. 1t cleans out all the sour
lamentations, gases, waste and aeidity
and gives one a splendid appetite for
breakfast. While you are enjoying
your breakfast the phosphated hot
water is quietly extracting a large vol
ume of water from the blood and get
ting ready for a thorough flushing OF
al the inside organs.
The millions of people who are both
cred with constipation, bilious spells
stomach trouble, rheumatic stiffness
others who have sallow skins, blood
disorders and siekly compilations ar,
urged to get quarter pound of lime
stone phosphate from the drug store
This viii cost very little, but is suff
eient to make anyone a pronounce,
crank on the subject of internal san
itation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
Referendums Are State Questions.
bennington Banner.)

NbchHlHSIOn Banner
Montpelier has fouted the attorney
general and put on the check list for
the March referendums all voters re-
gardless of whether their taxes are
paid or not. This is according to the
spirit of the law which was designed
chiefly to cut off tax delinquents
from voting in town expense affairs
while still permitting them to vote on
state questions and state and county
tickets. The referendums are plainly
state and not local questions. Whether
this common-sense view is the actual
legal meaning of the law is a question
for the supreme court especially as
competent lawyers disagree ANYWAY
the attorney general should not have
delayed his opinion until it was To,
late for taxpayers to settle and get
on the list. As general rule, however.
delinquent taxpayers are a class who
do not remain long in one town and
the number of votera disfranchised
under Attorney General Barber's ruI-
ing is not as large as some people
imagine.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
A STRANGE SECRET COMBINE.

That was . strange and indefensible
secret conference that the publishers
of the leading German newspapers of
the United States engaged in at Chi
cago Saturday and Sunday, if the re
ports as to its purpose are reliable.
Although the conference declared that
they would not make public the pur-
pose of the conference or divulge its
proceedings, it is well understood that
the coming Presidential campaign was
the chief topic Of discussion, and that
the subject was considered, not in its
relation to the welfare of German
Americans in America, but with regard
to the attitude of the administration
towards foreign nation.
That men who consider themselves
patriotic citizens of the United States
should place the supposed interests OF
another country above the interests OF
their own country, which is this eoun
try, whether it is their own by birth
or adoption, must cause sorrow in the
hearts of all who wish well for the
country and for its German residents
Suppose all the papers in the country
printed in English should enter upor
such a combine as the Chicago confer
ence suggests. The thing is almost un
thinkable and entirely impracticable
but if it could be brought about il
would be as Indignantly denounced a.
it deserved TO be. The case of the Ger
man newspapers that enter into thi.
threatened combine in the interest of {
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
sABY WEEK IS COMING.

Baby week begins saturday. All oven
the land from Maine 70 California from
Alaska to Florida, att6 ntion will center
on the better baby problem.
The purpose of Baby week in a
community is primarily educational; it
is twofold: first, to give the parents of
community an opportunity of learning
the facts with regard to the care of
their babies and second, to bring home
to everyone in a community the i'm
portance of the babies, the facts re-
lating to the babies of that especial
community, and the need of permanent
work for their welfare
The president and national chairmen
of eivics, home economics and public
health organizations of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs have
called upon the women of the clubs tc
help IL holding a nationwide Baby
week campaign. The children s bu
reau of the United States department
of labor will cooperate in this cam
paign, and many national and state or
CARNATIONS have promised their helI
and interest. The date chosen as mos
convenient for the majority of commu
mites is March to II.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
RUB IMMINENT IN

When the old enemy, pain, ties you
up; when you suffer with colds in head
and chest, sore throat, sore and
strained muscles, sprains, bruises,
neuralgia, rheumatism, lumbago, stiff
neck-let Minard's liniment give you
almost instant relief. 1t is the most
satisfying remedy known for relieving
pain.
Minard's liniment is absolutely pure
stainless and dependable. 1t has stood
the test of years of constant service
carries healing properties to affected
parts and can be obtained from any
druggist. Is
No other liniment can take the place
of Minard's. It's success in thousands
of cases is positive.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29

Some editorial remarks in the Bos-
ton Sunday Herald may well be con-
sidered before next week Wednesday:
The local option system, as we have
it in Massachusetts, may not be per-
feet Few mundane things are. But
it is working SO well, on the whole
that the legislature may well hest
tate about making any radical changes
in it. 1t is a good thing to have the
question of license or no-hcense come
automatically before the voters every
year. 1t should take a strong
array of convincing arguments to in
duce the Legislature to sanction either
change. The presumption is in favor of
leaving things as they are.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
OPEN M0STRILS! END
A COLD OR cATARRH
How To Get Relief When Head
and Nose are Stuffed Up.

Count fifty! Your cold in head or
eatarrh disappears. Your clogged nos
trils will open, the air passages of
your head viii clear and you can
breathe freely No more snuffiing.
hawking, mucous discharge, dryness or
headache; no struggling for breath at
night.
Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm from your druggist and apply a
little of this fragrant antiseptic cream
in your nostrils. 1t penetrates through
every air passage of the head soothing
and healing the swollen or infiamed
mucous membrane, giving you instant
relief. Head colds and eatarrh Weld
like magic. Don't stay stuffed-up and
miserable Relief is sure.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run of paper,
% cents an inch for first insertion %
cents an inch for each subsequent inser-
ion. Limited space on first page at
double rates.
Space rates on application.
Classified advertisements = Five cents
line first insertion with so per cent
discount for each subsequent insertion
Without change of copy
Reading Notices-Ten cents per line
tirst insertion with so per cent discount
Tor each subsequent insertion without
change of copy.
Position 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29

Springfield is the most enthusiastic
and public spirited city of the 100, 600
class in New England. The way the
business men there raised half a mil
lion dollars to assure the success of
the national dairy show was only one
instance of many in recent years where
the citizens have pulled together for
the good of their home community
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim of the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery
# the paper each night. and it solicits
ne cooperation of subscribers to that
md. Prompt reports should be given of
ZACH failure to receive the paper on the
morning following the omission, in per-
.on. by telephone or postal card, thus
enabling the cause of the error to be
promptly and accurately discovered and
the proper remedy Immediately applied.
Z is only by this method that the pub
Usher can secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29

occasionally they are
most dainty and salts
flying.
The following cookies
are well liked by the
little people:
Sand Tarts. Take a
cupful of butter. one
and a half cupfuls of
sugar, three eggs. the
whites and yolks beat
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
STATE NEWS NOTES.

The Granite City General store Of
Barre has filed petition in bankrupt
ey with Clerk f. S. Plat of the Unit
ed State court The liabilities are
S9,06l.52 and the assets are given as
So, 4S4.70. There are 73 creditors.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
FANCY CAKES FOR OCCASIONS.

When eggs are high these cakes will
be rather expensive, but if used only
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
Her Trials.

"well, Mary, have you got a place
YETI"
pie all want girls who have had pre-
vious experiments STRAY Stories.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29

foreign country is just as worthy of
condemnation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
Prohibition That viii Prohibit.

New York Times.)
Action that not many years ago
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-29
THMRHK
.GABLNED

Today shall end what yesterday be-
gun;
What we are planning others yet may
build;
me leaves may wither, but the tree
shall grow:
And though AT Last We leava our
work undone.
Our life Will not the less be all full
filled,
our work win all be even finished so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-02
SUCCEEDS AS SLEUTH
III. d. Bowman Trails Man Who Stole
His Grip and Calls Police.

H. D. Bowman. an insurance in
spector from Kansas City saved his
overcoat and grip "Wednesday Dy
acting as his own detective.
He was waiting for a train at the
Rock Island station and left his grip
and overcoat in a seat while he went
out on the platform. While he was
standing outside he saw a man pass
him carrying a coat and grip suspic-
iously like his own. Bowman hur-
ried back into the station and found
his belongings gone
He was back outside in time to see
the strange catch street car going
north, but he was unable to catch it.
He boarded the next car and trailed
the stranger to 1859 North Kansas
avenue then telephcned for the po-
lice. Officers Miller and Golf arrested
the man with the grip and coat and
he gave his name as Willis Bradley.
Bowman stayed in town long
enough to obtain a state warrant for
RradleV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-02
COIN FOR SCRIBES ASKS vINDICATION
Pulitzer Awards of $4,000
Cover Variegated Field.
Prizes to Newspapers, Editors,
Reporters; Also Art, Music.

New York, Nov. 2.-Prizes totaling
$4,000 and five travelling scholarships,
each valued at $500 will be awarded
ment exercises 1917, for meritorious
journalistic work, as provided for I'M
der the will of the late Joseph Pulitzer,
founder of the Columbia School of
Journalism. Announcement has just
been made.
Candidates may obtain full infor-
nation by applying to the secretary of
the university. Nominations must be
made on forms provided and must be
in before February L, 1917
Five of the prizes are to be as fol-
lows:
Cd One thousand dollars for the
best and most suggestive paper on the
future development of the school of
Journalism.
CD A gold medal. valued $500, for
the most disinterested and meritorious
public service rendered by any Ameri-
can newspaper during the year.
CD One thousand dollars for the
best history of the services rendered
to the public by the American press
during the preceding year.
ca Five hundred dollars for the
best editorial written during the year.
60 One thousand for the best ex-
ample of reporters work during the
year.
Four other prizes are: One thousand
dollars for the best American novel
published during the year; one thou
sand dollars for an original American
play, performed in New York; two
thousand dollars for the best book on
the history of the United States and
one thousand dollars for the best bio
graphy of an American teaching pa
triotic and unselfish service, Washing
ton and Lincoln excluded.
Three of the travelling scholarships
will go to the graduates of the school
of journalism to enable them to study
European conditions and influences, a
fourth to Americas most talented stu
dent of music and the fifth to Ameri
cas- most promising art student to be
selected by the National Academy of
Design.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-02
COAL SHORTAGE
and HIGH PRICES
WORRY The EAST
General Rise of 25 to so Cents
a Ton In Chicago.
Pittsburg Manufacturers I'm
able to Find Enough.
BLAME ON SANTA FE ROAD
141 Other Railroads Charged
With Misuse of Cars.
Mines Idle Because Cars Can
not Be Found.
General Rise of 25 to so Cents
a Ton In Chicago.
Pittsburg Manufacturers I'm
able to Find Enough.
BLAME ON SANTA FE ROAD
141 Other Railroads Charged
With Misuse of Cars.
Mines Idle Because Cars Can
not Be Found.

Chicago, Nov Goal users here
are hoping that the steady advance in
the price of coal will be checked by
the suits on file in federal court here
today, in which the Santa Fe and 141
other railroads are charged by twenty
eight coal companies with diverting
and misusing coal cars and thereby
preventing the rapid shipment of coal
from the mines. An injunction is
asked.
The plaintiffs operate twenty-four
mines in Indiana with an aggregate
daily production capacity of $4,000
tons and require $500 cars daily. they
state. But because of lack of cars,
mines are kept idle and in the last
tons daily, the state.
1t is claimed that the shortage of
cars helps hold the price of coal up.
Coal dealers today predicted increases
of rs to so cents a ton shortly unless
the car situation is relieved.
Up so Cents a Ton.
Further increases in retail coal
prices were predicted for Chicago to-
day, following a general rise of 20 to
80 cents a ton in the principal eastern
cities. Large companies here yester-
day quoted small egg coal at IS, range
at So, chestnut at $3.50, pea at IS and
buckwheat at $3.50 a ton delivered
Pocahontas mine run coal sold in loads
of three tons or more at $3.50 a tor
and 1915 for the single ton. Illinois
mine run sold at 81 in tons or $4.5O
single ton, while Hooking Valley
brought 81. Coke was held at $7.5C
a ton.
Shortagt in Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Pa, Nov. 2.-Frantic eff
forts are being made by a number OF
important manufacturing interests in
the district to secure emergency Goa
supplies before navigation closes or
the Monongahela river by buying the
| production of Independent mines thai
are connected with their plants by
water transportation. With the cal
| shortage growing more serious, the
| companies are piling up all the Goa
they can secure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-02
TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS

Chicago, Nov. 2-WHEAT-Argentin
rains tended today to put the wheat bulls
at disadvantage, although word from
Buenos Aires that dry weather had re-
turned led to brief rally. Assertions
that imports of wheat at San Francisco
counted also in favor of the bears. Be
sides, there were advices that the British
government had reuced the cost of wheat
IN England to a material extent. Opening
quotations here, which ranged from Nc
off to &C up. with December at 81 -Soh to
81. S315 and May at S1S1h to s1.S2%, were
followed by a moderte general bulge and
then a reaction all around to below yester-
days finish.
Subsequently the market developed not
able strength as a result of heavy buying
based on reports that Argentine rains
were insufficient, that Argentine papers
were agftating an embargo on exports, and
that rust was spreading in Australia. The
close was unsettled, PIC to 4azc net higher.
with December at $lS55s to $1.S6 nd May
at S1.S6 to $1-S62s.
CORN-Corn swayed with wheat. Offer
ings were not large but buying was only
decline to 1sc advance. the market harden
ed little and then underwent something
of a setback.
Later there was a decided upturn when
wheat showed unusua. gains The close
was strong at 21sc to 211c net advance.
OATS-Oats had a slight downward
slant. The majority Of pit traders were
bearish-
PROvISIONSNFree offerings of Ird act
ed as a weight on the provisions market
as a whole. Longs were the chief sellers.
Liverpool Grain Market
Liverpool. Nov 2-WHEAT-SDot No.