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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-24
iris SPEAKER WELL IN LEAD.
Batting Average Increased to .389-Al-
so Leads in Runs.

Iris Speaker 5 big part in keeping
Cleveland in the American league pen
nant race is shown by averages printed
in Chicago, including games played
last Wednesday. Speaker increased his
batting average during the week to
$50 and leads the hitters of his league
in total bases with 163 and in runs
scored with 81. Cobb is ahead IL
stolen bases with 36, Eddie Collins in
sacrifice hits with -, Baker in home
runs with eight and Detroit in club bat
ting with .255. The leading batters
who have played in at least half the
games of the clubs:
Speaker, Cleveland, $50; Jackson,
Chicago, 500; Cobb, Detroit, .357
Burns, Detroit, 500; I1obhtzel, Boston,
294; Shotten. St. Louis; POI; Nuna-
maker, New York, 293; High, New
York, .2>s; Strunk, Philadelphia, .294 /;
Thomas, Bos' on, .2S2.
lleinie Zim lcrman has batted his
way TO a tie for second place among
the National league batters, he and
Daubert hitting at 1926, while Robert
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-24
National League.

National League Games To-day.
Philadelphia mt Pittsburg.
No others scheduled.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-24
Commonwealth House
incorporated
Opposite State House, Boston, Mass.

Offers rooms with hot and cold water
Tor 90 per day: which includes free
use Of public shower baths. Nothing to
equal this In New England. Rooms with
private bath for $3.50 per day; suites
~ two rooms and bath FOR $3.50 per day.
Dining room and cafe frst-class Euro
pean plan
ABSOLUTELY FiREPRooF.
TEMPERANCE HOUSE.
Send for Booklet
STORERF. CRAFTS. Gen. Mgr.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-24
What If They All Did Ito

Fresh from his vacation. the minis.
ter faced a large congregation, who
were very kind in their praise of his
sermon. The next Sunday LARGER
congregation came and listened with
growing concern to the same address
as before. The next Sunday he
preached the sermon again. The officers
of the church, after much consulting
together, asked him why. The minis
ter replied, "Why, YES, it was the
same sermon. The first Sunday you
told me how fine it was. and how it
was just what you needed. / watched
you all week and you lived just as be-
fore, SO | preached it again. All the
following week ! watched, and you
lived just the same; so, remembering
that You all had said it was what YOU
needed, | preached it once more. Tn
less there is some sign of Improvement
don t You think | d better plan to re-
peat 1t again? '-The Christian Herald.
aVp NAV no Hind ~ - =; s,1l,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-24

Love may be blind, but it is seldom
deaf or dumb.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-24
PERSONAL.

weekend IN Orange, Mass.
Richard Long of Bellows Falls was
visitor in town yesterday.
Miss Katherine Foxcroft of Boston
is a guest of Miss Matilda Ullery.
Mr. Harder of New Haven. Conn,
was guest over the weekend at Lin
den lodge.
Raymond Richardson of Lowville,
\. Y, was a weekend guest at Henry
r. Brown s.
Mrs. A. T. Richardson of Boston is
visiting her sister, Mrs. IIurlburt of
Chaplin Street.
Mrs. Isabella R. Slmonds of Somer
vile, Mass. is a guest in the home of
Rollin S. Childs.
Mrs Frank Johnson of Detroit came
Sunday to be a guest at the Clark
farm several days.
f. j. Shea of New York, who is Wis
iting relatives in town, went yesterday
to Bellows Falls to visit
Miss Emily Clapp went Saturday to
Beverly, Mass, to be a guest week
of Miss Amy Van Doom.
Miss Flora Cattanach, nurse, has re
turned from Hinsdale, where she had
+been on professional work.
Mrs Ora Craig has returned from
an extended STAY in New York and is
at her room at f. c. Crosby s.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. F.. Frevenhagcn and
children of Williamsvile were visitors
yesterday at G. r. Freyenhagen s.
Mrs. Elizabeth W. Kimball returned
Saturday from Chester. where she had
visited two weeks with relatives.
Private William Tweed of the Com
panv | recruits at Camp Governor
Gates was home on a furlough ycster-
dav
Mrs. C. d. Moves and Miss Dorothy
l.. Hubbard left this morning for an
outing of two weeks at York Beach.
Maine
Mr.. and Mrs Alfred : Tbomnson
and two danohters went this morning
to Old Orchard. Me. for an outing Of
two weeks.
postm,etnr NJ 7 Moran rot,,rnol
Saturday EVENING from Wasbinptop
whore he attended the convention Of
nostmootore
Mr. and Mrs n y Dodae ond fam
Inv loft tb;s n,ornina for +hoir snn,.
NOR ca,n, ~ Gro+nn Pond - ho rano
tbrao ,Tcel,s
M w.. MI, r-, Gu,
NJ NiiNSoN -H"'tI' I'Ntn' ANA 0'el-
-. :" T, ,,,. ana AIN III bowman went
rool- nr ,''t +,ro '''''' '''''s to ''''''''"
~,
= =. thompson anu ohS'o" lhonp-
son returned SATURDAY from Il business
tnFl' no New Aofh, coming ny way q.
! Guy "N'ePSl''
Mr.. and Mrs. George Streeter and
sons and Mr.: and Mrs. Leslie LazeIle
Oh Springfield, Mass, were visitors IN
town yesterday.
Miss Nellie Goodrich, teacher in
Brookline, Mass, is spending her va
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-24

an indefinite stay. Mrs. l.. ). Bugbee
of Woilaston, Mass, Mrs Lane 5 sis
ter, came with them from Ludlow
Saturday. and is now guest of her
brother, E. II. Crane, at Spofford lake.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-24
National League.

Sunday Games.)
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-24
American League.

{ Sunday Games.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-24
Sporting NeWs
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
American League.

American League Games Today.
Chicago at Detroit.
80 others scheduled.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1916-05-03

m UNul. ,uN ct PEACE.
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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-04-04

BY ANNA PAVLOWA
Famous Russian Premiere Danseuse
Care of ones feet is simple, but I
have found there are certain things
that must be done and many people
do not know about them.
For one, do not neglect any sign
Of ingrOwing toe nails or Of the form
ing of cOrns or bunions. Have them
tended to Immediately.
Remember, comfortable footwear
and hose will best prevent diseases of
the feet.
High heels and iI-ftted shoes are
among the causes of fallen arches.
Remember, irritation without heat
will turn the skin Of the feet dark.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-04-04

VaIeska Surratt, Fox star, has
gone to France for a vacation. She
will become a "sister of mercy" at
Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt's hospital, in
the rear of the allies firing line. Miss
Surratt will return in early summer
and resume her work on the screen
for the Fox concern
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-04-04

So will too frequent use of hot water
or steam.
It might be well to remember also
that tight fitting shoes are apt to af-
feet the disposition as well as health.
They often are the real cause of a
red nose, which, of course, is dread
ed by women.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-22
cal of army officers throughout the

cal of army officers throughout the world
 Dr. Blaizot stated that it was the cap tain's wish to inform his interviewer that he was delighted with the hospitality and cordiality of the southern people. He said that Birmingham was a beautiful city, and that he was glad to be here. inasmueh as his duty to his country re- quired that he be in land of peace in- stead of fighting on the battle front of France.
 It2was learned that Captain De Belleville had seen actual service on the firing line in France. Owing to his particular quail ifications in selecting the animals that would be most serviceable in the war he was sent to the United States Captain De Belleville has been in America for the past four months, during which time he has been from New York to Califor- mia and thence south, buying mules for his government
 Ray Fies of the firm of Fies & Son left last night for Tennessee, where he will purchase numerous mules which wiH be inspected by the French officers in Birmingham next week before being sent to New York and then to France.
 The French officers will be in the city for the next week
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-22
French Army Officers Buying Mules Here to
 Use on Battle Front
Captain De Belleville, Who Has Seen Actual Service Under Tri- Color,
 in City With Associates

Captain De Bellevilie of the French army, accompanied by Veterinary Sur geons P. J. Blaizot and James N. O Brion, also of the French army, are registered at the Tutwiler hotel.
 Captain De Belleville and his assist ants are here for the purpose of buying several hundred mules. which will be used by the French army in the great offen- sive against the Teutonic powers on the western front, which is now in full swing. Captain De Belleville, who does not speak English, told the reporter of Tho Age Herald through his interpreter, Dr. Blaizot, that he could not talk for pub- lication. The captain is a typical French officer, dark complexion, a pointed black mustache and the military bearing typi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-22

1 E. J. weissinger, Eleanor, Ala.-Butter eggs, chickens, turkeys. T. J. Davis, Eleanor, Ala. Chickens eggs, peanuts, hay, sheep, wool, turkeys oats, velvet beans, Wa ta ka beans. A. A. Sims Eleanor, Ala.-Chickens turkeys, butter, eggs, pigs. beef, mllch cows.
 G. A. Head, Route :. Box 7s, Ozark, Ala.-Cane syrup, sweet potatoes, pea nuts, fresh pork, corn, velvet beans chickens, eggs. T. H. Toodee, Route l, seima, Ala Potatoes, poultry eggs. butter.
 l.. c. Farley. Belvit, Ala.-Dooley yam sweet potatoes.
 D. A. Carlisle & Son, Gadsden, Ala Hens, flyers, turkeys, corn potatoes eggs. butter, colards. mustard, onions sweet potatoes.
 E. R. Tucker Bremen, Ala.-Eggs. but ter.
 Mrs. G. T. Thompson, Route '. Fayette Ala.-Eggs, snap beans, butter, lettuce radishes, onions.
 Mrs Zana Norris, Route 3, Grove Oak Ala.-Eggs, flyers, vegetables
 E. N. Mccall, Route 5 Brewton, Ala Poultry, butter, eggs. seeds.
 J. J. Cullpeper, Route 3, Geneva, Ala. Vegetables.
 Marion Little Grove Oak, Ala.-Sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, chickens, eggs peas, onions, apples.
 J. B. Vaughn, Route 3, Geneva, Ala. Potatoes.
 T. J. Powell. Route 3. Geneva. Ala. Vegetables
 L. o. yickers Route 4. Clanton, Ala. Chickens, eggs vegetables.
 A. Zimmerman, Hanceville, Ala.-Poul- try. eggs, butter Irish potatoes. sweet potatoes
 Mrs. J. A. Henderson Route l. Bedford, Ala.-Chickens, eggs. beeswax.
 Mrs. w. l.. Box, Bedford, Ala. eggs. chickens.
 w. O. Pennington Bedford, Ala--Eggs. poultry butter.
 J. w. Chisen, Route 1. Fayette, Ala Eggs, chickens. sweet potatoes. Irish po- tatoes. vegetables.
 Mrs. H. M. Blaikie. Route 8. Warrior. Ala.-Chickens, eggs, butter, apples, pears.
 w. A. Patty. Route l, Chase, Ala.-But- ter.
 J. T. Jones. Route 4. Box 91. Dothan, Ala.-POrto Rico yams.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-22
SUNDAY SCHOOL DAY City-Wide Campaign to Increase At tendance, is Being Urged

Next Sunday will be a city-wide Sun day school day in Birmingham when all schools will make a concerted effort to increase the number of attendants. Much enthusiasm is being put into the Sunday school rally and officers and pupils arc urging their friends to attend school and become regular members
 All schools have committees at work among those who have dropped out. and also those who do not attend Sunday school, and several hundred persons probably will attend the services who have not attended heretofore. While no set programme has been arranged spe- cial features have been planned for the different schools and the services are ex- pected to be unusually interesting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-22
STE|NER'S TROOPS GETTING IN SHAPE

Montgomery, September 21.-(Spe- troops in camp today, the mobilization of the cavalry regiment was nearly completed. Only two troops are out of camp and according to the pro- gramme, they will reach Montgomery tomorrow.
 The new organization is shaping up rapidly considering the difficulties that the soldiers have had to overcome All the yellow legs" report the hardest kind of manual work in getting their camp in condition. While no arms or horses have yet been received, strict military discipline is being observed
 Representatives of the various units were at the capitol making up their first muster rolls today. This is the preliminary step paving the way for a physical examination of every member of the regiment. It is expected that the physical examinations will start tomorrow under the direction of Maj. George A. O'Connell. now stationed with the medical corps at Vandiver park. As each troop is mustered the members will be examined to deter mine their physical fitness for the serv- ice. It is not thought that the percent age of rejections will be large in view of the fact that unusual precautions were taken to obtain the best type of physical manhood in the various troops.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-22
HOW TO BE SLIM

If you are too fat and want to reduce your weight 15 or 20 pounds, don't starvc and weaken your system, or think you must always be laughed at on> account of your fat, but go to Eugene druggist, and get a box of oil of Korein capsules. take .ne after each meal and one before retiring at night.
 Weigh yourself once a week and note wias this for ramn,,i Tu iIelaDie perfluous fat from any part of the body.
 It costs little, is absolutely harmless and a weeks trial should convince anyone that it is unnecessary to be burdened with even single pound of unsightiy fat.
Evening journal., 1916-04-13
TREATMENT OF ANNALS BY SCIENCE.

HOW many animals used, how they treated
Al and is herQ much useless repetition of expert
ments cruelty and abuse of the dogs monkeys, cats
and smaller animals used for research purposes in
laboratories hospitals and places where and
vaccines made?
These are the questions to which answer is
sought by bill recently introduced into Congress by
Senator Gallinger Of New Hampshire, and Represen-
tative julius Kahn. of California and referred to the
Committees Of Agriculture in both Houses. 1t in
the Secretary of Agriculture to make such an
investigation and report the results.
According to the official report of the British Gov
ernment there were, in 1914 about $4,000 animals
used in Great Britain for experimental purposes TAX
ing into consideration the larger number Of persons
engaged in medical research the freedom from any
reguative or restrictive laws the many endowments
for research purposes and the enterprisng spirit Of
our scientific men. the number of animals used yearly
in this country must. in comparison with the English
figures run into some hundreds Of thousands.
Under existing conditions this large number OF our
"four-fdoted friends" absolutely under the con-
troll of the individual. The professional men and wo-
men engaged in research through animal experimental
ton are about the only class OF persons to whom
ciety gives absolute trust and confidence and permits
their perfect freedom from restraint
Are We justified in this confidence? Arc we nc
gloctiug our responsibility in this direction. while we
recognize it so fully in the with which guard
against and prevent cruelty TO animals by the public
generally as evidenced by the humane laws and tho
hundreds OF Societies for the Prevention Cruelty to
Animals which exists throughout the country but
which have application jurisdiction where ami
mails are used for experimental purposes?
The answer to these questions will be made clearer
il this bill becomes effective. and believe that il
should receive the support all persons who claim
humanitarian feelings. whether such persons be pro-
fessonals laymen
Evening journal., 1916-04-13
April II. 1916.

Alil IL AhAVs
To the Members of Congress:
The Hon. H. A. Herbert, then sec
retary of the navy, reported to Con-
gross in 1896:
"The present size and strength of
our navy Is not 50 efficient factor in
Keeping the public peace and in Great
ing respect for our country abroad as
is Onr capacity 10 rapidly increase
that navy to any required extent"
The present secretary of the navy
says to Congress. in his last annual
report. that one OF the lessons of the
present war is that ave must en-
large factories in which munitions
can he manufactured. with everything
i'm readiness 10 increase the large re-
serve In case il should be necessary"
The foregoing are sound doctrines
They have been found to be sound by
every great nation in the world.
Yet it is proposed to adopt a pol
icy in building armor, the vital feat
ure of battleship's equipment, which
will effectively destroy the large eX-
listing armor manufacturing capacity
Evening journal., 1916-04-13
ARMOR PLATE AND PREPAREDNESS
L
the Obvious
Error New OF

eide But l notice that the COM
panies--seem to me to have argued
their case in very STRAIGHTFORWARD
fashion by direct statements 10 Con-
gress and the press-assert that the
United States pays less for its armor
than any other naval power in the
world, except Italy, and very con
siderably less than we pay in Eng
land. That is a fact which to the
best OF my knowledge has been
been neither denied nor disputed.
Furthermore, the companies have
publicly stated that the government
today is buying its armor at figure
below the average OF the past thirty
years in spite of the increased cost of
labor and raw material This state
ment, again, has not been refuted or
even questioned.
Finally, the companies have ex-
pressed their willingness to have an
official inquiry into their costs of
manufacture and on the basis of that
inquiry 10 leave it to the government
to fix the figure at which armor plate
should be supplied. | can only de-
duce from this that if--which is
doubtful-there were excessive pro-
fits in the past, there cannot possibly
be any in the future, and that the
question Of price therefore affords
no ground for such a radical and mo-
mentous change of policy as the
armOr plant bill contemplates.
Could there in any event be a less
propitious hour for making expert
ments? There is war all around you.
One conflict you already have on your
hands in Mexico. Another and great
or one you may at any moment be
drawn into. And besides this a thou
sand and one problems of naval
armament are now for the first time
being brought to the touchstone OF
actual experience. No one as yet can
tell what the European struggle may
reveal as to the relative efficiency OF
different types of vessels or the
amount of armor plate that may be
needed in the navy of the future
Still less can any one tell what crisis
may not be precipitated upon the
United States during the next three
years or more, that it will take Il
build the government armor plant
and work it up to its maximum ca
pacity.
/ say nothing as to the technical
difficulties which in the case of armol
making seem very strongly to rein
force all the familiar objections e
government ownership. But l do ven
ture to ask. Is this a time for TAX
ing risks and for driving even a singl,
firm out of the armament indus
try? Are you prepared to sanction
and embark on a course which car
only leave you a hundred times les
ready for a great national emergenc,
than we ever were in England?
so, God help you!
SYDNEY BROOKS.
New York. April s, 1916.
Evening journal., 1916-04-13

Yet this precisely must be the eff
feet, even if it is not the intent. of
the armor plant bill now before Con-
gress. If it passes in its present
form the armor-making firms in the
United States will be forced out of
the business. That I take to be a
mathematical certainty. The private
companies have among them ca
pacity OF $4,000 tons a year. The
naval estimates call for an output Of
24,OOO tons a year for the next five
years. This is an unusually large
program, but, even so, it leaves
One-fourth Of the existing machinery
IDLE. II now you start a government
factory with a capacity of 10000 tons
there will be only 1000 tons OF work
to be distributed among the private
.hrms-about enought to employ one
eighth Of their plants.
Any one can tell what will happen.
The private firms, with the capital
they have sunk in this branch of their
business, with the skill and exper-
ience they have accumulated, and
with their reserve power of expan-
sion, must ultimately be wiped out I;
and the government will find itself
dependent upon a single and rigidly
restricted source Of supply for one of
the most essential implements Of wal.
What is the genesis of this extra
ordinary measure? So far as | can
make out. it owes its origin simply to
suspicion that the armor factories
in this country have been squeezing
the government. There is apparently
no suggestion that the companies are
unable to turn out all the armor
plate needed by. the government
either, | gather, is there any com
plant, at least not nowadays. rs Ia
the quality of their output. There is
! however, the belief that they have
been eXacting inordinate profits.
My instinctively British and insulal
comments on this belief are, first
that, If true, it convicts past admin.
istrations Of negligence even more
than it convicts the companies OF
greed; and. secondly, that those who
look at the problem OF Industrial pre-
paredness solely from the angle o.
finance and who allow the question
of price to settle their policy for then
might just as well spend their time
examining a continent through the
wrong end OF a microscope.
But / will take the bull by thl
horns. Is it the fact that the Amer
ican armor plate manufacturers have
been mulcting the government exces
sively? I assume that there is nj
real competition among them, anC
more than there is in England, anC
that, also like the English firms, the!
have from time to time sold armo
abroad more cheaply than at home il
order to get a footing in foreign mar
kets. But is the popular and the Off
cial notion OF their eXtortionate pro
clivities one that the facts justify?
l do not profess to be able to de
Evening journal., 1916-04-13
KENT TROPHY is ASSURED.

q ENERAL A. r. BENSON, of Dover, will give
- solid silver loving cup valued at s3O a prize
for oratory be competed for by the school children
in that county That fact communicated TO us
today in the following letter:
Dover, Del, April IL, 1916.
Mr.. George Carter
Editor, EVENING JOURNAL,
Wilmington, Del
Dear Sir-In my opinion the plan being fos-
tered by THE EVENING JOURNAL to promote
tory in the public schools is deserving OF the support
OF all friends of education. experience pleasure in
saying to you that ! will give a silver loving cup,
valued at S3O 10 be competed for by the school chill
dren in Kent county
have had less to do with educational mat
ters, and my experience convinces that you
right when you say that public speaking in the schools
has practically disappeared. Your contention that il
should be restored is equally sound
with Mr. Nathan Miller. OF Wilmington providing
the State trophy; with Mrs. Selden s. Deemer, OF
New Castle providing the rural New Castle county
trophy. and with providing the Kent county trophy
the only rural section Of State not provided for
is Sussex. Ny impression Is that you will exper-
fence little difficulty In getting the Sussex county
trophy. There has been. great awakening in that
end Of The state and the people ripe for nnoya-
ons that will advance the of education. Ger
ainy il would be unfortunate for Sussex to fail to
participate in such audabe movement
Sincerely yours
A. r. BENSON
In dealing with this matter THE EVENING JOUR-
NAL has an optimistic feeling. Something tells us
that the same beneficial influence that has provided
the trophies for the State rural New Castle county
and for Kent county will provide the cup for Sussex
county. so far that section OF the State is con
cerned we renew appeal and confidently await the
| answer