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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-02
i.nnNelefA.

This is the house that Jack built;
It's painted TO match crazy quilt.
This is the she'd just back OF the house that
Jack built,
Where he stored the lawn mower late in tho
fall,
And now he can't find il at ALL at all
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-02
ShnI,espenrc Day nv Day.

For adolescent husbands "A young man
married is that's marred'--Alls Well
That Ends Well, II. 3.
For the artist Look here upon this picture
and ON this.'-fIamlet, iii. 4.
For the matrimonially inclined: -. Men
are April when they WOO December when they
wed; maids May when they are maids, but
the sky changes when they are wives"--As
You Like It, ~. L.
For the forester:
90 Rosalind. these trees shall he my books,
And in these barks my thoughts I'll character"
AS You Like II. iii. ..
had French and Good English in Senate Gallery
That's Senator Wiscly--the man on the end
the left"
Whats his bette noire?'
NO beets for him. Hes for pork"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-02
Inevitable.

Inevitable.
>on may break, You may Shatter
Your health If YOU will,
Rut YOU cannot thus sidestcp
The specialists bill
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-02

The ghost of The Old Guard OF the c. .. p,
wears black. and the tag on the hem OF the
garment is. "Anythng TO Beat Wilson ="
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-02
One reason for Committing.

You say Scroggins is in business in New
York.
Yes"
Then Why does he live in New Jersey"
You jus, said it,"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-02

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street Richmond. Va, by the Times Dispatch Pub;
fishing Co, Inc, Charles f. Hasbrook. Editor and
hanaaSr
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connecting with all departments.
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ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS The Times
Dispatch. and not to individuals.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-02

SPECIAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES,: Has
Ing, New York; Mutual Life building. Pbilnd.Iphia;
Peoples Gas building Chicago.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07
Worlds Greatest Railroad.
) Philadelphia Public Ledger.


One of the most interesting publ
cations issued every year in Philadel-
phia is the annual report of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Mere magnitude of
the figures becomes overwhelming. II
is by far the greatest railroad system
on earth. 1t hauIs more freight. it
carries more passengers, it owns more
locomotives and cars, both passenger
and freight, it has the largest capital
stock, pays out the greatest sum in
dividends and the property is intrin-
slcally worth the most money. Here is
an industry which is valued at more
than billion dollars, and which has
only half that amount of capital stock
The investments which it has placed
IN other companies yield much more
than enough each year to pay the in
terest on all the Pennsylvania IS out
standing bonds.
An evidence of wise conservatism is
shown by the Pennsylvania IS state.
ment of the securities it owns While
the par value of them exceeds Sal.
100000, they are carried upon thu
books of the company at only $337.-
100000. Since the Pennsylvania is so
immense in the figures it puts forth
It's support is a better index of nation
al conditions than that of any other
railroad or any other industry. Hence
1t is encouraging to find that this big
railroad system, which now embraces
Il, 100 miles, earned gross last year
~, 5o0,oOO more than it earned in
1914. So rigid were the economies
practised, that the Pennsylvania sys-
tenn, while doing that much greater
business, was able to do it for less
money, and so returned gain of over
$22, 100000 in operating income.
The Pennsylvania has an unbroken
dividend record of sixty years, and
its $4,000 stockholders are to be con
graduated that in 1915 the sum
earned upon their stock was 81h per
cent. That gave the company com
Portable margin for road improvements
after disbursing the regular dividend
of 6 per cent.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07
Member of the Associated press.
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1916.
FOUR MILES FROM GOOD ROADS,

The farmers of Cook county, ILL.,.
have adopted this good roads motto:
" No farmer farther than four miles
from a hard road"
1t looks like a modest enough sIo-
gan. New England farmers. accus-
toned to good, solid highways within
easy reach of nearly every farm.
would pronounce it absurd that any
road system should leave farms iso-
lated by so great a stretch of unde-
pendable, soft dirt roads. MANY a
western or southern community. how
ever, would consider itself fortunate
if the Cook county ideal should be
realized
( Our country roads in general are a
disgrace. And yet their condition
lsn I surprising, considering the lack
Of road-making material in so MANY
sections and particularly the immense
distances involved.
There are nearly 100000 miles of
public roads III the United states. In
1914, we spent $249, oO0.o 900 in improv-
ing them. Our total investment in
roads runs into the billions. And vet
the best we have been able to do, as
nation, up to last year, has been to
provide a hard facing for about II
per cent of our roads.
The European countries that boast
of their excellent highways don t
spend more money on them than we
do-they have inccsnparably less to
take care of, and they have been at
It much longer than we have. The
United States, too, will have good
roads everywhere eventually. The time
will come when any community will
consider 1t a disgrace to have any
part of it as much as four miles from
4 hard road.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07
TRY THIS FAMOUS
HAIR TONIC FREE
~ won Cost You Cent if It Doesn t
step Falling Hair and Remove All
Dandruff Says wilfred Z. Root.

Right away we want Won to try
earls1an Sage, one Of the most delight
iui, refreshing and invigorating hair
tonlcs the world has ever known.
II you have dandruff and Partisan
Sage doesn't remove every trace of it
money back from your druggist.
II your hair is falling or YOU have
terrible scalp itch, Partisan Sage will
stop both or money back.
1t aims to prevent badness by put
ting life and nourishment into the hair.
and the first application makes your
head feel so good that you will at once
realize why we are so enthusiastic
about Partisan Sage
It's women S favorite hair tonic be-
cause it gives to the hair a briIliancy
and lustre that fascinates and compeis
admiration. Wilfred T. Root has scores
of people who use Partisan Sage reg
ularly and viii tell you alb about it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07

youth slip by without filing the souls
or the children with music.
As yet the young people here do
not have their minds directed def
nltely enough in musical channels.
do not see groups of children stand
ing about piano in the twilight and
singing to mother accompaniment.
| do not see the boys of neighbor-
hood forming small orchestra and
playing really fine music as thev do
IN France and Germany
Mr.. Stransky overstates his casa
somewhat. We know of New Eng
land farmer 5 family of six children
each playing different instrument
who, with their father and mother,
make real little orchestra. And there
are a good many such groups of the
sort Mr.. Stransky says he has MT
seen-youngsters about their mother
at the piano. But there should be still
more-many more. There cannot be
too many. For, as the wise conductor
says, music is something more than
mere entertainment. 1t is ga ser Gus
and permanent joy in life to
keep the emotions stirred, the imagi-
nation young.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07
N E. NJ o r Y

Inc memory is cold bIooded device
which prevents a man from forget
ting his past life. There are times in
every man s life when he would be
glad to forget some hayward and law
less act of his youth, like stealing
watermelons from trustful neighbor
or assaulting loved teacher in the
lett eye with moist paper wad, but
memory will not allow him to. MANY
reputable citizen has been awakened
out Of sound sleep by the rude hand
OF memory, as it recalls some youth
ful deed of violence which was follow
ed immediately afterward by rest tn
ton in the woodshed.
When rightly exercised and kent
within reasonable limits, memory is
q great blessing to the human race.
Inc man who can remember the loan
OF $40 bill without having to be
snaked into Justice court should be
proud of his memory, for it will en-
able him to borrow another ten to re-
place the one that is gone. 1t often
happens that some of our most
Pfomlscuous borrowers, men who ar.
able TO recall things that happened
When they were two years of age.
lose all control over their memorv
when confronted with due bill for
money loaned without interest az
late as last fall. This is called hard
protected by The Ada
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07

ening of the memory and also of the
cheek
The shortest memory ever pro
duced is found in the courtroom dur
ing the progress of a murder trial.
This kind of memory is usually at
tached to the defendant, and will not
allow him to remember anything that
occurred before, during or after tie
crime. Thousands of red-handed
murderers have escaped conviction
and returned to some peaceful, wife
beating pursuit because their memory
went back on them on the witnes
stand.
Men in general are subject to short
ness of memory. The man has not
yet been discovered who can mail a
letter for his wife the same week she
hands 1t to him. The average husband
is a bright little forgotten and can
not be trusted to bring ANYTHING
home but vacant look, when his
wife had specifically mentioned two
pounds of butter. Some husbands for
get faster than others, and stay down
town until it is too late to dress for
a dinner party. If there were fewer
bobtailed memories working overtime.
there would be more happiness in the
home.
Memory can be cultivated, but it
IS dangerous to go too far back.
rs Newspaper Servicel
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07
WEST BRATTLEBORO

Mrs. Wallace Harris has recovered
from an illness with grip and is out
again.
Bert Jacobs was in Greenfield Sat
urday to attend the funeral of his
aunt, Mrs. Cutting.
Miss Rose Bolster Of Putnev was ad-
mitted to the Melrose hospital Satur-
day to receive medical treatment.
Melvin Cooper, nurse. who had been
airing for John 5. Wood, finished work
there Sunday and returned to his
nome on Bullock street.
Mrs. Fred Marsh returned Yesterday
from Boston, where she had been sew
eral days. Mrs. Marsh aceomnanied
Mrs. Ida Vaughn to that city.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Stoekwen 70.
turned last night from few DAYS
stay IN Boston, during which time
tney visited the automobile show.
Miss Donoghue, who had been spend.
ing few days at her home in HoI-
yoke, Mass, returned to her work as
head nurse at the Melrose hospital.
Monday.
Il. T. Adams of Marlboro, who had
been IN the Memorial hospital on ac-
count of injuries received to his hand
several weeks ago, when parts of
three of his fingers were cut off nv y
saw, returned to his home YESTERDAY.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07
THE MARVELLOUS INDUSTRY

1t was a Massachusetts man. ex
perimenting in his shop in Springfield.
who first adapted the gasolene engine
to the propulsion of a horseless car
riage.
This was in 1886, but it was not I'M
til 1892 that he perfected his first au-
tomobile. The thirteen clumsy cars
finished in the summer of 1896 wers
The first manufactured for sale in the
United States.
Thus began the great American au-
tomobile industry. In 1899 the United
States census first took note of the
new industry, and recorded that s.
700 automobiles were manufactured in
that year. Last year, 1915, the Ameri-
can automobile factories turned out
$4,000 cars-a stupendous total ag-
gregating III value $761 AGO. 900.
The annual recurrence of automobile
week in Boston, with its great automo-
bile show, calls to mind the marvellous
growth of this modern wonder of the
world. Though the youngest of our
great industries, it is one of the
largest, now being among the four
leading industries of the United States.
Its increase in production last year
was seventy-three per cent over the
1914 production. 1t is estimated that
million cars viii be manufactured
this year, of a total value of more
than $500 900 900
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07

All ashes and other by-products that
nave fertilizer value. Soil improve
m men by tillage is Of prime importance.
should the war continue for a year or
more our manufacturing facilities for
producing our own supply of fertilizers
may De developed, but even a bare pos
siolllty OF early peace, as well as other
alincultles, serves as check upon the
building OF new plants. The situation
may eventually force us into self
supporting condition with respect to
our fertilizer supply. but for the wear
at least there is little relief in sight.
ana the farmer must depend upon good
tillage, rotation and conservation of
manures.-Country Gentleman.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07

Unless we save the babies what will
there be left worth saving2 It is not
enough to save merely their lives, but
they must be saved in health and
morals. Baby Week has for its pur-
pose the dissemination of knowledge
IN the care of infants, so that thew
may be well guarded, through intelli-
gent nursing, pure food and healthful
surroundings. 1t is based on the rea-
sonable presumption that mothers de-
sire to do the best they can for their
children and that their frequent failure
to bestow proper care upon them is due
to ignorance. The promoters of Baby
Week want to give the babies a chance
for life and health. They want to pro-
vide sound bodies for the little ones.
SO that in after life they can do the
work that the world will require of
them, and do it with vigor and delight.
The value of healthy body is reeog-
nized, and it is true in moral sense
as in the physical. A sound BODY is
the natural dwelling place of a sane
mind, and there can be no doubt that
the sound body and the sane mind pro-
mote morality.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07
Music in the Home.
(COllier s Weekly

SO much is done for the children
nowadays. So many different sorts
of knowledge are crammed into them
at school. They devote themselves
to so many things unconneeted either
with childhood or home life. Mean
while one opportunity-rich in posi-
bilities for happmess-is to often neg
leeted. Joseph Stransky, conductor
of the New York Philharmonic orches-
ira, gives wise counsel in this matter:
1.-The way to love music, to increase
its production, is to know it when
you are young-young individually
and young as a nation 1t is much
more difficult to prepare people to
enjoy music after they ara grown up
and their minds have become crowded
with various interests in life. The
American nation should not let its
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07

Newton D. Baker, ex-mayor of Cleve-
land, Ohio, who will step into the
President s cabinet as secretary of
war, is lawyer by profession, A years
old. He was one of the ardent fight
ers for Mr.. Wilson in the Baltimore
convention and at that time was prom
inently mentioned for the vice presi-
dency He and Mr. Wilson became
friends years ago at Johns Hopkins uni
versltv when one was a student and
the other an instructor Baker has
been active in various reform move
ments at Cleveland.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07
Our Fertilizer Reserve-

In normal years more than 1925.
OO0O00 worth of commercial fertilizers
is used in the United States, ACCORDING
TO recent statement of the secretary
of agriculture. This includes nearly
Soo,O00,000 worth of heterogeneous sub
Jects, $56,000,000 worth of phosphates
and $20,000,000 worth of potash
fractlcaily all the potash has come
from Germany, as well as a lot of am.
mon1um sulphate containing nitrogen.
The use of sulphuric acid in the manu-,
facture of war munitions has inereas-
ed ITS value from about FIVE dollars a
ton to twenty-five dollars a ton. and
this has handicapped the production of
superphosphates for fertilizer.
The secretary summarizes the situa-
ton by pointing out that there is prac-
neally no potash in the country ut the
present time for fertilizer use except
small quantities held over from former
years. Plans to secure potash from
various raw products such as field
spar, alunite and kelp are being made,
put as yet only very small quantities
nave been produced and the high prize
es onered by manufacturers of match
es, glass and war munitions will di.
vert practically all of it from the fer.
f1llzer industry. We have an abund-
ant supply of raw phosphate rock. but
are without cheap sulphurie acid to re-
ouce It to acid phosphate. The nitro
gen SITUATION is less serious, since we
nave an abundance of cottonseed meal,
considerable dried blood, tankage and
other products.
Inc sum of it all is that farmers
must TINS year practice unusual care
In conserving farm manures. They
must make full use of green manures
and cover crops and also carefully save
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07

According to the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger when Daniel Webster said
there was no alternative for a murder
save suicide or Confession and
then added that ''suicide is confess
sion, he laid down principle which
applies to great many things besides
capital crimes. Consequently, it is alb
soIutely fair to say that the payment
of $1,25O,Oo0 by John L. Billiard to
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad company is in the nature
of restoration of funds which should
never have been paid to Billiard in
the first place and is distinct con-
fession that the particular deal in
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07

Goldfish Puffs. - Mix Goldfish and
mashed potatoes as for Goldfish balls.
place in buttered baking dish, brush
With the white OF an egg and brown
IN hot oven. Serve from the dish
in which it was baked.
Carrots are good cooked until ten
der, then mashed and seasoned with
a little lemon juice and rind using
plenty of butter and few dashes of
cayenne. Serve garnished with pars-
ley.
Any leftover cake may be steamed
and served with cold or hot custard.
making nice. simple and easily pre-
pared dessert.
Queen Pudding.-Heat three-quar-
ters of cupful of milk, add the beat
en- yolks of three eggs, three table
spoonfuls OF sugar and three table
spoonfuls of chopped raisins. Add
two teaspoonfuls of gelatin to a half
cupful of hot water and add to the
first mixture. While still warm add
the beaten whites of the eggs, flavor
with vanilla and put into a mold.
Serve with cream.
Nut Cream Pie.-In a double boil
er cook cupful of milk with a Gun
full of sugar. Add the yolks of three
eggs and a tablespoonful of flour.
then the juice of lemon and half a
cupful of peacan nut meats, chopped.
Bake a single crust and pour in the
nut filling; cover the top with a me.
ringue made of the whites of the eggs.
Brown and serve cold.
Orange Preserve.-Wash oranges
and cut them in slices a fourth of an
inch thick, cover with cold water. a
pint to each orange, and let them
stand "A hours. Cook them in the wa.
ter until tender but not soft. add one
pound OF sugar and the Juice of a
lemon for each orange. Cook until
transparent. Place in glasses and
cover with paraffin. A slice of this
preserve with a little of the strip
makes plain ice cream appear very
stylish.
~
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07
Towns Potent Champion.
{ Rutland News. J

The Brattleboro Reformer has lust
completed its third year. 1t has de-
veloped into one of the most progress
sive newspapers in the state and has
placed its live community more dis
tinctly on the map than ever before.
If the people of Brattleboro are not
enthusiastically and generously support
ing this effective exponent of the en-
terprise and spirit of their village they
are pur-blind. 1t is their most potent
champion and publicity agency.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07
A Real Benefactor.
<Rutland News.l

The Westminster West man who
left bequest of thousand dollars,
the. income of which is devoted an
nually to prizes in reading and spell
ing among the pupils of the town.
was real benefactor. Any movement
that will encourage greater profit
cheney III these elementary branches
is benefaetion. The youth of West
minister West should certainly excel
IN these graees as an outcome of the
special stimulus.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07
Some Good in the Worst.
NASHUA, n. Fl. Telepranb ,

The smartest woman criminal of
modern times, Sophie Lyons, has proved
the truth of the adage "'there is so
much of good in the worst of us. it be-
hooves the rest of us, = etc, in her gift
of a $4,000 property to Detroit to es.
taohsh home for reelaiming criminal
children. She also proves Mrs. Booth s
cialm' that all criminals can be saved
because she was the daughter of thieves
ana the wife of million-dollar bank
foooer' yet she has carefully guarded
her daughters from the faint of crime
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07

which Billiard figured was neither
moral nor legal. Indeed, it win be re-
membered that the kind of financial
hoeus-pocus by which Billiard bought
New Haven stock for 1925 and sold it
for $3.50, making a profit of $2,74s, 900,
although not putting a cent of money
IN 1t himself, SO outraged the elder
Morgan as to lead him to denounce
privately the deal. While the restora-
ton of part of what looks very much
like easy loot clears the air, therefore,
1t is pity that iniquitous deals of
TINS KIND are not pushed to the bitter
end rather than compromised. The
people who make them certainly have
no concern for the public or for pri-
waite investors, and there is no reason
why the public should be expected to
let them off easily when exposure has
finally forced them to disgorge.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Ru of paper
90 cents an inch for first insertion; 25
cents an inch for each subsequent inser-
tlon. Limited space on first page at
double rates.
Space rates on application
CLASSIFIED advertisements - Five cents
a line first insertion with so per cent
discount for each subsequent insertion
without change of copy.
Reading Notices-Ten cents per line
nrst insertion with so per cent discount
for each subsequent insertion without
change of copy.
Position 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim of the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery
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
~ Is only by this method that the pub
Usher can secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07
Look Out for Themselves.
Boston Transcript. J

congress postponed action on ques-
ton involving the national honor but it
VIII be noted that those noble patriots
didn t adjourn until they had voted the
regular annual mileage grab graft safe
ly into their pockets. In a contest for
the eontemptibility prize the American
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07

IS one way OF saw
ing them. Chop ra-
Their coarsely, cook
in a little butter.
dredge with -four,
add seasonings and
cream, when hot
serve with baked
potatoes.