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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-04
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim Of the management
secure efficient service in the delivery
OF the paper each night, and II solicits
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 postal card thus
enabling the cause of the error to be-
promptly and accurately, discovered and
the proper remedy Immediately applied
II Is only BY this method that the pub
Usher can secure the desired service
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-04

Vermont win get some of the frost
ing which comes from the increase in
wages to all employees of the American
Wooden company in the six New Eng
land states and in New York state.
The advance will affect $500 hands in
the big mills at Winooski.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-04

Good Shedding in the winter season
goes long way toward bringing en-
ployment and ready money into the
rural towns. 1t is almost impossible to
get logs and other products of the for
est to the mills unless the ground is
snow covered. Snow has come early
this year, and its continuance until
March l will make great difference
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-04
Resolutions.

(Walter Trumhull in New York
World.)
Most Of us solemnly resolve at this
season of the year to give up every
thing which we consider harmful, ex-
cept such things as we enjoy, have
money enough to buy, or strength
enough to hold.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-04
Personnel of Supreme Court.
Springfield Republican,


Justice Lamar s service on the
bench of the United States supreme
court has been limited to q brief
period, but he was regarded as an
able jurist and a credit to President
Taft, who appointed him. His death
gives the democratic president an
other opportunity to shape the per-
sonnet of our highest judicial tribunal
As Justice Lamar was a democrat,
the appointment of a democratic sue
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-04

of dependence in later years. the saw
ing habit must become a lifelong pol
icy, not one temporarily created hv the
incitcment of savings club.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-04
The Albany
Real Estate

Your Real Estate interests can be
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perience is worth something to both
buyer and seller.
We handle all kinds-Farms, village
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chances, summer homes; exchanges
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You can reach US by Mail, Rail or
Wire
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-04

in the circulation of coin throughout
the state for many months.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-04

to you every time You eat at The AL
bany. Our foods appeal to your sense
of taste and our prices to your common
fense. Somewhere there may be bet.
ter restaurant than The Albany, but
none of onr many patrons have ever
found it, and the first meal you eat
here will convince you that your search
for the best eating place in town is at
n end.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29
AN APPEAL TO YOUR INTELLIGENCE

Thrifty foeghed friends Of have made excellent profits from
investments Highland Park during the The
section between Royal Oak and
will undoubtedly faster than did Highland Park portion of
prisngy gratifying profits AS of the rendered clients
prepared large this section including the territory
village
each individual lot number and size You the oppor
tmity life invest village
do North Woodward enabled
this locality
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-04-14

offer in any direction and she turned
distractedly back to the office to wire
Oceanside when her eye fell on a
speeder car.
With start she turned to it, took
hold of the handles, pushed the car
forward length, found it responded
to her touch, and hardly giving
thought as to whether she could man
age the machine, conceived, as it be-
gan to pick up speed, that possibly she
could overtake the departing train.
This idea, once in her head, sh had
only to jump into the seat and in an
other moment she was in pursuit of
the train-then travelling through a
zone of fire from the burning camp.
Catching at the infiammable mate
rial with which it's path was freely.
spread, leaping from tent to tent and
hut to hut, licking up the canvas and.
eating rapidly into the flimsy wooden
structures that barred it's way, engulf-.
ing machinery, wagons and equipment:
in it's quick advance, the fire, famed by
the north wind and it's own suction,
tore along like a whirlwind, with
Rhinelander and his gang doing their
best to check it, BY the time the train
had reached the vicinity of the camp,
the fire had jumped the track and the
flames rose on all sides as the local
headed through them.
Close behind the train, Helen, run
ming the lineman's speeder, was doing
her utmost to attract the attention of
the train crew. Their eyes were fixed
on the fire. Helen sped through the
angry fire, and gained on the last
moving train until but slight gap
separated the nose of her speeder
from the rear platform. Then mount
ing on the footboard of the roaring lit
tie motor, she sprang with all her
of the rear car.
The conductor and brakeman, look
ing back at that moment from the
coaches to watch the fire, discovered
the pursuing speeder. The two started
back for the rear platform and they
reached it just as Helen landed in
front of them from her jump.
What in the world?" demanded the
conductor, as he looked from the ex-
cited girl to the deserted lineman's
car, now falling back in the race it had
maintained with the train. What in
thunder" he again demanded of Helen,
in simple, good faith, 'are you trying
to do, Miss Holmes?"
Helen, short of breath and wild with
excitement, tried to explain: "Mr.
Rhinelander," she said, between gasps,
twas robbed yesterday. Thieves took
his pay roll from our safe last night.
They left punches of brown paper in
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-04-14

have caught him to save his life, but
fortunately for herself, she could not
reach him in time. Had she done SO,
her own death would have been inevi-
table, for Dan, swaying wildly, slipped
again. He caught with a fearful curse
at the empty air. It was too late for
anyone to aid him now, and the next
instant he had plunged headlong Off
the roof to his death.
Helen turned to the officer, who, in
a grapple with Sykes, was fighting
in the grasp of the powerful criminal,
to save himself from being hurled
through an adjoining skylight
Below the two, the fat man, Bat,
looking up, beheld his confederate in
the grip of the law. Helen was too
late to aid the officer to save himself,
but the plucky policeman gripped
Sykes around the neck as he plunged
forward himself, and before the fat
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-04-14

mis- camp, the men were lined up out.
side his tent waiting for their pay
Passing within, Rhinelander cut open
the package. To his CONSERVATION he
found only brown paper instead Of
currency. Stunned by the revelation
and breathless with amazement, he
made his way white-faced, back to
the station for an explanation.
Rushing into the office he threw the
doctored package down before Lyons
and Helen. The two paled in turn
with excitement and each Of the
three looked blankly into the faces Of
the others. Lyons ran to the safe and
opened it again-Rhinelander and
Helen watching. Nowhere else inside
was any money to be found. The cur
rency package, apparently undisturbed,
had been taken by agent in the
first instance from precisely where he
had left it and seemingly in the same
condition in which it had been placed
in the safe. All that confronted the
startled trio now was the worthless
package of brown paper.
Rhinelander wiped his brow and
turned, detected, from the counter. He
had not the heart to wire Oceanside of
the calamity. The first thing neces-
sary, in any event, was to make an eff
fort to appease the men and, starting
to his camp, he attempted to do this.
The men, made uneasy by Rhineland-
er's sudden disappearance after his
promise to pay, were grumbllng
around Wood, the foreman, who was
using his best efforts to quiet them.
Rhinelander now reappeared from the
station, but empty-handed. He brought
with him the rifled package, showed
this to Wood and to the men; ex-
planned that he had been robbed and
told the men they would have to wait.
Those closest in the group that
crowded around him had been primed
for disturbance by Spike and his two
confederates. They sneered at Rhine
lander's statements and told him they
wanted their pay. Lyons, hurrying
over from the station, reported to
Rhinelander that the express company
and the chief special agents Office had
been notified Of the robbery and de-
tectives were n the way. But while
Wood and Lyons argued with some of
the disaffected, Spike and his COM
panions lured others of them to hut
on the edge of the camp limits, where
a sort of blind pig was in operation
Here Spike, spending money freely,
piled the grumbling laborers with
liquor ami advised them to stand on
their rights and refuse to work if
their money was not at once forthcom-
ing.
Rhinellnder made up his mind not
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-04-14
SYNOPSIS

Little Helen Holmes, daughter of Cen
eral Holmes, railroad man, is rescued from
imminent danger on a scenic railroad by
George Storm, a newsboy. Grown to
young womanhood Helen saves Storm,
Amos Rhineander, financier, and Robert
Seagrue, promoter, from threatened col
lision. Safebreakers employed by Sea-
grue steal General Holmes surrey plans
of the cutoff line for the Tidewater, IA
tally wound the general and escape. Her
fathers estate badly involved by his
death, Helen goes to work on the Tide
water. SeagTue uses Spike to set FIRE to a
powder train hauled by Storms engine.
Helen saves Storm from horrible death.
Helen RECEIVERS the survey plans from
Seagrue, and though they are taken from
tba srU s hne rnt tdr aoe %
by Rhinelander, wins a fight with Sea-
grue's men for possession of consign-
ment of railroad ties
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-04-14

an examination. It took him only a
moment to examine and tabulate in
his mind the kind of safe he had to
do with. In another moment he threw
back the bolts and swung the door
open
They took the pay roll package out
just as Lyons had placed it within the
safe. But the easy triumph of the ex-
pert and the congratulations of his
friends did not seem enough to satisfy
him. To make the job artistic, he di-
rected his assistants to get together
some brown paper and after they had
taken the bills from the package, he
filled it with waste paper, rewrapped
the package carefully and replaced it
just as he had found it in the safe.
Leaving by the same way they had
entered, the quartet took their way
to Seagrue's camp. Seagrue was
asleep, and Spike woke him and NUT
tered they had the money. Seagrue,
somewhat upset by the size of the
company of thieves with which he
was now tied up, kept his own coun-
sci. He listened to all that Spike had
to say, and at once advised sending
the three safe-blowers back to the
city. This, however, it was decided,
after brief conference, would not
do, as Spike needed somebody to help
him foment q disturbance next day.
In the end, a compromise was effect.
ed, by which The Bat was sent to
town while Sykes and Dan were kept
over night to aid in stirring up Rhine
lander's men.
The following day had already been
announced in Rhinelander's camp as
pay day. When Helen and Lyons ar.
rived at the office in the morning for
duty they found Rhinelander waiting
to take the money. Lyons, very will
ing to be rid of his responsibility,
opened the safe and unsuspectingly
turned over to Rhinelander the pack.
age he had placed in it the afternoon
befope.
When the construction boss reached
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to dodge the issue and he assured
such of the men as would listen that
if they would give him little time he
would replace the pay roll on his per.
sonal credit; and that no one should
lose cent through the accident. The
difficulty was to get the men to listen.
The strike idea spread through the
camp like an infection, and reason
was for the moment completely for
gotten. Spike, perceiving the mischief
we'll under way and anxious to get the
two city criminals out of the way be-
fore the detectives from headquarters
should arrive and round up the camp
for suspects, directed Spike and Dan
to beat it, back to town on the To-
cal passenger.
At this time a sudden and unexpect-
ed complication arouse. With Spike,
the party returned to the shack for a
final drink, and when they left it,
Sykes and Dan started for the station
But a lighted match carelessly thrown
to the ground inside the hut, falling
etAiOAlS 1oOOlSh, AciO I6h1ICd IL, ollo oi'
most before the pair reached the sta
ton the hut was on fire.
Entering the waiting room with his
companion, Sykes bought tickets from
Helen for the city. When with Dan he
walked out on the platform, the local
train had pulled in and the crew were
looking at the fire in Rhinelander's
camp.
Sykes and Dan boarded the train at
the moment it pulled slowly out. In
the Office, while Helen was putting
away the bill with which Sykes had
paid for the tickets, her attention was
arrested by blot of ink on the edge
of it. With a Woman's intuition, she
realized almost at once that the ink
stained bill was one of those stolen
from the express package the night
before. Running out on the platform,
she told Lyons of the discovery.
Helen, frantic as she saw the train
pulling away with the burglars, looked
around for help. Nothing seemed to
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-04-14

am piano tuner, officer. l don't
know this man." he pointed calmly at
Sykes. Il never saw him in my life
till he smashed my skylight. What
do you mean, anyway, by breaking
into my room? I'll put the blue-sky
laws on you. Who's going to pay for
all this glass?" he demanded with an
injured air. "The landlord is going to
come after me for it. I'll have your
whole bunch arrested the minute
get to the police station. don't knov1
anything about your money. l don't
believe you've got any money Or have
had any"
What did you attack the policeman
for as soon as he dropped into the
room?" cried Helen, Indignantly.
why, miss, I am near-sighted.
thought that man was piano tuner
when I saw him-a man that's tried to
let the light into me two or three
times with CUNTS fact!"
The officer shut off The Bats talk,
and Helen, with the astuteness of a
detective, searched him, with the re,
suit that from his various pockets she
recovered every package of the bills
stolen from the safe, and nearly all
of them intact.
The fat man lost none of his nerve
when confronted with the result He
declared he had been made the victim
of plot, that his character and repu.
tation were known everywhere in the
city-which was quite true. And hav.
ing denounced all unwarranted intru.
sions such as he had been made the
victim of, he resigned himself to go
as prisoner with a much better grace
than his sullen companion did. They
were taken together to the police sta,
ton.
Helen telephoned Immediately for
motor car, and, accompanied by her
friendly officer, and with the money
slowed away on her person, she
stepped into the car and ordered il
driven in haste to Signal. Fast as
the landscape flew by it did not keep
pace with Helen's impotence. They
drew in sight of Rhinelander's camp
Smoke still rose from where the fire
had threatened it's complete destruc
ton. Rhinelander and Wood, with
their men, had finally extinguished the
confiagration, though not until heavy
toll Of damage had been taken by the
flames. Helen caught sight of Rhine
lander just as the car raced up to the
camp and, alighting, called him joyful
ly to her, waving the money in her
great excitement, in her hands.
ITS here" she cried. Most every
bit of it,
What do you mean?"
"The. pay roll! We've got it--a'
of 1.-THE money stolen from the sa'
It is here in this package"
Rhinelander, half-daZed, could
ly ask explanations. Bit by bit
told the story. Her foster uncle
her in his arms, money and a.
gether-the men crowding Arol
they walked with the recovered
ure through the half-burned camp
(TO BE CONTINEED.)
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-04-14
SIXTH INSTALLMENT
HELEN'S WILD RIDE

Helen spied him the minute she
stepped inside Rhinelander's hut to de-
liver the telegranl-a small, fluffy bun
die Of black and white, lying curled up
tightly on Rhinelander's cot, as if this
was the haven Of warmth and refuge
SO long sought. Where" demanded
Helen of Rhinelander, and emphasiz-
ing each word in amazement, did you
get that dear, little dog?"
THAT dear, little dog" explained
Rhinelander, with corresponding EN-.
phasis, lis the last addition to my al
ready overburdened pay roll
What's his name? Who" demand
ed Helen in delight, put him on?"
"He just got hold with his teeth and
hung on. He blew into camp the other
day, the tiredest, orneriest, hungriest-
looking cur you ever saw. Some mo-
toring party lost him, probably"
Rhinelander reread his telegram:
Rhinelander,
Signal:
Monthly pay roll on No. q. H.
Say, this is news; best I've had this
week. The pay roll is overdue three
days and these Greeks and MeXics are
a suspicious bunch. What's your
hurry?" he asked as Helen made ready
to go.
81 must rum" said Helen. I'm alone
this morning"
"Don't be in a rush; I'm going over
that way myself" returned Rhineland-
er, picking up his hat. "The pup will
keep house a few minutes"
Leaving the hut door open, Rhine
lander, accompanied by Helen, started
for the station. Two good comrades,
as we'll as devoted friends, Helen and
he laughed and joked along their way,
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watched from the farther end of the
camp by Spike, who, disgraced, chafed,
half in hiding, awaiting some oppor-
tunity for mischief to turn up-some-
thing that would release from honest
idleness.
1t was to be an irony of fate that
now made of the homeless dog an in.
strument to serve the purpose of the
restless criminal. The puppy, alone,
i'll the tent, refreshed by his nap, in.
vlgorated by his breakfast, and i'm
PEELED, Rhinelander would have said,
by the devil, looked about for some
thing to interest him. Selling the tele-
gram in his sharp teeth, the dc start
ed to tear it to pieces. At that juno
ture an inquisitive squirrel, paVsing
before the open door, peered sharply
into the hut.
To the dog, this looked like a formal
ichallenge He was so overcome by
the impudence of it that he sprang
from the table, forgetting to put the
telegram back where it belonged.
Away he dashed, telegram in teeth,
after the squirrel.
There was but single spectator OF
this dash-the hrooding Spike. AS the
ldog tore past Spike the telegram
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-04-14

man in the ROOM. watching apprehen.
sively, could draw a full breath, the
two men crashed violently through
the skylight together almost on top
of him. AS it was, they landed in a
heap on the bed. The Bat sprang at
once on the helpless policeman. It
would have gone hard with him but
for instant aid from Helen. She
dropped down the open skylight,
caught the revolver from the officers
hand and held the two criminals at
the point of it until the policeman
could slip handouts on them. When
the two men were secured, Helen de-
handed the stolen money
The man Bat did most of the talk
ing.
II don't know what you are talking
about" he said jovially, while Helen's
accusations were launched at him. Il
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-05-25
Lucy Gates Opera
Co. In Faust at
the Lyric Saturday
Which VIII Be Seen at the Lyric
Theater, Next Saturday Night q
May 27

Local lovers OF music have recent.
ly been indulging in pleasant reminis.
csnces OF the delights OF La Traviata
which was presented here by Lucy
Gates last season, because of the
welcome news that she is prepared
for return engagement which is
booked for Saturday, May 81 at the
Lyric, when she will present her
own grand opera company in Goun'
DDS Faust, with essentially the same
cast as that OF the Trayiata produc-
ton, with the notable additions of
Willard Andelin, basso, recently with
the Hanover Royal Opera Company,
and Miss Florence Summerhays, so
prano, sister OF the popular tenor, ]
W. Summerhays, who Is remembered
with admiration as the brilliant AL
fred OF Vsrdi's masterpiece. Miss
Gates as Marguerite gives promise o.
even excelling, II that were possible
the remarkable display Of talent ant
natural dramatic ability which tool
her audiences by storm as they fol
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-05-25

foreign made goods and products of
that value. There has been much
talk of the European war acting as
an equivalent to Protective Tariff,
but imports under the present Tariff
law are greater than ever before in
our history. In the eight months,
ended in FEBRUARY, the imports total
ed 81 ,29l ,OS4, 1OS as against s1,055,63l-
627 In the corresponding eight
months OF 1915. Thus the effect OF
the existing Tariff law, which has
been admitting more than two thirds
Of all imported products free of duty,
cutting down the revenues OF the gov
eminent, has been cumulative. II the
displacement OF American made
goods and products Is so great to-
day what will 1t be when the war Is
over and when two great European
groups, engaging in trade war
against each other, make the rich
American market their battle ground =?
IT. +. Logan in Leslies.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-05-25

lowed the role. OF Violette. Emotion
md psentimertt.H and, countless sensa-
thons OF the human heart, are so WV
idly portrayed in Faust, that genu-
inc experiences could scarcely be
more true to living fact, and the en-
tire opera Is brim full of realism.
Although Lucy Gates has been the
center of much observation and
many writ? ups at the HANDS of crit
ioal New York, she is much the same
rs the Emma Lucy Of other days.
and upon each visit to her home
state she steps into the midst of
her girlhood friends with the same
case that is hers in the : thrilling
glow of busy engagements, and flat
tering attentions of eastern and for
eign devotees who never tire OF lis
tening TO her wonderful voice, and
talking and writing about her gifts
and her magnetism. On this occa-
sion, Miss Gates brings with her, In
addition to her fine corps of princi-
pals, a selected chorus Of more than
sixty trained voices. The twenty
piece orchestra alone gives rise to
a great deal of enjoyable speculation
as the ability Of r. Cecil Gates as
conductor Is well known. r
On the whole the production or
Faust is one of the most striking
ventures In dramatic and musical art
that has ever been undertaken in the
west by local talent. in fact, Utah is
pleased to consider 1t the peer of all
other attempts within memory. The
clearest way out of the uncertainty
OF verdict is to go and see and hear.