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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
BRITISH PRISONERS NEED HELP
Washington Urges Turkey to Permit
Relief to Go Forward

WASHINGTON, Dee 20. Urgent
representations are being made to Tur-
key by the American government in an
effort to secure the forwarding OF re-
lief supplies to British prisoners of war
who were described i'll a note received
at the state department yesterday from
the British embassy to be in a most
serious condition.
Ambassadors Elkus al Constantine
pie already has sought diligently, but
without success, permission to send on
to the men relief from a large fund
which has been placed at his disposal
by the British government.
Both British and state department
reports that the situation is very bad
bat they give almost NO details as t.
their number or location. Among them
however, are the 10000 taken prisoner
at the surrender at kut-tl- Amara and
others have been added from GalIipoi
and minor actions.
Official reports show that early il
the war the Turks treated their pris
oners with the greatest consideration
but lately a decided change has takei
place.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
PERSONAL.

IL. NJ. Wood is confined to his home
on Clark street with grip.
S. +. Douglas, who has been i'll a
week with grip, is now i'll quarantine
with measles.
Miss Ruth Hinckley will spend the
holidays with relatives in New Bed
ford and Boston.
Mason Sharp of the Y. NJ c. A. col
legc in Springfield, Mass, will spend
the holiday recess with his parents,
Rev. and Mrs. +. w. Sharp.
Mrs. Elijah Wales underwent an OPP
Grafton for appendicitis in the Memoir
al hospital this morning by DR.. G.. r.
Anderson assisted by Dr. f. l.. Tracy.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. +. Mixer were in
Springfield, Mass, yesterday to attend
the silver wedding anniversary of Mr.
Mixer S sister and husband, Mi. and
Mrs. j. H. Britton.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20

Miss Marion Wright was a guest OF Mis-
Mabel Phillips over Sunday.
Mrs II. f. Osborne, who visited her
mother IN Adams Centre, y. y, has re-
turned to spend the winter with her sister
Mrs. Homer Heath.
The W C. T. L. met with Mrs. Ids
Convey Thursday afternoon OF last week
and the time was devoted to readings nom
the convention numbcl- OF the Union Sg-
nal. Extracts from the president addrc -
giving account OF the victories and achieve
ment> uf the last year were cheering.
Notes were read from the addresse. given
by many distinguished ". G. f. L speak
ers, also from Mrs W. J Bryan, who
was appointed national superintendent 81
the department OF peace and arbitration
The notice that Billy Sunday was made
life member of the national w {. T. L.
was read with interest The hostcs.
served refreshments Of nuts and apples and
the presence OF enc honorary member va $
much appreciated one visitor was wei
coined with her baby boy, Dchart HaI-
Tison Rhoadcs, upon whom the white nh
bon was bestowed with the usuaj solln and
his name was entered in the secretary s.
book as a white ribbon baby. The next
meeting viii be held Jan. with Mis-.
Mary Newton.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
Handkerchiefs

A happy surprise for our custom
ers is that the values are equal and
in many cases better than last year.
Ladies' Initial Handkerchiefs. all
pure linen and fine worked initial.
each l2ILc. l5c. CSC
Mems Initial Handkerchiefs. all
pure linen. Sold by the box or
singly, at 1910, 15c, 25c
Plain Linen Handkerchiefs, for La
dies, Men and Boys, at
1910 up to SOC
Ladies Handkerchiefs in Christmas
folders and boxes. The most won
derful line of these goods we have
ever shown. Per box,
25c, soc, SOC, 75c, CSC
Crepe de Chine Handkerchiefs in so
colors and designs, at 25c
Linen Handkerchiefs, embroidered.
Hundreds to choose from, at
1870, 19c, 25c, soc, soc
Embroidered Swiss Handkerchiefs,
at sc up to Csc
Colored Border Handkerchiefs men s
and children s, at &c and 10c
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
CAN'T HAVE PREPARATION.
German Newspapers Comment on Pre-
mier Lloyd George's Speech.

AMSTERDAM, Dee. 20. via London
Commenting on Premier Lloyd
Georges speech the TacgHchc Rund
schau Of Berlin SAYS; Repatriation
could be demanded by England only if
Germany had declared war on Eng
land. If we were to blame for the
war, if we had committed crime
against international law and if we
had been defeated The Lokal An
zeigcr takes the view that Mr. Lloyd
George 5 remarks about reparation are
of no value, iuasmuch As nothing has
been said thus far about peace eondi-
tiOHS.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20

forgiveness and promised balm for
every heartacheg"
The hopeless look from the faded
brown eyes answered even better than
his words, "He is too late"
Tears were coursing down the cheek
OF the younger man as he leaned over
the gatepost and whispered: Gould
| see" but something in the hard
face of the other arrested his words
nad he cid not finish.
For a moment of untold length both
stood in silence, and then the tracer
OF imaginary lines Goved from the
gateway, motioning the other inside.
SIT might ease her last hours, and
then He pointed toward the sec
ton line down which the prodigal had
come, shat will take you back to your
old haunts, wherever they may be;
that pointing toward the south,
you'd best not take; it's not much
but a trail, and leads to God knows
where, but north or south, take one"
Hours later, as the village doctor
drew up before the house, the prodigal
emerged from the sicllrooEl, aad, TAX
ing his hat from the peg, strobe with
faltering step out into the gathering
twilight. At the road lie halted a mo-
ment and stood with barred head, then
turned-southwar
Almost out of sight of his boyhood
home he hesitated ana turned for one
last look. Suddenly the cracking OF
footsteps in the stubble and the la.
bored breathing of man caught his
ear. and in n moment his father was
beside him, but how changed. The
face before So cold and hard was sof
tened now with pity and compassion
and from out the faded brown eyes
shone mingled hope and love and for
giveness. With hands clasped an,
hearts receptive to the spirit of the
morrow, they stood. while the eide
whispered :"She will live come home,
and then two kneeling figures wer,
dlmly sfhouetted against the darken
ing sky, while a prayer almost maud
bile assembled to the mercy seat.
lie arose, and with his fathers arm
about him and the Christmas spirit fill
ing both their hearts. the prodiga
turned back from the road thGS led t
"God knows where"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
MEXICANs THREATENING.
Gen. Funston Orders Transfer of Troops
to Aio, Arizona.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dee. 20. -.
Gen. funston today ordered Col. Rich
ard II. Wilson, commanding troops in
the Yuma district, to send a sufficient
force TO Aio, Arizona, to protect the
place against threatened Mexican trouble
Although there has been no serious out.
break the attitude of Nlcxicans at Aio and
at Sonoyta. across the border, has caused
uncosincss in Ago for the last week Large
mines are located at AGO. The troops will
proceed from Yuma.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
ARE NOT BUYING RAGS.
Paper Manufacturers Out of Market at
the Present Time.

NEW YORK. Dee 20.-The present
high price Of paper is not due to a
scarcity OF rags and old paper stock,
according to officers of the National
Association of Waste Material Dealers
who are in quarterly session here.
" The phenomenally high prices paid
for old rags and old paper said an
officer Of the association, encouraged
early in the year the bringing out OF
vast stores of these goods. We dis
posed of these materials to the paper
manufacturers, but IN recent months
the latter have assured us repeatedly
that they were not in the market. g"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
New Teacher for Village School.

Miss Harriet Allen of White Plain. y
Y, who has taught in the public schools
% Bennington county, has been secured to
take the place made vacant in Ncwtanc
village school by the resignation OF Miss
Mildred Palmer. who plans to teach only
in primary giades instead Of mixed schools
Miss Allen comes well recommended ard
has had much experience in teaching The
winter term viii begin Jan and continue
10 weeks
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

The members of the Unitarian Sun
day school, with their friends, will cela-
bratc the coming of Christmas in the
parish house Friday evening at :
o'clock. \ Christmas tree, dancing.
and games will furnish the entertain
mcnt and light refreshments will be
served A cordial invitation is extend
ed to all connected with the parish to
be present.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20


front room of the small dwelling and
then letting his troubled gaze wander
far up the section line where soil
tary figure was just discernible coming
slowly southwark.
Just so he had stood five years ago
today and watched a figure strikingly
similar TO this vending its way toward
the North, while beside him his plead
ing wife had begged that he recall the
boy. But q stubborn something within
gave assurance that he was in the
right, and s0he remained silent while
the boyish figure grew smaller and
smaller in the hazy distance and the
woman went inside and the cold North
wind chilled every tender impulse of
the heart.
The traveller had reached the fence
now and his gray-blue eyes looked into
the faded brown ones before him, and
in wordless greeting he held out his
hand but the older man was again
tracing the pattern on the gatepost
and did not see it. Imply it fell TO
the prodigal's side.
At length he ventured to say: ITO
morrow is Christmas day"
"Yes," responded the other, bitterly,
"and didn't think" with q glance to.
ward the curtained window, IL didn't
think she could last to see Christmas"
The prodigal started and grew
denthly white.
as my-is someone so very low?' he
gasped.
"Yes, someone" replied the other
tremblingly, sis very low; mothe,
who had n son for whom she WORKED
and prayed and lived for twenty years
and then" his voice broke; "then for
getful of her love and the heartachC
he was leaving he went away, and fol
five long years that mother hoped ant
hungered for his Homecoming all il
vain"
The prodigal stretched out hi.
hands appealingly. "What if he re
turned today and On his knees begged
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
Sweaters
A Practical Gift

Ladies Sweaters in all colors, made
of pure worsted yarns; the best
fitting, best made Sweater in the
market, at S2.9S to 1898
Mems Sweaters, heavy Shaker
weaves, green, maroon, navy,
brown and grey, at 1898 TO 1898
Angora Sweaters in all the new
shades, very desirable, at
S4.98 TO $3.50
Boys and Girls Sweaters in light
and heavy weaves; all shades and
sizes, at 98c to S3.98
Knit Angora Sets for children, all
colors, S298 to $3.50
Scarf and Toque Sets, special values,
per set 79c up to $3.50
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
December the 24th
By SADIE B. ATKINS

I WAS the morning before
Christmas, clear and cold,
and the feel of the winter
Holidays was in the air. III
side the barbed wire fence
which inclosed the first dwell
ing on the outskirts of the lii
the town n man was standing,
now tracing with rough wealth
er-beaten finger imaginary
lines on the gatepOst, then
turned with keen anxiety to-
txspf.I Ill yI1l.I,. L
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20

Japan has a eivil-service retirement
Law for government employees.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20

Special Pin Seal Hand Bags, the
newest shapes; 81 values, at S2.98
Coat Hangers, Manlcure Sets, Play
ing Cards, etc, ali in leather cases,
soc up to S2.98
Travelling Bags, made of heavy
grain leather, reinforced corners,
steel frame and back; value Sc.
Special at S4.98
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
Special Lot of Muffs at S4.9S

China Wolf, Coney, Belgian Hair, Watermink.
Made in round and pillow styles; values up
to $3.50
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
Children's Sets

In Watermink Coney, Thibet, Nutria etc. A
very choice assortment at s1.98 up to $3.50
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-20
Useful Christmas Gifts
Are Appreciated Longest

$50 Coats Are Reduced to $3.50
$40 Coats Are Reduced to $3.50
S25 Coats Are Reduced to $3.50
$40 Coats Are Reduced TO S14.98
S17.50 Coats Are Reduced to
$3.50
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-02-20
West Florida Catt1emen
Will Meet on Wednesday,
March 18th at DeFuniak

request large Florida as
well those interested the general upbudng prosperity
section calling meeting
and others Wednesday,
Chautauqua auditorium kindly disposal
tlemen FOL
wards organizing adopting practical
All citizens of West Florida
the necessity Kidding this they
cannot be done under methods
enthusiastic the
that West Florida Caemens will practical
method whereby the rapidly
satisfactory
To systematic eradication within the thirty
would
the first the coming this accomplished the
against stock from this section will be lifted price will Immediately
advance and the cattle win their
tie at good profit markets the best
prices
trail location
West Florida county
moners Of the Florida expected
ent and aid in the work
emen
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-02-20
TURK CITIES
ARE CAPTURED
by RUSSIANS
Pursuit of the Turks Who
Fled From Erzerum Is
Continued.
AIR RAID MADE BY
ITALIAN MACHINES
Laibach Is Bornbarded BY
Flyers and Much Dam
age Is Done.
AIR RAID MADE BY
ITALIAN MACHINES
81 AssoCIATEp PRESS.

4 London, Feb. 19.-Petrograd Off
cially announces the capture of the
town Mush in Turkish Armenia,
eighty-three miles southwest of Ere
rum and the town of Ahlat. Pursuit
of the Turks who fed from Erzerum
continues and the Russians captured
what remained of the Thirty-fourth
Turkish division with large quantities
of war supplies.
The air raid by squadron of Ital-
ian machines against Laibach, the
capital of Carniola, Austria, was of
ficially reported from Rome. Much
damage was done. Six Austrian aero
planes, rising to fight the raiders, sur
rounded one Italian and brought him
down.
The Russians reported landing
troops on the Armenian Iittoral, fif-
teen miles east of Trebizond, Black
sea port.
The complete conquest of Kamerun,
a German West African possession,
with an area of about two hundred
thousand square miles, is announced
ALCAG VITA t4AC Srt Y 4AA = VI UlOTd III LtlS
extreme north of the colony. The 1ast
place was held by the Teutons. The
campaign in Kamerun by Franco
British forces lasted 4 vs
Turkish reports say the British
force seeking to relieve General Town.
send, beleaguered in Kut Ell Amara,
Mesopotamia, was driven back with
\, 1rcc1~ 90 -,
the lower Tigris river. The repulse
of the Russian attack in Persia is also
reported.
An important troop movement be-
hind the Franco-B BELGIAN line is indi-
Gated, but little fighting there is de-
tailed, save the announcement from
Berlin that the British attempts to
REGAIN trenches recently lost around
Ypres were thwarted.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-02-20
SINGLE. DRINK
IS HELD TO BE
REASONABLE
Man Who Buys Two Winks'
For Himself Places Sell
er In Jeopardy.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Chicago, Feb. 19.-One drink of
whiskey, beer or wine is held by City
Corporation Counsel Samuel A. Ettle-
son to be reasonable amount" and
Chief of Police Healy was expected to
issue an order today to restaurants
where liquor is sold, limiting patrons
to zone ordinary drink" after 1
o'clock, the hour at which bar rooms
are required to close.
In order to be within the law, the
corporation counsel also holds that
the drink must be ordered before 1
o'clock.
''The man who buys two drinks or
more at once for himself in a restau-
rant Immediately before the closing
hour for bar rooms, is trying to evade
the law" said Mr. Ettleson. II also
believe that the restaurant keeper
who permits such a subterfuge can be
convicted of violation of the law"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-02-20
TRUST WOULD
CONTROL THE
OUTPUT
Repeated Charges of Alleged
Intimidation Against
Harvester Company.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, Feb. 19.-Repeated
charges that the international Har-
vester company had sought by intimi-
dalton to prevent the Continental and
Commercial National bank of Chicago
and the National City of New York
from loaning money to aid Mexican
sisaI growers market their crop were
made today by Sol Wexler, formerly
a New Orleans banker, to the agricul-
tural committee of the senate investi-
eating complaints of attempted mo-
nipoly of the sisal crop.
Mr.. Wexler explained the organiza-
ton of the Pan-American commission
corporation, of which he is president,
which guaranteed to loan the Yucca
tan planters S10,000,O00 a year.
''When went among the banks Of
the country to assure myself that
could get this money from them
when needed, all but two agreed that
if other conditions justified the loans
| could secure them," he said.
"These were the Continental and
Commercial National bank of Chicago
and the National City bank Of New
York.
"The president and vice president
of the International harvester COM
pany had gone to them and tried to
intinidate them with threats of with
drawing their deposits and withdraw
ing their representative from the
board of directors.
"And further, this entire propa-
ganda to arouse the farmers against
the sisal growers, conducted THROUGH
the trade journals and by mouth, has
been started by the Harvester COM
pany in its underhand, gum-shoe
way"
Senator Gronna, of North Dakota,
declared that he had received many
letters from farmers in his state urg-
ing him to advocate laws forbidding
interstate commerce to binder Irvine
manufactured in the various state
penitentiaries.
Wexler testified that the prison
Irvine factories were the chief indie
pendent buyers of sisaL
The committee adjourned until next
Thursday at the conclusion of Wex-
Ierss testimony.
It was decided to call as witnesses
CYRUS Mccormick, president of the
international Harvester company; Fl.
l. Perkins, vice president of the COM
many: Arthur Reynolds, vice president
of the Continental and Commercial
hank. and wardens Of numerous PEN
itentaries in which t'acer Irvine is
manufactured as well as to ask the
department of state, justice and the
interior for any information they may
have on eisaI industries in Mexico.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-02-20
An Explosion 100
Feet Beneath East
.RiU err S Surface
81 Assoc1ArrD pREss-

New York, Feb. 19.-One workman,
Frank Driver, is dead, and another,
John Mccarthy, is missing as a re-
suit of compressed air explosion as
cribed to a leaking pump, late today
in the subway under construction one
hundred feet below the surface of
East river.
A third workman, Marshall Nabey,
was blown with others through the
roof of the tunnel with mud and wa
ter to the rivers surface. He was
dazed, but soon recovered. Water
front witnesses said the tire men were
hurled fully thirty feet above the
rivers surface. Thirty-five others
working in the tube were unhurt.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-02-20
American Vessel
Stopped on HIGH
Seas BY British

Shanghai, Feb. 19.-The American
steamship China, which left Shanghai
yesterday morning for San Francisco
was held up on the high seas BY
British auxiliary cruiser and thirty
eight Germans were taken off.
The China, which is owned By the
China Mail Steamship company, is one
of many trans-Pacific liners flying
the American flag. It is thought she
may have been held up by the Lau-
rentio, which recently stopped the
Tenyo Maru while on a voyage TO Ma
Mia, and removed nine Indians.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-02-20
TEUTONS LAY
CLAIMS MANY
BIC VICTORIES
Alleged Another British At
tack Was Quite a
Fraitless One
~ Assoc1ATrp pRrss-

Berlin, Feb. 19.-(Via London. j..
Another fruitless attack by the Brit
ish southeast of Ypres where the
Germans recently captured several
hundred yards Of trenches, was an
nounced today by the war office.
TIL eofficial statement SAYS:
western theater: An English at
tack proceeded by strong artillery
preparation southeast Of Ypres was
rendered fruitless by US.
''In the sector north and northeast
of Arras, there have been mining OPP
erations and hand grenade attacks.
The crater caused by the explosion Of
one Of our mines was occupied by us.
"The front between the Aisne and
the Mouse has alternately been un-
der strong artillery and mine fire.
eve destroyed portion Of the
French position on Combres heights
by the explosion Of large mine.
Northeast of Largitzen, near the
French frontier, southeast Of Alt
kirch, German attachments pene-
trated an enemy position, destroyed
the defensive works and the enemy en-
tanglements and returned with a few
prisoners and two mine throwers.
"Our airmen SUCCESSFULLY attacked
the Abeel flying ground, southwest Of
Poperinghe, and the railway stations
in the vicinity.
Eastern and Balkan theater:
There is nothing to report"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-02-20
APPAM is SEIZED ON
ORDER OF FEDERAL JUDGE

Norfolk, Va, Feb. 19.-Federal
Judge Waddill issued the usual libel
process today and the Appam was
seized by deputy United States mar
shall, who went to Newport News on
a tug for the purpose. Two guards
from the Office of the United States
district court were left in charge Of
the Appam.
The libellant is represented by
Hughes and Vandeventer, of Norfolk,
and Frederick r. Coudert and Ralph
James M. Bullowa, of New York.
Deputy West, accompanied only by
Attorney BuIlowa, of counsel for the
company, A. c. Bailey, of the Office
of Cashier, Curran and Bullitt, agents
for the owners, and two watchmen
left Norfolk this morning on the tug
Mascot about 9 o'clock. The party
reached the side of the Appam about
1880 a. m. The ladder was up. Dep
uty West went out on deck while Che
rest of the party remained in the pilot
house and directed that the ladder be
lowered as he wished to come aboard
He did not state his business. The
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-02-20

Washington, Feb. ia $2,757 900
emergency appropriation for repairs
TO machinery in battleships, torpedo
destroyers and submarines, to add to
the supply of mines and for the first
time, to equip battleships with anti
aircraft guns, was asked Of congress
today by Secretary Daniels.
MANY of our destroyers have
reached an age where renewals of ex-
tensive portions Of their machinery
equipment is necessary" Secretary
Daniels said. ''The same is true Of
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-02-20
GERMAN SPY
WHO ESCAPED
ISRECAPTUR[D
Made the Mistake of Return
ing to Secure His
Trunk.
SAYS He DID NOT GET
FAIR TREATMENT
Says the Whole Matter Is
One of international
Politics.
SAYS He DID NOT GET
FAIR TREATMENT
az Assoc1ATEn PRESS.

New York, Feb. 19.-Ignatius T. T.
Lincoln, the confessed German spy,
who escaped from a. United States
deputy marshal in Brooklyn several
weeks ago, was arrested here tonight
and turned over to officers of the de-
partment of justice.
Lincoln, who had shaved off his
mustache since his escape, told Assis-
tant United States Attorney Durham
of Brooklyn, that he would never have
been caught if he had not made the
of going back after his trunk.
While being questioned by secret
service men he became angry, declar-
ing he would not have run away If
Washington had treated him fairly.
He said the whole matter was one Of
international politics. During his
freedom Lincoln was disguised as a