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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31

gave mean value of 29,141 feet after
correction for refraction According,
therefore, to our present information
Mount Everest is 139 feet higher than
it was earlier computed to be.
Why is it, then, that this latest re
suit of the scientific computation of
the height of Mount Everest has not
vet appeared in books and maps7 It
is because the Indian Survey is not
convinced that the final determine
tIon has been reached. 1t says that
the height, 29,141 feet. is more re
liable result than 29,0O2 feet, but the
more recent determination is still prob
ably too small. 1t desires to acquire
more thorough knowledge of the prob
lens of refraction and of the effects
of deviations of gravity upon trigono
metrical work before announcing the
final determination of the elevation Of
the world s highest mountain Mean
while it will retain on its maps the
first determination of 29,002 feet.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31
WHY WORRY?

Sir Herbert Samuel, British secre-
tary for home affairs, has been cheer
ing up the people of his country by
showing them where they stand with
relation to the cost of the war and to
the future. The total income of the
country, he points out, is about $12,-
000,000,000 a year and the war is cost
ing $4,000, 100000, at which rate the
population of the country has about
500 per capita which can be devoted
to the business of d. eating, wearing
clothes, keeping roofs over heads and
financing the economic affairs of the
nation.
Obviously, says Sir Herbert, this
condition resolves itself into a necessi
ty that future generations shall pay
for the war. The home secretary is
not, apparently, worried by this fact
which he appears to regard as perfect
ly natural and reasonable
As matter of fact the equanimity
of British statesmen, generally, over
the terrific charges of the war is, per
haps, explainable on the theory tha
England expects to recoup herself fol
her outlay, even before the outlay
which is yet largely in the form O
promises, has to be made in cash. And
failing that, there is always the re
course of reputation. Why worry?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31
Fiat Economics.
(Rutland Herald.l


The minimum wage is said to have
caused many young women to lose
their situations in Boston, the employ
ers preferred to hire boys at smaller
pay. 1t is pretty hard to beat the
great law of supply and demand by
any legislative MISUNDERSTANDING
Argus.
Without in any way undertaking to
question the right of the Boston EN-
ployer to discharge his young women
and hire boys, the lesson to be learned
by the incident is merely that is is i'm
possible, by merely passing laws, to
| change fundamental economic truths.
Women came into the commercial
world for two reasons; % because
they demanded less compensation than
men; (2) because they were generally
reliable, sober and tractable. In only
unusual cases is a woman s ability tc
produce a labor-proft equal to man s
! but, considering the wage, her employ
ment generally has been profitable.
Just so long as it is profitable, wo
men will be employed. When legisla
lures make it Improbable, boys ant
young men will take their places ant
no law that was ever framed can com
pei an employer to lose money, al
though some public service laws hav,
gone long way in that direction.
What applies to the minimum wag
laws applies equally TO eight hour laws
two-cent mileage laws, shipping laws
''safety first laws and the who'll
field Of labor and police-power regula
tons, in which the West is revellin
today and which so-called "reform
ers'' seek to introduce into the NOR
densely populated centers of the East
They can be framed with the great
est particufarity. They can be adapt
ed never so carefully to the suppose
needs of the situation, but they ca
never overcome the infexible prime
Piles of supply and demand, neither ca
they compel an employer to pay NOR
| than the going, competitive wage for
given employment.
Fiat economies belong on the sam
plane as fiat finance. Neither can oil
. tain permanently in the world of bus
| ness.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31
Member of the Associated press.
MONDAY, JANUARY 81, 1916.
WAR PROSPERITY FOR MINERS

From the northern border of Mon
tana to the southern border of Ari-
IONA, the Rocky Mountain mining re-
gion has experienced marvellous in
creases in values of productions in this
year of war in Europe. Copper, zine
and lead have been in such great de-
mand and prices have been so high
that there has been not only a marked
increase in quantity produced but a
still greater increase III the total value
Of the metals.
These facts are shown by a bulletin
just issued by the Geological Survey
which says that the increase in value
of the output reached as high, as 81
per cent in Montana and so per cent
in New Mexico. The total increase in
value of metal products of the Rocky
Mountain states is estimated at more
than $115,0Oo,0 600 It might be added
that great portion of this increase
is net profit, for it costs very little
more to produce copper or zinc or lead
when prices are high than when they
are low. The price of gold, of course,
has not been affected by the war.
The increase in value of the metals
at the mine represents only a portion
of the gain to the United States. The
heavy demand from Europe and the
increased output of metals has given
more traffic to the railroads, more work
for smelters, more material for facto
ries TO make into shells, cartridges
and other munitions, and higher wages
for employees in every stage of the pro
cess Of getting the metals from the
heart of the American mountains t,
4 the battlefelds of Europe.
And the new high record establishe,
in 1915 bids fair to yield to a still
higher record in 1916.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31
c o NC Ell T.

Conceit is a popular form of gas
which is used to initiate the human
megaphone. 1t is the cheapest form of
gas in use, and several thousand feet
of it can be produced with small over
head expense.
Conceit is caused by nursing a bump
of self-esteem to the point where it
can sit up and crow. A small bump of
self-esteem is good thing to have,
but when it becomes so robust that it
can t be held in with kicking straps
i gets to be a burden to all who have
20 listen to its conversation. Some of
the largest bumps of self -esteem on
ecord were possessed by people who
started out in life without any, but
who became proud and naughty af-
ter learning how to eat with a fork.
This teaches US that it is better to
remain modest and eat with a knife
n an eager and noisy manner than
TO become swollen with pride and re
frain from tipping up the soup bowl.
One of the worst forms of conceit
IS the ingrowing kind which is hooked
up with a short memory. Many q man
has started to relate how he escaped
from Libby Prison by overpowering
nine guards and a cluster of blood
hounds only to be reminded by $ me
skeptieal listener that he was three
protected by The Ada
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31
The Prolonged January Thaw.
(Springfe1d Tnion.N

A temperature of sc degrees in Bos-
ton IN January is decided novelty, in
fact, a record breaking achievement of
the far-famed New England climate.
In all the 43 years since the establish
ment of the weather bureau in that
city there is no record of such a warm
day in January, nor any reliable rec
ord of a January temperature as high
IN any of the preceding years This
January thaw, covering all Massa-
sachusetts and large part of New
England, has been remarkable not only
for its high temperature and the almost
entire absence of rain, but for the
length of time it has continued. A
two 'or three days thaw in January
is common, an ordinary New England
winter would seem strange without
one, but January thaw continuing
without interruption for nine days
and growing warmer all the time, is
extremely unusual and, in many re
spects, uncomfortable.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31

The governors of the six New Eng
land states and those of New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania will at
tend a mass meeting and banquet in
Springfield, Mass, Feb. IA, when plans
will be advanced materially for the
Eastern States Agricultural and In.
dustrial exposition. The appearance OF
these executives, together with repre-
sentatives of the federal department
of agriculture, the heads of the agricul
tural colleges, the presidents of the
principal railroads of the country, ant
such rural progress advocates as Theo
dore n. Vail, Liberty H. Bailey ant
Thomas n. Carver, will give the move
ment for the betterment of agriculture
in New England a decided impetus
| The governors and other speakers viii
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31

years of age when the war broke out
Some of the most thrilling tales of
adventure ever related have been ut
terly ruined by this attitude on the
part of listeners who are particular
about dates.
Fishermen carry a very pleasant
brand of conceit which enables them
to convert a crappy four inches long
into a Roman-nosed pickerel weigh
ing six pounds and eight ounces. No
body objects to this form of conceit,
for after Q man has stood out in a
rock-strewn creek all day in his bare
feet and bunions, without catching
anything but sciatic rheumatism, he
is not responsible for anything he may
say.
Women have less conceit than men
owing to the fact that they see 81
much of it at home. 1t is mistake for
young husband to brag about how
much money he is making, as it sets a
bad example before his wife and en-
courages her to reduce the surplus with
a, light heart. Conceit in money mat
ters is dangerous thing to exhibit tc
a wife who is hesitating between 6
$50 suit and a $40 top coat.
We are all more or less conceited
but we should drive with a wire bit
and sit tight in the stirrups.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31
MOUNT EVEREST.
Some Interesting Facts About the
Worlds Highest Mountain.

From the New York Times
Members of DIR. Cooks party, home
from India, say that they were treated
in that country as German sympathiz-
ers and could leave their hotel only un-
der guard. 1t was not as German SYM
pathIzers, however, nor even as per
sons of questionable standing in
scientific works, that they were for
hidden TO make any attempt to reach
and ascend Mount Everest. The fact
is that they were informed by the
Indian Government, when they reached
Calcutta, that they would not be al
lowed to attempt the ascent of Everest
because the Government, for years
past, had prohibited such attempts.
This fact was well known in London
and New York as in Calcutta; and if
the Cook party had applied for in
formation in this city to those com
petent to give it, they might have been
spared a wild goose chase.
As long ago as 1902 six European
| Alpinists set out for India to view
the world from the top of the highest
mountain. But the virgin SHOWS of
| Everest could not have cooled their
ardor half so rapidly as did the cold
water with which the Indian Govern
ment soused them. The mountaineers
simply met with blank refusal; and
the reason for it was perfectly obvious
and logical
The nearest approach of railroad
toward Mount Everest is about 100
miles away. To the north of this rail
road terminal are succession of par
allel ranges of the Himalayas separat
/ a Of ba
most difficult countries in the world
to traverse and no white man has ever
crossed it. The surveyors of India
have never been nearer than eighty
miles to Mount Everest. Some of the
valleys are peopled by a few wild
tribes who fiercely resent the intrusion
of any strangers. The whole country
lies in Nepal, which while still an in
dependent State strictly forbade any
persons to 60 north among these
mountains; and now that Nepal has
come under the suzerainty of India
the prohibition has been continued foI
obvious reasons by the Indian Govern
| ment.
Some interesting facts about Mount
Everest may not generally be known
! Many persons have wondered how TIL
determination of its height could b.
) so exact that its elevation is fixed a
precisely 29,002 feet. It happened il
this way: In 1S49 and 1850 six trig
: onometrical determinations of tn
height of the mountain were obtaine,
2 by the Indian Survey at six differen
: stations, all south of the mountain
e The height of 29,002 feet assigned t
!. Mount Everest was the mean of tn
: six different values for the height thu
: obtained.
But the Geological Survey of Indi
n informed the world in 1908 tina
i Mount Everest is higher than it wa
n computed to be by those six trigono
e metrical determinations It reported
n that between 1881 and 1902 six othe
determinations of the height of tn
e mountain We're made at five station:
J all except one being nearer to tn
/ mountain than any of the earlier SUI
lveys. These six new determination
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31

Louis D. Brandeis is entitled to the
benefit of his record and his ability
when the vote comes on his confrma-
ton to be justice of the supreme bench
He is the first Jew ever named for the
honor. From that point of view alone
it would be desirable that he be con
firmed, in order to remove any pos
sible suspicion that race or religion
could be bar to such an honored pc
sition. But when it comes to profes
sional qualifications, then his long as
ISOLATION with big business becomes {
Legitimate matter for inquiry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31

It is a good augury for the future to
see SO many of our boys and girls striv-
ing for advanced education. Rutland
young people have evidently been
stirred to an unusual degree with an
ambition to acquire learning beyond
the boundaries of the public schools
At the present time over 100 graduates
of the Marble city high school are en-
rolled as students in q different high
er institutions.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31
WHY IT SUCCEEDS.
Because It's For One Thing Only, and
Brattleboro People Appreciate This.


Nothing can be good for everything.
Doing one thing well brings success.
Doan s Kidney Pills are for one
thing only.
For weak or disordered kidneys.
Here is Brattleboro evidence to
prove their worth.
o. F. Howe, 13S Elliot St, prop.
wagon repair shop, Brattleboro, says:
/" Ny back troubled me for long time
and / was often so lame that I could
hardly stoop or lift. / tried plasters
and several medicines, but received no
relief until 1 procured Doan s Kidney
Pills at the Brattleboro Drug Co. Two
boxes removed the baekache and lame
ness and restored my kidneys to a nor
NAL condition.
A LASTING EFFECT.
OVER TWO YEARS LATER, Mr..
Howe said: "Doan s Kidney Pills rid
me of kidney trouble and it has never
returned. -
Price soc, at all dealers. Don t
simply ask for a kidney remedy = get
Doan s Kidney Pills = the same that
Mr.. Howe has twice publicly recon-
mended. Foster-Milburn Co., Props,
Buffalo, n. Y.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31
What's the Matter with weston?'

Springfield Reporter.)
The Brattleboro Reformer thus
wisely discusses
1.-THE Springfield Reporter calls at
tention to the town of Weston-623
nhabitants-which has six students
attending secondary schools and twJ
attending college. There is some salu
tary influence at work in Weston. Prob
ably the home residents know what it
is. 1t may be the church organiza-
ton, or it may be some broad minded
individual whose influence has encour
aged and inspired the young to strive
to advance. There is a great differ
ence in towns-their moral standards,
their appreciation of the benefits of
educational training, their methods of
conducting business, etc. In every
county there are certain towns where
the people work and pray, pay their
bills, strive to be decent towards their
neighbors, and who are alive to the
value of giving their young people the
4 best training with the means at hand.
| 1t is in the towns where carelessnes S
/ and indifference, and low standards
/ prevail that the pastors of churches
and teachers of schools have an OPP
portunity to give service which can
not be measured.
In Weston the pastor of the Metho-
dist church is not only a graduate OF
/ Boston University but also the prin
cipal of the local high school. 1t is
safe to say that he is giving exactly
what The Reformer so well says pas
tors of churches and teachers OF
schools have an opportunity to give
ga service which cannot be measured ,
And too much stress cannot be laic
upon the fact that the intellectual anC
moral standards of whole areas may
be largely changed, in the course O
time, by the persistent and insisten1
force of teaching and example upoI
the part of some strong and forcefu
man in whom the community has i'm
plicit confidence.
, 1t was said of the late Judge Hiram
Carleton of Montpelier that, while h,
was living in Waitsfield in his earle
life no young man or woman of tina
town ever decided upon life caree
without first consulting him. Thus h
inwrought himself into the warp an
wool of many a life, and left benin
him an influence for good whose ez
tent is beyond computation.
Why should not other strong mon
and women-do similar work for tn
: young people of their own commu1
ties?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31
Washington VS. Charming.
Boston Transcript.)

Professor Charming of Harvard com
plains that George Washington did not
have large brain power or education.
No, all the poor fellow had was patrio-
tism, courage, tenacity, sagacity and
common sense, and yet we can t recall
many monuments that have been
erected to professors
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31

Mrs. George H. Houghton is recover
ing from an attack of grip.
Miss Bertha Freeman has recovered
from an attack of grip and is out
again.
Mrs z. B. Thomas. who has been
confined to her bed with bronchitis, is
able to be dressed
Mrs. Sullivan Barbetti was discharg-
ed Friday from the Melrose hospital,
where she had been several weeks re-
ceiving medical treatment.
Mrs. J. S. Morse was able to be
down town Saturday for the first time
since before the holidays, having been
i'll with grip and a relapse.
Marshall Fisher, who is i'll and has
been threatened with pneumonia, is q
little more comfortable. Mrs. NJ. j
Stebbins, nurse, is caring for him.
Mrs. L. p Copeland and daughter
Doris, who had visited few days II
Springfield Mass, with her sister
LeBous, returned to their home, Sun
day.
A. c. Ward of Claremont, n. H.
was a guest in the home of Mrs. Id;
Barrett over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs
Ward returned to Claremont yester
day.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim of the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery
of the paper each night, and it 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 or postal card thus
enabling the cause of the error to be
promptly and accurately discovered and
the proper remedy Immediately applied
1t is only by this method that the pub
Usher can secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31

sized roots of oyster plant, let them
stand in sailed water, then slice and
place in a granite saucepan with
a quart of liquid, half milk and half
water; cook until perfectly tender, re-
move from the fire and put through
sieve, reheat in double boiler, add
ing gradually a pint OF milk and a cup
full of cream. stirred in when boiling
hot. Season with butter. pepper, salt
and pinch of powdered mace.
Almond and Celery soup.-Cut in
fine pieces the whole of a bunch of
celery. leaves and root Add six
pepper corns, bay leaf, a tablespoon
full of scraped onion or onion juice, a
thin slice of lemon, q teaspoonful of
salt, and stick of cinnamon. Cover
with quart of water and cook one
hour. Strain and reheat stirring in
a cupful OF cream, teaspoonful each
OF flour and butter mixed to a cream,
add a quarter of a cupful of blanched
almonds that have been pounded to
paste; boil for two minutes after the
nuts are added Serve very hot with
a spoonful of whipped cream sprinkled
| with few finely shredded almonds.
Serve with cheese crackers.
| Artichoke Soup.-Take four medium
sized artichokes. wash them, boil I'M
til tender, remove the skins, then chop
very fine and add to some water in
which cabbage has been boiled; add
two grated carrots, minced onion, a
blade of mace, tablespoonful of
mushroom catchup, dash of pepper
| and celery salt. When ready to serve
| add a dash of tabasco sauce and a
tablespoonful of butter Serve with
croutons.
A most nourishing soup may be
made of dried peas. beans. or lentils
soak them until soft, then cook in
| enough water to make a good PURGE
after putting through a sieve, adding
a slice of onion or celery for flavor
while cooking. BY adding milk to
the PURGE of peas one has most tas
ty cream of pea soup.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31

address mass meeting in the after
noon, while at the dinner the speakers
will further outline the project as one
to restore the dairy and farm interests
to the rightful position of the chief in
dustry of this region.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run of paper,
so cents an inch for first insertion; %
cents an inch for each subsequent inser-
ton. 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
first 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, 1916-01-31

The officials of the state prison in
Windsor have an explanation to make.
How prisoner could disappear, re
main within the institution four days
and then scale the walls in his break
for liberty is something that puzzles
the ordinary layman.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31

enjoying the delights of our good cook
ing, is often seen at our restaurant.
People say our service and cooking is
so good they like to bring their friends.
We strive always to please our custom
ers, and our food the best the market
affords, which combined with our quick
and courteous service, makes our res
taurant the most popular one in town.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31

On a cold DAY or
night. Many deli
clio us vegetable
S up S are easily
prepared and are
b o t b nourishing
and appetizing
Satisfy Soup
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31
HTEI1Iy KITCHEN
T6AlBI :}INNED
Summer will surely come again.
The earth needs snow and rain,
Just as our hearts need grief and pain.
And so be CHEEKY
A SYMPOSIUM or SOUPS.

There is no dish that touches the
spot" like a hot, well-seasoned soup
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31
WEST BRATTLEBORO
Rev. Mr.. woodworth breaches.

Rev. Arthur V. Woodwork of
Harwinton, Conn, whom the First
Congregational church recently ex-
tended call to become its pastor,
preached in the church yesterday
morning and attended all the church
services of the day. He taught the
men s class in the Sunday school and
participated in the Christian Endeavor
meeting in the evening. The services
were largely attended and the people
were very favorably impressed with
Rev. Mr.. Woodwork, who viii make
known his decision soon. His text in
the morning was l Timothy 1879:
" For bodily exercise profteth little,
but goodness is profitable unto all
things, having promise of the life that
now is, and of that which is to come
This is faithful saying, and worthy
of all acceptation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-31
NuA4 hl4x ~seQ

If silence is golden, garrulity re-
presents played out lead mine.