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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-10
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-10
Better Pleased With Home.

The farther man travels the more
the world at large and the better he
will be pleased with the one spot call
ed home.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-10

Lee Sparks, the Houston TEX police
officer, whose alleged assault on Sergt.
Baltimore, Negro trooper, is said to
have preceded the riot of the Negro
troops, August %, in which II persons
were killed and % wounded, has been
indicted at Houston for assault by the
Harrison county grand jury.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-10

Gov. Henry w. Keyes of New Hamp-
shire, who is a pioneer raiser of Hol-
stein cattle, has BOUGHT for the state
more than half Of .4erd of IA regis
tered cattle of that breed, 20 be placed
on the farm connected with the state
hospital for the insane at Concord. The
herd, sold by Bedford q. H. breeder.
brought the sum of $4,100.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-10
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-10
Old Wheat
Flour

We have shipped a
few thousand barrels in
to New England. 1t is
selling for about $1.00
a barrel more than the
new will cost, but it is
worth it, for the produc-
ton of loaves per barrel
is at least % more; you
see old flour will absorb
more liquid. New Spring
Wheat Flour will be on
the market about Octo-
Der 18th. New Winter
Wheats are on the mar
ket now.
{. Crosby 6 Co.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29
The Heiuht of Trees,

When one is out for walk it is a very common thing to wish to know the height of particular tree which happens to catch the eye. When the sun is shining it is possible accurately to measure the height of the tree from the shadow it casts on the ground. In order to do so a stick must be set up- right in the ground so that its shadow falls beside the shadow of the tree. Then, as the length of the sticks shad- ow to the sticks height, so is the length of the trees shadow to the trees height. For example, suppose a two and a half foot stick shows a shadow three feet long and the trees shadow is eighteen feet long. There fore the tree is six times as high as the stick, which shows that the height of the tree will be fifteen feet
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29

dian sing but he ain't happy. Befor? white man come Indian all right at four score snows. Now his stomach is all shot to pieces and mothea:en at thirty. White man smile at squaw and squaw grin for week and give buck glassy stare. One white man repairs Indians soul, another gives him dope that eats all the copper lin ing off his stomach.
 "One tells him to raise his voice in prayer, the other gives him some thing that makes him raise heli. One gives him spiritual consolation the other sells him liquid damnation. Che teaches him to sing, I Want to Be an Angel and With the Angels Stand Other teaches him to sing
 Here's to the Good Old Stuff; Drink 'er Down. White man too much for me. Sorry 1 ever see him. Doug las Island News.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29

The combination of Stewards two live dailies is the logical conclusicn of a bitter fight for existence which has been under way for the past eighteen months. For many years the Gate way was Stewards sole paper, and it covered the field fully and gave the residents of that city much better paper than they were entitled to. With the coming of the railway boom came competition, and the Post en- tered the field. After long struggle to run each other out the managers of these papers have wisely come to the conclusion that they are entitled to remuneration for their invest ment, and have combined. Seward may now look for better paper and more harmony.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29
BE WHAT YOU ARE.

''I jes nacherly hate a man or woman who tries to be what they are rot I am not in favor of kowtowing to the man who rolls his eyes in hor- TOT when he hears an ejaculation which possesses tincture of bit of brimstone-yet always forgets h,m- self when the hammer hits his thumb. For the man who'll stop and pat dog because some woman is looking at him but from whom his only family shrinks when he enters the yard l have about as much respect as a flee has for a flag of freedom! Somehow or other I ain't particularly stuck on a man who is too good too be true; an I've always had a hunch that a woman who spoke of 'table-lilnb would bear watching-if you walt ed to find out anything. 1 believe the Almighty is jes plum disgusted when he sees some folks putting on so much dog that even a common mortal can see the fleas as they keep hikin' right CT long! m!'---Exchange.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29
THE MUSHER WHO BROUGHT
 IN 4 GOLDEN TREASURE

If the story of Bob Griffith, the man who brought the half million ot gold from Iditarod, could be told as it really is it would make tale of thrilling interest.
 Bob came to Forty Mile, Alaska first in 1889. Before that he had been driving stage in the Black Hills and in other wild places. While en- gagged in that work he was held up several times. Twenty-eight yeals ago he hit out for the Alaska wilder ness and got to Forty Mile. At that time only fifty men were in that part of the country and they were engag- ed rocking on the bars, making good money Only one steamboat piled on the Yukon river and one season that boat got on a bar down near the mouth. Jack McQuesten who was aboard sent Indian runners out across country to inform the Forty Mile miners and this Indian kept going till
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29
PRESIDENT SENDS GIFTS
 TO TWO BRAVE MEN

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 29.- As a reward for their rescue of the crew of the wrecked American schooner, Fairfield, President Wilson recognized the bravery of two Bar muda citizens when he sent to each pair of binoculars suitably inscrib- ed
 The men, Henry Harris and Fred erick Jeffrey. took from the Fair field Capt M. G. Dow and his crew of seven when the vessels went on the rocks off the island of Bermuda, Brit ish West Indies, Nov. IT, 1915. The two men swan to the wreck with a line after every boat had given up the attempt to rescue the crew.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29
THE MIDDLE WEST.
Can Any One Really Tell Just Where It
 Is located7

Can Any One Really Tell Just Where ii
 Is located7
 The east retains a somewhat con- descending attitude toward the middle west, and in it's friendliest moments speaks of the plainsmen as first rate raw material" as if the middle west existed and had somehow Il local habi- tatiOn and a name.
 The middle west itself is by no means so sure about that. Although the prai- rics begin at Batavia, N. Y., Buffalo nians resent being termed middle west erners. Omaha 1 should describe as unquestiOnably middle western, yet there are middle westerners who repu. diate Nebraska and only tepidly ac- cept Kansas, while St. Louis and Kan sas City belong to the middle west ac- cOrding to some authorities, to the south according to others as vOciferous.
 By general consent Minnesota belongs to the northwest. However, if you go halfway from Portland, Me, to Port land, Ore, all of Minnesota lies behind you. In Chicago they say: Why. man. alive, there's nothing western about us :! This is the interior" A dear soul in Montana remarked to me: How jolly to hear that you came from the east I'm an customer myself. I lived in Iowa."
 Where, then, is the middle west? Tn the words of the immortal Artemus, answer, 'Nowhere-nOr anywheres else."-Rollin Lynde Hartt in Century Magazine.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29

he found another who took up the running. The course of these run ners was by the head of the Tanana river but the news got to the white men and they started down strearn to get provisions. This was called Star
 vation year on the Forty Mile. Ih 1892 Mr. Griffith was sent for to drive a tally-ho at the Worlds Fair in Chicago and he left MOrty Mile in a polling boat for the great journey. He polled all the way up to Lake Linderman and went out over the Chilkoot Pass. At Five Finger Rap ids the boat was portrayed over the big bluff on the eft hand side of the rapids, going down. At Whitehorse rapids the boat was lined up On the
 same side and portrayed over the
 famous canon. After the Fair Bob
 again hit out for the Forty Mile and
 was there when the Klondike was
 struck. Today he has a store in the
 Tolstoi A summer mail contract
 which he fills with his own boat for
 the Iditarod. and at the same time
 packs millions in dog teams over the
 trails. The number of miles travelled
 by him over the Alaska trails would
 make journey far greater than that
 around the world. When questioned
 about the possibility of holdup of
 gold trains on the Alaska trails. like
 those in the Black Hills rays. Bob said: They'd be crazy to try it.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29
RECORD BEAR CAME
 OVER ON s. $. DORA

i What is probably the skull of the largest bear ever killed was brought down on the Dora this trip and H. | w. McCracken, who killed the brute, lis about to investigate with view to discovering if he is not the slayer of ithe biggest bear in all records. He shot the bear, one of the Kodiak
 brown species, at King Cove. It was though that the head measured twen ty-inches across but Bill De Witt stated that after more or less scien- |tific methods the skull is found to be cnly something slightly over ninete n inches.
 The largest skin ever known to have been secured was that which is TOW exhibited by L. L. Bales at the San Diego fair, but the skin secured jby MT. McCracken is larger. With jcut being stretched in any manner
 whatever the skin is over twelve feet
 Charley Fmsweiler says that for such head or skin as this there there is
 a standing offer of a thousand dollars by son ething or other.
 MT. McCracken had quite an expe
 rience in the killing of the gigantic
 beast which charged after having re- oeived a few shots. The hunter WAS accompanied by a couple of natives
 and he had Captain Madsen as guide. When they" caIDe upon the bear Me Cracken asked the natives and glide not to shoot as he wanted to pot the animal himself unless it charged aud | he was ill danger After the first shot the bear tried to make his getaway, lhut another bullet brough him back iup on high bluff from which he looked down upon his pursuers. Mac
 t then sent bullet right into his
 hreast and could hear the ball crash
 ing through. That was enough. For
 ward dashed the bear toward the
 shooters ard other shots failed to
 bring him down until he had covered
 two thirds of the distance and was
 only a few paces away. Then dld
 McCracken shout for his companions
 to shoot, and the guns brought the
 giant down pust in time.
 When I saw that bear fall," says
 MT. McCracken, "I just sat down all
 in a heap. ."-Seward Gateway.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29
\ TREE AND 4 DISEASE.
Malaria and the Effect Produosd b,
 Planting . Blue Gum.

Planting . Blue Gum,
 During the latter decades of the nine teenth century 1t was a common prac- tice to plant blue gum or eucalyptus trees in districts infected by malariai fever. It was held that the essential oil produced by the leaves combated the harmful vapors rising from the swamps laden with the poison of the disease. The discovery that the ma larial germ is introduced into the blood by mosquito has settled once and for all the origin of the disease.
 The theory that the eucalyptus tree neutralized the poison vapors is non- sense, yet the fact remains that where blue gums were freely planted there amount of malaria.
 What Is the explanation of this cur constance? It has been demonstrated that, of nearly all trees, the eucalyptus absorbs the greatest amount of water. Two seedlings-a blue gum and a plum were placed with their roots fin wa ter, and the height of the water was carefully marked. The plants were kept in a warm atmosphere and ex- amined at the end of twenty-four hours. The little eucalyptus had dis posed of four times the water that the plum had been able to take up.
 Seeing that blue gums increase in height with great rapidity, often grow ing many inches a day in a hot posi- tion, the amount of moisture taken up increases on greatly progressive scale. And this is just what brings about the downfall of the malarial mosquito. To complete its life cycle it is necessary that this insect should pass its larval stage in pools of water With the coming of the eucalypti these pools and indeed all marshy places dis appear. the breeding spots of the mos quitOes are gone, and in time the in- sects vanish altogether.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29
He Was Short.

Early one evening a frail little girl entered candy store and asked for a cake of chocolate. After she had the candy she put four pennies on the counter and started out.
 The storekeeper. though averse tc frightening the little thing. called aft CT her in a gentle voice:
 You're penny short"
 No; you're penny short" she call ed back as she disappeared.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29
TOO MUCH CIVILIZATION.

Following a big celebration of In- dians near Douglas which resulted in several court cases, the following ap peared in the Douglas Island News, and includes comment on the Indian s opinion of the white man as gathered in by the Stroller.
 Fin gic tum lu icfu tre bif da zee kuk hell up Ii ge bum oi dac vi klu gi jun nut dre woe ipsu." (One rene gade white man can raise more hell among my people in two hours than a dozen missionaries can stamp out in year.)
 The foregoing is what the Stroller heard one morning last week just as he emerged from the police court where half dozen or more Indians, both sexes represented, had been tried and convicted on the charge of drunkenness. The speaker, an ln- dian who wears a full beard, is fla miliar figure on the streets of Doug las. He is not given to much speech but on the occasion mentioned he appeared to be so full of resentment and disgust with what he had just witnessed in the court room that he could not conceal his feelings. The Stroller, seeing that the old mah was disposed to talk encouraged him and the result was what follows. Luckily the Stroller understands and trans lates all Indian languages spoken from Mary Island to Point Barrow, either by way of the coast or the Yu- kon river. Of course, the old man, who is now 114 years of age, spoke his tribal tongue which the Stroller recorded in short hand, literal translation being as follows:
 Three score and ten snows have fell upon me since first mine eyes be- held white man. I was then A years of age and wholly free froi guile, although always possessed Of an observing nature. Since that timt: l have developed much time to the study of the white man and his ways. and I must say that he is curious combination. He mixes me. yea, he perpleXes me.
 "One white man come along. He say unless Indian forsake Indian ways and become like white man, ln- dian bump up against eternal confia grafton. whatever that is. Another white man come along and give lIi- dian bottle. Indian drink from bo' tie, whoopee, go to wigwam 70 lick squaw and find white man there ahead of him. Squaw go whoop-ee too. Next morning heap big head. mouth like dead dog salmon. Then Indian taken to skookum house. Tyee judge send him back ten days, two weeks maybe longer. Then first man come to see Indian in skookum house sing Pull for Shore, Brother, when no shore and no boat in sight In dian goes home and is good till sec ond white man come with more fire water. Same thing happens. Indian goes whoop-ee some more and goes to skookum house.
 First white man come again and tell Indian to sing Happy Day In
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29
MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 19I:
LITTLE COUNTRY scHooLHousE

LITTLE COUNTRY ScHOoLHoUsE THE little country schoolhouse is A No palace architectural, No principal with classic phiz
 And brow so intellectual Presides, the young idea to teach,
 In manner grand and mystical. There are no higher arts 10 reach, No problems deep statistical. MO, the little country schoolhouse sits ~ Where two roads come together; Its walls have lots of holes and slits That let in wintry weather. The master is homely man, His hands are large and warty, But he can spell like Webster can And figure like all forty. THE little country schoolhouse stands "A A thing Illuminating: Its scholars spread OCT many lands And help in elevating. It taught no Latin. taught no Greek, But its three R's proved storehouse When later for so much a week You worked to dodge the poorhouse.
 Jacksonville Times-Union.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29
A Sure Winner

I've been stuck at different times on cotton, tobacco. oranges and corn
 "Well?"
 Now I think I'll invest in a coal mine. That crop is never a failure, and there's always a demand for the out put. "-Kansas City Journal.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29
We'll Named.

"A wonderful man is my uncle," said little Rinks. "sO very original and witty"
 He says he called his dog Sausage because it was half bread, his goat Nearly" because it was "all butt" and his prize cOckerel Robinson" because 1t "Crusoe." e."-Exchange.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29

WITH all this talk about peace be- tween the warning nations it is queer
 Ithat none of them have realized that the quickest way to get it is to stop fighting.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29

Have you tried our poker chil candy and also our new line of chew ing gum, Candy Kitchen ii
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29

Rexall! Rexall! Investigate Rex all products at the Owl Drug Store. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29
Bitter.

"Who is that foolish man that is in love with you?
 How do you know he is foolish?" He is in love with you."-Houston Post.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29

Fresh Box candy at Hunts Candy Kitchen. A new line speae4. H
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29

Why not a VICTROLA? We have them from $15 up. Valdez Drug Co. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29

Vessels large may venture more, but little boats should keep near shore.-. Franklin.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29

We sell marshmallews in bulk at the Candy Kitchen. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-01-29

Electrical heaters, cook CTS, percolators. vacuum-cleaners. will be advanced in prices after New years. by the manufacturers. Stock on hand will be sold at prevailing prices, at the Emporium.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-07

town clock were moving toward the
lour wher grave yards are sail IL
yawn, a negro minister had almost
spent his breath in urging his hearers
to tase the sawdust trail. With hia
ewes axpan ed and very red, ne
managed to utter the words he'll fire,
I'M. %, :.Ganced the first almost $50
voce but the last (fire!) in stento-
rian tons. so,~A boys VITO were near
Nv, upon hearing the word fi.s. re-
heated il with all the force OF their
vocal organs, Ind few minutes later
III. department was rushing down the
hill from Lee street to the'chIrch.
After the chief engineer had the
situation explained, he admonlshes
the preacher to utter the alarming
word in a lower tone next time.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-07

anG Germany will brandlsh
her sword at them in vain.
Turkey and Bulgaria, financed OS
Germany. also are calling on her for
gold. They can no longer be KEPT
going on paper.
Seeing her gold reserve decline
Germany is calling on her dutlfui SUD
iccts for all the gold iewelry they
possess. The response is reported 20
be disappointing. 1t is not enough
"a holster up the steady shrlhkage III
she treasure vaults. There Is 10
other supply Of the precious metal
Ii is enc thing when Prusslail
science" Prussian chemistry can
mot find a substitute for. She may
feed her people on chemica!ized food
she may even triumphantly assert
that she gets blood out Of a stone,
but sf,et cannot transmute gold, OF
hypnotic her neighbors into taking
something Just as good"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-07
IMPORTANT CONFERENCE.
Allied Premiers Meet in London 10
day for Exchange Of Views.

London, Aug. 77.-An allied con-
ference which gave promise OF I'M
portant results was in progress IN
Downing street today.
Premiers Ribot, of France; Son
nino, of Italy, and Pasitch, of Serbia,
together with representatives of the
British and Roumanian governments,
were present.
With this conference holding forth
possibilities Of important diplomatic
developments, comment was also rife
on the German and Russian changes.
Possible strengthening Of the Ger
man cabinet for war purposes
through bringing in men in entire
sympathy with Chancellor Michaeils,
was seen as result Of the minis
terial changes in Berlin.
On the other hand, there was hope
that Premier kerensky is again far
~ on tne fOaQ W slcScHs WI lAi'' "ot'
of regenerating Russia.
Britons saw possible glance 70
the future in dealing with America
in the appointment Of Dr.. kuehlmann
IS foreign minister of Germany sue
ceeding Alfred Zimmerman. In the
place of the man who wrote the ia
nous note seeking to SEE Mexico and
Japan upon the United States, the
government will be represented by
a statesman who is popularity sup
posed to have considerable knCwl-
edge of American institutions and
ideals.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-08-07
GERMAN GOLD.

A. the Washington Herald says,
The boas; Of Germany has been her
rold reserve. which sustained the
most cxpertly balanced money sys-
tenn in the world. Her tinanciers had
DvramidcG one issue oil paper on an
other. Until her credits. in compar-
ison 20 the gold that supported
hem. caused the bankers OF other
nations u gasp. Germany smiled IN
quiet confidence ut the fears OF inc
outside world. She pointed TO her
gold reserve. second only to that OF
Britain: she showed that war had
not caused i to decrease, but that i
even showed slight increase.
The turn. hcwey@r, has come at
last. The neutl,ais who sell to Ger
many are calling Tor gold. Swirzer-
land. Holland. Scandinavian coun-
tries are beginning to be doubtful Of
German paper. They see the specter
ot defeat. OF Reputation of debt,
ahead Of the beleaguered central em-
p.Jes. They know what a top-heavy
paper currency means. They know
that il Germany gees dcwn in defeat,
Utter bankruptcy will be one of the
handma!dcns OF such disaster. that
her paper will pc worthless for years
TO come. that every man. woman and
child in the whole Prussian hege-
n2oyy awAl BE .hopelessly impoverish-
Cd. They are beginning to exercise
so~,e 81 7a& c"ldsnce cf t!,a slncawd