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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10

It will be- interesting to know what
the Crommett process of extracting
nitrogen from the air will be worth
practically in war to the government,
as proffered by the company organ
lied under the Crommett patents. The
name of John HAYS Hammond in con
nection with the enterprise makes it
probable that there is something real
ly of high value which is to be put at
the service of our government. If we
do not enter the war and if it is of
so much value, why not give the allies
the benefit of it and end the war 50
much the sooner?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10

Loyalty to the United States in the
event of war with Germany has been
pledged by the national committee of
the National German American Ali
an6c, representing 100000 members,
and it has been decided that the alliance
would continue 70 collect money for the
relief Of war victims of the central
powers, but that in the event Of war
with Germany the money would be
turned over to the United States gov
eminent. This shows that these citi-
zcns are imbued with the right spirit.
We have recently eontended that, in
asmuch as a large number of the Ger
mans in this country are naturalized
citizens. recognized as lawabiding PEG
pie, and very many of them property
holders and taxpayers, the United
States will have nothing to fear from
them in case war should follow the pres
ent crisis.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10
At the Library
New Fiction
Casuals of the Sea, William McFee.

Casuals of the Sea, William McFee.
a remarkable story by a writer who
an early life was an engineer on
tramp steamer. 1t is the story of a
poor family living in the suburbs of
London, very i'll equipped all of them
to win the favor of fortune. The au-
thor makes real the many curious
slips and chances that control the
lives of the poor-Minnie s adven-
tures with Mr.. Gilfllan Of the Gil
lillian Filaments, Hannibal's expert
ences IL the tobacco shop known as
The Little Brown Box-until he has
his great adventure when he ships as
eng1ne-roOm hessboy on the Steamship
Caraytid. All the twisted skeins il
the life of the Goodrich family are un
ravelled with most convincing sense
of reality and with touch of humor
| Gus tenderness.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10
and sealing maX Of cabbaSeS-& kings
4 II e CON IRA TO r

Howard Liam

The contractor is 4 busys. busting
mechanic who agrees to build a house
by the day and usually winds Up bv
building it by the year.
One Of the most discouraging epochs
in a man s career is to let contract
for a six-room house with pebble dash
trimmings, with the understanding
that il is 10 be completed during the
lifetime Of the party of the first part.
Some people endeavor to hurry up the
contractor by attaching a time penalty
to the contract, with forfeiture
clause, which compels the contractor to
bring in bill for extras longer than
a clothes line. This causes a strong
bond Of affection to spring up between
the contractor and the builder. which
bond is seldom severed outside of the
district court.
Every contractor has a force of NOV
able carpenters, who are never found
in the same spot two days III success
sion. This usually enables the plaster
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10

Senator Weeks : proposal TO name
the six new frst-elass battle cruisers
! ohm Paul Jones, McDonough, Decatur,
Perry, Farragut aud Dewey is a good
one. Our capital ships have hereto
fore in every instance possible been
given the names of the states of the
Union. But we are now getting so
many capital ships that there are no
longer enough states to go around.
Every state name is now in use, and
the great battle cruisers are coming on.
The names suggested by Senator Weeks
would be pleasing TO Vermonters, as
they include the admiral who was born
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10

The people of Keene are greatly
pleased win Gov. Keyes s appointment
Of John f. Allen of that city a Judge
of the superior court to fill the vacancy
caused by the promotion of Judge
Chamberlain. 1t is rather surprising
to read in the keene Sentinel that
Cheshire county has not had Judge
upon either the supreme or superior
bench since ls4S Evidently old
Cheshire has not had taking WAYS
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10

Because the servant problem is grow
ing steadily worse, a surprising number
of private houses in New York city
will remain closed the coming season,
and the former occupants will spend
greater part of their time in the eOun-
try or in hotels. The continued warm
weather last autumn kept people in
the country later than usual, and now
that they have returned to the city
they find that domestics cannot be OBJ
tanned. The demand for servants far
exceeds the supply, and the war is re-
spousibc. Girls who did homework
have been lurcd from this sort Of labor
hy higher pay in munition factories
and other factories expanded by the
war demands. Many girls who made 81
and Is a week and their board with
private families have places now for
from $l2 to al a week They are able
to have more of their time to them
selves, and in many instances their
lunches are provided by their EN-
ployers Employment agencies report
that never i'll their history was there
such a demand for domestics as before
the holidays. The shortage also applies
to nurses and governesses. Men have
recently been employed to wheel baby
carriages by families whose nurses had
i left them for higher wages in fac
/ tories The hotels on the upper west
side aud in the residential sections OF
New York have been most affected by
\ tbis demand.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10
THE GERMAN ISSUE.

Volumes might be written about our
latest and most rerilous controversy
with Germany. But it isn't necessary.
Here is the issue neatly summed up IN
four lines in the New York Herald
The poem is entitled Columbia S Plea
and runs as follows:
- Kaiser. NAV / 90 ont to sea? -
Eyes. my darling daughter.
Paint your dag on the stern of YOU
ship.
But don I 90 near the water.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10

What 8 the editor of the Randolph
Herald and News got against the fish
and game Department. His talk about
the fish and game laws infringing in
dividual rights sounds very much like
that of man who has been caught
breaking one Of them. We imagine
his complaint against the hateful
system, as he calls it, is due more to
lack of sympathy with the viewpoint
of those who find pleasure and recrea
ton in fishing and hunting and realize
the value of making such pleasure and
recreation possible for future genera
tions, than to any other reason.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10

ers TO begin their work about the time
the fall rains set in. However, the
contractor has a gooe deal to put up
with. One of MS worst enemies is the
tight citizen who expects him to throw
10 q few extra bay windows and use
clreassian walnut instead Of yellow
pine, at the original contract price.
There IS also the hind-sighted man who
decides tn move the dining room
around on tie east side, after the wall
is up.
! The contractor Is always being de
layed by the weather-or a foreman who
has just come down with inebrietv or
the death Of a second cousin Of his
wife on her mother 5 side, but in all
ether respects he is 2 model citizen and
his life IS one long drawn out dream Of
peace. Every once in a while we find
/ a contractor who IS a real Christian,
which teaches US that some men can re
| tain their religion under the most Sc
we're trials
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10
Member Of she Associated Press.

The Reformer is on sale every evening
By the following news dealers:
Brattleboro, Bratteboro News Co.,
G. w. Cleaveland, ID. r. Cutler & Co
CEsteyvilie), Brooks House Pharmacy
Aliens Depot Newsstand.
West Rratteboro, j, i. Stockwel
East Dummerston, NJ. +, Brown.
Putney, NJ G. Williams.
NeWfane, y. NJ. Batchelder.
Townshend, c. w. Cutler.
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jamaica, r. J. Daggett
South Londonderry, f. II. Tyler.
South Vernon, r. B. Buffum.
west Chesterfield, NJ. H., Mrs. w.
Streeter.
Hinsdale, N. H., w. H. Lyman.
Bellows Falls, VT, Depot Restaurant
Windsor, VT. Windsor Restaurant.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10
CONSERVATION OF PAPER.

Every citizen ought to be willing
to see that not a pound of paper is
wasted.
Demand from every clerk that any
unnecessary wrapping of packages
be dispensed with.
If you have no further use for to-
days newspaper save it for the
school children IS playground fund.
Thus you will be helping conserve
the nations paper supply and at
the same time helping along a wor-
thy local cause.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

II is the aim Of the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery
OF the paper each night, and il sohcits
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
Il is only by this method that the pub
Usher can secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10
Base Deceiver.

How do you manage to keep your
cook so long?''
My husband has promised her that
if she is working for Us when we
strike oil he will buy her an auto.
But l did not know you had any
oil prospectss"
We haven t. Houston Post.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10
The Wonderful Year, William Locke.

Inc NOnu2fIul Year, Within Ioche.
William Locke has created many
quaint and lovable characters; in this
his latest story he adds to the number
-Fortinbras, merchant of Happiness
and godfather to all the jewellers in the
Latin Quarter. The wonderful year re-
counts the wanderings of q young
Englishman, teacher in an obscure
boarding school who takes himself to
France "to invite his soul. = He be
comes waiter in a country inn and
there learns among other things the
wonderful art of making delectable
pate-defoie gras. Thare is an Ameri-
can girl in the story, glimpse of
mysterious Egypt and of the Great
War.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertisng-Run OF paper,
80 cents an inch for first insertion; 2
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.
Ensltion 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10

in this state and the commander who
fought the notable battle on Lake
Champlain against the British in the
war of 1912,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10
The Romance of the Martin Conner
Oswald Kendall.

The mate of the Martin Common
tells how his tramp steamer sailing
from Galveston, Texas, to the head
waters of the Amazon for cargo of
rubber, and of their numerous adven-
lures and mis- adventures on their way,
and of their safe return with an I'M
expected cargo of drift gold.' Much
grim humor is shown in the telling of
the tale.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10
No Mystery.

Smithers never lights his cigar;
just keeps it in his mouth and chews
the end. | We often wondered why.
You wouldn t if YOU d ever smoked
one of them
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10
WHO NEED ANNuITIEs?

Those wishing TO be Independent who
otherwise would be dependent A
small income can often be made just
bag enough by means of the annuity
idea. 6sth year. National Life ms.
Co., Of VI. (Mutual) ALBERT G..
LAIRD, Special Agent, 8 Crosby Block.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10

Forty gold mining companies at Ben
digo, Australia, will amalgamate for the
purpose of working the fields more eco
nomically.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10
Georgina of the Rainbows, Alice Eel
lows Johnston.

OeOfSlHd OF the RalnDoWS. Alice Eel
lows Johnston.
Georgina lives in Provincetown,
Massachusetts, with her young mother
while her father is in far off China
studying a strange disease. The town
criar, Georgina's best friend, shows
her one day q prism and how to see
rainbows around everything by look
ing through it. She forms the Rain
bow Club whose aim is to put rainboWs
around everybody 5 troubles. Among
the many good things accomplished by
the club is the clearing up of mys-
terry that is making the town crier 5
life miserable. At last Georgina 5 own
sorrow is done away as her father re-
turns from China when all is rainbows
This is one more of the numberless
glad books modelled after Pollvanna
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10
The Leopard Woman, Stewart Edward

The Leopard Woman, Stewart Edward
White.
The exciting story of how two spies,
German and English, are both trying
Africa. The real object of the writer
is to show how life goes en- in q
strange and little known part Of the
world.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10
The Girl Philippa, Robert Chambers.

The Girl Philippa, Robert Chambers.
Robert Chambers IN his new novel
does not deal with society; but has re
turned to the field of his earlier eff
forts, the historical novel.
The Girl Philippe at the outbreak Of
the Great War is cashier in a little
French cafe near the Belgium border.
Soon she is the center of exciting
events-events in which the secret ser
vice systems of England, France and
Germany strive to outwit each other.
Among the other characters, who with
Philippa, are in the heart of things
are an American artist. a British army
officer and sister of charity. The
story concerns itself with the at
tempts of the various secret service
systems to secure the control of q re
markable American invention callc,
the Hardness Shell.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10

The Leatherwood God. William D.
Howells.
An interesting story in which Mr..
Howells tells how religious imposter
in the baekwoods of Ohio proclaims
himself a God sent to regcncrate the
world. Among the characters in the
story are Nancy the deserted wife of
the god; Squire Braile, the courageous
humorous moeker; a charming young
ster; hard -hoadod David Gillespie and
his red-headed, blue-eved daughter
Jane. ferocious hater as well as lover
The background of the story is tho
primeval forest but slightly injured by
the settler 5 axe.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1917.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-10

Protected by The Adams Newspaper Servi4al
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-01
An Inside Bath
Makes You Look
and Feel Fresh
Says a glass of hot water with
phosphate before breakfast
keeps illness away.
This excellent, common-sense
health measure being
adopted by millions.

Physicians the world over recon-
mend the inside bath, claiming this is
OF vastly more importance than out
side cleanliness, because the skin
pores do not absorb impurities into
the blood, causing i'll health, while the
pores in the ten yards of bowels do.
Men and women are urged to drink
each morning, before breakfast glass
of hot water with teaspoonful OF
limestone phosphate in it, as a harm
less means of helping to wash from
the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels
the previous days indigestible mater
ials, poisons, sour bile an dtoxins;
thus cleansing, sweetening and purify
ing the entire aiimentary canal be-
fore putting more food into the stom-
ach.
ust as soap and hot water cleanses
and freshens the skin, so hot water
and limestone phosphate act on the ell
iminative organs.
Those who wake up with bad breath,
coated tongue. nasty taste or have a
dull, aching head, sallow complexion,
acid stomach; others who are subject
to bilious attacks or constipation
should obtain a quarter pound Of lime
stone phosphate at the drug store.
This will cost very little but is suffi-
cient to demonstrate the value of in
side bathing. Those who continue ii
each morning are assured of pro-
nounced results, both in regard to
health and appearances. advt.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-01
FIGHTING PRIEST OF LOWER
NEW YORK GETS NEW
PARISH HE CAN'T LOSE

NEW YORK, March Father
James B. Curry, for IA years militant
pastor of st. James Catholic church
in downtown New York, today assum-
ed his new duties as irremovable pas
tor of the Church of the Holy Name
conferred on him by Cardinal Farley
Father Curry first came to public no.
tice in his fight to keep children from
rushing the growler" in saloons for
their parents. Later he personally
conducted many sensational raids on
disorderly houses in his neighborhoods'
and organized downtown boys clubs to
keep the lads out of mischief.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-01
AN ANNOUNCEMENT.

This morning an announcement was
made by the South Georgia Progress
to the effect that they would discon-
tinue their daily and weekly publlca-
tions today, and all contracts yet I'M
filled on subscriptions and advertising
would be consummated by the Times
Recorder.
The future newspaper interest of the
city demanded that a solution be found
which would serve this section of the
state better, and in view of the extra
ordinary vicissitudes of the newspaper
world during the past few years it has
become an enormous problem.
Mr.. E. H. Bradley. who has had
charge of the city news department of
the Progress, comes with the Times
Recorder today, which insures an in
creased volume of the live news chron-
icled for this section. The Times-Re-
corder will strive day and night to
give the people "All the News That's
Fit to Print"
AS has been said on several occas-
ions, the Times Recorder under the
present management has no end and
purpose to serve, except those which
are best for the people of this section
and their institutions. No faction can
inject their purposes into the activities
of the Times-R Recorder as newspaper
unless they be of the interest which
the public would have Truly, paper
for all the people is what the Times
Recorder would be.
Besides the announcements made to-
day. the Times-Recorder expects to
make further statements in regard to
in the paper, one of
which will include a handsome new
press to better serve the people in
later news and larger paper.
Through the depression of the past
years in regard to the newspapers the
has maintained its
Associated Press service, with other
news agencies included. This will be
continued and enlarged. All in all, the
Recorder expects to prove itself
worthy of the cooperation of all of
the people in its efforts to serve them
in the best way possible.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-01
SUFFRAGISTS CONVENE TO
MAP WAR PRS UdtM AND POLICY

WASHINGTON, March Am army
Of representative women from all parts
of the country descended upon the
national CAPITAL today to help frame a
wartime policy for suffragists and to
take part in the huge suffrage demon
stration at the White House next Sun
day afternoon.
The question as to what part the
suffrag ists shall play in event OF war
will be decided at the convention OF
the Congressional Union and the Ma
tional Woman's Party which open to-
right. The proposed merger of these
two powerful organizations of unen-
franchised and voting women into one
huge political organization also will
be acted upon by the convention.
Mrs. Harvey Wiley, Mrs. William
Kent, wife of Congressman Kent. OF
California, Mrs. Helena Hill Weed,
daughter of Congressman Hill. of Con-
reCticue, and a number OF other prom
inent Washington women have thrown
their own homes open to the visiting
suffragists.
Garages and lofts have also been
converted into dormitories to supply
sleeping Accommodations for some OF
the late arrivals.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-01
BRITONS WHO WON'T FIGHT
MUST GO TO JAIL AFTER TO-DAY

LONDON, March 1.-Cells in bort
moor prison today await conscientious
directors and others who refuse to
fight for King and country from now
on. The government heretofore has
dealt leniently with the DIRECTORS, but
after today they must either fight or
be locked up. Dartmoor is the convict
prison built in 1906 to hold French
prisoners. Two thousand American
seamen who refused to serve as Brit
ish sailors in the war of 1872, against
their own country, were confined there
too. jeremiah Lynch Of Irish REBEL
ion was sentenced to 10 years there
after the Sim Fein uprising.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-01
SeabOdrd Air Line
rhe Progressive Railway Of The South

Leave Americas for Cordele, Ro-
ehelle, Abbeville, Helena, Lyons, Col
Inns, Savannah, Columbia, Richmond,
Portsmouth and points East and South
1881 p m
$3.50 m
Leave Americas for Cordele, Able
vile, Helena and intermediate points
5:11 p m
Leave Americas for Richland, At
lanta. Birmingham, Hurtsboro, Mont
gomery and points West and Northwest
sos p m
Leave Americas for Richland, Col
umbus, Dawson, Albany and intern O.
date points
1000 no
SeaboaFd Buffet Parlor-SIeeping CIR
on Trains 10 and IA arriving Americas
from Savannah 1923 p. M. and leav-
ing Americas for Savannah $3.50 a. N.
Sleeping car leaving for Savannah at
$3.50 a. M, will be open for passengers
at 11:40 p. m
For further information apply to H.
P. Everett, Local Agent, Americas,
Ga; C. ". Small, Div. Pass. Agent,
Savannah, Ca: c. B san. 9. P. A.,
NufIOlk, Va.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-01
UNDER ANOTHER FLAG.

Despite the fact that it came under
the stress of excitement and bereave-
ment, the cablegram of Austin Y. Hoy
an American citizen, whose mother and
sister were lost on the Laconia, it
carries with it an arraignment which
has been conspicuous in many quar-
ters of late. If President Wilson has
erred in the handling of the delicate
situation, it has been on the side OF
human life. Doubtless. if the man who
guides the nation in the White House
had known two years ago what he
knows today, there would be different
discussion on now. 1t may have been
that peace would have come to Eu-
rope and that the United States would
have been prominent factor in bring
ing about this result.
But, back to the Hoy cablegram,
which says:
Il am able to fight. If my coun-
try can use me against these bru-
tai assassins. / am at it's call. If
it stultifies my manhood and my
nations by remaining passive I'M
der outrage, l shall seek mans
chance under another flag.
Il love the flag, believing in its
significance as an American citi-
zen outraged, and as such am fully
within my rights. AS an Ameri-
can son and brother bereaved,
call upon my government to pre-
serve it's citizens self-respect."