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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17
Vermont Wealth Unused,
(Benningt on Banner.)

(1rtnnln Ct OH sBanner.)
For years the5 Banner. has urged the
Importance of developing the fisheries
of Nermont-not only for sport, pleas
ure, health and recreation, but as an in
come producing business.
The state gets from its stone deposits
millions of dollars year; from wood
and lumber more than from stone; from
hay and grass several times as much
as from stone and lumber combined. SO
II goes along down the line 1t is even
estimated that around 100000 per year
is received by Vermonters from the sale
of skunk skins, but the fisheries of Yer
mont have been considered merely as
supplying enjoyment for a few idle men
who most folks thought ought to be bet
ter employed.
1t used to be hard work to get a
measly little appropriation of $1,000 a
year for the fish and game department
! A few years ago the fishermen tham-
selves took hold and taxed themselves
by way of a license charge in order te
raise money to make the department OF
real service to the state. Promptly cams
forward some good men, who meant
we'll but lacked vision, and tried t
get this money away from the fish anC
game department to use for other pur
poses.
These gentlemen failed to recogniz.
that Vermont is failing to utilize prop
erly one of its greatest resources. TIL.
fish of Vermont ought to be bringin.
an income to Nermonters of a million .
two dollars a year and win if the fish
ing resources of the state are properl
worked
At the present time fully half of thes
resources are giving nothing and tn
other half only fraction of what the
ought to produce. 1t ought to be 30.
r slble during the open season to blu
trout, pike, horned pouts, perch, lanC
Toe ked salmon, muskellunge, and otne
choice Vermont fish at any market i
the state at prices no higher than al
now paid for inferior salt water fsI
brought long distance and often NJ
IN the best of condition
1t is one of the great things that wi
4 be done in Vermont in the wears
a come and under the fish license law
, furnish revenue there is now the none
u to make real start
The Banner is glad to note othe
coming around to advocate what y
q have so long held to be one of the grea
est of Vermont opportunities.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17

The chemists of the country have
risen to the situation created by the
esses for obtaining chemical material
war, and have been at work on proc
from waste product, which they claim
will make the country independent of
imports from other countries. At the
meeting of the American Chemical So
ciety in Boston, reports were made TO
the effect that in the matter of potash
alone, nearly 100000 barrels could be
recovered from the 10000, 900 barrels
of cement annually produced. This is
not the only source of supply, for
formulas have been discovered by which
potash may be recovered from such
sources as wool-wash, kelp, waste liquors
of beets, silicate rock and incinerator
ash. 1t was reported also that process
es have been put into effect for the
recovery of nitrogen from the air. 1t
was stated at this meeting that the
year before the war, this country i'm
ported from Germany over a million OF
barrels of potash. If the chemists OF
the country can make good on THEN
promise of keeping up the supply OF
potash, they will have rendered very
valuable service in this one direction
alone.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17

The shortage Of coal is mainly due
10 the lack of transportation facilities.
Many vessels which have brought coal
TO New England ports have been taken
for government use, and the railroads
are taxed far beyond their capacity.
The call to save fuel this fall and win
ter is imperative. A little care will re-
suit in saving in each household in
the consumption of coal over former
years If families will make the eff
fort the result in the aggregate will be
very helpful. The Reformer has already
published the instructions sent out bv
the Vermont committee showing how
coal can be saved, and today it presents
the appeal made by the New England
coal committee with further hints that
may easily be followed
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17
E1 DADCN'SV[N|NG|
, \ FAIRY TALL
. 81 hAN GRAHANL BONNER
BIRD PARTY.

THE young blue BIRDS" said Daddy,
"are never allowed to become vain
or conceited when they are very
young"
"Why?" asked both the children to-
gether. And then they both decided 1t
had been very foolish question to
ask, for naturally the mother and
daddy blue bird would not want to
have silly, conceited little blue birds.
rs there some special way that the
mothers and daddies have Of keeping
the little ones from being conceited?'
asked Nancy.
yes" said Daddy "You see when
they are very young they are not
blue. In fact when they first look
out of their shells and gaze at the
world and their own feathers they are
| almost black. They see that their
mother and daddy both have glorious
blue feathers, and they think to them
selves that they are not beautiful like
their parents.
when they first fly out of the nest
there are a few blue feathers appear
ing, and by degrees, as they get Older
and have gained a great deal of goo(
sense, they, too, become real blu,
birds.
{, 'Now the orioles were giving an in
sect party and the blue birds were in
vited. There was great deal of fus
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17
WIRELESS WARNED
OF GIANT U-BOAT
Liner Reaching American Port Got
Message Saying Raider Was 500 Feet
Long and Carried Two Guns.

NEW YORK, Sept II. - An Ameri-
can steamship arriving at an Atlantic
port yesterday, from England, brought
further confirmation of the wireless
warning of German submarine report
ed seen on this side of the ocean and
also news of a futile attack on the
steamer by U-boat soon after the YES
sci left the other side, a torpedo passing
80 feet behind the stern of the ship.
The wireless warning was received at
3 O'Clock last Friday afternoon, from
the Cape Ray wireless station, at the
southwest extremity of Newfoundland.
The message read:
Submarine seen near Nantucket
Lightship early today. She is described
as being 300 feet long, carrying one
gun forward and one aft, and having
two periscopes."
The operator at Cape Ray added that
he had tried to get the name of the
vessel sending the message, but could
get no reply. The message was very
| faint he said.
| The captain of the liner, for the sake
of safety, altered his course 60 miles tC
the southwest Officers of the ship after
landing seemed to be of the opinion that
| tHt " II tltcS NoI INV
S o S call and the report that steam
ship was being shelled by submarine 6;
miles southeast of Nantucket, brough
by steamers arriving earlier, were sen
out as a hoax by amateurs or else b,
some vessel under a flag supposedly neu
trail to arouse alarm i'll America 1t wa
recalled that at the time the Greel
steamship Thessaloniki was drifting
Ihelplessly in the storm in January, 1915
with 800 passengers on board, the steam
ships speeding to her aid were sent on
of their course by messages sent out b
amateur wireless operators along tn
New Jersey coast, purporting to be fror
the Thessaloniki.
Some of the United States naval off
cials believe that the present message
are being sent out from some secre
wireless plant on the coast of Maine c
little way back in the interior, plan
for which the intelligence departmer
, has been searching for the last tw
months.
Disregarding the wireless warnings {
Friday, big liner left an Atlantic pc
yesterday for France with 500 passe.
gers, among them a number of Amer
can army officers, besides foreign dipl
!. mats and other prominent persons.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17
URGED TO SEND DELEGATES.
Governor Wants Towns Represented at
tuberculosis Meeting.

The following letter has been sent out
b. Gov Graham to the selectmen of
all the Vermont towns.
The New England section of the Ma
tional Association for the Prevention
of tuberculosis win hold conference
on October and at Rutland. At this
conference, men from the New England
states, and possibly from other states,
will discuss measures to be taken 10
prevent the spread of this disease, which
undoubtedly will become more prevalent
because of war conditions. | earnestly
urge YOU to send a delegate to attend
this conference, that information as
to how best to care for tuberculosis may
be disseminated all through our state.
| Your local health officer or some physI-
clan would undoubtedly be willing and
anxious to give his time gratuitouslv,
provided some provision is made for the
payment of his actual expenses. As no
provision has been made by the state
| to pay the expenses of such delegates
as NAV attend, | would further suggest
that, in case YOU see fit to appoint q
delegate, your town pay the actual ex-
Ipenses of the person attending. It is
further desired that the delegate, if one
is appointed. reach Rutland in time fol-
the annual meeting of the Vermont as
lsociation. which will be held on the eve
ming of October 3.
AS this conference is of great impor
tance. not only to the sufferer from tn
berculosis, but to the people at large,
hope you will see fit to give these sug
gestions favorable consideration.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17

Won Eckhardt, German minister 20
Mexico, denies in toto the charge that
he employed Folke Cronholm, the former
Swedish charge in Mexico City, to send
information to the foreign office in Ber-
lin. His further declaration that he
does not know Cronholm will be given
little credenee. The diplomatic circle
is not SO large in Mexico that the lead
ing German official is likely to be a
stranger to the leading Swedish official.
1t is also interesting to note that when
an attempt was made to interview Cron-
holm, who is still in Mexico City al
though he has lost his diplomatic post
he was found at the German club.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17
A Curious Distinction.
Nashua Telegraph

\ coal operator who refuses to make
a price for his product which is acceptable
to a public functionary is liable to have a
price fixed for him or to have his mine
Communicated and carried on by the gov
eminent. A member of organized labor
who refuses to sell his labor in shipyard
at price acceptable to his employer-who
may be engaged on government contract
is deemed wholly within his rights if he
enters upon a strike; and no effort is being
made to compel him to accept fixed
wage to force him to work if he does not
want to. 1t is curious distinction, which
a good many people have difficulty in I'M
derstandng.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17
HOUSE WORK IS A BURDEN.

Woman s lot is weary one at best.
But with backache and other distress
ing kidney ills life indeed becomes a
burden. Doan s Kidney Pills have
made life brighter for many Brattle-
boro women. Read what Mrs. Benson
says:
Mrs. G. c. Benson, 104 Canal St.,
Brattleboro, says: "Some years ago,
had a great deal of pain right over
my kidneys. The pain was rather sharp
when l tried to stoop or do any sweep
ing. l was sore and lame when 1 got
up in the morning and didn t feel like
doing ,yMX,W hogsa S96k,osIs Moi b hhi4f4Rsays
didnt act regularly also, and other
symptoms showed that something would
have to be done. My poor condition
gave me some alarm and 1 finally
bought Doan s Kidney Pills at Wilfred
F. Root s Drug Store. After I had
taken three boxes, I felt as well as
ever"
Price zoe, at all dealers. Don t sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Benson had. Foster Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo n. Y.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE

Me and Sid Hunt and Leroy Shooster
was wawking along tawking about witch
was the best, ice cream cones or loose
ice cream, and witch is the most fun, win
ter or summer, and diffrent things, and
Sid Hunt sed, g. look at that fat man,
don't he look funny, G..
Meening a big fat man with bloc sis
penders setting on his frunt steps fan
ming himself with fan, wieh his STUN
mick was so big he dident have eny lap
left, and | sed, G, how wood you like
to have as big of stummick as that
How wood you2 sed Leroy Shooster.
Wat do YOU bet it is, hard or soft?
sed Sid Hunt.
| bet nobodvs got the nerve to go
up and ask him to leeve, you feel It,
sed Leroy Shooster.
bet | have, | sed.
Lets see you, sed Sid and Leroy Shoes
ter.
Do you triple dare me? l sed. WITCH
they sed they did, and / wawked up to
the steps with the fat man on them and
stood there, and the fat man sed, Well,
little bog
Can | ask you sumthing? I sed.
Serteny, sed the fat man.
Wen, VIII you give me match, please,
) | sed.
WITCH the fat man shook his he'd, say
ing, Little boys mussent have matches.
Yes sir, | sed. And I went back to
Sid and Leroy Shooster, and they sed
Woodent he leeve you?
Dident you see him shake his he'd,
sed
i Wat did he say? sed Sid.
!. He sed he was to tickelish, | sed.
And me and Sid and Leroy Shoostel
kepp on wawking.
The total income of the people of th'
United States is about $4,000, 100000
:. year OF this $4,000, 600, 900 is derives
: from agricultural products, s2.500,0O0,00
: from minerals, ard slO,0eGo00,000 fror
: manufactured articles.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17
Less Rum ans Tobacco.
[ Rutland Herald.l

Prohlbitory laws seem to have little
effect on the national consumption of
alcoholic liquors, as witness the re-
ports of the department of inland rev.
enue, which show that the people of
the United States in the last fiscal year
consumed 164,000,000 gallons of dis
titled spirits, 100000 barrels of beer,
100000 cigars, $685. 100000 Gig
|arettes, Al, 100000 pounds of smoking
and chewing tobacco and 100000
pounds of snuff.
Perhaps it would be fairer to say
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17
Headed for Destruction.
Boston News Bureau.)

Germany is headed for destruction be
cause the people did not have their hon
est voice in the affairs of government
but left regulation to the Hohenzollen
commission. New England Transports
ton, which underlies all New England
business and has invited the savings of
the widow and orphan, is headed hell
ward and there is no man on or around
Beacon Hill standing for the honor of
Massachusetts, which OF all the New
England states is most responsible fol
New England transportation wrecks.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17

made by every little blue bird. They
smoothed their feathers and looked
very fine indeed.
''Of course they wanted to look espe-
cially handsome when they were call
ing on the orioles for they are such
gorgeous birds.
when they had arrived at the
home of the orioles, beautiful nest in
a nice old tree, they all politely
bowed and sang little songs.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17

The Reforner Is on sale every evening
by the following news dealers:
Brattleboro. Brattleboro News Co.
G. w Cleaveland. ID. Il. Cutler e. Co.
I Fsteyville). Brooks House Pharmacy,
Aliens Depot Newsstand
West Brattleboro, j. L. Stockwell
East Dummerston. NJ. r. Brown.
Putney. NJ. G. Williams.
Newfane, n. NJ. Batchelder.
Townshend, G. w. Cutler.
West Townshend, c. II. Grout.
jamaica, r. J. Daggett.
South Londonderry. +. II. Tyler.
South Vernon, Il. y. Buffum.
West Chesterfield, N. 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, 1917-09-17
AFTER FIFTY YEARS.
Tyler T. Nash of Greenfield Meets His
Sister, Mrs. Dreyer.

GREENFIELD, Mass, Sept. 17.-Aft-
er so years separation Tyler T. Nash OF
this town and his sister, Mrs. Harry H.
Dreyer of Burlington, Wash., were re
united when Mr.. Nash visited the latter
this month. The family of nine chill
dren were separated when Mr.. Nash
was 10 years old and his sister II. They
are the only surviving children.
Mr.. Nash has been employed as a
section foreman in Greenfield for The
last 81 years, starting in for So cents
a day when the Boston & Maine had
only one track running through there.
Until taking this trip Mr.. Nash has had
no more than one day S vacation at a
time since the world 5 fair in Chicago
q years ago.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17
More EFFICIENCY.

"How old are you, Charlotte?" asked
Uncle Ned. II suppose you can say
the alphabet"
mo, Uncle NedS
"The very idea of being ten years
old and not knowing the letters Of the
alphabet. Why, I could say from A
to 2 when | was four years old"
ooh, that" said Charlotte, 'they
are all in the books and we don't both
err learning things that have no prac-
teal value"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17
TO SUBSCRIBERS,

II is the aim OF the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery of
cooperation of subscribers to that end.
Prompt reports should be given of each
failure to receive the paper on the morn
ing following the omission. in person,
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 publisher can Sc
cure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run of paper.
; 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
line first insertion with SO per cent dis
count for each subsequent insertion,
without change of copy.
Reading Notices-Ten cents per line,
first insertion with 80 per cent discount
for each subsequent insertion without
change of copy.
Position 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17
WISE MEN KNOW

that life insurance is ore of the great
necessities and the vital obligation of
every man who has dependents. Insure
now while insurable 6Stn year. Ma
tional Life ms. Co., of Vt. Mutual. y
ALBERT G. LAIRD, Special Agent, 5
Crosby Block.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17
A Bad Habit.

white River Junction Landmark.)
There is habit common among the
young men much more dangerous than
it appears, and which often leads to re.
suits extremely disastrous-the habit of
borrowing money 1t is habit con-
tracted with great ease and once start
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17

Germany has financed the war by
means of loans, relying upon indem-
mites expected to be exacted from con
quered foes to pay the price When
Germany is beaten, and it is impossible
to collect indemnitics, the country will
be facing bankruptcy.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17

A widespread use may have been made
of meteoritic iron in prehistoric times. At
the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico
the Aztecs had iron knives and daggers,
which they declared had been obtained
from the sky. Moreover, the use of
meteoritic iron by Ecki.aos and American
Indians is matter of recent history.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17

is pilloried as disloyal citizen. This
country having once embarked upon
war, there is but one duty for every
good citizen and that is to give of him
self to the end that it is won by u.s..
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17

There are lot of activities, worthy
and commendablc in normal times,
which can he dropped until after the
war is Fought to definite conclusion
The best missionary work for the pres.
cnt is 10 help win the war.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17

Our senior ex-President is charging
his vocabulary. His favorite EXPIRES
sions for years were Delighted -
and Bully, - When he landed after an
air flight at a speed of l0o miles an hour
at height of 5000 feet he exclaimed
q Remarkable,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17

An increase Of $37,Ool,3 in the grand
list of Vermont in 1917 TT which is
equivalent to an increase of 4S,700,l3
in valuation, is a gratifying showing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17
Member Of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for publication of all
news credited to ii and not otherwise
credited In this paper and also the local
news published herein.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17

Some people don't know when they are
well off, but whole lot more people insist
that they are better off than they really
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-17

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER Il, 1917.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-04

where the rainfall is from 80 to As inches
per annum, there is an abundance of land
upon which the raising of grain has never
failed. The Camas prairie, the lands Of
Lewis county and of Latah county are as
good lands without irrigation as exist any,
where, and there is probably as much pros
perity among the farmers in those sections
as among farmers in any section of the
United States. And more lands are being
added to those already in cultivation. Tim
Der is being cleared Some of the lands
that were refused few years ago are now
being cultivated and are producing as good
crops as any other lands, and by slow pro
cess OF energy and perseverance that belt OF
agricultural land is increasing every year.
Idaho is still richer in one thing than all
the coal and oil belts in the United States,
and that is hydro-electric power. Every
stream in Idaho and there are hundreds O:
them, heads somewhere in the high noun
tains close to the snow-capped peaks, peaks
that run above timber line, and as thes.
streams large and small wind their way to-
wards the larger streams and eventually to
the Pacific ocean, every 100 feet affords
site for hydro-electric power which is SUBJ
stitute for coal and steam power. When
this is once developed, there will be millions
OF acres of land in small units, the richest IN
the world, brought into production. From
20 to 100 acres can be irrigated by pumping
plants and made to produce equal to any
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-04

At present we can almost see what the flu
ture will bring forth on these irrigated
lands. Alfalfa was raised but few years
ago for feed for sheep and cattle, and it is
yet, but the smaller farmer conceived the
idea that seed from alfalfa and clover would
be paying crop and the result OF it is now
that on some of these irrigated tracts the
returns from clover and alfalfa seed aver
age from 500 to $3.50 per acre. One years
crop pays for the value OF the land and we
can hardly begin to realize the possibilities
in the future when these lands by intensi-
fled farming will produce double the amount
of alfalfa and clover seed and the returns
will be from 5000 to $500 per acre. These
lands can be bought today at from 500 to
$3.50 per acre. When this is once known,
Idaho will receive the influx of population
it seems SO well able to take care of.
Close to the mountain ranges there has
developed dry farming belt in the southern
and southeastern part of the state that chal-
lenges the production of any grain produc-
ing belt in the world. No failures, lands
free from charge of any kind, all it requires
is blowing, seeding and reaping The state
is selling these lands at $40 per acre on 40
years time and they are the choicest lands,
and the government has had millions upon
millions ready for the homesteader where
one crop of grain will pay for the entire cost
OF the lands and leave good surplus to the
farmer. In the northern part of the state