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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
COOLIES IN FRANCE.
Medical Missionary is Given Care Of
Chinese Battalions.

few weeks ago it was announced
that DR.. James F. Cooper, physician
in the American Board s hospital at
Foochow, China, had been given leave
of absence for the duration of the war
and was to take medical care of a bat
talon of Chinese coolies who were 90
ing to France to relieve French sol
diers of work behind the lines
The October number of the Mission
airy Herald, the monthly magazine pub
hshed by the American Board, gives a
picture of the $500 Chinese with their
officers gathered at a "'Coolie Depot
in the north of China, all ready to
start on their journey half way round
the world. They are a well-set-up,
husky looking set of men and letter
from Or. Cooper just in speaks in glow
ing terms Of their manly qualities.
They crossed the Pacific, made friends
all the way across Canada, encountered
submarines in the Atlantic; spent a
night or so at "Caesar's Camp where
the Roman legions were stationed when
they invaded England, and at length
reached France.
DR.. Cooper says: 4 have been with
the Chinese, now, long enough to get
some impressions In fact | we met
them IN most of their phases of exist
ence and the more | see and know Of
| them the more | admire and love them.
Ny friend John is making good in
France. He is a rebuke TO the Stacker.
| No man loves his home more than he
yet he has crossed two oceans and a
continent to help win q war in the in
/ fpFpSrS
| HIM SIT at home on soft cushions while
be sleeps on the ground at night and
works hard all dav pushing ammunition
ito the front. He has been bombed.
gassed, and wounded but he is 40 ouit.
ter, He is enduring hardness as a good
soldier.
- John helped the British in the
South African war and because of his
service at that time they have asked
him to help in this greatest of all wars
and he responds noblv Many of the
fommies have their preiudices against
the thinks at first sight-like many
Others who do not know them: but that
soon goes and you can not say the bad
things about the 'Chink to the Tommy
who knows him.
| DR. Cooper is at the Chinese General
I hospital-a big institution with LOCO
beds; L has staff Of . doctors, near
y all of whom have worked in China
land serving ''for the duration of the
war when they expect to return to
mission fields. The hospital is built
equipped and conducted exactly like
those for British soldiers. Dr. Cooper
took with him from China Is men who
\ had been trained as nurses and seen
4 hospital service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
CANADIAN WHEAT COMING.
mowers Board Buys Large Quantities
to Begin Moving at Once.

w WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-I-nder an
between the United States
food administration and the Canadian
TODD controller large supplies of Canadian
wheat are to begin moving at once by
way OF the Great Lakes to the Eastern
American flour mills 50 they NAV resume
full capacity operations The wheat will
be purchased through the Canadian gov
eminent at the same price as that fixed
Tor the American 1917 crop Its coming
VIII relieve pressure upon the American
northwestern supply.
The previous arrangements" the food
administration announced. "bv which
milling in the Minneapolis and northwest
sections was reduced from 100 to so per
cent capacity to allow the lake movement
from the northwest to the eastern mills
have been removed. and the Minneapolis
and northwest mills generally are now
running at full capacity
Unless peace should intervene and the
food administration come to an end
there will be no change in the government
purchase price of the 1917 harvest Of
! wheat. This announcement was made
| yesterday by the food administration in
denial of rumors current in some agricul-
| tural regions that the price was to be
altered
| In event of peace, it was pointed out
the large quantities of wheat now mae
cessible in Australia and India would be
available to the worlds markets and the
maintenance of the present American
price would be highly unlikely.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
To the President.

We have fought you, Mr. Wilson, Just
as hard as e Ter we could
We have lined our pens against YOU
and we We told YOU where we
stood;
We have criticized your actions, and
we tied n lot of hay
For to trip you, and to grip Won, as
YOU We run along your way;
We We opposed your reelection, and
eve TESTED now and then
On the subject of your doin2s and the
products of your pen;
But we want to tell you now, sir. in
this moment full of dole,
We are with you-ves, we re with YOU
We are with you heart and soul.
And the past, sir, is forgotten, just as
though it hadn Il been
just as 'twere bit of writing on a
slate washed wholly clean;
All the things we deprecated all the
things we didn't like,
They have vanished from our vision
like n pacifst on strike;
All remembrance of your waiting
and its brother 'watchfulness. -
Has gone tumbling to the discard in
this moment of your stress;
And we want to tell YOU now, sir, when
yon come to call the roll,
You will find that we are with YOU
yes, we re with you heart and soul.
There 5 no Elephant or Donkey on the
Yankee pike today,
And the Bull Moose stops his bulling
on the broad and starry way:
All the animals of party in our over
varied zoo
Are united, Mr.. Wilson, and are stand
ing back of you;
From the sands of San Diego to the
rocky cliffs of Maine,
From Atlantic to Pacific, out and back
| and back again;
SO here's to you, Prexy Wilson, may
God speed you to the goal
We are with you-yes, we re with you,
We are with you heart and SOUL
John Kendrick Bangs in the Co
lumbia Rambler.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE
By LEE PAPE

Pop was smoaking and thinking in
the setting room after suppir, and
sed, Pop, wat do you think Mr.. Jones
called me this aftirnoon?
Mr.. Jones being the man next store
and pop sed, Wat, do you meen to tell
me that that insignifercant nobody had
the awdacity to speak rutfiy to you?
Yes sir, | sed, wat do YOU think he
called me?
Arc YOU making a complaint or start
ing gessing contest, wat did he call
you? sed pop.
He called me munkey, / sed
Wat, say that agen, sed pop.
He called me a munkev, | sed.
The microscopic shrimp, sed pop, the
shrimpish microbe, the little zero. how
dare he raise his tung of a child of
mine, Ill demand an explanation frum
the poor cipher, that's wat III do.
And he got up and started to noe !,
on the wall, saving, | never herd of
sutch monumental etfronterry, WV, the
shrunken minus sine, the bald hedded
speck of dust.
Yes sir, | sed, and all | did to him
was stick pin in his door bell so it
wood keep on ringing.
You wat2 sed pop. And he stopped
hooking on the wall, saving, Wy, you
COMPOUNDED munkey, you are mum
! key.
Wieh jest then Mr.. Jones opened his
back window and called out. Hello
next store. And Pop went to the win
dow and Mr.. Jones sed, Did YOU mock
Wy yes, sed pop. the fackt of the
matter is, was wondering weather
bowl a game or ,.
| l consider bowling waist of time
sed Mr.. Jones And he shut his win
dow agen, and pop sed, the pitifill lit
tie hole in a doughnut And he nockec
twice more on the wall and started Il
reed the paper.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
THE WONDERFUL
fruit MEDICINE
Thousands Owe Health And
Strength To "Fruit-a-tiveS"

"FRUIT-ATIVES", the marvellous
medicine made from fruit juices has
relieved more cases of Stomach. Lfz,er
BLOOD, h1dney and Skin Troubles than
any other medicine. In severe cases
of rheumatism, Sciatica, Lumbago,
Pain in the Back, Impure Blood, Neu-
ralgia, Chronic Headaches, Chronic
Constipation and Indigestion, ''Fruit-
a-tives" has given unusually effective
results. By its cleansing, healing
powers on the eliminating organs,
"Fruit-a-tives" tones up and inyigor.
ates the whole system.
SOC. box, 6 for So 80, trial size, CSC.
AT all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit.
a-tives Limited, Ogdensburg, NY,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
FLOCKS OF SHEEP.
Should Gambol Once More on Vermont
Hills Says Circular.

Bring the Flocks of Sheep Back to the
Vermont Hills, is the title of circular
letter issued by the First National Bank
of White River Junction under the di-
rection Of its cashier, G. l.. lie Bourneau.
| The sole aim OF the letter, as It's title
designates, is a regeneration of sheep hus
handry in Vermont and TO the furtherance
of this end. as far as its own particular
territory counts, the bank states that if
there should come a demand sufficiently
large to dispose of a carload of sheep it
will secure them for all who wish at cost
The sheep now at the disposal of the
bank were brought from Oregon and I'M
loaded at Selkirk, \. y, and the bank
has arranged with f. C. Daniels OF Plain
field, n H., and Howard j Miller of
North Hartland to use their Judgment
n selecting sheep for any prospective
uyer Mr. Daniels is the largest present
dy sheep raiser in New Hampshire. Mr.,
Miller is a director of the bank and con-
ducts large farming interest which in
Icludes an extensive sheep fold The one
purpose of the bank in this action is to
foster sheep husbandry in this section of
Vermont Nearly 100 years ago the town
iof Hartford had in its folds a total of
l3,207 sheep. Hartland had 10000,
Woodstock 5000, Windsor 10000, and
IWeatherstield that town just south Of
Windsor no less than $1,000. Pomfret had
5000, Sharon 5,OOO Rochester 1900 and
Barnard 5000, and the total in the whole
,of Windsor county was no less than 200,-
1000. Orange county had 99,346, Washing
ton county 10000, Windham county 5000,
Rutland county lS0,9S4, and Chittenden
county 10000 sheep.
is well to begin at the top of the
ladder and 90 down-in case of fire.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
X I l. T [ Il
7 L. r X + y
666-The kaisers number

Y 6 equals SO plus equals 10 months
Also note that when the Kaiser started
the war he was 81 years and months
.old-666 months-which again fixes the
kaiser's number Having established this
fact, YOU will be interested in reading
from the 18th chapter OF Revelation, the
4th. 9th and 18th verses
4th.-And they worshipped the dragon
which gave power unto the beast and they
worshipped the beast. saying: Who Is like
unto the beast? Who is able to make war
with him?
5th.-And there was given unto him a
mouth speaking great things and has
phemles, and power was given unto him
to continue for forty and two months
lSth.-Here is vision Let him that
hath understanding count the number OF
the beast, for it is the number of a man
and his number is SIX hundred threescore
and six 1906
! War started in August. 1914. plus 4
months makes February, 1918
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25

If General Grant were alive and
we could send him to France it
wouldn t take long to end the war;
remarked an elderly man the other
day. All honor to General Grant. He
was the great hero of the Civil war.
lie knew how to fight and keep his
mouth shut, and he won out, although
the outcome was questionable a long
time. But General Grant, returned to
earth today, would admit that he was
a tyro. The telephone, the wireless, the
machine gun, the airplane, the Zeppelin,
the submarines, the motor ear, the mo-
tor-cycle. the uses of gas and liquid fire
and the torpedo and dozen other
death-dealing and life protecting de
vices were unknown in Grant s day.
War today requires not only fighters.
but inventors, scientists and executives
OF far-sighted vision. War today is
less personal and more like the general
conduct Of big business the world over,
but it is still hell and then some.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
A Snake Story.

A Connecticut rural free delivery
carrier is telling story, which some
OF his friends are inclined to doubt
He claims that as he drove his auto
mobile he saw what appeared to be an
old horse-cOllar in the road He drove
over it and soon had fat tire Going
back to investigate he found a black
snake. His theory is that in going
over the snake the latter viciouslv bit
hole in the tire, and he points out
the hole to prove the correctness of his
belief.-Utica Press.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25

Mass. With food conservation dis
cussed on all sides the baseball en-
thusiasts of Pittsfeld to the number
of $50 joined in a big banquet and cele
bration to John F. Collins" Shane. -
Is Collins a hero of the war? Has he
performed a great feat of bravery In ac
tion or shown something in the way OF
noble self sacrifice? Not bit. John
simply happened to be member of
the Chicago American baseball team
that won the world IS championship. In
the series against the champions of the
National " Shano' hit freely and field
ed like a bush Lacquer. But ne was
a Pittsield boy, and on his return the
townspeople arranged a celebration in
his honor This sort of recognition
would have been well enough in its
way in ordinary peace times, but we
are at war now. We are also trying to
save waste of nOurishing material, for
Food Administrator Hoover-a mighty
big man by the way-has told us that
food will win the war. The celebrants
at Pittsfield undoubtedly spent enough
money on single meal to feed full
company Of soldiers week, and all in
honor of vigorous young man who
happened to be on a winning ball team,
and who has done nothing to mark him
as a patriot in his country's time of
need.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25

Mr.. Lionel Locust heard them
Deem he said, means the same as
think or consider. In other words,
would consider it d great honor
and then he paused.
"'We understand now,' said the in
sects, and that was as far as you had
gone in your speech. Pray continue.
"'Yes, would consider it an honor,
repeated Mr.. Lionel Locust, If our
guests would sing for us, too. In fact
u concert would not be real one
without their lovely voices
This made everyone very happy,
and they all promised to sing. They
all sang in separate family groups al
first but later on every insect in the
meadow that night sang i'll the great
final chorus and the meadow was gay
with the sound Of many insect voices
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25

The recent fiuing of Windham county
men for violating the fish and game
laws by taking fur bearing animals
out Of season, leads the st. Johnsburv
Caledoniau to call attention to the fact
that the law protecting these animals
IS conservation measure, which simply
requires the trapper or hunter to con
duct operations at time when the fur
is most valuable and when it is much
more profitable for them to obey the
law than to violate il.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25

The arrival Of 7,6lS,240 pounds of
cane sugar at Boston will help New
England some in tiding over the short
age in sugar. The consignment is to
the Revere sugar refinery, and is being
mloaded at the company S docks. For
further relief, the food administration
committee Of Chicago has announced
that shipments Of beet sugar from the
West will begin at once for the pur-
pose Of helping out New England until
the cane sugar comes to market Most
people think of the world s supply of
sugar as a product of the cane, but as
a matter Of fact beets furnish two
thirds Of this essential food.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25

Vermont largest fiduciary institu-
ton, the National Life Insurance com
Pany of Montpelier, again comes
through handsomely on the second Lib
crty loan, taking 100000 in single
block, in addition to assisting its home
office employees to subscribe for nearly
100000 additional. These large sub
seriptions will swell Montpelier s total
but the real test of community spirit
viii come in the number of persons who
participate in the subscriptions Many
.of the persons taking small loans are
doing more relatively than the person
of large means.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
THURSDAY, OCTOBER %, 1917.

Some people look at the war as if
it were a matter of politics. The war
is not debatable from the standpoint
Of true American. IT is simply a
ghastlt horror staring in our faces
all the time. There is no such thing
as neutrality now. You are either for
Us or against MS. Don t forget that
fact when YOU meet any Of the slackers
or the near slackers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
CORN IN STAPLES PLACE.
Hoover Plans to Reduce Use of Wheat,
Sugar and Fats.

WASHINGTON, Oct 25.-The coun-
try's principal manufacturers of corn
products conferred with officials of the
food administration yesterday regard
ing the use of corn starch, corn syrup
and oil as wartime substitutes for
wheat, sugar and fats.
The huge corn crop this year, it was
pointed out, would make it possible to
provide cheap substitutes for many sta
pies that must be conserved. 4 spn-
cial committee was appointed to coor-
dinate the work of the industry with
that of the food administration.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
MIR. Lionel Locust
Got Up.

How good or you to call 1t sing
ing said the locusts. We only called
it practising. We wanted to get in
the best of voice for a concert and
we wanted all the creatures to come
Thank YOU, said the crickets.
Wed be charmed to come.
1.-The concert will begin in a very
few minutes said Mr.. Lionel Locust,
who was the leader of the locust
chorus.
Word was quickly whispered about
the insect world, and many of them
were ready almost before they had
been asked.
You see they heard the locusts
practising all the late afternoon, and
during the early evening, SO they i'm
agined they were going to give some
sort OF an entertainment. They had
merely been waiting for their invita-
TONS
First the Katydid family arrived,
then the field crickets, next came q
smaller size of field crickets, and the
smooth-winged cricketS. The broad
winged locusts, cousin of the meadow
locusts and the tree crickets all soon
appeared.
They sat around on shrubs and on
low trees. Some Of them sat in re-
served seats the locusts had for them
on very tall blades of grass. These
they had for some of their older and
more distinguished guests.
Then the concert began. The To-
Gusts sang in Chorus, they sang sep
arately and two or three sang at a
time. In fact, they sang in every way
| they could, but they liked it best in
| chorus.
The reason for that was because
| every creature so much wanted TO join
in the fun, and of course it was only
| in chorus that that could be done
THE rest OF the insects clapped
their little legs together and shrieked
with delight at many of the songs.
When they called out how much they
liked the songs, they sang their words
| of praise.
1T is not usually the way to ask
| the audience TO JOIN in the perform
ance, but this was The way it was in
| the meadow that night.
Mr.. Lionel Locust got up and said
| Ladies and gentlemen, crickets,
katydids, locusts, we are all highly
| hOnorcd TO have you here, our cousins
and our friends He cleared his throat
and all the insects looked very much
| pleased.
"'It is an honor to be here they
said
/ THANK YOU said Mr.. Lionel LO-
Gust, bowling very low. 1 am glad to
hear these kind words from our good
friends, and now / have few words
| to say. l will not take more than Il
moment or two Of your very valuable
time
of course Mr.. Lionel Locust had
| already taken up little of their time
and had said several words before he
made this part of his speech. But he
L.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
Did They Turn it Down?

'.'What would You do if / turned You
DOWN." she asked shyly, as they sat on
the parlor sofa.
The young man looked straight ahead
but said nothing. After a few moments
of silence she nudged him with her ell
bow and said: ''Didn You hear my
question:
He looked around apprehensively
+" [ beg your pardon, he replied. q
thought you were addressing the gas. -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25

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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
Matrimonial Efforts Failed.

A woman in a railway waiting room
the other day had great deal of
trouble with one of her children, boy
of seven or eight, and a man who sat
near her stood it as long as possible,
then observed: Madam, that boy Of
yours needs the strong hand of a
father
eyes, l know it. = she replied, "but
he can t have it. His father died when
he was six years of age, and l We done
my best to get another husband and
failed. He can't have what | can t
get"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25

began their sing
ing.
They sang on
into the night and
when it was very
dark they called
their friends to
the concert.
. What have you
been singing all
this time?' asked
a number Of 9th
er insects politely.
For you know the
locustS are in
sects just as the
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run Of paper,
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an inch for each subsequent insertion.
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.
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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, 1917-10-25

ilUu HedIu SOlllc
where that crea-
lures who made
speeches usually
made opening re-
marks way down
toward the mid
die of the speech.
And so he wanted
to be perfectly
correct.
IS Il would deem
it a great favor,
but all the IN
sectS had inter
rupted.
8 What does he
mean by "deem"?'
they all asked.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
Be Honest.

Don't be ashamed Of honest work
is better to DC good blacksmith
than Il bad lawy y,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
Be Optimistic

Be cheerful. Don't carry around a
woe-begone look or act as though all
The trouble in the world were resting
on yaur shoulders.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
TO The SUBSCRIBERS,

1t is the. aim Of the management to
secure SEE efticient ssxAIee <,essisssdeliyery of
cooperation Of sptsdribefs 10 that end.
Prompt reports ssstidsbe given of each
failure, to receive Sts. paper on the morn
by telephone or posxa card, thus enabling
the cause OF the ecIor to be promptly and
accurately discovered and the proper
remedy Immediately applied. 1t Is only
cure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
Significant Facts About the War.

The Kaiser is the man who started the
war: Seryia is the country where the war
started
There are SIX letters in each of these
words, and if written together and di-
vided in halves, these two halves will
smell Kaiser and Saryi1.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-25
Member of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for publication Of al
news dispatches credited to il and no
Otherwise credited in this paper and alsC
the local news published herein
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ADNSGy[N|Nl
A|W TALE
LOCUSTS' CONCERT.
81 MAM GnAHAlI b0yHieR

at was almost time for the sun to
set" said Daddy, when the locusts