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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE
By LEE PAPE

Last mite | wasent allowed to go out,
in the aftitnoon and met the fellows
and forgot / was ON errand, and aft
er suppir pop started to set GROUND
shocking and looking cfanky without
saying enything, and ma sed, For mersv
sakes, Willyum, cheer up, nobodys ded,
is there?
Proberlv sed pop.
Wat on erth ales vou2 You ack like
an old man, sed ma.
! Did you ever hcer of day wen every
thing seems to 60 rong? sed pop, and
4 ma sed, Yes.
4 This is it, and | deny that | ack like
an old man, sed pop.
Well for goodniss sakes, you don't haff
70 look 50 grumpy about it, sed ma,
you're enuff to make enyhody elts grum-
py jest to look at you, Wy don't you
smile for a change, YOU must be getting
old
I'm not getting old. and if YOU tell
me sumthing funny III smile, YOU don't
iXpect me to walk GROUND smiling like
a idiot, do YOU, sed pop.
All rite, sed ma, wuntS there was a
man With HdittiN tuN mare on MS Dtfi
and he wunted to 20 to a maskerade
party and he dident know wat to 90 as
and his wife sed, Wy don't you go as q
billiard ball?
That's a reflection on the amount OF
hare on my he'd, | sippose, sed pop, anc
ma sed, My goodniss, its nuthipg Of the
sawt, you're to conseeted, that's watts thr
mattir with you, you take everything
persinil
Ill tell YOU sumthing funny if yol
leeve me 90 out afterwards, pap, / sed
: That's fare offer, sed pop and / sed
Its sumthing Leroy Shooster sed, ant
pop sed, Who in blazes in Leroy Shoes
ter, and ! sed, He hasent lived erroun.
here long, and the luther day he saw yol
and granpop wawking down the stree
I and l sed, There goes my father an,
. my grandfather, and Leroy Shooster sed
! WITCH wnns your grandfather
OF all the impudents, and you cal
that funny, sed pop.
Hee hee, | think its funny sed ma
Benny, you 90 to bed, sed pop mad a
enything.
Wich | did.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27
DADDSEv[N[N(
ARY TALL al
~ MARY GRAHA'0l.l!. MI BONNER
RICH MISS HEN.

"Cock-a-doodle-do," shouted Mr.
Rooster.
"Cluck, cluck, cIuck," said Miss Hen.
Observation-Disclosures crowed Grand
father Red Top Rooster.
Such noise as there was in the
Barnyard and all because great many
automobiles had gone by. Mr.. Rooster
was the first to complain.
"Once," he said, my great-grand-
father objected to these automobiles
because he said that their honk-honk
was noticed far more than his fine
growing"
'To be sure it would be, toO," said
Miss Hen, who was rather nervous.
| Poor great-grandfather might have
been run over and killed by one and
there is always that awful chance that
an automobile might"
! "You are so nervous" said Mr..
| Rooster. But the reason my great
grandfather minded it so much was
because he said he felt it was taking
attention away from him which he
thought he deserved.
Il see" said Miss Hen. Still / can't
nelp noticing an automobile myself
It's SO noisy and it's more unusual
than growing"
Il am not so sure about that said
Grandfather Red Top Rooster. II real
iy believe that rooster is more of q
treat these days than an automobile
Think of the numbers that go by one
after the other, day after day Ant
each year there are more"
"You know" said Miss Hen, VIII,
was really very vain and tried to pu
on many airs, Il thought of getting on,
myself"
You were going to get an automo
bile?" asked Mr.. Rooster, who was tn
first one able to speak. "And pray tel
how could you have done such thing
Who would have run it for you
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27

If Grafton d. Cushing, former lieu
tenant governor, went into the primar
rics for the purpose of keeping himself
befpre the public in anticipation of
nominations next yearin Massachusetts,
he was poorly advertised. Beaten by
Mccall, the present Republican govern
or, 1 to l, the aspirant hardly looks
the part Of a favorite son. The ex-Ver.
monter, Lieut. Gov. Calvin Coolidge OF
northampton, seems to have the inside
track over Cushing for preferment t.
the chief executive $ office.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27

| could have made the most money.
That is the main thing with automo-
bile owners. It costs so much to keep
them going. They say when they stop
to mend a tire here that / would need
to make as much money as I could.
And there is my answer to your
fourth question. l would have made
the money to pay for it by selling eggs.
They go up in price all the time. I
could have had an automobile. I am
no longer poor hen to be despised
and to be footed, footed at by other
folks horns. No, | am a hen, a great
and useful hen. A money-making hen
An egg-selling hem
The other creatures stared at her il
w0nSer and admiration.
But why didn't you buy one?' asked
Grandfather Red Top Rooster, after
long pause.
Because" said Miss Hen, "they ar,
too common. l didn't want to spenC
my summer doing nothing but stir
| ring up dust!''
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27
STRONG EVIDENCE.
Is the Statement of This Brattleboro
Woman.

Woman.
Backache is often kidney ache;
A common warning of serious kidney
ills.
"a Stitch in Time Saves Nine -
Don t dclay-use Doan s Kidney
Pills.
Profit by Mrs Knowlton S experience
Mrs. Lora l.. Knowlton, Horton
Place, Brattleboro, says: 81 have al
WAYS found Doan S Kidney Pills an ex-
cellent remedy. | have been subject to
attacks of kidney trouble which have
caused me quite bit of distress and an
noyance My kidneys haven't acted
right at times and my back has felt
tired and painful. This has been quite
Doan 5 Kidney Pills on such occasions
and they have soon improved my con.
dition, and it has not been long before
| have felt well again.
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't sim
lply ask for kidney remedy - get
Doan s Kidney Pills - the same that
Mrs. Knowlton had. Foster -Milburr
Co., Props, Buffalo, N. Y.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27

We arc pleased to note that many
teachers in our public schools are en-
dcavoring to interest the children in
current events in these days when his
tory is being made. There is one sub
iect, however, of which not only children
but the young people who have finished
high school and college courses are woe.
fully ignorant, and that is geography
particularly Of their own state and coun
try. They would read with greater un
Outstanding and enjoyment if towns
cities and larger units of government
meant something more to them than
names.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27

Where would you have gone? How
could you have paid for it? They say
they cost great deal of real money"
"Ah," said Miss Hen, "you all think I
am very foolish, but l am not. No,
indeed, l am not foolish at all. / am
very sensible. / know what / am talk
ing about. / could have had an auto
mobile if | wanted. / know how to do
things. | have an excellent business
head for q hen"
The other creatures looked at Miss
Hen in surprise. She had always been
so fond of putting on airs, they thought
this was one too. Yet they couldn't
understand how Miss Hen could say
such things if she didn't mean some
of them.
"You have asked me great many
questions" said Miss Hen. 81 cannot
answer them all at the same time But
| will answer each one separately
And she cleared her throat.
First of ALL" she said, "comes the
question, how I could have done sucf
| thing. | would have bought the au
| tomobile with money I can earn ant
earn easily too. There! The first an
swer" Miss Hen chuckled delight
| eddy.
Every creature in the barnyard wa
looking at her. 1t made her feel yer,
| important
1.-THE second question, who woul
| have run 1t for me-. Well. ladies' I'll,
their own automobiles. Hens coul
run their own. / would have had on
made my size-they make them a
sizes you know-and it would have jus
fitted me.
THE third question asking m
where l would have gone can easil
be answered by saying that I woul
have gone about the countryside, sci
ing eggs to different farmers, whereve
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27

This is war library week, when Yer
mont is called upon to raise 100000 as
its share of national fund to be used
in providing books and other reading
matter for the soldiers. Vermont re.
sponded nobly to the appeal to subscribe
to the Liberty loan bonds and in giving
more than its quota for Red Cross work
The response would have been equally
prompt and generous for this helpful
library work if the campaign had beer
systematically planned and pushed, but
it seems to lack entirely in anything
like a well-directed management.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27

Disloyalty to the government, whether
it comes from professcd anarchists, the
easily influenced members of a so-called
labor organization, the adherents of a
fraternal body who have a dislike to
one particular nation which is our ally
at present, a judge of 4 supreme court
senator. should be dealt with summarily
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27
Harness the Streams.

Thomas F. Logan. in Leslie 81
OF the 60,700,O00 horsepower of wa
ter-power in the United States, all but
$500, 000 horse power is running to
waste. The water is at present locked
up against utilization by the laws gov
erning the forest reserves, the general
public domain and the navigable
streams. Congressman have not hest
tated to advocate higher rates on mail
matter Of the second class, but have not
found time to open up these WATERPROOF
ers, so that print paper can be made
cheaper for the publishers. 1t has been
estimated by Secretary of Agriculture
Houston that there is enough timber
going to waste in the forest reserves
and on cut-over lands to supply wood
pulp indefinitely, if the question of its
manufacture by waterpower could be
solved. Three bills now pending in con
gress-the Shields bill, the Walsh bill
and the Small bill-are designed to re
lease the water-power to private de
lvelopment in thc three fields mentioned
| Apparently, however, it is easier Il
pass billion dollar appropriations, issue
bonds and impose taxes ON ''war prof
/ its than to harness the waters to use
full purpose.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27

II is a slow process but Gen. Haig S
ofiensivcs against the Germans, which
are being repeated at frequent inter
walls, arc gaining steadily. If the Brit
ish are able to break through to the
coast and capture the German naval
bases a long step will have been taken
toward curbing the submarine menace
and England will be freed of anxiety
from air raids.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27

Congressman Frank l.. Greene's APP
peal to the women of Vermont to aid
the Great Cause through efforts to con
serve the food supply shows that he has
an appreciation of the fine qualities of
the gontler sex of his own state, and
that he has lost nothing of his power OF
vigorous and convincing use of the Eng
lish language.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

II Is the aim OF the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery of
corporation 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, 1917-09-27
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count for each subsequent insertion,
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change of copy.
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27

Inquiries into steel prices since the
government order was issued indicate
that the trade, broadly speaking, has
not been getting the extraordinary quo
tations reported of late. The urgent
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER p, 1917.

A cereal storv-don't eat wheat on
Wednesdays and Thursdays.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27

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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27

Live Man Doesn't Wait.
Time and tide wait for no man. The
live man doesn't wait for time or tide.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-27
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-15
STICK TO OUR
LANGUAGE, 7. R.
Living in U. S. Involves Being
American All Through,
Declares Colonel

Lincoln. Neb.. June 15. With all
the vigor at his command Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt, addressing sew
eral thousand persons assembled on
the Capitol grounds yesterday after
noon, the last day of the semicenten-
nial celebration of Nebraska, strove
to drive home the fundamental truths
of the doctrine of Americanism. His
speech was tempered with kindly con-
sideration for those of foreign blood
in the United Staes, but he was en-
phatic in pointing out the duty of
every American at the present time.
One of Mr.. Roosevelt's digressions
from his written address was to flas
the German-language newspapers OF
the country.
"These newspapers printed in Ger
man are fit subject for the attention
of the censor" he said. II think the
English language. seeing it as our
language, does pretty we'll without
! the assistance of the German or any
other tongue.
81 might have been sheriff of my
county" Mr.. Roosevelt continued. but
| never would have been President II
l had learned and only spoke Dutch
the language of my ancestors.
II have a friend who has just en-
listed in the army. He has a splendid
little family of a wife and four chill
dren. He himself was born in Sweden
but he is all American and good one,
too: Now I don't want that mans
children to speak Swedish and my
children speak Dutch because / want
them to understand each other"
In the course of his address Colonel
Roosevelt asserted that the clergy
man who does not put his flag above
the church had better close his church
and keep it closed"
Mr.. Roosevelt urged farmers to buy
Liberty Bonds and said:
"If you don't invest in the Liberty
Loan, don't jump on Wall Street when
Wall Street does"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-15

The statement made the other day
by David l. Fultz. president of the
Players Fraternity, that August
Hermann. chairman of the National
Commission, had asked him to have
the Fraternity blacklist all players
who jumped to the Federal League,
was branded as absolutely untrue by
Hermann.
a monopoly of the game because It
had no need to fear competition. and
he is on record as believing in the
freedom of any club or league enter
ing the game as a competitor of the
big leagues. declared Hermann in his
testimony.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-15

Anita Stewart. the darling of the
screen, Will be the attraction at the
Colonial Theater to-
Anl!a stewart day and tomorrow,
at the Colonial in a new Vitagraph
feature, "Clover's Re-
bellion." from the pen of James Oil
yer CurWood. There is an old saying
that love laughs at locksmiths," and
never did Cupid work harder or laugh
louder in the battle for the heart of
Glover For Glover was well worth
hghting for. So thought the Duke,
who wanted her money; so thought
"Bucky" Raine, who couldn't under
stand that his presence would make
the delicate little Glover blossom
wither; so thought her scheming aunt
and uncle, who were willing to sell
Glover to the highest bidder. And the
Iocksmiths We're all on their side. And
Doctor Billy Dunn thought that
Glover was well worth fighting for,
too. and although he only had a smile
and an antiquated tub of a motorcar,
and though both he and Glover were
plunged into a murder mystery that
threatened destruction, Cupid was on
his side-and there you are, a picture
OF beauty and an entertaining feature
throughout Secrets of a Beauty
Parlor," a screaming two-reel Key
stone comedy, presented by an all-star
cast. will be the added attraction OF
the program.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-15
Orphan Gives Up All
His Savings and Goes
Into Debt to Buy Bond

Philadelphia, June Is. A real
patriot is Bernard Chase, II years old.
of the Home for Destitute Colored
Children, at Fifty-fourth and Berks
streets. Bernard is an orphan, and
has been in the home for some time,
yet he is as patriotic as any child in
the city, more so than many. For
with the savings of his entire eleven
years, and the money which he hopes
to earn in the future, he has purchas-
For many years Bernard has been
saving his pennies. He is an indus
trious youngster, according to the au-
thorities at the home, and by much
a little more than $25 in his whole
eleven years. Many times he has
gone without candy and soda water
when his acquaintances would urge
him to join them. Many times, even
before he entered the home, did he go
without enough to eat to add to his
small hoard. Slowly it accumulated
and he came to be looked UP to as a
financier by the other children.
Now his total fortune and the entire
time has gone into the purchase of a
Liberty Bond. He has been promised
work for the summer, caring for an
automobile, and he will receive 81 a
that will be put into the purchase of
his bond. There will be no ice cream
and no good times for Bernard this
summer, unless some one else pays
for them. He is determined not to
spend a cent on himself until the
whole amount is paid and he has the
bond in his possession. Yesterday he
was on the Orphans Day outing at
Willow Grove, and the good time he
had there must last him through the
summer and a long time into the fall,
for all his money has been pledged to
slaves, and were freed by the United
States Government. Now he has seiz-
ed his chance to show his gratitude to
that Government.
Use McNeips Pain Exterminator.=
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-15
u. S. Has Assumed Active
Part in War, Says Baker

Washington, June Is. - Secretary
Baker said in formal statement is
sued late yesterday that General Per-
shing's arrival in Paris signalized
Americas active participation in the
The arrival of General Pershing
and his staff in Paris" he said, marks
the beginning of Americas active par
ticipation in the war. The splendid
reception given these American Of
ficers, as we'll as the officers of our
destroyed squadron in England and
France, shows the harmony of spirit
with which three great. peoples are
bined armies from now on will repre-
sent league to enforce peace with
Justice"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-15
San Salvador Is Again
Shaken by Earthquake

San Salvador. Republic of Saliva
dor, June Is. Several earthquake
shocks of varying intensity were felt
here Wednesday and yesterday, but
no damage has been reported.
The various relief Committees are
distributing provisions to the desti-
tute and shelters are being built to
house the thousands of homeless who
at present are encamped in the streets.
The wounded are being attended by
the Red Cross. Several bodies have
been recovered at Armenia and Quez-
altepec.
The tracks of the Occidental Rail-
road are covered with streams of lava
Several craters of the volcano have
formed into one.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-15

The attraction at the Regent for to-
day only, will be a return showing of
b s e n immortal
"Pecr Gynt" peer Gynt," with
at the Regent Cyril Maude in the
To-day Only stellar role. Cast out
of his boyhood home
N Guorandsdale, Norway, for bride
theft, a unique felony, Peer Gynt
wanders over the world indulging his
susceptibility to beautiful women, but
always at his own cost. Ruined, dis
illusioned, and with dead heart Gas
an embittered, cynical. old mani he
drifts back to his old home to die,
but there, finds that the pure, gentle
SolVeig, the sweetheart of his youth,
has been faithfully waiting FOR him
to return. When the Button Moulder
a personification of the Saver of
Souls) comes to cast him into the pot,
and mould him over again because of
ms ms wasted life; It is Solveig's devo-
has lived in her faith. in her hope,
and in her love.
To-morrow's offering will be "The
Lonesome Chap" with House Peters
and Louise Huff.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-15
Twenty Millions in U. S.
Work at War Gardening
BY ASSocintcd Prcst

Washington, June Is. - Since
Americas entrance into the war at
least 20,000.000 people of the coun-
try have been reached by publica-
tions of the Department of Agricul-
ture bearing on the food problem,
Assistant Secretary Vrooman an
nounced to-day.
A bulletin on small vegetable gar
dens has attained circulation of
more than a million copies and $780,
600 circulars on canned fruits and
jellies have been DISTRIBUTED. Post
ers containing President Wilson's
appeal against a waste in food have
been sent to a million and a quar-
ter farmers and housewives. Bulle-
tins on food production and con-
servation have also been in great
demand
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-15
Mother Forces Her Son
to Enroll For Service

Philadelphia, June Is. A white
haired woman walked into headquar-
ters of the registration commission in
City Hall Yesterday with an unshaven,
oop-shouldered man following her
reluctantly.
He is my son." she told a registrar,
and l want him to register" The
man demurred. muttering something
that he did not know his exact age.
He made an effort to reach the door.
The mother prevented his exit,
however, and declared she was cer-
tain he was 2S years old
Il want him to do his duty" she eX-
planned, and he has been trying for
week to get out of it I do not
want my son to be a Stacker"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-15
Can Present
Ice Prices
Be Maintained?

IT depends altogether on the ice
Aconsumer.
Along with every commodity the price
of ice has been raised in practically every
section of the country.
The tremendous advance in the price of
coal used for ice manufacture, labor, upkeep,
feed, etc, made an advance in price i'm
perative.
With the cost of labor increasing all the
time the work the "ice man" has to do in
given time attains greater Importance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-15
German Agents Purchase
Condensed Milk Here
to Evake the Blockade
By Associated Press

Washington, June Is. - Large
quantities of condensed or evaporat-
ed milk have been bought recently
at retail by German agents and
shipped to Germany through neu-
trail ports, the Department of Com
merce was informed to-day by the
war committee of the condensed
milk industry. Fearing detection If
they purchased from manufactur-
ers or jobbers, the German agents
have canvassed retail stores and
paid retail prices. In some COM
munities where milk purducers were
of German descent, dealers have
been told milk purchases were in
tended for Germany, it is said.