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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
Entering Unannounced.

Canon Anger was very fond of chill
dren, and set out one night to attend a
party given "by children for children. !"
"Don t announce me- he said to the
servant.
Leaving his coat aand hat downstairs
he quietly opened the drawing room
door, whore the buzz of voices an
nounced the presence of company. Drop
ping on his hands and knees he en-
tered, making strange noises distinctly
resembling the neighing of horse.
Aware of a dead silence, he looked up,
and found the guests assembled for an
s o clock dinner regarding him with dis
gust, not unmiXed with alarm.
The children s party was next door
Irish World.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
My Own, My Native Land.

Breathcs there the man, with soul so
dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne 'er within him
burned,
AS home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on foreign
strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can
claim
Depite those titles, power and pelf,
The wretch, considered all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renOwn,
And, double dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he
sprung
Unwept, unhOnored and unsung.
Prom the Lay of the Last Minstrel,
by Sir Walter Scott.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
THE PUTNEy COLUMN
Lecture by Professor Cherrie.

The lecture by Prof. George X. Cher
RE of Newfane in the Baptist church
Tuesday evening was of an unusually
high order and one of the best ever given
in Putney. The ssubfcts was Ranch In
dustries and Animal Life in the Panta-
males, the Vast Alluvial Plain in the Val
ley OF the Paraguay River, Brazil. One
was given a good idea of farm life in
South America, the country, its birds and
its animals. Prof. Cherrie is pleasing
speaker, with an easy manner and held
the close attention of his audience at all
times, his recital of personal experiences
being especially interesting. The views
shown by the lantern operated by Mr..
Jordan of Brattleboro were particularly
good and added much to the enjoyment
of the evening.
The lecture was under the auspices of
the Green Mountain Boys. The boys in
khaki acted as ushers. At the opening
of the entertainment Rev. r. b. Davis
pastor, introduced Prof. Cherrie and the
members of the club arose and gave their
veil: e-r-m-o-n-t. Green Mountain
Boys are we. Rah! Rah! Rah Prof
Cherrie.' and sauted the speaker
Prof. Cherrie was pleased Mt his cordial
reception. A large number We're present
from Brattleboro and Westminster and
the church was filled in spite of the in
tense heat
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
SOLDIERS FEARS.
Bayonet Fighting and Asphyxiation
Gases Are the Least of Them.

1t is extraordinary what curious fears
some soldiers have. One fighter always
breads that his charcoal fire will be de-
stroycd by shell. He always places the
burner in the most protected part of the
trench, but remains quite Indifferent in re-
gard to his own personal safety
Another extraordinary fear of a soldier
at the front is that of having his bootlaces
united. Nothing else has terrors for him,
from bayonet fighting to asphyxiating
gases, But he is quite certain that if his
bootlaces are loose he will trip over them
and break his neck. He always examines
his laces to see if they are properly fss-
tened. Another soldier who has been
through the thick of the fighting is terri
bly, frightened of going through a wood,
and would rather walk miles round it than
half a mile through it. He has the fear
that some day tree will suddenly fall and
crush him.
Many soldiers have a horror of losing
their identity discs, or of being unidentified
II they are killed, and buried in a namelcss
grave. One man is known to carry little
scraps of paper in every pocket, giving
his name and regiment, so that his body
may be recognized ii he is killed Toronto
Mail and Empire
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
WESTMINSTER WEST,

Hugh Goodell has new Ford automo-
bile
Sharon Holden went to Highgate Sat
urday to visit friends.
Mrs. Kate Harding of Boston is
boarding with Mrs. Arthur Harlow.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Ward of Keene,
N. H., are visiting Miss Nellie Houghton
The Ladies' Aid society met with Mrs
Charles Brooks last week Thursday for
an outdoor picnic supper.
Miss Adeline Chickering of Westmore-
land, N. H., was a guest last week of
Mrs. Lydia Beach of West hill.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stolte and daugh-
ter of Fairhaven, Mass, are visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harlan Goodhue.
Judge A. f. Schwenk and family and
Henry Durham and family of Brattle
boro were guests Sunday of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harlan Goodhue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Chapman, Miss
Alice Goodell, Mrs. Frank Harlow, Mrs.
Philip Hall attended Prof. Cherries lee
ture in Putney Tuesday evening
Mrs. Luella Rugg spent last week
with her son, Lee Rugg, in Bellows Falls.
Miss leila Rugg went Saturday, return
ing home Sunday with her mother.
The Social club will give dance in
the town hall Friday evening, Aug 10.
Giles orchestra of Grafton will furnish
music. Refreshments will be on sale all
the evening.
Charles Cummings of Springfield,
Mass, Misses Carrie Houghton and
Beatrice Harlow, Hugh and Wayne
Houghton motored to Brattleboro Tues
day and visited friends.
Charles Reed of North Adams has been
spending a week with his brother, Calvin
Reed From here he went to spend a
few days with his son, Bert, who is with
his company in camp at Greenfield, Mass.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Phillips was
called to Peru by the serious illness of
her sister She was with her week
before she died Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Phillips went to Peru Hast week to at
tend the funeral.
Mr.. and Mrs, Leonard d. Way motored
in their new Ford coupe from their home
in Hartford, Conn, to SaXtons River
where they spent few days this week
they called on friends here.
Mrs. Edward Philips spent several
days last week with Mrs. Frank Leonard
of West Dummerston, and with her new
granddaughter, who is also great grand
daughter to Mrs. Eliza Phillips and Mrs
Mary Elizabeth Phillips, both of this
place.
Mrs. Martha Miller, who has been lv-
ing with her daughter, Mrs jerome Col
Inns of Westminster, since her home here
was destroyed by fire, is visiting her
daughter, Mrs Frank Harlow of Nal
den, Mass, at her summer home here
and her many friends are glad to have
her with them again for a while.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
Ten Commandments.
(Alichigan State Board of Health Blu

(Alichigan State Board of Health Bulle-
TIM
I. Honor they city and keep its sani-
tary laws.
H. Remember thy cleaning day, and
keep it wholly.
III. Thou shalt love thy children,
and provide for them decent homes and
Fairgrounds.
". Thou shalt keep fresh air in thy
house day and night.
V. Thou shalt not keep in disorder
thy alley, thy backyards, thy hall and
stairways.
VI. Thou shalt not kill thine own nor
thy neighbours bodies with poisonous air
and disease breeding filth.
VII Thou shalt not let the filthy fly
live.
VIII. Thou shalt not steal thy chill
dren's happiness from them by neglect
ing their health.
IN. Thou shalt not bear filthy, de
cayed teeth in thy mouth nor tolerate
them in the mouths of those about thee.
y. Thou shalt not spit on the side
walks, nor on the floor, nor in the street
car, nor in any public place whatsoever.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
Come You Back Without Delay.

BY the old brown road that s runnin
westward toward the settin' sun,
There s a dear old farm calm ,:
"Come you back to Dummerston.
For the wind is in the pine trees, and
their swayin seems to say:
" Come you back, you New York school
marin, come you back without delay. y
f" Come you back without delay' are
the words they seem to say.
Can t you hear the dear folks calm ;:
"Come you back, come back today 2!
Not to work, but just to play; early
dawn till fades the day"
CAM you hear them pines a calm ,:
"Come you back without delay?"
1 am tired of wastin' leather on these
New York pawn stones,
And the dampish Brooklyn weather
wakes the fever in my bones.
Though / walks with 80 schoolmarms
down Fifth avenue or Broadway,
And they talks lot of larnin Laws!
What is it that they say9
Classy books and larned talk! What
care | for such a walk
ID much rather be drivin' with a
nag that doesn' t balk,
Up along the lake road way, from the
dawn till fades the day,
Where the pines are always calm ,:
"Come you back without delay"
Ship me somewhere north of Springfield,
where their worst is like our best
Where the pie is always wholesome and
so easy to digest.
For the wind is in the pine trees, and
their swayin seems to say:
Maxim hay down in the Goose Field,
-buttermilk is fresh today.
Buttermilk is fresh today" and I
hear the hayers say:
"Need more hands to do the pitchin
and more feet to tread the hay"
Up along the lake road way, from the
dawn till fades the day,
Where the pines are always calm is
the only place for play.
FRIEDA BLUMENBERG.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
The Old Boys.

Time was they marched with swing
and Tilt
With their heads erect and their hats
atit
In the strength and the glow of
youth,
When each man shouldered his pack and
gun
And fought the fight that made us one
A nation in fact and truth.
Today their gait is trille slow
And their ranks are thin, but their old
eyes glow
With light that is clear and brave,
As they trudge along on their tired feet
And lift their faces again to greet
The flag they helped to save.
And now the test of OUR souls has come
And the soldiers march to the fife and
drum
To ioin in the thick of war,
And the young boys fight as the old boys
fought
Willing to hold their lives as naught
In cause worth dying for.
And we somehow know that in war s
red hell
These lads will battle as nobly well
As the Grand Old Boys we cheer
Who falter by to n martial strain
Or those who under the sod have lain
For many quiet year.
So we lift our eyes to the flag that flies
With its red and its white and blue,
And we cheer again for the kind of men
Who have always seen us through,
For the stalwart breed that meets our
need
For the Old Boys--and the New.
BERTON RRALEY.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
KNITTING THINGS FOR SOLDIERS
Rests Vocal Cords of Lot of Women,
Saws a Writer

Knitting has come to be quite as
much of n feature of war as the tramp
of martial feet.
Not since the tumbrels filed with
victims for the guillotine rumbled
through the streets of Paris while the
knitting women gazed on unperturbed
has there been such universal knit.
ting, unknitting and reknitting as at
present is raging throughout the civil
lied countries of the world.
Socks, shirts, sweaters, muf1ers and
a thousand other articles of wear are
being knit and sent to the Red Cross
and other organizations.
And by the same token several of
these thousands are being unraveled by
a staff of workers kept for that pur-
pose and reknit into the articles which
they set out to be.
This should not discourage women
willing to give their time to such work
however for as long as the Red Cross
workers are able to tell whether a
piece of knitting is meant to be a sock
sweater or muller they would rath
err do the work over again than not to
get it at all.
Socks seem to cause the most trou-
very small knot in the sole of n sock
might cause more than little annoy
ance to n man who had to march Il
miles a day in it with some 45 pounds
of equipment on his back.
1t is advisable for amateurs, if they
do not label the finished product to at
tend some of the Red Cross classes an(
get the instruction which will insur,
their work not having to be done ovei
again.
Some of the slips in knitting ar,
probably caused by excitement. Won
en- nowadays are knitting everywhere
and under all conditions. In the auto
| mobiles in Fifth avenue one may Sc,
them busily working on socks or muf
| fers. In restaurants, waiting for thei
order to be served, many women pro
duce the familiar needles and yarl
from n stylish looking handbag anc
set to work.
| In the trains and even in theater
| between the acts the same holds true
1t is not extraordinary that in the ex
citcment of lodging the traffic jam il
| Fifth avenue q few stitches might b
dropped.
| Recently four women in n Long Is
land railroad train were rather heat
edly discussing the proper way to max
certain stitch. The respective prin
ciples and their merits cannot be dc
scribed by reporter, but at last on
of the women said:
"Well, l II show you," and out o
her handbag came the inevitable knit
ting and she set to work.
"But | do it this way,'s said he
friend, and she produced a muller an
started in to work.
"You re both doing it wrong,
said third woman, and she too pro
duced a sweater, and her fingers bega
to fly with amazing swiftness.
"Oh!" said the fourth woman, g
have the best stitch of all, " and in II
time she was rapidly completing
wristlet.
At any rate, they never said anothe
word until they reached New York.
This knitting is going to rest tn
vocal cords of a lot of women. Man
husbands have made the discovery an
are putting their cigar money into var
and needles for their wives. - Me-
York Herald.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
1.-THE Peoples Voice Is God's.'

We'll said that singer Hoary,
In days of long ago;
The days of Roman glory,
Who babe the world to know
Tho tyrants would conceal it,
And all men know and feel it
"The Peoples voice is God So
Why will we war forever,
o, slaves and sons of slaves,
With death for your endeavor
And for you guerdons graves7
For freedom not conceded,
For mercy sorely needed
Who cry and are unheeded?
"The Peoples voice is God So
Why will We crouch and cover.
Blind followers of the blind,
Who, did ye know your power,
Could free all human kind?
Why will we follow humbly,
And patiently and dumbly,
And fearfully and numbly?
"The Peoples voice is God So
There comes n voice of thunder
Upon the listening air;
The skies are rent asunder
And His right arm is bore;
Down with the cruel classes!
Uplift the burdened massesl
Lord Christ all caste surpasses!
"The Peoples voice is God So
1t is time for writing
The dcspOt g doom in red;
1t is time for shifting
Till tyranny is dead;
1t is time for daring
The wrath of kings and swearing
To be no more forbearing-
The Peoples voice is God So
Speak then! and Heaven shall hear you
And all of Earth as well;
And Kings and Lords shall fear you
More than the flames of hell
Let then the word be spoken!
Let then the chain be brokenl
And all the earth bear token
"The Peoples voice is God 8. a" '
Cast off your indecision,
O, starved and cheated lives!
j see as in vision
The scarlet doom of Dives!
Nor is high Heaven beaning,
Far thro trumpet flaming
near voice proclaiming
1.-THE Peoples voice is God So
The tempest wakes louder,
The Lord is coming on
hear the Storm-wing speaking
The World s Euroclydon!
The throne of mortal making
Immortal hands are shaking,
Enceladus is waking,
1.-The Peoples voice is God So
ARTHUR GOODENOUGH.
West Brattleboro.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
WESTMINSTER.

Walter Wright is spending the week
in Walpole.
Miss Viola Fenton spent the past week
in Ncrthiield
Miss Gertrude Lober returned to New
York city Sunday.
There will be a Sunday school picnic
next week Wednesday,
Mrs. Joseph Stevens has gone to Bos-
ton for medical treatment
Miss Sarah Rice is visiting her grand
mother, Mrs. Charles Rice.
Miss Martha Rostrum has returned
to her home in Corona, n. Y.
Miss Charlotte Lober and A. L. Lober
spent Sunday at Fort Ethan Allen.
George Hill has gone to Springfield
(Nt.), where he has gone into business.
Miss Eta Thomas of Guilford has
been spending week at Archie Willis's.
Miss Bertha Kathan and Miss Rather
inc Howe of Putney visited friends here
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. David Irwin of Arlington,
Mass, are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Twitchell.
Mrs. William O'Brian and two children
vi NHtlStd, MINIS, are guests at MT. ana
Mrs. A. b. Wright's.
Marty Beam of Company +, Fort
Ethan Allen, was Sunday guest of his
aunt, Mrs. Herbert Hill
i. c. Chaplin of Holyoke, Mass, is
spending a few days with Mrs. Chaplin
at their summer home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walton Farr of Bellows
Falls We're guests over Sunday of their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs Robert Farr.
Mrs Charles Fuller and three children
left this week Thursday for Easton, Pa
where they will join Mr. Fuller for their
future home
Mr., and Mrs. G. II. Walker and Miss
Eva larkin spent Tuesday in Greenfield,
Mass, On their return Hazel, Myrtle
and Florence Atcherson came with them
for few days visit at Mr. and Mrs
Walkers.
The card party given last week Thurs
day afternoon in the home of Mrs. j. p
Holmes for the benefit of the Rocking
ham hospital was well attended and
much enjoyed. The highest number in
bridge whist was reached by Mrs.
Charles Buck of Boston. Mrs. Melvin
Ramsey of Walpole, n. H., scored the
highest number in tive-hundred. Inter
esting remarks were made in regard to
the work accomplished and needs of the
hospital by Mrs. Fred Babbitt and Mrs.
Fred Perry of Bellows Falls. A vote of
thanks was extended to Mrs Holmes by
the hospital committee for opening her
house to such worthy cause.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
MANY PRESCRIPTIONS
AT THIS SEASON

In order to comprise the best course
OF treatment, and to secure the best
results, should read as follows:
II Hood 8 Sarsaparilla-11 or.
Peptiron Pills-180
Sig: One teaspoonful Hood s Sar-
saparilla before meals
Two Peptiron Pills after meals
There is no better course of medi-
cine for impure blood, rundown
condition and loss of appetite. These
two medicines working together
often give four-fold benefit.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
Let EN- Do It.

Geraldine Farrar, the grand-orera
singer, was asked short while ago how
she stood on the votes-for women ques-
ton.
Il don't stand at ALL" she replied, and
then told n story about farmers wife
in Connecticut who, hurrying from milk
ing the cows to the kitchen, from the
kitchen to the churn, from the churn to
the woodshed, and back to the kitchen
stove, was asked if she wanted to vote
She vehemently replied;
mo, | certainly do not. | say now, if
there's one little thing that the men folks
can do alone, for heavens sake let 'em
do it,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
The Man Behind the Hoe.

You talk about your war machines
And the man behind the gun,
And all the big munition plants
Making war shells by the ton;
But the power that beats the armies
And puts them on the go,
Is the pillow that turns the furrow
And the man behind the hoe.
You may have your mighty army
And your warships and your forts,
And destroy the awful submarines
Bloekading an QUIZ pbrts,n H"o GUS
But of all the mighty war machines
That battle with the foe,
Is the machine that gets the wheat
With the man behind the hoe.
We watch the stock exchange in Wall
Street, the banks are full of gold;
We boast our wage scale has been
Doubled and all the war stocks sold,
But to beat the cost of living
And all other costs we know,
just boom a big potato crop
With the man behind the hoe.
We vote great men to Washington
For government to win;
We may vote out every evil thing
And Danish every sin,
But to save the country and the flag
And strike the hardest blow,
Is to get beside Old Mother Earth
And fully man the hoe.
Then drop all other arguments
And all the common trash,
To have a well-flled larder
And your wallet full of cash.
Settle down to work in earnest
On the crops you ought to show,
Push the pillow that turns the furrow
And the man behind the hoe.
REV. WILBUR c. NEWELL.
Cumberland, n. Y.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
Death Follows Heat Pfdstration.

: Mrs. Helen Harding, widow of John
Harding, died about s o'clock Wednesday
evening She had been an invalid many
years. She was overcome by the eX-
treme heat and her son, Fred Harding, on
returning from his work found her in n
collapsed condition. Medical aid was
summoned, but she could not rally. A
nurse who looked after her each day
game in the afternoon and although she
Found her suffering from heat did not
Consider her condition alarming. ........
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
WHITINGHAM.
Automobile Upset.

Arthur Kingsley and family had an
almost miraculous escape from serious
injury last Friday afternoon. They
were returning home from the village in
their new Buick car and met Roy Tay-
lor with his horse and carriage. The
horse was frightened and ran up on the
bank by the roadside, coming down and
nearly upsetting the carriage.
Mrs. Kingsley, who was riding on the
rear seat of the automobile with her
baby and the hired man, screamed as
she thought the wagon was coming on
top of them. This caused Mr.. Kingsley
to look around letting his ear go off the
bank on the opposite side. The car
turned completely over, but the back
seat caught on log, which held it and
the only one who was injured was the
hired man, who sustained a fracture of
several ribs. The party were able to
crawl from under the machine and walk
to their home about two miles.
The automobile was left until the
next day, when it was placed right side
up and found to have escaped with only
a broken wind shield and a bent steer
ing rod.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03

When Charles Mauser, son of Fritz
Mauser, farmer near Frederick, Kan,
drove up to his home a few days ago wear
ing an American flag on his coat the older
Mnuser tore the flag from his coat. Young
Mauser, American born, promptly whipped
his German born dad and then made him
kiss the flag and swear allegiance to it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03

Churches of Mexico City which contain
many objects of art and jewels of great
value recently have been despoiled by
what is believed by the police to be an
organized band of thieves They pretend
to be worshipping, but when the church
custodans are not watching them, steal
articles of value The latest to suffer from
these depredations was the church of
those who have taken vows, where col
lar of diamonds and pearls was taken from
the neck of an image of the Virgin.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
Her Finish.

On three successive days the follow
ing items appeared in Il small-town pa
per:
Mrs Albert Cavil and children We're
the guests of Mr., and Mrs. William
Mcmillan Thursday.
Mrs. John Wyckoff and daughter Alice
are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs William
Mcmillan.
Mrs. Mcmillan is on the sick list"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03
Rev. T. 7. Poe1man Resigns.

At the Sunday morning service Rev.
r. J. Poelman, pastor of the Congrega-
tiona church, rendered his resignation
to take effect Sept. l, much to the sur
prise and regret of the congregation.
Rev Mr.. Poelman has been with the
church a year and has labored zealously
for the up-buildng of the church. A
meeting will be called to act upon his
resignation.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03

Waitresa-Sorry, we have no tea cakes
or crumpets. We're not allowed to
make them.
Chorus of "Sevcre Cases-What!
This blooming vars gettin' to be a bit
too thick.-Passing Show.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-08-03

"And now, Jimmy, why is it that
never strikes twice in the same
placer"
Because" said Jimmy, confidently,
after it hits once, the same place amt
there any more, Sacred Heart Review.