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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-05

There is still sentiment enough alive
among the yachting men of the country
to save the famous old schooner Yacht
America, which in 1851 won the Royal
Yacht Squadron cup, since successfully
defended as the America S cup in twelve
international races. The Eastern Yacht
club of Marblehead have bought it to
save it from being refted for CONNER
cial uses. 1t is likely to be converted in
to museum. Since the winning of the
cup the America has had an adventurous
career. She took part in the Civil war
as a privatcer, subsequently was a sunk
en- hulk in st. Johns River, Florida, a
training ship for American midshipmen
at Annapolis and one of the defenders OF
the cup in the first race in 1870. The
yacht has been owned by the family of
former Governor Benjamin F. Butler,
of Manchester, since 1870 and was sold
by his son and daughter, Paul But
Ter and Mrs. Blanche Butler Ames. She
was last in the commission in 1901, when
she was sailed in the cruise of the New
York Yacht club by Butler Ames,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-05

Justice, often, seems to move with
leaden feet. But Warm, the soldier of
unbridled passions, who choked a lit
tie girl to death, found that the Vermont
courts could move with CELEBRITY on oc-
cason. His crime was committed in
August, and on the second day of Octo-
Der he was on his way to the state
prison to serve a long sentence. All
that saved his miserable neck was the
question of doubt as to whether he in
tended to abuse or kill the little Hem
mingway girl,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-05

The japanese, when they fought and
licked Russia, taught the whole world
a lesson in sanitation. From the days
of Alexander down to the Spanish Amer
lean war, it was disease and not bullets
or other implements of destruction. that
took the greatest toll of lives. The
japanese kept their men at war and at
the same time maintained them in a
higher state of physical efficiency than
was found in civilian life. Conditions
have changed strangely even since the
days of the Spanish -American war, when
malaria, typhoid and other fevers ran
rampant through the concentration
camps. Now our soldiers are noculated
against the common diseases, and in ad-
dition they are forced to 90 without
alcoholic or malt liquors, which less than
20 years ago were sold almost without
restriction in the army canteens.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-05

Keep children in school during the
war is not only good slogan now, but
it is wise policy to follow all the time.
You can will your youthful heirs a
fortune, but it may fade away. An ed
ucation, however, endures, There is not
only satisfaction in being a person of
intelligence, but it actually pays in dol
lars and cents to devote the years of
youth to training. The boy or girl who
quits school in the grades stumbles over
hurdles all the rest of life.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-05

The sudden restriction that has been
imposed on dispatches concerning Field
Marshal Haig's offensive in Flanders
leads to expectation of important
happenings 1t is hoped that when the
victory of such magnitude as to shake
the. German hold on the Belgian coast
and perhaps compel a retirement of the
German forces on the line extending
east from Ypres. The military experts
have been pointing out that this often
sive had great possibilities if it could
be pushed through. 1t has already gone
far enough to cause grave concern to
the German high command.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-10-05

Tbe 0ernront 4beni..
TWELVE PAGES
BRATTLEBORO.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER ), 1917.
THE VERMONT PHOENIX

Published in Brattleboro every Friday.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $3.50 A YEAR,
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months; so cents for four months 40 cents
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able strictly in advance. and all papers are
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Rates Of display advertising furnished on
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Entered at the Brattleboro post Office as
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AnnuitantS are glad

to he alive and they usually are alive
longer than other folks. Lack of imam
cial anxiety is the reason they tell us
National Life Insurance Co. Montpeller
VI (Mutual) 5Sth year,
ALBERT C. LAIRD, Special Agent
Crosby Block, 8ratteboro, w.
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Cider Apples Wanted

Will pay 4Oc per 100 lbs. for cider APP
pies delivered at Brattleboro railroad sta
tion. For time of loading write or tele-
phOne +. L. WELLNIAN Phone 15.2
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WANTED.

WANTED-Grl or woman in family
of three. G. IL. HUBBARD, Vernon, VT.
39-tf
WANTED-Several more girls to work
in penholder factory. Piece work. Wages
SIS to $40 per week. Board and room
$3,15. C. f. BRADLEY CORPORATION.
Putney, VT. 21-tf
WANTED-Man or married couple as
carctakers on country place for winter
or permanently, comfortable modern
house, good pay. j. NJ. JOHNSTON,
West BrattlebOrO. 40#
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Debt is disgraceiul, but not being able
TO get into il is often more so.
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE Two 6O-gallon gasoline
tanks with faucets a old price, $3.50
j. 10. ROGERS. 26-tf
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ITTTo WVtK.
OFFSET to high cost of liying-let
Taylor, the tailor, 8 Brook Street. fix
mp your worn suit for winter lS-tf
MRS. J, M. SHAW, South Vernon,
Mass. will he a the rest room Thurs
gay 5 to take orders for making and re-
pairing all fur garments. 40 If
$3.50 MAHOGANY player piano with
music rolls used two months $3.50: will
take your piano in trade. GIBBS PIANO
co., II Main St. Springfield, Mass. 3S-iO'
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FOR SALE-Pigs, ready for delivery
oct. s, So. r. f.. BRUCE, South Vernon,
Mass ;iS-40*
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

PEACHES from Milers farm, 81 % at
Colts store, TINS week. 40-tf
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FOR SALE Nine foot lot in Prospect
lllll cemetery Address BOX 4, Phoenix
once. 39i1
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FOR SALE - Gray mare, IL years old,
fearless, sound, ertra fast walker, weight
inquire of Il. f. WARE, Westmoieland,
n. Fl. 4O-4i
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FOR SALE 49, Meyer buggy. slightly
CAMPBELL, Putney, vt. 3S-tf
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FOR SALE-Registered Guernsey bull,
DireXia $ May Rose King, at reasonable
price; also berkshire pigs and shoats.
Tel 2Nb-M. 40%
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FOR SALE 1917 Ford touring car,
bought new Aug. ! for my summer vaca-
ton aud now sold ON my return to city.
run only 1900 miles, best care and in best
WHITACRE West Bldttleboro. phone
MdllDuiO, VI, 4l9-22.
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FOR SALE - One farm wagon, one
heavy double harness, one L. s. cream
separator, one single harness with
names, one feed cutter and one Reming-
ton typewriter IRA JAY BUTTON, Will
mnStOh VI. 3S-tf
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-11


and has no more brains than are nee
essary.
Further, it must learn the Mitchell
style of play. It must be fused into
a cohesive whole that will rely on
teamplay and not rattle along as it
did last year.
McGraw's New York team is uni
versally awarded the pennant from
this end of the trail. Whether it will
justify these predictions in October is
another question. MCGraw appears
to have everything but first-class
pitching, and his attack looms strong
enough to largely Offset this deficien-
cy. He is bOssing variety Of tenn
peraments, and no one knows how
these master minds will react to the
will of the manager.
Stallings has excellent material
with the Braves. The team that made
a good fight last year has been
strengthened, and Evers says he is
strong enough to play through the
season. The Phillies have aged, and
even an Alexander will not be able
to carry the club high. Brooklyn is
no better than it was last year. Gin
cinnati may play good ball under
MathewsOn, though it does not look
like a first-divisiOn club St. Louis
and Pittsburgh are hopeless
Rowland's White Sox, which open
the American league season against
the Browns in St. Louis today, are
conceded an even chance for the
JOhnsonian flag with Boston and the
Yankees. The South Siders have
been bOlstered in several spots
where they were weak in 1916, and
mechanically look to be the class Of
the league.
Whether they will match their OPP
ponents mentally is another matter.
Last season the SOX performed badly
on the paths and the same failing has
cropped up on the training trip, &C
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-04-11
BASEBALL SPORTS OF ALL SORTS BOXING


SoX STRONG coNTENDERS
BY Mark Shields
At 3 o'clock this afternoon the Hot
Stove league ends its work. At the
same moment recruits who resem-
bled Cobb or Johnson on the training
trips must stand on their own feet
without the aid of press agenting by
enthused baseball reporters.
National and American leagues
will swing away on their long stretch
for the pennant, with several teams
hOpelessly outclassed, especially in
National In this circuit there are
some good combinations, but there
are others which are pitiful and have
only a big league label to give them
class,
Manager Mitchell does not expect
to land the Cubs high in the race.
When October rolls around he will
be satisfied if his club rests at the top
of the second division. Mitchell's task
is one Of reorganization and prepara-
ton. He is building for the future
and the fans must keep that con-
stantly in mind. They must be will
ing to give him his chance. With
Boston, as lieutenant to George
Stallings, the Cub pilot demonstrated
conclusively that he possesses brains,
but he must be unhampered-
by fans and officials of the club--to
make these brains work on the field.
Mitchell inherited a team that fin
ished in fifth place last year in
league which was weaker than the
1917 National. He has some new men
for a few places, but whether these
additions will provide the needed
strength is speculative. Only actual
play over the long stretch viii tell.
He has an infield that should be
cro0I 11I IN Or1AGo1I that fg OF 10 n
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-02-09
BROWN AND BLACK POPULAR
Some of the Prettiest Evening Dresses
Seen Recently Have Been in
Those TWO Shades.

Some of the very prettiest evening
frocks have appeared during the last
week, remarks the New York Tcle-
gram. There is a pronounced feeling
for bronze and family brown shades.
and these it is which were responsible
for q pretty gown seen recently,
through which q lovely knotted scarf
of mauvish-pink, the real chrySanthe-
mum pink, was threaded. The yelling
was of bronze lace run with meal
thread, falling over an underdress of
palest brown charmeuse, which had
plain swathed bodice and the tucked
up skirt that is so decided q mark of
many new models.
Black gowns are more worn than
ever, mourning apart, and for them
fish net is first faVOrite. This net was
used in q second evening frock, the
bodice of which was carried out in a
new panne material of delightful sub
stance, or the lack of it. This fabric
has some of the characteristics Of
rare Persian rugs, those rugs which
connoisseurs hang on walls or at the
most allow to drape sofas. For with
all its rich velvety appearance it is
as soft and pliable and light as the
finest satin: indeed, just as with the
rugs, it is not until one handles it, find
ing into what tiny space it can be
compressed-alm passing through
the proverbial ring-and into what
graceful folds it falls, that the illusion
Of stability given by depth of pile r.
removed. And the surface has much
Of the Persian beauty and silken soft
ness too. In the gown in question it
was trimmed somewhat deliberately
with fern leaves in ribbon work, after
one of the most successful of the new
models.
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"ChSCARETS' FOR
LIVER, BOWELS
For sick headache, bad breath,
Sour Stomach and
constipation.
Get a 1O-cent box now.

No odds how bad your liver, stomach
or bowels; how much your head
aches. how miserable and uncomfort-
able you are from constipation. indiges-
ton, biliousness and sluggish bowels
YOU always get the desired results
nth Cascarets
Don't let your stomach, liver and
bowels make you miserable. Take
Cascarets tonight; put an end to the
headache, biliousness, dizziness, nerv-
BUSINESS. sick, sour. gassy stomach.
backache and all other distress;
cleanse your inside organs of all the
bile, gases and constipated matter
which is producing the misery.
A 10-cent box means health happi-
ness and a clear head for months.
No more days of gloom and distress
If you will take a Cascaret now and
then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't
forget the children-their little in
sides need a cleansing, too. Adv.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-02-09
REST FOR EYES AND BACK
Little "Kink" That Some Lovers of
Embroidery Work May Not Have
Discovered, Is Good.

There are not many devotees of the
embroidery needle whose eyes and
back do not grow weary, after work
ing more than just SO long. Yet at
times when it is imperative or desir-
able that little more be accomplished,
In order to finish the piece in hand at
the time required, there is q very
definite relief TO be found in certain
change of position. When the sight
and back muscles begin TO tire try
taking a good plump pillow-one with
a smooth cOver-intO the lap, and al
low the elbows to rest on it slightly.
The altered position will be found TO
relieve the muscles of the body, and
the change of focus will rest the eyes
at the same time. This latter "kink"
is not sufficiently we'll known among
those having rather sensitive eyesight.
Today it is recommended by special
lists that those who have TO do near"
work should exercise the eyes between
times by looking intently at objects as
far away as possible, and q certain
young craftsman asserts that moving
pictures actually rest his eyes after
a days work lover the board" on ac-
count of the different focusing that be-
comes DecesSary-and automatic.
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lifted them tenderly to his desk, and
for sometime watched their move
ments, as if bordering the greatest OF
all problens-the mystery Of life. See
ing a loosening film over the eye OF
one of the kittens, he carefully wiped
it away with his handkerchief, and
as he placed the little fellow on the
floor again, said gently, There, little
one. I've done for you what even your
mother couldn't do"
AS j have time and again recalled to
my mind that incidental use of the
word mother" have thought that at
that moment there must have come to
the president some recollection Of the
delicate. hard-worked woman who had
toiled ana struggled for her son, and
who yet in her poverty felt that she
could do so little for him. What the
word mother" meant 10 this man can
be inferred from his oft-quoteI saying
10 a friend: "All shat am, or hope TO
be, l owe TO my angel mother-blesr
ings on her memory!"
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Neat and Useful

A raincoat for small boy or girl
Is practically Indispensable. winter or
summer. One OF the worthwhile fea-
lures of winter raincoats is that they
may be made OF material sufficiently
heavy to afford perfection from cold
and from rain at one and the same
time. There are a number of chem
zeal processes by which fabrics are
rendered waterproof, and while In all
cases 1t is not possible to guarantee
that heavy downpour Of rain will
fail TO penetrate fabric so treated, IL
will usually withstand an average
shower. Hence the old-faShioned rain
coat that was ralncoat pure and sim
ple--nothing more-has been relegat-
ed to oblivion, and In It's place has
come u garment that does not adver-
tise itself as exclusively for rainy-day
wear.
An attractive little coat is made of
rainproofed English suiting In wide
checked pattern, and IL is finished all
around with braid and belted in ut the
waist with a patent leather belt,
which may be In black or some vivid
color, as green, red, etc. Generous
pockets and smart little storm collar
are features of the garment.
a rain hat of matching fabric may
be made up if desired, banded with
leather or trimmed with little wreath
of rubber flowers, such as used to dec
crate rubber bathing caps.
A fabric raincoat for small girl
should be warmly lined and interlined,
inasmuch as it is usually not merely
slipped on for a few minutes during Il
downpOur and then abandoned for the
warmer coat of fur, velvet or plush,
but must be worn to school on rainy
days and worn home again, regardless
of drops in temperature, etc. A warm
fabric raincoat is an excellent invest
meat for either small girl or a large
one, and suitable fabrics may be pur-
chased at any well-stocked shop.
To make a coat such as the one de-
scribed will require for q seven or
eight-year-old girl two and quarter
yards of material &c inches wide.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-02-09
LINCOLN EVER KIND
Tenderness of Heart EvinCed at
Times When He Was Under
the Greatest Stress.
EFT me present another aspect Of

Z EFT me present another aspect Of
Lincoln's nany-Sided charac-
ter. During the momentous
week when Grant was hammer
ing at the gates of the Confederate
capital, the president, feeling in every
fiber of his being that the end was
near, took passage for City Point, in
order that with his own eager eyes.
weary with long watching, he might
see the last act in the drama of war
and, / doubt not, that he might check
any overt and unseemly act, should
occasion require, writes Johnson Brig
ham, state librarian of Iowa, in the
Youths Companion.
Late one afternoon, while he was
resting from his writing on the gun
boat River Queen, he observed several
little kittens, hardly able TO stand,
blindly crawling about the floor. He
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-02-09
calls this in his book, Personal RecOl-
lections of Abraham Lincoln"

CdllS llllS III Ills DOOh, IeTSOlldl heCOl-
lections of Abraham Lincoln"
Mr.. Rankin was a schoolboy who
acted as court messenger at Peters
burg, H., while his father was sheriff,
when he first met Mr.. Lincoln, then q
rising young lawyer. Later he was a
student in the Lincoln and Herndon
law office in Springfield, admitted to
the family circle.
The picture of Mary Todd which Mr..
Rankin draws is charming one.
Though not beautiful, she was decided
ly pretty. he says, with clear blue eyes
which looked through one, and a mo-
bile face which was responsive to her
every thought. She was easily the
belle of Springfield during her resi-
dence there with a married sister, her
own home being in Lexington, Ky. Her
family objected to Lincoln because of
his humble parentage and his poverty,
and their engagement was broken off,
but two years later Mary Todd defied
the family opposition and welded the
man of her choice.
Mrs. Lincoln was not only attractive,
but she was cultured, Mr.. Rankin says,
and throughout her married life, at
least until the tragedy of the assassi-
nation, she kept up her French read
ing and other literary pursuits. Hers
was keen political perception
amounting TO almost provision, too,
and her advice was that most carefully
weighed by Lincoln in his political and
public affairs.
All the world knows that when Lin
coin received the news of his nomina-
ton he said: There is little woman
over on Eighth street who is deeply in
tereSted in this news: l will carry'it 10
her." and he left his cheering, con-
graduating friends to hurry 10 his
home. Not so we'll known is the fact
that the happiest person in Springfield
was Mrs. Lincoln, and that she never
closed her eyes that night, for fear
she would miss some of the towns JOY
over the honor done its brilliant son.
Mrs. Lincoln's terrible sorrow on
the death of the martyr drove her
abroad-"the loneliest of all the wives
widowed by the Civil war"-and she
was allowed TO spend the last years
of her life 'amid chilling neglect and
Misrepresentation" Mr. Rankin says,
but he adds that when history shall
reflect the truth, in time 10 come II
ii is not already here, "she will be
awarded the recognition her merits
have always deserved. Till then she
can wait; for, like her husband, she
belongs TO the ages"
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Useful String Holder.

er can be suspended from null in
the wall and just below this n short
strap of leather is fastened on with
two brass-headed nails and behind
which a pair of scissors may be
slipped.
When complete the whole thing
should be painted with pale green
quick-drying enamel, and for the words
upon the tins black paint or nanel
can be used.
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81 Don't Know

There Is always hope for the girl
who is not afraid 10 say. Il don't
know" provided. of course. that she
wants TO know. IL this avowal OF ig-
norancc is also an expression Of indif-
ference she is no better of than the
girl who tries 10 look intelligent when
n subject is being discussed Of which
she Is entirely ignorant. No one will
attempt TO enlighten the girl who pre-
tends 70 know ii all. The wiSest way
10 find out about the mysteries which
puzzle you is TO be ready 10 say, Il
don't know."-GirIs Companion.
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USEFUL FOR KEEPING STRING
Holder That May Be Quickly and Eas-
lily Constructed, at an Extreme
Iy Small Cost.

This useful little article for holding
three balls of string, thick. medium
and thin, and a pair of scissors can
be easily constructed with the aid of
piece Of strong board and three
round tins. Tins into which the balls
of string will fit comfortably should
be selected; syrup tins are just the
thing.
A hole is made in the center of the
bottom OF each tin, and another small
hole IN the position indicated by the
--t.Ss in diagram Il. The tins are
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-02-09

they fix the date in lS40-the guests
arrived and the bride appeared IL her
finery. bat the groom remained away;
that finally, when they did marry.
Mary Todd accepted Lincoln and mar
ried him in a spirit OF pique and petty
spite TO wreak vengeance on him
through their married life while with
Lincoln IL was case OF willing sac
rifice."
"A cruel fiction" Henry b. Rankin
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-02-09
Plaid Innings for Cloth Skirt.

A very pretty revival is the lining
dark worsted. tweed and serge skirts
with brilliant Scotch plaid silks The
silk is sometimes also used for the
coat lining. but this is not always the
case as solid Innings OF satin are con-
sidered rather better taste, especially
rs the new silk skirts are often plaid
or embroidered with beads or chenille
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LINCOLN

Twas not his head that made him great !;
IL was his heart,
That gentler part,
Which, in its kindness, went straight
To all the people, torn and sore,
And like balm lay softly DER
The ~. ions wounds, aud slorihed
The life beginning when he died.
W J. LAMPTON
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Iiohtenino the Burden.

DO you approve of prohibitionr
YES" replied Uncle Bill BottletOp-
with the present high cost Of food I
dunno as it's sensible 10 try TO take
care of hunger an thirst both ar
once"