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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE

| wasent allowed to go out last mite
on account of not having bin exter good,
and | was setting in the setting room
watching pop adding up numbers at his
desk, and all of a suddin / cawffed away
down in my throat like persin starting
to cawff and ony getting half way.
And | did it about 5 more times, and
pop kepp on adding up numbers with his
torehed all rinkeled as if he wasent hav-
ing very good time doing it, and | did
1t about more times, and pop looked up
and unrlnkeled his formed and rinkeled it
agen, saying, For the love of Pete and
his brother Mike, if you're going to cawff
cawff
| amt going to cawff, pop, | sed.
Well then wy all the rehearsal? sed pop.
And he started to add up numbers agen,
and after a vile | made about more lit
tie noises in my throat and pritty soon
| made about more
This is more than flesh and bludd can
stand, sed pop, you either cawff and re-
leeve the sispents or elts eleer-out till bed
time.
But you sed | coodent go out, pop, /
sed,
You can tell a CRATE man by the ease
with witch he changes his mind, sed pop.
Meening | Good go out WITCH / did, and
Pubs Simkins and Leroy Shooster was
setting on Pulses frunt steps, and | sat
there with them and Pubs took a little
peece of chewing gum out of his pockit
not big enuff for one to chew on and
hroak it into 3 peeces and we all chewcd
on it,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20

public, and it should itself take up the
task of developing them
1t will have to do this sooner or later.
1t will have to pay a premium upon
every franchise it now grants to priv
ate water-power interests. 1t will have
to go into the business of Harvesting
the food waters, the rivers and streams
of the nation on its own account. for
the benefit of its people. These thing,
are inevitable, simply because the peo-
pie will demand them.
If there is any doubt as to the grow
ing interest in water-power develop
ment, that doubt would be quickly re-
moved by cursory glance today at the
news columns of any journal pretending
to give general information Every
where the public is awakening to a
realization of the fact that industry.
utility, home comfort, national pros
perity itself, cannot afford much longer
to depend upon coal as the principal
source of light, heat and power. The
government has long hesitated to take
the problem in hand The time has
come when hesitation win not be ex-
cusable
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
Claims Dandruf Will
Cause Badness

If you have dandruff you must get
rid of IL quick--it's positively danger
Gus and will surely ruin your hair If
you don't.
Dandruffy heads mean faded, brittle.
gray, seraggly hair that finally dies and
falls out-new hair will not grow
then you are bald and nothing can help
you.
The only sure way to abolish dandruff
for good is to destroy the germ that
causes it. To do this quickly, surely
and safely and at little expense, there
lis nothing so effective as Partisan Sage,
which you can get from Wilfred f. Root
and good druggists everywhere. 1t is
guaranteed to Danish dandruff, stop
itching scalp and falling hair, and pro-
mote new growth, or the cost, small
as it is, will be refunded.
Partisan Sage is a scientific prepare
ton that supplies all hair needs-an
antiseptic liquor neither sticky nor
greasy, easy to apply, and delieately
perfumed.
If you want beautiful, soft, thick lus-
trous hair, and lots of it by all means
use Partisan sage. Don't delay-begin
tonight little attention now insures
abundant hair for years to come-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
Flour
Without
Substitutes

Several days past we have
been advertising Old-Fash-
Toned Low Grade Flour in
140-pound sacks. We find
through error we have been
stating that the low-grade
flour required substitutes.
This is not so, but can be
bought and used without
substitutes of any kind. This
flour is nutritious, sweet,
and is suitable for human
consumption, and can be Sc
sured from any grocer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20

beetles and ants waved their hats an5
caps, threw their legs into the air an6
shouted: "Hurrah, for Mr.. Fly. The
worlds greatest wonder!''
Daddy Long Legs took ride in E
make-believe automobile which broke
down. But he said he dien't care if ii
did break down--he had enough legs
to carry him home! And the insects
laughed hard at this and called DADDY
Long Legs very funny clown, which
was, of course, just what he was.
So. the circus was a huge success
and everyone congratulated Leader
Grasshopper for getting it up!
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
Gov. Graham's Case.
(Middlebury Register. J


Governor Grahams case is stated in our
news columns, together with his request
that judgment be withheld until he has
had an investigation made and presented
the facts to the people. While his~state-
ment is not reassuring, the people will
wait. As the case stands, only. the gov
ernor himself knows whether or not he
is guilty of misconduct in public Office;
if he knows that he is, the proper thing
for him to do is to submit his resignation
His failure to do so is the most hopeful
sign that his conscience is clear
The manner in which the press of the
state has treated the disclosure of his al
legged mishandling of public funds and the
manner in which the people have received
the news, is evidence enough of the faith
in and affection for Uncle Horace The
surprising thing to us is that no official
disclosure was made at Montpelier of a
case that should have been called direct
ly to the attention of the state For
months the gossip of the situation was
floating around the newspaper offices and
it was left to the Rutland Herald to re-
port the facts so far as they could be
learned The Herald is to be congrata.
lated on doing so.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
Frank Howe, Loyal American.


The Brattleboro Reformer brings out
the fact that when war was declared,
Frank +. Howe of Bennington, candidate
for the Republican nomination for COVER
nor, opened up an informal recruiting sta
ton and secured something like 100 sol
diers for Uncle Sam. This is the Howe
way of doing things The need of the
time was soldiers and Howe devoted him
self to the cause with singularly good re-
sults. 1t was bit of applied patriotism
of the most practical sort, and it is this
kind of initiative, both in the military
and civilian ranks, that makes the United
States formidable-St Adams Messenger
This answers the attacks on Mr.. Howe
which have been made by the Burlington
Free Press and Burlington News, intimat-
ing that he was pro-German, but we think
that the most effective answer is that
Mr.. Howe has young son in the service
OF his country, who at the time of his
enlistment had to have the consent of
his parents before he could enlist
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
Lives 200 Years :!

For more than 200 years. HARLEM Oil,
the famous national remedy of Holland,
has been recognized as an infallible re.
lief from all forms of kidney and bladder
disorders. It's very age is proof that it
must have unusual merit.
II Won are troubled with pains or aches
IN the back. feel tired in the morning.
headache. indigestion, insomnia. painful
or too frequent passage of urine irrita-
ton or stone in the bladder you will al
most certainly find qnck relief in GOLD
MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules. This is
the good old remedy that has stood the
test for hundreds of years, prepared in
the proper quantity and convenient form
to take. 1t is imported direct from Hel-
land laboratories, and You can get it at
any drug store. Your money promptly
refunded if it does not relieve You Isnt
he sure to get the genuine GOLD MEDAL
brand. In boxes. three sizes-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
The Old Vermont Brigade.

The Sabbath morn dawned bright and
clear upon the third of May,
As underneath st. Mary's Heights the
corps of Sedgwick lay.
A silence, ominous and deep, was on the
hillside then, 8
Though on the top and at the foot were
hosts of hostile men
The thunder the rebel guns the solemn
stiffness broke,
And echo answered echo back as one by
one awoke;
But soon our rifed Parrots spoke in tones
we know so well,
And opened on the rebel horde rehuent
storm of she'll
In quick response our well-served guns
their deadly missiles pour.
Which through the scarp and parapet OF
their entertainments tore:
But grape and shell, and solid shot, though
showered forth like rain, q
10 drive the gray back from their holes
proved impotent and vain
Green Mountain Boys Ye heroes of a
dozen bloody fights,
The call is now for men who dare to scale
those dizzy heights;
And see, Advancing on the plain their
serried lines appear
Unbroken by the storm of grape, UNI
paralyzed by fear.
The Goth New Jersey, then attached to
our brigade,
Supported by the Second boys "a master
stroke essayed,
But struggling through miry bog, which
stretches across the way,
They broke, in wild confusion, and went
hopelessly astray
Then came the longtried Second up and
passed them on the rum
Vermont might well be proud that day
OF every martial son;
And volley answered volley. as they
climbed the shelving track,
As shouting forth their battle cry, they
drove the rebels back.
Upon our right. the Light Brigade dis
may and carnage spread,
Far to the left our own brave Brooks his
troops triumphant led. :
Each proudly emulous of each were deeds
of valor done.
And on the crest laid down to rest. ST
Mary's Heights were won.
All honor to the brave who fell, nor shed
their blood in vain.
Who rested with us, but alasl no more
to rise again;
BY Rappahannock' storied stream their
verdant graves were made.
Who, dying, shed new laurels on the "Old
Vermont Brigade
Sent in by Z. S. r.. Brattleboro. vt.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
COAL OUTPUT SLOWS UP.
Bituminous Yield Has Been Falling
Off for Four Weeks.

WASHINGTON, Aug 20-The bitumi
nous coal output for the week ending
Aug 10 is about 100000 tons ahead OF
the same week last year, but the weeks
production shows slight slump from re-
cent records. The production has de
creased for four weeks The week of Aug
10 was about 100000 tons less than the
record week of July ID, when production
reached L, 2s6, 900 tons.
An output of l4,500,000 net tons dur
ing the rest of the summer months will
be necessary to make up the deficit. for
the coal year to date
Anthracite production dropped off 81
per cent from the preceding week. The
output was 2,05l, 1888 tons.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
Lemon Juice
For FreckIes
Girls! Make beauty lotion at
home for a few cents. Try It!

Squeeze the juice of two lemons into
bottle containing three ounces of orchard
white, shake well. and you have quarter
pint of the best freclSle and tan lotion, and
complexion beautifier, at very, very small
cost
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will supply
three ounces of orchard white for few
cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant To-
ton into the face, neck, arms, and hands
each day and see how freckles and blem-
ishes disappear and how clear, soft and
white the skin becomes. Yes! 1t is harm
less.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20

cantonment for the front, that they
might overerowd the trains, is not
sound. The right kind of young soldier
will 60 home to say goodby no matter
whether the rate he must pay is three
or only one cent mile. 1t is a mar
row and unwise policy that would dis
courage home leavetakings by the
young fellows destined for France. for
it tends to give them an unfavorable
and wholly wrong impression of the
nation S sentiments toward them.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20

Back through the years come these
prophetic words of the late Senator
Hoar: 81 have seen the glories of
art and architecture and of river and
mountain. ] have seen the sunset on
the Jungfrau and the moon rise over
Mount Blanc. But the fairest vision on
which these eyes ever rested was the
nag of my country in foreign port
Beautiful as a flower to those who love
1t, terrible as meteor to those who
hate it, it is the symbol of power and
the glory and homer of one hundred
millions of Americans. -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20

The zone system of retail delivery,
much talked of by economists, is to be
put into actual operation by the milk
dealers in San Francisco. The plan was
worked out by milk distribution com
mittee working under the local federal
food commissioner. The purpose is to
avoid duplication in delivery service
and to effect other economies. Each
delivery wagon hereafter will serve
only one zone or district No other
delivery wagon will be allowed in the
district and long hauls will be eliminat-
ed 1t is believed the change will keep
milk down to present prices at least
and at the same time to allow to deal.
ers a slightly larger return.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20

waving a wing
and saying in his
buZZing voice:
"See the greatest
w o n d er of the
age The fly who
cares not wheth-
er he is right side
up, or wrong side
down ! The great
est wonder !" And
the crickets play
ed and sang so
h a r d w h e n h e
w a S d 0 in z his
trick, and the
era SShonnprS and
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20


mar Leader Grasshop-
per, blowing his
grass bugle and calling to all the in
sects and little crawling or hopping
creatures he thought would care for
the circus.
They followed him, and such crowd
as was seen crawling and hopping to
the grass tent.
OF course, as Leader Grasshopper
was at the head of the procession he
got to the tent first, and as each bril-
gade and band of followers came in he
said: "This is to be a fine circus.
Everyone may take part. We're not
going to do all the tricks ourselves.
We're going to give our friends a
chance to show how much we think of
their talents and powers. Yes, we
would not be so selfish as to do all
the tricks ourselves and to show off all
the time. Everyone is invited to take
part"
The bugs ard insects were delighted
to hear such good news. They loved
a circus where they could all take
part. And Leader Grasshopper was
a wonderful ringmaster- They had
him stand in the center ring in the
grass tent, for there We're three rings
in this circus, and crack his whip made
out of tiny twig, or blow his bugle
and give the directions.
Everyone must give a blade of
grass, twig, and leaf" said Leader
Grasshopper. ''And while the first act
Is on the lady grasshoppers and lady
ants will make the lemonade for the
circus. 1t will be ready In time for
the second act"
So everyone paid the admission price
or blade of grass, twig and leaf,
and then the lady grasshoppers and
lady ants set right to work making the
lemonade.
The lady ants were such good work
ers and such industrious ones, not
wasting a second, that the lemonade
was ready before the second act com.
meneed.
The crickets played the band in a
corner of the tent, and when any little
insect was doing particularly dan.
gerous trick they would all sing stead.
lily on one note until the trick was
successful.
Then they burst into singing, their
way of congratulating the performer.
All the little Master Ants and Mas.
ter Grasshoppers sold the lemonade.
They wore caps made of leaves upon
which was written in letters made out
of mud:
Mice cooling drinks to quench your
thirst. If you don't want a cooling
drink, take one anyway; it's the thing
to do at q circus
These words were printed around
their caps so that sometimes one OF
the audience would ask grasshopper
or ant to turn around all the way sc
every word could be read
Mr.. Beetle and his company of bee
ties sold beetle peanuts, which they
said We're the 'sFinest peanuts or
earth" and Mrs. Fly went about sell
ing Honey from the flowers"
They certainly had all they wanted
to eat and drink. The performance.
came quickly one after the other.
There were all the good old ones O
the ants riding on the grasshoppers
backs while they jumped through
hoops made out of grass. The grass
hopper, of course, did all their funn,
jumps. Mr.. Fly hung on the bottom
side of swing and crawled along it
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run of paper 50 cents
an inch for first insertion, rs cents an inch
Tor each subsequent insertion. Limited space
on first page at double rates.
Space rates on application.
Classified advertisements-Five cents line
first insertion with SO per cent discount for
each subsequent insertion without change of
copy.
Reading Notices-Ten cents per line. first
insertion with 50 per cent discount for each
subsequent insertion without change of copy.
Position 10 per ~eent extra
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20

ca / / e d Leader
Grasshopper. And
a / t h e little
grasshoppers hop
ped after their
leader.
&c o m e b u G S,
come in s e C t S,
come all the crea-
lures of the In
sect world. A
circus is being
given in grass
tent at the fair
grounds of the
grasshoppers."
And along went
Leader Grasshop-
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20

Secretary McAdoo has definitely an
nounced that the Fourth Liberty loan
bonds will bear Az per cent interest
The secretary has been insistent that
the government interest rate should be
stabilized at Al per cent. He points
out that a raise in the rate of interest
of only one-fourth of per cent on
$4,000, 100000 of government bonds
would mean an annual increase of $25,-
100000 in interest charges, and that
this money would have to be raised
by increased taxation and paid by the
people of the country 1t would not
be paid by one class only, because
there are consumption as well as other
kinds of taxes, and the consumption
taxes reach every class of people.
" As an intelligent people, said
Secretary McAdoo during the Third
Libery loan campaign, eve should now
make a stand for the financing of our
government during the period of this
war at a stabilized rate of interest, say
at "A per cent per annum, SO that all
business and all investments may be
adjusted to that basis, and so that we
ourselves may protect ourselves against
successfully increased rates of inter
est on government loans. Neither our
patriotism nor our support of the Lib
erty loans are measured in fractions of
per cent.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
Subscription Receipts

The Reformer has discontinued
the practice Of acknowledging re-
mittances by postcard receipts,
and asks its mail subscribers to
depend upon the labels on their
papers for this information. If
the date on the label on your pa
per is not changed on the second
issue after your remittance is made
kindly notify this office of its
amount and the date it was sent.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20

Thousands of Vermonters were
shocked to hear of the tragic death of
exGOv. George H. Prouty of Newport.
Mr.. Prouty was one of the ablest bust
ness men in the state and in addition
had made good record in the various
public offices which he had filed.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20

There is nothing like optimism. Sup
porters of both Frank f. Howe and
Charles II. Darling for the gevernorship
express the belief that the entrance of
P. w. Clement into the contest will
hurt the other fellow.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
DEPOSITS FALL OFF.
Report Shows Million Less in Savings
Banks Now Than Year Ago.

MONTPELIER, Aug. 2O.-There is
little more than million dollars less in
the savings banks and the savings and
trust companies in the state than there
was year ago, according to the official
report. The total resources of the diff
ferent institutions was given as 1928
2lS, 1854 at the close. of business on June
80, 1918, and on the same day year
earlier were 1924 ,259,213.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
A Lot Better.

'T'resence of mind is a mighty good
thing in case of an accident, isn't itY
oh yes, but absence Of body Is q
lot BETTER"
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The Associated Press is exclusively en-
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dispatches credited to il and not otherwise
credited in this paper and also the local news
published herein.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20

The objection to granting reduced
railway rates to American soldiers
wishing to go home before leaving the
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20

The best kind of an optimist is the fell
low who hustles to get as much hay in
the barn as possible before the storm
strikes
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20
DADCNS[y[N|NG|
FAIRY TALE
GRASS TENT CIRCUS.
81 nAM MuANbR

"Come on, come along, come this
way for the great summer circus -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-20

Tradition is the finest Of fine race
that is past, that the youth of the pres
ent struggles ever to be worthy of,
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ADVERTISE IN THE REFoRMER
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-17
BARRE DAILY TIMES
SATURDAY, AUGUST IL, 1918.
The Weather

Fair and continued cool tonight anc
Sunday.