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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-19
FARMERS ARE ANXIOUS.
Cheshire County Grain Growers Pug
lied Over Grinding Problem.

Thore is still more or less anxiety
among the farmers in adjoining sec
tons of New Hampshire who are
growing wheat and other grains as to
how they are going to get the grain
properly ground and bolted. There is
no Nib in Cheshire county suitable for
the purpose, although there has been
some talk of establishing onea 1t is
said that if something is not done the
nearest mill will be at Brattleboro.
where large mill has been estab-
lished. The raising of wheat and
barley in Cheshire county may be
termed a new industry, almost no
crops of the kind having been plant
ed for 30 years or more. Figures at
hand in the county agent g Office indi-
cate that between 800 and 400 acres
of wheat alone are being grown this
year, besides some 900 acres of bar
ley and nearly twice as many oats as
has been customary. There is also a
considerable amount of buckwheat.
The first immediate call for the
care of these crops, which are partic
niarly attractive to raise where help
is hard to get and food is short was
for reapers and binders. A machine
| was procured from Keene and several
others have been bought or resur-
rected and pat in order about the
county. The next step is to get the
grain threshed and ready for the mill
For this purpose a single machine ear
do the work in rotation at a lot OF
farms. there being no hurry about
threshing the grain at any particular
time. The milling of good domestic
flours appears to be a more difficult
problem, but if the good of the sol
and the revival of agriculture here
about are to be considered, annua
crops of grains for years to come ar,
believed to be most essential. Ii
that case mills to make wheat flour
and to handle the other grains will be
come q necessity.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-19
TRUTH TRIUMpHs.
BrattlebOro Citizens Testify for the
Public BENEFIT.

A truthful statement Of a Brattle-
boro citizen, given in his own words,
should convince the most skeptical
about the merits of Doan's Kidney
Pills. If yo usuffer from backache,
nervousness, sleeplessness, urinary dis
orders or any form Of kidney ills, use
a tested kidney medicine
A Brattleboro citizen tells Of Doan IS
Kidney pills
Could you demand m.re convincing
proof of merritt
w. T. Wentworth, 43 Pine St., says
When I was motorman on the local
street ears, the jolting affected my kid
neys. The kidney secretions were off
color at times and were otherwise un-
natural. / had to pass tho kidney Sc
cretions too often and they contained
sediment. I felt oil tired out and my
back also bothered me with dull pains
over my kidneys. Doan g Kidney Pills
have always given satisfactory relief
from these attacks. -
Price Coo, at all dealers. Don Z
simply ask for n kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the Same that
Mr.. Wentworth had. Foster Milburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-19
Cotton and Wool Next, Ac-
cording to Official Report
of Government
LUMBER AND OIL
WELL UP ON LIST
Profiteering by No Means Confined to
Big Interests, Small Scale Producers
Reporting Profits Equal to Years of
Earnings.

Reporting Profits Equal to Years of
Earnings.
WASHINGTON, Aug l9.-War profit
GERS in 1917 were most numerous in bust
ness devoted to food production and dis
tribution, cotton and woollen manufac-
turing and dealing, coal mining, iron, cop
per, aluminium and other metal production
and oil production and distribution, ac-
cording TO a treasury analysis of income
tax returns.
In addition, thousands of small concerns
in a great variety of industrial classif-
cations made profits ranging from 100 to
5000 per cent above their normal profits
for pre-war years., which even then were
considered high.
Detailed information on the extent of
war proiiteering has been given congress
recently in compliance with resolution
requesting it, and the federal trade COM
mission is understood to have obtained
considerable information from the income
reports in preparation of its criticism
Of the meat packing industry.
In citing certain industry or commerce
classltcations as containing the largest
percentage of profteers, the treasury has
made it clear that not all individual bust
nesses in these groups have gathered in
ewollen earnings. This is true particular
| " OF coal operators, some of whom made
enormous profits, often several hundred
per cent higher than good earnings of for
mer years, while others made barely
lenough to pay justified dividends
| With few exceptions, manufacturers OF
clothing and shoes reported big profits
This was true of most concerns holding
! government contracts. Scores Of income
reports from suit. shirt, Undertaking
and shoe manufacturers showed earnings
of from 30 to 100 per cent on invested
capital.
Lumber production, stimulated BY the
sudden enormous demand from canton.
ments and other government operations
nettcd forest and sawmill owners, az well
az distributors, profits several times above
those Of normal years
Oil producers made enormous profits.
! Despite high cost Of labor and other
factors entering into mining. few iron,
! copper or aluminium mines failed to make
/ tremendous profits Producers OF silver
gold, platinum, and other precious metals
proftcd to n lesser extent.
Automobile and motor truck manufac.
turing was highly profitable
Meat packers, -four millers and can,
ncrs apparently stood at the top of the
list Of food profit-takers. Farmers also
made money heavily last year, but not
enough of their returns have been ana
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-19
READY FOR REGISTRATION.
Crowder Reports Plans Nearly Complet.
cd for Next Saturday.

WASHINGTON, Aug lo.-provost
Marshal General Crowder announced last
night that reports received at his office
indicated everything would be in readi-
ness within few days for the registra-
ton next Saturday of the men of the
country who have reached the age of 81
since the date of the last registration
under the selective service act, June 5.
All printed forms required in the regis
tration have been distributed The regis
tration cards viii be similar to those used
heretofore. The registration numbers,
however, viii be filled in by the adjutant
general in each state instead of by the
local boards.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-19

than at any other time in the nation
history, and there is bigger share for
every man, woman and child. A treas
ury report showed $5,559,006,000 in
circulation-$70 0,000,000 more than a
year ago and $l75,0o0,000 more than 4
month ago, making an average of $52-
A for each person.
These figures on the stock of money
bear little relation to the nation s ac-
tual wealth or to its credit resources,
since these, pyramided on each other,
amount to many times the actual money
available.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-19
PEAT AS FUEL.
Experiment Stations Analysed 20
Samples from So Locations.


BURLINGTON, Aug. l9.-Dean J. T..
Hills ~ the state agricultural college has
taken mp with Hon II. J. NJ. Jones, fed
eral fuel administrator for Vermont the
utilization OF peat as a fuel in this state.
Mr.. Jones endorsed its use wherever pos
sible.
Several years ago, says Dean Hills. the
Vermont experiment Etation analysed
some 200 samples Of peat from 5s loca-
tions large and fairly accessible dcpos-
IT'S Of peat possessing high fuel values were
located in Bristol Monkton. Shoreham,
Ncrgennes, Colchester. Jericho, South
Burlington, llighgate, Riehford Hero,
North Hero, and Chester. Small de-
posts less well adapted to fuel purposes
were surveyed in other sections Doubt.
less hundreds exist throughout the state
from which the station took no samples
or concerning which il has no informa
ton.
Peat fuel has been used almost from tn,
beginning OF time. ireland, Scandinavia
and Finland deposits, as well as a smal
ludlow bog have been used in the pas
as sources Of fuel Peat fuel is easit,
made, yet many failures are caused b,
incxpcrionce An old-time Vermont max
or Of peat fuel nearly ten years ago toll,
how hc had done it during long term o
years The story il told in straight for
ward farmer parlance in experiment sta
ton bulletin l65, how to dig. dry, an,
burn IT,
1t is suggested that any one who ha
access to peat bog and contemplate
using it procure this bulletin AZ once q
Is free for the asking and tells the who'll
stoIy) The quicker this is done the bet
ter in view of the fact that peat does no
dry out well after September LIST 4
wouldbc user of peat fuel can tell fo
himsalf from his own bog whether or no
the deposit is likely to be worth working
Nv cutting out, arthcially drying an,
burning a few chunks
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-19
AL OF CLASS ONE LEFT.
Vermont Nearly Exhausted-95 of 1917
Registrants Still.

MONTPELIER, Aug. 19.-The adiu-
tant-general has made a report of the
number of men in Vermont who are left
i'll class one subject to general call into
service, total of AL whites and two
eoiored. Of these 95 arc in the 1917
draft and 346 in the 1918 draft. These
figures are made as of September /,
when those who have already been
called have left the state.
The two colored registrants are in
Windham county, one in each draft.
By counties the figures are:
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-19
AMERICAN SHIPPER KILLS SIX.
Three of His Victims Are Shot When
500 Yards AWAY.

WITH TIE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Aug. 10, by The Associated
Press.-A corporal in an American front
line regiment. to which he was assigned
IA a sniper, has made record by ac-
counting fer six men within the last
three days. Among them was German
sniper who had given the Americans
much trouble. The corporal brought this
sharpshooter down by dsringly crawling
out toward a tree in which he was hid
den. ''i
Three of the other Germans killed by
the corporal were picked off as they
showed themselves incautiousIy at a
trench junction 800 yards away from
where the American marksman was sta
toned.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-19
Fundamental Human Need.

1t seems to me great truth that hui
man beings cannot stand ON selfish
ness, mechanical utilities. economics
and law courts; that if there be not
a religious element in the relations of
men, such relations are miserable and
doomed to ruin.-Carlyle.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-19

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-More
actual. money gold, silver and paper
currency-is in circulation at present
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-19

lyzed to justify general statement Of
their profits
Profiteering was by no means confined
to big business interests. Small scale pro-
dncers in thousands of cases reported
profits equal to the aggregate Of from
five to ten years earnings
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-19
U. S. SETS MONEY RECORD.

More Cash in Circulation Than Ever
Before.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-19
Have Wrcnu occupation.

"De reason" said Uncle Eben, "dat
some young chaps is broke is dat dey
keeps tryln' TO pick race horses instid
o. picSln' strawberries or cotton, or
whutever's in season"
Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-09-26
CHAPTER XIV.
.Je Suis BIesse

80 Outs oieS8Ss
As usual, when we got to Brest there
was rush work day and night on the
GMssard to get her out and supplies Of
Al kinds were loaded for our next
v1sat to the Turks. The French gar
les were always keen for the trip
nhck to Brest-they were sure of load
nng up on tobacco and other things
Hhey needed. at'
My twelfth trip to the Dardanelles
Was different from the others. The
Ghssard was doing patrol work at the
sfnle In the neighborhood of Cape
Heales. Those Of us who had served
a the Peninsula before were thank
nng our stars for the snap we were
having-just cruising around waiting
1nr something to happen.
We had not been there very long be-
N0fe something unexpected did happen,
1pr we ran into two enemy cruisers
which I afterwards heard were the
Werft and Kaiserliche Marine-one on
the starboard and one on the port.
How they had managed to sneak up
80 near us do not know. They
opened up on us at not much more
daan thousand yards and gave us a
NOT time from the start. though with
amy kind of gunnery they should have
dame, for us thoroughly.
We came right back at them and
were getting in some pretty good shots,
u was In the 14-inch gun turret, star
88ard bow-my old hangout-and we
were Letting them have 1t about four
shots every five minutes and scoring
kaavily.
do not know how long we had been
sighting when part of our range finder
was carried away. 1t was so hot,
though, and we were so hard at 1t that
DRch little thing like that did not
80ther us. It Is hot in any gun turret,
Hat I have always noticed that 1t Is
hctter' there in the Dardanelles than
na any other place. The sweat would
0mply cake up on us, until our faces
were. just covered with a film of pow
<dsryy stuff.
But the range finder was carried
Eawaya and although 1t looked bad for
faE I was feeling so good that I vol
tunreered to go on deck and get an
Esther one. got Outside the turret
tdOor and across the deck, got the nee
sssary parts and was coming back
with them. when Z received two ma
ehihe-gun bullets in the right thigh.
Gasewent clear through bone ard FaIl
anh drilled hole on the other side,
while the other came within an inch
u going through. The peculiar thing
= that these two were in line above
the wound got at Dixmude. The line
b almost as straight as you could
draw. IT with a ruler.
= Of course 1T knocked me down and
I hit my head a pretty hard crack on
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He steel deck, but was able to crawl
w to the turret door. Just as I was
sss1Iout to enter the gun was fired. That
particular charge happened to be de-
feotESe. The shell split and caused a
back FIRE and the cordite, fire and gas
came, through the breech, which the
explosion had opened.
1t must have been piece of cordite
which did it, but whatever it was, 1t
NIT me in the right eye and blinded 1t.
The ball of the eye was saved by the
French surgeons and looks normal, but
II pains me greatly sometimes and
they tell me it will always be sight
less.
Ifwas unconscious Immediately from
the. blow and from the quantity of gas
which I must have swallowed. This
gas did me a great deal of damage
and gives me dizzy spells often to this
day. I do not know what happened
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was hard mott to laugh. Also It seemed
funny to me, because ! did not rightly
know just what they were giving mt
OF two things-and I do not know tt
this day. But thought it would no
be polite to ask, so let it go at that
There were twelve other naval Off
GERS who were present and they and
all the other people did lot of cheer
ing and vived me to a fare-you-well.
1t was great stuff, altogether, and I
should have liked to get a medal every
day.
One day I received a letter from q
man who had been in my company in
the Foreign Legion and with whom I
had been pretty chummy. His letter
was partly in French and partly in
English. It was all about who had
been killed and who had been wound
ed. He also mentioned Murray's
death, which he had heard about, and
about my receiving the Croix de
Guerre. I was wishing he had said
something about Brown, whom i had
not heard from and who knew would
| visit nae IL he had the chance.
But two or three days later I got
another letter from the same man and
when opened it out tumbled photo
graph. At first all 1 saw was that it
was the photograph of a man crucified
with bayonets, but when I looked at
1t closely I saw it was Brown.
tainted then, just like a girl.
When came to could hardly make
myself think about it. Two of my
pals gone! 1t hurt me so much to
think of it that / crushed the letter
up In my hand, but later on 1 could
read parts of it. 1t said they had
found Brown this way near Dixmude
about two days after he had been re-
ported missing. So three of us went
over and two stayed there. 1t seems
very strange to me that both Of my
pals should be crucified and If / were
superstitious I do not know what I
would think about 1t. 1t made me
sick and kept me from recovering as
fast as would have done otherwise.
Both Brown and Murray were good
pals and very good men in a fight.
often think. OF them both and about
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the rnlngs we did together. but lately
I have tried not to think about them
much because 1T is very sad to think
stand. They were both Of great credit
to this country.
The American consul visited me
quite often and I got to calling him
Sherlock because he asked so many
questions. We played lots of games
together, mostly with dice, and had
great time generally. After / became
convalescent he argued with me that
I had seen enough, and though really
did think so-however much / disliked
what had seen-he got my discharge
from the service on account of phys
ical inability to discharge the usual
duties. After I had been at the hos
pital for a little over month / was
discharged from 1t, after little party
in my ward with everyone taking part
and all the horns blowing and all the
records except my fayorite dirge
played one after another. ESQ -
Sherlock arranged everything for
me-my passage TO New York, cloth
ing, etc. ran up to st. Nazaire and
saw my grandmother, loafed around
q while and also visited Lyons.
After a short time I returned to
Brest and got my passage on the
Georgia for New York. had three
trunks with me full of things I had
picked up around Europe and had
been keeping with my grandmother.
Among my belongings were several
things I should like to show by pho
tographs in this book, but no one but
mermaids can see them now, for down
to the locker of Dayy Jones they went.
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nSSeivSo AhS&N5ViN 80 AAeTFSs ~
which I had won at the Dardanelles.
The presentation was made by Lieu
tenant. Barley. He pinned an Ameri-
can flag ON my breast, a+French flag
beneath it and beneath that the war
cross. He kissed me on both cheeks.
Of course, which was taking advantage
Of cripple. But it Is the usual thing
with the French, as you know mean
the kissing, not the meanness to
cripples.
When he had pinned the medal on
he said he thanked me from the bot
tom Of his heart for the French people,
and also thanked all the Americans
who had come over from their own
land to help a country with which
most Of them were not connected. He
said it was a war In which many ma
lions were taking part, but In which
there were just two ideas, freedom
and despotism, and lot more things
that I cannot remember. He finished
by saying that he wished he could dec
crate all Of us.
OF course 1t was great stuff for mt
and j thought was the real thing
sure enough, but I could not helI
thinking of the remark have hear(
here In the States-T thank you and
the whole family thanks you." And 4
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ssesskk aa4
morning, which was SUNDAY, Decem-
Der 10, 1916-a date do not think
will ever forget.
AS soon as I was dressed I went
down to the forecastle peak and from
there into the paint locker, where I
found some rope. Then back again on
deck, and made myself a hammock,
which rugged up on the boat deck,
figuring that / would have a nice sun
bath, as the weather had at last
turned clear.
AS soon as I had the hammock
strung I went down to the baker and
had a nice chat with him-and stole a
few hot buns, which was what was
really after-and away to the galley
for breakfast. l was almost exactly
amidships, sitting on an old orange
box. / had not been there long when
Old Chips, the ships carpenter, stuck
his head In the door and sang out.
''Ship on the starboard bow" did
not pay any attention to him, because
ships on the starboard bow were
no novelty to, me, or on the port
either-4 Chips was not crazy about
looking at her, either, for he came In
and sat on another box and began
scoffing. He said he thought she was
a tramp and that she few the British
flag astern.
ate all could get hold of and went
out on deck. stepped out Of the gal
ley just in time to see the fun. The
ship was just opposite us when away
went our wireless and some Of the
boats on the starboard side, and then,
boom boom and we heard the report
of the guns. 1 heard the shrapnel
whizzing around us just as had many
a time before. jumped back In the
galley and Chips and the cook were
shaking so hard they made the pans
rattle. So g
When the firing stopped went up
TO the boat deck. had on all of my
clothing, but instead Of shoes / was
wearing pair OF wooden clogs The
men and boys were crazy-xushins
around the dack and knocking each
other down, and evsrybody gseting In
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during the rest OF the engagement, as
did not regain consciousness until
three days later at sea. But heard
dreadnaught Jeanne dare and the
light cruiser Normandy were in it as
well as ourselves, though not at the
time was wounded, and that we had
all been pretty well battered. The
Cassard lost SO men in the engage
ment and had 48 wounded. Some of
our turrets were twisted into all man.
ner of shapes and part of our bow
was carried away. One of our lieu
tenants was killed in the engagement.
was told that both the VERT and
the Kaiserliche Marine were sunk in
this engagement. I have seen pictures
of sailors from the VERT who were
prisoners at interment camps.
When we arrived at Brest the
wounded were taken from the ship In
stretchers and after we had been rest
ed for about fifteen minutes on the
dock put into ambulances and rushed
to the hospital. On the way those who
could leaned out of the ambulance and
had great time with the people along
the streets, many of whom they knew,
for the Cassard was Brest ship. And
Of course the women and children
yelled, "Vive la Francel" and were
glad to see the boys again, even
though they were badly done up.
Some Of our men were bandaged
all over the face and head and it was
funny when they had to tell their
names to old friends of theirs, who
did not recognize them. AS soon as
one Of the Brest people recognized
friend off he would go to get cigarettes
and other things for him and some of
them almost beat us to the hospital.
do not know, of course, just what
the surgeons did to me, but I heard
that they had my eyeball out on my
cheek for almost two hours. At any
rate they saved it. The thigh wounds
were not dangerous in themselves and
If 1t had not been for the rough treat
ment they got later on they would be
quite healed by this time, am sure.
really think got little extra at
tention in the hospital In many ways,
for the French were at all times anx-
ious to show their friendliness to
America. Every time my meals were
served there was a little. American
flag on the platter and always large
American flag draped over the bed. I
had everything wanted given to me
at once sand when I was able to, all
the cigarettes I could smoke, which
werefnot many. FB Pas
l., WhileI was still In bed In the hos
pitaf I received the Crofx de Guerre,
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everybody else's way. We lowered our
Jacobs ladders, but some of the men
and boys were already In the water.
Why they jumped I do not know.
Then the German raider Mocwe
headed right In toward us and 1
thought she was going to ram us, but
she backed water about thirty yards
away. She lowered a lifeboat and 1t
made for the George, passing our
men In the water as they came and
crashing them on the head with boat