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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-17
"a PASSENGERS MISSING.
Were Occupants Of Tourist Coach De-
stroyed by Fire Last Might.

WINNIPEG Dee a. Advises re-
cciycd here today tell OF this destruction
by IRE OF Il tourist coach on 4 Canadian
Pacific train which left here NJ 9l0 p. m.
Yesterday for Toronto and say that IL
ma ,scugcr@ aboard the coach gre missing.
The fire started in berth occupied by a
family party and quickly spread to the
rest OF the coach. other car, OF the train
escaped injury.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-17
Soap Does Not Smoke Well.

Having heard that our soldiers III France
lack Sc ap, a Portland girl sent to a ser
geant MAYOR ot the saith package Of
soap-leaves and received in due time a
letter from the sergeant major IN which
he expressed surprise that the girl hadn't
remembered that he never smoked He
added that he had given the packet 70 a
private who rolls is own and the pri-
vatc liked TO have died of nausea Boston
Globe
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-17
Card Of Thanks.

We wish TO express our heartfelt
thanks and deep appreciation e the Mu-
tual Aid Nurses friends and neighbors
who were >n Kind at the time Of our loss.
May they in their Time of sadness be duly
repaid.
Mrs Mary McGrath and family; Mr..
and Mr.. Thomas Connors; MIR. and Mrs.
Frank Smith, Webster Mass.
Brattlrboro, VI. Dee rs, 1918.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-17
Glass Industry in America.

Glass was first manufactured in lmeri-
ca By the people Of jamestown, Va, dur
ing the wear l6l5 Commenting on tins
TACT, John Smith iamented that the labor
of the colony has been misdirected ia the
manufacture 81 ashes. soap. glass and tar
N which they could by no means compete
with sweden o. Russia The inhabitants
81 jamestown did not agree with this
view, however, and soon atterward com
menced the erection OF a glass works the
completion of which was interrupted hy
the Indian massacre of 1922. The first
glass factory in North America to attempt
the industry on ali ambitious scale was
built IN l7S0, at Temple, \ H. by Robert
Hewes OF Boston The workmen, - in
number, We're German desertels from The
British army The carelessness of work
man caused the destruction of the plant
hy fire in 1881 In 1893 4 glass factory
WIS established in Boston, and since that
time the industry has fioulished
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-17
oaD NOT COMING.
Gen. Pershing Cancels It's Assignment for
Early Convoy Home.

WASHINGTON. Dee. u. The assign
mcnt hy Cen. pcrshing Of the ODD division
of national army negroes for carly con
yoy homo has been cancelled In making
this announcement today the war depart
ment gave no information, but the as
sumption here j. that the division has
been selected as reserve unit held to
reinforce the American army of oecipa
lion IN Germany
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-17
1T costs MORE no DIE.

now that new taxes must be met before
an estate can be distributed. Increase
your insurance TO provide q fresh es-
tate 10 cover taxes. We havc accurate
information Write or eau. National
Life las, Co. Of VI Mutual EARLE
s. KINsLEY, General Agent, Rutland,
VT.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-17

\ talkative barber is bound 20 make
cutting remarks
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-17
IN HONOR OF WILSON.

Great Bonfrcs Lighted Along Swiss
Frontier.
GENEVA. Dee. H. The frontier Of
French savoy bordering on Switzerland
was Illuminated with great bonfre- sun
day night in h nor Of the arrival in
France Of Franco 81 President Wilson.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-17

Edwin and Angelina sat side by side,
and Edwin used all has wiles to make An
geHna say Yes
II you'il only marry n.,. pleaded
Edwin, You shall have absolute control
Of my fortune as long as YOU live"
Angelina looked pensive
But. said she. 1t would never last
me as long as that
Then Edwin feconsidcred STRAY Sto-
ries.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-17
Women Fancy Neckwear

Women of fashion are wearing
fancy neekwear to finish off"
their gowns. No Christmas gift
will meet with more favor than
these neckpieces of lace, silk or
satin.
Wonnen's Fancy Lace Collars.
soc, 75c, csc
Wornen's Lace Stocks, very dain-
ty, soc, 75c, CSC, S1.50
Women's Satin Collars, some with
fringe, SOC, 75c, S1.5O
Women's Georgette Crepe Col
lars, soc, 75c, CSC
The New Monk Collar,
$1.5O, S1.95
Collars with fringe, very popular,
$1.5O, S1.65, S1.95
The Wahpeton times., 1918-11-07
UNITED THOUGH FAR APART
Ceremony Known as "Handsehoen"
Recognized Under the Dutch Law
az Legal Form Of Marriage.

Not so very long ago Boer in Pre-
toria was married to girl in Amster-
dam, Holland, the ceremony constitute
ing Whit the Dutch call handschoen,
or glove marriage.
In spite of the fact that a distance
of 6.O00 miles lay between the bride
in the Netherlands and the bridegroom
in the Transvaal they we're just as eff
fectively married under the Dutch law
as if both had been present in the
same church.
The bridegroom sent to his friend,
or best man, in Amsterdam power
of attorney to represent him as his
proxy at the ceremony, and at the
same time forwarded his glove, which
at the proper moment, when the two
were made one, was held by both the
bride and the proxy. The wedding
was duly registered at Amsterdam
and at Pretoria, where the bridegroom
filed an affidavit with the proper mag
istrate.
This curious form of marriage is q
purely Dutch institution, the custom
having originated. it is said. in the
old times of Dutch -Batavian rule. 1t
is, however, a dead letter in the Trans
vaal since the English took over that
colony.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-11-07
Playing blackboard.

Do you know what blackboard is?
It's kind of game first played in
n primitive and mild sort of fashion
by Rocky mountain goats and since
modernized and made difficult by the
American army. The apparatus on
which one plays blackboard is Il mixed
breed contrivance, by Washboard out
of Corduroy Road. to use the racing
vernacular. 1t is made up of narrow,
slippery strips of rounded wood laid
crosswise about two inches apart, and
is supposed to keep ones feet out of
the mud. 1t does! While playing duck
hoard ones feet are usually in the air.
1t is called blackboard, suppose, be-
cause of some silly belief that a duck
could walk it without falling. Even
airplanes flying at Il height of less
than 5000 feet have been seen to wig
gle and dip drunkenly while passing
above trench lines flOOred with. duck
boards. And when it is laid upon the
surface of the earth and there are no
handy trench walls to help out-well.
it's lucky for Charley Chaplin that the
wide world didn't see me operate.
Nothing could ever again be funny to
q man who saw me play blackboard out
there in the comparative open of that
wood !->William Stevens McNutt, in
Golfers Weekly.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-11-07
DUBLIN BooTBLAcKs IN 1880
Polish Used at That Time Was q Com.
bination Of LampbIack and
Rotten Epas.

Among the populace Of Dublin In
17S0 the shoeblacks were a numerous
and formidable body. The polish they
used was lampblack and eggs, for
which they purchased all that were
rotten in the markets. Their imple-
m6hts consisted of three-legged stool,
a basket containing a blunt knife,
called spudd, painters brush and
an old wig.
"A gentleman usually went out in the
morning with dirty boots or shoes,
sure to find a shoeblack sitting on his
stool at the corner of the street. The
gentleman put his foot in the lap Of
the shoeblack without ceremony, and
the artist scraped it with his spudd,
wiped it with his wig and then laid on
his composition as thick as black paint
with his painters brush.
The stuff dried with rich polish, re-
quiring no friction, and little inferior
to the elaborated modern fluids, save
only the intolerable OdOrs exhaled from
eggs in high state Of putridity, and
which filled any house which was en-
tered before the composition was quite
dry, and sometimes even tainted the
air of fashionable drawing rooms
University Magazine.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-11-07
1hi,stx2 Use Belt to Get Drink.

When Oliver Herford comes to a
babbling brook and wants a drink, he
does not throw himself prone on the
mud and try to get water on the
vacuum-cleaner principle adopted by
the cow. nor does he use his Panama
on the Gungha Dhin principle. He
might use straw or a drinking cup, If
he could ever remerber to carry them
with him. A hundred things he might
do, if he could think of Them.
But what really happens? Oliver
takes of his belt and winds it up as
tightly as he can. The coils are wrap.
ped around one another so that cone
is built up. That forms a cup with a
hole in the bottom. Oliver uses !,
finger as stopper for the hole, and
proceeds to dip up his drink in the
fashion set long ago by the first civ
ilized man.-Popular Science Monthly
The Wahpeton times., 1918-11-07
Soldiers Appreciation.

Recently a woman we'll known in
America, who has devoted all her
time to relief work since the war be-
gan, was visiting hospital. The COM
manding officer had sent military
car for her. She entered the car just
as an ambulance filled with wounded
passed by. AS she noticed the thin,
pale faces, tears came into her eyes.
The soldier-chauffeur asked if she
was i'll.
NO." she said, "thcsc are tears OF
gratitude and pride"
MADAME" replied the boy. simply
'if I thought that my being a soldier
was worthy of but one of your tears
I should feel that 1 had not lived il
vain."-Red Cross Magazine.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-11-07
Month Of Harvest Moon.

Aside from the autumnal equinox,
September each year is marked by An.
other astronomical event of considera-
BILE interest, namely. the sO-callcd har-
vest moon, it being the full moon near
est the autumnal equinox. The harv-
est moon rises at nearly the same time
for several successive evenings in,
stead Of nearly an hour later from
night to night, as is usually the case.
and 1t is from this continuous run of
bright moonlight nights that this
moon is said to derive it's name, farm
ers as rule taking advantage of the
extra light to gather in their late sum.
mer crops and store them away for
! the winter.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-11-07
Christmas presents will be given.

Christmas present s will be given.
For nearly one hundred years The
Youths Companion has 3 been the pop
ular Christmas present. 1t always
has been the best present for so little
money, because the paper means so
much to the family life and contin-
ues to come every week Throughout:
the year.
In these serious times The Youths
Companion is worth more than ever
1t costs just the same-$2.00 for So
issues. It's the best $500 that can
be invested in a family, and when
giving The Companion you give only
the best.
Don't miss Grace Richmond's great
serial, Anne Exeter, 10 chapters. be-
ginning December IL.
The following special offer is made
to new subscribers:
1. The Youths Companion-52 issues
of 1919.
9. All the remaining weekly issues
of 1918.
5. The Companion Home Calendar
for 1913.
All the above for only $500, or you
may include
4. McCalPs Magazine-12 fashion
numbers. All for only $3.50. The
two magazines may be sent to separ
ate addresses il desired.
- THE YOUTHS COMPANION,
Commonwealth Ave. & st. Paul St.,
Boston, Mass.
New Subscriptions Received Mt this
Office.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-11-07
ABERCRonB1E NEWS
(For Last Week.

Miss Elinor Haire of McCauleyville
returned home Sunday to spend few
weeks with her parents. Miss Haire
was attending business college in
Minneapolis and was stricken with the
Flu and is now convalescing after a
two weeks sojourn in the hospital.
Thos. ]. Bowling is attending to
business matters at Abercrombie this
week.
Marius Strand is about again after
a three days attack of the Flu.
Miss Inga Bakken has been danger
ously i'll with an attack of the in
fuenza but is now slowly improving.
Miss Myrtle johnson is assisting
at the A. ]. Bakken home this week as
the whole family have contracted the
influenza.
August Janu was a Fargo visitor on
Tuesday.
C. A. Knudson of Buxton, North
Dakota, is visiting with G. o. Sandvig'
Lester Knutson who has been very
low with the influenza is able to be
about again.
Mrs. L. Boudiette of McCau!eyvt'le
has sold her home there to J.H. Egger
and leaves this week for her new home
at Fargo, North Dakota. Her daugh'
tiers. Misses Nellie and Clara Boudl-
cite. will accompany her.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Wick
lein last Friday, October 25th, son.
Mrs. Ethel X Mertz of Wahpetor
called on Abercrombie friends last
Friday.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-11-07
Huns to Wear Bark Shoes.

To help out in the present great
scarcity ofleather and the consequent
dearth of footgear, a German army
authority recommends the introduction
Of linden bark moccasins such as are
worn by the Russian peasantry. Made
from the bark of young twigs, these
shoes are said to stand two years
wear; yet they are light and easy
and can be made to fit well. The lin
den forests Of the prince Of Monaco.
near Laon, France, Germans say,
would supply sufficient bark to make
100000 shoes, and the making of
them would furnish excellent light oc'
cupation for prisoners and slightly
wounded.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-11-07
CALLED FOR QUICK THINKING
Skipper Of Burning Ship, With cargs
OF High Explosives, in No Posi-.
ton to Hesitate.

The Cephalonia was deeply loaded
with shells, and her chill-rooms were
filled with T.. N. T. for the Italian
army, writes r. X. Cropley in the At.
lantic. She was we'll in the midst
of the convoy proceeding down the
Thames, and had just passed beyond
the submarine net, when u thin pencil
of smoke was seen to rise from the
corner Of No. hatch. It happened
to catch the third officers eye first,
and he called Sammy's attention to it.
In two shakes Sammy had sounded
four blasts on the siren. and flag
1luttered from the Sard-arm which
caused all other ships to give him q
wide berth, as the propeller Of the
CephalOnia churned up the sea in her
frantic effort to back and turn as If
to return to London. A ship on fire
should return to port, but Sammy, with
a cargo of I. N. T.. wasn't the kind of
skipper to risk blowing cottages and
kiddies into the next world in an ef.
fort to save his own skin. No; he
turned the CephalOnia till her stern
was head to the breeze, and slowly
kept her backing seward to restrain
the fire, if possible, from spreading
aft to his chambers of T. N. T.;
backed her away from port and other
ships, 80 that, if she did blow up, the
military loss would be confined to the
Cephalonia alone. And all the while
he was wondering what moment o.
boat would pop up and send torpedo
into him. or he would strike . drift
ing mine.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-11-07
DAzEp BY HUN ATROCITIES
Emotional Faculties Of Afflicted Bel
gians Probably Paralyzed by the
Horrors They Had Witnessed.

Mr., Brand Whitlock, former Ameri.
can minister to Belgium. has beer
, talking about the horror Of Lonvain in
the London Daily telegraph:
II was struck by the lack of pas.
sion displayed by all those who had
SO terribly suffered. seldom heard
any Of them express hatred of the
Germans or any desire for revenge.
"None Of them, as far as ! could
learn or observe, even acted in the
tragic manner. There were no he
r0lcs and ne histrionics; they die
not even demean themselves as do pcO.
pie in the cinema or the romantic nov.
"In moments of great danger, OF
great strain and tragedy, people are
simple and natural; they do not act
in the theatrical sense of the word" +"
To say that play could he acted
without gesture or other expression
Of what we feel is absurd. Nor
would, think, history support MIR.
Brand Whitlock's inference, whatever
may have been the story of unhappy
Belgium.
When Nine. du Barry died upon
the scaffold in Paris, her shrieks de-
lighted the knitting women. The Due
de Guise ran wildly from his assas-
sins to throw himself at the feet of
Henry Of France. Pitt wept for his
coGhtry's misfortunes-the family Of
the Inflated Louis XVI did not cease
their lamentations all night when they
heard that he was to be guillotned at
dawn.
The choler Of JsdDe Jeffreys found
expression in the Havilss and rantings
Of madman. Boabdil wept when he
was driven from Grenada. Henry VIII
could swear like q fshwife-C Catherine
Howard shrieked at Hampton court,
and the superstitious hear her shrieks
to this day.
In my view, the unhappy Belgians
were dazed by the very horror of the
circumstance. The atrocities commit
ted by the Hun were too awful. Shall
we wonder If the emotional faculties
were paralyzed?-London Dispatch.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-11-07
CurRCH NOTICE ABERCROMBIE

Norwegian services fnBetania at IL
A. NJ.
Mission Meeting at X. Flaa's at 2 P
NJ This is the yearly meeting and a
lagre attendance is urged.
English Services in Abercrombie at
s p. NJ. The pastor will speak on
"Our Church. It's Organization and
Efforts" A good deal of useful infor-
nation will be given that will do you
good to know.
Sunday School at 9:45. Prayer
meeting every Wednesday evening.
Victor l.. Peterson, Pastor
The Wahpeton times., 1918-11-07

Pay up your subscription before
November 1st. After that date papers
cannot be sent through the mails to
subscribers that are more than three
months in arrears. The yellow label
on your laper tells you to what date
your subscription has been paid. The
subscription is $3.50 per year. Send
in your checks. We do not want to
drop any names from our list, but
we must comply with the postal regu'
lations. The cooperation of our sub
scribers in this matter will assist us
IN a way that will be appreciated.
The Wahpeton Times
The Wahpeton times., 1918-11-07
Illustrates Red Cross Needs

Twenty thousand dozen pillow
cases, 1900 dozen pairs of bed socks
and $4,000 dozen face towels, just re-
ported as being ON hand at one Amer
lean Red Cross supply house in France
gives an idea of the size of the stocks
maintained by the organization.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-11-07
ThouohtfuI Uncle.

q! write for the few" declared the
amateur poet.
( and good idea, too, declared his
fp1ehy uncle; "the fewer the better"
kansas City Jodfnsl.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-11-07

W,tter-Therc's an unmarried hdS
wishes to speak to you on the tele'
phone, sir. Hotel Visitor-How 90 you
know she's unmarried. Waiter@sns
said not to bother IL you were engap
I'd. sir.-ChicaGo Herald.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-11-07
CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR

will mean more than ever to thought
full people, but it will not be season
for extravagance; only worthwhile
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GROCERIES

of the Infinite Justice. Then I retold
them, briefly, the events of the long
exile during which Jesus Christ re-
deemed His pledge to His Father and
opened heaven to man. In speaking of
the closing hours of the passion, |
was greatly helped by the great Cruel
fix, which is one of the most beautiful
possessions of the church of Browns
vile. Not only is the perturbation of
the sadly wounded form pOignantly
realistic, but, looking in detail at the
awful Five Wounds, the great purple
the delicate white flesh, and the swol-
len and twisted muscles, one can verit-
ably feel the pain that racked Our
Lords Body as He hung on the Cross.
my next sermon was on the
Particular Judgment that brief
moment in which mans life is
rated, and the everlasting seal of
success or failure placed upon
it. In this sermon drew upon history
to illustrate my point, first because |
thought it made the matter more in
teresting, and second, because we were
taught that a concrete example takes
stronger and more lasting hold on the
memory than do generalities. | say
drew on history, | should rather have
said drew on one of Father Benson s
historical novels. portrayed for them
day in the life of Elizabeth of Eng
land. ! tried to paint for them the
stately beauty of Whitehall, the bril-.
liant court, the gorgeousness and pomp
that surrounded her, and, lastly, the
power that she used so ill. Then
showed them Elizabeth stricken in the
midst of, all this. summoned to her
judgment, her earthly wealth and state
now but the opponents of her utter
spiritual nakedness and deformity, her
power a mockery in the presence OF
her all-powerful Judge. What do her
years as England's queen avail her
now? Then | went back some time;
pictured tue execution u oiIc CT he-
victims, one of the priest-martyrs OF
Tyburn. Fresh from reading the story
in all it's piercingly sweet sorrow,
described for them the priest with
his magnificent courage which no tor
ture of the rack could diminish, being
dragged on the hurdle to Tyburn Hill
between walls Of exulting enemies
his touching charity toward those who
were doing him ta death. and his pitt
full suffering as his poor, mangled body
was tossed hither and thither on the
hurdle at the horses heels. told
them of his death; how, because of his
stubbornness in loyalty to Christ, the
rope was too merciful death for him
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F. }. CAMITsCH, Pres. and Treas.
Minnesota Radiator

and so, after hanging he was taken
down and his broken, but still living
body given over to be quartered by a
butcher. And while they were stiI
shuddering at the thought of what he
had suffered, | asked them to imagine
his judgment-what would be the
greeting of his Judge when he showed
bore the marks of a passion the sacred
shadow of His Own.
And so the mission went on. The
confessions were marvel of edifica
of joy And | was sorry when the
closing came. But my success with
my sermons, the splendid attendance
and the confessions and Communions
all put together did not give me as
much consolation as this:
AS | made the sign of the cross,
preparatory to opening my sermon, on
the first night of the mission, | no
ticed man standing just inside the
church door, his hat in his hand, and
ICduy w pOOll my
sermon should begin to bore him. He
did not leave, however, until I had fin
ished, and each time that my eyes rest
ed on him he seemed to be watching
me intently Next night, involuntarily
looked for him, and discovered him
among those standing at the back of
the pews This time he remained for
Benediction, as | could see from my
priedieu at the side of the sanctuary;
and when the crowd had disappeared,
he sat down in the last pew. When |
came out from the confessional he was
gone, fact which ! noticed with dis
appointment, for | had unconsciously
hoped he was waiting for confession.
AS | passed through the sanctuary
on my way to the house | knelt before
the tabernacle and said special
prayer for him, for felt almost sure
that he was not one of those who were
making the mission simply out of
fervent piety.. The second night after
that, as entered the box, | recognized
my man kneeling in the line outside
of it. Lord, give him courage; don't
let him get away!' was my prayer as
l opened the slide for the first peni-
tent end from time to time glanced
through the little gap in the curtain to
see that he was still there.
Finally his turn came. When | had
made the sign of the cross, instead OF
beginning his confession, he said,
abruptly: Father, | beg as favor a
moments talk with you outside of the
confessional | looked through the
curtain at my line of waiters-but OF
course | could not refuse. When we
reached the sacrisIy an6 I mad turned
up the light and begged him to sit
down, he said: DO you remember one
of your classmates in the seminary
who left just before the subdiacon-
Continued on page 81
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Catholics in Social Movements
Mr.. Henri Jolly, leading French Cath
Ollie, writes on social subjects, and ex-
pounds a theory, to which attention
has often been called: The duty and
safeguard of the French Catholics is
to lead, not oppose, the many social
movements that, if rightly controlled,
may serve the cause of religion and
justice, whereas if taken possession of
by the revolutionary party, which is
ever on the watch, they must prove
public danger.