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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23
"a Am Happy" Said Mr.. Platypus.

we were nothing 1T all bat queer crea-
lures to be put some place where we
could be g12ea at IS being very soda
And one person said more severe things
than any of the others"
My dear, said Mr. Platy3us. you
mistook then-that is you took what
they said in quite the wrong spirit.
It's very great honor to be rs We
are. And TO be sure any museum or
zoo would be glad to have US with
them. We're different from all other
creatures, and not only that bat were
mixture Of different ones.
They were quite right when they
couldn't decide whether we were ami
mails or not"
Were they" asked Mrs. Platypus.
"Ies," Mr.. rlafypus continued.
we're mixture Of animal, fish and
bird"
Indeed" exclaimed Mrs Platypus.
Then it was not an insult they paid
me-"
"Ah, no, it was compliment. You
see Mr.. Platypus continued, I'VE have
bill like 4 duck, our feet are web
feet, our tails are horny and we can
fight with them when we are angry
and swim with them when we are act
ing like fishes - Mr.. PlatypuS gurg-
led for he thought he had made a
Joke
Yes, | WIS ready t. fight anyone
and anything with my tail just short
time ago said Mrs Platypus.
We can choose many homes and be
comfortable in them al" continued Mr..
PlatypuS. I'VE can live by the sea.
climb TO the top of tall tree And
what is more when We are M in the
tree we can gaze about aud see the
Worid-at least the world nearby. and
then we can dive from the tree into
the sea-"
SO we can" said Mrs. Platy2us.
And | can lay eggs and have beautiful
children"
Indeed yes" agreed Mr.. Platypus.
80 you are no longer angry" he ask
ed. Just think of being tn, only kind
of creature who can de- so many
things. Great men think we are inter
esting, and children think we are fun
ny, indeed. Isn't that fine?"
"Of course it is" said Mrs. Platypus.
Il suppose those people were admiring
me and thinking how wonderful il was
TO be so unusual. | was all wrong in
thinking they were insulting me-"
Yes, you We're all wrong in that"
said Mr. Platypus. But you're not
wrong i'm anything else. for you're a
fine, unusual creature, and like YOU
so much because you are just as am.
and do the same things. We're the
happy Platypus Pair, and do rub your
back on part of my rock, to show that
now you're feeling pleased"
So Mrs. Platypus rubbed her back
on the roci; and gurgled, Then she
felt as happy Is her husband. and very
soon the now happy Platypus Pair
climbed to the top OF y high tree, and
in little while made the mos. wonder
ful of dives deep down into tile water
below. When they came " again they
were smiling ana certainly looked like
a pleased Platyp $ i,:url
Everybody expects e,-ar-hodv aIea 70
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23

The experience OF Russia with Ed
itor Trotzky, formerly of New Yorl.
and various other cities. confirms in
us a suspicion we have long entertained
that working on newspaper, even in
the Metropolis Of America, and writing
pieces that tell presidents and prime
ministers and kings how to run their
governments, does not necessarily quail
ify the newspaper writer to take the
first job of caring" that becomes
vacant and succeed in it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23

The Reformer Is on sale every evening
by the following news dealers
Brattleboro. Brattlehoro News Co. C
W. Cleaveland, 5, l. Purinton (Estey-
yiIle), Brooks House Pharmacy. Aliens
Depot Newsstand, Mrs. D. F Doyle
South Main Street
West 5rattieboro. L. Stockwell.
sast Oummerston, NJ F. Brown
Putney. NJ G Williams.
Newtane. VI. Ratchelder.
Townshend. O. W Cutler.
West Townshend. c. Fl. Grout.
Jamaica, q J. Daugett
South Londonderry. RI Tyler
South Vernon. T. u RuTum
Northteld. Mass, Thompson Bros
West Chesterfield. NJ. II, Mrs W
Strceter.
Htnsdale, N H., w n LYMAN
Bellows FAILS. Depot Restaurant
windsor. VT. Windsor Restaurant
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23
TO The SUBSCRIBERS

1t is the aim Of the management TO
secure efficient service in the delivery OF
the paper each night. and ii solicits the
cooperation of Subscribers to that end
PROMPT reports should be given Of each
faHure TO receive the paper on the morn
ing loNoWlng the omission. in person
hE telephone or postal card thus enabling
the cause Of the error TO be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper
remedy Immediately applied 1t is only
by THIS method that the publisher can
secure The desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23
TO PREVENT TUBERCULOSIS.
Vermont Association Incorporates To
Conduct Campaign.

MONTPELIER, Feb. 23.-The Yer
mont Association for the Prevention of
tuberculosis has filed articles of asso.
clation IN the office of the secretary Of
the state for the purpose of cam
ralgn OF education in prevention Of the
Hs2ast and to do other work that will
have 70 tend to the prevention of it
The subscribers are: Thomas Magner
md Charles F. Dalton of Burlington
A. B Risbee of Montpelier, s. H. Jack.
son Of Barre and II. W. Sloeum of Bur.
lington.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23

Vagabonding Down tho Andes. bv
Harry 4. Franek.
Tho author spent three years explor-
ing South America, and in this book
We have the results Of his remarkable
journey which he took, not with a well
equipped party in search Of game ana
adventure, bat on foot and alone, 20
ing from village to village, living with
the natives, studying their habits, lit
eTature and social conditions, and by
sueh personal contact mapping out the
Andean mind. Above all. the author
makes Of his tour an entertaining
story filed with color and adventure.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23

edging Judge Darling's ability as a
lawyer, his fighting nerve and his hon
esty, there are still reasons enough, it
appears to us, why he is not the man
for the place.
Judge Darling served efficiently as
state chairman of the Red Cross mem
bership campaign and has been made
state chairman OF the next Libert :
Loan drive. These are purely patriotic
activities which should be kept entirely
free from the faint Of politics The
Reformer has no idea that Judge Oar
ling's connection with these activities
Is inspired by any political ambition,
but it does believe that no man who is
actively connected with them should
be conducting a campaign for the gov
ernorship at the same time
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23
Little Benny's
Note Book
The Park Ave. News.
BY LEE PAPE

9poarts Artie Alexander s,cpp al
ai,e at his cuzzin Benny Pottses house
las. SatiddaT on account of the next
day being Sunday, and they had a con
test to see witch one wood wake NJ
ferat il the morning. both of them be-
lag weak up by Mr. Potts sm2cxins
them with rolled up aew1,ape@, max
ing The contest tie
S;,siety. Miss Mary Watkins mas
had her initials Engraved on ali ne,
pencils, being did by Air 81 liant V T..
his new pea nife, taking him ali LIST
Sundey atr.-ncoa on acc2Unt - Miss
Watkins having i peacils ineioodn {,
stuhbs.
Most OF Them Do
War Pome ty Skinny Marsin.
He saw q built coming.
Jes- before ne hrcefAed his ia....
Wy dident lie dodge i he saw it com
ing2
because 1t was coming too fast.
Wy not insure your coal? To maxi
sare nobody steele it we will look down
Your cellar at your coal bin every .
hours fer 10 SCENTS q week. The lie,
Davis and Ed Weraick Coal Ias,r32;
Go. (AyNcrtizemint.1
Much Excitement. Benny Potts
sam Cross, Leroy Shooster and puI.
Slm@ins herd sumthile drop aaun.lin
lie money last Thersday AFTERNOON. ana
the" hunted Ground for about u M,
u'eS and then Sam Cross found = male
witch must Of bin it.
Personals. Sam Crosses black eat H.,
. Tello kittins, being quite coincI
dents
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23

Three years ago IS per cent of all
the families and individuals aided by
the Des Moines associated charities
were in condition Of poverty through
the drunkenness of the father of the
supporting members Of the household.
according to the capital Of that city.
These figures, however, will not appear
i'll the figures which the brewers arc
getting out to fight national prohibit
ton, - mlch literature is accustomed
to carry the argument that liquor
drinking has no connection with pow
erty.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23
At the Library
New Books

The Little Grandmother of the Russian
Revolution, "reminiscences and Let
ters Of Catherine Bresakovsky.
Edited by Alice Stone Blackwell
Among those who have worked for
years for New Russia one of the
best known is Catherine Bresh kovsky,
called by millions Dear little grand
mother At the time Madame Bresh-
kovsky was in New York her rcminis-
eences were published in Yiddish
newspaper. the Jewish Daily Forward;
her prison experiences and an outline
OF her later life were given by her
through an Interpreter, to Ernest
Poole, who published them in the Out-
look This material, together with
many of Madame Bresh kovsky's let
ters, have been collected and edited by
Mrs Blackwell i'll most interesting
book.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23

After some Of the blowhards have
talked an hour of the things they
would do to the kaiser if they wero
younger it is in order for them to walk
to the postoftice and buy a thrift stamp.
That is something they can lick
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run OF paper
so cents an inch for first insertion, q
cents an inch for each subsequent inser-
tion Limited space on first page at
double rates
Space rates on application.
CLASSIFIED advertisements-Five cents a
line first insertion with so per cent dis
count for each subsequent insertion
without change of copy
Reading Notices-Ten cents per line.
hrst insertion with so per cent discount
change Of copy.
Position 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23
Member of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press Is exclusively
entitled to the use for publication of al
news dispatches credited to II and not
otherwise credited In this paper and also
the local news published herein
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23

deals with his experiences in the I. S
navy during the Civil war, which be
gan just one year after he entered An
naPolis, and in the Spanish American
war, when he gained fame by bringing
The Oregon safely around the Horn.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23

Secrets of the Submarine, by Marley
F. Hay
This book, whose author is an ac-
knowled2ed authority on the design
ing and building Of submarines ia
written s.mnlE aad IN technical
language; as the author says "no hool;
ha1 hitherto beon written which has
attempted, for the general public and
IN language which all could understand,
to disseet the weapon which. at this
interesting moment in tine history OF
the world, seoqna TO hold the fate of tho
future in suspense
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23

Cardinal MERCER, by Rev. Joseph F.
Stiilemans.
Cardinal MERCER has proved timself
to be one of the grand figures of the
war. and this book contains 4 bio
graphical sketch rs well as many Of his
pastoral letters TO the people of Bel
gium. From these we can get GLIMPSE
of conditions in that unhappy country,
for Cardinal MERCER has never feared
TO speak the truth about the invaders
of Belgium.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23
Wheat Saving Recipes

QUAKER OATS swEErBITs.
cup sugar
eggs
teaspoons baking powder
tablespoon shortening
teaspoon vanilla
21a cups uncooked Quaker oats
Cream shortening and sugar; add
yolEs Of eggs. Add Quaker Oats, to
which baking powder has been added,
and add vanilla. Beat whites of eggs
stih and add last. Drop on buttered
tins with a 20 spoon. but cry few on
each tin rs they spread b in slow
oven. Makes about 60 cookies.
Notc.-Whcat Floor Substitutes spec.
flied by Washington are Bran, Shorts.
Middlings, Corn Flour, Corn Meal. Corn
Starch, Homiuv, Corn Grits. Barley
Flour, Rolled Oats, Oatmeal, Rice. Rice
Flour, Potato Flour, Sweet Potato Flour.
Cottouscel Flour, Milo. Kanir. and
Fctcrita Flours ana Meals, Soya Bean
Flour, Casava Flour, Taro Flour, Bana.
no Flour.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23

How 10 Fly, by 4. Frederick Collins
This is a very simple and clear dis
cussion Of aeroplaacs; how invented,
built, and balanced. One chapter deals
with tho engines r5ad; schools and
methods OF flying are discussed in :
later chapter, and there is one chapter
on the use Of aeroplanes ii war.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23

Everybody expects everybody else to
set good example
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY %. 1918.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-23

The Aeroplane Speaks, by H. Barber.
This book by a captain of the Royal
Flying Corps, who has had years cx-
periencc designing, building and fly
ing aeroplanes, has been adopted by
the United States government for use
in the instruction of aviators. Much
OF 1t is extremely technical, but the
pictures Of the different types of aero
planes are most interesting.
My Fifty Years in the Navy, BY
Charles f. Clark, rear-admiraI
L. s. y.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-07-03
Jailed for Threat to Captain.

Battle Creek, Mich, June 28.-Be-
cause he is alleged to have said his
captain had a yellow streak and that
he would like tc get behind him when
they went into battle Private William
]. Macdonald has been sentenced to
Fort LeavenwOrth for one year. He
was also absent without leave on three
occasions. After Samuel L. White had
deserted from Company 49, coast artil-
iery, his conscience bothered him and
ne voluntarily gave himself up to the
authorities. He has been sentenced to
is months at Fort LeavenwOrth and
a dishonOrable discharge. Instead of
taking months in their training, 5000
men of the June draft who will accom-
pany the Custer division overseas, are
receiving their training in weeks.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-07-03
RICHLAND COUNTY.
(The Democrat.)

The storm sufferers at Lone Rock
were the recipients recently of $1O73
from the estate of j. w. Varrell, late
OF Boscobel, whose estate was left in
the hands of trustees for distribution
to the needy.
James Burns, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Burns, who formerly resided at
Viola, is another former Richland
county boy to give up his life for his
country. He was killed recently in
the front line trenches in France. He
left Richland county with his parents
about two years since and has been
residing in the south part of the
state.
A representative Of the SaIzer Seed
Co., Lacrosse, tested the speed of his
Ford runabOut once too often on Sat-
Urday last, and the result was a bad
wreck on the road near the John Jan
ney home, on Fancy Creek. Going al
fast rate of speed, the car left the
road, struck and snapped off a tel
ephone pole and moved down a row
of about a dozen steel fence posts
The car was wreck, windshield and
tenders smashed, radiator ruined, axle
bent, and radius rods twisted. Both
occupants Of the car escaped with
slight bruises.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-07-03
Luther LEAGUE Elects.

La Crosse, June 29-George w.
Kapps of Milwaukee was reelected
president of the Luther League of
Wisconsin and Madison was awarded
the 1919 convention at the session here.
Other officers elected are: Adelaide
Miller, Madison, vice president; Edith
Horn, Platteville, treasurer; Lydia
Moeller Milwaukee, corresponding sec
rotary; Esther Heideman, Waterloo,
recording secretary; Rev. G. A. Nor
man, Milwaukee; Henry OFT, La
Crosse, and Vernon Owe, Oshkosh,
members of the executive committee,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-07-03
Profits of Stockholders in Mali
Order Houses Stagger the
Imagination.
CUSTOMERS SUPPLY CAPITAL
One Man Makes More Than $3.50 900
on $4,000 investment in Nine
Years-Hundreds Like
Him.
(Copyright.)


There is one way to make money by
dealing with the mail-order houses but
it isn't by buying goods from them.
The man who thinks he is making
money by buying his goods from mail
order houses has only to read Of the
amazing profits made by some Of these
big corporations to realize that all the
money is being made by the man on
the other end of the deal.
The stakeholder in a big mail-Order
concern tolls not and neither does he
spin, but he piles up his money so fast
that it makes the ordinary mans head
swim to read about it. Here is the
experience Of the stakeholder in one
Of the large mail-order concerns, as
told by reliable financial journal. It
gives glimpse into the inside work.
ings of the mail-Order business that
should be of interest to those who
have made such things possible.
How the Game Works.
In 1908 this man bought 600 shares
of stock in the mail-order corporation
In question when the stock was selling
around $40 share, the 600 shares
costing him a little less than $4,000.
In 1911 the company declared a stock
dividend of 33 1-3 per cent. In other
words the company after paying cash
dividends regularly, had accumulated
a surplus profit Of one-third Of the
amount Of capital invested in the
business; but instead of distributing
this profit among the stockholders the
company kept the money in the busi-
ness and issued stock for that amount
to the stockholders. BY this action
200 more shares of stock were issued
to the man who had originally bought
600, increasing his holdings to 800
shares, without his having put any
more money into the business.
Another stock dividend of SO per
cent was declared in 1915 and this
added 400 shares more to his holdings,
giving him 1000 shares in all. A third
stock dividend Of % per cent was paid
early in 1917, bringing this mans
stock holdings up to 1900 shares, still
without his having paid in any more
money. On this 1900 shares Of stock.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-07-03
Accident Brinos Death,

Oshkosh, June 29.-Mrs. Frederick
Fauck received a letter from her son,
Frank, in which he states his brother
Paul is dead in France, due to the ac-
cidental discharge of a revolver the
young man was cleaning. He wrote
that Paul had served in the trenches
three times and was going back when
he received the fatal wound. Both
boys went to France with Comuany
G, machine gun battalion, in the Rain
bow division. They were members OF
former Company f Of this city. Mrs
Fauck has received no official notice
of her sons death from the govern
ment.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-07-03
Our Neiuhhors.

Charles Lamb was one day criticiz-
Ing neighbor rather severely when
his listener interposed with a protest
that the judgment was mistaken, and
that the critic did not really know the
man. "But I don't want to know
him" said Lamb. II might get to like
him." That is what might happen
In good many cases when we stand
off and condemn. The faults are not
the only qualities our neighbor pos
sesses. We might get to like him If
we took the trouble to get acquainted.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-07-03

prettiest fancy work here you ever
saw. The French are sure great on
that.
We get tobacco issued to us twice
week now.
The Captain got your letter all
right. He said if I wanted anything
for me to send for it and he would ap-
prove it. l don't need anything right
now but if I do will surely send for it.
| talked with Henry Belscamper the
other day and he said he did not
think that Harley Whitmore was
drowned because he was there at the
time and there was not a man lost
that he knew of.
Well don't know any more to write
this time so will close. l got Ivan
elle's and Lyle's letters.
GOo0by,
Private Earl Reynolds,
Sup. Co. 121 H. F. A. N. G. A. E. F.
via New York.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-07-03
LETTER FROM EARL REYNOLDS.
Somewhere in France, 5-28-1S

Somewhere in France, 5-2S-18
Dear Folks.
1 received letter from you today
so thought l would answer although
I don't know anything much to write
only that | am we'll and all right, new
er felt better in my life. I get plenty
to eat and drink and weigh about As
pounds more than when I enlisted so
guess I am getting plenty. The Y. M.
c. A. is sure fine. They have shows
or something every night. You can
buy most anything you want-tobac-
co, cigarettes, nuts, candy and any
kind Of canned fruit. They are sure
great things for the army.
Tommy and Joe got the cards you
sent them at Easter time. I saw Hen
ry Belscamper and Clyde Roth the
other day. | never expected to see
them over here. We were here near
ly three months before they got here.
[ knew Arno Krohn was home, Joe
Turner got a letter from him.
Well you wanted to know about the
country here. 1t is very pretty coun-
try. There are lots of trees and hedg-
es that take the place of fences. There
IS more CluuU0i mere tudu L 0ApGCIeu
to see. The grain has been headed
for about three weeks now. Every
thing is old fashioned; they pillow
with oxen and all the hauling is done
on two wheeled carts with one horse
hitched ahead Of the other.
The buildings are all like you see
in the geography. In the cities the
streets are very narrow and the
street cars are double decked and are
run by women. You seldom see a
Frenchman in the city.
Well l didn't finish this letter last
night so will now. got a letter from
Emil; he said he just received a let
ter from Hazel with your address and
I thought 1 would write you.
Well mother, tomorrow is your
birthday and is also Decoration day
l will send you something when [ get
around to it. They have some of the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-07-03
SUGAR Certificates.

Madison, June 28.-All public eating
places have been ordered to get certifi-
Gates for their sugar requirements. All
househOlders, whether boarding houses
or private families who regularly take
care of % persons or more will be re-
quired to obtain sugar certificates I'M
der this heading by July 1. Under the
category of public eating places are in
Guided hotels, restaurants, boarding
houses, public and othes refreshment
houses, dining cars, boats, clubs, buff
fets, caterers, institutions either city,
county, state or federal, hospitals, pri-
vate canteens, internment camps and
other similar eating places.