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you came late"
Once again she lapsed into the
lethargy of utter weakness. whereupon
he fell to stroking her hands. calling
upon her to come back to him He
was beside himself now; a terrible feel
ing of impotence and despair overcame
him.
Hearing some one speak, he raised
figure of want which he had seen dig
ging on the slope below. 1t was Evan
gelina. The negress was little more
than skin and bones. her eyes were
bleared and yellow and sunken, her
face had grown apelike, but he recog-
nized her and she him.
You are the American" she de-
clared. You are Rosa's man."
Yes. But what is wrong with her?
"she is often like that. 1t is the
hunger. We have nothing to eat,
senior. I. too. am ilI-dying: and Assem-
have made us suffer-"
We must get Rosa home. Where do
you live?"
Evangelina turned her deaths head
toward the city. Down yonder. But
what's the use? There is no food in
our house and Rosa is afraid of those
wagons. You kTfow-the ones with
the eorpses.. She made me bring her
here to die"
The girl was not wholly unconscious,
it Seemed. for she stirred and muir
INJURED, family: Those wagons! Don't
let them put me in there with the 9TH
er dead. They pile the bodies high"
A weak shudder convulsed her.
O'Reilly bent lower. and in a strong,
determined voice cried: you are not
going to die. 1 have money for food.
Rouse yourself. Rosa. rouse yourself"
she prayed for you every night"
the negress volunteered. '.Such faith
Such trust! She never doubted that
you would come and find her. Some
times she cried, but that was because
of her brother. Esteban. you know, Is
dead Yes. dead. like all the rest"
: : L.. - - :. l.
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Two of a Kind.

10 REPRESENTATIVE MEYER LONDON
w said at a socialist meeting in New
York:
I'VE all ought to do our bit. Wen. 1t
US try to do our own bit instead q
meddling into other peoples affairs TO 80
that they do theirs.
Il was amused at a reception the Other
day. An elderly. gaunt lady approached.
a young man and said reproachfuIly -
him:
Why aren't you in khali7'
THE young man blushed. Then h.
drew himself up and answered:
For the same reason that you're nj
in the beauty chorus. physica1lt
unfit" 3
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Something Sinister.

MR. WILLIAM n. CRAWFORD. press-.
~ dent of Allegheny College. said ON
his departure to do war work at the
front:
Don't ask me for an Interview.
There's something sinister about an in.
terview. 1t suggests that I'm never
coming back.
Yes, you make me feel almost ~
blue as the rich old fellow whose little
nephew said:
Uncle. will you please make a noise
like a frog?
Why. Willier said the rich uncle.
laughing heartily. Why on earth do
frogr
because. said Willie. whenever :
ask papa to buy me a pony or bicycle or.
anything. he always says: Wait TN
your uncle croaks.'"
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XIV
THE HAUNTED GARDEN

Rosa Varona did not die. On the
contrary. under her lovers care che
made SO amazingly swift a recovery
that improvement was visible from1
hour to hour; she rallied like q wflkeA
flower under a refreshing rain. It was
OReilly's presence as much as the
nourishing diet provided by his money.
which effected this marvel, although
the certainty that Estehan was alive
and safe put added force into her de-
termination to live. Rosa found hopS
springing up in her breast. and one
day she caught herself laughing. The
marvel OF 1t was unbelievable. Orally
was sitting beside her bed of leaves at
the time; impulsively she pressed his
hand to her lips. repeating a question
she had asked him many times:
do you love me?"
For answer he bent and kissed hes.
What he said was of no conseQuencsz1
Rosa held his hand against her.
cheek. at a loss for words with which.
to voice her gladness.
Such happiness as mine belongs IN
heaven" she managed to tell him.
Sometimes it frightens me. With You
by my side this prison is a paradise aud
l want for nothing. War, suffering.
exist" -
Nevertheless. they do. and Matan.
zas is anything but a paradise" said
he 1T is-hell. and we must set about
quickly to get out OF it,"
Escape. do You mean? But that -
impossible. Asensio can tell you ait
about that. The Spaniards used to ~
sue passes for the men to go outside
the lines in search of food. II was 3nef
q trick. They never came back-aii 81
them were killed. Every one knows
better than to try, now"
nevertheless, we can't stay here
lnr
puzzled inquiry he explained: @Nvi
money is gone-all but a few cent?
This Is the last of our food and der
is no chance of getting more. Jacket
has some mysterious source of supoly3
and he manages to bring in somethine
every now and then, but there are 6vS
or US to feed. and he can't furufsk
more than enough for himself No. We
must make move at once while Ne
have the strength"
(To Be Continued Next Sunday.l
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Q Q

serted. He is alive. Rosa. do you
that? Esteban is alive and we'll -.
him with Gomez in the Orient I hAH
come to take you to him..
aEsteban alive? Ha! You are fse1<
ing u.s." Evangelina wagged her 49,
wisely. I'VE know better than thex
IT tell you he is alive" OReilly -
sisted. He heard Jacket calling to MIN
at that moment, SO he hallooed TO ne
boy: then when the latter had arrived
he explained briefly, without allowing
Jacket time in which to express his
Amusement:
our search is over; we have found
them. But they won't believe that
Esteban is alive. Tell them the truth-"
Yes. he is alive. We found him fot-
ting in a prison and we rescued hin:
Jacket corroborated. He stared cuvf- .
ously at the recumbent figure ON the
bench. then at o'Reilly. He puckere4
his lips and gave vent to low wnss-
pretty one. eh? l. She Well 1
don't think much of her. But then. |
you are not SO handsome yourself. are
your
Evangelina seemed to be stupid. 81
trifie touched, perhaps from suffer1ngsI
for she laid a skinny claw upon
O'Reilly's shoulder and warned him
earnestly: Look out for Cobo. Xcu
have heard about him. Ell? Well. be
is the cause of all our misery. He
hunted us from place to place. and fe |
was for him that l put that hump on
her back. Understand me. she Ia strstght--eI
straight and pretty enough for any
and her hair-she used to put flowers
in it for you. and then We would play
games. But you never came. Yo0I
will make allowances for her looks.
Poor Rosa, You two poor creAS
tures!" O'Reilly choked: he hid hioj
face upon his sweetheart's breast
Rosa responded: her fingers saresseA
h nd cha iOhA 70 fA Cd
O'Reilly's ascent of the hill had been
slow, but his descent was infinitely
shower, for Rosa was so feeble that shoI
could help herself but little and bel
lacked the strength to carry her faRl
at time Finally. however, thayI
reached the wretched howell wheroI
Asensio lay. then leaving her therAs|
Johnnie sped on alone into the city,
He returned soon with several SMALL
bundles concealed about his person. and
with Eyangelina's help he set about|
preparing food. sil
Neither Rosa nor the two nsgrpse|
long since passed the point at which,
they were conscious of it-and O'Roi1lyI
was compelled to force them to eat>l
When he had given them all that bel
Jacket.
The boy moistened his lips and his|
fingers twitched. but he shook his head.
oh, I'm not so hungry" he declared.
market-place; i will go down thsrol
and steal fish from HIM"
O'Reilly patted him on the shouiders|
saying: You are a good kid. ana yea
understand. don't you? These sfcle|
people will need more food than We
can buy for them. SO we will have -
draw our belts tight"
"Of course. Eating is habit aay<|
how, and we men know how to get
along without it. 1 will manage TO-
find something for you and me, for Tn
a prodigious thief I can steal the ha1R|
from a mans head when 1 try" with
supper.
Jacket whistled heroically until he
was out of O'Reilly's hearing. then his
bearing changed His mouth drew
He rubbed a grimy hand over hiG
stomach. murmuring. family: "Crietnl;
It is hard to be a man when you smell
things cookingi"
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The Patriot.

HUELI ADMINISTRATOR GARFIExU'
u was talking about q recaIcitrane'
coal operator.
smile, 'Tet us not overlook the nnn0.
essential patriotism. In these tryln1
times he's doing everything In ~
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not wake up properly. It's wing sunk
hanging, dragging. Its poor little head
lolled. And the mouse-his interest In
roamed round the cage with tagging
interest. He dropped. His little legs
spread and hiS stomach palpitated Wis
IDLY with his beating heart. Strange"
said the telephonist, strange, strange"
queer taste in his mouth, his eyes
seemed feverish; and. in time, he heard
his heart beat in his ears "Gas!" he
exclaimed The idea struck him sud-
denly. Gas that's slowly being waited
by a lazy air draugkt" And he tele-
phoned alarm just as he heard a far
bell tolling family. Il must save my
little friends" he said. He looked.
Both little friends were dead.
So happened the discovery that white
mice and canaries make the most deli
cate of all gas detectors. scarcely eN-
Guiding certain chemicals which re-
quire specialists. All the frstline
trenches have them at regular inter-
walls.
We are told not to describe gas
masks.
But. evidently, as the Germans seldom
throw emit single gas, but mix the
poisons. the masks must be good
against all categories and continually
examined. Yet the danger of sudden,
overwhelming new gas is not great at
present. Laboratory poisons are legion,
tion in military quantities to certain
types.
They have never given up the well
known chlorines (chloroxyd of carbon,
etc). which are real toxics, nor the eye
troubling, tear-bringing benzyl- BIZ omide
and iodide, nor the chloride and bromide
of xylite. which can practically blind
you while suffocating the lungs. You
have heard of the newer mustard" gas
(dichlorated ethyl sulphide) which
burns the skin while putting blisters on
the bronchial tubes If breathed enough.
Yet it's intoxication is rarely mortal.
Rather, it is hatefully tricky
The mustard" gas lesion begins with
the eyes. six to twelve hours after TAX
ing" producing a congestion. scarcely
painful but bothering to the view.
which regularly cures in three days.
Then come breathing trouble which
begin by an almost coWplete ex-
tinction of the voice. They go whisper
ing and coughing-'I've got mNstard!'
It lasts four days only. but may be fol-
lowed by congestion of the lungs,
- '-.,r 20 r-,ras Lnst-
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are ancient church bells, borrowed from
demolished belfries of country churches
and set up in solid lumber frameworks
near and far.
Boom. boom! Ding! ding! Tim! tim!
Dong! dong.
The tolled warning echoes across the
land, from grand, grave bells of former
abbey sanctuaries to silvery thinkers of
village chapels and mellow bronze So
norities of well-to-do town parish es.
Across the threatened countryside they
take it up, one from the other. A new
wave of poison gas is coming from the
Germans.
In French towns fourteen miles be-
hind the front every man, woman and
child must carry gas mask, kept con-
tinually in good condition. These CT
villains are trusted to put their masks
on their faces at the tolling of the
bells or blowing of the sirens only be-
cause they can't be controlled and must
be trusted. But possession and condi-
ton are verified, biweekly. daily: and
every man, woman and child may be
called up in the Street-halt, show your
gas mask! 1t is necessary Only three
weeks ago l dare not tell what hap
pened in great town behind the
British front in France, and to how
many civilians (only civilans)- it hap
pened. Civilians are SO careless and
pig-headed. At the beginning many
would not believe that the Germans.
sixteen miles. fourteen. ten, eight miles
away, WOulu QtdOoiiCdliy, without mill
tary use, lombard their streets and
roofs with gas shells that make scarce
ly any noise. yet. four of which, ex-
ploding in the space between two street
corners. could kill every person out
without his mask if he could not rush
Immediately in and slam the door.
Gas is world.
In watch post of salient of the
front the lone telepkonist had two
faithful companions. canary bird and
a white mouse with pink eyes. but no
gas mask.
And the canary had no mask, either.
The little pets were tame and happy,
with the freedom Of the tiny cagna,
scarcely a room, in massive earthworlos.
Only the mouse was slightly jealous of
the canary's seed cake, which the tele-
phonist's mother baked and sent him
because 1t was against the law. One
afternoon the mouse slipped into the
cage when the moment seemed propi-
tious. The canary slept, head under
wing. The telephonist watched. de-
lighted. But as he watched it seemed
a strange adventure. The eanaHs tia
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ecial Correspondence of The Star.

PARIS. February IS. 1918.
a 1E0HE saddest sight have SEEM"
~ says an American ambulance
driver, was twenty French
q soldiers marching to the
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-12
FOR GAS
MASKS COMING IN
Nearly Three Barrels Of Nuts Already
Received at Storage Rooms-Collec-
tions to Be Made Saturday.

Between two and three barrels of
nuts and pits already are in storage
at the Patriotic league rooms and it is
known that many from out of town arc
planning to bring in their savings of
these articles when they come here next
week to attend the Valley fair.
letter was received this morning
from B. l.. Ingalls, of the Vermont ae,
ricultural extension service in which
he wrote that he considered good work
was being done in the conservation OF
these carbon containing articles in this
locality.
The Windham County Farm Bureau.
the board of trade and the Patriotic
league are cooperating in this work
for the government. If anyone having
a considerable amount of the fruit pits.
nuts or nut shells on hand will tele
phone 20S, the board of trade. before
Saturday, an effort will be made to col
lect them
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-12
MUST ACT AGAINST
GROWING DRUG EVIL
Report to Congress Shows Rapidly In
creasing Number of
AddictS.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.-Habitual
use of morphine, cocaine and prcpara-
tions containing other narcotic drugs
has increased rapidly in the United
States within the past two years and a
drastic anti-narcotie law must be enact
ed at this session of congress to check
the Wholesale spread of the habit.
These are the conclusions made public
today by a special treasury investigat-
ing committee with partial report on
number of drug addicts actually under
physicians treatment. Partial reports
submitted by physicians showing those
under treatment in the country show
the following: Connecticut, 96S; Maine.
427; Massachusetts, 2,23s; New Hamp-
shire, 1868; Rhode Island, 54S These
figures are expected to be doubled by
later reports
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-12
RED CROSS NOTES.

All workers having knitting out are
asked to finish the garments as soon as
possible and bring to the rooms so the.
may be shipped to headquarters
There will be no more gauze work at
the work rooms for the present as it has
been completed for this allotment. The
work on tampons and assembling will
continue and work on pads will begin
again Monday.
From now on no comfort kits will be
given by the local branch to men leaving
for camps. This is an order from head
quarters and Is explained as follows:
Every man receives a comfort kit and
knitted outfit from the Red Cross befor,
he starts overseas. While in some cases
the comfort kits are appreciated and the
contents used, commanding officers at
camps say that in nine cases out of ten
the bag is discarded and that at Camp
Devens there is one room nearly filled
with comfort kits which have been
thrown aside.
Mrs. J. c. Dewitt, who attended tn,
recent Red Cross convention at Rutland
says that the various division heads who
spoke made a strong point of the neees-
slty for chapters and branches to obey
orders. in other words to do as they are
told cheerfully and without criticism, as
there Is always good reason for any
thing which may be asked of them. In
the making of the refugee garments thera
may seem to some to be a great deal of
unnecessary work and some chapter,
have eontended that the models should
be changed, but all patterns have been
made from the style of garment worn by
these people for century or more and
it Is no time to try to force other ideas
upon them. Garments which have been
made and sent over by the Red Cross
have been very satisfactory. So if there
seems to be too many buttonholes or the
pockets seem ridieulously small or the
collars much too large, all should do
their best cheerfully and willingly realiz-
ing that the work of helping these poor
people is one of the great tasks of the
Red Cross.
This branch has been notified tha :
there Is to be another drive for second
hand clothing the week of Sept. %.
Housekeepers are asked to bear this in
mind when looking over things prepara
tory to fall housekeeping. Wooden
goods of any kind are acceptable. Mems
shirts and pajamas. so worn or shrunken
as to be no longer seryiceable, are partic-
ularly welcome, since the material can be
used by the Belgian women for making
chlldren's garments. Shoes of every kind
are asked for and scrap leather is needed
for repairing An extract from letter
from a well-to-do woman in Brussels to
an American friend gives some idea of
the actual clothing conditions in Belgium
The woman writes that she is wearing a
cloak made from her husbands oyereoat
a waist made from his football shirt and
skirt made from dyed bed sheet Her
mother is wearing a suit made of a table
cloth and two daughters have cloaks
made from woolen blankets. while third
is wearing a dress made of burlap. She
states that all this is only amusing in
comparison with the wretchedness of the
population.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-12
Machinery Started i'm Festi-
val Hall Shortly Be-
fore I a. m.
FIRST TWO HOURS
WERE BUSIEST

Registration Closes at Tonight
Thirteen Registrars On Duty-Nunl-
Der of Incidents Occur 20 Vary Rou-
tine Work.
From 500 to 900 Brattlcboro men. ac
cording to the estimates, will be inculd-
ed in the l3,O0O,0O0 who are expected
TO respond today to the country 5 call
for an additional registration of man
power
The registration Of males between the
ages of IS and p and between - and
46 began in Festival hall this morning.
The hour set was Z clock. but as there
were good number waiting before
then to register so they could get to
work on time Chief Registrar Carl S.
Hopkins, town clerk, started the ma
chinery a little before for their bene-
fit
From Z to 8 0 clock was the busiest
period of the forenoon. and at u
o clock about 400 had registered. At
the registration year ago last June
the registration cards were numbered
consecutWely, so the number who had
supplied the required information was
known at all times. but the cards aro
not numbered this time. Neither is the
registrant asked to state whether he
CLAIMS exemption on any ground, as that
VIII be included in the questionnaires.
Mr.. Hopkins appointed ii registrars
to assist him, but one of them. ATTORNEY
Harrie B. Chase, had to be away TODAY.
The 13 others were Dennison Cowles.
Fred Cressy, Ernest. j. Waterman.
Charles \. Harris, VIII B. Smith, Ar
thur L. Maynard Harold E. Whitney.
Major c. Houghton, Lawrence X. Bar
Der, Anthony f. Schwenk, Fletcher X.
Barrows, Frederick S. Knight and DR.
Shai1er Z. Lawton. Dr. Lawton filed
out the cards for persons at the Retreat
and Mr.. Cowles and Mr. Cressv went to
/ the Fort Dummer Mills and secured
from 90 to 20 names.
The registrars viii be on duty until
o clock tonight, when the total mum
Der of names will be reported to Clerk
F. d. E. Stowe of the local draft board
for Windham county.
A few incidents occurred this forenoon
to vary the routine work of the regis
trars. The first and second cards mad,
out by one registrar We're for man anc
his son. Neither was of the proper ag,
to register previous to today
| a young man of 10 years was accom-
panied to the hall by youth under Ii
who wanted to register. The youngeI
man knew that he was not included, bu
wanted to know if there would be an,
penalty if he registered as he wanted t,
get into the war
One man who apparently had been i'm
posed upon because of his credulitv cam
IN with trembling nerves, being under tn
, Impression that he would have to star
for camp Immediately. When informe,
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that it was doubtful if he ever would be
called he seemed much relieved.
4 man who had not figured out his age
gave his birthday and was found to be
above 10, so he could not register.
One OF the registrants had supposed
until recently that ne was an American
citizen, but he learned "A short time ago
that his father, who was an Englishman.
had not been naturalized so the young
man proceeded at once to take out his
alien declarant
first papers. He was registered as an
There were the usual number of regis
trants with jaw breaking names.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-12
WELL BALANCED
FAIR EXPECTED
Plans for Exhibition Next
Week Being Carried
Into Effect.
NEW FEATURES ARE
ON THE PROGRAM

Government Exhibit of Machine Guns.
Torpedoes, Mortars, Etc, viii Be of
Demonstration of Farm
Tractors.
Valley Fair association officials are
making the plans for the fair next week
take shape as rapidly as possible, and
it is expected that the exhibition next
Wednesday and Thursday will be
well rounded out show.
The fair this year will embrace some
new features along with the old, and
all will be distinctively worth while. Re
duced rates are offered on the railroads
for persons living within radius of 50
miles of Brattleboro, and if the weather
is good it is expected that large crowd
will be present.
One of the latest features secured is
government war exhibit. This will be
placed in the Made-in- -Brattleboro build
ing. 1t embraces a great variety of
war material, many of the articles cap
tured from the central powers
In this exhibit will be shown machine
guns, trench mortars of various types.
submarine torpedoes, hand grenades,
helmets, clothing, gas masks, pictures
of battle scenes, etc. The exhibit is
sent out from Chicago by the publicity
department of the government. 1t will
be the only exhibition of the kind in
this section and will have a marked ed
ucational value.
1t Is hoped to have in this building
also a Red Cross exhibit and display
of substitutes in various lines of food
As has been stated previously, the
cattle exhibit this year will be limited
to cattle in Windham, Cheshire and
Franklin counties. so far as competition
is concerned, so the farmers will not be
up against the big show herds. This
ought to stimulate the farmers of these
three adjoining counties to send their
stock. There may be show herd pres
ent for exhibition only
The officials are giving attention to
the horse department and hope to make
this feature attractive.
w. A. Shumway, race secretary, said
today that he expected to be able to
give the race entries within a day or
two, as the entries closed at noon yes
terday and the horse owners were al
lowed "a hours in which to mail their
entries after the hour of closing. The
race program provides for purses of
81 500. divided as follows: 2.21 pace.
purse $400; 2.25 trot, purse $500; 2,15
pace, purse $500; 2.19 trot, purse $4o0;
2.09 pace, purse $500; 2.15 trot, purse
$40Q. Chester F. Pike of Claremont,
n. H., who has given such general salts
faction as starter in previous years,
has been engaged to serve in that capae-
ity at the races this year.
\ feature not before seen at the Val
ley fair will be demonstration of farm
tractors. 1t can be set down in advance