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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31
vermont's Glory.
Boston Herald

Vermont has discovered the Green
mountains. Vermonters have lived for
decades among those splendid peaks
and never adventured beyond their
lower slopes. Now they have begun to
make up for lost time They must hold
themselves responsible largely that
summer visitors have not been coming
to their state in numbers to rival the
multitudes who seek rest and recreation
among the White mountains across the
Connecticut river. The Green Mountain
people are beginning at last to climb
for fun and to make their splendid
scenery conveniently available for the
pleasure of their visitors.
No state in the East has biggcl
or finer endowment of natural beauty
The Green mountains make rather
densely forested and eraggy crowned
range, stretching clear across the state
from the southern boundary to the
northern, with an area greater than
that of the Adirondaeks, the Catskills
and the White mountains combined
Yet not more than one peak in three
has name, which in itself is clear ev-
idence that the people have not real
| lied the dividends they might have
coined from an investment in scenery
Thirty-two peaks have an altitude Of
more than 5000 feet. Mount Mansfield
scars to height of 1866 feet, its four
lpeaks curiously ehrfstened "the Fore
head, 7 tthe Chin - the Nose and
the Adam 5 Apple. The third peak
| in height is the Camel s Hump, sc
called, although tradition says that a
French explorer on Lake Champlair
called it the Crouehing Lion, and now
there is debate through the whole state
ever the question, Shall the old name
be retained or shall the Frenchman :
more poetic name be substituted Ro
mantle hooks abound. The Smuggler i
Notch is a deep defle at the foot OF
Mount Mansfield, SO narrow that the
bare walls seem TO come together al
the top. Perhaps smugglers from Can
ada used to hide in its recesses, per
haps not; anyhow, the tales told of il
are interesting. The Charlestown Gull
| is another impressive sight too little
known. Caves bearing the name Of
; Ethan Allen, and lakes, small and beau
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31

tiful, are fairly numerous in this re-
gion, which has not yet been Elm
proved" beyond al semblance of ma
lures
And now Vermont is discovering the
value and the beauty of her mountains.
The fame of the Green Mountain Club
and its Long Trail is reaching abroad.
Visitors are coming to tramp the trail
and often they return the following
year. The skyline hike from border to
border across all the high peaks in Yer
mont will cure more ailments and re-
lieve more nerves than quantities of
physic. The club, started in 1870 is do
ing what the Appalachian Club has
| done in the White mountains. The trail
| is clearly marked, ana convenient shell
| ters have been erected at easy inter
walls. In all, including approach trails
400 miles of good tramping has been
provided. Some approach trails have
still to be surveyed and marked The
completing of that work should not be
delayed. New England, probably the
entire East, has nothing to match that
trail. As it is. more and more appre
! ciated Vermont win gain in more way;
than one. The coming summer should
witness jump forward
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31
MONDAY, MARCH 81, 1919.
DIscREDIrABLE FIcKLENEss.

The New England Homestead after
rehearsing the different ideas regarding
the two agricultural schools of the state
says: Women are always given the
prerogative of changing their minds
upon short notice, but for a state with
the standing that Vermont has, it is
confusing, TO say the least, to find her
changing opinions every time the polit-
zeal wind shifts. Clearly, the best in
tcrests of the state are not being best
| served by suclf an uncertain mind"
Fortunately it appears now as though
there would be no change in the state
policy toward agricultural schools and
the state will continue to educate as
many boys as possible at the institu-
lions it now possesses. But fekleness
has appeared in other directions that
can hardly bring credit to the state
Last week Wednesday the senate at
Montpelier was advancing the law for
grading apples towards enactment and
placed a referendum attachment to the
state barge terminal bill 1t looked
Wednesday night as though the state
would standardize its apples, one of its
important crops, and protect the tax
payers from bonded Indebtedness OF
100000 Thursday the apple grading
bill was killed, the referendum removed
from the 100000 barge terminal bill
and the bin passed, the lieutenant gov
ernor casting the deciding vote. 1t i:
currently reported about the corridors
of the state house that this complete re
versal of policy was effected by trad,
among the senators. 1t might be i'm
possible to prove such statement hu
clearly, the best interests of the stat,
are not being served by such an uncer
tain mind.
1t is to be hoped that the work of tn
legislature may be completed withou
another instance of this character Ii
the main the legislature has been fol
| lowing sound economic lines, and /
| cannot afford, much more the state can
not afford, any change from its gen
| eral policy.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE

I'm reeding book with rcd cover
called In the Days of the Round Table,
all about knights fighting each other
with speers, and tawking the way they
use to tawk and diffrent things, being
'pritty Exciting even without the pick
lures, and tonite vile we was eating
suppir, | sed, Methinks this soop is
good.
1t sounds all rite, sed my sister Glad
dis. Meening / was making too much
noise drinking it, and pop sed, And
ware do you get that methinks stuff!
He's bin tawking like that all day,
sed ma, its out of some book he S reed
ing and its cnuff to drive person
crazy.
DDS boddykins, methinks it dident
drive the people krazy wen they use to
speek like that all the time, eftsoon, so
methinks, wy should it jest in ono day ?
sed.
Izzent that perfeekly redickilisss sed
ma.
l don't see mulch sents to it myself
sed pop. And We got past the soop and
kepp on eating, and | sed, Methinks
there S heck of lot of pepper in these
tomatoes, gazooks.
If you don't like a thing you don't half
to cat it, I've told you awffen enuff,
and | don't wunt you to call people ga
zoots, / don't care wat book you're
reeding, sed ma.
The boy means gadzooks, its merely
an old fashioned exclamation, sed pop,
and ma scd. don't care wat it is l wunt
have him calling me one.
And we kepp on eating suppir and |
sed, Marry come up, me thinks | wunt
some more buttir, gazooks.
Benny Potts, wat did l tell you, now
this has gone far cnuff, / don't like that
werd and | don't like eny of those
verbs and if people use TO tawk like
that, it was there own bizniss and
there's no reason / should sufir, sed ma.
Benny, sed pop.
| Sir. / sed
Can the King Arthur stuff, sed pop.
Wieh l did.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31
T odays' Events

Four hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Henry ii of France, in whose
reign Calais was retaken from the Eng
fish.
Centennial anniversary of the birth
of Prince Won Hohenlohe, the successor
of Bismarck as German Imperial Chan
eellor
One of the bitterest mayoralty cam
paigns Chicago has known in years
closes today, preliminary to tomorrow
municipal election.
The annual convention of the Flori-
da Head Camp, Woodmen of the World
win be entertained at Ocala during thC
three days beginning today.
Three hundred bankers are expected
in New Orleans today to take part il
the sixth annual convention of the as
ISOLATION of Reserve City Bankers.
The general program of the Nationa
Conference of Music Supervisors. whicl
win begin its sessions in ST. Louis to
day, will deal for the most part will
the question as to whether the Ameri
can child is entitled to a thorough nlu
steal education at the expense of TIL
public
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31
Should Veto Bill.
(St. Adams Messenger.

The Crosby & Co grain concern of
Brattleboro, whose president has wired
Governor Clement asking him to veto
the Burlington barge terminal bill, is
one of the largest flour and grain bust
ness houses in the East, millions of
dollars worth OF these commodities
passing through its hands annually.
The head of n business of such pro-
portions, in which transportation is
vital factor, has a right to express his
opinions of q business matter which is
entirely one of transportation, and his
words are entitled to great respect and
consideration. This man says that the
barge terminal proposition is absurd
| and that the more it is investigated the
more absurd it becomes.
If any business outside of Burlington
were to profit from water transporta-
| tion it would be this one, for the com
modities it deals in are of the type
that lend themselves easily to water
| transportation. If the Crosby concern
saw any possibility of its freight
charges being reduced by the terminal
it certainly would favor the PROPOSE
tion, for it is a business concern out
to make money and to take advantage
of every way to decrease costs.
| But the barge terminal will not only
do it no good, but its head declares to
| the governor that the whole PROPOSE
ton from any state angle is absurd. He
says the people Of the southern part of
the state are looking to the governor TO
| protect them by using the veto power
The people in other parts of the state
are doing the same thing, and there is
no one thing that Mr.. Clement could
do to show his good faith in protecting
the people from unwise expenditures
and from unnecessarily heavy taxes
than in putting his stamp of disap-
prevail on this measure.
If the farmers cannot benefit from
lower transportation costs on grain, the
one commodity of which they arc in
the market as large buyers, where is
their benefit from the terminal to them
going to come from? Where is the
tenetit going to come from to the aver
age individual, to the average business
man in other parts of the state outside
Burlington?
/ 1t isn't going to come. That is the
answer. Business men in all parts OF
the state have condemned this propo
sition. It is not wanted by the very
people whom it would benefit if thert
were any benefit in it to be derived BY
anybody. How, in the face of these
facts and of the general disapproval
can Governor Clement attach his name
to this bill? This is no time for tn,
state to be spending money on prop
osition which the best business talent
in the state is calling absurd The
veto power was reposed in the govern
or and made effective so that the stat,
might be saved from just such alb
surd propositions as the legislature i
now seeking to foist on it. There viii
be applause from one end of Vermont
to the other if Governor Clement vii
step IN and put an end to this pork bar
rel raid on the public treasury.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31
Field Peas for Hogs
Equal to Corn and
Six Weeks Earlier

ON account of the high price of
clover, many people will look for a sub
stltute as soil improver.
CANADA FIELD PEAS. at one
seventh the cost of clover, are one of
the best known ligumes that take, Nj
tregen from the air and deposit it in the
soil and can either be used Tor hay or
turned under for green manure The
Canadian Field Pea does not thrive in
extremely hot weather. but if sown
curly viii produce good and bountiful
crop wherever the conditions are also
fiSorable for the growing of oats
hield Pies, either sown alone or with
ODDS, have long been recognized as one
ota the best feeding and fattening for
ago crops for young stock and hogs, to
capry them during the midsummer and
drtughty period of July and August.
Mhcn sown alone they should be han
died the same as any small grain crop
and drilled ut the rate of two and one
hdf bushels per acre. When mixed
with oats one-half the quantity, name.
lw one and one quarter bushels per acre
tdk the same quantity of oats is sui
fGent. The time of sowing corresponds
with that of Oat seeding. AS peas are
naturally hardy and not endangered by
late frosts, the earlier the crop can be
gGtten into the ground the better
early seeding brings the crop into
maturity and ready for feeding before
tlfe hot days Of July and August A pea
cIbp, if sown as soon in spring as the
gtDund is ready to pow, may be ready
fP feeding as early as the Goth to 25tl
OF June. Usually, however, it is avail
abe the first half of July.
Samples and prices furnished. on APP
prieation Can offer in any quantity A
small order will receive just as careful
attention as a larger one. Would bt
pleased to be favored with your in
Quiries, which will meet with courteous
and prompt consideration.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31

The Reformer is on sale every evening by
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Cleveland, S. L. Purinton (Esteyville), Brooks
House Pharmacy, Aliens Depot News stand
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Drummer district.
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Mortified, Mass, Thompson Bros
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Greenfield, Mass, Greenfield News Co.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31
In the DAYS News.

Alexandra Millerand, who this week
is TO assume his duties as governor of
Alsaee-Lorraine, is enc of the most re-
markable characters in France. Like
Premier Clemenceau. he is q reconstruc-
ted Socialist In 1885, he was elected
to the chamber of deputies as n Rad
zeal Socialist, and for years he led
the extreme left wing of the army of
reform. He is native Partisan, and
in spite of the fact that his parents
were very poor, he managed to get
enough education to become a success
full lawyer, a journalist, and states
man of great ability. He was admitted
to the bar when he was % years old Che
is now just turned Coz, and one of his
first cases was the defense of the strik.
ing miners of Montceau. He was only
a when NJ. ClemeReeau appointed him
editor of the La Justice. In 1900 he be;
came minister of commerce and dur
ing the early period of the great wal
held the important post Of war minis
/ fer
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31
81 Simply Love Figs"

hadn't. deserved II. l could under
stand that from what they said"
''Well, why did that make you
mad:" asked the apple.
Il haven't finished the story" said
the fig.
"oh. beg your pardon" said the
apple.
And one child who looked so nice
at first said:
well, ! wouldn't give o fig for
person as mean as that, and | wouldn't
pay any attention TO her. She is not
worth thinking about
Imagine" said the fig, they spoke
of person they knew was mean and
horrid and unfair and all that WAS
dreadful as not being worth fig. oh,
that was cruel, cruel"
Il am so glad you told the story"
said the apple. for you are being un-
happy for no reason at all. When any
one says that person isn't worth
thinking about and wouldn't give a fi-
for that person, il doesn't mean an
insult TO the family of figs, but is sim
ply an expression people have used for
a long. long time. A fig is small and
they mean they wouldn't give a small
thing for a big and horrid thing. You
mustn't worry about sayings folks
have" said the apple. and the fig was
happy again.
But the fig was more delighted when
a lovely child came by the fruit dish
and taking the fig said, 81 simply love
figs"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31
DADDY,)fvfN|NQD
FAIRY TALE "a
6y hary Graham Bonner 8 inner N
THE FIG.
O~kSe AuTsos

'Tm mad" said the fig.
what are you mad about?" asked
the apple.
The fig and the apple were in the
fruit dish together, along with an
orange or two and bunch of grapes.
"What are you mad about!' the rest
of the fruit asked.
"Yes. you'd better tell u.s." said the
apple. I'm sure it will make you
feel much, much better"
81 don't know whether 1t will or
not" said the fig.
"Why don't you think 1t will?" asked
the apple.
Because it might make me cry, and
some one might call me cry baby"
MY dear fig" said the apple, mo
one could call you cry baby. because
even if you cried you're not a baby"
But I've heard big boys and big
girls called cry babies, and they
weren't babies" said the fig.
"All very true" said the apple, shut
they behaved as babies and once they
had been babies. That is, each one of
| them had once been baby. 1t would
have been impossible for them to have
been more than one baby / suppose"
1--WE suppose so too" said the rest
of the fruit, as it moved in the fruit
dish a little.
And" continued the apple, "they
were behaving as though they hadn't
grown up into boys and girls by cry
ing over some silly little thing.
you see, fig, you have never been
a baby. You have been a little fig, hut
never little baby. So you couldn't
be cry baby, though you might be a
cry fig, or cry little fig. I'm not sure
about that"
THAT wouldn't sound so badly"
said the fig. Il will have 10 tell you
what has made me mad, and what
may make me cry at any moment"
"Tell u.s." said the fruit.
TELL us at once" said the apple.
81 heard some children talking" said
the fg, "and they said something
} which made me feel very sad indeed
: "Yes, go on" said the apple.
Don't waste any time" said the
rest of the fruit. I'VE may be eaten
any moment We want to hear your
story first. 1t is just as well not "a
wait too long. One can never tell wheu
| some one will be hungry and will want
piece of fruit"
1 That's So" agreed the apple, ''somC
4 one may want to eat me any time"
"For that matter. some one ma!
; want TO eat me-" said the fig.
, ''oh. horrible thought" said the ap
pie. make haste and.tell your story
+ I'VE are waiting TO hear" said tn.
E rest of the fruit.
|. Go right on from where you lef
: off," said the apple. what did TIL
;, children say?"
! ''They said" continued the fig, "ths
some one had been very mean ant
cross to them and that they reall,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31
Todan,s Anniversaries.

1sl4-Entry of allies into Paris after
the downfall of Napoleon.
1S19-Prince Won Hohenlohe, who sue
ceeded Bismarck as German I'm
perial Chancellor. born at Rotten.
bourg. Died at Ragatz, Switzer-
land, July >, 1901.
1S44-Andrew Lang, famous critic
poet and anthropologist, born al
Selkirk. Scotland Died at Ban
chory, Scotland, July 81, 1912.
1S54-Great Britain S declaration OF
war with Russia read from the
steps of the Royal exchange.
ls61-Body of Napoleon |. inferred in
the crypt of the Invalides Paris
1SS9-Fornlal Inauguration of the great
Eiffel Tower in Paris.
lS91-The mayor of New York city or
dered the removal of telegrap l
poles and wires from the streets.
19l5-Germans abandoned the siege OF
Ossowetz, in Russian Poland.
19l6-German assaults at Melville ant
st. Eloi stopped by British.
1917-Six villages north of ST. Quentin
captured by the British.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31

One of the classic speeches of the
legislative session came last Friday
when Mr.. Davis of Rutland town said:
" Yesterday we increased the appropria-
tion for the dead cows of Vermont
$4,000. Today can t we give an extra
$4,000 for Vermont s live babies7''
The house gave a generous answer to
the question, voting on roll call III to
3 in favor of the increased appropria-
ton. This vote indicates that the law
makers approve not only the work of
the department of charities and pro
hation but the manner in which it is
done.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31
Inkless Pen.

To make a pen that will write with
out ink, get a small quantity of vio-
let aniline from a drug store. and
sorIe gum arabic. Dissolve a little
of the gum in warm water, and mix
with the violet aniline until paste
is formed. Apply it TO the inside hol-
lowo new pen nib, just above the
split. To write with the inkless pen
it is only necessary to dip it in water.
Shake away the drops, but do not wipe
the pen. After few moments it will
be possible TO write quite well!
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31
Tcdav,s Birthdays.

Prince Henry of Wales, third son of
Their British Majesties, born 10 years
ago today.
James NJ. Cox, the present governor
or Ohio. born at Jacksonburg, Ohio, ~
years ago today.
John Hays Hammond, famous mining
engineer and capitalist. born in San
Francisco, 81 years ago today.
Claude A. Swanson. junior United
States senator from Virginia, born il
Pittsylvania county, Va, 81 years age
today
Rear Admiral Philip Andrews, T. S
n, who has been detailed to command
the Mediterranean squadron, born IL
New York city, 50 years ago today.
Franklin H. Sargent, president Of
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TO THE SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim of the management to secure
efficient service in the delivery of the paper
each night, and it solicits the cooperation of
subscribers to that end. Prompt reports should
be given Of each failure to receive the paper
on the morning following the omission, in
person, by telephone postal card, thus en-
abling the cause of the error to be promptly
edy Immediately applied 1t is only by this
method that the publisher can secure the de-
sired service
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TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run of paper, 50 cents
an inch for first insertion, rs cents an inch
for each subsequent insertion. Limited space
on first page at double rates.
Space rates application.
Classified advertisements-Five cents a line
trst insertion with 50 per cent discount fol
each subsequent insertion without change Of
copy.
Reading Notices-Ten cents per line frs
insertion with so per cent discount for eacf
subsequent insertion without change of copy
Position 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31
Cheerful Patience.

There is great deal of difference
between cheerful patience and plod-
ding patience. Keeping nj your work
when there is no smile on your face
and no hope in your heart may be Ia
your credit. but il is far less effective,
as far as results are concerned. than
the patience which is mixed With
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Companion.
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things according to her own notion as
to how they should be. A bill is now
before the senate of the Legislature
which makes four per cent beer, ales,
wines and eordials, Notwithstanding
beverages in that state
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31
Why Editors Drink the Ink.

eve wish to apologize to Mrs. Or
vile Overholt In our paper last week
we had as a heading, Mrs. Overholt S
Big Feet. +" The word we had ought to
have used is French word, pronounced
the same way, but spelled fete. It
means celebration and is considered a
very tony word.-W illiamsville IN. d. }
Item
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31

Secretary Baker tells of wonderful
new and secret device whereby an air
plane can be automatically controlled,
carry load 100 miles without human
guide and land where it is desired. We
shall expect in the near future to see
this remarkable invention listed as a
Ford accessory.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31
One Year Ago Today in the War.

British steamship Conargo torpedoed
in Irish sea.
Canadian infantry and cavalry re-
captured Moreuil
Poltaya captured and burned by the
German army invading the Ukraine.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31

No shivers of fear VIII be felt at the
news that FIVE German submarines left
that country for the United States Sat
urday. BY the fortunes of war, they
are all manned by American crews.