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was building theatres that We are just be-
ginning TO initiate, when managers were
putting into practice lighting devices
which Belaseo has Just discovered our
own Wizard of the Stage" was erecting
ill-ventilated and uncomfortable play
houses and producing plays nine-tenths
of which we're of no more than passing
interest.
In spite of this our biographer is right
in his fundamental implication: that
Belaseo was in his day the right man in
the right place, though he is pitifully
wrong in claiming for him n position he
does not deserve The chief interest in
his Life Of Ddrid BeIaSco is not David
Belasco, but the variegated and moving
picture we are offered of the American
stage of the past four decades. The style
of William Winter has rarely been put to
such excellent use as in the descriptions
Of the late palmy days with which these
volumes are studded.
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The Good Old Days"

IN SSSo N<Ao Do1Ss
Here, as IN The Life Of Richard Mans
field and The Wallet Of Time, we are in
vited to enjoy the first nights of the sos
and ZOOS and the quarrels of actors and
managers; We are guided-by a preju-
diced Observer, however-through the
mazes of the old Syndicate intrigues and
finally we find ourselves perchanee be-
guiled into thinking for a moment that
perhaps the palmy days uere indeed
palmy, uu il We are rudely iolted by one
Of those ill-advised outbursts of temper
which the old gentleman could not re-
strain and forced to admit that the palms
were simply dead palms. To Winter the
past was beautiful not because it was the
past, but because it was not the present,
and his later years were one long drawn
wall over the invasion Of the new, the vile
excrescences of the Gloomy Norwegian,
the sewage Of Shaw, and the prurieneies
of Pinero.
And yet somehow the work is vitaIly in
teresting. or one thing the documenta-
ton is tho ugh. This Is in the shape Of
letters, photographs and programmes,
many of them of the first Importance to
the student of the period, and nearly all
Of prime interest to the general reader.
The historian of the future will find this
part of the book indispensable. Unfor-
tunately he will find himself unable to ae-
eept Winters judgments as they stand.
Due allowance in every case must be
made for the personal equation. There is
no use repeating what is now a common
place: William Winter was constitution
ally incapable of understanding the first
principles of the art of Ibsen and his fol-
lowers.
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FRUSTRATES LONGS
PLAN TO BREAK JAIL
Sheriff Tracey Found Loaded RevoI-
yer, File and A Flat Key in
Prisoners Cell

Montpelier July 20. Deliberate
plans of George A. Long. under indict
ment for murder in the first degree of
Mrs. Harry r, Broadwel. mother of
three small children, which occurred
at Barre, the sister city of Montpelier.
on the night OF May 3, to escape from
the Washington county Jail in this
city, where he has been inearcefated
for several weeks, were frustrated Mon
tday night by Sheriff f. II. Tracy, who
routed the alleged murderer from his
bed and seized from under the mat
tress a loaded 80 calibre revolver,
hseven extra cartridges. fine grain
seven inch file and fiat key of which
he had made diagram and which il
completed would have unlocked the
doors of the Jail and given him his
liberty.
Long. who was known as George
Wrath. when he lived al the Narrows,
Nova Scotia was known by sheriff
Tracy. to haze been making prepare
ions for a. get away, and IL was
iplanned to have him closely watched
and let the plan mature further At
the time the plan was first discover
cd no did not have the revolver or the
cartridges and these were discovered
accidentally by trusty after Long
had retired The trusty seeing the
alleged murderer examining something
that looked like revolver under his
mattress, reported to the sheriff. How
long he had had the revolver is not
known or where he could have gotten
it, for every visitor has been searched
before being allowed to see Long in
his cell.
According TO the sheriff it is an I'M
deniable fact that the revolver came
into Longs possession through some
one outside the jail. but probably
through the agency of one of the
,trusty prisoners. Long denied any
knowledge of the revolver the file or
the key when questioned by sheriff
Tracy and said that he knew absolute.
ly nothing OF how they came to be
under his mattress. The guards about
the ward in which his cell is. have
been doubled.
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PowNAL

Miss Ruth Brown of Williamstown,
Mass, gave a very interesting report
OF the Epworth League Institute re-
Gently held at Poultney, VT, at the
NJ. Z. church on Sunday evening.
Rev. Mr.. Odell of Keesyille. N. Y,
preached twice in the Baptist church
last Sunday.
The Epworth League will hold a
business meeting and social at the
home Of Henry Pratt on Tuesday eve
ming, Aug. 5th.
1t is expected that Rev. J. G. Rob-
inson win exchange pulpits on Sum
day, August 3rd with Rev. c. NJ.
Haines of Williamstown. Mass. Mr..
Haines subject win be What the
Centenary celebration has done for
Christianity" He will also admins
ter the Sacrament. A large attend
ance is desired.
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HIGH COMMAND
WANTED BELGIUM
German Attitude in 1917 Was to Pos.
sess and Control Lieee and Ad.
jacent Territory

Copenhagen. July 29.--Control OF
Belgium and possession of the city
of Liege was the determination OF
the German high command in 1917
Chancellor Michaelis drew up ten.
tative plan for peace negotiations in.
cooperating in this the demand for
Liege and adjacent territory and the
economic union of Belgium with Ger
many. The chancellor, however,
planned to hold Liege only provision.
ally, as a factor of security.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg was
opposed to the giving up of Liege.
He would hear Of no talk of indemni-
ties, nor would he indicate Germany's
intention to the enemy.
Gen Ludendorff, another of the high
military authorities was for keeping
the entire Liege district in German
hands. He advised strong military
pressure and the driving back of the
British and French armies. Only
is, he contended. could Belgium be-
come economically and intimately
connected with Germany.
The German attitude was disclosed
by declarations read by Premier
Bauer before the Weimar Assembly
today when the peace overtures to
Germany alleged to have been made
by Great Britain and France through
the Vatican in August, 1917. we're
again the subject of discussion.
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to the use of absorbent cotton and
still having plenty of this on hand,
hesitated about using a substitute.
Sphagnum moss is far superior to cot
ton in many ways, such as its better
quality, cheapness of manufacture and
its far superior absorbent qualities.
Sphagnum moss is small low
plant, commonly pale green when wet
and almos white when dry. although
it may be any shade from bright red
and pink to russell green and dark
brown or almost black. The sphag-
mum most adaptable for surgical use
is called 'phagnum paplIlosum, and its
absorbent quality is due to a peculiar
pore structure in its leaves.
Grow in Wet Places.
In general sphagnum grows in wet
places and attains its best develop
ment in cool, humid regions, such as
Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick, Vancouver Island and
western Washington, although it is
known to grow as far south as New
Jersey. In boys the sphagnum grows
most luxuriantly, especially in the
Dogs where cranberries may be found.
This surgical moss is pulled up bod
lily. the moisture squeezed out Of it
and any coarse plants that may be
present removed, and then washed.
Next the moss is air dried and then
separated into two or more grades.
In making the surgical dressings of
this material first layer of cheap
non-absorbent cotton the size of the
dressing is laid down. Over this is
spread layer of sphagnum and over
the sphagnum is laid a double layer
of very thin gauze paper. The whole
is then enclosed in a gauze outer
wrapping. These dressings are then
run through clothes wrlnger to flat
ten them out. After this treatment
they are sent to the hospitals,
where they are sterilized before be-
ing used.
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ONE MAN DELIBERATELY
WRECKS ANOTHER'S CAR
Jumps From Own Machine to Others
Car and Pulls Man Away
From Wheel

st. Johnsbury, July 2S. Shortly be-
fore midnight last night. while driv.
ing from Danvilie, Harold Coakley.
in Chevrolet. pulled his car out at
the side of South Main street TO let
another car pass. Mr. Coakley states
that he had tried several times to
have the car pass but the driver had
refused
AS the second car came along side
that of Mr.. Coakley, the driver jumped
onto the running board OF the Coax
ley car, grabbing MIR. Coakley and
pulling him away from the wheel. The
Coakley car struck an electric light
pole and young woman, Miss Len
geys who was in the front seat, was
thrown through the windshield, her
forehead being cut by the glass She
was taken to her home in Waterford.
A transformer on the yole was dis.
lodged by the shock which shut off the
lights in the south section of the town.
After witnessing the result of his
act the occupant Of the other car ran
after his machine which was moving
slowly and in this way escaped, no
one taking the number OF the car.
The car was said to be a Chevrolet
which left at rapid rate in the direc-
ton of Lyndonville. Officers are in
vestigating the affair
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membership.


The agreement for open sessions,
regarded possibly as forecasting pub
lie consideration of the peace treaty,
the Franco-American agreement and
subsequent treaties, followed unani-
nous approval by the foreign relations
committee of the Colombian conven-
tion calling for payment to that ma
ton of SIS 100000 as claims grow
ing cut OF the partition OF Panama.
Before approving the treaty, however,
the committee struck out the origi-
nal clause expressing the regret of
the United States TO Colombia. for &C
ton in the canal proceedings.
When the Colombian treaty was
submitted formally to the Senate in
executive session late today, Senator
Fall of New Mexico republican mem
Der of the foreign relations commit
tee, moved that the Senate consider
the convention in open session. Re-
publican Leader Lodge, asked unani-
nous consent for an order opening
the Senate's doors when the treaty is
called up next Monday and the agree
ment was approved without objection.
although the decision set aside GUS
tom almost exclusively followed since
organization of the government. OPP
position to the treaty is expected but
ratification is deemed certainty, and,
it is understood, the revised treaty
also is assured of Colombias appro-
val
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REQUESTS BAKER TO
PLACE FOOD ON SALE
House Passes Resolution After Ex-
citing Observation-Disclosures of Con-
spiracy Were Made.

House Passes Resolution After Ex-
citing Observation-Disclosures of Con-
spiracy Were Made.
Washington, July 29.-After an all
day wrangle the House tonight adopt
ed a resolution. reported out by the
war investigating committee, request
ing Secretary Baker to place en- sale
without delay surplus food products
held by the war department and
valued at S12O,OOO,OO
The vote on the resolution was 266
to and was taken after the House
had rejected substitute resolution
offered by Democratic members of
the committee providing that the sec
rotary be requested to put on the
market such part of the surplus as is
reasonably capable OF being distribu-
ted and sold and providing for sales
organization at government expense
With this substitute out of the way
the House adopted an amendment by
Representative Kelly, Republican, of
Pennsylvania, directing that the dis
tribution be through the parcel post
After fighting all day and failing to
rally votes enough for their substitute
presented as part of the minority re-
port, the Democrats supported the
selling plan. The debate was the most
partisan of the session and charges
were made by half dozen Republican
speakers that the war department
had studiously avoided putting its
vast food stocks on the market be-
cause of its connivance with the pack
ing interest. Charges OF conspiracy
were made to which the Democrats
replied that If Secretary Baker had
thrown these stocks on the market
prices would have broken with re.
sultant panic and accompanying de-
mand by Republican members of Con-
gress for impeachment OF the secre.
tary of war
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IDEAL aed for lnvallds.

In view of the elaborate care with
which most details Of sick nursing
have been worked out, 1t is more than
little curious that the maintenance
of the patients warmth in bed should
have been left so long to the precari-
Gus ministry of the hot-water bottle.
At the Treloar Cripples' hospital. al
ton, England, two wards are now sup
piled with electric mattresses. which
have proved both safe and convenient
in practice. even when n child Is the
occupant of the bed. The mattress is
differentially heated, and the heating
element is so disposed that the maxi
mum warmth is generated at the foot
end, less in the middle and none at all
at the head end.
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More Food From irritation.

Prospects throughout the western
reclamation belt indicate that the food
production records of 1917 and 1913
will probably be eclipsed by those Of
the current season. Prices of essen
tial foodstuffs are high enough to
make it attractive and profitable for
farmers to produce on big scale. Re-
ports indicate the labor supply is
abundant and good, although demand
ing high pay. Credits are not cramp-
ed, with the consequence that native
farmers are not handicapped in their
operations. This is why it looks like
boom year for the rubber-boot farmers
of the far West.
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China and the Y. M. c. A.

That the .'Y" hut of wartime days
In France is good thing which
should be preserved and copied in
China is the decision arrived at at a
conference of some 60 Chinese Y. M.
c. A. secretaries who were appointed
to work among the hundreds of thou
sands of Chinese coolies employed as
laborers in France. 1t was the first
time that any of them had come in
contact with the work of the associa-
ton and they have been so impressed
they have decided to carry on the or
ganization work which now reaches
chiefly the higher classes, among the
coolies and others. China was well
represented at the conference. Dele
gates came from widely separated
parts of the republic, such as Man
churia, Shanhing, Kiangson, Chilli,
Hupeh and many other places.
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BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

Fresh roasted Jumbo peanuts at
Estes market-Adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. John l.. Norton of
Montpelier were in town Tuesday
Coming to the Harte Theatre to
morrow the great Nazimova in Out
of the Fog" adapted from her fam
Gus stage success Caption Shoals
ADV.
Mrss. e. L. Bates and daughter,
Miss Beulah Bates, left Tuesday on a
motor trip to Boston and will pass
the remainder of the week in the city
and vicinity.
Gladys Leslie dainty Vitagraph star
in TOO Many Crooks adapted from
the novel of the same name by f. j.
Rath and chapter %. IL of 1.-THE Man
of Might" at Harte Theatre today
ADV.
Dainty Gladys Leslie in the Vita
graph Blue Ribbon feature TOO Many
Crooks" and chapter No. IL of "The
Man of Might" with Edith Johnson
and VIM. Duncan at Harte> Theatre
today ADV
A most enjoyable dancing party
was given Tuesday evening in Black
| Cat hall by the Misses Anna Powers
Hazel Hufnagel, and Julia Brazel in
Honor of Miss Helen Carpenter, who
for the past year has been an associ
ate of the young women in the office
of the Black Cat Textiles company
Miss Carpenter in two weeks will fin
ish work as stenographer for the
Black Cat company preparatory to
entering the University OF Vermont
in Burlington this fall. The occas
ion was a farewell party and there
were about fifty couples in attend
ance. The young people, chaperoned
iiby Mrs. Percy Lamb of East Orange
N. j., Mrs, Frank Moore. Mrs. Havi
land Sibley, Mrs. John Kirkwood
Mrs. Harry Hufnagel and Miss Nellie
Scanlon, passed delightful evening
of dancing from until | O'Clock.
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ARLINGTON

Mrs. Aline Kilmer, the widow of
Sergeant Joyce Kilmer who was
killed in France a year ago, and
whose poetry is so well known and
loved, will read at the Town Hall in
Arlington on the evening of August
9th Wednesday, under the auspices
of the Neighborhood Club Mrs. Kill
mer is herself poet of recognized
position, whose lyric ability is rare.
She will read from the poems of her
poet friends as we'll as some of her
own work. Mrs. Kilmer is striking
and poignant figure, as truly a sol
dier-poet in her home with her four
children as was her husband at the
red front 1t is patriotic privilege
as well as pleasure to support Mrs.
Kilmer in her undertaking. The tick
cts are only thirty-five cents. This
very small figure has been decided
upon in order that every one may do
their bit.
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BOY SCOUTS TO DIG RIVERS
Wisconsin Lads Are Planning for
Treasure Hunt--PearIs,
Not Gold.

PraiRie du Chen, Wis.-Wisconsin
boy scouts are planning for a treasure
hunt this year. Pirate gold is not the
lure; Cocos island is too far away.
The Spanish main doesn't lie handy
and Captain Kidd never buried sin
gle doubloon in the Wisconsin prairies
and hills. It's pearls the boys are 60
ing after, They will go into camp and
hunt for pearl mussels while wadlng
barefoot in the shoal waters or will
drag for them from boats. Some dar-
ing spirits may do a little diving.
These mussel shells are lined with
mother-of-pearl, valuable in button
making and frequently inclose pre-
cious pearl. Some of the fresh-water
pearls sell for several thousand dol
lars. Wisconsin's biggest fresh-water
nearl brought the finder $4,000.
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SPHACNUM MOSS
Heals WOUNDS
American Professor Taught Its
Use to Armies Fighting
in Europe.
ADOPTED BY THE RED CROSS
Is Far Superior in Many Ways to Alb
sorbent Cotton as Dressing
Used for Centuries in Scot
land and ireland.

New Haven.-In an interview with
George e. Nichols, professor of bot
any In the Sheffield Scientific school
of Yale university, new facts were
brought out concerning the use OF
moss in surgical dressings during the
war. Prof. Nichols was botanical ad-
wiser for the American Red Cross and
did more than any other individual
to introduce the use Of sphagnum moss
into the American medical profession
for surgical purposes.
In Europe this moss has been used
for many years in surgery, but new
er before in this country. In Connect,
cut alone there are twenty-five differ
ent kinds of sphagnum and on the
North American continent there are
at least forty. OF these forty only
two or three are actually used.
Adopted by Red Cross.
During the war DIR. Nichols made
extensive studies of various regions
where sphagnum is found and ex-
planned methods Of collecting and of
.naling 1t into dressings, and in
March, 1913, the American Red Cross
officially adopted this moss Since that
date our Red Cross has turned out
more than half million sphagnum
dressings for the Italian army and
something over 10000 month for the
American war hospital. In Septem-
Der, 1915, the British war office for
mally accepted sphagnum moss dress
ings and year later England was
turning out 10000 month and be-
fore the close of the war almost O
million. The Canadian Red Cross
averaged 100000 Of these dressings
per month.
In Scotland and Ireland sphagnum
moss has been used for many CEN
turtles for the same purposes as to-
day, and 1t was used by army sur
geons in the Napoleonic, the Franco
Prussian and the Russo-Japanese
wars.
In this country there were several
reasons why It did not come into gem
eral use, the chief of which was he
cause our army surgeons, accustomed
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POLICE HOLD YOUTH
He Says Girl Was Swept over
Dam.

Paterson. N, j., July 29.-After
long questioning by Prosecutor
Michael Dunn and county detectives,
Lester Decker, 20 years old, of Pomp-
ton, N. j., under arrest at material
witness in the disappearance of
Mabel Harris, with whose parents
Decker lived, still sticks tonight to
the story that she was accidentally
drowned in Pompton Lake Sunday
night when the canoe in which he
and she were riding went over the
lake dam. The girl was 20 years old.
Searching parties have dragged the
lake and the stream below the dam
since last evening, but have failed to
find any sign of the missing girl. Ac-
cording to Decker, he and the girl
were to have been married July 10,
but had postponed the date.
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BREAKS OLD CUSTOM
OF SECRET ACTION
Senate Agrees to Open Session and
Discussion When Colombian
Treaty Is Taken Up

Washington, July 29,-The century
old Senate custom of considering
treaties in secret session viii be
broken next Monday when the long
pending Colombian treaty is taken up.
This decision was reached today by
unanimous consent of the Senate
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4,4so U. S. SOLDIERS CAPTURED
28th Division Was Heaviest Loser to
the Enemy

Washington, July pa rechecking
by the war department of figures up to
June 80 shows the total number of
Americans captured by the enemy in
France was 4, 4s0, of whom 316 were
officers. The 2Sth Division was the
heaviest loser with Is officers and TIA
men, and the Goth next with 10 eff
GERS and 1873 men Eighth Division
reported / man captured.
OF the divisions earliest in line, the
First Division lost no officers and 1862
men and the Second Division Off
GERS and 152 men
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miles around the crater walls, and
10000 feet TO the top. The crest was
ages ago blasted out to depth OF
5000 feet and flung aside in series
of eruptions. strewing the mountain
with powders, lava and ash.
Within the crater thus formed, a
great cone and a number of smaller
ones can be seen. II Is so far down to
the floor of the crater that a bowler
pushed in seems to fall In empty
space. The crash of its landing is
never heard.
The view from the crater of Mt.
Haleakala is accounted one of the
most wonderful in the world. The
green fields of the island and the blue
Pacific are spread out before the OBJ
server like a mighty map.
AT 10000 feet above sea level natur-
al phenomena seem strangely differ
ent. The stars look larger and bright
err; the moons path is more clearly
defined, and its rays give q stronger
light than they do at low altitude.
At dawn a procession OF clouds rolls
swiftly past like foaming river tor
rent thousands of feet below. Then
the rising sun tints clouds and crater
with steadily deepening colors until
1t is broad daylight and the clouds
fade into mist.
Standing by the crater Of Haleakala
at sunrise you perhaps recall the old
Hawaiian myth which goes back to
the beginning of things. At that time.
says the story, the god Maui imprison-
ed the sun In the hollow of the vol
cano and made him promise to give
light and heat to the islands. From
this ancient myth comes the name OF
the volcano, Haleakala. house of the
sun.
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JNAIER IMMENSE IN SIZE
Extinct Volcano of Haleakala, In Ha.
waiian Islands, Is One OF the
Worlds Wonders.

The Hawaiian islands possess an
extinct volcano so immense that
large city could be set down inside
the crater. 1t is ninety-seven miles
around the face of Haleakala, twenty