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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-06
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1919.
UNSUCCESSFUL VENTURE.

That practice does not always square
with theory is shown by the failure of
dry farming this season in the states
of Montana, Wyoming, Nevada and
Utah Dry farming was advocated
years ago by the government and dur
ing the last five or six years it has been
quite generally undertaken. For five
years past the rainfall in the section
has been unusually heavy and good
crops were produced by dry farming.
The return of the rainfall to normal
this season has made dry farming a
failure
News dispatches say that 100000
head of cattle have been sent out of
Wyoming and Montana into Nebraska
on account of lack of feed and that
100000 sheep must be sent ont of
Idaho to save them from starvation.
Livestock is being rushed out from
these dry states to such an extent that
markets are demoralized. 1t looks as
though dry farming would not stand
the test of normal season, and it is
land in these states that was thought
to be very desirable for settlements
of returning soldiers. Settlements have
been started there and here is what
the correspondent of the New York
Sun says of them:
From the Arco country in Butte
county. Idaho, where hundreds of re
| turned soldiers have settled. has come
the complaint that dry farming in thai
country has failed and that the Arct
country is a delusion and a snare. 4
commission of experts from the Uni
versity of Idaho. appointed by Gov
crnor Davis of that state, has Just re
ported that the land is worthless 70
agricultural purposes. To each soldie
was given 800 acres of the land an'
most Of them signed notes for thei
fling fees. Their disgust is so grea
that steps are being taken, it is re
ported, to prevent the collection %
these notes The soldier homesteader
around Arco had formed the Settlers
Reclaiming and Cooperative compan
of Arco, had purchased communit
trucks and power plants and were pre-
pared to farm on big scale.
This experience not only shows tina
it takes more than one summer to prov
the value of farm but that the de
partment of the interior is not a com
potent judge of desirable locations 70
soldiers who may wish to try farmin
for a living.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-06
LABOR AND COST OF LIVING.

Confirmation of the opinion of The
Reformer that the high cost of labor
is one of the causes of the high cost of
living is found in a recent issue of the
Record. In discussing
the future for the farmers it said
"There has been no open, outright
rebellion on the part of the farmers
and farm laborers, but we do
not believe it possible much longer TO
hold to the conditions of the past. In
all human probability farmers will de-
mand shorter hours and higher wages,
and the cost of production of foodstuffs
will be enhanced in exactly the same
way that the cost of manufactured
products is enhanced by the limiting
of the labor through lessened efficiency
or shorter hours.
"In this way the mechanic and all
others engaged in industrial pursuits
will find that having demanded shorter
hours for themselves with ever-increas-
ing pay they have set in motion forces
which will compel the farmers to take
the same stand, with the resultant
great increase in the cost of the world i
foodstuffs ;"
There are, of course, other causes OF
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The Sugar Scare.
Hartford Courant. J

kHdTtlOru IOuranT.)
We are assured by all who are in
position to know that there is no real
scarcity of sugar. On the other hand
the newspapers in big scareheads an
nounce that sugar will be at "a cents
a pound before the year is out.
We can say just this--if there is
one way to get sugar up and out of
reach, it is to proclaim just such con
ditions. The announcement is an in
vitation to store and hoard now. We
are all full of the milk of human kind
ness and anxious to help our fellow be-
ings, but there is general disposition
to help ourselves first. 1t develops when
ever it has chance. In the scramble
for sugar it will show itself. People
do not want anybody to be in trouble
least of all themselves. If there ism I
enough sugar to 60 around, then we
must get ours right now. This is the
way to produce an artificial scarcity. II
is foolish and selfish. Better to trust
to the authorities who assure us that
there is going to be a supply rather
than to load up at high prices, get what
others want, and finally discover that
before what we have is used up, tho
price is back again to normal.
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Moonshining in Vermont.
bennington Banner.l

iOdHUtT.t
The apple crop is below the average.
this year, according to the statements
of men who have had opportunity
to inspect some of the fruit growing
sections of the country. Naturally.
this shortage will affect a raw ma
terial upon which dependence had been
placed to break the drought that has
prevailed since July l. With short
age of apple juice, it would not be
surprising if another summer found
much of the available supply of
liquid condensed into the product that
some thirty years ago gave the towns
of Vershire and Corinth prominence in
the United States court Moonshining
in Vermont has not attained large pro-
portions during the past half century,
but there was a time when illicitly
distilled cider brandy was produced
in sufficient quantities in the noun
tain towns of Orange county to keep
few deputy marshals earning their
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ooh, How Wonderful!!"

things peacock must learn. / hear
that on the lawn over yonder three
times a day there are classes for
young peacocks.
They strut about and show off
their beauty and they are taught not
to notice their feet but to show off
all their beautiful colors.
They are shown how to stand in
the sunshine so the colors look their
best, and they say there Is n great
deal of spirit among the pupiIs-to
each do better than the other.
''They are all such good pupils. such
good pupils. and I'd like TO show that
our Sally could he good pupil. too"
is there anything else that they
learn?' asked Mr.. Peacock. ANY
thing else besides learning how to
show off their great beauty"
mo, that is all that the school is
for" said Mrs. Peacock at is called
the School for Beautiful Peacocks 10
Show OF Their Beauty 10 the Great
est Advantage and in the Best Posi-
BILE Fashion"
"Ah," said Mr.. Peacock. mo wonder
they are such fine pupils in that
school. Yes, by all means. send Sally.
she'll do well. All peacocks by the
family name of peacock will do spIen-
didly in that school,"
look" said Mrs. Peacock. "there is
Sally now"
"'She has already joined the school,"
laughed Mr.. Peacock. shrilly .Ah.
she is a peacock after my own pea
cU.k heart"
"And after mine. too said Mrs.
Peacock
$50 Sally will never disgrace the
proud name of peacock" ended Mr..
Peacock. "Of that l feel quite. quite
sure"
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plans for a system of western inter
park highways.
In the Days News.

Raisuli, the Moroccan bandit who is
reported to have resumed operations
with large band of followers, has
been. the means of no end of trouble
in Morocco in the past Raisuli has
heen described as the most picturesque
brigand of modern times He is a ma
five of Zinat and in his early life, was
q farmer. His first operations as a
brigand were in the form of raids on
caravans. Then, in 1903. he abducted
Walter Harris, correspondent of The
London Times, and held him for ran
som. The performance netted him &c.,
900. The next year he captured Mr..
Perdicaris, an American, near Tangier,
and demanded a ransom of $5O.OOO
Theodore Roosevelt, then president of
the United States, demanded of the
Sultan of Morocco "Perdicaris alive
or Raisuli dead Perdicaris was re-
leased after an American fleet made
7 demonstration before Tangiers. A
later and more profitable exploit OF
Raisuli was his abduction of Sir Har
nv Mclean, for whose release the Brit
ish government handed over a ransom
of 100000.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-06

The BURBERRY crop this year seems
to be satisfactory in all respects. Bugs
blight and worms decided to pass it by
and berries have been so abundant that
there have been enough and to spare
for all who could gather them. The
owners of BURBERRY fields have found
the crop a source of considerable ready
cash, one pasture in Orange Mass, av
eraging 500 a day in money collected
from pickers. many of whom pick to
sell again while others are gathering
with the thoughts of tasty BURBERRY
pies next winter. Many berry picking
parties have been really big neighbor-
hood picnics which have meant a jolly
outing and untold quantities of fruit
gathered to help out in the battle with
the high cost of living. May the blue
berry bush live long and flourish.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-06
I oday's Events

Bolivia celebrates today as her ma
tional independence day.
Throughout the Christian world there
will be observed today the festival of
the Transformation, on of the 12great
feasts of the church.
"A meeting of the North Carolina Cot.
ton association has been called for
Raleigh today to lay. plans for an in,
tensive warehouse campaign.
Many leaders in religious and civil
life are scheduled to address the inter
national Christian Endeavor convention
at its sessions in Buffalo today.
Today is the centenary of the y4birti
of Samuel 2. Carter, a Tennessear
who was both a rear admiral and ma
jor- general in the service of the United
States.
A two-day conference will be opened
at Duluth today by the Great Lakes
st. Lawrence Tidewater association
which advocates deep waterway from
the great lakes to the Atlantic.
Presidents of commercial clubs an(
highway commissioners from Montana
Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Wy
oming, Colorado, California and thu
Dakotas are to meet today in the Vel
lowstone National park to -considel
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-06
Today's Anniversaries.

l843-First national temperance con
vention in Germany opened in
Hamburg.
lSf4-Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, sec
ond son of Queen Victoria, born
at Windsor Castle. Died in 1900.
ls497Treaty of peace concluded be-
tween Austria and Sardinia.
1S56-Most Rev. James TT. Blenk. arch
bishop of New Orleans, born in
Bavaria. Died in New Orleans
April 90. 1917
1S94-Austin Blair. governor of Mich.
gan during the Civil war, died
at Jackson, Mich. Born at Caro-
line. n Y. Feb. s, 1918.
1s97-King of the Belgians arrived il
England to visit Queen Victoria
1914-Austria made declaration OF
war against Russia.
1915-French stopped German assaults
in the Argonne and on height
of the Meuse
l916-Russian forces crossed the Ser
eth and captured six village
from the Austrians.
1917-American tank steamer Campan
sunk by German submarine of
French coast.
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INCONSISTENCIES
FAIRY TALE Fl
6y Nary Graham Bonner EkA
) MR.. AND MRS. PEACOCK.
vHaN W0n0m bonner

~ -
Were creatures of beauty, oflgreat
and wondrous beauty" said Mr.. Pea
cock, as he spread his long blue-feath-
cred tail out wide. ~
His neck was blue as were the featli-
ers on his head. His suit was of gray
ish green with blue trimmings. But
there were many other colors which
seemed to shine from him in the sun
light.
Sometimes I've held my tail out
wide for long, long time" continued
Mr.. Peacock. land so has Mrs. Pea
cock. and the people have stared as
If they could never see enough of our
glory and beauty.
"They have gathered around and
they have said,
"'Ah,' and Oh and How wonder
full
Eyes. those are the things they say
TO peacocls and about peacocks.
We're like beautiful pictures, only we
are nicer than beautiful pictures for
we're real, real and live and We will
walk around here and give them pleas
ure if they wish.
"Ah, if they gave prizes for beauty,
how everyone would be rushing to us
to hand us the prizes. How lonely
then would poor creatures like the
wart hog and the tapir and the gnu be
feeling.
For no one would run to them with
prizes for beauty, no one indeed"
mo one. indeed" said Mrs. Peacock.
"Oh, WELL" continued Mr.. Peacock,
'they may do very we'll for their family
name-nothing is expected of them in
| the way of beauty. but we must al
| ways be beautiful and glorious for we
have always been famous for it,
ave will always he beautiful and
| glorious said Mrs. Peacock
| Feathers are all that count, feet
mean nothing, except mere things to
walk upon, or walk WITH" said Mr.
| Peacock, for his feet and Mrs. Pea
cocks feet were very ugly, as we all
know.
All peacocks have hideous feet.
Feathers are all that count" said
Mrs. Peacock. Feet are useful things
we all must have-except snakes and
creatures which crawl. But let us not
talk IF feet Let us talk of feathers
So Mr.. and Mrs. Peacock walked
around admiring their own great
beauty.
! A short time after this talk. Mrs
Peacock said to Mr.. Peacock.
MY dear, our young daughter, Sal
i " Peacock. should be studying all tbs
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-06
Little Benny's
Note Book
ByLEE PAPE
By LEE PAPE

Yestidday ma was fixing up my bew-
70 draws, and she sed. Benny, the very
ideer, heers that nice pair of wife pants
that your grandfather gave you and
YOU We never worn them once, / declare
Id forgotten all about them-no won
der. stuck out of site under all these
clothes.
Witch / had stuck them there on ac-
count of not wunting to ware them,
and ma sed, III put them heer on the
chair and you can start wearing them
this very eevning.
Aw,ma, G, gosh, l sed. don't wunt
TO ware them, they're too sissey, ony
sissies ware wife pants, and ma sed,
Sutch nonsents. well you'll ware them
until you get them derty. anyway.
Aw heck, all rite, / sed. Having a
CRATE ideer. And | put them on and
ate suppir in them and went out to
play with the fellows, and wen l went
in agen on account of ma calling me
to go to bed. my pants was so derty
nobody couldent hardly of told wat
color they was wen they started, ma
saying, Benny Potts, / never saw sutch
a site, You go rite up in the setting
| room and show them to your father.
Wich I did, ma coming up with me
and saving. Did you ever see sutch a
site, Willyum? / told him he had to
| ware them till they got derty, and now
| look at them in one eevning. he must
| of done it on purpose, deelibritly.
No nam, no sir, it was axsident,
| | sed.
An axsident, they look like foot
marks. sed pop, and l sed. Yes sir
that's wat they are, the fellows was
| trying to see how neer they could come
to my pants with their feet without
axuillv touching them by axsident.
o l see, and who invited them to
/ try? sed pop.
4 i did, / sed, and pop sed. That makes
| it an axsident. and how about the big
mud stane on the seat, was that an AK.
sident too9 and / sed. Yes sir, / shut
my eyes and put my hands under my
neez and told Pubs Simkins and Ed
! Wernick they could pick me up and
I set me down wherever they wunted to
4 and they set me down in a mud puddle
1 by axsident.
/ Did you know you were in the nay
berhood of a mud puddle? sed pop
and I sed, Yes sir, but I dident know
/ how deep
Il That makes it axsident, sed pop
4 And he took off one slipper and gave
me 4 bangs with it on the mud stane
saying, Take these to bed with you
they're all axsidents
4 WITCH 1 did.
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salaries. Some of the older residents
will remember the weird tales concern
ing these villainous and law defying
mountaineers that found their way into
the city papers. Occasionally some rev.
enue officer would come out of the wilds
of Orange county with a "giant des-
perado," who, when brought into court,
would turn out to be an overgrown, tow
headed and blue-eyed youth with less
fighting blood than could be found in
the anatomy of a ixweeksold kit
ten
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-06

The Reformer is sale every evening by
the following news dealers:
Bratt1eboro, Brattleboro News Co.. c. w.
Cleaveland 6. l.. Puriuton fEsteyville),
Brooks House Pharmacy. Aliens Depot News
stand, Gilbert Polica. 27 South Main St.
(Fnrt Drummer district
West Brattleboro, J. L. Stockwell.
East Dummerston. NJ. E. Brown.
Putney. NJ. G. Williams.
Newfane, N. NJ. Batchelder.
Townshend, c. w. Cutler.
West Townshend, c. H. Grout.
Jamaica. R. ]. Dageett
South Londonderry. H Tyler.
South Vernon. z. r. Buffum
Mortified. Mass, Thompson Bros.
West Chesterfield. N. a.. Mrs w. Streeter
HinsdaIe. N. H.. w H Lyman.
Greenfield. Mass, Greenfield News Co.
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PHILOSOPHERS Stone.

One of the old Romans made the
world richer by the discovery of the no.
BILE truth that even though a certain
happening be misfortune. to bear II
bravely is good fortune. The old-time
philosophers were continually seeking
some element which should convert the
baser metals into gold. and here we
have their dream realized. For what
alchemy can surpass this. of changing
misfortune into good fortune by bear
ing It bravely?-Glrl's Companion.
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TO THE SUBSCRIBERS.

II is the aim of the management to secure
efficient service in the delivery of the paper
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person, by telephone postal card, thus en-
abling the cause of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper rem
edy Immediately applied. 1t is only by this
method that the publisher can secure the de-
sired service
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-06
(,OttOnSeed
Meal

Information important to the farm
ers who are producing milk:
AS you Of course know, the cotton
seed meal market during the past few
weeks has advanced to new high lev
els, which was brought about by heavy
buying on the part of both the domes
tic and export trade, resulting in prac-
tical exhaustion of stocks. It is now al
most impossible to buy cotton seed meal
of any grade at any price. An occa-
sional small lot of SO per cent meal
comes on the market at prices ranging
from $1,000 to $500 f. o. b. shipping
point and these lots without exception
are eagerly snapped up regardless of
price We doubt that there will be any
cotton seed meal left in the hands of
the producers by the first of August.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-06

Germans in charge of "a Zeppelins
near Berlin have threatened to burn
them rather than deliver them to the
allies as required by the peace treaty.
They are said to be seeking permission
to fy them to the United States. The
sight of one passing overhead would
rake up good many unpleasant mem
cries of what has been and what might
have been.
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Today's BIRTHDAYS.

Rear Admiral Charles ]. Badger. u.
s. n, retired, born at Rockville, Nd,
Sc years ago today.
Phillips Lee Goldsborough. former
governor of Maryland. born at Cam
bridge, Md, 81 years ago today.
Abrak l.. Elkus. former United States
ambassador to Turkey, born in New
York city, 50 years ago today.
Earl of Leven and Melville. the first
British peer seriously wounded in the
late war, born % years ago today.
Mrs. Edith C. Roosevelt, widow of
the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
born at Norwich, Conn, So years ago
today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-06

Whiskey valued at $4,000 was the
loot of auto bandits who gagged and
bound a Cleveland woman of wealth
and ransacked the cellar of her home.
1t is stated that posse is securing the
countryside for the robbers and we
might add-the loot. The lady had
evidently prepared for a long and hap
py life.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-06

Thomas A. Edison and John Bur
roughs seem to find Henry Ford good
company as they have just started on
another vacation trip together. They
probably talk of something beside lit
erature and history around the camp
fire.
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TO ADVERTISERS.

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Reading notices are published at foot of local
items
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A Litigation Center.

(Barre Times)
We had thought that Rutland county
held undisputed claim to being the cen
ter of Vermont S litigation. but recent
events in and about Brattleboro compel
us to change our views. Brattleboro is
fast becoming vast network of lit
igation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-06

Prince Henry declares that the "Ger-
man spirit will wake to it's shame
and demand a reckoning 1t is getting
a little reckoning now and the sooner
it awakes to its shame the better.
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cit is not to be assumed, says the
Rutland News, 'that the increase in
the price of milk that became effective
August | is the final raise for the
year, One local man confidently pre-
diets that it will be 20 cents quart be-
fore snow flies so we are not assuming
anything down this way.
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the high cost of living but the atti-
tude of labor is one. The public may
conclude that the demands of labor
have become too great to be granted
and that the railroad men and others
have overreached themselves in some
of their latest demands.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-06

Thrips on the onions, borers in the
corn, blight on the beans and various
other bugs and worms that seem to
just grow, - like Topsy, do not help
the outlook for low prices of many of
the vegetable crops.
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Society Note.

The Mears Epworth League gave a
frozen cream feed Saturday evening in
the Town Hall. After everybody was
full they kicked the tables out and Otto
James played post Office with the girls.
'-Mears News
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From Here and There.

Hank CHM went to Carthage Mon
day after a new pair of trousers.-Mil-
Ter.
We heard that Clarence Hankins was
married Sunday afternoon but who his
bride is has not been reported 1t was
quite a shock and urprise-Horizon
Center.
We haven t heard of a circus where
the admission is pins for month
of Sundays. What is the matter of
the modern small boy.-Siloam Springs
Ed Williams took load of chickens
to Chillicoth this week for Mr.. Alex.
ander They were not the kind we
are used to seeing Ed with.-Horizor
Center.
Hermon Johnson has bought new
Buick car it is something swell-Bray
mer.
Only four lines of poetry today
Sometimes it's better So
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Nor Ours Either.

Over in Rogers the preachers are on
good enough terms to hold union meet
ings Sunday nights during the hot
weather. We used to have it that way
here. 1t is shame that they cannot
agree enough to hold the meetings in
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-06

We have not heard how the mosqui-
toes take to the stockingless style for
women-Keene Sentinel.
IF Fuller Woe decides to conduct a
question box for us, you should write
him enclosing stamp for reply.
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the Auditorium Sunday night where it
is cool and they would get rest, let
alone the rest the people would get,
for most anyone gets tired of the same
grub, especially in hot weather. But
this is none of our business.-Si Sloan
Springs Herald.