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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-02

uppermost in his mind, and most read by
Nermonters.
Many of these pieces are written in the
old vernacular with its solecisms and con-
fractions. In some families there was a
strong prejudice against good English and
people who didn't fiat their vowels and
contract their words were dubbed ''ci.i-
fed, term used even more contem-
ptuousi; than ever was ''countryfied.
This vernacular has now clearly disap-
reared, owing to propaganda of good
English carried on by a younger genera
ton that has been away at school, Auth
ors come over into our state to get copy
and depart in disgust, saying that Ven.
mont has become too civilized to be inter
esting. Not in this spirit does Mr.. Cady
write but as one who claims kinship
Some future day this native language,
ridiculed both east and west, but preserved
by Mr.. Cady, may be regarded as a prec-
ious heirloom.
BY way of an appendix to the article
Editor Cummings prints three of Mr..
Cady's hitherto unpublished poems, en-
titled "A Vermont Basket, 'Raking After
the Cart in Vermont" and "The Ballad of
the Vermont Calf with the remark
that he would rather have his choice
of Mr.. Cady's unpublished poems than
five pound Burlington Free Press.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-02

ing boy ON Vermont farm, that he was
blessed with wise parents, that he was
early aware of those cha as of country
life which SO many entirely miss through
long years of hard toll, and that he car.
rled IN his heart into a later life love
of those charms, a love of activity and
deep sympathy with everything pertaining
to farm life. He even boasts in his lux.
urious New York apartment that he knows
how to do every sort of farm work, eX,
cepting sheep-sheariRg
The basis of a friendship with farmers
is complete understanding of their Joys
all of which Mr.. Cady must have learned
i'll youth, and has not forgotten. He has
expressed this sympathy sincerely and
copiously in rhyme, often humorously and
sometimes even a bit of mischief that
goes straight to a Vermont Yankees
heart So in reading them you will find
yourself "a pendulum 'twixt smiles and
tears
The boy Daniel was too meek and took
life too seriously his father feared, how
ever witty and pugnacious Mr.. Cady may
now be, fear which the hat portarit'
helps us to understand.
During college vacations, also during va
cations in fitting school at Meriden, he
worked in Windsor prison as a guard in
various positions. When he entered the
university he knew every convict and
had seen three executions, a course in pc
nology that gave him advantage when he
came to practice law in New York city.
For upwards Of 20 years he was member
of the law firm of Powell & Cady, at 206
Broadway, in an Office directly under that
formerly occupied by William Cullen Bry-
ant, editor of the Evening Post. There
the poet editor made those fine transla-
tions of the Homeric poems, and some in
spiration may have fingered in the build
ing and descended upon our Vermont poet
for he is susceptible to fine literary in
fluences.
He says that after 20 years of law prac-
tice he shut down the lid of his desk and
started out to see the world and to be an
amateur writer, and does not wish to be
compared with the masters; however, we
mnst grant that he has given MS verses
not only pleasing but strong and master
full. At present his rural life poems are
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-02
DANIEL cADY's RURAL RHYMES
Writer in Vermont Chats of Burling-
toms Poet and of His Early Life.

Under the caption Daniel Cady and
His Rural Rhymes" Marion Horsford
writes Interestingly in The Vermonter'
about the Burlington poet whose verses,
many of which originally appeared in the
Free Press, to be copied by other papers
and eventually published in book form,
have attracted wide attention The ar
tice carries, also, an excellent picture of
Mr. Cady as he is to-day and also what
Editor Cummings calls the Daniel Cady
hat portrait showing the boy at the
age Of five. This is likely to be examined
with much interest by the poets many
friends. Mr.. Cummings says OF the pic
ture: Zone can almost feel the cool com
fort CD OF the forked iron pressed against
that little head from behind to hold it
rigid during the nterminable period of
exposure in the odd-smelling studios of
those days. No wonder the patient look
Of submission Mr. Cady has, as boyish
keepsakes, not those copper-toed boots,
but at his Burlington home his first
wooden top, slate and pencil, the first
pictures he drew, his first knitting, mag
net, little engine and other boyish truck
and trash, which beyond a doubt help
bring back the times that We're.
Here are some extracts from Miss Hors-
fords article
1t is with pleaure that many Vermont
ers will examine a new book of rural poetry
from the bright pen of Daniel L.
Cady. These poems. printed and re-
printed within and without the state, and
now collected into volume, place Mr..
Cady on the intimate shelf by the side of
John G. SAKE, Charles Carnage Eastman
and Mrs Dorr.
The jacket of green and white touches
onr Vermont hearts even before we open
the book to enjoy the fun within; but the
central thought in connection with the
work. the ultimate Judgment of its i'm
portance, is that it is really a crystaliza-
ton of the flavor Of old Vermont farm
life, traditions of which are even now be-
ing left behind in little state on the
edge Of big, rushing. feverish America
Country life is fast being revolutionized
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-02

by telephone, automobile, rural delivery
and farm machinery. The cry for a
greater Vermont goes forth and we
becllon outsiders to come in to enjoy the
scenery and to leave, incidentally, money
that shall supplement what is impatiently
gotten from the everlasting and relent-
less hills.
Younger generations have been accused
in their wild scramble to be "up-to-date,' .
of insensibility to the charms of their
state before outsiders pitched their tents
in the cool shade, drank of crystal spring
and called weeds autumn flowers This
is not entirely true, but doubtless many
of the good things that may be had with
out money and without price have been
discovered to natives by the barbarians
But what of all the good things that
have been lost; the poetry of the orchard
(since it has been cultivated, of the even
ing milking time (snce a milking-ma-
chine has been invented? Under modern
conditions a farm is fast becoming as po-
etical as a wooden mill. I say nothing of
the good things in compensation, greater
than poetry, for such points in the ar
gument are not on my side of the cues
ton. | only insist that peace and plenty
do not now exist, and that when one
tfddS ID MI NddN > fhfdi POEMS ABOUT the
cid kitchen, the brass kettle, and candle
dipping he cannot doubt that they did
sonce exist.
| certainly can add nothing to the vivid
ness of pictures given in Burning Brush, >
Boiling Sap at Night Making Soap
and hundred others. when old people are
reading them and wiping away the tears
from behind their 'specs," with more
longing to go bac!. to the dear old times
than to go forward to Heaven But in
the confessional we should all have to
plead guilty to a liking for literary gossip
We like to know the childhood environ
ment of an author, his family life, his
likes and dislikes and method of working
Much of this we can get from the poems
themselves by imaginative inference.
When a lady once asked him how he
wrote his poems, Mr.. Cady replied that he
ate two pounds Of prunes and stood on
his head in the corner. One might infer
that several Of them were written in such
a position. But one may also draw more
serious differences: that he was an obscrv
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-02
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

DIR. E. L. TRACY, Physician and Surgeon, 2l4
J to $50 p. h. Tel. $50
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-02

standing by the iirmness Of their own po-
stion.
As regards the open door policy the
United States has no desire to lose an
inch of the advantage that it gained for
China and the rest of the world from the
declaration of Mr.. Hay during the Boxer
rebellion. Steps taken by Japan indicate
a desire to dominate two large sections of
the Far East in China and Siberia and it
is the absolute belief of the United States
that anything that tends to close up any
part of Chinese or Russian territory is a
direct violation of the 'open door" policy.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-02

DIR. G. B. HUNTER. Office at residence, West
Brattleboro: Hours: TO a. m; to 2. and
$50 to 8 q. m Telephone, 3IS.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-02

c. R. ALDRTCH, NJ. D. Hours: 1870 to 2.30
to 8. Office phone, 165-W; house, 16s-R
X-ray work a speciality.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-02

DIR. B. E. WHITE, Physician and Surgeon,
Barber Building Rooms EOS and zoo. Hours
l-3 and rs p. m. Office tel. 77-W; res, 7l7-R .
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-02
The Mind of a Woman.

"a woman is more religious than a
man." says DR.. A. t. Schofield In THE
Mind of a Woman" There is more of
the emotional and the mystic. Women,
being more emotional than men. are
pre-cminent in the spiritual life. for
love is their nature more than it Is
that of men.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-02
The Muqqleton.ans.

This peculiar sect, founded by an
English tailor named Muggleton. in the
seventeenth century, Is not extinct.
Muggletonians, one of whose chief be-
liefs is that the place of hell will
be this earth when sun, moon, and
stars are extinguished" still meet in
London and Derbyshire.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-02

W. ]. KANE, M. D., Physician and Surgeon.
Office, Room 10, Ullery Building. Hours: $50
to $50; 100 to 500; to g. Office phone, 429-W.
Residence, IS Frost St, phone 429-R.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-11
WOMEN ARE WATCHING
 WITHDEEP INDIGNATION

Hartford, May Miss Katharine Ludington, president of the Connecti- cut Woman Suffrage association, said today in commenting on Governor Holconb's refusal to call a special session of the general assembly to consider ratification of the suffrage amendment:
 "It is the men of Connecticut who now should be interviewed in regard to Governor Holcomb's latest state ment. Some very serious questions are raised by it. Should the governors opinion be the only factor in the de- cision as to whether the legislature shall meet in special session? is the governor of the state a judge or is he an executive?
 t"The women of the state are watching to see what treatment is meted out to them and are watching g with deep and growing indignation. We look to the men of Connecticut for redress and we call on that party which the voters placed in power at the last election to make good it's promises and give us the opportunity to vote for the next President of the United States"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-11
NOTED NOVELIST
 H0WELLS DIES

New York, May 11-William Dean Howe11s, the novelist, died here to- day.
 MT. Howells returned a few weeks ago from Savannah, where he had spent the winter While in the south MT. Howells was stricken with inf1u- enza and never had fully recovered from it's effects.
 With Mir Howe1s at the time of his death which occurred shortly after midnight, were his daughter, Mildred. and his son, William Mead, both of this city. Besides them he is sur vived by two sisters, Mrs. Achine F'rechette, translator for the Cana dian House of Commons, and Miss Aurelia, HoweE1s, also of Ottawa, and a brother, s. D. Howells of Washing ton.
 Funeral services will be held at the Church of the Ascension here tomor- row morning at 10:30 o'clock with Rev. Percy Stickney Grant off1riat- ing Burial will be in Cambridge, Mass, where much of MT. HoweTls' literarv work was performed.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-11
WAR INSTRUCTIONS 70 ATLANTIC FLEET

Washington May 11-President Wilson's hitherto unpubsh
 
  H. wind" strike  public here today by Secretary Daniels President IS sUb Ubrna
  atng Committee Daniels said they showed the bold
  'fDo moment" the President You crcu1nspecton a American
   There will tradition which 
 
  hunting all letting the alone" wiling wiling of
   American suggestions
   Well, nothing enatical1y nothing is being done now"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-11
AUTOS FATAL TO
 COLLINS FAMILY

The case Of Sadie Collins Of Nor walk who brought an action for $10,- GOO against Bishop < Lynes for the death of her only son John T. Collins. by an automobile belonging to the defendants, was settled out of court and was stricken from the calendar today in the Superior Court
 Automobiles have played a san guinary part in the life history of Mrs Collins. Nine months before her son was killed her husband was also killed by an automobile.
 Her husband was chauffeur and while on the state road near South port was adjusting a new shoe to one of the wheels of the car he was driv- ing, he was run into and killed by an automobile that was speeding along the road.
 The automobile which killed him did not stop, and no c1ew has ever been found by which the occupants could be identified.
 Keogh & Candee appeared for the plaintiff and Wilson H. Pierce for the defendant.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-11
DIDN'T KNOW HE
 VAS BUYING GAS

Hartford, May 1o.-Harry w. Walker. the ssice king of Bridge port, bought the Greenwood mills in New Hartford early this year and then realized the fact that he also owned the adjacent gas plant. After conducting it for a few months, he found it did not pay and he has now petitioned the public utilities com mission for permission to be relieved of the burden of furnishing the New Hartford people with gas.
 MT. Walker paid s175. 900 for the Greenwood mills He bought the place because there is 9 large pond on the property and he wanted to harvest ice. Selling ice is his hobby and when he discovered he had also bought a gas plant, he immediately began to take inventory.
 The gas part of the Greenwood mills is only worth aobut S15, 900. It is in such poor condition that MT Walker would have to spend about s5O.000 to get it back to normal He has made up his mind that the de- rnand for gas in New Hartford does not warrant the expenditure Of that sum. Since it was announced Sun day that the gas plant would be dis continued, New Hartford people who i have been using that fuel for light ing and cooking purposes have be- gun to look around for something to
 take it's place. There are sixty homes
 and restaurants that will be affected ! when the gas plant is closed.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-11
|NOMEN GOLFERS
 GET EVEN BREAK

New Castle, County Down, Ireland, May 11-American women golfers participating in the British Women's s Championship Tournament here today secured an even break in the first round of match play Mrs. c. H. Vanderbeck of Philadelphia and Miss Marion Rollins of Westbrook, L. l. defeated their opponents, while Miss Mildred Caverly of Philadelphia and Miss Rosamond Sherwood of Long Island were eliminated by English en. trants.
 Mrs. Vanderbeck defeated Miss Ames of Folkestone, and 3; Miss Rollins won from Mrs. Cruise, of Walton Heath, up; Miss A. c. Mac kenzie of Toronto, Canada, defeated Miss Caverly, 2 up, and Miss Molly Griff1ths won from Miss Sherwood on the 14th green.
 Miss Sherwood, who injured her foot by stepping upon a. sharp point ed stake Sunday, was not expected to play but made a plucky attempt to participate, using a cane to relieve the strain on her foot. The handicap proved too great for the American to show her best form.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-11
MAYER ESTATE
 ABOUT $15O,OOO

New HaRen, May H.---The will of William J. Maher, a retired merchant tailor, was offered for proalbte today in which the deceased gives to his widow, Mrs. Matte Bateman Maher the residence, 1,519 Chapel sareet, with its contents and his automobile to- gether with $15,000 outright and the income on an additional $25, 5000. At her death this $25,oo0 is given to his step-son, Jarvis Ba&eman, who also is given a beeFuest od S10, GOO.
 He leaves $500 to the St. Francis Orphan Asylum, $500 to the New Ha- ven Orphan Asylum, $500 to the Little Sisters of the Poor, $500 to St. Ra- phaeI's hospital and s1,00o to St Bren- dams church
 The rbaFance of his property is given to his mother, Mrs. Joana Maher, and to his seven brothers, Dr. Stephen J., Frank G., Edward J., Pierce M, Augustine F., Dr. James S., and Fred erick J., share and share alike.
 The estate is valued at about s150, 900.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-11
POLICE TO ACT AS AN ESCORT Lodge Delegations Will Also Attend O'Neill
 Funeral.

A delegation of local policemen will attend the funeral of the late Lieut. James J. O'Nei1I, which will be held from the late home of the deceased tomorrow morning at S:30 and at St. Patrick's church at o'clock. The police representation will probably be composed principally of men with whom Lieut.. O'Nei11 was closely asso- ciated in his work.
 Besides the police escort of 12 men, delegations from Knights of Columbus, Royal Arcanum and Ma thanie1 Wheeler camp, F'oresters of America will attend the services to- morrow. Active pail bearers will be Sargeants Poland, McGovern, Kehoe, Flynn, Burns and Cassidy of the local police department. Honorary pail bearers are George T. Kelly, George Burns, Fire Chief Thomas Burns, Captain Edward O. Cronan, Attorney Daniel B. Brennan and Superinten- dent of Police John H. Redgate. In terment will be made in the family plot in St. MichaePs cemetery.
 Police officials received no further information today as to the reasons which led Lieut.. O'NeiH to take his own life. General 'despondency over the recent police shake-up and the suspension of Superintendent John H Redgate is given as one cause. It is certain that Lieut.. O'NeiH had done nothing which would cast a, blemist upon his honor as a man or a police officer.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-11
DEMAND LEASE
 BE RENEWED Firm Starts Fight For Possession of
 Premises.

The second case on trial before Judge Howard J. Curtis in the Su- perior Court today was Golde Clothes Shop, Inc. against Samuel Silver and others. The plaintiff demands that the defendants be compelled to execute q lease to them of the premises they now occupy for five years from Aug. 1, 1918, and also an injunction against the prosecution of a writ of summary process. which is now pending be- fore Justice of the Peace Edward J. NcBfanus-
 The property at Golden Hill and Main streets now occupied by the Armstrong family who leased it to Hayes, the fish man. Hayes sublet to the Golde people by a lease which contained an agreement that the plaintiff might renew the lease dur ing the life of his lease, or for five years from Aug. 1. 1918.
 The property was sold to Levine, one of the defendants. who refused to execute the renewal and claimed that Hayes lease from Armstrong contained a provision that the lease might be terminated on the payment of 9 graduated amount at any time during it's existence
 The plaintiffs claim to have taken \dvantase Of this clause and that
 >ey have paid Hayes and thereby
 pinated the lease.
 N1inan & Cul1inan appear for the ple Vn and DeF'orest & Klein anC Puila- M X Comley for the defend
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-11
HOLD TRUCKMEN IN S1,OOO BOND Were Taking Whiskey Con- signment Through
 Streets.

Arrested last night by Patro1man Robert Stowe, as they were transport ing a quantity of whiskey through Norman street on an automobile truck, Andrew Julian of 106 Bell street, and William Kehoe of 1917 Main street, were arraigned before United States Commissioner Hugh J. Lavery, this morning, and held under s1,0OO bonds for a hearing on May z6.
 When the men were arrested last night they had in their possession 10 cases and several barrels of whiskey. They stated that they were taking the liquor to Springfield, Mass. All of the cases bore permit stamps. The whiskey was taken to police head quarters last night. but was removed to the federal building today.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-11
BARRAGE DELAYED
 6 MONTHS
Mining North Sea Op- posed by Admiral
 Sims.

Washington, May IA counter charge that establish ment of the north sea mine barrage was delayed six months because of the opposi- ton of Rear Admiral Sims and the British Admiralty, was made before the Senate Naval Investigating Committee today by Secretary Daniels in pre- senting the second part of his reply to the officers charges that the navy department had unnecessarily prolonged the war through failure to cooper ale fully al first with allied na- val forces.
 The barrage MT. Daniels said, was the most effective measure that had been taken to check the submarines and was wholly an American idea
 The secretary also charged that Sims had attempted in his testimony to rob the navy of credit for this pro- ject and to give it to the British.
 The plan was conceived, he said, in the bureau of ordnance at the Navy Department and urged on the British Admiralty for six months before it was accepted During this time Ad- nira1 Sims constantly discouraged and opposed the idea, he added, and when Admiral Mayo was sent abroad and finally convinced the admiralty of the worth of the scheme and the neces- siUy for adopting it, Admiral Sims at tempted to convey the impression the project had been delayed while the British attempted to get the Aneri- can Navy Departments approval
 Admiral Sims attempted to rob America and the United States navy of the credit for initiating this great achievement and to give you the i'm precision that it was a British plan which OUT navy merely assisted in carrying out, though h originated in the navy department. was proposed and urged by us for half a year be- fore we could iudItce the British Ad- niraaty to approve it, and although four-fiftils of it was composed of American mines designed and con structed in America and transported 3,4G0 miles overseas and laid by Amer tcan vessels MT. Daniels told the committed
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-11
BUCKLEY HELD
 IN $1,OOO BOND

Following a. fight which occurred about 10 o'clock last night in the South avenue railroad yards, Fred L. Allen, a, sw-itchnan, of 584 Grand street, New Haven, was taken to the Bridgeport hospital suffering from decorations and bruises, and Edward J. Buckley, of 175 Elm street, was ar rested for implication in the assault.
 Police had little information on the rumpus this morning, but it is under stood that Allen was beaten up by someone who had attended a. meeting of the ttvaeationins- railroad men, which was held last night at the cor ner of South avenue and Main street
 In the City court this morning. Buckley's case was continued until Thursday, and bonds were fixed at
 S1,000. Allen left the hospital today.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-11
BITTER CONTEST OVER
 PLATFORM FOR 1920

New York, May IA bitter con test over the adoption of the party platform was promised today when the national convention of the social ist party was reconvened. The Illin- ois delegation, which yesterday char acterized the tentative platform pre- sented by Morris Hiilquit as too mod crate, announced it's intention of sub n1itting substitute platform which would be similar to the radical pro grams of the Socialists in Germany Russia. Italy and France.
 > William F. kruse of Chicago. de c1ared that the substitute platform would do away with "useless word5 and phrases in the HilIquit draft He said the EIillquit document would put the Socialist party in the list of ''try- inz to become too respectable'' ant that t might just as well be the platform of the Democratic or Re publican party.