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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21

total $2,64745. In 1920 the expenses
of the director of state institutions,
substitute for these two boards, were
$4,379.67, an increase of $1,732.22.
In 1910 the expenses of the insurance
commissioners were $5,29662. In 1920
the insurance commissioner 5 expenses
were $4,000 and $S,S98.46 for examin-
ing the National Life Insurance Co.,
total $17,898.46, increase $12,601.S4.
In 1910 the expenses of the public
service commission We're $9,59l.33, in
1920 $10,s04.92, increase $1,213.59.
Since 1910 the following boards and
commissions have been established and
their expenses in 1920 follow: Board
of pharmacy, $55429; department of
charities and probation, $24,99S.5S;
commissioner of industries, 81, 609.57;
state engineer, $29,953.74; free public
library commission, $4,000; legislative
reference bureau, $3,44s.64; purchasing
agent, $1,000. - ~ II
The total increases in old commits
sions and boards and the new ones is
$3O5, 1907.
There is no intention to criticize in
presenting these figures. They simply
show how the expenses. of state officials
and commissions have increased.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21
Little Benny
Note Book
BY LEE PAPE.

I weak up all of suddin last mite
on account of a moskeeter buzZing er-
round my he'd and landing on diffrent
parts of me sutch as my nose and my
eyebrow, witch every time l tried to
hit it | hit the place on my face the
moskeeter had just got off of, proberly
being more plezzure for the moskeeter
than wat it was for me, me thinking,
Jimminy crickits, G wiz, wat funs
thisa
And l went down stairs in my pid
TANNERS and weak up pop; saying,
Pop, / cant sleep, there's a moskeeter
up there and the more l try to sleep
the more it wont let me.
And do you consider that sufficient
Excuse for coming down heer and dis
terbing my rest2 sed pop, and l sed,
Well G, gosh, pop, how can | sleep with
a big moskeeter keeping on getting on
my nose and getting off agen?
Wat do you wunt me to do, go up
and speek rufly to it7 sed pop, and l
sed, No sir, I jest thawt I'd come down
and tell you. WITCH jest then l herd
sumthing buzzing GROUND my eer, say
ing, G, pop, heer it is now, it must of
followed me down stairs.
Well you folio your nose back up
stairs, Id like to get little slep tonite
if you don't mind, sed pop.
WITCH l quick ran up to my room
agen and shut the door to keep the
moskeeter out in case it was the same
moskeeter witch it proberly was be-
,ause this morning at brekfst / looked
at pops face and there was a fearse
bump rite on his eye, me saying, G
WIZ, pop, holey. smoaks, was that that
moskeeter2
1 dident ask it, eat your egg, sed
pop, and / sed, Well G, gosh, pop, do
YOU think it was7
Shut up, sed pop.
Wich / did.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21
Wife Also Is Restored to
Splendid Health By Tan
lac and Augusta Couple
Is Now Happy

81 honestly believe Tanlac saved my
life last winter declared Bert S. Brooks,
of % Gage St., Augusta, Me-, the other
day.
For some months before I got Tanlac
[ had been suffering with my stomach,
liver and kidneys, and became steadily
weaker until | was right on the verge of
a complete breakdown. ! had no relish
for food of any kind and my stomach
was always sour and bloated up with gas,
/ had such sharp pains in my back |
felt like | was breaking in two
My legs were SO weak / could hardly
walk without staggering, and in fact |
was weak all over. | had frequent spells
of dizziness, and was so nervous and rest
less the least noise would upset me. |
hardly slept at all at night and in the
morning woke up feeling SO played out
that / hated to go to move. just
dragged myself to work and dragged my
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21
TodaY's Anniversaries

1452-Girolamo Savonarola, the Domin-
lean monk who set up a popular
government in Florence, born at
Ferrara. Died in Florence, May
%, 149S.
1777-Massacre of Gen. Wayne =
troops by a force of British and
Hessians at Paoi, Pa.
1795-The "Peep of Day Boys in
Ireland, changed their name to
Orangemen, and opened their
first lodge.
1S03-Robert Emmett, Irish patriot
hanged in Dublin for high trea-
son. Born in Dublin in 1873.
1806-The packet ship King George
was lost in the Irish Sea, with a
loss of 125 lives.
1820-John England was eonsecrated
first Roman Catholic bishop of
Charleston, S. G.
1832-Sir Walter Scott, author of the
Waverly novels, died at Abbots-
ford. Born in Edinburgh, Aug.
is, 177I
lS51-Popular excitement over the Gu
ban filibustering expedition of
Lopez led to an attack ON the
stores of Spanish residents in
Key West.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21
A Great Satisfaction.
81. Albans MESSENGER. }

James Hartness, Republican nominee
for governor, must naturally feel graf.
flied at the outcome of his campaign
but there is one element in it that must
give him the most supreme kind of sat
isfaction that can be enjoyed by any
man. That is the endorsement the home
folk gave him.
Hardness carried Springfield with l..
864 votes and all of his opponents put
together received only 1873 That is a
most remarkable showing. 1t reveals
that Springfield has been with Hartness
from the very, first and at all times
men and women alike No such vote
would have been possible had not the
women registered and followed regis.
tration by voting, The Springfield
vote is one of the richest possessions
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21

The Reformer is on sale every evening by
the following news Dealers:
cleveland. s. L. Purinton (Esteyville),
Brooks House Pharmacy. Aliens Depot News
stand, George ]. Power, South Main St
Fort Drummer district.
West Brattleboro, J. L. Stockwell.
East Dummerston, NJ. z. Brown.
Putney, M. G. Williams.
Newfane, N. NJ. Batchelder.
West Townshend, c. Fl. Grout.
Jamaica, R. J. Daggett.
South Londonderry, F. Fl. Tyler.
South Vernon, E. B. Buffum.
Northfeld, Mass, Thompson Bros
west Chesterfield, N. H. Mrs. w. Streeter.
Hinsdale, N. H, w. H. Lyman:
Greenfield, Mass, Greenfield News Co.
Greenfield, Mass, c. A. Hays.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 81, 1920,
SOME VERMONT FIGURES.

|
by the state auditor amounted to 81
594. OO6.44. For the year just closed
they amounted to $5,27O,649.64. Figures
constitute dry reading but the average
tax payer will be interested in figures
explaining part of such an increase in
state expenses in the past ten years
when the state has been losing popu-
Iation. No figures showing the increase
IN highway, school or department of
Justice expenses are given, simply those
of state officers and commissions. The
elective state officers are first COM
pared
In 1910 the executive clerk cost
5000. the executive staff $352.51 and
governor $4,000, a total of $3,352.51.
In 1920 the expenses of the executive
staff were $10,65O, and increase of ST.
297.49.
In 1910 the expenses of the state au-
ditor were $8,848, in 1920 $13,5oo, an
increase of 1851.
In 1910 the expenses of the secretary
of state were $5,686.94, in 1920 $780,
1852, an increase of $13,768.5S.
In 1910 the expenses of the state
treasurer were $3,234.84 In 1920 they
were $15,90932 and $7,341.5S as com
missioner of weights and measures, to-
tai $23, $3.50, an increase of $20,016.06.
The total increase for these four de-
partments is $45,72613. These in
creases undoubtedly can be satisfac-
torily explained. The work of the of
fees has been largely increased in some
lines and assistants cost more now than
they did ten years ago, but the increase
is there and has to be paid from the
state revenues.
Figures for the state commissions are
more complicated as the work of these
officials has been changed in some
cases and entirely new commissions put
on the state pay roll in others.
Take the commissioner of agriculture
and forestry. In 1910 the expenses of
the board of agriculture We're $431295,
of the cattle and live stock commits
sioner $3,s83.97, for testing cattle $10,-
for the state forester $9,550.83, total
$59,745.34. In 1920 the expenses of the
commissioner We're $4,000, for live
stock commissioner 100000 and in the
pledged revenue of the state for live
stock commissioner $66,O65.64 and for
the commissioner of agriculture and
forestry $3,293.37; total 1927, 859O1;
increase $168I13.67. 1t is supposed
that some of the pledged revenues are
received from the federal government
and some of them are for material sold
and the proceeds used in the depart
ment.
In 1910 the expenses of the state
board of health were 81, 184.47 and
of the laboratory of hygiene $13,612.49,
total $24,796.96 In 1920 the expenses
of the state board of health and lab
oratory of hygiene were $63, 20664, in
crease $38, 409.6S.
In 1910 the expenses of the board of
pharmacy were $500, in 1920 $1,000,
increase $4,000.
In 1910 the expenses Of the tax COM
missioner were $6,993.62, in 1920 ST.
729.59, increase $10,735.97.
In 1910 the expenses of the board
of penal institutions were $1,4S9.40 and
of the state hospital trustees $1,158.O
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21

A New York man, in less than a
month s stay in Chicago, was robbed
twelve times. He endured eleven of
the robberies in the spirit of an adj
venturer in q far country, but when
the twelfth occurred, patience ceasd
to be a virtue and he returned to the
honest city of New York. 1t is evident
he does not dwell in any of the big
hotels of that city for they are famous
for taking one s entire bank roll.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21
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subsequent insertion without change of copy:
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21
Of Course They've Been Expressed


So far as the readers of the newspap-
ers of Vermont know, there has been
none of the customary line of felcita-
tons from the defeated to the victor in
Vermont's recent primary. Surely there
is not enough raneor left in the breast
of the three defeated Republicans to pre-
vent them from expressing their good
wishes to the winning candidate Per
haps the Fluctuations have already been
sent and have merely failed to get into
the public print.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21

The Rutland Herald thinks it might
be truly said that Tennessee had some
thing to do with the nomination of
James Hartness for governor of Yer
mont and from what we have seen and
heard we seem to get that impression
too.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS.

It 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 or postal card, thus en-
abling the cause of the error TO be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper rem
edy Immediately applied. 1t 10 only by this
method that the publisher can secure the de-
sired service,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21

Now that American women have OBJ
tanned the right to vote in national
elections their French sisters are plan
ming to establish their rights along sim
liar lines, and the next session of the
French parliament will probably see
the battle waged Suffragists already
claim majority of votes in their ia
vor in both houses.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21

publisher, born in Barnwel county, S.
c., 81 years ago today.
Samuel Rea, executive head of the
Pennsylvania railroad, born at Holli-
daysburg, Pa, 65 years ago today.
Henry L. Stimson, who was secretary
of war in the Taft cabinet, born in
New York city, So years ago today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21

They say there are things that can
be done to keep cider from working,
but there are few farmers who believe
in the restraint of labor.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21

In our effort to learn one thing every
day, we discover that the weather
which swats the flies also boosts the
coal bills.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21

Gypsy fortune tellers are now COM
planning that ouija boards are hurting
their business. Well, they must be
fully as reliable and besides one can
have daily service at a nominal cost.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21
Can Rest For Two Years.

(Montpelier Argus.)
The candidate with the glad hand
is now giving that member a much
needed rest.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21
Member of The Associated Press.

The Associated Press Is exclusively en-
titled to the use for publication of all news
dispatches credited to it and not otherwise
credited in this paper and also the local news
published herein.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21

A hen out in Seattle is said to have
laid 326 eggs in a year She has all
the earmarks of being non-union
bird.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21
One Year Ago Today.

Prince of Wales opened Dominion
Park at Revelstoke, B. C.
The Boston unions decided against
a general strike to aid the striking po-
lice.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21
TodaY's Birthdays.

Charles Hawtrey, celebrated actor
of the English stage, born at Eton, 62
years ago today.
Clark Howell, Atlanta newspaper
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21

Mr.. Hartness has or ever can have,
and it will be a source of pride to him
and his family for all time.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21

A popularity of the electrical storm
of Sept. II was that in Concord the cleo
trlclty ran along a wire fence passing
from one cedar post to another until
eight had been destroyed.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21

Springfield and goes Oct. l to the church
in Woodsville, N. II.
A call has been extended by the Me
! mortal Baptist church of Middleburv to
Rev. Herbert L. Howard, pastor of the
First Baptist church at Peabody, Mass.
| a popularity of the electrical storm
of Sept. u was that in Concord the cleo
tricity ran along a wire fence passing
from one cedar post to another until
eight had been destroyed.
! A party of three from Manchester, who
went onto Mt. Mansfield Thursday, are
reported to have sent word Friday that
/ they were snowbound, but hoped to be
| able to get off the mountain Saturday
/ and return home.
Daniel Sullivan, native of La Collie,
p. O., and an inmate of the Soldiers
| home in Bennington since August, 1916,
died there Friday of complication of
diseases. Mr.. Sullivan was a tramp
| printer, having travelled and worked in
most sections of Canada and the United
| States. He was veteran of the Civil
war.
Seven Vermont county farm bureaus
under the direction of the County Agri-
cultural agents and Home Demonstra-
tion agents will place agricultural ex-
hibits representing the agriculture and
home industries of their counties in the
Extension Service building at White
River Junction during the State fair to
be held September %, %, 80 and Oct. l.,
After sustaining a damage of 500 to
his machine when he collided with a
standing motor truck near the Bailey
farm on the Montpelier-Middlese road
Saturday night, w H. Clark of More
town met further. reverse when practi-
cally all the things removable about the
car were stolen after he had left the
car on the spot over night. The eush-
ions. tools and various other things We're
stolen.
After Harold Oldfeld of Sherbrooke,
p O., an ex-service man, had fallen
overheard from boat on Lake Cham
plain and sunk twice, his cousin, Rob
ert Cartmell, l4-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James r. Cartmell of Vergennes.
held him by the chin, unconscious, until
help arrived Mr.. Oldfeld is subject to
dizzy spells as result of shrapnel
wound received in the war. He suffered
no Ill effects from the accident.
Fifty call men in the st. Johnsbury
fire department have quit because their
demand for a 100 per cent increase in
pay was not granted. Thew signed their
names. to a petition for the increase, Civ
ing as an alternative that they would
| resign if they were refused. 1T was de
cided to let them do SO, and add two
regular men to the department in their
places. There were 90 call men who did
not sign the petition and they are con-
sidered sufficient in addition to the reg
ulars.
An extensive business has been done
the past summer by men and women,
who have been engaged in gathering
ferns around the districts of Chittenden.
Sherburne and Mendon' for the use OF
florists. These ferns are packed into
punches of 1000 each, and shipped to
Springfield, Mass. for cold storage.
Later they are sold to florists through
out the country and many are used at
Christmas time. An average of 10 men
and women have been engaged IN tins
work, and they have been able to earn
as much as SI3 day in some cases.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21

A call has been extended by the Me
mortal Baptist church of Middlebury to
Rev. Herbert L. Howard, pastor of the
First Baptist church at Peabody, Mass.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21
VERMONT NEWS.

Rev. Fl. A. Parkhurst has resigned his
pastorate of the Universalist church in
Springfield and goes Oct. l to the church
in Woodsville, n.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21

A party of three from Manchester, who
went onto Mt. Mansfield Thursday, are
reported to have sent word Friday that
they were snowbound, but hoped to be
able to get off the mountain Saturday
and return home.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-21

Daniel Sullivan, a native of La Cole,
p. O., and an inmate of the Soldiers
home in Bennington since August, 1916,
died there Friday of a complication of
diseases. Mr.. Sullivan was a tramp"
printer, having travelled and worked in
most sections of Canada and the United
States. He was veteran of the Civil
war.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-03-18

Whatever the atmospheric condl.
tons. the fish market of Bergen is the
most crowded and noisy place In town.
Fishwives are excitedly trying to sell
their hopping. wriggling wares to un-
decided customers. while other buyers
and vendors grow heated over the
price Of herring or trout.
Away from this fascinating scene of
confusion. In a quiet little park, is an
other significant phase of Bergen's in
terests. Here is a statute of ole Bull.
Norway's great violinist. ole Bull was
born in Bergen. and he now lies in its
graveyard. The city's tribute to this
genius Is this statue Of him, standing,
as his fellow citizens had so often
seen him stand before them, with his
violin ready to play, but listening first
TO .he rain and the birds and the talk
of men that he might convert them into
the language of the violin. This simple
statue embodies more truly the spirit
of Bergen than its scrambling, money
boarding markets, or its fippant at
titude toward the weather probabili-
ties.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-03-18
Beauty in Seaweed.

Contemplating seaweed, the curator
Of this department in the New York
botanical gardens has made a sug-
gestion. timely with regard to the
present exhibition of specimens in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. that here
may be found many charming sug
gestion. hitherto unnoticed by artists
or the creation of decorative designs
One Is reminded of the passage In
which Ruskin tells how the Greek
architect found beautiful design in
the movement of ocean waves; and
wonders that Ruskin himself. with his
keen appreciation of art suggestions
In nature. did not deal with the varied
beauty of design discoverable in the
different seaweeds. Perhaps ne did,
and one has forgotten 1t; at any rate
seaweed has not, 1t seems, yet sup
piled suggestion for the design of lace,
tapestries, prints, and architectural
ornament, and the idea adds material
for the work of designers.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-03-18
ACCEPTED MANDATE OF FATE
self Worthy When Called to POSI-
ton of Responsibility.

When Rudyard Kipling's 1.-THE Man
Who Would Be King" was published
it was regarded as an excursion into
the improbable, if not the impossible.
1t was the Anglo Saxon Imagination
accepted by the colorful Hindustani
civilization.
But the sober chronicles of the war
have outdone Kipling. Thorneycroft,
a twenty-two-year-old British trooper,
found himself stranded in Turkey
after Townshend's Inflated offensive.
Nothing daunted, he accepted his pre-
dicament as a mandatory of Fate. He
proceeded to rule over a territory con-
tanning 60 villages and 10000 people,
and he ruled them until relieved by
the martial law brought by Allenby's
troops. The son of hotel keeper of
Bristol, he proved at the test that he
was of imperial fiber.
Truth is stranger than fiction. 1t
always has been and always will be,
with Tommy Atkins or his first cousin.
the doughboy, as protagonist. Each
Possesses the comic spirit that means
adaptability, no matter what the emer-
gency.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-03-18
HAVE THEIR OWN LANGUAGE
No Doubt at All That Birds and Beasts
Hold Communication With
Each Other.

That phrase, dumb animals" be-
trays more ignorance of the life around
US than any other ever invented by our
race, for. though no species save man
has an articulate language, no one
who has watched and attended to the
ways Of birds and beasts can doubt
that they very thoroughly manage to
convey to each other their wishes and
intentions. Each, in its own way, COM
municates with its fellows, and II the
language Is not our language 1t at any
rate serves their purpose exceedingly
well. Certainly the amount Of individ-
uality that there Is among the different
specimens Of the same species can only
be realized by those who have had
much to do with wild creatures. No
one mammal or bird is ever in char
acter and behavior the exact duplicate
of the next; each differs in some way
from its neighbor. so you can never
depend on any two animals doing ex-
actly the same thing under the same
circumstances-in fact, we find that
individuality reigns as supreme
throughout Nature as 1t does through
out man, but then, after all, man Is
part of Nature.-Frances Pitt in the
National Review (England)
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-03-18
Mexlcans Hold Strange Beliefs.

Few countries are richer in strange
beliefs than Mexico, writes Charles
Bernard Nordhoff In the Atlantic
Monthly. There the witches assume
the eyes of cats and fit through the
night on vampires wings. A brisk
business is done in love potions and
candle flames still point the way to
buried treasure. The Mexican inherits
his cruelty to domestic beasts from
both the Spaniard and the Indian, and
his superstitions may be traced to the
same double source.
Eccentricity is not understood in
Mexico. The native is lover of for
mality, and one is judged largely by
external things. Each man dresses
according to his station, and 1t is I'M
thinkable that a well-to-do man should
wear straw sombrero or carry a
serape; the poems would be the first
to jeer at him.