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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-04-14

Herbert i. Pierce. who has been con
nected with the National Life Insurance
company for several years. was elected
Tuesday assistant secretary of the conn
pany. taking the place of George w. Oil
phant, who recently resigned. Mr.. Pierce
has been superintendent of the loan de-
partment and will be succeeded by Paul
Dillingham;, son of Senator Dillingham;,
who has been in that department for few
years.
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NUT TREES.

THURSDAY. APRIL II. 1921,
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O. Has Admiral Sims ever taken out
| citizenship papers? r. Y. B.
ada, was the son Of an American engineer.
| Since children born abroad of American
parents are American citizens, It was not
necessary for Admiral Sims to be natural
lied. He has always claimed his American
q. Please give a formula for ink for
stamping embroidery patterns. c. Z. W.
A. Dissolve 2 drs. rosin in 4 ozs. ben
portion Of the liquid, to g smooth paste.
must be shaken often to keep the pigment
in suspension. If yellow ink is wanted
white II bls aerG ase utramarin U W
Q. Can ! enlist in the United States
Army or Navy at present. n, " VT Z: so-v,..
q: who first said spare the rod and
A. This statement is often enormously
attributed to Solomon, but is from "Hudi-
bras and is found in Part II, Canto. l,
snareth the rod bateth his soni-Prorerbs
q. Why do some people call whisky
4. Hooeheno-or Kootznahoo--was a
spirituous liquor concoeted by natives of
Alaska. It was named after an Indian
The term was afterwards used as q syn
onym for ardent spirits:
@ What is the origin orig Of the as;,t nursery sl
:
=. a ? The original of %rhs House that
sS k s 81 syn re seeS Rs Il
former sa at Leipsic ia 1851.
O. Please give formula for making fly
4. Boil together 1 Id. rosin, s1s OF.
nolasses, and 315 OF. boiled linseed oil un-
til thick enough, then spread on heavy
q. why is the word. tresses used in
speaking, Of women's haifr e. ". H;
"A. She origin is uncertain. but is pos
fhreefold. 1t was first used in reference
TO hair divided into three portions and
tended the meaning to include lock or
q. How did Barbecue Jelly get It's
a. The original Barbecue preserves.
made OF selected whit. currants, were
manufactured in Barbecue, France The
strawberry, and raspberry preserves. Bar
le-Duc is usually served with cream
d. How does Ireland compare IN size
with small European nationss s.. c.
A. Ireland is larger than Belgium, Hol-
land, Denmark Switzerland, or Armenia.
Ireishd's size. Sireiand has a larger popu-
] lstion than Armenia, Norway, Denmark.
Finland orsswitzerland-
(Any reader can get the answer 20 any
question by writing The. Topeka State
journal Information Bureau. Frederic J
offer applies strictly to Information The
bureau cannot give advice on legal medi-
zeal. and financial matters. II does not at
tempt to settle domestic troubles. nor to
undertake exhaustive research on any sub.
5eet Write your question plainly and
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s.and I am acting as your friend when
I warn you that his friendship for
Mrs. De Lsie Is dangerous to your
happiness as his wife. ana to your
future. Assert your rights as a wife
DON'T allow this intimacy to go fur
ther. we all so thru things OF this
sort at some time in our lives; at least
cav but simply told him wouldn't
Stay with him: and he is quite model
IT am sure he is.'sI replied, but
can't agree with you that Mrs. De
Isle, an intimate friend of Keith's
sister, is a danger TO me-"
AT hone not, my dear. have
meant to be kind. and perhaps have
After she left and 1 could think
over her warning, kindly meant I
knew, I said to myself:
''Pll have a good time too oeea-
sionally, and make Keith Jealous at,
the same time. Perhaps If he sees
others admire me 1t will make him
sit up ana notice me too"
(Tomorrow-A delightful evening"
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week leave you'll" The lawyer mere
ly smiled, offered more money and
shamed his excuses But Sam added
again: Next week leave you.
hire for you better man"
Convinced by the earnestness and
determination of the servant, how
ever. the lawyer asked for his reasons
for leaving"
II will not ten you why leave
you laugh" said Sam.
mo. I shall not laugh"
"You will"
''I say, I will not"
VERY well, I go to China to die!"
Nonsense! You can die here.
Haven't I agreed to send your body
back il you die before do?"
ST die in four weeks two daysi"
What"
my brother. he in prison. He
young-26, I so. He have wife and
baby. In China they accept any man
same family to die. go to China,
give my money to my brother-he
i've. die!"
The next~morning a new Chinaman
came to be servant to the lawyer. In
a week he also knew everything, and
nothing. just as Sam had done
But as the master at times called
for SAM" when he should have said
Charlie there came "a kind of
clutch at his 'heart"-but he said
nothing.
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JUST FOLKS



It's mighty nard for Mother-I am busy
thru .he day
And the tasks Of every morning keep thes
gloomy thoughts away,
And I'm not forever meeting with supper
To remind me OF our sorrow whea I'm
toiling in the town.
But with Mother it is different-theres ne
minute she is free
From the sight Of things which tell her
of the Joys which used to be-
She is brave and she is faithful, and We
say we're reconeiled,
But your hearts are always heavy once
you've lost a little child,
And man can face his sorrow IN manly.
sort OF way
For his grief must quickly leave him when
he's busy thru the day,
But the mothers lot Is harder-she must
learn to sing and smile
Tho she's living in the presence OF her
sorrow all the while
Thru the loom where love once waited she
must tip-toe day by day,
She must see thru every window where
the baby used to play,
And there's not a thing she touches nor
= task she finds to do
But 1t sets her heart to aching, and be-
gins the hurt anew
Oh. a man can turn from SORROW, for his
mind Is occupied,
But the mothers lot is harder-grief il al
ways at her side
Copyright. 1921. by Edgar A. Gueetl
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY UEiE PAPE.

I'm going to have a party for my
berthday, witch stuck all the invita-
tons under the frunt doors alreddy to
give everybody plenty of time, and this
AFTERNOON ma asked noe who all I in
vited and 1 told her and she sed, wy
wat about Persey Weever, you haven't
mentioned his name.
: Aw. that sissy, like fun, weuldent
have him at my party, I sed.
Persey Viewer is a very well be-
'haved boy and If you were even half
as meet as he is 1 wouldent mind it
bit, and wunt you to rite him a nice
polite letter immeeditly and invite
hi INTO the party, sed ma.
Aw gosh, G, ma, that sissy, holey
moaks, ma, G, sed.
Rite 1t this AFTERNOON, sed ma. Meen-
ing there wasent eny use argewing,
and after suppir sed to ma, Hay ma,
will you give me a stamp to mail that
letter to Persey?
. Lets have a look at It, sed ma, and
sed. Aw, G, ma, its in the envelope
and the envelope is all stuck together
alreddy.
o well, heers a stamp. CESS its all
rite, sed ma.
WITCH she mite not of gessed SO If
she had of saw it, the letter being.
Deer Persey, You can come to my
party IL you wunt to very mulch in
case you feel insulted or enythfng on
account of not getting a invitation
wen the reel guests got theirs. But I
don't think we are going to have mulch
fun so don't go cut of your way eny
to get there as we will Excuse you IN
der the circumstances. Your sincere
friend Benny Potts.
Wich If he comes now it will either
show he cant take a hint or elts he's
got a meen disposition.
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Dorothy Dix Tails
Ten Commandments of the Summer
Woman--w2.

E<~-@-A4~=~-
Woman-v2.
Fifth: Write to your husband now
and then a letter that is full of love
and appreciation, and that doesn't end
up with request for 4 check. 1t is
harder for q CAMEL to go thru the eye
of a needle than it is for a man to
keep up a romantic love for a woman
who is chief of a hold-up gang.
Sixth: If you still retain your girl
ish figure and shake a wicked foot
in the dance look well to your-repu-
tation, for the old cats who sit upon
the hotel galleries and knit will snatch
it from you and rend it into tatters:
and the mothers of homely daughters
who paper the walls will despitefuIly.
uae you.
Therefore yield not to filtration
when it temptS you to try to see If
your eyes have lost them come-on-look.
and say Get thee behind me, Satan,"
to youths with silk hair and under
TSlung cars who. murmur about the
moon being fair and knowing road
house where you can still get it. For
what profiteth it to a woman to listen
to a little love making if thereby she
loses her meal ticket?
Seventh: AS you have children, be
merciful. 1t is within your power to
destroy the peace and comfort, and
break the rest all within earshot of
your progeny. Reflect that to others
the voice of your babe raised in walls
in the night time is not music as it is
to you. Nor do the people who room
on either side of you perceive humor
in the cunning pillow fights at 6 a. m.
in which your high spirited youngsters
indulge with shouts of glee. There
fore suppress your youngsters and
take them apart to play, and so shall
people arise and bless your name.
Eighth: Sit not down to the bridge
table with strange women unless you
are canny with the cards, or have
the price. Verify many a woman
telegraphs home for motley after hav-
ing engaged with, a saintly-faced
white haired lady who shears lambs
all the summer in order to live all
winter.
Ninth: Put a guard on your
tongue. Shut your teeth even as you
were afflicted with lockjaw in that
hour when women let down their back
hair together and the flood gates of
speech are open. To none tell your
middle name, or the story of your
life, or reveal your husbands Pc
culiarities, for the things we divulge
in a moment of confidence we repent
in sack-cloth and ashes.
. Return to your home gladly. For
to>a woman it is well to go on a va
cation, and better to get back, and a
two weeks holiday is equivalent to
getting a new husband, end having
the old house refurnished and done
over
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but wanted some milk badly, so one
of them drew a most beautiful high
arty cow, while the other pngled
some coins.
The spaniards looked, and q hey
was sent off post-haste.
In half an hour the boy returned.
hot and triumphant-witht two tickets
for a bullfight.
A Judges little daughter, who had
attended her fathers court for the
first time, was very much interested
in the proceedings. After her return
home she told her mother:
Papa made a speech, and several
other men made speeches to twelve
men who sat all together, and then,
these twelve men were put in a dark
room to be developed"
An Irishman who was fond OF
strong drink was asked by the parish
priest:
my son, how do you ever expect
to get into heaven"
Sure. an that's aisy," was the re-
ply. 'sWhen I get to the gates OF
heaven, I'll open the door and shut
the door, and open the door and shut
the door, and keep on doing that till
Saint Peter gets impatient and says,
For goodness sake, either come In
or stay out!'"
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Announcement is made by the
Housewives league of San Antonio.
Texas that scent bread will return TO
that city this week, arrangement hav-
ing been made with a local baker for
furnishing ten thousand sixteen
ounce loaves at that price weekly.
The reduction is said to have been
made possible by the. reduction in the
cost of flour, lard and labor. Prob
ably any baker, anywhere, would be
willing to sell one pound loaves Of
bread for a nickel on a guaranteed
order of 10000 loaves "a week. 1t
may be also that the members of the
league will spend a large part of the
money they save on bread in main
tanning their organization.
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poor creature. Don't mind anything
just so we save him." she said to Lin
ton. I'D be haunted always by his
eyes If we left him to smother"
The stableman came so laggardly he
found two much rumpled and out of
breath young people scraping mud
from a shivering terrier, yet taking
time between scrapes to, smile at each
other. They gave the rescued animal
cheerfullyto his owners representative.
yet Cicely said, looking after him: VI d
love to kiss Gyp. But for him I'd new
er have known how good a man could
be. You never once even looked at
me. All your fault! You deserve q
reward. What shall it be? A new car
or-something else ?"
Linton grinhed. something else.
please ma'am,"- he said, "a piece of
blessed willfulness sure to make life
Interesting"
(Copyright, 1921. by the, Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.1
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whether because of a mere sum-
rner Stacking of interest, or because
Of more enduring reasons, is hard to
say, but the patronage of motion pic
ture theateFs in the United States is
falling Off" comments the Christian
Science Monitor. Decline in the busi-
ness of the movies, like declines in
other businesses that could be mem
toned. may be due to charging prices
greater than the traffic will bear.
People are growing weary of paying
war prices for amusements as wen as
longer can afford to do so.
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ouAcK LEGISLATIVE. MEDICINE.

The president general of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton has issued a warning against
hasty endorsement by members of
her organization of proposed 1egisla-
ton and projects. THE world has
gone legislation mad" she declares.
''Every i'll that flesh is heir to has its
quack legislative medicine" Had
that warning been taken to heart
years ago the country today would be
far better Off.
Measures pending before congress,
and before many of the state legislA-
lures, run the gamut of human emo
tions. The objects claimed for most
of. them are commendab1e. and the
unsupported assertion that the bills
viii do what they are aimed to accom-
piish, without damage to our social
or economic structure in other ways,
wins the endorsement of well-meaning
but thoughtless individuals and Sr-
CARNATIONS. The time is opportune
for all to give heed to the warning Of
the president general of the "Daugh-
ters,r and ponder long before lending
aid to s"quack legislative medicine"
The experiences of the railroads
thru the last thirty years is sufficient
ly illustrative of the evils that result
from too much legislation There had
been gross abuse of power by cap4-
talists who held controlling interests
in the roads. To relieve the public
from the exploitation of its transpor-
tation systems for private gain, legis-
lation was resorted to. The federal
government and the states entered
upon program of restrictive laws,
made more severe at every session,
that not only accomplished the object
sought but went far beyond and took
from the roads almost every incentive
OF profitable operation. The cam
paign eliminated during the war,
when the roads were iegislated out of
the hands OF their rigbtful owners
and turned over to an administration
to complete their Generalization.
The Adamson act is conspicuous
among the array of legislative enact
ments that set aside natural laws and
undertook to establish new standards
Of living. The war was used asa pre-
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text for passing scores OF other radl-
cal laws that would have commanded
little support in normal times.
But, even with the war ended. there
is a tendency to go beyond the proper
sphere OF legislative activity. Meat
ana coaf prices are up so bills are in
troduced to regulate the packers and
coal dealers. Somebody thinks that
the death rate among babies is too
high. and. Immediately congress un-
dertakes to lower the rate by a bill.
for which the support of every kindly
disposed person In the country is
asked and received. with little refer
ence as to whether the bill is a proper
piece Of legislation. 1t has come to
pass that for every i'll somebody is
ready to suggest the passage of a law.
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THE COAL INVESTIGATION.

The Kansas court OF industrial rela-
lions has been spending much time
recently in investigating the mining,
shipping and marketing of coal in
Kansas, but with what end in view
has not yet appeared. The people
have a feeling that they are paying
too much for coal, but perhaps there
never has been a time when they did
not feel the same way about it.
II the court can find a way to re-
duee coal prices, of course consumers
will appreciate 1t. but they have seen
so many investigations of business
and so many attempts to regulate 1,
which have resulted pnly in higher
prices. that they probably possess lit
tie interest in what is going on at
present except as it tends to satisfy
a certain curiosity as to how it is done
In a conference with Washington
newspaper correspondents on June %,
Secretary Of Commerce Hoover said
the price of bitumineus coal at the
mines was entirely fair. He further
stated that the best method of bring
ing the coal situation back to normal
would be for individual consumers to
check up on the costs of their fuel
with a view to discovering what per-
centage is represented in transported
ton and distribution, and in this
manner arriving at a determination
whether retail prices are fair.
In one sentence Secretary Hoover
knocked the last prop from under the
already tottering structure of govern
ment meddling in the private bust
ness of coal production. He, who has
had more actual experience as a gov
eminent official exercising, control
over private affairs than any other
man in the world, said, in effect, that
the law of supply and demand
once again been vindicated and
had done its perfect work in the coal
mining industry.
All existing proposals for regulat-
ing, stabilizing or doing anything else
! to the coal mining industry, declares
the Mining Congress Journal, should
straightway be dropped and no addi-
tional ones should, be brought forth.
Consumers may justly protest IL they
are gouged by railroads or retailers.
but the mining industry is nc more
responsible for what the railroads and
the retailers do than the farmers are
responsible for what the jobbing
houAes and the corner grocery stores
do or than the owners of timber for
ests are responsible for what the
building contractors or the furniture
makers or the paper pulp manufac-
turers do.
Consumers who follow Mr.. Hoover's
advice and check up on cost factors
which operate after the coal leaves
the mines may find that insrespect TO
them also the, law of supply and de-
mantt has been as eGective as it has
in respect to any other commodity of
common use. If permitted to oper-
ate unchecked 1t will bring retail coal
prices down to normal along with
prices of food and clothing and soda
water and picture shows-certainly
not any later. and possibly sooner. 1t
is as universal as life, as Inevitable
as death, as inflexible as the law Of
gravitation, and every interference
with it, whether labeled regulation
''stabilization" or whatnot, whether
proposed by a senator or a Solomon
or a league Of nations. is foredoomed
to failure and disaster.
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Commenting upon the apparent re-
luctance with which congress has
taken up the tax problem the Bache-
Review says: Congress allows Itself
to be pursued by bugaboo shadows of
adverse voters. with regard. to taxa
ton. The representatives are evil
IDENTIFY convinced that the sales tax is
the only practical method of raising
sufficient revenue. but the political
consideration. absolutely without
foundation, that they might be ac-
cused of shifting the burden from the
rich to the poor, has taken possession
of them and paralyzed them. After
extensive hearings they dropped the
taxation subject and drifted into
vagarious attempts at tariff Iegisla-
ton. President Harding has now had
to call them back to tax action, and
1t may be that he will. at the last mo-
ment, have to assume, in this case,
also. the responsibility which his party
shirks. OF adopting the sales tax As
the only means of keeping the govern
nent out OF bankruptcy
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rs YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the Columns Of
TIE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
July Il. 1895.

July e. 1895.
The bids on the Hall Lithographing COM
panys new building on Jackson street, ep-
posite the Grand opera house, will be open
ed Thursday and the contract probably
viii be let at that time. The building viii
cost from $4,000 to $4,000. It viii be
brick with pressed brick TROUT, and VIII
contain about 20 windows
E. W. Benedict is making plans TO In
prove his property in Buchanan street.
which when carried out. will make his
grounds the most elaborate in the city he
intends TO put fountains in his lawn and
build flower beds around them. Then be
will build marble walks and it viii be 8
miniature park.
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The Fordney tariff bill places duty
on imports of wool, ranging from rs
to 55 cents q pound. It is said that
there is practically two years supply
of wool in the world. There is no
room for doubt regarding who viii
pay this duty. If the average citizen
does not know now who will pay it he
will know the first time he. buys a.
suit of clothes following enactment OF
the law.
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Congratulated Adams
Daily Talk
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN.

/ Today read for the first time the
story OF Sam" by Ebert Hubbard.
1 wish that I might tell it all as he
told it in his inimitable way. Briefly
it was like this:
Sam was the Chinese servant Of a
rich San Francisco lawyer. This SER
want was cook. valet, Waterman.
friend. No detail of service was too
great or too small for him to antici-
pate. Between the two there was a
perfect understanding. Each sought
to show the other his gratitude.
But one morning. as the coffee was
being poured for the master Sam
quietly-without a shade of emotion
on his yellow. faee-exciaimed: Next