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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1921-09-02
MARLBORO.
Church Fair A Success.

The church fair and benefit concert of
the Marlboro church held on the after
noon and evening of Aug. 81 was a
marked suCcc.H The afternoon sale of
food. / t'rl and fancy articles, mostly
cont ributcG was well attended and was
n financial success
The concert in the evening largely
due to the efforts of Mrs. Whitaker, was
one of the most enjoyable entertainments
in long time.
Prof. IIoase presided at the piano with
his. accustomed skill and good taste. MIR.
Lucier gave several choice violin selec-
tions. Frederic 9. Adams. Miss May w.
Brent and Miss Annola T.. Wright won
the hearty applause of the large and APP
preciativc audience.
Not soon will the church and people
forget the kindly services of those gen
crously contributing for the sale, parti-
cipatng in the concert, donating the
printing, decorating the church or in any
way assisting toward the success of the
entertainment.
Sunday, Sept. 4, will be observed as
Marlboro day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stevens of Bristol, Conn,
are visiting at Ira Halls.
Mrs. II. c. Warnock visited with Mrs.
Charles Paine of Brattleboro recently.
H. Whiting Shaw and son, Chester,
are spending the week Mt the parsonage.
Mr. Clark, who recently bought the e..
J.. Stany place, has moved his family
here.
Miss Griswold of Garden City, J.. l.,
has joined her family on Ames hill for
month
Miss Helen Post is extending her visit
with Miss Eunice Warnock until Friday
of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sawyer and children of
Westield. Mass, are guests of Mrs.
Simeon Adams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayland WNrden and
children of New York are with friends
here for the week.
II. G. Warnock is on business trip
to Boston. He went by automobile ac-
companied by c. A. Poland of Putncy.
Miss Marion and Miss Jennie Dial
rynplc of Brattlcboro were guests of
Miss Calhoun at Prof. Paton's last
week
Miss Clarice Adams, who spent two
weeks with her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. f.. u. Adams. returned to her home
in Colcrain Sunday afternoon.
DR.. Wattcs and Mrs. Post and daugh-
ter. Marion. of Bloomfield, y. j.. spent
the weekend at the PoplarS on their way
home from the White mountains.
Miss Pauline Adams is spending hei
vacation with her sister, Mrs. G. l., Ad
ans. Miss Adams is n member of the
senior class of Mortified seminary.
Marion O., is to build n 100000 hotc
and name it for President Harding.
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The sun gives 100000 times more light
than the moon.
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W. II. LANE, D.
~ Main ST. Hours: TO 3 and 2 to 8, except
Sundays. Telephone, 789-W.
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BUSINESS CARDS.
G. r. ANDERSON,

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Surgery speciality. Office and residence.
Brooks House, 1928 Main St. Hours: After.
Moons, 80 to 3; evenings, to 8, except Tues.
days and Fridays. Sundays by appointment
only. Telephone, 246.
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A. I. MILLER, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
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$50 to s p. m. Telephone, 237-W.
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! DIR. B. E. WHITE,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Barber Building, Rooms EOS and 26. Hours.
! to and to p. m. Office tel. INV, res
| 7l7-R,
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DR.. II. p. GREENE,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office. Bank block Hours: $50 to and J
to p. m. Residence, 50 Green street. Tele.
phone connection. Mornings and Sundays by
appointment only.
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DR.. C. B. HUNTER.
Office at residence, West Brattleboro. Hours,
8 to a M. / to 81 and $50 to 8 p. ni Tels.
phone, 3l8.
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W. J. KANE, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office, Room 10, Ullery Building. Hours,
8.30-9.30; 10000; 7-S. Office phone, $751; Resi-.
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DIR. E. R. LYNCH, SURGEON.
Office Park Bldg, rooms and ), telephone
$40, office hours until a. IN, to 3, and to
9 p. M. Melrose hospital, telephone 20l, TO
10 a. M; residence, Putney Road, telephone
w; Sundays by appointment only.
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life of Cecil Rhodes his inspiration back to Oxford

England. Frank took up his commission in
the cavalry and Cecil tried to matriculate
at oxford in University College, bat
when he failed to qualify in Latin prose he
went to Oriel as "A "passman" But in his
second term he caught chill on the river
the dampness of oxford was too much for
him. and the doctor gave him six months
to live even If he went back TO South Africa.
Two years in the climate of Kimberly re-
stored him so fully that he back at
oxford for the Easter term of 1876. For
two years he kept every term" says Mr.
Williams, but he did not keep his last term
or take his degree till 1881, when he was 2s,
had earned large fortune for himself and
was a rising member of the Cape Parlia-
ment"
Though he was different from most Of his
companions i'm college, "the oxford spirit so
hard to define yet easy to recognize
sank into his nature. Aristotle's Ethics,
with its virile appeal to young men to exer-
else their best faculties TO the full i'm order
to attain a life Of happiness and virtue be-
came to him lasting inspiration" From
Gihbon he drew the basis of his political
creed. that "Rome's burden Of governing
the world had now fallen on Engand's
shoulders" And during his years at OK
ford John Ruskin was preaching his new
gospel OF beauty and public service There
is - destiny now possible to us the highest
ever set before a nation to be accepted or
refused We are still undegenerate in race
. race mingled Of the best Northern blood
. Will you youths of England make
your country a royal throne of kings a
sceptred isle. for all the world a source OF
light a centre of peace? This is
what England must do or she must perish"
How great was Ruskn's influence upon the
young Rhodes is clear; the dreams for
South Africa. already inchoate in his brain,
took form and direction from that prophetic
voice.
At the end. says his bographer "he
could think Of no better gift to the Empire
he loved than to bring it's young men to
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lily according to strict rules of living. He
wanted his sons TO go into the Church, but
only Cecil ever thought of doing So The
oldest son. Herbert. had early broken away
to the colonies. and in 1870 when Cecirs
health threatened to break down. the father
shipped him away TO join Herbert, then
planter in Natal So he first set foot on
African soil as "a tall. lanky. anemic fair
haired boy, shy and reserved in bearing"
Cecil still cherished a hope of taking orders
and was determined to go to college. as a
necessary preliminary The two brothers
tried cotton planting in one of the hot
steamy valleys; the life was hard and
simple. but not without it's attractions
They had their share OF failures and sue
cesses and though cotton planting i'm the
valley finally proved "A losing adventure, the
place good training ground for the
young Rhodes. who learned some of the
tricks OF African farming and gained ex-
perence with the natives. But the opening
of the diamond fields soon drew the atten-
ton OF the young mon to the mines Valu-
able stones had been found as early as 1867.
but in 1870 the river diggings were thrown
into the shade by the discovery of diamonds
on the open weld. ON half dozen farms
which could have been contained within a
ring fence of fifteen miles" such discoveries
were soon made as transformed the destiny
OF South Africa. In this new life the young
cotton planter played principal part.
Rhodes's notable trait at this time was
his faculty OF silent concentration on his
own thoughts But with all his alb
sentmindedness he had a shrewd idea of
what was going on about him. "A precocious
power of observation and that uncanny
capacity for business which stands out so
clearly the main element Of his success
in after life. Nobody could take adj
vantage Of him. As Lord Rosebery said of
him. he was that most formidable Of all men
Of action, the practical visionary"
In 1873 Cecil and Frank tanother brother
who had left the army to try his luck in
the diamond fields; went back together to
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oxford to draw from her the inspiration
which had helped him so powerfully in his
own career
However orthodox his carly training may
have been. Rhodes appears 10 have found
that his boyish beliefs rested on no sure
foundation. and he found in a book called
The Martyrdom Of Man" by a studious
traveller named Wnwood Roade the basis
OF suggestion upon which he studied out
through the solitary stretches Of time at
Natal and Kimberley. the queer. rather
clumsy and quite arbitrary ia abric OF faith
by which he ordered his life. Having finally
decided on a 30 per cent. chance that there
was God, he forthwith with character
istic directness. set out to follow the course
which God would probably approve, for hc
said TO himself that the proper business
Of man is to forward the end proposed by
God As he perceived the divine purpose It
was ITO produce type of humanity most
fitted to bring peace liberty and Justice 10
the world and to make that type predomi-
nant" And since his own Anglo Saxon race
was the only one which approached thar
type. Gods purpose was evidently. TO mako
the Anglo Saxon race predominant. THE
idea was throughout his life. tho direct spur
to action. About this time-when his grea
wealth was still far in the future-he began
to make that series Of wills in which We
can trace the persistence OF his idea and
his successive attempts to safeguard his
wishes and SO dispose of his possessions as
TO carry out his plans--always for the Brit
ish Empire and the Anglo Saxon race. He
made six or eight wills In succeeding years
changing his trustees as occasionally some
difference Of opinion developed; for Rhodes's
will had to be law. Always he planning
expansion and development for the South
African states. and always with the drrierc
pcnSec that the safest form of government
would be q federation Of these states under
tho British flag. however full autonomy they
might retain, and without "meddling' by
the home Government His policy toward
the Dutch was rather an expression OF his
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they tried me very sorely. They did horrible
things; they embraced death. and said that
eternal life was fable | stood amazed at the
malice and destructiveness of these things
had made; Mars blushed as he looked down
on the shame of his sister planet: cruelty
and hypocrisy became so hideous that the
face of the earth was pitted with the graves
of little children among which living skee
tons crawed in search of horrible food. The
pangs of another birth were already upon
me when man rcpented and lived three
hundred years: and | waited to see what
would come of that And so much came of
it the horrors of that time seem now but
an evil dream. They have redeemed them
selves from their vileness and turned away
from their sins Best of all, they are still
not satifed: the impulse / gave them In that
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supersede them until they have forded this
last stream that lies between flesh and spirit.
and disentangled their life from the matter
that has always mocked it. I can wait:
waiting and patience mean nothing to the
eternal. l gave the woman the greatest of
gifts--Curiosity."
In the middle section. the period imme-
diately following own is dealt with.
Shaw seems to argue that hitherto mans
failure to make progress is partly the result
of too early death The individual must
live longer in order TO help the race to
profit by what he learns. And the individ-
ual can live longer when he wills it. AS
one Of the characters explains:
do not mistake mere idle fancics for
the tremendous miracle working force of
VIII nerved to creation by a conviction of
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Bernard Sawhe lost his G. in the past and future
heenged greatest earth with profound scientific preface
showing creation creating

day when 1 sundered myself in twain and
launched Man and Woman on the earth still
urges them: after passing a million goals
they press on to the goal of redemption
from the flesh. to the vortex freed from
matter, to the whirlpool in pure intelligence
that, when the world began, was whir-
pool in pure force And though all that they
have done seems but the first hour of the
infinite work of creation, yet 1 will not
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BACK TO METHUSELAH. A Metabioogicai
Pentateuch. BY Bernard Shaw. Brentano's.
Reviewed by ROBERT J. COLE

Reviewed by ROBERT J. COLE
30 much depends on the giraffe. Read
ing the preface to Bernard Shaw's
play Che has lost the prefacial G.
from his name), | remembered a boyish
dream in which | was running down long
lane with no turning and high stone walls
on either side. Behind giraffe
before me the closed end of the lane.
looked over my shoulder to see If there were
any hope in that apocryphal animal.
He laughed.
This dream zoology differed from Shaw's
in that his giraffes are perfectly serious
(Shaw would never let anybody else do his
laughing for him. There two of them,
with equally long necks. And thereby hangs
the answer to the riddle of mans origin and
destiny. which is the subject of Shaws play
and preface.
Darwin's giraffe had long neck because
only the members o. that family tall
enough to pluck their food from the palm
trees could survive But Lamarcks giraffe
helped out natural selection" by exerting
himself And Shaw is for Lamarck. This is
how he puts it in the preface:
"As compared to the open-eyed intelligent
wanting and trying of Lamarck, the Dar
Wlnlan process may De described as a cHdp-
ter of accidents. AS such. it seems simple,
because you do not at first realize all that it
involves. But when its whole significance
dawns on you, your heart sinks into a heap
of sand within you. There is hideous
fata'ism about it, ghastly and damnable
reduction of beauty and intelligence, of
strength and purpose, of honor and aspira-
tions. to such casually picturesque changes
as an avalanche may make in landscape or
n n a
call this natural selection is a blasphemy,
possible to many for whom nature is nothing
but a casual aggregation of inert and dead
matter, but eternally impossible to the
spirits and souls of the righteous. If it be
no basphemy. but a truth of science. then
the stars of heaven, the showers and dew
the winter and summer. the fire and heat
the mountains and hills, may no longer be
called to exalt the Lord with us by praise;
their work is to modify all things by blindly
starving and numbering everything that is
not lucky enough to survive in the univer-
sal struggle for hogwash'
Before going any farther it is only fair
to say that this book is not limited to scien-
tific discussion. 1t Is not limited in any
way. Shaw has empted himself into it. He
need never have written any other book
he need never write any other. Here he is
the Bernard Shaw Company, Inc. Unlim
The serious artist in words and dramatic
structure, the mountebank, the preacher, the
lrishman. the world man. the philosopher
psychologist. dreamer. Bottom Ounce Flute.
Starvelinga perfect realization of the
passage in Midsummer Nights Dream"
ounce: Is all our company here?
BOTTOM: You were best to call them
generally, man by man, according to the
scrip.
Here is the scroll of every mans name
which is thought fit. throughout all Athens
to play in our interlude before the Duke and
Duchess on his wedding day at night.
BOTTOM: We will meet: and there we
may rehearse most obscenely and cour-
ageously. Take PAINS be perfect adieu."
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First there is the preface, which explains
everything; then there are three plays in
one which reveal in action the past. present
and future. The first play is about Adam
and Eve, Cain and Abel. the Serpent and
above ALL Lilith. in whom shaw seems to
personify the spirit of unfolding Life. She
reappears at the very end of the prophetic
section, to review creative evolution, thus:
Il had patience with them for many ages;
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CECIL RHODES. BY Basil williams e. p.
Dutton Co


Dutton & Co
\ TANY books have been written about
Nj Cecil Rhodes. His extraordinary
genius informed a personality so
radiant of purposeful force that sober judg-
ment was not held of him while he lived
But now. after nearly two decades when
the intense passions he aroused have Gained
into cooler estimation OF his work. he is seen
to stand in the front rank of the great build
ers OF the British Empire. The author of
this fascinating and we'll balanced biography
remarks that to-day except in his own
Rhodesia the glamour of his great name is
somewhat dulled.
Perhaps by very reason of this partial
eclipse II is opportune to attempt another
judgment on Rhodes Hitherto most of the
lives or sketches of him have been written
under the attractive magnetism of his living
personality. To-day IL is possible to take
more dispassionate view. This book
is not intended to he an unrelieved pane
gyric of Rhodes or tract for the imperial
ism he preached and worked for. But it
frankly sets forth with the belief that he
was with all his grievous faults. a great
man. and that the root OF his Imperialism
were qualities that have done good service
to mankind His character was cast in
urge mould, with enormous defects corre
spending with his eminent virtues.
AS TO his creed worthy spirit will
be engendered II we look not to the blatant
and exaggerated manifestations Of national
arrogance 1t contained, but to it's deep sense
OF public duty. the tenacty OF purpose it
implied. and above all TO the underlying
sympathy and desire for cooperation even
with opponents. without which II was mean
ingless."
Cecil John Rhodes, born July ). 1853 was
one Of ten or dozen children. His IA ther
held the vicarage of Bishop Stortford for
twenty-seven years and brought UP his fam
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II now find myself inspired 10 make
second legend of Creative Evolution with
out distractions and embellishments. MY
sands are running out; the exuberance of
1901 has aged into the garrulity of 1920; and
the war has been a stern intimation that
the matter is not one to be trifled with. l
abandon the legend of Don Juan with its
erotic associations. and go back to the legend
of the Garden of Eden. I exploit the eternal
interest of the philosophers stone which
enables men to live forever. ! am not.
hope, under more illusion than is humanity
inevitable as to the crudty of this my begin
ming of q Bible for Creative Evolution. |
am doing the best I can at my age. My
powers are waning; but so much the better
for those who found me unbearably brilliant
when | was In my prime"
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Marquis depicts
modern Falstaff

THE OLD SOAK AND HAIL AND FARE
WELL. BY Don Marquis. Doubleday Page
e
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Necessity l tell you men capable of such
willing, and realizing it's necessity, will do
1t reluctantly. under compulsion, all great
efforts are made They will hide what they
doing from themselves; they will take
care not to know what they are doing. They
will live three hundred years not because
they would like to but because the soul deep
down in them will know that they must if
the world is to be saved"
And when they know more they will drop
race prejudice and other impedmenta. Eng
land, for example puts educated Chinese
officials in the important offices because,
being strangers, they can administer justice.
people don't seem to be able to govern
themselves. Justice is impartiality. Only
strangers are impartial" AS for the Irish
question, only an Irshman could have writ
ten so exquisite a piece of fooling as this
about the future of his own people;
Consider this island on which we stand,
the last foothold of man on this side of the
Atlantic this Ireland described by the
earliest bards emerald gem set in
silver sea- Can l. a scion of the ilustrious
British race, ever forget that when the
Empire transferred it's seat to the East, and
said to the turbulent Irish race which it had
oppressed but never conquered AT last we
leave you to yourselves: and much good may
II do you the Irish as man uttered the
historic shout: No we'll be damned If you
do and emigrated to the countries where
there was still a nationalist question, to
India, Persia and Corea, to Morocco, Tunis
and Tripoli. In these countries they were
ever foremost in the struggle for national
independence and the world rang continu-
ally with the story of their sufferings and
wrongs. And what poem can do justice to
the end. when II came at last? Hardly two
hundred years had elapsed when the claims
of nationality We're so universally conceded
the face of the earth with a national griev
ance or national movement Think of the
position OF the Irish. who had lost all their
political faculties by dsuse except that of
nationalist agitaton and who owed their
position the most interesting race on
earth solely TO their suherings! The very
countries they had helped TO set free boy
cotted them as intolerable bores."
Shaw has fun with everybody-with the
poets, whose most Original" lines he puts
in the mouths of primitive man or the SER
pent with his fellow authors OF whom 1t is
chiefly remembered that they once lent
somebody f5 with his own august genius:
"As to myself, was finding that the surest
way to produce effect of daring innova-
tion and originality was 10 revive the ancient
stick closely to the methods of Moiere and
to lift characters bodily out of the pages of
Charles Dickens
"I now find myself inspired TO make a
second legend of Creative Evolution with
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Reviewed by DAN CAREY.

| LT HE OLD SOAK is the same old
soak that existed in every bar
room of every city of the coun-
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BOTTOM We will meet and there we
may rehearse most obscenely and cour-
ageously. Take pains: be perfect: adeu"