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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08
Passing the Buck to Miss AppIegate.

The place to register complaints against
this paper is with the editor, unless the
purpose is to lick the editor. in which case
Miss Applegate will adjust the matter
sa tisfactorily in the editors absence
Mathena Times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08
This Ought to BE Interesting.

The Fat Ladies' club meets every
Wednesday night to take physical culture
to machine music Each lady brings her
own mat and boomers. Men are barred.
A surreptitious record entitled, John Likes
Me Just as / Am. failed to break up the
club.-Jewell Republican.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08
10 TUE SUBSCRIBERS

It is the aim Of the management to assure
efficient service in the delivery of the paper
each night, and it solicits the cooperation of
be given of each failure to receive the paper
on the morning following the omission, in
person, by telephone postal card, thus en-
and accurately discovered and the proper rem
edy Immediately applied. 1t is only by this
method that the publisher can secure the de-
sired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08

Evidently Maine is not quite ready for
women as city mayors. Two cities, Saco
and Bath, had women candidates for the
mayOralty and both were defeated.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08

There won't be any this year and incl
dentally the tidy sum of 100000 will be
saved thereby.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08

Spirits are held responsible for starting
number of fires in Halifax. If they did
it, we have our suspicious as to where
they live when they are at home.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08
Sofa So Good.

Married at Obed Kentucky, Miss Polly
Couch and Charles venport.-Boston
Transcript.
pocket by this time.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08
A Case of Eggshaustion.

Mrs. f. r. Baldwin had banty hen
that had nest in the kitchen woodbox.
One day she laid one egg, the next day
two. and the third day she laid three
and Topped over and died.-Appleton City
Journal
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08
Don't Rock the Boat. Maggie.

Monroe White and Miss Maggie Brown
sailed out on the sea of matrimony last
Wednesday night. Squire Jolly acted as
Advance.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08

The jewel vault in Buckingham Pal
ace contains over 5000 gold ornaments
weighing considerably over a ton in all.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08
Page the Traffic Officer. Ezra.

All traffic on our roads was stopped
Sunday night while one of our ladies sang
solo. Good singing, too.-Houghton-
vile. Vt, item.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08

Mortified, Mass, gets ON the front
page regularly in the summer. Now it
is an all-year-round proposition" says
the Holyoke Transcript. 1t is safe TO
say that Mortified folks enjoy their
summer publicity more than the winter
variety they are getting at present.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08
Our Suspense Was Terrible.

Urban Long was the young man that
was referred to in those items last week
that was Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08

Perhaps it will be just as well if the
small boys don't hear of that person who
was electrocuted while in a bath tub
asst week.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08
CLIPPINGS
With Now q Comment and Then
Only a Caption.

With deep respect ] doff my hat
To Ipswich Oswald Starr.
He says that he can fall asleep
When in a sleeping car.
Weary Traveller.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08

Last week was Truth week and 6
good many forgot to observe it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08

Yes, indeed, Tulip-in algebra and love
letters an y is a symbol of an unknown
quantity.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08
One Near Ago Today.


British. French and Belgian troops
occupied several German cities.
Premier Dato of Spain was assassi-
mated in Madrid by an anarchist.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08

Speaking of harbingers, a Sherburne
VT, woman has been digging dandelior
green's.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08
Recovering Nicely.

Friends and neighbOrs of Mrs. Green
and Mrs Amsden gave them post card
shower the past week. They are both
gaining very fast.-Amsden, VT, item.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08

What would some of the Bostonese
ancestry say if they could come back
and listen to the Massachusetts legisla-
ture wrangling over whether women
should be prevented from smoking IN
public by filming any Boston hotel pro-
prietor who permitted it on his premises
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08

March appears to think that variety
is the spice of weather.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08

Don't delay any spring planting plans
you may have by waiting to see what
the free seeds from congress will be.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08

Yes, yes. Petunia. without a doubt Miss
Lyle Stocking of Los Angeles is now
grumbing because her parents didn' {
choose silk.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08
EpitaphIets.

Here lies the body of Thomas Pearl.
He tried to drive and kiss his girl.
Beneath lies Brown who worked and tOiled
Then drove to town and came back boiled.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-08
An East Harwich Real Estate Boom.

To those who are looking for n perma-
nent residence / would call their attention
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22
OFFER MARK TWAIN REFUSED
Nothing sadder, He Is Reported to
Have Said, Than Editorsnlp OF
Humorous Periodical.

About that time my wife helped me
put another temptation behind me.
This was an offer of sixteen thousand
dollars year, for five years, to let
nv name be used as editor of a hui
morous periodical.
/ praise her for furnishing her help
in resisting that temptation, for 1t is
her due. There was no Temptation
about it, in fact, but she would have
offered her help just the same If there
had been one. can conceive of many
wild and extravagant things when my
imagination is in good repair, but l
can conceive of nothing quite so wild
and extravagant as the idea of my ac-
ceptlng the editorship Of humorous
periodical.
I should regard that as the saddest
of all occupations. II I should under
take it should have to add to 1t the
occupation of undertaken, to relieve
1t in some degree of its cheerlessness.
From unpublished Chapters from
the Autobiography of Mark Twain" IN
Harper's Magazine.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22
Makino Buralars Tools.

The "Black museum" at Scotland
Yard has recently acquired fine set
of house-breaking tools (which had
been abandoned by their owner after
a burglary. These instruments show
wonderful workmanship. Tere is a
collapsible Jimmy that folds up IN
the pocket, a rope ladder of silk that
fits into the palm Of the hand, num-
Der of keys and lock-picking instru-
ments, and a neat oXygen-acetylene
blow-lamp. Where do burglars obtain
these marvellous tools? They are ex-
perts at making skeleton keys and 30
on, but they are not capable of maxi
ing the other implements. No respect
able firm manufactures such articles,
and although small quantity is
made secretly by employees of repu-
table firms, the majority come from
special factories engaged in nothing
else but making burglars tools. Such
factories are hidden away in back
streets, and it is almost impossible to
locate them.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22
VAST WEALTH FROM SILVER
Fortunate spaniards Spent Millions as
the Average Man Might Dis
pence His Dollars.

In the old Spanish days in Mexico,
millionaires were often made over
night in the rich silver-mining sections
arouSd Guadalajuata. A shrewd pros
pector in the early days, named Fam
brano, discovered a mine which
brought him immense wealth. He
spent most Of his time in the cap
itals of Europe, living as extravaganza
ly as possible, squandering vast sums
at the gaming table, but managing to
leave snug little fortune Of $60,0O0,-
600. One of his whims was to lay a
silver pavement in front Of his house,
but this the authorities forbade. In
these days silver was on parity with
gold.
The conde de Valenciana, who dis
covered one Of the richest mines In
this section, derived so much wealth
from 1t that he is said to have gotten
rid of S1OO,0OO,000 in. few years.
Another silver king sent the king OF
Spain 100000 as Christmas pres
ent, and asked to be allowed to build
galleries and portals Of silver around
his mansion. This request was re-
fused, the authorities declaring that
such magnifcence was the privilege
of royalty only. -, ~,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22
Hidden Brine River.

A thousand feet beneath the town
Of Midland, Mich, run rivers Of brine
charged with calcium, sodium, magne-
stun, strontium, bromine and chlorine.
Forty pumping wells raise the brine,
and separative processes release from
it the bases of Photographic emulsions,
medicines, cement, tanning materials,
perfumes, preservatives and cold-stor-
age solutions. The magnesium was
used for war flares, and now, COM
bined in secret alloy, furnishes metal
one-third the weight of aluminium,
sustaining a pressure of 24,000 pounds
per square inch. In the form Of gas
engine pistons, after test equivalent
to that of a motor car running 30 miles
an hour continuously for $4,000 miles
scarcely sign of wear was discern
ible.-Scientif1c American.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22
caribs' Flashing Thunder Bird.

The Australian thick-headed shrike
is about six inches long, rich-yellow
below, with jet-black collar and a
white throat, black head and partly
black tail. It is sometimes called the
black-breasted fy-catcher and 1t has
also a variety Of French and New
Latin names.
In the mythology of some low
tribes, such as the Caribs Brazflians,
Harvey islanders, Karens, Bechunas
and Basutos, there are legends of a
Tapping or flashing thunder bird,
which seems to translate into myth
the thought of thunder and lightning
descending from the upper regions
of the air, the home Of the eagle and
the vulture.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22
RAISE BUGS TO F.'aHT BUGS
French Scientists Breed Insects and
Birds That Are Enemies Of Fruit
Destroying Pests.

There is quaint institution In Men
tone, in the south Of France, known
as the Insectarium, where learned pro-
fessors are rearing various species of
bugs and other insects.
Mentone is in the center of an I'M
portant fruit-growing district, and the
object is to discover the best means Of
fighting those insect pests that prey
upon plants and ruin the fruit.
The orchards have suffered severely
through the ravages of the mealy bug,
and the fruit growers were becoming
quite alarmed. Then experts discov.
cred that three other species of bug
are the natural enemies of the mealy.
So these are being bred and reared
and turned loose in the orchards as
allies of the fruit growers.
The institution is also breeding GER
tain species of ladybirds to destroy the
cochineal, an insect that plays havoc
with orange and lemon trees. These
ladybirds have been brought from far
Australia and California.
The institution is nothing less than
an up-to-date insect farm, consisting
of a large private house and an acre
of ground. In the laboratory are rows
upon rows of phials and jars, the
larvae of various insects which are
kept at high temperature. In the gar
den are cages full of all kinds 81
creeping and flying pests.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22
NOT AS SHE HAD PICTURED
Girl Who Had Herself PACED In Hotel
unprepared for Meeting With :.
Flippant Individual.

The girl had never been PACED in a
hotel. Time after time she had heard
the bellboys go by calling out names,
and always she had envied the young
women who got up and followed them
to the telephone.
It got to be a positive mania with
her-this desire to be paged-and
finally she persuaded one Of her
friends to telephone her at hotel at
specified time.
She waited in the lobby, sitting on
the edge of her seat III excitement, un-
til the boy appeared.
''Miss Brown! Miss Brown!"
She rose excitedly. Il am Miss
Brown" she said.
"Gentleman waiting to see you out
front"
She looked rather surprised; that
had not been in the scheme. But per-
haps he had changed his mind. She
followed the boy obedliently, and was
led face to face with a perfect
stranger.
Her face grew pink with confusion
as she gazed at him, and he, realizing
the mistake, watched her in amuse-
ment. He was rather loudly dressed
young man with great air of assur-
ance.
For a moment they stared; then he
spoke.
"Not so good" he said slowly, and
then, as an after thought, "but not so
bad, either!"
And the girl fled in embarrassment.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22
Where Long Necks Are Stylish.

In Burma, among the Karens, q
long neck is the ambition of every
woman. Her mother starts thinking
about this when her daughter is a
baby, and starts to accomplish this
swan-like effect when the tots are
scarcely able to walk.
The method employed is series
of heavy brass rings, which are as
thick as your little finger. These are
put around the child's neck, and as
she grows, more rings are added, thus
forcing her neck to lengthen out.
More rings are added year after year
as the girl grows into womanhood.
Twenty-one of these coils is the aver
age worn, although 25 have been
achieved.
The 21-ring-collared woman is
thought beautiful, but the 25-ringed
lady is considered a raying beauty
under the Karens Of Burma.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22
Simple Life in India.

In some parts Of India, discovered,
clothes;-or the lack Of them-cause
little ,oncerns children up to six or
eight years old wear absolutely moth
ing. All the barbering Is done, in the
open street.
For the most part, houses are SIM
ply built Of clay, with brush thrown
over the top. ,The better classes Of
natives pile into tenement houses as
people do In the congested districts
of New York City, and their ambition
seems to be to crowd as many persons
into q room as possible, and to have
as many children as nature will per-
mit.-NVorld Traveller.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22

was in late summer. The world was
swathed in green, covering red hills;
and he shade trees were in glory. Af
ter a delightful hour, when leaving, I
looked back. Captain Ham and his
lovely wife sat side by side on the
veranda as I had seen them gene
ration before. That was my last sight
of them, but memory keeps them
near and dear. Nowhere in the world
Of men have met two examples bet
ter fitting Milton's description:
"For contemplation he and valor
formed;
For softness she, and sweet attrac-
tive grace"
"The strength Of the hills is His
1also," saith the psalmist, and these
were His evidences Of strength and
beauty, set amid the hills for a sea-
son, and now withdrawn to Him.
" Eaa. rs ~
ALI the material prosperity Of the
up country may shrivel up and fade
like a garment "when the moth frest
the fbers." There has recently been
an unpleasant reminder of how frail
material possessions are and how
quickly the vanish.
But men and women, endowed
with character, living lives Of up
rightness, clean of heart and strong
Of arm for what duty requires, are
eternal possessions. They pass; but
their influence lives.
AS DR.. Alexander McLaren of Liv-
erpool once said: eve know not how
far the water Of life may percolate
from it's accustomed channels to re-
fresh the roots of distant trees"
(, Verify, the up country does not it
iself know how much it owes to it's
forbears, "who kept the faith of men
and saints, sublime and pure and
bright.
No sweeter reminder of glorious
past can be called up than that of
John Hampden Brooks and the wo-
man he called wife.-The State.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22
OF Course Not!

A negro boarded a tramcar. After
a word with the conductor, he shuf-
fled toward the door again.
An inspector, who happened to be
in the car, said to him, "surely you
don't want to get off so soon-and you
haven't paid"
"Ah want ter go ter Whopple
street." said the negro, "an' de con-
ductah says dah's no sich place"
"Well, there isn't" said the con-
ductor.
'Den dah's sure no good in ma
gwine dah.'-Edinburgh Scotsman.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22

the situation was continual de-
light to me, and to every one permit
ted within the sacred precincts Of
"Roselands."
When such women cease to exist,
there will be nothing worth living
for, working for or dying for Civil
cation will be in ruins.
On the outbreak of war Captain
Brooks organized company, his
mother uniformed the men and he en-
tered the army, making record OF
service, distinguished from the be-
ginning unto the end. At General Ha-
goods suggestion and by permission
of General Beauregard, he took lot
of federal prisoners, who wished to
change sides and formed them into
command, having been himself
commissioned a lieutenant colonel.
These men proved to be traitors and
formed plot to murder their officers
between Charleston and Savannah,
where the surroundings were conge-
NAL for dark deeds. While awaiting
reinf with lot of men
around, whom he knew were oath
bound to murder him, John Hampton
Brooks displayed the cool courage in
which he abounded. / never have
known man who more acutely real
lied danger or more thoroughly de-
spised it.
The tense and awful situation,
which lasted two hours, was relieved
by Lieutenant Colonel Brooks bring
ing in Georgia volunteers, who dis
armed the mutineers, and five Of the
ring leaders were shot.
At the close of the war Captain
Brooks retired to Roselands and was
not "a successful planter" as the
newspapers said; for it is proclamation
to lie in the case of so perfect an
embodiment of truth and knightly
virtue. His health initiated against
that; moreover, owing to his mothers
having always managed the planta-
ton he had no practical experience.
However, he was good manager,
careful, prudent, holding: the planta-
tion together and providing for his
own. What is much better than sue
cessful planter, he was man imper-
vious to temptation. Reduced in cir
cumstances, suffering for lack of
things he craved, he was none the
|less far above sordid consideration.
He never bent finger nor crooked a
knee for financial gain.
AS he graced the station wherein
he was born, he would have equally
graced court or camp anywhere, in
the age, for he was compounded OF
the old heroic virtues which have
compelled the admiration Of men and
the devotion of women since Greek
and Trojan battled around the walls
of Hum.
He had served term in the legis-
!lature before the war from Edgefeld
district. After the war he was elect
ed to the general assembly from
Greenwood and later to the senate,
and in all relations he was the same
plain, unpretentious, high minded
man, to whom loyalty and truth out
weighed jewels and gold.
There is more to tell than can here
be told. My last visit to Roselands
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22
Bafin Land.

Baffin Land, a barren insular tract
IN British North America, lies between
latitude 81 degrees and 72 degrees
north, with Lancaster sound on the
north, Baffin bay and Davis strait on
the east, the Gulf of Bothnia and Fox
channel on the west, ard Hudson bay
on the south. The area is about 1885,.
600 square miles. It is inhabited by q
few Enkimos, but is visited occasion.
ally by whalera.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22
Love of Nature.

"What is your favorlte dower?"
"Well," replied Farmer Corntossel,
"I guess an orchid is about as satis-
factory as any,
"Orcllids are beautiful, but rare"
"Thax's why I favor 'em. There's no
chance Of they're gettin' start like
daisies or dandelions an havin' to be
weeded out.".-Washington Star.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22

Roman ,Emperors BulIded Well.
The aqueduct Of Appius Claudlus
Caecus dates from 3lz B. @.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22
Trespass Notice.

Trespass Notice.
I hereby give notice that all hunt
ing, fishing and trespassing in every
form whatsoever is prohibited on my
land. This means everybody and the
law will be enforced against those
who fail to heed this notice. Keep off
of my premises.
A. G. QUITS.
-~~.>oo---~,~oo-o~ o-o~ee~o-c.~occ-o~o-c
FOR SALE: About 20 tons of
baled peavine hay +. o. b. Ridge
Spring. Apply to Frank Boatwright,
Ridge Spring, S. c.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-22

wafer!
1t was trickling into his throat, the
sweetest drink that he had known In
all his life Mike opened his eyes. A
tent was over him. And beside him
stood Jim Lavery, his old partner.
."Lie still, ye burned old fool. Yell
be all right now," said Jim.
"You-where am II"
fright in the middle Of Dead Val
ley. We got up a search party out in
Larrabee. Guessed we'd find you
purity nigh finished. But we'd never
have found you If that hound Of yours
hadn't found u.s."
A soft tongue caressed Mixes hand.
Mike looked into the faithful eyes Of
the watcher at his side and under
stood.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-05-04
One Of Great city's Tragedies.

An Old-time tragedy Of the Centr
Markets, Paris, has been recalled by
the death at an advanced age Of a
once rich woman, who for many years
made poor living there overturnine
garbage cans and selling anything Of
value she might be able to find there.
In. Her name was unknown, and for
nearly half century she was merely
called princess" Fifty years ago il
was fashionable for persons Of high
society in Paris to pass riOtous night
in the cafes and stalls Of the market
On one occasion fashionable woman
one Of a gay party, was robbed of
money and Jewels, presumably by her
escort. Left penniless, she refused,
for reasons easily surmisable, to com.
municate with her husband or her
family In central France. Instead she
sought employment and gradually fell
into extreme poverty. She got her nick
name owing to her invariable habit
when asked about her former life, OF
replying: "Ask no questions; am 8
princess from a far country"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-05-04
Smiling Porches.

More houses are being built with
inclosed porches than ever before /;
you may walk down long streets of
dear little homes whose porches smile
at you through tiny panes of glass
You pass medium-sized places With
grounds, comfortable houses set back
from the road, and large mansions
in every one Somewhere you catch the
glimpse Of an enclosed porch-room
Old-fashioned houses follow suit, and
back Of the rounded Colonial pillars
are fitted small-paned glass partitions
that inclose the porch as efficaciously
as, though it had been built that way
in the beginning. In the summer these
are lifted out, leaving the porch as
before.-The Designer.