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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-05
Little Question for Today.

Is Hades dry because it's hell or is it
hell because it's dry?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-05

They call it the rising generation,
but some of the members are powerful
late in the morning.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-05

The expenses of De Wolf Hopper's
department must be tremendous.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-05
Filling Up ON Beans, Arsenic Pie and
ScrapuIe for a Change

A. F. Childress returned Monday from
New York. Boston and Philadelphia.
onion and spinach season here.-Texas
Javelin.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-05
Aversion.

Aversion
/ like New York as cities go.
And sometimes for a week or so
Can stand its bluff and noise-but
Hate arsenic pie.
I do not mind its dust and heat.
Its boastful men. its girls big feet,
But still / can't. howe'er l try,
Love arsenic pie.
I'm not nut on simple food
The richest grub to me looks good
To tell the truth, l only shy
At arsenic pie.
And so New York must rise or fall
Without the slightest help at all
From me-I'm quite too young to die
From arsenic pie
r. M. P in Springfield Union.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-05
This Ought to Settle the Matter.

Charming Mrs. Vonsiatsky and her
equally charming husband. have won
many Dixon friends and staunch adj
mirers Be it stated for those who are
curious to know. Mr.. Vonsiatsky denies
emphaticallv that he has another wife.
Dixon. ILL.,. Telegraph.
uI,o End of Mr. Pnhl
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-05

Agricultural Notes.
Ed Butterworth was helping Mr. Daw-
son at the creamery yesterday.-G
Rock Item.
Elmer Harvester is cutting his oats.
-Springdale news.
o. Hayslip was a Churn Creek caller
Sunday-Churn Creek item.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-05
Their RS. We Mean.
Agricultural Notes.

Yes, Tulip, the telephone girls roll 'em
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-05

Copyright by George Matthew Adams
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-05

The End of Mr.. Pohl.
Louis Pohl, 20 Nevada street, sus-
Evening star., 1922-01-15
The Roman Census.

A CENSUS is a thing that is about
as old as human government,
though we get the word census"
from the Romans. among whom the
word "censure" meant to estimate or
make q count, and hence came "cen-
sus." meaning measure of inhabi-
tants. The people had to be measured
or enumerated" or numbered for DUR
poses Of taxation and military sery-
ice. and the old Romans had their
census" which was made at varying
intervals.
1t is most likely that the ancient
Egyptians had their census. perhaps
an annual census, though, of course.
they called it something else, for each
inhabitant had to pay a tax and give
an account of the way he made his
living. In Herodotus' history it is set
down:
Under the reign of Amasis, Eeypt
is said to have enjoyed great pros
perity both in respect to the benefits
derived from the river to the land.
and from the land to the people, and
it is said to have contained at that
time 10000 inhabited cities. Amasis
it was who established the law among
the Egyptians, that every Egyptian
should annually declare to the rov-
ernor Of his district by what means
he maintained himself, and if he
failed to do this or did not show that
he lived by honest means he should
be punished with death. Solon. the
Athenian. having brought this law
from Egypt, established it at Athens,
and that people still continue to oh
serve it, as being an unobjectionable
regulation"
There were also early laws for the
repression Of vagrancy.
The first census Of the United States
was made in 1880, though there were
censuses taken in the colonies at an
earlier time: 1t has been set down
that the first census in England, COW
ering the whole kingdom. was made
in 1901, but 1t is a matter Of record
that a census of all England was
taken in the year 656, or yery close
to that year. This census NAV be
seen in an old document called the
Tribal Hidage. printed in Birchs
Cartularium Saxonicum (card OF
chart of the Saxons). 1t gives a list
of thirty-two old English districts
the number of families in each and
a sum total. which, slightly corrected
gives the number Of families in All
England at that date. There were
then $4,000 families. or about Loo
900 souls in England.
Evening star., 1922-01-15

carved in the third year of the reign
of Kang-hsi. yet it still filled the
room with a subtly aromatic sweet
ness. Tied to this carven pillar with
a knotted cord Of silk was Toptit.
True. he was not particularly happy,
but he was quite at his ease to all
appearances.
Toptit, who was a poet as we'll as
a dealer in antiques, was rather de-
ceptive in looks; one Of his strong
points, this. He was a gangling, awk-
ward Yankee. always quite innocent
about the eyes, and unconquerably
cheerful. Most people-including
Benson-took him for a fool who had
FOOLS luck. Those who. upon this
assumption. undertook to rook Toptit
either revised their opinions ruefully
or else enjoyed their six feet of earth
in silence. Benson was the first man
who had managed to get" Toptit-
which speaks well for Benson's ability.
There were reasons for Toptit's be-
ing lashed to the carven pillar; for
his wrists being bound in front of
him until the f1esh-biting silk had
turneu the hands swollen purple; for
Evening star., 1922-01-15
Dividing the Hours and Minutes

or twenty-four hours. and each para
sang or hour was divided into sixty
parts, which we call minutes
The story is that Hipparchus, the
Greek philosopher who lived a CEN
tury and a half before Christ. in
troduced the Babylonian hour into
Europe, and we have counted the
time of day in seconds. minutes and
hours ever since.
Herodotus, the Greek historian who
wrote nearly five hundred years be-
fore Christ, said that the Egyptians
were the first people to divide the
year into twelve parts or months of
thirty days each. Herodotus is
shown to have been wrong or mis-
informed about many things, but IT
is certain that when Herodotus
travelled in Egypt collecting material
for his history of the world. the
Egyptians told him that their. an
cestors had devised the plan Of di-
viding the year into twelve equal
parts. The language of Herodotus
was: ''The Egyptians were the first
to discover the year, which they di-
vided into twelve parts, and they
say they made this discovery from
the stars, and so far l think, they
acted more wisely than the Grecians.
in that the Grecians insert an inter-
calary month every third year, on
account of the seasons; whereas the
Egyptians, reckoning twelve months of
thirty days each. add five days each
year above that number. and 30 with
them the circle of the seasons comes
round to the same point"
Evening star., 1922-01-15

off between 40 and so pills per day.
So even if 1 didn't have the habit
was afraid / might get it.
But this here amt no sermon
and my admirers needn't be scared
that / am going ahead and tell them
why l quit or what strong will
power I have got and etc. but l am
writeing this article so as if they's
any of my readers that intends to
follow my sample and give up the
weed why they will know some of
the experiences that person is libel
to enjoy in connection with same.
X X * *
THE 1st. thing. that you have got
L to get use to is not rideing in
the smoker. I suppose you will say
that a man can ride in the smoker
even if he don't smoke but wait till
you quit smokeing and then stick
your horn inside of a smokeing car
and you will know better. A nom
smokers place is in the mixed coachs
and a person must make up their
| mind to expect tho usual annoyances
that attends mingleing with the opp.
sex.
Like for inst, you set down beside
a gal and you start to read your
paper and 1st thing you know she
will make some remark or nuge you
in the elbow. Personally l don't
never encourage strange women and
always manage to squeich them but
know several cases of men that
was drove back to smokeinG because
gals wouldn't leave them alone on
trains.
In the above remarks I am refer
ing to suburban trains which is the
only kind I been on lately, but think
what it would be for a travelling man
that has to make a through trip
somewheres and If he has give up
smokeing he must set in the main
body of the Pullman and expose him.
self for miles and miles to the ad-
yances and innuendoes of women
adventures and it would be no Won
der if he weakened and snuck in
the wash rm. and borrowed
cigarette off one of the lodge men,
, berS
Another thing that seems funny
when you 1st. quit is when you go
to a show anu when the curtain
comes down for the end of the 1st.
act why instead of jumping up you
stay right in your seat and wait for
the next act and in the mean vile the
smokers that is setting in the same
row steps on your ft. when they go
ont and steps on them again when
thew come back and at 1st. you want
Evening star., 1922-01-15

ber lasted only for a moment or two
at time.
Damn you, Benson!" He spoke un-
consciously, his body asleep. his brain
tortured by pain. you've got us this
time-but you'll never make us
whine"
A voice broke ina new voice
strangely clear and virile.
"Hullo! 'Pon my word, old chap.
this is most extraordinary, y'know!
Eh?'
Toptit's's eyelids lifted heavily.
"Go to hellw. he muttered. still
half consciously
You can't make us-good Lord!
Who are you? Are you real Or
Or"
"I was about to put the same ques-
tion," came the response.
Toptit stared wildly at the long,
clean limbed, leather clad English
man. who. bare-headed was inspect
ing him with imperturbable calm. He
thought he must have gone mad.
"If you're IA ghost, all right" he
mumbled.
"If you're real, get out of here
Evening star., 1922-01-15

Benson leaped to his feet, thrust
the jade into his pocket and was
gone.
Toptit. left alone in the room,
bowed his head. the cigar in his
mouth. Then he realized the utter
futility of his half-formed plan. He
might burn through the cord about
his wrists; but before he could do
this he must burn through the cord
about his waist. Before this the cord
about his shoulders. Impossible!
He spat out the cigar, half in hopes
that 1t might set. the floor afire. But
it only smoldered there on the floor,
and the thin line of blue smoke be-
came thinner. thinned down into
nothing.
Outside Benson had found the guard
prostrate on the earth in terrible
fright. The man had some tale of a
monstrous bird that had swooped
down close above his head, all but
seizing him; bird the size of a
house. Benson swore at the fool. The
thought of an airplane did occur to
him. but he had heard no motor and
so dismissed the notion. He went on
Evening star., 1922-01-15
"ME NICOTINE"
By Ring W. Lardner.

to kick them in the shin but after
you been stepped on enough times
you don't mind 1t no more and finely
your IT. gets 30 that they miss not
being stepped on and you feel like
you ought to take them to a show
every night.
THE next item is whiskers When
We was kids in school the
teacher use to tell about the evils
of nicotine and one of the things it
was supposed to do was to destroy
hair and il you rubbed nicotine on
rat it would loose its hair. Well
I didn't think much about this at
the time as in them days they was
several better ways I could think of
to spend my time than set and rub
nicotine on rats and watch them
get bald and besides l didn't believe
the story, but 1 remembered it and
believed it the other day when ]
had laid Off smokeing vile and seen
what it done to mans beard. When
Evening star., 1922-01-15

use to be able 10 shave in the
AM and still look pretty at supper
time why now days when 1 go out
everybody hollers, Hello Chas.."
thinking 1 am the secty. of state.
But the big item and chief int in
the new life is gum. l guess il
amt no secret that pretty near every
body that quits smokeing takes up
gum, but it amt till you do it your
self that you know what it means
to take up gum.
When you take up gum you don't
just drop penny in a gum machine
or go in store and lay down 2
nickel and say give me package OF
gum. The gum habit is just like the
cigarette habit and when you get ii
good, why you have your favorite
brand of gum and YOU buy it by the
box and it costs you s1.00 for a box
of 20 packages and how long do
you think the 20 packages lasts:
Well my friends they last one day.
| So if you are like l was and smoke
cheap cigarettes which costs about
a penny apiece why the gum habit
will cost you about 55 cents more per
day than the cigarette habit but your
Mrs. will make that up in the meat
, bills, because when you work away
at gum all day sometimes matric-
ulating or Z sticks at time, why
by supper time your jaws is too wore
out for anything but soup.
= x x
WHAT is worrying me the most
w just now is the disposal Of
sticks that has outgrew their useful
ness which / can't afford to build
incinerators like they have got for
the garbage in n. Y. City and every
place 1 start to throw few pieces
away the Mrs. says don't throw il
there and they's no place you can
throw it without offending some
, body.
And another time you get thrill
is when you are invited out to dinner
and your hostess finely says come on
, gents. dinner is ready and you go in
the dinning rm and set down to the
table and all of sudden you remem
ber that they's a little matter of G
sticks of gum to be got rid off before
you can eat
Well friends, in a crisis like this
it is every man for himself and /
won't give you my solution of the
problem but will leave you to work
it out in your own way when the
time comes.
RING w. LARDNER.
Great Neck, Jan. 13.
Evening star., 1922-01-15
= IXTY seconds make a minute,
sixty minutes make an hour.
J You used to say that as often
nc 1,o,, did "ten mills make

You used to say that as oiten
as you did "ten mills make
a cent, ten cents make a dime and
ten dimes make dollar"
It is believed-in fact, certain
learned men have said it has been
nroyed-that the scheme of dividing
the hour into sixty parts and the
minute into sixty parts was invented
or devised by the ancient Baby
,onians long centuries before the
Christian era. 1t is one of the ways
of counting time which has gone un-
changed during the past five thou
sand or ten thousand years.
Along with the decimal system In
ancient Babylon there was the sexa-
.es;maI system bassed upon the count
bv sixties and originating in the
discovery that there is no number
,,h;cb has SO many divisions as sixty.
for il can be divided without re-
mainder by 2, 3. 4. 5. 6, 10, IL, 10, 20
and 80.
pabylouians divided the suns path
into twenty-four parasangs-a para
sang being about four and a half
n,i,es The astronomers of that time
in Babylon compared the progress Of
the sun during one hour to the prog
rees that would be made a good
.,ker in the same length of time,
.,cb going about one parasaEg, or
four and a half miles. Thus the
whole course of the sun, so the wise
=. astronomers of Babylon thought, was
twenty-four parasanss. or $50 degrees.
Evening star., 1922-01-15

To the Editor: Readers may
be interested to know that
1t is now over wks. since
kissed my lady Nicotine good-by for
ever and I didn't wait for no New
Yrs. day to make it official but
picked out neutral date namely
the 8 of Dec and for the benefit
Of other veteran smokers that may
be contemplating some such move
will say that it is whole lot like
going to the electric chair or getting
your hair cut, namely the most of
the agony Is thinking about it before
hand anu the reality itself amt so
bad after the LIST. couple wks.
! Wifes that is trying to make their
husbands quit or vice versa is now at
liberty to use me as a talking point
and If the husband or wife says:
"Oh, may be he wasn't really a smok
er." why you can tell them that /
only been smokeing since 1 was II
yrs. old and that is quite vile
ago and in the last Ii yrs. ! knocked
Evening star., 1922-01-15

A T sight Of Benson there fell silence
"A on the pavilion. All gazed Curl
ously at him. There were more than
a dozen men in the place. Their leader.
a brawny and SCARED pilot of the
eorxes named Shwang, came to his
feet and spoke with some respect.
Benson silenced him with q gesture,
and spoke fluently in the local dia-
lect:
'The river is being watched for
the approach Of any boat from the
north?"
"Nine eyes watch, my father"
.Hine eyes?" Benson frowned a lit
tie. "You mean"
~Tu, the one-eyed, and four others,
my father
Benson smiled, and there was a
chorus of ribald laughter that auav-
cred UP to the brokenNroof. With
xssture Of dismissal, Benson turned
and left the pavilion.
He approached a small summer"
house in the center Of the garden.
Across the entrance was sprawled q
naked man, asleep. Benson stirred
him with his foot. The naked one
Ieaped up and a knife famed In the
sunHrht. At Benson's smile. the knife
fell and the man stood back with an
ashamed murmur.
Benson went into the little house.
There was but one room, circular in
nhapA In the center arose a carved
|pillaP of nanmu wood. thick and sub
|stantial A grsver's inscription
|ehowea that 4 haA bean C1t and
Evening star., 1922-01-15

struck the score Of candles below and
scattered them.
A howl Of drunken delight went up
from the crew. Shwang lurched for
ward and threw himself at Hanecy,
who lay among the spluttering can
dies. But Hanecy rose to meet him
rose and met him with one kick
that took the drunken ruffian under
the chin. Shwang pitched sideways
with his neck broken.
From the side wall above Hanecy
cracked out shot. From the door,
way cracked another. Hanecy him.
self, pausing not to weigh odds,
caught up the nearest candlestick-a
three-foot affair Of bronze-and
crushed the head Of the closest man.
His red hair, his blood-streaked face.
his wildly cleaning eyes of steel.
showed the berserk fury that was on
him.
Hanecy never likes to tell of just
what happened in that pavilion-al-
though when he does tell Of it he lays
stress upon the bodies Of his two tor
tured boatmen. There was no escape
through the main door, and in this
doorway stood Capt. Craven, a cigar
cite between his lips and Browning
in each hand. At all event, 1t was
probably only moment or two before
fire from the overthrow candles was
streaking up the walls.
Chuck it." exclaimed Craven, as
Hanecy swung past him in pursuit
of a screaming ruff1an. Chuck it!
We've barely time to get away from
here"
where's Benson?" Hanecy turned
upon him savagely.
"At the boat-waitin' for u.s.
Hanecy took one look at the pa
yilion-and turned with shudder. He
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
ROTARY CLUB
HEAPSH0N0kS
ON PRESIDENT
w. Knowles Cooper Given
Birthday Cake at Willard
Luncheon.

Greetings 10 William Knowles
CT y, were extended by the organi'
zation at its weekly luncheon meet
ing in the New Willard hotel today.
President Cooper rose repeatedly
throughout the meeting to thank
the club for numerous material
expressions OF regard. Above his
head. at the rear OF the speakers
table. the legend. "1s67-knowles-
1922" was worked in flowers.
A birthday cake. in the form OF
horseshoe, alight with fifty-five
candles. was presented by Charlie
Demonet. Through the connivance
Of Secretary Frank Shipe, post
man presented Mr.. Cooper. batch
after batch, with letters and cards
of congratulation from individual
members of the club.
Charlie Semmes. as a special sur
prise escorted Mrs. Cooper and
daughter TO the speakers board.
Sidney Vests small daughter con-
tributed two songs to the occasion.
Miss Mabel T. Boardman. secre~
tary Of the American National Red
Cross. asked the club to cooperate
in the annual roll call, which opens
on November II.
She told the club of the work done
by her organization during the past
fiscal year. Service to disabled vet
Grams was given to the extent Of
80 900, 900, she said.
This Is service we cannot
neglect" Miss Boradman told the
Rotarians. These men gave their
lives and health to our country in
war. We must stand by them and
we will"
Miss Boardman spoke also OF work
done in Europe, Asia Minor and the
Orient by the Red Cross, specially
among refugees.
we don't go back to causes"
she declared. I'VE see the victims
Of bad government-men. women
and children. and we do not inquire
into why they are victims. Our
job is to hep them.
Back OF this work lies spirit
that is lifting the world to higher
practical service for mankind"
A glee club. organized by Boil
Lawrence from the membership Of
the club, serenaded the meeting
Bill Radcliffe gave a report on al.
tendance. 1t was announced that
a meeting would be held next Tues
day night to thrash out finally the
question Of citywidc boys work
program by the club.
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
MAIL FOREIGN PRESENTS
EARLY, is ADVICE OF P. o.
R1TsssTpossl st~s sII'

The Postofl!cc Department first
Christmas" opened today. and will
continue durlu@ the next thre"
weeks during which the mailing Ct
Chr .stmas packages 10 foreign Coun-
tries will be under way.
The department requests that all
mail for shipment 10 overseas ma
tions hp sent not later than Novem-
Der Is. so that il will be out OF the
way when tho domestic Christmas
"ush begins. usually IN the last week
If November.
Parcels post packages can now be
sent To any part of the world, as
result Ot the completion of arrange.
ments fJ' parcel post interchange
with all other countries and terri.
tories. tn" department announces.
The heaviest fore Gn holiday NAL
in history is expected.
The Washington times., 1922-11-01
TOOK POISON,
SAYSPR|S0NER
IN CHECK CASE
Police Take Meeker to Hos
pital, But Pump Fails to
Reveal Drugs.

Mumbling that he had attempted
to commit suicide by swallowing
two poison pills. Bruce Hldreath
Meeker. twenty five years old, ar.
rested on Monday by Detective Ser
geants Arthur B. Scrivenor and Ed
ward J. Kelly for the Chicago au
thorities, is in serious condition
at the Emergency Hospital.
Meeker, who posed as friend OF
President Harding. claimed to be a
nephew Of J. Ogden Armour. and
who, the detectives say, Is Il fraud
and a had check operator. shortly
before noon called Policeman Carl
ton Penn TO his cell at tie First
precinct police station and asked
for a glass Of water.
After swallowing mouthful Of
water, Meeker collapsed 70 the
stone floor of the cell and was
rushed to the hospital. Policeman
Penn did not see Meeker take the
pills. and at the hospital. where the
stoI.>ach pump was used. IL was
said no trace had yet been found of
any poison in the young mans
stomach.
Meeker, n dapper and debonair
young man, was about to consum-
mate a deal for the purchase of an
automobile on Monday when he was
arrested in the lobby Of the Will.
ard Hotcl. where he had been a
guest all last week. He claimed
not only to be nephew OF Mr..
Armour. but said he was a con-
fidental representative of the Com
monwealth Mil and Lumber Com
pany. OF Elmwood Park, Ill.
He carried. according to his own
statement to detectives, fake creden'
tials, purporting to bear the sigma
ture Of the president of the frm'
authorizing him to buy an automo'
bile and for the extension OF his
credit.
According to the police, Meeker'
who admits passing forged checks
of the mill and lumber company In
n number of cities. is wanted in
Chicago for embezzling 5000. The
Chicago police say his real name is
b. Cumaglio.
(For other details of case, see
Page 22)