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THE BRATTLEBORO DAILY REFORMER. MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 3921. RipplingRhi) Published Every Evening Except Sunday t Tha American Building Annex, Main Street, Brattleboro, Vermont. Addreta All Communication to The Reformer. Mason Will It Come to This? ' By morris . 0&V 4 wit FAINTED AFTER SEVERE ATTACK Indigestion Made Life Mis erable for Weil-Known Vermont Woman 'I feel healthier, stronger and younger than I ever expected to feel again and I certainly owe Tanhu- a big debt of grati tude," fa id Mrs. C. W. Pillsbury, 39 Vine street. Xorthfield. Vt., prominent member of the Ladies' Circle of the G. A. 11. '"I had been in wretched health for five or six vears. mv appetite left ine, and my stomach was so disordered at times even the sight of food made me sick. I didn't dare touch things like turnips, strawber ries, or oranges. Sometimes my attacks of indigestion were so severe I would .pist faint away and would be unconscious for a long time. "I have a splendid appetite, my diges tion is just perfect now and I feel just tine all the time. I have gained 15 pounds in weight, too, and my friends are all telling me I look years younger." Tanlac is sold in Brattleboro by the Brattleboro Dnig Co.. Albeit Sehroeder, Londonderry, Vt., and M. G. Williams, I'utney, Vt. Advertisement. BATTERY REPAIRS 90 of all battery breakdowns require only new insulation (separ ator). , We Use Vesta Patented Impregnated Mats By ppecial permission of the Vesta Accumulator Co. we can and now use Vesta Impregnated Mats in repairing all makes of batteries. This feature is one of the big iav provements in battery making and their use makes possible added efficiency to your battery. Qsrlarse stock of Rental Batterittmaku if unnecessary to lay tip your car a minute Manley Brothers, Co., Inc. Battery Service Station High Street Can You Read Fine Type with ease and without strain ?. 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DECEMBER 5. VS21. DAY5 TO THE FKOZEN NORTH. Yilhjahnur Stefansson in his latest ar tide, The North That Never Was," says. "If the average American has 10 ideas about the North, nine of them are wrong." He begins with the temperature of the Arctic regions. Using government weather bureau observations Canadian and United States instead of asking the public to credit his own records of tem perature, the explorer presents these fig ures : At Point Barrow. ."00 miles north of the Arctic circle, the weather reports of the past 40 years have never recorded anything lower than 54 degrees below zero. The lowest temperature ever re corded in any settled portion of the United States is 08 degrees below zero near Havre, Mont. American weather bureau reports give 110 degrees in the shade as the highest recorded temperature at a point 50 miles inland in California, and 100 degrees in the shade at Fort Yukon, Alaska, four miles north of the Arctic circle. The explorer goes on to speak of the size and beauty of the flowers of the north country. It seems that sunlight is more valuable to growing things as light than as heat. He says, "It can be shown mathematically that the total number of hours of sunlight in a year (disregarding cloudiness) is least at the equator and becomes greater (because of refraction) as you go north." In midsummer a plant has 1" growing hours out of the 21 in Texas. 14 or 13 in Minnesota, 20 up on Great Slave lake and 21 on Great Bear lake. That gives a plant on the Arctic circle almost as much growing time in one month as its fellows have in two months in the southern United States. THE SOUVENIR THIEF. There are a number of things which Canada does with more force and direct ness than we apply in the United States. One is the punishment of souvenir-hunting tourists. ? The souvenir-hunter who pays for his trophies as he goes is a harmless and perfectably respectable party .quite dif ferent from his fellow-traveler who se questrates everything he can move away with his own hands regardless of its use or value or his own right to it. In the United States this latter type is regarded mainly as a pest. In Canada he is recog nized for what he truly is a thief. Not only is there a law protecting the victims of tl is souvenir-hunting craze, but it is enforced. In ohe instance a man and his wife were leaving a hotel. On the bill presented them was the item "$14 for a silver sugar bowl." The mm was fur ious and protested loudly. But the sugar bowl was indeed found within the family suitcase. The tourists were not allowed to return the bowl. The hotel insisted upon full payment of the bill and got what it demanded. It will probably be some time before that man and Lis wife again pack away, accidentally or other wise, any article not their own. A similar case was that of two per- READ IF V- -ZrfNr V 16 1 i - : Protected by George Matthew Adams longing to a Canadian boat on which they wcre traveling. They were arrested nt the dck and released again within half an hour after they had paid a ?." fine. Apparently it is possible to check such nuisances as these. Legal authority and public opinion backing up" enforcement are the first essentials. . 1'owdored complexions for the girls and cigarette smoking for the boys have been banned in the Bennington high school by order of the superintendent who states that he has the approval of the school trustees. The order is an endorse ment of the school nurse who rules that certain fashions in dress, the use of makeup and the stench resulting from th" recent use of tobacco, make girls and boys unfit to appear as pupils in a reputable school. No doubt the pupils think is a , pretty drastic ruling by some very old- j fashioned people. The killing of a "."-pound ram in a West Springfield, Mass., Baptist church in the portrayal of the scene wherein an angel descended from Heaven and caused Abraham to sacrifice a lamb instead of his son Isaac, is causing, considerable comment, many contending that such a ceremony is harking ' -k to the Middle Ages. The unusua' -vice certainly helped along the "fill the empty pews" movement as the church was packed to capacity. Friday evening the carcass was barbecued and eaten, thus furnishing an other entertainment. So often does somebody get a good pay ing business established only to have the law step in and spoil it all as in the case of the Illinois woman who is credited with at least 12 husbands none of them divorced and all of them having served either in the army or navy. This much-married person liad been collecting approximately ,$100 a month from the government in allotment checks during the past three years. The town clerk of Claremont, N. II.. reports that he has issued over a thous and hunting licenses for the open deer season now going on in New Hampshire. With that number of hunters roaming the hills in that vicinity something is bound to be brought down either deer or the hunters themselves. A Portland. Me., woman has sued the proprietor of a bottling establishment be cause she attempted to drink a bottle of root beer and found a mouse in it. Trust a mouse even a drowned one to start something with the female of the species. Perhaps environment had something to do with the sore affliction of that person who died of hardening of the arteries in Adamant. Middlebury Register. At any rate this particular person found Adamant a hard place to live in. We do hoie that when the arms con ference has saved the United States $200. 000,000 a year, congress won"t feel obliged to go right out and spend it. New Haven Railroad Stock. (Burlington Free Press.) The fact that New Haven railroad share dropped to 12V-J this week as com pared with a high level of nearly .'$00, shows that the people do not forget how they were deceived and defrauded by the wreckers of that system and a deplor able feature of the situation is that this stock was long regarded as gilt edge as well as legal security for savings institu tions in Massachusetts and Connecticut. I Yet to the, utter emtdemnatwn of New (England's public conscience! be it said ,that not one of the millionaires who thus a fine, to say nothing of deserved mi- prisonmcnt. , , Krrakiug the Two-Term Tradition. (Rutland Herald.) Attorney General Frank C. Archibald nouncing himself as a candidate for re- tAoi't inn Mr. Archibald has proved lmn- self a skillful and, resolute ofheer. and t he t man disputing the nomination with him wi'l need to consider it an unusual yar l,irV'lrifhf 'fav! TC shows signs oi ; becoming. "Build Now." (liar re Times.) About twentv-five acres of land in Brat- I tleboro are to be opened up for residence; T().1V is the 4.".th anniversary of the building purposes there being approxi- . rrookv-n theatre lire, in which nearly mately forty-eight lots plotted. 1 ho in- ' s perished. formation reads almost like boom times,, ' ...., rnn. and it certainly does indicate a insider-- British delegates to the ' a"'1011 c able degree of confidence in the develop-. ference arc t be honor guests at a din ment of the metropolis of southeastern ner of the English-Speaking Lnion in Nev. Vermont. Good for l.ratt leooro : lnci-. dentally, good for Vermont ! Ail Opinion. ( Montpelier Arugs.) im,. i. ...i;..i-iii In tin Vi(liiid:i v : ,.t if. ,:., i... ii,.iir-,.t.w that Editor Howe is seriously considering I bus today to assist in an investigation ot becoming a candidate for the governor-' freight rates on grain and grain products, ship. Some of his triends ought to give' Th(? lrJal of ninp momDers of the Ala him a little good advice. If he enters Ito i ljatna ;.,tjmial Guard, charged with the coming contest he is sure to get trimmed ; kiii ((f william i;ajrd. Walker county worse than he was before and if he i al lllitlcr, last January, is to begin to- wise he will not get into the mixup. Reducing the .Meat Bills. (Boston Globe.) the l..e Duck deer Kiiie.i in v erinoui , Mackenzie Kin" the during the open season would make quite' J . l' j' in i i'-in a pile of meat, not including the does leader of the Liberal forces n ana that were il.ega.ly or accident...,- kil.cl. jj'-n - WW .Inch closes,. The l.."0S buck deer killed in Vermont A Keen Trader. . . . , , ,i, n.... ,t ), was minister of labor in the Laurier cabi rtain trader on he flooi - of he i.K..-1011. He has had much prac hxchange had been rather success- ' L . . . . ,. ' Wn A cer iouou x nange nan oee, w u . r s - fit! I ti liis: niiofitmrK I I f h ld limit o r;,";,.' i f .i f,ion,U 41 111 I 1 IJi II 1VI III III , ' n ..x.. wondering how he would invest his prof its. "Well. Jones," said a friend, "what little 'baby' on the Big Board are you going to corner now?" Jones grinned and said: "No flier for me." Vcll, what are you going to do with your money V" asked his friend. "I have already invested it." replied Jones. "I put every dollar I made in cotton into Liberty bonds. 1 am looking to the future. Think of government Lib - erty bonds selling at such juices. Think of the securities of this great country touching such low levels. Consider the economic ami financial position to the United States the banking resources, the bumper crops, etc. Liberties for mine." Dental Summary. And He Did! H!??V, GO CLEN THE CELVAQ STAIRS DOWN m. i f " J lll:l I1: "Ft1 ' I l oaay s events The f,7th congress assembles today lor its first regular session Tli( j.liprpnlo court of the United States rornvPnes today after a recess of two ks Tl.n ffdeinl elect ion campaign in Canada will close today with meetings throughout the dominion. Tod.iv is municipal election day in Portland and several other of the impor- tnnt cities of Maine J'" " "" The governors of more than half the states of the union are expected m Charleston. S. C, today to attend the an nual session of the House of Governors. The grain elevator men of Ohio have . r I ' 1 . . . . , hern summoned to a conference in t.olum- day at Tuscaloosa. In the Day's News. after the death of the veteran chief ti;in. Sir Wilfrid Laurier. in 1010. Mr. King 0XpPricnce in dealing with modern . . social problems. Having wrywi on numer oiis royal commissions appointed to inves tigate. reiKrt upon, and sometimes to mediate in cases of industrial warfare, or in clashes arising from conflicts of races through strict interpretation of the Do minion immigration law. Mr. King is 47 years old and a native of Kitchener, Out. After receiving his B. A. and LL.B. degrees at Toronto university he attended Harvard university, and subsequently spent some time in travel abroad. His - . i r i'tkii t. I... .puoiic career iaies irom i,. i.e !l;amc put.v minister of labor of C.an- a(la Today's Anniversaries. 1S0S Kingsley S. Bingham, governor of Michigan and United States sena tor, born at Camillus. a. i. Died ot Green Oak. Mich., Oct. 5. 1S(1. 1SC0 Gen. George A. Custer, famous sol dier, born in Harrison county. . Ohio. Killed at battle of the Lit tle Big Horn, June 2.", 1S7G. 1854 Jesse D. Bright of Indiana was chosen president pro tern of the United States senate. 1S70 Rome was declared the capital of the kingdom of Italy. 1SS1 J. Warren Keifer of Ohio was elected speaker of the 47th con gress. 1S94 Itybcrt Louis Stevenson was buried by the Samoa ns on the top of Vaoa mountain. 1005 Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman became British premier. 1010 Jugo-Slavia signed the Austrian and Bugar peace pacts. One Year Ago Today. Sinn Fein sent a peace offer to Lloyd George. The Greek people voted to recall King Coustantine. Today's Cirthdaj s. Admiral Viscount Jellicoe of Senpa, fa mous British naval commander, born 03 years ago today. ' Paul Painleve, eminent French states leaiiind former premier, born in Paris, 5S years ago today. Rt. Rev. Walter T.' Sumner, Episcopal bishon of Oregon, born at Manchester, N. II., 4a years ago today. Sir Frederick Bridge, the' renowned! organist of Westminster Abbey, born in Worcestershire, 77 years ago today, -j j THE NEW DEMON. The Demon Rum, in bygone days, was bad enough for thirsty jays. It stripped theni of their hard-earned wealth, and undermined their valued health, and tinted red the beaks they wore, and Spoiled their stand-oft" at the store, and gave them all a bum renown as a discredit to the town. Yet with the Demon they might train for many years ere they .were slain; the Demon got them in good time, but nursed them while they had a dime. The Demon shunned imleeent haste; he thought it looked like wanton waste to kill off sots while they could fetch another rouble to the wretch. The old time Demon Rum is through; now we have Demon Number Two.' He Las no patience with the guy who takes a drink and doesn't die. He likes to see his patrons come and take a slug of poisoned rum, and, after breathing fire and smoke, curl up at once, and yell and croak. The Demon iii the darknc toils; in witches' caves his cauldron boils, a cauldron filled with deadly things, with upas leaves and serpent-stings, with everything that's foul anil mean, with all that's noxious and obscene. And then his janizares go to sell his deadly broth of woe, and if man drinks and doesn't die, the Demon heaves a weary sigh ' Copyright by George Matthew Adams ARNOLD BENNETT ON WORDS Repetition Better Than the Use of Bad English, is the Contention of Noted Writer. Arnold Bennett hates half-meanings, and especially he hates Inexact words. He quotes from a London daily and holds up to ridicule "The King and queen were present at a first night in a London theater last evening for the Initial time In their reign." His com ments are instructive, Malcolm Cowley writes in the Literary Review: "It Is quite a first-rate example of bad English. The culprit, whose name is well known to myself- and other members of the London literary police force, evidently thought that it would be inelegant to use the same word twice in two lines; so he sub stituted 'initial for 'first in the second line. Perhaps he had never re flected that words express ideas, and that therefore if a precise idea re curs, the precise word for that idea ought to recur. The idea expressed by the word 'first' is precise enough, nnd no other English word means what 'first means. Certainly 'initial' does not mean 'first. Still, the man mer.nt well. His misfortune was that, hav ing picked up a good notion without examining it, lie Imagined that repe tition v-ns inelegant in ' itself. ' Repe tition Is only wrong when it uninten tional, and when, being horrid to the ear, It Is reasonably and honestly avoidable. On the other hand, repe tition, used with tact and courage, may achieve nt merely elegance but posi tive brilliance." Here is Bennett's style both In theory nnd practice, and the practice agrees with the theory. The passage Is not merely clear, but it is brilliantly repetitive. The trouble Is that Bennett often goes out of his way to repeat himself. HEARTS AFFECTED BY FEAR Armenian Children Slow in Recover ing From Terrors to Which They Were Long Subjected. According to Dr. Mabel Elliott, head of the American Woman's Hospitals, who is now serving with the Near East Relief at Ismid, Turkey, a large number of the Armenian children under her care are suffering from en larged hearts or other forms of heart disease, due to the constant fear to which they have been prey during the past few years. Relief workers In the Near East have long been familiar with the men tal petrifaction due to the tejrible ex perience through which these children have passed, most of them having for gotten everything of their past, their names, their homes and their language included, but this is the first instance that has been recorded of the effect of fear on their hearts. The cure which Dr. Elliott Is prac ticing with these children Is a com bination of mental and medical. First of all, they are made to realize that they are entirely out of danger and among friends. Then they are put on a special diet of nourishing foods and certain exercises are prescribed. The results so far have been remarkably successful. Roses for Every Section. The Department of Agriculture In a rose zone map shows how frosts lim it rose culture in certain sections. Tea roses by this map can be grown throughout the South and In California, or wherever the frosts are over In March. Hybrid tea roses are safe far ther north to southern Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, New Mexico and Arizona, where the frosts are over in April. Hybrid perpetuals and some hardy specimens can be grown In the northern states where the last frost is in May, but where frosts occur during the summer, as in parts of the northwest, success with outdoor roses Is difficult. This schedule is based on the suppo sition that roses In the districts as signed to them as safe will need no special care in the winter. With win ter coverings of earth, straw and bur lap, m3ny roses will resist frost and cold. Some hybrid tea roses, for ex ample, Can be grown in Minnesota and Massachusetts. There are thousands of varieties of roses, and several hundred new ones are'produced each year, so that there are roses adaptable .'to practically ev cry part of the country. i n Ma had compiny in the parler this aft irnoon and I was jest starting to sneak out the frunt door easy and ma herd me, saying, Benny, come in, Mr. B?eby wunts to meet fou. Me thinking. Heck, wat for? Anil I went in the parler and some man was setting on the sofer. being a middle size man with sutch a bald hed it was fearse tovlook at. me thinking. Holey smoaks I woodent wunt to be a fly and slip on top of that. Mr. Beehy. this is Benny, you havent seen fcim siuts lie was a baby, sed ma, and Mr. Beeby sed. Well, well he's quite changed, how are you. Benny? All rite, I sed. and he sed. Are you a good boy or a bad boy? Good. I sed. and he sed. Thats nice, and do you spend your pennies foolishly or d you put them aside carefully and "save them? I save them, some of them, sometimes, I fed.' Not' 'Saying; how long I save them, and thinking. G. l's goins to give me some. And Mr. Beeby sed. Well if I gave you a dime, wat wood you do, spend it er save it? Spve it, I sed. Not saving how long and thinking G. heiray, and he sed. Thats rite, allways save, a penny saved is a penny earned. And he started to rub his hand over his bald hed as if he thawt some hair mite of came out on it wi'e he was ent looking and I kepp on looking at him and waiting, and he sed. Well, you can run along and plav, Benny. Me thinking. Good nite. holey smoak--. G, wat you know about that. And I went out and shut the parler door and made insulting faces throo the key hole and then I remembered I had a pencil needed sharpening so I went and got it and sharpened it on Mr. Beebys hat. Queen Monster of Cruelty. One of the most bloodthirsty queens the world has known, bat about whom little has been related in ordinary histories, was Fredegonde, a woman of amazing beauty and utterly heartless, who ruled France with her husband. Chilperic. from "idS to 507. She came from an obscure Picardy family, and secured the notice of the king by taking service as a common servant at the court. Her beauty was s great fche won his heart, and he sent his queen to prison for life, and raised Frede gonde to high rank, lie married a Span ish princess, and Fredegonde caused her to be strangled in her bed. The brother-in-law of the princess attempted revenge, was stabbed by Fredegonde" s hirelings, and then she brought about the assassina tion of the king's three sons by his former wife. Ten young people in all died of her command or at her own hand, and she was not above an attempt to murder her own child. Regunthe, a beautiful maiden of whom Fredegonde became jealous. She took the girl to her treasure chest and told her to play with the jewels. As the child, stooped over the chest the queen slammed down the gerat lid and only aid from chance passers saved the life of the child. Not a Metropolis Writer. A young lady entered an eatins house in a central branch town the ether day and ordered dinner. Among other things she ordered sliced tomatoes,-, ami asked the waiter to bring, her some mayon naise dressing. "Never heard of such a thing," said the waiter. Finally he brought her a number of bottles and she found the mayonnaise among them. In spite cf his ignorance 'along this line, the young man gave her the finest kind of service, and as a slight token of her appreciation she left a small tip for him near her plate and. walked away. I A moment later she was startled by the young man rushing up to whore she at exclaiming: "Here, Miss, you for irot and left some of your money on the table!" Osborne Farmer. Whiltier U; To Date. Blessings on thee, garbage man! Welcome to my heaped up can! He who did that work before Has been gone two weeks or more; And the ashes aal fhe wast" Gathered volume and were placed la that pretty can of tin Till no more could be packed in. A barrel aod lx-; were found And placed In-side it on the ground. The'i, as day s receded d;:v. And iv one took the stuiT away, We thoiirht the city pretty slow, And took n-ueh pains to tell it so! lt'it it mattered not a bit. Still we fondly gazed o i it Barrel, box and can so briht. To the landscane fair a blivht. Then the jiep.lth department ncatj Stuck it out mn the street. ' The-e ie tvcd a diy or two, -WaitfiiT "lift iitl for o". V4 s i rt l