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THE BRATTLEBOIt O DADY -REFORaiETt. THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1922. MONTHS OF SUFFERING How a Baltimore Girl Recov ered Her Health Baltimore, Maryland. "For several months I suffered with severe backache and general w e a K JUWl!l ness. I could not sleep comfortably at night for pains in my baci. I found your dook at home one day and after reading it be gan at once to take Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Com pound. 1 have had very good results and ;nmp nf TT1 v erirl 11 friends are taking it now. lOUEsay use ir.is letter iu uiy ether girls, as the letters in your book helped me." Rose Waidxer, 3013 Koseland Place, Baltimore, Md. That is the thought so often expressed in letters recommending Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. These wo men know what they have suffered, they describe their symptoms and state how they were finally made well. Just plain statements, but they want other women to be helped. , Lydia E. Pinkham'3 Vegetable Com pound is a medicine made from medi cinal roots and herbs, and without drugs, to relieve the sicknes3 women so often have, which is indicated by backache, weak feelings, nervousness, and no am bition to get anything done or to go anywhere. It has helped many women. Why not try it? TERMS OF STJBSCRIPTIOII Sinl Copie Three Centt Delivered by Boy One Week Eighteen Cents One Month Seventy-five Cents Three Months Two UolJars Six Months four dollars One Year Eight Dollars Br Mall One WeeV Eighteen Cents One Month Seventy-five Cents Three Months One Dollar and a Half Six Months Three Dollars One Year '. Six Dollars Published Every Eveninf Except Sunday at The American Building Annex, Main Street, Brattleboro, Vermont. Address All Communications to The Reformer. Entered m the postoffie at Brattleboro as second class matter. The Reformer Telephone Number la 127 For Business Office and Editorial Rooms. Member of The Associated Press. 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For Sale by All Leading Grocers . in Brattleboro, Vermont : The Largest Selling High Grade Coffee In the World TO THE SUBSCRIBERS It is the aim of the management to assure efficient service in the delivery of the paper each night, and it solicits the co-operation of subscriber to that end. Prompt reports should be given of each failure to receive the paper on the morning following the omission, in person, by telephone or postal card, thus en abling the cause of the error to be promptly and accurately discovered and the proper rem edy immediately applied. It is only by this method that the publisher can secure the de sired service. The Refomer is on sale every evening by the following news dealers: Brattleboro, Brattleboro News Co., C W. Cleaveland, S. L. Purinton (Esteyville), Brooks House Tharmacy, Allen's Depot News stand. Gilbert J. Pollica, 297 South Main St. (Fort Dummer district). - West Brattleboro, J. L. Stockwell. East Dummerston, M. E. Brown, Putney, M. G. "Williams. Newfane, N. M. Batchelder. West Towushend, C II. Grout. Jamaica, R. J. Daggett. South Londonderry, F. H. Tyler, South Vernon, E. B. Buffum. Hinsdale, N. H., V. II. Lyman. Greenfield, Mass., Gieefie!d News Co, Greenfield, Mass., C A. Hays. THURSDAY, JUNE !, 122 " ili-ill 1 . : : 1 . . .... . -' - ... - $ t . vast Mason w - - - . CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.- "My nose is red" the good man said, "although. I drink no liquor; and when I rise to preach to guys, they. look at me and snicker. My. beak is pink, but not from ' drink ; it comes from scarlet fever ; I sip no drops dis tilled from hops, for drink is a deceiver. No beer or Vine wets lips of mine, no gin my breath will tarnish. I'd-rather die than lap up rye or other coffin varnish. And so I feel a helpful spiel from one who does no drinking might lead the boys from liquid joys, and set them all a-thinking. Cut when I rise to urge, advise, instill a lesson slowly, my crimson beak brings forth a -shriek of merriment unholy. And none will hark- when I embark in truth ful explanations; men cry, jocose, 'Go, bleach your nose, and cease your wild libations.'" How fearful 'tis, how fierce, gee whiz, this outward show of evil ! How often' wheat is good to eat, that we think spoiled by weevil ! We should not judge, with cries of "Fudge !'-' the man Avho would uplift us, who's truly good, who bravely would from sinful courses shift us. Although bis beard is wild and weird, although his pants are bagging, he yet may spring some goodly thing to keep our souls from sagging. Copyright by George Matthew Adams Mount Wilson Solar observatory and jfmeriean representative at the interna tional research council, born in Chicago 54 years ago today. Protected by George Matthew Adams Ml mmm m mm L in mm I I in mil. iiimii i mi . asv wniT urn iiu iiti ii inr i i n i nisiisTm-ii-si W-A A JURY SYSTEM DEFECT A celebrated case in Chicago calls at tention to an admitted defect in the American jury system. The half-mil-lion-dollar suit of Mayor Thompson against the Chicago Tribune is thrown out of court after a seven weeks' trial because two jurors became physically incapable of discharging their duty. It would be legal enough to have the j case decided by 10 jurors, provided both ! Tnr1ii ncrpoil "M.-ivor Thoirmson's coun sel, however, after agreeing to 11 jurors, objected when the second juror dropped out. o the trial has to start all over again, and 'without any assurance that the same trouble will not recur. It is pointed out that a plan adopted in California gives at least partial in surance against such a fiasco. For every trial 13 jurors are chosen, and all of them hear the evidence. Then, if one be comes incapacitated, there are 12 left to decide the case. For more adequate in surance in big cases, there might be two extra jurors. Another possible remedy would be the adoption of the majority principle in iurv verdicts, so that a valid verdict might be rendered by five-sixths, three fourths or some other fraction of the usual number. The importance of one or two jurors then would be so greatly reduced as to make their absence of lit tle consequence. This majority principle has made considerable headway already, in civil cases, in several of the states. One Set of Lenses Is All You Need for both far and near vision. Both are combined in our bi-focal lenses, giving you normal vision for all ordinary pur poses. Come and try on a few pairs and see if your sight is not improved. OPTOMETRISTS) BRATTLEBORO. VT. grasses and fruits, has practically elimi- while he is giving her the usual "song uated hog cholera and, incidentally, has anuan-; "p0" tue woman tempteu come the other extreme for Senator Ilol- made possible a successful fight against the malarial mosquito. Now these invaluable institutions go farther. This year, in 45 states of the Union, they are offering courses in agri cultural economics, marketing co-opera tion, farm management and commercial gecgraphy. Farming is the biggest business in the land always excepting housekeeping and the agricultural colleges, not con tent with turning out better formers, are making ber business men asTtreJl. If they are half as successful in this new field as they were in the old one, they will work a revolution in the land with in the decade. lis. Perhaps he'll fool her and won't go there at all. All this is an attempt to console the ex-senator from New Hamp shire along more optimistic lines than suggested by The Reformer. Taxation Reform (Rutland Herald.) The Ilfrald is plad that the state fed eration of Farm liureaus is making a study of taxation, but after the study is finished and the commission is ready to report findings, the next thing is to get the fundamental weakness, of our s.vs- Is the day coming when man will not have to exert 'himself at all if he sur rounds himself with all the modern labor saving devices, electrical and otherwise? A London man has invented a phono graph upon which an hour's reading can be recorded. The contents of a good thick book can be recorded on six discs. Perhaps this is the way the next genera tion will be getting its popular fiction via the phonograph. Today's Events A Nashua, N. II., man who wanted to save the birds, and also his cherries, de vised a unique way to do it. He pro cured a stuffed hawk from a. taxidermist and placed the bird in the top of his cherry tree. As the robins and other birds came for their annual feast they were confronted by the fierce looking in truder and flew away in great dismay. Up to date the hawk is still holding the fort and the cherries are still on the tree. he m r r Mr. Smith told me he never saw hair grow so fast and cover so completely as since he used 1907 Hair Tonic. A lady said: "I don't want to color my hair and that is why I use 1007 it brings the hair back to its natural color." It also im proves its lustre and frees jour scalp from all troubles. W. H. BOND Main Street THE SHIP SUBSIDY CAMPAIGN The decision of the administration to submit the ship subsidy question to the nublic for iruidanee. instead of trying to subject is a big and complex one, on which most people are not very well in formed. A campaign of enlightenment is highly desirable. Here is a huge merchant fleet, built at a cost of .$3,000,000,000, mostly lying idle and losing money for the government at the rate of $50,000,000 a year aside from j depreciation. It is well said by the President that that annual $50,000,000 sunk in tne neet constitutes in useu a subsidy paid by the American people. The question then is whether it can be eliminated by the payment of a frank, direct subsidy, costing less to begin with, at least. The matter is not so simple as that, however. There is natural fear, on the part of the anti-subsidists, that any sub sidy once granted would be merely an opening wedge,. and that eventually there might be hundreds of millions spent in pursuance of this new policy. Tax-payers, may be persuaded to re vise their old prejudices and uphold a subsidy; but before they do so, it will be necessary to convince them that there is no other way to save the fleet and put it on a paving basis, and that the benefits in the long run will be worth the cost. Passenger and Baggage Transfer LOUIS I. ALLEN "The coal reserve, now estimated at 30,000,000 tons, can1 last only a few more weeks. The railroads will have consumed their reserve in seven weeks and New England will feel the pinch first," says a Washington dispatch. We can take what little consolation we can find in the fact that the pinching will not begin before the warm weather departs. A registered letter from Russia which , j. -r i i i i . , h calls it, might, very well consider at hce last Monday, had eight sheets of fmiri,,!lf ;n"f ol, 9t;nn wfnrm (, tern "fixed ufi This weakness is inequality, as the state tax works out between the various towns and the state.' An example of what is happenin? all over Vermont is pointed out in The Brattleboro Re former thus : "Ti e shrinkage of $3,410.5S in Brat tleboro's grand list means that this town's contribution toward the support of the state government will be $1,875.81 less than it wwuld have been had there been no change in valuations from last year. This is figuring the direct state tax of 40 cents, the state school tax of 10 cents and the statp highway tax of tivc cents a total of 55 cents. Even with this saving, however, the amount this town will pay toward state expenses is a considerable one $47,073.00, to be exact and it is safe to say that Bur lington and Rutland will be the only places to make larger contributions." When this is followed by what amounts to a suggestion that the listers "go easy" in boosting lists during the quadrennial appraisal, we thus come face to face " with the great Vermont tax problem, which works out usually into how tie various towns can raise their necessary revenue on as small a -grand list as possible, in order to keep th state tax down. This condition puts a premium on dis honest lists and official perjury. Brat tleboro. Burlington and Rutland may be less offenders in this respect than other towns, but there is probably not a grand list in Vermont made up in strict ac cordance with law. The method should either be revised so that a certain percentage of the tax raised, not the grand list, is made the basis of the state tax levy, or some state tribunal ought to have authority to re vise town grand lists. Now that the state tax has reached a figure of importance, the motive for under-valuing property in town grand lists is well-nigh irresistible, and unless the strong hand of the state is put forth to correct it, the next tax lists of Vermont will be fearfully, and wonderfully faked. This is a fundamental condition that Mr. Cornwall's commission, or whatever i Seventieth anniversary of the death of Henry. Clay. Schenectady is to be the meeting place. today of the annual reunion of the Vet erans of Foreign Wars, Department of rsew York. The annual convention of the Chris tian Endeavor societies of Illinois is to be entertained at Rockford during the three days beginning today. Optimist ' from many points in the United States and Canada will gather in Kansas City today for the convention of their international association. John A. McSparren, Democratic nom inee for governor of Pennsylvania, is to ba married today to Mrs. isadie Holland who is connected with the Massachusetts department of agriculture. Many prominent representatives of the bench and bar are on the program of the annual irfeeting of the Kentucky State Bar association, which assembled in Louisville today for a two-day session The United States navy's latest scout cruiser, the Detroit, is to be launched today at the yards of her builders a Quincy, Mass.. and will be christonei by Miss Madeleine Couzens. daughter of the mayor of Detroit. LITTLE BENNY'S SSTOTE-BOOI Lee A. In the Day's News Prince Aage of Denmark, who, accord ing to rumors, is to bo the next Danish minister to Washington, is well ac quainted with America by reason of sev eral visits to the United States and a long sojourn in western Canada. The prince is the eldest son of Prince Walde mar, brother of the late King Frederick VIII. of Denmark and of tjueen Alex andra of England His mother was the late Princess Marie of Orleans, an ex tremely beautiful princess. Prince Aage is known as a fine fellow, with charming- unostentatious nianuers. He is an officer in the Danish army, an ardent sportsman, and an adept in many forms of athletics. In 1014 he married the daughter of an Italian nobleman who was serving as the Italian minister in Copenhagen.' As a consequence of this marriage, the prince had to renounce his rights to the Danish throne. stamps, 400 in all, wrapped around it for its postage. At pre-war prices the stamps would represent more than $200, 000 in American money. There may or may not be an alligator Tn the swamps of Ware, Mass., but at any rate the residents of that section are getting great sport out of their saurian hunts. Headline: "Will put bars in post offices." Don't get excited, they are only for the employes to sit on or lean against, Vermont. And He Did! "Shall a boy join a college fraternity?'' asks a magazine writer. Just let him get a bid and watch him. MAKING FARMERS BUSINESS MEN For a score of years the agricultural schools of the nation have been teaching farm boys how to grow larger crops and to increase live stock production. The contribution, made by their schools to the development of the nation's wealth has been of incalculable value. Their scientific research work has added millions and rerhaps billions to our national possessions and saved many millions more. It has given us navel oranges, durum wheat, Egyptian cot ton and scores of improved grains, Consolation for Ilollis. (St. Albans Messenger.) "Mrs. Grace Fisher Ilollis, the first wife of former Senator Henry F. Ilol lis, of New Hampshire, makes this rather weird statement as to his remarriage: 'Senator Ilollis is still my husband. He may delude himself that he belongs to another woman now, but through a deathless marriage, he became my hus band for this life and the life to come. And though he may elude me in this world. I, his true wife, will be waiting for him in the next!" Holyoke 'Iran script. "After this statement there seems to be nothing for Senator Ilollis to do but to hope she won't be waiting with a club." Brattleboro Reformer. If she meets him with a harp instead of a rolling pin it is to be supposed she will "harp'' continually on this subject I V F THIS PM"EN; ft , OT I HOPS TO M , yf CATCH , -lANDHE DID - Hfer ' r Today's Anniversaries 1577 Peter fanl Rubens, the great Flemish painter born in West phalia. Died at Antwerp May 30. 1040. 1704 The first Negro church in Amer ica was dedicated in Philadelphia. 1S32 Charter granted for the Detroit & St. Joseph railroad, subsequently the Michigan Central. 1S91 A great inland lake suddenly and mysteriously appeared in the low est part of the Colorado desert. 1S93 The first international conference of the Epworth league assembled in Cleveland. 1004 "Dan" Emmet t, famous minstrel and. author of I)ixi died at Mount Vernon, O. Born there Oct. 20. 1S15. 1000 United States bureau of immigra tion and naturalization estab lished. 1019 President Wilson sailed from Brest for the United States on the steamship George Washington. One Year Ago Today De Valera rejected Lloyd George's in vitation to conference. A proposal for woman suffrage was defeated in the Cuban senate. Today's Birthdays William E. Borah, senior United States senator from Idaho, born at Fair field, 111., 57 years ago today. 5 Bt. Rev. John B. Morris, Catholic bishop of Little Bock, born at llender sonviMe, Tenn., 50 years ago today. Wilbert Robinson, manager of the Brooklyn National league baseball club bom at Hudson, Mass., 5S years ago to day. Robert II. Veach, outfielder of the De troit American league baseball team born at St. Charles, Ky., 34 years age today. - Dr. Raymond F. Bacon, director of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Re search, born at Muncie, Ind., 42 yean ago today. Dr. George E. Hale, director of the I climbed over our back fents this aftirnoon to save me the trubble ot openinpr the cate, and I got a splinter in mv hand on tne way over, not Deing a deep one and I was jest going to take it out myself wen 1 had a ideer, tninK- ing. G. Ill go erround and ask Mary Watkins to take it out. Wich I went erround to do and she ... e . a : i- was setting on ner iruui steps wnu Puds Simkins, me thinking, Heck, aint that guy got any home? And 1 went up holding my nana funny, and, Mary Watkins sed, y Benny, wats the matter with your hand? U mithing, I jest got a splinter in it, thats all, 1 sed, and she sed, O, my goodniss, duzzent it hert something dredfill? and 1 sed, Yes, but wats the diiTrents? Meening wat did I care for a little pane, and Mary Watkins sed, O deer, lm croing to take it rite out for you. jest you wait till I get a needle. Wich she ran in and got one and started to take the splinter out. Puds Simkins say ing. Aw, 1 wish I had a doller for every splinter I ever had without running er round showing them to people. Wich Mary Watkins kepp on taking mine out with the needle, saying. Does it hert mutch? and me saying, Yes it herts fearse, but thats all rite, go ahed. One time I had a splinter in my fin irer so deer it started to come out the other side, and I never even mentioned it to enbody, thats how mutch I think of a splinter, sed Puds Simkins. And he started to tell about other splinters he had in an insulting voice, and I sed. Aw, who cares? Youre welcome to your own splinters, ony dont interfeer with mine thats all, I sed. I got this myself and it belongs to me, I sed. and jest then Mary Watkins got it out, and I sed, G, Marv vou awt to be a nerse, and she sed. O do you think so. Id jest love to be a nerse, thats jest wat Im crazy to he, I think its wonderfill of you to say that. 1 Aw heck, sed Puds. And he got up j and went away jelliss as cnything. and) I keno on settin there telling Mary i Watkins how- mutch she awt to be a nerse. Proving I was rite about it be ing a good ideer. WARDSBORO CENTER Merle Putnam and Jesse Jewell went to Brattleboro on business Friday. Mr. Tier and Mr. Reid, surveyors, are camping at the Pierce place in Po dunk. Krnest Torrey of Brattleboro visited at Charles Shine's and Merle Putnam's oer the week-end. Wardshoro Center school closed Sat urday with a picnic in the grove just outside the village. The picnic was well attended. Ice-cream and cake were served, and a good time was enjoyed by all. There were 13 pupils of full at tendance for the spring term: Mabel and Daisy Fitzpatrick. Victor, Clare and Shirley Pineo. Jesse. Donald and Luna Lamarche, Wendall Waite, Leroy lleseock, Maynard and Melvin Brown, and Verne Putnam, five punils passed the state examination: Mabel and Daisy Fitzpatrick. William Putnam, Victor Pineo and lieroy lleseock. One hundred and seven different flowers were found by the pupils, Verne Tut nam bringing the most. ; " HALIFAX. James Creran or Portsmouth, N. II., is spending several days iu town. Mrs. Mary Stratton of Greenfield, Mass., has been visiting Mrs, E. P. Green. Mrs. Ella .Wen therhead of Brattleboro :s visiting her mother, Mrs. Chloe A. Cro sier. Mr. and Mrs. Kelliher of Worcester, Mass., were recent visitors at D. W. Gro ton's. Mrs. N. II. Jones of Waterboro, Me., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Crosier. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Fairbanks of West Brattleboro were recent visitors at M. A. Fairbanks'. ifRECKLES When you cool off suddenly and vhen you sleep in a draft, yoa get a Cold. The natural result is Headaches, Neuralgia and Sore Muscles. , ' . To Stop the Headache and Work off the Cold, Take laxative jL SSsaiiiineg THAT DEPRESSED FEELING caused by the heat is quickly relieved by jnst one dose of Lax ative BROMO QUININE Tablets. Does not contain any harmful or habit-forming drugs. The box bears this signature Price 30c. Due to largely increased sales we are buying all kinds of roofing by the carload and can offer the following at greatly reduced prices: Galvanized Corrugated Roofing A rtcraft Roofing American Twin Shingle "Rpsf nrndn of Phrcid Green Slate Roofing Now is the time to roof your buildings. 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