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Valuable Vernon Real Estate
OR SALE
tat WHITHED HUltL
lis TI"',!
situated about a mile
iii. m mill hiiiiiii
vutral Park Stution and
' , ". i"'1 '!''' "'"Ik ot 'I'0 new (-'0"'
;!"ut"V:i ! i''"" ,u,w unticr con,truc"
'" ,,,y,.v:y i. valuable for a hotel or
:':' '' Hi.imn house situated as it
i,i !,v between South Yer-T!V!-W-.r.
There is a tmaU
',"?"'''' ,n0 building, a'" t,,e
' ... i,Hv I Hiving the hotel
V'ni'i.;:! ;. -.vine the post oliice ap-
C,'..,...,it outlook for business in
i- a verv desirable piece of
;'V'.' .! ,.: and about five acres of
r"t",,' mi lift. Apply to
I OGETT & CO., Brattleboro, Vt.
E OR INVESTMENT SEEKERS
;Vf will mention thia week three piece
property we are anxious iu u i"-i
ti '!'.. I, III hniiap nn Clark
run""'-' clark to Pr09Pect
in' bet location ou me .ucci,
twin to DtiiKi on i iuici.v .hk.
. , i i t sat mini
wwl 1 'l0 noose aii't iwfc " w ....,
iet known a the Van Doom prop-
running Ituin r.iuoi i"
' , '.. i.inniimnN unci tvnrinff for
'tor month. Tliis is valuable for
fStmenl as lusiu: --
If. ....
jvinJ-Tlie 'i"!ertv advertised in mis
it lst wei'ii lias neen soiu. iiierc i
nl to tliis. If you have property to
or it vnu wish to buy you should
Hit ii-. 'We can sell any property you
nth u U you K've u time),
vni tor farm list.
Vw. EDCETT & CO.
Real Estate and Investments.
White
Opening
Tomorrow we will
have White Hats ga
lore. Come in and see
them.
Try the American
Lady corset.
Mrs. G. H. Smith
85 Main Street
Dtistbane
Wanted
BRATTLEBORO. VERMONT, FRIDAY. JUNE 21. 1907 TEN PACES $1.50 A YEAR. 5c A COPY
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'ANTED Live poultry. W. F. Itich-
unison to. pjtf
'AN I'ED Girl for general housework
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2otf
W'AXTKl) Men to work in the iee
' ' business. Crystal Springs lee Co.
21tf
LACKS.U1U VAXTKI)-Must be a
1 giMi shtivr. C. II. NoreruBs, West
inondniid, X. H. 24-27
yAXTED lieef, pork, lamb, hides.
KirliHulson Co. 4otf
A powdered wax compound
shich makes sweeping possible
vithout raising a dust.
It is sanitary, a gerni destroyer
ffid a disinfectant.
Used for house, office, store
"Oors and carpets.
It is practical and not expen
se, Let us tell you about it.
Sold only by
& Gowles
BROOKS HOUSE BLOCK
lis
Mid-Summer
Specialties
Oil Stoves
He BROOKLYN BLUE FLAME in
o and throe burners have stood the
for years mid we recommend them
;stl'e bfst made.
Also ono. two and three burner wick
:!Vs iiifludi'ig all sizes of ovens.
Water Coolers
'r two and three gallon coolers
-ade of eair'ir.Tm-nrn witli nickel fau-
"' Just the article for home or office
;tis season of the year.
White Mountain
Freezers
Ar aoknr.v.-ledged the best on the
:ark. All sizes.
Kodaks
0':t nil ,1 . . .. .. :tV
ui-.-t is to summer ume u
'alt. l'i. hire making is simple and
Tf lavo them for $2 up.
Mockery, WaU Paper, Window Shades,
Kitchen Furnishings.
A'F.RQBERTS&CO.
Te Brattleboro China Store
PYSHom
lreni tc ur. No opiates
W'AXTKl) A conijietent girl for gen
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i nil ii'mi- ii vi n si imiiitj u h'mi .
Dr. Henry Tucker. 25tf
VAXTED Will exchange cottage house
' ' in Duninierston for giod driving
team. Box S, Hrattleboro, 't. 22tf
XVAXTKL) At once, for the summer, a
' willing trusty woman to care for an
invalid and do her liaht housework. Ad
dress Box 45, Deerlield, Mass. 22-25
'ANTED A good live agent to handle
the Xorcross butter separator in
Windham county. Will sell the county
riirht or dive a nood commission. Call on
or correspond with C. 1. Farnsworth, 178
New Bridge M.. .Merrick, Alass. JJ-JO
For Sale
L"OK SALE Choice lot of slab wood.
L Holden & Martin. 17tf
lOK SALE Good busiuess horses. V.
L A. Wilbur, Grafton, Vt. 23-26'
SALE Well-bred Holsteiu bull, 2
yeaiM old. V. A. Wilbur, Grafton,
Vt. 23-1"
IjOK SALE Coupe, in good condition;
2 seats. Win. Tudor, Thomas place,
Brattleboro. 23-25
lOlt SALE Top buggy, driving harness,
-1- sleigh, blankets, 1 ton of good horse
hay. l'nces low. J. T. Kaine, 122 Elliot
st reet.
lOlt SALE Standard makes of auto-
mobiles: some bargains in second
hand cars, also a full line of bicycles, sup
plies, and talking machines. Manlcy
Bros. tf
lOH SALE Wiekless blue flame oil
stove, 3 lids and oven, good one; end
spring piano box top buggy, been used
but little; pair driviug harness; 1 single
harness, rublier trimmed; light surry pole;
spring tooth harrow; chains, etc.; blan
ket and coolers; robes and halters. W.
F. Hudson, 13 Tine St. 2a
ESTEY ORGAN COMPANY
Esfey Pianos
ARE FAIRLY PRICED
and when an ESTEY is'purchased
you are not paying for a name but
for actual value received.
ESTEY QUALITY A 1
ESTEY PRICE reasonable and
within the reach of all. Let us
show you our stock and quote you
prices. - -
Estey Organ Company
Sales Department.
Brattleboro, Vt.
BRATTLEBORO, VE R M 0 N T
THE AUSTINE
SCHOLARSHIPS
Awarded at the Graduation
Exercises Last Night.
DIPLOMAS GIVEN TO 23
To Rent
rpo KENT Kemington typewriter. 8
X Vnroxt. St. 23tt
rpO KENT Five-room 'downstairs tene-
- ment, 19 Cedar St. 20tf
rpo KENT Tenement and barn; desir-
J- A. (i. Allen. 22tf
rpo KENT Pleasant room, facing street.
J- Inquire at 121 Main St.
rpo KEXT-Tenemcnt of "even rooms
J- and bath. Inquire 17 Cedar St. 20tf
rpo RENT Seven room cottage at Spof---
fnrd lake. Inquire of R. L. Greene,
MX) KENT Store occupied by Fenton &
i- Co. in Ullery Bldg; also offices on
J ll.inf flnnrs. l-
TO RENT Desk room in Suite 2, Amer
ican building. National Rubber
r. AT.H.ifiiiiliirinff On. 1'"
.Uinil' ..muni"'- p
a"0 KENT Three unfurnished rooms for
- light housekeeping, also furnished
rooms Mrs. A. H. Wilder, Retting blok.
rpo RENT-Cottage at Spofford lake, by
X .,.!. mnnth. Boat and barn. In
quire of C. L. Cobb, 10 Pearl St, Brat-
tit-mil u.
Brattleboro Trust Company
Capital $100,000.00
SAVINGS BANK Money deposited in the Savings depart
nroAciTftDS ment of this bank draws interest at
Utru-uuns 3 1-2 per cent. Money deposited the
first 5 days of January, April, July and October draws in
terest from the first of the month. Deposits go on interest
the first of every month. Interest compounded April 1st
and October 1st. $2,000 may be deposited in each Savings
Bank or Trust Company in Vermont free from tax.
This bank furnishes check books to its customers free
of charge for use in its commercial department. Safe De
posit Boxes to rent at $3.00 per year. Acts as Administra
tor, Executor, Trustee and Guardian.
Professional Cards
GEO. H. OORHAM, M. D., Whimsy block.
Main Street, Brattleboro. Practice lim
ited to the diseases ot the Eye. Ear, Jhroat,
and Noe. Office hours: 9:30 to 12, 1 to 4
p m., Tueadays and Fridays only. Remain
der ot week at Bellows Falls.
DR THOMAS RICE, office formerly occu
pied by Dr. Lane, over Kuech's store.
Offics ihours, 8 to 9 a. m, 1 to 3 and 7 to 8
p. in. Tel., Vl-i-i.
rpo RENT The Wheeler cottages at
plv to Florence L. Pratt, 7 Oak street
(nil x- iM.; -JtI
IL'I. A-' "
rpO KENT After July first, room now
bv ieer.. riiiciouii f-i - -
Apply' to H. L. Emerson. m
Heip Wanted, IVlen.
Carpenters:-$3.00 a day,, 8 hours. 6
PriSf
COMPANY, Springfield, Mass. See Mr.
Ford, 64 Worthington St.
FOR SALE.
Two tenement house nearly new; 7
rooms each with baths, hot and cold a
ter steam heat and gas in both tene
ments all modem and in. good repair.
Location good. A paying n!ffTit i
for a home. Come in and see it it is
what you want.
WM. C. HORTON'S AGENCY,
Emerson Block, Elliot St. 25
A Star to Steer By.
No matter what kind of insu '
Lave you want some with us as a stand
ard and if you have some with us, take
SJSre and have a higher standard. 58th
year National Life Insurance Co, Mont
pelier, Vt. (Mutual.)
H E TAYLOR & SON, Gen'l Agents,
Crosuy jtioca, ui""""-' - -
' . A Revolution in
"The Carter car Autom0biie con-
.truction, friction trsnsmiss
eimple to operate: as quw on k , .
high. One of these care win m m Frog,
KANSAS
CATTLE OIL
For Flies on
Horses or Cattle
Costs 6c per Gallon
AL WOOD, 8 MAIN ST.
The Tool Depot
DR HENRY TUUKtlt, Kesiaence, o urove
Street Tel., 25S. Office, Leonard block.
Hours, 1.30 to 8 and 7 to 9.
DR A. I. Ml-LLKK, Physician and Sur
ieon, Hooker Block, Brattleboro, t.
Office hours, 8 to 9, 1 to 2, 0:30 to 8.
GEO. X. ROBERTS, M. D., Surgery and
Diseases of Women a specially. Office
and residence, 18 No. Alain St.; tel., 14U.
DR F. R. NEWELL, Dentist, American
' Bldg. Hours 9 to 12 and 1 to 6.
R C G. WHEELER, Osteopathic ptaysi
'cian. Office and residence 32 North
Main street, omce nours iu iu n uu . w .
R. C. S. CLARK, Dentiat, Whitney block,
Brattleboro. 'leiepnone.
D
,R. F. G. PETTEE, Dentist, Crosby block,
over Holden s drug store,
D
R, A. KNAPP, Dentist, Hooker block.
opposite Brooks House, praiuenoru.
D
R, G. F. BARBER, Dentist, Union block.
over Greene's drug siore, i.iu.iro...
HASKINS SCHWENK, Attorneys and
Counsellors at Law, Brattleboro, t.
IOBERT O. BACOX, Attorney st Law.
V Room 18, Ullery Building, Brattleboro.
FRANK E. BARBER. Attorneyat-Law.
Room 7. Crosby Block, Brattleboro, Vt.
JOHN E. GALE, Attorney at Law, Guil
ford, Vt. Telephone 802.
MYRON P. DAVIS, Collections.
Block. Tel., 52-4.
Emerson
BARROWS & CO., Wholesale and Retail
Dealers in Coals' of all kinds. Office, No.
33 Mln Street, Brattleboro.
FRANK MORSE, Prof essional housecleaner.
55 Elliot Street.
s
W EDGETT & CO, Real Estate and In
vestments; notary public. 61 Main Bt.
HENRY A. CARPENTER, pension claim
agent, Newfane, Vt. Widows' claims
a specialty. All pension business promptly
attenaea io
. . " '
CA. BORDEN & OO., aecorators ;
ers in fine Wall ,PPe"W'?0,w,.S,hn(?f
TJnnm Mouldings, Paints and Painters Sup
SET Hardwood Finishing, Paper Hanging,
House and Sign Painting. Brattleboro, Vt
. E. BOND & CO., Funeral Directors
TeleDhsne. resi-
tllHl J. Ui - a ,
i iht.r. nffiA. 264. ooen day and
night. 17 Main St., Brattleboro, Vt.
Special Notices
iHIMNEYS built, cleaned and repaired.
M. J. t avanaugh, Hinttleboro. 2otl
1U1'.EKT B. GOODHUE, Piano Tuner.
" Also tine repairing. No. 12 Highland
St.. liiattleboro. 20-25
1 001vKEEPING AND ACCOUNTING
X at your home or at your office by the
hour bv coniiietcnt person. Open set of
books. Make trial balances, etc. Address,
C. M. Park, 8 Forest St. 21tf
C EO. A. OlliUS, luudscape ganlener,
T care of lawns, walks, shrubbery,
flowers, planting, etc. Plants for bedding
and shrubbery furnished at reasonable
prills. Box 755. Brattleboro. 13tf
Commencement Week Just Closed One
of Surpassing Interest Excellent
Address by Ora E. Butterfield, B. H.
S, '86 Other Features.
Commencement week of li07 stands
out conspicuously in the annuls of the
Brattleboro high school. All of tho
features, beginning with the baccalau
reate sermon Sunday and ending with
the graduation exercises last night,
have been of surpassing interest, and
with fitting ceremony 23 young men
and women have been added to the
alumni of an honored institution. These
events, which murk one of the crises
in tIieTrr-yr'i graduate, have ap
m.i.lid ilei-i.lv to fathers and mothers
i nut onlv of those who received their
certificates of work well and faithfully
done, but of other students in the
schools, and this interest has been re
Heeled iu larrfe audiences, one at least
being larger than on any previous year.
As the chairman of the school board
said ut the exercises last night, it 1ms
seemed as though the weather of com
mencement week, following a cold and
belated spring, was ordered specially
for the class of litu".
An added interest, which has taken
root this year for the first time, has
been bestowed upon graduation week
i through the $10,UU0 trust fund be
queathed to the school district iy coi.
William Austin?, the income of which,
bv decree of the probate court, is now
available each year for the four mem
bers of the graduating class having the
highest general averages. The winners
this venr, announced last ni,;ht by Prin
cipal' Edgar Burr Smith, are Marion
Florence Simonds, Harry Chester Sar
gent, Coreiia Alice Bell and Florence
Leona Strong. Examinations which fig
ured in the final standing were taken
as late ns Tuesday and the result was
not known until yesterday, so that no
announcement of the winners was made
previous to the public announcement
Inst night. Three other members of
the class ranked so near the others that
the result was in doubt until the last
paper had been examined. The trust
fund was invested so late that not a
full year's interest was available for
the class of l!o7, nnd the amount of
their awards was $7.3 each.
Not the bast pleasing feature of the
week lias boen the presence among the
old graduates and others of Ora K.
Butterfield of Detroit. Mich, a grad
uate of the class of ISM! and now at
torney for the Michigan Central Kail
road company. Mr. Butterfield deliv
ered the graduation address last even
ing. It was forceful and pleasing nnd
so full of sound nnd practical advice
and common sense that The Reformer
has quoted liberally from it in these
columns. A detailed report of com
mencement week follows.
rpo LET A lumber job containing 500,
X poo. ft. more or less "oft wood
from stump to Bticks, also about 75 cords
of bark to peel. For further information
inquire of C. M. Holbrook, 9 Frost Place,
TWllnbiirn. Vt. 21tf
TV VfUT in noo,! nf anri'lllfl( ? 1)C-
Haux. agent, is located at 403 West
ern avenue for a short time only and is
selling his perfect vision spectacles. Drop
a postal and be will call. Price for Rolled
Gold $2.00. German S. $1.00. Address
Dellatix. 403 Western avenue. 25-20
Type for Sale
8-pt. Blanchsrd, 13 A, 17 a. cost $2.25. $1.00
12-nt. Black Text, 9 A, 24 a, cost $2.75 1.00
30-pt. Black Text, 4 A, 6 a, cost $5.35 2.00
10 pt. French Old Style, 24 A, 70 a,
with small caps, cost $4.00 2 00
12-nt. Remington Standard Typewriter
(Kevstone), 38 A, ISO a, cost $13.50 6.25
10-pt. 'Celtic, 40 A, 55 a, cost $4.50. . . 2.00
The above type is in good condition,
carefully wrapped in sepnrate fonts, and is
offered for sale because we have other fonts
that make these unnecessary. We also have
a Hoe Upright Mitering Machine, cost $15;
price $5; and a Little Giant Lead and
Rule cutter, cost $8, price $4. If you can
use any of these write at once.
The Vermont Printing Co., Brattieboro, Vt.
Hard and Soft Wood
I have a large quantity of hard and soft
wood which I offer for sale at reasonable
prices. It is all prepared for the stove In
one foot lengths. First come first served.
H. O. CLARK, Brattleboro.
Hammocks
CLAPP & JONLS
"Cold Bug"
Telegram received today that it is
one of the best mines in Arizona.
, M. TAYLOR & COMPANY
15 State St, Boston, Mass.
CURB STOCKS A SPECIALTY
American Building. Room 21. Telephone 335
HARRY CRAY, Manager
Progress on the Dam.
About &0 men are now employed on
the site of the Connecticut river dam
at Vernon, 40 Italians having begun
work during the past week. Most of
the laborers are engaged in grading for
the narrow gaugo railway which will
be built on Cooper's point on the New
Hampshire side for use in construction
work. A largo cement shed is rapidly
nearing completion and most of the
other buildings are finished. Machinery
is beginning to arrive, several hoisting
machines having been received at the
Hinsdale station within the past few
days and drawn to the dam site. The
surveys and borings recently complet
ed show two favorable locations
for the dam, canal and power house
and the choice will not be made until
the costs of the two have been esti
mated carefully. A sawmill has been
put in operation during the past week
and the contractors are negotiating
with the Central Vermont Railroad
company in an effort to get the siding
on the Vermont side of the river laid
as quickly as possible. Mr. Ayling of
the firm of Baker, Ayling of Boston,
who are selling the bonds of the com
pany, was in town yesterday and vis
ited the site of the dam.
Thunder showers are predicted for
today; tomorrow will be fair with
southwest winds.
GRADUATION LAST NIGHT.
Auditorium Crowded to Hear Address
by Ora E. Butterfield of Detroit
An audience which crowded the au
ditorium enjoyed the graduation exir
cises last night. The front of tho stage
was decorated 'handsomely with ferns,
laurel and flowers, while overhead was
suspended the elnss motto, Better Faith
ful than Famous. Leitsinger's orches
tra rendered Thomas's overture Ray
mond, and after a selection by n
choius of girls came the invocation by
Rev. A, H. Webb. Two mor,? selec
tions by the chorus of girls, with vio
lin obligato bv Clinton Dugan, preceded
the addies by Ora E. Butterfield of
Detroit. .
At tho beginning of his address Mr. But
terfield referred to his graduation in 1880,
his selection of a life companion from
among the fair daughters of Brattleboro, hii
native town, incidents of his courso under
the instruction of B. F. Bingham, and other
recollections of by -gone days, and continued:
1 have taken a look backward, but you
are looking forward. Your proud hearts
nre swelling with red blood and you are
eager in yonr souls to do something for
snmebody and for the world. The question
is what are you going to dot
Are you going to college I I think you
should. Doee some one say that his par
ents cannot afford to send himf The an
swer is: Where there is a will there Is a
way. There are scores of graduates of the
Brattleboro high school whose records will
show you how you can go through college
when your parents can not pay the bills.
And now is the time to go. Youth is the
time for school work, and it is the rule that
the college man or woman will make a bet
ter living and make it easier than one who
has not had that advantage. There are
prominent exceptions but I say it is the
general rule.
Does some one say that he has always
found it difficult to keep up with his class
in the studies and that he does not purpose
to continue the unequal struggle through a
college course! If so, let me tell you that
there is no place on earth wheret mere bril
liancy counts for so much aa it does in
school. In the restricted arena of the high
school, the brilliant scholar is likely to
achieve distinction and to do so with ease,
and his prominence may dishearten and
discourage his mates until they resolve that
if thev ever get through the high school,
they will abandon books and technicalities
and select vocation where they may avoid
the comparison with their more sparkling
neighbors to which they are forced to sub
mit in the class room. But it is certain
that if the brilliant scholar, after his gradu
ation, relies upon his brilliancy alone, he
will soon be far in the rear of the slow but
sure plodder, who is obliged to rely after
graduation, as .he was before, upon per
sistent industry.'
You can never tell with certainty by
what a boy or girl accomplishes in school
what he or she will amount to in middle
age. Brilliancy should not be mistaken for
genius. While we may not all agree with
some one who has said that genius is noth
ing more than capacity for hard work, it is
certain that no one has sufficient genius to
accomplish anything really great without
hard work. Genius often develops where it
is least expected. It needs no special field
in which to flourish. It will grow wherever
it is cultivated.
In the parable of the sower, you know it
was the seed that had no deepness of earth
that sprang up first, but it was the first also
to wither in the sun. So, often, with the
brilliant scholar, he may not have depth of
mind and may therefore fade in the light of
post-graduate competition.
You need not be surprised if in ten years
from today ' the one whom you would not
cuMllilmlluily anin to um "'oi i "
it arkiiuwli lined by all to be your leader;
and if you go to college, the ume thing may
he truthfully said at the close of your la
burs there.
The world la just now faring t number
nf problems which ars comparatively new,
and you will have plenty of lime to go
through college before they are all solved.
.Smile of these problems concern tho very
fundamental principles of our exigence.
Our milium of right and wrong are under
going an important nmditlriiliuu. It used to
he tliui if a man kepi a hardware store he
would sell nails at a lilil" lower price per
keg to a customer who bought a hundred
Ihnn to a customer who bought but one, ana
milmdv questioned the moral rectitude of
such a practice. Bo it was thought ill days
gune bv that a railroad company having
transportation facilities to sell might carry
freight at a lower rate per car for a cus
tomer who had a hundred carloads than tor
the customer who had hut one; and such
a prartiie sii uot supposed to involve any
mural turpitude. But nuw-a days, men go
to prison for such a thing, and perhaps they
,11,1111.1; hut if it is morally wrong for a rail
road company to carry a hundred cara of
fnight at a lower rate per car than it will
carry one, how shall we justify the sale of
beefsteak to a hotel at a lower rale per
p.iund than it is "old tu you and met If
one ia a social evil, why is not the other
alsut Homo say it is. And so I say our no
tions of right and wrong are undergoing
change. A "square deal'' is the watch
word fur Hie hour, and a square deal in ev
ery department. It will be the educated
man and woman of the future who will be
best able tu d' lino a square deal, and to make
une when Ihev know the dotinition.
We have laid up for ourselves treasures
on earth where moth and rust doth corrupt
and thieves break through and steal, and
where our treasure is, there is eur heart
also. With heart and earthly treasure
united,' it was supposed by the ancient
prophet that Ihe nation must decay. Jt may
be for you and your contemporaries to" say
whether the words of Hebrew prophecy shall
tit the record of American history, and it
may be for you to help to ahow the world
how tu sail the ship of state safely into the
haven ijf virtue with its treasure still in
store.
In such an era, there ia a glorious part
for every player upon the atage of life. We
can not ail play a lending roll, but it is im
portant Hut all the minor parts be handled
with fidelity.
At this point tho speaker quoted from
Kipling's story of the Ship that Found Her
self, in which the different parts each had
a word to say by way of emphasis of its im
portance in ihe relationship of the whole,
and then he continued:
So it is with the body politic, no man is
independent of those about him. We are all.
in a sense, responsible for each other, and
we all have our honorable part to perform.
We are one body with many members and
each must bear his own responsibility.
If you perform your part, minor though
it may be, and perform it to the best of
your ability, you will not onlv know the Joy
of a peaceful conscience, but you are pretty
certain to get a reward of a material sort
while j-ou live. The reason why some peo
ple work hard all their lives for small com
pensation and never get a promotion is that
they constantly concern themselves with the
question whether they are doing more than
thev are getting pay for. They usually con
clude that they are, and they never give
their work a thought except upon the em
ployer's time. It is a rule with few excep
tions that you will never get an increase in
wugea until you earn more than you are
receiving. And it is equally true that when
you do earn more than you are getting for
anv considerable length oi time, your nierti
i w ill be recogniied and your wages in
i creased.
I It ia brain work that draws pay, and
( there is no work so simple that it can not
I be done better with brains than without.
' The man who starts at shoveling in a dilch,
j and thinks, will soon be giving directions on
I ihe bank, while the one who works like
i machine, and does not think, will remain at
! ihe bottom of the trench. Manual labor
i reinforced by rncutal labor is the fortunate
i combination.
I Boys don't smoke. The editor of The
Saturday Evening Post says the only thing
, that smoke is re;il!y good for ia a ham.
.Don't drink intoxicating liquor. The first
glass has some influence and it is not an in
! duence for good. None of us know any too
; much when be is perfectly sober. Liquor
will not increase our knowledge nor our
1 skill. Liquor as a beverage eveu when used
temperately, is no good. Intemperance is
: n.pidly becoming a barrier to desirable em
I ploym'ent, even among common laborers, and
in these days when wholesale and cuustic
i criticism of 'large corporations is constantly
I ringing in our ers, it is due to them to
! sav that bv the very central practice of dis
charging men for intoxication, they are do
ing a work for the, cause of temperance
more potent than that of any other agency.
The man who forms the habit of conviv
iality is commonly content with few and in
ferior associates. He mistakes their opin
ions for public sentiment and thinks him
self wise if they agree with him; but as a
rule such a man greatly overestimates him
self. It is well to go to a wideawake, progres
sive church and Sunday school. Some boys
think a Sunday school is for girls and wo
men, but somewhat beneath the notice of a
man. This is an error. It is for men also,
and no man should be ashamed of his mem
bership in such an institution. A knowl
edge of the Bible can be acquired in Sun
day school and the value of such knowledge
if it can be obtained in the light of mod
ern scholarship is a sufficient reward for
the effort. ou can better afford to be
without knowledge of any other collection of
literature iu the world than to be without a
knowledge of the Bible, the law, the his
tory, the poetry and the prophecy of the
race that gave us Isiah and Jesus and Paul.
Cultivate your taste for the fine arts. They
help to preserve mental balance and afford
pleasure when other things fail.
Take the advice of your mother and con
sider it well. She descended into the val
lev of the shadow of death to give you life.
She has bestowed upon ;you an affection
which only a mother cau bestow. She has
more faith in you than anybody else ever
had or ever will have, and if you follow her
counsola your steps will ever progress along
the path which leads to power and happi
nesa. , . .,
I speak of these matters of daily con
duct in passing because daily conduct leads
to habit, habit leads to character, and char
acter is the most valuable of all personal
assets. Character is the momentum of one s
past life. If parental influence restrains you
from a detrimental indulgence day after
day, abstinence becomes a Ji.abit which will
ma'ke the right course easy after the re
straint is removed. Every time we do what
we ought to do, we are more likely to do it
again, and so daily conduct gathers a mo
mentum which carries us on in the way we
should go aud becomes character.
Something has been said of a square
deal, but we must also have an honest play.
There are men holding important positions
of trust in matters of finance whose official
honesty would not be questioned, who will
not pay their fare on a street car unless
they are asked for it. This is not honesty.
It is dishonesty. It should be made a
fundamental rule in the conduct of life
that common honesty, even in matters which
seem in themsolves to be trivial, is indispen
sable to prosperity and true happinesB.
To find success you need not go far from
home. Many a man has labored under the
delusion that the best pastures were else
where and that all the opportunities have
somehow been transferred to parts un
known and far away. We hear of one who
has come back from Alaska with a few
thousand dollars after a residence of five
years in the wilderness and the winter of
the Klondike gold fields, and we say he got
riches in th'e far west. But did you ever
think how much could be saved by a man
living in Brattleboro at a salary of a thou
sand a year if he would deprive himself to
the same extent as did the wanderer in the
gold fields t
Here the speaker told Hawthorne's story
in Twice Told Tales of the youth in the
New England village who thought he was
a man of destiny and who, after roaming
about the world returned to find that his
destiny was to be fulfilled in his native vil-
'"Consciously or unconsciousiy, each one is
the architect of his own career and if he
would have it honorable he must superintend
the work himself and see to it that the
plans and specifications are faithfully ob
served No one of ns is a child of destiny in the
sense that he can cast away the chart and
compass and trust providence to take him
safely o'er life's troubled sea. Some say
the universe is one grand evolution, pro-
(Continued on Sixth Page.)
PUMPING FROM WEST EIVEE.
It Is Due to the Pact That the Pip
from West Brattleboro Is Too BmaU.
Some comment has been made on the
streets the jiust two or three days be
cause it has been uecessury to pump
water from West river into the Cheat
uut hill reservoir in order to maintain
an udequuto supply iu the reservoir for
the needs of tho village, says the local
corresj'oudeut of the Springfield Be
puhlicuu iu lust Sunday s letter. Some
concluded thut the pumping was done
for oue of three reasons, namely, that
the wuter from Stickney brook, turned
into the reservoir a year ago was too
small iu volume, to meet tue demand,
or thut the quality was such that it
hud been cut oil or" that George E. Cro
wed, owner of tho system, was spring
ing u trick to convince the people that
they did not want to tuko udvuntago
of the opportunity given them by the
legislature to buy the Crowell system.
Ail of these "reasons" fall list when
the truth is known. When Mr. Cro
well begau extending the Chestnut hill
system by adding the water of Stick
ney brook ho intended to lay a 10-inch
pipe from West Brattleboro to the
Chestnut hill reservoir. The pipe now
luid is a six inch pipe. A large pipe
was laid from Stickney brook to the
six-inch pipe referred -to, and then the
work wus stopped pending negotiations
on the part of the village for the pur
chase of the system. Ever siuce then
the six-inch pipe has becu carrying its
full capacity to the Chestnut hill reser
voir aud a milliou gallons of water have
been going to waste over the spillway
every day, aud the only reason why it
has Leen'necessary to run the pumping
station on West river is that because
Mr. Crowell was held up in the work
of extending his system. The capacity
of the pipe running into the reservoir
is not sufficient to meet the daily needs
of the people. At the last session of
the legislature an act was passed giving
the village the right to build an inde
pendent svstem in the event that Mr.
Crowell refused an offer of $260,000 for
his system, provided the offer was mado
within one year from the time the act
became effective. The year is half
gone, but no movement has been made
looking towurd the purchase of the
system.
THE VOTING CONTEST.
The standing of contestants in The
Reformer's voting contest for three free
trips to the Jamestown Exposition is as
follows:
DIVISION ONE.
Dr. E. R. Lvnch, Brattleboro 5000
Edith M. Mather. W. Brattleboro.. 3402
w it iio,i.i; rtitl..lwim 2149
t'o'rimie lllodgett, W. Brattleboro.. 1548
toward i'lerce, urattieDoro u
DIVISION TWO.
O. W. Follett, Townshend 1503
Mabel F. Coombs, Guilford 345
Mila J. Newton, Guilford... 154
Mrs. M, E. Brown, E. Dummerston 9
Samuel Brown, Springfield 2
DIVISION THREE.
Carrie R. Russell, Northlield, Mass. 620
IVarl A. lliggins, niiisuaie, o
.Miss L. M. Thayer, Northfleld,
Mass 68
Hope Mead. Northfield, Mass 27
H. L. Brigham. Northfield, Mass... 26
Mrs. Albert Hazzard, Dallas, Pa.. 23
James Wall, Northfield, Mass 2
The contest closes July 2 at noon. All
votes must be in by then. It is not too
lute now for a new contestant to enter,
and in the third division such an one
would have a fair chance. The contes
tants who win in each division will start
for Jamestown July 22.
Wanted Men Arrested for Buying Cider.
Residents of the town along Main
street were startled early yesterday
morning by tne noise or a team Deing
driven rapidly up and down the street
and the more timorous ones imagined
all sorts of terrible things. A sifting
of the reports revealed the fact that all
the disturbance was caused by Lewis
Lynde of Dummerston. Two citizens
of this town had bargained for a barrel
of eider from Sven Johnson, the owner
of a cider mill in Slab hollow. Wed
nesday night appeared to be an excel
lent time to bring the liquid to this
town and consequently they went w-ith
an express wagon and a horse for that
purpose. They left the house of Mr.
Johnson shortly before midnight. Mr.
Lynde saw them passing along the road
and immediately began to institute
steps to have the men arrested. Ho
notified Policeman Evans to hold the
town in readiness to arrest the men
when they arrived and followed them
down in "his team. They offered to
let him pass on several occasions but
he refused. When the two men ar
rived here they were perfectly sober
and law abiding and Policeman Evans
refused to make an arrest knowing no
reason why they should be arrested.
He allowed them to go after he had
talked with them but Mr. Lynde was
not yet content and called State's At
torney Bacon on the telephone request
ing him to have the two men arrested.
The law in regard to liquors expressly
states that fermented cider may be sold
by the barrel containing not less than
32 gallons as long as the barrel is kept
intact and the contents not taken out
in small amounts. The section of the
law dealing with the case is Sec. 20,
act 115, of the acts of 1904. Mr. Lynde
was in town yesterday forenoon at
tempting to have State's Attorney Ba
con take up the case.
Excursion to Watch Hill and Block
Island.
Tuesday, June 25, the Central Ver
mont Railway will run a low rate ex
cursion to Watch Hill and Block Island
with special trains and the -following
low rates:
(The first column gives the fare to
Wntch Hill nnil return: the second
gives the fare to Block Island and re
turn; ana tne tmra tne time or leaving
in the morning.)
Tirnttlphnrn 1.25 41.50 5:15
Vernon 1.25 1.50 5:25
South Vernon 1.2a 1.50 5:d5
Northfield, Mass 1.25 1.50 5:40
NTirtbfielc) Farms 1.25 1.50 5:53
Millers Falls 1.25 1.50 6:04
Returning, leave Bloek Island, 2:13 p.
m.; Watch Hill, 3:30 p. m., connecting
oe Mow T.nnitnn with truing lcavinff at
5.20 p. m. for Brattleboro and all in
termediate stations. licKers goou gu
TctiiTninir onlv on trains named
June 25, 1907. Children under 12 years,
one-half adult rare.