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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-20

FOR sALE-A splendid large, Toomf house
in the best residential section OF the city, nsar
school on car line, within 10 minutes waikof
psst Office Wsli built, al modern conven-
fences lawn garden, hen house. Lot Ito fest
suuare. Car be seen anv day from to r. ~
at SO Patterson street Telephons 3s6-iL l14f
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-20
70 RENT

TO KENT-Fiye-room downstairs tenement
with gas range and electric lights Inquire OF
c. l.. Converse, ~ West Street. city. 235t6s
TO RENT Desirable cottage OF seven rooms
and bath at Cesry Street, just of from War
rem Street Hot water electric ltghts Kent
reasona bic for the winter. Apply TO A. NJ
stafford, or telephone 4s-2. Key at Il Long
Street. 2iottI
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-20

Owen Marion, the holder of first.
class liquor license in st. Adams, has
been given two weeks in which to pay
for wholesalers license as Il was
charged by the state, through Sere-
tary of State Bailey, that he was sell
ing liquor not licensed by the state.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-20

I WILL help anyone to locate on Government
Land in Arizona. have some or the
tlon. ID. j. Boyce Los Angeles, California.
General Delivery. %-ot]o
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-20
MATERNITY

MATERNITY CASES BEFORE AND DUR
ING confinement Infants bearded OF adopted
~ desired write the Coihnswood SAM arium.
New Rochelle. y. Y. 2-5t13
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-20
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.

FOR sALE-Nice house and barn; a'se fouf
buiidine lots. All ioIned toge Their would make
a splendid hen farm. situated on Montpelier
Read. Also ons shoat W. y. Shepard, "A.
ministrator. Barre, w. A.oH
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE = Iaim OF $50
acres for a house in the City OF Barre. Also
for sale, top buggy, surrey, harness. ami a one
row butter churn. Louis DeBiois, Laurei ~,
Barre, VT. -Sot'
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-20
HELP WANTED

WANTED Young man, handy and ingenious
with carpenters tools. Apply at Hall Street.
imu,e diately. 23its
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-20

A. r. White, proprietor of the B. L.
Kent company in Burlington, has bought
the entire stock of goods owned by Fred
s. Pease at the Daylight corner in that
city, involving thousands of dollars.
These goods will be sold off as rapidly
as possible and Mr.. White will open a
restaurant, confectionery store and ice
cream parlor in what has been rs Pease
store. having taken a long lease of the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-20

Escaping coal gas from a furnace
nearly caused the deaths of Mrs. w b.
Kennedy and two daughters at their
home in Rutland Wednesday morning.
Three other members of the family suf-
fered more or less from the effects OF
the gas. The furnace was left as usual
when the family retired, and the reason
for the escaping gas is not known,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-20

WANTED = strong, capable girl or woman
for general housswork Apply TO Mrs. l. T.
Nelson. H. h. ID. No. 4, Barre, VT Telephone
call 395-e. 2.5t6s
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-20

The last Of the first order of postal
scales for the use of postofiiees in car
rying out the new parcels post law have
been sent out by the Fairbanks scale
works OF st. Johnsbury. They were
sent to all parts of the United States
as we'll as to Porto Rico, Alaska, Hon;
olulu, Panama and the U. S. postal
station at Shanghai.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-20

IN vENDITA - Tn scelto Lot di tereno sit
uato distante cinque minuti daila Posta di
Barre. Ter informazione riyolgeteyi ALA Posta,
il tale Paul Leayitt 231tf
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17

time past the inhabitants of theg gn1ti-
nicipality and its suburbs have. eager
1y sought to find a solution Of the
problem Much benefit has been OBJ
tanned by keeping minnows in cisterns
and ponds-these small fishes being
greedy devourers of mosquito larvae
but such measures have not alto
gether met requirements.
Bats, as Is well known, are insect
eaters, and are particularly fond OF
mosquitoes. In the twilight, where
they rove around, they devour i'm
mense numbers of the pestiferous in
sects-their manner being to dash
back and forth through a swarm and
gobble the victims up by wholesale.
In view of which fact, 1t occurred to
DR.. Campbell that 1t might be a good
idea to establish in and about San
Antonio a number of "bat roosts." as
he calls them-that is to say, struc-
lures SO contrived as to invite bats
for sleeping purposes. He has already
put up two of them, and proposes to
erect others. those already in opera
tion having proved highly successful
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17

bark, or other rubbish, and since 1t
with it's legs folded up about the body.
and drops to the ground if the leaves
are disturbed, the collector is more
likely to collect it by accident, than
from a recognition of it as an insect.
The females begin placing their eggs
promptly in June, and may be found
on the plants until July 1S, or there
abouts. Somewhat later they disap-
pear. but reappear again in numbers
about September II, these being the
individuals that hibernate.
The eggs are placed singly on the
upper side generally over the midrib,
and toward the tip of the leafet. They
are fastened down with brown glue
which hardens and gives them the APP
pearance Of being a deadened part of
the leaf This separates from the leaf
readily when pried up with needle.
The adult always gonges the leaf just
above the place where the egg is at
tached as if she meant to brand it and
warn away other females bent on sim
liar errands.
The mines made By this insect are
very striking and cllaHacteristic The
larva penetrates the leaiiet above the
midrib and works toward the center in
a straighf course a grat. then at inter-
walls makes excursions to the right or
left on each sue tife Taidribs and
often reaches nearly 10 the margin Of
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17

Mr.. William A. Radford viii answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
ubject OF building. for the readers OF this
PAPER. On account of his wide experience
Is Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he
s. without doubt. the highest authority
IN all these subjects. Address all inquiries
% William A. Radford, No IT'S West
Jackson boulevard. Chicago. ILL.,, and only
enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
A small, convenient house that may
De built for $4,000 is Just what a good
many young people are looking for.
The perspective and floor plans here
shown go to make up just such
house.
You can't have everything in little
house the same as in large house,
but you can leave out good many
things that are not necessary; and
that gives an opportunity to retain
The important features. A big living
room for instance is one of the great
.uxuries of modern houses.
Not so many years ago everybody
seemed to have a craze for double
parlors. An architect was obliged to
design double parlors If he had to cut
them down to ten feet square each.
It Is a curious comment on human
nature that such a foolish fad would
have to run itself completely out be-
fore people were ready to abandon 1t
for something better. But small
houses are no longer built with double
parlors and the owners of old ones
are having the partition taken out.
wherever it is possible, and they are
In that way making the two rooms
into one good, big, comfortable, airy,
sensible living room.
We are learning something all the
time. We have learned better than to
cut the front part of a house up into
small rooms Another thing we have
learned is to put in windows enough
to light the rooms and to put them
opposite or on different sides of the
room wherever possible, and another
thing we are relearning is the use OF
an open fire. Good houses are all built
with a crate or fireplace of
some kind In the front part of the
house where it may be used when
wanted
When the country was new and peo-
pie were obliged to heat their houses
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17

front room than any other, or all
other articles of furniture. You can
get close to crate fire and get warm
and you can go back in the far end of
the room and get cool, but its glow
and sparkle will follow you with their
attentions.
A crate fire is better company than
some people, but it's influence will
brighten up dull persons. 1t adds a
charm to music and wit to conversa-
ton and you enjoy your dinner better
after sitting a few miautes before a
CRATE fire waiting for the coffee to
boil.
The one illustrated here is six
room house with good clothes closet
for each bedroom. and splendid bath
loom directly over the kitchen, just
where it ought to be so that plumbing
for both the bath room and kitchen
sink may be arranged together to save
dr5t cost and after expenses.
The stairway arranged like this one
IS to be recommended for small
house because it does not cut up the
front part of the house either up or
down. IT comes Just right for the cel-
lar and 1t gives short hall upstairs
and takes scarcely any space from
The first floor.
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17
Fastener Tells How He Obtained
Enough of Precious Stuff for
Experiments.

An eastern college professor was
lecturing on radium.
"Radium is so valuable" he de
clared, that most small laboratories
have to get along as we'll as they can
without the actual experiments. In
fact, there are many colleges in this
country which do not possess any radf-
um at all, and all that can be learned
of the element is from books on the
subject. I will tell you how l Sc
cured the radium with which I have
been performing experiments for a
number of years.
TT was not long after the Curies
made their discovery when a noted
French scientist came over to this coun-
try with a small quantity OF the newly
discovered substance. He performed
number of the stock experiments be-
fore several hundred students in this
lecture hall. When he concluded his
discussion he took the small piece Of
paper on which the radium was lying
and poured the precious grains back
into their especially prepared recep-
teal. After doing that, he, with the
utmost care, brushed the tiny dust
from the paper. thereby causing his
large class to burst into laughter at
his seemingly exaggerated frugality.
You may laugh said the lecturer,
but know that there are hundreds OF
Institutions in this country that would
give a great deal for that little coat
ing of dust have just saved. Many
experiments could be performed with
that alone for several years / know
what I am doing all right
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17
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EAPM NOTES

Take care of your surplus garden
crops.
Well-graded seed grain is free from
foul seed.
Corn silage has passed the expert
mental stage.
Millet should be cut for hay when it
is just heading out.
The cultivation of kaffir corn and
milo maize is very similar.
Wheat may be cut for hay when 1t
is in blossom or shortly after it has
headed.
Every season sees some new use
to which explosives may be put on
the farm.
Milo maize is similar In composition
to Indian corn and will make very
good silage.
Cement viii solve the fence post
problem for those who have a gravel
pit near by.
Corn silage is perhaps the mos.
economical stock food any western
farmer can raise.
1t doesn't pa. to use old, worn-out
cultivator teeth when new ones can
be bought so cheaply.
Alfalfa is too good a feed TO be con.
demned by those fellows who 90 moi
know much about it.
In growing kafir corn and milo
maize fall preparation of the land is
preferable to spring ploWing.
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17

Sugar Cane introduced by JesuIts.
Sugar was first made In Louisiana
In 1751 by the Jesuit fathers from San
Domingo.
The cane grew well, but all at
tempts to manufacture sugar from It
were abortive, and 1t was not until
1871 that Don Antonio Mendez sue
ceeded In extracting sugar from cane.
Three years later Etienne de Bore
made such large crop Of sugar that
many were induced to go into the in
dustry, and It is to him that the real
credit of being the father of the In
dustry belongs.
In common with all industries in the
experimental stage, the sugar cane In
dustry of Louisiana was at its incep-
ton very crude and unimportant
one, but by 1920 the crop approx
mated some 100000 pounds Of SUI
gar.
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17
MEASURING HAY IN STACKS
Bulletin Giving Instructions for
Doing the Work.

Bulletin No. 155, of the Kansas Elk.
pertinent station, contains instruc.
tions for the measuring of hay in
long and round stacks. The measur-
ing of stack or rick to ascertain the
tons of hay it contains is, at best a
guess. The bulletin states that when
alfalfa hay has been In the stack 80
days 1t requires 512 cubic feet to
make ton; that when the hay has
been in the stack five or six months,
422 cubic feet are calculated for a
ton. In the case of old, well settled
stacks, 343 cubic feet are figured as
making ton. 1t further says that
slough hay is heavier than alfalfa
and that upland prairie hays are
lighter than alfalfa. Having found the
contents of stack in cubic feet, di-
vide the number of feet required to
make ton TO find the number Of
'ons in the stack.
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17
SURE DEATH TO ALL INSECTS
Paris Green Mixed With Land PIas-
ter Is One of the Best PreventIves
of Ravaees of Bugs.

Paris green mixed with dry pow
dered land plaster or rye -four, one
tablespoonful to the gallon, is the
best preventive of the ravages of po-
tato bugs, coddling moth, caterpillars,
slugs and worms. If in solution mix
one pound in 200 gallons of water.
Buy pure freshly made paris green.
A cheap kind is lacking in strength.
The paris green should be applied as
soon as the first worms appear. The
quickest way is to sprinkle it on
with the hand. An active man can
cover several acres in a day. Apply
early in the morning when the dew
is on the leaves. Two applications
will nearly always answer. In case
a shower should wash off the powder,
a third application will be needed.
Slug shot may be used instead of
paris green.
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17
Scientific Experiments to Be Made to
Demonstrate the Possibility of
Improvement.

The Cambridge School Of Agricul-
ture is trying to make hens lay red
eggs. There is always the best mar
ket for eggs which are Of the richest
red brown in color, and the problem
is to develop the right kind Of hen.
The Cambridge experimenters hope
to produce a red egg-laying hen of pro-
life habit, just as they have produced
a strong rust-resisting wheat of high
yield by working on the curious law of
Mendel Hens have so far proved ad-
mirable examples of the working of
this law. In respect of single and dou-
BILE combs and In respect of color
they are perfectly obedient to the
proper scientific principle. They "be-
have" as they ought, to use the tech
nical verb. Why should not the eggs
behave as well as the feathers and
comb?
There is also the subsidiary question,
of food. 1t may be possible to alter
the egg color by food as well as by
hereditary influences. 1t has been
done lie the case OF canaries.
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17
WHlTEWAsH SURE TO STICK
Preparation Easily Made and WIN
Add Greatly 70 Appearance Of
Many Farm Buildings

There are many brick and stone
walls, as well as wooden outbuildings.
fences and the like. about subur-
ban place which, lacking paint, de-
tract much from the general appear
ance of the home But paint is some
what expensive and cannot be applied
with too lavish hand by the average
citizen. There is, however, white
wash, which is easily made and ap-
piled, Is inexpensive and which for
most outdoor work will answer quite
as well as oil paint. For chicken
houses, brick walls and the like it In
excellent.
To make the whitewash slake half
bushel of fresh lime with boiling
water, keeping 1t covered during the
process. The lime should not, of
course, be confined, but merely COW
cred, as confined, it possesses consid-
erable explosive force Strain 1t and
add peck of salt dissolved in warm
water, three pounds of ground rice
put in boiling water and boiled 10
thin paste, half a pound of powdered
Spanish whiting and pound of clear
glue dissolved in warm water. Mix
these well together and let the mix
ture stand for seven days in reason
ably cool and shaded place. Keep the
wash thus prepared in a kettle, and
when it is being used put it on as
hot as possible, using painters or
an ordinary whitewash brush. Al
ways use magnetism lime for white
wash.
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17
For Better Farm Homes.

Secretary Wilson of the department
of agriculture, has always recognized
the influence for good farming which
flows from an attractive farm home,
and has developed branch Of the
department which, through it's CORE
spondence and its publications, has
become a bureau of information on
household topics. Bulletins on sub
jects relating to food and to home
making have been prepared which
have had a circulation of more than
10,000,000 copies. One of these, the
Economic Use of Meat in the Home,
reached an edition of a million and a
half copies. At the same time this
branch of the department has given
special attention to agricultural edu-
cation, assisting states to plan and
organize schools to secure teachers,
and to prepare courses.
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17

earnest eye; but We know, too, that
some ancient critics (among them Lu-
ctan) held the original the most beau
tiful of all Greek statues in the world
which still knew a hundred master
pieces now lost. Probably that per-
feet type OF feminine nudity was rapt
long ago from Cnfdus-though why
more probably than that of Hermes
should have been rapt from Olympia?
but, even so, is it not still we'll
worth any art lovers while to dig
the site Of the town which put up at
Delphi the Treasury of the Cnidans"
whose beauties the French school at
Athens have revealed to our time?
All through the classical Greek age
Cnidus was capital city, the chief of
five famous neighbors on the mainland
and in Rhodes; and the Dorian games,
which were the bond of the six cit
les, were held always on the Triopian
headland beneath her walls To dig
Cnidus, therefore, would be to follow
the best rule of excavators, which is
to dig capitals. 1t was also a moth
er city, able to send out colonies of
it's citizens to the Adriatic and even
the western Mediterranean. It's stu
alton secured it'Wealth from the sea,
for it lay just at the southern angle
of Asia Minor in the track of every
ship which beat up from the Phoe-
nician and Egyptian seas into the
Greek. The Triopian island, which
is now Cape Krio, lay so near the
mainland that it could be joined by a
causeway, and the strait thus bridged
gave the city two bays, one looking
westward, one eastward, and both well
screened. In the latter, whose old
mole still breaks the southeast swell,
modern steamer of much larger ton
mage than the average coaster can
ride at ease. The site is a good Eng
lish mile in length, and the walls
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17
lnteItiuence of Bees.

In France, BONNER has communI
Gated to the Academy of Sciences the
results of experiments which, he
thinks, demonstrates that bees pos
sess sort of collective intelligence.
One Of the experiments consisted in
placing lump of hard sugar within
reach of some bees, and near it a
basin of water. The bees, finding that
their mandibles were incapable Of
breaking the sugar, organized a kind
of bucket brigade to carry water from
the basin to the sugar. Having re-
duced 1t to syrupy state, they had
no further difficulty. It was noticed.
in all of the BONNER experiments.
that single bees gave no such indica-
tions of intelligence. Their minds
seemed to wake up only when they
were acting in company
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17

the leaflet before turning back and
starting another. The final result is a
branched mine with long curved or
slightly tortuous extensions on each
side of the midrib. When ready to
pupate the larva returns to the center
of the leafiet and pupates in the CEN
trail chamber over the midrib.
Treatment for the insect is simple.
The adults can be destroyed in the
spring when they appear on the leaves
to place their eggs by spraying with
arsenate of lead.
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17

the roof in the course of three weeks.
1t then became necessary to move the
plant into the open air, and this en-
tailed the removal of the greater part
of the end OF the building. The flower
spike has continued to elongate and
is now some Is feet high. The plant
has exactly so leaves, the longest Of
which is z feet 8 inches broad in the
middle and 14k inches at the base
Some of the lower leaves are II inches
thick in the middle and Is inches at
the base. but only feet to feet In
length.
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17
Shrubs for Birds.

Smoothly trimmed hedges and the
stiff trees of formal garden are not
nearly SO attractive to birds as un-
trained bushes and tangled thickets.
Shrubs Of sterile varieties or those
closely pruned after blooming are not
sought by birds, while those allowed
to ripen fruit are often crowned with
feathered visitors. Moreover, plants
clustered with fruit of varying color
are more beautiful and interesting
than those which exhaust their energy
in one burst of bloom and are of mo-
notonous appearance thereafter.
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17

with fireplaces, or freeze. they got
very tired of them SO that when stoves
were invented ffreplaces were consid-
cred back number; but the human
race has been accustomed to an open
fire from the time when fire was first
brought down from the clouds. In all
these centuries the comfort of an open
fire has been bred into the marrow OF
our existence until 1t has become
second nature to enjoy 1t.
We would not like to go back to
fireplace as the only means Of heating
the house, but as an auxiliary heater
it never has had nor never will have
an equal. 1t adds more to the comfort,
and sociability of the
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17

| which enclose it can be followed from
sea to sea. The fine Greek masonry
is especially well preserved where the
fortification runs down to the water On
the east, and a terminal tower was
| built out into the waves; but the old
er parts, constructed in the polygonal
| fashion, which made for strength, are
on the Acropolis Of the Triopian is
| land. Here were evidently at once
the stronghold and the holy places OF
Cnidus. The mass of the city needed,
however, the larger spaces of the
mainland, and climbed terrace above
terrace to the summit of high rocky
hill It's main plan and the situation
Of many of it's public buildings were
made out of the Dilettanti expedition
and by Newton, and even after years
Of neglect they can still be traced.
The marble facings have been much
damaged, partly by the builders OF
Rhodes, partly by native limeburners;
but even in such an obvious quarry as
the Theater offers, good deal Of the
finer material remains in place. There
is a rich harvest to be reaped by any
one who can induce the Ottoman gov
ernment to appropriate the peasant
cuItivators, and thereafter will break
down their terraced plots and search
them Systematically from the harbor's
edge to the hilltop Cnidus is the
most promising and favorable Greek
site which remains for well-financed
and welIequipped expedition to under
take. There is no modern village, no
modern graveyard, to hamper diggers;
communications with well-supplied
centers-Rhodes, Cos, and Budrum-
are easy, and labor could be procured
in abundance from both the Tripolian
peninsula itself and from the isles.
Finally, there is no lovelier spot than
Cnidus on one of the loveliest coasts
Of the Mediterranean.
The sea coast echo., 1912-08-17
A Few Browning Echoes

serenade at the villa" (''That was I.
you heard last night, when there rose
no moon at all'.). DR.. Darrell Figis
Tin the English Review speaks of
my star as "a puzzling lyric
which is odd. The books that baf-
fed a Ruskin and were too tough for
Jowett are everybody's reading to-
day. said Mr.. Dixon Scott in Tues
days Manchester Guardian, and he is
right Perhaps, however. no queerer