The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-19

If brooms are wet in boiling suds once
a week, they will become very tough,
win not cut carpet, will last much
longer and always sweep like a new
broom.
The bars of a CRATE often have a
| burned and ugly appearance, which pre-
vents their taking a good polish This
difficulty is soon overcome. Before APP
plying the backing, rub the bars with a
piece of lemon and they will ue quite
easy to polish afterward
Text Book of Vermont Needed in
Schools.
Following many questions received as
to the answers to the questions printed
in this column as taken from the Ben
nington Banner, we print the answers
in this issue. The following is an ex
cerpt from The Banners editorial on the
subjects "Many lists of answers have
been fled and all the questions have
been answered correctly, but not by the
same person. The strange thing about
it, too, has been that the questions
which we deemed the easiest have been
the ones on which most have failed. Only
very small percentage of the answers
have given correctly the names of the. sx
largest towns in Vermont, and not one
has named correctly the six largest
towns the five largest rivers and the
five largest lakes in this state. Only
a uo4s inn, bo, ~ l. ~
half dozen largest cites of New England,
and the errors that have been made N
trying to name the leading natural prod
uets and the principal manufactured
products of Vermont, indicates that
text book on Vermont is urgently needed
in our schools"
The twenty questions given were as
follows:
|. Name the members of President
Taft's cabinet.
2. Name the governors of the six
New England states.
3. Name the six llrgest towns in YER
mont.
4. Name six of the principal natural
products Of Vermont.
D. Name six Of the principal manu-
featured products of Vermont.
g. Name the five largest rivers Of
Vermont.
I. Name the five highest mountain
peaks in Vermont
s. Name the five largest lakes in
Vermont.
0. Name the presidents Of the United
States who Were born in New England
10. Name the six largest cities in
New England
III. What was the Brook farm COM
munlty and who were some of the men
who made it famous2
IL. What poet of national reputation
was a Vermonterl
IL. Name one of the greatest Ameri-
can naturalsts whose home was in New
England.
H. What great New England thinker
and writer is said TO have failed of cleo
ton to an important college professor
ship because he dressed so poorly2
10. Name five great American poets
who We're either born in Massachusetts
or lived much in that state.
l6. Who served longer in the L. 5
Senate than any other man and how
ong was his term of servieel
II. Name three of the greatest OF
American editors who were natives OF
New England.
Is. In what important feature of gov
do the New England states diff
er from all the other states of the ma
ion?
49, From what country was derived
he New England common school system,
which has come into use throughout the
United States?
90 Who was the greatest American
'rator and OF what state was he ma.
i've?
Below are given the correct answers to
he series OF questions:
(ll Philander c. Knox. secretary of
tate; Franklin MacVeagh, secretary OF
he treasury; Harry l.. Stimson, secre-
airy of war; George Won L. Meyer, sea-
etary OF the navy; Walter L. Fisher.
ecretary of the interior: Charles Nagel,
ecretary of commerce and labor James
wilson, secretary of agriculture; George
attorney generals; Frank II.
Hitchcock, postmaster general.
(2l Maine, Frederick w. Plaisted;
lew Hampshire, Robert p. Bass; Ner-
lont, John A. Mead: Massachusetts,
ugene n. Foss; Rhode Island, Aram i.
other; Connecticut, Simeon e. BALI
in.
% Burlington, Rutland. Barre, Ben.
ington, ST. Johnsbury, Montpelier.
az Granite marble, slate, asbestos.
mber and hay.
90 Dairy products, maple products,
'ales, paper, cotton and wooden cloths,
nit underwear.
t6) Otter creek. Wiroosli, Mssisquoi,
amoille and White rivers.
"a Mt. Mansfield killington peak,
lmers Hump Mt. Lincoln, Jay peak.
(Sl Champlain. Memphremagog. Bonn.
een Willoughby and Maidstone.
90 John Adams, John Quincy Adams,
rankin Pierce. Chester a. Arthur.
(l0l Boston, Providence. Worcester.
ew Haven, Fall River. Lowell
al Brook farm was con.munistic
ttement ut West RoNbury.. Mass. The
an included both manual and intel.
,tual labor, in which all were to share,
lille the proceeds were to be held in
mmon. Some of the prominent names
ISOLATED with the scheme were George
pley, Nathaniel Hawthorne Bronson,
colt, Theodore Parker. Emerson, Cur
and Dana.
(i2) John G. Sake.
(l3l Louis J. Agassiz. ANSWERS Civ.
z the name of his son. Alexander Agas.
, were also counted as eorrect)
tlfl Henry d. Thoreau.
tl5l Henry w. Longfellow, John c.