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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18
STATES PAY HALF.
Topographic Mapping by United States
Geological Survey Expedited by the
State Contributions.

Geological Survey Expedited by the
State Contributions.
The topographic map resulting from
the survey of an area by the United
States geological survey becomes at
once the mother map" of that area.
Many maps of the same area may be
made subsequently,, from ordinary
schoolbook maps to special automobile
or road maps, but they are usually based
on the survey topographic map, which
is tied to fixed points such as noun
tains and hills and referred for its va
rious attitudes to mean sea level.
Recognizing the great Importance and
value of such basic map and the fact
that the federal geological survey, with
its trained and experienced topographic
engineers, can most accurately and econ
omically make the map, many of the
states are cooperating with the survey
and coming forward with state money
to equal or more than equal the federal
allotments. In other words. the states
are turning over their money to the
government survey i'm order to expedite
the completion of their state topographic
maps Such cooperation between the
United States geological survey and the
state of Ohio was commenced in 1901,
and since that date the state has APP
prcpriated S270,000 for the purpose, the
federal government expanding 1898 900.
The state of West Virginia has appro-
priated for cooperative work Sl56.000
and the federal government $4,000.
Ia Pennsylvania $l6s,237 has been ex-
pended by the state and like amount
hy the federal government In Illinois
&C operation was begun in 1905. and the
state has since expended 81 ,623 and
the federal government so, 1923. The
state of California inaugurated with
view to a systematic survey of the en-
tire state and since that time has con
tributed $4,000 for the work, which
has been met with an equal amount
OF federal funds. Many other states
have been and are still contributing in
like manner for the purpose of carry
ing to completion as rapidly as possible
the topographic mapping of their I'M
surveyed areas. The total amount of
money contributed by the states for CO.
operative surveys during the current fs-
cal year. is Sl7sO0O. to be met by Sl4s,-
900 of federal funds.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18
ALL YOU NEED IS A
CASCARET TONIGHT
No Sick Headache, Bilious Stomach
Coated Tongue, or Constipated
Bowels by Morning.

Turn the rascals out--the headache,
the biliousness, the Indigestion, the sick,
sour stomach and foul gases-turn them
out tonight and keep them out with
Cascarets.
Millions of men and women take y
Cascaret now and then and never know
the misery caused by lazy liver,
elogged bowels or an upset stomach.
Don't put in another day of distress.
Let Cascarets cleanse and regulate your
stomach; remove the sour, undigested
and fernenting food and that misery
making gas; take the excess bile from
your liver and carry out of the system
all the decomposed waste matter and
poison in the intestines and bowels.
Then you will feel great.
A Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep. A l0-cent box
from any drug store means a clear head
and eheerfulness for months. Children
love to take Cascarets because they taste
good-never grippe or sicken.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18
John F. Hood Killed Himself
With Police Near
HAD ONLY 80 CENTS LEFT
He Was Living With His Sister-in-Law
in New York City, and He Was
Being Sought for Breaking
His Parole.

New York, March 1s.-Preferring
death to returning to state prison, where
he had already served five years for
swindling, John f, Hood killed him-
self Saturday night as he was about
to be arrested. Seeing detectives in
the hall of the furnished room house
at l6l West Thirty-fourth street, where
he lived, and learning from their talk
that they were after him, Hood shot
himself just as the detectives broke in
the door of his room. In the room
at the time was Lillian Downing, ~
years old, of Boston, sister-in. law of
the dead man, with whom he had eloped
to this city seven weeks ago when his
wife got a divorce
Saturday night she was cared for by
sympathetic dodgers in the house and
is to be sent back by her friends in
Boston.
To the police she said that ever since
they came to New York, she and Hood
had been living in the white light dis
triet. They stayed at good hotels, at
tended the opera and went to late sup
pers and cabaret shows until they were
tired of them.
Hood, she said, seemed to have plenty
of money, but she did not know where
he got it. A few days ago his cash
seemed to get low and they moved to
the furnished room in West Thirty
fourth street, When searched, the dead
man had in his pockets only 80 cents.
Detective jackson was after him for
breaking his parole, while Rodgers had
warrants for his arrest on charges OF
swindling by several hotels and former
employers.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18
FOUGHT IN VERMONT CAVALRY.
Colonel Josiah Hall Had Lived in Recent
Years in California.

Josiah Hall, who died Friday at his
home in Fresno, Calf, was born in West
Westminster VT, ON February 5. 1895,
and was educated at the old academy in
Westminster, the Powers institute in
Bernardston, Mass, and at Norwich uni.
versity. Early in the Civil war he en-
listed as a private in Company T of the
First Vermont cavalry. With his mill.
tary schooling. he was designated to
drill the company. and was chosen its
captain before leaving the state. lie
served faithfully through to the end Of
the war, holding the offices of major.
lieutenant colonel, and finally colonel OF
the regiment, known as one Of the best
fighting regiments OF the union army.
While a major he was captured by the
enemy and was confined for ten months
in Libby prison, and was one OF the
fifty officers who, while prisoners, were
placed under fire by the Confederates at
Charleston, s. c. After an exchange OF
prisoners, he reioined his command and
was at the head OF the old Vermont
cavalry when il was starting ont to
lead the charge of the army of Vir-
ginia on the morning of Lees surrender
at AppomattoS.
After the war, Colonel Han married
Miss Della Il. Adams of Montague City,
Mass. and purchased large farm in
Greenfield, where he resided for about
ten years He removed to California
in the early eighties and lived in Pasa.
dena for few years, but about 1890
took up lands near Fresno which became
o valuable and enjoyable estate and his
permanent home He is survived by his
wife, son, George Z. Hall of Fresno,
and daughter, Carrie L. Hall, of the
hotel Lankershim in Los Angeles
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18
Terrible Punishment of Convicts Still
Carried on in Many American
Prisons

| In the March American Magazine,
| Julian Leavitt, who has been studying
prison life in the United States for
years, begins a series of articles which
ought to make stir and lead to mucn
needed regerms. He found it as diff
cult to get actual information about
prison life as to find out what was going
on in the Bastile before the French
rev olution, but he kept on until he has
unearthed the most extraordinary lot
of facts and incidents and truthful pic
lures of life behind the bars. Following
is an extract from his article the facts
for which came from official reports in
Michigan:
"The strait jacket, once a favorite in
most prisons, but now rarely used, was
also found at Marquette. 1t is an in
strument well beloved by the more
brutal keepers, am totld for this afro
cious reason: The internal organs of the
body, as every student of anatomy
knows, are packed as skilfully as only
nature, with its millions of years of ex-
perience. can pack them. But if the
body be encased in strait jacket and
the straps jerked TO the last NOTCH the
delicate internal organs may be per-
manently displaced without leaving any
external evidence.
"A mlder form of punishment is the
cutting up of men by their wrists with
handouts report, already quoted. that
wall or to the upper bars of cell gate
in the bull pen, a special punishment
room. This was frequently used in
Marquette.
alt must be remembered, SAYS the
minority report, already quoted, that
the hands of every convict are drawn up
to the same height. Such position
allows some men chance to rest their
arms somewhat on the cross bars, but it
Others to raise their hands
above their heads and subjects them to
most extreme torture. Men have been
chained continuously in this position for
a period of fifteen days, only getting re-
lief at night when allowed to lie on their
cots. The handouts are never removed
One can probably form some idea of
what it must mean to wait on oneself in
such a condition.
Zone elderly man named Myers, of
excellent conduct, leader of the band,
an eminent citizen in general, was strung
up six DAYS for failure to perform a
task. George II. Hamilton. strung up for
seventeen hours consecutively, lost the
use Of his left hand permanently. Earl
A. Thompson. bookkeeper before he
went wrong. was unslilled as a machins
operator He could only finish thirty.
81 dozens of the forty which his task
,alled for. He was strung up two days.
They were punished for all manner
" trivial offenses. One man WIS pun
Ill TO- ,,sfuor bloclr 4bra.aI fnstoaJ "a
white, another for attempting to send
etter ont of prison against the rules,
mother for breaking needles fire
luent and unavoidable accident in over
III manufacturing.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18
THE NOVELIST WHO COULDN'T.
Locke's Statement of the Essential Quail
tiles That Go to the Making of a
Novelist.

Novelist.
John Risca is one of the important
character in William J, Locke's Stella
Maris," Stella's favorite playmate, her
"geat high belovedest" with her; in
the London world, a disappointed, Bit
ter man. He has personal sorrow of
real tragedy, he has also a grudge
against the world because his work is
not more appreciated. Says Locke of
him in the March Century chapter of
"Stella Maris":
"There are scores of brilliant young
journalists who have published master
pieces of fiction before they are thirty,
and at forty have gone on their knees
and thanked kind, gentle time for his
etTacing fingers; yet the novels have
had some quality of the novel warrant
ing their publication. At any rate, the
brilliant young novelists have believed
in them. They have looked upon their
creation and found that it was good
"But Risca, looking on his creation,
found that it was wood. His people
were as wooden as Mr.. and-Alrs. Ham
in Noah's ark; his scenery was as
wooden as the trees and mountain in
a toy Swiss village; his dialogue as
wooden as the conversation blocks used
by the philosophers of Laputa. He had
said, in an outburst of wrathful resent
ment, that he found his one artistic out
let in aiding to create Stella's land of
and he was right. He was
despairingly conscious of the lack Of
the quick fancy; the power of visual
ization; the sublimated faculty of the
cbild's make believe, creating out of
trumpery bits and pieces glowing
world of romance; the keen, instruc-
tive knowledge of the general motives
Of human action; the uncanny insight
into the hearts and feelings of beings
of sex, class or type different from
his own; the gift of evolving from
tiny broken bone of fact perfect crea
ture indisputably real, coloring it with
the hues of actuality and breathing intof
It the breath OF life-the lack, indeed,
q the essential qualities, artistic and
usually instructive, that go to
The making of a novelist"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18
sToRMED THE JULIUS TOWER.
Queer Freak of American Who Wanted
to See German Treasure House

Berlin, via Glaze Bay, March 49,
Robert w. Poindexter of Los Angeles,
Cal, accompanied by Mr.. Stern, an
American of German descent, ran against
the authorities in an attempt to see
the inside of the Julius tower at Span
dau, where S30,00o,000 is said to be kept
for use in case of war
Mr.. Poindexter told the sentinel that
he wanted to see the commandante and
marched into the tower while the sol
dier's back was turned. There the two
men were detained by the guard while
the police were being summoned. They
were taken to the police station, but
were released when they established
their identity.
Mr.. Poindexter says he is the first
American who was ever inside the tow
er.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18
Worth Mountains of Gold

is the value Mrs. Charles Barclay OF
Graniteville, VT, places upon LYDIA f.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, so
gateful was she for her restoration to
health.
She SAYS: Il was passing through
the change of life and suffered from its
effects with nervousness and other an
moving symptoms. and ] can truly say
that Lydia r. Pingham's Vegetable Com
pound proved worth mountains of gold
to me. as il restored my health and
strength, and for the sake of other
suffering women | am willing to make
my trouble public"
Women who are passing through this
trying period should rely upon Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18
A Common Skin Trouble.

Eczema is the most annoying and most
common of all skin diseases One third
of all skin troubles are eczema in one
of its various forms. The best known
treatment is the new remedy Cadum.
1t is soothing and antiseptic, stops the
terrible itching of eczema at once and
begins healing with the first application.
Cadum can be used with confidence IN
skin and scalp troubles of adults and
infants, and has proved a blessing to
thousands who have suffered for years
from tormenting and disfguring skin
diseases. Cadum is aRticeptic. prevents
infection from disease germs, and should
be in every home for prompt use in
skin troubles. OF druggists, Zoe and 25c
pei, box.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18
Ida M. Tarbel Says That Housewives
Job Is AS Important As Her Hus-
bands.


Ida NJ. Tarbell, writing an article on
"The Business of Being Woman in
the March American Magazine, says:
Marriage j. business as well as
a sentimental partnership. But a bus
mess partnership brings grave practical
possibilities, and this under our pres
ent system, the girl is rarely trained
to face. She becomes a partner in an
understanding where her function is
spending. The probability is she does
know credit from debit, has to learn
to make out a check correctly, and has
no conscience about the fundamental
matter of living within the allowance
which can be set aside for the family
expenses. When this is true of her
she at once puts herself into the rank
of incompetent--she becomes an econ
onic dependent. She has laid the foun-
da tion for becoming an uneasy woman.
at is common enough to hear wom-
en- arguing that this close graphing
with household economy is narrowing
not worthy of them. Why keeping track
OF the cost Of eggs and butter and cal
how much your income will
allow YOU to buy is any more narrow
ing than keeping track of the cost and
quality of cotton or wool or iron and
how much a mill requires,
it is hard to see. II is the same kind
OF a problem Moreover. it has the add.
ed interest of being always an independ-
emf personal problem. Most men work
under the deadening effect of impersonal
routine They do that which others have
planned and for results in which they
have nos hare"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18
wEAvERs STRIKE IN PAsSAIc.
Nearly 800 Go Out and 5000 More May
Follow Suit.

Passaic n j., March Because the
demands for uniform scale and adj
vance in wages were refused $50 weav-
ers, men and women deserted their looms
in the Forstmann, Kaufman and Brigh-
ton mills, joining in the textile strike
now on in several cities in northern
New Jersey. Half dozen men who
hurled stones through windows in the
Brighton factory and threatened nom
strikers on their way to work we're
arrested and held in bail.
Weavers in all the cotton and worsted
mills here. numbering 5000, are being
organized by Henry Katz. who conduct
ed the silk strike in Paterson. They
viii formally present their demands in
another week.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18
Public Rights VS.. Public Health.

A New York dealer in drugs was re-
Gently prosecuted for eounterfeiting the
trademark for Carter's Little Liver
Pills and for selling goods bearing this
counterfeit mark. He was found guilty
and although it was the first offense, the
court refused to impose a fine, but SEN
fenced him to four months imprison-
mont in the penitentiary at hard labor
without the possibility of commutation
for good behavior. Counterfeitng, of
course, is serious crime and as such
should be punished. Nevertheless, there
are more serious crimes such, for in
stance rs adulterating foodstuffs, selling
putrid material for good or dispensing
dangerous habit forming drugs. like CO.
cain, in the shape of soft drinks. All
these crimes against the person-against
the public against the very lives
Of the people Although the government
oil.cials have brought evidence sufficient
to convict over 200 firms or individ-
uals of violating the federal food and
drugs act, and although this act pro-
vides that its violation may be punished
BY imprisonment yet in not a single in
stance has the court imposed any SEN
tence more severe than a fine And tie
majority of the fines have been trivial
to degree. A Canton (Ohio) concern
was convicted of selling soft drink con-
tanning cocain. The court considered Il
s. fine sufficient punishment A St.
Louis house sold powder for infants
that was said to make ''teething" easy;
it contained opium. A $40 fire was
sufficient punishment. An agreeable
and efficient tonic" was found to con-
tair coeain, although the presence Of
this drug was not stated. In this case,
tho court suspended SENTENCED Some
day. says The journal of the Ameri-
can Medical association, court may be
found that will consider the crimes of
making drug iiends of Young people, of
poisoning babies with opium mixtures
or of killing women with headache
powders as more serious oifenses than
thr counterfeiting of the label Of
patent medicine" Appar-
emily, that time is far off.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18

pie has always occupied subordinate
place The Journal of the American
Medical association says that it is sig-
niiicant and encouraging to find these
matters mentioned as of first impor-
lance in the qualifications of candidates
for office
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18
Are Americans Degenerating7

Are the American people degenerating,
physically? Are present modes of life
affecting our size and working abilityg
These important problems are discussed
by DR.. Henry NJ Friedman in an ar
tcle in recent issue of the Journal
OF the American Medical association.
Dr. Friedman, who has had five years
experience as medical inspector at FL
lis island, gives the results of his OBJ
seryation of immigrants and their physi-'
cal condition and then considers the eff
feet of present American methods of
living on future generations, He says
that aside from the effect on our own
physical stamina of the ingestion of a
great number of physically inferior peo-
pie. our own mode of living is fast con-
yerting us into race OF Lilliputians.
There is an undoubted trend away from
work involving the use of muscles. We
are breeding a race of people with big
minds and little bodies. People are will
ing to engage in occupations far more
arduous, though less remunerating, as
long as it is not mental" The trend
in this direction is poor economy be-
cause our bodies are unable to supply
the divers needs of an oyer-active mind.
0veractiyity of the mind leads to physi-
cal exhaustion. In every large center
We see evidences of the strenuous life,"
in the people who walk with their heads
down, fists clenched and looking neither
to the right nor to the left as if they
were "bucking" football line. 1t is
a constant nervous strain-"the pace that
kills" and in bodies often so puny that
the mace does not last lone This might
be well enough if We devoted ourselves
to methods to counterfeit this tendency
and to keep up the balance between
mind and muscle, namely, systematic
physical training or exercises Without
this we will surely degenerate into a.
race of weaklings and neurasthenics.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18
A CARD

We, the undersigned, do hereby agree
20 refund the money on a 50-eeut bottle
ri Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tar, if
il fails to cure your cough or cold. We
also guarantee a 25-cent bottle to prove
satisfactory, or money refunded.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18
Split MIX.

Helen-I positively dread the thought
of my 30th birthday.
Lillian-Why worry over the past,
dearie Judge.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-18
To cuRE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take LAXATIVE BRoMo Quinine Tab
lets. Druggists refund money if it fails
TO cure. E. W. GROVES signature is
on each box, 25c.
The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-07
CHAPTER XVII

R\ ROBABLY nothing ever gave hW rise to more comment in Rad E vile than Betty Graham's de-
 parmre to spend the winter at a boarding school near Philadelphia. Hardly any one knew anything about it--in fact. the rnmOr of 1t was just being noised about and contemptuous- ly discredited on all hands, when Ira cey galoped down Main street Monday morning with the news that she had left on the early traln.
 Radyille was at first stupened. then clamorous. but there was little finfor. nation to be got out of old sam.
 Duncan himself refused to be inter. viewed He told everybody who had the impudence to mention the matter to him that it was MT Graham's af- fair Mir. Graham was substantial business man. he said. and if he chose to send his daughter away to school he had a perfect right to do so.
 One direct result of it all was to hasten Josle's own leave taking. II would never do to let the Grahams eclipse the Lockwoods, you see. Josie had been talking of going to a school in Maryland. but Bettys move to g