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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-21
GREAT OUTPUT OF LIME.
Production for 1912 More Than 3,soo,ooo
Tons.

Figures obtained by the United States
geological survey from the producers OF
lime throughout the country show that
in 1912 the demand for lime was great
er than ever before and that the re.
sulting production was the largest in
the history of the industry. The total
production of lime in 1912 was 1929. 462
short tons, valued at Sl3,970,1I4, as com
pared with 3,392,9l short tons, valued
at $I3,6s9,054 in 1911, an increase of
l36,547 short tons in quantity and $751;
060 in value.
The total number of plants operating
in 1912 was l,0lS, as compared with
/ ,139 in 1911. This decrease in the num-
Der of producers was due in large part
to the activity of small kilns operated
by farmers for burning lime for local
uses as soil sweetener and in part
to the tendency of the industry toward
concentrating plants into fewer and
larger units. The heaviest decrease IN
the number of producers was in Penn
sylvania, a state in which it has been
a common practice for many years for
farmers to burn small quantities of
limestone quarried on their own farms
for private use, and this large decrease
is due almost wholly to the farmers
later practice of buying their lime nj
ready burned and to their use of fertil-
izer in preference to lime.
The five leading states in 1912 were,
in the order of production, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Wisconsin, West Virginia and
Maine. Maine has supplanted Missouri,
which occupied fifth place in 1911.
Pennsylvania, which has long held first
rank in both the quantity and the value
of lime produced, in 1912 made a TO-
tai output of S49,l short tons, valued
at $3.50, APO.
The uses to which lime is put are
many. The quantity of building lime
used in 1912 was l556446 short tons,
which exceeded that of 1911 by 67,S70
tons, but that the value, S65Tl 40, was
SlS4,4l0 less than the value in 1911.
There was a slight increase in the use
of lime by chemical works, paper mills
and tanneries, but decrease in its use
in sugar factories. The use of lime in
fertilizers also increased. the figures for
1912 being 604,607. valued at 81 So. $50,
with 596,664 short tons, valued
at Sl7143S6, in 1911. This increase in
the use of lime on the land may perhaps
be attributed in part to the tendency in
recent years of city people to go back
to the farm or to take up agricultural
pursuits on a scientific basis.
Lime is also used as a plant food; it |
has been tie common practice for farm
ers in some parts of the country to
spread it upon the fields and pillow it
under in order to sweeten the soil. The
use of lime renders available the plant
food already contained in the soil
A copy of the report may be obtained
free on application to the director of
the geological survey. Washington, D. G.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-21
.ROUMANIA
LIMITS JEWS
Citizenship Is to Be Given
to Fifteen Thousand
Only
WE'RE VOLUNTEERS
AGAINST BULGARIA
Several Thousand Are In
eligible, 1t Is
Held

Berlin, Aug. 2l.-The Roumanian gov
eminent, which is planning to confer
full citizenship on Jews serving in the
army in the recent campaign against
Bulgaria, seems bent, according to a
Bucharest dispatch to The Tageblatt. on
restricting its action to the narrowest
limit. The Roumanian war office has
just served notice on several thousand
Jewish volunteers, according to the
that they were illegally mus
tered in and that they viii be sent home.
The governments favor, therefore, if
limited to actual soldiers, viii affect
only $4,000 regulars out of the Jewish
population of 100000.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-21
A Hunchback Who Has Helped Make
History.

In the Interesting People" depart.
ment Of the August American Magazine
appears an article about Henry Abra.
hams, little hunchback, who has been
one Of the most powerful influences in
the building up Of labor unions in Bos.
ton. He has held every office in his
own union, the eigarmakers', has run
against Wendell Philips for the gem
eral court, and played no inconsiderable
part in history. He has ended as he be-
gan-poor; partly because he insisted
ON helping Others less fortunate than
be, Following is an extract from .he
sketch:
Daylight peers into a small Roxbury
tenement home grim with frosted win.
dows and cold walls door is opened
quietly, and there limps into the kitchen
a misshapen, understood lad of fourteen.
lie tumbes for match, strikes it, holds
il to paper and boards in the kitchen
stove and stands watching the Pickering
blaze. A hunched little man enters,
eoatless, specialized, cheerful, with over.
long watch chain dropping across a soiled
vest that seems to bind shoulders and
chest tightly into one. A woman fol-
lows, and one by one family Of seven
more. They array themselves about the
kitchen tablea hungry little group, all
save the mother, woman
known to weep at sound of plaintive
music.
"The father rises, dons a shining frock
coat reaching almost to his knee, mods
to the mother. murmurs cheerful good
by to the children. then goes his slow
way to Appleton street, Boston, and
dingy Office where two bookkeepers IN
are at work A colored ban
ner in a wall case and SCARED soilad
chairs disordered about a long Uttered
table betoken the office of a labor I'M
ion. The bent little man sitting with
one knee over the other at the large
desk in the corner is the secretary.
'sHe was born in Buffalo; at thirteen
he completed common school educa-
tion there, His father, hunched man
over cane, and his sister, a
MANNED girl who could not walk, urged
that cigarmaking was the trade most
'ongruous with his physical capabilities
He became apprentice to a cigarmaker,
md journeyed to Boston when the war
spirit was still in the air. There he be
anne a pioneer in the uplifting of labor
He held every office in
his union; now for 20 years he has
received bit over SO day as its sec
'etary. He has been delegate to ma
ienal labor conventions. candidate for
he general court with Wendell Phillips, |
/ member of committees appointed by
he governor of Massachusetts. He |
lelped to form the Boston Central La
,or union and for is years has been
is secretary. His salary for this work
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-21
Ambassador Page on the Country Lif
Problem.

problem.
"The largest problem that faces Amer
lean civilization to-day is the building
up of country life" declares Walter H.
Page, ambassador to England, in bull
letin on Education in the South just
issued by the United States bureau of
education. 1--WE have Just passed
through a period of organization of the
machinery of the modern world, making
the city and the railroad, but the coun-
try has been left out. Now we must
build it up. We all know that in the
coming centuries, as in the past, the
character and the vision of American
life will come from the soil.
''In our early days the characteristics
of the people of the United States was
individualism. Great as this was for
the cause of democracy, it rested upon
false economic basis. A mans home
cannot be his castle, for he is mutually
linked as us brothers keeper whether
larger liberty and larger opportunity
have come upon us as the task for our
working hours. We must organize in
the country"
Speaking of the work of the confer
eOce iOf euuCdblou III tnc south, TO
which the bureaus bulletin is chiefly de-
voted, Mr.. Page said:
"The historian of the progress of de-
mocracy could not write more thrill
ing chapter than the events of the past
10 or Is years, taking as the cue the
note of the conference fo-~ education in
the South. We began with the school
and the child and we end with them, of
course; but every step has been toward
a widening democratic ideal to see how
we could teach one another, and we have
come to have a broadening sense of all
that cooperation means.
"To till the soil, to train the children,
to make the home, work of continuous
human service, l count these the greatest
privileges that can fall to the lot of
man. We have worked on a program to
bring to pass the dream of the fathers,
that our republic shall be and remain
the home of the world
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-21
ORDERS SAILORS PUNISHED
Secretary Daniels Issues Orders for Those
in Seattle Riots

Washington, Aug 2l.-Secretary Dan
iels has directed the punishment of the
sailors of the Pacific fleet who partici-
pated in the destruction of Industrial
Workers of the World and Socialist
property in Seattle July II and is, if
they can be identified, though he Sc
verely condemns the civilians who abused
the sailors and the American flag.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-21
NERVOUS
PROSTRATIoN
Severe Case of a Philadelphia
Woman-Her Symptoms.
Philadelphia, Pa. 81 had severe
case of nervous prostration, with palpl-

tatlon OF the nearC,
constipation, head
aches, dizzin IS s,
noise in my e ars,
tinid, nervous, rest
less f e e lin gs and
sleeplessness.
" ! read in the pa
per where a young
W 0 m a n had been
cured of the same
troubles by taking
lydia E. pinkham's
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-21

Twenty two states, including Hawaii,
now employ state foresters.
A ll5-foot lookout tower on the Sit
greaves national forest, Arizona, just
constructed by forest officers, was built
entirely out Of logs and without the
use of hosting machinery other than
ropes and tackle blocks.
Forest officers on the Fayette ma
tional forest are using compressed
air drill in road work on the forest.
There is considerable rock work to do
and the drill save time and money in
cutting grades on mountain roads.
In an experimental test track near
GAINESVILLE, Wis, an inspection just made
showed that hemlock and tamarack ties
put in the track without preservative
treatment were decayed after five and
two thirds years service Those which
had been treated were practically as
good as when first laid.
Light burning of underbrush to re-
move forest litter had been practiced in
India, with the idea that it improves
conditions for teak growing. Now, aft
er long investigations, forest officials
there say that the fires are harmful,
that full fire protection must be extend
ed, and that to be really effective this
protection must be continuous.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-21

G!sizI gl
- Insist Upon
e esNussE HORl-lCK'S
Take No Substitute

More healthful than tea or coffee.
Agrees with the weakest digestion.
Keep it on your sideboard at hcme-
A quick lunch prepared in a min ite.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-21

Rich mix, matted grain. in powder form.
For infants. invalids and growing children.
Pure nutrition, upbulding thewhole body.
Inugorates nursing mothers and the aged.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-21
FOREST NOTES

Twenty-Five states, including Hawaii,
now employ state foresters.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-22

brother committed suicide some years
ago.
BODIES UNRECOGNIZABLE.
The three bodies recovered in the
northwest corner of the basement of
the residence, under that portion CT
the structure where the members of,
the family had their sleeping quar-
tiers, are believed to be those of Mrs.
Sternweis, the 9 year old son and the
babe The bodies were burned into
almost unrecognizabie masses. The
limbs and heads were entirely gone
and all that remained to assist in iden-
tification were the charred trunks and
the bones. 1t seemed almost positive
that the larger of the bodies was that
of the mother. 1t seemed almost as
certain that the smaller body was that
of the babe and that the other was
that Of the boy.
The body believed to be that of Mr..
Sternweis was found in what had been
the basement of the barn, 100 feet or
more removed from the residence, in
a northeasterly direction. 1t was found
on top of the iron work Of what had
been a hay loader and which mad evil
IDENTIFY been stored on the second floor
of the barn, which was a bank" af-
fair. This had led to the belief that
Mr.. Steinweis committed suicide D.
hanging and that after the fire burned
the rope with which he hanged him
self, his body dropped onto the ,Ga-
chinery.
However, this body was so badly
burned that 1t was impossible to do
little more than recognize that it was
/ that Of mature human being.
! BUILDINGS SET FIRE.
That the death of the five persons
and the burning of the buildings was
the result of generalization and not
an accident in airy sense IS attested
by the fact that the granary, standing
90 or rs feet southwest OF the barr
and 100 feet east of the residence was
not burned, though it had been set on
fire. A partition in the granary waa
badly charred, but not sufficiently Il
wipe out the evidence that kerosene
had been used. An ordinary cork step
per. kerosene soaked. was also found
in the granary, while lying close b.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-22

family might have been murdered
and the buildings fired by outside
persons. Some credence to this idea
was given when the statement of
other neighbors was made that Mr..
Sternweis had a safe in his house and
hat a times lie nai considerable
S AS OF money .hera
POsTPONEs INQUEST.
Coroner Noelker stated, after re
turning to the city with the bodies
that probably he would not hold an in,
quest for several days.
Before leaving the scene OF the
tragedy he appointed three meu t.
guard the property until he returns
there on Friday morning to max fur
thei investigation of the ruins after
the fire has died out.
The stock, COWS, hogs and horses o.
which there are a large number, Will
be looked after by uG'ghbors temper
arily, that they may moi suffer foi
water or feed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-22
ENTIRE TOWN OF
CARDIFF IS SOLD
Kankakee Capitalists Acquire
from Coal Company Prac-
tically Whole Village.

Kankakee, ILL.,, Aug. 22.-One Of the
largest deals negotiated in this vicin-
ity in recent years was made public
yesterday with the announcement that
l. w. Powell, Kankakee photographer,
and Fred G. Snow, farmer and capital
list, had purchased practically the en-
tire town of Cardiff, a mining town
located at the extreme west end of
Kankakee county.
The purchase includes a total of
over IS buildings, including store, ice
house, a big tower and II dwelling
houses, and involves many thousands
of dollars. The buildings are insured
at the present time for $4,000.
The purchase was made from the
owners Of the town, the Cardiff Coal
company of Chicago, and work will be
started in the immediate future by
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-22

where the fire had been started were
four matches, which had evidently
been dropped there by the person
starting the fire.
Another strange thing in connec
ton with the case was the finding ii
the yard near the residence of II
loaded shot gun cartridges, II gauge
They were fully loaded with powder
and shot. They had been reloaded for
it appeared that all of them had been
used before.
1t was claimed by some of the neigh
bors that Mr.. Steinweis had never
owned a gun and that the finding Of
these cartridges indicated the whole
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-22

sisters, as nearly as could be Learned
from neighbors who were on the
scene of the tragedy. Thursday morn
ing. They are as follows: Mrs. Caro-
line Gester, Monleih, Wis; Mrs. Mary
Hilmer, Monleih, Wis; Mrs. August
Boehne, Waterloo, Iowa; and Mrs.
Fred Hammerand Of Dubuque. A
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-22

Messrs. Powell and Snow in the remov-
al of the entire lot of buildings to Kan,
kakee, thereby practically removing
the entire town from its present site
and leaving an abandoned vicinity
where once stood a prosperous little
mining town.
The town was built by the Indiana
Illinois & Iowa railroad in 1909. AT
the same time the Cardiff mine was
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-22

sunk. 1t was operated for few years
and later abandoned on account of coal
gas, which. killed a number of miners,
and whose bodies are still buried with
in the mine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-22
Biz TANGO Dance,

Exposition park Saturday and Sun.
club.-(Adv.)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-01
EARLY START FOR
HUNTING GROUNDS
Opening of Season Finds Hun
dreds of Local Sportsmen
Already in the Field.

enough guns to make good Car
rama boast that he could defeat
liuerta in ninety days will be should
eF.d To-Day by sturdy Americans but
r"oo'ts. MOI MeNicans. will lie the tar
Gcts NJ which they will be pointed
me break OF dawn ushers i'm tho am
hual hunting season, not only in Vir
Slnia. but in practically every stare
III the Union. and, If the precedents
are followed. the FIRST day crowd will
bc me largest and the slaughter the
newest OF any one day in the year
liuhdreds of sportment have eagerly
waited for the opening OF the season.
ana many. unable to restrain them
selves longer, hicd to the country yes-
tcrdhy in order to be early In the field
inns morning, and the popping OF their
gnus will rcverbcratc over the tree
tops and hills long before the sun rises
over the horizon
The scene last night at the South
ern hallway Station resemblcd n call
to arms. on every side we're khaki
clad hunters scurrying around. Dogs
were tied TO every available post. aud
even the seats in the waiting room
were Uttered with sporting paraphcr-
MALTA. The baggage cars of outgoing
trains We're completely filled with dogs
while the coaches were crowded with
men eagerly discussing the prospects
or carefully nursing n favorito gun.
Amelia and Powhatan Counties are
the favored spots for local huntsmen.
llenrico, Chesterfield and Hanover have
been thoroughly hunted over, and for
several years the drift has been toward
the less thickly settled districts TO the
South. The season In these five coun-
ties has not been curtailcd, although
efforts have been made In each TO have
the supervisors declare the open sea
son from December ] to January ! ,
instead OF from November l.
1Na.f,. ..fv II
rabbits and squirrels. Deer, wild tur-
key and numbers of other animals and
birds are also In season. The crowd
on the first few days OF the season is
always the heaviest. because all those
who are able 10 get off, prefer getting
into the field before IL has been picked
over and before too much game has
been killed
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-01
TRAFFIC IS BLOCKED
DURING RUSH HOUR
Cars on Broad Street Tied Up
for Twenty-Three
Minutes.

y blockade of tranlo lasting twenty
three minutes was caused on Broad
street n; 9 o'cloclt last night by tho
dcrailncnt OF Il laurel Street car at
Laurel and Brond trcets 1t was ut
the hour when thousands OF people
We're going home from their places or
business. and tho congestion was 90
great thGt hundreds OF people left tho
street cIrs and went home on foot
Ercad and Main cars were switched
around the blocladed district by being
run up seventh Sttcct into Clay and
then pack on Rroad by Hancock. Other
cars We're turned pack at Eiba and AT
First street
Before the biocknde ended, there was
almost I, solid line o: cars from Layrel
70 seventh street. and people wondered
what caused tie delay II took some
;ime 10 place tie car back on the
tracks though wrecking crew was
soon upon tao sccne, The derailment
occurred At switching point, tho
motormGn rnnnits his car too far on
tho cFoss-Cve
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-01

have had the essence OF prophecy Tho
writer continues:
When the sun opened his. eve and
oroVe darkness from tho City Hall lot.
people began to assemble. They want
cd to see the Initial steps taken To-
wards the erection OF Richmond.s pet
scheme--:t new City Hall. built by day
labor and OF Virginia material.
sure enough, the Committee on
Grounds and buildings was on hnno.
ana THOMAS kendler, always good
looking. never appeared more hand
some. All of the committee we're tber,
ana In splendid spirits. and tho morn
broke clear and bright. There stood
also Colonel Wilfred H. Cutshaw. who
WIZ. Tor the next two years. have his
h'has iuii as chief supervisor OF the
work or construction"
The groundbrcaking Incident ia Do.
scribed best by The State the city'a
afternoon paper OF the day The H.,
sue Of Wednesday, afternoon. Septam
per /, 1856 tells or the gathering OF
sevcra! hundred people by $50 o'clock
IN the morning 10 witness the cere
muuy.
The crowd INCLUDED tho City En-
Eineer, and his STAFF. members OF tho
council, and Il large gathering OF men
"hu women Ground was broken
promptly on the stroke OF Z. Tho
State tells II thus;
Little Lucille Pizzlni. the youngest
daughter OF Councilman Andrew Piz-
Hini beautiful child, dressed In q
dark navy blue Mother Hubbard with
Il lam cShantcr cap sitting tauntily
on her head, stepped forward CARRYING
III her hand bright cleaning spade
which she stuck In the ground and
pressing tho Same deep into the earth
brought up the first shovclful OF dirt
ana threw II into the cart \ tremend-
o'is cheer arose from tho assembled
multitude. Master Ulysses Bland, son
OF Councilman Ira Bland. then bega,,
10 dig with \ pick. which was forge,
by his father for this purpose
After the earth had been lossened
hy this gallant little fellow, the little
curly -haircd Lucille threw one dozen
shoNels OF dirt into the cart While
ne iittle miss was NJ work she was
Justify checrcd by the crowd, and ar
immense iirecraclscr. called Jumbo. was
iircd by Mr George w. Myers OF the
nrm OF j.. i. Myers * Co. architects
OF the new hall. Captain w c. VIII
kerson presented TO Lucille mag
nifccnt bouquet of flowers with tho
compliments of Mr. James o. Hoopern
IN one particular 1t least the Wink
prophet missed his mark Colonel
Cutshaw spent not two. but seven and
a hair years In supervising the con-
struction OF the city Hall The cor
ncr-stone was laid on April S. 1887, but
rs dedication did not como until Feb
ruary Is, 1921.
When little Lucille, OF the blue
Mother Hubbard, started the big uu-
dertaking with her toy shovel, the
Mayor was Freshman George Alnslte at
the Virginia Military Institute. He ao-
mittcd yesterday that the barracks
never held more homAsick rat.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-01
MAYOR TO SPEAK
ON CITY PROBLEMS
School Authorities Secure Prom;.
nent Men to Aid in Course
of Lectures.

Mayor George Ainslie will speak TO
the people OF Fulton in the auditorium
OF Nicholson School Oh next Tuesday.
taking for his subject Tho City Gov
ernment.' This is the first OF n series
or lectures on civic topics which Will
be delivered by prominent public men.
The aim is 10 give the electorate an in
sight into the problems of local and
state government by having the Official
heads or these departments give them
irst-hand information concerning the
duties OF their Offices and how they are
discharged. The next lecture will be
delivered by Governor Mann.
Following the discussion OF civic
topics. series of lectures on voca
tional guidance will be delivered. Sew
eral well-known employers will give n
description Of the working conditions
III their plants, chances of promotion.
health and moral conditions.
Another feature to be inaugurated at
the school will be reading room.
which VIII be kept open three night &
each week The school library will be
used. and popular periodicals Will be
obtained. Games of chess, dominoes
ana checkers will also be provided
~ manual arts course has been In
troduced ut the night. school shop
work. cooking aud sewing now being
Taught. Cooperation is give the school
by employers. who examine tho re-
ports of the scholars, and base their
promotions on meritorous work done
III tho school