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Middletown transcript., 1914-08-29
.PlMPLES ITCHED AND BURNED

Route No. 8, Dadeville, Ala.-"T was
troubled with a terrible breaking out
between my shoulders and down to
my hips. It came in pimples and my
back looked very red and raw. It
itched and burned so that sleep and
rest were impossible and l could not
sleep any hardly for weeks. Ny
clothes irritated my back till it got
so sore 1 had to have a soft cloth
pinned to my shirt.
CAS- heard Of Cuticura Soap and
Ointment for years bought a cake Of
Cuticura Soap and box of Cuticura
Ointment and to my surprise and joy
my itching and burning had disap-
peared. My back had been so raw
and infamed could not lie on it and
the first application brought relief. l
washed my back twice a day with a
strong lather Of Cutlcura Soap and
then applied the Cuticura Ointment.
In two weeks I was sound and well
and have never been troubled since"
(SignedD ]. D. Abernatty, Jan. 26, 1914.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample Of each
tree, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L. Boston. ADV.
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From His Point of View.

why aren't you over in Europe
fighting for your country?" asked thu
American of the European who wanted
a nickel to get a drink.
'I fought over dere once" answered
the foreigner.
"Ah! And did you stand you
ground when a real battle Gamer"
mo, sir; ruined away"
What! You ran at the first shot?"
"Yessir, mister, An If know. leet
come sooner, run before dat!"
That's an awful confession of COW
ardice. Do you consider your life
worth more than other peoples lives
Is your life worth more than the life
of your brave captain, of your valor-
GUS colonel, your intrepid general?"
"Yessir, it be worth more"
What do you mean, worth more?"
Worth more to me, amt it?"
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Of an aggressive war for at least a
century.
Even if the Germans bread through
the line of the allies or turn it on the
north or the south they will not find
the roads to Paris unobstructed. The
allies are not likely to put all their
money on one card, strong though that
card may be. The roads to Paris are
guarded by growing forces which at
present will not take any part in the
fighting. The battle line from Hol-
land to Switzerland is merely the first
barrier the Germans must clear.
Chicagoan Tells Of Trip.
Louis A. Dumond, the Chicago
municipal investigator, has reached
London after a fortnight of interest
ing and severe experiences in Ger
many and Belgium.
August 3, while was in Hamburg,
the army began to mobilize" said Mr..
Dumond. Troop trains were running
in all directions and the regular sched-
ules were reduced hourly. The Amer
ican consul advised me to leave i'm
mediately and escape to London by
way Of Belgium. left Hamburg the
same afternoon and was due on the
Belgian frontier at 1890 a. m. The
train was delayed at every station and
at Cologne we were forced to wait two
hours. We reached the German from
tier town Of Herbesthal at ten o'clock
the next morning.
There we found that the Germans
had violated the neutrality Of Belgium
and were marching in the direction of
Liege. The Belgians had destroyed
the railroad from Herbesthal to Yer
viers, which place 1 managed to reach.
The trains had stopped running and it
was impossible to return to Germany,
as Americans had been ordered to
leave that country.
Says Roads Were Blocked.
Il made numerous attempts to get
through Liege ahead Of the German
army, but was unsuccessful, either be-
cause the roads were blocked or was
turned back by German bayonets. The
banks were closed and no shops, ho-
tells or business men would cash
checks, recognize letters Of credit or
trust any one. English and American
travellers had little Belgian money and
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SUMMERTIME DAIRY RATION
BY Supplying Supplemental Feeds
Each Pasture Will Satisfy Greater
Number of Cows.
CBy NJ. ALBRECHT.)


By feeding the cows well during the
summer, we have many points to be
considered.
Each pasture lot will keep a greater
number Of cows in prime condition
and proftably. The pasture land will
not deteriorate in value as it would
if overstocked.
We consider that the cows that are
kept in excellent shape throughout the
summer months by supplying them
with both grass and dry rations will
not consume such a large quantity Of
either as they would if fed on a single
ration Of grass.
When winter feeding sets in the
cows will have become more thor
oughly accustomed to eating grain and
roughage and there will need to be no
change in the feeding-just a slight
increase in the quantity with no bad
effects brought on as is usually the
case when the change of feed is made
from grass to heavier rations.
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CUTTING FEED FOR THE CALF
Kafr and Corn Thoroughly Mixed by
Use Of Device and Youngsters
Cleaned Up Mixture.

bought "a calves last summer
which l put in my feed lot on August
Is. Some of these calves had been on
pasture with their mothers, others had
been handled, and it was quite prob
lem to get them used to change Of
feed. The feed had for these calves
was green corn, kAfr and prairie hay.
/ soon found there was too much
waste in hauling this feed into the lot
and allowing them to do their own
picking, writes ]. K. Welch of Eureka,
Kan, in Farmers Mail and Breeze.
then went to my work shop and made
the feed cutter illustrated. The body
is made Of a by II inch board four
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TOMATOES BY THE MILLION.
C. and D. Canal Crowded With
Boats.

Chesapeake City. - Thousands Of
baskets of tomatoes have passed
through the Chesapeake and Della.
ware Canal here from New Jersey to
the canneries in Baltimore. 1t is
estimated that before the season
closes 1900, 900 baskets will have pass
ed through the canal. During the last
week 109, ,424 baskets were shipped, for
which the farmers received $4,000.
The first week of the season so boats
loaded with 100000 baskets passed
through the canal; the second week
more than 100 boats loaded with over
100000 baskets. One day 255 boats
passed through, loaded with 10000
baskets. The large number of boats
passing through the canal has made
it necessary to keep the big steam
pump, which pumps 2,225,000 gallons
Of water from Back creek into the
canal, running night and day in order
to keep the water level at the proper
height
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Highest coIored Butter.

Green grass is probably richer in
carotin than any other dairy feed.
Cows fed on it will therefore produce
the highest colored butter. Green
corn, in which xanthophylIs constitute
the chief pigment, will also produce
highly colored product. On the 9TH
er hand, a ration Of bleached clover
hay and yellow corn is practically de-
void Of yellow pigments and the milk
from cows fed upon it will gradually
lose its color. 1t is. of course, indis-
putably true that the breed does influ-
ence the color Of the milk fat; but
vary the ration and there will be a
corresponding variation in the color OF
the milk fat in each breed.
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The PIIurlm.

Alfred Noyes, the exponent Of pay
ing poetry" told a good story a
Princeton.
"One morning" he said, my work
was interrupted by westerner. He
rushed in on me enthusiastically. He
bruised my hand with the power of his
cordial clasp. He made me sit down
and write my name so times on q
sheet Of foolscap that he drew from his
pocket-he wanted to distribute, he
explained, my autograph among all his
friends. He even urged me to write
poem for him-to dash a poem on
while he looked on. This failing, he
would not go till l had read him =
good half-dozen selections from my
works"
Mr.. Noyes sighed.
And all the time,' he ended, the
duffer called me Boyes."
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diers. Apart from this the Germans
appeared to treat the citizens well and
paid for their supplies. The larger
portion Of the population who work in
the woolen mills are reduced almost
to starvation. The Germans buy most
of the meat, bread and other supplies,
and no supplies can be brought in
from the outside.
"At Herbesthal we were searched
and examined by German officers, and
were then allowed to take a military
train to AK La Chapelle, from which
place we got cab to the Dutch from.
tier. At the village Of Baaz they told
US that we could get train to Mas
tricht. On arriving there we found
the Dutch army modified, practically
all the trains used for soldiers and the
main roads and bridges blockaded to
resist an army of 100000 German sol
diers Just outside.
I'VE deemed it inadvisable to wait
at Maastricht for a possible train, and
the next day we hired an automobile.
This broke down at ten o'clock that
night. The chauffeur worked frantic
ally two hours to repair the machine,
but at midnight announced that it was
impossible to run on account of a fat
tire. Finally he consented to go on.
Left Stranded In Auto.
"At 1 a. m. we were still twelve
miles from Helder, whittier we were
going. The chauffeur stopped in the
village Of Durne. He refused to bulge
and left US stranded in the middle OF
the road while he reused nearly every
one in the village in search Of a horse
and carriage. He returned in an hour
or so and announced that it was i'm
possible to reach Helder, and that we
must spend the night in Durne. The
next morning we got a train from
Durne to Rotterdam. We found that
city flooded with Americans from all
parts of Europe, most Of them pos
sessed Of only the clothes they were
wearing. The next morning we caught
train to Flushing, and thence came
on a crowded boat to England.
German officers in Liege assured
US that they had captured the forts,
driven the Russians back on the east
ern frontier and would be in Paris in
two weeks.
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MARYLAND
AT ANNAPOLIS
PLANS FOR MARYLAND WEEK.
Exhibition Will Be Held In Fifth Regi
ment Armory.

Exhibition Will Be Held In Fifth Regi.
ment Armory.
Plans for the annual Maryland Week
Exhibition to be held in the Fifth Regi-
ment Armory, November 1921, are
assuming definite proportions. and, ac-
cording to those in charge, it will be
the best exhibition of the States agri-
cultural resources ever held in this
city. The week of November 16 has
been designated as Maryland Week by
four Of the largest agricultural organ
izations in the State and they will
unite in holding their annual exhibit
tions during that week. They are: The
Maryland State horticultural Society,
the Maryland Crop improvement Asso-
citation, Maryland State Dairymen's
Association and the Maryland State
Beekeepers' Association.
Maryland Week has become a dis
tinct feature in the State and is
looked forward to with much interest
by both city and rural people and has
been arranged with view to afford
ing an opportunity for the display of
the States agricultural resources and
reunion of city and country people.
With this end in view, the officers Of
the association have solicited the CO.
operation Of the business interests of
the city and it is expected that this
years exhibition will far exceed and
excel any previous meeting.
One of the features of this years
meeting that is expected to enlist the
interest of the young men and boys of
the rural districts is the essay con-
test. The subject will be why the
Maryland Farmers Boy Should Re-
main on the Farm" The essay for the
young women and girls to show their
talent will be "How School Conditions
in Rural Life in Maryland Can Be
Bettered by the Daughters of the
Maryland Farmers" Handsome prizes
are to be given the winners in these
contests as well as for the blue-ribbon
winners in the farm product exhibits.
Robert L. Graham is president of the
Maryland State Horticultural Society;
Charles W. Michael, of Perryman, Nd,
president of the Maryland Crop I'M
provement Association; Samuel M.
Shoemaker, of Eccleston, Nd, is presi-
dent of the Maryland State Dairymen's
Association, and ]. R. .Abercrombie, of
this city, is president of the Maryland
State Beekeepers' Association.
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cording to directions on the bottle and
she is cured of this trouble. She was
all run down when she started taking
the Compound and her periods did not
come right. She was so poorly and
weak that l often had to help her dress
herself, but now she is regular and is
growing strong and healthy. Mrs.
MARTIN HELvIG, Plover, Iowa.
Hundreds Of such letters expressing
gratitude for the good Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has accom-
plished are constantly being received,
proving the reliability of this grand old
remedy.
If you are i'll do not drag along and
continue to suffer day in and day out but
at once take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound, woman's remedy for
woman's ills.
II yOu want special advice write to
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confl.
dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter viii
be opened, read and answered by q
woman and held in strict confidence
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GERMAN WAR BOOK
IS AID TO FOES
Take Advantage Of Bernhardi':
Strategy Treatise.
WATCH oUTFLANKING MOVES
TeutonIo Principle Is to Attack All
the Time With Superior Force
and "oVerIap" - Stories
Of Refugees.

London.-There is the best reason
for believing that the Anglo-Franco-
Belgian armies will take full advantage
Of the candid exposition Of German
military strategy contained in the book
written by General Bernhard Of Ber-
lin. writes Edward P. Bell to the Chi
cago News. The German principle,
according to this authority, is to at
tack all the time in superior strength
and always to overlap" In other
words, the Germans, said General
Bernhard, when the war with France
came, would hurl themselves with lr-
resistible force against certain points
In the French line of defense and at
the same time outfank the enemy on
the north and south.
Allies Watch Flank Moves.
The allies are especially vigilant in
watching for these outfankng or en-
veloping movements They have every
confidence that their center Of defense
is proof against any assault however
formidable. The allies expect to stand
firm against the invaders, permitting
them to break wave on wave against
the line of forts, guns, rifles and noun
tains until they are seriously shattered
and wasted and until the Russians de-
mand attention on the east.
Then the defensive armies expect to
issue from their trenches, earthworks
and mountain covers and take the
offensive. The object Of this offensive
will be to seize sufficient territory to
compel the Germans, hard pressed as
they are expected to be by the Rus
SLAMS, to conclude a peace which will
be regarded by the democratic nations
as safeguarding Europe from the perils
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"a desperately exhausting fight it is,
dispersed as they are in parties over
their immense front The wounded
German prisoners, as they came in,
were treated with Just the same care
and their death was digniAed with the
same respect as were our own friends.
II was even allowed to speak to
some Of the wounded prisoners in their
own language. Not one had a word OF
complaint.
Poor fellows! They all believed
they had been fighting against the
French"
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Extravaqant TIPS.

In the town of York Harbor, Me-,
where large proportion of the leisure
classes of the Hub goes in the sum-
mer, there is a very small boy by the
name of Allen. Last Sunday they took
him to church. All went well, and not
a sound was heard from him till after
the sermon was over and the usher
was passing the plate.
The little fellow dropped in some
money as directed, but when he gazed
upon the digniied, frock coated plate
7asser he could contain his curiosity
no longer
Mother" he said, why do we pay
that feller? He amt done nothing!"
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WAS WAITING FOR REAL HEAT
At t14 in the SHADE. Farmer Didn't
See Necessity for Shortening
HOURS of Labor N the Field.

A st. Louisian who Responded to the
Macedonian cry for help from the
Kansas wheat fields tells this story:
"The farmer told US we were to
work ten hours day, but that when
1t got hot he would knock of an hour.
One day, after we had been out in the
blazing sun until we were painting for
breath, we came in to dinner to find
the mercury up to ia. We thought
the farmer would say something about
short hours that afternoon, but he
didn't AS we started out to work l
said to him:
lone hundred and fourteen in the
shaded
"'Yes, he answered. DO you feel
It much?
"No,' I said, I don't mind It par
ticularly; but when does it get hot out
here?"
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As He Saw II

Mr.. William H. Maxwell, superin-
tendent of New Yorks public schools.
quotes with no little zest a compost
ton, based on a moving picture play,
that boy Of ten wrote. The best
paragraph ran:
"The villun curled his mustarsh, and
seeing the pure vurgin shreeks ha ha
be mine or deaths blud is on my head
this dagger stabs thee to thy utermost
sole ha ha ha vengunze vengunze. But
the good hero kurses and says o hev-
ins hevins stur one step and thy ded
body lies at my door. lay one parm
on the vurgins korpse and it was bet
ter if you was drownd with a mill
stone. Avarnt avarnt from this sweet
korpses presunz. YOUTHS Compan-
ION
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Cutting Corn for sIIo.

Corn for the silo can be cut either
by hand or by machine. Hand cut
ting is practiced on farms where the
amount Of corn to be harvested is so
small as to make the expense of pur-
chasing corn harvester too great to
justify its use. Hand cutting is slow
and few localities now where the pur-
chase Of a harvester would not be a
profitable investment.
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No Chance for Him.

William Dean Howells is the presi-
dent of the American Academy Of Arts
and Letters, and in Mr.. Howells' pres
ence in Boston one day novelist Of
the best seller" type had the bad taste
to ridicule our limitation French acad-
emy," as he called it.
Mr.. Howells listened to the novelist
with his good-natured smile, and then,
with his good-natured laugh, he said:
Our American academy is like
death. People never joke about it un-
less they know it's very far away"
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Miss ReehIer To Wed.

Annapolis = Commodore W. H.
Beehler, U. S. N. (retired), and Mrs.
Beehler, of Annapolis, announce the
engagement of their daughter, Stella,
to Ensign Theodore D. Ruddock, Jr.,
U. S. N. Ensign Ruddock was gradu-
ated from the Naval Academy in the
class of 1914 and is at present as
signed to duty on the battleship Utah
In Mexican waters. His home is in
South Carolina. Ensign Ruddock was
captain of the navy rifle team this
spring. The date Of the wedding has
not been fixed.
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Two Is COMPANY,

They strolled together along the
sands of the seashore. He was smok.
ing placidly, but her eyes roved about
the deserted beach and the empty
ocean. Suddenly she stopped, threw
up her hands, and turned on him.
How utterly deadly dull it is here, "
she cried. Not one single human be-
ing to flirt with. You, at least, have
me-but whom, in heavens name,
have II"
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most Of US had to rent the cheapest
kind Of rooms and buy food in the
shops, thus living on a few cents q
day. The Germans seized Vervierc,
suppressed the newspapers and sub
jected the inhabitants to strict control.
Every window facing the street had
to be closed. The houses were shut
and in the evening nobody was al
lowed on the streets.
Prevented From Leaving the City.
For many days every one was pre-
vented from leaving the city. Horses,
automobiles and every other means Of
conveyance were appropriated by the
Germans unless the owners could show
credentials from the German army
The Belgian citizens were reduced to
state Of terror. Cannonading began
at noon, August 4, and was incessant
day and night, rain or shine. Houses
trembled, windows ratified and at first
it was impossible to sleep because of
the noise. Afterward we got quite
used to the uproar.
Il saw 1000 or 5000. Belgian prison
ers marched through the streets of
VerViers and it was pitiful to watch
the crowds of relatives, fathers, moth
ers, wives and sweethearts running
beside the prisoners trying to throw
bread and cigars to them. The cap
tives were not given time to catch
the gifts, but were ruthlessly hurried
on by the German soldiers. We Amer
leans sympathized heartily with the
Belgians. Persons who had escaped
from Liege told US that the Germans
had taken three forts, caused a small
fire in the city and captured $500 pris-
oners.
Citizens Shot at Liege.
August IA a party consisting of two
other Americans, myself and two Eng
lishmen and a Frenchman obtained
from the German commandant passes
to return to Herbesthal on the way to
AK la Chapelle. Armed with these. we
attempted to get a conveyance to the
German frontier, but the cab drivers
were so terrified that we tried five diff
ferent men before we found one with
sufficient nerve to take US. Even then
1 was compelled to conduct the driver
to the German commander to get a
paper guaranteeing the safety Of the
cabman, his horse and his vehicle. Our
horse was so old that we had to walk
up the hills. The age Of the beast, the
driver said, was the only thing that
kept the Germans from taking it.
while we were in Liege several
citizens were shot because Of remarks
they made to German officers and sol
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Alfred s. Roe To Speak.

Frederick, Md.-Hon. Alfred S. Roe,
Of Worcester, Mass, will deliver the
address at the unveiling of the monu-
ment to Barbara Fritchie, in Mount
Olivet Cemetery, this city, September
9. Hon. Milton G. Urner, father Of
Judge Hammond Urner, of the Mary
land Court Of Appeals, will preside.
Col. George W. F. Vernon, of Balti-
more, formerly of Frederick, will
read Whittier's poem, Barbar9
Fritchie.
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At the EoothaII Game.

EEIN N9N17IlFI
why did dey lose five yards?"
Didn't yer see 'em a-holdin' dat
feller in de puddle?'
We'll, what of it?"
"Dey was a'tryin' to drown i'm. If
yer tries to drown a man yer loses five
yards"
And if yer does drown him?"
Then yer loses 25 yards"
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GERMANS THINK ENEMY
FRENCH AT HAELEN

London. = Geoffrey Young tele-
graphed from Haelen, Belgium:
"Fine fellows, these little Belgians
intelligent and quick to respond;
rather weary now and strained. for
many have been already long in the
field. Day and night they have been
fighting at odds of ten to one. They
are men who think, and they fight bet
ter for It
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Same Meanlnn.

Mother, what does it mean when
you read about escaping 'Scylla' only
to get into worse trouble with
'Charybdis? asked Mrs. Bakers
young hopeful.
Mrs. Baker looked appealingly at
her husband.
tits like this, Willie" exclaimed his
father, coming to his wife's rescue. "It
means that just as soon as we get
through paying ice bills, we have to
buy coal!"
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Her Best Makeup.

"And what do you think I'd look
best in, George?" inquired the chatter.
ing wife at the recess of a three-hour
talk on clothes.
"In a coma, darling" replied George,
he having secured his hat.
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WSdkHoSSs i spoke
to three doctors
about it and they did
not help her any.
Lydia E. Pinkham's
v ege table Com
pound had been Of
great benefit to me,
so l decided to have
her give it a trial.
She has taken five
bottles of the Vege-
table Cornpound ac-
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Preliminaries Completed.
$50 you are getting married,
George?"
Yes; I were prayed fer the third
tonne on Sunday" London Taller.
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Chased by Boy and pon.

The evenings are warm enough to
cause the cows blood to surge toward
fever heat while she is being driven
up by thoughtless boy and a worth
less dog.
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Strict Rules for EssdInn-

Ironclad directions for feeding COWS
cannot be given. Irgeneral, however.
they should be supplied with all the
roughage they win clean up with grain
in proportion to butter fat produced.
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MaterIal for an

Corn husks and pea vines from can.
ming factories, beet pulp, and other
by-products are also used in certain To-
calities for filing the silo.
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A Mare Pikar.

"Time flies," quoted the sage.
"Yes," replied the fool. But he
isn't crazy enough to loop the loop
like some of the modern fiers."