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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-22
Permanent Road Work in Rutland.

There has been considerable talk for
the last two or three years of inaugu-
rating in Rutland some sort of perma-
nent paving II is hoped that the talk
will materialize This newspaper has
contended that the most reasonable
scheme of street improvement in this
city is 10 smooth the residential streets
with gravel and abandon the unsatis-
factory macadam and so-called asphalt
paving. The proposition as first breach
ed contemplated the initial virtiied brick
cement paving on Grove street. IL -
now understood that the location has
been changed for the reason that some
time Grove street will be widened TO
conform 20 the width of Merchant Row.
Re that as Il NAV. the widening of Grove
street is a matter OF the dim and dis
tant future, and. furthermore, If this
principal thoroughfare Is permanently
paved with brick. a few decades or a
few centuries hence. when the street IL
widened. Il would seem that the sddi-
tional width 81 the street could be sim
ilarly paved. After all. u matters lit
tle where the commencement IL made.
When Rutland once starts on scheme
Of permanent paving Of the character
Indicated Il vii mark the inauguration
OF something substantial IN street build
ing a the News has urged times with
out number this city has expended "
street making practically q third OF a
million Of dollars N the last quarter
century and vt 4 has nothing worthy
Of the name II permanent work. The
main thinc v - start somewhere. on
however modest = scale. sud T. add
thereto wear ~ year until the entire bus
ress district - eovsred.-Rutlsnd News.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-22
MINISTER SULLIVAN
is FOUND UNFIT
Senate Investigation of Conduct of En-.
voy To San Domingo Finds No
Illegal Acts, However.

Washington, d. C., June 22.--James NJ
Sullivan, American minister of TIE Do
minican republic, is held to be tempera
mentally unfit for his Office by the re-
port of Senator Phi, Ian, who conducted
an investigation into charges. 1t is I'M
derstood the report, however, finds the
minister is not guilty of any illegal or
dishonest acts. President Wilson has
finished reading the report, and it will
be made public soon. Meanwhile, OH.
Gals declined to discuss it.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-22

about to leave the city. We exchanged
the blown-ou tire, which was u. S.,
at Omaha for another u. S. tire, and
they allowed us $500 for it, or we gave
50 to boot for non-skid. We haven't
averaged so far to pay as much for
gasoline as in Vermont.
This road we are travelling on now
west of Fort Morgan is a state road, on
which the United States government has
helped Colorado financially. IL is grav-
ell topped and beats everything except
new brick or cement roads. We came
to something rare here in the west-a
spring of water. Signs were stuck each
way, saying Natural spring of water
100 yards away" We stopped and found
a large spring of very cold water. 1t
was about % miles east of Greeley, Col.
We have so far drunk all well water
we have wanted without any injurious
effect. Water is mostly pumped by
windmills; average depth, 100 feet.
Thursday, June III We arrived in
Denver at 2 p. m. yesterday and met Dix
and his family a short time later. We
visited the Colorado Auto club to get
They advised Us to go south about 80
miles to Colorado Springs, as the roads
were equally good and we should get a
better view of the mountains, especially
Pixies Peak, so we are travelling over
that route, and are now about half way
to Colorado Springs, but / guess we
should have seen plenty of mountains
via the Lincoln highway.
Dix lost the Vermont air in one of
his tires last night. He has three tires
left with Vermont air and we have two.
| exchanged another blown-out tire at
Denver for new Y. S. tire and paid S.
to boot, so have two new extra tires
with us. We are camping under table
rock and intend to climb to the top
after breakfast f. D. Camp.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-22
WHEAT PRICES DOWN
BELOW DOLLAR
Sale Of 100000 Bushels Of September
wheat at Chicago at the Even
Figure.

Chicago. June september wheat
declined yesterday 20 ea5.. . drop Of
three and three -fourths cents a bushel
There were about ll000000 bushels Of
September wheat traded in At 81 = bush
a. Importing countries still show no
interest in the ncw American wheat. a
situation which was anticipated two
months ago.
Flour prices were further rcduced ~
cents barrel hv tire mills Yesterday.
reHertihe the drcline ~ wheat prices.
Prom high ,rice enrly IN the wear -four
has srei+nss $50 q harrti.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-22
ROAD MODELS.
Many Kinds of Roads illustrated By
MISREPRESENTATION of Split
Log Drag.

The exhibit of road models shown for
the first time in 1909 by the Office OF
public roads of the department at the
Alaska Yukon. Pacific exposition has been
in active service ever since. Hundreds
OF thousands of people have seen these
models at a dozen or more of the big ag-
ricultursl expositions. and they have
Travelled much of the length and breadth
OF the United States on demonstration
trains. A comprehensive exhibit is now
heing made at the Panama-raciic expo.
sition at San Francisco, Cal. People who
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-22

have seen these miniature model roads
not only appreciate the benefccnt effects
of improved roads but at the same time
understand the methods of their con-
struction. In order that these models
may have a still greater usefulness, they
have been photographed and form the
basis of illustrations of new United
States department of agriculture bull
letin. No. DO Road Models.
The models, as rule, are constructed
on scale of one inch TO foot, so that
each model is one-twelfth the size OF
the actual road which il represents.
Among the later methods of road build
ing which are pictured and described are
the brick, concrete, asphalt block, ma.
cadam, sand-clsy, gravel and earth roads.
Still other models show the processes Of
maintenance, resuTfaeing and bituminous
dam construction BY the mixing and
penetration methods. Recent additions
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-22
GRANDFATHER
CLAUSE" ANNULLED
Supreme Court Holds That Law Re.
stricting Negro Vote Is Unoon-
stitutional.

Washington, June 22.--The Oklahoma
constitutional grandfather clause" re-
stricting the negro vote, was yesterday
annulled as unconstitutional by the SUI
preme court.
The court held that Oklahoma had not
meant 10 provide literary test for its
voters. ii the restriction as TO those
qualified to vote in 1866 was Illegal, and
hence struck down that test, although
holding that standing alone such test
was constitutional. The decision was
unanimous.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-22

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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-22
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-22

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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-22
FACE COVERED
WITH PIMPLES
ALL HER LIFE


Nov. 90, l9l4.--"All my life my face
was covered completely with mass of
pimples, blackheads and blotches. spent
lot Of money on numerous remedies
and treatments without success and no
relief at all. / tried SO many things
that I was afraid my case could not be
cured. Resinol Ointment and Resinol
Soap seemed to do me good right from
the first. I used two jars of Resinol
Ointment and some Resinol Soap, the
total cost being only $500, and this
completely cured my case. My skin is
without q blemish and I am the pos
SCISSOR of a beautiful complexion"
(Signed) Mabel Ayres, Stone Noun
tain, Va.
Every druggist sells Resinol Soap
and Resinol Ointment, and physicians
have prescribed them for twenty years
in the treatment of eczema and other
tormenting skin troubles.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-22

~Tlssy contemplate trip 70 d. frisco
exposition.
That's ckoar enough"
Whist WIZ. thu tsre-
4 uns speakinE q tht rontsHsFllstinr. :
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-13
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS
om the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 When you see a man kicking a stray dog you can bet that he is the kind of fellow whose wife and children hate to see him come home at night.
 A woman can paint her face and be decent. But man seldom gives her the benefit of the doubt when he sees the paint.
 A man never realizes what a big boob he is until his wife makes him go shop ping with her and takes him into the ladies' underwear department of big store.
 Appearances may be deceitful But a man would rather take a chance on a pretty girl than on a homely one
 A woman can be narrow-minded and still have a hard time squeezing into a Morris chair when she wants to sit down.
 One half the world owes money that it can't pay. And the other half has money out that it can't collect.
 A man can have a reputation down town of being the best natured fellow in the world. But, somehow or other, his wife never guesses it.
 A good scare often helps a man more than good advice.
 A man will marry a woman who has been divorced three or four times and then will have nerve enough to kick when he Is asked to wear secondhand clothes or eat warmed-over food.
 Before some women get their wedding gowns worn under the arms they are ready to be measured for their divorce suits. | A man never thinks of protecting hia hair until he realizes that he hasn't enough of 1t to take its own part.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-13

tying him to a post. Nobody except Blacksmith Baugh would undertake the job.
 About the time the ring ceremony started, the bull gave an ominous bel low. Simultaneous herewith the blacksmith fled, and fleeing, he spied cavern tunnelled into the side of steep hill. Into it he delved. Postmaster Collins, from safety vantage point in near by barn loft, was amazed to see the blacksmith emerge from the cavern almost inn mediately after he had entered it. "The bulls still after you, Sam! Why in blazes didn't you stay in the ?" he shouted. Because I'd rather be gored by one bull than to be eaten by whole fami- ly of bears-and if you don't think there's a whole family of lem in there, just go in and see," exclaimed the blacksmith.
 The blacksmith eventually con quered the bull without suffering in- jury, and the silver lining he sees to the cloud is the fact that while in the past he has often bemoaned the fate that set him working over grimy anvil, he is now thankful that he doesn't have to make living ringing bull noses.
 It was hazardous job-but it brought contentment.
 How much good might result if more of us could be summoned to con quer wild bull.
 Wouldn't it, by comparison, tend to make us satisfied with our present lot?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-13
Large Majority for the Bond Issue

Birmingham's floating indebted ness of S1,250,0O0 is to be funded in 30-year per cent bonds. This was the verdict of the people in the cleo ton held yesterday on the bond issue proposition.
 While there had been some active opposition to the bonds large ma 1ority of those who voted took the proper business-like view of the situa- ton.
 Had the proposed bond issue been defeated Birmingham would have been in bad fix indeed; but since the election turned out all right there is no use in dwelling on what might have been.
 This bond issue gives Birmingham the temporary relief that has been pressing The bonds were voted for in two amounts-$750,O ,O0O to pay for the city's floating debt already due and $50O,O00 to meet the deficit that will occur on the first of October
 The ratification of the bond propo- sition not only takes burden off the city authorities, but citizens who al- ways have the welfare of Birming- ham at heart will rejoice that the matter of temporary relief is now duly provided for.
 The next problem of concern to Bir- mingham relates to permanent relief the tax rate, an equalization of taxes and a municipal budget. The meas ures embodying these questions are pending in the legislature and should be acted upon as promptly as possible at the July session. Now that Bir- mingham is over its floating debt worry the commissioners will be able to give undisturbed thought to city administration.
 This has grown to be great city and when plans for needed permanent relief are finally adopted it will stride forward faster than ever. In the meantime let us make the best of what we have and work steadfastly to | build up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-13
A DECLINE IN FADISM

tably the women were prone to 1t and took to it. Indeed, it seemed a peculiarly con- genial and safe feminine peccadillo. Hap pily. at last, it is going by the beard. It had it's origin in the uplift literature which began to irradiate the magazines 10 or 12 years ago That, too, is going, if not quite gone, by the board. Of it the Ar gonaut truly says
 There has come very marked change in the tone and character of American periodical literature. Generally speaking, the business is not what 1t was, and par ticularly speaking, the matter given to the public is very far from what it was Muckraking has gone out of fashion. The public, which once clamored for it, now will have none of it. What was once called by the fine names of courage and enterprise is now characterized by other and less pleasant phrases. Following the undertaking period came the vogue of the so-called nonpartisan magazine writer, who was invariably a muck raker in dis guise and usually socialist These self styled nonpartisan writers played lustily for time upon the public credulity, and for time they were taken at their word There were those who believed Lincoln Steffens, Charles Edward Russell and the rest of the tribe as serious minded pa triots. Now it is coming universally to be understood that these writers are just sensationalists of the new kind, without intellectual, moral or other foundations. Every man jack of them is to the extent of his ability an iconoclast. They teach that the constitution is an outworn in- strament; that every prosperous man is a thief that everybody and everything but the people are wrong. They always define the people as themselves
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-13
NO BITTERNESS NOW

comes from states included in the Con- sympathy with 1t.
 This is indeed a striking transforma- ton, a change which none of the actors at Appomattox could have anticipated. And no one except few survivals of the war period challenges or criticizes it. But this is not the greatest change that has occurred since 1865. The great est change of all is in the southern at- titude toward old constitutional theories. The soul of the New York Sun is filled with melancholy as it notes this fact and it asks bitterly: Amid the proud and mournful memories of this anniver- and great and ever greater as she grows how far she is from the old landmarks of democracy? new south indeed,' Yea, verly, politically. But why? Be- cause she has recognized the facts estab- lished at Appomattox. "The extinction of the great political, doctrine of states rights in the south is not thing of re- cent date. and it was not the work of the south. It was the logical and in- evitabie consequence of the triumph of the opposing doctrine. Why should the south be reproached for accepting the results of the war? new national condition as well new governmental practice was born of that conflict and all we can do today is to save as much from the wreck of former theories as we can for ap- plication to present. day issues. We join with our New York contemporary in re- grettng the extinction" of many con stitutional safeguards and the weakening of many barriers to precipitate legis
 tion, but if we are to go back to
 first causes we must go back to Alp
 mattox and the political forces that r q. dered Appomattox possible. The SOL has not been the leader in these changes, and she is simply going with the rest of the country In yielding to the inn pulses of the new national life. In every other way she has changed far less than other sections; she is still closer to the old ideals and standards than many other parts of the country, and she is not to be held responsible for results which are due to the theory of government that was established by force 50 years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-13
 Price of Content ment

Here's the story of man who, al- though he has never seen Wall street and perhaps has scarcely ever heard of it, knows by thrilling experience the hazard of dealing with bulls and bears.
 Incidentally this paradoxical little story points out the lesson that dan ger is not always so imminent as it may seem--in short, it rather goes to show that the darkest hour is just be- fore dawn.
 But to get back to the story
 The name of the man who figures herein, according to report recently carried by the wires of a well known press association, is Sam Baugh, and he is boss of blacksmith shop at Knights Ferry, Ore.
 Blacksmith Baugh, so the story goes, went to farm owned by Post master John Collins of Knights Ferry, the purpose of his visit to the farm being to put ring in the nose of a vicious bull owned by the postmaster. The idea was to restrain the beast by attaching . rope to the ring and then
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-13
Reasonable Salad on Fishing

The fishing stories coming in to The Age Herald are very seasonable,v said disciple of Sir Isaac Walton, and are as refreshing as spring salad, aft CT a winters diet
 'I remember an experience or two had with two novices-amateur for luck at poker or fishing is an adags with those in either game.
 Wal Kolb, the dispenser of passes for fishing at No. r. had never tried his luck up to this experience l am going to relate. l fixed his tackle, hooked the minnow-(always to one side, it should be, of the upper part of the mouth)-and selected the most was bluff of shelving rock, deep water at it's foot and the hill very steep at his back. I told him when he had strike to give snatch, hoo.- his fish and take his time to land him. I went on around the pond out of sight and was gone about a half hour, but with no luck. Thinking I'd see how Kolb was getting along I went to him and asked, What luck?' He iePiiS", SduShl oHe put ne Ilnneu ne Surprised, said, 'How could that hap pen?' Well, when I got bite saia Kolb, I give him a yank over my shoulder; he fell away up there on the hill; or was jumping and floun- dering around and looked like he'd get back in the water l jumped on top or him and held him down and stuck n fin in my hand | said .Geei ha ouebt to have stuck you for that"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-13
RickwOOd Day

"Wednesday will be Redwood day in Birmingham" remarked a fan, and a badge lettered 10000 or Bust is con- spicuous on the breast of the Birmingham booster
 This city is going after the opening day attendance trophy in earnest, and l would not be at all surprised if the 10000 mark were reached at tomorrow's game. Birmingham had the largest attendance of any Southern league city last season, and there is no reason why it should not maintain its lead this year. It is true that New Orleans has a new ball park and interest is being aroused to the boiling point among the fans of that city, but the New Orleans game takes place Tues day. and when the Birmingham people learn the number in attendance at that game it is safe to say that if need be an extraordinary effort will be made to surpass that record.
 Birmingham is getting the habit of securing what it goes after. and each successful effort along this line stimulates civic spirit to even a higher pitch. The bond issue was carried by great ma jority, and attending the baseball game Wednesday might be viewed as fitting celebration by those most interested in the matter: certainly ample opportunity for exuberant expression will be afforded at Redwood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-13

cated on more than one occa sion during recent weeks; taken in conjunction with certain disaffections among the solciery it emerges as factor of some moment
 No one acquainted with military campaigns will disparage the impor- tance of morale as & determining fac- tor. It is there that armies are de- feated in their ranks as frequently az they are overcome by superior forces From this arises the significance that must be attached to these repeated re- ports Of peace inclinations on the part Of the weaker vessels in the Germanic alliance. As for Germany herself, she is as yet free from any ihputation on this score. But her spirit alone will not be sufficient to sustain the crum- their own respective, unhappy destinies just ahead. over which the stronger ally has no control. In the event os defeat, which looms nearer and nearer, they must go their separate ways Austria to dismemberment, TuriSeysto shrinkage within Asia Germany whatever her own fate may be---will be poweriess to mitigate one white the lot Of these two.
 It would be the part of iullness to suppose that this state of affairs will have no effect on the actual conduct of these two weaker allies of Germany once the tide is set definitely against them. With the passing of Germany's power to aid them will pass also their willingness to march with Germany to the end. Tn such situations the prompt ings of instinct advise every fellow for himself" These persistent rumors of peace overtures and disaffections are just the sort of symptoms that may be expected to proceed the disintcgra- ton of morale in the alliance prior to the actual breaking down and final defeat. Germany will not save the Sit nation by such expedients as sending endorsements to weak spots as in the case of the Carapthians, or by discip- linary threats, as in the case of Turk ish disaffection at the Dardanel1es. Neither emergency troops nor tyranny will rehabilitate tho dissoNing morale of armies that are looking into the face of certain defeat and into a future that is without hopes