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The Spectator., 1915-03-30
eambre Roof Dairy Barn With Large Storage Now

been thoroughly thrashed out Profes- sor King of the University of Wiscon- sin worked for years to spread venti- lation information among dairy farm CTS that would induce them to change the air in dairy stables, to provide fresh air as often as needed.
 This plan provides for four venti- lating flues in the sides of the stables. These flues follow the slope of the roof and terminate in metal ventila- tors perched on the peak. These are the exhaust fiues which take the foul air from near the floor at the sides of the stable behind the COWS and carry it up, chimney fashion, and discharge it into the atmosphere.
 Fresh air is supplied by means of air ducts that enter the sides of the stable from the outside as shown in the illustration. These air ducts are built in the wall so that they extend up near the ceiling and discharge the air over the COWS.
 Circulation of air in a stable de- bends principally upon the heat sup piled by the animals. For this reason a dairy stable should be well filled with COWS in cold weather, so that their body heat will start the air in motion.
 The principle of the circulation of warm air is that heated air has a ten dency to climb to the top, It is well illustrated in the chimney. There IS little draft up through a cold chim- ney, but as soon as the fire is started air rises up with considerable velocity
 A well built COW stable that is filed
The Spectator., 1915-03-30
Value of Games to School Children
By W. K. SCHULTZE.. Cleveland. Ohio

learn with dignity think and speak their feet This publicity afraid hear their voices to see their shadows
 after life everything worth while has be contested for and the trained contestants fe The medal graduate into pahfnder Baseball football harness cards chess dancing running boxing skating acting sailing rowing swimming debating recng work singing, shooting fencing, billiards lacrosse all develop manhood and womanhood mouy, if sanely enjoyed.
 The bowa the laurel wreath ones brow the pnnng of experience which ennog and aging Pity those who experience this ecstasy.
 develop valuable youthful faculties nothing else does memory the auton endurance bravery strength pormnke fairness, sportsmanike courteses and application
 ncucae desire for apparel and handsome bearing
 The contestant is quiter
 The chest which adorned with trophies not liable belong to thief backer weakng of class No realizes what it to contest either of the great fields until he finds him. with a of faces looking
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and have ample footings to prevent settling. Width of building is 36 feet and the length is 60 feet. Thirty-six feet wide works out about right in placing the COWS, and leaves room to milk by machinery. Also the alleys are laid out to accommodate feed car riers and litter carriers for conven- fence in feeding and disposing of the manure.
 The length, 60 feet, is sufficient to provide stall room for 30 COWS, allow ing 31s feet for each COW with pas sageways at each end of the stable. Thirty COWS is fair-sized dairy, as farmers usually conduct a dairy busi- ness ill connection with diversified farming. It is possible to crowd in few more COWS by standing them in the passageways if it becomes abso- lutely necessary.
 There is another floor plan which sides making horse stable in one end. This combination horse stable and COW stable is not recommended, except as a temporary provision to stable a half-dozen horses until separate horse stable can be provided. The COW stable floor may be extended through the horse stable at the time of building.
 In laying the foundation for a barn like this the outside wall usually is made of concrete and is carried up F or Is inches above the level of the ground.
 A COW stable floor should be at least a foot above the barnyard. The cen
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ter piers are about foot lower than the side walls to allow for the thick ness of the concrete floor. The center piers come under the managers so that posts supporting the floor above are in line with the front of the COW stalls. Especial attention is required in building these center piers to have the footings wide enough and deep enough in the ground to prevent set tling, for there is great mow over the dairy stable and there is likely to be considerable weight up there. so that the center piers and the support ing posts will be under long and con- tinuous strain. Sometimes builders do not fully and thoroughly appreciate the amount of weight resting on center posts and center piers.
 After the walls and the piers are fin ished the ground is graded for the floor. It is a good plan to wet the ground thoroughly so it will settle alike in every part of the stable. It is annoying to have concrete floor break through because the ground un-
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derneath settles after the floor is laid.
 It is customary to make COW stable ceilings little higher than formerly, because of the labor-saving stable ms chinery that is now being adopted.
 Tracks to support feed carriers and litter carriers are attached to the cell ing, and about eight feet of head room above the concrete floor is usually pro- vided.
 A concrete stable floor is made level endwise of the building; crosswise, it varies to give the necessary slant to the standing floor and the drop for the gutters; also the floor behind the COWS slopes forward slightly to drain into the gutters.
 The bottoms of the managers, the front of the standing floor, and the floor between the managers usually are made the same height. The managers may or may not have fronts that pro ject up to keep the feed in where the cows can easily reach it. If there are no fronts to the managers, then usually the floor in the center alley is made a few inches higher These details are worked out at the time of building to suit the individual owner.
 There are a few arbitrary rules in regard to building dairy stables that we cannot go away from, but unim- portant details may pe easily modified to suit each farmers preference for doing work in certain ways. Every well-built dairy stable has a concrete floor. The top surface of the floor is waterproofed in some way to provide easy cleaning and to preserve the liquid manure. After waterproof ing, the surface may be made some | what rough to prevent the COWS from slipping.
 ! Also the question of ventilation has
The Spectator., 1915-03-30
Training of Child Is Most Important
By MARY E. WINNIE. Boston, Mass.

facts But very large proportion of the fathers are so ngrossed in getting enough dollars to keep body together that the care o the children wholly in the hands of the mothers.
 The crowded tenements afford opportunity e
 Home means merely place in which to eat and to sleep
 There hundreds like workngmans sad T just dreaded Saturdays because the children drove nearly crazy but that movie picture house has neghboood pack the whole five kids off every Saturday and the house quiet school day"
 In other paid meager wage get rid of the sight her children Her idea pon sbiy to them to cook for h buy their clotes and when sick to take them to the infmary
 She represents large number of parents who think that the chief business of the school to take the children off their hands for the larger part of the day and to provide safe place for them be off the street. but these parents trouble themselves know what their children be learning what habits and ideas they be forming at school With mutud the struggle for existence strenuous that they have neither the intelligence the time for thought beyond that struggle Hence poverty parents indifference the school
 But far eprehnsb indifference is often found parents who have had greater opportunities and whose income hna chance to think beyond the everlasting demands of the butcher the baker and worst he landlord The other of these weodo mothers said of had should visit Jacks class while Miss is teaching for Ja who has always liked school this hates But Pm so busy can't find time''
 Then she settled down embrode her initials bath tows So busy she could get time find out what influences being ezerted her that showing themselves entirely changed attitude towards his school life
 the the year by teacher steadily throughout the would prevent his promotion Jack would have take do work The ae mother now found time immediately to visit hemen her surprise and indignation that her who had always been considered smart by his other teachers should have done so poorly with her.
 could word edgwise the mother learned his associates idle cgae-smoking influence had been baneful
 Sue know your boys paymaes and have his bimonthy reports bearing signature Then the mother had lied to her when he said his teacher did not send home reports moreover forged her signature Had she the
 pains school early the all this might have been averted.
 intelligent interest in the chd welfare would lead the mother teacher under whose influence her child little this conclude that another large proportion parents upd indifferent to the importance of the school the lives of their children.
The Spectator., 1915-03-30

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The Spectator., 1915-03-30
Submarines, Disappearing Guns.

The krupp gun works, in Germany, have produced quick-firing gun de- signed especially to provide subma- rines with the means of destroying aeroplanes and dirigibles. This gun, which can be fired at any angle, is mounted on a disappearing carriage, which sinks into we'll and is auto matically covered with a water-tight slide when the submarine is sub merged. The weapon can be raised from its we'll to the deck and made ready for firing in 30 seconds. The disappearing carriage is operated by electricity. When an aeroplane or dirigible appears overhead. the subna- rine so equipped may rise to the sur face, the gun be trained upon thu enemy. and . rapid bombardment en. sue.
The Spectator., 1915-03-30
Moving Pictures of Benefit to Humanity
By Edward C. Mullikin. Jacksonville. Fla.

will part every school curriculum moving machine article and in schools where expensive laboratories impossible delicate experiments chemistry physics we'll sciences with good results though actual exhibition
 The possibilities of the almost lmess and in recent pictures of bacteria have produced with By the the motion pictures experiments with the substances and shown only in the largest colleges be brought the humb school and displayed enabling the students training equal that of much better equipped college and less
 Lectures accompany the films and be read during the pgea of the pcure add to its interest and nsructeness
 told that the plan has already been tried with great western schools and do doubt that few yean it will be quito the usual thing
The Spectator., 1915-03-30

UIIu N1IVH III pUpuIdf PdTIdHVe Ts called the English sparrow. It might seem that enough generations of this bird have come into being and have passed away in the United States to have it looked upon as naturalized
 but still people interested in birds continue to look upon this species of the sparrow as aliens In the census enumeration the numerous sparrows marked as native species were taken into account, It may be that one raasnn fnr. tho evident slight tn tho
The Spectator., 1915-03-30

Do teachers ano parents sufficiently realize the great and good influence of con- tests on young people: Every form of game brings the youthful contestants into public view, W h ere t h e y
The Spectator., 1915-03-30

A standard dairy barn is illustrated
 in this perspective and floor plan. It is thoroughly we'll built from the bot tom of the foundation to the ventila- tors on the peak. The foundation walls, including the piers which are placed in two rows in the center of the building, are set down below frost
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The Spectator., 1915-03-30

The moving picture ma chine will prove of far greater benefit to humanity than a simple amusement and recreation.
 1 believe that in a few years motion picture exhibi-
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The Spectator., 1915-03-30
Will Provide Ample Accommoda- ton for the Sailing of
 Thirty Cows.
GOOD CIRCULATION OF AIR
Ventilation Is Admitted to Be an Im- portant Matter in the StabIin9 of Animal Details May Be Worked Out to Suit Ideas
 of Individuals.
By WILLIAM A. RAOFORD.

MT. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building work on the farm, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor Author and Manufacturer. he is without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Rad ford No. 1927 Prairie avenue, Chicago, H., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
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Virginia.
 There is one feature of Monticello which has so far escaped most mar rators, and that is that under the house. which crowns a high knob on the western side of the mountain, is a subterranean passage through which. it is said, Jefferson escaped once when the British cavalry officer Tarle- ton raided that section.
 The grave of the author of the Declaration of Independence Is at
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ptHsGs ITUH lHtIT IHCUmt III HIHhIHB
 up their income tax returns. Mem bers of congress have awakened to the fact that they must allow the ser geants-at-arms of both houses to de- duct the income tax in advance from
 congressional salaries without taking campaign expenses into consideration. Thus there are several congressman who have paid out large amounts to be reelected who must still pay in- come taxes on the money they spent.
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with COWS Is comfortably warm in zero weather At the same time the fiues are carrying off the warmer foul air continually, night and day.
The Spectator., 1915-03-30

That the training of the mind and the body of the child is one of society's most important works and that to do this we'll the home must cooperate with the school, would seem most apparent
The Spectator., 1915-03-30
LeqaI Education Is Paramount at the Capital

paramount national capital
The Spectator., 1915-03-30
English Sparrows Are Still Considered Aliens

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All Original Plantation Restored to Monticello

REPRESENTATIVE JEFFERSON IN
The Spectator., 1915-03-30

tIIttII III eiIIy UNIItI NIty III tl4V NVutt1 Jf The law course is especially attrac- tive because the distinguished mem- bers of the Supreme court deliver lectures from time to time. Justice
 Brewer and Justice Harlan were very popular with their law classes, and legal education is so prevalent that even in drawing-room conversation young ladies cautiously state, ''In my judgment this procedure should be so and so," or Whereas the parties diff fered. the facts were set forth in this
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How Income Tax Law Hits Members of Congress

IVY isn't the slightest doubt that the last
 provision allowing senators and representatives deduct their election
The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-20

rruita :or the army now fighting on the continent. Several of the mem bers of the cabinet. however. are said 10 be strenuously opposing the adoption of the measure.
 ]; is understcoI that there is cor siderable objection in official and commercial circles 10 the grantinc of the loan of $l0o0 .00O 0oo asked for by the representatives of France and Great Britain. There is con siderable speculation in New York as to the attitude the United states government will take in the affair but the government officials are si lent on the subject.
 A note of the German government handed to American Ambassador Ge- rard yesterday disclaims all knowl edge of the sinking of the Allan liner Hesperian with the loss of two American lives. The note implies that the steamship was not sunk by a submarine, as was first re ported but ty mine.
 It is reported that the German government has issued an order pre-. venting all males between the ages of r and i5 years from leaving the German empire
The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-20
Friday

Berlin dispatches today are to the being sent to the German army now operating along the WarSaW-Petlo- grad railroad The new forces are being moved in the direction of Wilma and it is therefore thought that the Germans expect to strike a decisive blow at the Baltic pro vinces of Russia before winter sets i'll.
 The endorsements are said to number 100000 men, and are sup ported by heavy artillery. It is expected that the army will be
 utled against Wilma, Dunaburs and Riga. It is reported that the Ger mans have already crossed the rail road and that they have occupied VidZy, directly south of Dunaburg.
 It is understood that the Austrian government has hastened to explain it's attitude in closing the frontier DttNeeI lHe two COuHlIleS lO INOu- mania in response to request from Bucharest. The note of Austria says that the closing of the frontier must not be construed by Roumania as an unfriendly act, for the req son that the action was taken but temporarily to cover important move ments.
 It is generally believed at Vi enna that Roumania and Greece are both preparing to enter the war Bulgaria is also reported to be ready to enter the war. but the rumor to the effect that she has already done so is denied in official circles in Sofia.
 A large British troopship is re- ported to have been sunk today in the Adriatic sea by an Austrian submarine. The vessel was on the way to the Dardanelles, being at tacked near the entrance to the Ionian sea. It is believed that most of the troops on the transport per shed, although there is no definite confirmation of this.
 An entire Turkish sailing fleet is reported to have been sunk in the Black sea by Russian torpedo boats. It is stated that the Turkish
The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-20
Monday

According to the dispatches ol today there l. but little doubt but mat Bulg.iian will enter the war on the side of the Germans. The dis patches from Rome are to the effect that all Bulgarian reseryists are called out Of Italy and that they are leaving tlat country by the thou sands their transportation expenses being paid by the Bulgarian govern ment Constantinople dispatches state that the mobilization of the Bulgarian army is for the purpose Of aiding Turkey.
 The east coast of England wa> the scene Of another Zeppelin raid last night, maUv bombs being throwi by the air men Very little damae" is reported and no lives were lost
 X typhoid fever epidemic in Ger many is giving the authorities of the empire considerable concern. Ac cnrdingly. orders have been issued from the government health depart, ment to the effect that water and milk must be boiled before using.
 Count Non Bernsdorff the German ambassador to the United States. is reported as having said that there is no danger of a break between his government and the United States His statement followed a conference which he had yesterday with Sec retary of State Lansing.
 London dispatches assert that the German crown prince is to be re lieved of his command in the Ar. gonne region, in France. because of recent reverses suffered by his forces It is probable that another command will be assigned to him, although just where is not stated.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-20
INTERNATIONAL NEWS BY WIRE
INVENTOR KILLED.

GENEVA. Sept. 13.--Avjator Klu- bel, inventor of the invisible aero plane, with which the Germans hope to IeVOlutionize aeronautics, was killed today while experimenting with Cne of the new machines.
 MANY INTERESTED
 LONDON, Sept. 14 The conven- tion of parliament this afternoon was especially noteworthy on account of the large attendance, the galleries being filled 10 overflowing when the lawmakers convened to receive re ports on the progress of the war md to provide the means for con tinuing the struggle.
 WAR COMES HIGH.
 PARIS, Sept, 14.-It is estimated that the expenditures of the French If the present year will run in eX- cess of 13,O0O000 a day.
 STILL TALKING.
 BERLIN, Sept. 16.-Am bassador Gerard is in receipt of a communi- cation from Washington bearing on the Arabic case and the submarine problem. The diplomat is instructed by the state department to inform the German government that the ad- ministration at Washington believes the Arabic was sunk by submarine without warning 10 the passengers. lt is also requested that the kaiser be reminded of the fact that two Americans were lost when the Arabic went to the bottom.
 NEED MORE MEN,
 LONDON, Sept. Addressed by members of parliament today for a detailed statement regarding condi- tions on the continent, Lord Kitch- ener admitted to the lawmakers that more men are badly needed along the British front in Flanders and in the nardanelles.
 CARGOES CONFISCATED.
 LONDON, Sept 16-The cargoes of four Norwegian steamships, which were captured several months ago by British warships, have been con demned by the British prize court and confiscated in the name of the crown, the court having rendered a long deliberation. The cargoes, which consist chiefly of American meat, and are valued at several mil lion dollars, were enroute to Ger many at the time of capture. The decision was rendered by Sir Samuel Evans.
 CHICAGO, Sept 16-Several of the largest packing houses in the United States are involved in the de ci3ion rendered by the British prize court today The shipments were not covered by advance payments.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-20

vessels were transporting munitions oi war
 It is stated that the ministry of Great Britain is threatened with disruption. fol the reason that a number of the members of the cabi- net wish 10 enforce conscription. The majority of the members of the cabinet. however. refuse to con sider conscrlpti1n, in which they are backed up by the war lords of tlc admiralty.
 \ big fight is being conducted in the eastern cities of the United States against the big war loan to paraded Wall street today. causing such disturbance that the police were compelled to disperse them. It is reported that John D Rocke 'eller has refused to take a part oi the billion dollar loan.
 William Jennings Bryan is now n Washington, where he is stated D be talking against the loan with sO.ernment officials. IL iG reported that a number of foreign language newspapers of the eastern cities are making an effort to induce Mr. Bryan 10 go 10 Europe to urge peace among the warning nations.
 The state department has been ad- .ised by Ambassador Penfield, at Vienna. that the relations between AustIia-Hungary and the United States have not been strained on account of the request for the re call of Ambassador Dumba The note explains that Dumba has been recalled merely for a conference.
 A dispatch from London reports the execution of German spy in the tower of London.