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Middletown transcript., 1916-11-04

Prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agricultural
After tests for several seasons, the
United States department of agricul-
ture is recommending four new varie-
ties of sorghum for trial in the central
and southern Great Plains area. The
varieties have resulted from the plant
introduction and breeding work of the
department. They are described in
Bulletin 3S3 recently issued by the
department.
Dwarf hegari is primarily a grain
sorghum, but like Blackhull kafr it is
valuable also as a forage plant. In
general appearance it is intermediate
between BlackhuIl kafir and feterita.
It is almost, if not quite, as early in
maturity as feterita, and at the Chilli
cothe (Texas) field station, where it
has been under test for five years, it
has produced better seed crops than
any other variety of sorghum, and has
become quite popular with the farmers
in that locality. Many farmers prefer
it to Dwarf milo on account of its
higher forage value and the greater
ease of harvesting, due to the erect
heads.
Improved Feterita.
Improved feterita is a late impor-
tation of this variety of sorghum, hav-
ing been obtained from Africa in 1908,
two years after the first successful
importation of feterita. 1t has been
selected for uniformity and leafiness,
and shows a higher yielding power
than the earlier importation.
Dwarf feterita originated from q
plant which was only two and one-half
feet high ard two weeks earlier in ma
turity than the general crop of feterita'
1t has not fully retained either its
dwarfness or its earliness, but has
made consistently high yields of grain
and appears to be Of some value where
an early maturing grain crop is de-
sired.
White milo is a variety of sorghum
which has been grown to small extent
throughout Oklahoma and Texas for
number of years. A dwarf strain OF
Middletown transcript., 1916-11-04
KENTUCKY FIRST TO IMPROVE
Spent Money for Construction Of
Roads Over Half Century Ago
Had Highway Engineer.

1t is often said that the use Of state
money for the construction of roads is
of quite recent origin. The New Jer-
sey state aid law of 1891 is sometimes
referred to as the first instance of
such use of state funds in this coun-
try. AS a matter of fact, state money
was spent for such purposes more
than rs years ago. Kentucky paid
out over 100000 for road improve
ments between 1920 and 1910, under
the direction of a state highway en-
gineer, who drew a salary Of $1,000
year, a very large sum for those
days. The roads built then were "a
to 80 feet wide between the bitches.
The surfaces were constructed Of bro
ken stone, and the bottoms were Of
large stones wedged together to make
what road builders call telford foun-
dation. About 1850 business condi-
tions in the country became bad and
this work stopped. When it was re-
sumed in 1908 such a long period had
elapsed since the earlier state-aid
work that 1908 is usually fixed as the
beginning Of state roadwork in Ken
tHcky.
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MILLIONS FOR BETTER ROADS
Sum Of ss5,ooO,ooo Of Federal Funds
Made Available for Construction
Of Country Highways.

BY the passage of the federal aid
road bill the government of the United
States has put itself in the way to
reap great benefits. According to the
new law, the sum of $85, 100000 of fed
eral funds is made available for the
construction of country roads. OF
this amount 5$75.OOOOOO is to be ex-
pended for the construction of rural
post roads under cooperative arrange
ments with the highway departments
of the various states and $10,0OO,OOO
is to be used in developing roads and
trails within or partly within the ma
tional forests.
This law is proof Of the national
awakening to the fact that our coun-
try is lamentably deficient in we'll
constructed highways. The main
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

recommend it to any woman suffering
from female weakness. You may pub
lish my letter if you wish. Mrs. JAMES
CoNLEY, SIG st. Clair St., Frankfort, KY.
Nowoman suffering from any form of
female troubles should lose hope until
she has given Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound fair trial.
This famous remedy, the medicinal
ingredients Of which are derived from
native roots and herbs, has for forty
years proved to be most valuable tonic
and invigorator of the female organism.
All women are invited to write
to the Lydia e. Pinkham Medi-
cine Co., Lynn, Mass, for special
advices-it viii be confidential
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GRADE OF AMERICAN BUTTER
Quality Is Poor on Account Of Poor
Cream Used in Manufacture
Foreign Make Is Better.

Imported butter does not reach our
markets in as fresh condition as our
own butter, consequently the majority
of it sells as second-grade. In many
cases it leaves the point of production
as first-class article, but is so long in
transit that it deteriorates and arrives
as second-grade butter. Unfortunate
ly the majority of American-made but
ters are also second-grade. This is not
because it cannot reach the market at
once, but because it is made from a
poor quality of cream. The American
farmer is not producing as good quail
ity of cream as his foreign brother.
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REPAIRS FOR WOODEN sILoS
Huge Receptacle Is Liable to Be
Wrenched by Wind-Best to Tight
en- Up Loose Slaves.

The wooden silo in summer is liable
to be wrecked or wrenched by the
wind, especially if it has no roof.
Spend a little time in Tightening the
hoops after the slaves become dry.
As a precaution against high winds
run two or three stays of heavy wire
to some permanent objects-a tree,
barn or heavy post set firmly in the
ground. Give it coat of paint on the
outside and creosote on the inside.
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AGE OF USEFULNESS OF COWS
Twenty-Two.Year-oId Jersey In Wis
consin Produced Forty Pounds Of
Butterfat in Month.

Wisconsin has twenty-two-year-old
Jersey cow in one of her cow-testing
associations that recently made 40
pounds of butterfat in one month.
Sweet Briar, a Guernsey COW, did
profitable work at the Minnesota ex-
pertinent station up to her seventeenth
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HIGH GRADE BUTTER PRICES
Producers of First-cIas Articles Are
Realizing Nice Margin Over
Inferior Product.

First-grade butter is still in big de-
mand in this country and the pro-
ducers of good butter are realizing a
nice margin in price over the producers
of second grade butter. Because Of
foreign competition with our second
grade butter the difference in price be-
tween frst-grade and second-grade ia
wide. Foreign competition has not
materially increased the supply of
frst-grades, while the supply of sec
onds has been increased tremendously.
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HELP FOR
WORKING WOMEN
Some Have to Keep on Until
They Almost Drop. How !.
Mrs. Conley Got Help.

Here is q letter from woman who
had to work, but was too weak and suf-
fered too much to continue. How she
regained health -
Frankfort, Ky.--'sI suffered SO much
with female weakness that l could NOT
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MUCH SATISFACTION IN SILo
Fortunate Owners Will Save Consider
able of Corn Crop That Would
Go to Waste.

Those who have silos are fortunate
this year. They will save much Of
the corn that might go to waste. But
where late corn is not ensiled it should
be harvested if possible, as the stalks
will be relished by farm animals.
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NEVER HAD A CHILL

AILEE IdAKuB AA4AlAA1e 1SlAASA4zA
"ATy little daughter, 10 years old. sufRere4
nearly a year with chils and fever, most OF tho
time under the DOCTORS care. was discoure
aged and friend advised me to try ElJKlK
Rabek. gave it to her and she has never hsA
a chill since. 1t completely cured her." Mira
Cyrus Helms, 3O2 E ST., N. E., Washington, D. G.
Elixir Babek so cents, all druggists or By
Parcels Post prepaid from Klocze wski Co.
Washington, D. G.
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year, an,i cr,ene, a Holstein COW in the
same Il, y and at the same age,
will ii; -todGce over 4OO pounus
of b'r ne age or uSefulness OF
the nl# ii dairy cows that meet
with ~ L, :;,.cnt, is probably between
twelve aad fourteen years, but fire.
quently dairy cows give splendid profit
beyond these years, as the above cases
illustrate.
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Renafits 81 nairv cow

The dairy cow lifts the mortgage
from the farm, constructs modern inn
provements, educates the boys and
makes possible many luxuries that
otherwise could not be AFFORDED.
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And He pid.
MOTHERS JOY sALvE.

for Colds, Group, Pneumonia and
Asthma GOOSE GREASE LINIMENT
for Neuralgia, Rheumatism and
Sprains For sale by all Druggists,
GOOSE GREASE COMPANY, MFRS,
Greensboro, N. C.-Ady.
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Latest IN PhotouraphY.

The possibility of photographing OBJ
jects several miles distant with a move
ing picture camera has been invesd-
gated by the United States bureau Of
standards, with successful, results. A
camera of great focal length was EN-
pIoyed.
Middletown transcript., 1916-11-04

do my own work,
had to hire it done.
| h e ard so much
about Lydia E. Pink.
hams We eta BILE
Compound that /
triedit. Itook three
bottles and I found
it to be all you
claim. Now Ifeel as
well as everI did and
am able to do all my
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Discipline.

81 bought my boy bicycle the other
day, and the first thing he did was to
take it all apart"
did you punish him for that7'
81 certainly did, told him that I'd
never buy him an automobile until he
learned to put the bicycle together
again."
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Vain Hone.

Wife, spent the afternoon shop
ping.
Hub-Not much else, hope-Bos-
ton Transcript.
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Dav Of Potato Digger.

This is the day Of the potato-dig-
ger. The better the digger, the better
the day. 1t is hard enough to do such
work with the best possible tools.
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Wastinn MlIk NesseIa.

/ All milk vessels should be washed
in scalding water before and after
each milking and should be LEFT in the
sunshine throughout the dag.
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Antns pau Rest

An automobile load going through
the village spends more money there
than a dozen train loads passing the
depot. Good roads pay.
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Roads in Wisconsin.

The good roads movement in Wis
consin is organizing in a way that
seems certain to produce early sub
stantial results.
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Harvesting Corn Crop.

One acre Of corn harvested by hogs
will return a greater profit than an
equal area harvested in the usual way.
Middletown transcript., 1916-11-04

A covey of quail in the orchard will
prove good friend to the grower be-
cause they eat tremendous number
Of insects.
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Red Clover for Hous

Red clover in bloom is not good for
hogs, but when young it makes a fine
pasture.
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Butter-MakIno Art Lost.

Home butter-making is not a lost
al, but still it might be more exten-
Cltely practiced than it is.
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Kan stnnk crn,.,lnnI

Keep the young stock growing
throughout the summer months. Feed
little grain If necessary.
Middletown transcript., 1916-11-04

more pork than an acre of corn har-
vested and fed to hogs in the custom-
ary way.
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A buttonless oyercoat of English In
vention for automObilists is fastened
by single belt.
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PIow Under strawherrv a..

Plow under the old strawberry bed
as soon as the plants have fruited and
plant some other crop.
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Efficiency is the ability to do work
well. and with dispatch.

sites, Granulated Eyelids, Sore and Iniame9
Eyes healed promptly by the use of ROMAN
EYE BALSAM.-Adv.
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Correct One Way.

Teacher Bobby. spell yesterday" !"
Bobby with his eyes on the calen-
Wednesday,
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DR.. Peery's ''DEAD sHoTn is an effective
medicine for Worms or TapeWorm in adults
or children. One dose is sufficient and no
supplemental purge necessary.-Ad7.
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Hocoinc OF Corn.

at the Missouri experiment station
an acre of cora hogged off produced
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This country has 100000 womaa-
farm laborers.
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He Saw Napoleon in Russia.


The war correspondent Of the Wen
ma Zeit in one of hts recent dispatches
records that while passing through Vol
hynia he met a vtllager of Karpilovka
who saw Napoleon on his way to Mos
COW in 1872 The man had recently
celebrated his hundred and thirteenth
birthday anniversary and himself re
lated that as boy of nine he had seen
the great French emperor. The man
is still in good health, and what makes
his longevity so remarkably is that he
has lived all his life in a Inarshy dis
trict commonly regarded as unhealthy.
Women seldom care about the an
swers to all the questions they pro-
mound.
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Heavy Pork Not Wanted.
Quail in Orchards.

Heavy pork is not wanted in the
market as in years gone by.
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Avoid Rusty Cans.

Never put cream In q rusty or pat
lnrol ,.aras
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-06-07
SYNOPSIS.
St.


BrClillard, chief engineer of the Niquola
Irrigation dam, meets J. Wesley Cort-
wright and explains the reclamation WORK
70 him. Cartwright organizes company
and obtains government contracts 70 Iur-
nish power and mafciiSl steve Massln-
gale threatens 10 start gold rush II
Brouillard does no use his influence 10
bring a railroad bra 1ch to the place, thus
opening an easy market for the Little
Susan" mine ore. Bfouiilard tells Amy
Massingale Of his need for money TO pay
OF his dead fathers debts. She tells him
TO be true 10 himself He decides for the
extension. Birapoiis. the city of NUM-
bered days booms. Cartwright persuades
Brouillard 10 become consulting engineer
of the power company Ia return for $780,
Oh stock. Stoppage of work on the rail-
road threatens a panic. Brouillard spreads
the M9ssingale story of placer gold IN
the river bed ami starts a gold rush
which promises to stop the reclamation
project. Amy tells Broultlard that her
father is in CortwTight's financial
clutches. He tells her he has made SlO,-
Oo0 and declares his love. She loves him,
but shows him that he has become demor-
allied A real gold find is made. Brouii-
lard sells his stock but does not pay ms
fathers debts Cortwright's son shoots
Dave Massingale Brouillard threatens
Cartwright with exposure If he pushes
Massingaie TO the wall. The magnate
promises to give the old man a free field.
Stories Of the dams abandonment revive.
Foreclosure on the Little Susan" Is I'M
pending and Brouilard loans Dave Mas
singals his 10000 to clear him.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-06-07

took the sheaf Of bank notes from his
pocket with trembling hands. fondling
it as a miser might Twice the old
man made as If he would turn toward
the door Of egress. and the light in his
gray-blue eyes was the rekindling
flame OF a passion long denied. But
in the end he thrust the tempting
sheaf back into the inner pocket and
went reselutely to the cashiers coun.
ter window, finding Schermerhorn, the
president, sitting at the cashiers desk.
I've come TO take up them notes o.
mine with John Wes name on EN-"
Massingale began, pulling out the thick
sheaf of redemption money
HIM. yes. here they are. Brought
the cash, did you? The Little Susan
has begun to pan out. has il? didn't
know you had commenced shipping ore
yet?'
I'VE haven't" David Massingale
made the admission and regretted it in
one and the same breath.
you've borrowed TO meet these
notes?" queried the president. look.
lug up quickly. THAT won't do. Mr..
Massingale; that won't do at all. We
can't afford to lose an old customer
that way. What's the matter with our
money? Doesn't it look good to you
any more?"
Massingale stammered out scme-
thing about Cashier Hardwick's per
emptory demand of a few hours earlier.
but he was not permitted to finish.
"Of course. that is all right from
Hardwiek's point OF view. He was
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-06-07

door or Haley's place, and when David
Massingale's daughter made as if she
would go in. Brouillard protested
quickly.
mo, Amy" he said firmly. "You
mustn't go in there. Let me take you
around to the Metropole. and then ri
come back alone"
Il have been in worse places" she
returned in low tones. And then, with
her voice breaking TREMENDOUSLY: BE
my good friend just a little longer, Vic
tori"
He took her arm and walked her
into the garishly-lighted bar-room.
bracing himself militantly for what
might happen. But nothing happened.
dissipation of the western variety sell
dom sinks below the level of a certain
rude gallantry, quick to recognize the
good and pure in womankind. Instant
ly hush fell upon the place. The
quartets at the card tables held their
hands, and group of men drinking at
the bar put down their glasses. One,
Tri'-Circ' cowboy with his back turned.
let slip an oath, and in a single swift
motion his nearest comrade garroted
him with hairy arm. strangling him
to silence.
AS If guided by the same unerring
instinct which had made her choose
Haley's out of the dozen similar bells.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-06-07
AMERICAN HABIT A BAD ONE
That as Nation We Are Addicted to
Concentrated Pleasure Is Tn.
doubtedIy True.

Pleasure is limited by the time to
enjoy it: in enjoyment. time is more
than money.
II is forgetfulness of this fact which
makes much of our American spending
banal and sterile. With much money
to spend and few hours in which to
spend it, we become addicted to quick.
concentrated. expensive pleasure. We
cannot initiate the placid. fruitful
economy of the Teuton, who TAX, his
beer and music inexpensively and at
his leisure. Nor are we like that alb
stemious German professor who. on
his vacation. Travelled on the slowest
Bummelzug because that way the Joy.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-06-07
VA CHAPTER XVIII Az!
The Setting of the Ebb

Contrary to the most sanguine ex-
pectations of the speculators-con-
trary, perhaps, even to those of Mr.. J.
Wesley Cortwright-the upward surge
in Mirapolis values, following the visit
of the distinguished citizens" proved
to be more than a tidal wave; it was
a series of them. Day after day the
curb" markets were reopened. with
prices mounting sl1yward; and when
the news of how fortunes could be
made in a day in the Miracle city of
the Niquoia got abroad in the press dis
patches there was fresh influx of mad
money hunters from the East
Now. if never before. the croaker
was wrathfully shouted down aid 81
fenced. No one admitted, or seemed to
admit, the possible impermanence of
the city.
To the observer. anxious or casual.
there appeared TO be reasonable
grounds for the optimistic assertion. 1t
was an indubitable fact that Brouil-
Iard's force had been cut down, first to
one-half, and later to barely enough
men to keep the crushers and mixers
moving and to add fresh layers of con-
crete to the huge wall of sufficient
quantities to prevent the material-in
technical phrase-from dying" The
Navajos had been sent home to their
reservation. the tepees were gone. and
two-thirds OF the camp shacks were
empty.
Past these material facts it was
known to everybody in the frenzied
market place that Brouillard himself
was. according to his means. one of
the most reckless of the plungers, buy
ing, borrowing. and buying again as If
the future held no threat of possible
debacle. 1t was an object lesson for
the timid. Those who did not them
selves know certainly argued that
there must be a few who did know,
and among these few the chief of the
reclamation service must be in the
very foremost rank.
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merely looking out for the maturing
paper. How much more time will you
need to enable you to get returns from
your shipments? Sixty days? AL
right. you needn't make out new notes;
III indorse the extension on the back
of these. ard I'll undertake to get
Cartwright approval myself. No; not
word, Mr. Massingale AS long as
you're borrowing. you must be loyal
and borrow of us. Good afternoon.
Come again when we can help you
out"
David Massingale turned away,
dazed and confused beyond the power
Of speech. When the mists Of astound-
ment cleared he found himself in the
street with the thick wad of bank
notes still in his pocket. Suddenly,
out of the limbo into which two years
of laborious discipline and self-denial
had pushed it stalked the demon of
the ruling passion, mighty, overpower-
ing, unconqnerable. The familiar
street sights danced before Mas.
singale's eyes. and there was drum
ming in his ears like the fall of many
waters. But above the clamor rose
the insistent voice of the tempter. and
the voice was at once a command and
an entreaty, a gnawing hunger and a
parching thirst
by cash! I'd like to try that old
system o. mine jest one more time!"
he muttered. "An it takes is money
enough to foller 1t up and stay. And
I've got the money. Besides. didn't
Br'uillard say l was to get an extern
sion If could?"
He grabbed at his coat to be sure
that the racket was still there, took
two steps toward the bank. stopped,
turned as if in the grasp of an invisible
but irresistible captor. and moved
away, like a man walking in his sleep,
toward the lower avenue.
1t was the doorway Of Haley's place,
the Monte Carlo of the Niquoia. that
finally halted him. Here the struggle
was so fierce that the bartender. who
knew him. named it sickness and led
the stricken one to a card table in the
public bar-room and fetched him
drink A single swallow Of whisky
turned the scale. Massingale rose,
tossed a coin to the bar. and passed
quickly to the rear. where a pair of
baize doors opened silently and en-
quilted him.