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BEDS IN COLONIAL DAYS.
The settee, Link Between Settle and
Sofa, Was Sometimes Used.

The Settee, a Link Between Settle snc
Sofa. Was Sometimes Used.
Toward the close of the seventeenth
century the bed increased In impor
lance. A list of the household furnish
ings OF Salem merchant In 1890 in.
Guided 81 great oaken bedd. / truckle
bedd Of maple. / large sack bottom
bedd, Cambiett 'bedd curtains. 2 cali,
coe bedd curtains, 8 blanket sheets, ]
patre silk bedd curtains"
The settee, which was a link be.
tween the settle and the sofa, was
sometimes used as bed. This piece
Of furniture was both of imported and
domestic make The back and seat
We're usually incased in turnkey work.
With the exception of the arms and
braces the entire frame was concealed.
The construction Of the colonial set
tee was identical with one type of the
rena issance seat From Italy 1t pass
ed into France and from France to
England. Holland had no part in its
development
From the Italian palace of the six
teenth century TO the New England
home of the seventeenth was a far
away cry, and yet, barring crude work
manship, the colonial bench was a
faithful copy Of the renaissance de-
sign. The Dutch settlers were unfa-
miliar with this settee, as they also
were with the New England settle
Argonaut
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Snontini's Decorations.

Casparo Spontini, the composer, re-
garded himself in the light of a demi-
god, and when inspirations crowded
upon him he donned wide, toga-
like gown of white silk with a border
of gold and a fez of white silk en-
broidered in gold from which heavy
tassel hung down. With great dignity
he sat down before his desk, and il
a grain of dust was visible on the
paper on which he penned his music
he rang the bell impatiently for his
servant to remove the obstacle. Spon-
TIM owned so many medals and deco
rations that they could no longer be
accommodated on his breast. At
grand musical reunion at Halle an old
musician remarked to comrade. See
how many decorations Spontini has,
while Mozart has not one" Spon-
TIM, who overhead It, replied quickly.
Mozart, my dear friend, does not
need them
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-12
Living Cheaply and Well.

Most Americans wonder how on eartf
people can live on the wages paid in some
/ foreign countries; and when we see PEG
pie coming over here in the storage and
raising large, healthy families on small
wages, we wonder also how that can be
done If the truth were known, it is
/ largely a matter of soup and porridge
! What is more, the American pioneer had
few tricks Of the same kind, now al
most forgotten. In every country there is
some national dish which is cheap, nour-
ishing and savory, and it is usually a
soup or stew
The Italian has his minestrone, and his
macaroni cooked with meat or vegetables
or both The French housewife has a
hundred or so good soups, notably petite
marmite, soup a Ia bonnie femme, and
pot aufeu. The Scotch have their cock
aleekie and barley broo. The Hungarian
has his goulash. And so it goes. Old
fashioned New England farmers cher
ished their 'boiled dish" and hash, and let
no scrap of pork or veal or beef go to
waste On the southern plantation, where
food was perhaps more abundant than
anywhere else in the early days of Amer
lca. soups were nlaue OF a variety VI MA
terials, cooked long and slowly. The
soup kettle is the good fairy of any well
managed household brown and squat
fairy, but that is no matter. And to do
the work properly it should be OF good
heavy enameled ware, easy to keep clean,
and suited to sit on the back of the stove
or the simmering burner for seven orr
eight hours The great secret of any
soup or stew is long, steady, slow cook
ing. Tough meat, mature vegeta bles,
stale bread, bones tmost particularly
bones), remnants of oatmeal, macaroni,
rice or potatoes. left in the dish after a
meal and unappetizing warmed over, and
such cheap foods as barley, rice and 9th |
er forms of cereal, all improve soup
that is properly started, and the long, |
slow cooking with the cover on keeps in /
the flavor. Soup stock made in this way
viii make almost any sort of dish more
oalata BILE. With tin cooking dishes these
forms of cookery are practically impos-
,ilble but as tin gives place to the I'M
unbreakable, durable enameled
Kettles, the soup and the stew are coming
Jack into their true place.
Dorothy Dexter.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-12
Oil and Gas in Mississippi.

The existence of rock structure favor
able for the occurrence of oil and gas
pools in the vicinity of Vicksburg, Miss,
and farther east has been known for a
rumber of years, and additional informa-
tion on the subject is now furnished in a
brief report by O. b. Hopkins, resulting
f1cm field Investigations by Messrs. Mat
sen. Hopkins and Finch, of the United
States geological survey, department OF
the interior. The character and thickness
of the rock formations underlying the re-
cion are not definitely known, but it Is
stated that most of the oil and gas
formations of northwestern Louisiana
are represented in the Vicksburg- Jackson
region; the character of the material that
composes them cannot, however, be fore
told in advance of drilling.
Although the geological survey makes
no prediction as to the result of drilling
in the area. it points out places where
the structure is most favorable for the
accumulation of oil and gas, provided. of
course. that they are present in the
Vicksburg- jackson region.
A copy Of this report, bulletin 64l-D.
Structure Of the Vicks bure-Jackson Area.
Mississippi. can be obtained free on sp-
plication to the director, L. 5. geological
survey. Washington. ID. c.
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MAKING CHEMICALS
BY ELECTRICITY
Statistics Prepared by U. S. Bureau of
Census Show Production Through
out the United States.

Washington, D. G., Aug. ia sum
mary of the general results of the 1914
census Of manufactures with respect to
the production Of chemicals and allied
products by the aid of electricity has
been issued by Director Sam L. Rogers
OF the bureau OF the census, department
of commerce. 1t consists of a statement
of the quantities and values OF the prod
uets manufactured, prepared under the
direction of Mr. William NJ. Steuart,
chief statistician for manufactures. The
figures are preliminary and are subject
to such change and correction as may be-
come necessary upon further examina
ton Of the original returns.
Many of the electrochemical and cleo
products have, until re-
cent years, been made under the protec-
ton of patents, and detail statistics of
production cannot be given for some of
the most important without disclosing
the operations OF individual establish
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Establishments Reported, Classification
and Value of Products, and Loca-
ton of Plants

The manufacture of electro-chemical
products was reported by 80 establish
ments in 1914 and by 81 in 1909 The to-
tai value of products in 1914 was S29,-
Gel $40, an amount which exceeded the
corresponding figure for 1909 by Sll 2l0,-
lis, or COS per cent. The statistics with
respect to specific groups Of products are
as follows:
CELEBRATES were manufactured with the
aid of electricity by five Establishments
in both 1914 and 1909 The production
in 1914 amounted to s,304 tons. exceeding
that of 1909 by 1875 per cent in quantity
and PSI per cent in value OF these es-
Establishments, three were located in New
York and enc each in Maine and Miehi-
gan.
HypochIorites were manufactured by
four establishments using electrochemi-
cal methods in 1914. and by five in 1909
The production in 1914, chiefly chloride
Of lime bleaching POWDER, was 73,l97
tons, valued at sl.7l4,s37. representing
an excess of 59.2 per cent in quantity
and l3.s per cent in value over that Of
1909. OF the four establishments report
ed IN 1914, three were in New York and
one in Michigan. The total production
Of hypochlorites in 1914 by all establish
ments, both chemical and electrochemicsl,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-12
Fat Men Popular In Japan,

In this country when a man of aver
age height takes on girth until hi
weight runs up TO 800 pounds or 81
his friends have grave doubts abou
his condition and advise him to diet II
order 10 bring back a slim elegance
of figure. In Japan the contrary is
true. II man can carry 300 pounds
of flesh with any agility he is Of the
material from which heroes are manu-
featured, and If he can work up &c
the 400 or 475 pound notch and be.
comes a wrestler he IS in the running
for the championship. Wrestling is to
the Japanese what boxing is to Us and
more. The populace goes crazy over
II, and the magnates Of the big game
handle great sums IN the way OF gate
receipts.-Wide World Magazine.
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Earliest Cold Storage.

In Macauay's essay on Lord Ba.
con" he points out that in 1926 the
subject of his memoir tried the expert.
ment Of stuffing a fowl with snow to
prevent it from putrefying and In car
rying out the work caught cold, from
which he died. Macaulay adds: IN
the last letter that he ever wrote. with
fingers which. as he said could not
steadily hold pen. he did not omit to
mention that the experiment of the
snow had succeeded excellently we'll
II, however, we turn to nature there
are instances In Siberia of mammoths
preserved in fee so that their flesh is
still eatable from a period probably
coeval with the first appearance OF
man on this globe. II the Romans
brought TO their banquets the dainties
of the known world, had they not some
knowledge of cold storage? -London
SPECTATOR.
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Rain.


There are so many things worse than
rain that we refuse to fret about 1t.
II we had the toothache every other
day for two months straight we might
growl, If an amateur ccrnetist lived
next door and practiced regularly we
should complain If bills were sent in
once a week instead Of once a month;
If bores never went home; If an friend
ship were mercenary and false in adj
veasity; If sickness visited us oftener
and stayed longer than health: if ma
licious people Were many and the kind
few we might justifably be miserable
and remain SO.
But so long as so many worse things
that could be don't arrive it can rain
every day If it wants to. Most of our
Joy Is weather proof.-Detroit Free
Press.
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Ben ErankIin's Chair.

In his old age Benjamin Franklin's
health failed him to considerable ex-
tent. He suffered from govt and the
stone, which, with complications.
eventually carried him OFF. But he was
always exceedingly cheerful, even
when suffering, and. as one of his
friends has recorded, "ful of anecdotes
and learning" Even at this time In
his life he added to the already extern
sive list of his inventions, contriving
among other things a most curious
chair which. when desired, could be
converted into stepladder for the
purpose of reaching the higher shelves
In library AS far as known, only
one of these chairs was ever actually
constructed for his own particular use.
and this is owned at present by the
Philosophical society of Philadelphia.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-12
THE OLD HURDY GURDY.
Crude Musical Instrument That Led Up
to the Hand Organ.


TO the Hand Organ.
The early type of hurdy gurdy orig
mated In Germany during the ninth
century and under the name OF bauren
leyer peasants lyre) attained great
popularity throughout Europe, falling
into n decline only at the beginning Of
the hast century. Even today slight
ly modernized type of this instrument
may be seen upon the streets OF the
smaller towns Of Savoy.
The instrument consisted Of violin
like frame and sounding board, provid-
ed with from three to six strings. The
music was produced by small crank
actuated wooden wheel, whose restned
edge bore against the strings. The
two outer strings were keyed In unf-
son and when the wheel was revoived
gave forth bass note which served as
a musical background, The remaining
strings were attached to keys, by which
their tension and their tone might be
varied. This adjustment was the only
control possessed by the player.
Needless to say. the hurdy gurdy was
suited only TO the most elementary of
selections. While originally much used
Mt fetes and celebrations. 1t later was
used only by itinerant street must.
clans, position now occupied by
its successor-the hand organ.--Pftts.
burgh Times.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-12
Candidate Under Regime of
Strict Train
ing
HAD NINE SPEECHES
YESTERDAY
Eight of Them Rear-Plat-
form Talks on
Way

Bismark, n. D., Aug. l2.-With hi
voice pretty we'll frazzled out, Presiden
tial Candidate Hughes yesterday faced
what was probably the busiest day SEIZED
uled on his whole transcontinentsl trip
He was scheduled to make eight "end
of the train speeches in North Dakota
and Montana towns before arriving in
Billings last night for one of his big
speeches. The short speeches, follow
ing one delivered here, We're at Mandan,
Dickinson, Medora, Beach, Glcndive, For
syth and Miles City,
Because of the strenuosity Of his pro
gramme the Republican candidate went
on training schedule yesterday. His voice,
accustomed for the past few years to the
conversational tone of the supreme bench,
will have to be coddled along very care.
fully from now on if he is to finish the
speaking schedule ahead of him during
the next four weeks
DR.. T. L. Ditman, his physician and
physical adviser on this tour, is spraying
the candidates strained vocal cords sew
eral times each day. In addition, Mr..
Hughes is following suggestion which
former Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew made
to him at the time he stumped New York
on the antiracetrack bills-not to talk
on the train. saving even conversation as
far as possible, since it always strains
the voice to try to talk loud enough to-
be heard on moving train.
Mr.. Hughes is also taking exceeding
care with his diet, and is particularly
strong on fruit. His fayorite breakfast
fruit is orange, and always before he re-
tires he drinks the juice OF one or two
The nominees voice was very
hoarse yesterday, and it was an apparent
effort for him to talk.
Mrs. Hughes led a gentle rebellion yes
-erday Heretofore local committees have
been anxious to have her sit on the plat I
form beside her campaigning husband, +
out from now on she will sit in the audi
,nce.
Il want to be where I can hear my
husband and see him when he speaks"
The told Laurence FL. Green, the candi-
late's secretary. Mrs. Hughes seems to
,e standing the fatigue of the trip SPLEEN
idly. although she misses an opportunity
o take walk.
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Than She Felt Better,

To the great relief of the neighbors,
the snohbish and unpopular Jones
family were moving.
While the furniture was being
brought out some difficulty was ex'
perienced in removing a pianoforts
from an upper room, and some one
proposed getting 1t through a large
window and sliding it down.
Then came suggestion from the
Jones next door neighbor, who had
long fostered the deepest enmity to-
ward them. though until now she had
attempted to conceal it
No" she said acidly. all her pent
up bitterness at last showing itself In
her tone: ''let 1t come out as 1t went
in--on the installment systemr'-Lon-
don Mail.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-12

The old farmer had been hailed before
the magistrate to show cause why he
hadn't taken out a license for pet
terrier.
"Whoy, he's nobbut puppy he ex-
claimed, in defense.
..Yes, yes, so You say said the clerk.
But how old is he 3"
Il couldn't tell to a bit was the re-
ply. Il never was much good at dates,
but he's nobbut a puppy"
On the other hand, evidence proved
that the dog was long past puppyhood.
and the bench inflicted the usual fine.
Talking il over sfterward, the farmer
exclaimed: "Ang me if | can Understand
it! last year, an the year acre that,
I told the same tale bout same dog. an
II wor sllus good enough aforei Who's
bin meddlin' vi { law since last year,
London Notes.
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Chief Products of the Industry.

The chief products are aluminium, phos-
phorus, silicon, sodium, carbon in its al
lotropic form of graphite or plumbago
chlorine, oxygen and hydrogen, among
elementary substances; ferro alloys, cop
per, titanium, and vanadium compost
tions and other alloys; calcium carbide
carborundum (silicon earbide) and alum
dun artificial corunduml, largely used
as abrasives; caustic soda; eaustie pot
ASH sodium peroxide; chloride of lime
or bleaching powder. and other hypo-
chlorites; carbon bsulphide; and muria-
tic acid, Closely akin thereto are the
electro furnace products of the iron and
steel industry, but these have not been
included.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-12
The Passing of the Grandmother.

One OF the old fashioned grandmothers
died few days ago in Washington. Ind,
at the age OF 81. In her obituary we read
that during the last 80 years OF her life
she had pieced $500 quilts, an average OF
nearly one a week, also that she was a
constant reader of the newspapers and
could quote from any chapter of the BIZ
BILE"
People in these days look on quilt max
ing with a superior smile and consider it
a waste of time, but we are sometimes
inclined to think that the quilts that
Grandma Bailey has "handed down" are
Of as much intrinsic value as anything
that the modern woman passes on to her
children, and it is safe to say that grand
mas children probably got as much at
tention while she was piecing quilts and
reading her Bible as if she had been writ
ing papers for the womans club or play
ing bridge.
The old.fashioned gentleman" with
his kindly. dignified courtesy and winning
smile and the old.tlme grandmother.
whose housekeeping, quilt peeing and
home making filled her days, will soon be
as extinct as the iehthyosaurus, but we
who have known them will never cease to
cherish their memory, and regret their
.--Groton Times.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-12
Father Was Touched.

Young Barnes had married contrary to
his fathers wishes. Meeting his son on
afterward the father said angrily:
Young man, | have made my will, and
cut YOU off with dollar"
Il am very sorry, father" said the
youth contritely. and then added: "But
you don't happen to have the dollar with
you Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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wilma TO Be an Ex-corx;et.

An attorney and a Judge were dis
cussing the apparent lack Of ambition
on the part of some OF the young me1
Of today.
why, know a man." declared the
Justice. whose greatest ambition fl
life il to be an ex-couvict.-
You dos" said the lawyer in sur
prise.
''Yes. He's a life terrner in the peni
tentiary."-San Francisco Chronicle.
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This Man Made s7s.2s on His Credit.
A writer in Farm and Fireside says;

4 writer in Farm and Preside says;
april 5, 1915. | bought Of neighbor
Is ewes with l6 young lambs by their
sides, for which gave my note for 500
payable in eight months, with interest.
June Is, 1915. sold 36A pounds OF wool
at 30 cents pound, which brought me
Sl0s7.
"On Oct. 25, 1915, / sold the ewes for
S6s75, and on Nov 10, 1915, sold the
lambs for S9l90. / received Sl7l.5o for
the wool, ewes and lambs.
NOV. II, 1915, took up my note, pay
ing interest to the amount of 1924. Here
is the result itemzed;
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Many People Dependent

on the income of their principal live on
the edge Of their income, and are ia con-
slant fear something viii happen to some
OF their investments. To such we recon-
mend investigation of our annuities Ma
tional Life ms. Co. OF Vt. tMutuaLl
s. 5. Ballard, general agent, Rialto block,
Montpelier, Vt.
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81 should like" said Mrs. Pecktou
sternly. Ito see the man that l was
afraid Of"
$50 would l." replied her husband,
edging toward the door. I'm fact. I'd
like to shake his hand."-Pail Mall Ga.
gette
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Expenditures,

Which left profit of S7s.2s, or almost
81 per cent on the investment, Is seven
months and six days.
81 fed no grain to the ewes or lambs
from the time they were bought until
they Were sold, consequently l was out
nothing except the pasture which / be-
lieve they earned by cleaning up weeds
and spronts.n
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was HOG tons valued at $2,57s eco, OF
which the clectrochemieal product con.
stituted approximately two-thirds.
Caustic soda, caustic potash and I've
were manufactured by five establish,
ments in 1914, the production aggregat
] ing 1868 tons, valued at 81 300, 5ll. All
these establishments reported caustic
soda and one reported caustic potash and
one caustic I've. Three were located in
New York and two in Michigan. The
! total production of caustic soda in 1914
by chemical and eeetroehemical processes
was 2l2 500 tons, valued at S6,657 sid,
the production by electrochemical meth
DDS constituting a little more than one
sixth of the total
Ferro and other alloys, including al
lows of aluminium, copper, manganese
silicon. titanium and yanddium, were
produced to the salue OF $2,s59,4s2 by
seven establishments in 1914. OF these
establishments. three were located in
New York and one each in California,
Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Nir-
ginia. Figures for 1909 are not available.
In addition, there were produced in cleo
trio furnaces in 1914 by ii establish
ments, classified in the iron and steel in
dustry, q ,54s tons OF foundry iron and
steel ingots and castings, chiefly direct
steel castings
Oxygen and hydrogen to the value OF
$6s AL, chiefly oxygen, was produced in
1914 by electric processes in five estab
lishments, of which two were located in
California and each in Missouri, Nebras-
ka and Ohio Figures for 1909 arc not
available. The values OF the oxygen and
hydrogen produced in 1914 BY all estab-
lishments and by all methods. including
the fractional evaporation Of liquefied
air. were $3.50, 446 and Sl6,67l, respec.
lively
The output OF aluminium, calcium car
bide, ahrasives, electrodes, sodium and I
sodium peroxide, phosphorus. silicon, chic.
-ine, carbon bisulphide and muriatc acid I
BY electrochemical or observation-disclosures /
al methods can be reported separately I
without disclosing the operations Of in
lvidual establishments. The value OF
he aggregate production of these sew
,ral commodities (Which are named in
he order of their valuesl in 1914 was
~ SIS, 062, and the producing establish
nents were II in number, of which II
we're located in New York and one each
n Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania,
Tennessee and West Virginia.
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Sarcasm.

what is meant by charging an &C.
count 10 profit and loss T.
'The word profit In that phrase" said
the head bookkeeper. rs sarcasm."-
Detroit Free Press.
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They Mostly Do.

She recalling college daysl-what
became OF our man OF might? He
Oh. he married the woman OF mustn't
Judge.