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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07

and divide the animals so that the
horses and the dairy cattle come under
separate roofs. = This is especially
true if the owner intends to handle
quite few horses. There are, of
course, no real objections to combna-
ton designs as long as the two parts
of the barn are kept separate by the
use of wall and carefully built doors.
The combination barn shown here is
about the right size for a 40-acre farm.
Space is provided for IL or IA cows
and from to horses.
The roof is of the self-supporting
type. The lower rafter or gambrel
roof is 6 inches by 6 inches by IA
feet long, while the upper rafter is by
by IL feet long. The bracing is taken
care of by the timbers l inch by s
inches. Two of these braces are used
by each of the upper rafters and one
for each of the lower rafters. The
lookout rafters are made from by As.
The trussed roof for barns has one
of the greatest factors for utilizing all
the space in the barn for various pur-
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07
EASIER TO HANDLE BAGGAGE
Railroads Also Save Large Amounts
by the Use of Electric Carriers
on Platforms.

Streams of perspIring men hauling
hand trucks piled high with baggage
once blocked the platforms of the sta
tons The electric baggage carrier
has solved the problem of the old bag
gage smasher." 1t does the work that
formerly required four times as MUCK
labor and twice as many men.
A recent traffic report shows the
electric truck has saved the railroads
66 per cent in the cost of transferring
baggage and freight Under the ole
method of hand truck operation the
cost per ton of handling freight al
railroad terminals and steamship piers
was 25 cents, while the cost per tor
for performing the same work with
electrically propelled baggage trucks
is but 101a cents.
The controller in these modern
trucks is inclosed, and an automatic
cutoff switch minimizes accidents. One
handle is used as controller lever anC
the other handle for steering. WheL
the operator removes his foot from
the brake pedal the cutoff switch cuts
off the power.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07
Cow Design sz by "a Feet

poses. The braced gambrel roof, such
as is shown in the illustration, is the
commonest type, but round barns are
frequently built with a braced roof.
Either type leaves the entire upper
part Of the barn entirely free from all
distractions, so that 1t can be most
readily utilized as haymow The
unobstructed space also allows the in
stallation Of the hay track in the peak
of the roof. The track is fastened to
collar beam, which is short beam
placed between the upper rafters, and
serves the double purpose of support
ing the track and bracing the rafters.
Many manufacturers of the equipment
used furnish special hanging irons that
are easily attached to the collar beams
and which support the track down be-
low. If this style of equipment is used it
will save considerable time and trou-
BILE to have the collar beams ali even
and true. The collar beams are set as
high as possible SO as to bring the
track well up into the peak
The change in the appearance of
barn doors is feature of modern
barns as compared with the old sheds
that formerly served as barns. Any
thing would do for a door in the old
days. The sliding doors always had
at least one roller off the track and
hung down with mournful droop.
The hinged doors we're broken so that
their only value was to bang up against
the side of the barn in the wind. The
excuse was often made that tae doors
didn't fit very well, but the cracks
around them helped in ventilating the
barn. Now that we have a regular
ventilating system, broken-down doors
have no reason for existing.
The doors shown In this barn are
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07
Electric Air.Rrushes.

Electricity has been called upon tc
in painting. Fer finishing furniture
and other portable articles, a galvan
lied sheet-metal cabinet, with wired
glass windows, is now used, and is
equipped with motor-driven exhaust
fan, electric heater for warming all
or finishing liquid to 100 degrees F., OF
higher, electric lights, special con
tainer for the liquid, an air regulator
and an adjustable turntable. With 8
revolverlike brush, pressure of Il
pounds sprays enamel, varnish, shell
lac, bronze, celluloid or other liquid al
three times the rate of hand-brusl
painting.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07

ETY." is commonly understood as sim
ply another word for excess, with or
without the winecup.
1t is significant fact that our great
merchant princes, our men Of prodI-
giOus intellect, our famous discover
ers and scientists, our men OF mark
in every walk of life, care more for
sociability than for society, and not
one in a hundred of them is in 80
ciety." They live natural lives, make
friends among their kind, and enjoy
social intercourse. They don't care
a fig" whether Mrs Tone invites them
to her most exclusive ball, or whether
Mr.. Highbrow includes them in his
list of dinner guests.
Many men of wealth, and more men
who haven't any. sacrifice the vitality
of life to get into society" and when
they get in they spend half of their
time keeping in. When they become
old enough to know better, they go
out into Natures out-of-doors, breathe
the fresh air, and mentally, and some
times physically, kick themselves for
the folly of their silly ambition.
Don't worry about finding your go
ciety' level. Your level will come to
you, and any level you try to reach,
which is either above or below your
proper sphere, is disastrous.
Bear in mind. young man and young
woman, that mere money, the ability
to dance the tango, and the capacity
for small talk, are not keys which
will unlock the door OF good society.
If your ancestors came here in the
overcrowded Mayfiower, or your sew.
eral times removed grandfather
chased Indians, remember that you
may not be any better than other peO-
pie with hazy past, for the whole
world feeds on the same kind of meat,
sleeps in similar beds and wears
much-alike clothes, if it can get them.
Society" as it runs, starts from
nowhere and ends in the Land OF
Nothing.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07
IMPORTANCE OF THE ALLEY
Writer Shows How 1t May Be Main
tanned With Great Advantage
to the Community.

"The objections made to alleys are,
first, that the ground cannot be af-
forded for this use; second, that the
expenditure necessary to pave, clean,
police and light an alley system is not
warranted" says a correspondent of
the Chicago Daily News. These OBJ
iections have as their basis the ques-
ton of expense only. AS to the first,
it is my belief that the area set apart
for alley purposes is better utilized
than that taken for any part of the lot
itself. and is second only in Importance
to that portion of the ground area
needed for the street, which, we may
remark is often of unnecessary width.
Admitting that alleys in many cases
are at present marked nuisance for
lack of proper maintenance, can only
urge the necessity that they be paved
as a prerequisite to proper cleaning
That they demand lighting and pc
Icing is of course evident but this
expense is much less in the case OF
alleys extending directly through the
square than those which have offsets
or bends in this course.
For the safeguarding of light and
air in city blocks in our own day and
for the preservation of these essen.
tials of sanitation in the days that are
to come, let us stimulate an apprecia-
ton of the benefits conferred by alleys
and by providing suitable equipment
and adequate care minimize their dis
advantages
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07
Boy Critics.

For many years the boys Of Trinity
college, Dublin, made and unmade the
reputation of operate stars. They al
ways sat in the highest gallery, and
were recognized as the real critics
of an opera. Il remember" says Bar.
ton McGuckin, the well-known English
tenor, there was fellow, Thomasi
or some such name, whose career was
blasted by witty gallery boy.
Thomasi was anything but graceful.
He had but enc gesture, which con-
sisted in bringing first one, then the
other hand to his heart and letting il
fly back straight before him. 1t was
very much like the sort of motion a
man would make il deep water. He
sang an Itali' love song, working his
arms as described. When he finished
voice from the gallery broke the a.
lence: "Ah, Misther Toomasi. you
amt mooch of a singer, but I'll wager
ye'd make foine swimmer" The au-
dience screamed with delight Thorn
asi had to leave the stage
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07
Fighters Who Never See q Battle.

During a sea fight the engine-roOm
men tend the great engines of battle
ship with all the care that they would
bestow upon the same delicate yet
mighty mechanism in time of peace,
roaming istlessly, yet with a definite
purpose, around the engine room with
oil cans in hand, bestowing drops OF
lubricant here and there as required.
Theirs and the stokers' is almost-not
quite-the hardest part of the whole
grim drama of a naval battle, for they
are absolutely cut off from the fight,
and are only cognizant of it by the
quivering of their ship as the great
turrets over their heads fire, or as
the enemys shells thud against the
armor, or when some stray shot finds
its way through the stell wall and the
bunkers to the boilers. Such an event
blends whole stokehold in one fren-
zied orgy of death-death by explod.
ing shell and scattering fragments of
steel; death by awful wounds from
flying burning Goals, or death by
scalding, kissing, binding steam as
the water tubes burst all around them
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07
SOCIETY,".

Il am not in society this winter"
says a young society woman. 81 am
too busy to go into society,"" remarks
young man.
What is society" anyway, the So
ciety about which the foregoing was
spoken? Really, l don't know, and
the three big dictionaries refuse to
enlighten me- At a guess, | should
say that probably the young people
quoted refer to the collection of per
sons they meet when they go out,
when they are away from home, at
balls, parties, and other invitation
functions, and not necessarily to the
individuals whom they visit. Perhaps
they are unfortunate enough to be-
long to some alleged exclusive form
of society, or to some clique or col
lection of conceited people, who, be-
cause they don't know where they
stand, assume to stand for something
about which they know nothing.
Thousands, yes, hundreds of thou
sands, of young people have injured
their presents and discounted their
futures by going into what they call
society" Yes, many men and WON
en- have sacrificed their souls upon
the altar of society"
Young people should have friends,
they should not be bookworms or
room hermits. They should intermin'
gle, they should exchange expert
ences, play games of conversation
and other games but all this does not
mean going into society" for "soci
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07
Owe" and "TheY."

In the smaller towns and country
districts people say Eve" when they
speak of governmental activity. we
built the courthouse and got it done
at low cost We organized the high
school. I'VE" pay the expenses OF
keeping prisoners in the jail.
In the big cities people say they.
"Why don't they 10 thus and 500"
People wonder when the city govern
ment falls down. It isn't personal
matter with them. The government
isn't their government. 1t belongs to
somebody else.
There is a world of difference in the
two attitudes. When the people of the
cities get to saying I'VE" about their
cities and counties then they are go
ing to clean house and take posses
sion.-Kansas City Star.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07
Identification.


Case and Comment is authority for
the following: The case was reached
on the trial docket, and just as the
judge took his seat one of the law
yers walked up to the opposing coun-
sci and said to him, you agreed to so
and So" The latter replied, Il did
not" Thereupon the first lawyer an
grily asserted in audible tones that
his opponent was "a damn liar!" and
the latter shook his fist in the face OF
his accuser and said that he was %
damned scoundrel!" Here the court
interviewed and blandly said, Now,
gentlemen, since you have thoroughly
identified each other to the court you
will please proceed with the case
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07

There are thousands Of farms all
over the country that are not large
enough to support complete set of
barns of all the various kinds that are
in use, so the solution Of their problem
lies in the combination barn. The
combination barn is designed to han
die dairy herd and the horses that
are needed, under the same roof A
heavy door separates the two parts of
the barn.
Combination barns are made in
many different sizes, but as a general
rule only the smaller sizes are built
If large combination barn is to be
built it is better to -earrange the plans
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07
THE BEST PLACE.

The mountain top is small. There
Is hardly room enough there for the
Jew who reach its height; and, unless
those who do keep a firm foothold,
they may be pushed off and dashed
20 pieces.
The way to the mountain top is
steep and rugged, the rocks are slip
perry. and the path is full of landslides.
The valley is. broad and fertile, and
there is room enough there for plant
ing and for harvesting.
The ordinary man can earn his liv-
ting in the valley; the extraordinary
man may be able to attach himself
to the mountain top
| am not asking you, young man.
not to travel upward, nor am | sug-
gesting that you forever remain on The
plains; but I am attempting to pic
Lure the dangers of steep climbing,
and the liability of not being able to
ind q foothold at the top.
Better, far better, be a good tiller
of the soil down in the green valley
than starve among the mountain s
rocks
In these days of strenuous bust
ness of liberal education, and of OPP
pOTtunity, the old adage that there
Is always room at the top" is not as
true as it used to be, for, even though
there may be room at the very top,
one must take fearful chances in
climbing, and he will meet strenuous
men en- route, ready and anxious to
win, not only by advancing them
selves, but by pushing others down.
The tendency to go beyond ones
ability to occupy positions unnatural
and difficult to hold, is responsible for
many failure, and has ruined many
men who would have been successful
had they been contented and indus,
trious, with good prospect of prosper.
ity.
Ambition should be made of sterner
stuff than that which drives a man out
of himself into unknown regions, or
into places too high for him to gain a
fOOthOld, footing which, even if he
does gain it, he may be unable to
keep.
1t is your duty to do your best, to
make the most of yourself, to encour.
. age rather than to cramp ambition
to use common sense in the making
of yourself, that brand of good sense
which does not allow you to stay be
low your level and which will prevent
you from striving to go beyond It,
Thousands of men move from where
they are, dissatisfied and disgruntled
and enter new and unknown fields
when, if they had remained at home
making the best of their opportuni
ties, they would have been worth
more to themselves and to the world
Where you are, unless 1t is below
the surface, may be the best place il
which for you to work and to stay
Certainly, you should not allow your
self to leave your base of operations
until you are sure that where you are
is not the place for you to be in, ant
until you know of a location within
the probable scope of your capacity
Beware of the top unless thee IL
safe road leading to it.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07
BETTER THAN STEAM
ELECTRIC CURRENT SEEMS TO
HAVE PROVED SUPERIORITY.
Many Railroads, After Exhaustive
Tests, Have Demonstrated Its
VaIue-See Immense Saving
on Their Coal Bills.

The Butte, Anaconda and Pacific
railroad handles much heavier trains
electrically than those formerly hauled
by steam. The speed is also nearly
twice as great. The freight Increment
is one of the heaviest in the world;
yet owing to the increased train
weight and schedule speed night work
has been greatly reduced, and at the
same time, larger tonnage hauled
Lhan ever before. The current is pur-
chased, and, added to the other adyan-
tages, about $2OO,O00,OOO per annum
S saved in the cost of the current com
pared with the former coal bills.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railroad now has about eighty-five
miles of its road electrified. Work is
under way to electrify 44O miles ad-
ditional. Trains will be heated by
steam from Oil-bUrning boilers. The
saving on coal. bills is expected to
amount to over $1,000,0O0 year.
Electricity is extensively employed
in other countries. In Switzerland,
where there is no coal and many wa
ter powers have been developed, it
is used on many lines, and the govern
ment has decided to 50 operate all
the lines Of the Swiss state railroads.
| Three important projects are under
! consideration in India and work has
very recently been completed in Swe-
! 5oY, IF hO
railroad in the world between Kjer-
onvare and Narvik, which extends 1870
miles within the Arctic circle. This
railroad has reported an increase of
40 per cent in the weight of it's trains
and so per cent increase in speed
by the use of electricity When the
power plants at Daleff and Porias in
Lapland are completed they will sup
! ply the power to the state railroads of
northern Sweden.
The latest system of identification
will be used to operate the trains
through the new Canadian Pacific tun-
mel near Glacier, b. C. This tunnel
will be the longest railroad on the
western hemisphere, except one for
the unfinished "Moffat" road in Colo
RADIO. 1t is Just feet over miles
long. 1t cuts down the grade over
500 feet, shortens the route Az miles
and eliminates 4 miles of snow sheds
which cost about 100000 a year for
maintenance. The engineering work
of the undertaking forms a most in.
teresting story of itself.
A work of great Importance is also
under way at Melbourne, Australia
The change affects 2S9 miles of track
and involves an expenditure of over
| $10,000,000. Though provision is made
for handling upwards of twice the
number of passengers and also in
creasing the speed of the trains, the
change will effect a saving of about
100000 a year in operating costs
Originally 1917 was set for the com
pletion of the work. but the General
Electric company, which is supplying
400 motors for the service, states it is
so advanced that it will be in opera
ton in 1916.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07
American Woman's Good Work.

Woman as an inventor has not come
before the public very often, but in
the last year Miss Grace Gassette has
made her inventions invaluable to the
American hospital in Neuilly. Miss
Gassette's home was in Chicago be-
fore she went to Paris, where she was
for years painter and sculptor. At
the beginning of the war she offered
her services to the American hospital
at Neuilly and soon her work became
indispensable. Here she found use for
her knowledge of anatomy in invent
ing apparatus for dressing wounds,
Whenever a soldier who is seriously
wounded is brought to the hospital the
doctor sends for Miss Gassette, who
makes a detailed sketch of the kind
of instrument needed. From this the
workmen construct the delicate ap.
paratus suited to each peculiar wound.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07

all of the most modern construction.
Double sliding doors are used in the
gable for placing hay in the NOW
These doors are placed on slanting
tracks close up under the caves, where
they will be protected. Being ON the
outside of the barn they are never in
the way and do not taxa up valuable
space iii the NOW.
All the other doors into the stable
are Dutch doors. The upper and the
lower half open separately. The ad-
vantage of this type of door is more
pronounced in the summer than in the
winter, In the summer the upper door
can be left open so as to insure a
good circulation of air through the
barn, and the cattle or horses can be
kept inside without tying them up or
placing them in the stanchions.
The ventilation is taken care of in
the usual way for barn that is ar
ranged with the dairy cattle facing in.
brought i'll with openings above and in
front of the COWS. In back of each
row of cattle is an outtake flue that
passes up the wall and along under
the roof to the ventilator.
A litter carrier track is placed back
of each row of cows, and the track for
this passes out through the back of
the barn to manure pit. The entire
floor of the COW stable is of concrete,
but often the horse part is made with
a wood block or cork floor in the stalls
where the horses have to stand. Iii.
ther type Of floor is easy to clean, as
it can be washed out with hose after
the cattle have gone out.
The feeding arrangement in this
barn is compact and easily handled
The silo is placed up close to the
back part of the barn and has a chute
which empties the silage directly into
the feeding alley. From here it can
readily be placed in the managers, which
are built of concrete the same as the
floor itself.
The horse stable is separated from
the dairy barn part by a wall with
three doors placed in it. Two of the
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07
HAVE COMPLETED BIG BORE
5aghtche Tunnel on the 6agdad Rail.
road, of Immense Importance,
Is Finished.

Undoubtedly the most import ant
event in railroad construction in Tur.
key to date is the recent completion
Of the large tunnel ON the Bagdad
railroad, piercing the Amanus noun
tains on the border between Asia
Minor and Syria. 1t is known as the
Baghtche tunnel
With the completion of the Baghtche
tunnel the most serious difficulties
connected with the construction of the
Bagdad railroad have been overcome,
and the work of connecting up many
of the isolated stretches of track may
be expected to be completed with rea-
sonable rapidity, despite the war in
which Turkey is engaged.
The new tunnel is three miles in
length-by far the longest in Turkey.
While the tunnel is not as long as
many found in the Alps, it is claimed
that the engineering difficulties en-
countered in boring the Baghtche tun-
mel have been as great as those en-
COuntered elsewhere. For several hun
dred yards the engineers were con-
frOnted with rock of practically pure
quartz, which was so hard that it was
necessary to have recourse to boring
machines of special construction. The
tunnel is on a grade and energies at
one end 1877 feet above the level of the
entrance, after having reached at one
point level of 246 feet above that OF
the entrance. The railroad leading to
the tunnel passes over eight steel
bridges and through nine small tun.
nels.-Scientific American.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-01-07
WHERE THE MOVIE SCORES
Fits in Win the Spirit Of the Times,
and SO, of Course, Is Given
a Welcome.

If is the fashion to attribute to the
automobile and the motion picture all
social phenomena not otherwise ac'
counted for The former has undoubt-
eddy increased cur national restless
ness. and it has robbed the evening
lamp of its coy bookish intimacy, The
screen drama makes possible the read
ing" of a story with the minimum
amount of effort A generation bred
upon the movies will be impatient OF
the tedious methods OF writer's VINO
cannot transform character by click
of the camera, but require at least
400 pages to turn the trick. II IS doubt
full whether any of the quasi'historicai
novels that nourished 10 or 20 years
ago and broke a succession OF best
selling records would meet with any
thing approximatng the same amiable
reception II launched today A trained
scenario writer. unembarrassed by lit
erary standards and intent upon moth
sns hut action. ran beat the melodra-