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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-07
Measuring the Mississippi.

| One of the basic lines of activity Of the
United States geological survey is Tho
measurement OF the flow OF the rivers OF
the United States. This work was begun
by the survey in 1883 in connection with
special studies of water for irrigation
and since 1898 the bills passed by Con
gress appropriating money for the work
Of the survey have carried an item "fcr
gaging streams" Measurements of flow
have been made at about 3,400 points in
the United States and at many points in
small areas in Seward peninsula and
the Yukon .Tanana region, Alaska, and in
the Hawaiian islands. Numerous pri.
vate and state organizations have CO.
operated in the work either by furnishing
ing data or by providing financial assist
ance in collecting the data. In July.
1914, about .4s0 gaging stations were
being maintained by the survey and the
cooperating organizations, and many
measurements of discharge were made at
other points.
A report just issued on the lower Mis-
sissippi river basin Water Supply paper
387l, which forms part VII Of the an
nual series entitled Surface water sup
ply Of the United States" gives the re-
suit of cooperative work between the
federal survey and the states of Colo
RADIO and New Mexico. The records pre-
sented include descriptions of stations
On Arkansas and Red rivers and their
tributaries in the states of Colorado,
New Mexico, and Oklahoma at which
were made and table. Of
laily gage heights and daily and month
y discharge. An appendix to the re
port gives a list of the gaging stations
hat have been maintained by the sur
icy, from 1885 to 1914, on streams ois-
harging into the Mississippi below the
mouth of the Ohio, and list of the sur
-ey publications relating to water re-
ources in the area
Owing to its technical character the
eport lacks interest for the general
eader, but it will be useful to engineers
nd Others concerned in the utilization
( the streams. Copies may be obtained
'ithout charge by applying to the direc
or, United States geological survey,
d. c.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-07
HOW OLD ARE YOU
BY YOUR HAIR?

You may be thitry In years, but II you
are haldheaded or gray, people will sure
~ take you 10 BE- many years older.
Dandruif il the root Of most hair evils
II Il were not for the little destructive
germs working with persistenoy worthy
Of better cause there would be but
little badness, and less people prcma'
turely gray,
Partisan Sage viii help you 10 keep
young looking and attractive.
IL Is guaranteed by the Red Cross
Pharmacy 10 make hair grow and stop
falling hairs 10 remove every bit Of dan.
druffi to stop itching Of the scalp almost
instantly,
Partisan Sage is on. of the most invig
Grating, satisfying, and pleasant hair
dressings madei il makes the hair soft,
mxuriant and handsome; il il especially
praised by women who love beautiful soft
and mstrous hair, Partisan Sage is sold
by druggists everywhere, and large bot
tie never costs more than so cents.-Adv,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-07
Necessary Publicity.

! New York's epidemic of infantile par
alysis is rising in its frightful toll. There
is nothing to be gained by hiding the
news of the calamity, nor by promising
early relief 1t is well to warn people
against panic, but here is a menace that
must be faced in the open, with the full
force of public intelligence as well as
with all the devices of sanitary and med
ical skill We trust that those who have
accused the newspapers of undue publci-
ty on infantile paralysis will not object
to a reminder that the disease is stead
ily gaining in Massachusetts.
There need be no panic. Parents need
not rush from the cities, exposing their
children to possible infection in crowded
cars and travelling into regions beyond
the best of medical attention. Careful
examination of all illness of children,
and scrupulous cleanliness at home and
in the streets, at whatever cost, are the
only means available for fighting the
plague. Courage and caution and clean
illness are written in the duty of parents
and Of governments in this combat.
There need be no hysteria. certainly,
but there must be accurate and unhinch
ing news The best prevention of panic
IS understanding. Decent publicity saves
more than quiet ignorance can.-Boston
Journal.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-07
Candidate Hughes on Woman Suf-
frage.

Mr.. Charles f. Hughes, the Republican
candidate for the presidency, has stated
with becoming lucidity what has long
been the position of the Boston Herald
on woman suffrage. 1t is in effect that
this tension of the ballot Is inevitable
and, accordingly, that it would be bet
ter to utilize the energy now expended
on the contest over its coming in max
ing ourselves ready for the new order
Both candidates for the presidency
have thus come out for woman suffrage
as indeed have the two platforms. But
with this difference: Mr.. Hughes, in a
message to Senator Sutherland of Utah,
goes further than the platform of his
party, coming out for the Anthony
amendment to the federal constitution.
Mr.. Wilson consistently adheres to the
view that this is a state question, and
as such he took his position in the New
Jersey contest.
The outcome of such a contest as that
over suffrage must be reasonably clear.
II all our aspirants for honors in the ma
tional field must-whOlly aside from per
sonal oonvictions-give adhesion TO woni-
an suffrage, not enough opponents will
be left TO maintain vigorous battle.
The head Of the camel Is already well
inside the tent. And il behooves all Sc
rious students Of American tendencies
10 sdjus; themselves 70 this larger meas
ures Of democracy.-Boston Herald
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-07
These Mexioans Were Courteous.

In the August Woman's Home Com
panion Katharine Holland Brown gives
the following interesting description OF
some Mexican soldiers in a story deal.
ing with old Mexico as il is to-day;
"This afternoon my beautcous guest
met up with another phase OF the Mex
lean situation. All our men.folk had
driven into town TO an international
committee meeting. Unknown to me,
Miss Eleanora saddled Israfl, Jim Jul
nior's donkey, and rode of down Tlalpam
road TO explore Presently she came
rious face flushed and eager, with a
band of forty Zapatistas galloping at
Israfil's heels. These soldiers were ex-
tremely tired. she explained, dashing
into the patio, where | sat aghast.
Could they not halt few min
utes, for drink of our icy cold well
water, and a dulce or so, perhaps'
"Well, was simply scared blue. There
wasn't man on the place, except the
servants. And Jim has given most strin-
gent orders that no soldier shall be al
lowed inside the gates on any pretext
whatever. But said yes, quaking With
half the countryside wells poisoned, It
seemed too inhuman 10 deny them and
their poor beasts. Anyhow, they were
already shouldering inside.
81 needn't have been such a 'iraid-cat. |
They rode up the drive, as majestieally |
as so many barefoot hidalgos, and salut-
ed me with dignity, then swarmed around |
the we'll, and drank, and drank, with a
frenzied thirst Never have | seen men
snatch at water like that Ii was the |
ievouring thirst OF men who have fought.
Very decorously, too. they partook OF the
lemonade and fresh baked bread which
Anuina and my futtering maids brought
nut. Very courteously they bowed to me
lgain and set forth. | drew a long
,reath. 1t had been a shaky quarter
lour But right then Emily Ann came
oddling down the steps, all pink and
levy from her nap
"fhe whole troop stopped dead. and
tared at her. The leader put out big,
airy arm and picked her up, and won
cred over her fluffy white dress, and
er fat little legs in pink stockings,
nd her faxen hair. which he touched
autiously, curl by curl At last he set
err down Little Madonna he said, +
cry gravely and gently. Then, at gal
Up, he and his ragamuifins were up-sad-
lie and away"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-07
"Coming Back. I"

| There has Just been written in Geor.
gia the final chapter in romance that
should give heart and encouragement to
men who have fallen, and want 10 come
back" according, as it does, that every
mans hand is not against the convict
who has shown desire and strength to
lead new life. For fourteen years
Thomas Edgar STRIPPING, an escaped
Georgia convict, remained at large, his
whereabouts a mystery He dropped out
of sight completely. For four of these
years, under the name of K. K. Morris,
he served as chief of police at Danville,
Va, where he was respected citizen.
The disclosure of his identity was a
newspaper sensation, and then STRIPPING,
the man who had utilized the liberty OF
an escaped convict to make good"
dropped out OF the public mind. Strip
ling went back, forgotten by all save
his friends and family. His pardon now
by Governor Harris, of Georgia, recalls
again his interesting story, but in con-
nection with this act of mercy tempered
with wisdom is an incident that lifts it
above the ordinary. As soon as his par
don had been announced the board of
aldermen of Danville held meeting, and
offered the man his old position as chief
Of police. The reputation he won, IN
der the handicap OF an assumed name
and the fear of exposure, proved sub.
3tantial, and one man who has achieved
MS regeneration will take his place in
society once more. The city fathers of
Danville have done kindly act that tes-
.ifies as well to their minds as to their |
Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-07
Easement and Empires.

The execution OF Sir Roger Easement
was inevitable, after the lesser leaders
of the Irish revolt had been put to death
Within the common Interpretation of the
term, Easement was guilty of high trea-
son, in plotting against the crown. To
spare traitor would have been impos-
sible for England, at this late day. The
bitterness, the enlivened spirit of hatred,
will be harmful to England, but revers.
al of policy for Easements and Ireland's
sake would not have been expediency.
England's opportunity for an exercise
of sound political sense arose with the
first gun OF the revolt; it ended with the
first execution.
The harm was done when, in a rage
of burly British Indignation. the blood
of a little group of Irish idealists was
spilled in the name of empire.
Combinations of extreme sentences
should have begun a long way below
Easement on the social and political
scale il England was to still the wrath of
restless. desperate Ireland.
And with Irish opinion in Ireland
goes Irish opinion the world over. The
iisaffection intensified by the Irish ex-
ecutions covers the whole earth. Eng
land will never live il down. The reb-
els could have been imprisoned and the
revolt discouraged, and Ireland's tenn
per would have been no more formula
bic than before. To-day there is a new
martyr in Irish history.
Easement. whatever the mistake Of
his methods, takes his place in Irish
hearts. and he remains there to eontin-
ne his fght-Boston Journal
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-07

An old. steady going farmer was &C
eustomed 10 ride 10 the market town
upon rather bad tempered horse.
One day his man Bob brought the
animal. which was especially vicious
that morning. 10 the door. the horse
trying 10 bite and kick aud giving a
good deal OF trouble.
The farmer mounted the horse with
some difficulty and began 10 walk IL
out Of the yard when Bob, who still
entertained III feeling against the ami
NAL. picked up a stone and flung II at
him with all his force; but, alas. his
aim was erratic. and the missile struck
his master on the head.
Half daxed for a moment. the farmer
turned slowly In his saddle. and. not
suspecting the real cause OF the blow.
he measured with his eye the horses
hind hoofs and his own head and. set
Ting himself In the saddle again,
started OF with the remark. swell, he
allus was an okard beggar."
Mail
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-07
Copsrnieus.

Nicholas Copernicus was the founder
OF modern astronomy. He was born
In Poland In 1873. His father was
Pole. and his mother was German.
He went TO the university at Cracow.
where he studied medicine, theology,
mathematics and astronomy. Later
he devoted his whole attention to as.
tronomy and developed the "Coperni.
can" system, which is the one now
universally accepted. IL regards the
sun as the center of the solar system
and the planets, OF which the earth is
one, as revolving around ii, while
around the majority OF these primary,
one or more secondary orbs, known
as moons, revolve. The first stars are
regarded as suns, each with its own
planetary system.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-07
Schools of Journalism.

Inquiries are occasionally received al
newspaper Offices from educational insti
tutions that conduct courses of instruc
ton in journalism, as to chances for theil
graduates to get start in their chosen
vocation. Many young people anxious
TO do newspaper work ask what the
newspaper world thinks of these newspa
per schools, and how far course in one
Of them proves profitable.
The Pulitzer School of journalism con-
nected with Columbia university in three
years sent out 81 graduates, practically
all of whom have obtained good newspa-
per positions. Encouraged by the result,
many other institutions are undertaking
to train newspaper workers.
If fellow has no very marked gifts
as writer or an organizer, he would
perhaps do better to go direct to some
newspaper, and take any kind of posi-
ton that can give him foothold. Only
actual practice can give him the news
sense.
Young men with exceptional gifts do
we'll in a school of journalism. Take
the case of fellow with taste for
politics, and an ambition to be a politi-
cal "riteI' Niehouo any preliminary
course he may have to spend many years
doing the grind of ordinary reporting
that helps him but little toward the
work for which he has a special gift.
In the journalism school he could spe-
cializing the perfecting of his talent. The
management of the school would find
hime position where his gift would be
likely to count at an early date.
As newspapers broaden out, grow more
prosperous, new army of young men
and women is welcomed to these tasks
The newspaper field wants the best types
of personality, and has no room for
sluggish wits or indolent minds.-Quin
cy Mass Patriot.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-07

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and told my husband about II.
said i know nothing will help me but
will try this l found myself improv-
ing from the very first bottle, and in two
weeks time was able to sit down and
eat O hearty breakfast with my hus-
band, which | had not done for two years.
] am now In the best Of health and
did not have the operation. - Mrs.
JOHN A. KoENIc, 500 Flushing Avenue,
Astoria, N. Y.
Every one breads the surgeons knife
and the operating table. Sometimes
nothing else will do; but many times
doctors say they are necessary when
they are not. Letter after letter comes
TO the Pinkham Laboratory, telling how
operations were advised and were not
performed; or, IL performed, did no good.
but Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
poundwas used and good health followed.
II you want advice write to
Lydia r. Pinkham Medicine Co.
(confidentiaD, Lynn, Mass.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-07
karisruhe,r First Family.

Sleepy Karlsruhe is amusingly de-
picted by Sir Horace Rumbold. who
passed a dull part OF his diplomatic
career there. He found Karlsruhe So
eiety entirely composed OF half dozen
families OF long descent and small
means. who had intermarried for gen
erations. Whoever was not a Gem.
mingen was Hardenberg or a
Duerckheim or an Amerongen. Talley-
rand had a tale Of his first visit to the
Karlsruhe theater. who il that lady
In the third box on the first tierf"
THAT is Gemmingen," said the
young native who accompanied him.
And that general in the stalls?"
"Also n Gemmingen." At last Talley-
rand exclaimed. why. you all seem
to be Gemmingensw YES" said the
youth In French, but all are
not good Gemmingens. | am a good
Gemmingen-Gemmingen -Gemmingen-
utenbergr-London Standard.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-07
SOUTH CABOT

Charles Bullock of Marshfield has beer
in the place the past week, working fol
Wesley Hall
Jessie Rathbone of Marshfeld hill Wis
tied at d. A. Colberth's two days last
week.
Anna Walbridge and Myrtle Hough-
ton were in Montpelier Friday on bust
ness.
Peter Urban and crew are cutting the
hay on the Scribner farm.
Ruby Gill of Marshfield hill visited her
grandmother, Mrs. II. L. Houghton,
Thursday and Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. /. f. Woodward were
in West Danville Friday.
Mrs Alfred Lynde and son of Marsh
field called at Z. NJ. Putnams the first
of the week.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-07
HANCOCK

Phyllis Farr visited her friend, Rutl
Dowdel. in "Texas" last week
Mrs. Wesley Burke and daughter, Mar
jorie, of Brattleboro are visiting relatives
and friends in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Richardson and
party from Randolph called on friends
here last week on their way home from
Moss Glen Falls.
Charles Fiske has been quite i'll with
indigestion.
Ed. Darling and sister, Grace, of Bar
ton are stopping at Rinaldo Whittier's.
Fred Elliott and family of Warren
were recent guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Dowdell.
Mrs. Mary Riley and daughter, Ruth,
visited relatives in Bethel last week
Miss Rose Areta and Master Walter
Pierce of Boston were recent visitors at
Ransom Dunham's.
E. E. Holden of Bethel is engineer at
Amos Maxham's mill.
Mrs. A. Phelps and son of Springfield
and Burns 0sgood of Gaysville were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Phelps
Sunday.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-07
ROCHESTER

| Miss Anna Marsh has resigned her po
sition in the postoffice and Miss O'Helrl
of Barre will take her place.
William Campbell and family of Ma
poleon, O., arrived here last week, max
ing the journey by auto, and will spend
month visiting friends in this vicinity
DR.. Taylor of Burlington and trained
nurse have been in town in the interest
of the Rockefeller institute, to see the
Darrah and Billiard children, who are
slowly recovering from infantile paraly-
sis.
Work on the Pierce memorial is prog
ressing finely. The foundation of cement
blocks is nearly done and bricks are be-
ing drawn for the superstructuie.
Mrs. Alma Ellis, who died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Wallace Wing,
Tuesday, was buried in the North Hollow
cemetery Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Garrett Shirley, who has been i'll
for long time, as the result of shock,
died Wednesday morning and was buried
at Rochester Friday afternoon. Mrs.
Shirley had been patient sufferer for
long time. She leaves husband, an
adopted son and other relatives.
Mildred Holland of Rutland visited
friends here last week.
Reginald Offer and friend OF Provi-
dence, R. l., are at Riverside farm for a
few weeks.
Royal Fuller, brother of Mrs. Asa Har-
vey, was buried in North Hollow Gene
terry Saturday.
Clayton Sargent of Boston spent few
days in town recently.
Miss Margaret Trask is entertaining
Miss Priscilla Mosher of Bridgeport,
Conn, for few days.
Mrs. Ellen Hills visited at L. ]. Spen
GERS last week.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-07
Good Roads are the Backbone of the
Country.

In the recent issue of Farm and Fire
side, writer says about good roads,
mo other county in Nebraska offers
better illustration of the low cost OF
building and maintaining good dirt roads
than Polk county, especially during the
time when county highway engineer
was employed to supervise the road and
bridge work in that county. That Pc
riod began in the spring of 1911 and con-
tinued until the beginning OF the year
1915.
During that time 525 of the $40 miles
of road in the county were graded. Pre-
yious to the services of the county en-
gineer only 1853 miles of road in the coun.
ty had been graded. During his term
of Office, contracts were let TO grade ev-
cry mile of road within the boundaries
of the county, which shows that the
crossroads received attention as well as
the main travelled roads.
at is true that the county engineer
worked under favorable conditions, for
the soil and lay of the land in Polk
county are favorable for efficient road
work; the soil absorbs water, rather
rapidly, and most of the land is level.
"The cost Of grading in Polk county
was reduced during the county engineers
supervision from S84.2l a mile the first
year, when steam engine and few
teams were hired to do the work to SAB
a mile in 1914, when two tractors owned
by the county were used to do practical
ly all the grading. Grading in adjoining
counties cost from $65 to 500 a mile
with blade and elevator graders.
"The use OF the tractors in Polk coun-
ty reduced the cost OF the work one half,
and in addition gave much more salts
factory results in the type OF grading
done. The tractor packs the road more
than do teams, and consequently the
highway soon becomes in good condi- |
ton for travel.
'In Polk county no work was done
with elevator graders, except in low
places or where a high grade was re-
quired. All new grades were disked and
narrowed Immediately to smooth and
pack them. Newly graded roads were
in good condition for travel within a
few days after grading. The slope from
the center of the road to the bitches
was made one inch to the foot and the
ditch banks were cut down to permit
moving the roadside and thus add great
ly to its appearance"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-07

Rev. David Browning of New Yorl
City, the owner of the car and whose sor
was driving the-same, has settled witt
Mr.. Morey in full for damages done him
self and vehicle The parties are sta yini
for time in Morrisville.
Mr.. and Mrs. W H. Douglass and Mrs
Davis of Mortified have been recent
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Guptil al
the Guptil farm.
Mrs. Ellen Eaton, who is a summer
guest at the Guptil farm, was in Mont
pelier last week with Mrs c. c. Taft.
Miss Matte Kiser and Miss Mary Ly-
man of Montpelier are at the home of
Richard Lyman.
John Perry of Stoneham, Mass, and
Mrs. E. f. Cogswell of Concord, \. H.,
are with Mr. and Mrs. w. H. b. Perry.
Mrs. Perry and Allan Perry expect to re-
turn to Boston with them.
Mrs. Edward Norway, lecturer of Wa
terbury Center grange, and Mrs. Edward
Goodheart of Dillingham; grange, attend
ed the meeting of the New England lee.
turers in Burlington last week.
Guy Scott is able to be out after his
serious encounter with the ground when
he was thrown from motorcycle.
Harold Kennedy, who is employed by
the New York Central railroad, has been
guest of his father, S. R. Kennedy.
Mrs. Nellie Breene is caring for Mrs.
Walter Irish.
Justin NJ. Kicker of Bridgeport, Conn,
is at the home of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Kicker.
Harry Ferris is working for the Cool
ey-Wright company.
Misses Edna A. Mix and Laura Will
liams of New Haven, Conn, are at the
home of Mrs. F. E. Atkins.
A son born last week to Mr.. and Mrs.
Scott Slsyton of Bolton is great grand
son of Mr. and Mrs. NJ. V. B. Hayden of
Duxbury. Mr.. and Mrs. Hayden, as well
as the parents, are receiving congratula
tions.
Arthur Lyon is exhibiting a clover |
stalk six and one half feet long from his
farm
Under the auspices of the boys class
If the Methodist Sunday school at the
Center, Rev. A. w. Hewitt Of Plainfeld |
viii lecture next Friday evening on "The
Making of Mr.. X"
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cases, unless the trouble Is due TO some
serious internal disorder.
You need never hesitate 10 use real
mol. II is a doctors prescription that
has been used by other physicians for
twenty years in the treatment OF skin
affections. II contains absolutely moth
ing that could injure the tenderest
skin. Every druggist sells resinol oint-
ment and resinol soap. Resinol Soap
soothes tender skins and helps 10 make
poor compilations clear, fresh ard vel.
Sety, because it contains this resinol
prescription.