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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-18
NEWS COMING CONDENSED.
Londoners are Forced Also to Take Pa
pers Reduced in Size

| London, March lS.--Londoners are get
ting their daily news in more condensed
| form than ever before in history. 1t was
never served up to them in anything like
the manner in the United States where
the headlines come pretty close to con-
veying the story, but an effort at terse'
ness and coneiseness has been made in
the telling of the story that is quite an
innovation in journalism. The change
was made necessary by the regulations
governing the importation of paper-a
measure of economy brought on by the
war--which reduced the supply of print
paper and which resulted in the publish
ers of the great dailies deciding to cut
down the size of their edition to about
one half of what they were before
March last, when the law became OPP
erative.
The public was prepared for the
change through the papers which for
weeks in advance published notices call
ing upon their readers to order their pa
per each day in advance of their news
dealer. The readers We're told that ow-
ing to the scarcity of paper ii would be
impossible in the future fully to pro-
vide for a chance demand for newspa
pers- In other words only enough pa
pers to meet the known demand would
be run off the presses.
While the news restrictions applied TO
all paper the newspaper industry was the
most seriously affected. Papers which
formerly were twelve pages in size were
cut down to six. An early effort was
made also to eurtail the size of the ar
ticles and to tell more in fewer words
after the style of the Ameri- |
can papers.
The regulations which were formu-
ated by the royal commission paper
provided that on and after March | no
paper or paper making materials could be 1
imported by any persons other than
hose licensed by the commission. liz
'enses could be granted to paper makers
% import during the twelve months
with March I. two-thirds of
he weight of imported materials which
hey consumed in 1914
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-18
Our Belated Season.

Snow has been the great spectacular
ously it has been staged for over month
pastl We have had it in all conssten-
cies and states-light, feathery and null
titudinous out of darkened skies, then
finegrained, crisp and tense in the frost
and bright sunshine; we have seen it
ahoat and at play, later wind driven like
hail at its liveliest For days it has
smoothed out the rocks, made glaciers
of the sand-hills, turned the woods into
fairy palaces and beloved over the land
seape in a CONCEALED sea. In few hours
much of this beautiful snow collapsed
under the dissolving touch of Jupiter
Pluvius; in few hours more the snow
was with us again, building rounded
forms which a sculptor might have fash
toned. 1t needed only the blizzard to
crown the drama with its denouement--
to remind us how inexorable nature is
and what poor advance we have made in
Harvesting it to our chariot.
The meteorolgists tell us how snow
is formed, how it acts on atmosphere
and earth, and with what certainty it
portends floods. There is something
deeper than these concrete commonplaces
Here in the snow is the path which the
earliest pedestrians have trampied down,
and the after-comers are only too glad
to follow the direction thus given. Yon-
der are the deep foot-holes which mark
the course Of the innovator-a hard way
to travel because he is the first in it. |
Will anyone initiate him when there are
easier roads? That beaten track (which !
the past makes for the present embodies
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-18
OFFICER WHO LET
GERMANS ESCAPE
is EXECUTED
Commandant Under Whose Eye Prison
ers Fled at Amherst, N. S., Re-
ported Shot at Halifax,

Montreal, March ls.--The officer in
charge of German prisoners at Amherst,
n. S., at the time of the escape of sew
eral captives few of whom succeeded
in getting into the United States and to
freedom, has been> shot by order of a
court-martial, according to reports to
Senator Cloran of Monreal. Senator
Cloran says that he has accurate infor-
nation from reliable sources which
states that the officer was put to death
at Halifax quietly soon after being tried
for treason and being implicated in the
connivance of the Germans to escape.
He adds that Il will not only say that
there are prominent Influences at work
to help our enemies to escape from the
Amherst camp, but / will produce the
names of the men who are trying to aid
them and who on recent occasions did
so" he saws
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-18
Making the Kitchen Attraetive.

A person is certainly affected by his
OF her surroundings. Let a careless, in
competent man or woman, by some
streak Of what Is termed good luck.
get into neighborhood where everyone
seems to hustle and is a worker, and in
a very short time the new arrival be-
gins to initiate their WAYS.
On the other hand, when some III for
tune reduces one in the social scale
when the one hard pressed must take up
his abode among others thus reduced
very soon he seems 10 lose what little
ambition or hope still fingered in his
heart when the crash came.
Cheerful surroundings viii. Il is m
disputed fact make an otherwise gloomy
person seq there Is silver lining 10
ne cloud. after all; but. saws the Irish
World. let this same woman have to
pend her time in a dreary. cherries
lace. and, like a flower neglected. daily
he win droop and fade.
In the business world the dull cheer
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-18
What verdun Has Settled.

Although the region of Nerdun is still
the scene of desperate assault and des-
perate defense something has been set
tied by the fighting there. 1t may be
that the Germans will finally succeed in
driving the French out of the fortress.
1t may be that the French will hold the
place. The conclusion is much the same,
Whichever comes to pass. Modern forth
fcations dependent, not upon big guns in
steel turrets, but upon great batteries
in caves upon the hillsides with trenches
below them, are too strong TO be taken
except at forbidding place.
This is a confirmation of the opinion
that trenches mean deadlocks because
the man beneath the ground has an ad-
vantage over the man who charges up
against machine guns and wire entangle-
ment. For a time wien the great as
sault upon Verdun began, this was doubt
ed 1t was evident that the German gen.
erals thought they could win their way
through. The rest of the world. waited
to see while the French fought off their
foes. The issue is still unsettled in a
way but the conflict has been on for
three weeks and half. Time has set
tied it. Such a movement is too expen-
sive. Continuous fighting of that sort
takes too many men day in killed
and wounded to be often tried.
The lesson for the allies is the same
as il is for the Germans. Ii one fails to
blast way through the lines of the 9TH
er except at too cruel a cost the other
will also fail to blast its way through the
lines.
The way. then, is to be fought be- |
tween the British blockade and the ingen- |
lity Of the Germans in substituting foi /
necessities OF which lack of sea power de-
Drives them-Boston Globe.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-18
OUGHT LAME BACK
RUB LUMBAGO OR
BACKACHE AWAY
Rub Pain Right Out with Small Trial
Bottle of Old "St. ia
cob's Oil"

Kidneys cause backache9 MOI They
have no nerves, therefore cannot cause
pain Listeni Your backache is caused
by lumbago. seiatica OF a strain, and the
quickest relief is soothing. penetrating
st Jacobs oil" Rub It right on your
painful hack. and instantly the soreness,
stiffness and lameness disappear. Don't
STAY crippled Get a small trial bottle
Of 'St Jacobs OH from your druggist
and timber mp. A msnent after il l.
applied You'll wonder What became Of
the backaehe OF mmbago pain.
Rub old. honest st. jacobs or when
ever you have sciatica. Neuralgia. rheu-
matism or srrains. a. q j. absolutely
harmless and doesn't bura the skias--
AiE.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-18
Topics of the
Home and
Household.

To remove a rusty screw, first apply
a very hot iron to the head for short
time, then Immediately use the screw
driver.
To test the purity of coffee, pour cold
water on it. If the water assumes a
brownish hue, it may be concluded that
there is chicory with it.
The easiest way to umscrew the end
from fountain pen, if it sticks, is to
twist rubber band about the part to be
This gives purchase which
seldom fails to separate the parts with
little exertion.
Grilled Almonds--Mlake ready cup of
blanched and dried almonds. To one cup
of sugar add half cup of water and
boil for about 10 minutes, then drop in
the almonds and continue the boiling till
the nuts turn faint yellow; next re-
move quickly from the fire, and stir I'M
til the syrup reaches the sugary stage,
,linging to the nuts. They are then
spread to cool on q plate over which
piece of waxed paper has been laid.
Serve the same as sailed almonds.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-18
GERMANY DENIES REPORT.
That Essen Has Been Badly Damaged
BY Bombs

Berlin, via wireless, March l7.-Foreign
newspapers are spreading the reports
that Essen. the home of the Krupp
works, has been damaged badly by enemy
aeroplanes and that the Essen railroad
station was attacked by bombs, says the
Overseas News agency. These reports
are pure inventions, as it is stated by
competent German authorities.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-18
Wilson Signs Amy Bill.

Washington, March lS-President Will
son, at 1880 a. m. yesterday, signed the
joint resolution passed by the House and
Senate calling for the recruiting of the
army to full war strength. The order
went into effect Immediately.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-18
ORDERED TO INVESTIGATE.
American COnsuls Told to Find Facts in
Ship Attacks.

Washington, ID. C.. March lT.-Ameri-
can consus in Holland have been in
structed TO investigate the sinking Of
the Dutch liner Tubantia. with Ameri-
cans abroad, said to have been torpedoed.
Consular agents az Gibraltar and Lisbon
were instructed t. investigate the re-
ported unsuccessful attempt 70 torpedo
the French Liner Patria.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-18

She-The diamond in this engagement
ring is swfully small.
He--I told the jeweler il was for the
smallest hand in Boston.-P Philadelphia
Bulletin.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-18
LITTLE P|MPLES
ON FACE, NECK
And Hands. Became Scaly and Skin
Was Sore. Ashamed To Go Out.
Lasted Three Months.
HEALED BY CUTICURA
SOAP AND OINTMENT

"One night before retiring l was troubled
with an itching and in the morning found
that my face was all broken out with little
pimples. and then they came on my neck
and hands. The pimples became scaly and
my skin was SO sore that l had to battle it
with cold water to keep the pain down. and
scratched and my face became erupted. L
was so red and sore l was ashamed to so out
doors at all. 1t lasted about three months.
81 tried --- and -- TO no purpose.
friend told me to try Cuticura Soap and
Ointment so l did, and after using three
cakes Of Cuticura Soap and one-half box
OF CuticIra Ointment | regained my COM
plexion, and was completely healed
(signed) Miss Helen Lynn. 80 Tyler St..
Nashua. n. h. Aug. ~. 1915.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-18
Couldn't Suit Her.

THAT hat, madam. makes you look 10
years younger" said the modiste.
"Good graciousl" exclaimed the Gus
toner, chow old do You suppose 1 ann"
-Yonkers Statesman.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-18
VILLA COSTS $4,000 A DAY.
This the Present Expense to the United
States.

FL Paso. March ls.-It is estimated
here that the cost of the villa pursuit
at present is upward Of $4,000 a day.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-18

The funniest thing is a married man
paying money to hear a lecture-Cleve-
land Leader.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-18
Sample Each Free by Mail

With 32-p skin Book on the treatment
Of the skin and scalp. Address postcard
''Cuticura. Dept. II. Boston," Sold by
druggists and dealers throughout the world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-11
Citrus Fruit Inspectors
Are Given Dismissal

Mobile. September 10.-(Special.)- Five
inspectors at work in eradication of the
citrus canker in Baldwin county have
been relieved by Dr.. r. Van Iderstein,
supervisor of citrus canker eradication
work. In response to an appeal from
growers a meeting was held yesterday at
Battles Growers told the supervisor that
they were heartily in sympathy with
eradication efforts of the government.
but they were compelled to file charges
of incompetency against the inspectors.
They said they wanted TO be assured that
the inspectors destroying their trees
were experts" Mrs. w. B. Curran tes-
titled that five inspectors entered her
yard and found no infection. They re-
turned several days later, she said, and
located tell-tale spots. She insisted the
inspectors had not taken proper precau.
tons. and that she believed they brought
the infection with them. Announcement
by DR.. Iderstine that he would take per-
sopal supervision and make changes
seemed to relieve the situation. There
are many farmers and others interested
in citrus orchards In Baldwin county.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-11
WADE'S LETTER
SEED SELECTION.

Now is the proper time to select and
store away your planting seed for an
other year. These seed, both corn and
cotton. should be selected from the best
plants in the fields. You have an OPP
portunity now of seeing just what kind
of plants your planting seed came from.
The plants from which planting seed are
selected should be as nearly like those
you would prefer your next crop to pro-
duce as possible. Seed selected and
properly stored. when planted under IA
vorable seasons and good cultivation, will
be much better in quality and yield very
much like the plants from which they
are selected.
RESULT OF NEGLIGENCE
If you fail to select your planting seed
and go carelessly along having nothing
to plant next year except corn from the
crib or gin-run cotton seed, what can
you expect in the way of Improvement?
1t may be that you intend feeding all
your corn and selling all your cotton
seed to the oil mills, putting yourself at
the seed dealers mercy and be compelled
to pay extra high prices and heavy
freight charges for seed. in many in
stances no better than those you had the
year before. Often the seed bought from
uceilcio are lntcEDIcu anu BloHL
on entirely different types of soil. sea-
sons and climatic conditions and year
or two is required for them to become
climatsed. The best seed are those prop
erly selected from your own farm or by
some careful. reliable farmer in your
community or state. If a dealer de-
frauds you in your own state you have
a recourse through your state laws, but
IL dealer in another state fakes you.
to, ,,x<n r+ota L.
ficult and you will be the sucker"
BEST TYPE OF CORN.
The best type of corn Is the two-eared
type commonly found in many of the
semi-prolific varieties; the stalk should
be of medium heighth and taper grad
ually from bottom to top; the foliage
should be broad, thick and healthy; two
good. well developed ears should located
halfway between top and bottom; the
ears should be medium in length and
diameter, tapering uniformly from butt
to tip; the grain should be in straight
rows. medium depth. firm and unmixed
with other varieties.
BEST COTTON TYPE
The best types of cotton may be found
in the two varieties, Early King or Toole
for the level piney sections of south
Alabama and early big boil Triumph for
the hill and clay lands of central and
north Alabama. Selections should be
made from plants fruiting heavy at the
bottom and that put on good bottom
and middle crop in July. The plant
should be broad at the bottom tapering
as a pyramid. The limbs should be
short jointed and fruit at each joint on
the lower two-thirds of the plant. The
bolls should have five well developed
locks and a good strong staple an inch
or more in length. This cotton should be
ginned carefully to avoid mixing.
/ especially urge the preparation OF
planting seed. If you wait to buy them
the high price of planting seed will help
the boil weevil to take care of the prof
it's JAMES A. WADE
Commissioner Of Agriculture and Indus
tries.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-11
LITTLE SWEDEN
IS NOT GOING TO
CHANGE ATTITUDE
Sharp Exchange of Notes
With England on Block
ade Controversy Is
Pending

London. September lo.-There has been
further and rather sharp exchange of
notes between Great Britain and Sweden
In regard to the difficulties brought
about by the entente allied blockade and
Swedens retaliatory seizure of mails in
transit between England and Russia. No
solution of the problem is in sight. The
British foreign secretary. viscount Grey,
insists that as condition to submitting
the matter to arbitration Sweden must
promise not to interfere again with Eng
fish parcel post matter in transit across
Sweden. The Swedish government appar-
emily is determined not to make such
an engagement.
1t is noticeable that until now the cor
respondence has been conducted almost
wholly between Viscount Grey and the
Swedish minister in London, Count
Wrangel. but Viscount Grey's latest note
to Count wrangel says the counts COM
munication is not understood, and that
the British minister at Stockholm Is
being directed to present the matter to
now has gone to the continent, and 1t is
announced he will stay for several
weeks.
Count Wrangels letter, given out to-
day, says Sweden shares the hopes ex-
pressed by Viscount Grey that the corre-
spondence may bring definite solution of
the questions at ISSUE and that Sweden
would warmly congratulate itself on the
application of the fertile principle of in
terna tional arbitration"
The count says further he Is glad the
British government appears to recognize
it Is an impossibility for the Swedish
government Ito renounce in advance the
right to take measures which regrettable
circumstances might render necessary"
The letter concludes with the statement
that Sweden recognizes fully the binding
character of the postal agreement of 1904.
but maintains the right to suspend the
agreement under the conditions in ques-
ton.
In reply viscount Grey says the naming
of this commission is not clear. and that
he has instructed the British minister at
Stockholm to point out to the Swedish
government that Great Britain must, as
condition precedent to any arrange
ment involving recourse to arbitration,
have assurance that the Swedish govern
ment will definitely cease to interfere
with the transit of parcels to and from
the United Kingdom across Sweden"
So the matter rests.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-11
Montgomery Troop of
Cavalry Mustered In

Montgomery September 10.-(Spe-
cial 1.-The Montgomery cavalry troop
is now reality and is officially a
part and parcel OF the cavalry regi-
ment that is being launched in Ala
bama by Col. Robert E. Steiner. The
troop has been mustered into the fed
eral service and starts out with SO
members. William c. Oates of this city.
son of the late Gov. William c. Oates.
has been elected captain of the unit.
Other officers will be selected later on.
The Montgomery troop was the sixth
that has received federal recognition,
the troops at Birmingham, Jasper. Tus-
caloosa, Greenville and Dothan having
been previously taken into the federal
fold. Capt. Thomas Roberts, u. 8. A..
went to Elba Saturday to muster In
the troop at that point. provided 1t
measured up to the requirements.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-11
HUNTSVILLE

Huntsville, September 10.-(Special.)
The Huntsville party that went to
Mentone, Ga, during the latter part of
the week and attended a conference
with representatives of the Rome
Chamber of Commerce with reference
to new automobile route between
Huntsville, available as link in the
Dixie highway. returned to Huntsville
enthusiastic over their trip. The party
participated in the organization of the
Alabama Georgia Highway association
whose purpose is to get this route on
the map as part of the main high
way between Nashville and Atlanta
and they are spurred in their efforts
to this end in the belief that the At
lanta- Nashville section will be ono OF
entire Dixie system. which will be due
mainly to the ever increasing travel
between the north and west and Flor
ida resorts.
The Huntsville party was surprised
and delighted to find that they could
go 81 miles east from this city and
encounter only two miles of bad roads,
that being found between Gurley and
Paint Rock. This piece of bad road
will he reconstructed during the pres
ent season, nearly all the money hav-
ing been made up for this purpose.
All city schools of Huntsville will
begin work tomorrow with the ex-
ception of the high school classes.
which will report during the week
and begin work September 10. Owing
to the increased attendance and scar
city OF funds the board of education
has found 1t imperative to charge
nominal Incidental fee. For residents
of the city the high school fee will
be $40 annually and for others 25 cents
monthly. For nonresident youth the
fees in the high school will be 81
monthly and in various grades the
scale Is reduced gradually to a dollar
a month. An increase in the faculty OF
the schools Is said to be urgent.
Capt. H. j. Harrison, who command
volunteer regiment of immunes in the
Spanish war, is critically i'll
in the hospital here. He was carried
to the hospital several days ago sur
fering from an attack of acute indiges-
tion and since then complications OF
an alarming nature have developed.
Captain Harrison during the last few
ILOHtHS mas DctH OAAlceT Ol tne
Huntsville police department.
Cliff Bridges of Lawrence county
was arrested and brought to Huntsville
yesterday on a charge of Illicit dis
tilling. He was lodged in jail to await
trial before Commissioner Greenleaf.
Half a dozen alleged bootleggers of
liquor were picked up by the police
Saturday, one of the defendants be-
ing a woman almost helpless from
paralysis. Several of the cases were
based on the finding of more than half
a gallon of liquor on the premises OF
the defendant.
Monte Sano lodge No. l, Knights OF
Pythias, will be hosts to the district
convention composed Of representatives
of the lodges of Jackson. Madison, Nor
gan and Limestone counties Friday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-11

FOR RENT-2020 5th ave. Apartments
corner Fourteenth avenue and Four
teenth street, south. Brick, furnace,
crate, hardwood floors, tile porch, tile
bath, hall and five rooms. gas stoves.
water heaters, shades furnished. Owner,
Phone Main 413S. 9-7-5t
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-11
DEMOCRATIC HAND
BOOK IS ISSUED
1t Carries Slogan of peace
With Honor, Prepared
ness and Prosperity"

New York. September Io.-The demo-
cratic hand book for 1916. issued here
tonight by the democratic national
congressional committees. contains 4sf
pages. Its slogan is Peace with Honor.
Preparedness. Prosperity
A picture OF President Wilson appears
on the front cover and one of Vice
President Marshall on the back cover.
More than $50 subjects. covering the
whole of the Wilson administration, are
discussed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-11
HEATING

SPIRO, S. Sc MERRILL HEATING &
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