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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-07-19
PENN. r. r. MEN TEST SCALES
Six Here in the Interest of Their Road
All Prove Satisfactory.

All Prove Satisfactory.
Six representatives of the trans
portation, engineering and motor de-
partments of the Pennsylvania rail-
road are in town testing the new
scale built by the Fairbanks Co. It
is understood that as far as is known
the new scale is the only one of it's
kind in the world, the construction
of which involves a new principle of
operation. 1t is what is known as
plate fulcrum track scale of the two
section principle.
Those in the party are A. H. Haf-
ner, F. M. Basher. H. B. Houston, Jo-
seph G. O'Donnen, K. H. Barry and
a w. Epright all of Altonna, Pa.
The celebrating test was conducted
Tuesday and it is expected will be
finished Wednesday. The tests thus
far have proved highly satisfactory to
the railroad representatives
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-07-19

Elmer H. Gaske1l has bought of
Miss Elizabeth Hawes the property at
2 Belvidere street.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-07-19

Miss Mildred Thomas visited rela-
tives in Sheffield recently and her
cousin, Miss Luba Barber spent last
week with her at her home in Ar
lington.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-07-19

RLwIN A. SILsBY, EN-. Commander.
EARL ID. EVANS, Recorder.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-07-19

The Museum of Natural Science.
Open week days 9-12 A. NJ, IA P. Nj.
Sundays $50 to 5 P. NJ.
All visitors welcomed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-07-19

st. JOhnsbury Athenaeum.
LIBRARY READING ROOM ART GALLERY
9 O'Clock to 9 O'Clock each week day, We'd
uesday evenings excepted.
3 O'Clock to 5 O'Clock Sundays.
All invited.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-07-19

Palestine COmmandery, No. 5, X. T..
Stated Conclave Tuesday evening, July
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-07-19
FRATERNAL MEETINGS

PansumpsIc Lodge, No. "a. #. d A. d.
Regular Communication Thursday even
ing, August 10.
F.W. JACKSON, w. NJ.
D. r. CoLB, Secretary.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-07-19
aaswem Royal Arch Chapter. No. II.

Stated Convocation Friday evening, July
FL at 7.3O O'Clock. Work M. NJ. NJ. Degree
RAYMOND A. PEARL, e. HIP.
FRRD G. MOORE, Secretary.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-07-19
Case Of State Against Otis Williams Of TOpsham and Dead
Mans Wife For Completely In Shooting Of April z
Sdrs Orange County and Is Expected to Be Most Alb
sOrbmg In Annals Of Criminal Procedure Of "a
TaIsmen Nearly Exhausted
BOTH CALMLY PLEAD NOT GUILTY

States Opening Inmates That Will Attempt Prove Intimacy Be-
tween the Accused and Desired Freedom From COug Bonds AS
MotveTwo Witnesses On Stand Tuesday Show Photographs
and Plans Scene of CmeTal Is Expected To Last At Least 10
Days-Beieved Defense Will Be Suicide
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30

seeds form. This may be easily and
quickly done with the two-horse now
or. Have the knife sharp, set the
knife bar just high enough to cut the
weeds In bloom without cutting the
clover and grass. We have found this
good way to prevent these pests
from seeding the land.
Cookie, garlic and volunteer rye In
the wheat fields should be cut and
Just as soon as they come into flower.
Walk between the drill rows. An &C.
tive man can clean a ten-acre field In
less than a day. Clean wheat il worth
fully ten cents per bushel more than
weedy wheat. Wheat having much gar
lie and cockle-rye and oats in 1t cannot
be sold to millers, and can only be sold
to the grain merchants at q heavy dis
count as it will have to be sent to the
elevators to be sifted and then passed
through the blower" This takes time
and costs several cents per bushel.
A grass field badly infested with
the oxeye daisy should be cut when
the plants are in full bloom and made
into hay, and as soon as the hay ID
removed, pillow the sod under and SOW
the buckwheat or cowpeas. Turn the
peas under when in bloom and drill
to grain in September.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
THINK OVER SOCIAL DUTIES
Expensive to Run With Folk Who
Have More Money-charity A.
fairs for Heathens.

II you have time-and you have
you should sit down in your uneasy
chair and contemplate your social du-
ties. Catalogue them first, grouping
them under two heads that will occur
to you, and then exercise your sense
Of humor.
After you have done this, you may
resolve to reform-if you wish. But
the sense Of humor will be your real
salvation. II it doesn't save you. you're
a goner.
OF all social duties you will find
that your greatest and most loved Is
the composite one of keeping hep
with somebody who is geared faster.
socially and financially, than you are.
This is the duty that, properly respect
ed. makes you fuss so ridiculously at
the grocer and the landlord about the
high cost Of living.
Another we'll recognized duty is
that of becoming prominently solicit
Gus about the welfare of the heather
at home and abroad. This is acostly
duty that demands much sacrifice and
domestic activity; but it is worthy, for
the heather. who get one or two per
cent Of the afluence displayed, need
the money.
There are many other social duties
that are not worth mentioning, but 1t
might do you good to think them over.
Judge.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
You OUGHT TO WATCH CHILD
Obnoxious Habits Do Not Come All
Of q Sudden-study its De-
veIopment.

Robert no longer comes to me with
his condolences. Matilda seems to be
interested in dresses; she has never
been that way before. Or PERHAPS
she is losing interest in her school or
in her music. By the time you no
tice that she Is losing interest the pos
sibilities are that she has already lost
it. Or Carl is very careless about his
language, or Katherine is not as tidy
as she should be. -,
Whatever It is, the young buds Of
the trouble were present to be seen
long before the flower appeared. says
a writer in the New York Tribune.
And while 1t may not be fair to- say
that they could have been prevented
in every case, 1t is likely that the
anticipation would have saved the par
ents a great deal of unnecessary wor-
~ and distress. These things that
grow in the life of a child day by
day, taking form only slowly, are
either the normal responses of the
child's nervous system to the demands
duu tuo StIuuAotiOA VI tuc cuNiIOu-
ment or they are the normal responses
to the very fact Of becoming older.
In the case Of the latter. like the girls
interest in dress and appearance. al
lowing ourselves to be. surprised is
simply an indication, OF ignorance. In
the case of the former. allowing our
selves to be surprised is an indica-
ton Of a certain kind of negligence.
For with q little thoughtful attention
we ought to be able to recognize most
of the important habits that the child
is forming long before they reach the
dimensions of crisis.
These disagreeable habits are like
curvature of the spine; they are &C
cumulated so slowly that they are
quite ignored until they reach GER
tain magnitude. Then we say: Woe.
woe! But it may then be too late.
By keeping your eyes open. by watch
ing the child's conditions from day to
day. you may prevent some Of the
undesirable manifestations from be-
coming chronic.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
Wife,a Christian Name.

A big, elderly English farmer called
on a solicitor and said he'd like to
make his will. I'll leave my brass
to the wife," he said; we've been
married 30 years." The solicitor pre-
pared to receive particulars. whats
your wife's Christian name?" he asked.
The farmer scratched his head,
thought, scratched his head again. No,
he couldn't remember. Hanged il he
knew at all. The solicitor thought OF
a ruse. Walk to that door," he sug
gested, "and call upstairs as If you're
calling her." The farmer did SO. He
called out, "Missus!"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
Noncommittal.

A certain cabinet minister who was
buttonholed the other day by an over
inquisitive journalist administered a
very neat rebuff.
How long do you think the war
will last?" was the final question Of
a long series asked by the interviewer.
Very promptly the minister asked:
How long is a piece of string?"
The interviews stared at him in
establishment.
IL don't know" he gasped.
Neither do L., said the minister.
cordially. I'm glad we've agreed
about something. Good morning.
Tit-Bits.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30

For the purposes of firing this beer
cask" bomb is placed in the mouth of a
420-millimeter gun like a great cork.
1t does not travel far, and causes far
more noise than destruction.
The Italians are puzzled to know
why the Austrians bother about them
at all. One reason suggested is that
it enables the Austrians to use up the
innumerable casks lying idle at the
Pilsen breweries now that the export
of the famous Pilsener lager has been
stopped.
The same correspondent states that
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30

The most economical way to kill
weeds is through blowing and harrow
ing. After the ground is plowed cross
harrow and roll and after a few days
follow with the smoothing harrow.
The constant stirring Of the soil
Will bring most of weed and grass
seeds to the surface. and as soon as
they terminate the plants may be
easily killed with either the harrow or
the cultivator.
The stirring of the ground when the
weeds are small Is the quickest way to
cleanse the land. Never let the weeds
In the garden or corn field become
firmly rooted.
The hand cultivator and harrow are
the best implements for working
among the small root crops in the
garden. The ground should be stirred
after every shower as soon as it is
dry enough to work. The push hoe
should be ground sharp. In using 1t
work backward, SO as not to step
upon the loosened soil. for this will re-
plant the weeds which would other.
wise be killed.
Yellow mustard and the oxeye daisy
in the meadows and pasture fields
should have the blossoms cut before
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
DOUBLE VALUE FROM CROPS
In Marketing Of Feeds Through Live
Stock and From Fertilizer In
the Manure.

The farmer who feeds as much live
stock as possible may figure that he
is receiving a double remuneration
from his crops: First, from the mar
keting of feeds through live stock;
and, second. from the fertilizing sub
stances which are left in the manure.
Practically all of the nitrogen. phos-
phorus and potash which is in the
feeds is recovered in the manure from
live stock. All landowners. farmers.
and tillers Of the soil should always
be keenly conscious of this fact, and
employ methods Of management &C.
cordingly.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30

She told me q little about her
life, which / was forbidden to write
here; but it has been a life full of alb
negation and devotedness and of i'm
measurable aid to her husband. She
has always revised and edited his
speeches and articles. She studied
law and was admitted to the bar in
order to understand his interests. Her
mind, think, entertains more than
his, and the habit of public life has
not dulled her natural reaction to
things as it has his. She told
me that "the secret of Mr.. Bryan's
power lies in his immensely wide hu-
man sympathy" Reed in Col
lier's Weekly.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
HALF SUGAR BEET FOR STOCK
Excellent Feed for Winter When Sue
culent Matter 10 scarce-Cultiva-
ton 10 Needed.

There IL a kind of beet known as
half sugar beet, or stock beet, which
IL grown in some places for stock
feed. 1t makes a good feed during the
winter time when succulent matter 10
30 scarce. In feed value, root crops
compare about the same as siiage.
The principal objection to growing
root crops for stock Is the high cost
of production. It costs as much per
ton to grow root crops as 1t does TO
grow and place q crop in a sflo. ROOT
crops will not keep well unless they
are carefully handled and carefully
stored, and even in that case the
growing of rooNcrops is more dimcuit
and under adverse conditions there
is very apt to be failure.
Root crops should be planted on
ground which has been we'll prepared
and In a good, mellow condition. They
may be planted in rows 20 to SO inches
apart, but the closer planting Will
give the larger yield. Sugar beets.
mangels and half sugar beets should
be thinned to about 10 inches
apart in the row. and will re-
quire about Is pounds Of seed per
acre to insure q good stand. The thin
ming should be done when the third or
fourth leaf appears, or. in other words
when the plants are very small. 1t ID
necessary to keep them well cultivat-
cd during the summer
Our advice would be to start In q
very small way, say not over one
fourth or one-half acre.-Department
af Agronomy, Oklahoma A. and M.
College, Saltwater.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
GET TWO CROPS OF CABBAGE
Second Head Will Not Be ~ Large
az First, But Il Will Be Quite
Solid and Tender.

Early cabbage can be made to pro-
duce two heads. When cutting the
early head cut it with as few large
leaves as possible. Small heads will
start in the axis of the leaves and
one should be selected and the others
removed.
Fertilize, cultivate. mulch heavily
and water we'll and no further care
will be needed. The second head may
not be as large as the first but 1t Is
solid and tender and ready to use be-
fore cold winter.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
CUT PEANUT VINES FOR HAY
Work Should Be Done Before Leaves
Become Spotted or Drop-Plle
Until They Are Dry.

Peanut vines should be cut for hay
before the leaves become spotted or
drop. Cut with q mower and allow
to sun little while. A. P. Spencer,
district agent for the University Of
Florida extension division, recon-
mends that the vines be put in small
piles about half day. until they have
become dry. Then reptile in punches
of about 200 pounds and let stand
about three days, or until they have
cured enough for hay. Spread the piles
before storing the hey.
II the nuts are to be left on the vine
throw the dirt away from each side of
the rows with turning pillow. Lift the
whole plant from the soil by inserting
a fork beneath the HILL Shake the dirt
of and throw in small piles. Curing
probably will be delayed somewhat by
the dirt which adheres to the roots and
nuts.
In either method the hay is usually
placed under cover from ten days to
two weeks, until it has gone through
q sweat, and then baled. 1t keeps we'll
in bales and once it is well cured no
trouble will be had from discoloration
in the bale. Peanut hay makes excel.
lent feed for cattle and mules and com.
pares favorably with alfalfa. Animals
should be brought to full feed on 1t
gradually. otherwise the sudden
change Of diet is apt to throw them OF
their feed. They should be watched
closely at all times to detect any signs
of kidney trouble. which may develop
from excessive feeding of such rich
heterogeneous feeds.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
PUNCH TO MARK BABY CHICKS
Work Should Be Done a. Early 70 Pos.
sibIe to Prevent lncisIon From
Growing Up.

II you are going to use the poultry
punch to mark the baby chicks do 90
as soon as they are taken from the
nests or incubator. for the earlier they
are marked the less liability there is
for the incision to become grown up.
II they are not marked until a week
or more old. they should be examined
a few days after marking and the scab
removed from the punched hole.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
THRIVE ON ROUGH PASTURES
Sheen Do Better on Land Where
There 10 Abundance OF Grass
Suitable for Grazing.

Sheep Craze the pasture very close
" and can thrive on short grass. For
this reason II is possible to raise
sheep on rough pasture land and
where grass is not very tall.
But It is not necessary that sheep
be grazed on this kind Of land, as
thew do better where there is an
abundance of grass suitable for liberal
grazing. Every farm needs at least
4 few sheep.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
A.hs. With Hen Manure.

Many persons propose to mix ashes
with hen manure, but no material con-
tanning lime, in the form In which it
Ia contained in ashes. should be mixed
with moist manure. as the lime will
cause the liberation Of a considerable
part of the nitrogen in the manure and
n will escape as ammonia gas.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
Prison Better Than Camp.

Montgomery. Ala.-Felix Smith,
white, a convict serving two years for
embezzlement, escaped from the tur-
pentine camp, near the Florida line,
and walked 200 miles back to the peni-
Tertiary rather than suffer the abuses
which he said we're heaped upon him
in the camp. He walked into the peni-
Tertiary and told the warden that he
had escaped SO he could come back
home" Smith has served eight months
and most likely will not be sent back
to the camp.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
BEER KEGS WEAPONS OF WAR
Au.%,,.ns Use Them ~ Bombs on Car
20 Front-Fire Them From
Cannons.

London.-An Italian correspondent
writes that the Austrians are now
making use of q wooden bomb on the
.Carso front. The bomb looks like
.cask. it's outer she'll being. in fact.
composed of wooden slaves with Iron
boops. and It II large enough to con-
tain 20 pounds Of explosives.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
When She Jumps.

MollieI see it stated that the
grasshopper can jump two hundred
times its own length.
Chollie-And when one proposes
marriage I'll bet the lady grasshopper
goes the limit.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30

midas rice crop of this year IL estf-
mated at 76.792.000 acres, slightly In
excess of the acreage of the year be-
fore. The total yield IL expected to bs
81 per cent greater than last year.
Estimates for both area end yield are
the greatest on record.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
Movie 1echnicaIity

Penelope-What is this ten-foot
kiss l read about In the movies?
Percival-Well. you see. it is like
this
Penelope want no practical dem
onstration. Just tell me about 1t.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30

the Italians are using the Roman he'll
met for outpost work and in the
trenches. 1t is said to be better than
the new French helmet, inasmuch as
1t protects the neck and jugular as
well.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
Strict Truth.

He said he was q hank cashier,
and we Investigated and found that
he was" What bank?" We'll, it's
a gravel bank. and he's paymaster of
the shovel gang."-Browning's Mega
zine.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
Harvesting Sllaoe.

Silage may be harvested in wet
weather and when conditions are such
that other crops could not be har.
vested without total loss.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
Skim Milk for Hogs.

Skim milk Ii an excellent feed. and.
mixed with wheat middlings, In the
form of q thick slop. makes an ideal
food for breeding swine.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30
Spray for Bean Rust.

Saltpeter water-One ounce Of salt
peter to a gallon of water-is q good
spray for rust on bean vines and
bushes.
Evening star., 1916-12-11
ARTISTS PRIZES AWARDED.
National Academy of Design Makes
Announcement of Winners.

NEW YORK. December 1.-THE Ma
tional Academy of Design has an
nouuced the winners of prizes for
paintings submitted in it's winter exhi-
bition. They We're:
For the most meritorious oil painting
by an American artist. portraits only
excepted, to Howard Russell Rutle"
Princeton y. J.: for the best portrait,
Philip L. Hale, Boston; for figures OF
genre paintings by. American artists,
TO Lawton Parker. Chica go, and L IrT-
ing Couse, New York: for the best fig
ure composition painted by an Amer
lean artist thirty-five years of age or
under. to George w. Bellows. New
York: for the most meritorious work of
art produced by an American woman
who has not previously received the
prize, to Marie D. Page. 30 ston; for a
work in sculpture. without restriction,
to Herbert Adams, New York: for the
best piece of sculpture, the work of an
artist under thirty-five years of age, to
Laura Fraser.
Evening star., 1916-12-11
WAR RISK RAISE IN LONDON.
Advance Follows Report of German
Commerce Raider at Large.

NEW YORK, December I1.-Marine
underwriters received word today that
been advanced from to 10 per cent
for satlantic and Cape of Good
Hope trade. due to the announcement
that a German commerce raider was at
large. 1t was said that the New York
rates would probably follow the Lon
don lead.
A heavily armed steamship fitted with
torpedo tubes has been sighted about
500 miles north of the Azores, in the
middle of the steamship lane. accord
ing to a wireless warning flashed last
night to merchant vessels of the en-
tente allies by a British or French
cruiser lying off Sandy Hook.
Evening star., 1916-12-11
MOUNTING COST OF WAR.
". coo, ,cOO.0cO Francs for France
and 10000, 100000 for England.

PARIS, December II. - Raoul Peret
former minister of commerce. discussing
in the chamber Of deputies. in behalf ot
the appropriations committee. the budget
for the first three months of 1917, pointed
out that France will have incurred ex-
penditures to the amount of 72,6o0 000. .00(
francs between the opening of hostilitfes
and the end of March next. while Great
Britain in the same period will have had
an outlay of 80. 900. 000.0 900 Of francs.
This statement drew exclamations from
the deputies that Great Britain is thus
proved to have collaborated cordially and
completely"
Evening star., 1916-12-11
GEN. PETArN TO SUCCEED
To JOFFRE'S COMMAND
Private Advices From Paris Confirm
Plan to Promote Defender
of Verdun.

Private advices from Paris received
here today. telling of the secret pro-
ceedings in the French chamber OF
deputies during the last week. confirm
previous reports that Gen. Petain. the
defender of Nerdun, is to succeed Gen.
Joffre in supreme command Of all the
allied forces on the western battle
front, as the first result of radical
changes in organization which are to
follow concentration of management
Of the war in a small council. as has
been done in England.
Gen. Petain, little known outside the
French army. was a colonel at the out
break of the war.
Evening star., 1916-12-11

of the British horse ship Marina. tor
pedoed with a loss of six Americans,
makes it appear to be a "clear-cut"
violation of Germany's pledges to the
United States.
Full information on the case of the
Arabia will be awaited before the next
move is made. which is expected to
take the form of a new note intended
to clear up what appear to be differ
ences of Interpretation on what Ger
many's pledges in the Sussex case ac-
-tually covered, ssspecially with refer
ence to a med ships. ''"N
Evening star., 1916-12-11
ADAMSON LAW CASE SET
FOR HEARING JANUARY 8
Chief Justice White Announces Su-
preme Courts Action on the Fed
eral Motion to Advance

Argument on constitutionalty of the
by the Supreme Court for January 8.
Chief Justice White announced the
last Monday by Solicitor General Davis,
to advance the Missouri, Oklahoma and
Gulf railroad test for early hearing.
The case was ordered heard before a
dozen other important cases previously
assigned for January 8.
The law becomes effective January 1.