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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
Fighting tho Fly.

An excellent remedy for the fly pest
Is formaldehyde. The correct strength
may be secured by adding three tea
spoonfuls of the concentrated formal
dehyde solution to pint OF water.
The solution should be kept in such a
way that the flies can drink it. a good
way is to take an ordinary thin walled
tumbler and fill 1t partly full Of the So
luton. Place on saucer or small
plate a piece of white plotting paper
and cut it to the size Of the dish. Then
place it over the glass and turn the
glass bottom up on the dish. AS the
solution dries out Of the saucer the
tumbler should be slightly raised up,
so that the liquid will again flow over
the entire surface.
Another simple remedy to keep flies
out of the house is by means of an
odor unpleasant to flies. ANY odor
pleasing to man is offensive to the fly
and will drive them away, as, for In
stance, oil of lavender, diluted; gera-
mum, mignonette or heliotrope.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
Insuring Our Fighting Men.

4 Work on the plan of Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo for life and indem-
nifty insurance to the soldiers and sailors
of the United States is progressing. The
advisory committee of 10 prominent in.
surance men and other committees and
the secretary are working out the de-
tails and bill will ultimately be draft
ed and presented to Congress for action,
The report of the various committees
and the secretary's action furnish tan
gible working basis for the legislation.
The insuring of our soldiers and sail
ors win be only a new application of a
well known principle Employees insur-
ance, especially for those engaged in
hazardous employment, has long been
recognized as a just and wise and profta-
BILE policy in private business, and has
been successfully operated for years. In
fact through the United States employ
es' compensation commission civilian EN-
ployes of the government are now in
sured against accidents occurring in the
course of their employment.
The wisdom and Justice of a great
government applying the principle TO its
citizens who for their country's sake en-
gage in the extra.h hazardous employment
of war are apparent to all. Our soldiers
and sailors in defense of their country
are daily hazarding their lives and safe
ty and they certainly deserve the same
protection, and their dependents deserve
the same protection, that great business
corporations give their employees and the
United States gives certain of its en-
ployes.
Secretary McAdoo before the confer
ence of insurance men outlined his views
as follows: 1T seems TO me that we
ought not, as we send our men into this |
war, say to them that they must be de-
pendent upon future legislation for the
granting of compensstions which have
heretofore, under our policy, taken the
form of pensions. Our brave men should |
not be left in uncertainty or doubt as
to what is going to be done for them in
rase of either death or total or partial
A man who goes out TO fight
Tor the United States is entitled TO know
IN advance what just government Is
going to do for him"
One of the great uses of the proceeds
If the Liberty loan bonds is to protect
'ur fighting men. to supply them with
everything that viii make them power
ul, effective and as safe as may be
That those who meet with disability in
he course Of their duty should be given
and that the dependents Of
hose who die for their country should
'e given compensation lie exactly in line
Nth and really part Of this use Of
he proceeds Of the Liberty loan bonds.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
KEEP CHICKS GROWING.
Their Care During Warm Weather Is
Important.

The care of growing chicks during the
summer is one of the most important
factors in poultry raising The chicks
may be Matched from strong, vigorous
stock and carefully brooded; but unless
they receive the proper attention during
| the warm months their growth may be
retarded. In other words, they should be
SO managed that they will mature into
well-developed fowls.
Growing chicks should be provided
with house that will give them a place
to stay in bad weather and at night
No particular style of house is recon-
mended, but it should be so built that
it will provide the chicks with ample
ventilation, dryness, sunlight, freedom
from drafts, and be so arranged that it
can be cleaned easily and frequently.
The lumber fro.s piano and dry goods
boxes can be used in building such
house, and when covered with ordinary
roofing paper so as to keep out the rain,
will make desirable quarters. 1t is sug
gested that such houses be built on the
colony plan, SO that they can be moved
from place to place, thus providing the
chicks with fresh ground to range over.
Elevating such house six inches above
the ground will assist in keeping the
floor dry, by means of the circulation
of air, and such space will also provide
shade for the chicks.
In placing the chicks in their growing |
house for the first time, it is best to
confne them for several days by erecting
a temporary yard wherein they can run
for five or six days, until they learn
where to return when the fence is re.
moved and they are allowed their liber-
ty. Care should be taken not to crowd
the chicks by placing too many in any
one house. When the chickens cover
the greater part of the floor at night,
1t is an indication that they are too
crowded. At such a time they should
be thinned out and placed in another
house.
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Cows, MIX and ca.ein.

It has been proved that casein, which
forms over per cent of the total
weight of cows milk. is an important
commercial product and may be profit
ably employed in the manufacture of
glue, combs, buttons, linoleum, hair
pins, toys, paints and even shoe polish.
In the preparation of casein for COM
mercial purposes about 700 gallons Of
skimmilk are put into great vat and
heated to about 1875 degrees F. Then
very dilute sulphuric acid is added to
precipitate the casein or curd. The
whey is drawn off. and the curd is
drained and cut into chunks, after
which streams of cold water are play
ed on Ii to wash out the acid. The curd
Is then dried with rotary fans and
ground into powder. in which form it is
placed on the market One hundred
pounds of skimmilk will yield about
three and one-half pounds Of casein
powder.-Popular Science Monthly.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
The Scale on a Map.

Distance on a map is measured by its
scale" By laying rule on govern
ment map and ascertaining the number
of inches between two points the mum.
Der of miles between them can readily
calculated Nearly all maps are drawn
to scale representing one, two, three, or
more miles to the inch, as the inch is
the common unit of measurement in the
United States by which the eye is sccus-
toned to Judge distances on paper.
Ascale of /: $500, used in the we'll
known United States geological survey
topographic maps, denotes that l inch on
the map represents $500 inches on the
ground, which is the approximate num-
Der of inches in a mile. Therefore the
scale is, almost exactly, l inch to mile
A scale of /: $4,000 is approximately 2
miles to ! inch and scale of /: ,000, 900
represents l6 miles to inch.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
Van and Semiramis.

Van is a city of immemorial an
tiquity, which gave the name to the
"Vannic empire" of Assyria, and was
supposed to have been founded by the
semi-mythical Queen Semiramis. I'm
less cruelty libeled by the legend she
was no better than she ought to have
been. which is not surprising II she real
~ was daughter Of the mermaid who
ruled the neighboring lake. Van is to-
day famous for the cuneiform inscrip-
tons, indelibly printed on rocks, by
which forgotten Van jewellers at once
preserved their historical records and
provided against future paper fam
ine"-London Chronicle,
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Learn History by Novels

In the Woman's Home Companion
anne Bryan Mccall says:
Zone Of tie pleasantest ways I know
Of making varied travels into history
Is by reading historical novels. re-
member that when l was twelve years
old / read Harrison Ainsworths Wind
sor Castle and when l was fifteen l
read SCOTS 'Kenilworth' When / was
sixteen read Hawthorne's Scarlet
Letter was not thinking Of history
at all when l read them. / read them
solely for the story. Yet from those
three books / learned more Of the
times Of Henry VIII. and Queen Eliz-
nbeth and Of early American days.
do believe, than In the many historical
chapters covering those times that I
have read since. Those books made
these times live for me, and 1t was as
though myself were living In them"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
A STRIKING PANORAMA.
Is the Great Retreat of the Russian Ar
mics in Galicia.

Copenhagen. July pa semi official
German report describes as a striking
panorama the retreat of the Russian ar.
mics in Galicia. Retiring columns
stretching to the horizon can plainly be
observed from numerous vantage points.
The retreat occasionally degenerates
into full rout, particularly under the
influence of the Austro- German field
guns, which are abreast the infantry
vanguards and dash forward to a hill
top from where they pour a demoraliz-
ing fire into the masses crowded in the
roads.
Additional quantities of munitions,
provisions and six heavy guns were cap
tured. Another. report says that aero
planes heavily bombarded the station at
Monasterzyska and the new road for the
Russian troops south Of that point, from
which regular communication has been
severed.
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MOONEY JURY STILL
TIED UP: MAY DISAGREE
Discharge Is Probable If the Verdict
Isn't Reached

San Francisco, July 26.-Unless the
jury in the Rena Mooney bomb plot case
reaches verdict soon a complete dis
agreement and discharge are probable.
No further word had come from the
jury room up to the time Superior Judge
Seawell resumed court yesterday. Late
Tuesday the jury requested the court
to read again that part of his instruc-
tions referring to second degree murder
and also asked for the "E. B. Morton
letter" one of the states exhibits in
which Mrs. Mooney was referred to as
being interested in The Blast, Alexan-
der Berkman's publication.
After getting this letter the jury re-
tired again without comment. Rumors
in the hall OF justice yesterday were
that majority of the jury favors ac-
quittal.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
WAR GARDEN INCREASE
For All New England the Increase Was
27s Per Cent.


The New England states did great
work this year by increasing the mum
Der of war gardens 275 per cent. New
Hampshire tops the group with 400 per
cent Prof. j. G. Kendall, director of
the experiment station of the New
Hampshire College of Agriculture at
Durham, writes the commission that a
public safety committee pushed the
work
Rhode Island is the second highest,
with an increase of 1915 per cent, and
here the state college co-opersted with
many civic bodies in the campaign.
Providence reports it has 10000 people
in garden work.
Connecticut, which has had a record
of producing within its borders the least
that it consumes of any state in the
country, went to the garden campaign in
big fashion At South Manchester r.
LaMotte Russell did fine work, getting
the banks to distribute garden primers,
while at Stamford Mrs. H. G. Ogden
distributed hundreds of primers and is
now busy in the canning campaign. The
newspapers of the state gave the hearth
est cooperation by printing the daily
garden lessons sent out by the commits
sion. The states gain is 322 per cent
and figures from Hartford say 10000
persons are gardening,
This is banner year for gardens in
the Bay state. Gov. Mccall early APP
pointed campaign committee and
great work was accomplished. In Low
ell the school children are cultivating
700 gardens under the direction of John
W. Herman of the park department.
Brockton estimates the gain over last
year is 800 per cent, with 1000 at work.
New Bedford reports an increase of 1000
per cent, while Springfield estimates TO-
1000 are making gardens.
In Burlington, VT, more than 1000 |
ire gardening, according to D. G. Bah
,itt of the Daily News. The central
committee there is cooperating with
he state committee on food production
nd the committee of safety for great
n yield in vacant lot and backyard gar
ems. Rutland estimates show that
vice as many people are working gar
ems this year as last.
Reports from New England are very
said Mr.. Pack, in going over
he figures, 'and the work done there
vas the hardest, for some sections are
OF adapted to gardening The factories
o-operated with us in fine fashion and
re sent thousands of garden primers
o them just as we are sending canning
nd drying manuals"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
The "Tawdry Saint

St Ethelreda has been unfortunate.
inasmuch as her memory is perpetu-
ated In the disagreeable adjective
"tawdry," and she is sometimes even
referred to as the "tawdry saint" In
the Isle of Ely, where she died, fair
was formerly held in her honor, at
which a peculiar kind of cheap but
snowy lace was sold, which, as st.
Ethelredas or st. Audrey's lace soon
became proverbial and tawdry. an easy
corruption of the saints abbreviated
name, was used to denote all things
more gaudy than valuable. - London
Chronicle
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
INDUSTRIAL WAR
BOARD PLANNED
President Will Reorganize
the Defense Coun-
ell
AIMS TO STOP THE
LOST MOTION
Five Cabinet Members Are
to Compose Main
Body

| Washington, July 26.-There is to b.
one more big reorganization and ther
Uncle Sam will settle down to complet,
his first years war program.
President Wilson is ready to announce
the long expected change in the present
national defense council organization.
Assured of definite end of wrangling
in the shipping board with the sweeping
changes made Tuesday, the president will
now take in the slack" in the defense
council.
An indefinite war board" of six mem
bers, directly responsible to the council
of six cabinet members, will be an
nounced this week.
The war board will probably include
Bernard Baruch, in charge of raw mate
rails; Julius Rosenwald, in charge of fin
ished material; Frank A. Scott, NUM-
lions, and three other men whose names
have not been ascertained
These men will have executive charge
of all the industrial work and under
them will be committees on labor, medi-
cal supplies, etc.
A separate priority board to deter
mine what products shall be given priori
ty in shipment during the war viii also
be directly responsible to the war board.
The advisory commission to which
all the various subcommittee have
heretofore reported, is to be retained, but
no longer in its former capacity.
As in the case of his shipping board
shake.up the president proposes the de-
Tense council changes to stop lost motion,
and to hasten consumma-
ton of war plans already begun.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
A FAITHFUL HORSE.
Paul Rsvers's Sturdy steed. Fairly En-
titled to Fame.


Paul Revers's Sturdy steed. Fairly En-.
titled to Fame.
Paul Reyeres name was made i'm.
mortal when he rode from Boston to
Lexington and Concord warning the
patriots along the way OF the British
approach, and his fame has been Sc
curely enshrined in the hearts Of all
Americans.
Historians have honored themselves
In honoring him. Poets have found in
spiration In praising him. He is an
idol Of childhood, an example In the
prime Of manhood and a solacing men,
DRY Of old age.
How few characters loom up like
great peaks above the mountain ranges
of timel
And Paul Revere was one of these.
He was one Of the precious few great
enough to grasp an opportunity to do
an incalculable good to mankind.
But while we give deserved glory to
Paul Revere let us no longer forget
that there was another hero In that
wild midnight ride.
There was the horse
ANY other horse might have done as
well,' you think? Well, SO might any
other man have done as well perhaps.
So might we fippantly disparage any
hero.
But the fact remains that II was
Paul Revere and Paul Revere's horse
that did 1t. And the harder work fell
on the horse. But for the true horses
faithfulness Paul Revere would have
been failure-Christian Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
TWO LONG YEARS
HE SUFFERED
"Frult-d-tIYes" Made Him Feel
As II Walking On Air
ORrLLlA. Nov. 2sth. 1914.

ORiLLIA, Nov. 28th. 1914.
"For over two. years, was troubled
with Constipation, D,owsiness, Lack Of
appetite and Headaches. One day / saw
your sign which read Fruit-a-tives
make you feel like walking on air. T"
This appealed to me, SO decided to
try a box. In very short time, T
began to feel better, and nor I/eei fine.
Ihave agood appetite, relish everything
/ eat, and the Headaches are gone
entirely. / recommend this pleasant
f,nif medicine to all my friends".
DAN MCLEAN.
Soc. a box, for $3.50, trial size, 25c.
AT all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit
a.tives Limited, Ogdensburg, NY.
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Little Enthusiasm.

Dublin, July 26.-The convention
which Is to attempt TO reach solution Of
the Irish problem was opened yesterday
morning al Regent House. Trinity col
lege. There was a noticeable lack Of en-
thusiasm among the spectators. Joseph
Devlin, Nationalist. was the only dele
rate who was chesred
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26

Soap and Ointment, and in less than a
month, after ! had used two boxes of
Cuticura Ointment and two cakes Of
Soap, not a trace remained I was
healed. (Signedl Miss A. B. Pratt,
Ossipee. n. H. Aug. p, 1916.
The majority Of skin and scalptroubles
might be prevented by using Cuticura
Soap exclusively for all toilet purposes.
On the slightest sign OF redness. rough
ness, pimples. or dzndnIsf. apply little
Cuticura Ointment. Absolutely noth-
ing more effective
For Free Samples by Return Mail
address postcard. '-Cutieura, Dept. r,
Boston Sold everywhere.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
SOME DOCTORS MUST PAY.
Government Doesn't Want Enlistments TO
Deplete Hospital staff at Home.

New York, July 26--Although the
staff of every hospital in this city is ex-
pected TO be called upon to furnish its
share OF the physicians and surgeons
yesterday that the government was
ready TO take any steps necessary to
forestall enlistment for medical work
that would seriously deplete these insti-
buttons of the doctors necessary to
maintain their efficiency.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26

Judge Giegerich OF New York in de-
nying the petition Of a foreigner desir.
Ing TO use an American name recently
said. Il have the greatest objection 10
foreigners who take up their residence
In this country assuming the names OF
old American families Of New York II
causes embarrassment to men who are
Of high sanding IN the community and
take pride in their family names"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
CAMP LUMBER SHIPPED.
Sixty Per Cent of Total Sent to Canton
ment Sites.

Washington, July 26.-To dispose of
reports of serious delays in delivery of
lumber for the national army canton
ments, the defense councils lumber COM
mite announced Tuesday that 10000
900 feet, or 60 per cent of the total re-
quired for the is cantonments, already
had been shipped
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26

TaSh, aflu there was such Itch
ing and burning il nearly
drove me wild. BY scratch
ing the affected parts they
got moist and | was obliged
to keep my ankles and I'm
gers wrapped in linen. Il
bothered me most at night.
linen ] used Cuficnra
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
Corrected.

Wife, really believe you married
me simply because l have money.
Eub-You're wrong. married you be-
cause Acught you'd let me have some
of Ii.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26

Year endownments give money and pro-
lection 70 the wage-earning women. Ma
tional Life Tns. Co. Of Vt tNlutuall
S. S. Ballard, general agent, Rislto build.
ing, Montpelier, Vt
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
ALWAYS piekino.

Yeast-My wife used to play the BAN
10 beautifully before we were married.
Crimsonbeak-Now she picks on you,
] suppose?-Yonkers Statesmen.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26

The Woman-I hate to think of my
thirtieth birthday! The Man-Let's not
briag up the past.-Exchange
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26

The high impulse should be followed
at any risk
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
Galiiei's Telescope.

the telescope with which Galilei dis
covered the satellites of Jupiter in 1910
Is preserved In a Florence museum.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
ITCHING BURNING
Rash NEARLY DROVE
MISS PRATT WILD
Healed by Cuticura in Less Than a
Month With Two Boxes Ointment
and Two Cakes Soap. Cost$l.50.

81 was taken first with fine hunos
on my hands and around my ankles.
The general appearance was of red
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26
SILAGE FROM SLOWER.
Most Economical Way to Convert Corn
Fodder Into Meat and Produce
Manure.

| Manure.
The most economical way of handlin.
corn slower is TO put it into the silo. Il
generally adopted, this practice would
end a waste through wrong methods
that now amounts to 35 per cent of al
the stover fed, says the United States
department of agriculture. IL would
place at the disposal of the farmer an
enormous mass of roughage to cheaper
the cost of producing meat and to main
tain soil fertility IL sie most economical
of all ways-by the production of ma
nure.
That the value of slower as feed is
recognized to some extent is indicated
by the fact that SIS per cent of what
is produced is fed in some way. FIRE.
quently, however, it is not the right
way. For instance, such practices as
pulling the fodder" or topping" the
corn are most wasteful, but approx
mately 80 per cent of matured corn is
handled in one of these two ways. The
stalks that are left standing in the field
are pastured, plowed under or burned.
Never Burn Slower.
To burn stoyer is crime against in
telligent agriculture for which il is diff
cult TO find any explanation except OBJ.
stinate ignorance on the part of the per-
petrator. 1t offers quick and easy
method of cleaning the ground for pillow
ing, but that is, small offset for the
waste of good material. Flowing under
and pasturing are better, but they also
involve some waste.
On the other hand, ensiling the slower
means that its feeding value is utilized
to the full. A quantity of roughage is
provided which lessons the need for ex-
pensive concentrates and makes the pro-
iuction of meat more profitable by low
ering the cost of manufacture, Obvious.
", this is a stimulus to the keeping of
i've stock, which from every point of
view is most desirable.
Preparing Slower for Feeding.
In preparing stover for feeding, chop.
,ing or shredding increases its palata-
,ility and enables a greater quantity to
,e stored in given space Both of |
hese methods, however, involve the use |
VI additional labor and can only be rec
when labor and power are
heap and abundant. Cutting and shock
ng, on the other hand, involve some
taste, but in general this is Offset by
he saving in labor.
No matter how it is prepared, corn
tower, with a little grain or other con-
entrate, is an excellent roughage for
cattle, especially mature
reeding cows. In some sections it is
he sole roughage used for this purpose.
n others oat straw is added,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-26

Yes.
'Now go get a hack
For the love o heaven. Bridget.
what v goin' TO dot"
"Goin' home to the childer' Dye
suppose ofm goin' to die an Fave 'em
TO the mercy o. that hussy, who can't
wait till orm dead before preparin' to
take me placer
Within an hour the patient was driv-
ing up to her own domicile. into which
she walked. and she has long ago COM
pletely recovered her health The case
IS noted IN the medical books as one
especially illustrating the influence Of
The mind over the body