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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-19
DEPARTMENT STORE EDUCATION.
Attempts to Better the Economic condi-
tion of Sales Girls.

Practical methods of special training
for saleswomen are described in bulletin
1917, No. Q, issued by the United States
bureau of education of the department
of the interior The bulletin describes
the work of the Boston School of Sales.
manship, under Mrs. Lucinda Wyman
of similar work in a number OF other
cities.
The Boston School of Salesmanship, as
described in the bulletin, represents an
! attempt to better the economic condi-
ton of sales girls by giving them spe-
cifc training. The plan calls for actual
selling experience as part of the train
ing To accomplish this cooperative
arrangement was entered into with a
number of Boston department stores.
So successful was the Boston school in
producing effective salee women that the
school of salesmanship is now recog-
nized as valued training center. From
Boston the work spread to New York,
Washington, and other cities.
The purpose of the school of salesman
ship are thus outlined by Miss Helen
Rich Norton, the author of the bureaus
bulletin:
Cd To make advancement in the
profession depend ON efficiency and not
on years of service.
~ To increase the pupils power of
judgment.
49, To discover whether or not
girl is fitted for the vocation of sell
ing.
(4) To give the girls worthy stand
ards.
In regard to the latter, Miss Norton !
declares: This is the broadcast and |
most important of the aims of the /
school. for it deals with the girls as
not as mere workers. Many |
Of them leave the stores for one reason
or another and for these the school
provides training quite as valuable
as if they were still selling; training,
which they receive from no
,ther source. Improved standards of liv- Il
ng,' better habits of thought, higher
and ideals-these de-
'elop the power of the industrial work
r because they take root in character
md bear fruit in all human relation
hips"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-19
GERMAN SPY
SYSTEM BROKEN
The United States Gets a
Grip Upon the
Plots
INTERNATIONAL
INTRIGUE
Being Uprooted by Recent
Disclosures-China Now
Weeds Out Germans

Washington, Sept. l9.-Germany's spy
system and her international intrigue,
are being rapidly uprooted by govern
mental disclosures. While a spy system
still flourishes in this country, officials
declared yesterday that the exposures OF
the Argentine, Mexico and Philippines
plot have made Germany's workers
more cautious than ever before
As for the Philippines, authorities said
that the detention of German Nice-Con-
sui Conrad Andre of Cebu on a charge
of trying to ineite an instruction had
proved effective. Since that time there
have been no evidences of any German
attempt to stir up the natives and to
cause trouble for the United States.
In addition TO the Andre revelation,
il is known that the Germans have
pursued their intriguing methods in the
far East extensively. China was a hot
bed of activity, but this has been
stamped out by Chinese governmental
action in rounding up plotters.
There was a talk yesterday that with
the break between Costa Rica and Ger
many German activities to create i'll
feeling and trouble in the Americas will
be found to have developed in that little
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-19

Beckett of North Carolina, was among
Bamberger of Utah, and Gov. Lynn j.
Frazier of North Dakota 81 will issue
a proclamation for Soldiers Library
Week at once" they wired.
81 have taken pains TO inform myself
about the plan and am warmly in favor
of it," wrote Elihu Root, former secre-
tary of war, and recently United States
senator from New York.
At the same time 4. l.. Tilton, archi-
tect of New York, who has charge of
erecting the library and theatre struc-
lures for the environments and camps,
has reserved with the bureau of canton
ment construction sites for the war Ii
brary buildings in each of the l6 nation
al army camps Besides the main library
buildings, there also will be small struc-
lures for branches in the main streets
of the soldiers "cites," and the Y. NJ c.
A. huts, X. of c. huts, and other cen
tiers likewise will be used as branches.
Probably a dollar has never been elias
tic as il will prove in this library war
fund" said Harold Braddock, director for
the library war council. Not only will
each dollar do its share toward the CON
struction of the library and branch Ii
brary buildings, the installation of tables
and chairs in the reading rooms, and he
provision of expert librarians, but it also
will supply book, keep that book in
circulation until worn out, and then will
help furnish a new one to replace the
old one. Every dollar in the fund will
prove itself 100 per cent efficient.
This condition is made possible" he
further explained, by the fact that ev
cry dollar of the fund is to be devoted |
to actual construction of the
buildings, to their equipment, and to cir
sulation of the reading matter. Not a
,ent will be used for any other purpose
han for supplying libraries and reading
.ooms for the soldiers and sailors, at
rome and abroad, and for the sick and
Wounded"
In raising the money necessary for this
work the committee on camp libraries of
he American Library association pro-
,osed that each state, county and city,
n other community, should subscribe
otal equal of five per cent of its popu-
alton, and the plan has been enthu
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-19
SAVE YOUR OWN GARDEN SEED.
Truck Growers and Home Gardeners
Would Do Well to Secure Supply.

Home gardeners as well truck grow.
ers who find seed of favored varieties
difficult to secure or high in price would
do well to save their own seed, according
to the United States department of Ag-
riculture. The saving of seed from
beans, peas, corn, peppers, okra, egg
plant, squash, cucumbers, muskmelons.
and watermelons is very simple, the
chief requirement being to select seed
from good plants. Obtaining seed from
tomato, radish, lettuce, kale, collards.
cabbage, kohl-rabi, beets, carrots, and
mustard, while not so simple, is not be-
yond the ability of any amateur gar
dener.
A newly published Farmers bulletin,
Saving Vegetable Seeds for the Home
and Market Garden" (No. Ss4l which
will be supplied free BY the United
States department Of agriculture. ex-
plains in detail how to gather and cure
seeds commonly needed BY truck grow
ers
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-19

Gain in 1916 Was II Per Cent Over
Previous Year.

The production of coal in 1916 wa
l590,00S, us net tons, valued Mt 1857 ,l25,
63s, an increase compared with 1915 o
5S,47S,6sS tons, or IL per cent, in quaint
ty, and $3.50, ASP, of 26 per cent, Il
value. The production of bituminou
coal was 502,5l9,6s2 tons, valued Al
1865, 1907, an increase of 1875 per cent
in quantity and 32.5 per cent value
The production of Pennsylvania 'anthra
cite was s7,57S, 493 net tons, valued al
1902 ,009, 58l, a decrease of nearly tive
per cent in quantity but an increase OF
more than nine per cent in value. These
figures which have just been issued by
the United States geological survey, de.
partment of the interior, were compiled
by c. E. Lesher.
All the principal coal producing states
showed increases in output. The most
notable increase was in Ohio, whose pro.
duction of coal in 1916 was 1928 ,52S
tons, or nearly 50 per cent greater than
in 1915. The increase in the value of
the Ohio product was nearly S22,OO0,000,
or about 81 per cent. The largest increase
in quantity was in Pennsylvania-l2,-
340,27S tons, or rs per cnt, compared
with 1915, The increase in West Vir.
ginia was 9,276,05s tons, or IL per cent;
in Illinois, 7,365,780 tons, or l2.5 per
cent; and in Indiana, 3,0s7 ,376 tons, or
Is per cent Iowa, New Mexico, Okla.
homa, South Dakota and Texas record
ed slight decreases in 1916 compared with
1915. The output of bituminous coal in
1915 established new record in the
United States as a whole and also in
most of the individual states.
The average value of anthracite was
$3.50 net ton, compared with S2.0T in
1914 and 1915. The average value at
the mines, of the bituminous coal pro-
duced in 1916, was sl.32 ton, compared
with SLID in 1915 and SLY in 1914
Both of these figures are higher than
those recorded in any other year from
1880 to 1916, period for which compar-
able figures are available.
The number of men employed in the
production of btuminous coal in 1916
was SCI, l02, an increase of 1886 COM
pared with 1915. The number of men
employed in the production of anthracite |
decreased from 1852 in 1915 to l59, $50 |
in 1916.
The average number of tons of btu
minous coal produced per man per day in
1916 was 800, practically the same as in
1915. The large increase in production
If bituminous coal with about the same
number of men was obtained by working
, greater number of days, the average
BEING 230 days in 1916, compared with
.03 in 1915. Every state except Iowa
md Texas recorded an increase in the
lumber of working days in 1916. The
.verage annual output of anthracite per
nan was 54s net tons, and of bituminous
oal 500 net tons, exceeding the record
f any other year in the period 1900
o 1916, for which comparable figures are
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-19
NEARING NOT ALLOWED
TO SPEAK nv CINCINNATI
Police Ordered to Prevent Address to So
cialists-Hall Must Not Be Rented
for Such Purposes.

Cincinnati, o., Sept. l7.-Scott Near
ing of Toledo will not speak at Central
Turner hall in this city on next Tues
day evening, as the local Socialists in
tended that he should. The police re-
ceived orders yesterday instructing them
to prevent Nearing from delivering his
address, Eight Million Dead The own
ers of the hall were likewise notified
that the hall must not be rented for
such purposes. Safety Director Fried
lander, who issued the order, said;
mo meetings that tend to interfere
with the avowed purposes of the gov
eminent in connection with this war;
will be permitted in this city"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-19

siastically received. New York is ex-.
pected to show its customary practical
generosity; the Atlanta Rotary club had
promised that its home city shall not fall
behind; Boston, Pittsburg, and Phila-
delphia each established goals of $50
600; Seattle asks to be put down for
$4,000, and Bishop Keator predicts that
Spokane, Wash will contribute Sl0,-
900 and Portland $4,000. Bishop Keat-
or postponed an important engagement
in New York until after the close of
Library Fund Week." in order to direct
this work in his state
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-19
USED MEDICAL TRAINING.
M. Clemenceau Aided Soldier Injured
By Fall from Bicycle.

Paris, Sept. l9-M. Georges Clemen'
eeau, the Tiger" of the French political
world, has not forgotten that lie is o,
was doctor of medicine He is, indeed,
the son of doctor, and during his three
years life in the United States, he mar
ried Miss Mary Pummer, the daughter
of physician of Springfield, Mass.
NJ. Clemenceau is at present taking
the cure at Vichy. He used to 80 to
Carlsbad before the war. A few days
ago a soldier on leave was injured when
his bicycle collapsed as he was riding
into Vichy. The former premier hap
pened to arrive on the scene in a few
NJ. Clemenceau bandaged the
mans damages, did everything possible
to aid him, and took the injured man
in his car to a Vichy hospital.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-19
WILL NOT SEIZE HOME FOODS
Government Issues Denial of Report that
it is Going to Commander the Pantry.

There is no truth in a widely circu
lated statement that the governments
expects to take food supplies from any
family. Both the food administration
and the department of agriculture join
in a statement to counterfeit what
seems to be a deliberate propaganda to
| the effect that the government intends
to take from every family all canned
goods put up in excess of 100 quarts.
This is only one of the variations of
the rumor, which has been widely cir
culated. Another statement is that the
government has been urging the can
ming, drying, and preserving of fruits
and vegetables so that they will be in
convenient form for the government
to handle when it takes them away
from the people. Further elaboration is
that these goods are to be taken away
from the American homes and shipped
to England.
In one instance a motorist stopped at
a farmhouse to fill the radiator of his
automobile. In the course of converse
ton he casually inquired whether the
farmers family was canning all the sur
plus fruits and vegetables in order to
help conserve the food supply. He was
informed that the farmer was not doing
this because the government intended to
take all the canned goods away except
small part of it actually needed by
the family itself.
The authorities state emphatically
that no such course has ever been con-
templated by the government. On the
contrary, both the department of agri-
culture and the food administration are
strongly urging housewives to can and
preserve, especially at this time, all sur
plus fruits and vegetables in order that
the households themselves may have a
cheap and plentiful supply of food.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-19
DEUTSCHLAND DESIGNER
KILLS HIMSELF nv JAIL
Gotthold Prusse Had Been Imprisoned at
Baltimore as an Alien
Enemy

Baltimore. Md, Sept. 10 Gotthold
Prusse, one of the designers of the Ger
man merchant submarine Deutschland,
who came to Baltimore on the first voy-
age of that craft, committed suicide in
the city Jail yesterday by hanging.
Prusse had been imprisoned as an alien
enemy. He was arrested by the United
States authorities on Aug. 20 for leaving
restricted zone without permission. He
was Al years old and was born in Ger
many.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-19
SERUM EFFECTIVE
It's Efficacy Was Proven By Contrasting
Cases.

Paris, Sept l9.-During the last meet
ing of the surgical society DIR. Fredet
mentioned a fact which seemed to show
the value of preventive injections of an
ti-tetanus serum.
After the battle of ourcq, a certain
number of wounded French and German
soldiers were collected in hospital A
German doctor had remained with the
German wounded and, although sufficient
serum was placed at his disposal, he re-
fused to use it for his men, saying that
he considered such injections had no pre-
ventive value.
The French wounfed received the nor
NAL doses of the serum. OF u German
wounded six contracted tetanus flock
jaw and died, while no French wounded
showed any symptom Of il. This ex-
ample Of the serum's preventive efficacy
has all the more weight because all the
men had been wounded under the same
conditions and on the same tetanus-in-
fected ground.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-19
TO URGE RETENTION
OF POSTAL TUBES
Congressional Committee That Held a
Hearing in Boston May Also
Recommend Extension to
Cambridge.

Washington, Sept. l9,-Retention of
the pneumatic postal tubes in Boston
viii be recommended by the COMPRESSION
al investigating committee, which held
a hearing on the subject in that city
last week. 1t is quite possible, too, that
the committee will favor an extension of
the tubes from the South station to
Cambridge.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-19
Most Old People
Are Constipated

The wear OF years impairs the
action OF the bowels. As people
grow older they restrict their
activity, neglect to take sufficient
exercise. and indulge a natural
disposition to take things easy.
The digestive organs become
more sensitive to the demands
made upon them and rebel more
quickly.
1t is of special importance to
the health of elderly people that
the bowels be kept normally
active. A mild, yet effective,
remedy for constipation, and
one that is especially suited to
the needs of old folks, women
and children, is the combination
of simple laxative herbs with
pepsin sold in drug stores under
the name of DR.. Caldwell's
Syrup Pepsin. 1t costs only
fifty cents bottle, and should be
in every family medicine chest.
A trial bottle, free of charge,
can be obtained by writing to
DR.. w. B. Caldwell, $50 Wash
ington ST., Monticello, Illinois.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-19
PL44INFIELD

A promenade and dance consisting Of
alternate figures viii be given Friday
evening, Sept q. in the X. Of P. hall.
Marshfeld. By the Marshfeld brass band.
under the auspices Of Alberta grange.
Fifty esais q couple foi Nance and prom
snsde; sc for those who promenade
only.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-19
CfL<fIS

A promenade and dane consisting Of
alternate figure. viii be given Friday
evening. sept 2l. in the X Of P. han,
Marshfeld, BY the Narshfield brass band.
under tbs auspices Of Alberta grange.
Fifty cents . couple for dance and prom
ensdes sc for these Who Promenade
eplT.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-19
KERENSKY TO
FIRING LINE
Russian Premier, with War
Minister, on His Way to
Army Headquarters
GENERAL KORNILOFF
PREPARING DEFENSE
Rebel Cossack Leader Is in
Custody in Hotel, Pet
rograd Reports

Petrograd, Sept l9.--Premier Keren'
sky, accompanied by General Verhkov'
sky, minister of war, and Admiral Yer
dervski, minister of marine, left PetS'-
grad Monday night for the Russian gen
eral army headquarters in the field.
Satisfied that the Korniloff revolt has
been satisfactorily quashed, Permier
Kerensky, with the Russian minister of
war, has left for army headquarters in
the field, presumably for the purpose of
encouraging the fighting men to greater
efforts. 1t is noteworthy in this respect
that the Slav troops are showing tan
gible signs of recovery in the Riga region.
Petrograd reports that the Germans have
been driven back again. Korniloif, the
Cossack leader, is in custody in a hotel
and is preparing statement in his de-
tense.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-19
CONTINUE LIFTING BRIDGE.
Quebec Span Expected to Be Within a
Feet of Resting Place by Night.

Quebec, Sept. l9.-Lifting operations
to put into place the 640.foot central
span of the Quebec bridge, We're re-
newed here early yesterday. Monday
the span was carried upward IS feet
from the pontoons, and the engineers i'll
charge said yesterday morning that they
expected to add 6S feet yesterday, WHICH
would bring it within 81 feet of its final
resting place.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-02-26

tons of stuff that we couldn't pos sibIy use.
 The Colorado Judge who decided that talk in sleep is not good evil dence must be a married man.
 The reason man has nothing but scowis for his wife when he is eating breakfast is because he will have nothing but smiles for his 8tenographer when he gets down town.
 The average wife can tell you that many a man who was a per .ect baby when he was an infant has never outgrown it.
 A small boys restlcssness may get on your nerves during the day. But, gosh, how he can sleep when he gets to bed.
 There weren't many diyorces in .hc old days when Friend Wife hammered her alimony out of Friend Husband with a rolling pin.
 After doing business with some men you get the idea that when hey get to Hell they will try and sell Old Nick tarlcss pitch, suI- Dhurlcss birthstone and burnless coal.
 A woman can have a good time by just sitting down and worrying because she has nothing else to worry about.
 Marriage is often a ceremony in which man signs over to wo- nan the right to do his thinking or him.
 When a woman goes gunning with a revolver she may not be able to hit the side of ten-story building. but she never misses Husband or an Innocent Bystandcr.
 Most of us would be happier if we sOuld only choose our own way of being unhappy.
 And the man who marries a girl who has a pug nose is always sure 1t something turning up.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-02-26
CHARACTER
lNLllwaukee LonrnnN

Character has been said 10 be what you are in ,he dark" l. certainly is what you are in reality. many want tO have others think well of him. Is qualification to all Of But it is more n- portaLt 10 be worthy of standing high the opinion ) others. It is easy 10 think that it does not matter whether We do this that little thing, long as it l5 not known. But a thing one knows is wrong eats uto character whether any one else knows about it or not
 Consciously or unconscously, We all have some sort of ideal Of character Are living toward our pest ideals In living with clear conscience in being as nearly right able. there is great satisfaction. AS improve. our ideals of character rise higher
 If to live rightly to be our truest and best is our aim, We need have anxiety about what others think. Character will tell We cannot long hide t. whether good or bad. Even evil persons respect character But what is false is sure to be discovered soon or late. It We satisfy ourselves that we are the best We may know, we need feel no anxiety.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-02-26
TELEGRAPH TO SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN

The telegrams to Senator Chamberlain urg- ing that the item appropria,ng $5ooooo for Alaska roads, stricken from the army appropriation bill in the House on point of order be restored to the bill in the Senate should continue. Friday. Saturday and Sunday many telegcams were sent to Senator Cham berain rom Juneau and Douglas and more should be sent today and tomorrow and right along.
 It is nos simply question as 10 whom we shall blame for the elimination of the item in the House. While The Empire printed. just as it received it. the story ;hat Delegate Wickersham was responsible for the action and believes that it's information was correct 1t is not now question of fixing the blame
 We are not half so much interested in that as we are in getting the item restored. It woud be crime against justice and right and good business to stop road building in Alaska at this time.
 Let the relcg-ams 60 Senator Chamberlain con tnue.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-02-26
LINCoLN'E ENDURING MESSAGE
(Clncinnal Enquirerl

Cincinnati EnQuirer)
 In celebrating today the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln it is entirely appropriate that there should be recalled from his immortal address Gettysburg these words
 That from these honored dead We take
 increased devotion to that cause for which
 they gave the last full measure of devotion;
 that here highly resolve that these dead
 shall not have died in vain; that this nation
 under God shall have a new birth of freedom
 and that government Of the people. by the
 people, and for the people shall not perish
 from the face of the earth"
 The EmancipatOr's clarion call for a living pat -iotism is no less pregnant with meaning for the present than it in the dark days of nterneCine strife in the United States. The great heart of Lin coin beat in measured rhythm with the hopes and aspirations of humanity. and he with us now he would plead no less forceluy for perpetuatiOn of the sacred rights of nations and of humanity.
 As reverence Is done today to the memory of this covering American let us highly resolve" to take increased devotion to our common country avoid pickering and contention among ourselves; to guard 'igilantly priceless heritage; to strive for peace at all times and finally to uphold one man the rights, the dignity and the majesty of a free govern nent if the oppressors hand is lifted against us.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-02-26
Our Joe MiIler Contest.

Nat Auer claims that the oldest joke is the one about the fellow who was calling on his girl when an awful rainstorm came up. IL continued to rain, and, having nc umbrella, the girl suggested that he stay all night. He agreed, and she went upstairs to put the spare room in order. When she came downstairs again the door bell rang, and on opening the door she found the fellow drenched to the skin. "Why, where have you been?" asked the girl. "Oh," re- piled the fellow, "I went home to get my nightgown."
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-02-26
BITS OF BY . PLAY By Luke McLuke
 -:- Copyright by Cincinnati En-
 Quirer.

Is That So! "The men may regard this as trea- son, They're fools" said the wise Mrs. Glisten; "They claim We won't listen to req son, When we have no reason to listen"