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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12

other drugs may be used for this pur-
pose. After the alimentary tract has
been thoroughly cleansed the use Of
some tonic condition powder will often
prove desirable. A great variety of
these medicines may be used but prob
ably there is nothing better than the
one suggested below: sulphate of iron,
two ounces; nitrate of potash (saltpe-
teri. two ounces; gentian root (pulver-
ized), two ounces; nuX vomica seed (pul-
verized), one ounce and giner root Cpul-
verized), one ounce. These ingredients
should be thoroughly pulverized and
mixed and a heaping teaspoonful given
in the food three times daily. In case
your mule will not eat the powder, omit
the gentian root and add linseed meal.
This should be fed strictly according to
directions. There is no use, however,
in giving medicines unless you put your
mule under the best SANITARY conditions,
protect it from drafts and from over
feeding for a few days and feed on the
best and most easily assimilated foods
HANDLING THE VELVET BEAN
CROP.
C. p. NJ. NOrcrOss, Ga. writes: i would
like directions for the growing of velvet
beans. Which does best in this country,
the velvet or soy bean? How l keep
weevils out of the dried peas, beans, etc?
How is the best way save sweet potatoes
through the winter?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12
THE COMPOSITION OF LEADI.
CONCENTRATES.

~
F r. l. Montezuma, Ga, writes:
would like to know the amount OF protein
70 be found in cottonseed meal, corn and
velvet bean meal
The amount Of protein in cottonseed
meal varies considerably, depending on
the grade of this material. Good meal
contains 31.6 per cent prime meal, 546
per cent, choice meal 81 per cent.
There is approximately 60 per cent OF
protein in corn meal
Velvet beans contain approximately
1871 per cent of protein.
These figures refer to the amount OF
digestible protein in the various con-
centrates mentioned and not to the total
or gross amount as shown by chemical
ANALYSIS Naturally only that part of
the food which is digestible is of value
to animals consuming II. You will OBJ
serve. therefore, that cottonseed meal
contains from three to four times as
much protein as corn meal and about
twice as much as velvet beans. while
velvet beans contain about twice as
much protein as corn meal.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12
NEED OF A BALANCED RATION.

w r : Jennings. Fla, writes: have
4 sow that is down in her loins. She mas
been this way about SIX weeks. w,S
used turpentine, but Ii did no good. Would
like for you TO give me remedy
You do not say whether your hog Is
confined or not. The chances are that
she is. However. the symptoms she
has developed are frequently due 10
feeding animals in confined pens on corn
exclusively. Corn does not contain
sufficient amount of either protein or
ash matter to meet the requirements OF
hogs and if they are fed exclusively on
n for any length of time they are liable
TO break down in the headquarters, be-
cause of the malnutrition of the mus
clAs and the bones which make up the
skeleton This difficulty may be over
come by turning your hog out "here
she NAV have the use of fair range
and changing the ration. We advise
that Won cut out corn altogether for
little while and use shorts or comb1na-
alton of shorts and peanut meal. or any
other carrier of a high per cent or pro
tein. Shorts and peanut meal might
he mixed together in equal parts and
fed in the form of a relatively thin slop.
Tudicious but abundant feeding is es-
sential.
You should also supply your SOW with
an abundance of mineral matter. Make
a mixture, for instance, of coal ashes
and lime, finely ground raw rock phos-
nhate TO which a little salt may be add
al place in a box in the yard or pen.
Hogs often show a great avidity for
this kind of food when in the condition
YOU mention. Corn cobs can also be
placed before them to advantage. II
YOU are feeding Stops containing soap
nowders. discontinue this practice at
once. Kitchen slops. however, when
free from these materials or from glass
or broken dishes may be fed to advan-
tage and may be used in the absence OF
meal TO reduce the shorts to a suitable
condition for feeding.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12

DESTROYING LICE ON A MULE.
r. Ii. j., BrOxton, Ga, writes: What
viii take lice off mule? l bought a
young mule out of drove and did not know
that she had lice. Also what will take
ticks off a COW? What will make a cow
fatten? I feed her meal and hulls and she
runs on beans and oats pasture.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12
Grain Rates Suspended

WASHINGTON. oct. "a proposed
increase of 6 4-IO cents per hundred
pounds on grain and grain products
from Louisville and East st. Louis to
Florida points was suspended today by
the interstate commerce commission uu-
IN February :, next.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28
CURRENT COMMENT
More Calumny.

Breathitt county, Ky, the name o
which has almost gone into the language
had the distinction of not participatin:
in the draft at all. Its quota as fixed b,
the state was lS2, but it had alread,
furnished 2l2 volunteers for the regular
army, or more than twice as many al
the whole state of Vermont, with about
20 times the population of Breathitt
county.--New York World.
The Reformer has answered derogstory
comments on Vermonts part in volun'
teer recruiting 50 often that it is hardly
necessary to make an explanation here
in the home field, but it hurts to have a
great paper of national circulation like
The World continue TO take false
statement as its text in throwing ink
bombs which place this state in the
Stacker class. Breathitt county is de-
serving of all the praise The World can
give it, 1t is one of about dozen ex-
emption districts in the entire country
to which the draft for the first mere
ment of the new national army does not
apply.
Another district is Windham county,
Vermont, of which Brattleboro is the
center. Before the draft
took place, Windham county had fur
nshed in the regular army and National
Guard 255 men from population of less
than 27 900. The quota for this county
was PAL. Windham almost equalled the
record of Breathitt country and was
ahead of any other district in New Eng
land or in New York state.
Vermont's contribution to war service
is over 1000 men and officers in the Ma
-ional Guard, between 200 and 800 in
he regular army, 467 in the navy, and
over 800 in various other branches of
he service, without mentioning the large
contingent which went over the border
ong ago to enlist with he Canadiaa
roops. More than 80 Vermohters have
,een killed or seriously wounded some
where in France while fighting with the
British forces against the Hun. Vermont
tands seventh among all the states of
he union on men enlisted in the Nation |
i Guard and regular army, and if the
otal in service in all fields OF action and |
ctiyity could be figured it would un
stand first
We respectfully request The World to
i've this statement OF fact the same
that was given in the false and
paragraph quoted above. -
Reformer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28
THE FRENCH sToNEwALL.

By their persistent attacks on the
French from Verdun to Chemin -Des-
Danes, the Germans are gaining but lit
tie ground and are sacrificing great num-
bers of soldiers. At the same time they
are Strengthening the defensive powers
of the French army 1t may be safely
said that every time the French success
fully resist an attack in force by the
Germans they build up their morale by
large measure; they take unto them
selves confidence in their capacity for
resisting. An untried army facing an
enemy known TO be very formidable is
apt to be shsky and i'll at ease, fearful
of the worst and nervous with expectan-
cy of the attack. On the other hand. an
army that has been tried time after
time by that same formidable enemy and
has shown itself powerful enough TO
Withstand the assault gains in stability
with each battle, while at the same time
il is not suffering the sacrifice Of men
which necessarily falls upon the attack
ing forces. SO the net result Of the per
sistent attacks Of the crown princes
army along the whole length Of the
French line must be that the French re-
sistance j. stiffened after every clash.
while the comparative lack Of gain BY
the Germans despite their greatest sf-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28

Another bit of cumulative evidence
that not enough attention is being paid
to the operation of motorcycles was fur.
nished at Wakefield, Mass, on last
Thursday evening when four machines
with side car attachments and passen-
gers speeded into the rear of column
of marching infantrymen of the Massa-
chusetts National Guard ploughing
through ii squads of the soldiers before
the machines were brought to halt and
stretching 10 of the soldiers on the
ground, some of them badly wounded.
The lights on motorcycles are not pow
erful enough to make fast driving at
night anywhere near the mark of safe
ty, yet many drivers of the machines
scoot through the highways with all the
abandon of speedsters operating on
track expressly set aside for them.
While the authorities are regulating the
speed of the larger motor driven vehicles,
the automobiles, they should not over
look these hazardous little machines
which travel with tremendous speed and
oftentimes with reckless abandon.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28

hall Tuesday. States Attorney Sher-
burne, two sheriffs and quite number
of spectators were present, The case
was one of mutual assault.-East Tibet.
ford item.
Several young men in this town have
been arrested and fined for catching
short fish and for fishing without Ii
cense in our brooks This should be a
warning to look out for the game war
den and to hide the short fish.-Lyme
Center item.
Well, the drafting has come and
passed No one knows the heart aches,
only those who have to let their boys 60
But each and every one can remember
that those boys are going for you and
for me-" Anything we can do to help,
the ones left behind will show that we
feel for them in their sorrow; it don't
stop the heartache to say he is fighting
for his country" Let us all try to help
the home --Felcherville item
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28
Green Mountain Echoes.

Let's all get married is the fad this
yesr.-Waits River item.
The measles are having a great run in
Albany and the end is not yet.-Albany
item
The couple who went to Chelsea in a
divorce trial last week accepted the ad-
vice Of the judge to go home and try
married life together again.-West New
bury item.
Miss Fannie Bacon. who is something
Of naturalist. exhibited = moth or but
terly, captured BY herself, measuring
six inches from tip to tip Of wings
Cavendish item.
Debate 81 Riverside grange on That
an automobile Is more necessary on .
farm than q telephone" on Wednesday,
July 25-Waits River item.
Squire Emerson he'd court at Rioeis
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28
Gus to End the War.

Dis har Gus Peterson hs yust cum
back from long vacation trip in vone
of Henry Ford's yitneys and ha skal
have wonderful skeam tn end var
IF We could git all Svede fallers intu
vone big army" Gus say. dis var would
be ended yust sum so qvick ha could be
over. If all Yohnsons, Petersons, Swan
sons, Gudersons, Andersons and Ole
sons could be mobbed tugether We would
have the best fighters in the world"
SO Az ask Gus if ha intended TO yoin
dis army
WE'LL" he say, GAY shall be pretty
old faller tn die on battle field"
But, Gus, if yu shude git killed yu
would hav the satisfy Of knowing yu
died for your country Ay tai hem
NO" Gus answer, "Av amt tank Az
would Just be dead Svede, that's ALL
State Weekly
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28
Rogers Walk
Over Boot Shop
40 North Main St.
40 North Main St.

Evansville, Norma Beals of Barre; Shady
Ril, Grace Ramsdell of Norwich; -Four
Corners, Evelyn Finnigsn Of Barre.
Moretown ~ Village primary, Ethel
Child Of Moretown; grammar, Gladys
Balentine Of East Calais; Common, Ruth
Lipsey of websterville; Cox brook, Mary
r. Given Of Barre; Jones brook, Nina
Frost Of Montpelier; Taplin school, La
nora Chamberlin Of Montpelier; Rock
bridge. Grace O'Brien Of Waterbury
In the town Of Worcester there are
about Is students who viii attend a
newly organized high school. The school
viii Be held in the basement Of the
town hall and viii carry one years
work
The time Of starting school has not
been determined a. yet. Il viii probably
BE- IN the hands Of the state board Of
health
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28
I Remember David.

| find it hard sometimes, to be enthusiast.
tic about strength,
Or to thrill at power;
But oft | have wept at weakness
And then, / have remembered David.
One evening he disappeared from the
farm;
And it showed heavily for day and a
night.
And the next morning early, when the
roads were broken,
went out to search for him.
Halfway between the lane and the vii
lage,
In the white hollow Of the drifted sleigh
track,
saw something black lying outstretehed
and still.
"Dave!" | criedhow my voice broke
/ thought that he was dead
And then he arose and started to crawl
toward me-
So slowly, so weakly, so surely
And when took him in my arms
He lay there inexpressiby limp
And could not even lift his face to mine,
And held him and wept.
David is dead now.
I know many strong men not so worthy
of heaven.
He knew little Of strength, but much of
love;
And when I have wept at weakness
have thought of him.
Surely for all the weak, the beaten and
the failing
Who come creeping home from the world,
There should be arms to take and hold,
And eyes to weep
I sometimes find it hard to thrill at
strength,
But | remember David.
A Ballou
NJ. s
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28

II cannot be blind faith alone which
is inducing the United States govern
ment to continue to lend large sums of
money to the government now nominal1y
in control in Russia A credit of $780,
100000 to Russia some weeks ago is fol-
lowed by another loan of $7500O,000,
making total debt to the United States
which would be considered high for peace
times and for solvent nation to as
sumo. Moreover, good finance would not
prompt the United States to lend such
large sum were it not fairly well assured
that the money was to be well expended
and likely to be returned when the lend
err was ready to call for it. Therefore,
it may be fairly assumed that the Unit
ed States government has some inside
information which causes it to have
faith in the ultimate stability of the de-
moracy of Russia; and it may be as
sumed too that the United States is CON
tinuing to lend money with the expecta-
ton of bolstering up Russia strength in
the entente alliance in order to aid to-
ward complete victory over the central
powers. Sentiment, no doubt, plays an
important part in the negotiations now
going on between Washington and Petro-
grad
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28
THE DONNAR OAK.

Note; In the seventh century at Gels
Gated to the god Donnar. The heather:
made pilgrimages TO this oak, and ever
Christians regarded it with religious awe
told wonderful stories about it and Wis
tied it to hear its oracles The mission.
airy, Boniface, sought to destroy the
peoples faith in Donnar and so he cut
the oak down. The people were in great
dismay, expecting the lightning to fall
upon and consume him; but when the
oak fell they lost faith in Boniface
Deep in the forest gloom of Hesse
There grew mighty oak
And from its trunk as people thought,
The voice of Donnar spoke.
This Donnar was heather god
To whom the Germans prayed
This oak his home, where all were blessed
Who stood within its shade.
But with an axe one festal day
A priest hewed down the oak
And as it fell beneath his blows,
The bond Of error broke.
They watched his blows expecting wrath
10 lall upon MS mead,
But unayenged the giant fell
And faith in it was dead.
How oft we seek divinities
And find them made Of wood
How oft we glorify a thing
That's neither great nor good2
The faith that bound the forest children
To think tree divine
Is like the one that holds to-day
Where flows the river Rhine
Not in oak but camp and court
The present god is found,
And claims a sceptre from the sky
As one by Heaven crowned.
''Vice-r regent on the earth am /,
So let my will be done;
Through all my battle-line shall rule
The spirit of the Hun"
Thus is an error born anew
That held the world in thrall;
An idol that we must destroy
Lest freedoms temple fall.
- w. Gordon.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28

forts must be more or less demoralizing
TO the German spirit for conquest. The
crown prince is being beaten worse and
worse every time he makes these spo-
radio attacks, beaten as much in the loss
of confidence felt by his soldiers to win
as by the actual reverse on the field Of
battle. All that it is necessary for the
French to do is TO stand fast until the
crown prince wears out his initiative
powers
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28
TEACHERS ANNOUNCED
For All the Towns in the Washington
Central District

FOR All the Towns In the washington
Central District.
Supt. w. B. Lance of the Washington
central district announces the following
complete list of teachers for his district
during the coming year:
Plainfield-Junior high school, Howard
Y. Hanson of Derby, principal; Miss
Lucy Swift of Middlesex, home econom-
les; Mrs Rhuanah Smith Story, assist
ant; intermediate, NJ. Evelyn Wilson of
Hardwick; primary, Ida NJ. Hart of
Stowe; south school, Grace w. Brown of
Barre; east hill, Elizabeth Peterson of
East Montpelier; Center, Sadie Hart.
East Montpelier - Village grammar,
Jennie ID. Bartlett of Montpelier: pri-
mary, Elva Townsend of East Mont
pelier; North Montpelier. Maude Flood
Of Plainfeld; Four Corners, June Martin
Of Plainfeld; Center, NJ Sylvena Poland
Of Wilder: Morse school. Blanche Russell
Of South Londonderry; Cummings, Edna
Celley of Calais; Horn Of the Moon.
Ethel Ormsbee OF East Montpelier.
Worcester Village grammar, Archie
Saxby; primary. Blanche g. Howiescn;
Wheeler, Ida Wheeler; Hampshire Hill,
Edna St John Of Mansfield; Minister
brook. Shirlie Gibson Of Meriden, Conn
Aiiddlesex Village primary, Ethel
Berry q Montpelier; village grammar,
katrena Turney Of Moretown; swift dis.
trict. Gladys Gilmore Of Waterbury;
Dudley school. Addie Nichols Of Middle
81: Culver, Violet Brown Of Barre, Put
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28

No matter what the excuse was for
the early report from the returning
American army officers that the German
line in France and Belgium is impreg
nable, it was an ill-advised statement to
make at the present iuncture even if the
plan was to steel the American public
to the Importance of the duty ahead of
them. No system of trench lines in the
world is impregnable to all attack; but
there are degrees of condition approach
ing invincibility. 1t is probably true
that the Germans have fortified their
line to point which is as near impreg-
inability as it is humanity possible to
make it under the conditions existing,
but it has been demonstrated by the
British and the French that the lines
can be broken and the Germans forced
back toward their own border. If that
sort of thing can be repeated again and
again and perhaps once again the Ger
mans will be back on their own territory,
really fighting for life, as their astute
emperor tells them they are doing at
the present time. A line is impregnable
when it cannot be bent back but the
German line has been bent back repeat
eddy.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28

Judging by the number of collisions in
which motor vehicles have figured, there
was great need of that wave of rigid en-
forcement of motor vehicle law in Bur
lington. Burlington seems to have need
ed it, indeed, far more than most of the
communities in Vermont.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28

Eat what you can't can is the present
variation of the old saw, eat what you
can and can what you can't.--Concord
Monitor.
Better still, eat only what you need
and save the rest
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28
ormuzed and Ahriman.

81 see Wells claims that there is a
personal God
"Well. why not, There's a personal
kaiser. Life
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28

Think of all the money kept in the
United States because tourists cannot go
to Europe.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28
Cherchez la Hommei

1--WE have been criticized because in
last weeks issue we published a local
giving the names of three women arrest
ed, and did not publish the names of
men. Our local emanated from head
quarters. The part relating to the
stories afoat was printed by request
We were told no raid was made ON a
house, and no men found as stated.
Now if headquarters are lying to US we
want to know it. II raid was made
on a disreputable house and men were
found there and someone will back IL up
with the proof, we viii publish the name
of every man no matter who they are.
If there is any hush money business go
ing among our authorities as some hint
at, put us onto the job with proof of it
and we will show II up. And there viii
be no partiality shown either The Ex
press and Standard don't give tinker's
damn who or what it shows up if there
is proof to back il. We would shield the
woman quicker than the man any time.
Newport Express and Standard.
We suspect that the devil thinks twice
before he invades the study of Rev. Mr..
Crackhardt of Island Pond, who is strik- |
ing some sledge hammer blows against
his majesty at the Morgan Center camp |
meeting just now. But what we were
about to say is that maybe Mr.. Z. d. |
Legacy of East Charleston, who has pur-
chased blooded bull calf of parties in
may have received 5000
francs from his dead uncle in France be-
fore he spent the money.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-28
Low Shoes an
Pumps


Except White Canvas
and Tennis Shoes at a
big reduction.
We find we have quite
a stock of these for this
time of year, and we
need the room. There
fore, we are going to
give the public the adj
vantage of a big saving.
All $500 Low Shoes,
now SAILS
All $3.50 Low Shoes,
now $685.
All $500 Low Shoes,
now $685.
All $3.50 Low Shoes,
now $3.50
All $500 Low Shoes,
now $2.45
All $3.50 Low Shoes,
now S2.15
All $500 Low Shoes,
now S1.75
We have left 80 pairs
of those Ladies' Oxfords
in $3.50 and S4 grades,
sizes III, 3 and 81, for
$1.98 per pair.
NOTE.-These goods
are all from our regu-
lar stock and not bought
just for a sale, there
fore are of the same
good quality which you
have always bought of
us and also have the
same guarantee as if
bought at the regular
prices.
You should consider
this in your buying.