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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30
Good Things to Eat.

Bean Scallop-Soak a generous half
pint of dried Lima beans over night.
Drain off this water in the morning, COW
er with fresh water in which put a tea
spoon OF salt and let simmer, covered
cut in slices and cook another hour.
Drain off most of the liquor, put in an
earthenware baking dish, turn in a can
of tomatoes, cover the top with buttered
crumbs and bake in a moderate oven un-
til the top is well Drowned.
Broad Beans and Bacon Broad beans
are merely dried Lima beans. Wash well
and put to soak over night. Cook half
a pound of lean bacon for an hour, then
add to the water a pound of the soaked
beans and cook until soft but not broken.
Arrange in a baking platter with the ba-
con in the center and the beans piled
around, and make border of shredded
and parboiled sweet peppers. Further
decoration of hardboiled egg whites may
be chopped and added.
Rhubarb Pie-Make and bake the pie
crust first, or line the pie plate in the
usual way and brush the crust with
white of egg, then turn in the following
mixture: Two cups of cut up rhubarb,
two cups OF sugar, with which has been
mixed two level tablespoons of flour, and
stir in without beating, two eggs. Bake
ut once with or without lattice top. The
amount win make one large and two
small pies.
Chives 0melet-Wash the chives well,
then with the kitchen shears cut in fine
pieces. Beat four eggs, whites and yolks
Add to the yolks four table
spoons of milk, a teaspoon of cornstarch,
4 tablespoon of melted butter and salt
Ind pepper to taste. Mix with the yolks
he minced chives and fold in the stiffly
beaten whites, turn into skillet in
which a large tablespoon of butter is
rot, but not Drowned, and cook over a
fire. shaking slightly to loosen
he omelet at the edges; when set fold
'ver the sides to the middle and serve at
nee with parsley garnishing.
Transparent Pudding cup of
,earl tapioca in water sufficient to cover
Until transparent, then stir in quarter
4 cup of graduated sugar, the grated
ind of lemon and its juice. Cook for
few minutes TO dissolve the sugar, then |
DOL somewhat and turn into a glass
CRYING dish. Let chill and serve with |
'owdered sugar and cream.-Woman's |
World for April.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30
MUCH FOOD FROM SMALL AREAS.
Ways in Which a Little Land is Made
to Produce Many Vegetables.

The best methods to follow and the
best crops to grow in order to make a
small area like back yard produce the
maximum amount of food for the family
are discussed in new publication of the
u. s. department of agriculture, farm
ers' bulletin SlS, "The Small Vegetable
Garden" In addition to furnishing in
formation in regard to the fundamental
principles of gardening, this bulletin de-
scribes in detail the culture of all of the
common garden plants, and also fur
nishes table showing in a concise form
the quantity of seed needed for each kind
of vegetable, the proper way and times
to plant, and the material required to
produce the crop.
To make a small area produce a large
amount of food, the bulletin points out
that not only every foot of available
space must be utilized, but that late or
succession crops must be planted as soon
as the earlier plants have been removed.
To carry on gardening in this intensive
way requires careful planning in adj
vance, and it is recommended that a de-
tailed diagram of the garden be drawn
up and the various uses that it is planned
to put each portion to, throughout the
growing season, be clearly indicated. On
this plan the success or failure of the
various enterprises should be noted and
the plan itself kept as a guide for the
following year
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30
Topics of the
Home and
Household.

A tablespoon of alum in gallon of
water will set blue.
Kerosene and soap rubbed on white
goods will remove axle grease.
Buttering bread or cracker on which
cheese is to be toasted improves the fla.
yor.
Chopping the tougher portions of meat
hastens the cooking and so saves time
and fuel
When running dates, figs or raisins
through food chopper add few drops
of lemon juice to prevent the fruit from
clogging the chopper.
What will be said upon the return of
the tidy? Yet isn't it a rather practical
idea after adj TO protect the back of a
handsome upholstered davenport with
runner of scrim or filet? and isn't the
effect attractive? So the idea is extend
ed to take in the arms and backs of up
holstered chairs and divans.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30
GERMANY SHOULD
BE FORCED TO PAY
$3,2OO,O00,0OO A YEAR
To Liquidate the Total War Debt of the
Allied Nations, According to Opinion
of M. de Verneuil, Honorary Presi-
dent of Paris Official Stock
brokers' Association.

Paris, April 30.-The equivalent of 49,.
200 100000 a year is what Germany
should be compelled to pay the entente
allies during as many years as may be
necessary to liquidate the total war debt
asserts M. de Verneuil, honorary presi-
dent of the Paris Official Stock brokers'
association. He calculates that she will
be able to pay such an annuity.
The exposition by DR.. Karl Helfferich,
the German vice chancellor, of the eco
nomic situation of Germany in 1913 is
taken by M. de Verneuil as the basis Of
his calculations. The figures he cites are
as follows:
The wealth of the German empire in
1913: $4,000, 100000 francs.
Annual revenue therefrom: 100000 o.
600 francs.
Government and individual expendi-
lures of all sorts: 37,500,000,000 francs,
including Germany's vast outlay for
armament.
Total yearly economies: 1850 100000
francs, of which 2,500,000,000 is credited
to the growing value of existing for
tunes, leaving 10000, 100000 francs net
savings from actual earnings.
These figures of Germany's annual ac-
emulation of wealth are confirmed, M.
de Verneuil asserts, by all careful Ger
man calculators and he takes the net
l0,000,000,000 as the basis for figuring
Germany's paying capacity. He adds
300, 100000 francs to be derived from u
tax of five francs per ton on Germany's
coal production of zee, 000,o 900 tons, ESQ.,
000,000 to be raised by per capita tax
nf tFa fra
from an annual contribution levied upon
all cities of more than 100000 popula-
ton, and l750.000 900 francs from in
creased passenger and freight rates and
receipts from monopolies. Thus he ar
rives at an aggregate of $4,000 100000
francs.
A superposed tax of 90 to 80 per cent
on the coupons of all German bonds and
bonds of other nations held in Germany
would furnish another 100000 900
francs, NJ. de Verneuil says, to be applied
to the indemnification of all the victims
of the war.
NJ de Verneuil disagrees with those
who think that Germany's resources viii
be entirely exhausted when she asks for
peace. She will be able, he thinks, very
after the cessation OF hostili-
ties to take up, with even increased ia
cilities for production, the extraordinary
activity that DR.. Helfferich exposed with
detailed figures.
France, with her great industrial re-
yiou of the north paralyzed for a con.
siderable period will be in greater state |
IF inferiority than ever as compared to |
her aggressor he anticipates, and he
,itpS IL as one more reason for loading /
upon Germany compensating burden |
hat will prevent her from enjoying an
advantage so ruthlessly gained.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30
USE LIME.
In Order to Increase Our National Food
Supply.

Is it too late materially to increase
our national food supply this spring.
Not if our farmers in the eastern half
of the country will promptly resort to
the use of the cheapest and quickest
known agency for speeding up national
production of foodstuffs--namely lime.
Prices of most commercial fertilizers
at present are high. Potash is almost
understandable. Only by most serupulous
conservation OF stable manure and an in
creased use of legumes as green manure
and of ground rock phosphate, can the
commercial fertilizer shortage be met,
even temporarily. There remains one
thing, however, that may be done to in
crease Yields, which costs no more now
than it did before. II may safely be
said, ] believe. that if all sources Of
artificial chemical fertilizers failed, our
total farm output in many sections could
not only be maintained, but even in
creased for a considerable time simply by
the application of lime TO acreages that
now are low in yield or lying fallow be.
cause they are too sour to grow prof
table crops. Lime can and should be
put on all sour land. BY a plentiful use
of lime we can, fguratively speaking,
make our ''war bread" of stones.
There is perhaps no considerable sec
ton of the United States without some
local supply of limestone, mari or oyster
shells Ground limestone for direct sp-
plication to the soil costs, delivered on
the nearest siding, from 81 per ton up.
on the length Of the haul. II
crushed limestone Is not available burned
lime. either ground or hydrated for sgri-
cultural use or the ordinary lump lime
carried by all dealers in building mate
ials. NAV be used in emergency, though
lime in this form is frequently more ex-
pensive. On the other hand if burned or
hydrated lime is used the applications
should be less than one-half those Of
ground limestone.
Thus there Is available for almost
every farmer, al normal cost, in spite Of
war conditions, material which, for the
timebeing NAV avail 90 increase cur ar
ricultural output enormously The mi !
tial returns from the application Of lime
10 sour land are sometimes remarkable.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30
Fighting the U-Boats.

The government plans to take as many
suitable ships as can be spared from
coastwise traffic and send them across
the Atlantic to meet the increasing short
age of tonnage. A conference of ship
builders is to be held in few days to
organize an increase in steel shipbuild-
ing.
That the tide Of battle turns against
Germany on land has not blinded our au-
thorities to German success at sea. The
English channel is no longer the safe
ferry it has been during most of the war.
So many British ships have been sunk
that all England's doctors have been
modified to treat the wounded entirely
in France. Beaten off in a raid on Dover,
German vessels have turned and shelled
Calais.
Although French and British armies
smash the Germans, France arranges one
meatless meal day, and the British
resolutely adjust themselves to a re-
stricted diet.
The U-boats are still unconquered.
Americas first object in the war is to
them. The announcement
that some of the seized German ships
can be ready to put to sea in few
weeks shows that little is to be left UNI
done to lift the blockade of England and
France. New Englanders must man the
old shipyards to help build our proposed
fleet of wooden ships. They will be
needed.
That England plans to pillow 5000
square miles OF pasture for wheat shows
how effective the submarines still are.
We cannot see the end of war so long
As the U-boats prosper. And they are
sinking boats every day.-Boston Globe.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30
NEW SYSTEM
FOR TRAINING
Our New Armies Raised I'm
der Draft Bill Will Have
Canada's System
WILL BE SCHOOLED
IN TRENCH TACTICS
Soldering Will Follow Do
minion Program to
Some Extent

Washington, April 30.--Soldiering will
take on an aspect entirely new to Amer
lean military science when training OF
the forces to be assembled under the
draft bill begins at the l6 training can
comments. Careful plans laid by war de-
partment officials provide for the appli-
cation Immediately of every lesson
learned from European battlefelds, and
much of the work to be done will be new
even to men recently in army instruction
camps.
The army war college has prepared
new training manuals based on the latest
information from the trenches of the
fighting fronts, gathered from many
sources. Supplemental regulations will
cover even more detailed information
brought by the British and French Off
GERS here as members of the war mis-
sons.
The American training system prob
ably will follow to some extent that used
in Canada where the instructors have
ih"uI tfNtf Chpi w itEiohuIt us NibHcif
as possible conditions at the front Sec
tions of trench have been built at the
Canadian camps, exactly duplicating i'm
portant parts of the lines in France held
by Canadian troops. Training in extend
ing these works and running saps or
erecting entanglements has gone on to
the accompaniment of actual shell fire,
SO as to harden the nerves of the troops
as well as their muscles.
To carry out this scheme the Cana
dams have placed batteries opposite the
trenches and kept up steady fire at
certain designated points. The infantry
men under training have done their work
night and day with shrapnel bursting
close to them. The officers, of course,
know the posts to be pounded by the
guns and keep the men out of danger.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30

gardens to raise their own vegetables,
and health will be the result. They will
forget they had indigestion and nerves.
The fresh air and sunshine will bring the
bloom of health to their cheeks.
Scores of women nettled by the fact
that meat is too expensive to have for
dinner every day, have put their wits to
work to substitute something appetizing
and hearty and | find that the follow
ing receipt for salmon loaf answers nice
~ at least once week and is sufficient
for a family of six or eight: One egg
beaten light, two tablespoons of butter,
one and one half cups of cracker crumbs,
a little salt and pepper, one can red sal
mon picked fine, and milk to moisten;
bake one hour in moderate oven
Another good substitute for meat in
warm weather, or at this season of the
year when eggs are cheap, is egg omelet,
made by breaking four eggs in deep
bowl; add a pinch of salt, tiny pinch
of baking powder and two tablespoons Of
-four, beat well and pour in one cup of
rich milk. stir and pour into a well but
tered hot spider; when it thickens turn
and brown; serve hot.
"The high cost of living isn't all ca
lamity. What was at first regarded as
national calamity will be a blessing in
some respects, because physicians on
every hand concede that people are pay
ing more attention to their diet. They
eat less meat, more vegetables and fruit.
More attention is given to sanitation, as
housekeepers are compelled to look more
closely after their hired help to see that
the foods are not wasted, or spoiled in
cooking, and many women have learned
lessons of economy that they would ney-
er have learned in any other way
Dorothy DeXter.N
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30
Have You Backache,
Govt, Rheumatism?
lBy NJ. G. Lucas, NJ. d.

American men and women should
guard constantly against kidney trouble,
because we eat too much and all our food
is rich. Our blood is filed with uric acid
which the kidneys strive to filter out,
they weaken from overwork, become
sluggish; the eliminative tissues clog and
the result is kidney trouble, Bladder
weakness and often the poison reaches
the tissues, causing rheumatism and govt.
When your kidneys feel like Jumps of
lead, when your back hurts or the urine
is cloudy, full of sediment, or you are
obliged to seek relief two or three times
during the night, when you suffer with
sick headache, or dizzy, nervous spells,
acid stomach, or you have rheumatism
when the weather is bad, ask your drug
gist for Anuric double strength. /
have found in practice that Anuric is
more potent than lithia and in most
cases it will dissolve the uric acid as hot
water does sugar
Most people do neglect themselves.
Their tongue has dark brown color,
skin sallow, breath bad, yet, they fail to
see that their machinery needs attention.
Everybody should take a mild laxative
at least once a week. A pleasant way
to clear the tongue and the highly col
ored water noticed in the morning is to
take a laxative which viii cure the mac
tive liver and biliousness.
a pleasant vegetable pill is made up of
May-spple, leaves of aloe, and jalap,
made into tiny pellet and coated with
sugar. First put up by DIR. Pierce near
ly so years ago. Druggists sell these
vegetable pellets in walls; simply ask for
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.-Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30
SWEET CORN.
The Extension Service of the University
of Vermont Offers Suggestions.

| Sweet corn is one of our most impor.
tsnt and popular garden crops, termed
sweet on account of the high saccharine
content of the kernels when in the prop
er condition for eating. 1t is some
what more delicate and slow in starting
than most crops and therefore requires
little more thorough soil preparation.
As one Vermont farmer says: ats
much easier to hoe before planting than
after" The ordinary garden soil is
good enough for corn, and on the larger
field scale, it does best following clover
on well-drained sandy loan soil, fer
tilted with Is to 20 loads of manure per
acre and 800 pounds of high-grade fer
tilizer drilled with the planter to hasten
early growth. Too much fertility makes
heavy leaf and stalk growth and a
late crop of ears.
Start with the best seed obtaina BILE
and plant when the soil gets fairly well
warmed, usually from May 10 to May
%. 1t is safe to say that ordinarily too
many stalks are left standing to secure
a maximum crop. Planting distances adj
vised are four kernels three feet apart
each way; five to six kernels, rows three
feet four inches apart, hill three feet.
Four stalks three and one-half by two
and one-half feet, removing all suckers;
rows three feet apart, stalks 10 to IA
inches. A good average is four stalks
free from suckers in hills three feet
apart each way.
As soon as the rows can be seen, start
the close shallow working cultivator.
Four good civilizations, the last time just
before the tassels show in ordinary
years, will keep down the weeds and
maintain a good mulch with no hand
work.
The varieties desired by canning con-
Germs generally are furnished by the
company contracting the crop. Good va
rieties for the garden are: White Next
can, Red Cob Cory, Early Dawn, First
of All, Golden Bantam. Golden Cream,
Black Mexican, Howling Mob; Country
Gentleman and Stowelfs Evergreen,
where il will mature.
Corn to be at its best should be picked
when it has passed out of the watery
stage and into the milk, and should be
eaten within a few hours after it is
picked as the sugar content disappears
very rapidly after the ears are removed
from the stalks. For this reason, and
because of its very general popularity,
it is an excellent vegetable to grow in
the home garden.
Considering green corn from the stand
point of food value it approaches peas
and beans, containing a comparatively
low percentage Of water, with high pro-
tein. fat and carbohydrate content. II
il, therefore, a very nourishing as well
as palstable food. and should BE- given
full share OF space in every good sized
garden.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30
The Health Value of Plants.

The sight of greenery on the table
stimulates the appetite and aids diges-
ton almost, if not quite, as much as the
taste of salad greens. Freshly gathered
flowers, too, artistically placed, make for
daily health by soothing the mind and
putting the stomach in consequence in a
perfect receptive condition, says the Bur-
lington Clipper. Authorities are agreed
that during the meal hour all influences
should be serene, the mind having a
great deal to do with the digestive proc
ess.
Plants. too, have a medicinal value
To work about them, to stir the soil, to
snip off the leaves, to get Whit of the
natural perfume, is inyigorating. 1t all
acts as a tonic to tagged nerves and
stimulates energy of thought and action.
Healthy plants demand pure air, water
and light in proper proportion as do
healthy people.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30
High Prices Not Wholly Calamity.

A writer in the Greenfield (Msss)
Gazette asserts that the present high
prices are not all a calamity, although
they are somewhat of problem. Ex-
cerpts from The Gazette article are as
follows:
"Many of US have had to figure more
closely and in this way have learned les
sons in food values and economy that we
would never have learned in any other
way. Scores of people have been told
by physicians that they were eating too
much meat, but not until the price of
meat got beyond the average pure did
they heed. The high price of produce
will send hundreds of women into the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30
FALLS 500 FEET.
New York Man Killed by Drop from MI
nicipal Building.

New York, April 3o.-Thousands of
persons passing the 24-story New York
municipal building, adjoining the Man
haitian entrance to the Brooklyn bridge.
late Saturday saw the body of man
fall from the roof of the structure to the
cement pavement, $50 feet below. From
a card in his pocket, the police said they
believe the man was Daniel Klein, "a
years old. an electrical worker
Two city employees who saw HIM on
the roof a few moments before he fell
to his death, al they asked him waat
he was doing thee, and n replied
Nothing" They continued about Their
business, they said, supposing the man
had left the roof by one of the stair
ways.
An unidentified woman about 80 years
old, at the rush hour last night, hurled
year-old baby from the footpath of the
Williamsburg bridge into small park
l25 feet below and then leaped to death
herself.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30

! will have to die as there is no help for
me. She got me one of your little
books and my husband said should try
one bottle. l stopped the doctors
medicine and took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. 1t soon made
change in me and now am strong and
do all my work. Mrs. AUGUSTUS
BAUGHMAN, Box &c., Enhaut, Pa.
Why will women continue to suffer
day in and day out and drag out sickly,
half-hearted existence, missing three
fourths of the joy of living, when they
can find health in Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound?
If you would like free confidential ad-
vice address Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine
Co., Lynn, Mass.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30

An investment in limestone often pays a
dividend OF 100 per cent or more the first
year, if care is taken at the same time to
maintain the organic content of the soil
1t is the duty of American farmers, in
this national crisis, to make the most of
this, our cheapest and most easily avail
able agency for speeding up production
War or no war, a carload of crushed
limestone where needed is always money
in the farmers pocket at the end of the
crop year And carload of limestone,
judiciously used by each farmer whose
land is too acid, viii augment our supply
OF breadstuffs by a surprising number of
millions of bushels.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30

Linow has wsgered quite bit Of his
own money that he can throw Zbyszko
within a specified time tonight, when
they meet on the mat. and il is also I'M
derstood that he is willing TO bet he can
throw Zbyszko within two hours.
Brookline. Mas, high school has tax
en- to golf and a squad OF p men has re-
ported 10 Capt. Patrick Egan for a try
out on the team. Reports come from
the Massachusetts school of several very
good men ia the institution.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30
General Sporting Notes.

Ehmkle, the young pitcher. who
showed such wonderful form last fall.
when playing with the Detroit Tigers.
after rising from the New York State
league, has taken a sad slump this
spring, and is getting his bumps at ev-
cry corner. In the game Sunday. while
pitching against Cleveland, the Indians
raped out hits enough to make four
runs
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-30

The Cleveland management are not
very sure of Guy Morton's ability to
come back since he threw out his elbow.
While Morton has a lot of speed it is not
a ball that fools the big league batsmen.