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The evening world., 1917-06-26
son OF Former Russian Premier n
Suicide.

PETROGRAD, June 2G.-The son OF
former Premier Sturmer. arrested at
Kieff for drunkenness committed
suicide at NcrotJl after brooding over
his disgrace, according to word re-
CeiYed here to-day.
The evening world., 1917-06-26
SENATE is LIKELY TO REWRITE
THE HOUSE FOOD BILL.

The bin will be dlssectod and prob
ably rewritten in several respects by
the Senate Itself
As TO the dry" amendment put
into the bill by the House. Senate
sentiment day Is that II will pass.
but in modified form to provide:
That the future use Of food
stuffs in the manufacture OF dis
titled liquors shall be rigidly pre-
vented.
That stores on hand, which.
added to beer and wine. would
yield about 100000 In much
needed revenue shall not be seized
by the Government
That beers and wines contain
ing "A minimum OF alcohol shall
continue TO be manufactured un-
less the food situation Of the Ma
tlon subsequently renders it's abo-
lltion absolutely imperative.
Drastic as are the new control
features proposed by the Senate COM
mittee, none will be fought as bitterly
as the dry amendment
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08
VERMONT AND POSTAL SAVINGS.

AS might he Cypc -,cd Vermont has the
largest average balance N me postal
savings banks of all New England ata'fs'
our average beng ;lE6 as compared WIN
Sl'2 in Connecticut, $40 in Maine, $ll2 III
Massachusetts, SEA in New Hampshire
and sl2i IN Rhode Island. when 1t comes
to aggregate deposits, however we are
FAR and away behind our neighbours as
also might be expected We have '"-
depositors in the postal savings BANKS
ana SlW,aN in deposits AS compared WIN
2,'"4 depositors and sl5i.6i5 in deposits III
Maine 3,12i depositors and S"Ho III
deposits IN New Hampshire, sou De-
positors ana S'>GGl in deposits IN Rhoa"
Island. $500 drpositors and s. 'oi.Ni III
deposits in Connecticut and 3S,c'S de-
poaitors and ilNp.oS0 in deposits III
massachusetts
These results are remarkable when "'
take into account the comparatively re-
cent establishing of the postal saNinES M
Si''uuon Massachusetts claims for EeorI'
Won L. Meyer the credit of beng the
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

POOR RELIEF ~ VEN. MONT.


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father of the institution. 1t transpircs.
however. that Meyer projected the idea
and succeeded in persuading the republi-
can national convention to incorporate
in its platform the idea which had al
ready been advocated by other political
parties.
II remained for Frank n. Hitchcock as
postmaster general to succeed in per-
suading Congress to pass a measure pro-
vidng for such an institution. The postal
savings bank act was passed on June %,
1910, and II became effective on January
I. 1911. The system has therefore been
in operation only about six years.
The way in which Mr.. Hitchcock
selected six postoffices of the second-cla
for experiments has interest for US
since Montpelier was one OF the places
chosen. the others being Rumford. Me,
Ansonia, Conn, Norwood Mass, Berlin,
~ H., and Bristol, r. I. This was only
three days after the law took effect, and
the experiment was so successful that in
the following summer, 1911. the system
was extended to the large industrial
ccntcrs.
At tho present time some 665, go people
in tho United States are included In the
list of depositors in the postal savings
bank. with Sis, 900 oO on deposit with the
federal government in this way. It is in
tercsting TO note in this connection that
with the advent Of the European war, the
postal saving institutions, which had been
showing steady gains recorded falling
off in deposits. This condition continued
until 1915, whcr the situation became
! normal.
! Congress in May, 1916 abolished the re-
striction combining deposits to not moro
than 500 a month and increased the
maximum per depositor from $500, the
original amount. to $l,Uo. This act was
followed by the uuadrupling of deposits,
and at the present time a net gain Of
about $4,000 week is being made.
1t is significant that more than ., per
cent. of the total deposits in the postal
savings banks must be credited to
Greater New York alone. Boston has de-
posts aggrcgating s2,5io,o00 while Bridge
port. Conn. has the handsome total of
sG3G,d0o. sum larger than the total de-
posits OF any single State in New Eng
land outside OF Massachusetts and the
Nutmeg state.
The postal savings institution has un-
qucStionaby encouraged thrift in New
England Vermont did not need this
factor, however, to teach it how to save,
Que savings institutions having long age
helped to make this characteristic Of Yer
monters pronounced This accounts for
the small number of depostors in the
Green Mountain State who rely on this
kind Of institution. once started, how
ever, our depositors RAPIDLY lead the way
in the amount they save, as indicated by
the large average deposit credited TO thC
Vermont patrons of the system.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

II has been a long. long way TO
Tppcrary for the literacy test in connec-
ton with our immigration system. Bills
cmbodying this provision were passed by
Congress during the administrations of
both President Cleveland and President
Taft, but they were vetoed in each in
stance, and the champions OF the idea
failed to muster sufficient strength to
pass the measure over the presidents
veto The passage of the immigration bill
by the Senate Monday over the veto
of President Wilson, following similar
action by the House by a non-part'san
vote. puts this measure on tho national
statutes after a struggle extending over
a couple Of decades or so. How this
measure will affect various foreign qucs-
tons now confronting this nation re-
mains to bc seen.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08
THE DEVIL. Is STILL ON VIS JOB,

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~" "'N WI" - ooi'S Inv ueNi Jop IN
w., S ,','''i'. 'nu Po1'
Nv S''' '.i 'e, 'o''a' "'H" S"' anu ne
,,... "'o"' ','a' ,'' '''io - SURF,
~" "a" Ia IVY ne Soc'" l"''n u'fec''hs
iiS EhdStIy WoTk
m"o,h LOT i' i"'S with the falIihs
'"iN
ne H'a'9''"'S e"' wo'id i"r us maj Cash
.i' HlldSenuon iorcto!d'
III "nlch VIII ran the great and small,
the NouthIul ana inc OLD.
rheY are beating their p!oWshlres into
swords their pruning hooks TO spears
ana 'he warning note from the prophet
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08
he department of agriculture, says

the department of agriculture. says:
Diseased pines have been found
81 plantations located in nine States an /
is nurseries in ten States. Throughout
the white pine regions from Maine u
the Hudson and Champlain valleys then
are large areas where infected currantI
and gooseberries. on which the diseasI
grows, are so widely scattered that TIL
term general Infection only describ,I
them. Most significant of all, Infection
of native white pine have been found,
eight in Maine, six in Massa chusetti
seven in New Hampshire. two in Nej
York and ono in Connecticut in TN
vicinity Of heavy currant and gooseberrl
infections. Between the areas of heav|
infection there are isolated areas of dis
eased currants. varying from one to tW
plants to several thousand plants in
township.
Outside of the generally infected are
in New England and eastern New YORK.
pine and currant infections are scattered
in central and western New York AM
New Jersey and pine Infections in Penn
sylvania and Ohio. In Minnesota AMI
Wisconsin there are several small area|
where both the pine and the curranI
stages of the blister were found this veal
for the first time
At tho close of the conference Presl
dent Pack told the delegates how gratitie|
he was because of the cooperation q
the governors who had sent delegates 4
the meeting.
1T is Only by cooperation" said Pres
dent Pack. that we can win this fgh'
The governors responded in fine shar'
and now public sentiment must be arouse
and the public made acquainted with thl
enormous waste that is going on annually
Another big point is that there were
women at our conference. They repre-
scented women's clubs. playground assc
cations and civic leagues. They cam
from North Carolina. Minnesota an
New Hampshire. This widespread inter
est is a mighty good sign"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08
HENS LURE NINkS TO DESTRuC-
TION.

IT You want a mink fur set read what
Farm and FireSidc says in the January
Issue about catching minks.
Put "A hen in n box about two feet
square and having one side covered with
fine screen, so a mink can see the hen
but cannot cannot get past the screen.
Then lean board against the box with
Just enough room to set small trap
between the box and the board,
Set the trap firmly on the ground SO
that II Will not tip up when he mink steps
on it, as he is likely to do. The mink gets
excited when he sees the hen so near
and forgcts his usual caution. This has
never failed when other trap sets have
been unsuccessful"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

The Rev Marion Leroy Burton, prcsi-
dent of Smith College for seven years,
has accepted call to become president
Of the University of Minnesota. He had
occupied the pastoratc of the church of
the Pilgrims only about six months when
the trustees Of Smith College invited him
to become head Of that institution. lie IS
no danger of his being oslerized for some
time to come.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

The fear that Vermont would not he
able to secure an expert forester IT our
State agricultural department were re-
organized on the plan of our national de-
rartment of agriculture seems to have
died "aborninG." Applicants arc beginning
to crowd. At last accounts no protest
against the consolidating project had
been received at Montpelier from timber
associations in Panama, Pc,nambuco.
Patagonia or PetroSrad, but the entries
are not yet closed and the wires are still
working.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

Washington holds that the sinking OF
The Housatonic by a German submarine
after February was legal because this
American ship was carrying Contraband
Of war. Still We were told that il the
Germans sank American ships, it would
pcarance of the President before Con-
gross looking to war. 1t is always better
10 note possible exceptions in advance,
Instead of making unconditional state
ments and taking part of them back
nfterward
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

law tine following provisions: a state
board of charities should he created to
which should be entrusted the SdTcryi-,on
of al agencies of charity; povisi n
sexes, the segregation Of the d scased
and the exclusion of children from poor
houses; the feeble minded should be
isolated from the general population; and
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

systematic method Of reporting cases
Of outside relief should be devised "
1t is not necessary, however, for the
state to maintain dcpartmc'' for this
purpose. The state should pass a law
dealing with situations like those existing
in some of our charitable institutions.
our humane officers are empowered by
legislation to deal with people who are
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08
4 SEvE>TY-YEAR OLD Coup1U

Mr., and Mrs, II Il. Carpenter, Harris
burg, Pa, suffered from kidney trouble
but have been entirely cured by Foley
Kidney Pills, He says; Attic we are
both in tn" seventies, We are as vigorous
as We were thirty years ago" Foley
Kidney pills stop sleep disturbing bladder
weakness. backachc. rheumatism Medi.
cal Han, j. w. O'Sulivan. 30 Church
street. (Adv)
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

paid for Maine potatoes. That is nothing.
Tubers are so precious in Vermont that
no Green Mountain housewife dares TO
look a potato squarely in the eyes, while
seeking to undrcss II for dinner.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

cruel to animals We should be at least
as consideratc and AS thoughtful of chill
drcn in poor houses and clscwh here who
are abused as VIC arc Of our dumb ami
mails.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08
WANTED.

when you want anything advertise In tho
.-cw special column Of this paper. some
bargains are offered there this week whirh
Il will pay you to read about. Soc page two
This paper has more than $4,000 readers
,vcry week and one cent n word will reach
them all
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

Vermont is hoping war can be avoided,
but it will ever be found standing loyalty
by Uncle Sam in the future as in the
past
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08
PASSING THOUGHTS.

Some of us are not so grateful as "
ought to be to persons who tell us Somt
thing that We didn't know.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08
NEVER AGAIN.

Young Lady Ito army surgco0)-l S"1
pose YOU Will ra-Iy after the wsr' t.oi
tor?
Doetor-No. my dear young lacy Ne
the war | want peace.-Sdu,h.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

MANY man prides himself on knowin
human nature and at the same time ha
neglected to become thoroughly acquaint
ed with himself.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

mar may rnakn r-acti,e 81 ,ak,i,
off his h;>. IL ~ elevator IN VIII,
women are dl;'c r.drg. and ~ on othe
occasions forget Is cCurtesy
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

II everyone would get busy with 'el:
reform. the professional rMo-'n"rS o'rH
nation would be goIe.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

Faith in prcronition sUtSAth u:s-c T.
rare instances in which II N-pr.i's -
true.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

Wei. what difference does I make
what does II lroTe, that 'beiuty is ON
shir d~,,T
Albany Journal.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

Hathc, triH' q nan nro frankly dl''4
Gr.cs with GOV at tines tlpn c;e an
assent, TO al YOU sa",
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

\ tNnic SAYS that weather ,orct n -. '
ShC all lo Womcn's work hetara omi
l.: iC-'clf 'selcr,r mt .t.rii"."
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

The man who has a reputation t"- 10 n
all right wien he's sober /, usUa"y Ok
often entirely sober
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

You can't judge how successful ma
Is by the degree of elevation of his CHR
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

Impulse is rarely a trustworthy guild
to action.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-08

A MANS CONFIDENCE.

our system of banking tends to give
a man confidence in himsclf--it is sim
ply our spirit Of cooperation to help
him in the financial end of his business.
We would be glad to have your ac~
count
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BURLINGTON

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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-10
BY GENE AHERN.
THE FLIvvER.

Well. Pete, put down that pickle
sandwich and give listen. We've got
one OF the greatest industries OF the
age to squawk about on today's menu
and that are the f1ivver.
thought you gave a sermon about
the jumping bean the other day, Ed
gar?
Have care. Thor. don't knock Fliy.
vers: its cylinders do enough Of that
stun. A cot has only nine lives, but
flivver dies so much. Euclid himself,
the Ty Cobb of arithmetic, couldn't
keep track Of its lives. An ordinary
automobile is only good for riding
around in, but there's no limit to the
things fllvver can do.
Fllvvers make dainty watch charms.
They can be used as alarm clocks oil
as paciflers for babies.
Even when tlivver is played out
IL any member of the family live thai
long. 1t can be made into kitchen uten'
sils TO supply seven and half families
There will still be enough left over IL
make good vacuum sweeper
Some people are such brutes will
their flivvers they load them down Will
all kinds Of brightly polished acces.
series trying to make them look like
automobiles. It's wonder tho humar
society doesn't get after them,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-10
THINGS NOT ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM.

NNE Of the striking features Of the book Edward N.
" Hurley. FIRST chairman Of the Federal Trade COM
mission. wrote for the series of business works being
published under the auspices of the Associated Advertising
Clubs Of the World is the stress the author puts upon the
neee:.iy for better book keeping in manufacturing and
mercantile establishments in this country The book which
is called The Awakening of Business, was published
since the first of the year and safe to say that the most
important underlying thought of it is that until we do keep
books better in this country, and especially learn how to
ascertain costs and read the condition of business in bal
ance Sheets will not be in position to compete on equal
terms in the trade struggle that before u.s. with the Ger
mans. for instance.
To some business men this attitude may seem like undue
emphasis upon small factor Yet is fact that with
out good book keeping no business man can be sure of
where he stands also that the average American
business man has very hszy ideas about accountancy
Right now there merchants in the country who are con-
graduating themselves that their business is growing simply
because their receipts show large increases over
responding periods for the year previous and the year be-
fore that is true that their expenses have not increased
great DEAL but the thing that they forget is that every
thing they sell has increased from Is to 100 per cent If
receipts have increased 10 per cent say under the
ditiOns that prevail they really are slipping back at
an alarming rate. Good book keeping would show that
clearly and would prevent some of these merchants from
getting the shock of their lives the time they approach
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-10
COLFAX NAN SAID
ILLS OF FLESH
were GOING FAST
After 10 Years of Suffering
w. III. Hayhurst Finds
Friend in Wentworth.

Two bottles of this wonderful family
nerve tonic almost made MIR. HAY
hurst over. His remaining Ills fast
disappearing getting better ever,
day This is what he said and sign.
ed his name to:
Cranes Drug Store: My trouble
was rheumatism, nervous. siccplesn
nights. no appetite, gas Oh my ston.
ach Dizzy spots before my eyes, pains
in my stomach. This has been u ten
years standing
Have taken two bottles Of cry
Worth. All the troubles above men.
toned are gone except the pain in my
stomach and that is getting better
every day.
W. II. HAYHURST,
Colfax. w. Va.
Wentworth steadies the nerves.
Nery-Wo-th aids digestion.
Nerv-Worth regulates the bowels.
Wentworth tones up the liver.
Nerv-Worth banishes headaches.
NerV-Worth builds up the system.
If this tonic fails to do these things
for YOU, your dollar back at Cranes
drug store.-Ady.
Ask at Cranes for the new Nerv.
Worth Laxative Tablets. Csc a box.
Wonderfully good for liver and
bowels. Especially valuable in con.
nection with Nerv-Worth tho tonic.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-10
LET'S HAVE THE RIVER CARNIVAL.

THAI suggestion that some sort Of river carnival be
made annual event here in order to encourage the
use Of the river freight carrier and as means
Of advertising the fact that Farmont located on naMsa-
waters good and should be encouraged in every
way possible until it has become an actuay and success
he carnival feature of if properly handled can be
made sufficiently interesting to draw bigger crowds than the
big football game ever did. With nothing better in the
of water than the shallow rivers of that section East
Pennsylvania cities hold club shows and Aquatic
contests that draw tens of thousands of people from out
lot town here Is why this success could not
lbe duplicated in Faimont
On the practical side the suggestion is even more arac
i've Most businessmen have read in books how important
rivers are as freight carriers, but unfortunately not all of
them possess imagination in sufficient quantities to be able
70 apply it to their business in their minds eye The
annual river carnival could be so arranged that these peo
ipe would be shown. With the pool full of boats and
every one talking river freight service would be strange
indeed if the people up here OIL The Monogahea did not
soon take to using the system as much as those below
Pittsburgh do.
Go TO it, Mr.. Commissioners. The town will help
you make the carnival the biggest thing in the show line
W irmont ever undertook
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-10
AMERICA AND WARFARE.
s(NOUNT ZEPPELIN. whose death in Ger

8(sOUNT ZEPPELIN, whose death in Germany was
" announced yesterday, got the idea which enabled him
to achieve Immortality and made it possible for Ger
days Of William the Conquerer-raid the interior of the
tight little island-hle he was acting as military OBJ
server Tor Germany with the Union armies during the
The other aspect of aerial warfare also come from this
SIDE OF the Atlantic and list of other American ideas in
most among them, perhaps, and even more important than
the one Count Zeppelin developed is the submarine boat
first made practicable by Lake an Americans then there
IS the machine gun, which descends from the crude but ef
tseye weapon designed by the late Dr. Calling and has
rs latest and most terrible expression in the Lewis gun
picked troops Of Prussia
Nor should it be forgotten that the original thought
which strapped the wooden naves of The world and started
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-10
PERSONALS

A. j. Mcdaniel was a bushes visi.
tor in FairmOnt on Friday.
l. l. Weaver, of Fairmont, was trans.
acting bushes here on Friday,
Earl w. Parrish who has been EN-.
ployed at Piney Fork, Ohio, for the
past several months, arrived here on
Thursday for visit with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. X. S. Parrish.
VIII G. Davis, Of Brisco, was bust.
ness visitor here onThursday.
j. ID. Victor was business visitor
in Fairmont on Thursday.
James w. Davis, county assessor,
was visiting friends here on Thurs
day evening.