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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
READJusTs NoAH's ARK.

Little English Girl Moved by One Leg.
1ed British Officer.
London.-A small English girl was
introduced at tea to an officer who had
lost leg In action. After observing
him carefully and thoughtfully she
went to her nursery and, returning
with her Noah's ark, dumped the me-
nagerie on the door and proceeded to
break one leg of each animal
When she was asked why she did It
the little girl replied: Legs are awful
~ useless things. The animals all have
one too many"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
TOY GUNS POPULAR.

Modelled After Anti aircraft Weapons
Used by ZeppeIins.
Washington.-Teddy bears and mini
AZURE ant1-aircraft guns are by far tho
most popular toys In Great Britain,
says Consul Wilson in a report from
London to the United States bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce. Ted
dy bears have always been more or
less popular, but recent events seem
to havecreated greatly increased de-
mand for this toy.
The toy guns are modelled after tho
anti-aircraft guns which were brought
into prominence by the visits of tho
Zeppelins.
Toys that find the most ready sale
are those Of military character.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
THE MANURlAL INGREDIENTS OF
FEEDS ,.-t

lNatonal Crop improvement Service1
Nitrogen is the most important and
most valuable fertilizing element SIM
pied by feeds, and it is in this ele-
ment that they show the greatest
variation.
The Connecticut Experiment Sta
ton states that it was found that the
average mixed fertilizer contained
2.s5 per cent nitrogen and showed in
table that eighteen Of fifty-two Diff
1ersnt feeds contained 1898 per cent.
Among this list is cottonseed and lin
seed meals, gluten seed, middlines.
brewers and distillers' products, and
few OF the feed mixtures. It is OBJ
vious, therefore, that q wise selection
OF feeds enhances the value of the
manure and consequently plays an
important part in farm economy.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
COULDN'T SCARE SAILOR.
Officer Told Threatening u Boat Cap
81. tain to "Shoot Away"

Officer Told Threatening u Boat Cap
..s tain to "Shoot Away"
London.-Douglas Duff, the fourth
officer and the only survivor of the
steamer Thraeia, sunk by a German
submarine on April 81, says in deposi-
tons that three hours after the ship
was sunk the German submarine ap-
preached the capsized boat the stern
of which had been blown of, to which
he was clinging, and asked him the
usual questions regarding the destroy
ed steamer and her destination. It
was II o'clock at night and very dark.
The submarine commander first
threatened to shoot Duff, says the
fourth officer, who quotes himself as
replying, "Shoot away" The COM
mander then said, according to Duff,
that he wouldn't waste powder on an
Cnglishman and left Duff to his fate.
He was picked up twelve hours later
by French fisherman.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
BUYING FEED INGREDIENTS
Difficult to Buy Proper Feed Staffs at
Random,

National Crop improvement Servtce.]
There are not dozen feed stores
In the country that carry in stock all
the ingredients of first-class mixed
feed at all times and at reasonable
prices, and usually they do not carry
feeds of the same high quality used
by the mixers who work scientifically
through laboratory. This is human
nature. Competition compels dealer
to sell the cheapest quality. The best
quality of feed is seldom carried, be-
cause the average buyer will not pay
the highest price. A good many ex-
pertinent stations in a general way
will advocate that a farmer mix all
his own feed, but they are human like
the rest of us and they will use recog-
nlzed brands in their own feeding
operations rather than go to the trou-
BILE and take the time to follow their
own advice.
There are good many herds at
experiment stations which are kept as
sort of clinic for professors to prac-
tlce theories upon. The poor brutes
are used good deal as guinea pigs
in hospital practice. On the other
hand, at the experiment stations are
to be found many of the finest ami
mails ever bred.
The mixed feeds of the first grade
can be fed alone or in connection with
homegrown corn, oats or barley. To
do this widens your ration, and it is
correct to do so if it will reduce your
cost of feeding. Mixed feeds, there
fore, are largely matter of arith.
metic --
You can usually get the result for
less money than by feeding more ex-
pensive grains separately.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
new FORM OF ICON" GAME.

Two inches Of Butter Spread on Sand
Sold to Chicago Consumers.
Chicago, Ill.-A new form of conf
dencs game has been practised with
success here during the last few days.
Several storekeepers and hospitals have
reported to the police that they have
purchased from agents tubs purport-
ing to contain sixty pounds of butter,
but have found when cutting into the
tubs that the butter extended but one
or two inches from the surface and
that the rest Of their purchase was
sand.
The tubs were sold for as high as
$3.50, making the price Of the butter
N the neighborhood of 81 pound.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
STRAW'sHoULD BE SPREAD.

National Crop improvement Service.I
The feeding value of straw being
comparatively low, and the fertilizing
value being high. all straw should be
spread upon the fields and not burned
or wasted. The use of straw to pre-
vent winter-killing of wheat is now
we'll established. -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
BIG RUSH TO AVOID
RAISE IN HAIR CUTS

O lGreensburg, PA recent Mon 4
o day held the record for hair cuts
o In Greensburg. On wash day (
O 5000 men went to the BARRIERS
o and told them to cut their hair 4
o according to certain styles. This 4
9 rush came through the fact that (
o the BARRIERS raised the price for (
o hair cut to 35 cents and Monday 4
o was the last day for the quarter Z
o rate. It is estimated that $3.50
o was paid for hair clipping, with 4
q total Of 5000 saved to the ulti- 4
o mate cuttees.
q 4
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
ARMY NEEDS GENERALS.
Promotions Expected to Be Made Only
Upon Merit Basis.

S$\pOSsON
Upon Merit Basis.
Washington.-The new national army
will require about Twenty-Five new
major generals and more than 100
brigadier generals, according to oc-
1cials of the war department. There
will be a total of thirty-six divisions,
each Of which will have one major
general and four brigadier generals.
The army act empowers the presi-
dent to appoint general officers at his
discretion. The belief prevails that the
president and secretary Of war both
are determined only upon merit and
special fitness This policy would CO.
incide exactly with those Of France
and England, which are advancing
younger men to the higher commands.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
TABLES OF DlGESTlBL ENUTRl.
ENTS AND ENERGY VALUES

Compiled From Henry E. Morrison,
1915 Edition, Massachusetts 1911
Annual Report, Pennsylvania
Bulletin ia.
National Crop improvement service.l
d-Armsby Corrections.
k-Kellner.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23

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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-02
Lessons Learned in Sleep.

Lessons have been learned and diff
cult problems solved while in sound
slumber.
A young girl, through the death OF
her father, was told that she must
leave school unless she passed an ex
animation which would entitled her to
scholarship. She studied assiduous-
ly and on one occasion carried her
school books to her bedroom, intending
to rise early the next day for the pur-
pose of study. In the morning. on
looking over her lessons, she was sur
prised to find that she already knew
them. This happened for several sue
ceeding days, when she mentioned the
circumstances to her mother, who de-
termined to watch her. This she did,
and observed the girl get up as soon
as it was light, apply herself to her
lessons, and then return to bed. When
awake she had no idea of what she
had done.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-02
weekly Payments" for Wives.

GENERALLY speaking, says writer in
the Wide World Magazine, a Soudan-
csc is content with one wife, but the
marriage laws vary considerably among
different tribes, though all have much
in common. A man buys his WIFE, or
rather gives the value agreed upon
cash in prosperous towns like Omdur-
man, and cattle and grain in the coun-
try. Half of the amount is usually hand
ed over to the brides people before
marriage. and is spent on wedding fes-
tivities; the remainder is paid by in
stallments. You get your wife, in short,
sn the hire-purchase system: the mot
to of SOCdaneSe fathers-in-law, where
eligible daughters are concerned, is evil
1ently weekly payments taken" The
price of wife varies considerably. In
Omdurman, where the natives are we'll
tO-do, wife costs from $50 to $3.50, or
even more. There is no restriction up
1n the number of wives man may
have; a wife is regarded as so much
personal property, and valued accord
lngly.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-02
A Laxative That
You Like to Take

In these days when people are so
generally awake to the vital inpor-
lance of keeping the bowels regular
says c. +. Thomas, the Brattleboro
Druggist, cit is very gratifying to
have one effective and reliable remedy
which everyone likes to take.
'Of course | have handled Abbey s
Effervescent Salts for some time, but
recently there seems to be a greater
realization of the many evils of consti-
patton than ever before-This, and
the new bottle of Abbey S, larger than
before but at the old price, have
brought its use into greater prominence
and have mede evident to me more
than ever the many reasons for its
popularity"
Abbey Salts cleanse the system and
rid you Of headaches, biliousness, con.
stipation and their attendant ills
Call at G.. +. Thomas s and try Q
bottle today.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-02
RICToUs SCENES IN BOSTON.
Peace Parade by Socialists Couse of
Many Fist Fights.

BOSTON, July , Riotous scenes at
tended socialist parade here yesterday
which was announced as peace demon
stration The ranks of the marchers were
broken up by self-organizcd squads of uni
formed soldiers and sailors, red flags and
banners bearing socialist notices were
tlampled on. and literature and furnish
ings in the socialist headquarters in Park
square were thrown into the street and
burned. Police reserves stopped the riot.
ing after it had been in progress an hour
and a half Many arrests were made
The police took into custody some of
the participants in hundreds Of hist fights
which were wagcd on the Common and in
the line of the parade on fremont street,
while agents Of the federal department OF
Justice under the direction of Assistant
District Attorney Goldberg arrested in the
crowd number of persons who were al
legged to have made unpatriotlc remarks
in the heat of conflict None Of the sol
diers and sailors who figured in the dis
tu hancc were arrested.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-02
HOUSE WORK is A BURDEN.

Woman s lot is weary one at best
But with baekaehe and other distress.
ing kidney ills life indeed becomes a
burden. Dosn 8 Kidney Pills have
made life brighter for many Brattle
boro women. Read what Mrs. Benson
says;
Mrs, @. G. Benson, 104 Canal St.,
Brattleboro, says: ''Some years ago,
! had a great deal Of pain right over
my Kidneys. The pain was rather sharp
when / tried TO stoop or do any sweep
ing. ] was sore and lame when ] got
up in the morning aud didn t feel like
doing my homework. Ny kidneys
didn't act regularly also, and oth,r
symptoms showed that something would
have to be done. Ny poor condition
give me some alarm and | finally
bought Doan Is Kidney Pills at Wilfred
+. Root s Drug Store. After | had
taken three boxes, | felt rs we'll as
ever. -
Price soc, at all dealers Don t sim
ply ask for n kidney remedy-get
Doau's Kidney Pills-thc same that
Mrs Benson had. Foster Milburn Co.
Props, Buffalo n. Y.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-02
NEUTRALS SUPPLY
FATE FOR GERMANY
Exports from This Country Alone Make
This Situation Possible,
tbs Said

WASHINGTON, July , Germany i
obtaining hundreds of thousands of tons of
foodstuffs annually, enough to supply its
entire army on the west front. from Hol-
land and Scandinavian countries and the
exports from the United States, which
reach those neutral nations, alone make
this situation possible, according to a
statement obtained today from an official
source.
The assertions contained in the state
mcnt are based on figures obtained by the
British Government after careful invest ga
CATION and which arc published for the
first time One of these is that fats sutli-
cicnt in quantity to supply the rations
100000 soldiers, practically the entire
army of electives in Germany, are now
going into that country.
The figures viii be placed at the dis
posal of the Exports Council, created re-
Gently by executive order, which will de
tclminc shortly the policy of the United
States in its commercial relations with
the neutrals. They will he used as an an
gument for a tighter camping on OF the
lid than some had favored
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-02

81 wears Arduous service, notably as
head of the department of justice during
the antitrust campaign of the Roosevelt
administration, and then four years on
the supreme court bench, during which
he was remarkably active, resulted in a
nervous collapse, which, with a severe
attack of rheumatism, developed pro-
longed illness.
He had represented a Massachusetts
district in congress for seven years prior
to 1902, when President Roosevelt,
struck with Mr.. Moody's Yankee vigor
and ability, made him secretary of the
navy, succeeding John d. Long. He was
the youngest member of the cabinet at
the time, but two years later. when
President Roosevelt transferred him to
the post of attorney general, he made
himself known throughout the country.
Under his supervision the antitrust cam
paign of the Roosevelt administration
was mapped out The proceedings to
dissolve the Standard oil corporation was
largely evolved by him, and it was under
his direction that the bill asking for its
dissolution was filed in the federal courts
of Missouri late in 1906. 1t was said he
also took an active part in preparing the
proceedings for the dissolution of the
so-caled tobacco trust, but before tn,
bill was filed Mr.. Moody left the de
partment.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-02
Germans in America.

The total number of German born in
the United States is 2,50l 1888 If Austria
Hungary is included the total is increased
to All ,9l5
The natives of Germany and Austria
Hungary comprises31 per cent of the total
foreign population of the country and less
than per cent of the total
New York has the greatest German pop
ulation of any state in the union. The to-
tai IS 463,1D The German population Of
New York city is only II per cent of it's
foreign population.
The half of Cincinnats citizens were
bonn in Germany. The other centers in
the order of their population of the Ger
man vote are as follows: Baltimore, Buff
falo, Chicago, Detroit, Jersey City. Los
Angeles, Milwaukee, Newark, st. Louis
and San Francisco
In its proportion of Germans, Wiscon-
sin leads. Minnesota second Syracuse
Post Standard
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-02
H0ME-PLANNING IN COUNTRY
Whole Farm Layout Should Be
Sketched and Studied Before Any
Buildings Are Erected.

Put the house, if possible, on an emf
hence, or rise, facing east or SOUTH
with gentle slope away from the
front. Don't build too near the road,
nor yet too far back-150 to $50 feet
will generally be about right.
Don't, don't ever put the barn and
lot buildings in front of the house.
The only logical place for these is in
the rear and hidden. if practicable,
by trees, vines and shrubbery.
Before building, give study and
time to planning the whole farm lay
out, Progressive Farmer advises.
Doing this may save many later re-
grets. Take paper and pencil, and,
with the aid of the family, sketch the
grounds as they should be when the
building and planting scheme is COM
pleted. 1t may and probably will be
years before all details Of building
and planting are completed, but then
there will be harmonious, pleasing
whole. Aim at an ideal and come as
! near reaching it as possible.
AS never before, convenience and
simple dignity are the aims of house.
building. A compact, well-arranged
plan saves steps for the housewife and
likewise building materials.
Put in plumbing and wiring as the
house is built. Every live, hustling
| farmer these days should aim at moth
( ing less than waterwOrkS, a sewage
disposal system and electric lights, or
at least an acetylene lighting system.
Make the farm home fit its surround
ings; the country is no place for osten-
tatiOus show. Multitudes of gables.
bay windows and vivid-tinted paints
jar especially in country houses, be-
cause they give an air of artificiality
among natures harmonies of coloring
Have an open grass lawn. How
ever well designed and built a house
may be, if it has no green lawn in
front 1t is incomplete. Make the lawn
open and free from shrubs or flowers
except at the borders.
Frame the whole picture with flow
ering shrubs and trees. Directly If
front of and near the house Is no place
for trees, however beautiful they may
be; rather place them at the side ant
toward the back, bordering them wifi
Towering shrubs like the Grape myrtle
and these, in turn, with banks of the
easily grown Towering ANNALS like
zinnias and saliva.
Put vines, preferably q hardy ever
green like the English ivy, over un
slightly fences, stumps and walls.
Make stately, cool avenues of TIL,
hot, dusty lanes by bordering then
with pecan trees.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-02
Dishes From the Indians.

The early American colonists adopt
ed certain dishes from the Indians.
among them samp, which is coming
into popularity once again today. Roger
Williams is credited with having de-
scribed this as Indian corn beaten and
bolted and eaten hot or cold with milk
or butter "Hominy" was the term
applied to maize boiled with alkali,
which removed the outer skin of the
grain, leaving the inner part soft and
good to eat. "Hoe cake" popular with
the negroes of the South, is said to
have been adopted from the Indians
who once inhabited that section Of the
United States.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-02
Senate Committee Concludes
DeliberatiOn on Measure
to Raise Revenue
TOTAL AMOUNT is
SOMEWHAT REDUCED
Sum it Will Raise is S1,652, 10000 In
stead of $1,000, Oo0,0 900 - Will be Re.
ported to the Senate Early This Week
Profit Tax Raised.

WASHINGTON, July 2-Revison OF
the $500, 100000 war tax bill. passed
10y the house five weeks ago, has been
completed by the senate finance commit.
tee. The measure virtually was rewritten
and reduced to 81 $50, 10000, with no au-
thorzation of additional bonds. The final
draft was sent to the printer last night
and will be reported to the senate by
Chairman Simmons early this week.
Incomes and excess profits will bear
about two-thirds of the new tax burdens
under the revised bills about a haIf-bil
lion dollars each-with large share of
the remainder secured from liquor and
tobacco Many house taxes were entirely
eliminated by the committee and others
added
Radical increase of taxes on war excess
profits OF corporations, partnerships and
individuals, decided upon yesterday, en-
abled the committee to dispense with the
suggestion made Of additional bond issues
of from $j00000,000 to 81 900 900 900. Sen
! ator Stone withdrew an amendment for
a S50OO00,00O issue While the bill falls
short 10y about $500 OO0, 600 of meeting the
/ treasury estimates Of war expenses next
year, the committee decided that hy is
suing $l35, 100000 of authorized, but UNI
sold Panama canal bonds the expenses
can be met until congress reconvcnes in
| December
/ As finally drafted the much debated
publishers tax section proposes a } pei
cent tax upon publishers profits over
$1,000, yielding S7,5OO,0oO revenue and ar
increase OF quarter of a cent a pound
in second class postage rates, yielding
| $300O.OOO
i Excess profits due To the war under the
revised bill would bear $40 900 600 il
taxes graduated from - to 40 per cent
according TO the proportion of excess
This is an increase of $505, 100000 over
such taxes under the present law, o
which repeal is proposed and S30O, 900,
600 more than was proposed by the hous
bill.
From income taxes So, 100000 woul,
| be raised $G6,000,000 less than the hous
provided the decrease being made en-
| trely upon incomes of $4,000 annual
and above with the committee approvin
| the house plan of lowering income tax eX
| cmptions to 1000 for single persons
$4,000 for married persons. additional MOI
| NAL taxes OF two per cent upon income
| up to $1,000 and surtaXes graduated fror
| one TO 80 per cent upon larger incomes
| The committee also changed the plan q
| collecting income taxes from that 4
| collection at the source" to "iniorma
tion at the sourv" to accomplish direc
payment
In greatly increasing the tax levy o
excess profits. the committee also pro
vdcd for such taxation on corporation
undisttibutcd surplus. That earned j
1917 will I've allowed 4 general tax e,
cmpton al ~ per cent and that earue
prior thereto would he taxed, when dis
tibutcd. according to the revenue rate
existing in the year when earned.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-02
WIN. II. MOODY DEAD.
Ex-Sccrctary of Navy, Supreme Court
Justice, Attorney General.

HANERHllL, Mass, July Will
liam ii. Moody, former associate Justice
OF the United States supreme court, died
at his home here at | a. m today.
The condition of the former Justice,
who, under President Roosevelt, filled
two cabinet positions, those of secretary
of the navy and attorney general had
long been considered hopeless. Iester
day he began to sink rapidly and telc
grams were sent to his most intimate
friends notifying them that death was
only a question of hours. For many
months disease which caused hard
ening of the joints made Judge Moody
a helpless invalid, but although unable
To move hand or foot during the last
stages of his illness, he retained almost
to the end the keenness of mind that
made him one of the prominent figures
in the public life of his country.
Illness forced William Henry Moody
retirement as associate Justice of the su-
prcmc court Of the United States il
1910, at the comparatively early age OF