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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-01
Nice, Indeed.

Infant Terrible Mrs. Nexdore said
fomething nice about you this after
loon, mamma
Mother indeed What did she say?
l. TT heard her tell caller that
there were worse old gossips than you
b town, after all.-Boston Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-01
Up Against II.

Up Against 1t.
Casey-Now. phwat would yez do in
case loike that?
Clancy-Loike phwat?
Casey The walkin' diligate tells me
to stroke an me ould woman orders
me to kape on wur-r kin Boston
Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-11-01
SPANISH Pie.

Soak one pint of beans over night.
Boil until soft in sailed water. Drain.
Put one pound of beef through meat
grinder. Put into frying pan u cup of
suet or tablespoons of drippings and
3 sliced onions. Stir in tablespoons
of flour, cups of boiled rice, 2 cups
stewed tomatoes, Mix everything to-
gether, season with salt and pepper,
add little water, cover the top with
bread crumbs and bake in slow oven
for two hours.
Squash a Ia Creole.
Pare Hubbard squash and cut in
small strips, or squares, at least u
inch thick Butter each piece gener-
ously. Place a layer in bottom of bak-
ing dish. Sprinkle literally with sugar
and sparingly with salt and pepper.
Repeat until dish is two-thirds full.
Cover with sweet milk and bake about
one hour in moderate oven.
Vegetable Chowder
One-half cup salt pork, cut in small
pieces and Drowned, or tablespoons
of drippings; | cup potatoes diced; l
cup carrots diced; ! cup turnips diced;
medium sized onion sliced cups
cooked beans; boiling water; ! table
spoon flour; Il cup cold water; ! Ia
blespoon butter cups hot milk salt
The Coconino sun., 1919-08-29

James Treagie, the heavyweight cattle buyer of Prescott, is in this city interviewing cattlemen on the quantity of cattle. M .Gr
 J. A. Dean, representing the Wilson Royalty Syndicate, of DeLeon, Tex, has been here for several days to inI terest investors in oil stock and leases.
 Alex. Johnston, city clerk, wires that he won't be back until the strike is settled. Looks like Alex was go- ing to take the train for it this time instead of driving back with his car.
 c. A. Fernald has been given charge of the shop work at the Flagstaff Garage by the owner, J. B. Gunter Mir. Fernald is an auto and electrical expert, of California, who has been in the business for the last twenty years.
 H. D. Tillman went so Phoenix last night in company with Mir. Arnold of Phoenix, state distributor of Rec mo- tor cars, and will return today or tomorrow driving a new Rec truck. The Tillman boys expect to get a lot of Rec cars by the middle of rext month.
 Harry Gray, of Bellemont, is. in town, gum.shoeing round, trying to find out when he can ship those nice lambs of his. He won't take his fam ily to Phoenix until the middle of next month, somewhat later than the time they usually select for going into winter quarters.
 l.. R. Borden, formerly manager of the hardware department for Babbitt Bros, at Kingman, and more recently at Oatman, is now clerking in Bab- bitt's hardware department here. Mrs. Borden, who is with her parents at Kingman, will join her husband as soon as he finds a house.
 The new flour mill owned by J. F. Wilson and J. c. Hester is completed, as far as the building is concerned, and a millwright is expected from Owensboro, Ky, within the next few days to assist in the installation of the machinery. There is every indi- cation that the mill will be ready for business well in advance of the com ing threshing season.
 Joe Waldbaus and Jack Mains went to Phoenix the other day, bringing back two new Oldsmobile cars. Joe sold an Oakland six to B. L. Hilburn secretary of the Royal Duke Refining Co.,. and an Overland to M. T. Piper.
 Gilbert Sykes, cousin of Harold Sykes, the tire surgeon, arrived here Monday for a short visit. Gilbert used to live here, but his present home is in Tucson. For the last seven years he has been in England. He was go- ing to school there at the outbreak of the war, during which he operated a wireless on one of the British naval vessels.
The Coconino sun., 1919-08-29

E. Lennon, manager of the furni- ture department at Babbitt's, bought an old Hopi drum at the reservation last week. It is a genuine antique, the cylinder made of cottonwood, and has a fine deep tone. The only other Hopi drum known to be in existence is owned by John Verkamp.
 Miss Grace Sparks, secretary of the Prescott Chamber of Commerce; Miss Jane Rider, of Tucson, and Nicholas Barrett, business man of Prescott, stopped at the Commercial Hotel on Wednesday night, after seevral days of sightseeing following the snake dance, and left Thursday for Grand Canyon.
 Mrs. Franklin Matthews, after two weeks visit with her father, s. B. Gill liland, and her son, John Matthews will leave for her home in Collar county, New Mexico tomorrow. Mrs. Matthews sees wonderful improve ment in Flagstaff since her last visit some six years ago, but she never hesitates to say good word for New Mexico. ,,---a.-...ss.--
 Our police force has been securing the city with a fine-tooth comb dur ing the last few days, trying to get line on the house thieves, but have had no success so far. Chief Neill picked up three navvies Wednesday, one deserter from the flagship Bir- mingham, and two suspected of being deserters from the battleship New Mexico. They had gotten this far east from Los Angeles. The man from the Birmingham had two years to serve. He was turned over to w. A. Duncan, the local, naval recruiting officer, who sent him back. The other two were allowed to go.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-15

this. It was spent in restaurants and bride one evening to Rector's, where he disbursed lavishly from a hefty bankroll. The next night he enter tained at the Palais Royal, after which he taxied her to Harlem again. On the day after that, he said, he had to leave her, because he must go to Atlantic City, where he had or dered his yacht Captain to report Then they were to cruise in the Good man craft.
 When after a week or so, he didn't show back in New York, his bride and her mother journeyed to Mel rose, Mass, and there they found the millionaire standing behind the block in a little butcher shop, deal ing out roasts, tenderloins and chops to the women shoppers of the village. His weekly salary -$12-was about half what he paid for single dinners and suppers for his bride on Broad 7Way.
 When the bride and her mother re- turned to New York they set about to have Miss Yvette released from the queer bondage. Some prominnt To- cal Eil1s heard of the case,-and Ser queer bondage. Some prominent To- Broadway, who is also a member of l the order. took the matter up. He entered suit for annulment and the girl told her story several months ago to Justice CohaIan.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-15
PARK STREET CHURCH.

A special service for Holy Week will be held at Park Street Congrega- tional church, corner of Barnum ave nue and Park street, this evening at o'clock. The sixth illustrated lec- ture on the Tiff eof Christi will be given, covering the events of his last three months and leading up to the week of the Passion. This will in- clude many of the Wonderful Stories. The address will be illustrated by stereopticon pictures of many of the remarkable paintings of Jesus Life.
 Miss Norma L. Weber will sing. She will repeat by request Tell Me the Stories of Jesus" and will also sing Whittier's Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" Lord, I Am Coming Home" ond the old Gospel hymn, What Means This Eager, Anxious Throng."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-15
Manicure In Elks
 Club Welded To
 Bogus Millionaire

New York, April 15.-Over her manicure table in the barber shop of the Elks club in West 43d Street, where lonely travelling men by the thousand stop to have their nails doll ed up, Miss Yvette Davison, pretty, piquant and bobbed-haired, used to receive an average of about four or five proposals of marriage every week. She heard a couple of hun dred, at least, she says, before fin ally she accepted one.
 For a brief time, she was Mrs. Samuel Goodman (though a wife in name only, it is generally conceded) But now sine is Miss Davison again, thanks to 2 decree Of annulment, siS-od Saturday by Justice Coha1an, and sine says she is going to remain just that, Manicure table talk is to be confined to nails, buffers, cuticle, shining paste and the spring weather.
 On July '. 1918 there arrived at the Elks Club here visiting broth CT named Samuel Goodman, whose card of membership showed him to belong to 6. lodge in the little town of Melrose, Mass. He patronized the small, brunette Miss Davison, who then was 19 years old, and let slir a few bits of information about him. self and his financial standing.
 He was a millionaire, he said, while the pink stuff was smeared over his finger tips. He had a yacht, two limousines, a mansion in Boston (Mel- rose was only his country home)- and he was a bachelor of an age, 28 just about suitable for settling down So rapidly did he work that before the end of July ' he had won Miss Davison's consent to share his man.
 
 were married at Borough Hall, Brook lyn, by an Alderman.
 The honeymoon was most unusua every one interested agrees or
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-15

plums. In using this spray the great est care should be taken to follow .di- rections in every detail. A small bu. efficient spraying outfit should be part of the equipment of every homs rlace.
 Of course fruit trees cannot be expected to produce good crops un- less they are we'll fed. Several hand fuls of a good high grade fertilizer should be forked into the ground around each tree early in the spring. In addition to this half & handful of nitrate of soda should be applied, re- beating this two or three times at intervals of two or three weeks. This will give a wonderfully vigorous growth and dark green color to tho foliage which will be a surprise to any one who has merely left the trees to take more or less care or themselves in the past
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-15

siderationsr Exactly so; but sucl advice must be made definite in order that the lazy and inefficient may not job.
 Tt is true that if every factory in the United States should make noth- ing but collar buttons we would soon have more collar buttons than could be disposed of and the same thing Is true of farming. Do not be misled- every farmer must produce all of the corn, oats, hay, forage, wheat, strup, Irish and sweet potatoes, vegetables, milk, butter, fruit and all other prod ucts of the soil first, to properly nour- ish his own household, and, second, to feed the outside world.
 Distribution Usually to Blame.
 "The trouble is not usually in over production. Distribution is to blame for most of the trouble, although of course there is always the danger that too many farmers will -manufac' ture collar buttons, so to speak, when they ought to be balancing the world s ration.
 'The bureau of markets has under taken this probIem-that Is, to advise so far as possible what to grow, but the farmer Is doing as he always has done. If the price of potatoes is high in the fall he grows potatoes until he gluts the market. Next year he grows no potatoes, and the third year DO tatoes are high again. The wise man does not attempt to keep all of his eggs in one basket.
 "The farm is a factory and the same advice is given to farmers thai has been adopted by other man ufacturers You can't make a profit unless you know your costs. Stand ardize your products
 "No market scheme, whether of co operation or legislation, can long maintain a superior price for an in ferior commodity. Farmers should first maintain i themselves and family and labor or their own farms; and this applies tc cotton in the South and to wheat ir the North. I have no patience with E pile of tin cans at the back door oi the farmhouse"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-15

National Crop Improvement Service.l IA MANY theorists who are old I'VE enough to know better are ad-
 vocating that a man who pro- duces all that he can on his farm is foolish, because they have noted at various times that small crops have sold for more money in the aggregate than larger crops.
 Suppose in a crop-failure year that corn should go to $10 a bushel? If you have no corn what good would that do you? Would it be better for a few farmers who have corn to make big money out of the farmers In the crop-failure section and others who have no corn?
 Suppose every man should cut down his acreage of cotton to boost the price. Would the man with the smallest amount of cotton get rich Nobody asks you to grow cotton at a loss; there are hundreds of things that can be successfully grown at 8 profit. Why be slave to cotton? But when you do grow cotton. grow on each acre all you can profitably pro duce. In order to do this you will have to know the cost of fertilizer, labor, etc. Then 1t is a matter of arithmetic.
 There are planters who make money year after year in cotton. They can make money often when you can't Whose fault Is 1t? Many fail in bust ness-farming as well as merchandis- ing. If you can't make it pay-ge' out of It.
 Make Every Acre Work ProftabIy.
 'The principle involved is the same as in manufa curing. The student o1 economics knows that if a plant is not used to Its full capacity there is Q consequent loss in the return on the investment The same is true on ar acre of land" said Mir. Frank Baackes vice-president of the American Stee & Wire company, when asked about the cotton situation. "In the pres: service of one of our middle states colleges, the dean says, None of oul instructors are teaching the farmer that 1t is either his duty or to hi: greater advantage under peace condi lions to secure a maximum produc ton regardless of other economic con
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-15
COMPENSATION
 AWARDS APPROVED

Comensation Commissioner F. T. Buckingham has approved of the Agreements made between Henry Wylie of Kings Highway and Handy & Harmon Go. of $14 a week, while lncapacitated, for injury to wrist William Santas Serio, of Stamford, and Yale & Towne of $13.84 a week for 1O4 weeks for 10 per cent, loss of vision of left eye. ". Csvankowsky of 64 Laurel street and Crane Go. for maximum compensation while inca pacitated by injury to toes.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-15

Lowell, Mass. will soon have two clubs within its boundaries. At pres ent F. M. Moore is operating the Crescent A. c. there, but reliable in formation received here today has 1t that another club is soon to open its doors there. Bob Paridice will prob ably head the new club.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-15

ard. This gentleman represents Cum berland, one of the most prosperous and best sporting towns in America. It is only five hours ride from here, but believe me it is some lively town and the residents ard officials there want the championship bout between Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey. And 1'u bet the world that that's where the bout will be staged.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-15

trade acceptances, have made the hnanc1ng of shipments to and from the Argentine much easier and given the American manufacturer an op- portu31lty to grant necessary credits to compete with otEz9 countries. Ar gentina, like all new countries, re. Quires long credits.
 American concernS gre esta b1ish- ing their own branch rc-ses or direct agencies in ArgentI~ to conduct their sales. WithiE -o last two years, progress in thls direction has been great, but it is expected that
 when the companies in the United States now being organized under the Webb Law are established in foreign countries, large increase in their number will be noted. Large Argeu- tine concerns, many of them control
 led by European capital, are 1ocat- ing permanent buyers in the United States."-
 Turning from the optimistic side of the development of American trade in the Argentine, MT. Barrett pointed out 8 few things which will be ne cessary if manufacturers in the ] United States are to continue to oc- cupy an important part in this l market.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-15
HUNS GET IRON GROSS.

Coblenz, April 14.-1ron crosses are still being awarded to German sol diers in various parts of the country, Newspapers in the American occupied areas as well as those published ir unoccupied Germany every few days carry notices to the effect that word had been received from the war min istry that a soldier has been award ed the iron cross for some act of gal. lantry during the war.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-15

First he said, The United States must be placed on a parity with Eu- ropean nations in the matter of ship ping and freight rates. Now that the war is over there is a tendency to re- vert to old conditions. Establish ment of regular lines of steamers. both for freight and passengers, be- tween the United States and the River Plate Is most essential.
 "Manufac cturers in the United States must train young men for for eign service and give them sufficient inducements to live permanently in foreign countries. One of the most discouraging features of our overseas trade is the lack of competent men to fill important positions abroad.
 Some plan must be adopted by which the foreign buyer may be pro- tected against the unreliable or un- scruPulous commission merchant or manufacturer Nothing has so harm ed American trade during the past few years as the action of some con- cerns, who have failed to comply with their contracts and in some instances defrauded their clients. Perhaps the licensing of firms by the Federal Trade Commission to do an export business and the extension of the Commissions Jurisdiction over their actions would be a remedy for this difficulty.
 Finally" said MT. Barrett, Ameri- can capital must be more freely in vested in South American securities of proved worth
 NO single factor,' he said, "has been more responsible for the inn portant part that Great Britain has taken in supplying Argentina with raw material and manufactured pro- ducts than the very large investment of British capital in Argentine rail- ways and industrial enterprises
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-15

Advertise in The Times
The sun., 1919-09-14

Bessie's arm slightly.) Heyp
These few instances will, / think, make
it sufficiently clear that Conrad knows the
difference between dramatic and narrative
dialogue Merely to recognize that there
is a difference is much; Conrad Las, how
ever, not only written dramatic dialogue,
he has altered his own narrative dialogue
to fit into the scheme of play, doubly
difficult process.
And now as to dramatic structure.
Conrad is not one of those who stand in
awe Of the esoteric group Of dramatists
and critics who declare that dramatic tech
nique is secret process whereby life may
be turned into well made plays. He knows
that there is difference between the story
and the one act play, but that the differ
ence is by no means antipodal. To-mor-
rop needed very little adapting to become
one act drama, and that adapting has
been done skilfully.
1t is in the climax Of the story-both as
tale and as a play-that Conrad's
methods become clearest. Let us compare
this climax step for step. The returned
son Harry learns that the old captain in
tends him to marry Bessie. l quote from
the play:
HARRY (slo0ly). So it's you-the girl.
It's you'll Now 1 begin to see.
BY heavens, you have heart as soft as
your woman's voice.
BESSIE (half auerted, face in hands,.
You see! Don't come near me.
HARRY (n,akes a step tosOard her).
I must have another look at your pale
face.
Bessie turns unexpectedly and pushes
him Nth both hands; Harry staggers back
and stands staL)
BESSIE (fercey). Go away.
HARRY (patching herr. Directly. But
women always had to get me out of
my scrapes. l am beggar now, and you
must help me get out of my scrape
BESSIE (soho at the ,0ord "beggdr"
had begun fumbling in the pocket Of her
"eoo, oPeu"S WHutYj' lleIo IL IL. dho
it, Don't look at me- Don't speak to me 4!
HARRY (saodggers up under lamp; looks
at coin in his paim). Half quid. 4.
My fare.
BESSIE Glands clenched) Why are you
still here?
HARRY. Well, you are a fine figure
of girl. My word. I've good mind to
stop-for week.
BESSIE (pdin and shame). Oh! &.
What are you waiting fort If I had
more money l would give it all, all. 1
would give everything I have to make you
go-to make you forget you had ever
heard my voice and seen my face.
(CoperS face toith hands,.
HARRY (Sonsbre, matches her). No
fear! 1 haven't forgotten single one Of
you in the world. Some've give me more
than money. No matter. You can't
buy me in-and you can't buy yourself
out.
(Strides towdrd her. SEXES her arms.
Short struggle. Bessie gives t0dy. Hair
falls loose. He kisses her forehead, cheeks,
lips, then releases her. Bessie StaggerS
against raiIings.)
(ETt Harry; measured lcalk without
hdSte.)
And now turn to the story and compare
The sun., 1919-09-14
On Joseph Conrad's Adventure in Drama

the above stage directions with the nara.
tive, the end of which 1 quote:
"'You can't buy me in he said and
you can't buy yourself out
"He set his hat firmly with a little fan
and next moment she felt herself lifted
up in the powerful embrace of his arms
Her feet lost the ground; her head hung
back; he showered kisses on her face with
q silent and overmastering ardor, as if in
haste to get at her very soul He kissed
her pale cheeks, her hard forehead. her
heavy eyelids, her faded lips, and the
measured blows and signs of the rising
tide accompanied the Unfolding power Of
his arms, the overwhelming might of his
caresses. 1t was as if the sea breaking
down the wall protecting all the homes of
the town, had sent wave over her head.
1t passed on; she staggered backward.
with her shoulders against the wall. ex-
hausted, as if she had been stranded there
after storm and a shipwreck,
"She opened her eyes after awhile, and
listening to the firm, leisurely footsteps
going away with their conquest, began to
gather her skirts, staring all the time be-
fore her. Suddenly she darted through
the open gate into the dark and deserted
street.
"'Stop' she shouted. Don't gor"
The emotional pleasure we experience
from reading this scene cannot be felt
from reading the play; that must come
from superb reproduction of it by hv-
ing actor and actress. Actors must
recompense us for the loss of imprisoned
and stately prose. And yet, in its way
the dramatic way-the scene as written in
One Day More is as appropriate artist.
cally, and therefore as fine, as the CORE
spending scene in Tomorrow.
".
Joseph Conrad has proved his ability
to cope with the problems of the one act
form. He has turned one of his stories
into a play without losing particle Of
its essential beauty. Why should he not
now turn his hand to the full length
form? l can see no good reason why he
should not bring to the English stage
something of that strange beauty he has
brought to the English novel He need
not stoop to threadbare technique rs
practised by the Sutros and the Cartons;
there are other "outsiders" who have
written plays that will outlast the most
ambitious efforts of the professional play.
wrights.
The novelist Barrie, the poet Masefed
have given us plays that are richer in
poetry, humor and vital significance than
the best works Of Pinero; why, therefore,
may not the novelist Conrad, who has
carried us into the depths of the Malayan
jungles, to the mountain peaks of South
America and into the farthest stretches
of the high seas, develop his individually
fine dramatic instinct and write play
that will bear the whole impress of him
self
He has already advanced half way to
meet the drama; let him now make the
drama come to him and let him shape it
in his own image.
NIELL, who is going to write the
W Carnegie biography We vote
for Burton j. Hendrick, solely because
of his book, The Age Of Big Business, in
the Yale University Press series Of books
called The Chronicles Of America
The sun., 1919-09-14

NIELL, who is going to write the
W Carnegie biography We vote
for Burton j. Hendrick, solely because
of his book, The Age Of Big Business, in
the Yale University Press series of books
called The Chronicles Of America.