davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-15
FOOD OUTLOOK
IN ENGLAND
Plenty of Imported Supplies, But
Home Grown Products Scarce.
Continue Government Control.

YORK, Eng, Sept. III Corresponds
ence of The Associated Press .-Abund-
ance of imported meat, bacon, cheese,
margarine, rice, tea, sugar and apples
is assured the people of Great Britain
the coming winter by the authorities,
meat, butter and dried fruits, it is said,
will be scarce and costly.
Meanwhile the government food con-
troll will continue in order that rich and
poor alike may share in the available
supplies Nothing like the hardships en-
dured the last two years of the war is
anticipated because the government SUI
pervision and distribution will not be
so rigorous as when Haig's army had
its "back to the wall. -
The expense of feeding and fattening
cattle is the factor that will make
home grown meat scarce. Hay and oat
crops are abnormally short, and root
yields in some parts of the country are
almost failure. Cattle cake, which
will have to be used more freely, is more
| expensive than last year.
| The same considerations apply TO
| milk. The price for August was fixed
at IS cents per gallon to the dairyman,
| and for September at 75 cents Last
winter it was 90 cents a quart, but
| higher prices are expected the coming
| winter.
| There is plenty of tea in the country.
hut transportation systems are so out
of joint, dealers say, it will cost more
to handle and distribute it. Bacon
prices are rising in America, which
makes the British price. Port and dock
delays, due to strikes and the general
apathy of labor, contribute to higher
prices.
Nobody is worrying about sugar
except as to price. The sugar commis-
sion has been very active in the gen
eral market, and has obtained enough
to last the country until the end of the
year at prices which, it is declared are
a little below the average of Europe,
but, of course, much higher than the
American price. If the commission had
to go into the market now it would be
compelled to pay as much for sugar as
the present retail price. and as it will
likely have to do that early next year
the consumer expects to pay more.
Apples are high and scarce the con
trolled price being IS cents a pound
1t is expected, however, that the fine
crop here in England will serve to re.
duce this price materially before the
winter comes.
Bakers and the government expect ar
increase in the cost of bread. There are
abundant wheat supplies in Australia
and the Argentine, but the scarcity
OF shipping makes immediate delivery
impossible. SO England must depend
on the United States and Canada which
the authorities say, means costliel
loayes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-15
KANSAS FARMERS
USE ELECTRICITY
Doing Their Threshing With
Electrically Driven
Machinery
GREAT COST SAVING
is EFFECTED
Motor Comparatively Owned In Some
Communications Electric Company
Furnishes $50 Farmers With Power
Shorter Days Add to Expense.

TOPEKA, Kans, Sept. 15.-Kansas
has put electricity to work on its har-
vest this year. The motor has taken
the place of the gasoline or oil engine,
or even of the old coal burning affair
that was a constant threat of fiery de-
structon in the fields. This is the di-
rect result of the rapid extension of
electric transmission lines to the farms
of the wheat belt. One company serves
over $50 farms, each of which has cur
rent for lighting, cooking and power
for all farm grinding, etc. For 5000
a farmstead can be equipped, and the
cost of operation averages SO to So a
month. The farmer lights his house,
barn and garage, pumps water, grinds
feed and charges his motorcar battery
for less than the city dweller pays for
his house service alone.
Now he has hitched on the thresh-
ing machine. In some communities CO.
operative groups of farmers own their
motor and 'change work" with one
another, getting their task done with
remarkable cheapness. Seventy per
cent of the threshing machines sold
y
able for the single farm. The trans
mission line that reaches across coun-
try to carry current for the little towns
one company furnishes il to 50 towns
and another to 26-is available for all
The farms along the line With 1,0O0-
600 acres of wheat which had to be
cut during the summer, involving 150.-
600 men TO be kept busy in the fields
at so to 60 cents an hour land
found, - it is manifest that saving of
cost in threshing is an important fac
| tor.
From the central power station is
sent transformer wagon and half
mile to a mile of cable, with an attend
ant. The cost for the equipment is a
dollar an hour. The wagon is stopped
on the highway, the connection is made
with the transmission line, the cable
is stretched away into the field where
The threshing machine is set and the
motor attached Then it is but mat
ter of connecting the motor with the
machine by a long belt, the turning of
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-15

a switch and the work of changing the
bundles into straw and wheat com
mences.
Last year threshing alone cost the
farmer at least 20 cents bushel The
thresher who furnished an engine,
three hands and the machine got II to
10 cents bushel; the farmer had to
furnish the remainder of the hands and
board the whole crew. This year it
cost more. with common laborers get
ting 80 cents an hour, or S. a day; the
shocker and the feeder at a machine
90 cents an hour. There has been no
working :" from sun up to sun down.
either-10 hours only and extra for
overtime. The farmer who got his
threshing for less than % cents a bu-
shell has done well.
Cooperative associations of farmers
are buying small separators and own
their motor, paying only for the cur
rent But these are few. The farmer
within reach of a transmission line can
hire the use of the motor and an at
tendant for ST. an hour. Then he pays
for the current. The experiments made
last season for the first time with %
farmers showed cost of % to A.
cents a bushel for this service. In ad-
dition tie farmer must furnish the
men at the machine. If only the pow
er is furnished by an engine it costs
five to six cents a bushel. The saw
ing by the motor threshing is at least
five cents bushel. Where 5000 to
10000 bushels are harvested, it means
a considerable sum. The elimination
of danger from fire is an asset which
appeals strongly to the farmer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-15
LANDGROVE.

Several are attending the fair at Man
chester this week.
School began Tuesday with Miss Irma
Coolidge as teacher.
Mr.. and Mrs McKeown returned to
New York city Sept. 4.
Miss Florence Pepper returned to her
home in Maiden last week.
Mr.. H. Smith and son, Marvin, Mr. and
Mrs. A. A. Towslee, Harry Nelson and
Mrs J. f. Thomson attended Rutland
fair last week
Rev and Mrs. Elmer f. Reynolds Of
Cocoanut Grove, Fla, and Mr.. and Mrs
Horace DeLue and son, Ellworth, Of Cliff
tondale, Mass, are guests at j. f. Thorn
sons. Mr. and Mrs. j. Z. Thomson and
Mrs. Susan Thomson went to Boston to
get the party by automobile Sept. 4, re-
turning Sept 8. Mrs. Susan Thomson
is in her SD year and enjoyed and en-
dured the trip as well as any Of the party.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-15
Everyone Should
Drink Hot Water
in the Morning
Wash away all the stomach, liver,
and bowel poisons before
breakfast.

TO feel your best day in and day out,
to feel clean inside; no sour bile to
coat your tongue and sicken your
breath or dull your head; no constipa
tion, bilious attacks, sick headache,
colds, rheumatism or gassy, acid stom
aeh, you must battle on the inside like
you battle outside. This is vastly more
important, because the skin pores do not
absorb impurities into the blood, while
the bowel pores do, says well-known
physician.
To keep these poisons and toxins
well flushed from the stomach, liver,
kidneys and bowels, drink before break
fast each day, glass of hot water
with a teaspoonful of limestone phos-
phate in it. This will cleanse, purify
and freshen the entire alimentary tract,
before putting more food into the
stomach.
Get n quarter pound of limestone
phosphate from your pharmacist. 1t
is inexpensive and almost tasteless, ex-
eept sourish twinge which is not I'M
pleasant. Drink phosphated hot water
every morning to rid your system of
these vile poisons and toxins; also to
prevent their formation.
To feel like young folks feel; like you
felt before your blood, nerves and mus
eles became saturated with an accumu-
lation of body poisons, begin this treat
ment and above all, keep it upl AS
soap and hot water act on the skin
cleansing, sweetening and purifying, sc
limestone phosphate and hot water be.
fore breakfast, act on stomach, liver
kidneys and bowels.-Adv.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
Fish Eat Other Fish.

When n Goldfish eats ii takes an oys-
ter in its mouth, cracks The shell, di-
gests the meat and elects the shell
Grabs crack the shells of their smaller
neighbors and suck out the meat. This
accounts for The mounds of shells
which are found beneath the waves
And, as further illustrating the con-
slant destruction going on in the
oceans depth it is said that if a ship
sinks at sea it will be eaten by he
fish with the exception of its metal
portions.
..'9IG suS!s 0odM Ior
u9Ao 10 AlUeIouoS oul lGdmBu MoU Su!
-.Mous Gq0Loul 'osEo u1!M suupuI po,L
W!M osLoAuoJ Bo!L9UuV u! oIdood JuoU
uonvomnluuIoo 10 suuom opEN
-plIOM u poepu! 9Ig GoU lgu punot
pun solnlSsp9!uQ oV4 'h9NInL G!ssnu
HIBlI 'pu.lu!I 'puuIod 'uopoMS puU
Avalon moIJ 'ooIudI uIoLJ 'soIsI usI
l!La 7ql 10 s4Lud liz uloJJ 9Idood Jeop
lu!M suS!s 40 p1sLoAuoo OAHU oM,
:sHus Ho!uuHl!LH G!podoloiouM ouL
o6en6ue7 qmnu pue 3eaQ
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

won't be blown in foolishly. AS for
education, I've had high school edu-
cation. My brother here,' pointing
at M. H., paid for my schooling for
a year"
Il made him go at an age when l
knew most boys wanted to get away"
interrupted the brother.
viii Repay Brother.
"And paid for my schooling" con-
tinued Eli Calmly which money
intend to pay back and with big
interest He won't regret having
helped me-"
New York paid close attention to
Perkins when he landed after the oil
came in on his place. They told the
story of how Perkins bought eighty
acres of land near Eastland, attempt
ed to farm on it and finally left in
disgust, to farm near Stomford for
two years; then how his lease at two
bits an acre began to net him 81 900
a day.
"They took moving pictures of me
hanging out washing on deck" Per-
kins laughed. "And the first newsie
l heard yelling in New York was sell
ing papers on the strength Of "All
about the millionaire COB"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
undeyeloped Country.

Lake st. John, at the head of the
picturesque Sagueliay river, has been
brought to the notice OF the ROYAL So
ciety of Arts by Prof. J. G. McLennan
as one of the best undeveloped power
sources in North America. 1t has an
area of about $50 square miles, drains
a basin of 10000 square miles, and is
315 feet above sea level. Three easily
developed power sites are capable of
yielding total Of 1,000,0o0 horse
power at tidewater, and many sites for
docks and industrial plants are avail
able on the river.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
ireland Still Medieval.

In Ireland we are still medieval,
and THAI, that how to live is more
important than how to get living.
When | was 4 young man II l an
nolrced that l intended next morning
at break Of day to start on some en-
terprise Of amusement, or it might be
Of high duty. the whole family would
get up to see me off, but if it were on
some matter of mere commercial gain,
/ would breakfast in the care of the
servants. 1t was thus through the
whole of Irish lfe.-John Butler
Yeats.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
Enlistment Period of "MiJliOn-
aire Cob" Doesn't Expire
Till December, 1921.
25c AN ACRE LEASE
BRINGS HIM WEALTH
Eli Perkins, Made Rich by Ranger
Oil Strike, Will Use Millions
In Religious
Work.

Fort Worth, Tex, Aug. Eli Per-
kins, the young Ranger Millionaire
Cob is all fed up on publicity. tie
said as much Monday when photo
graphers tried in vain to get a photo
OF him here. Reporters were indeed
fortunate to get an interview with a
young man whose oil income is now
more than 81 900 day from his one
eighth Royalty on his eighty-acre
place in Ranger, field, Eastland coun-
ty, but whose stipend as first-class
fireman on one of Uncle Sans trans
ports is $46.4O per month. And the
hard part of it appears to be that
Perkins has to continue being a sailor
until Dec. Ia, 1921, at "a nominal
wage because he enlisted in the Navy
Tor four years. He may get slight
increase over the $46.4o from the
government and the chances of re-
ceiving $4,000 a day from eight
other wells on his place as soon as
they come in are good. But with all
the money, Perkins can't get out Of
the Navy. So he's going to make
the best OF it by seeking service that
will take him to the Far East-over
to Hawaii, Japan and China.
Eager to Travel.
Il really haven't got any plans for
the future" Perkins said. He has
been spending couple of days with
his brother, M. n. Perkins, railroad
mail lcerk, who lives at 1911 Maddox
avenue. I've had eleven trips be-
tween the United States and France
I'd like to see Italy. I've already seen
some OF England because was sta
toned at Liverpool. But I'd much
rather see myself in civilian clothes
Then | could go where | wanted to-
Perkins left Monday for Denton
to visit a few days.
Perkins says he hasn't determined
whether he will seek further educa
tional advantages when he gets out
of the Navy, or whether he will take
up religious work.
"l'm inclined toward the religious
work" he said. Zone thing Pm sure
Of, and that is this--my money will
go where it will do the most good.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
LINN Railway Tunnel.

The longest railway tunnel on the
American continent is the Rogers
Pass tunnel on The Rocky Mountain
division of the Canadian Pacific line,
which is five miles in length and runs
under Mt. Macdonald, in the Selllirk
range, 1t was constructed at cost OF
more than $10000,000. Previous to its
being put through, the Hoosac tun-
mel on the F'itchburg division of the
Boston & Maine railroad, AZ miles in
length was the longest tunnel in
America
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
Woman's Erainiest Aqe.

est weight about the age of twenty
five, while in the case of Il man, this
does not occur until ten years later.
This explains the assertion that q
woman at the age of twcnty-one is in
better position to give a matured
judgment than a man at the same age.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
The Unknown Quantity.

When d thing like that happens Il
man does not know exactly where he
is or how he feels. Che largeness and
the slnallness of the world amaze him
the mystery of life bewilders him: he
Is confused in the presence of the I'M
known quantity. How he behaves,
what he says or does, depends entirely
upon instincts beyond his control. This
is what happened to Richard when he
heard the voice of Carola.-Henry
Van Dyke.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
HEN LOSES HEAD--14

HEN LOSES HEAD--l4 -
Little Rock, Aug. 2.-Ihe express
sion like chicken with it's head cue
off" is used to describe most any
kind Of Hurried mental or physical
agitation. Never is it used to des-
cribe what is stated--that is a chick
en- with it's head really cut off.
just how does a chicken with its
head cut off act?
A chicken with it's head cut off acts
just like any other chicken when it
has got used to having it's head cut
off, the Arkansas Gazette says, and
then goes on to prove it.
j. X. Jones, 500 1-2 East Markham
street has hen which has not enjoyed
the use of head, nor has it hau a
head, for some seven months. Mr.
Jones got his hen at Monticello, when
the original owner, William Courtney
got tired of hand feeding her.
The hen, whose named is now
Dempsey, following brief period in
which it's name was Jessie Willard
lost it's head when Mr.. Courtney took
shot at chicken thief, and missing
the thief, blew the entire top, bottom
and sides off the hen with his gun
The next morning, Mrs. Courtney
practiced some home surgery on the
fowl, and according to reports from
Mrs. Jones, Dempsey has laid three
eggs since her accident. The eggs she
says are perfectly normal ones.
Barring the fact that Dempsey is
entirely devoid of a head, or any por
ton thereof, she acts like any Other
hen excepting the fact that she cannot
cackle, and she has to have her foot
and water poured down her throat tht
end Of which healed entirely, but re
manned opened. This condition denies
Dempsey the pleasure of selecting hel
own food and she has to have hel
food poured into her. The operation is
somewhat similar to loading muzzle
loading rifle.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
When Tobacco Was Taboo.

In 163S-the Massachusetts general
court ordered. writer comments,
chat no man shall take any tobacco
within 20 poles nf any house, or so
near as may endangcr the same. ~
1T9S IN act was passed forbddlnS the
carrying Of fire through the streets eN-
cent in covered vessel, smoking, or
having in ones possession "any.lightcd
pipe or sngar" in the streets or on the
wharvns. The penalty was 81. Ii the
offender was in a ropeWaik, the pen
ally was from SIS to $780, This pro-
hibton Of 1913 was not repealed until
1880.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
Truth About Cats Ewes.

A cat can sec better in the dusk
than can human being because the
cats eyes are sensitive to ultraviolet
rays. It's pupils are capable of great
er expansion than those Of mans or
of almost any other animal, thus adj
hitting more light The cat uses it's
Whiskers for feelers in the dark. It's
surc-fOotc,ness is great help to it.
So it gets along better IN the dark
than most animals. The belief that it
can see by night with tiia same Dc
gree or clearncss as by day is, how
ever erroneous.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
steel and Iron.

Steel is kind of iron which can
easily be hammered out thin without
cracking and can be made extremely
hard by being heated and then cooled
quickly. IT is different from ordinary
iron because of the amount of carbon
i'm it, Wrought iron contains less car
bon thnn steel and so it cannot be
made so hard; cast iron contains more
md SO is brittle.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
Didn't Quite Understand.

Little John and his mother were
visiting at the minister's home one
day, when John picked up Testa-
ment from the table. The minister's
wife said: "You must not play with
that book, for it is Gods book" A
week later, While at the minister's
home again, he spied the book and
said: "Why doesn't God come and get
his book?'
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
Oldest Living Thing.

The oldest living thing in the world
Is thought to be the famous cypress
In the churchyar,l of the village Of
Santa Maria del Tule, a few miles
from. Mexico city. Experts have esti-
matted it's age as between five and six
thousand years. 1t is said to have
been STRIPPING two hundred years old
when Cheops built the great pyramid.
Exchange.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
Guarded Natural Pcsources.

1.-THE Indians Of Kentucky" says DR..
Clark Wissler, "were in the habit Of
burning off forest areas regularly SO
rs to provide pasturage for the buffalo,
thus enticing him to remain in the
country" Again, the Indians living In
the regions where wild rice grows,
were observed to take certain precau-
facilitating their growth"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
So,onon's Fountain,

Water from King Solomons Sealed
Fountain seven miles from Jeru-
salem, is conveyed to the city through
modern iron pipes part of the way,
and the remainder Of tNe distance by
an ancient slnieeway known as Solo
mons aqueduct.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
As Usual.

The man who is always telling what
a perfectly lovely place he uced to
live in makes you wonder how he ever
came to leave such an Edcn.-Farm
Life.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

According to British scientists
there is nothing in the way of labora-
tory, optical or surgical glassware
or porcelain for merely the product
Of other nations that is not now being
made in Great Britain.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
Mutu.l Obligations.

"Husbands should be frank and tell
their wives everything.' says woman
writer. Yes. and wives should be gem
erous and believe it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
Aimoct Any Excuse Goes.

We break many Il promise to our
selves with excuses so weak that we
would be ashamed to offer them to
another.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

Tboro Surely
r,.n mere are ali i j
D ways Of ,f nIrInsinr,',l
ne' Take the -
Ill a member 'p Of the n
cit in England /, Il
to, to enable n, his feII N
lie the shamefpI' IA, N
cottage near by. ! h
s 8 that tune,
a {, mouth organ n
"lohs cracks in M
A Tey.s
that there is nn,s
power going to n
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03

,, When ss,t,,
ion IN 1T liza, on H ill.,
ne moon the ha, ss1'
all all vessels 1 and I.
e ea' In a % d., y
OF OF Boston vere p' y,
of of gaining a PIi,s''lIi
h NIGH ,hrousih,'rIti'l
, I. relief. and la'' I
n mead offered n, N
use Of their v1,n'
Nome tri-weekly nugget., 1919-04-23
DOiNGS OF THE
 JUNEAU LEGISLATURE
Special to The NuuuCt. ]

JUNEAU, April 22-Now that the first rush of business incident to the opening of the session has abated, the Territorial legislature is moving nor, business transacted is conducted at d much slower pace. Interest in both houses is centering largely in the Ter litorial steamship line proposal. Tn: latest development with respect to this plan indicates that the reprcsen- tatives have in no degree changed their opinion regarding the personnel of the managing board. The House M1ys and Means Committee has in- tiodrced u substitute for the steam- ship bill presented by Noon and eni- Il udyng the governors ideas regard ling .tEo personnel of the board. The House measure provides that the .Shippins Board shall be composed of the Gov ernor, the Territorial Treaaur- CT and Secretary Davidson. The shipping Board will have the general control of the proposed line and will name the Shipping Commissioner, who will have direct supervision.
 The measure empowers the Shipp- ing Board to run a steamship line or commence action to secure relief from excessive freight rates before the courts, the federal shipping Board or ,ile ntcrstate Commerce Commission. CT both. The attitude of the legislat CTS is indicated in interesting manner in the cutting out of provision in the original bil calling for compensa ton of three thousand dollars q year for tie Territorial Attorney Generals ser t. tees as counsel of the Shipping Board
 The Dunn Pennington eight hour i:ll passed the lower house by d vote jt II to , and is awaiting action by the Senate. Slishter end Davis wcrc the only two members voting against tho measure
Nome tri-weekly nugget., 1919-04-23

Special to The Nome Nugget by The Associated Press
TO ITALIAN CLAIM TO FIUME

 issued regarding Italian o 
 of Italy under any
 
  O The which haveb created
  O in development a Wilson
 
 
 is
  is inclined Plume nation to be of and Italy which gives Plume of Dana Italians
Nome tri-weekly nugget., 1919-04-23

GNDATE):Tle i ganl the cIo making wiling q may to
 
  0 may d any The of to of
  the Lea o Nat