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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-30

contrasted with the extravagance of those that she furnished for him. Some idea of her estimate of what was fit ting may be gained from the fact that at one of these feasts the Roman guests walked to the tables through roses strewn upon the floor to the depth of two feet And everyone is fla nliliar with the tale of Cleopatra melt ing in vinegar a pearl worth $375,00 and drinking the vinegar, the costliest drink that is recorded in history.
 The legend has grown up that Cleo patra was responsible for Antony's pro1igacy, but that is unwarranted. He drank heavily while in her com pany, but no more heavily than he had done at Rome. After he first separat- ed from her and was spending winter in Athens, Antony feasted and rioted just as ostentatiously as he had in Egypt. Nor did Antony desert his wife, Octavta, and fly to Cleopatra be- cause of his unquenchable passion for the beautiful Queen. Gug1ielmo Fer rero and other historians have pointed
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-30
'MALTREATING SOLDIERS

VX/ AR IS dirty and bloody business. It got its foun w dation in days much urglier than these. In the minds military students ideas themselves enthroned
 which belong to the stone the idea especially that reacts to bodily pain readily than to any other Hence have Hard Boied Smith, with his backackng sergeans beating and killing soldiers, detained prison farms for comparatively trivial oenses against military law.
 It will shown, before the investigation which Congress making that the barbares pracced against sol
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-30
KOLCHAK'S MEN
 NOW IN BERLIN

Berlin, Tuesday. July 29.--(By A. P ) --Representatives of Admiral IIol- chak. head of the all Russian govern nent at Omsk, have arrived in Berlin 10 protect the interests of Bolshevik Russians.
 The so-caIled Russian committee is r-t to be regarded as an exactly dip lomatic mission, but the German min ister of the interior is cooperating with the Coa1nlittee with regard to paSSnOrtS for Russian citizens
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-30

ders committed by the deliberate superior of fices and that these but following radon the ad ton that soldier is found breaking soldiers law he must be badly hurt in mind and body that will not do the thing again.
 The atrocities not the individual of particular officers the habual mil- tary system
 Of thing in America may be The revelations prison farms" impossible will for universal military training American dough boy fought will system fastened upon America.
 Hard Boiled" Smith is a token before Congress, to show West Point military is going to have hard seddng when seeks legislation, during
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-30

|~ HE SEQUOYAH CLUB an interesting and influential
 ganzation is credited with the purpose admit to it's membership only bona de Democrats This proper for private organization is judge of who it will admit to membership But how bonade Democrats to be from others? What bona fide Democrat bona fide Democrats? Them is hard questions ington would say.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
DARIUS REDIXINUs!

1t was many and many a year ago,
When a lad named Green said, II
Am bird, l be. an I'd hev yew know,
BY jing, I'm agoin' to fly"
And Darius vowed he'd show 'em all
Or he'd know the reason why.
So he built him wings and a steering tail
And harness Of rope and yarn.
And he hitched him up and set out to sail
From the peak Of his old Pops barn.
Here goes" said he, and he tapped his
wings
But the ding thing burst, by darn!
He fell 'stcen feet and he cracked his
bean
And busted an arm and limb.
For the wings shut up with the tail
between.
And it pretty nigh doused his glim
Twas blame mean trick. and it played
Old nick
With his flying machine and him.
Well Darius, he died and went to the
Styx,
But he never did mean to stay.
For Old man Charon taught him the
tricks
And he flew right back this way;
| And he's going along on that ocean
flight
And maybe he'll start to-day
Now, II he does. it will be to smile:
| For he'll lead 'em a race sublime.
And he's got old Phoebus beaten a mil,
When 1t comes to a skyline climb.
So here's to Darius-and III bet my pill,
| He wins all the dough this time,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
vERMONTs NEW JUDGE

Representative r. L. Webster, of Swan
superior Judge made by Governor Glenn
ent, as a result of the various changes on
the bench following the resignation. as
already announced appointed the Hon.
H. B. Chase Of Brattleboro to the va
cancy. In this connection the Brattleboro
Reformer says:
1.-THE Reformer extends It's congratula-
tons to Judge Harrie B. Chase and wishes
him a long and successful career on the
Vermont bench. To be appointed superior
Judge at the age of @ is an honor Of which
Mr.. Chase has every reason to be ex-
tremely proud, and it is credit to Cover
nor Clement that he has given the office
to man with the best years of his life
ahead instead Of to one on the verge of re-
tirement. Friends Of Judge Chase have
no doubt as to his ability: as to his youth
and lack of experience. those are things
that can be outgrown.
Judge Chase was born in Nottingham
in 1889. He was educated in the public
schools Of Nottingham and Wilmington
high school. After graduation from Phil
Ups Exeter Academy he attended Dart
mouth College and later graduated from
the Boston University Law school. Judge
Chase was admitted to the bar in 1912. In
| that same year he married Miss Nina A.
Gilman and they have three children. He
has been actively engaged in the practice
Of law in partnership with Charles s
Chase of Brattleboro and has been town
grand juror
| The announcement that some men prefer
private practice to elevation to the bench
in Vermont. shows that conditions here
are not wholly unlike those prevailing ir
New York where Justice Shearn has JUS
resigned to resume a lucrative practice
Our Vermont judges are far from beinf
overpaid, and if present conditions con
tnue, We may yet have to revise ou
judicial salaries upward.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15

discussion will not be out of place this
off year. We would suggest one change
that would be a wise one to make. For
Illustration, Chittenden county has four
senator's; divide the county into districts.
allowing eight representatives, instead
of one from each town. The same rule
to apply to the other counties. This
would make a Senate Of thirty and
House of sixty members, a total of ninety
members, instead of N7 as at present.
The present House is too large to ac-
complish good results. 1t might, in truth.
be styled an expensive luxury. We IA
vor fiat sum as salary; say $500 and no
limit as to length Of session.
1.-THE cost Of our Legislatures has been
the subject Of much discussion. Change
the constitution SO as to reduce the
membership Of the House to sixty. the
State would save. based on the present
pay Of legislators. $74s each day. Does
the expenditure of that sum secure the
enactment Of laws that are worth the
price? Is It not possible for sixty men
to make just as good laws as A7 would
We believe sixty men would do better
work and in less time. The money saved
could be used to advantage in helping
build better highways or In securing un-
form text books for our schools. II a
g. 49,
be enacted. The matter Of changing ver-
mont's constitution TO comply with the
suggestions here made lie worthy Of care
full consideration by the taxpayers"
An argument in support of the present
representation Of one member from each
town in the House. that has not beer
brought out in this discussion is the fac
that the full representation of all on,
rural communities counts for safet,
against socialism and Bolshevism an,
all that sort of thing. The large center
of population in the United States hav
the I. w. w. and Kindred movements. 1,
| a rural State like Vermont we hav.
| heard nothing OF this sort of thing. I
it were to develop in connection witt
large industries like those of Rutland an
Burlington and Barre. the rural commu
mites represented in the Legislator
would soon take the legislative axe an
"knock the stuffing' out Of any such for
eign excresence. Whatever one ma
think about legislative economy and al
that. we find a gratifying sense of sc
curity in the knowledge that the Yer
mont Legislature as 1t now stands Wi
always be close to the people Of tn
State as a whole and never be dominate
by hotbeds Of socialism.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15

With Germany's submarines gone, her
navy reduced to mere toy fleet, her
army cut down to practically one per cent.
of what it was during the war. her colo
niles taken from her. Alsace and Lorraine,
with their Rhine bridges, in the hands of
the French the Kiel canal open to all
nations. many German forts on the from
tier razed, and a tremendous debt on her
shoulders, the proud people of the Rhine
land can hardly continue the singing of
the once popular Deutschland uber
allies" And yet,-the change must come
from within to be really affective. You
may wipe off the face "a earth the
land that is called Germany and relegate
its people to a desert island. If you have
not changed the heart Of the people, if
they are not penitent for their misdeeds.
the germ Of the evil idea is still there.
and it is the idea that is to blame for all
the trobule.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
INSECTS OF THE SEASON
VermOnter's Should Guard Against De-
predations Of IncOnspic,IOus Species

E. S. Brigham, Vermont commissioner
of agriculture. has sent out the following
article by Harold l.. Bailey, assistant in
charge of insect suppression.
This insect situation in the State at
the present period is somewhat remark
able for the comparative scarcity of GER
tain of the more notorious species such
as the tent caterpillar and the brown-taii
moth. with an almost Complementary
abundance of insects which generally
are inconspicuous in their work and
numbers. Also, the establishment in an
adjacent State of a highly destructive
corn insect demands earnest attention.
1t Is the purpose of this circular to set
forth the principal facts concerning
several of these pests which appear most
likely to attract attention this year.
EUROPEAN CORN BORER
(PTausta nubilalis Hubn)
This insect. accidentally imported from
the Old World, has been found in eastern
| Massachusetts and near Schenectady. N.
IT, Since II may easily have been con-
veyed in shipments Of green corn, there
is danger of it's appearance at any points
where such produce has been received
from the infested area within the past
Ave or six years,
| The damage is caused by the boring
and feeding of the larvae within the ears
and also by the cutting of of the tassel
stems, thereby preventing fertilization
Severest damage naturally occurs in the
| case of sweet corn of which entire fields
have been ruined in Massachusetts. Nc
effort must be spared to prevent the
spread of and to exterminate If possible
this menace to the foremost American
crop.
The adults are small moths with a wins
expanse of about an inch, the female
yellow and the male brown with vel
Ilowish markings, They appear about thu
first of June from corn-stalks, stubbl
and dry weeds within which the caterpil
lars have wintered and pupated. The!
soon deposit eggs in little white masse
upon the plants and from them the frs
| brood Of caterpillars matches within
! few days BY the middle of August mos
of these caterpllars attain their growth
. and transform into adults which deposi
, more eggs and thus produce a secon
> generation of young just at the RICH
} time to riddle the ears of corn as the
are filling out. 1t is these caterpillar
which live through the winter in the re
= fuse stalks and stems. When full grow
= they are about an inch long. of genera
= flesh color and smooth except for FEY
. short spines. The pupae into which the
transform within the plants are abol
4 half an inch long, slender and yellowis
z brown. Unfortunately this pest does M
g confine itself to corn but works In tn
Q stems of many weeds such az barn gras
= and pig weed. also in dahia and son
other cultivated plants.
s The only known means of control
r the complete burning of all stubble, r.
d fuse stalks and weeds during the wint'
Q or early spring. This practice should
i carried out everywhere, but especially
4 those towns where there are markets
hotels which may have imported gree
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
GERMANY AND THE LEAGUE OF Ma
TIONS

One of the developments that has
nection with the peace negotiations is
the demand of Germany that she be in
Guided in the League Of Nations. We
confess that. If we had started out to
persuade the nations Of the earth to
Join in a movement for a general agree
ment not to engage in war. we would
many. as one of the chief goals of such
a project.
Whatever we may say about the pros
poets or probabilities or even possibili
ties of the future, We must admit in our
hearts that if there is to be another war,
we feel that it will come from German
dissa satisfaction with the terms imposed
by the allies and America. If Germany
is willing to be bound by such an agree
ment as has been outlined in the COW
enant of the League of Nations. then we
would figure the contamination AS so
much clear gain for the future peace of
the world.
As regards membership in the league,
after including the signatorles and other
States invited to accede. the second sec
ton of the covenant provides that "a
new State. dominion or colony may be
admitted provided its admission is agreed
to by two-thirds Of the assembly,
The suggestion has been made that II
Germany and Russia and Japan are
forced to remain outside Of the league
we shall be in danger Of seeing rival
league formed. In such an event we
would have two great rival alliances, with
a struggle for the balance Of power OF
the whole world as before and the prac
tical certainty that sooner OF later there
would be another war between those
rival combinations of powers. In thi.
'Germany's demand that she should b,
included in the League of Nations is jus
and should be needed. If excluded at al
1t should be only until such time as ma,
Dt necessary IOr neT 10 eStdDilsH IL stdDl
government, with assurance of carrying
out in good faith the conditions imposed
upon her by the treaty Of peace. The pro
visions Of the League of Nations SHOULD
also clearly indicate that Russia shall b.
member when it also gives proof o
stability in government and a willing
ness to abide by the conditions of tn
league. With both Germany and Rus
STA excluded it requires no prophetic vi
sion to see that they will find or max
common cause for another and opposn
league that probably in less than a de
cade will again plunge the world int
war"
One would naturally suppose Franc
would profit from it's own experience 1
connection with the rape of A,sace- Lor
raine in 1871, but some Of its demand
now are well calculated to force Gel
many to another war of revenge late
on. If all the great nations can be draw
into the League of Nations now 1t shou
be done by all means.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
HEARD ON THE STREET
(By White River Junction Landmark
Mani


Mani
That conditions are now perfectly nor
NAL in Turkey, as the Turks are mas
sacring Armenans again.
That no wonder Congress is anxious to
begin work again with the baseball
season opening in Washington.
That prominent among the requisite
garden tools are a plentiful supply OF
rocks to throw at our neighbors' hens
That under daylight saving the sports
have got to get up and go to work by
clock time. but they stay up at night by
sun time.
That the latest is that the farmers are
going on strike for l2-hour day. but the
s-hour folks in the cities say there Is
nothing to arbitrate.
That instead of ordering a ship to take
him home President Wilson would nave
shown better judgment to have sent for
his summer clothes.
That it is proposed to relax on the col
lege entrance requirements. but good
southpaw and spitball pitchers have moi
been complaining much about them,
That In spite of the fact that invar1'
ably at this time of year the peach croI
is killed by the newspapers. some reck'
less and improvident people will continue
to plant peach trees.
| That the Kaiser. placed on trial. WI
give thrilling and heart-moving &C
count of how 1300OO,000 Teutons were at
tackled by 100000 Belgians and com
PEELED to fight against their will to saw
themselves
That 1t is said that those discontente'
fellows. the ministers. after spending
fifteen years educating themselves ar
goin to demand as much pay as IN
grammar school graduate who has learn
ed to drive a nail or lay n brick.
That the impression still prevail
among some employers that the homo
of sitting for half an hour in a stuffe
Office chair and smoking one of tn
boss 2-cent cigars, is a sufficient com
pensation to the soldier for the loss O
his lob
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15

negro private had spent long, tiresome
months in camp near New York and
wanted to go off on leave. He had a
pass. but not the password, and when
he came to the sentry the sentry refused
to let him GO. The negro pulled out his
little pass and offered it,
THAT isn't enough" said the sentry
you must have the word"
You mean that piece o paper won't
let me out?" demanded the darby.
Have to have the word
The negro reflected. then he pulled out
razor and began stroppng it on his
sleeve. Man" he said impressively, Il
gotta father in hell. mother in heaven,
an a girl in Harlem, an Use gwine see
one of EN- to night"-Everybody's Mag
azine.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
THE WILD MAN

I'll never forget the shock | received
when a sideshow lecturer concluded his
vivid description of the Wild Man Of
Borneo with HE speaks kind of glib
berish best understood by himself" The
lecturer then passed on the next at
traction" and the Wild Man leaned over
and whispered to me: slip us match
kid!"-Buffalo Express.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
STOLE HAY

A fine Of $500 and costs and a sentence
to the House Of Correction of not less
than four nor more than six months is
the punishment meted out to George H.
Hutchinson for stealing hay from the
barn belonging to Judge H. H. Blanch-
ard and w. L. Fairbanks of Springfield.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
When President Wilson returns this

When President Wilson returns this
month from putting up new fences and
overturning the soil Of the European gar
DEN plots, he mayf1nd that his own spring
gardening has been somewhat neglected
during his absence. and that numerous
weeds will have to be pulled and the
ground titled to a considerable extent be-
fore the particular brand Of Wilsonian
seed will bear fruit in the American soil.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
THE STORY TELLER
WE'LL KNOWN BRAND

Wisdom continues to come out of the
mouths of babes just as it did in Bib
lcal times A little five-year-old Buff
falo prodigy. when chded for repeating
a neighborhood story, replied: Honest.
mother, it's the gossip truth!"-Buffalo
News
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
THE WAY HE FELT

A neighbor boy Ave years old had
great many things thrown on the fioo|
and when told to pick them all III
he said;
IF ! keep this up | will he men
yous wreck when / am six."-San Franl
cisco Chronicle.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
WHERE DID HE GO?

On the first day of school In an Ohio
town the teacher of the first grade was
securing the names of her pupils.
She came to one youugster whose father
was noted for his profanity, and said:
What is your name?'
"Bobbie Hughes" was the reply.
do you know your a-b-c's?"
Hell. no: I've only been here Ave
minutes" was the astonishing answer
Everybody's Magazine
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
TO SELL MAPLE PRODUCTS

Herbert and Franklin Henricks' former,
~ of Hershey, Pa, have purchaseo Tue
W. w. Philbrick farm near North Shrews-
bury, and plan to make the sugar 10.
on the farm produce the utmost possible
In the way of maple sweets
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
DROVE NAIL IN HAND

Harry Loomis of Hydeville, although
not blacksmith, does some times set a
shoe. The other day he was setting shoe
and at the first nail he drove the horse
tried to take it's foot away, with the re-
suit that Mr.. Loomis put nearly an inch
of the nail into his hand near the thumb
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
THE STATE
MACHINIsTs GO BACK TO WORK

After being out for 10 days, the strike
of the machinists employed at the Trow
& Holden plant and at the Smith, Whit
comb & Cook plant in Barre has been
settled by agreement of employers and
employees to a new bill. Under the new
agreement the men are granted an
eight-hour day and an advance In
wages over the previous scale. The new
agreement is to be run for one year
from May 1 and the men resumed work
Monday. Between 30 and 40 men are af-
fected by the settlement.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
THE TROUBLES OF ROYALTY

The desperate straits of ex-royalfy II
Europe are instanced in the case o
former Emperor Charles. who has take
refuge in Swiss castle that is occuple
by his -in-law.-Kansas Cit
Journal.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
THE WRONG PLACE

First Burglar-"How do you know thu
people who live here are rich" Second
Burglar-"They own two automobiles. 4
Were breaking into the wrong house
Where does the man live who repairs thu
two automobiles?'-W Eagle.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
HORRORS OF WAR

OF war. the keenest, worst event
The small boy yet has known
Is this adding of a war-tax cent
To the price of an ice-cream cone.
Boston Transcript.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
OUR KALEIDOSCOPE
SPEED

Mrs. EXe-Do your cooks stay with you
long?
Mrs. Wye-Well, no. I tried to get 4
snapshot of the last one with my camera
but she was too quick for the instrument
Boston Transcript.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
VERMONTvs ELEMENT OF SAFETY

the desirability of a smaller Legislature
has brought out many excellent points
for and against change from our pres
ont basis of legislative representation by
towns. The Bristol Herald, whose edi-
tor has served in the Legislature, and
who, therefore, speaks from personal ex-
ments as follows
I'VE have ideas regarding the consti-
tuition of our State and the changes that
SHOULD be made. Others may not take
~ same view, hence a full and free
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
A SLOW PROCESS

Uncle Ezra-"These city fellows vii
find 1t mighty hard to so without thei
booze" Uncle Eben-"Yep, and it take
years of experience before fellow get
to know just which patent medicines con
tain the most alcohol. Judge.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
NOVELIST RETURNS FROM FRANCE

Dorothy Garfield Fisher, (better
known as Dorothy Canfeld), the novel;
list, and her husband, Capt. John Fisher
and their two children have arrived in
this country from France. where both
have been doing their bit in the great
war. They will return shortly to their
home at Arlington.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
HOME SIX WEEKS. DIES

Edmund f. Loranger, son of Alder
man and Mrs. A. l.. Loranger of Barre,
died Saturday of tuberculosis six weeks
after his return from service overseas
He was % years old and was graduate
of Spaulding high school. In June, 1917,
he enlisted in the First Vermont.