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8UTLAND DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 7. 1913. DEEPEST WELL IN WORLD IS BEING DRILLED NEAR CLARKSBURG, THE DEPTH ALREADY BEING 7363 FEET COL.FREO B.TH0MAS DEFENDS HIS STATE Nofe Guesswork Spend a Nickel Today For a Copy of the Country Gentjeman August Olson Note) Berwick Aleo No. 1 Grove St. Resents Statement Made That Vermont Men Did Not Vol- unteer for Service.

None better made. You couldnt ask more and you couldnt get more. A Young for style a Young for quality and a Young for satisfaction. NEW YOUNG SPRING HATS IN ALL SHAPES $3.50. James A.

Lillis Clothing Co. OF INTEREST TO ALL WOMEN In view of the varidus reference male In Vermont newspaper to the attitude of the war department to-i ward the First Vermont regiment. COMMUNICATION. Editor The Herald: Sir: Now that we a re at war, it is especially necessary tbat we be thrifty. A high school boy I know worked ell summer in big store, saving every cent he earned and baying a Liberty bond with his savings.

But. unfortunately. even the smallest Liberty bond is much too large for the bank-aceount of the average school child- Nevertheless Uncle Bam has provided a way by which every one can help tbe government and at the same time save bis pennies. That is through tbe new thrift stamp plan. Any child who accumulates 25 cents can buy at any poetofflce a 25 cent thrift atamp.

which will be pasted on a thrift card furnished by the government and kept by the investor, like bankbook. There are spaces for 16 such stamps on tbe card. By the time the Investor has bought these 16 stamps he will have lent $4 to the government It is high time that we learned the lesson of Everywhere the people are crying but at the coat of existence. As our nation grows older, our country yearly draws nearer and nearer to the conditions of depleted lands abroad. If life is to become increasingly bard in this land, isnt It time that we begin to fortify ourselves financially against that contingency, and teach the children better financial habits than we have ourselves? B.

A. ADAMS. February 26. 1918. 205-Carat Diamond is Donated to, the British Red Cross the police studying it of medical to Day first membership ture increases jst the rate of on q.

gree In a verrheah distance as 25 feet, and that hithtn a dred feet of the 4Rrfact Ncvmj less. Mr. Van Orstrand estimate du-the temperatura of the rocks beneath the Goff well will be found at the boning point (J12 degrees Fahrenheit, it a depth somewhere around 14.o feet. Tbe Goff well is near the crater of tbe great Appalachian coal fieiq haxfe or trough, and is being drills search of deeper oil sand than hare yet bees reached id this pari 'of the basin. The sand upon which hope is based th Clinton" ail a formation of ffiluriarn age, which prolific, of gas and oil across cratrfl Ohio from Cleveland nearly to Ohio river.

From ita outcrop thi for mat ion dips gently to tbe aonthexst beneath successively younger forma tions nearly if not all the way .0 Clarksburg. If the drill can reach the Clinton sand beneath tbe Goff farm which is on an anticline or small np ward fold in the shallower strata. may possibly find gas or oil prat op under tremendous pressure and ready to escapein enormous volume. Hence the test not only excites the curioajtt of tbe public and is of great scirattle interest to geologists, but is also of practical value to the oil men. by whom it is being closely watched, if the well strikes a valuable oil or ra pool in the Clinton sand- in this par of the basin it may lead to tbe development of new oil or ga reserve, and if subequent tests are succesafal it my open a new era in the history of the Appalachian ail and gas region The possibility of discovering oeh oil and gas deposits, comprifing ne reserves hitherto unknown, is the Jw-t ideation of the great cost and labor of drilling the test well at Clarksburg, though the best kill of the natjoa may be required to reduce the cost of drilling very deep wells to a point which such work will be economically practicable.

If this boring ead ia disappoiament it is probable that similar wildcat tests will be made ia other districts until the oil men are nt tsfied that the quest Is hdpeles. hat if this deep wlldcatting meets forceps the entire nation wii? welcome a most timely as well as valuable addition to its petroleum resource, aad the gasoline consumer may well rejoice at the prospect of new. even if limited, supplies of high-gasoline Appalachian oil. now the 57th Pioneer infantry, the statement of Coi. F.

B. 'Thomas, id command of the Vermonter, which appeared in the Cbarljjtte. N. New will be of interest. TheWticle appearing in the News i as follow: Some days ago one of the Charlotte papers made some reference to a statement, which had appeared la some other paper, to the effect that since the outbreak of the war Vermont had furnished only one company of volunteers.

It had happened that the First Vermont Infantry, now the Fifty-seventh Pioneers, was stationed in Camp Green, at Charlotte, at the xlme.f The regiment is now in Camp Wadsworth. When Col. Fred B. Thonjas, commander of the regiment, saw the statement in the Charlotte paper, he was indignant, of course, and he was written a spirited reply, in which he defends his home state handsomely. His letter follows: To the Editor of The News: have read the item in your paper of February 15 purporting to have been copied from the Philadelphia I Record, which is ah apparent affort to Woman wflBU the places of men, chaitisp Congressman Dale, of Vermont.

for some remark which he is alleged to have made. I have no nart in any quarrel your paper or thf one from the City of Brotherly Lo-ve may have with Congressman Dale. He Is a man in public life and if your conscience directs you to criticise him, that is your prerogative as an American publisher. He is open to such criticism as his acts and utterances warrant, nor will ne ask me to defend him. He is amply able to defend himself if he considers the attack worthy of his-rat-tention.

Vermont Maligned. in the article referred to. however Japanese women are now driving taxis in Tokio. The woman 'peanut butcher" has appeared on some of the western railroads. -a Fifteen woman are now ldcluded in membership of the St.

Louis department. Many American woman are chemistry with a view to making their profession. Miss Edith Trautmaft is the democratic nominee for village treasurer Senses Fails, K. Y. Two thousand American women physicians hayc registered for service during the war.

A division of women marchers' is a feature of the St. Patrick's parade in New York city this ironth. f- Mexico's Orit wotnkrt aviator. Mrs. Enedina Monroy.

has joined the government flying corps. Queen Marie of Romania is the woman accepted for in the French Academy of Fine Arts. in the army, in taking Cleveland's annual school census this year. Miss Hiia OHara is a mAnber of engineer corps of oflw of the large Pennsylvania coal mining companies. Virginia, now the only state prohibiting women from practicing law, taken legislative action to lift ban.

Gertrude Iale. a Nashville miss of 22 years, has passed the for admission to the Tennessee state bar. Lady -Bathurst, who is proprietress the London Morning Post, is an advocate of conscription being applied women for war service. Washington. March 6.

Tbe deepest well In the world, already 7363 feet deep, is now being drilled on tB Goff farm, eight miles northeast of Clarksburg, to northern West Virginia. Until January 24 the record for depth bad been beld by a boring at Czuchow. in Silesia, which had reached a depth of 7349 teat, but on that day Dr. I. C.

White, the state geologist of West Virginia, announced that the Hope Natural Gas Co. had driven the bit to a depth of 7350 feet, one good American foot in excess of th German record. Moreover, the drilling Is still ln progress and as sufficient length of cable and adequate power and tools are at band the pnps-pects are good for driving still tar ther down into the crust of the earth and winning the pennant by a considerable margin. Seven thousand three hundred and sixty-three feet la a very little less than one and a third miles. The depth of this well exceeds the bright of Mount WashlnSfion (6293 feet) and of Mount Mitchell (6711 feet), the high est mountain In tbe eastern United States, and is greater than tbe distance to which many of the Rocky Mountains loom above the level of the foothills or plateaus on which they stand.

It is over half a mile deeper than the Grand Canyon of the Colorado ln Arizona. In fact, tbe bottom of the Grand Canyon at the foot of th? Bright Angel Trail, which is approx! raately 2400 feet above sea level, is about 1300 feet higher above the sea than the surface of the ground at the Goff well. The well goes nearly half a mile farther down Into the earth than the. deepest mines in Michigan. Brazil, or Europe.

Several oil wells ln California, ln the Southwest, in West Virginia and in Pennsylvania have exceeded 4000 feet in depth, and one near McDonald. about 14 miles west of Pittsburgh, reached a depth of 7248 feet. The thickness and character of the beds of rock passed through in boring the well are being studied under the direction of the state geologist. All the beds are composed of materials that were once sediments, and most of them mere settlings in sea water which has at various times covered this part of West Virginia. Interesting and important observations of the temperature of the rocks at different depths in the well have been made by the United States geological survey, department of the interior, in co-operation with the state geological survey, with the object of determining the rate at which the temperature increases downward in the outer crust of this part of the earth.

C. E. Van Orstrand. of the survey, found that at a depth of 7000 feet in tbe well the temperature is 152 degrees Fahrenheit and that the rate of In-jeae at this depth Is about one degree in 51 feet of depth. This shows that the outer crust of the earth in this region is relatively cool, for in many other regions tbe temperature increases much more rapidly with increase in depth.

Even at some places in the United States, according to unconfirmed observations, the tempera personally with the recruiting in Vermont Before the United States had been in this war four months. Vermont bad an organisation consider-, ably upwards of 2.000 officer and men. all Vermonter and all volunteers. If I understand the organisation. this ws enough to mske considerably more than one whole company; in fact, several companies.

More than 1.700 of those same officers and men are now serving under the Stars and tdipea in the army of the United States and on the fields of Europe. The rest of them re serving likewise on this side of the Atlantic. Vermont Appropriates Money. I personaly know, too. that about 400 more Vermonter men have volunteered within the past three months and have gone into orgaihrationa of the line of the army.

I know. too. that a large number of Vermont men have, since the United States entered the war, gone into the quartermaater corps, the engineers corps and other organizations of the army as volunteers TODAY'S EVENTS. Greetings to Speaker Champ Clark. 68 years old today.

A new $1,000,000 motion picture theater is to be opened In Pittsburgh today. With th dedication of its new $100,000 high school building today. Iola. will be able to boast of having one of the best equipped schools of any city of Its size in the United States. Dr.

Philander P. Claxton. United States commissioner of education, heads the list of speakers to address the second intercollegiate conference on vocational education, which is to begin its sessions today at Wheaton college, Norton, Mass. The adoption of a standard operating and cost system for motor trucks is to be one of the important subjects taken up at the National Truck Owners conference, which is to meet in New York, city today for a three-day session. now the has the only examination of to Massachusetts officials estimate fair of Vermoq is maligned that the number of women workers in and ln am profoundly interest that stare has increased by nearly 1 ed The article reads in part as folio 600 since the beginning of the mar "Thal state.

one famous for Ellen Harriot Capon worked in fighting Prit of the Green Moun male attire in an English munition rin boa of th revolution and the factory for two years before the army Civil war. has not yet supplied one plied them by the state, of Vermont and many have volunteered for the navy. It may also interest you to knew that before congress bad completed the declaration of war the rtate of Vermont had, by vote of its general assembly, approved by its governor, appropriated $1,000,000 toward the carrying on of the war. Have you in mind another state that has appropriated a larger percentage of its wealth lo this cause? It may also be of interest to you to know that Vermont, anUcipating some delay in obtaining clothing and equipment for her soldiers. lought and sup plied the organizations I have mentioned, uniforms, blankets and every authorized article of equipment which money would buy, and that the men i have spoken of as serving both in Europe and on this ride are today using a vast amount of clothing and yuipment which was originally sap- TODAY'S CALENDAR OF SPORTS.

I Professional four-ball match at Bellrair. Fla. Bench shows: Annual show of Central Ohio Kennel club. Columbus. O.

Athletics: Annual Indoor meet of Bates college. Lewiston. Me. Boxing: George Chip vs. Tommy Gibbons, 10 rounds, at Scranton.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS. Champ speaker of the national House of Representatives, bora ia Anderson county, 68 yean ago today. Henry H. Hyndman. one of the foremost leaders of the British socialist party, born in London.

76 year ago today 4 Rear AdfUral Albert D. Willi t. U. S. retired, bora in Philadelphia.

67 years ago today. 'Dr. Ira N. HoIMs. president of Worcester Polytechnic institute, born at Moorestown.

62 year ago today. Sewell Ford, creator of the "Shorty McCabe" stories, born at Sooth Levant. 50 years ago today. authorities discovered that he" was Thde company to the army of the a girl. United State.

LeL'Mr. Dale wake up The State Woman War relief is -Vermont; that is The only part of the sending weekly to the Rd Cross an country that is not up and doing. average of 3500 surgical dressings. Notwithstanding tbat you- have fallen 1000 baby garments. and-JOOO gar imo the error of publishing this ar-tnents for adults.

tide which you have gleaned 4rom the Princess Patricia of Connaught is I Philadelphia paper without regard to a clever milliner, and her sister, the Us truthfulness. atf believe you have crown princess of Sweden, has often 1 a sense of justice and fair play and looked charming in 4Sts which sh. arc in favor of the truth. I believe has -trimmed herself. you would hot wittingly libel a neigh- Lady Mackwortb.

Who Was recent-' boring state, and altbougb Vermont is ly appointed chief tmntroller of wo-1 somewhat distant in point of miles. I mens recruiting. thejyost notable; believe we should all be neighbor business woman in Great Britain, and especially in the present world strug- I wii fllrector of no fewer than 27 large gie. fish to make you acquainted as already stated What states have been more alive tfctbe situation. If you care to investigate the record of voluntary enlistments for the army of the United States, including regular army and national will find that upon percentage of men of military age.

Vermonts record is excelled by the Hawaiian Islands, the Dljjrict of Columbia and only ivwof the states of the Union; and you will note that none of those five are states whose publications are giv-''n to slandering Vermont, ither by rigtnal or copied articles. If you carT to look up nie facts, you can learn that only one state in the Union can To Remove Rust Staina To remove rust stains from any fabric take tbe Juice of a lemon snd some salt and mix together. Rub it well into tbe materia and then hang la the sun to dry. Repeat the second time if the first doesnt bring all th stain out. The second time the stain will all be removed.

London. Feb. 12. The Diamond syndicate of London has made a notable gift to the art sale of Messrs. Christie's in April on behalf of the British Red Cross society and the Order of 8L John.

This is a magnificent diamond, exquisitely cut, and weighing 205 carats, nearly double the weight of the Koh-i-noor, one of the brightest jewels in the royal collection of England. The Red Cross Diamond, as it is called, is Indeed worthy of a place among the great diamonds of modern times. It will be on view to the public today and tomorrow at the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths company, 112 Regent street, from 11 o'clock till 5. A charge of 10s. 6d.

per person will be made, tbe proceeds going to the British Red Cross fund. The diamond was discovered in 1901 in the De Beers company's mines. Griyualand West. It originally weighed between 370 and 380 carats, and in the process of being cut in Amsterdam was reduced to 205 carats. The Diamond syndicate of London have bad possession of the precious stone since It was found.

Large and squareshaped. it has been cut with many facets, and is of that pale canary yellow color which is so much sought after by Indian princes. The play of tbe stone is very vivid. In artificial light it is much more luminous than a white stone. After exposure to brilliant light it emits tbe rays it has absorbed, and thus becomes self-luminous in tbo dark.

Another rare feature is tbat a Maltese cross Is distinctly visible in the top facet. Hence the double appropriateness of its name, the Red Cross Diamond. Only-two other diamonds, the Pitt and the Regent, are known to have this distinction. The interest of the exhibition of the Red Cross Diamond at the premises of tbe Goldsmiths and Silversmiths company is greatly enhanced by a collection of facsimile models of the historical diamonds of the world (though not Including tbe two Culilnans), which has been presented by Mr. H.

Clifford Smith, or the Victoria and Albert Museum. The only other canary-colored diamond in this, collection is the Florentine, in tbe possession of tbe emperor of Austria. Its weight is 1394 carats, and its estimated value Si. 110.000. The Red Cross Diamond is the largest yellow diamond in tbe world.

The collection also Includes two facsimiles of the Koh-i-noor. In its first cutting this famous diamond weighed 186 catai: and was valued at 41350.000. It then recut. and though in the It was reduced ln weight to 106 car ats. its value was Increased to 4" 000.

The Koh-i-noor is in Queen Marys crown. Other facsimiles shown are those of tbe Regent, in the French crown jewels, weighing ISt carats, which ornamented the sword of Napoleon and is valued at the Orloff, which forms the point of tbe scepter of Russia, weighs 193 carats, and is valued at 369.800; and the Great Mogul, also ln the Russian collection, weighing close on to 280 carats, and of tbe estimated value of 420.000. The most costly diamond shown in facsimile is the Jubilee. w-eighing 239 carats, and valued at 500,000. which was found at Ja gersfontein in 1884.

Pearls for Red Cross Rope. Tbe opening of the last week for receiving gifts for the art sale wit-nes-es a flne response to the appeal to the women of Britain to send pearls to make a Red Cross rope, ln answer to the letter from Mr. Sydney Morse, chairman of the Silver and Jewelry committee, asking for single pearls, no fewer than 67 have been sent to date to tbe special depot at 20 King street. St. James', S.

W. I. Among the donors are Lady Lechmer. the Hon. Lady Law, Miss Isobel Far-qubar.

Miss Olive Cbetwynd. Mr. Montague Ballard, and tbe countess of Lisburne. Blank canvases havo been promised by Philip Connard. Miss Olive Snell, and a water-color by Sir Edward Poynter.

A portrait of the Frlncasses Helena and Louite by Sant has been presented by Prln cess and a portrait of the king by Sir Luke Fildes. business corporations. vith a few facta which It would have show a smaller percentage of ita men (-eenwell for you to have learned of draft age claiiniag exemption fimB Four English ex-iord chancellor, fore copying the article in question' military service than can be shown Lords Hals bury. Lo rebum. Haldane Hed you so learned them.

I believe I by Vermont. Are you willing, so far and Buckmaster. are at present re you would not have copied that ar si you may be able, tc correct the ceiving pensions of. 25,000 a year tide. erroneous impression which your pa- di It was my privilege to have to do per has spread broadcast in this coni- munitr concerning the state of Ver Easy and Practical Home Dressmaking Lessons mom by publishing the copied article I in question? If you wish to interest yourself in i dose study of Vermont, what she is doing nnd the spirit of her people, you can learn a whole lot of good' things about ffw present-dav patriot ism of the people of that state that 1 hae not the time to write.

Should you see lit to make yourself I familiar with that state and its people I am sure you would agree with me that in Vermont the cpirit of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain boys is neither deffd nor sleeping. Very sincerely. FRED B. THOMAS, Colonel. Fifty-Seventh Pioneer Infantry (First Vermont Prepared Specially for this Newspaper by Pictorial Review.

Semi-Formal Costume o. Distinctive Design. The Big Merchants the new semi-formal frocks of satin and taffeta that make them panic uisrly sppealing to the woman wbrf mast dress well on a email allow ance. Here Is a model ln admiral bine charmeuse. with aemS-Atted 1 waist and draped skirt.

The fronts Ilollin Bush of Locust Ridge. Penn of the waist are faced and rolled back to meet a collar of Velvet. The skirt seven miles twice a day to al ls a two piece model with high waist- tend the high school at Pocona. and line gathered at the back and caught his sister, Dorothy, walks four miles up in bustle effect. Above this ar- rangement Is a gathered frill.

In lo choI Tbl makes a distance UL re of 22 miles they both walk a day. Straighten That Bent Back with big selling tasks confronting them all the time, use big space in which to tell their stories that is essential, of course. To take away from a merchant the resource of adequate advertising would be equivalent to putting him out of business. He knows that and you know it. The force which avails the man with a big selling task is available, just to the extent to which it is needed, to the man with the small selling task to the man who has property to sell, used articles to sell who has problems to meet snch as the renting of property, finding efficient workers, etc.

No need to suffer from that tired, dead ache in your back, tbat lameness. medium size the dress require yards St-inch material, with yard contrasting material 27 wide for the collar. The hack of the waist, Wh the eoP lar, girdle snd pockets, is cut from an open width of material, but it Is doubled so that each section will be cut In duplicate. All of the sections have the large perforations resting on a lengthwise thread. The material that remains is now folded ln half, vhe front, side front and upper sleevV section being laid near the fold, but with large perforations along a lengthwise thread In the upper row are the lower, sleeve section, facing and side baek.NaJso with large perforations on a lehgtbwlst thread of material Next comes the for which yard 26-Inch material will be needed This is simply folded in half, the heck being laid with triple IT perforations along the length- fold the front opposite.

There is a quaint daintiness about with large perforations along a Bo amort that it appropriate tor almost sap o'-un op it th costama i il fitted waist and skirt draped at the hack. The collar of contrasting material with 7 iw. a a ittvat tw Rutland people have found how to get relief. Follow. this Rutland residents example.

'Mrs. Elizabeth Fitzgerald. 98 8. Main says: Sly kidneys acted irregularly and many things showed they were ln bad shape. I would get up in the morning feeling tired and worn-out and my back was sore and lame.

When I bent over, my back hurt co 1 could hardly straighten up. I bought Doan's Kidney Pills at McClellan Sc Drug Store and they gave me flne relief. ft see ROr. at all dealers Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy---get Komi Kidney Pills the same that I Mrs. Fitzgerald had.

Foster Ml Iburn Co Mfgrs Buffalo. N. sdvertlse-1 ment. IN THE DAYS NEWS. Luther Burbank, who- enters upon his 70th year today, ia one of the greatest of American naturalists and probably tbe most noted exponent of the theory of plant evolution.

Mr. Burbank ia a native of Lancaster. Maaa. His boyhood was passed on tbe home farm, where bis love of the study of plant life first became evi' dent. He began his experimentation at his home during bis course at Lancaster academy, and it ther that one of bis first successes was scored, when he produced tbe Burbank pots to.

In 1875, in order to have a more suitable climate for bis work, he re moved to California and established a arest experimental farm ner Rants Rosa. His work has covered the flld of vegetable and flora! life, until to day some of tbe Barbank creations are to be found ln every orchard and garden. lengthwise thread of mutortal. The rqodel lends itself to develop-raenr In voile and is particularly smart In blege made over a foundation of Burgundy or bine. ait 3 ad rtf? fceteriai Review waist No.

701. 8 lies, 24 to 42 inches bust Hurt Vo 7614 Sixes 24 to Inches waist.