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Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03
70 Find VANS

,., "A novel device whereby guests ..
banquet may determine hof snos's at a
f places they are to occupy at tahlo n oa,' the
t +abin ar's A tiny model of the d TUlnes
"a has little compartments . u dinner
, ,m,erva.s around it, each holdinss u Ia
n; name OF guest This NAV bo , the
S Sin learn her exact place and ents,, one o.
uining room relieved of the o on'er the
whlch hunt for name card 1oniuslon
WINE %here there are many guests Th; causes
city is suggestion for wono ms nov
snn ;ns,k over in arranging for t thn;
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03

Fiction No Longer Local.

If it was perfectly true earlier in the
century and in larger world speak
of the globe itself-that he was apt to
paint best who painted nearest home,
the case may we'll be, according to some
symptoms, in course of modification.
Who shall say, at the rate things arc
going, what is to be "ncar" home in
the future and what is to be far from
it? Lndon, in the time Of Fenimore
Cooper, was fcarfully-or perhaps only
fortrnately-far from Chicago and Par
is stood to London in relation almost
equally awkward for an Easter run,
though singularly favorable, on either
side for concentration. The forces that
are changing all this need scarcely be
breakfast table-if the morning paper
DO part of it's furniture-fairly bristles
with revelations of them.
Tho globe is fast shrinking, for the
imagination, to tho size of an orange
that can be played with. The hurry to
and fro over it's surface is that of ants
when you turn up a stone, and there
arc times when we feel as if as regards
his habitat--and especially as regards
hers, for women wander as they have
never Observation-Disclosures every one must
have changed place and changed Ian
guage with every one else. The ancient
local concentration that was so involun-
tary in Dickens and Balzac is less and
less matter of course and the period is
calculably near when successfully to
emulate it will figure to the critical eye
as a rare and possibly beautiful tour de
force.-Henry James in Fortnightly
y -
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03
just as She Was at Canton.

"The fact that Mrs. Mckinley gave
q necktie which she herself knitted to a
young man in Washington at his we'd
ding" said woman who spent the
Easter holidays in Washington, "calls
attention again to the simplicity and
indebtedness Of the tastes of the first
magistrates wife. She has not allowed
the change in her position to affect these
matters in the least, and she was no
more natural and modest in her former
home than she is today. There she
would have felt that something from
her own hands was the sort Of present
that she preferred to give. She felt the
same thing in Washington, and the knit
four-i hand scarf which she gave to her
young friend as wedding present was
given to him in Washington with the
same frankness that would have been
shown in Canton.
81 remember at Easter that she show
ed to friend of mine some of the beauti-
full souvenirs that had been sent to her
from different parts of the country.
There were some lovely things among
them, but she reserved to the last the
one which she appreciated most. 1t was
made for her by an old friend in Ohio.
1t was in tho form of one of those glis-
tening eggs of rock candy, but it was
larger than they usually are. At one
end was a hole, through which one
could look. Vhe picture inside was re-
markably good reproduction of the
White House grounds done in colored
paper. On tho lawn were two youths
playing. The whole picture was very
ingeniously done. Mrs. Mckinley ex-
planned that the two boys were her
young sons, who had died many years
before. Mrs. Mckinley told me that
among all the souvenirs sent to her, and
some of them were the most expensive
that could we'll be bought, she preferred
the Easter egg. Her friends have often
found other instances that prove how
little changed her taste has been by her
removal to the position of the first lady
in tho land. New York Sun.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03
MRS. L. A. GARDNER.

bag, you must know, is handy thing
to have about OF course the sailor boys
can't take their mothers Or their wives
to sea with them, so the next best thing
is to take a comfort bag. So argues Mrs.
Gardner, and proceeding on that basis
she has started in upon her work.
But first must tell you what COM
fort bag is. 1t is a plain bag made Of
drilling cloth, duck or cretonne, or any
heavy material Of durable structure. In
it are placed various small articles
which Jack will undoubtedly find
handy, such as needles and thread, but
tons and the like, and there you are.
There are two varieties, one for the sea-
men and one for the officers. But Of
that moro later.
The Church of the Holy Comforter is
at Houston and West streets, and the
little rectory, in which live Mr.. Gard
ner and his mother, adjoins the church
at 341 West Houston street. Connected
with the church is the Seaman's insti-
tute, and the good work accomplished
among the sailors by mother and son
has been of many years standing. That
is why Mrs Gardner calls all the sail
ors her "boys''
When 1 called at the rectory the
other day, I witnessed a sight that was
we'll worth seeing was ushered into
Mrs. Gardeners private apartment, and
there she sat, this ministering angel,
surrounded by about dozen little girls,
busily engaged in making comfort bags.
During the course of our talk refer
red to her as ministering angel, and
she laughed until her jolly face was red
and her ample form shook like bowl
of jelly. 1t is true that never saw an
angel who was quite so stout. But then,
I never saw an angel anyhow, and I
don't believe that anybody else ever
did-at least not in this century. So I
still contend, in the absence Of any di-
rect evidence to the contrary, that Mrs
Gardner is q ministering angel.
And she is such sweet faced, sym
pathetic, jolly old angel too! I don't
believe she could play a harp if she
tried, and dom t remember ever hav
ing heard of a jolly angel, come to think
of it. But she is all Of what I have
said. If you don't believe me, ask any
of the sailors you may find about the
reading and Longing rooms of the mis-
sion and see what they have to say.
And as she told mo about her work
grew more and more interested. Mrs.
Gardner is a sufferer from rheumatism,
although to look at her round, smiling
face you would never believe that she
had an ache or a pain in her life. But
for six months she has not been out Of
the house and church, the two buildings
being connected SO that she may pass
from one to the other without going out
of doors.
The little girls who were helping, I
discovered, were members of her sow
ing class, which during the winter
months meets one afternoon each week
under her direction. They We're the chill
dren of the neighborhood, with the pal
lor of the tcnements showing in their
pinched faces But they knew they were
doing something for their country in it's
time of need, and they were very proud
of it. Helen Gould could not have felt
moro satisfaction in her gift of 800, 900
to the government than did these little
girls who were filling comfort bags for
the sailors. York Herald
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03

~ pr,e,s Grace Darling" Is EARN
10" ing a Living In Chicago

h0" Ing Living In Chicago ,
When the Great Eastern ho'el t tha
,os Mnvs b, fire a few weeks ago. the
r ueople living in the neighborho0a l, wJr
p posad what would become Of the pluchs
, ,i++la woman who with her white mar
ID husband and little boy lived III u
f few damp rooms in the northeast TT 'O Mrs
l 0s the raunt ghost of building MIS- u.s.
R Benton Mauzy is her name, but IN lls .no
cast she is known as the Lillian ha'nlop
Of Buffalo, upon whom was Des'o n.
tbo title of Lake Erie's Grace Ia,
linz" While Mrs. Mauzy is only q
Years old and looks even younger, sn'
ios saved the lives of eight children
Throo we're rescued from railroad tracks,
ono from flames, three during tempesV
IN Lake Erie and the last one mere . IL
q from in front Of a cable tram &c
Che is n true heroine in more ways
than one Life was hard enough wl'h
ill money gone for the worthless wr ,'s,t
Of a building in which they lived W..
when tho fire came and swept away
everything of worldly value that tho
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03

The Vermont division Sons of Veter-
ans have seen fit to call their emcamp-
ment for this city on July 6, Z, and s,
and it is to be hoped that our citizens
will, regardless of any personal feelings
give these young men royal welcome.
The division headquarters have for the
past year been located in this cily, with
the division commander, adjutant and
quartermaster located here, and today
several hundred of the members of the
division of the present and past are with
our Volunteers in the Southland. The
mmander-n-chief of the organization,
q graduate of Barre academy would
have been present at the coming en-
campment, but he is now Major of the
Sixth Massachusetts and is now at camp
Algcr. We bespeak for the boys a oor-
dial welcome.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03
WOMAN'S WORLD.
THEJOLLY GOOD WOMAN WHO MAKES
COMFORT BAGS FOR JACK TAR.

How History Repeats Itself Let Girls
Have Girlhood--Just as She Was at Can
ton-Ten New Colors-Women as Walk
ing Advertisements.
Jack Tar has a good friend in Mrs.
q. A. Gardner, mother of Rev. w. A.
A. Gardner, pastor Of the Church Of
the Holy Comforter, down in West
Houston street. All the sailors are her
"boys," and she feels personal inter
est just now in those who are going off
to do battle for their country, and that
interest has taken a substantial form.
Mrs. Gardner is busy at work supply
ing the gallant lads in blue with what
she calls comfort bags" A comfort
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03

The Nermont Department of the Grand
Army of the Republic will assemble in
the beautiful city OF Burlington next
week to renew old friendships and talk
OF the war, and take an inventory. 1.-The
vets will find that many comrades have
been "mustcred OUT since last they
met in annual review, but they still
love "Old Glory" and will be at Bur
lngton in large numbers. l.. B. Har-
ris Or +. II, Shepard will succeed De-
partment Commander Jewett.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03

Not long ago his majesty of Siam
gave an italian (for painting one of his
wives from a photography "the grand
cross of the Siamese crown" 1t is a
rather large order, "Ihis cross" said
his majesty graciously, twill entitle
You to marry IL wives 1t is distinc-
ton seldom confer, so l hope you will
make good use of it. Siam Observer.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03
Wouen as walking Advertisements.

Talk about the enterprise OF Amer
lean feminine breadwinners! 1t can Z
touch that of their conservative Engiish
sisters in one field at least-adver1lsins'
In this country women have earned u
living, and a good one at that, by Wit
ing or soliciting advertisements put 81
far no woman has offered herself as a
living, walking advertisement TO sno"
off special articles Not so in London.
So many women have adopted thls
method Of earning a livelihood tut the
National Union Of Women Workers. OF
which Mrs. Lydia A. Booth is presi-
dent, has issued this protest through
the leading women's journals OF that
city:
'May we draw the attention OF your
readers to new form OF advertising
which we think it extremely inadvlsa-
BILE to encourage? We refer to the pa
rade in the streets Of young women
dressed in striking costumes III order to
make known the merits Of certain ar
ticles Of manufacture. That these young
women are said to DO well paid and
we'll treated does not in orr Judgment
relieve us from the necessity Of protest
ing against this new calling for women
1t must necessarily be casual in its
character and must expose those who
take it up to influences Of deteriorat-
ing nature and to moral danger. While
we are glad to note new developments
Of regular employment which are open
to self respecting women we hope that
the good sense and right feeling of the
community will be on our side in this
matter"
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03

Among the names mentioned for
Senator from Lamoille county is +. ID.
Pike, of Stowe. Mr. Pike is q well
known citizen of that county; was q
brave soldier, q good business man, a
faithful member of the State Legislature,
and would make a most excellent men,
Der of the upper branch of the State
Legislature.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03
Not the Right Time,

although Napoleon slept very few
hours in the "a, he had the faculty Of
going to sleep whenever he wanted to. I"
"That's nothing" said Clarence. II
can do that myself" "Well, supposing
you go to sleep now just to prove it. " ~
don't want to- Youth S Companion.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03
KL0NDIKE GOLD FIELDS

her ' of , Moen and Young people to the num-
fleids of the Kondike., new hook t fro, h hh
1 uhblaorty, beautifully illustrated from nctnal
pbIi"'osrapis containing also SUPERIOR man Of
" II tn,, lSX24 inches printed in six colors VI
II .ells ut about the country. mines fortunes
etc II que a ''heXpored fields, how to ret there
, ,ui j. " ses cheapy, everybody is interested
Sen No w. ao Tue book for ready sale at sirht
IF , "h;,I I',c ana receive by mail comnIete ont
wow, men includes the large map and commence
ib her, ' tar wnere you choose at once We rive
Address 5; $, SCRANTON & co.,
Publishers. Hartford. Conn
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03
A Driver of Automotors,

The Duchesse Dues has passed q
successful examination III France as a
driver Of automotors. She took her ex-
aminers, who were state engineer
and two experts appointed by the project
Of police, Oh her car through the Bots
de Boulogne and around Paris. She
drove at the regulation maximum of
speed, which is about ten miles an hour.
Automobilism is said to be fast sup
planting the bicycle craze in France.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03

1t is now decided that for the present
there will be no more call for Vermont
volunteers. There would certainly be
little prospect for man to organize u
company and not know whether itwould
be kept together or not.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03

Mrs. Cora Hemer, who was chief of
the women detectives at the Worlds
fair, is to take charge of a similar de-
partment at the Paris exposition. Mrs.
Hemer personally made 200 arrests at
the big Chicago show, and she had SO
women detectives working under her
She will take 100 to Paris.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03
Tho Chickie's Bedtime.

When the Bantam children 3 work is done,
They 60 to bed with the big, round sun.
Eleven, twelve, thirteen, all said,
Hurrying, skurrying home to bed.
No nightgowns to don, no shoes to unlace,
They're queer little, dear little barefoot
ed race,
Eleven, twelve, thirteen, all said,
Sleeping, n bakers dozen, a-bedl
Good night, chickiesl Pleasant dreams,
dearsl
Come, Mother Bantam, hush their fears
Eleven twelve thirteen, all said
Tuck them up in their feather bedl
Adelaide Observer
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03

The injunction proceedings against
the electric railroad have added another
chapter to the famous" Electric Novel"
but it is to be hoped that this continued
story will soon end.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03

Caroline Croft, formerly Caroline
Abigail Brewer Of Boston, has left
800, 900 to Henry K. Oliver and John
Collins Warren, physicians Of Boston,
for investigations to find some way of
curing cancer, consumption and other
diseases now regarded as incurable.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03

Miss Philena McKeen, for 83 years
principal Of Abbott academy at Ando-
yer, Is dead. She was 76 years of age and
a native Of Bradford, vt. She resigned
as principal Of Abbott academy six years
ago. She had written several books
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03

The fatcs of war have placed Acting
Admiral Sampson, who is only a Com
odorc in command of the Atlantic fleet,
and Comodore Schlcy, who is really a
higher officer than Sampson, must be
commanded by an officer who is below
him.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03

Tan and freckles may be removed by
the following lotion: Two drains Of
powdered sal ammoniac, four fluid
drains Of cologne water and quart Of
distilled water. AS home remedies both
lemon juice and borax are very effica-
cious for the same purpose.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03

Send the Holland Boat after the Span
ISL fleet, Mr.. Long. The inventor seems
wiling, why not let him try?
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03
What Ma Said.

Little Girl Ito lady visitor)-Plcase,
Miss Jawerer, let me sec your tongue.
Miss J. (surprised)-Why, my dear?
Little Girl-Why, ma said you'd nc
end of tongue. London Sketch.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03
Last, but Not Least.

Port Officer-What have you on board
ship, captain?
Captain-Our cargo consists of 1. 600
cases of oranges.
= eyes,
"One thousand cases of eggs"
"Yes.'
And three cases of smallpox. Pick
Me Up.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03

house, as they are decorative in an Or
namental way. ,.o o-
A popular color for either mouse ,o vi
street is parme, which is violet, border.
ing on the blue. Iodine is a req p ',s"d a
cardinal and crimson and Is used I"
great deal for trimmings. ..o,,
A steel shade is quartz, anu 'n.n
there is a castor which is exactly the
color Of mems gray castor gloves'-New
York Telegram.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03

If you would be fittingly gowned,
never wear cotton shirt waist with O
satin skirt or lawn waist with tailor
made suit.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03
3 to ) Per Cent.
PER MONTH,

Earned for clients. Money is not in
vested in the stock market or in so-called
syndicates, but in good, solid collateral.
where no less can be possible.
You can invest 80 to $1,000, or any
amount between; can withdraw il at any
time; and can have principal and inter-
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Have never lost Il dollar for custo-
mer. Years of experience with satisfied
customers throughout all New England
Write for circulars. The best of refer
ences. A. j. LITCIIFlEI.D,
60 State ST., Boston Mass.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-03
$500.
Every Dollar Invested in tli> "a
pany will Return 10 for [

l ms company enters into no ciurr .''
but at once strikes at the foundation oi .-, "
conveying in the best and cheapest iutu'-N
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coinPahys office, No. l64A fremont ST., .
and 7.
correspondence, personal interviews ''t
investigation invited
Bile to GEOKGE \ ty1tI,iJ..
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-21
The Terrapin Knew Him.

When the late Major Moses p. Handy
lived in Washington, he was frequently
attending dinners at Chamberlin at
every dinner at all out of the ordinary
it was Chamberlin' habit to pass
around the table alive the terrapin that
(it was assumed) the guests were to eat
later.
One night, as Major Handy told the
story, when the live terrapin were
brought in, us usual, he noticed, as he
thought, ono Of the terrapins waggine
his head at him. AT the next banquet
the same thing happened again, and at
the next one Of the terrapin detached
himself from the rest and, crawling
across the table to the majors plate,
rose on his hind legs, and, resting his
fore legs against a convenient tunbler,
he bowed three times, sOlemnly, hut
courteously, to the astonished and awe.
struck guest.
Upon investigation it was discovered
that the terrapin had seen the major so
frequently at Chamberlin festal board
that he recognized him as an old friend
and politely addressed him as such, Mr.
Chamberlin is said to have resented this
story as a reflection Oh the freshness OF
his terrapin. Kansas City journal.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-21
COSTLY EXECUTIONS.
Bills For Killing Criminals That Were
Formerly Paid In Holland.


Edam, in Holland, where the Dutch
cheese comes from, has a museum of
local antiquities, and among the not
least interesting of the exhibits are the
accounts of the municipal eXecutioners
during the eighteenth century, says the
London Chronicle One of these func-
tionaries. by name Vogel, presents de-
tailed bill dated Dec. 10, 1913, in which
he sets forth "A claim for 6 forms for
one decapitation and 3 forms each for a
sword and winding sheet, with 3 forms
a cents for coffin for the docapitated
one. His charge for hanging criminal
was also forms, with the further adj
dition of 3 forms for ''cutting down
and impaling ditto. y" " Breaking man
on the Wheel was costlier luxury
and ran to forms, while for Supply
ing nine new lashes for scourSe" the
charge was ~ florins.
On the whole, however, Mr.. Vogel
was a moderate man in his charges or
the value of human life Went up good
deal in the next 90 years, for in the no
less circumstantial accounts of Johannes
Ka, presented Aug. /, 1854, we have a
charge of IL tlorins for going on board
the Hans and preparing instruments of
torture" with a like charge for tor
turing one person. But this must have
been for the lesser torture only, as Oh
Aug. 80 tho same Johannes sends in a
bill for "torturing three persons at 70
forms a head''-total, 225 forms,
while few days later no less than 600
forms is charged fer changing four
persons at $50 forms each, " and for
"flogging two persons and burning a
third" he exacts $50 forms. Clearly
considerations Of economy, if not of hui
manity, must have tended toward the
reform of the criminal code in Holland.
Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-21
Two Capital Stories.

l pass into Arlington street, where
Sheridan, slckened with his losses at
play, kicked man over who protested
that he was only tying his shoe. "D-n
you!' said Sheridan. You are always
tying your sEoc!' Horace Walpole calls
it the Ministerial street, where Pull
teney and Lady Mary Montaeu lived
and on both sides Of which Sir Robert
Walpolo had house, where III my
youth tho Duke Of Hamilton with a
beauty like a gods, was often to be
seen.
Turning into Piccadilly there is the
chariot of Lady Peel, who never missed
her daily drive with her daughter in
the park, and the yellow chariot of the
Duchess of Cleveland, with her two tall
footmen in breeches and silk stockings
and their long canes She was lauy
with philosophic turn of mind, for
when her husband died she asked a re,
lntive Down to the funeral and told him
to bring his gun, adding, 1--WE are old,
we must die, hut the pheasants must be
shot Sir Algornon Nest i'll Nine'
tenth Century