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Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-10-18

Do not get scared If your heart troubles
you. Most likely you suffer from indigestion.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat
and gives the worn out stomach perfect rest.
1t is the only preparation kn wn thai com
pletely dige.ts all classes of foods; that i.
why 1t cures the worst cases of indigestion
and stomach trouble after everything else has
failed 1t may he taken in all conditions and
cannot help but do you good. Kendrlck a.
Co., Barre, VT, W coX ~ Gillette, Moretown
Vt.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-10-18
What's Your Face Wo.th?

SOME time. fortuLe, but never, if you have
Il sallow complex ion, Il jauu diced look, moth
pa che and hlotches on the .kn.-all signs OF
Liver Trouble, But DR.. Kings >ew Lie
Pills give Clear skin, Rosy Cheek,, Rice Com
plexion. Only - cents at PLrJr Drag Store.
DIV
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-10-18
Stepped Into Live Goals.

"When chi d l burned my foot fright
fully" writes W. H Eads. of Jone Vile.
Va, (which caused horrible leg sores Tor 30
wears, but Bucken's Arnica Salve wholly
cured me after everything el'e failed" L.
falIibe for Burns, Scalds. Cuts, Sores. Bruises
and Piles. Sold by faror Drug Store 23c'
d.w
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-10-18

A. r. Whitcomb and wife were in
Barre Tuesday to attend the funeral
of their cousin Mrs. f. A. Danfurth.
Mrs. Levi Whitcomb is on the sick
list.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-10-18

Also the American House, which
is well located on Church Street,
being quiet and we'll adaped for
business men.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-10-18
WASHINGTON.

There was good attendance at the
meeting of washington grange
Friday evening. One candidate re-
ceived the third and fourth degrees
and after short program cake and
fruit was served. Several members
from Williamstown grange were pres
emit.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-10-18
THOMPSON =
HOUSE 80. x
Late Commercial House

| am now making extensive re-
pairs and fitting up this well
known hotel into a modern up-to-
date resort for boarderS.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-10-18

Table board of the best kind
served. Rooms now ready for
occupancy. Transient trade a
speciality. Sample rooms for
travellers.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-10-18

Sold by all druggists. - cents.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-10-18
MRS. R. A. DREW, Prop'r
Central Vermont Railway
Timetable
Corrected to October I, 1900

Trains leave Barre Daily, except Sunday
as follows:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10

four cross roads meet, and twenty or
more families, most of them living
half ,Eile from the store, have each
put mp an individual letter box of
galvanized iron, lettered with the
name of the person for whom it is in
tended.
Into this box the carrier, whose
hour af farrival is known, and scarcely
variess sstenminutes, winter or summer,
dx69s the letters and daily papers for
each family, aand collects in return
their mailsywhich are deg b6sited in IA
Government collection box, placed IN
position at the same spot. The farms
er's children, or such idle hands as he
can spare, gather up the mail and
carry it to the house, and the farmer
is thus spared drive OF twelve miles
to the postotice, which he would
hardly feel justified in undertaking in
the most favorable weather more than
twice week, and then at much per-
sonal Inconvenience and pecuniary
loss. Under the rural free delivery
system he gets his mail and his paper
daily without cost of time or money,
and he is gratifed-properly So for.
the recognition which the Govern
ment has given him in bringing the
mails so near to his door. ~
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10
Kaiser,s Great Ring Of State.

Wheuever the Emperor;of Germany
IS engaged in on important function,
either imperial or royal,Sthese near
him notice that should he by any
chance take 20 glove off lis left hand
he wears on the middle finger large
'ring-a square, dark-colored stone set
in massive gold.
The story is that the ring is an old
heirloom in the Hohenzollern family,
dating from the time when the ances-
tors of the Kaiser-the Margrafs OF
Nuremberg followed their leaders to
the capture of the holy Sepulchre
from the Moslems.
Matgraf, of Ulrich, who lived in the
thirteenth century, was an adventur.
Gus prince, and it is believed that the
ring which the Kaiser now wears came
into Ulrich's possession after a hard
fought battle under the walls of Jerusa-
lem. It belonged to one OF Saladin's
successors, and i'll some unexplained
manner it found its way on to the I'm
ger of the German Knight.
Some one of the Nuremberg Mar
gratis obliterated the sentence from
the Koran which originally adorned it
and engraved Latin cro5e In its
place.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10
Good Roads In Illinois.

Chicago is as deeply concerned in
the improvement of the country roads
as any other community in IHinoi
Perhaps in the near future she will be
more so, especially if her people con-
tract such desire for long distance
country iaunts as that which obtains
among the people Of other cities at
home and abroad. 1t seems difficult
for US to realize that one may mount
an automobile in Paris and find a
smooth and beautiful road all the way
to Lyons. Boulogne, Strasburg, Ber-
lin or Vienna. There is scarcely a
piece of country in the United King
dom that cannot be travelled with a
bicycle. New York, Massachusetts,,
Pennsylvania and Ohio have done
wonders of late. years. in the way OF
goud road-makiug. Illinois is younger
and has greater difficulties to sur
mount, owing to the nature of her soil,
but by organized and Intelligent ef'
fort can accomplish the desired re-
suits. The State should help out the
poorer communities and liberal bonn
ties might be provided for counties
making tue best showing.-Inter'
Ocean.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10
CUBAN FR
General Wood Will En-
Remedy All Irragularitlss
All Prisoners Must Be'Grled-ussT Have
= Been Confined For Months
: Without a Trial.

Havana (By Cable).-General Wood says
that one OF the first things he looked into
after his arrival was the management OF
Cuban prisons. Investigation has proved
that, even among American prisoners alone,
here has BEEN an average detention OF five
things calling for orimmediate attention, par.
sicularly in the matter OF sleeping accom-
modattons. Reforms will be promptly In.
stltuted In this respect, and hammocks will
oe supplied 50 that the prisoners will not
be compelled to sleep on the bare floors, as
Is now the case with those who are without
friends or money. Only few who are able
to pay for them have cots.
One OF the fret things taken in hand by
General Wood ns Military Governor OF
Santiago was prison management. It was
his custom then to make a personal visit
to the local jail once o week and to so
through the entire list Of those confined,
summarlly dlsp6sing Of the charges against
those who were obviously unjustly de-
tatned and releasing those who had been
Imprisoned for long period on some tri.
ding ground.
he intends to mako weekly visits here
also until a MAJ ority OF the existing abuses
are abated, and he Is trying to devise
means that will insure prompt trials for
persons accused.
Men whom General Ludlow ordered to
be released are still held. after three OF
four years OF waiting without trial. Gen.
sral Wood thinks that when his order goes
Into effect calling upon all judicial officers
and military commanders to send complete
lists OF prisoners awaiting trial the con-
yestlon OF untrled prisoners will be relieved
within fifteen days, and he does not intend
that similar conditions shall arise again.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10
Love Of Llouor No. Hereditary.

Professor Sims Woodhead. speaking the
other day before tho Society for tho Study
OF Inebrietv In England, came to these cons
clusions: He held most strongly that
direct transmission OF the taste for alcohol
never occurred. or course, he accepted
very fully the fact that certain nervous dis
eases and degenerations involving certain
altered and weakened inhibttory powers
are transmitted f-om generation togsuera-
tion. These, however, did not always as.
;ume the same form, the manifestation Q.
the effect often taking on very. dinerene
characters In different generations. BUT
whatever character they assumed. ths re-
suit rs regards alcohol was Inevitably tns
same, and until for more evidence was
brought forward than had yet been pre-.
;entet, he should strongly maintain that
what was so often spoken OF as an inherlted
taste for alcohol was IN inherited weak
ness and lessened self-ressraint ahectlng
many other things besides drink, and that
a direct transmission CT the taste Tor aico-
hol from parents to children: In q constl-
tuition otherwise healthy, did not occur:
AS with tuberculosis, the disease was NOT
transmitted, but only the weakly ana ,ut un-
balanced condition OF the tlssues.-ias
Hospital OF London. .,...
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10

has performed onss of the most2bril-
ntexploits Of personal daring during
the war in the Philippines.
This special act of lAntEy was
spertormed by. Bel, who HHa then q
Colonel, near Porse, Luzon, when he
WAS in command of some scouts shead
Of the regime Just as the day was
8dawning the part enc count areds the
enemy s patroi. con isting 6f one Cap
tain, one Lientenanf and fiyssptigates.
Colonel Bell was il adyanc b of ibis
men and spurred On HE horse The
enemy was i, confnaed, and the men
Honght to- run away. & Colonel Bell
pushed ahead alone and snnsustained
charged the seven insurg gents With his
pistol gHe scattered the party sand
compelled the'surrend OF ehe Captain
and two pIiyates under 8 clcs seand hot
Ere from the remaining four irsur.
gents, whowere toncenlsd ina neigh
boring bamboo thick ct. Inlthe report
it is stated thst this gas one of
several heroic aet pef ff6rmed hy Col.
onel Belt during TIC PRESENT wa, and
that the won der is thst Bell l'stit lives.
q Colonel j Frank ktin Bell entered
West point from i6yville, Ky, in
1874, and grad dudt into the cavalry
service. hen thRe R Spanish war be-
nan hes Hi the Seventh
/ Cayairys t R31 Be1 inning OF the war
he $#gas sent tc hilippines with
General Msrfit 6 wa ia had charge Of the
Bureau of Military Information. He
was SUBSEQUENT appointed "a: Major
1 ot rtsnGiheersssand then a Major and
siatant tAdjutant. General Of Volun-
af i6 When the Thirty-srxth Regi-
sinSft was recruited, Major Bell was
appointed to be their Colonel.
Time and again The conduct OF
Colonel Bell in the Philippines has
been commended by his superior of.
6cers, and he has been recommended
for medals and for brevets. At the
taking of Caloocan last February,
while our troops were shelling the
town, Bell, then q Major, led a com.
pany of the First Montana Regiment
in q clever and audacious outfanking
mapeuver whereby they penetrated
the town aud arrived unexpectedly
on the encmy's left flank. The enemy,
outwitted as we'll as outfought, fed
precipitately,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10
United States Medal OF Honor.

The medal of honor granted by Con-
gress for sotne conspicuous act of
gallantry is 80 rare that hundreds Of
officers have never even seen it.
The bow knot worn in the button
hole in lieu of the medal goes un
recognized except by the very few.
The medal is of black bronze, and is
often mistaken for the Grand Arm y
insignia, the latter having been pat
termed after it TO q certain degree. 1t
is much larger than the latter. and on
the reverse side is engraved the name,
rank, date and the battle in which tho
service was renderedy and the specific
act of heroism for which it was given.
The medal is only worn on state ocos-
sions, but the bow knot is always
worn. 1t is a small affair, with it's
specific ribbon. 1t is Of silk, white
stripe in center, bordsred by two blue
stripes, which are bordered by two
red stripes. 1t is an inch iu length
and three. .eighths of an inch wide.
The little emblem shows that the
wearer has received from the Govern
ment the highest honor that can be
conferred upon man. The Secretary
Of War recently issued an order, after
"a conference with the executive COM
mittee of the Medal OF Honor Legion,
that hereafter, on all official occasions,
receptions, banquets, etc., the Con-
gressional medal of honor will be worn
resting on the breast and suspended
by the broad official ribbon of the or
der around the neck.-Cincinnsti. En-
ouirar
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10
NAwaY tIialninga.

Kansas raised $50 ,SSs, 600 worth Of corn,
wheat and oats Inst year.
Several OF the largest abandoned copper
mines in Eastern Maino will again be oper-
ated.
An effort will DO mndn in Congress to
substitute q Federal pilot system for the
present State system.
Nearly 2soO residents OF Minnesota
shared In 1899 Ia the tree planting bounty,
receiving S2.4O an aero.
The celebration OF the golden jubilee OF
the founding OF Caliirnta's government
has Just been held ut San,jose. 49,.
The sum OF s1S. 700, 900, It is estimated.
was paid for Christmas presents In Man
haitian Borough. New York City.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10
Wide Tires,

Narrow tires are one OF the large
leaks in farming. In some careful ex.
snts that have been made, it hos
"a. demonstrated that on dry
gravel road 1882 pounds could be
hauled on tires that were four inches
in width, while on the standard tires
one and one.half inches wide-only
1000 pounds could be hauled with the
same draft. On hard, dry, smooth
dirt roads that were free from dust,
the draft necessary to haul 2O0(
pounds on narrow tires could haul
$3.50 on broad tires. If the road was
covered with two or three inches of
dust, there was an advantage in mar
row tires. If the roads are muddy
and of sticky clay, and firm under.
meath, the narrow tire is better. II
the clay road is dry on top the broad
tires will carry 220O pounds with the
same draft that will be necessary to
haul 1000 !pounds on narrow tires.
On drying road Of this character,
the wide tires particularly show their
merit over the narrow tires, for the
tirmer the road becomes the greater
is the difference of draft in favor OF
the broad tires.s That difference is as
much as thirty per cent. on the best
road. The reason that the narrow
tire is better in deep mud is because
it has less. surface for the mud to cling
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10
Ono Man Who Eats Toadstools.

Eating toadstools, in the interest of
science, is the pastime of Janitor Gill
bert, of the botany department of the
University of California.
Professor Setchell, assisted by Jani-
tor Gilbert, has been gathering mush-
rooms found on the campus for the
purpose of determining whether they
are fit for human consumption. But
the professor doesn't take any of the
chances. That phase of the expert
ment falls to the lot of the janitor.
When the searchers find new va
riety Gilbert eats it. His survival en-
titles it to be listed with nutritious
foods. When hesbumps into one that
will bring his career to a full stop,
the public will be advised not to eat
that particular kind of mu shroom. 80
far they have found twenty different
kinds and experimental with them all.
In his own particular way Mr.. Gill
bert is q hero, though he is modes
enough not to think 80.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10

mer's door, by the Federal Govern
ment, is no longer an experiment. In
the words of the report, the system
has now "to be dealt with as an estab-
lished agency of progress, awaiting
only the action of the Congress to de-
termine how rapidly it shall be de
yelored." The current month finds
rural free delivery of mail in success
full operation from 1888 distributing
points radiating over forty States and
ono Territory, while other districts
from Maine to Texas are anxlously
waiting for those regular visits from
Uncle Sam which mean SO much Id
variety of ways.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10

the carrier can probably sleep as COM
fortably in his saddle as anywhere
else.
The hardships sometimes encount-
cred by the rural carriers are shown
in the photograph of rural carrier IN
Northern Ohio returning from trip
when the thermometer was forty de-
grees below zero. Yet, though the
First Assistant Postmaster General
reports that there are several girls
acting as bonded rural carriers, few
instances are recorded of their failing
to make their daily trips either in
the coldest storms of winter or the
blazing heat OF summer.
One question which has received
grave consideration by the Depart
ment is the insecurity and improper
character of the mail boxes put up.
On this subject the First Assistant,
Postmaster-Gen says:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10
The Crusade in Brief.

The Free Church OF Scotland Temper.
ance Society has reached Its jubilee year,
with a membership OF 1910. Including ooo
ministers, s1ty-nins missionaries ana
colonial ministers.
The temperance pledge is nothing 70 DO
ashamed OF. People who imagine they ure
strong Wi!!cd sneer ut 1t, but pride always
goes before 4 fall; aud nobody l5 safe from
the sedIctions OF evil.
Wife and children should be dearer to
onu's heart than the saloonkeeper. why
should the working man contribute TO the
luxury OF the latter und deprive those OF
his own flesh and blood OF The very neces-
saries OF life2
A. temperance restaurant IN Paris, under
rae name OF "Hrgientc restaurant mas.
in less-than year, proved proataole
financial venture.
When in 1862 Admiral Fnate issued an
order that the grog ration should ccaSefn.
the United States Navy, it was said that n
nation ever had navy without the 81
ration, and that no nation could navy
without this stimulane.
Brandy aud absinthe have By
curses OF France. One OF the SUI
of ending ones days III Il mad
stimulate tagged brain
"nips" OF spirits. Mauy te
,leties In France are work.
evil OF drink, temperance
meaning abstinence troy
from wine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10

Rur2 es delivery carriers, as a
rule, 6n frills" in Indiana, which
Stnte, ns4 10 Ohio, has the lions
share on eexisting experimental SER
vice. Nj Of, them provide them.
selves witE regulation uniforms, at
their oWn1cost, and furnish special
wagons with pigeon holes and other
postal appliances all for S400 year,
horse hire included. q.
Outiu Arizona, where in the genial
summer sunshine the temperature ocs
casionally rises t6 10 degrees and
stsys there, the rural carrier rarely
wearsany insig1is of His dignity sx-
cept his badge, which is q nickel
plated arrangement made to fit 3any
kindsof hat. Instead of comfor tabty
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10
Salt For I;oedbeds.

The application of salt to roadbed'
will be tried this winter in New York.
It is believed that salt will prevent the
top soil from freezing, thus obviatine
the mud which invariably comes with
the thaw. According to the Munici
pal Engineer, Professor Burr, ol
Columbia University, says of the pro
posed experiment that the effect OF sal!
would be to lower the temperature al
which the surface soil would freeze,
and it would also take up the moist
ure,> and so, perhaps. do away with the
mud. 1t is an experiment which Is
well worth trying.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10
whinnlnx I'm Drunlkaryls,

The whlpplng-post Tor drunkards was
advocated by the. Rev. Henry Il. Kelsey.
pastor OF the Fourth Congregational
Church, Hartford, Conn.,, in an address
before the Hartford Central Association,
composed OF the Congregational minis :ers
Es said there we're over 10000 arrests
every year for drunkenness 10 Connoesi.
the punishment should include whip
ping-post or hard labor. Now nothing ts
done except to keep the drunken man out
OF sight for while.
It is mocklns comment on the stare
tha: it pays as much to house drunkards
as il would cost to establish rstormatory,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10
This country is learning that ethical

Thls country IS learning tnat elnlcal
considerations like these are most in
tenseiy practical, and that study of
such problems is what the country
needs for truly larger growth. But
figures are deduced in the report to
convince those to whom figures are
the only tangible evidence. So the
report sets forth that whenever the
system has been started properly, it
has been followed by these results:
Increased postal receipts More
letters are written and received. More
newspapers and magazines are sub
scribed for. So maFkeyss this ad-
vancemens that many fux&i routes al
ready pay for themselyes by the addi-
tional business they bring.
Enhancement of the yailie OF farm
lands reached by rural free delivery.
This increase in value has been esti-
mated at as high as SIS an acre Id some
States. A moderate estimate is nom
81 to So an acre.
A general improvement of the con-
dition of the roads traversed by the
rural carrier. In the Western States
especially the construction Of good
roads has been prerequisite to the
establishment OF rural free delivery
service. In one county in. Indiana
special agent reports that the-farmers
spent over $4,000 to grade and gravel
q road to obtain rural free delivery
Better prices obtained for firm
products, the producers being brought
into daily touch with the state of the
markets, and thus being enabled to
take advantage of infor nation hereto
fore unattainable.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10
RIJRAI, MAIL DELIVERY.
The Marvellous Growth and Popularity
Of the System.

In the last report of the First AS
sistant Postmaster. General there. are
some striking illustrations.
There is, for example, scene at
country store, twelve miles from
Lafayette, Ind, from which point
three rural letter carriers start daily,
each making a circuitous drive of
twenty-five miles or more, without
passing over the same road twice, At
the particular point photographed
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10
INSURGENr FORCE DEFEATED.
Driven From a Mountain Stronghold by
Infantry and Artillery.

Driven From a Mountain Stronghold by
Infantry and Artillery.
MANILA (By Cable).-Colonel Lockett,
with force of $500, including artillery,
attacked a strong force OF insurgents In
irenched In the mountains near Montal.
oan, about fve miles northeast Of San
Matso. The enemy were completely
routed, the Americans pursuing them
through the hills, amid which they fled In
every direction.
Four Americans were wounded. The
Filipino loss was large, resulting from a
heavy infantry and artillery fire for three
hours into the trenches. They numbered
probably 1000.
The main attacking party consisted OF
the Forty-sixth Volunteer Infantry.
troop OF cavalry, and artillery, Colonel
Lockett commanding in person. The rest
Of the command operated from remote
points In an endeavor to carry out Colonel
Lockett's plan Of throwing his llnes
around the enemy, and thus cutting of re.
treat. The nature Of the mountainous
country made 1t impracticable to execute
this movement successfully.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-01-10

riding in specially constructed postal
wagon, he as often as not mounts a
bucking bronco, or dives him to
blackboard, with only au umbrella for
shade. Buthe makes thirty odd miles
a day, nevertheless AMI the Depart
ment has just issued orders to cut
down this particular route from Tempe.
five or ten miles q day. chiefly out of
consideration for tho bronco. because