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Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-06
Central Vermont nv.
Time Table
Corrected to Oct. IL, 1901.

Corrected to Oct. IL, 1901.
Trains leave Barre daily, except
Sunday, as follows:
GOING SOUTH
8:25 A. M.-Mail for Boston via Ii W.
ell or Fitchburg; New York via
Springfield and II New england points
PAr,or car to Boston via Lowell.
1901 p. M.-Fast Express for r os-
ton via Lowell; New York via Spring
field and via New London. Blffea
parlcr car to Boston.
$40 P. M.-Local Passenger for
Northfield, Randolph, and White
River Junction
1901 A. M. Night Express,
daily, including Sundays, for Boston.
via Lowell or Fitchburg and Spring
field. Pullman sleeping cars to B0sto
via Lowell and to Springfield.
GOING NORTH
$50 A. M.-PasSenger for Bur-
lington. St. Adams. Montreal ant.
Richford. Connects at Essex yuGc-
tion with express for all points on
Rutland Railroad.
E.O6.P. M.-Mail for Burlington,
Rutland, Cambridge Junction, St.
Adams, Montreal Rouses Point and
Ogoensburg. Parlorcar to Montreal.
go P M.-Express for Burline
ton, st. Adams Montreal and Chicago.
Pui man sleeping car, Montpelier
Junction t, Chicago without change.
Due Chicago 8 45 n next day.
suburban Service
Trains to Mont elier. Leave Barre
o.25, $50, AM, 1901, 3.05, 8 10. PM
~ OF A. M.
Trains to Barre. Leave Moptpe-
Her $40, 9 Is, 1880 A. M, 1855,
$50 and 8.2OP.M.
WlillamstoWn TRAINS
Leave Barre 1.20, 40 Pm. Due
Williamstown, 1855, 5.2OP. M.
Leave Williamstown 7.3O, Az
2.20 P. M. Due Barre, sos AN
3.00P NJ.
r. S. LOGAN, S. w. CUNNING
vice Pros Il Gen. MGR. Gen. Pass. Agent
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-06

Barnes-I don't know whether it is
in the atmosphere or the surroundings,
but the effect Of lectures on me Is not
always the same.
HOwes-Frobably not.
Barnes When Professor Relcher lee
lures down at the Lyceum, Invariably
60 to sleep. whereas when my wife
lectures me after going to bed | am as
wide awake as can be, and I'm not at
all interested in her subject. Funny.
amt it?-Bosfon Transcript.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-06
John G. Milburu.

John G. Milburn, in whose Buffalo
home President Mckinley died. has for
twenty years been a prominent lawyer
Of western New York Born in Eng
land fifty years ago. he came to this
country in 1869 and worked as me-
chanical engineer Then he studied
law and passed the bar examination
before he was entitled to citizen pa
pers. Influential men took his case up,
and after much legislative wrangling q
bill was passed waving his alienship
and giving him full citizenship.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-06

Light Made From Smoke.
A Belgian engineer. Tobanslzy, efiael
invented an apparatus for producing,
light from smoke. 1t appears that the,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-03-15
Exports from United States
Grand Divisions.

OUCH figures as those given in the
y above table tell the reason of the
animoSity of European countries
against American goods at the pres
emit time. The balance of trade is all
in favor of this country. American
exports are growing out of all proper
tions to American imports; the mar
kets that Germany, England, France
and practically every great nation of
Europe have in the past considered
their exclusive fields have been in
vaded by the American manufacturer
who has captured the sales, while we
in turn have not increased our pur-
chases abroad. Such condition is
making idle factories and idle hands
in Europe, condition which Europe
is seeking means to prevent.
Nothing could well be more crafty
ing than the picture of our foreign
trade as it is to-day, by comparison
with the figures of very recent years.
1t is all the more remarkable because
our progress has been achieved with
but little effort and by means not di-
rected specifically to the promotion
of foreign trade, but largely fortui-
tous, and springing from our intense
absorption, for many years, in do
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Imports into United States,
s1,49S,05O,0 900

steel has the other nations at its
feet as far as manufacturing is con-
cerned in most of it's branches. The
cheapest steel means the cheapest
ships, the cheapest machinery, tho
cheapest thousand and one articles
of which steel is the base"
''Itis therelative cheapness of Amer
lean steel that has given it preemi-
nence, and it is the same with other
products that are winning their way
abroad" says Frederic Emory, chief
of the bureau of foreign commerce of
the state department. Continuing, he
says: Economy of production is the
master key that unlocks for us mar
kets that seemed little while ago
to be inexorably closed. This econ
omy of production implies not mere
ly low prices to the foreign consumer,
but a greater degree of excellence, a
superior adaptation to his wants."
Throughout Europe there are all
most countless reasons given for the
growth of American competition. 1t
is attributed to almost every possible
and impossible cause and condition,
but great many writer's have solved
different features of the problem.
Some of these attribute it to inn
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all a land of what we Americans
would class as ''jingoists." Her poll
ticians would have the weak old ma
ton go around constantly with a
chip upon her shoulder trusting in
Spanish intrigue to prevent some
stronger nation knocking it off, and
hoping that weaker one, of which
there are but few, might attempt to
do so for the sake of the glory that
Spanish arms might achieve from a
combat with weaker power.
But Senior Silvela cannot be classed
with this species of the Spanish poll
ticians. He is a conservative of con-
servatives; a man whose counsels
have always been for the best in
terest of his country, and whose
counsels are seldom accepted except
ing in cases of direst extremity. Had
there been a few more of the Sill
vela class in Spanish politics that
country would never have had war
with America; it would never have
lost Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philip
pines or other colonial possessions
that were wrested from it in 1898.
Spanish pride would not permit of
a peaceful settlement and the war
was on despite the warnings of Sill
vela, and once on and Spain worsted
in the conflict Silyela was given the
task of getting his country out of
the trouble into which it had rushed
in the best manner possible, while
the "jingoists" sat at one side and
criticised.
A man of the Silvela stamp is sore
ly needed at the head of the Span
ish ministry at the present time, and
if anyone can rescue the decaying
country from it's own vices he is the
man for the task.
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amount of use made of this material, but they
expect the vogue for chiffons to die early and
give place to ribbons and other forms of trim
ming
One great and sufficient reason for this
prophecy is that the fashion centers have
been deluged with chiffons all through the
winter. They have been used especially for
evening wear, and the fashionable city
woman soon tires of anything, no matter how
appropriate becoming it may be, the chit
fons must go in the near future.
A successful wholesaler, however, predicts
that it is in the cities only that the chiffons
will lose their popularity. He says that in
the smaller towns, where, as he puts it, pco-
pie do not attempt to keep pace with the rap
idly changing fashions, but follow in the
wake, and from month to three months be-
hind the city styles For this reason he be-
lieves that chffons will last through the sea-
son in the smaller cities and towns.
He may be right, of course, but we do not
believe that he is. The styles are, to be sure,
manufactured in the cities, but it takes d
very short time for the smaller towns to fol-
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IMPORTS INTO UNIFIED STATES 1900

| proved machinery, others to natural
resources in crude materials, others
to the efficiency of the American
workingman, but of all the various
reasons given that by DIR. Vosberg-
Rekow, of Germany, head of the
German bureau for the preparation
of commercial treaties, man we'll
versed in all that pertains to tho
worlds commerce, attributes the re-
markable growth of exports of
American manufactures to Europe,
in part, to the activity of our consul
lar service. THE United States" he
| says, ''has covered Europe with
| network of consulates and makes it's
consuls at the same time inspectors
of our exports and vigilant sentinels,
who spy out every trade opening or
advantage, and promptly report it,"
DR.. Vosberg-Rekow also dwells upon
the eminently practical character of
American industrial and business
methods. "Germany's industrial adj
vancement," he says, ''is principally
due to the thoroughness of her tech
nical education. 1t is strengthened
by the continuous substituting of ma
chinery and machine tools for hand
labor. Still, in this respect, the Eng
lish industry in some branches is
ahead of US. 1t is worthy of note that
in this evolution, too, the United
States has the foremost place and
has made gigantic strides, not only
in applying machine tools, but in in
venting and manufacturing them, SO
that to-day she supplies us. This
signalizes in an extra ordinary degree
American intelligence. Thus, the
Americans, though wanting our SUI
perior technical education, thanks
to their practical eye improve upon
our methods and apparatus. Theirs
is rather the activity of an expert
mentalist than that of a trained
craftsman; but clever faiseur, if he
but have assurance and luck, may
distance the educated master. The
Americans have no thorough educa-
ton; nor do they possess a modern
industrial system as we Europeans
understand the term. The American
applies himself to a single branch or
to speciality, with utter disregard Of
European methods and their results:
he devotes to his work an amount OF
energy which stupefies Europeans;
and, for awhile, he succeeds in driv-
ing us out of the line of articles on
which he has centered his energy"
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nestle industry and internal develop
ment. In other words, we have
reached surprising eminence in the
expectation of manufactured goods,
not because we were seeking that
goal, but because in developing our
resources, in manufacturing for the
home market, we attained an excel
lence and comparative cheapness of
production which, to the astonish-
world at large, has suddenly made us
formidable mpetitor-perhaps the
most formidable OF all-in the great
international rivalry for trade.
During the year ended December
81, 1900, according to United States
treasury returns, the imports of the
United States amounted in round
numbers to $S30,000,000, an increase
of over $50, 100000 compared with 1899,
while the exports aggregated STATS
100000, an increase of $500, 4S0,0 O0.
The exports in 1900 exceeded the inn
ports by $64s, 100000. Of the exports,
the percentage of manufactured goods
was 3O.3S in 1900, 5000 in 1899, 1896
in 1898, and 24.93 in 1895. OF the i'm
ports, nearly As per cent, it is es-
timated by the treasury department,
were materials, either crude or part
ly made up, for use in our manufac-
turing industries, an increase of over
35 per cent. in 1899 and 1900, as COM
pared with the entire period from
1890 to 1898. In other words, our in
dustrial growth continued in 1900 at
rapid pace, enabling us to take less
finished goods from other countries,
and to furnish more.
The most striking fact in our ex-
port development is the remarkable
growth of the foreign demand for
our iron and steel, our exports
amounting to nearly $13O,00O,00 in
1900, against $32, 0OO,OO in 1895. In
an article in the New York Evening
Post of January IL, 1901, Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie says the United States has
not only supplied it's own wants, ''but
is competing to supply the wants of
the world, not only in steel, but in
the thousand and one articles of
which steel is the chief component
part" and expresses the opinion that
the increasing demand from the
world at large ''can be met only by
the United States" 1.-The influence
of our steel-making capacity" adds
Mr.. Carnegie, ''must be marvellous, for
the nation which makes the cheapest
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DeSun.
Since that time New Zealand and
Australia have successfully acquired
and operated the public utilities in
their respective territories, and now
comes London with a determination
to acquire of private corporations the
public utilities of which they have so
long held monopoly and operate
them for the advantage of the city
and the people.
Canada followed the great English
colonies in Oceanica in the agitation
for public ownership, and the people
are inclined to criticise the govern
ment that 20 years ago gave away
not only a valuable franchise but
many millions of dollars as an induce
ment to take it and complete the prop
erty. To-day Canada wants not only
this property, but all the railway
lines in the Dominion, and Sir Wilfrid
Laurier, the Canadian premier, is con-
quiring them.
That he is equal to the task if any
one is must be admitted. He long ago
displayed that ability that has placed
him at the head of the Canadian min
istry and kept him there. During the
nearly five years that he has held his
difficult post he has mastered several
difficult tasks, though none of such
magnitude as the one which now con-
fronts him.
Since 1871 he has been intimately
connected with Canadian politics, hav-
ing been elected member of the
Canadian parliament in that year. He
is a French-Canadian, and is the first
Of that race to have held the high
Office of premier of the Canadian fed
Grafton. He is some 81 years of age,
and was educated at Assumption
Roman Catholic university.
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The Charming Picturesque
ness Of The Easter Hat
There Is an Unusual Variety of Styles from
Which Woman Can Choose
And .NotO the Easter Hat Comes
to vs. eg1ffb Added Glory

ID UT A few short days and Easter will be
ID upon us again, and another fashion sea-
son will be in full swing. The ambition
of every woman is a hat for Easter, and
this year she will have an infinite variety of
styles to choose from, greater probably than
an any previous season for number of years.
Of the new models that now on exhibit
ton none are more beautiful, display the
coming styles to better effect, than the
Partisan models. They show roses, foliage
and fancy straw braids of the laciest. Laces
of all fiber and fabric woven in every con-
ceivable way. Thin gold ornaments, and gold
is everywhere. There gold buckles, gold
slides, gold spangled clothes, gold threaded
cloths, all of which will be prominent fea-
ture throughout the season. Low crowned
styles, whether pressed fat, or made of straw
braids, plateaus, braids mousseline de
soies with the rolled brims, can be pulled CT
folded braided to suit ones taste These
trimmed with huge punches of flowers
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Some Public Men Who Are
Prominent in the Public Eye

York Tribune, but after his return
from France he became the editor-in-
chief of the Cincinnati Daily Tribune,
and held that position until appointed
minister to Venezuela. During the
time of his service in that country he
has negotiated an extradition treaty
and a parcels-post convention with
the Venezuelan government.
In the settlement of the asphalt diff
ficulty he has delicate task, and one
that will call for the employment of
that delicate tact of which he is pos
sessed. The difficulty involves prop
erty amounting to many millions of
dollars represented by lake of al
most pure asphalt near the Vene-
zuelan coast line.
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great choux, fancy ribbons or chiffons.
A charming picture hat that is becoming
is made of the palest tan crinoline wreathed
around with blush pink roses, whose deepest
tone of delicate color is repeated in the scarf
of sllken gauze. This is twisted in and out of
the blossoms, escaping at the left side where
the long end is destined to fall over the Shout
der.
Another of the large hats that shows great
er elaboration is of fancy crinoline in white.
The low crown is entirely covered with
punches of lily of the valley, while the brim
has handsome lace threaded with gold y
gold buckle in front in a twist of white chit
fon.
A large hat that is especially suitable for
either river garden party has low
crown straw, with soft chiffon bri1n,
crushed here and there. Directly in front is
a smart bow of wide white satin ribbon
mingled with handsome lace threaded with
gold
A pretty affair on the toque order has a
high rolling brim at side. This hat is
made of folds of black mOuSseline de sole
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and Other VeilinGs That
6OfW Be Worn ObrouGb the Season

|OMPLEXlON veiings made an impress
Y 4 sion the fashion world for short
time last fail, but were speedily dropped
with the coming of winter. Now they are
coming in again, with promise of lasting
through the season Wholesalers say that
the demand for these came first from the dis
tricts remote from the centers of fashion.
and that now New York and other large cities
are following the lead of the country trade
Score one for the country.
There are several departures being
shown in veiings One of these ideas is q
sort of diamond effect, formed by lines of
dots running crosswise on the ground. which.
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Gen. Porter is nearly GA years of
age, and believes that he has reached
the age for retirement from an ac-
tive life to spend few years in rest
that he has so surely earned. While
he has served his country faithfully
in many positions, from second lieu
tenant to a brigadier general during
the civil war, and afterwards as pri-
vate secretary to Gen. Grant during
his two terms as president, he has
also been successful business man,
and has accumulated a considerable
fortune which he now wishes to en-
joy.
Much of Gen. Porter's fame rests
upon his ability as an orator. Among
after-dinner speakers he is classed
only next to Senator Depew, but he
probably outranks that distinguished
gentleman as a public speaker upon
other occasions. He delivered the ora
ton at the Grant Memorial ceremo-
MES at the Inauguration of the Wash
ington arch in New York on April 81,
1897, and his efforts of that day will
go down into history as one of the
greatest orations ever delivered in
America.
He is a native Pennsylvania, being
born in that state April Is, 1887, and
secured much of his education at West
Point, graduating from that institu-
ton in 1860 After the war he entered
the railroad field, and accumulated
his wealth in that line.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
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Appreciatixe Yet Sad.

An Indifferent actor was telling
Beerbohm Tree that he was getting on
we'll and had played Hamlet" with dis
tinction. "Yes, / saw you," said Tree.
"Oh, were you there?" returned the
actor. "Of course you saw I made a
bit of bungle by falling into Ophelia's
grave; but / think the audience even
appreciated that" SIN sure they did, .
said Tree, with a twinkle of the eye.
But a sadness came over them when
you got out Acknowledgements.
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with a crown covered with deep yellow roses
and green leaves. large rose resting on the
hair with loops of black velvet ribbon. Short
ends of the ribbon at the back
Another charming small hat is of white
.crinolne, tilted up at one side with lunches
of pink and black roses The hat is draped
around the crown with black and white tulle,
and finished at one side with rosette of the
same and a white paradise osprey.
A chic walking hat is of fancy black lace
straw, turned high at one side, with roll of
black and gold ribbon; the same draped
around the crown. with huge red roses at one
side.
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But students of world politics and
politicians did not stop to count the
strength of De Whites pull, or his
influence with the cars mother, who
virtually placed him in power again.
The mother of the car is a great
admirer of the able finance minister,
and for several years has kept him
under her personal protection, de-
spite the intrigues that are well
known to all the st. Petersburg
court. Strange as it may seem, she
admires him because he is product
of the common people, class that
Russian officialdom are supposed to
look down upon, and to tramp under
foot rather than assist to high places
in the government.
1t is this same De Witte who re-
Gently declared a tariff war against
this country, and he is in a position
to do our foreign trade considerable
injury unless some method is found
to retaliate and bring Russia to
terms.
He began life in a railway office as
an under. clerk, and from that has
worked himself up to one Of the
highest posts in the gift of the Rus
sian government. He is in every re-
spect self-made man, securing his
education as best he might by his
own efforts. Of school training he
has but little, but as a master OF
finance he is recognized as one OF
the greatest authorities in Russia,
though he is now but 40 years of age.
If his pull" holds out there is a
great future before him.
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Quinlan company, and the Venezuelan
government, is son of Ohio.
His political training began in the
state government of Ohio, 1SS6-9O,
during which time he served his ma
tive state as state librarian, and after
the completion of his term of office
was sent to France as United States
consul at ST. Etienne. During his
service in France he contributed some
valuable literature on the subject of
the labor situation in Europe, and is
still classed as an authority on that
subject Like a number of the best
of Americas diplomatic and consular
servants he is a newspaper man. His
first connection with the press was as
member of the staff of the New
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shoulders will fall
much of the task
of settling the
present asphalt
difficulty now ex-
listing b e t w e e n
the New York
&c B e + m u d e z
Asphalt company,
the La Felicidad
company, owned
nv the Warmer
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OF MS own COun-
try than is Senior
Francisco Silvela,
the new Spanish
premier, tho u g h
there are but few
men who have re-
ceived such harsh
criticism a t t h e
hands of his own
countrymen as he.
Spain is above
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Paris, is about to
resign from the
diplomatic S e r "
ice, and rumor
connects the name
of Charlemagne
Tower, now rep
resenting t h i S
country at ST.
Petersburg, as his
probable success
SOr.
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25,UOO,OO0 acres OF
agricultural land
and GAO miles of
well-built railway
to the Canadian
Pacific Railroad
company as an
ihducement for
that corporation
to complete the
great T al w a v
system which the
government had
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Bur a Short Run Of Popularity Is
Promised for the Dainty Cbi1ons

DEOPLE who keep well in touch with the
fashion world, and know of what they
speak, advising merchants to touch
upon chiffons as a millinery feature but light
ay. They expect the chiffons to have run
early in the season, and, in fact, that is even
now shown, for Easter models show a great
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low the lead of the cities, and what is fash
ionable in New York will, in very short
time, be fashionable in every progressive
town and hamlet in the country. If chiffons
lose their popularity in the metropolis they
will also lose in the smaller towns despite
the prophecy of 1.-The man who knows"
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A year ago political prophets would
have said that Serge De Witte. the

Russian fin a n C e
minis ter, was po-
litically dead. At
t h a t t m e i t
seemed that he
had brought upon
himself his ever
lasting disgr a C e
and banishm e n t
from Russian poll
tics by displeas-
ing the car.
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Heavy Task for Laurier.

Twenty years ago the Canadian
government gave away $25,00O,00o,