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Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-07-29
COOLING DRINKS IN TURKEY.
Beverages and Ices Sold ON All the
Min Streets

beverages md Ices Sold on All the
Main Streets
On all the main streets nearly every
sther shop has a ounte Of white mar
ale and large bottles of iced water, le1a-
onade, cherry sirup, pomegrhnate strip
gr something of the sort. Green leaves
surround the bottles. and n little ma
chine keeps UP Il tinkling Of glasses to
attract the passersby. Certain shops
are known for their specialties In Ger.
cain sirups and others for their water,
shout which Turks are very particular
and can tell at once from which Of the
many springs near the capital it comes.
The streets swarm with itinerant sell
srs with elaborate arrangements for
keeping the water cold. Some have q
regular booth where they dispense
anything from water to a gazelle.
which Is the name for effervescing
nmonade.
The simplest method is that adopted
by those who carry about Il huge glass
bottle holding about two gallons Of
lemonade on the mouth of which is ba.
anced a large lump Of ice. continually
dripping into the bottle. These drinks
are the cheapest. one farthing a tuni-
nIer. Unfortunately the coin represen :
1irg q farthing is almost extinct. SO that
tue lrinker has to drink two glasses or
aatue back next day for the balance.
Tie ice cream vendors, too. must not
he forgotten. Their picturesque get up
* very distinctive, and they do a roar
ing trade. The ices they sell are very
sure, and ON" never hears of cases OF
Illness among those eating them. The
time when the men do their best bust
Ass with Europeans is at night after
dinner. Every II is then sitting out
eide on the terraces or balconies over
hanging the Bosporus. The ice man
r,cues along in a boat and seems at
urice to supply a long felt want.-Con-
xtantinOple Cor. London Telegraph.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-07-29
ENGLISH AS SHE'S WRITTEN
q Telegram That Nearly Frustrated
a WashinEtOn Man.

4 Iamentable unfamiliarity with Eng.
Esh as she is automatically "spoke" on
1er native heath is responsible for a
BAD quarter of an hour which a certain
Toung lawyer Of this town will not
soon forget. His wife has most pro-
aouncedly correct tastes in everything,
including dress. Such of her gowns as
TO not come direct from London town
are built in New York by the most cor.
rect Of English man milliners. When
abe made ready to 60 to Long Branch
hst summer, the young wife laid in a
supply Of clothes that should dazzle
the natives. Her English man milliner
was, however, %provokingly slow about
delivering things. and she was forced
10 set off without several of the frocks
che had intended taking with her. For
tie first week after she went away she
wrote to her devoted husband at home
every day. For the second week she
wrote every other day. In the third
week four days passed without a line
from her. On the fifth day a telegram
was delivered at the young lawyers
office.
~Wife's body forwarded this morn.
ng."
The signature was a scrawl. but the
message was enough to chill the very
marrow Of that young husbands bones.
X had been sent from New York. Te
saw in his minds eye. his dainty little
wife running up to town for a days
shopping. He thought Of the frightful
heat. He knew just how 1t had all come
about, and with a horror stricken face
he dashed out into the street and fair
" ran to the house Of his wife's sister
to acquaint her with the frightful
raws. He was past speech when he
r. ached the house. but he held out the
fatal telegram. The sister read 1t.
WELL" said she, tits time he sent 1t.
She's been expecting it for six weeks.
Tt's. the one that goes with the pink
q iffon skirt. l suppose" Washington
f'TSt.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-07-29
LOVE AMONG A
Ability to Stand Torture n Test OF
Masculine Devotion.


Among the Arabs of upper Egypt the
youth who proposes to a girl must sub
nit to a whipping at the hands of all
her male relatives, and, says a dry
narrator, "if he wishes to be consider
ed worth having he must receive the
chatisement. which is sometimes ex-
ceedlngly severe, with an expression
of enjoyment"
Not infrequently it is the maiden her
self who imposes the test. The Saka-
lava girls Of Madagascar make their
lovers stand at a short distance from a
clever spear thrower and catch be-
tween the arm and side every weapon
flung at them. If the youth displays
fear or fails to catch the spear, he is
ANONYMOUSLY rejected, but if there be
no f%1inching and the spears are caught
he is at once proclaimed an accepted
lover"
Worse than this is the trial enforced
upon their suitors by the Dongolowee
girls. When in doubt as to the respec-
tive merits of two rivals, the young la
dy fastens a sharply pointed knife to
each elbow; then, seating herself be-
tween her lovers, she drives the blades
slowly into their thighs, and the hero
who takes the greatest length of steel
without a murmur wins the bride.
Major Mitchell in his Expeditions
Into the Interior of Eastern Australia"
says of the natives on the river Darling
that all their ideas of fighting are as
sociated with the possession of gins or
wives and that after a battle the wives
do not always follow their fugitive
husbands from the field, but frequently
60 over, as a matter of course, to the
victors." "None but the brave deserve
the fair" is a maxim well understood
of most barbaric races. - Chambers
Journal.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-07-29
AN INSPlRATION.
1t Showed the Bashful Youth a Hap

py Way to Pop the Question.
TITS u co." announced the young
ran with beaming face, "and the hap
II day has been set"
$50 you got your courage up to the
rFdnt at last?' said the friend who
understood the situation.
Yes. Say, it isn't hard when you
7idn't get rvo prostration before I
made the plunge! l was six months
crying to get courage enough to ask
ste all important question. But every
time that l opened my mouth to speak
I simply broke out into a cold sweat
and couldn't say a word for the life
of me. 1 would have retreated a dozen
times bag and baggage If l could have
done so gracefully. Not that I didn't
want the girl. but simply for the rea-
aens that l despalred Of yer being able
~ ask her to be mine. The girl acted,
Zoo. as If she had a right to hear ONE
hing to the point. But l could only
sit there like a chuckle headed idiot
End abuse the weather. I would have
been right there In the same horrible
situation IL something hadn't happen
Id to break the ice.
Zone night last week we were sitting
ode by side OH a sofa and during one
or those blissful moments when moth
ing was being said I CHANGED to notice
che girls eyes intently fixed upon a
motto that hung on the wall opposite
and which read, Love One Another
Ill be hanged If I e saw that motto
Hefore, but 1t gave me an inspiration.
and I leaned over and murmured.
HShall weT and she murmured. 4 don't
Kind and it was all over but the
Aaouting!:-Detroit Free Press.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-07-29
4 Chinese Joke.

There was a man in Ch'ang-an who
was very fond Of giving dinners. but
the food given was atrocious. One day
a guest threw himself on his knees In
front of this gentleman and said, "Am
l not a friend of yours?"
"You are, indeed" replied his host.
"Then l must ask of you a favor"
said the guest, land you mus grant 1t
before rise from my knees"
"Well, what is itT' inquired his host
in establishment.
"Never to invite me to dinner any
more" cried the guest, at which the
whole party burst into a loud roar of
laughter.-North China Herald.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-07-29
Troubles OF Al Minister.

: 20 benefit others Rev...J. T. W. Vernon.
aaT4Artwell. Ga. writes: 80 a long time
many remedies without benefit. until l
nsed' . bottle of Electric Bitt'rs and a
box Of Bucklen's Arnica Salve. which
cured me sound and well Sores, Erupt
Ions, Boils. Eczema, letter, Salt Rhelm
show impure blood Thousands have
found in Electric Ritters a grand blood
purifier that absolutely cures these troub.
ID. Satisfaction ia guaranteed or money
fsfunded by Parlor Drug Store. Large
Asttles only zoe. 1=5
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-07-29
oldest Parasite In Creation.

Do readers know that the royal Ben.
gal tiger is infested with one Of the
strangest creatures that ever lived? It
is said to be a fact easily demonstrated
or proved by one who has access to a
geological collection that the web of
the foot of tigers of the above named
species is inhabited by a blood sucking
insect about the size Of a common flea
which Is a perfect counterpart Of a
tiger In every particular, shape, claws.
tail and stripes included.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-07-29
THE STAFF OF F
Bread Seems to Be Falling In Favor
as an Article of Diet.

Bread Seems to Be Falling In Favor
as an Article of Diet.
81 look upon bread as an article Of
food destined to be completely abolish
ed before many years." said a New
York doctor, ''for the number of per-
sons who are willingly giving up the
use of it increases every year. The ma
jority of them do this on the advice Of
their physicians, who find more ground
for recommending abstinence from
bread as they see the results that such
a course of treatment has ON their pa
tients.
"For nearly all forms of dyspepsia,
govt, rheumatism and kindred all
ments the patient is first told to shun
bread unless it lie submitted to certain
preparation and be taken only in GER
tain forms. The great increase in the
number of hygienic foods that have
been put upon the market and the al
most invariable success of any of these
manufactures which prove an accepta-
BILE substitute for bread and other
starchy foods are other indications in
the change of the public feeling toward
bread as a simple food which could be
taken under all circumstances.
"Some years ago a nan wrote a book
devoted chiefly to exposing to the
world the harmful qualities of bread.
Persons at that time thought he was a
crank, and little attention was paid to
his very sound utterances OF the sub
ject. But his opinions are now re-ech-
oed by most physicians, and the great
army of abstainers from bread gathers
recruits every day. The revolt against
such a we'll established institution is
naturally a little bit slow. But bread
Is destined to be ultimately Stunned
even more than it is today, and this de-
struction of a tradition that has lasted
centuries Is already well under way.
Most Of it's force comes from the COM
plete satisfaction of the persons who
do give up bread entirely. They are al
ways the most enthusiastic advocates
Of the new theory on the subject
New York Sun.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-07-29
The Celebrated "Leaf ANTI

One Of the oldest little creatures In
all animal nature is the leaf ant" of
Central America. Although different
species Of this oddly are known to in
habit the American continent from
Brazil to Mexico, the real home of the
true leaf ant is in Nicaragua. TO all
outward appearances this little insect
Is a common ant, but of gigantic
size, 1t must be admitted, when COM
pared with the ants of our temperate
regions, being on an average over an
inch in length. The habit for which
these ants are SO celebrated, and one
which we could hardly believe were it
not for the testimony Of reputable nat
uralists, is that of carrying a leaf for
q s%unshade, just as our women and
men carry parasols and umbrellas for
the same purpose.
When at work, the leaf carrying ants
look like O little army in which each
individual member is protected from
the suns rays by a little banner Of
green. Another remarkable fact in con-
nectIon with the leaf carrier Is that
only those at work carry the little leafy
protection. When a long file of burden
bearers have deposited their budgets,
they discard their parasols and return
for a load without the leaf which
made them such conspicuous objects
when ON the "up trip"
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-07-29
A Poor millionaire

Lately starved in London becaues he
could not dipeat his food. Early use Of
DR.. Kings New Life Pals would have
saved him. They strengthen the stomach
aid digestion. promote assimilati m. i'm.
prove appetite. Price csc. Money back
II not satisfied. Sold by PaIlor Drug
Store.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-07-29

The piles that annoy you so will be quick
" and permanently h. al.d if you use
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Beware OF
worthless rounterfeitI.
Rickert Il Wells, Barre, Wilcox & Gillette.
Nor etown, w E. Poole. Edst Barre. Vt
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-07-29

Those famous little pills. DeWitt's Little
Early Risers compel your liv r and
bowels to do their duty, thus giving you
pure, rich blood TO %recuperate your body.
Are easy to take Never grippe.
Rickert & Wells Barre, Wilcox & Gillette.
Moretown. w. E. Poole. East Barre, vt.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-07-29

A boon to travellers. DR.. Fowlers' Ex.
tract of Wild Strawberry Cures dysen-
terry diayrhoea, seasickness, neausea
Pleasant to take. Perfectly harmless.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-02
MARTIN GOT $4,000
Examination of His Books is
Still Incomplete.
Many Think the Amount viii be Three or
-Four Times the Amount Now
konwn

The Martin embezzlement of public
funds continues to grow in amount.
The $4,000 of Saturday has gone up to
SIS, 900, and the end of the examination
of the books is not yet finished.
Nobody, save possibly Maj. Martin can
guess what the total sum will be when
the investigation has been completed.
Many are predicting that it will reach
three or four times the sum now known to
have been taken by him.
The wonder of it all is that he sue
cessfully eluded detection for so long a
time 1t is reasoned that if he could
have stolen $4,000 or more from the
penitentiary fund, he could have done the
same with the other public institution
funds in his hands with equal ease.
Ex-Treasurer Worth holds bond of
s., coo a year from Martin, in a surety
company. Up to this amount for each
year Worth is safe, but any over it for
any one year, Worth and his bond are
liable.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-02
FAVORED IN SPOTS
March Smiled in the Middle
Atlantic States.
Elsewhere Drought and Rains Interfered With
Farm Work. The Planting of Cotton
and Corn Begun.
(By the Associated Press. J

Washington, April 1.-The Weather
Bureau has issued the following summary
of crop conditions:
From the Central Mississippi Valley
eastward to the Middle Atlantic Coast
the weather conditions of March were
generally favorable for farm work, but in
tthe States of the Missouri Valley and
Upper Lake region they were not so fa-
yorable. Complaints of drought are re-
lceived from Central and Western Texas,
while heavy rains in tn South Atlantic
and East Gulf States during the latter
part of the month interfered with farm
work and caused injury by washing pre-
pared land Preparations for planting
corn are in progress as far north as Kan
sas, Missouri, Kentucky and Virginia,
some having been planted in the south
ern portions of the first two named
States. Farther South larger part of
the crop has been planted.
Some cotton has been planted in Ala
bama and Southern Texas, and prepara-
tions for planting in other portions of the
cotton belt are we'll advanced
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-02
APPOINTED BY MCKINLEY.
Several Officers Rewarded For Bravery in
Battle in China.
(By the Associated Press

Washington, April 1.-The President to-
day made the following appointments
Treasury-Jos. B. Stewart, to be Col
lector of Customs for the District OF
Richmond, Va.
Navy-Jos. N. Hemphll. Abraham B. H.
Lille, Henry N. Manney and William T.
Swinburne. to be captains; Edward M.
Hughes and Samuel p. Comley to be
commanders; Roy c.. Smith and Robert
S. Griffin, to be lieutenant commanders.
Emery Winship to be advanced four
numbers in rank on the list of lieutenants
junior grade for eminent and conspicu-
Gus conduct in battle; Colonel Robert L.
Meade, to be brigadier general by brevet
in the marine corps, for distinguished
conduct and public service in the pres
ence of the enemy at the battle of Tien
Tsin, China: Lieutenant William G. Pow
ell to be captain by brevet in the marine
corps for distinguished conduct and public
service in the presence of the enemy al
Tien Tsin China.
Calvin T. Titus was appointed to be q
cadet at large at the United States Mill
tary Academy at West Point Titus was
the first soldier to scale the wall at
Pekin.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-02
NOT DUE TO HAzNG He SHOT AT THE CAR
Court of Inquiry's Report on
Death of Booz.
Hszing Prevalent to DepIorable Extent. AcaG-
emy Officers Worded Hard to Suppress
1t, No Further Action.
(By the Associated Press.)

Washington, April 1.-The findings of
the military court of inquiry which inves-
tigated the treatment alleged to have
been accorded to the late Oscar l.. Booz,
a former cadet at the West Point Mill
tary Academy, have been made public at
the War Department
The findings of the military court are
summed in letter written by Secretary
Root, which accompanies the report. This
letter says
THE findings of this court of inquiry,
which are sustained by the evidence,
show that the statement which led to the
convening of the court, to the effect that
former Cadet Oscar L. Booz came to his
death by reason of injuries received by
haZing at the Academy, were not true.
They show that at the time Cadet Booz
was a member of the Academy, hazng
was prevalent there to a deplorable ex-
tent; that the present officers of the
Academy have shown commendable en-
ergy, zeal and efficiency in detecting and
furnishing offenses of this character, and
that they greatly decreased the practice
and improved the public sentiment among
the cadets upon the subject. The testi-
mony and findings of the court were
placed in the hands of the committee of
Congress charged at about the same time
with the investigation of the subject and
the very efficient and beneficial action of
that committee followed by the legislation
upon the subject, contained in the act of
March 2nd 1901, renders further action by
the Department unnecessary.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-02
REDUCE The COTTON ACREAGE
Commissioner of Agriculture Advises the
Farmers Against Big Cotton
CROPS.
CrOps.

/ fear we shall see i've cent cotton
again." ~ @aM
.Do YOU think that this fertilizer
fall is the reason for the present de-
Dressed price of cotton?'
mot altogether, bur l think it is one
of the causes that has operated to de-
bress the prlce Undoubtedly, if there
was no prospect for q larger crop this
season than was raised last year, future
cotton would go up wJh a jump, which
MOULD effect present prices.
j 4 recall the fact that several short
crops have sold for more in the aggre-
gate than other crops greater by one
and two million bales. You have caught
me on the fly and / have not the fig
hres with me- but these are the facts in
general.
after the experience of the past,
however, continued the commissioner,
/ cannot believe that olu North Caro-
lima farmers are going to raise cotton
at the sacrifice of food products. Dur
ing the past two years they have become
Independent than at any time since the
war, and this result mas been accom-
plished by the policy adopted. A few
years ago, aftetr thd Panic brought
about five cent cotton, the farmer
made themselves Independent by rails
ing home supplies and producing cotton
and cobacco largely as surplus crops.
If they continue this wise policy, as
/ cannot but believe they will; they may
not reap TN ebenefits Of tie high prices
of the last two years. but at any rate
al, n ;,,1
ness"
Is there evidence OF a general increase
in acreage through the South?"
The same danger exists in other
southern States of too large an increase
of cotton, but efforts are being made
by leading farmers aEd farmers organ
izations in the South tC persuade the
farmers to keep the acreage within safe
bound. The Cotton Growers Associa-
tion is taking active steps in this direc-
tion in all the cotton States. Maj. Gra-
ham, the president OF the North Caro-
lima branch Of this organization, has
issued notice urging the farmers OF
the cotton counties in this State to as
semble at their respective court houses
to consider and discuss the present cot
ten conditions, and FOR protecting the
price as far as possible from adverse
manipulattons. MAJ Graham aptly
says
IF we wisn to sustain the present
price for future crops we must prevent
glut on The market ard own the crop
when produced. An excessive acreage
this year will affect TO some degree the
price of cotton now on hand, and reduce
that of the next crCO below cost of Dro-
duction. The situation is in our hands
but without organization nothing can be
accomplished.
Commissioner Patterson added: "It
is not too late TO devote portion of the
land intended for cotton to the corr
crop, and the farmer Who makes a gooC
crop of corn this year VIII certainly be
on the safe side. for the tendency OF
food crpps is upward While that of the
cotton crop is decidedly downward"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-02
WORKERS FOR CHRIST.
The Annual Convention of District Society Of
Christian Endeavor.
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer.)
Greensboro, N. c., April 1.-The annual
convention of the Society of Christian En-
deavor for this district, which convened
in Grace Methodist Protestant church
Saturday afternoon. closed last night
with most interesting meeting. The
convention was well attended by Chris
tian Endeavor workers from the district
and other sections, and much interest was
manifested in the proceedings. Reports
made indicated that the work was in a
thriving condition
Yesterday afternoon was devoted to the
Junior Endeavorers, a young peoples
meeting being conducted by Master Long
Holleman, of Elon College. Mrs. Charles
w. Petty made an interesting talk on
obedience to the Lords Command
ments." Mrs. Walter Mendenhall, of this
city, also made an impressive talk on
''The Work in Distant Lands" A chart
was used to illustrate the really small
proportion of the earth that is Christian
lied.
During the day delegates to the conven-
tion visited the Jail and county home and
conducted services for the inmates.
The closing session last night was
probably the most interesting of all. The
church was crowded when the services
was opened with a song service, led by
Prof. s. NJ Smith, State superintendent
of the junior branch of the Christian En-.
deavor Society. The devotional exercises
we're conducted by Rev. G.. e. Hodgin, OF
this city, after which Prof. r. P. Claxton
delivered an address on "Bible Reading"
He made many helpful suggestions for
reading and studying the Good Book.
Rev. A. d. Thaeler, of Winston Salem,
State president spoke Of the Christian
Endeavor movement and urged all the
members to strive to make the organiza-
tion greater factor than ever in the
advancement of the cause of Christ and
the Christian religion. The convention
was closed with conservation service,
which was participated in by all pres
emf