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Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-01-04
LOST AND FOUND,

LOST Strayed or Stolen a one year old
black and white Holstein Bull. Any Informal
ton will be literally rewarded. Address. G.
q Porter, So. Barre, or Fred Cutler on the
Perrin Farm. 204-tf
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-01-04
WHEN THE coFFE's POOR
NOTICE

Prof. Avery wishes to announce
that he has removed his office from
Keith avenue to Main street, over
Gladding's Parlor Drug store, where
ne will be pleased to see old patrons,
as well as new ones. Office hours from
to IL a. M, to 4.30 and I to 8 p.
m. Examinations free. All work
guaranteed.
The age-herald., 1901-09-26

Probate Judge A. P Longshore of Shell by County was in Birmingham yesterday. Judge Longshore has grown stouter and somewhat more sedate than when in oth- CT days he was a conspicuous member of the Legislature.
 Dr. James K. Powers of Florence, for mer president of the State University, is at the Florence. Dr. Powers Is now the State agent of a schoolbook publishing house, and he declares himself to be happy as well as prosperous. He looks both.
 The Right Rev. Father Menges, abbot of St Bernard's Benedictine Monastery Cullman, was in Birmingham yesterday, as was Rev. Father Robert, o. s. B., of Brooksde.
 Harry s. Zelgler of Philadelphia is at the Metropolitan. MT. Zeigler, in per- sonal appearance, is the other self of the Hon. D. R. Burgess of Mobile. The two are often mistaken one for the other by men who know them both
  at the Metropolitan.
 Representative John Doloney of Col bert County was in Birmingham yester- day.
 T. L.. Darlington of Corona is at the Morris.
 aP To- ic of 1a Mnr- ris.
 J. A. Stall of New York Is at the Nor ris.
 L. w. Collier, widely known as a rail- road passenger agent of Atlanta, is at the Morris, accompanied by c. F. Hoke, also of Atlanta.
 L. H. Bennett of Demopolis is at the Florence.
 Hon. John P. Hampton of Madison County is at the Florence.
 R. D. windham, Jr., of Stone Is at the Florence.
 R. l.. Blanton of Double Springs is at the Florence.
 President J. K. Dmmck of the Dim mick Pipe Works left Birmingham last night for Philadelphia, being called thither by a telegram announcing the sudden illness of Mrs. Dimmick
 Hon. Ed deGraffenried of Greensboro was in Birmingham last night.
 W. c. Lee of Union Springs is at the Morris.
 W. R. Peacock of Selma Is at the Nor ris.
 Robert S. c. Edwards of New York Is at the Morris.
 Lawrence Breckenridge Musgrove ar rived in Birmingham from the East last night and Is at the Morris.
The age-herald., 1901-09-26

eral accidents, and she lost to the Livonia, the challenger of that year, one event, but the cup was retained, because the Columbia had won the two previous races. The Columbia of 1871 Is still afioat and in good condi- tion As a rule the Cup races have not been closely contested. but in 1885 the Genesta pushed the Puritan closely, and in 1893 one race between the Vigilant and Valkyrie was won by only forty seconds.
 In these races strength, as well as feetness, is expected. After the start no accident Is permitted to prevent a victory. If the sails of one yacht be carried away, the other yacht becomes a winner in walkover, so to speak. Staunchness Is expected, and if it be not present the boat that lacks 1t is beaten.
 At this writing 1t is either boats race, with the chances in favor of the challenger if the wind be free, and with the chances in favor of the de- fender if the race be in light airs. To- days race will confirm our title to the cup If Columbia crosses the line first, for no challenger can well come bet ter equipped than Sir Thomas Upton, grocer, is today.
The age-herald., 1901-09-26
MT. Hanna's New Positions.

Mir. Hanna has regained his talking propensities. He now accepts Presi- dent Roosevelt on probation. If" he recently said, President Roosevelt carries out his promise to continue the policy adopted by President McKin- ley, he will have my warm support, as well as that of every loyal Republi- can" This implies that there are dis loyal Republicans, and it at least shows that the Hon. Mark Hanna may attempt to assert himself.
 The Ohio Senator is now engaged in conducting the campaign in his State, where a Governor is to be elected and a United States Senator chosen. He recently said in respect to this campaign:
 "There may be some speeches a little later, but I do not anticipate any excite ment The recent tragedy is too solemn for that. Nor will there be apathy. The great mass of the people whom William Mckinley loved will be certain to pay to him a last tribute at the polls by follow ing his example of casting the ballot as the highest duty and most valued priv ilege of citizenship. When all the votes thus go to the polls to voice their con- victions there can be no doubt of the re- suit of Ohio"
 This attempt to coin the grief of people into votes is, to say the least, lacking in good taste and in deep feel ing, but the sensibilities and humani- ties of the Ohio Senator were never considered particularly tender and keen. Nothing short of cartoon or cudgel reaches his tender parts. This rhinoceros among politicians should not plead his griefs. A na- tional sorrow has no relation to party divisions or party issues-to the trust question, or the tariff question, or the ship subsidy question, or the isthmian canal question, or any other political question. MT Hanna should return to his old methods, and not attempt to carry the Buffalo tragedy into politics.
The age-herald., 1901-09-26
Senate is Opposed to Reciprocity.

When President Roosevelt tries to carry out the late Presidents policy as to reciprocity treaties, he will find not only about twenty such treaties tied up in that stronghold of monop- oly, the Senate, but he will find every combine in the land ready to assail his plans. The esteemed Republican papers may accept the principle of reciprocity, but they want no applica- ton of 1t, and one combine after an- other will see that its interests are looked after in the Senate.
 The House very fairly represents the people or the consumers of this country. The Senate represents the combines and monopolies of the land, and this will be made very apparent if reciprocity treaties are revived. In the Senate 76,000,00o of people are ig- nored and disregarded, and the be- nests of about 100 tariff-protected mo- nopolies are unhesitatingly obeyed.
 Senator Warren has already de- clared war against the Argentina reef procity treaty, which would give the people cheaper and better clothing. He says it cannot be revived, but he is clearly mistaken. The Dingley act says reciprocity may be negotiated in two years, but it says nothing at all as to when it shall be ratified. The Argentina treaty and many other treaties of like nature were nego- tiated by MT. Kasson, acting for this country, before the two years had ex- pired, but ratification has been ''hung up" in the Senate. The wool growers of Wyoming caused one treaty to be hung up, and a big glove factory in New York had another put in limbo; a glass bead factory in New England struck at another, and so on to the end of the list. The Senators repre- senting the various tariff-protected monopolies, who are daily footing 76.- 000,o00 of people in this country, have formed combine, and they propose to defeat each and all of the reciproc- ity treaties, and President Roosevelt and the words of tho dead President may be powerless against this Senate. rial combine.
 There is but one lesson-Senators should come from the people. They should be elected by the people acting directly, and until they are the Sena- torial stronghold of monopoly cannot be successfully assailed. The benefic' iaries of Dingleyism do not care what the President or the people do so long as they can hold their present power in the Senate.
The age-herald., 1901-09-26
Bad Soap In Good Hotels.

"Why is 1t that hotels in general keep such wretchedly poor soap in their pub lie lavatoriesY' demanded a travelled man.
 Nobody present could answer this question: though all were agreed that they could not recall having ever stopped at hotel which supplied good soap in the lavatory.
 Ut seems to me-" the man continued, that hotel managers try to buy the toughest, coarsest, meanest and most un- satisfactory soap in the market. The soap you get in the hotel lavatories Is charged with a superabundance of lye and acids generally, and the use of it cuts ones hands and makes them as rough as the hands of a street gamin. And the odor of this kind of soap is very disagreeable.
 Now, everybody knows soap is very cheap-even good soap is absurdly low priced. Then why will not hotels supply their public washrooms with something better than the vile stuff ordinarily im- posed upon their guests?
 Castle soap, for example, Is almost dirt-cheap, and there is scarcely any better made. Besides, 1t doesn't get soft and mushy, and it lasts well. Certainly it would in the long run be as cheap as the nasty stuff the guests of hotels are now forced to use."
The age-herald., 1901-09-26
Trial of the Buffalo Assassin.

Sentence will be pronounced today upon Czolgosz, and the trial of the as- sassin will then be concluded. An ap- peal is not probable, because it would simply be an attempt at delay. No doubt the murderer will be electro cuted speedily, and an end be had to the saddest tragedy of modern times. The trial was free from the custom ary bubbles, squabbles and experts. No request of the assassin's counsel was denied, and even the prisoners plea of guilty" was refused, on the ground that the law of New York does not permit such a plea when life Is at stake. Under the law of that State man must be proven guilty before his life becomes forfeited to the State.
 Practically speaking, however, the plea of guilty stood, for the prisoners lawyers called no witnesses. They had none. The prisoner wanted none, and the alienists could detect in him no signs of insanity. He pursued his intended victim with coolness and with deliberate intent. He went to Buffalo for the purpose of killing the head of the state, and he carried out his purpose with no small degree of skill and cunning. The malice may not have been of a personal sort but it was malice nevertheless, and there was plenty of intent
 If Czolgosz be insane his mental dis order consists in a crookedness of thinking that society cannot afford to harbor. The case is no more of sin gular one than was the case of the Paterson assassin who killed King Humbert. There is no room for sym pathy in such cases. Society cannot be reformed in their way. Society would disintegrate under their plans. It has long been held that a murderer is sane within the meaning of the law if he knew he was committing murder at the given time and If he knew his act was contrary to the law of the land Czolgosz is clearly sane when tried by these rules. The very condi- tion and frame of his mind led him to strike down even the most beloved of Presidents. For this he must die, and it is fortunate that he will speedily disappear from the earth.
The age-herald., 1901-09-26
TIMES CHANGES FAVOR SOUTH.
From the Macon Telegraph.

From the Macon Telegraph.
 There was a day, not so long distant, when nobody in Pennsylvania thought that iron and coal could be developed in paying quantities in Alabama, Virginia, West Virginia Tennessee and Texas; when nobody in Pennsylvania thought it possible for mineral oil to be tapped in Texas Louisiana, Montana and Califor- mia: when nobody in Vermont or Massa- chusetts thought the marble and stone quarries of Georgia would become for midable in competition; when nobody in the Ohio valley thought that melon cult ure would become one of the important industries of Georgia; when nobody in Delaware thought that the biggest peach orchards in the world would ever be found in Georgia. We could cite many another instance. Indeed, 1t has been only a few years since the cotton farmers of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas were con- fronted by the market-breaking output of Texas, now leading all other Southern States in cotton production. Truly, mo- body knows it 'all-not even the wise men who write things for the Northern pa- pers.
The age-herald., 1901-09-26
GREAT CARD GAME.

Berlin Cor. Chicago Record Herald.
 Tonight Berlin saw the finish of what Is described as "the greatest games of cards in history Five thousand play CTS have been engaged five colglecutive days, fourteen hours a day. Numerous competitors played whole days without stopping to eat.
 The occasion was the first international tournament at Germany's national game of ''skat" Several Americans were among the competitors. Secretary Bar thold, who has had much work in organ izing the affair, said to t..e Record Herald correspondent tonight:
 "A remarKable feature of the gigantic contest was the absolute absence of dis putes. Such circumstances are enough to make Hoyle turn in his grave. 'Skat has nearly half a million devotees in Berlin alone. The Kaiser Is an enthusiastic player. We are seriously considering building a 'skat' club house and the es- taClishment of 'skat' newspapers. In England the game Is coming gradually to supplant whist. It has not however. won much favor in the United States. where we understand ISker is supreme
The age-herald., 1901-09-26
TodaY's Race for the Cup,

The first race for the America's cup occurs today; the second on Saturday; the third on Tuesday next, and the fourth and fifth on the following Thursday and Saturday. If either boat should win the first three races, the fourth and fifth of the series would not be sailed. The winner of three races out of five takes the cup that the America won over fifty years ago.
 The course is fifteen miles from starting point to stake boat, and the racing boats must turn at the stake boat and sail back to the starting point. This makes a thirty-mile race, and a handicap allowance of forty three seconds in such race is not very material, unless indeed the two boats be marvellously we'll matched both in . breeze and in calm weather. This is not likely. There are differences in them that mean more than forty three seconds in a thirty-mile race. The sail area alone of Shamrock II is nearly 10 per cent the greater.
 But still the sharps are at sea. The talent is in a confused state of mind. They do not know what to think. and their money is not talking loudly and in great volume. Confidence is evenly distributed between the two sides if it exists at all. Among the best in- formed of either side it is thought confidence does not exist at all. All feel that the two yachts are well matched, and that close race may be expected.
 In all twenty-four races have been sailed in efforts to carry the cup back 10 British waters, including the race in which the America won the cup. All these races were won by American yachts save one. In 1871 the Colum- bia, defender of the cup. met with sev-
The age-herald., 1901-09-26
READY FOR REPUBLIC.
MacArthur Says Conditions In Philip
 pines Are Favorable.

Milwaukee, September 25.-General Ar thur MacArthur, who recently returned from Manila, says the condition in the Philippines are favorable for the ideas of a Republic. At an informal reception &C., corded him by the Chamber of Commerce he made a brief address, in which he said, in part:
 '"To my mind the beauty of our posses sions at Manila lies in the planting of American ideas of benefcence in the east ern world.
 We are planting imperishable ideas in that great eastern country We are carry ing the doctrine of personal liberty there and wherever the flag of the United States in the process of just advance ment is once planted, it is going to stay forever.
 '"The conditions there are favorable for the ideas of a republic"
The age-herald., 1901-09-26
SOUTHERN RAILROADS.

From the New York Sun.
 The recent second annual session at Asheville, N. C., of Southern Railroad commissioners was attended by the repre- sentatives of the twelve southern states As recently as 1885 the railroads of the six southern Atlantic states of Virginia North and South Carolina, West Virginia, Georgia and Florida, carried in a year only one-third as much freight as was carried in the same periods in the single state of Pennsylvania. and at the same time the passenger earnings of the rail- roads of these six states, with Alabama. Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louis iana and Arkansas added had, even at the higher passenger rates charged in the south, smaller earnings from passenger traffic collectively than the six states of New England.
 By the last report of the Interstate Commerce Commissioners, it was shown that of the three states which stood at the head of the list in recent railroad building, two, Georgia and Arkansas, were in the south. and at the present time Georgia has more than double the rail- road mileage of Massachusetts, and Ar- kansas three times as much as Connecti- cut Alabama has nearly one-half the railroad mileage of New York, and even North Carolina, long a laggard state in railroad development, has total mileage 50 per cent greater than that of New Jersey, in many parts of which the rail- roads constitute almost a network Of lines. Undoubt edly the great development of the coal, iron and phosphate inter- ests of the south have had much to do with the improvement of the railroad ser- vice in southern states, and the develop ment of a new market in the west for the fruit products of the lower Mississippi valley has been a contributing cause, too But the railroad growth in Southern states is ascribable to no single cause. It is due to a better understanding of the requirements of these states and to the Improvements In railroad building, in railroad operations, and in the adjust ment of the financial problems which have become a part of railroad business.
The age-herald., 1901-09-26
MODEST INSURANCE
Was Carried by President Mckinley
 on His Life.

New York, September 25.-According to the Insurance Press, which conducted an impartial investigation, the late Presi- dent carried the following insurance: New York Life, s5O,OOO; Connecticut Mu- tual. s1o,0Oo: Michigan Mutual, $70OO; Equitable. -. The Equitable policy the amount of which could not be learned, was written through the Columbus agency in 1892 and was paiu by the com pany on Monday.
 The Connecticut Mutual policies were two in number of $5000 each. One was written by Capt Robert H. Kellogg of Cincinnati and the other by J. A. Strob- hart of Canton. The Michigan Mutual policy was solicited by his uncle, Joseph s. Saxton. of Canton, who has been the agent of this company for the past twen- ty-years. At one time, while MT. Mo- Kinley was practicing law in Canton, he was employed by the Michigan Mutual as abstractor and attorney, and it was in that company that he took out his first insurance.
 President Mckinley was insured in the New York Life for ,he first time in 1853 on the ordinary life, ten-year accumula- tion plan, for $10,000. He accepted the cash value due on the policy in 1S93 He was insured a second time on the ordin- ary life, ten-year accumulation plan, May 14, 1885. for s3oOO. and received the cash value in 1895.
 In 1896 he was again insured for $50 900, ordinary life plan, fifteen-year accumula- tion premium, $27675O. This policy was changed to a fifteen-year endowment, fif- teen-year accumulation plan, premium $4l25, in August, 1897. This policy was in force at the time of the Presidents & death. On July 22 19O1 Secretary Cortel- you sent from Canton a check for $4125, the amount due July 2S, to President Me Call, of the New York Life.
The age-herald., 1901-09-26
HOW HE AVOIDED A DUEL.

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
 Speaking of dueling," said a well known attorney of New Orleans, 'I had an experience when I first began to practice law that was trifie out of the ordinary, and 1t proved to me that there is more than one way to get a bill out of fellow who is inclined to be slow about meeting his obligations. I was young and impulsive and full of that feeling of self-surhcency which all young professional men feel A client gave me a bad bill to collect I wrote the man a polite letter, to which he made no re- sponse. I waIled what I considered reasonable length of time for a reply,
 and then I fired a rather curt note at the delinquent. and in fact took occa- sion to use some rather plain language and told him what thought about fel- low who would not pay his debts. I was sitting in my office one day when a tall gentleman walked in, introduced himself and began to tell me his busi- ness. He represented the delinquent and
The age-herald., 1901-09-26
.Shamrock and Colym6sa Cutting
 Zw Shape 1or he Great Contest

Written by John R. Spears. Historian of
 the United States Navy, for the New
 York World and the Chicago Inter-
 Ocean.
 New York, September 25.-For more than a week a host of white-jacketed men have rubbed the under body of the challenger Shamrock with such powder as jewellers use when cleaning silver ware. Hour after hour and day after day to and fro over one small section of a single plate, each man has showed his handful of cotton waste, loaded with the moistened powder-has showed it un- til his arms ached as If he had the rheu- matism but with unabated patience,
 Under this work, prolonged far beyond what any one ever dreamed of doing be- fore, the bronze plates were first cleaned and then frightened till they reflected wrinkles in the flushed faces of the work men. It has all been a marvel to the experienced spectators
 But now the hour when this work shall cease has been set. There were signs even today that the end was at hand, for the polishing of the underbody ceased at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and only the men who have used emery cloth on the plates over the head of the fish-shaped lead keel kept on until the end of the day.
 On the plates above water that were formerly covered with green paint, the polishing was finished before noon. But when the spectators looked for a gang of painters with brushes and pails, none came Instead one man came with lit tie brush and a small pot of bronze paint. With this he painted over the lower ends of the steel c4-ain plaits, to which shrouds are fastened on each side opposite the mast.
 This bit of work made the old salts shut one eye and look very hard at the chain plates.
 There was but one conclusion to be drawn from the facts-the upper part of the hull will not be painted. And thus Shamrock will present everywhere a mirror-smooth surface to the water, even when she heels to a twelve-knot breeze Sir Thomas has sacrificed sentiment to utility. He not only has the smoothest possible surface, but has saved carrying the weight of many kegs of paint.
 The barnacles remembered further that when old Shamrock went into the races two years ago the paint was scraped from her mast, and thus many pounds of useless weight came down from aloft. The mast of Shamrock H. will be scraped tomorrow. These matters of extra polish and removal of paint are small, but in a race like this 1t is of the utmost importance to save seconds. In one race between Valkyrie and Vigilant the Yankee boat won by forty seconds only.
 MT. Watson was around the dock In his shirt sleeves all day. working as hard as any man on the job. MT. Ratsey came in the afternoon with his sailmakers, and when the Shamrock's crew had brought some sails on board the racer from the
The age-herald., 1901-09-26
- ------- GERMAN OFFICERS SORE,
Incensed at Action of an American
 Whaling Bark.

San Francisco, September 25.-Accord- ing to information brought from the Car oline island, the German officers in au- thority on the island of Ruk are much incensed at the action of the crew of an unknown American whaling bark, hailing from San Francisco last year. It is said that the whaler sold a quantity of knives, revolvers and other war-like materials to the natives on the island A big gun has been planted on an eminence overlooking the anchorage and fifteen men placed in charge of the weapon. While the gun is intended for general use against smugglers, the American whaler in particular is desired to come within range.