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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-10-31
JINGLES AND ESTS.


The soda water sizzles where the thirsty
qaaffer stands
The iceman yeils your nickel to secure
Your collar willis your cuffs hang moist
and clammy on yuur hands,
These autumn days are melancholy sure.
y Washington Star.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-10-31
HlN Trnnl,Ie.

sHaye you any buzzing ID your
earsf' asked the doctor, who was try.
Ing to diagnose the case.
No, replied Mr. Henneck, mot OK
cept when ] have 70 stay III the house"
Chicago Record Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-10-31

A full supply Of fresh caught fish this
week at the regular prices regardless Of
the high prices at the Hub market. City
Fish Market, Tel 1912
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-10-31
WE CAN'T DO 1T.

It's almost useless for try temze the many good
values we have to offer you this week We can't do il WE are
showing styles and better goods for less money than you
before Our goods positively Of the very highest
character We would tolerate poor quality Of seconds n
our store We have been very busy the past week n our
Hosiery and Underwear Department.
We regret thar We have been unable all times to wait
you these counters but have engaged help and won't
keep you waiting So long next time
Ladies Misses and Chidrens Fleece Lined Hose n all
prices large stock to select from
Ladies' Misses and Chidren's Fleece Lined and Wool
Underwear the largest line and best values the city select from
We sell imperfect goods in this Or any other department
We guarantee everything sell Be exactly represent
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-10-31

ohildren's beaver hats at special prices
at Fits.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
When Boston Submerges.

When town gets heavy enough to
tilt the earth it is not to be lightly re-
garded. When it is built on the sea-
coast and begins to settle because OF
its ponderosity it is worthy Of serious
consideration as a community. Bos
ton town has now been doing business
213 years, growing each of those years,
adding many layers of late, putting on
flesh, as it were. 1t has always been
solid place, substantial in it's appear
ance, heavy in its thought. There is
nothing light or frivilous about il. 1t
is compact, just as a well-built hub
should be.
Now it is announced by officials who
know, of course, what they are talb-
ing about, that Boston is settling to-
ward the sea level at the rate Of about
One-eighth of an inch year, or lit
tie more than a foot in a century.
Just what would happen if Boston
were suddenly to take slide into the
sea in consequence of this downward
movement must be left to the imag-
nation.-Washingto Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
Wanted Mr.. Henry.

At a political meeting the speakers
and audience were very much disturbed
by a man who constantly called out:
"Mr. Henry, Henry, Henry! 1 call for
Mr. Henry"
After several Interruptions of this
kind at each speech young man as
cended the platform and was soon air
ing his eloquence in magniloquent
style, striking out powerfully in his
gestures, when the old cry was heard
for Mr.. Henry.
Putting his hand to his mouth like a
speaking trumpet, the man was bawl-
ing at the top Of his voice: "Mr. Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry! I call for Mr..
Henryv'
The chairman now rose and remark
ed that it would oblige the audience if
the gentleman would refrain from any
further calling for Mr.. Henry, as that
gentleman was then speaking.
''Is that Mr.. Henry?" said the dis
turber of the meeting "Great dizzy!
That can't be Mr.. Henry! Why, that's
the little chap that told me to holler!'-
London Answers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
The Dnctnr'R Advise.

The humorist, Marshall 2. Wilder,
was, not unnaturally, in the best Of
spirits at his recent wedding in New
York One of the things he said was
this:
II am going to tell you about an
experience that an Irishman had with
a doctor. This will be appropriate for
the reason that my wife is Doctors
daughter, and 1 thought seriously Of
studying medicine in my youth.
"There was an Irishman who rushed,
late one night, to doctors house in
great haste and terror. He rang the
doctor out CT bed, and he said, nearly
weeping:
"'Doctor, doctor, dear; my little son
Pat has swallowed mouse. What in
the world is to be done?
Swallowed a mouse, has he? said
the doctor, gruf1iy. We'll, go back
home and tell him to swallow cat :"
Cincinnati Post
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
HerDearest Wish.

Mamma" asked little Florence,
"when am going to be a bOy?
"Why, never. dear. You are NAM
mas little girl"
"Ain't 1 ever going to be a boy?"
"No, dear; girls can't be boys
"Willie Jones was girl, and now
he's a boy"
"You don't want to be a boy. What
should we do without our little girl?"
Cant God make me boy?"
''No; God will never make you a
boy"
Florence walked away thoughtfully,
and that night, when she said her
prayer, she added this petition: IF
you can't make me boy, then make
me a billy-gOat. "-WOman's Home
Companion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
Skill in Diagnosis.

Here is rather striking story about
the Philadelphia physician, DR.. w. w.
Aeen:
An artist was escorting DR.. Keen
through an exhibition of pictures.
Before the portrait of man of middle
age the physician stopped.
do you know this man?" he asked.
II believe" the artist answered,
''that it is a Mr.. So-and-So."
lis he dead?"
eyes. He has been dead almost two
years."
"Well," said DR.. Keen, II would wa
ger that he died of heart disease"
The artist, struck by a skill that
could find material for diagnosis in a
picture, inquired into the death of the
portraits original, and found, that the
man had, indeed, died of heart dis
ease the winter before.-Detroit News
Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
.Garrblers'
Eyes
By HARRY C. CARR
copyright, 1908, bg T. C. Mcclure

When the smoke cleared away in the
barroom there was another job for the
young frontier parsOn. Charley Nc
Cartney had killed the tenderfoot.
Charley explained grimly that he
needed killing; he cheated in poker.
The rest of them took his word for it
and turned the case over to the par
son.
1t was only when the parson went
through the tenderfoot's pockets that
he found. anything different in this
case from various others that had
come under his notice.
He found a letter there. He found
various other things. There were
money and some pictures, The par
son burned the pictures. They were
not nice pictures. He figured it out
that the tenderfoot came west be-
cause they could spare him from his
home circle.
But the parson saved the letter; it
was a pitiful thing.
Somebody's mother had written to
the tenderfoot as he was leaving for
the west. She wanted him to hunt
for her boy.
"Tell him to come back to me-" the
letter said. Tell him I've prayed to
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01

News from Kansas is to the effect
that the carload of young collegians
are not finding harvesting as easy
work as they anticipated. Soon after
their arrival they learned that the
eight-hour-a-day did not apply to the
harvest fields, and that the farmers
were not looking for social lions. Con-
sequently their hearts grew heavy and
sad. Nevertheless, despite their I'M
tanned skins and tender hands, the
young fellows are pluckily sticking to
the work and doubtless will learn
more in couple of weeks than they
learned in college in couple Of years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
IOWA BANKERS ADJOURN
Standing Reward Offered for Bank Rob
- Observation-Disclosures Condemned
Officers Elected.

! Davenport, Ia, July 31.-The Iowa
State Bankers association has closed
it's seventeenth annual convention. 1t
was decided to offer 6 standing re-
ward of $1,000 for the arrest and con-
viction of any person who might rob
bank belonging to member of the
association. For information leading
to the arrest of such a burglar the
association will pay $500. A uniform
system of bank money orders was rec
commended.
a Steps will betaken to- make the meas
ure practicable. Over-capitalization of
corporations was condemned and leg
islation will be asked to correct the
watering of stock. These officers were
elected: President l.. f. Potter, of
Harlan; secretary, J. NJ. Dinwiddie, of
Cedar RaDidS
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS,

Those paid by other people are the
most popular taxes
Some spinsters envy wives and some
wives envy spinsters.
Nearly all political candidates are
under treaty obligations.
In the race of life it doesn't take
poverty long to overtake laziness
When a nsn buys porous plaster
he generally sticks to his bargain.
Sometimes what is regarded as a
pious life is merely contemplative
one.
There are women who wouldn't en-
JOY a mansion in heaven unless they
could clean house every six weeks
Chicago Daily News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
A Physician Healed.

DR.. Geo Ewing, a practiclng physician OF
Smiths Grove, Ky, for over 30 years. writes
his personal experience with Foley's Kidney
Cure: For years ] have been greatly both
cred with kidney and bl oder trouble and
enlarged PROSTATE gland. | used every
thing known to the profession without relief
until commenced to use Foley's Kidney
Cure After taking three bottles ! was en-
tirely relieved and cured. l prescribe it
now daily inmy practice and heartily recon-
mend it's use to all physicians for such trou-
bes have prescribed it in hundreds Of
cases with perfect success" At Benefits.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
Effects Of Buying at Home

merchants; were it not for the
novelty and fascination of buying
goods away from home by mail,
and were it not for the fact that
some people owing store bills at
home will send their cash money
away for goods, there would be
but small trade for cat houses and
smaller business reason for their
existence in fact of the wonderfully
improved mercantile conditions as
found in the country town today.
Country merchants have in sight
and are now selling all aboard,
high-class goods of well known
make and brand for same,i or less
money than cat houses charge for
''cull" and seconds" and so save
to customers, over the cat houses,
the freight besides, for it should
be we'll understood by the country
people that the catalogue houses
can not buy of manufacturers and
jobbers the standard goods handled
by the regular, the legitimate, trade
in the country towns and cities:
and they wouldn't if they could, for
these durable, genuine, high-class
goods come too high for the cat
houses to sell them with profit
enough to meet their enormous ex-
penses, as they claim to spend, and
must spend, hundreds of thousands
upon their catalogues and their
countrywide newspaper advertis-
ing.
Moreover, as it is well known in
trade circles, the cat house don't
carry in stock anywhere near the
amount of goods they list in their
big catalogues. They get the
farmers money first, then go out
into the Chicago market for cheap
goods, "culls" and seconds" to fill
his order and as far as cat house
guarantee on such goods, as they
sell, it is 800 miles too long, it ''gets
broke" in the long stretch between
here and Chicago and as to your
money back" that is all worked
out by the 1900 typewriters" set
to the task of making you believe
the moon is made of green cheese.
If your home storekeeper, even for
little bit, should try to monkey
with you as the cat houses are do
ing with their dissatisfied custom
ers, you would have the story told
on him over the whole township
in less than no time.
Buying away from home or from
peddlers, when your town merch-
ants are SO hankeringly ready to
meet and save you. money on any
cat house offer or faker's deal, is
the foolest and dearest proposition
you ever went up against.
If you have the cat house habit,
break it off, and heed the repeated
injunction of your newspaper
people-be loyal to your home
town-it will pay you with good
interest.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
Missing Conductor Found.

s. st. Paul. July BE. E. Clements,
the conductor of the Chicago Great
Western freight train, who was miss
ing after the accident last Monday at
Xlasaty Mimi, is being taken care
of on farm about five miles from the
scene of the disaster. The shock which
he sustained at the time of the wreck
quite disordered his nervous system,
and he is both mentally and physical
ly broken down.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01

They are very kind to the automo-
bilists in Pennsylvania. At Union
town the other day funeral process
sion was stopped and the horses were
unhitched from the hearse for the
purpose of pulling a big automobile
out of mud hole in which it had got
stuck. 1t may be, however, that the
undertaken was thinking of future
business.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
Found Gold While Digging a Well.

Indianapolis, July 31.-Frank Rem
ner, a well digger, went to the farm
of Samuel Bowman near Taylorville
TO- dig a well. They struck water at
a depth of about twelve feet and
pumped some of it out. With the wat
er came black sand. A heavy sedi-
ment was. found in this sand, which
soon settled to the bottom. In the
sand were many glittering particles
which the two men say is gold.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
SOME PENSION STATISTICS
Annual Report for Kansas, Missouri,
New Mexico, Oklahoma. Indian Ter
ritory and Colorado.

Topeka, Kan, July 31-Wilder S
Metcalf, United States pension agent
for the Kansas, Missouri, New Mex
leo, Oklahoma. Indian Territory anG
Colorado districts, has compiled his an
nual report. The number of pensioners
in the district decreased by 226 durin-
tt fiscal year. There are Low on the
list 1869 pensioners. During the
year the Topeka office has paid out in
pensions the sum of $15.S51,71O.
Missouri leads the district in the
number of pensioners, and has H.
900 more persons on the roll than Kan
sas. The total number of pensioners
on the rolls of the Topeka office at the
beginning of the year was 1850.
The number of names added to the roll
during the year was 5,946, and the loss
by death was 6,172.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
Canada Wins the Ffrst Race.

Montreal, July 31.-The first race
of the series for the Seawanhaka chal-
lenge cup was sailed on Lake Saint
Louis, and the Thorella, defending for
the Royal ST. Lawrence Yacht club,
defeated the challenger, the Kolutoo,
representing the Manchester, Mass,
Yacht club. The Kolutoo lost her rud-
der on the second leg of the third
round, when the Thorella was 8 min
utes and AZ seconds ahead.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
He WAS KICKING HIS HEELS AND WRIG-
CLING LIKE LITTLE EEL.


God every day Of my life to keep
him. And here the writing grew il
legible The parson thought it looked
like tear stains.
The parson read on to the end. That
letter was the inside of mothers
heart. At the very end it told the
name Of her boy. The parson had
heard of him by reputation-not the
very best of regulations. The name
of the man was Charley Mccartney.
The parson was not squeamish. He
got over being squeamish long ago. He
But there was something strange and
awful in this coincidence.
When the tenderfOot was decently
buried and the parson had said the
"ashes to ashes" and the 'dust to
dust for him he put on his hat and
walked down the line of the saloons.
He turned in at the biggest and tough
est.
The big red faced man who seemed to
be the presiding genius of the place
looked up in surprise. He knew the
parson. Everybody knew him.
"Going to take some chips and come
into the game?' as asked facetiously.
But he held out his hand. and the par
son took it cordially. Each of these
men respected the other in a way. The
red faced man was gambler but the
parson knew where the money came
from that Gid many a little act Of
charity that no one else knew of.
Ell think I've come to copper your
ace" said the parson. Then he asked
where Charley Mccartney could be
found. The gambler looked at him mar
rowly for a moment. Then he pointed
across the room.
THAT guy with the chips piled in
front Of him is Charley Mccartney" he
said briefly.
The parson walked slowly across the
room TO Charley Mccartney. He never
had seen him close to before. Mozart
ney had a fine face. But the parson in
stinctively found himself hoping that
his old mother back home hadn't seen
many gamblers. Mccartney was be-
ginning to look like a gambler. He
had the face, especially the eyes.
His eyes twitched at the corners, and
they were getting puffy underneath.
His face had begun to take on that in
scrutable masklike look which is one of
the hall marks of a professional gam
bier
The parson watched him for a mo-
ment from across the table. Then he
walked slowly around and rested his
foot on rung of the gamblers chair.
Mccartney turned on him like flash,
with curse on his lips. A foot on the
rung of your chair sends your luck
away to the owner of the foot, as ev-
cry one knows. But when he saw who
it was he sank back abashed, with a
murmured apology on his lips.
mac" said the parson gently, 'cash
in. want to see you"
Mccartney looked back at the table,
where a stiff stud poker game was 60
ing on, and then at the parson. There
was a CLINT of suspicion in his eyes
But he cashed in and the two walked
over to a distant corner of the room.
The parson handed him the letter
without a word. Mccartney looked up
with quick distrust as he read the first
lines. But as he read on his thin,
sensitive lips Quivered a little, and the
parson saw that he had been cut to the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
Grateful Bookkeeper.

Steve Schilling, a bookkeeper Of Lincoln,
ILL.,. states LAS a user of Re-Go Tonic Lax
ative Syrup 1 wish in a small way to show
my gratitude for the good it has done me. ]
have been sufferer from constipation and
my digestion has been impaired, heartburn
and sometimes sick headaches and bilious
ness. Since l began taking Re-Go Tonic
Laxative Syrup have had none of these
troubles. The laxative effect is truly the
most pleasant that / have ever experienced.
mild but sure, without the gripping effect so
common with many such remedies. Re-Go
is certainly wonder Sold by Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01

Farms will rise higher in value,
town property will be in greater
demand, your home town will be-
come bigger and better place to
live in and trade in, and will have
better social, school and religious
privileges-when the people of
all the community (town and
country shall trade less abroad and
more in the home village or city.
The thousands of dollars now
being sent out of town to catalogue
houses and department stores IN
distant cities never come back.
But if this large sum were, instead,
spent with your own business
people it would in turn benefit all
occupations and professions locally
re presented, it would go into new
buildings, into enlarging stocks
of goods, into new enterprises, new
public and private improvements,
raising the population and grade of
your town-and the farmer would
get his money back in the enhanc-
ing value of his land.
The more you trade at home the
more home employment you create
for your men and women of town
and farm, who are now driven to-,
and overcrowded, the cities to find
work only on barely living pay,
the woman to be Inundated,
mortified and morally jeopardized,
who are obliged to take services
there for the mean wage pittance
offered in the big department stores
9nd other like large employment
establishments.
When you send your money away
to the catalogue and big depart
ment stores you are helping to
build up and increase the evils of
the great cities, which, with their
congested population and ever re-
curing strikes and a lockouts which,
with their ST. Louis boodlerism
and criminal politics., not only
menace general good government,
but threaten the very pros
perity of all the people. Bishop
Spaulding, member of the coal
strike commission, speaking on
problems of labor and capital, says
the true idea of civilization is not
to help build up great cities but to
help and encourage the towns and
smaller cities he adding that. IF
it were not for the great cities, we
we could do away with evils
brought on us by corrupt polit-
icians"
Were it not for the prejudice
against the country towns which
catalogue houses have so under
handedly worked up among the
country people through their
hundreds of thousands of catalogue,
booklets and circulars, and through
the agricultural press, which has
been bought up with their big
advertising contracts to abuse the
country town and villify country
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01

Chas Theobald, an electrician with the
Lincoln Light and Power Co., Lincoln, H.,
says: Il am occasionally troubled with Sc
we're headaches, the result OF constipation
and have at numerous times used Re-Go
Tonic Laxative syrup, which L think Is the
only medicine 1t moves the bowels most
satisfactory in it's results OF naturally and
promptly, without pain or gripping, and GER
tainly cures the headaches caused by con-
stipation. We always give it to our child
rem to regulate and correct any howell trou-
bles. Sold by JOS. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
Made Himself Solid.

"John," said the wife, you'll admit
that you're a bright, brainy man and
have leading qualities?'
81 certainly WILL" was the modest re-
ply.
'Then why don't you run for presi-
dent of these United States?"
And as he clasped her to his bosom
he said:
molly, can't bear to leave homer
Atlanta Constitution.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
THE WEATHER

The following is the official weather
forecast UP to o'clock to night:
= Illinois and Enthusiastically fair;
slightly cooler in south portions; west
TO northwest winds.
Lower Michigan-Fair; west to north
west winds.
Wisconsin and IoWa-Generally fair;
northerly winds, becoming variable.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Sl.5O PER YEAR

So long as the farmers are busy in
their fields harvesting bin-heaping
crops it isn't likely that the stock
gamblers and market manipulators
can work much permanent injury. It's
pretty hard to stampede nation with
a full stomach.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-01
Masons and Builders Attention!

l still have on hand little of that
famous Carbon plaster-the best
plaster made 1t is unequaled for
patching. GEO. H. REED
8tf. Lancaster, Wis