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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13
MUST BELIEVE IT
When WelI-KnOwn Barre People Tell
It So Plainly.

When public endorsement is made by rep.
resentatiye citizen Of Barre the proof is posi-.
tive. You must believe it. Read this testi.
mony. Every backache sufferer, every man
woman or child with any kidney trouble viii
find profit in the reading,
O. A. Churchill, contractor and builder. resi-
dence 40 Merchant street, says ~ gave an
endorsement for publication ia our Barre
papers in the winter Of 1897, which stated chat
Doan's Kidney Pills, sold at Il. A. browns drug
store, had acted with me as represented, and /
recommended them to any resident needing a
remedy for his kidneys Since that time have
had no reason to change my opinion and YOU
are welcome to again use my original endorse
ment SO that others may know what to do II
annoyed with a steady pain across the back like
had for two years-one that prevented me
from remaining in any position for any length
Of time, which was always noticeable ia the
morning and caused me annoyance to dress
myself, for which used physicians treatments
and great many medicines but never received
any permanent benefit. / cannot remember
whether took two or three boxes, but this /
know, have never had occasion to use the
preparation since.
For sale by all dealers Price 30 cents Fos-
ter Milburn Co.. Buffalo, n. X, sole agents for
the United States.
Remember the name, Doans, and take no
other.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13
WASHINGTON.

Don't forget about the fair, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, September 20
Il, and ~. We are all going
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13

And Supplies. Needles. Oil and parts for all
Machines. Cleaning and repairing Of all kinds.
Good Second hand Machines cheap. Machines
70 rent. j +, Brown "a North Main street.
Barre. Telephone 1922.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13

The retina becomes of pale white
color soon after death, ana the pellucid
fluid in the cornea, which does not ex-
ude in the living state, but is constants
ly absorbed and renewed, oozes out
gradually after or short time before
death aud forms that obscure film be.
fore the cornea which destroys its
transparency.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13
Orange County Veterans.

The veterans of Orange comfy will
hold their gath annual reunion and Pic
mic on the old muster camp ground in
East Corinth Thursday, September is.
Veterans and their friends are invited
to attend with lunch baskets, whose
contents will be supplemented BY coffee
furnished BY the w. r. G.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13
GRAMTEYILLE.

For sale-ten building lots In Granite
vile, best location, on easy terms. Enquire
Of A. A. Smith, Barre, vt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13
Nae Tunbridge Worlds Fair.

The Worlds fair at Tunbridge will
be held Sept. 81, % and %. It is
promised to be one of the best fairs
ever held on the grounds. A troop Of
Z. S. cavalry from Fort Ethan Allen is
20 be there and give an exhibition drill
twice each day. The Chelsea Brass
band is to furnish music.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13
Notice 10 All uuIon Mem

That the Congregational Church and
the Baker house at Wllliamstown are non
union jobs
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13
MERRY ROUND

Angelo scampini announces
that his Merry-Go- Round will
Be in operation for the Summer
beginning Saturday, July I'd,
on the Berlin street grounds
opposite his house. Come and
enjoy ride, hear the music
and have good time
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13
Liehtning nnd Forests.

lightning seldom strikes III a forest
where the trees are dense AMI OF ab0a.
the same height Danger exist oalr
whore isolated trees rise above their
surroundings
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-15

Order Number H. This Order Number Eleven is the best Southern novel of the decade. The name of the author, Caro- line Abbott Stanley, Is new in the field of letters, but she is no styro in the art.
 The work has the exquisite finish that delights the reader.
 It is plain truth.
 Its ground is almost untrodden, the Border.
 That Border of Missouri and Kansas that gave birth to those fearful bands of the sixties and later, the Men of QuantrilI's Band, the Jay-hawkers. and later the James Boys
 The hook really exceeds in interest, vitilfty and freshness that most excellent romance of an already well-trodden field, Gorden Keith.
 The picturing of Southern Life and character is, one may fairly say, truer and clearer than that of any Southern story of the last ten years.
 Mir Fakes Southerners are somewhat Idealized, cut to fit the preconceived fancy of what the old school gentleman of the South should be.
 Mir Thomas Dixon's aristocrats all seem. to the real Southerner. rather what we call one good middle class people. Mrs. Stanley has brought before us some 
 Simple. primitive. grand.
 Miss Nan of the lavendar silk gown. the string of pearls. the sharp tongue, the tender heart is the typical maiden lady of the South.
 Happy the household that has Its Miss Nan. J
 Mrs. Trevilian. well-rounded, we'll balanced beautiful. beneficient Is that type that we shall see no more the lady of the South. the woman who looks well to her household. who keeps a guiding heihf,ii hand in all a neighborhood.
 Colonel Treviiian is about the past portraiture of the Southern planter of good birth and breeding done without unrea soning idealisn, or uncouth exag- geration.
 Virginia is the warm. simple, courage ous girl of Dixie.
 If there may be traced some believers in the character of Gordon Lay and Of also in the plot of the story of Lays and Virginia's love and that or the lovers of Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. 1t is the accidental resemblance of time and circumstance.
 Never were better pictures of negroes dra wn than those of Mammy and Uncle.
 The Northern School Teacher, Miss Abby Cheerer. is eUcellently done
 It Is an almost forgotten fact that be- fore the war every Southern household, neighborhood. and school had its North ern teachers. Many of them. being quite young and attractive. also, but Miss Abby was not. marred the young men of fhe new country.
 Especially in Alabama are many of our leading club women and teachers and social powers the descendants of these marriages. Quantrell of the marvellous aim. and young Jesse James are as truly drawn as they are in those unlitera- ry. but historic works. the lives of Quan- trell and his men and the numerous his tories of the James brothers.
 Miss Abbv's'' setting down with South ern ways is delightfully."- told. She actually learned to lie in bed and have her fire made. so seductive are luxurious habits, even to those born of Puritan stock and brought up on the East winds" Some of Miss Abbey's delicious efforts to put ''wasteful' Southern housekeep- ing on a paying basis are divertin9. Caroline" this was Miss Abbey's sug- gestion; "'could do the washing and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-15
NEW BOOK NEWS
CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG


I ironing in two days-three at most. My | mother used to do the washing for a | family of nine and get 1t out by ten o'clock
 Was there any law requiring it to be | done by ten?''
 '' It was the custom of the country said Miss Abbey shortly. She did not | like Miss Nannie's satirical afr.
 "Tf we should work our negroes as hard as the New England women work l themselves. you would have reason to abuse us.' /" from Mrs. Trevilian. .. The nine chickens a. day eaten by the family was cause for another rebuke to prodigality from Miss Abbey.
 Three broiled for breakfast, three fried for dinner, and three smothered for supper. Such wastefu1 extravaganza! Why didn't they wait till the chickens were full grown before eating them?" Then there were the cows Thirteen! And they never sold a pound of butter! She had spoken to Mrs. Trevilian about that one day. too. But Mrs. Trevilian had only said: No, we never sell any Aunt Viny doesn't like to be stinted, and neither do we. My family like butter better than anything that butter will buy. Of course we give about half the milk to the calves, explained the be- leagurered housekeeper. driven to 1t to explain her ways to this stern econo- mist .- "'we give our calves skim milk sug- gested Miss Abbey.
 Well, We don't It was spoken as curtly as it was in this well-balanced lady to speak. The truth is, nobody likes to have her own particular faults of management made matters of aston ished comment, even by those who can manage better.
 Miss Abbey used to walk around and mentally estimate what this thing and that-sacrifced so needlessly here-would bring in Boston. The apples. for in- stance. Why there were barrels and barrels of them going to wasteI Mrs. Thevilian had said;
 Why, we have enough to last us as long as they will keep. The appIe-hole are full, and we have dried them and made appleLbutter' It did seem to her that they were blameless on the apple question"
 In matters educational also there was a great gulf fixed between the ideas of the teacher and the parents as to what should be taught. It must be admitted that Miss Abbey was right there. as per haps, in other matters, for since the war
 
 Miss Abbey had wanted to start a class in physiology, which was vetoed by the mothers, who said that physiology might be we'll enough for boys, perhaps, but 1t was certainly indelicate for girls. They had them take instead geography of the heavens, as being more practi- cal, and Grecian mythology as less likely to corrupt the imagination"
 "Who are you going to take to the barbecue?
 And 1t must be recorded that, after all her strictness upon Miss Abbey, Miss Mamie said who where that lady would have said whom."
 Of course, we have come across the gulf to Miss Abbey. Very enjoyable is the story of how Miss Abbey taught the negroes; with Virginia's help, in the loom house.
 What idyllic love making is that of Virginia and Gordon. How daintily 1t begins in the honey-suckle arbor. has it's sweet scenes in the old trysting place of the four young people under the grape vine tree. its memories lived
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-15

over in the old school house: "Old school books tell so much more than their authors ever dreamed of" When those old school books have been scrib- bled over by boy and girl sweethearts! What reading of compositions, event of the school year. Virginia's was on ''The seasons of the Heart" Dear child! to whom life had been all spring. She had got the title from the back of Quackenbos's rhetoric, and evolved the contents from her inner consciousness"
 The charming Northerner, Dr. Chee- ner, might have knocked all this pret- ty .love-making into pi had it not been for one thing. He couldn't mount a horse from the ground! Doesn't it seem funny" writes this namesake of the noblest State; ito think of man that can't ride? always supposed they could by instinct. l never heard before of anybody's having to learn"
 Like all love. the course of this did not run altogether smoothly, but to quote one scene that proved a crucial one, ere we leave the young lovers, so fine. so true, to their own devices and fate's reins.
 Virginia, as usual, offering the dare and being in the lead. The four swept past the other couples, and were going at what seemed to the Lexington girl, frightful speed, when Gordon saw a broken girth swing out from the horse in front of him" virginia's horse.
 There was no time for warning no time for anything. He gave Damon stinging blow that put him along Side of Virginia's horse. The girl sway ed with a white, terror-stricken face, She realized in ono awful moment what had happened, and what 1t would mean with all that mad troop behind.
 At that instant, Gordon dropped his bridle, reached over, caught her in his arms, and lifted her to his horses's neck. He was a powerful fellow and quick to think. The riderless horse dashed on--but Virginia was safe in Gordon's arms"
 Tt was Gods mercy, my child" said Mrs. Lay solemnly.
 T don't know" Virginia said softly. T think-it was Gordon"
 To Sallie next day she said: Sup pose it had been Dr. Cheever instead of Gordon! I hardly think Gods mer- cy could have saved me then"
 An, youth, to whom Eros seems so mighty a god, Virginia's brother Bev- erly. choosing to love outside his "class" had not so sweet wooing. The story of his secret marriage with the stolen visits that lead to his death are sorrowful reading.
 Manny's search for the marriage cer- tifcate; the stiffcate" with of hyeah to deyse'nes de yether two names," will bear reading many times. Fire, sword, stealthy shots, and the end of the rope, the reign of these horrors began with the Border Warfare.
 The terrors of Jennison's raids. of General Lanes warfare against the contents of old homes, of troops of army wagons filled with feather beds" silver plate," and "old mahogany" are sad reading. The pices palmers came in Lanes footpad brigade; a swarm of locusts lighted when Jennison and his jay-hawkers swept down upon the land; the noisesome cankerworm, with man dibles multiplied. crept after them in the red legs When they got through there was nothing left for the cater piIlarl"
 Colonel Jennison conquered the old Trevilean home. Keswick. He went off waving his victorious flag over cap
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-15
But come she did.

But come she did.
 was the first Southern woman whom she had met in her three months in New York.
 She poured out her heart to me that day. and we wept together ovef the story of her failure in every line of endeavor.
 Such a hard world! Such a selfish city. Such sordid souls. we said. How could we help it with such a record of rebuffs before us.
 That girl. who told me of the real suffering that she had undergone, the dizziness of actual hunger that she had experienoed. a week ago lectured in the Waldorf to the most select and wealthiest audience that New York can gather at this season.
 As sat listening to her. watched the tremulous palms about her palpi- tating in the perfumed air, heard the silken rustIing of the exquisitely gowned audience as they settled them selves into the tapestry covered chairs I wondered if that girl was the same with whom I wept in sympathy that snowy Sunday just a few weeks agone.
 Her long trailing white gown had come as suddenly as had Cinderilla.s ball attire.
 This singer, pet in musical circles here, and that skilled pianist. had been brought to assist her as with the waving of a magic wand.
 The magic wand had been waved.
 A heavenly soul who knows every body in New York worth knowing had by intuition guessed this Southern girls plight. h ,
 She had written to one Of the most wealthy and influential women, in New York to bespeak her interest.
 This wealthy woman had brought all this about by a word4-and q checque.
 Now, this Is giving and doing that does the heart good.
 God loves such gifts.
 Not one hint of this good deed and of many like 1t reaches the ear of the public. Not one line of the story twill be in print---except this that I am writing, and dare not tell the. good donors name.
 learn that this woman. worth many millions, Is always doing deeds like this.
 Think of it. A real live millionaire who does not let the right hand know what the left does.
 A real generosity that does not blow a trumpet (of columns of print) be- fore 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-15


 A real silent giving of help from hand to hand. A true helper of ,indiyiduals ak first hand itiatead of through organisas ticns-swhere more than half the gift of ten gets tangled up ii the red tape ox the eoncern-whlle The needy andigid,fax stands starving and waiting outside.
 wish I could tell ali the South the name of that gracious giver. that sweet and Good Samaritan of today. @
 'Woman is furnishing more than hAif Of our magazine fiction. She Is doia9 more than half of the retail selling af goods. She is fast monopOlizin9 teacl@ irg. She rivals the deft Chinaman iis laundry work; she fills up the sfaotoriess she makes all the feather work and artificial flower work turned out n America, and in stenography she has al1 most driven the man from the fieId.'''
 Such is Mrs. Cynthia Westoyer AIdensm summary of the position of the working woman at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. in ,''Women's Ways of Earning Money" just published by Messrs. A. es Barnes & Co.,.
 The publishers were reprinting three aE Samuel SuliIes's most famous books, Self. Help, Life and Labor, and Charact6r. when news came a few days ago of th& aged authors death at Kensington, Lons don. He was born in 1872. and when mere youth his father died of cholera and left widow with eleven children Co bring up. Samuel. therefore, must have learned .'self-help" in the most practi- cal of schools He studied to be a suf4 geon. and took his degree at EdinburgI1 University at the age of twenty. Not succeeding at once in his practice. fs became successively an editor and secfe. tary of a railway, but rstired from, as-.. tive business fife to devote himself to still more active literary one. Self- Help" has had the most extended success of any of his works. edition after edition having been issued by the Harpers, and Is the boolSs which will keep his nans alive. It has been translated into seven- teen languages.
 Justin Mccarthy the elder, whose re- cent volume of remembrances. "Por- traits of the Sixties (Harpers), has met with wide favor, Is at work on volumS VI of his celebrated History of Our Own Times" which will bring that work down to the present.
 Is the popular novel going to drive The Delienator, LaMode and other good fashion sheets utterly to the wall?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-15

.tured silk dresses. furs, jewelry. table lfnen"-also Miss Nannie's pearls, her beautiful necklace and brooch and pen- dant earrings that were to be virginia's on her wedding day"
 How Many saved the meat that day is a story worth the good laugh 1t makes. sss @tSs
 The burning of Keswick was to come later. Tn all the sad tales of broken up homes in the wake of war. know of none sadder. than that of Keswick, when the frightened slaves. all but Many and Uncle Reuben, had fled, men for prayer in the loom-room, the same in which with his consent, Miss Abby had gathered the negroes for her school.
 "'He hath destroyed me on every side. and am gone; and mine hope hath he removed like tree,' the bitter ness of his tones increased. They that dwell in my house, and my maids. count me for stranger; I am an alien In their sight. I called my servant. and he gave me no answer His voice broke then. '"The defection of his me- groes had been a blow to him. He read the work again with an intensity that was painful I called my servant. ana ne gave me no answer.
 Tt was more than Uncle Reuben could heard. It did not seem possible to him that this was reading. It was an appeal and a personal reproach. He put his head in the window. his black face working convulsively. and the fears running down his cheeks. 'when'd you cayy me, master? I ain't hayeahed you
 "The Colonel closed the book.
 For a quarter or a century h,s Let us pray had followed the reading of the Scriptures. They waited for 1t now, but 1t did not come. Not once in that quarter of a century had Mrs. Trevilian ever taken the reins of fam fly worship into her own hands. But today, as they fell from her husbands nerveless grasp. she gathered them up.
 "'Uncle Reuben she said. lead us in prayer
 "They kneIt together on the puncheon fioor-a stricken band-and the old black man poured out his soul before God"
 The wordless horrors brought about by "Order H." signed "by order of Brigadier General Ewing" Is justly and truthfully told.
 How Virginia taught school and patched the soles of her old shoes with pasteboard. how Miss Mamie served for ''coiored ladies'" how the landlord sought for the most menial work. all in the Poverty Flat of d new land Is set before the reader.
 How hope and new love came with the Doves call, and on day in June throws a stream of sunlight over pages that have not lacked for brightness and gayety and flash of wit In spite of the many true and sad stories that have been told therein. A great book this. One that every citizen of our republic can Union should read.
 Order No. H., by Caroline Abbot Stan ley. Century Company, New York. Price. $l.5O.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-11
For the Other Fellow.

MY friend Col. Finley Of Kentucky
tells this n on himself" said MI.
George G.. Gotham Of Chicago, accord
ing to the Washington Post.
1T seems that years ago they had a
system of viva voce voting in all cleo
lions in the Blue Grass country. My
friend was a candidate for the legisla.
ture, and was sitting in the room where
the judge and clerks Of the election
They were his personal friends
and wanted to see him win.
During the progress of the voting
an old countryman came forward artc
called out his candidates from COVER
nor down to constable, but omitted t.
vote for legislator.
Hold on said one of the judges,
as the old fellow turned to leave, don't
you want to vote for a member of the
legi%Slature?'
Wall. yes, 1 guess I do, who's ruR-
ning?"
why, Finley and another fellow
lis that so? Then vote me for the
other fellow"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-11
Not a Chance to Be Lost.

only a few years ago out in my
state the Farmers Alliance and it's
platform of principles was the chief
topic of conversation" said Silas P.
Dunten Of Kansas, according to the
Louisville Herald. while the alliance
was at it's height a man Of somewhat
questionable character died out in the
western part Of the state in 4 town
ship called Waterloo.
The nearest preacher was sum-
moned to conduct the services. Not
knowing his subject, the preacher con-
tented himself by making a few gen.
eral remarks concerning the solemn
nature of the occasion. Then he said
he would be glad TO have any of the
company present say a word about the
dead man. Nc one spoke. The invi-
tation was repeated. Again no one
spoke.
Finally an old farmer. who sat in
the corner of the front room, rose and
said:
IF no one has any remarks to
make about h deceased I would like
to make a few remarks about the AL
liance's sub-treasury PLAN"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-11

Russell Sage, on his recent birth
day, talked in ar Interesting manne
about the famous Americans he haa
known, says the Baltimore Herald,
Apropos Of Henry Ward Beecher. he
said:
Il went TO Beecher's church n
night to hear him preach. The church
was crowded to the doors But
Beecher, Unexpectedly, had been called
out Of town. and In his place IN the
pulpit there sat a beardless, black clad
youth-a youth who is today n OK
the most powerful preachers in Amer
lea.
Put this youth, fresh from college.
unknown then, and the great con-
gregation had come to hear Beecher
and not him. Consequently, As soon
as he arose and announced hat he
was to preach in Beecher's place the
people began to drift out. First one
went; then two: then a a dozen,
and the young man stood watching
this dispersal from the pulpit. 1t was .
trying moment, and yet there sat on
his youthful fac a smile eingularly
composed. Out the people tiptoed,
and he waited, saying nothing, for al
most five minutes. Then he said. Us
IL in explanation of his silence:
1--WE will not begin this public
worship until h chaff blows off,"