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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12

An important city meeting will be held
this evening.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12

Judge Parkers gold standard telegram
must have been bitter pill for Bryan to
masticate.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-28
THE WIFE OF TODAY.

Oh, don't you remember the girl you once
met
In the Kingdom of Love long ago?
All, surely her sweet face is haunting You
yet,
AS when first it enraptured you so,
How happy you were in those summary
days
With that dear little girl by your side,
Who listened to all Of your fond words Of
praise.
When she promised she would be your
bride.
And well YOU remember how happy YOU
were
On the day she was welded to YOU;
How proudly and fondly You looked upon
her,
Like a flower of radiant hue.
And wasn't life joyous and roseate then,
And Sufficient the fulncss thereof,
In those dreamy days SO long ago when
You sojournod in the Kingdom of Love?
All, yes, you remember those bright days
OF old
And You think of the girl that you met,
And back through the years that have
over YOU rolled.
Comes that memory haunting you yet,
But pray, do not dwell! in the past ever
more,
while the present Is gliding away,
For, husband. remember that sweet girl
of yore
Is the true. loving wife of to-day!
And do YOU Ger love her as tenderly still
AS You did in the long, long ago
when she was a girl and your heart felt
the thrill
OF chat rapturous passion aSlow'
Those summcry days have long vanished
and gone
In the pasts silent vistas away.
But the love of that maiden stin lives on
and on
In the heart Of the wife of today
Sidney Warner Mase in Housckoeper,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-28
Volume Of Business in
Southern and Southwest.
ern Markets.
OR WEATHER CONDITIONS
yes ns n Drawback in Central West
nd Eastern Mnrkets-IIighcr
Range Of Quotations for All
Agricultural Products--Ilct-
ter Demand for Iron.

ew York. Jan. 22.-Bradstrcets sum
Iiy of the state of trade tomorrow will
|:
|onfdence in prosperous spring trade
Ils support In an charging volume OF
$iness at southern and southwestern
fkets. an awakening of interest at
be northwestern ccntcrs. and growth
! II at central Western and Eastern mar
Is, where, however. weather conditions
drawback to the fullest activity.
| strength of raw cotton Is apparently
King 1t easier TO negotiate and sell cot
IS in Eastern markets at the higher
ri OF values and manufacturing of
jobbing In shoes is increasingly active.
feature IN the spcculatively affected
rkct is the higher range of quotations
all agricultural products.
he higher finished products of iron and
Il are in pretty good shape, and de-
Id is better. Good prices are being OBJ
ned as rule. Pig iron is nuietcr
isincss failures for the week ending
uary u. number 266, aginst 81 last
k. 2s3 in the like week of 1908, 29l in
2S in 1901 and 252 in 1900.
ank cicarngs for the week ending
uary Il aggregate s2l10 s25 ,s03, six per
less than last week. and II per cent
er the like week in 1905. Exchange
side New York total $S1S ,S64 a de
use Of per cent from last week and
n cent fer the same week last year.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-28
POSSIBLE PRESIDENTS.
Ages Of the Different Men Suggested
ms Cnndidatcs--Fomer Presidents.

Tho New York Sun furnished the fol-
lowing informant as to the ages of the
possible candidates:
Richard Olney of Massachusetts will be
CO on Scptcr.ber 10.
Grover Cleveland will be CT on March
Is.
Alton b. Parker of New York will be
Sc on May II.
Arthur Poo German of Maryland will
be 65 on March H.
David r. HI of New York will be 6l
on August -.
George Gray of Delaware will be g.
on May 4.
William j. Bryan of Nebraska will be
Al on March 1e.
President Roosevelt of New York will
be lf on October q.
John Hay of Ohio will be &c on October
Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Ohio will be
q on September "a
william H. Taft of Ohio will be At on
September L.
Washington was 81 when he died; John
adams %, jefferson So, Madison IS. Monroe
73 John Quincy Adams 50. Jackson rs,
Van Buren, ~. William Henry HARRISON
g. Tyler ~, Polk 50. Taylor G., Fillmore
a. Pierce -, Buchanan =, Lincoln 80.
johnson &C, Grant 49, Hayes 20. Garfield
40. Arthur SO, Benjamin Harrison CT and
McEinlev ~
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-28
CONVERSATION IN PARIS.

A bit of real life in Paris will go con-
ycrsationally something like this
"Ah'N"
"Ah,t."
This is duo when two friends meet. The
exclamation must be emitted in II high
key approaching a scream of delight. Each
smiles-nay. beams-in an ecstasy of JOY
to behold the other. whom she has not
seen since yesterday at midnight. Hands
are eagerly outstrctchod, and they kiss,
inst ON this check and then on that, ana
say, both together, Comment allez vous,
mon amic''
EFT vos cnfantS-surtout lamour du
bobe? Tres bion. Mais vous, cherle. Nous
etos raVissant ce soir, Quelle jolie robe F,
Ellie un chic enormc.'
"Mcrci imminent, mails c'est plutot
vous. mon annie. Qui etes Jole j adore
&c chapCaula, il vous va reimbursement,
Nous avez le govt artistique par excel
lence."
MATS non; mails non. Nous etcs trop
charmante pour moi, Merc enormemcnt.
Au rcvoir, chere; a bicntot'
Then they clasp hands, kiss again first
on this check and then on that, and float
apart
Such scene is naturally encountered
under circumstances amid which we
Americans would dispose of the whole
matter with "How d y do?" II hope
you're Well" and passing hand-shake.-
liarpor's Bazaar.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-28
kILWAY EARNINGS GROW.
|nufncturinG Plants Moro Active
Wholesale business Good.

fw York. Jan. or. G.. Dun & Co :
kly review of trade tomorrow will
leather conditions have furnished the
II influence in the general trade sit
ION. To some extent traffic has been
lered especially at the East but the
st returns of railway earnings for Jam
b show an increase of 80 per cont.
/ 1903. Retail distribution of footwear
heavy wearing apparel felt the slim
/. and annual clearance sales removed
of dry goods, etc. Whole
business in fairly active. Manufac-
ing plants are more active, with little
|Ge In quotations. and the outlook for
ing trade Is considered favorable.
|on and steel plants that resumed at
turn of the year have obtained suf-
Int business to continue operating and
! far the adjustment of wages has not
Ruced the threatened strikes.
abilities of commercial failures thus
reported for January amounted to 81.
.U4, of which So III 1876 were in manu-
Iuring. siila,jtS in trading and s. 35S, =
h other commercial lines. Failures this
|k numbered 35S in the United States
inst 2G5 last year.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-28
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
Official Call Issucd--ExOrbitant Hotel
Rates at st. Louis.

Washington, Jam 1s,-The official call
for assembling tho democratic national
convention at St Louis July 6 next was
issued to-day.
Complaints are pouring into the dem
ocratic national committee about the ox-
tortionatC rates which st. Louis hotel
keepers are charging for tho week of the
national convention.
Clark Howell, national committeeman
for Georgia, is particularly Indignant He
wrote to the Planters Hotel for accom-
modations, and found that he could not
get them. Then he wrote to the southern
and WAS informed that the best that the
hotel could do would be to put four men
IN a room and charge each of them s. a
day.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-28
Is Years
With a Tum0r
But 1t Was Removed
without the Use of
a Knife.
H. ]. DAlGLE


H. j. DAisIe, general manager of the
Prudential Life Insurance company
whose office is over the Howard National
bank and who has suffered for the past
81 years with large tumor on the left
side of his face. which has caused him
much annoyance and Inconvenience, has
had the tumor successfully removed by
DR.. J. w. Morrow OF AZ Church street,
without the loss of drop of blood or
the use of the knife.
When seen by the writer Mr.. DalSle
said: For the past % years | have
been trying to get rid Of this large dsa-
gre Fable bunch. have consulted numerous
phySlclans and tried many remedies all
to no avail. A few weeks ago | applied
to Or. Morrow, who has successfully
removed the bunch without the use Of
the knife or the loss of Il drop OF blood
and | o:sider il almost a miracle after
trying so many others in vain.
The operation was 4 perfect success
ANA l' ! had another tumor or a cancer.
l would apply to DR., Morrow and would
recommend all to do So | will be only too
GLAD to explain the mode of treatment
to any sufferer who may call at my Of
flee. over the Howard National bank"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-28

MAKING MOVING PICTURES.

a set of moving pictures of horse
race was taken at Shccpshcad Bay Ira OK
near New York City not long ago. and
two hours and fifteen minutes later the
pictures were being shown on the screen
in New York theatre. AS the race pro-
ceoded the photographer kept his eyes
on the machine. which ratified away like
n rapidly beaten drum. imprcSsng pic
lures on scnsitized film at the rate Of
forty a second. When the horses flashed
under the wire, he stopped the motor and
opened the box. and from its dark inter
Tor he drew another box containing the
record of the race on IL strip Of film two
hundred and nifty feet long. This was
hurried across Brooklyn, over the bridge
and across New York and the North
RIVER to Hobokcn. New Jersey. where
the long strip of pictures was developed
all at once AS soon as a positive strip,
showing the figures as they should APP
pear, had been made from this negative,
which showed everything reversed, the
new strip was hurried back to the
theatre ready for use
Pictures of this kind-evcryonc has
seen them--are all made in essentially
the same way. though the machines are
called vitascopes, biographs microscopes,
Microscopes. and cinematographs. A
moving picture machine is really a
rapid fire repeating camera. An electric
motor or handcrank moves the film
along in front of the lens and winds the
exposed film in a dark box, opening and
closing the shutter at regular intervals.
The film is fed along by cogged wheeis
which start and stop start and stop. in
rhythm with the rapid winking Of the
shutter Each section of the film comes
to dead stop while the shutter opens
for one thrce-hundrcdth of a second
There were 5000 of these incredibly swift
/ exposures in photosraphing the horse
race; the result was 300 pictures.
All the pictures are developed at once
/ The long film is wound on a reel in Il
dark room. and the whole reel is dipped
into the necessary solutions--thc whole
process being one of developing by
wholesale.-Th Worlds Work.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-28
A. SPECIMEN OF RURAL GRAFT

Willie 50 many stories OF official cor
ruption are coming out, here Is one
worthy OF attention. George Bishop OF
Buffalo WAS a sailor In summer he made
his living on the Great Lakes. In winter
his occupation WAS that Of n professional
prisoner at county and village jais. This
was his method as related by himself
II get into a town and | goes up to Il
cop and says, Say, how arc You fixed for
little time? And he says. flow much
90 YOU want?' I shy, oh, five or ten
cents Then him and me fixes it up.
He takes me before the justice and I
pleads guilty and down goes. Time up.
I set tip and skip over to other parts
where the officers are all right, get a
little time off them and back 7 comes
under new name, then down again, out
again. ana so on"
In most of the rural parts Of New York,
as in other Sta ties. police officers are paid
by fees for each arrest made, and sherifs
or Ioilers arc given an allowance for the
board Of each prisoner while in custody.
This explanation is sIflic to show the
tho full meaning of the salor-tramp's
story. II implies direct collision he
tween hOhocs and various rural officials.
Tho tramps are boarded free OF cost and
In likeness. In addition, Bishop said he
usually made from 80 to SIS each winter
in TIPS from officials whom he accommo-
dated The officers get the profit from
boarding the men and the fees for arrest
ing them. Fishop said that he knew about
forty men who follow this life every win
ter.
The story WAS told on the witness
stand ut Medina in the course of an in
vestiCation of the sheriff of Orleans
coulty, (N. Y,) who has resigned under
charges. It is here related In the past
tense, because the next night Bishop was
dead on the top of a freight ear, his skull
crushed in Presumably ne was struck
by low bridge while stealing n ride
Golfers Weekly.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-28
POPULATION IN NEW ENGLAND.

France In one way has put herself in
much more satisfactory position of late.
From one OF her substantial publications.
the "Economiste Francaise," are selected
tho following allegations: During the
last two years there has been a slight
increase in the number of births in France
and n consequent increase In the excess
Of births over deaths. In 1901 the excess
was 72,39S, and in 1902, 1894. n this move
ment should continue, France would gain
$4,000 inhabitants every decade. and TAX
into account the excess Of immigration
over emigration, we should have an in
crease of about 1,3D,0OO souls Race
suicide in France is a much more serious
consideration than 1t can be with us.
The most we can fear is that new elc-
ments may fall in quality below tho
earlier stock. AS far as bulk of popua-
ton goes, the danger Is in the opposite
direction. New England is the most con-
spicious case of this change of quality.
Not only is the Anglo Saxon stock there
becoming less productive but its quality
IS said to be deteriorating. Ministers find
what they seem degeneracy In the records
Of church attendance Bribery seems TO
find in these old common wealths soma
of its most receptive fields The rural
districts. once the backbone of the land,
are In many places hopelessly decayei
Tho phenomenon is not, however. entirely
ono OF deterioration. 1t is not 80 much
that tho old New England vigor has run
its course as that 1t has gone after new
lands to conquer. 1t is at work in illinois,
California and Texas 1t Is spread
throughout the land, leaving upon the
farms its less entcrnrisng specimens.
II they gradually disappear, giving place
10 hardy immigrants of date later than
tho Mavflower. we shall not have less
Puritan vitality In the nation. Race-suicide
Is something that present conditions in
America make it impossible to lie awake
nights about In order to be quite safe
about the quality of our stock. and take
no chances we only need to allow Senator
Lodge to pass his bill moderately regula
ting immigra tion.-Collier' Weekly.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-28
ELOPED FROM VERMONT.
Couple from Shcrburnc Found Living
as Wan and Wife In Hull, Mass.

Boston, Jan. 20-By tho aid of a Hull
newspaper man, Norman BLOSSOM. - years
old and Mrs. Emma J. Holden, 20, who
disappeared together from Shcrhurne. Vt.
about two months ago, were found last
night in Hun Ivy Mrs. Holdens father
Edward Gransbury The two, as man and
wife. bad been living there several weeks.
Blossom is a single man. but Mrs. Holden
has husband in Shcrburne.
After tho couple olopcd nothing was
heard from them until last week. when
Mrs. Cranshury In ShcrhuIne, received a
letter from her da.ghtor The envelope
was postmarkcd bingham. The daughter
stated that she was i'll. The letter was
promptly answered. and Mrs. Gransbury.
the father followed. arriving in bingham
last Friday. He learned that the letter
had reached bingham, but had not been
called Tor.
Mr., Granshury remained in bingham
until sunday morning. ana kept a strict
watch AT the postotcc for any caller for
the letter.
Through Hun newspaper man he sue
&C eded in locating his daughter and her
lover yesterday morning. They Were liv-
ing at n house in WaVcland. The father
Immediately had an interview with his
daughter an induced her to promise to re-
turn to Sherburne with him to-day.
The couple lived in Hull very quietly.
They attracted no attention to themselves
and people took it for granted that they
were man and wife. When they hired
their rooms they gave their names of Mr..
and Mrs. Blossom, and nobody doubted
them. Blossom secured work with John
l.. Mitchell, a coal dealer ana appeared to
he an industrious young man.
Mrs. Holden seemed 10 her few acquaint
ances to he a refined ana cultivated wom-
an and TO be much in love with Blossom.
Neither the woman nor her lover cared to
talk for publication.
Hull people undcrst God that "Mrs Bios
SOM as she was known, was possessed of
considerable property in her own right.
blossom, it was said last night, would
probably remain in Hun.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-28
GRANDMOTHER'S PUMPKIN PIE

GRANDMOTIIER'S PUMPKIN PIE,
You may talk of your turkey with cram
berry sauce.
OF your rich roast of goose and your
oyster fry,
But all of these things ! would gladly
forego
For a slice of my grandmother pump
kin pie.
And the fine faky crusts OF the pastry so
rich,
And the sweet yellow custards hoaped
full and high,
These, too. would / turn from for only
one taste
or my dear good old grandmother
pumpkin pie.
Though many the years that have pass d
Ger my head,
Thanksgivings and Christmases since
gone by,
My mouth always waters whenever
think
OF the favor of grandmother's pumpkin
pie. Hartford Times.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-28

OF photographs. chromOs, drawings and
enEravings we sell Canada a quarter of
a million dollars worth, as against SO, 0n)
worth coming from the mother country.
Aud the SUN spent by Canadians on Eng
lish Bibles. prayer books. psalm and
hymn books has diminished by half in
the last five years. while our own exports
across our northern frontier have exactly
doubled in the same time. Perhaps the
most striking fact of AN is that taking
under a single heading books on the APP
plication of science to industry, in a
score of different departments, works on
agriculture, horticulture forestry fish and
fishing. mining. metallurgy. architecture
electric and mechanical engineering. car
pentry. SURROUNDING. mechanism. bleach
ing, dyeinG, tanning, weaving and kindred
arts and crafts, We find that, while Great
Britain I'VE years ago sold Canada Slo,-
90 worth of BOOKS the colony took from
the mother country last year only four
thousand dollars worth. On the other
hand. the United States. which five years
ago sold Canada only 500 worth of tech
meal and educational books, sent her last
year something like So. 900 worth. or about
II times as much as Canada took from
England a Canadian writer, commenting
on these very remarkable facts, asks
whether any one can explain why Cam
ada's imports OF British works on applied
science should fall off 60 per cent. in five
wears, while imports of similar works
from the United States should increase
a thousand per cent. during 'he same
period Has the copyright law anything
to do with IT, he asks, or is 1t another in
stance in which the mother country is
beaten by the United States in intelligence
and skill? II seems to us that the answer
f. to be found in similarity of conditions
and similarity of needs, in the more or
less uniform life which covers the whole
North American continent, in contrast
with the very different conditions which
exist in England and, more or less, in
Europe generally. -liarper's Weekly.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-28
THE POET IN MODERN LIFE.

The poet If We attempt to form a
composite photograph of him from inn
pre.sions gathered here and there
through the ,ages of history. is for the
most part a serious figure. nearly always
aloof from the affairs Of EARTH some
what shy of life and its activities and
dealing more in dreams than in realities.
G!ut to b" moro precise, AS we think Of
, tie long list of poets whose names still
/ survive, whose words still are alive in
ol:r ears. we shall find them dividing
themselves mainly into two Eroups-thc
religious poets and the dramatic poets
those who were inspired by the moral
temper of their time and those who de-
voted Themselves to the entertainment Of
their fellows. The poet is both prophet
and entertainer, both priest and artist.
/ He stands forever the Interpreter of nat
turc to mon; that is his sacerdotal office.
He is also the rcvcalcr of men to them
selves; that is his business as a dramatic
| artist.
The poet in modern life. If one may
indulge the fancy for creating an al
most impossible figure, would have some
of the characteristics Of all these mon.
He should have all Of Matthew Arnolds
insight into tho trend of social events.
all of the sympathy of William Morris.
Ill of the large pose and self-possession
of Tennyson. Most of all, perhaps, he
would resemhl" Browning In philnsc phic
I'NrI tbll'IIl'I VIII u NlE'fblS 1--WE VI
life
II the modern artist cannot have IL
good time living. he had better go out
OF business success in art is not for
him. If the modern poet cannot find
way to take life gaily. resourccfully. UNI
ENORMOUSLY, he had better quench his
songs. He must he poor spirited indeed,
if in time like this full of generus-
ity of confidence, Of citation, he cannot
find something to be happy about. He
may have some difficulty in meeting his
olliea tons. but he should certainly be
able to present a gentle and cheerful
manlness to the world, and manage to
| participate in its gaiety. He must not he
| less man than his struggling fellows
! but moro. lie must not be abnShel or en-
| vious at any everlbundance Of world
| ~ spiondor, but exhibit a keen enjoyment
! of beauty and elegance and leisure such
as very few Of our magnificent modorns
can attain He may sometimes think life
is difficult. and poetry the most thankloss
| of all pursuits; but he must still be glad
! to be alive. or no one will care whether
| he lives or not Above ALL he must see
to it that no drop Of the poison of
ennui finds its way into his work. Bliss
| Carman in The Reader
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-01-28
M'DONOUGH' s GRAVE.
Patriots Last Rcsting Place in COnncc-
ticut in woeful state Of Decay.

The following interesting letter concern
ing the hero OF the battle Of Plattsburgh
has been sent to the Albany journal by
James l.. 1nsulsbe of Glens Falls.
notice in your issue of the 18th inst.
an allusion to "A proposed National Mill
tary park on Crab Island in Lake Cham
plain; ALSO q statement, shameful to us
as a nation, that on this island, now lay
in unmarked graves the bones OF nearly
one hundred defenders Of our country,
killed IN the battle Of Plattsburg.
Allow me to state that something like
GO years since I spent several hours of
spring day at Midiletown. Conn. wait
ing for the steamboat from above. and
discovering a quaint old burial ground.
| strolcd leisurely about it, docphering
tn, names and dates on the various head
stones. many OF which were quito old and
OF slate or other field stone. rudsly dress
cd and lcttered. Presently I came to a
small plot enclosed by an iron fence with
marble posts, but almost entirely Oh
scured by an tanelcd mass of wec1s,
grass. nettles bricrs and brambes.
/ Forcing my way through the opposing
rubbish found the principal monument
to be inscribed to Commodore McDon-
| ouah. WHO when i'll and feeble with lung
disease had bccen sent abroad in war
vessel. hoping for relief but dying on
tho Mediterranean sea His body was re-
turned and buried hcre. as also that of
his wife. a Miss Sage of this place
His monument was perhaps six or eight
feet in height. and the shaped top
had been displaced by some means and lay
half embodied in the earth and covered
by tho rnrl, growth which held posses
SION of the place A few moments passed
in moralizins on human greatness result
| Ing from self acrifcc in UNFOLDING the
right of each and every indtvidual OF
great nation to life, liberty and the ptr-
suit nj bo min ard "Stripnpl to the