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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-21
SOME STORIES or HOAR
How the Massachusetts Senator
Got Out With Harris.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

TaSe-on on General Butler, Hears
Pet ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS as 60 the
"corporaI"-Fits of Absentminded-
ness-The Youthful Gallon and Al
lison.
An incident In Senator Hoar's public
career which occurred some years be-
fore the death of Senator Isham G.
Harris Of Tennessee Is thus described
by man who spent much of his time
at Washington, says the New Orleans
Times-Democrat:
THE senator from the Bay State and
the senator from Tennessee had been
friends for twenty years and, while
belonging to different political parties
and often clashing in the senate, talk
ing against each other and voting
against each other. nothing had ever
happened to disturb the intimacy Of
the relationship.
"0ne day some question was up in
the senate which developed a great
deal of partisan wrath, and Senator
Harris had been well to the front in
the debate and had given way proba-
bly, too much to his Confederate sym
pathy and certain smoldering pref
udice which he carried to the tomb
with him. He was attacked, Of course,
and in defending the position he had
assumed one Of the younger members
took occasion to refer to Senator Har-
ris as a major Senator Hoar finally
drifted into the debate, and In the
course Of his remarks he criticised
Senator Harris rather sharply. The
senator from Tennessee did not mind
this so much. But the statesman from
Massachusetts did not stop here. He
began to have fun with the Idea that
Senator Harris had ever been major
and climaxed his scathingly sarcastic
remarks by saying be could not con-
ceiye the senator from Tennessee be-
ing a major, unless, he added, he was
a major in the drum corpsa drum
major.
1.-THE Tennessee senator was stung to
the quick. He made no reply. He
would barely speak to Senator Hoar.
One day Senator Hoar was talking to
one OF his senatorial associates when
Senator Harris passed. by the way,
Senator Hoar, said the friend, you
have wounded Senator Harris deeply
by your reference in the senate few
days ago In which you compared him
to drum major Senator Hoar was
surprised. for he had intended no Of
tense. The next day when the senate
met Senator Hoar rose to question
Of privilege. He recounted the incl
dent in the senate a few days before.
NO man on this floor be said, has
more respect for the feelings and the
ability Of the senator from Tennessee
than have. / regard him as not only
the greatest practical parliamentarian
In this body, but as the greatest In the
world, aud / offer him now our long
continued and intimate friendship as
sufficient evidence that did not mean
to offend him and trust he will ac-
cept It. And so he did. Senator Har-
ris shook hands with his friend from
Massachusetts,, and that day they left
the capitol together"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-21

Senator Hoar was quite match FOR
the Irish barney that came his way
year ago in Worcester when the Oldest
Irish organization in the town did him
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-21

General Butler once said in explain
ing and defending his fat money
scheme that the word "hat meant
"let there be-" God said, Fiat lux"
'let there be light" and there was
light. He argued that fat money was
excellent from the very fact that 1t
cost nothing and had no intrinsic value.
So if bill were lost or destroyed q
new one could be supplied without
cost. He also said that 1t would stay
in the country and would not be sunk
in the morasses Of Asia, especially In
China and India, where silver and gold
were absorbed and never heard of In
civilized nations afterward. In answer
Senator Hoar quoted these sentences
with the following comment: "That,
fellow citizens is precisely the differ
ence between omnipotence and hum
bug, between the Almighty and Cen
eral Butler. God said, Let there be
light and there was light. General
Butler says. Let there be money and
there Isl rags This is the first time In
our history that the American work
ingman has been gravely asked to take
for his wages money 1t costs nothing
to make. that 1t is no loss to lose, that
1t is no gain to get and that even 8
Chinaman won't touch"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-21

The relations between Senator Hoar
and all the presidents were, of course,
the most cordial, and the visits Of the
Massachusetts solon to the White
House were frequently quite pro-
longed. On one occasion Mr.. Hoar was
ushered into the presidents room, and
Mr.. Roosevelt asked him TO be seated
in one OF the big chairs. Then the
president and the senator plunged into
d discussion which stretched out for
over an hour. In the meantime other
senators who wanted to see the presi-
dent were held up in the secretary $
room. AS time went on half q dozen or
more were waiting, and they became
impatient at the delay Presently Sen
ator Cullom, who Is seventy-three years
old, asked Senator Allison. who is also
severity three, what was the cause OF
the delay "Why, old Hoar is in there.
said the youthful Iowan disrespectful.
". That's just like an old man" said
Cullom. 'sThey never know enough to
do their business and leave. IL HoaE
was not so old I would ask him IL he
had slept at the White House al
night" Senator Hoar was then seven
ty-slx years Of age"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
Prompt Decision.

The secret Of getting through work ID
method. Order, it has been said, Is
Gods first law. Let 1t be yours. DO not
let your work accumulate upon your
hands 1t is not work that kills, but
arrears of work. Work put off is work
put OH with heavy interest. Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof" 1t
becomes intolerable If it be laid upon
tomorrow.
If may recommend you three rules
for saving time and economizing
strength they shall be these: Answer
letters, keep appointments, make up
your minds. In the affairs of this life
q prompt decision Is often more impor-
tant than q right decision. One man
makes up his mind and acts, 1t may be,
wrongly, but if SO he finds out his mis-
take, corrects and retrieves 1t before
another man has acted at all. 1t is
possible to waste Il great amount OF
time by thinking, and still more by
talking over actions. First thoughts
are sometimes wiser than second and
generally wiser than third. - COntem-
porary Review.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
Does an Education Payp

Does 1t pay an acorn to become an oakP
Doessit pay to escape being q rich
ignoramusP
Does it pay to fit ones self for SUI
perior positionP
Does it pay to get glimpse of the Joy
of living?
Does it pay the chrysalis to unfold into
the butterfly
Does it pay to learn to make life q
glory instead of q grind?
Does it pay to open little wider the
door of q narrow life?
Does it pay to add power to the lens
of the microscope or telescope?
Does it pay to know how to take the
dry, dreary drudgery out of life?
Does it pay to taste the exhilaration
of feeling ones powers unfold?
Does it pay a rosebud to open its
petals and fling out its beauty to the
world?
Does it pay to push ones horizon
farther out, in order to get wider out
look, clearer vision?
Does it pay to learn how to center
thought with power, how to marshall
ones mental force effectively?
Does it pay to acquire power to get out
of life high and noble pleasures which
wealth cannot purchase?
Does it pay to acquire character
wealth, soul-pr0perty, which no disas-
ter or misfortune can wreck or ruin?
Does it pay to have expert advice and
training, to have high ideals held up to
one in the most critical years of life?
Does it pay to make lifelong friend
ships with bright, ambitious young peo-
pie, many of whom will occupy high
places later on?
Does it pay to become familiar with
all the lessons that history and science
can teach as to how to make life healthy
and successful?
Does it pay to become an enlightened
citizen, able to see through the sophis-
tries Of political claptrap and vote in
telligently on public mattersp
Does 1t pay to change bar of rough
pigiron into hairsprings for watches,
thus increasing its worth to more than
fifty times the value of its weight in
gold?
Does it pay to experience the joy of
self discovery, to open up the whole
continents of possibilities in ones ma
ture which might otherwise remain un-
discovered?
Does it pay the sculptor to call out
from the rough block the statue that
sleeps in the marble, and which shall
tell the story of heroism and greatness
to unborn generations?
Does q pay to have ones mentality
stirred BY the passion of expansion, to
feel the tonic of growth, the indescriba-
BILE satisfaction which comes from the
consciousness of perpetual enlargement?
Does it pay to have four years filled
with the most delightful association
with cultured people, at an age when
ambitions and high ideals have not been
dulled or shattered by disappointment,
or the unbounded faith in human nature
shocked by violated pledges9-Success'
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14

you try change Of food? Come with
me. and I will show you how to eat
and what TO eat to enjoy life.
Just as l expected. Some man has
nut a big bunch of lettuce in this box
for safe keeping. He didn't think
would find it. Look in there. Cousin
Squirrel. and you will be able to see
it,"
Sure enough, there it isl exclaimed
the squirrel as he looked in.
Now. | am going to let you have II
lust to show you how good it is. " said
the rabbit.
But don't want It," replied the
squirrel.
We'll, then, if you act that way
about it Ill get it and eat it myself,
said the rabbit. and into the box he ran
Click. clack. A little door Of the box
sprang shut as quick as you could
wink, and poor Mr.. Rabbit was tightly
caught in Il trap that had been set fol
him that very morning.
Over the fields ran man, and up In
to tree sprang the squirrel, and a.
poor Mr.. Rabbit was carried away thu
squirrel shed tear and declared:
81 believe I'd rather have the nuts
TO eat after l."-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
Perjury as n Fine Art.

In India, according to an English
man who lived there many years, the
NOR. educated class reduce perjury to
fine art. If case is to come before
the court they are not content with
coaching their witnesses beforehand,
but they take them to the very spot
where the deed was committed and so
through ali the incidents Of the assault
Or tragedy to be sworn to, so that the
various subpoenaed witnesses are lit
tie likely to be caught by any cross eX-
animation, no matter how severe it
may be. He cites an instance Of the
methods Of the ordinary HindOo law
yer. 4 British officer had made num-
Der of purchases Of a Parsee merchant,
who charged him such unreasonable
prices that he refused to pay the bill.
The merchant brought suit, and the
officer consulted lawyer. who agreed
to take the case and win 1t If he were
not interfered with. This was prom
ised. When the trial came off, the de-
Tense promptly acknowledged the pur-
chase of the articles ut the prices
named. but produced half a dozen wit
nesses who swore that they had seen
the bill paid.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
An Apimal Story For
Little Folks
Cousin Rabbit Trapped

Hello, Cousin SQUIRREL" cried Mr..
Rabbit. "l,ow are you?'
Il am very well, l thank you," re-
piled Mr.. Squirrel. How are you,
Cousin Rabbit|
"Fine! Finer answered Mr.. Rabbit.
You always do look we'll, cousin
said Mr.. Squirrel.
Yes, and l always feel we'll, and
you would, too. IL you lived as do"
And how do you live:" asked the
squirrel
"Why, l live on the best Of every
thing. While you are hunting around
for hard shelled nuts to crack and pick
| am feasting on the finest vegetables
that grow cabbage and carrots and
beets and celery and tomatoes and
corn and peas, and fruit too. Think OF
it-rosy apples and pears and grapes!
Doesn't 1t make your mouth water"
81 believe l would rather have the
nuts" said the squirrel.
"Oh, my. that's just like you" re-
piled Mr.. Rabbit. Now, why don't
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
The Greatest Aid to Temperance

A constructor of elevators for tall
buildings says in the Philadelphia Tele-
graph:
$50 essential are steady hands and
bright wits in our trade that under the
rules of our union no drinking man can
stay in the organization. The first time
q member of the union goes on job
under the influence of liquor he is sus-
pended for month and fined. For the
second offense he is summarily expelled,
without hope of reinstatement. It's
pretty drastic treatment, but we have
found it the wisest way to deal with the
matter"
This kind of "moral suasiOn" is more
generally effective than that which SIM
ply appeals to mems "better natures. !"
it has coercive quality. 1t touches the
pocket nerve-the question of employ
ment and wages.
John Graham Brooks, the well-knOwn
lecturer on sociology in Harvard Univer-
sity, once asked class of students who
were deeply interested in the anti
liquor movement: "What influence is
to-day doing the most for the cause OF
temperance"
None of them guessed his answer,
which was: "The railroads of the United
States" By enforcing the rule of
sobriety on their million and more Of
employes-some of the largest corpora
tions even requiring total abstinence in
their men-the railroads, said the
lecturer, are exercising an influence for
temperance that is none the less effective
for being selfish or prudential rather
than altruistic or moral.
There is no trade or profession in
which drunkenness ia not disqualifica-
ton. Temperance is not only virtue
it pays!-New York World.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
The Odor of Race.

A Japanese doctor of medicine pub
fishes treatise concerning the Odor OF
the Occidental races, sustaining the
proposition that at first the Orientals do
not like it. They grow used to it in
time, however, and finally, with con-
tinued experience, do not notice it at all.
1t seems to be his opinion that each race
has it's peculiar fragrance, that it is
partly racial, but is affected by
dietary and other conditions. So far as
his people are concerned, they do not
think this is conclusive proof that they
are odorless. They probably have their
own perfume perceptible to aliens-the
Russians can smell them long way off
but among themselves it is not noticed.
1t is, however, nothing like the pungent
and penetrating emanation proceeding
from the Western nations, in which
traces of garlic and ancient cheese and
the mobilization of a coarse and over
abundant dietary are 80 sure to be found.
The theory thus developed is curious
one, and it is more curious still that it
was left to Japan to give it development
and formulation. If it signifies par
ticularly refined sensibility to odors
among that interesting people, their
possession of it may readily be admitted,
as their old dover is refinement and not
in any single manifestation, but cover
ing every phase of perception. Perhaps
in this they do not exceed their near
neighbors the Chinese, who may equally
find the smell of foreigners disagreeable,
but who have hitherto been too proud
and stoical and cOntemptuous of the
pungeut and effluvious barbarian to say
so. That country has had unrivaled OPP
portunities to study the odor of count
less tribes of outlanders from the be-
ginning of its recorded history and be-
fore, but so far has not said word about
it.
If the notion comes to prevail that
particular fragrance belongs to each of
the races of mankind, it will be sup to"
the scientific experts among all of them
to lay their heads together, with their
noses pointed to windward at the angle
of elevation found best suited to the in
vestigatiOn, and find out more about it.
AS there is an instrument to magnify
sound, lifting the hum of the mosquitoes
horn to the resonance of the elephants
trumpeting or the roar of the desert
lion, something of the kind may be in
vented to multiply the force of racial
and other odors SO that their qualities
and significances may be more ad.
vantageously studied. Of all genera
tions of men it may be said as of Lear's
hand that they ''smell too much of
mortality" but their subsidiary odors
may be worth looking after If the Jap
anese Doctors ideas about them are cor
rect-a point on which it would be haz-
ardous for any Occidental layman to vent
ure an opinion.-New York Times.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
New Styles In Turnouts.

A few devotees of the whimsical and
the eccentric are talking of breaking
and training zebras for family pleasure
driving in Hyde Park, London. Friends
of the zebras say they can easily be made
docile and tractable In drawing smart
wagons, and will afford refreshing
novelty of contrast among the horses
and the automobiles. Quaggas are also
we'll thought of. It's a great pity that
CRATES are now 80 rare and hard to get.
How agreeable spectacle a fourth
hand team of spotted skyscrapers, i'm
ported from Africa, would afford in Rot
ten Row! Two enormous ostriches, wear
ing superb plumes of their own, would
also doubtless crafty the spectators If
hitched to big park phaeton.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14

No 2I.-Curtailments: Overt. Sage
Gid-e. Carp. Prime.
No. 12S.-A Literary House: "Th'
House OF the Wolf" (by Stanley j
Weyman.
No. 129.-Word Building: Breath, Ber
tina. bather: heart. battle; herb. heat
tear. tare. rate. brat. bear. bare. beat
hart. hare. hear, bath. Mitre, merit
remit; mite. mire, emit, emir. rite
rhine. time. tire tier.
No. 130.-Riddle: Frog.
No. 13l.-Hidden Flowers: Rose, pan
sy. lily. daisy. violet.
No. 49, Autographed Puzzle: Ege
an sea.
No. 133.-Double Acrostic: Primals-
Constitution. Finals-"Olu lronsides.
Crosswords-1. Confess. =. Observe. 3
Niggard. L. Semi. 3. Temples.
Iron. {. Tyro. s. Uncover. .. Termini
10. Ignored. IL. Optical. II. Nero.
No. l34..-Cross Purposes: Bun. bin
Lumber. Timber. Fun. fin. Bug. big
Bullet. billet. Bull. bill. Bung. bling
Put. pit Punch. pinch. Pup. pip.
No. 135.-Insertions: Margin. Prop
agate.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
Motto Of Foreclosure.

WHEREAS, William Ii. Keene, then Of Sum.
w ner IN the County of Oxford and State Of
Maine. by his mortgage deed, dated the third
(3d) day OF August, A. ID. 1900, and recorded in
the oxford Registry Of Deeds, Book 26S, Page
25s. conveyed TO me, the undersigned. a certain
parcel of real estate situated In the said town OF
Sumner, In said County, and bounded and de
scribed as follows. TO wit certain lot or parcel
of land situated in the town of Sumner In said
County together with the buildings thereon and
being the same premises conveyed by Joanna H..
Barrett to Addie Colby and known as the VIM.
III. Colby place and conveyed by Addie Colby TO
aroline Harden, and conveyed to said William
H. Keene by valorus White. executor of estate
of Ruby Harden, also certain spring known as
the spring used by William II. Colby used with
said premises: And whereas the condition Of
said mortgage has been broken, now therefore,
by reason of the breach of the condition thereof
| claim foreclosure OF said mortgage.
Dated at Paris. Me-. this first day OF June. A.
ID 1894.
HENRY III. BATES,
Ey James ;. Wright, his Attorney.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
A CONTINUAL STRAIN.

Many men and women are constantly
subjected to what they commonly term
ga continual strain" because of some
fin ncial or family trouble. 1t wears
and distresses them both mentally and
physically, affecting their nerves badly
and bringing on liver and kidney all
ments, with the attendant evils of con-
stipation, loss of appetite, sleeplessness,
low vitality and dependency. They
cannot, as rule, get rid of this soon
tinual strain" but they can remedy its
misunderstanding effects by taking fire.
quent doses of Green's August Flower.
1t tones up the liver, stimulates the kid
neys, insures healthy bodily functions,
gives vim and spirit to ones whole
being, and eventually dispels the physi-
cal or mental distress caused by that
continual strain" Trial bottle of -Au-
gust Flower, % cents; regular size, Is
cents. For sale by +. A. Shurtleff &
Co.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
The Effect of Punctuation.

The following lines. found in an oil
book. improbable as they may seem OF
first reading. lose all their improbable
ity by inserting semicolons after tn
words in italics:
/ saw a cloud begirt with Ivy round
l saw II sturdy ok creep on the ground
! saw an ant swallow up whale
saw the boiling sea brimful Of ale
saw a vial glass fifteen yards deep
saw n Nell full of mans tears that weep
saw a mans eyes oil In n flame Of fire
saw a house high as the moon or higher
saw the radiant sun even at midnight
saw u man who saw this wondrous
sight.
Pathfinder.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
No. l42.-Dia gOnal.

All of the words described contain
the same number of letters. When
rightly guessed and written one below
another the diagonal. beginning will
the upper left hand letter and ending
with the lower right hand letter, will
spell the name of famous musician.
CrosswOrds: /. Method. .. An ell
CINE of war. 3. A nose /. To con.
duct. .. Snowy clothes. e. A sudden
alarm.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
No. 1s7.-Beheaded Words.

IL am word of five letters denot-
ing an infirmity as applied to the eyes.
Behead me. and | am an unfortunate
monarch. Behead me again. and | am
an organ of sound.
9. lam word of five letters signify
ing figure of speech. Behead me, and
i am q strong cord; again. I am con-
traction used in poetry.
3. am word Of five letters mean
ing a place of merchandise. Behead
me, and l am very high; again, | in,
clude everything.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
Cried All the Time.

Mother-TOmmy. what's the matter
with your little brother? Tommy
He's crying because I'm eating my
cake and won't give him any. Mother
is his own cake finished? Tommy
Yes'm, and he cried while | was eating
that too.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
Reaanured.

Sick Man-Am to take all that med
icine? Wlfe-Yes; all of 1t. Sick Man
There's enough In that bottle to kill
a donkey. Wife-No, there isn't. John,
or the doctor wouldn't have prescrib-
ed 1t.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
The Difference.

What is the difference between hens
and poultry, pop:"
why, hens. my son, are things that
belong to our neighbors: poultry is
something Il man owns himself"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14

Guest-''I want some raw oysters.
They must not be too large nor too
small, nor too salty and not too fat.
They must be cold, and I want them
quick"
waiter-"Yes, sir. Will you have them
with or without pearls, sir?"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
Railroads and Hacks.

We don't know what there Is about
a station that calls for hack. Every
day women who carry market baskets
from downtown home and are proud Of
it send for hack to take them to the
station. though they take nothing with
them but little neutrality-suspicious.
Globe.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
He Asked.

Papa (severely)-Did you ask mann
ma If you could have that apple?
Three. Year-Old = Yes, sir. Papa - Be
careful now. I'll ask mamma. Three
Old-Truly, papa, asked her,
but she said couldn't have 1t.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
FOR SALE.

One Horse; One New Mich Cow; Pigs
four weeks old; One Concord Wagon,
never been hurt; Two Secondhand
Single Harnesses; Yankee Plow; One
hand Quaker Range. good order;
One Secondhand Sitting Room Stove,
Princess make; One Lever Butter
Worker. Call on or address,
A. j. PENLEY,
South Paris, Me.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-06-14
xo ,as-rr,p,e Crossword Enigma.

No. 139.-Triple Crossword Enigma.
Firsts are in shepherd but not in guide;
Seconds. in earnestly, not in chide;
Thirds in monastlc, but not In nun:
Fourths. In watcliman, but not In gun;
Fifths. In tired. but not In lame;
Sixths. in honor. but not in fame:
Sevenths. in boats. but not In bar;
.Eighths are in nephew, but not IN Ma y
Wholes are three lovely spring flowers,