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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13
The Times Daily Short Story.
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and had you out Of this. Here goes
Click. Click Il was the man uader
the bed getting ready 10 fire on the
coloners legs, and the colonel happily
realized 1t and fell back into bis
chair.
There won't be any police called
ia here before I'm gone" said the
stranger in his cool. calm way. after
I'm out you can raise all the racket
you want to"
''Ye gods, but must put up with
thisly almost walled the man Of war.
''You must / have been ready to
come out for ten minutes past and you
alone are to blame that I'm keeping
you up. Why not hold on to that pep
perry temper Of yours until we can
come to d pleasant UNDERSTANDING
"Iet robber 90 after be has plun-
dered me-
That's what 1t must come TO. colo
mel As a soldier you see the situa-
ton. We have got each other By the
short hair, so to speak, and neither
Of US is happy over IT. There may be
a question Of honor involved, but l
think you'd better waive ii. The plum
der carried off won't foot up 5000, and
for that trifling sum you'd be an ass to
give yourself away to police and re-
porters ana members or your club.
Never give yourself away at cheap
price Besides
Besides whatT snapped the colonel.
THE family honor you know
What do you know about my fam
ily, sir21
"a great deal, colonel You had a
brother George
but he Is dead"
We'll hardly. He was supposed to
have died several years ago, but as d
matter Of fact he is very much alive to-
day Indeed, colonel, he's the man who
carried Off the swag just before you
came in.
@You are lying. siri | won't believe
word Of itr'
"On your base again. Your brothers
middle name Is Yates: light hair, blue
eyes, small hands, and there Is a scar
IN his right cheek from wound re-
teiyed when boy: also speaks with
3 lisp. Am correct coIonel@
YES yes, Come out and tell me
moreF whispered the colonel.
There's only this more to say said
the man as lie crept out and stood
erect. Your brother has gone to the
dogs that is. he Is one Of our gang.
lie didn't know that this was your den.
OF course, but he has helped to plumber
#, and IL I'm jagged he'll get the same
desc and the public viii know his real
name. DO you cotton to that colonel9g
For answer the colonel pointed tc the
door leading into the hail.
THANK you, Sir. | can find ny way
out Don't take 1t too hard, co.enel
or course shall say nothing to
George Good night, old man
AT the door lie halted to look back
and add:
Yes, sorry for you, but things do
come about in curious way Again
good night
But the colonel had his face in his
hands and was weeping. NJ QUAD.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13

United States Senator Latimer Of
South Carolina made mistake he
didn't relish when he recently got into
n Republican meeting in New York
clty. The senator thought that he was
among Democrats and began to eulo-
gize Parker and Davis. Some Of bis
auditors knew the senator and humor-
ed the situation BY breaking into roars
Of laughter. The senator quickly re-
allied his mistake, and he Immediate
y retired, followed By the laughter Of
the Republicans.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13
Lou DiIlon,. EpIcurean Diet.

Lou Dillon, the unbeaten trotting
mare, according to Country Life In
America, always has the best Of foods
oats. carrots, hay aud SO on. She il
a Californian BY birth, and as Mr.. Bill
lings does not wish 70 risk the eonse-
quences Of change Of diet all her hay
IS brought from her native state, some
times at cost Of $50 a ton. some
times at a cost Of 500.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13
O Fibroid Turnors Cured.


Mrs Hayes First Letter Appealing Helps
3DEAR Mrs PHAx:-I under Boston doctors treat
ment for long time without any relief They tell bod
toE cannot SIT down without great the
domen swollen and have had flowing spells
petite not good lcannot walk of time
The symptoms OF Fibrod Tumor given your little book
curatey describe case you Mrs.
T. f HAYES, 252 Dudley St, lsoxbury) Boston, Mass
Note the result of Mrs. PinEham's advice-aT-
though she advised Mrs. Hayes, of Boston to take
her medicine which she knew would help her -
her letter contained mass of additional instruc-
tons as to treatment all of which helped to bring
about the happy result.
"DEAR Mrs. PNKHAM-S Sometime ago wrote to YOU describ-
ing my symptoms and asked your advice You replied and followed
all your directions carefully, and to-day well
The of Lydia e. Pnham Vegetable Compound entirely
miles
Lydia E. Vegetable Compound worth Ave dol
lars drop ADVISE al who afflicted with
female trouble OF kind faithful trial"
t. + HAYES, 262 Dudley St, lRoxburyl Boston, Mass
Mountains gold
the place Of the health and happiness which Pnhas
Vegetable Compound brought to Mrs. Hayes
Such testimony should be accepted by all convincing
evidence that Lydia H. Pnkhams Vegetable
without remedy for all the distressing ills all
troubes determinations;
placements Of the womb; baache Irregular suppressed painful
Surely the and character OF the testimonial let
doubt
Mrs Hayes at her above address will gladly letters
which sick for fuller information illness
Her gratitude to Mrs Pnkham and Vegetable
compound SO genuine and heartfelt that she thinks trouble too
great Tor her TO take In return for her health and happiness
Truly 1t SAID that it Lydia pnkhams
pound that curing other medicine;
get TINS when some druggist wants to sell something else
NEnl EoREET
U000O y Ned Co., Iynnaa
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13

Models indicate the various stages Of
the development Of the wheel from
rolling cylinder to the spoked wheel
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13
slept In nathtuba.

The French line steamship Savoy,
which brought to this country the
Guarde Republicaine band Of PAris,
carried 50 many passengers that her
petty officers had to sleep in bathtubs.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13
natntr Farm nands.

Farm hands III Yucatan wear linen
garments Of spotless white, When
they become even lightly soled they
hasten to change them Work is plen
tiful there, farm laborers are well paid.
and they can afford to be tidy.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13

Many hundred years ago, IN what Is
now Ross county, o., the capital Of
which is Chillicothe there lived nu-
merous tribes who buried their dead
IN great mounds. Some OF these
mounds We're opened prior to the Co
lumbian eSp0s,aon. anu Tie relies were
displayed al ascaso. SINCE That date
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13

When a man digs around ash heaps
and garbage dumps, we call him rag
picker or scavenger. II the ash heap
happens to be few hundred or thou
sand years old, Observation-Disclosures. TO
these archaeologists and theirine, Sher-
lock Holmes sort OF reasoning we owe
our knowledge Of primitive man. While
the facts are without date, they pos
sess Il continuity when ranged together
that make a fascinating history. Here,
In the Anthropoiogy building, every
thing il labeled, 50 that 1t is easy to
become q student II one will take d
little extra time. But the average yis-
itor aims to DO miles Of alsles without
result rather than rods with the most
delightful and novel experiences. ono
must read the labels and ponder q
bit If he would really enjoy the best
fruits OF the great fair
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13

The Egyptian idea Of the correct set
ting Of legs beneath u table, chair or
stool does not agree with that Of pres
ent day furniture designers Ii we
have four lion legs beneath a table we
set them SO as to give bow legged
effect. Each leg IS as If moving from
q common center. Under an ancient
Egyptian table the legs are just as
they are naturally under the animal,
and the table has the appearance OF
about leaving the room on an errand.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13

him sometimes before company, but
little Ferryo was forgetful, and the
seatless frame Of 1900 years ago is
here as the record Of this family Incl
dent Its carved legs show that carved
legs have been the fashion since long
before the dawn OF history
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-13

Some Egyptian child must have put
his knees through the cane seat Of this
chair The seat is gone, and only the
frame is left. His mother no doubt
cautioned him time and again that he
would certainly get bis knees through
that cane seat If he didn't stop kneel-
ing On It No doubt she had to scold
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-12-09

The ants found the first one and one
ant went to it, to -.le other two or
three ants went, but to the third, in
a few minutes long row Of workers
were busy carrying away the sweet
morsels to their storehouse.
We do not see ants lazily lettering
around killing time They are always
doing their best.
There is no end to the simple ex-
periments by which we may find cut
all about their housekeeping. Take
grains of wheat and glass beads the
same size and see if the ants show
preference to either.
Put little pile of sugar on
board and around it make a little riv-
er of water and see the ants bridge it,
if it is not too deep.-L. G. f., in The
Indianapolis News.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-12-09

cleats and some other metallic parts
of racing yachts have been made Of it.
1t has been used as substitute for
tinplate as a roofing material Max
ers of Photographic apparatus and OPP
tical goods use it largely, and 1t is
rapidly displacing tin as a material
for bottle caps, boxes for druggists
use, etc. An extensive market for it
is furnished by makers of fancy goods,
souvenirs, medals and tokens, and tot
let articles, such as combs.
But the largest use was found in an
unexpected quarter. Aluminium has
62 percent Of the electrical conductiv-
ity of copper. Hence wire about one
eighth larger in diameter than a cop
per wire will conduct equally well,
and at the same time will weigh less
than half as much. At the present
prices of the metals, aluminium is con-
siderably less costly, and the lighter
wires may be supported by poles
placed farther apart than is safe in
the case of copper. Many power
transmission lines are already using
aluminium, and most of those in course
of construction are employing it. An
example Of this use is found at Hart
ford, Conn, where 1000 horsepower
for lighting purposes is transmitted IL
miles from a waterfall at Tariffville.
The electric lights at the Pan-Ameri-
can exposition in Buffalo we're fed
from Niagara Falls, 20 miles away,
over an aluminium line.
Steel making also absorbs large
quantities of aluminium, the metal be-
ing used as a deoxidizing agent in the
Bessemer and Siemens-Martin pro-
cesses. At present the annual product
in the United States is about 7,15O,00O
pounds, and increasing rapidly, the
selling price of the metal being so low
that, bulk for bulk, it is the cheapest
metal produced, except iron, steel and
zinc. AS an example of an industry en-
tirely developed by scientific research,
aluminium production is of deep in
terest. The career of the metal as
an industrial factor is evidently just
begun.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-12-09
TILL NOON
The Simple Dish That Keeps One vigor.
Gus and Well Fed.

When the doctor takes his own med
icine and the grocer eats the food he
recommends some confidence comes
to the observer.
A grocer, of Ossian, Ind, had prac-
teal experience with food worth any
ones attention.
He says: "Six years ago became
so weak from stomach and bowel
trouble that was finally compelled to
give up all work in my store, and, in
fact all sorts of work fos about four
years. The last year I was confined
to the bed nearly all Of the time, and
much Of the time unable to retain food
of any sort on my stomach. My bow
els were badly constipated continual
ly, and / lost in weight from 165
pounds down to So pounds.
"When at the bottom of the ladder
/ changed treatment entirely and start
ed in on Grape-Nuts and cream for
nourishment. / used absolutely moth
ing but this for about three months.
slowly improved until got out Of bed
and began to move aboxt.
81 have been improving regularly
and now in the past two years have
been working about fifteen hours
day in the store and never felt better
in my life.
During these two years / have new
er missed a breakfast of Grape-Nuts
and cream, and often have it two
meals day, but the entire breakfast
is always made Of Grape-Nuts and
cream alone.
"Since commencing the use Of Grape
Nuts / have never used anything TO
stimulate the action Of the bowels,
thing I had to do for years, but this
food keeps me regular and in fine
shape, and am growing stronger and
heavier every day.
my customers, naturally, have been
interested and / am compelled to an
swer a great many questions about
Grape-Nuts.
"Some people would think that a
simple dish Of Grape-Nuts and cream
would not carry one through to the
MONDAY meal, but it will and in the
most vigorous fashion
Name gwen by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
Look in each pkg. for the famous
little book. "The Road to Wellville."
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-12-09
Thirteen.

You see, there's Daisy and Geraldine
And me-Pm May-and we're each thir-
teen,
And Daisy and Geraldine both say
That now we are too grown up to play
With dolls any more! And l think it's
mean
It's perfectly horrid to be thirteen
They're glad to give up their dolls. But
Can't see any possible reason why
We shouldn't play with them one more
year
(And my Angelina is such a dearD
well, at last | know what people mean
When they say it's unlucky to | thir-
teen.
When told mamma she shook her head
And kissed me tenderly as she said:
You're standing with very reluctant
feet,
Dear May, where the brook and river
meet;
And yet, perhaps. It's golden mean
'TwiXt childhood and girIhood when
ones thirteen"
Lucy Foster, in st. Nicholas.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-12-09
IndIana MIIllnu IS Years Aao.

In central Indiana 65 years ag
mills were scarce. knew one widoY
who parched corn and ground 1t uf
her coffee mill, and thus kept her
lily in bread for several weeks durS
a drouth. l also knew a man to carrys
two bushels of corn IA miles to MILL
stay over night and return next day.
This was when the horses we're busy
at work. have ridden on horseback
upon sack Of two bushels Of grain
IL miles to mill and crossed stream
belly deep to horse, staid over night
for my grist and come back home next
day. One time a wild hog in the
brush by the roadside scared my
horse and he jumped aside, causing,
my sack of grain to fall off. grabbed
the name and stayed ON. could not
replace it, so l had to stand guard
until some one passing would replace
it for me, and 1t seemed long time
to wait, but at last man came along
and put it on for me.
think the boys of nowadays would
think this an impossible job Seed
corn was often made scarce by early
frost. One man went on horseback
to Kentucky, bought a bushel of seed
corn for two dollars, and fed part ipt
1t to his horse on his way back homie
j. Peffiey, in Indiana Farmer.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-12-09
An Animal Theater.

The sides and rear of the amman
cages at the New York Zoo have been
hung with painted scenes, like those
on the stage of theater. The ant
NAL lies down in the afternoon forIa
nap. When it goes to sleep 1t is In
the centre Of vast desert. When it
wakes the stage-manager has shifted
the scenes, and the beast is lying on
the bank of brook with the noun
tains in the background. When o
Manchurian leopard awoke, the other
day, the scene had been changed to a
hillside with few trees close by. II
rubbed its sleepy eyes for minute.
saw the crowd staring at it through
the bars. and turned to one of the
painted trees and attempted to spring
into the branches. Down 1t came
again, scraping It's claws through the
length of the canvas, and looking very
disappointed. For few minutes the
leopard looked at the tree, and then
skunk away into corner.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-12-09
Ant Sense.

There are no insects that seem
or that eat so many different kinds
of things as do the, ants. We know
that they live on an animal, veget-
able, and fruit diet, and they do not
neglect the sweets of their table.
A fat 1adybug may furnish the
main dish for their dinner, kernel
of corn the bread, and either their
own ant COWS or the honey sack of
the nearest plant will give them the
sweet drop that they like to finish
off with.
They work all summer laying up
the food that is to furnish their pantry
for the long, cold winter. How often
a plucky ant has taken grasshopper
twenty times as large as itself, and
by tugging, pushing, and pulling got
it into it's winter home to serve as
the pork laid down for winter use
serves the New England farmer
Besides a strong sense of taste
they have strong sense of smell
and are able to track their compan-
ions to a valuable find of food
They remember where to go, for
once they find a store of provisions
They return to it again and again.
took a little pool of molasses,
about half teaspoonful, and showed
it to an ant. True to ner instinct
she at once ran back to the nest
saying to her companions: 1--WE have
an ocean of sweets; come help me
get it." But l prevented her getting
get it." But l prevented her going
back herself, and her companions
never found it, for she was not able
to tell them where 1t was without
going herself. All she told them
was that they should follow her.
tried another ant, and she went
back and forth several times, but
seemed to tell her companions moth
ing. Finally her companions wan
dered around until the. found the
sweet lake and began to make a
banquet.
Here is where their lack of love
for their companions come in. AL
though some of the ants became
swamped in the sticky molasses and
drowned, not one of their friends paid
the slightest attention to them
Wishing to try another experiment
made three little pools of honey.
A wee one, with a drop as big as a
pinhead, another a good sized drop,
aad the other about teaspoonful.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-12-09
Story of a Deadhead Bruln.

AS a passenger train from Cedar
Keys to Jacksonville was running at
lively rate, some cattle on the track
caused the train to slacken speed al
most to a stop. When the train
slowed up, to prevent running over
the COWS, large black bear trotted
leisurely out of the woods and
climbed upon the platform of the car
to see, probably, if there was anything
OF an eatable nature aboard He had
got on the front platform of the ex-
press car, and, finding the door open,
decided to continue his search in the
interior. Inside he found three nice
strings of fish, all of which he trans
ferred to his stomach During the time
the bear was taking his lunch the bag
gagemaster discovered him and noti-
lied the conductor, and the two men
could think of nothing to do but start
the train. When the train started the
swaying of the car shut the door, and
all thought an important capture had
been made. The bear soon became
tired of his ride, and looked about for
means of egress. Nothing appeared
so vulnerable to attack as the win
dows in the side of the car, which
were protected by iron rods about a
half-inch in diameter. He selected
one of these and clawed the wood
work about it very badly. He then
evidently caught three or four of the
iron bars with his paws, and, giving
them a hug, broke and twisted them
off clean. His numbering body was
then forced through the aperture and
struck the ground like rubber ball.
He turned two or three somersaults
and ambled off into the woods.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-12-09
open Stammerinq."

open Stammering" is the name gig
en- by DR.. Berillon, of Paris, to dH.
ficulty in writing analogues to STAN.
mering in speech. Many persons, he
says, are incapable of writing even
one of the letters of a word as lOAi
as anyone is looking at them. HyE
motto suggestions he thinks, will curs
this nervous trouble, as well as wrt
ters' cramp.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-12-09
OLDEST LIVING THING.
A Cypress Tree in Mexico over 5000
Years of Ace.

Years of Age.
A statement recently made that
there are yews in England that are
the oldest living things on this earth
is not correct.
These yews are old, very, very old;
there is no doubt about that. Some
of them were stalwart trees even be-
fore Caesar landed on those shores
There is one now standing in the
churchyard at Fertingal, in Perth
shire, which Decandole nearly CEN
fury ago proved. to the satisfaction OF
bOtanists to be over twenty-five CEN
turtles old. and another at Hedsor, in
Buclas, which is 3240 years old. How
Decandole arrived at an apparently
correct estimate of the enormous age
of these living trees is simple thing,
and the principle is doubtless well
known today to all The yew. like
most other trees, adds one line (about
one-tenth of an ineh) to its circum-
ference each year. He proved this
after an investigation extending oyer
several years, and we know now, 100
years later. that his deductions were
correct. The old yew at Hedsor has
trunk twenty-seven feet in dame
ter, proving it's great age, and it is In
a flourishing, healthy condition now,
like it's brother at Portugal.
Their years are few. though. COM
pared with those of the trees | had
in fnd yhoY, I do
ton that the statement printed about
them in scientific journal was incor-
rect. In one chapter of his writings
Humboldt refers to gigantic baobab
tree in Central Africa as the oldest
organic monument in the world.
This tree has a trunk 20 feet in dia-
meter, and Adanson. by series OF
careful measurements. demonstrated
conclusively that it had lived for no
less than $50 years.
Still it is not the oldest organic
monument in the world. as Humboldt
declared, for now Mexican scientists
have proved that huge cypress tree,
standing in Chapultepec, with
trunk 11S feet and 10 inches in cir
conference, is older than it-older,
too, by more than thousand years
for it has been shown as conclusively
as these things can be shown that its
age is about 6260 years. To become
impressed with wonder over this, one
has only to dwell on that duration for
a little while in thought.
Yet it is not so remarkable when
one stops for a moment to remember
that, given favorable conditions for
it's growth and substance. the aver
age tree will never die of old age--its
death is merely an accident. Other
younger and more vigorous trees may
spring UP near it, and perhaps rob its
roots of their proper nourishment;
insects may kill it. floods or winds
may sweep it away, or its roots may
come in contact with rock and be-
come so gnarled and twisted because
they have not room to expand in
their growth that they literally throt-
tie the avenues of its sustenance;
but these are accidents If such
things do not happen tree may live
on for century after century. still ro-
bust, still fourishing.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-12-09
Just Like Emil

81 must have new gown and coat
at once"
Great thunderation. woman. how
can you ask for a gown and coat when
you have to- testify in my bankruptcy
hearing next week?"
81 simply have to have them. Do
you think l can face the people in
the court room when I am wearing my
old es?'-Indianapo Sun.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-12-09
AN EXCEPTION.

EYES," said Nurittch, proudly, II
am self-made man."
"You surprise me-" replied Kadley.
81 was told you always made good
Philadelphia Press.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-12-09

The badge worn by the lord mayor
of London is studded with diamonds
to the value of 100000.