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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-11
S. OF V. OFFICERS.
Annual
Annual Enoampmsnt al Burlington
Closed

Annual Eneampmsnt At Burlington
Closed,
Burlington, june e.--The closing SEES
sion Of the END annual encampment Of
the Vermont division Sons Of Veterans
aud those OF the lAth annual encampment
ot the Ladies Aid society were held to-
day.
These officers were elected and IN
stalled
Re. Smith Of Burlington, division COM
mander; VS. Bramau Of Richford, senior
vice commander =. r. Lambert Of Ben
nington, junior vice commander; Division
council, A. y, Cheney, Morrisville, A. j.
Davis. Manchester, J B. Ripley. Lyndon
Vile; delegate at large, II o. Allen, Tsyu-
donyille; delegate, a. N. Camp, Norris
VILE
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-11

Barre II solid for DeBoer Her
eight Republican delegates to the state
convention will cast their vote collectively
for the Montpelier man although the vote
instructing them was unnecessary. They
would have done so without the instrue
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-11

Il The proposed central FIRE station goes
mp 10 faster than the Aldrich Free Libra
III the government building, new hotel,
etc ETC., we shall set have q chance to
think il over at least
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-11

It is said that silver deposits have been
found IN the northwestern part Of Yer
mont. Whether or not Felix w. McGet-
rick Is connected is not known,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-11

Attorney General Philander G. Knox
ought 10 leave cleaner record than his
predecessor Senator Quay Of Pennsylya-
MIA. without even trying
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-11

will wear as long as Devoe's No others
are as heavy bodied, because DeyOe's
weigh 3 to s ounces more to the pint. Sold
BY Reynolds & Son
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-11
IF PORT ARTHUR FALLS

Germany ard Italy may offer to Ne
date.
Rome, june To- Secolo says that the
Italian ambassador to Berlin, General
Lama, has arrived In Rome on a mission
with reference to a Joint offer Of mediation
BY Germany and Italy should Port Arthur
be taken By the Japanese.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-11

Dispatches sent out from Rutland say
there we're frosts in that section Thursday
night Political or only the natural kind
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-11
Its r.labIlllies 80 100 nnn.

Buffalo, N Y., June TO- The Anderson
Company, conducting one Of the largest
department stores In Buffalo, has failed
with liabilities Of 100000.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-11

Parker may have made some gain. but
be hasn't done it through any word Of
mouth Of his own.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-11

Here's hoping that the Sunday closing
Of stores in Barre is settled for keeps.
There Is no use in dallging longer over the
matter
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-11
Remember Flag Day, June / 4.

Port Arthur is shaking, and that's no
Joke.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-11

Have you floor paint that will last two
weeks 2" Yes. we have Devoe's; 1t has a
beautiful gloss and will wear two years If
properly applied Reynolds & Son
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-11
Notlee rs All unlon 80.

That the Congregational Church at VIII.
is non-union job and all union
men should keep away.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-11
a ~ % sanare IIimseIf.

He-It was very wrong Of me to
steal that kiss
She But you can make restitution.
can't YOU.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-11

Az Usual.
once more the bathing girl appears
IN costume seanf AND trim
And tells HE man she sadls fears
She can learn how g. swim
Chicago Tribune
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-21
Prize for ForeteIIinq Weather.

The general dissa abstraction with
weather forecaSting may have lmpell-
ed Senator Bard of California. to OF
fer bill which proposes that 100000
be given to the man who can de-
wise a system of long-range temPera-
ture forecaStins. The weather bureau
scientist are reported to be ind1E-
nant toward the proposition. since 1t
conveys an implication that the short
conings of the bureau are to be rem
edied from the outside instead of the
inside. But they ought to be reme-
died somehow.
When the approach of the Calves
ton cyclone is hearalded by such a
mere mild representation as nigh
north easterly winds, it is time that
the weather bureau becomes more
emphatic when mDhasis is needed
OF course it is impossible to send an
observer along with a West Indian
hurricane, with facilities for wiring
from the front" half-hourly bulletins,
but there must some day be- SyS-
tenn Of discriminate ton between high
northeaSterly winds and tempest
which destroys 5000 lives.
II would be enormously expensive
to have a Johnny on the spot to
notify communities of the impending
vagaries of the weather. You can't
always tell when the Mississippi val
ley tornado is going TO be born
They are only few hundred yards
wide and leap into being as swiftly
as a flash of gun powder All that
the weather bureau is now able to
say. guardedly, is that 'cyclonic con
ditions mag prevail" If they do pre-
vail the tornado may begin next door,
or il rl2y begin 500 miles away.
These things weather science finds
fall in the temperature to 10 degrees
below zero instead OF p above.
discrepancy that is Notable falling in
its work? 1t is a peculiarly OF mist
weather bureau forecasts that by the
time they reach the public they mere
tell what the weather is, but not what
it is to be. You could put your head
out of the window and absorb the
same information. But Senator
Bards bill is not likely to help mat
tiers. 1t will probably only spur up
weather cranks in all parts OF the
country Meteorology must wait for
the genius who is 10 revolutioniZe
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-21
AFTER THE PLUM.
VIII. ANDERsoN.l is IN THE STATE
FIGHT IN DEADLY
EARNEST
He and His Frienda Seem Confident
OF the Final Result.

w H. Anderson, former superin-
tendent of the Wheeling city schools.
and one of the best known educators
in the State, is making hard hight
as candidate for the Office of State
superint endent. of the schools. The
announcement that Mr. Anderson Is
in the race is official. and already
cards bearing his name have made
there appearance.
1t is probable that Mr.. Anderson
will DE nominated by the delegation
from Brooke county at the State con-
yention and there is little doubt but
that he will get the support of the
delegates from this county. He is
known throughout the State and Will
no doub: be the choice of number
of other counties.
Superintendent Anderson is we'll
adapted for the position of State SUI
perintendent of schools and the Re
publican State convention could not
make a better selection, his friends
saw He has been closely Identified
with school work for the past thirty
years. For a quarter of a century
or more he was superintendent OF the
Wheeling schools.
The announcement that Mr.. Andcr-
son is candidate will be learned with
pleasure by his friends SO FAR as
known here he is the only candidate
in the field for the position. He was
in the city Tuesday putting ticks IN
the interests of his candidacy
Wheeling News.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-21
The Weakness OF Strong Men.

From the Saturday Evening Post)
Those who are seeking through
study of superior men to make them
selves at least less inferior are Of
ten puzzled and banled by the dis
covery of characteristics that seem
abs olutely incompatible with great
ness There is hardly a great man
whose life is all accurately known
in whom there was not weakness
that would destroy an ordinary man
sometimes mental weakness; again,
physical weakness.
But there is on record Il single case
of great man who had not through
his character a certain tOughneSs Of
fiber which made him free from the
common weakness of whining and
rushing about for refuge at the first
black lift of adversely? Is not that
fundamental sense of insecurity, OF
inability to stand alone. the great
enemy we all have to fight? Is 1t
not the enemy that drives some to-
the false courage of drink, others to
stink and crawl along the byways of
indircction and crime, many. many
others to resign the guidance of their
dcstineS to some master or masters
with hardly an effort to think or do
for themselves?
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-21
what Ais the Naval Vessels?


On the same day Russian battle
ship STRUCK a Russian mine and sunk
with ali on board. an American ship
suffered terrible explosion with the
loss of twenty-nine lives. and a British
torpedo boat destroyer crashed at full
speed into n seawall and Will prove
a wreck. We all seem to be playing
with edged tools. We do not appear:
TO know how to hapdle our was ships
as we'll as. railroad engineer does
his locomotive. There. is apparent
" lack of training in all the navies-#
a war ship seems as dangerous and
dubious, to navigate as an air ship
or a balloon If your voyage turns
out all right fortune has favored YOU
science has done nothing. What Is
the matter with these ponderous, awi<-.
ward war engines that. like the hea-
then goddess. devour their own chill
drcn?
Not long ago a British war vess2z
crossing the North sea buckle 49,
broke in two in the middle, Asss53
such disasters as these, due to ss S5sS!
handling. are shown in the reccS
of merchant vessels. They suffer coz
lisions in fogs. strike upon q reef ON
founder IN gales, but they are seldom
shpwrecked III open daylight While
naneuyeiing in what is the next thing
to pleasure trip. Hundreds OF
steamers may put out to sea loaded
with passengers on the occasion OF
an international yacht race and re-
turn without n single accident, but
when a fleet of naval vessels set forth
on an expedition there is always the
greatest trepidation among those who
understand the peril they are In
The rammipg of the British war
ship Camperdown some years since
was a biunder equal to the destruc-
ton of the Petropavlovsk. The truth
is these steel tubs are under some
circumstances nearly as dangerous to-
the men aboard them as they are tos
the enemy. There was much more CT
a chance for life in a disaster to the
old wooden frigates and seventy
fours' than in these unwieldy masses
of iron Seamanship seems to count
for nothing One blow in the hull
ana there is nothing for all on board
to do but sink.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-21
Confessions Of Dodd CASTOR,

From the Topeka Capital)
I criticise a good many things, but
am free to admit that have made
mess of most of the things I have
attempted.
confess that 1 DO not understand
how Parsifa has SO long escaped the
attention of the man who names the
sleeping cars.
1t has also occurred to me that the
breakfast food advertising is taking
it's vacation rather early in the sea-
son. VIZ
This has been an unusually pleas
ant winter and spring. | can recall
no similar season when so few people
attempted to entertain me by reading
aloud
My perceptive qualities are, think
as good as those of the average per
SON iut T admit that l do not under
stand what April is crying about
confess that before l got up yes.
terday morning I had long argument
with myself as to whether cold baths
do all that is claimed for them
often doubt that Carnegie is sim
cere in his efforts to get rid OF his
money If he were he'd buy an ORR
entail rug with it.
When [ want to insult man 4
use no halfway measures. either
question the breeding of his dog or
the accuracy of his watch
do not claim to be better than
others. but | am honest enough to-
admit that | do not like salt-risiniss's
bread
You might as well have your laugh
now l am sch edu1ed to ride the ele-5
plant in a wedding parade that is to
start this spring.
never advocate severe measures
except in the case of the man who
refers to his wife as the woman.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-21
LEFT HANDLERS.
They Are the Dread OF Left-Handed
Batters-Reason Hard To
Understand.

All left-handed batSnlen dread lett
handed pitchers. Just as soon as a
southpaw makes his appearance on
begin TO saual and are ready to give
up the fight. They are under the I'M
preston that they cannot hit the
southpaws and the. southpaws know 1t.
and. consequently. always display
more confidence against eft-handed
batters than when a right-hander fac
eS them.
Clark Griffith, manager of the High
landers. and himself a pitcher, though
n right-hantled one, cannot understand
this.
One would suppose, he said, that
the left-handed pitcher is no longer a
rarity since every team in the country
almost carries one. 1t >woaid seem
that the left-handed batsman had mas
tered the southpaw delivery. but they
have not, and are under the impress
sion that they cannot hit them 1t
it is for the riShtoahterSo uEIAcN
certainly should be no harder for the
left-handed batsman to hit LETT
handed pitcher than it is for the right
handed batsman to hit a right-handed
pitcher.
BILLY Keeler is the only left-hander
who never feared Southpaw They
all looked alike to him, and, in fact.
believe he preferred batting against
a feft-hander. But then. Keller is the
greatest artist with the bat that the
game has ever known, and does not
become frightened no matter who is
pitclin. am going to drill into the
heads of our Ieft-handcrS to stand
right UP and hit 4 left-hander just as
they do a righthauder, and they Will
soon realize that there is no differ
cnCe-
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-21
Educational Meeting at Mor9antown.

Educational Meeting at Mor9antown.
The third week in June is going to
be an interesting time in M organtown.
The State Educational Association
will meet there June 2l-2"; the
School of Methods for Sunday School
Workers will be in session that week.
and it will be the opening week OF
the regular Summer School or the
University While other towns of the
State are stirring themselves over po-
litical events, MOrgantown is getting
ready to give her educational visitors
a handsome welcome. a committee
of fifteen has been appointed. with
Professor Gallup, Superintendent OF
the Morca ntown Public Schools, as
chairman. Various ! subcommittee
will look after everything that can
be thought of to make that week at
tractivc and profitable in every way
The State Educational Association
will be given the most cordial wei
come in its history, and every teacher
in the State is invited to attend. Prep
arations are already being made for a
great reception one night under the
old trees of the University campus.
1t is expected that several hundred
of the most prominent school people
of the State will be present. besides
a good many people from out OF the
State.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-21
---z=H--
The Largest Elephant.

Bolivar is the pride of the Phlia-
delphia Geological garden, and probab-
~ the largest elephant in existence
He has 'been chained, standing in one
place for nearly thirteen years. Day
and night season in and season out,
his ponderous bulk has kept up its
ceaseless swing and rock from side
TO side in this one corner. Circuses
come and go, and elephants galore
stop within sound OF his trumpetings,
but he never seems TO care, but seems
well contented. Bolivar weighs H.
900 pounds. stands 10 feet high and
consumes $50 pounds of potatoes
daily and all the peanuts he can beg.
borrow or steal. Jumbo was always
considered the biggest elephant in
the world Bolivar was a gift from
Adam Forepaugh. at which time the
elephant was 10; he is now SO years
old and there is nc apparent reason
why he should not live to be 100
He is a native of Ceylon and rare
type OF an Indian elephant.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-21
Up in ARMS R /
is WARRINGTON AGAINST SLOT
MAcHiNEs-wANT THEs3s.
COURT ACT.

Sheriff Nj. a. Jolliff went to Man
nington on business yesterday He re-
ports that the Warrington people are
up in arms against slot machines. and
gambling houses. and that something
must be done. They will wait 20 see
If the Court does anything ahoutsthes
matter. and if it does not the@town viii
take the matter up. s15a :
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-21
Looking for Men.

Mr. Vincent Cooke, who is superin-
tendent of a coal mining company
at HowesviIle Preston county, is in
the city looking for men to work in
his mines. He has had some trouble
with his miners, ana part of then, have
gone on a strike He wants atAIeast:
fifty men. The company is controlled
by philadelphia capitalists.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-21

Hon. E. NJ. ShowaIter has been
granted power of attorney for the
Fairmont Elks Building Company
A marriageSlice was issued yes
terday to Mr.. Herman Beggs bailey
Of PIttsburg, an Misss MaesI AT M,
of this city. 8
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-21
WATER DID DAMAGE
To PlasterIng and Finish In the
Jacobs Hutchinsor Building

The water works got out or order
in the rear part of the Jacobs-Hutch-
inson building this morning. mat
part of the building was Hooded ana
the water ran down to the first moor
doing some damage to the plasterinS
and finish.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-21

row Place at great bargain.
II. H. LANHAM. x
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-21

The South may regard General
Miles as sure-enough candidate
when he files afidavits that he never
took lunch with any one OF DARKER
com plexior that veteran or the
Puerto Rican campaign. -PittsburS
Despatch.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-21

euar subscription price for years subscription to ne
for him prize which, his estimates
your estimates of the total paid admissions at the
the Fair Write your name address ard estimate IN She
Profit Sharing Contest Editor.
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Of the Worlds Fair showing the total paid attendance
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judges during the first week in ul1r AS tho CON
he opens, all will equal chance 10 win tle
have chance win Special Prize and just as St>'"!
the who guesscs the last day OF tic contest
equally correct prizes will be divided c''a>
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-21

The windows of the store room
next door to,the Bon Ton will be; beau beau
tiful Saturday; Aprons Caps. Turn N
overs and many rare and beautiful I
hand made artiSlesswill be on sale.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-21
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wishes 10 participate n e
in WI pries
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Weekly nteligencer, will receiver certificate
entitie him 70 claim
When yo,: send in your subscription also
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Subscription Blank below and mail it to The
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prizes Those who estimate or guess NOW !"
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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-17

you can teach them nothing. but they. and
they alone. can teach everything To them
selves. II after a reasonable time they
have not got together" in fact. if not in
appearance. they never will, and other
men must be tried. AS soon as they have
got together they will know 1t. and how
ever they may then appear to the man on
the towpath or in the launch, they are
going as fast as they are capable of GO
ing. and they can be beaten only by eight
better men. But the difference at the end
of a race between them and any other
college crew will be a matter OF inches or
of feet. and never of lengths, for 1t will
have been caused by physical strength
and stamina and not by artificial and
imaginative strokes
The difference in the weights OF the
Yale and of the Harvard crews in the
later regatta vas. J believe. one pound
only: and the distance apart of the boats
at the finish should have been no more
than one pound weight might represent
Instead of that It was seven lengths-a
tact OF Itself sufficient to cast contempt
upon our entire rowing system.
Keep the mon in the boat: let them row
ten. twelve. twenty miles in a day: keep
them In reasonable flesh: never train them
down so fine that they will be capable OF
losing pounds a day through
as happened this wear at New London.
Don't nag them: let them work out their
own prOblems: remember that e!ght-oar
rowing has a philosophy of its own. en-
tirely different from that of any other
sport.
As to coaches. professional and anna
teur. restrict their duties to the care Of
the boats. the physical conditioning of the
men and the criticism of minor details
only; and let their present absurd pres
tige and authority be correspondingly cur
tailed. No more Transparent humbugs ex-
list: and if they humbug themselves as
we'll as the crews and the public, so much
the worse all round.
Who taught Mr.. Courtney and Mr.. Han
in their day unbeatable single
scullers-how to row? They taught them
selves, by giving their personal equation
full swing. But their styles are radically
different. How, then. can they pretend TO
teach the true method of eight-oar row.
ing, which is also. as / have said. another
thing altogether from single sculling? Is
not the proposition absurd on its face?
And vet. for these years and years. pro-
fessional coaching has held college row
ing in its grip and has blocked every
chance OF its prssible development and i'm
benjamin Franklin said that
even fools can learn from experience. Is
rot a lifetime of experience enough to
warn our colleges that something must he
amiSS?