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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09
Hardware Mans Philosophy.

The genial hardware merchant replaced
the long, keen knife in its plush case.
The customer who had been examining
tit wanted time to @think it over
That's steely looking knife OBJ
served the regular caller.
The merchant paid no attention to
the yelled reflection on the quality of his
wares.
Il always get a good deal Of fun out
of this season of the year he SAID;
"the holiday season. There's low to
Carve Turkey, with diagram of the
bird, for one thing. That diagram has
been doing service in all the papers for
forty years, TO my knowledge. You in
sert the fork in the breast 1T Fig. ? to
begin with; thick-witted man can do
that; but when it comes 10 realty sep
arating dr,imsticks and wings from body
lat Figs. 8, s, 6, and z, that's a different
job. The turkey doesn't lrige an arith-
metic pinned on him when he comes on
to the table. And it's mors difficult
job disjointing legs and wings at rigs.
Q and IL and cutting large, smooth slices
lat Figs. IL and 13. When the average
father gets through standing up over
Ia twenty pound turkey with double
row Of hungry eyes following his every
dab and slash it's time 70 riag the am
bulance call. He starts in bravely; but
he ends by pulling the fowl to pieces
and exclaiming that the dining roam
is so internally hot that no Christian can
breathe in it.
Then there's the advice to shoppers
to shop early and avoid The rush and
crush. There are silver threads among
the gold in that warning. l suppose
few people who are very rich do 70
early, but the ninety-and nine shop On
Christmas Eve, just befors the lights
are put out. Up to the last Il .;sent sc
announce with frown uad determined
shake Of the head that We're not 90
ing 10 give any presents this ycar not
q present. But in the anI the C'llst
mas fever gets into our bones and our
good resolutions take wings. 40 least,
that's the way with men; the women
sew their fingers to the bone doing fancy
work And between hiding the
fancy work ami scurrying to fin
ish il and the leather stitching
and putting border on 1t they are
half distracted. They get hints concern.
ing appropriate gifts. I've p,st been
reading them. For elder sister. silver
thimbIe and mud shain' ransv elder -
ter capering around The parlor in an 20
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09
RAISING PEARLS.
For the Market Is the Newest Home
Industry.

The systematic culture Of fresh-water
pearls may easily become an important
industry in the United States as the
mollusks from which they are taken are
very abundant in our lakes and rivers"
writes Elizabeth r. Reed in The Tech
nical World Magazine for January. "The
Mississippi basin, especially, teens with
them, presenting many forms which diff
fer from those OF the Atlantic watershed
and other parts Of the world.
1.-THE methods Of culture are exceed
ingly simple as it is necessary only to
open slightly the shell and insert a
small, transparent glass bead, putting
it between the mantle and the shell.
Great care must be taken to avoid in
jury to the little animal; and in open
ing the she'll thin, fiat, iron tool with
a wooden handle and bent point should
be used; knife might answer for this
purpose. When the point has been in
serted, it is turned around to an angle
of about 90 degrees, the shell being thus
partially opened without injury to the
life within. After treatment, it must
be returned to the water for year or
two, while the process Of incrustation
goes on.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09
DECIDE YOURSELF.
The Opportunity Is Here, Backed BY
Barre Testimony

Don't take our word for it.
Don't depend on a strangers statement
Read Barre endorsement
Read the statements OF Barre citizens
And decide for yourself.
Here Is one case Of il;
Alvin f. Smith. retired. address 10
West Street. says Il was interview
ed by a gentleman In the winter Of
1897 about my experience with and
opinion of Doan's Kidney Pills, a pre-
paration for which had gone to E. A
browns drug store and OF which /
took course OF the treatment. ! be-
lieve l was born with a weak back
and as l grew older. at least every
year. / was subject to an attack OF
backache which compelled me to take
to my bed. Doan's Kidney Pills stop
ped that annual occurrence and they
have been the means of stopping other
attacks since. When look back over
the so years of my life and think what
might have escaped had I known
about the value of Doan's Kidney Pills,
1t makes me wonder that people. when
they know OF a remedy which acts up
to representation. will not avail them
selves OF a positive means OF prevent
ing kidney complaint or any Of its con-
sequences. Often I could neither lift
any weight nor stoop without suffering
and added to this. there was dlfiicul-
ty with the kidney secretions Doan's
Kidney Pills absolutely stopped very
severe attack / have recommended
them to many friends and acquaint-
ances since the remedy came to my no.
tice, and know OF great many who
have taken course OF the treatment
and received undoubted benefit"
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
ceats. ,Foster-MiIhurn Co. Buffalo. N.
X, sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doans--and
take no other.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09
TALK OF THE TOWN.

Oyster stews at the Eureka restau-
rant.
H. T. Stanley, the clairvoyant, at the
Otis. Sittings, so cents and S1.00.
Old gold and silver wanted at re-
finers' prices ia exchange for goods at
F. E. Burr's.
Coming soon to the Barre opera house,
The Mosart Symphony Club of New
York, a great musical treat.
All Foreign Masons wishing TO attend
st. Johns may obtain tickets up to Dec.
18th from members of committee
Great reduction in prices in winter
millinery at Miss L. &. Townsend's mil
Iinery parlors, So Washington street
w +. Richardson has newly paper
ed and painted upstairs tenement to
rent on Hill street, near his residence.
Effective as a remedy and delicious
as confection--those Old-fashioned
Horehound Drops at the Red Cross
Pharmacy.
New lockets set with diamonds, pearls,
'"PptttiSo dt4U aihStu Jcbot dinu tilc pthitt
patterns for monograms, at M. L. Walk
er's, Hale block.
Make no engagements for Dec. 20, 81,
|22, but come to the Christmas bazaar
TO be given by the L @. T. M. in Hale's
pavilion. Dancing each evening. Music
|Gilbertson's orchestra.
As my store must be vacated on or
before Dec. Is, i shall close out every
thing at cost price. About two tons Of
salt-pork and lard must be sacrificed.
IA. T0masi, Tomasi block, North Main
street. Come at once If you want any Of
these goods,
Don't go with cold feet this winter,
when you can get French kip shoes
(made to measure), lined with sheep
skin and warranted to shed water. Fit
guaranteed. All leather and rubber
work warranted, at Moses Charbon-
neau's, under Phelps Brothers hardware
store, Gordon block.
The school children are cordially in
vited to attend recital to be given by
Alice N. AveriIl, Monday afternoon,
Dec. IL, at half-past four. Selections
which children can understand and enjoy
have been chosen, and descriptions Of
the numbers will be given. Anyone
interested will be welcome.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09
Found His Niche.

A story that shows that the square"
man eventually gets the square DEAL
from other men i told by Walter Wolf
man, of this city: There is a certain
statesman from Indiana who owns a
large daily paper. One day his manag-
ing editor said to him: sIguess veil have
to drop old man X. I've tried him in
several positions, and he does not make
a bowling success"
eHave you tried linn as a telegraph
editorg"
Eyes; and he's no good"
s'Nell, we can't fire him. When
was running for the Senate the old man
was printing little paper down at
BlankvilIe. He was the only editor in
the state of Indiana that didn't bleed
me in that campaign, and I'm going 10
stand by him now if he becomes the
worst incompetent in Christendom. Set
him to writing paragraphs"
The other laughed and obeyed. The
cold mans success was signal and inn
mediate. In a year he was one of the
highest salaried paragraphers in the
country. All that he needed was to dis
cover his genius.
"The statesman told me this story
himself" concludes Mr.. Wollman, 'and
! repeat it because it tends to show that
the square man win not always be Q
square peg in round hole. Kansas
City Times.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09
The Episcopal Fair.

The ladies Of the Church Of the Good
Shepherd will hold their annual fair and
sale in Hale's Pavilion, Tuesday and
Wednesday, December II and 10. The
usual amount Of fancy work suitable
for Christmas gifts, aprons, homemade
candies, dressed dolls, etc, will be on
sale at reasonable prices. a unique
entertainment will be given each even
ing. 4 circus will be presented tnat will
afford amusement to young and old
The circus performers include some Of
the best local talent. The animals have
to be seen to be appreciated. An or
chestra will furnish music for dancing
each evening. A supper viii be served
Wednesday evening from $3.50 to Z.
Admission 10 cents. Remember the
place, Hale's Pavilion, and the time,
Dec. II and 13.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09
Furious Fighting.

For seven year. writes Gee. w.
Hoffman Of Harper, Wash, II had a
bitter battle with chronic stomach and
liver trouble, but at last / won and
cured my diseases by the use of Electric
Bitters. unhesitatingly recommend
them to all, and don't intend in the flu
ture to be without them in the house.
They are certainly wonderful medicine
to have cured such bad case as mine.s
Sold, under guarantee to do the same
for you, at the Parlor Drug Store and
Red Cross Pharmacy at zoe bottle.
Try them today.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09

tasy with thimble in one hand and
a muh chain in the otherl For the min
lister, sermon case and calendar The
minister has caught it hot from the bat
ever since the first meeting house was
built. II there's anything you don't
want at Christmas time send it to the
minister. He used to get carpet slippers,
a pair for every toe on both feet Now
he gets a sermon case, although if he
can't preach extemporaneously he's dis
missed
I'm afraid you're growing sarcastic
remarked the caller.
Pm afraid I'm hitting pretty close
TO the truth, replied the hardware mer-
chant. Providence Journal.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09
"THE MORE, THE LESS"

The more you take the less you need
until you need none-for You are cured.
My effort all along was to avoid the evil
Of the ordinary remedy which pampers
organs already weak and so makes the
patient slave TO the pill Remember
Nature expects every organ to do its
duty"
Physicians have long recognized the
TACT that constipation is at the bottom
Of nearly every disease. ltsaps all energy.
and makes life a burden; It opens the
doors to all evil germs and makes the
body too weak to resist them.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09
Clear Grit.

MIR. Ferguson had come home late.
His wife met him at the door in a
auttcr Of excitement.
George" she said, "a burglar got
into the house little while ago, and
/ drove him out!g
Brave little woman" lie said "How
did you do it, Myraf"
Il screamed Afurderl' with all my
might, and you ought to have seen him
jump out through the kitchen window 4
Chicago Tribune.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09
THE VELVET WORKER

This new discovery is in small tablets,
easily taken, and they are packed in
watch shape bottles which fit the vest
pocket. The tablet is mild, all vegetable,
never gipes or Injuries the most delicate
organs. But 1t does the work. So ma
turally and soothingly they stimulate
and regulate and strengthen that they
have been nicknamed "The Little Velvet
Workers."
Don't shuttle along with this great bur
denl Be healthy, be strong, Be happy.
Read our offer:
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09
Timely Interference.

'Dear Father wrote John, from coll
lege Il have just received a letter from
mother saying she's going to cut down
my allowance if I don't cut out football
Can't you do something about III"
Dear John" wrote foxy father. II
have persuaded mother 10 postpone that
threat till after the Thanksgiving game"
Detroit Free Press
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09
THE BARRE DAILY TIMES
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1905,
WE DO NOT CLAIM NOR PRETEND

that this is the best life insurance com
pany in the world, but we do claim to be
writing the best form of insurance
known to man, and the company is as
good as earnest and persistent effort can
make it. seth year, doing business in
AZ states.
The National Life Insurance Company
of Vermont (mutual). Organized in 1850.
s. S. Ballard, General Agent. n B.
Ballard, Local Agent, Rooms and 3,
Miles Block, Barre, vt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09
A noted physician 81 Pittsburg, Pa.

A noted physician Of Pittsburg, Pa, in
a recent letter to Or. Oldham says:
AInyour prescription known as Pensoids' yon
have given the medical world the greatest and
most valued discovery In medicine OF the present
century. You have at last solved the problem
hathas batiied the skill of the best physicians
recent times, how to cure permanently all
Acute or Chronic Stomach Diseases known as
Dyspepsia, Indigestion. Catarrh Of tho stomach
and Digestive Weakness have used your pFe-
seription, sPapsoids, in hundreds OF cases With
ont single failure.I attribute thasuccessof your
treatment mainly to the fact that the disease
Sold and Recommended
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09
A WONDER WORKER
MARVELLOUS DISCOVERY FOR
THE CURE OF ALL FORMS
OF CONSTIPATION NOT
A HABIT BUT A CURE
YOU DECREASE THE
DOSE UNTIL CURED.

After many years Of study and practic
a physician specialist has discovered til
cure for constipation. IL is called Chase J
Constipation Tablet.
do not mean, said the physician to
several Of his colleagues announcing his
success, Il do not mean just another pill
that breeds the pill habit Aly remedy is
cure. By gently forcing all the digest
I've organs to perform their functions il
restores them all to health and strength.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09
Magazine Library

Come in and take out a months sub
scription in our Magazine Library. You
can read the first thirteen for 20 cents
per month and the entire list of %
for 80 cents per month. A fine chance
to read the leading Magazines at a
small cost.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09

The Brattleboro health officer reports
that there are five cases Of scarlet fever
in Brattleboro, but four Of them are
in one family, 80 il is believed the
health board can prevent the disease
from spreading. Two Of the patients
have been taken TO the isolation build
ing Of the Bratteboro Memorial hospi-
fa1
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09
Her Explanation.

II understand your husband shot
deer while on his hunting trip
Yes" answered the woman who is
slightly sarcastic. Accidents will hap
pen. Washington Star.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09

Dashaway Cat the ball) II saw her in
the conservatory with you. How is it,
old chap2 Did she accept your
StuiferI don't know Just as |
asked her supper was announced Lon
don Tit Bits.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09

To any reader who sends us his or her
name and address with FIVE stamps to
cover postage expenses, we viii at once
mail fuh-size 25-ccnt bottle of Chase
Constipation Tablets, the worker that
cures. Not sample, mind, fulI-size
26-cent bottle. Let LIS prove 1t to you.
Write to-day, addressing Chase Mfg. CO.,
Newburgh, n. Y.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09

germs 81 the stomach cannot resist pepsoids.
Your theory that moet Stomach Diseases are
brought about By multtndes Of nefafious dis
ease-hfeeding gerrns must be correct Judging
from the remarkable results attained from the
use Of your Pepsoids., consider Pepsoids the
best and most valuable remedy yet discovered.
forthe treatments Of stubborn stcmach ailments.
Pepsoids cure Dyspepsia and all
Stomach Diseases, In new way. by re-
pairing the wornout lining Of the Stomach
and at the same time, destroy all disease
breeding germs. Dyspepsia and theworst
by E. A. Drown. Barre, VT, and z. r.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09
Low RATE EXCURSION.
On New England States Limited Sun
day, December 10, 1905.

To Montpelier, Barre, Mortified, RAN
dolph, Bethel, South Royalton and White
River Jet. Greatly reduced rates
Tickets god to 20 and return only
on trains 2 and 3, December 10, 1905.
For further particulars see flyers
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09

FOR SALE BY E. A. DROWN,
4s North Main Street, Barre, VI
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09

am still here with Huiled Corn. Mash and
Homfny Also Butter and Eggs a Terms cash
.. b. Fifield. 10 Hill street. l55tf
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-09

forms of Stomach Disorders once cured
in this way never returns.
Pepsoids arc sold at drug stores at Soc bottle
on an absolute guarantee or money refnaaed
If you have not used Pepsoiis before
we will send you a so-cent bottle FREE
Send us your hame and address and Yen
will receive promptly, a full sized bottle
You do not ohligate yourself - pay i cert
All we ask after Pepsoids have cured or greatly
benefited you Is that you recommend Pepsoitis
TO your friends Try Pepsoids to-day -they viii
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-12-27

months during December and January
[ have kale and cabbage to give them,
and feed all they will eat.
The houses are kept clean, hay re-
newed in nest boxes quite often, roOsts
painted with Lees lice killer, kerosene
with Lees lice killer in it is sprinkled
on dropping boards and roost rods
every now and then. The lice or mites
will not be troublesome if one is care
full. Those things must not be neglect
ed if one wants to keep insects down;
halfway measures will not do; eter-
nal vigilance is the only way. When
Il woman has to do all the cleaning
spraying, etc, she should have one of
those force pumps to carry on the
shoulder while working. | am going
to try one. One never gets through
with the work on a poultry farm, but
we should simplify the work as much
as possible. l do nearly all the work
make brood cOOps, colony cOOpS, ship
ping cOOps. etc, and | know what
the work On a poultry farm is. 1 love
the work, and love my pretty chickens
BETTER
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-12-27

| feed little chicks oat flake the
first week: after that crushed wheat,
cracked corn and occasionally mash
of shorts. One feed they seemed
to enjoy was fish boiled and feed
slIOQs QlgM X!u uop 's7uOq WOIJ
until crumbly mass; feed i'm trough.
| give this about once week. l
raised about 300: have on hand now
about 1S5. mostly pullets. They are
beauties.
The surest and only way to sue
ceed is to keep everything clean,
plenty of clean, cool water, plenty of
grit. and keep off vermin. \ chicken
requires a great deal of water in hot
weather 1t seems to me that every
one should know that, but if they do,
they don't all attend to it. as visit
to neighbor's poultry yard recently
showed every water vessel empty
and dry.
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-12-27

tor. The next morning they are car
ried to the brOOders and let alone un-
til afternoon, when they are given a
light feed of chick food, or fine crack
ell grain, scattered i'm the litter, and
again before night.
The following morning they are
given water, which is kept before
them all the time, giving fresh each
day. Until three weeks old they
are fed five times each day with
chick feed, or something similar.
After three weeks we begin giving
some wheat and cracked corn, and
by the time they are six weeks old
we have substituted other things for
the chick feed, and now begin giving
some mash food as dry as can be made
up, increasing the mash and cracked
corn until at eight weeks they are
eating nothing else. We feed them
heavily of this for two weeks longer,
when they are ready for market.
We give animal and green food in
some form all the time. The chicks
that we keep for stock are not fed
any mash, but only dry grain until
about twelve weeks old. When they
are ready to be put on the range the
cOckerels and pullets are separated
and divided into fiOcks of about forty
each and roasted under Osnaburg fly
tents.
For feeding them we use self
feeding hoppers, divided into four
parts. which are filled with cracked
corn, oats, wheat, bran and beef
scraps.
We fill the hOppers once in four or
five days. never letting them become
empty. We give fresh water every
day from the time they are put on
range until they are moved to win
ter quarters they have nothing but
fly tents for shelter, and are hopper
fed exclusively.
We winter our stock in good, dry
houses. with large yards. half of
which are sown to barley and rye.
As to mating Barred Plymouth Rocks
will say that we use the double mat
ing system, believing that the best
results can not be obtained by single
or standard mating.
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-12-27
Random Selections.

A lady correspondent of the Poultry
Tribune gives some of the results of
her experience as follows:
Practice makes perfect, they say,
but the experienced poultry breeder
knows about how much time and
patience it takes to attain anything
like perfection in the poultry ranks,
and can readily see how easy it is
for the beginner, who starts in with
no knowledge of the work whatever,
to make mistakes. 1t takes no small
amount of pluck and hard work to
make successful fancier, "juSt how
much none but the experienced
ever seem to realize. | have many
times wished that | could give some
people little advice in this matter,
just for their own good, and yet re-
Trained from doing so, lest they
might think, 'if she can make sue
cess of it, why not I?' So | have
witnessed in silence the start and
finish of more than one person, be-
cause | have felt that my advice
would go unheeded. 1t looks so
easy to them, that little do they
realize what lays back of the word
success. or rather, what is to be ac
complshed before this is attained.
DO not think that l would discOur-
age this business, but having seen
ore than one person undertake it,
that was entirely untitled for it.
simply because they saw somebody
else prospecting therefrOm. that it
cannot refrain from saying, that it
certainly is a very absurd and risky
undertaking, for anyone to plunge
into this work without any expert
ence. or knowledge of it. and ex-
pect to make a success of it. How l
would like to impress upon such
1eople the Importance of d thorough
undertaking of the work before
embarking, and especially is this