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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-25

only by agencies near the people and
possessing their full confidence, and asks
that full power in the matter be given
to the zemtsvos.
The Novaia Zaria New DAWN, new
paper in Wilma, says that each succeed
ing report from the wheat belt is black.
er than its predecessors. 1t declares
that the storms can be regarded only
as the Incidental cause of the approach
ing famine, and that the real difficulty
is chronic and Is summed up in the
reply Of the peasant in one of Uspien-
skis stories, who, when asked why he
was so poor, said; Merely lack Of
food, sir.n No small addition to his
holding of land will save the Russian
peasant from the insufficiency Of food.
The Finnish peasant has no more land
than the Russian peasant, and it is
much poorer in quality, but he does not
suffer from hunger. But the Finn is
master of his land, while the Russian
is its slave.
The article asserts that the dense ig-
noranee Of the Russian peasantry is at
the bottom Of their misfortunes. If in
tellectual light Is ever permitted to illu-
mine their darkened minds they viii
have resources in themselves that will
ward off hunger. There Is no excuse for
famines in Russia, and they will disap-
pear when the school has its proper place
in every hamlet Of Russian peasants.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-25
To save Trouble.

did you every try inquired the corr
|pulent person. 4 know you have many
a time, but III put the question just the
|same-did you ever try to favor your.
self, spare yourself as it were, owing to
sheer laziness and then think Of the
things that happened to You that would
MT have happened if you had been less
inert? 1t came to me the other after.
noon when wanted to leave a note on
the desk of an associate. 1t was too
much trouble to open q lower drawer in
my desk and reach for substantial paper,
|so | wrote on a tissue pad that was at
my elbow. Instead of walking half a
dozen steps to my friends desk I leaned
over and put down this thin slip. The
wind from an electric fan caught it, but
it was too much TO expect that | could
go around and straighten it out, so
poked at it with a ruler and upset his
mucilage bottle That provoked me, and
in jabing at that bottle tipped over the
ink. 1t was beautiful mess and it took
me the better part Of half an hour to
clean up Job that would have occupied
almost four seconds if I'd gone at it
in the right way
"0Yer and over again I've done that
self same thing. I'm in rocking chair
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-25
THEIR HOUSE
GUARDED
RaymOndS Are Now Virtually
Prisoners.
ARREST MAY SOON FOLLOW
Police to Arrest Woman in Matte Hack
EFT Murder Case in Red6eld,
Maine New
Evidence.
ARREST MAY SOON FOLLOW

ReadvilIe, Me-, Aug. 2s--After dill
gently looking into the Hackett murder
case since early Wednesday morning,
Detective Timothy Hartnettt Of Port.
land at noon yesterday decided to place
a guard over the Raymond house.
Not more than three or four citizens
knew that this new move in the case
had been made until late in the day.
About 1 o'clock Hartnett and Deputy
Sheriff Brown left for Augusta to meet
Atty.-Gen Hamlin, County Attorney
Leigh and Sheriff Ham in conference at
O'Clock in the afternoon.
An arrest may follow the conference.
but how soon it is impossible to say.
as the condition Of the suspected woman
is such that sudden shock might re.
suit disastrously.
The placing Of the guard occurred az
ter a long talk which Detective Hart
nett had with Bert Raymond yesterday
morning.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-25
JAPANESE RUSH ORDERS
FOR ARMOR AND CANNON
Krupp's Works Announce Receipt of an
Urgent Request to Fill Orders
for Large Amounts.

Berlin, August 25.-Emperor William,
the Associated Press is informed, has
expressed to the members Of his en-
courage his cordial recognition Of Pres
ident Roosevelts effort for peace and
his hope that they will prove success
full
Precisely what the president is doing
seems to be unknown to the German
government, but the postponement to
Saturday of further sittings of the con
ference is regarded as indicating that
both belligerents desire to prolong the
negotiations and that each is seeking
fresh grounds for agreement.
All Russian shares were higher on
the Bourse yesterday, bonds advanced
three-tenths of point, Russian bank
stock / u and Warsaw and Vienna rail-
road stock 49,
Both governments are quitting out
news paragraphs, designed, seemingly,
to strengthen their diplomacy. The
krupps, contrary to their usual policy,
but doubtless in accordance with the
desire OF the Japanese government, an
nounced the receipt OF an urgent re-
quest Wednesday to hurry Japanese or
ders for armor plates and guns costing
Sl2,250,000, while the Russian govern
ment has Issued an authoritative state
ment that it viii never pay kopeek
fer indemnity
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-25
IMPENDING RUSSIAN FAMINE.
Comment on the clamity That Has Be
fallen the Black Earth Region.

Warsaw, Poland, August 25.-A great
misfortune has befallen the hundreds of
thousands OF peasant farmers in the
Black Earth or wheat raising region Of
southern Russia. A series of terrific
storms has beaten large part of the
standing grain into the ground, and it
is now certain that the Russian wheat
crop, on the whole, will be a failure.
This crop in good seasons is second in
quantity to only that of the United
States, and many millions Of bushels
are exported But the vast majority
Of the farming population does not share
in this prosperity They get enough to
eat-and that is all.
Few persons outside Of Russia have
a realizing sense Of what such a calam-
ity means to the Russian peasant farm
er. His allotment or land, originally
small, has been sub-divided until each
tiller can barely exc out a wretched
existence. If there is a partial crop he
cannot procure sufficient food, TO say
nothing about the other essentials of
life. This was the cause Of the famine
in 1891, repetition Of whose horrors
is now threatened
The official press has very little to
say about the misfortune, but the OPP
position newspapers are making the
most Of it to advance their political
IDEAS Here is an extract from the
Russkya Viedomosti (Russian News) Of
a recent number;
The specter OF famine again threat
ems many provinces OF Russia. The
dreadful calamity is intensified by the
present impoverished condition 81 the
larger part Of the farmers. Its effects
might be mitigated by prompt and RAJ
tionai measures. The widest publicity
should be given to the terrible results
of the recent storms. Does the govern
ment realize that famine IS not merely
impending, but that hunger already
stalks in the landq The government it,
self, the benevolently inclined and the
whole public should be prepared to fight
the scourge.
But we cannot learn from the official
press that the government is doing any
thing to avert the disaster We hear
Of single handed efforts and Of city
councils advising immediate action. But
how far can private societies and civic
organizations extend a helping hand
when they have no right in law fully
to develop their philanthropic work Z
How far win merely palliative measures
reach when we have before us not a
cloudy vision Of hunger, but real hunger
with all its awful consequences in the
form Of typhus scurvy and other dis
eases?"
The paper adds that the fight with
famine can be carried on successfully
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-25
JEWS HEAD THE LIST.
Lead Births in New York City for Past
Year.

Lead Births in New York City for Past
Year.
New York, Aug. 25 There were SOL
1876 babies born 10 Manhattan last year,
and Of these only ii 900 were Of Aiueri-
can parcntage. Numerically the Jews
head the list, with a total Of 1860.
Babies with both parents American come
next, and italians are third on the list
with 11,29s,
At the other extreme there are the
Swiss, with only A6 babies; Scotch, With
90, and Canadians with 81. Three thou
sand eight hundred and eighty Irish.
and 1896 German babies were born dur
ing the year. Manhattan's birth statis-
tics for the other races are Bohemian,
30; English, is4; French, i21, and
Swedish sos.
The fact that there is but compare
lively little intermarriage among the
races is indicated BY the small total for
the year, 1,7sl, Of children of mixed par
entage.
OF the grand total Of 59,196 babies,
|29,s43 We're boys and 29,s53 were girls.
According to the reports on the physi-
cal conditions and the statistics, 10000
|of these babies are likely to die before
they are year old.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-25
General Lineyitch Active in
Battle Plans.
WOULD DIVIDE ENEMY.
BY Massing Force on Right He Forces
oyama to Action-Skirmishe
Daily With Men Upon Each
Others Advance.

New York, Aug. 25.--The Sun has the
following cable from London
A lisrstcb to the Telegraph from
Niuhcsang says that Gen. Linevitch IS
still detaching considerable force to
strengthen his exheme right His plan
appears to be to divide the Japanese
into two or more bodies by compelling
them to devote their attention TO their
eft flank and thus prevent the cutting
OF be railway between Hardin and yladi-
vostoS.
Numbers Of Russians ara continually
smrreudering as an outcome Of the revo-
lhtiona' spirit which prevails throngh.
out the army, even among the higher
officers. This is why Gen. Linevitch will
probably assume the offensive.
There are skirinisheTs between rival
scouts daily, the men getting to within
so yards Of each other. The most adj
va1ced lines on both sides are so irregu-
lar AMI make so many sharp angles that
each side is able to menace the enemy's
rear.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-25
The Club and
The Sisterhood

lOriginatl
Young ladies'. said the head Of the
sisterhood, an organization within the
Episcopal church. 1--WE are at our Wits
end. Our quarters are altogether too
small We have no funds for building,
and there Is no suitable house to be
had"
II move,a said Sister Florence Linn.
that committee OF three be appoint
ed with power to secure quarters BY
some ordinary woman's method
What do you meang' asked the
president, "by ordinary woman's meth
obi"
by hook or by crook.
The explanation being deemed salts
factory and to all present perfectly lu-
cid, the motion was put and carried.
The president appointed Sister Flor
enee Linn, chairman, and Sisters Sara
Priehard and Genevieve Seronde. Miss
Linn was a tall brunette, with SUI
peru figure and swapping black eyes.
Miss Priehard was fair, with brown
eyes and Titan hair Miss Seronde
was langulshing blue eyed blonde.
Tie meeting adjourned, and the com
mittee remained for consultation.
Il have proposition TO make. said
the chairman You know the octagon
house up on the hillf Wen, 1t is just
what we want"
we are too late for that property, =
interrupted Miss Prichard 1T has
been taken for mans club"
"On the contrary, the club is too late.
l had some talk with the owner about
leasing his building to u.s.
How long agogs
4 think II was year ago this sum
mcr They say q verbal lease Is as
good rs a written one"
Did you agree TO take the houseg"
II am quite sure / said something
about taking Il
Bravor' exclaimed the ether mem
bces Of the committee, elapping their
bands, wen claim 1t BIZ law
And nine points Of the law are pos
session, said the president trium-
plainly
Very we'll, said Miss seronde In
her soft voice "Iet's 90 to the octagon
house and"
Settle" supplied Miss prichard
At . o'clock in the afternoon the
house committee Of the Calumet club,
consisting Of Messrs. Bob Curtis, Jack
Brewster and Howard Merritt. were ia
the new clubhouse consulting how they
should apportion the room when in
walked the three young ladies'. On
seeing the men stalking about with
their hats on Misses Prichard and Ser
onde shrank back, each with faint
shrek. Miss Linn advanced imperi-
ously.
The mems hats came off one by one.
May / ask" said Miss Linn, what
YOU are doing here"
eve are preparing the building for
the occupancy Of the Calumet club"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-25
FREE TO BUTCHERS.

We are in receipt Of communication
from G. S. Page, Hyde Park, VT, which
authorizes US to say to those of our
readers who are engaged in the Butcher
ing Business that If they win send him
postal card with their name and post
Office address thereon, and say that
they saw this notice in the Times, he
viii enter their names on his list of
customers and send them free, post
paid, from time to time as issued, his
Hide Bulletins, which give the ups and
downs Of the market on Beef Hides,
Calf Skins, Horse Hides, Tallow, Bones,
Cracklings, etc. Mr. Page has been in
the Hide and Skin trade for more than
fifty years and has the reputation Of be-
ing responsible and reliable.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-25
DOGtOBTlglan Says
MANY PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE
Lydia e. PEnElsansys
Vegetable Compound

The wonderful power of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound over
the diseases Of womankind Is not be-
cause il is q stimuiant, not because 1t
is a palliative, but simply because il Is
the most wonderful tonic and recon
structor ever discovered to act directly
upon the generative organs, positively
curing disease and restoring health and
vigor.
Marvellous cures are reported from
all parts of tho country by women who
have been cured. trained nurses who
have witnessed cures and physicians
who have recognized the virtue OF
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and are fair enough to give
credit where It Is due.
If physicians dared to be frank and
open, hundreds of them would acknowl-
edge that they constantly prescribe
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound in severe cases of female ills, as
they know by experience it can be re-
lied upon to effect a cure. The follow
ing letter proves it.
DR.. s. 9. Brigham, Of Brigham
Park. Fitchburg. Mass, writes
" 1t gives me great pleasure to say that I
have found Lydia 2, PinSham's Vegetable
Compound very eftlcacious. and often pre-
scribe ii In my practice for female difficulties,
=" My oldest daughter found It very benefl-
cial for uterine trouble some time ago, and my
youngest daughter Is now taking Il for a re-
male weakness, and Is surely gaining in health
and strength.
~ freely advocate 1t as 8 most reliable spe-
cific in all diseases 10 which women are sub
Jet, and give il honest endorsement
Women who are troubled with pain
full or irregular menstruation, bloating
Tor iatulence), leucorrhoea, falling, in
Illumination or alteration Of the uterus,
ovarian troubles, that bearing-down
feeling. dizziness. faintness, indiQes-
ton. nervous prostration or the blues,
should take immediate action to ward
of the serious consequences. and be
restored TO perfect health and strength
by taking Lydia E. Pinhham's vegeta-
BILE Compound, and then write to Mrs.
Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass, for further
free advice. No living person has had
the benefit OF wider experience ia
treating female ills. She has guided
thousands to health. Every suffering
woman should ask for and follow her
advice II she wants TO be strong and
we'll.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-25
BLASE INDIANAPOLIS.
"A President Does Not Interest Her,
But Politics Does.

A reporter for Buffalo paper, once
wrote, in describing wedding, 'sThe
groom was full Of blase as he walked up
the aisle That about fits the case
when it comes TO viee-presidents in
indianapolis. They are full Of blase
about vice presidents. The visitor sees
tall. frock-coated man, with some de.
sllltory whiskers coming down the
street. He nudges his indianapolis
friend and says, eagerly: Isn't that
Vice President Fairbanks2 There that
man over theref Looks like pictures OF
him / have seem The indianapolis
friend looks across, yawns bit, and
says in the most bored way Oh, yes
yes, that's the yice-president. Do you
think it viii rain this morningfa
"What has rain to do with the vice
presidents" YOU ask.
"Oh, nothing, nothing merely en-
quired, you know. Yes, certainly, that's
Vice President Fairbanks. What do
you think OF our new hotelGn
Then you begin to figure it over and
you remember that indianapolis Is rea-
sonably familiar with presidents.
They have had Hendricks and Colfax
and have Fairbanks now, and Eng
lish ran once. There may be some YOU
have forgotten about. Harrison was
president, yoH recall A light begins to
dawn You change the subject. You
introduce politics. Whoopl Up comes
the Indianapolis man. Politics is
where he lives He has them hot off
the griddle all the year around. Every
body is a politician let me be en-
tirely accurate about it-everybodv is q
politician on an author and Booth Tar
ington and Senator Beveridge are both.
Harrington went to the Legislature once
and got enough material to write lot
Of cracking good stories. indianapolis
is always talking politics. The chairman
of the Democratic national committee
Thomas Taggart, lives there, and so
does Capt. Harry S. New, who is to be
chairman Of the Republican national
committee when Postmaster General
Cortelyeu finds it expedient to resign.
Taggart runs a hotel there and an
other at French Lick Springs, and hobs
back and forth between the two, smiling,
suaye and entirely unrutIied, as If he
had never heard Of Judge Alton B. Par.
ker and there was no such place as
Esopus on the map. New is also smil-
ing and suaye. He used to be an edi-
tor, but he is out Of that now and has
more fun than anybody hunting and Ash.
ing-that is, when lie is not playing
politics, and then he has more fun than
everybody
1t il not only politics that is being
played in Indiana. There is a big game
of national politics here. Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks is making methodicai
campaign for the republican nomination
liz 1905, and they say Senator Bever.
idge is looking toward that same delec
table goal Beyeridge is an eloquent
speaker and a foreeful writer. He is
growing as rapidly az any young mar
in the country, and as he has particu.
larry happy knack Of getting young
men to be his friends. They are very
fond of him in Indiana. New York
World.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-25
HAS MANY DUPEs.
Boston Woman in Marital Web Of OR
Witzhoff.m

New York, August 25.-As enterpris-
ing bigamist as Johann Hoch, the
Chicago murderer under sentence of
death, is Dr. George Withhold. or Win
nitzhoh, Swiss chemist snd dentist.
against whom an indictment has been
found by the grand jury. The police
q all the large cities of the country
nave been requested by District At
Iorney Jerome to apprehend him. A
Boston woman, Miss Eta Randall, is
one OF the mans reputed victims.
From the facts in the possession Of
the district attorneys Office and of John
Il. Rogan and Benjamin Franklin, two
lawyers IN the Potter building, it Is
known that Withhold has been operating
IN the eastern states for three years
past. Attorney Rogan is counsel for
Miss Anna Parkhill, a Brooklyn girl OF
considerable means, and it was he who
lald the matter of her deception befo-e
the grand jury.
ny strange coincidence. Attorney
Franklin, no has offices adjoining Ro-
gan.s was engaged about the same time
by Mis- Dora Dorf of 2027 Third avenue,
another victim, to prosecute Withhold.
laluly had Tue communication between
the two unfortunate women and the
lawyers been established when Miss Eta
Randall, formerly Of 2s Forest street,
Somerville, Mass, and now Of Summer
street, Boston, wrote that she, to-, had
married Withhold and been robbed by
him.
Upon the three women comparing
notes the identity Of the man, who had,
as alleged, abused their confidence and
bhghted their lives, was fixed beyond
question, and each learned enough from
the other to lay in the hands OF the
attorneys a record of Withhold, showing,
1t IS said, that he contacted marriages
IN Kansas City, Chicago, Minneapolis,
81. Paul, Long Island City. Newark, the
Oranges and Menlo Park, N. J.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-25
7be Times Daily Short Story.


Then you are having your pains for
nothing. This building Is leased to
our sisterho0d"
The men looked at each otner and
smiled as II greatly amused. They
knew they had a lease duly signed,
sealed and witnessed. The girls said
no more, but sweeping by the lntruders
as though worthy Of no consideration
they passed TO the read Of the build
ing. The men could hear them con-
sulting as to how they would arrange
matters as they had Just been doing
themselves. At last the girls reap
peared In the hall, and as they did SO a
brigade of scrubwomen came In.
Sorry TO trouble you, gentlemen"
said the chairman, but we must ask
you TO vaeate Our house cleaning Is
to begin
"You are fortunate, ladies'" replied
Mr. Curtis. bowling very low. we have
had the house cleaned for you"
The girls looked at each other and
smiled sarcastically. Look at the
windows" said Miss Prichard In a
stage whisper. And the stairs" from
Miss Seronae IN a musical voice. At
the same time she threw up pair of
shapely arms and raised her blue eyes
to the ceiling
Leaving the two girls to wither the
men with their contemptuous remarks,
the chairman, Miss Linn. proceeded to
distribute the serubwomen In the diff
ferent rooms. Mr.. Curtis went to her
and politely asked to see a copy Of the
slsterhood's lease. He was informed
that they held a verbal lease. When he
asked for the date she turned upon
him Impatiently and said:
Eve are in possession of these prem
ises: you are intruders. If YOU contin-
ne such ungentlemanly conduct We
shall sue you for trespass"
The next morning the Chronicler
published an item mentioning the fact
Of there being two claimants for the
octagon house ANA expressing a hope
that the sisterhood would win. The
building would be Of far more credit
70 the place as home for merciful
girls than for registering men. It was
to be hoped that the club would not
stand in the way Of the sisterhood.
Since both parties could not occupy
the same house, the men proposed Il
compromise. 1t was agreed that the
matter should be left to the two com
mittees that had once met. The club
men were invited to meet the sister
hood committee at the home of Miss
Linn. The girls were arrayed In their
most becoming costumes and had q
dainty table set for the club commit
tee. Miss Linn had apportloned OF the
men. taking Mr.. Bob Curtis to herself.
After a long term Of conyiviality, dur
ing which the girls made themselves
as attractive as they knew how. the
two committees proceeded to business.
The men asked the girls to propose
compromise. Then Miss Linn, acting
MS spokesman. said;
I'VE propose as compromise that
you give up the house to us
The clubmen looked at each other,
then accepted the terms
WILLARD @. IRVING.
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and | want book a few feet back of
me. don't get up and get it, Of COURSE
! rock back to it and crash into a iardin-
iere that cost 50 and that looks as if
1t cost SO. And the iardiniere always
contains plant or palm that's doing
we'll never cracked a cheap vase with
a sickly dying plant in it IN my life.
Its a queer senseless habit, but at that
my wife doesn't believe / can keep my
promise to break myself Of it.s-Provid-
enee Journal