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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-10-07
TALK OF THE TOWN.
Local Happenings Tsrsely Told for Busy
Readers.

Ladies sweaters, $3.50, at Abbott's.
Chaffee's silk dress wash braids at
Fits.
F. r. Northrop has returned from the
Tunbridge fair.
Hughes Livery, Merchant street, near
Summer. Phone 116-21.
d. III. Mcleod leaves on the $50 train
this afternoon for Denver, Col
Select your overcoat at McWhorter's.
The largest assortment in the city.
Mrs. Lyle Mcintosh OF East Bethel is
visiting at the home Of F. R. Northrop.
Ask to see our line OF soc, coo and
75c books. Ideal Book and Stationery
Store.
It will be hard for anyone to equal
our fall suits for the money. Moore
& Ovens.
Old gold and silver wanted at re-
finers' prices in exchange for goods at
Il. e. BurT's.
Miss Florence Small Of MorrisvilIe is
visiting at her uncle's, Nj. |. Spaulding's,
for few days.
| Special sale on sash curtains at csc
and use per pair at Perry's tonight.
Curtain road free with each pair.
Perry agency, which also reports the
sale Of the NJ. H. Gladding property on
Elm street to Mrs. D. a. Curry, for about
$4,000 and the sale of Sarah Webber's
house on Quarry street.
Segels & Brady offer for this evening
as special leader, SO boys and girls
fanny wool tams and toques of the new
est styles and colorings, the regular SOC
grade, at only 39c each.
i Saturday afternoon, Oct. 18th, we will
give free to the first 200 ladies coming
Ito our store q sample can Of Japa-
!, lac Come early in order to get one
See advertisement. Reynolds & Son.
\ If you're going to paint you should
have the valuable "tips" we are send
1 ing out about LAWRENCE Paint They
will save you time, labor and money
| Write or telephone. L. A. Prindls
sells it.
] George Cassie has sold five acres 81
land on Cassie street extension to Emery
II. Clark. Consideration $500. He hal
also sold five acres, adjoining, to d. II
Clark, for the same consideration. Boil
transfers were made through the D. A
Wherever Creston Clarke has appear
ed in "Beaucaire," this or last season, en-
thusiastic praise has been accorded hi
treatment Of the notable character AM
the entire production has met with in
slant approval. A similar verdict is il
store here for Creston Clarke in the ia
I nous Booth Harrington comedy romance
sBeaucaire," upon this stars comm
visit to this city next Wednesday even
Z ing at the opera house.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-10-07
EAST BARRE.

It y expected that Mfr. Achenbach Of
Sherburne viii take charge Of the Sun
day services in the Congregational
church. All are welcome.
A party Of young people went from
here last Tuesday to spend the evening
with Mrs. George WEIGH Of Plainfeld.
Miss Morgan, who has been spending
the past week at the home of Mrs. w. 9,
Nye, returned to her home in Lawrence,
Mass, yesterday morning.
Mrs. Hilton with her son and his wife
have been making visit at the home
Of her daughter, Mrs. Macarthur.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-10-07
Notice TO Users Of Citv Water.

The water viii be shut of more or
less of the time all day Sunday, October
8th, for the purpose of flushing pipes.
9. r. Allen, Jr., Supt. Water Dept.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-10-07
Painters Attention!

Important business meeting Tuesday
night, Oct 10. Every member especially
requested to be present. BY order Of
The president. II. A. Rugg, See.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-10-07
THE BARRE DAILY TIMEs
SATURDAY, OCTOBER Z, 1905.
Weather Prediction.

Fair and continued cool tonight; light
to killing frosts. Sunday fair and warm
er; light variable winds.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-10-07
TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION.
E. A. Drown, Barre. vt.

LOST Between Barre and East Barre. sur
geen's pocket case, Of red leather. Finder
win be Suitably rewarded by returning 60 pr.
Macarthur, East Barre. l7Atf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02

carried for trial. Even In those good
old days. according to a talk with
Mr.. w. H. Williams. one of the Oldest
citizens of Georgetown, people would
get into trouble and into Jail. The laws
Were strict-early to bed and early to rise
and if one failed to meet his financial obli-
cations he was thrown into Jail. The town
clerk of Georgetown got tangled up with
his money matters and was placed in the
debtors prison. where he languished until
his successor was chosen and his friends
had made good his shortage and his out
side debts. a peculiar phase of this officials
being thrown out office was that a re-
port made TO the town council that he was
unable to perform his duties as clerk-be-
cause he was confined in Jail.
Before the establishment Of the first
District jail, which was on the square now
known as Judiciary. the old prison in
Georgetown was utilized and all prisoners
of the District were confined there. Later
on the old prison became a slave pen"
and public auction of slaves was not an
infrequent sight in that part of George
town. From a slave pen the building bios
somed out as police headquarters. and from
1t the three or four officers who looked
after the peace and good order of the city
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
WOODS FOR FURNITURE
OBJECTIONS TO OAK AND ROSE
WOOD-WALNUT'S DAY GONE.

From the New York Sun.
Some of the best cabinetmakers of New
York are chary of working in oak. Really
old and well seasoned oak is hard to get
and harder to work.
There is no great quantity of old oak
furniture in the market, and old pieces
that would supply large enough lumber for
important work are seldom found New
kin-dried oak IS uncertain, being liable to
warp and crack.
Paneled articles can be made of such
material with some safety, but large solid
articles are likely to give a bad account of
themselves at the end of a winter in a
steam heated house.
Rosewood also the best cabinetmakers
distrlst This wood has a peculiarly oily
quality that makes it uncertain when glued
For this reason rosewood IS used chiefly
as veneer. Thin sheets lose much of their
Oil and take glue satisfactorily.
Solid rosewood furniture is hard to find.
Rosewood veneer is placed upon cherry,
or even pine, and 1t is not uncommon to find
that the pipe underneath has cracked, and
in doing so has split the veneer. Such
defect Is sometimes cured by the use of
paste, but sooner or later the gap reap
pears.
with the cabinetmakerS. This wood was
in effect exhausted a quarter of a century
ago or more, and it is now as expensive
as mahogany and by no means so beautiful.
Some people up in the Bronx are burning
walnut on their hearths, and a speculative
person near the city line has some enormous
walaut logs lying out in the weather neg
lected because the lumber merchants do
not expect to get their supply of walnut
from New York city. French walnut is still
used for gun stocks because of its relative
lightness, durability and beauty. Circas-
sian walnut is also imported and used much
in interior decoration.
Chestnut is a good deal priced not for
furniture, but for Wainscoting and for
doors. It is sometimes put up in the rough
with good effect. and sometimes oiled and
polished, when 1t Is remarkably beautiful
considering the cost
Gulf cypress is used with great effect in
like fashion. and when filled and oiled ii
makes one of the most beautiful of woods
for inexpensive interior decoration.
Cherry was the old substitute for ma
hogany, and it is still fayorite wood with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02

the furniture makers. 1t is, however, not
easily obtained in properly seasoned
condition, for proper seasoning makes it
expensive.
The fact is that with cherry, as with oak
and mahogany, the seasoning is an impor-
tant element of cost. The cabinetmaker who
must sink his capital for two or three years
in wood that is undergoing the process of
seasoning finds 1t hard to compete with
those who use kiln-dried material.
Some of the latter is seasoned in a very
few weeks 1t looks well and it stands until
the test of changing atmospheric condi-
tons is applied, when it shows its weak
ness.
Mahogany is the favorite wood with
the best cabinetmakers. There is a vast
amount of seasoned mahogany to be had
from ruinous old articles made in the last
century when the rage for mahogany was
well developed: and while the new ma
hogany is less beautiful than the old, pur-
chasers of furniture seem to have learned
that 1t is worth while to have the new wood
well seasoned.
A skilled east side cabinetmaker pointed
out the other day mahogany log sawn into
boards and carefully laid end upward
against a building in the rear of his shop
The upper ends of the planks were pro-
tected from the weather by a piece of rub
Der cloth.
The owner could have had that lumber
kiln-dried In five or six weeks. He eX-
pected however, to give it a year or more
of open air seasoning. then to place 1t in
a rack near the ceiling of his workroom,
and later to place it for considerable time
near the workroom stove.
If as often happens. the original log had
lain for the better part of a year under
water, the seasoning of that mahogany
would have occupied between two and
three years. The original cost of the log
was about 5000 and the interest charge
alone at per cent would have increased
its value by u or 10 per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02

munity as that mystery of mysteries. hash
Three-cent lunch rooms are another fea~
ture of this city. In these places cup of
coffee, a sandwich plate of soup or slice
of pie can be procured for the small sum
of three red American pennies. Other dishes
are served in some of them at slightly
higher rates. For instance, hot dish of
beef stew for five cents, or a beef pie for
from to S cents
Then there are the dining rooms where
fair meal in both its proportions and va
riety can lie had for - or % cents with
dessert. Some of the Washington saloons
serve in their dining rooms what are known
as business mems lunches at prices vary
Ing from ten to fifteen cents. Further
down the scale is the typical Washington
clam and oyster vendor. with his WELL
known cry, Cit 'em while dey is chilly"
and the old colOred aunty with her chit
Tins and her hot corn bread. pigs feet
and hog face and hominy. Next in the
scale is the free lunches. which are legion.
The Free-Lunch Habit.
The free-lunch habit was, it is said, intro
dUCed in this country from Germany, where
1t is customary TO take bite to eat with
the foaming glass of lager. The original
free snack consisted of bits of rye bread
or small crackers with squares of cheese or
small pieces of Scotch herring with sour
mustard on the side. But the free lunch
has 'evoluted" from that simple repast to
most SumptuOuS spreads of meats pickles,
vegetables, cheese, potted flSh, olives, steWS
and soups, and the utmost rivalry exists
among nearby saloons as to which can give
the best set outs to their patrons. Some
impecunious Westinghouse and wayfarers
hoard their nickels until the popular free
lunch hour. which is usually between l.
and clock, and then selecting an estab-
lishment that IS known to give a big spread
go in, spend their five cents for a large
glass of beer and lay In a supply of rations
for twenty-four hours.
Among the observation-disclosures who were adj
dicted to the free lunch habit several years
ago was a fellow who was given the So
briquet of Free Lunch Charley" He was
known to all the saloon keepers of the city,
and 1t was said he was formerly a pal of
Cracker Jack" the king of New York
buns. 1t was said of Free Lunch Char
ley that he could live longer and better
on dime than any man in the history of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
Dainties for Women.

A story of the lunch habit in Washington
would be incomplete without reference to
the places where dainty femininity partake
of luncheons IN the shopping hours, There
are now lunch rooms In nearly all the large
department stores. and several connoisseurs
have opened individual establishments in
the hustling shopping districts. In these
places may be had many delicate vianGs
dear to the feminine heart such as choco-
late with whipped cream, ice cream, water
ices salads the daintiest of cakes and
crackers and other things that go to make
up the generality of angel food.
The lunch servers in the government de-
partment buildings form another distinctive
Washington feature. These are men and
buildings shortly before the noon hour and
serve Uncle Sans army of employees with
all manner of lunches. hot and cold, at
prices ranging from a nickel TO fifty cents,
all of which tend toward the oftmade as
sertton that Washington, d. c.. has become
a city of iuncheries, as well as a city of
boarding houses and magnificent distances
A lunch room novelty in this city of up
ed here from tropical Mexico and the far
away Lone Star State of Texas. There are
three lunch rooms in Washington that come
under this head, and they are known as
chile parlors.' The culinary features of
the menus of these places are the original
Mexican dishes known as hot tamales and
chile con Carne. Chile IN Mexican Is red
pepper" con means with" and carne,
''tlesh,' so that translated into English,
chile con carne is red pepper with flesh.
The hot tamales so popular in Texas and
New Orleans. form queer looking food
product \ tamale is a sort of elongated
corn cake. its interior being filed with
beef ground fine, and seasoned highly with
peppers of the red and fiery variety, and
Mexican sage. They are cooked in corn
shuck wrapper, which gives them a peculiar
and pleasant flavor, and are served with
red pepper sauce.
Other Mexican and Texas dishes served at
the chile parlOrs are chile cOlOrOw, sweet
tomato dish; Mexican frijOleS. or beans, and
alboundigo a sort of meat ball. The strong
feature of all these dishes is chile-red pep
per, which has been described as severe
and searching.
This city has a banking institution, the
Washington Loan and Trust Company,
which takes a deep interest in its en-
ployes in the matter of providing them with
substantial monday lunches al actual cost,
and it is said to be the only Institution of
the kind here that makes such provision.
The company furnishes gratis all such ac-
cesSories as butter, pepper, salt and condf-
ments, and the employees are only charged
cost price for the actual food served. In
this manner, nice lunches are provided en-
ployes only at from. 10 to 10 cents each.
For instance, cup of French drip coffee is
only 3 cents; two eggs, cooked any style, D
cents; French fried potatoes and steak, 10
cents and other dishes in like ratio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
Do You Know the Weight of
the Earth?
3 81. Is :. ,,.-- y. Z. I =. - -, *.


polar regions Il has been found without
earth becomes higher as the depth Is
greater. In deep mines, like the ComsjoclI
lode, and in long tunnels like the Simplou.
the heat Is SO great as to offer serious
difficulties in the employment of human
labor. The rate of increase of Temperature
with depth varies greatly I'm different places
but averages about one degree Fahrenheit
Tor every sixty feet OF depth. There * no
way To tell whether the same rate Of in
cI"aS" continues II great depths. and the
temperature at the center OF the earth Is
"a matter OF pure conjecture. Certain con-
uiilonS have. however. led King and R4ruS
To suggest .Sttn degrees C,uticraEa or about
3,n" degrees Fahrenheit. as Il probable
NIfu" OF the temperature m tho. rarth's CEN
Ter. a temperature practically beyond hui
man appreciation.
While II is very important matter to
know whether the Interior cf the earth Is
solid or liquid. this point is not S,t settled.
The temperature is probably high enough
TO melt most known substances when FREE.
from pressure, hut Il Is found from 1alora-
tory experiments that pressure has an i'm
portant iufiu"nc" ON the melting points Of
substances. Some melt al a lower t,munra-
turc when under pressure than when free.
while others require higher temperate rc
10 cause fusion. lnaSmuCu AS 60 Is not
known what the substances are which make
mp the mass Of the earth. 1t is impossible TO
state whether they would exist as solids
or as liquids under tn, conditions which OBJ
tain in the earth $ interior. Certain pho
nom"na connected with the tides have led
Lord Kelvin and Prof George Darwin to
conclude that the earth IS solid throughout
and more rigid than glass. Studies uI tie
manner In which earthquake shocks are
transmitted also seem To- indicate "a solid
interior of the earth. Yet Il VIE hp seen
that after all little is absolutely known
about tie profound depths Of the earth. and
II Is so difficult To find any means of obtsiu-
a. D IN. a al
as yet The efforts of scientists I'm tins Ulryl-
ton have met with hut little SUCCESS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
COMMERCIAL EXCURSIONS
Help to Engender a Friendly Feeling
Among Competing Nations

Commercial excursions from one coun-
try to another have become popular
In Europe. Last year large party
of English merchants and manufac-
turers made tour of France to inspect
industrial establishments, trade schools,
etc. The visitors were cordially re-
ceived and entertained by the French au-
thorities and business men, many of the
latter of whom subsequently made a SINH
lar visit to England About 200 British
merchants contemplate a similar excursion
to Germany next May and June and the
visit is viewed with lively satisfaction by
the German merchants, who are planning to
give these trade ambassadors a cordial
reception.
Meetings of this sort" says Consul Cen
eral Guenther at Frankfort in a report on
the subject. do much good. They help
to engender friendly feelings among com
peting nations, remove false conceptions or
sectional prejudices. increase business rela-
tons, and afford much instruction to the
eXcurs!onists. 1t would be well if our Amer
lean manufacturers and exporters would
make excursions TO European countries
Trips of the kind would afford them vast
opportunities for informing themselves
about foreign markets and how to increase
commercial relations Herewith"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02

marched forth and sounded their tin horns
at night precisely at ten o'clock to notify
the inhabitants that it was time for bed.
and especially for children, who were not
permitted to be on the streets after that
hour. This custom of blowing the horn at
ten o'clock was kept up for many years.
The old building has been used for many
purposes since then, and now faithful
band of colored people, Baptists hold re-
igious services there, entrance being
through end door which is reached by
long rickety flight of stone steps. The
lower floor is used as a storage house for
fertilizer, but this does not interfere with
the worshipers. Barring the diapidated
condition of the roof. windows and CHM
neys. the building, which is of stone and
brick, is in a splendid state of preserva-
ton, and unless torn down to make room
for another building will doubtless remain
as historic spot of interest for many
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02

lunch clubs have become a pleasant feature
of Washington life. There is one composed
of men who have made their marks in
the uptown business district. The mem
bership is less than a dozen lawyers, finan-
ciers and merchants, and their afternoon
lunches are served in a coZy corner of the
dining room of one Of the large hotels. a
table Is specially reserved for the luncherS
who order the very best the Washington
markets afford according to the dictates of
their appetites. While discussing the Viands
the members also discuss the current topics
of the day. and the hour Is most pleasantly
and protitably spent.
These lunches cost from - cents to 81
each, and in some instances go as high as
$50 and s.. They are not paid for by the
individual luncherS but one of the mem
bers foOts the bill in its entirety each day
by a system of rotation which has been
agreed upon. These lunch hours are re-
garded as periods of absolute seclusion
from business cares by the club men, any
one of whom would resent the intrusion Of
a caller who would interrupt the feast of
reason and flow of soul, and the discus
son of the fragrant viands. TO bring in a
matter OF everyday commercialism or legal
inquiry
On each recurring New Year eve one of
the members invites the fellow members of
the lunch club to Il feast at his home. Be
fore the financial crash in 1893 there was
lunch club in the business center of WASH
ington with a membership of several hun
dred men and the board of governors held
meetings. every month. In New York there
is said to be a lawyers lunch club with
about 800 members. and from 800 to 100
sit down to the middle-of- the-day repast
every business day.
Varying Prices.
Some Of the downtown business men
take their lunches IN the cafes which
abound in that section while others patro-
nze the quick-lunch rooms which have
sprung up here. Those having orien al
tastes In the culinary line can be served
in the chop suey resorts by almond-eyed
Mongolians. y few years ago Chinese res
taurants were unknown Institutions IN
| Washington. Today there are a dozen of
them scattered about town and yet quo
MEN, pronounced ''yOkamy," has become
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
Strong Men at Fifty.
From the New York Press.

From
Ny old friend j. F. Decker of Elizabeth
began system of physical exercise three
years ago, when at the age of forty-seven
It was a hard job then to hold at arm s
length a twenty-pound weight He avoided
the horizontal bar, and never used weights
of any kind in practice. The other day he
stood before camera twenty seconds,
holding on his forearm fifty pound weight
an almost Incredible statement, you may
say, yet honestly true. He raises himself
up and down on one leg with a fifty-pound
weight in each hand. He hangs head down
from a bar by one leg and with one hand
lifts weight of 100 pounds from the floor
to his head. With fiftypound weight in
one hand he draws himself shoulder high
to the horizontal bar with the other. Il
am fifty years Old he says. Shall 1 be
chlofoformed?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
GEORGETOWN'S OLD
DEBTORS PRISON

South OF the canal on %2d street, George
town, stands the old debtors prison one
Of the Oldest buildings in that historic
city.
Years prior to the laying out of the
District of Columbia this structure was
built, and as far back as the latter part of
the seventeenth century was used as a
municipal prison among its first inmates
as prisoners being Michael and Matthew
DUlaney, charged with setting fire to a to-
bacCo warehouse. The prison was regard
ed as unsafe and the men were placed in
irons and special guards placed over them.
This was the only prison in the then lower
part of Montgomery county, Maryland al
though the county court was held at Rock
willie, and there 1t was that all v!olators
of the state laws In the county were