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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-05-29
MAYOR WEAVER
VICTORIOUS
Philadelphia Machine Forced
to Give Up.
GAS co. WITHDRAWS BID
Stormy Opposition Of the People Is Too
Much for the Frightened
Organization"
Forces.
GAS co. WITHDRAwS BID

Philadelphia, May 29.--The republic
can organization" was forced, Satur-
day, after contest lasting five days,
by public opposition and clamor, to
abandon its efforts to extend the lease
of the city gas works to the United
gas improvement company for rs years.
Thomas Dolan, president of the gas
company, forwarded formal letter to
the presidents of the select and the com
mon branches of city councils, with
drawing his opposition to advance the
city S25,000,000 in consideration Of the
extension of the lease which the COM
pany now holds. The withdrawal OF
the United gas improvement company's
offer is undoubtedly signal victory for
Mayor Weaver. Saturday it became
evident that the leaders were losing con-
troll of councils, but they were saved
from putting their strength to the dir
ect test when the United gas improve
ment company withdrew its bid.
Commissioner Durham, State Senator
McNichol and Councilman Seger held a
two-h hours conference with President
Dolan, with the result that they officially
assume the responsibility of withdraw
ing the lease. Mr. Dolan's letter to the
councils state that the notifications to
the original lease bill, reducing the price
of gas, were not in accordance with the
offer of the company, but that they
would have been accepted. Owing to the
opposition on the part Of the people
however, Mr.. Dolan's letter stated, the
company was unwilling to enter into
any contract with the city looking 10
any variation Of its present lease.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-05-29
TORNADO AT COLBERT, I. T.
All the Wires Are Down and Details Of
the Storm are Unobtainable.

Kansas City, Mo, May ga tor
nado is reported to have struck the town
of Colbert, /. T., Saturday. Colbert
is q town of 500 inhabitants situated
near the Texas line, eight miles from
Denison. 1t is on the st. Louis and
Santa Fe railroad. II was impossible
to reach Colbert Saturday, all wires be-
ing down. No details of the storm have
been received.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-05-29

W uhu viz oiC iS7PohSibic AVi Nhat
they print.
We hear great deal about the poor
soldiers having the canteen taken from
them, nothing given in the place Of it.
The North American printed in Phila-
delphia tells how the officers of the
United States army had appropriated
to their own use the $4,000 club house
or post exchange building at Governor S
Island, N. Y. The soldiers are not al
lowed o place in the building except
two empty rooms on the first floor, one
ID the basement, while the rest Of the
building is elegantly fitted mp for the
officers. General Noel Gaines writes:
The sale Of liquor to the soldiers--the
enlisted men-has been stopped. To
the officers it has not. The soldiers are
not allowed to bring liquor into their
barracks; the officers are so allowed.
The canteens or post exchanges where
the soldiers could formerly buy liquor
were Immediately closed upon the pass
age of the law and have forever since
remained closed. The officers clubs,
were they purchase, never closed, and
sell liquor secretly. The road to good
discipline and moral conduct for the
soldiers is narrow and leads right
through the officers. Officers obedient
moral and sober, men obedient, moral
and sober. Officers law breakers and
hypocrites, soldiers law breakers and
hypocrites. Perhaps there is something
the trouble with the officers in charge
Of Fort Ethan Allen that we hear SO
much about the drunken soldiers at
Burlington.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-05-29
BRATTLEBoRo PRINCIPAL.
Former Brattleboro Man Chosen to the
Position.

Brattleboro, May 29.-The school
board Saturday afternoon elected Edgar
Burr Smith of Plainfeld, n. j., principal
Of the Brattleboro high school to sue
coed Hobart X. Whitaker, resigned, 10
60 to Salem high school Mr.. Smith viii
begin his duties at the beginning 81 the
next school year in September.
Mr.. Smith was born in Brattleboro
Nov. "a, 1870. He was graduated from
the Brattleboro high school in 1883, and
from Amherst college in 1894. Since
1894 he has been submastcr of the Leal
school for boys, preparatory school
in Plainfeld. In 1902 he established
camp Chesterfield" at Spofford lake,
Chesterfield, n. H., where he has had
each year sumner school fer boys.
He is married and has two children.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-05-29
AMERICAN STEAMER SUNK.
The Work Credited to Admiral Rodjest-
vensky's Squadron OFF Formosa.

Toxic, May 2s.- News was received
today that Admiral Rodjestyensky's fleet
sank an American steamer off Formosa
about last Sunday. The name of the
steamer is unobtainable. Her crew was
saved
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-05-29

Coat room: Mrs Will Quinlan, Mrs.
Fred Mears, Mrs. 7. H. Williams.
Cshers Nellie Stoughton, Hortense
Smith, Blanche Bradford, Monti AIudg-
EFT, Mary Barclay, Lillian Gordon, Nellie
Slayton, Jessie Nelson, Esther Fits.
Admission, % cents.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-05-29
w. c. 4. U. Space.

This space belongs to the w. G. T..
u, and they are responsible for what
they print.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-05-29
JOYS OF MATERNITY
4 WOulH's BEST HOPES REALIZED
Mrs. Potts Tells How Women Should
Prepare for Motherhood

The darkest days of husband and
wife are when they come to look for
ward to ohildless and lonely old age.
Many wife has found herself inca
pable of motherhood owing to dis
placement of the womb or lack of
strength in the gensratiye organs.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-01

there. It was interesting to learn that
though rich men and mobiles can have
ali the wives they want. the common
people are allowed but four at most
and they can have so many only when
they can prove that taey can support
them
These richly clad and luxuriously
housed harem women know absolutely
nothing. They are purposely kept
ignorant. They examined the clothing
of the party of American women. like
eager children. When these women,
finding that their account of American
manners and customs seemed enter
tanning, proposed to show them an
American dance, these chiId-women
were enchanted. The figures of the
old=fashioned 1ancers threw them into
spas1ns of laughter They were truly
as easily amused as small children.
Their talk was the most trivial gossip
about the daily happenings in the
harem. No papers, no books-and they
could not have read them if they had
had them.
But how much more useful to her
day and generation is Isabel than one
of these poor little orientals? Not
very much.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-01
DOLPHIN ACTS AS PILOT.
Special Act of New Zealand Iegisla-
ture Prohibits Interference
with ssPelorus Jack

Pelorus Jack is the name oI an gig
dolphin which is protected by q special
act of the New Zealand legislature,
According to an Australian eolonlse,
Mr.. George Hayes, who sends an account
of the fish to Lleydts Weekly, the ofnclal
proclamation of the government pro-
hibits any interference with Pelorus
Jack under e penalty Of s 100
Forty years ago, when Mr.. Hayes hfst
emigrated to Australia, he heard an OLD
sailors tale, according to which c sneai
of dolphins grounded on the shores OF
Cook strait, and one Of them escaped
into the sea. That one, which IS now ae-
knowledged to be Pelorus Jack, never
left the locality where he lost his COM
panions. and, as Mr.. Hayes says, ne IS
now protected by law as he has always
been by sentiment
The most remarkable fact of all IS the
reason for the passage of the law, which
is that Pelorus Jack acts as a most Ell
fective pilot, escorting all kinds Of yes
sells in and out of the French pass. Cook
strait, always keeping to deep water.
For years he was believed to be a
beluga, or white whale, but recent scIen-
tifc Investigation has shown that he IS
really a dolphin. AS he is never absent
from his duties, the proclamation has
been received with keen satisfaction
throughout Australasia by sailors who
have to use the French pass.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-01
THE PRIVATE SECRETARY.
Young Woman Representative of
Magnate Evens Old Score with
Foreign Caller.

In the big Office the foreigner waited
with fear and trembling. His card had
been sent into the private secretary.
The magnate, himself Of course, could
not be seen. On the good will Of the
private secretary depended the for
eigner's fate and future, relates the
New York Post
The private secretary was envied by
a few and respected by all who had deal
ings with the magnate. Luck and q
series of different circumstances had led
that young person up to very respon-
sible position. Brains and tact and an
unusual amount Of positive knowledge
combined with worldly wisdom, enabled
her to hold on and to flourish.
What can I do for your" she said.
pleasantly, as the foreigner entered the
room
The sunlight streamed in from the
big window. 1t turned the private secre-
tary's hair quite golden. A healthy and
prosperous and fairly good-looking
young person faces the sunlight with inn
punity. The foreigner advanced, hat il
presented his letters of Introduction.
I'VE have met before said the pri-
vate secretary, smiling from the depths
of a happy heart and a pair of very
pretty eyes. The petitioner stared
hlankly into the mighty persons face.
He did not seem to remember
Il think We have, persisted the pri-
+1
some months ago, were you not?"
Something dawned on the foreigner.
He looked into the young secretary's
eyes; brown, and full of mirth, they
were. He had seen them before. Alack
and alas. they had looked rather seri-
Gus then. The blood rushed to his face.
He remembered now. A sunshiny after
noon in a sunshiny city-a big piazza
with a band-the cafe with it's outside
seats, and every seat and every table
taken-1e and his friend pushing their
way through the crowd with that happy
insolence born of the travellers feel
ing Of being a bird Of passage and re-
sponsible to no one for his behavior
q lady sitting at table, quite alone
he and his friend getting hold of chairs
IN some way or other and planting them
selves town beside her, ordering their
drinks and lighting their cigars, this
with much estentation. The lady was
without male protection. They were
good, old worlo men, and wanted to
teach her a lesson A1ack and alas!
The American girl.
Just think how much warmer Rome
is, in the winter, than this city, said
the private secretary Her brown eyes
danced with fun Here one could not
sit outside and enjoy a cigar to-das,
could one?"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-01
ODD DEVICES OF BANKERS.
ingenious Dodges Resorted To When
Excited Subscribers Clamored
for Money.

Some amusing anecdotes are being
told of the devices resorted- to by bank
ers to gain time and inspire confidence.
On one memorable occasion, relates an
exchange of that city, the excited sub
scribers of a Chicago bank, much to
their Indignation, were only able to en-
ter the bank one by one except at the
cost Of spoiled coats, as the cute mana
ger had caused the doorposts to be fresh
~ painted.
Another bank prevented crisis in it's
affairs by exhibiting in the windows
large tubs apparently brimful of SOW
ereigns. These tubs, however, simply
were upside down, and only a small
quantity Of gold was piled up on their
bottoms.
But the most ingenious dodge of all
was successfully carried out il Buenos
Ayres recently. There was run on a
large bank, and for several days sub
scribers besieged the premises, with
drawing money and placing it in an
other bank on the opposite side Of the
road. 1t happened. however, that these
two institutions had private under
standing, and as fast as the safe" bark
received the deposits they were returned
to the unsafe one by an underground
passage, with the result that every one
maryeled at its continued ability to
meet its demands
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-01
The [ona|dsOnviIIe Chief
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
DoNALDsoNvILLE. LOUISIANA
Snanialisrr1 in Law.

In this country nearly every student
admitted TO the bar is under the impress
sion that there is in him the more tnan
possibility of a great trial lawyer. HaF-
ing read accounts of brilliant cross-ex-
aminations. and successful addresses 70
5uries, says the Green Bag he has III
mind that he is entirely competent, at
the outset, to try the most complicated
and difficult cause. Unfortunately as to
many who are not qualified for that
work, it is only after very many years,
and after considerable experience at the
expense Of litfgants and the public, II at
all. that thew ascertain that they have
not the peculiar aptitude necessary to
the successful trial lawyer. IN the mean
time not only have the clients suffered,
but the business of the courts have been
retarded to a very serious extent, by the
lack Of adaptability on the part OF the
practitioner. as well as by lack Of ex-
perience. since it is impossible that every
man admitted to the bar, shall have the
opportunity to try sufficient number
Of causes to give him the degree OF e1-
perience requisite in order to obtain the
best results. Sooner or later, in the in
teTest Of the clients, and to save the time
and patience of the courts, there must
be in this country a natural division be-
tween the labor of the solicitor and the
duty Of the barrister, not, artificial or
conventional, but one which shall grow
up from the nature of the case, by which
certain men who are best qualified for
the trial Of causes will carry on that
work to the practical exclusion of those
without special adaptability for that
class of business. In this. as in every
other direction, the specialist must find
his place.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-01
THE LITERARY FIELD.


Mrs. ogden Goe1et has had made at e.
enormous expense an edition de luxe g
the manuscript OF Hyperion. The chi
ton is limited to one copy ana Ins1s
copy viii be placed in her librar5
Miss Ethel Bret Harte, daughter ct
the famous writer of early California
life, will devote herself to concert WORK
because her fathers estate at Ms
death was too small to support bis
family.
A. 3. Houseman, professor Of Latin
in the University college, London, =
a writer of verses which have Won
praise from able critics. He consistent
" refuses to accept pay Tor his work.
An American magazine recently print
ed fragments from q book he printed
and sent him check, which was re-
turned with thanks
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-01
TOMBSTONE MADE FOR TWO
Odd Monument for Bodies Buried
Apart il, Old Manhattan
Cemetery.

sfYou have heard of hammocRs and
buggies built for two said a New York
.er. according to the Sun, ttbut did you
ever hear of one tombstone erected for
two bodies buried a distance apart?
81 found one in one of the old ceme-
teries down in the lower end of Manhat-
tan. The stone is quite old, and long
since began to crumble. The inscription
records that beneath lie the remains Of
one whose name appears, and then this.
e Not far from this plac also lie the
remains of (the name follows who died
a few years later
But there is nothing to indicate
where the remains are. The earth III
the vicinity is fat and unmarked. con-
clude that the man who erected that
tombstone was an executor and had an
eye to business
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-01
MoToR-cAR DUMMY HORSE
Novel Invention Designed to Di-
minish the Frightening Effect
Upon Animals.

The various departments of the pat
ent Office TEEN with odd and absurd de-
vices, but one of the oldest ideas yet put
forward is a dummy horse, for which
patent has recently been granted a
Canadian inventor, says d Washington
exchange.
The object of this horse is to avoid
trouble with nervous animals which are
apt to run away at the sight Of a motor
ear or carriage. It is intended to be at
tached to the motor car for the benefit
of the real horses nerves.
In order that the horse" may serve
its full purpose Of utility, it is made
with a hollow body, in which are to be
stored the tools, extra gasoline and
other things required by the motorman
The automobile horn is fastened in
the mouth of the dummy, and at night
the eyes are lighted up. one being green
and the other red, and are supposed to
serve the same useful purpose as a
port light upon board ship.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-01
HARD LOT OF THE LOBSTER
Left for Days at a Time in Ice in Res,
taurant Windows Suffering
for Water.

Talk about cruelty to animals"
said the man behind the oyster coun-
ter at the cafe, according to the New
more cruel than to put a live oyster
and soft shell crab in restaurant win
dows on ice for days at a time with
out q bit of water, and leave them
gasping there. Not that I have a
great deal of love for lobster, for
one of them nipped me with his claws
this morning and my hand is sore yet.
When we boil Holsters we just throw
them whole into the steaming water,
but when the crustacean is to be boiled
we always split the live lobster with
knife, and there is where the man
who is doing the work has to be care
full, because the lobster will squirm
around, and if possible grip his hand
with its claws. I usually chop off
their claws with a e1eayer before be-
ginning operations with the knife.
zone of the queerest experiences I
ever had in this business was one
morning several years ago when I was
behind the oyster bar of one of the
biggest downtown oyster houses.
Business had not yet started for the
day. and my assistant and myself were
tidying up the room when we heard
squea1ing like that made by a rat.
Fred, said my assistant, what is that
funny noise? Sounds as if a cat had
caught rat That's Just whet it
sounds like said |, and then we heard
sound as of something dragging a
heavy object across the floor back OF
the bar.
We went back of the bar, and there,
sure enough, was Mr.. Rat, with a big
Quahogz clam fast to his tail. The rat
ran squealing to his hole when he saw
US, but the clam was SO large he
couldn't get in and we killed the TO-
dent. You see back of the bar there
are large bo1-like tanks containing
Shrewsbury. RockaWays and Blue
Point oysters, and little neck and the
big Quahog CLANS. One Of the Quahog
CLANS happened to be. open when the
rat ran across the box and Immediate
ly closed down on his tail
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-01
w1spoM or TIE MONEY.

Now, the owl rose up and spoke oWlwise,
t"To-whit-to-whoo and alas!
# men could only acquire my eyes,
What drop theres6 be in gas
They'd pack their currents away On 100
And hold them fer q rise,
And the pipe lined hunt for . brand-EeW
job,
If men only had nay eyes"
Then the polar bear said. with bearish
shrug:
"Garrah! Bless my soul!
Il men only grew some heavy furs,
To the deuce with clothes ana coal!
They'd sell their heaters for Bowery 5unk
And lie on the Tee TO sleep,
And the entire state of William Penn
Might go to raising sheep.
Then the goat gulped down a cast-off shirt
t.Ba-a-ai You make me smile.
The cost OF Ilving's not all in gas.
And coal and Kerosene lie
Now. wouldn't the beef trust get thin quick,
And languish III chronic blues,
II the waste from any old boiler shop
Could be made into irish stew
Then the eagle said: with all these things
They'd do away with freight,
And would only need a pair 0 my wings
To settle the railroad rate.
There'd be a state Of steady decline
In the home Of the big ship trust
They'd turn their Pulln1ans out to grass
And leave the rails 10 rust."
qhen the monkey spoke, with knowing
wink,
In the nonklike way he had:
"You fellows would make up patchwork
man,
And you'd make it a nuss, begadt
you'd make It So easy for him to live
That you'd foozle the whole blamed plan
With nothing on earth to scrap about
What's the fun O. being a man q
m Y Tribune
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-01
WHEN EGGS WERE COSTLY
In Early Days in San Francisco Were
Worth Their Weight
in Gold.

Hens eggs were worth their weight
in gold" writes Thomas E. Parish in
one Of his stories of the very early
days in San Francisco, says the Chi
cago Daily News. "a couple Of young
men recently landed from Tennessee
dropped into Aldrich's for breakfast
one morning. Not being aware Of the
rarity and consequent prices of eggs
in California and having five dollars
still left with which to pay for break
fast for two. they calmly ordered their
usual breakfast of eggs and toast.
When the bill was presented the
young gentlemen saw, to their con
ten dollars. They had only five
What was to be done?
After a consultation together it
was decided that one O. them should
remain while the other went out to
look for Col. Gift, an old-time friend
whom they knew to be in the city
The colonel was soon found, who
after hearing the story OF his young
friend and asking who was with him
inquired what they had for breakfast
Eggs, was the reply
'Egsst Eggs!' exclaimed the
colonel Did you not know, you
blankety- blank fool. that hens lay gold
in California; 4 did not. but / DO
said our young friend Well con
tinued the colonel, kindly handing
over 4 $50 gold slug, take this and re
member after this that you are not
III Tennessee. where eggs are giyeT
away
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-01
Plants That Mimic Stones.

In South Africa a plant of the genus
Mesembryanthemum growing on
stony ground, SO closely resembles a
pebble that it has been picked up IN mis-
take for stone. Another species of the
same plant growing on the hills round
the sKarru produces two leaves about as
large as ducks, eggs, having a surface
resembling Weathered stone of a brown
ISL gray color. tinged with green These
plants look like stones, but for a short
time they put forth bright yellow flow
ers. Still another species of the same
plant resembles the quartz pebbles
among which it grows.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-01
Raffium and Cancer.

The public must not take the SO
called radium cures of cancer too seri-
ously, however intense the longing for
remedy for this terrible malady, says
the New York Post. By the X-rays
conservative surgeons are only ready
growing in superficial places, may be
cured. Many failures occur and no cure
can be called complete until several
years have passed. There is often q
fatal recurrence, even when the growth
seems to have shrunk under the treat
ment Every organ of the body is COM
posed Of groups of individual cells. So
far as we know, cancerous growths are
groups Of specialized cells, termed can
Ger cells. Now, liquid sunshine" or
any Other force strong enough to kill
cancer cells may also devftalize the
normal tissue cells in the neighborhood
and so destroy healthy organs, as well
as the cancer. Again, if only a portion
of the cancer cells is killed, and all of
Ghe normal tissue cells are weakened,
the resisting power Of the healthy It's
cue is 1essened sd that the cancerous
process spreads more swiftly than
ever. The X-ray having been tried and
found wanting so often, enthusiasts
have announced radium cures. Here
1T cannot be emphasized too strongly
that the treatment is in the expert
mental stage only. Every sufferer who
submits to the radium rays must re-
member that he and his doctor are
merely engaged in an experiment of
doubtful value. 1t would be marvellous
indeed if medical science should STUN
BE on a cure for a disease Of which it
has been unable to discover the origin.