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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1906-11-15
CHAPTER XII.
ne CATINAT In the meanwhile
was perfectly aware OF the

WE CATINAT In the meanwhile
was perfectly aware OF the
1 Importance OF the mission
which had been assigned to
/ him. He knew enough Of the lntrigues
and antagonisms with which the court
was full TO understand that every pre-.
| caution was necessary IN carrying ont
Ills instructions. He waited, therefore.
until night had fallen before ordering
bis soldierservant TO bring round the
two horses TO one OF the less public
gates Of the grounds. AS he and his
friend walked together to the spot he
gave the young American n rapid
sketch OF the situation at the court and
OF the chance that this nocturnal ride
might be an event which would affect
the future history OF France.
Are you armedf" be asked. you
have no sword or plstolsT'
"No; II may not carry my gun
had rather not be troubled by tools
that have never learned to use.
have my knife. But why do you askf"
Because there may be danger. Many
have an interest In stopping this mar
riage All the first men OF the king
dom nre bitterly against H. II they
could stop us. they would stop IL. for
tonight at least"
''But ! thought II was secret"
There IL no such thing at court
There is the dauphln or the kings
brother. Either OF them or any of their
friends would be right glad that We
should be In the Seine before we reach.
ed the arcibishop's house this Night
But who is thisr'
A bury figure had loorned up through
the gloom on the path upon which they
were going. As II approached, a col
ored lanp dangling from one Of the
trees sione upon the blue and silver Of
an officer OF the guards. II Was Major
Dc Brissac OF DE Catinats own regi-
ment
Hello, whittier awsyr he asked.
TO Paris. major"
y 10 there myself within an hour.
Win you not wait, that We may 10
iogetherT'
u am sorry. but ride on matter
VI urgency"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1906-11-15

The wagon jack herewith shown is
reproduced from Farm Progress. II is
simple In construction and effective In
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21
How 1t struck the Parrot.

Here is the latest parrot story. A
certain retired general Of the Indian
army possessed a parrot and also a
very irasclble temperament. The par
rot was a valuable bird, but was rather
nuisance by reason OF its extreme
talkativeness. One day while the gen.
eral was writing his business letters
the parrot kept up n continual chatter,
very disturbing to the writer. At last
the general could stand II no longer,
and, jumping up, he seized the cage Of
the unhappy bird, which he whirled
vigorously round and round, at the
same time shouting fu:;ously. Then
he set the cage down again, and ST.
lence for some time snsued. At length,
however, n feeble voice came from the
interior OF the cage.
General" ii inquired In quavering
accents, where were you when that
cyclone struck usp-London Tit-Bits.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21
CHILDREN'S CRIMES.
Arson, Theft and Train Wrecking
Common, Forgery Rare.

Children'S crimes are recognized by
criminologists as large and impor-
tant branch Of criminology. The COM
monest of children's crimes are arson,
stealing and train wrecking, and the
rareSt is forgery.
Arson, in the country especially, Is
frequently crime of childhood. Coun-
try children set fire to hayStacks, barns
and sheds in order to see the great
bright flames leap skyward. Children
commit arson, in word, out Of love
Of fireworks.
Children often wreck trains. Some
times they do this from reading about
romantic train wreclers. More often
they do it out of curiosity. They pile
Instructions on the track to see what
will happen. They have no idea that
anything very serious will happen.
Children, Of course, steal a good deal.
The best Of men and women, looking
back on their childhood, can recall
many theft. Stealing is natural.
Children now and then murder. Their
motive is always jealousy. Thus In
Vienna boy of ten, jealous OF his
sArother and sister, who seemed TO he
more petted than himself killed Doth
of them and then took his own life
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21
The WnN In Turkey.

In the days when NJ. Paul Cambon
represented the interests of the French
republic at Constantinople Nine Sarah
Bernhardt, who had been touring in
eastern Europe, was desrous Of giving
a dramatic representation Mt Yldiz
kiosk The sultan was willing. and the
terms were duly arranged with the
keeper Of the wardrobe. the worthy
pasha who has the control OF all enter
tainments at Yildiz. But the pasha
held out his hand for more backsheesh
than La Belle Sarah felt inclined 10
give, and so the long looked for rep
resentation did not take place. Sarah
Bernhardt lost by 1t $1,000 and the
coveted order OF the Cbefekat Her-
mann. the conjurer, knowing the ropes
better than the French actress. squared
the keeper Of the wardrobe, gave his
show and got bis thousand pounds
Exchange
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21
RIFLE SHOOTING.
Develops the Arms. Lungs and Chest
and Trains the Eye.

Ii is not only the muscles OF the arm
which are tested by properly organ
lied rifle shooting. 1t supplies an ex.
cellent exercise for the chest and
lungs. one OF the first things the young
rifle shot has 10 learn is how 10 take a
deep breath, 10 till the lungs with air.
and then 10 hold the breath while the
rifle is kept absolutely steady and the
finger is gradually tightening on the
trigger. \ glance at any successful
rifle shot will show you a man with a
deep chest and full powers OF breath
ing.
Any form OF recreation which trains
the muscles OF the arm and exercises
the chest and lungs would seem likely
TO be beneficial to health. but If that
is not enough there is the unequaled
training which rifle shooting gives to
the eye and TO the hand working with
the eye. The writer remembers hear
ing musketry Instructor boast that
he had heightened not only his own
sight, but the sight Of scores OF boys
whom he had taught how to use their
eyes in aiming at target. by two or
three hundred yards. simply by con-
tinued practice at long distance shoot
ing. 1t is astonishing what results can
be obtained in this way by placing a
rifle on sand bag raised on tripod
and making the pupil aim as accurate
ly as he can nj any distant object. The
eye can be trained, Of course. equally
well, though the sight will not neces-
sarily be heightened, by aiming at OBJ
jects close at hand.-London Spectator
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21
THE "BONE AGE" IN KANSAS
In Early Days the Plain Was Strew n
With Buffalo skeletons.


With Buffalo skeletons.
The pioneers Of Kansas will never
forget the buffalo bone age" When
central and southwestern Kansas were
settled the prairies were strswn with
buffalo bones. Those We're hard times
in Kansas, and the gathering Of these
bones enabled the early settlers to live
while they were getting their claims
broken out" for the producing Of
crops. Nine-tenths Of the pioneers OF
that section Of Kansas and there
weren't many at that-bad literally
nothing but team and a few house
hold goods that they had hauled from
the east in a single wagon. or course
there were no buffalo, for this was In
the late seventies, but their bones
strewed the plains, and these bones
were the only thing that had n COM
mercial value, and they were utilized.
They were hauled In great wagon
loads TO the nearest railway, often
from sixty to a hundred miles away,
and sold. The horns were the more
valuable, and they went first, but the
rest of the skeleton soon followed.
There were no fortunes made by these
early bone hunters, for large load Of
buffalo bones brought only from 50 to
IS at the railroad towns, but the pro-
ceeds from a load enabled the settler
TO buy little -four, coffee and occa-
sionally meat and lumber. - Kansas
City Star
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21
The Privilege of Peers.

There is a curious case in Fortescue's s
reports relating 10 the privilege of
peers, in which the bailitf who many
years ago arrested a lord was forced
by the court 10 kneel down and ask
his pardon, though be alleged that no
had acted by mistake, for that his
lordship had n dirty shirt, q wornout
suit Of clothes and only sixpence in
his pocket, SO that he could not be-
lieve that he was a peer and arrested
him through inadvertence.-Green Bag.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21
Royalty's Ca me.

Cards have always been a royal
game. Queen Elizabeth played cards
and lost her temper over them fire..
quently. Che was no Anne Of Austria,
to play like n queen, without passion
OF greed or gain.' In her reign was
commanded TO be played lat Wynd-
sore a Comedie or Moral devised on
a game OF the cardes," which resulted
in the performance by the children OF
her majesty's chapel Of Alexander and
Campaspe," in which the pretty lines
occur:
Cupid and my Campssps played
At cards for kisses. Cupid paid.
London Chronicle.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21
The sa me Advice.

DO you give your son good adriceT'
said the solicitous friend.
Yes" answered the somewhat sar.
donic person. II give him the same
good advice that my father gave me
and that my grandfather doubtless
gave him. II we keep passing that
advice along from generation to gen.
GRAFTON perhaps We shall eventually
find somebody who will take IT,
Washington Star.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21
RPnndeIcd.

After being injured by a bull OF pc
culiarly savage temper John Wesson
was under a Doctors care for a CON
siderable time and thereby incurred a
heavy bill for medical attendance.
When he was almost well one OF his
old friends who had called upon him
said he congratulated him on looking
so well after such a long illness.
Looking WELL" echoed John. Il
should be looking we'll There's been
$50 spent in repairs on me lately, and
I'm not finished yet"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21
A DISTANT eElFRY.
English Church With . Beu Towos
Half q Mile Away.

II is generally supposed that the vii
lage church Of East Bergholt, Suffolk,
is the only one in England which pos
sesses an entirely distinct building for
its belfry. The bells Of this church are
hung In shed many yards away from
the church and are worked from above
instead Of from beneath.
The church OF warmsworth, how.
ever. a village situated about two miles
from Doncaster, can boast Of belfry
which is about half q mile away from
the church. AS the crow dies the dis.
tance between church and belfry. which
is known as Bell Tower, Is 1850 feet.
the distance by road being about half
a mile.
The belfry Is by no means n make
shift building. The tower, In fact. Is
said TO date back to the twelfth cen
tury, and the reason OF its isolation
forms a rather curious story. The
church was originally built on its pres
ent site 10 accommodate the villagers
OF both Warmsworth and Baby, the
latter village being half q mile from
the former.
The tower was then placed in Warns
worth in order that the parishioners
might hear the bell, which stops ring
ing n quarter Of an hour before the
service in order TO enable the bell ring
er 90 get 10 the church In time-Lon-
don Strand.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21
IL This Man's WAIT

Man wants to be comfortable as O
cat on a warm hearth rug, TO feel no
prick Of conscience. to see nothing un'
pleasant, such as tears or a wan face.
IL e1asperstes him TO madness when
he is obliged 20 see bis wife sad, bot
IL never occurs 10 him to try 10 prevent
her sadness.-Splnster Ia Louiop a..
AP
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21
The Original "vnIage blacksmith, p,

Dunchurch. near Rugby, claims tha'
its smlthy is the original forge which
inspired the famous verses on The
Village Blacksmith" IL is pictur-
esque old place, and the spreading
chestnut tree still fourishes in front
OF it.-LondOn strand
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21
He Died Anyh ovv

This was the way a native physician
In India filed out a death certificate:
"I am Of a mind that he died (or lost
his life) for want OF foodngs or on ac-
count Of starvation. Maybe also for
other things for comfortsbles, and
most probably he died by drowning"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21
The 0lneuViIIe TimeS.

The Times" may be found for
sale each week as follows:
Manton avenue .......J. McCabe
Olneyville Square james Shawcross
Hartford avenue ....J. +. Hefernan
Centerdale ... George 7. Batcheldei
North Scituate ........ Post once
Also al the Times once.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21
a Cood wife.

Thank you, doctor, for prescribing
trip to the Spa for me. Now. will you
please ask nv husband 70 give up
smoking aud drinking beer. spa thsp
nv trip will be easily paid fosf'-AAG.
gensdorfsr Batter.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21
No Need For n Leader.

The socie,v reporters always speaE
Of a bride being led to the altar" Just
as though Nride couldn't End her own
way there bllndfolded. - Philadelphia
Record.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21

It's the unexpected that happens. but
We generally bring IL sn auknAlya>
Republic Monitor. kk~t =
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21
Wanted, For Sale, Etc.
Three Lines Three Times 40 cents.

WANTED-You to try this column il
w you want anything or have anything
you don't want. TINES, Olneyville, X. /.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-21

Girls wANTED-Apply BRITISH
~ HOSIERY COMPANY. rhorn,o1, X. |.
WANTED - EXPERIENCED HELP
w for night work al Pocasset Wors'ed
Co, Thornton, X. for Drawing. Spin
ming, Twisting and Spooling.
EOR SALE-Rabbit and Bird Dogs. In.
quire at once. AMASA : Porter, No
SSituate, II. |.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-08-02
FOR REAUTIFYINe CITIES.

Consul Joseph l. Britain reports
from Kehl that many of the German
cities are organizing competitions In
floral decorations for windows and
balconies, with view to identifying
the cities and culivating the tastes of
the people.
Prizes are given for the finest dec
orations. In this might lie suggestion
for American cities. 1t is possible that
the sense of beauty once aroused in
the people viii soon be lost. Strass-
burg has lately held competition In
the decoration of show windows in
mercantile houses. The prizes were
awarded by the Stadthalter (the i'm
perial governor) who made a personal
tour of inspection. Such competitions
do much toward encouraging taste and
an effort toward cultivating beauty.
The keeping of roads and streets in
good repair and the construction of
parks and bower gardens at street
intersections have much to do toward
making cities and towns beautiful.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-08-02
NONE TO YOUNG TO TOLL.

When women's wrappers are maid
Tor at the rate of forty-nine cents a
dozen, and silk waists at eight cents
each, 1t is easy to understand why
even the help of tiny children must
be called upon to earn a pittance for
the makers. If the children can do no
more than thread needles or pull out
hastings their assistance is precious:
II they are intelligent enough to sew
on buttons, or make buttonholes. their
help is more precious still. AS soon
as baby fingers can move intelligently,
they play an increasingly important
part in the labor of the household.
IL seems incredible | know, to talk
OF an infant three years old working.
and some may regard the statement
that such little ones do work as a sem
sational exaggeration. But il is liaer-
ally true, as is proved by the test;-
mony OF witnesses of unimpeachable
character. A baby three years old can
straighten out tobacco leaves or stick
the stamens of artificial flowers
through the petals. A child of four
can put the covers on paper boxes, or
even help to paste them A child
from four to six years of age can pull
out hastings and sew on buttons. A
child of eight can make artificial
flowers almost as well as an adult,
and can make paper bags just as well,
and almost as quickly. Many girl
from eight TO twelve years old can
finish boys "knee-pants" as we'll as
her mother. In our greatest and rich
est city, babies who should be in the
kindergartens have been compelled to
work in such occupations as have de-
scribed. and others of like nature
John Spargo in Home Companion.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-08-02
WHY SHOULD SHE MAKE HER
OWN CLOTHES.

An over-zealous college president
mas said that no woman is properly
educated until she can trim her own
hats and make her own clothes.
Why could she not have said with
equal reason that no man is com.
pletely educated until he can cut out
stylish pair of trousers or put !. new
half-sole on mis- shoes?
Because men are too busy doing
other things which they can do better.
There was time when each man
was responsible for his own war.l-
robe. 1t was very inconsequential
attire-a ragged animal skin, a hairy
coat, and by-apd-by, maybe, a pair of
sandals, which he easily knocked up
for himself. But long before the time
when he arrived at patent feathers and
dress coats, civilization had brought
about differentiation of labor. The
man who could make shoes best was
making them for all the community:
and the man who could expound law
or theology busted himself with that.
like wise soul, and paid somebody
else to make his clothes
You do not catch a man sitting up
late at night to pat the last painful
stitches in his new coat. He never
goes to business nervous wreck from
the effects of having spent the previ-
GUS night laboring to convert last
years hat into an up-to-date and styl-
ish chapeau.
Men are not such fools. 1t is only
women who wear out their nerves ana
strength in this way.
And women do it because the notion
still so largely obtains that they are
shockingly lacking in woman ability
If they cannot make their own frocks
and hats. The tradition from which
men are free still binds them.
While it is true that Providence has
gifted some women with a genius for
making $50 hat out of scrap of
lace and feather, also the ability 10
keep the children well-dressed on al
few yards of muslin and dollar or so
year, other women are not so tai
ented. and their lot is a lamentable
one If required to perform the same
miracles.
To expect them to do so seems
about as reasonable as to expect the
carpenter to paint pictures, or the man
Of medicine to dig his own cellar.
There is doubtless one thing that
each woman can do we'll This she,
should discover and do. OF the money
she makes at it she should unhesitat-
ingly lay out enough to pay other per-
sons TO make her clothes.
In doing this, neither she nor any
one else has right to accuse her of
an inadequate education. Millinery
and dressmaking are wide-reaching
trades in themselves. To keen M
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-08-02
THE ANTI-FREE PASS ACT.

The anti-free pass provision as it
hnally appears in the railroad rate bill
is better than nothing at all, but more
than that cannot be said. The senate
has swung back and forth between
prohibition of all passes to anybody
whatsoever and prohibition extended
only to federal officials and employees,
and this is where the pendulum stops.
NO common carrier subject to the
provisions of this act shall after Jan.
1, 1907 directly or indirectly issue or
give any interstate free transportation
for passengers except to its employees
and their families, its officers. agents
surgeons, physicians, and attorneys-at-
law, to ministers of religion travelling
secretaries of railroad Young Mems
Christian associations, inmates of
hospitals and charitable and elee-
mosynary institutions, and persons ex-
clusively engaged in charitable ana
eleemosynary work; to INDECENT. des-
titute and homeless persons and to
such persons when transportation by
charitable societies or hospitals, and
the necessary agents employed in
such transportation; to inmates OF the
national homes or state homes for dis.
abled volunteer soldiers and of sold
ers and sailors homes. including those
about to enter and those returning
home after discharge. and boards OF
such homes; to necessary caretakers
OF live stock, poultry, and fruit: to en-
ployes on sleeping cars, express cars
and to linemen of telegraph and tele-
phone companies; to railway mail
st.vice employees, postoffice inspectors
customs inspectors, and immigrant
inspectors: to newsboys on trains,
baggage agents, witnesses attending
any legal investigation in which the
common carrier is interested, persons
injured in wrecks, and physicians and
nurses attending such persons.
That win privilege several millions
OF persons to free transportation
but the railroads map further restrict
the privilege, and it is to be hoped they
will do So One curious feature of the
section is that it admits passes for
the families of employees but not for
those of ofliclals.-Springfield (Mass.)
Republican.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-08-02

dame" in a hign-necked gown and
cameo brooch.
Smart society has it's innings now
and then at "at homes" and luncheons
and dinners to meet some lion or lion
ess, and it is seldom at this season
OF the year that some great man or
great lady"-a son of the soil or
daughter thereof-does not come to
Washington, intent on a change of afr
and scene and social conditions.
New York and Chicago, Boston and
providence. st. Louis and other cities,
as well as foreign capitals, come to
the national capital for an outing, and
ind it as agreeable specifically as of
yore. 1t is perhaps as well that they
should not realize the change in un-
DERIVING conditions, although no one
who ever visited Washington in the
past can fail to be struck with the
marked increase in the number and
luxury of the houses of the rich and
with the greater percentage of elab-
crate entertainments.
Simplicity, which began to disap-
pear from the surface some years
ago, has now quite gone under. Old
families with more ancestors than
coupons and more "blood" than bank
account have more or less gracefully
retired from the scene, and Washing.
ton society" is led from New York and
Rhode Island, Illinois and Ohio. with
the caye-dwellers gazing contemptu.
ously at the glittering procession Of
people born yesterday" and gradu.
ally evolved from nothing into a great
deal too much.
The early beginnings and gradual
social evolution of families Supremacy
self satisfied are on many a tongue.
put the race is to the rich, and what
the Vanderbilts are to New York the
consolidated circle of Millionaires IS
70 washington, and the world IA as
continually RECALLED with anecdotes
concerning them.