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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-26

WANTED = Experienced granite letterer.
Steady work entire year, IN fine climate, where
no winters exist Wages $3.50 for eight hours.
Must have long experience and good habits.
Apply The Lano Granite s. Marble Co., Blano,
Texas. 1926
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-26
WANTED.

WANTED ashings to DO, family or single,
at 10 Webster Ave. LISTS
WANTED-To buy a silo, 20 70 80 feet high
and about Is feet vide, old or new, Address
George b. Milne. l3ho'
WANTED--Woma wants situation as
housekeeper Apply Pearl street, NO Buz-
zeI Place, A5ltSF
WANTED Position 10 do Office work, iu-
GLIDING bookkeeping, stenographyt and type.
writinS. Apply 10 Hope, Times Office, t22tt
POSITION WANTED-Woman would like
place with a small boy IN city as housekeeper
for small family. A steady place. Address
&C" Times Office OF s. South Main street. aft
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-26

wANTED-A man and his wife without
children 10 move on TO a farm. fine chance
for the right party Ingnire of A. i. Batchel-
der, Is Merchant street, Barres-Nt Telephone
240 12itf
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-26

FOR sALE--summer cottage and land Sabin
Pond, Woodbury. Vermont. Address Frank II.
Osborne, Montpelier, VT. lSotJ
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-26

WANTED-one letter cutter Apply to
John McMinn a. Son, li2m
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-26

TO RENr-Furnished room to rent East
ern avenue. s9tf
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-26

WANTED quite a number Of good mon can
ries. 1I0tf
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-26

FOR SALE-Main street property for sale.
Located on large lot, 80 feet front by 250 feet
deep, Two teneinents hi house which rent for
S22.D0 per month. Property is assessed for
$1,000 ana insured for ST 100. Is about min
utes' walk from post office Price $4,000 ID.
A. Perry Real Estate Agency. 130d
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23
All Through the State.

A horse at Belleville walked into a
candy shop and surfeited himself
with sweets.
Wenonah has but one unoccupied
house at present.
Two hundred vfne1and Sons of
Veterans are about to organize
camp of that organization.
Plans for $4,000 school building
for Florence having been completed,
the question of raising the money will
be submitted to the voters at town
meeting.
The first sturgeon of the season
was landed at Bayside by J. J.
Holmes and Lewis Holton, of Penns-
vile, who received $65 for the fish.
This was the earliest catch at Bayside
in fifteen years.
Vineland tradesmen have agreed to
close their stores at $50 o'clock
every evening, except Saturdays.
The Ocean City Board of Trade is
endeavoring to have the State Ho-
meopathic Society hold it's fall meet
ing there.
The Pitman Grove camp meeting
will begin week earlier than usual
this year to accommodate the Grange
picnic.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23
Had Twenty-One Children.

Victor Monroe Durham, who died
suddenly at New Brunswick, aged
eighty-three years, was a man after
President Roosevelt's own heart, He
had twenty-one children, thirty-two
grandchildren, all of whom are liv-
ing but three, and fourteen great
grandchildren. Mr.. Durham, who
was born in Englishtown, went to
New Brunswick when baby and
lived there ever since. He has been
member of the First Presbyterian
Church for f1fty-six years, and in all
that time had only missed two Sun
days. He was a witness of the great
tornado of 1896. He never had a
days illness in his life, and did the
family marketing every morning.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Vocal option Bill Beaten.


The Assembly at Trenton, by a
vote of As to II, defeated Assembly
sem blyman Bucks local option bill,
but before doing SO Assemblyman
Archibald Alexander, of Hudson, and
Assem- blyman Potter, of Cumberland,
made a bitter attack upon the meth
DDS employed by the New Jersey An
ti-Saloon League in furthering the
measure Not long ago Supt. J.
Frank Burke, of the league, was
barred from attendance in the House
on account of public charges he had
made against the committee which
had the local option bill under con-
sideration. He accused the members
of conspiracy to defeat the measure.
When the bill came up Assistant SUI
perintendent John Wright occupied a
place in the chamber, and in speaking
against the bill Mr.. Alexander, in-
stead of facing the chair, turned to-
ward Mr.. Wright and accused the
Anti-Saloon League of deliberate ly-
ing and misrepresentation of facts IN
trying to pass the bill He pointed
out that it was not in the true sense
a local option measure, and said it
was a vicious piece of attempted leg
islation designed solely to abolish sa-
looms. He said that while the bill
made ward, municipality or county
a unit for prohibition, it failed to
recognize the State as whole. Mr..
Potter added that the Anti-Saloon
League had deliberately misrepre-
sented the provision of the bill in his
county and challenged it's supporters
to come down there and oppose him
if he is candidate for reelection
nnxt fall
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23
AJNJVIS 81 JTJYJYJY
CHAPTER XXXII.
Continued.

"By the bye he said, suddenly, as
IL recollecting himself, ~ will leave
this cross with you. 1t is the thing
Akry1 bought from Win at Kizil
Arvat. 1t is no good my taking it
out there again. / will fasten it to
your watchchain Allow memo one
is looking. 1t is all right"
He made movement as if to join
the others. 1t was silent suggestion
that she should do the same; but she
remained motionless, and for some
reason he did not carry out his pur-
pose.
Charlie" she said, looking past
him into the deserted street, do you
remember one night long ago-it was
the first time that we danced SO much
together-the first time we found out
how well we got on with each other?"
YES" he replied, with a peculiar
dull look upon his face. eyes, ! re-
member"
you look now just as you looked
them" she continued vaguely. There
is no change in your appearance; you
are as big and strong and-and relia-
BILE as ever Your manner is appar-
emily the same. But there is change
sopewhere-there is change in you
or in me. What is it-where is it
how is it, Charlie? is it in you, or
is it in me?"
II expect" he suggested. restless
ly, chat it is in both. We are getting
older, you see. People cannot grow
older without changing little and it
is generally supposed to be a change
for the better"
"But-but this is not for the bet
ter"
II believe" he said, lightly, "that
the whole thing is creation of your
own imagination. You admit that
am the same; know that you are
unaltered; where can the change
be?"
"Yet you must admit that there is
a difference. Things are not as they
used to be-"
1T is the way of the world,s he
replied, with q mirthless laugh.
Things never are as they used to be.
No, Lena, / admit nothing. There
is an old gentleman opening the
piano preparatory to asking you to
sing. / must go and help him"
"E am not going to sing the Fare
we'll tonight" she said, as he moved
away.
mo" he replied, gravely. please
don't!"
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23
Put $40 in Kitchen Stove.

Mrs. Frederick C. Cobine, of Tren-
ton, imbued with the spring cleaning
motive, cleared odds and ends out of
dresser drawers and burned them in
the kitchen stove She had the range
roaring with inflammable stuff when
she suddenly remembered that there
had been an envelope containing $50
in one of the drawers. She gave one
hasty look. The money was gone.
Mrs. Cobine dashed to the stove, lift
ed the lid, and unfiinchingly thrust
both hands into the flames to find the
envelope She found it and recov-
cred the scorched bills, but burned
her hands badly. When the notes are
redeemed at the Treasury Depart
ment their value will Just about pay
the doctors bill, but will not compen-
safe for the pain Mrs. Cobine suf-
fered
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23

Mrs Wright, and shook hands silent
Iy with her and Lena. He was un-
usually awkward that morning, and
looked very large and out of place in
the dainty, womanly room. He
stroked his chin with his strong
brown hand almost nervously.
81 am glad,' he said at length. Il
am glad!"
Then he looked round the room
rather helplessly The chairs were
ridiculously small and frail compared
to his huge frame, and he made no
attempt to sit down.
81 have just bought very good
saddle he said, suddenly, and with
out any sequence of thought. THE
man is altering it for me. suppose
can countermand it now
He smiled little, and the ladies
smiled sympathetically. The two
elder women took an ardent interest
in that saddle Just as they would
have taken an interest in digestive
bread or the death of Alcibiades, if
Charlie had brought the subject un-
der their notice.
Then they talked of Vienna and
the journey there, praising the gifted
Mr.. Bradshaw, and abusing the Ger
man railways, until Charles Mistley
took his temporary leave.
He wandered down Seymour street
in an absent-minded manner. Pres
emily he came upon little black-and-
tan terrier sitting upon a doorstep,
with it's Quivering spine pressed
against the immovable door. He
stopped before it, and the dog raised
one paw as if to beg him to ring the
bell, setting back it's head, and look
ing up at him with pretty canine
coquetry. Without thinking much
of what he was doing, the sailor
raised his hand and rang the bell;
then he strobe on.
II am glad,'' he murmured. "Yes,
am glad! BY George!" he ex-
claimed-"by Georgel / am in time
for the alternative yet" And calling
cab he drove rapidly to the Ad-
miralty.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23
CHAPTER XxXI1Y.
Safe at Last.

So Charles Mistley TRANQUILITY be-
gan his simple arrangements for a
journey he was destined never to
take.
Suspense, like all mortal things,
must have an end; and for the watch
eGs in Seymour street the end was
drawing near. 1t came at last, on
the Thursday morning, just twenty
four hours before the time fixed by
Charlie for his departure.
Lena was still in her room, al
though the punctual breakfast bell
had been rung some minutes before.
She was in the act of fixing a httle
brooch at her throat, when there was
a hurried knock at the door, and the
sound of the colonels voice, vibrating
with emotion, followed instantane-
cusly.
LENA! Lenan'
eyes, papa" she answered, quietly
enough. Then she stood motionless,
with her back to the window, watch
ing the door.
MAY come in, Lena?"
"Yes!"
She knew that there was news at
last.
Then the door opened. For mo-
ment Lena experienced strong de-
sire to laugh aloud. The colonel en-
tered the room hastily; in one hand
he fiourished a submarine telegraph
form, in the other was the bread
knife, with little scraps of brown
paper adhering to it's edge.
'Mistley is at Vienna!" he gasped.
'He is at Vienna! Thank God for
this"
He threw the breadknife Upon the
bed, and presently went there and
rashly sat down upon it.
YES" said Lena, quietly. She was
still engaged with her brooch, and
now she turned to look into the glass.
"Lena!" exclaimed her father.
"Do you hear me? Do you under
stand? He is at Vienna! He is
safe! Here is the telegram. They
have just brought it,"
He held the paper toward her. She
saw the action, and noted mechan-
ically the slips of blue paper pasted
ON to the white telegraph form. She
remembered wishing with all her
strength to step forward and take
that paper; then there came sudden
blank, a sense of utter, boundless
vacuity, and she found her mother IS
comforting arms around her.
At breakfast the telegram was dis
cussed word by word. 1t was not en-
tirely satisfactory upon closer investi-
CATION
"Safe, but quite knocked up. Can
you come to mo? Tell matee and
Charlie"
"tCan you came to me?'" repeated
Colonel Wright, with fierce look III
his eyes as he swallowed a hasty
breakfast. "Can go to him? That
is like Mistley. AS if the fellow did
not know-as if he didn't know
and yet he puts it like that; it Is
Mistley all through You cannot tel
whether the fellow means to be
funny or pathetic. and somehow it is
both" {"
Mrs. Wright made no reply. She
merely laughed low. gentle laugh
and behind the friendly covert of 8
isrge fern which stood upon the
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23
Locked Mad Dog in Closet.

Exciting was the experience of Mrs.
Robert w. Prentiss, wife of the Rut-
gers College astronomer, when the
pet dog of the family went mad. The
canine had been playing about the
home of the professor in Highland
Park, when it suddenly began snap
ping and frothing at the mouth. AL
though much alarmed, Mrs. Prentiss
drove the dog into closet and kept
him there until Fielding G. Lucas,
the health Inspector, who was nearby
at the time, dispatched the infuriated
animal. Although only year old
the dog fought fiercely, and 1t was
with great difficulty that Lucas killed
10
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23
Beoueaths Children to Sisters.

The will of Mrs. Mary Abrams, ad-
mitted to probate at Trenton, be-
queaths two of her four children to-
her sisters, gives the children all of
her property, and ignores the surviv-
ing husband and father entirely. This
peculiar will adds interest to the kid
naping of the two children following
the mothers death, which took place
two weeks ago, the day after the will
had been made. At the time the hus-
band and his wife's sisters, Mrs. Julia
Cartwright and Mrs. Catherine Mat
lack, were involved in bitter feud,
and Abrams now claims that the sis
ters influenced his wife against him.
Following the funeral Abrams de-
manded the return of his children,
and when this was refused he had the
sisters arrested on charge of kid
naping. They are now under bail.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23
Whole Town Has the Habit.

IF physicians are right when they
advocate plenty of fresh air in winter
and summer as preventive and cure
for tuberculosis, then the people Of
Evanston, ILL.,, won't have to worry
much about the great white plague, =
said John R. Donald, of that thriving
Chicago suburb, who is at the Plank
inton House. Nearly the entire city
has taken to sleeping out of doors or
in tents, Their is an open-air tent in
nearly every yard, containing cots,
and the fresh-air fad is in full blast. y
Milwaukee News.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23
Recently a famous railroad N

Recently a famous railroad mana
ger appeared on the witness stand
and admitted that he sold the bonds
of his railroad company to himself
at sixty-five cents, and then, as man.
ager of an insurance concern, bought
them of himself for the company at
ninety-six cents. Either he robbed
the railroad company by selling it's
bonds too low, or he robbed the in
surance company by making it pay
him too much for the bonds, ex-
claims The Commoner. But as he is
a power in the financial world, and
as this is what is called "high
finance" he will not be dismissed in
disgrace. On the contrary he will be
more powerful than ever because the
bond transaction netted him a neat
pile Of money whereby to manipulate
other and large. deals.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23
Robert Treat Paine, Jr., chairma

Robert Treat Paine, Jr., chairman
of the Executive Committee of the
Massachusetts Public Opinion League,
has prepared with his colleagues a
circular urging upon the Legislature
the enactment of public opinion
law designed to bring Legislators and
their constituents in closer commu-
nion, by means of open conferences
together on public measures The
circular takes the position that this
relationship would supplement and
perfect the representative system of
the State in accordance with the ideas
of the constitution of the common
wealth.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23
According to some curious investi

According to some curious investi-
cations conducted by English scien-
lists eldest sons tend to be criminals
and youngest sons paupers A great
many thousand school children and
many family histories have been ex-
amined to yield these results. First
born children were found TO be, as
rule, taller and heavier, with greater
ability and endurance than the 9TH
ers. This is in accordance with the
popular feelinr in many countries
that the Oldest child is superior to
the others and deserving of special
privileges. 1t is well established
fact that among men of genius an un-
due proportion are eldest sons.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23

The coal deposits of this continent
are being exhausted rapidly. We
consume nearly 1,000,O 900 tons every
day. Last year more than 350,000,-
900 tons of coal were taken from this
country's mines. The recognized au-
thorities have shown hat in 100
years the American people will prac-
tically be without coal. The most
sanguine estimate sets forth that the
Pennsylvania anthracite fields will be
exhausted in a little more than fifty
years from to-day.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23
Her Age Still Unknown.

Rather than tell her age, Miss.
Tenie Fristoe went to Jail at Colum-
bus, Ohio. She was defendant in an
attachment suit. and one of the first
questions put to her was, How old
are you?"
''It's none Of your business Miss.
Friscoe promptly replied
The Court ordered the woman to,
answer, but she steadfastly refused
and was sent to jail for contempt.
She was released that afternoon on
a writ of habeas corpus, but her age
is still mystery.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23
There is much to be said in favor

There is much to be said in favor
of the proposed revival of steamboat
traffic, admits the New York Ameri4
can. Originally the rivers were the
natural highways OF the nation. They
remained such until their business
was crippled and in many cases abb
solutely ruined by the railroads. The
weapon used in this warfare was the
same as that employed to build up
trusts and kill their competitors
the railroad rebate.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23

According to a dispatch from Read
ing, Pa, to the Philadelphia Record
the Ladies' Auxiliary of Modern
,Woodmen," in session at the Berks
County metropolis, consumed mile
of sausage" This performance de-
serves consideration as an endurance
test at the hands of Professor Fisher
and his vegetarian record makers,
declares the New York Tribune.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23
A Wonderful CARPET.

In the ethnographic museum of Rot.
terdam may now be seen beautiful
carpet which the Shah of Persia re
Gently presented to Queen Wilhelmina
as souvenir of his visit to Holland
some months ego.
Woven into the carpet is the fol
lowing inscription in Persian:-
sented By His Majesty Mozzaffer ed
Din, Shah. Emperor of Persia, to Her
Majesty Wilhelmina Queen of Hol-
land. In the. year of the Hedjira.
1920"
The carpet measures sixty-six
square yards, and in each square yard
there are 250.000 stitches.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23

Seven European countries have
adopted the postal savings bank sys-
tenn, namely: Great Britain, Aus
tria, Hungary, Belgium, France, Italy
and the Netherlands. In 1904 there
were in the United Kingdom 9,673,}
717 depositors. In the United States
there were the same year 1857 saw
ings banks and 1905 ,443 depositors
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23

room. He was laden with sundrN
wraps and packages. which he set
down rather absentIy upon polished
table.
"The return of the prodigal," he
said. cheerfully. II do wish liked
cold veal!'
This brought Mrs. wright's
thoughts back to practical matters.
Beef teal" she exclaimed. H'YOu
must have some beef tea
Winyard pointed solemnly at the
colonel.
"Ask him." he said. II know
nothing about it. The affair has lost
all interest for me. He has taken
charge of the matter. am not al
lowed to say what ] like or what
dislike-in fact, am the bane of my
own life
Beef tea," said Colonel Wright
severely, as he drew off his gloves.
Eyes, beef tea"
This was soon brought out, and the.
whole party stood around the sick
man to see that he consumed it.
And have you done all you wanted
to do, VIM" asked Mrs. MistlN
presently.
'Oh, yes replied he, breathlessly,
between the sips. Wont you let me
off the rest? am going down to the
sediment now
But Colonel Wright was not con-
tent with this laconic account of his
pupils exploits.
"He has done that, and more," he
said exultingly. He has done what
no man living las done before him.;
or could hope to do again. He has
been right through to Peshawur and
back. He has mapped out every fea-
sible route, and noted the position
Of every WE'LL and obtained every i'm
aginable item of information that the
officer comm snding division could
require. And that quite outside his
own diplomatic work, which has been
carried out to the letter"
Such was the home coming of Win
yard Mistley.
1t was only by degrees that they
extracted from him the details of his
perilous journey. How he escaped
detection by the readiness of his wit.
How, encompassed by danger,
treachery and fanaticism on every
side, he came through it all by sheer
self-reliance and intrepidity. How
he lay for months i'll in Turcoman
tent, nursed and tended by the sim
pie nomads. How, time after time,
the combination seemed too strong
for him to fight against, and how his
good fortune attended him to the
very end. But all this had to be
guessed at by his loving listeners.
The story of that unique and wonder
full journey was. never fully told.
Partly by aid of their own imagina-
tion, partly by persistent questioning,
they succeeded in putting together
more or less connected narrative;l
but Vineyards own account was de-
cidedly unsatisfactory, as well might
have been expected. A man cannot
tell his own story advantageously.
There was no one else to tell the
tale of VINEYARD Mistley's achieve
ment, and so it was never told. Far
away on the sands of the Khivaian
desert, out of the caravan route, in a
trackless waste untrodden by the feet
of man for years together, few
whitened bones picked clean and
scattered by the quarreling vultures,
lay beneath the cleaning sun, wait
ing the end of all things. This, and
nothing more, was what remained of
the young Englishman's daring COM
panion during the greater part of his
wonderful journey, and the story of
it lay silent with those bones.
(To be continued.)
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23

Industrially New York is too big
to remain centralized city, pleads
the New York World. 1t is easier to
carry the industry to the workers
once for all than to carry the work
ers to the industry every day for
years. Decentralization should mean
for them better health, more air, bet
ter dwellings and less dependence
upon oyerburdened street car COM
panies.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23
An Editorial Side Line.

An editor out West has so much time
on his hands that he has started the
side-business of raising ostriches.
What happy editorial conditions must
prevail therel How his Eastern
brethren envy him! How delightful it
would be to have even just one ostrich
around-to eat manuscripts, for in
stance; though some of them would kill
the bird quicker than would whole
keg of nails.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23

feet, of alternate oak plank and cork
wood; carries AZ guns, four of which
are 100 Founders; quarterback and
torecastle guns, 44-pounders and fur
ther to annoy an enemy attempting
to board her can discharge 100 gal
ions of boiling water in a minute,
and by mechanism brandish 300 cul-
lasses with the utmost regularity over
her gunwales; works also on an equal
number of heavy iron pixies of great
length, dashing them from her sides
with prodigious force and withdraw
Ing them every quarter of minute" :"
Such description was certainly cal
cnlated to strike terror into the heart
even of the stoutest British tar.
The Morris County chronicle., 1907-04-23
No Employees use Tobacco.

In the twenty years during which
The First national bank has been do
Ing business at Concordia, Kan, 1t
has never had an employe who used
tobacco in any form. No restrictions
were ever placed on the employees,
and the use of the weed was never
considered in selecting officers or en-
ployes. 1t just happened so.