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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-27
rHrRrY-FIvE NEw sHRINERs.
walked The Hot Sands at Bellows Falls
Last Night.

Bellows Falls, June 27.--!Thirty.ive
candidates were escorted across the hot
and agied sands here last night ana
made full iege Mobiles Of the Mystic
shrine. The occasion was the special
meeting Of Mount Sinai Temple and The
evening was pronounced grand success.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-27
18th MT. REGIMENT
IN ANNUAL REUNION


Waitsfield, June 7.--The 10Th annual
reunion Of the 18th Vermont Regiment
association was held here yesterday af-
teInoon and last evening. about rs mem
hers being present. The meeting was
called to order BY the president, Judge
John n. Lyon Of Colchester, at 900 p.
IN, and an address Of welcome was read
by Mrs Alice Richardson Of Montpelier,
daughter of Capt. O. c. Wilder, deceased.
The president responded and various re-
ports were read.
First came the report Of the acting
secretary, Eli N. Peck OF Burlington,
which gave the minutes OF the reunion
held in Colchester last year. Col. Heman
w. Allen Of Burlington read his 10th
annual report as treasurer and r. o.
Sturtevant Of Swanton gave his report
as historian Of the association. He said
that the history Of the regiment was
practically completed. A publishing com
mittee was appointed, consisting Of Col
III, O. Clark Of Orange M j., Col. A.
G. Brown Of Montpelier, Gen. G. u. Marsh
Of Enosburgh Falls and Col. H. w. Allen
Of Burlington, the committee being
authorized to have the history printed at
once.
Letters from absent comrades were
read from THE Tegimental surgeon, Dr y
b. Crandall of Sterling, IlE, from y. WI
Town Of New York, who enclosed d
check for $50 for the regimentaI fund
| from Gen. III. ,. Meigs of Baltimore and
from several Others
The death Of IS members were report
cd the past year. Swanton extended an
Invitation for the association to meet
next year in that town but counter
proposition To have the reunion on the
battlefield Of Gettysburg was favored by
some and the settlement OF the questioH
was left to the principal officers and the
executive committee.
| These officers were elected President
Ziba II. McAllister of Waitsheld; vice.
president, Henry Il. Mudgett; secretary
/ e. n. Peck of Burlington: treasurer, H
I w Allen who has been the treasurer
OF the association ever since It's organi-
zation; executive committee. Col II. o
Clark of Orange, N. j., K. O. Sturtevani
4 of Swanton and G. L. Marsh OF Enos
burgh Fails.
About the Campfire.
/ AT the campfire last evening the speak
ers were: Col. a. c. Brown Of Montpel
ier, department commander Of the Yer
mont G. A. r.; Capt. Frank Kenfeld
iMorrisrille: Judge c. S. Palmer. Buling
ton; Col. II. 0. Clark, Orange, N j.; Z
4. Bragaw, New York; W. w. Holden
NorthHeld; Gen. c. L. Marsh, Enosburgl
Falls; the Rev. f. !. Ranslow Swautoni
Col. Albert Clark, Boston; X. o. Sturte
want, Swanton. There were recitation
and musical selections, the WaitsGels
hand being in attendance A. it was al
the afternoon session.
The commander 81 Lafayette Post, No
1870, Of New York city, Il. A. BraEaw
who was at the reunion was made al
honorary member of the association
One of the pleasant features OF the day
1 was the beautiful drive Of ~ miles III
the Mad river valley from Middlesex
which the Veterans one and all pro
nounced magnificent in its scenic grand
eur.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16
Worn Away BY Handling.

The touch Of thousands of human
hands for more than score of years
every weekday in the year has
worn away a portion of one of the
exhibits of wood at the Smithsonian
Institution. The exhibit In question
is carreta or OK wagon. and stands
in the east wing Of the Institution.
The part of the axle that has been
worn away simply by the admiring
touch of thousands of visitors pro-
trudes several feet and is easily
reached. The wonderful smooth
ness Of the wood which has slowly
but surely been worn away is the
result.
The old OK wagon is made entirely
of cottonwood, and is without q
single piece of metal. 1t was built
by Pueblo Indians and is the style
used in New Mexico and Arizona.
The design is that introduced in this
country by the Spaniards many years
ago. 1t is clumsy affair, with two
wheels that are far from being
round. For many generations, how
CNelp tHlp 5OIt VI cart has dHbWeItu
the purpose of transportation for the
Pueblo Indians as well as other
tribes.
The axle that has been worn away
is directly under the sign giving an
account of the origin and history of
the OK wagon. While reading,
nearly every sightseer rests his
hand upon the wood. perhaps does
a little knocking for good luck. and
perchance picks splinter. Anyway,
the axle end has been worn away
and to-day Is as smooth and as
shiny as a billiard ball.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16
enCoND HAND HAT DEALERS.
A Trade Which Has Sprung Up in
Recent Years In New York City.

One of the most ancient of all
trades Is that in second hand clothes,
and there have been dealers in Sec
ond hand shoes; but comparatively
new is a business established in New
York City about a dozen years ago
by a man who deals in hats only
while running incidentally a hat
cleaning establishment.
He buys his hats from wholesale
dealers who get them pedlers and
old clothes collectors who bring
their collections for sale to the Sec
ond hand clothes exchange. From
the stocks of hats which the whole
sale dealers in old clothes and APP
parel thus gather the retail dealer
in second hand hats selects such as
will be suitable for his trade.
These hats, which may some of
them show but little wear, he cleans
and presses and blocks IL need be
and generally puts in order If
hat needs new binding he puts
that on or new band; such thing
has been known as putting a sound
crown of a hat with broken rim
into the second rim of a hat that had
broken crown; but as rule reno
vation, with perhaps some minor re-
pairs, is with the hats that the
dealer buys all that is necessary
He gets some soft hats, but mostly
derbies; and this stock, all put in
order, he arranges in display on his
shelves, with a little ticket showing
its size stuck in the band of each
hat, shelf after shelf of hats of vari-
Gus styles and sizes, and thus dis
played they make a goodly array.
The dealer has sold as many as
four hats to one customer within
a single week, the presumption being
that at least three of these had been
lost or perhaps irretrievably dam
aged on occasions of more or less
festiyity. But a man can afford to
lose a hat occasionally when they
cost but half a dollar apiece, which
IS The uniform price of all these
hats, and for which, the dealer says,
you can buy hat better than any
new hat for a dollar, while it may
have been originally a hat of fine
quality.
In fact, at this price the second
hand hats commend themselves to
many buyers; and the dealer has
customers who come to him regu-
larly for their hats just as they
might come to any hat store.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16

ambitions. He went up, up through
the stages of engineer, superintend-
.snt of various divisions, general
manager OF various roads, fourth
vice president, third vice president,
second vice president and first vice
president.
His election to the headship of
the entire concern was no surprise,
for it had been known for a long
time that he was President Cassatts
preference, and for a couple of years
prior to his death, Mr.. Cassatt had
been grooming McCrea for the place.
This was not alone friendship on
the part of the late president He
recognized in Mr.. McCrea the one
kind of man who never failed in
any task imposed on him by the
road. He could carry along the
huge projects of Mr.. Cassatt had
planned; there need be no panic
when Mr.. Cassatt passed. provided
the steady hand of Jim" McCrea
took the throttle.
There is no particular romance in
the life story of this man, big men,
tally and physically. His success
has not proceeded from strokes of
daring, or sudden Inspirations
Hard, relentless work has been the
only system he knew.
The new head Of the Pennsylvania
was born in the home city of that or
ganization, and is So years old His
father was a physician, who drifted
into banking. and had Jim" McCrea
chosen to take the easier ways OF
life, he could have taken over the
business Of the father. and settled
down to comfort and reasonable
assurance OF plenty without having
to work very hard to get 1t.
Ambition was stronger in the
youngster than love of ease, and
after he graduated from the the
University of Pennsylvania at the
close Of the Civil War, he looked the
field over, and resolved that the
probable growth of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, then only struggling sug-
gestion OF the mighty power. 1t has
now become, made It promising
| career for young man with both
| ability and energy.
He applied for a place. Nothing
attractive opened, but, undaunted,
young McCrea pressed so hard that
they made him rodman. This was
In 1865 Before two years passed
he received his first promotion, and
was made rodman and assistant en-
| gineer on the Connellsville and
Southern Pennsylvania Railroad.
This first advance convinced the am
bilious rodman that he had made
no mistake in the choice of an en-
ployer, and from that time on he
never doubted the wisdom of throw
Ing his whole energy into the cause
of the road.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16
GRAND OPERA BUILT ON SMOKE.
Oscar Hammerstcin's Dreams Began
At Cigar Workers Bench.

When Mr. Hammerstein was asked
whore he obtained the capital to
build half a dozen theatres and a
grand opera house he smiled and
said:
Il landed In America with just
So in my pocket" 81 was run
away from home. My father wanted
me to be a man of learning He in
sisted on cramming algebra and
Latin and Greek and French into
me. l learned a lot Of it, but /
never liked it.
After landing, went to board
ing house In Greenwich Street. New
York City, and the first day found
German paper which contained an
advertisement calling for boys to
learn the cigarmaker's trade. 1t
seemed only a chance to make llv-
ing then, and / had no real fancy
for 1t and no idea of what 1t would
mean. l went to a shop in Pearl
Street and they took me in and gave
81 a week-and / lived on that,
lived for long time.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16
The Best Guaranty of Merit Is Open
Publicity.

Every bottle of DR.. Pierce's
world-famed medicines leaving the
great laboratory at Buffalo, N. Y,
has printed upon its wrapper ali the
ingredients entering into its COM
position. This fact alone places
DR.. Pierce's Family Medicines in a
class al BY themselves. They can
not be classed with patent or secret
medicines because they are neither.
This is why so many unprejudiced
physicians prescribe them and
recommend them to their patients.
They know what they are COM
posed of, and that the ingredients
are those endorsed by the most
eminent medical authorities. The
further fact that neither DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
the great stomach tonic, liver in
vigorator, heart regulator and
blood purifier, nor his "Favorite
Prescription" for weak, over-work-
ed, broken-down, nervous women,
contains any alcohol, also entities
them to place all by themselves.
Many years ago, DR.. Pierce dis.
covered that chemically pure gly-
cerine, of proper strength, is bet
ter solvent and preservative of the
medicinal principles residing in our
indigenous, or native, medicinal
plants than is alcohol and, further
more. that it possesses valuable
medicinal properties of it's own,
being demulcent, nntritive, anti
septic, and most efficient antifer-
ment.
Neither of the above medicines
contains alcohol, or any harmful,
habit-forming drug, as will be seen
from a glance at the formulaprint-
ed OH each bottle wrapper. They
are safe to use and potent to cure.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16
BEWARE OF THIS TRUST.
How 10 Cope With the Mail Order Combine
That Kills Competition.

"pm against the trusts, first,
last and all the time" remarked
leading citizen at the post Office the
other day.
Pardon me, my dear sir, but l
don't quite believe you are, quiet
ly volunteered a stranger.
"What do you know about it ?"
asked the citizen, a little offended.
Just this, replied the stranger,
81 saw you moment ago, while
both of us were using the desk
shelf along the wall, address let
ter to a big mail order house in
Chicago which l happen to know
about. l couldn't help but see the
address as the letter lay there be-
fore me. Now, begging your par
don for the question, didn't you
order some goods from that house?"
81 did. And what of it ?"
Then my dear sir, you are Civ
ing aid and sustenance to the one
trust which is harming you and
your community more than all the
rest of the trusts put together. l
refer to the mail order trust. Are
you not aware of the fact that the
mail order houses being big, and
rich, and powerful, are killing off
competition everywhere in the
country districts? The Standard
Oil Company does not affect your
community to any very great ex-
tent perhaps, but this mail order
trust comes directly into your
midst, manages to undersell your
local merchants in some things,
though the trust makes it up off
you in other things, and you and
your neighbors mail your money to
this competition killing trust and
thereby slowly but surely strangle
the life out of your home enterpris-
es. Did that ever occur to you ?"
"Well, l can't say that it ever
did, not just in that light" replied
the citizen.
"No, but think it over. The big
cities are constantly getting bigger
at the expense of the smaller cities
and the country. That is because
they are getting the trade of the
countryside individual trade, not
alone that of the country merchants.
You neglect your home merchant.
He goes out of business, moves to
the city and becomes a hired man
for one of these trusts"
"Well, what can we do about itl
If the mail order business is a trust
it seems to be a legitimate one.
There is no law against it,"
"You are quite right But there
are things you can do. For instance,
you can set to work and organize
in your town home trade league,
the members to pledge themselves,
SO far as possible, to encourage
home trade by trading at home. If
lived i'll small town, I'd do
something just like that. Why
don't you do it? "
The citizen remarked that he'd
think it over, A great many others
might think the matter over with.
out any injury to local interests.
-Ea.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16
Imitation HOrsehair.

Imitation horsehair Tor pyrozyliu.
as 1t is called) is cellulose product,
and is furnished to the manufac-
turers in the form of thick threads
of every imaginable color. by Ger
man manufacturing trust, with head
quarters at Frankfort. This thread
is finished and made into braids in
the same way the real silk or real
horsehair is prepared. Horsehair
is now only used for white or black
braids, as 1t does not take the dye
as well as the imitation article and
the cost Is greater.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16
You Have Often Seen Women

with marked blueness or paleness
OF face, vitiated appetites and
craving for unwholesome food.
These are signs of disordered liver,
and the trouble must be corrected
or worse results are sure to follow.
DR.. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy
dispels liver disease. Husbands and
fathers cannot afford to treat this
matter lightly.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16
aicCREA ~ A RAILROAD MAN,
3egan as Goldman success Due
To Hard Work.


Another proof that this is demo-
,ratic country and that the highest
5fllces are open to the humblest If
hey have the ability to rise to their
opportunities, has been furnished by
}he greatest railroad in the world,
Thich is trying the experiment
3f what kind of a president a rodman
Mil make.
1t is not so long ago, within the
memory of many officials of tho
Pennsylvania Railroad, that James
McCrea, who has succeeded to the
mantle of A. J. Cassatt, was only
plain Jim McCrea, and figured on
;he salary list of the road as a rod
man.
lie was good rodman, hard
worker He has been the same in
every other position he has held in
the forty-one years he has served
he road.
The character of result achieved
by the tall, muscular, silent, gruff-
spoken Jim" made him marked
man before he had been rodman
tor two years. Then came promo
lions, and four presidents of the
roal took a pleasure in aiding his
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16
Habits of the Bee Martin.

A remarkable bird found in Mex
leo Is the bee martin, which has a
trick of ruffiing up the feathers on
the top of its head into the exact
semblance of beautiful flower, and
when a bee comes along to sip honey
from the supposed flower 1t is snap
ned up by the bird.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16

DO THE RIGHT THING if you
have Nasal Catarrh. Get Ely's
Cream Balm at once. Don't touch
the catarrh powders and snuffs, for
they contain cocaine. Ely's Cream
Balm releases the secretions that
intlame the nasal passages and the
throat, whereas common "reme-
dies made with mercury merely
drive them out and leave you no
better than you were. In word,
Ely's Cream Balm is real cure,
not a delusion. All druggists, Soc,
or mailed by Ely Bros, SO Warren
Street, New York.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16
Cold Meals and Alcohol.

AS If to compensate for the unin-
viting and possibly. at the outset,
depressing aspect of cold meal, it
has been observed that the person to
whom, for some special and, 1t may
be, unfortunate circumstance. a
warm meal is the exception, com
monty exhibits desire to indulge in
alcoholic stimulants.-The Lancet.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16
Telephones In the Forest.

The first forest reserve telephone
put In by. the Federal Government
will be line of 100 miles, costing
$4,000. in the Big Horn forest re-
serve in Wyoming. This Is to secure
prompt aid in fighting timber fires.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16

The only way to really enjoy
life says the Manayunk Philoso-
pher, lis to let the other fellow do
the worrying"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16

Most of us live to rejoice in the
fact that we didn't marry the girl
we fell in love with at first sight.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16
A Certain Cure for ACHING Reet

shake into your shoes Aliens Foot Ease, a
PoWaer. ~ cures Tired, Aching, Callous, Sweat
Ing, swollen feet. AT all Druggists and shoe
STORES, stores, s'c sample FREE. Address, Allen S.
oinioVou' ne noy, M Il 5-2Ist.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16

The number of Chinese students
In Tokio-8, 8,000--exceeds the num-
her of japanese students there.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-25
AWFUL EFFECT OF ECZEMA.
Covered with yellow sores-Grew
Worse-Parents Discouraeed-cu-
ticura Drove Sores Away.

Our little girl, II year and .
half old, was taken with eczema or
that was what the doctor called it.
We called in the family doctor, and
he gave some tablets and said she
would be all right in a few days.
The eczema grew worse and we
called in doctor No. 2. He said she
was teething, as soon as the teeth
we're through she would be all right.
But she still grew worse. Doctor
No. 3 said it was eczema BY this
time she was nothing but q yellow,
greenish sore. Well, he said he could
help her, sc we let him try it about
q week. One morning WI discovered
Q little yellow pimple on one of
her eyes. or course we 'phoned for
doctor No. 3. He came over and
looked her over, and said that he
could not do anything more for
her, that we had better take her
to some eye specialist, since it was
An ulcer. So we went to Oswego to
doctor No. 4, and he said the eye
sight was gone, but that he could
help 1t. We thought we would try
doctor No. S. Well, that proved the
same, only he charged $40 more than
doctor No. 4. We were nearly dis.
couraged. l saw one of the Cuti.
cura advertisements in the paper and
thought we would try the Cuticura
Treatment, SO l went and purchased
. set Of Cuticura Remedies, which
cost me 81, and in three days our
daughter, who had been sick about
eight months, showed great improve
ment, and in one week all sores had
disappeared. OF course it could not
restore the eyesight, but II we had
used Cuticura in time I am confident
that It would have saved the eye. We
think there is no remedy SO good for
any skin, trouble or impurity Of the
blood % Cuticurs. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Abbott, r. F. D. No. 9. Fulton. o.
Wego O.. n. x, August Il. 1905"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-25
Careless Writers and Shippers.

Advertisers complain that during the
year they get many thousands of let
ters which are deficient in address,
either the state is left off or no town,
county or state or wrong state. and
many OF them without a name signed
to them, or if it is signed, it is done
with such haste and carelessness as to
be unintelligible. 1t should be remem-
bered that it is far easier to read a
poorly written letter than it is 10 de-
cipher the name, consequently the ut
most care should be taken to write the
name carefully without any flourishes.
ton. Another source Of
and delay in making returns, is the
carelessness or lack of knowledge on
the part of shippers sending goods to
market, and in not putting the ship
per's address as well as the firm you
ship to on the bundle or box. Besides
this shippers should send the original
Or duplicate receipt and letter of ad-
vice describing the shipment and be
sure to stamp the envelope. Some
neglect this and some put only one
cent on. Such letters go to the dead
letter office. The Northwestern Hide
and Fur Company of Minneapolis,
Mimi, recently stated that they had
several hundred statements of hides,
furs, etc., awaiting claimants for want
of proper address. If any of our read
ers are among this list of careless
shippers, write them at once. They do
not want your goods for nothing, neith-
er does any other honest firm.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-01-25
The Usual Difference.

A rich but avaricious old man de.
cided to make his will, and, calling his
lawyer, instructed him to draw it up,
and that he would leave all his money
to a friend.
"What!' said the lawyer, ito a
friend, when you have a nephew liv.
ing?"
He is a n~e'er-do-well, a fool. and an
idiot, who has never worked and whom
have not seer for six years"
But in that time" said the lawyer
che has become rich. A much richer
man than you, in fact, and he would
laugh at your fortune"
I'm that case" returned the contrary
old gentleman. that makes a differ
ence. 1 shall, therefore, make him my
sole legatee."