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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-12

FOR sALE--A two-tenement house IN one Of
the best locations OF the city. Eleven living
rooms, two pantrys and two bath rooms. All
finished the best. Modern conVeniences. a
stream OF good spring water goes with the
place A large lot eight and one half rods by
seven rods VIII he sold az a bargain IL sold
at once. Inquire Of W. A. Hall, l42 Elm street,
after O'Clock. s5tf
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-12
WANTED.

WANTED-A woman wants place 10 do house.
work IN small family 20 Merchant street, up
per bell. lsBJ
WANTEn--Shed room for s or 10 cutters, un-
der power Derrick also sufficient air pressure
for snrfacaf want polishing wheel or power 70
operate one Name lowest price for good,
steady tenant. Granite TIMES once. i20u
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-12

FOR SALR-A cottage house, pleasantly To-
Gated on Liberty street at the bead Of Orange
street Contains eight rooms, bathroom, con
yenient pantry and woodshed. For further
particulars inquire at house. Mrs, L. g. Batch
elder. &tf
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-12

POSITION WANTED-wofnah would like
place with q small boy IN city as housekeeper
Tor small family, A steady place, Address
sc, Times Office or So South Main street 1Vn
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-12

wANTED-A position by young man Tor
work IN general such as clerk or delivery man
on a team Address Box 70, RED. 2, Barre,
VI 123tf
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-12

FOR sAIE--Best residence lots IN the city at
head OF French street. View unohstructed
clear TO Washington street Convenient 10
both lines OF trolley. Good air dry soil Nc
filing required. See plan. AveTill Granite
Co.. AQerill Building, City loft
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-12

WANTED--A iumper to follow travelling
derrick. None but first class man need apply.
stephen s. Gerard. l22tt
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-12

FOR sALE-A cottage house with seven
rooms and bath with modern improvements.
GOOD location and splendid view. A building
lot to he sold with the house II desired Also
good Refrigerator. Apply 70 80 Academy
street. SUI
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-12

WANTED--A Young man 20 grind tools, by
the Excelsior Granite Co., At once. Near G.
Bianchi s. sons stone she'd 4sf
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-12

wAETED-Giri for general housework Ap.
ply &C "a Laurel street i22t6s
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-12

WANTED Five or six kits OF ston cutters
tools, chains. blocks Jacks, bars. etc. What
have you got1 Name price. X. .. Box, 81,
barre W aa
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-12

FURNISHED FRONT ROOM no RENT At 5
Spaulding street. isitf
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-12
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE AT HALF PRICE-Flne cabinet
bed good as new; nice large OIL heater; parlor
wood stove; Busy-bee washing machine, bench
wringeT, wash boiler and clothes bars two
dozen quart jars and many small articles l62
Washington street Telephone 4i0-4. i2jt6s
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-12

wANTED-One letter cutter Apply to
John McMinn & Son. Ii2tf
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-12

TO RENT Cottage at IL Central street
Vacant August II. Apply 0. ]. HoWes, 370
North Main street. i23t6s
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-12
TO RENT.

TO RTNT--Furnished front room, heat hot
water and electric hight, at "a Wellington
street. Alex Rctaslsii. 1851
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-12

wANTRD--At once, a man TO drive team
Apply TO 4. S, Hayden. l2Ot6s
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19
THEN AND NOW.
Children Different Than They Used to
Be When She Was Young.

IF it were not for my sister-in-law, "
said a young mother. L could be per-
fectly happy in the bringing up of my
little girl. Sister-in-law understands
all about child nature, and it pains
her to see me treating my daughter as
my mother treated me. She has been
worried to death because I've let the
child believe in Santa Claus. She
says it's wicked to teach lies, and
that child's whole moral being is
undermined when it discovers that its
parents have deceived it. 1t didn't af-
feet me that way, but children were
different in my day. She worked me
up Sc about it that last week under
took to explain to Dorothy about Santa
Claus.
Santa Claus said l, is merely the
personification of the Christmas spirit
of generosity and good will.
Spirit?' asked Dorothy, looking
dazed.
Yes said l, the Christmas spirit.
Il was called away just then, and
Dorothy was taken off to bed. When
/ went in to kiss her goodnight there
lay the child crying softly to herself
At first she wouldn't tell me what the
trouble was. After long urging, she
sobbed out:
I'm 'fraid, I'm 'fraid. You said
Santa Claus was a ghost, and I'm
'fraid he'll come
q sat right down and told her
Santa Claus was fat little man with
a red face and white whiskers,
wish sister-in-law would let me alone.
l believed in Santa Claus till l was
ten years old. and I've managed to
keep out of jail. I'll let Dorothy find
out for herself"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

A German Psychologist has ad-
vanced the proposition that the Phar-
aoh who would not let Israel go had
seven bad teeth, and that it was their
combined influence that gave him so
bad a disposition. This might be
plausible, but it hardly accords with
the theory of the divine mission of
Moses. If it had been merely a case
of toothache it would have been much
simpler to have had Moses cure it and
gain the unlimited favor of Pharaoh
than to go through with that long list
of plaques and worry lot of innocent
Egyptians who did not have the
toothache. 1t looks like another of
those insidous attacks on the inspira-
ton of the Bible.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19
NEWS
College Maa.,ers.

The dean of the women's depart
ment in western university recently
told her undergraduates that they are
habitually guilty of various offenses
against the laws which govern the
well-bred. 1t is wholesome that this
criticism should come from within
college. for that brings hope of ra-
tional improvement. 1t has always
been true that a community composed
chiefly of persons of one sex has a
tendency to drop into carelessness of
behavior. Colleges have been no ex-
ception to the rule. A certain mother
had entered her daughter at a we'll
known college, and went to the town
to make the last arrangements for her
room and studies. She CHANGED to
arrive on the campus at the time of
the hourly change of classes. She
stood on the green, watching the hun
dreds of young women as they trooped
out of recitation rooms and dormitor-
les. What she saw in five minutes
caused her to determine to send her
daughter to Europe with a tutor,
rather than to college. What was
wrong with the girls?" asked a friend,
who could not understand what
seemed to her a capricious change of
plan. Nothing was wrong" replied
the mother IF there had been any
question of morals in the case,
should not have hesitated to trust
Mary to stand her ground. But bad
manners are more subtly contagious
than bad morals. l could not bear to
think of my daughter among the
screaming, 'stramming, slouching
girls, careless of dress and hair and
voice, who swarmed over that campus.
Doubtless there were well-bred girls
there, but they were lost in the
crowd. Education of the mind is good,
but unless it goes hand in hand with
breeding in gentle manners, it makes
scholars who are neither good citizens
nor sweet wonderland | want none of
such in my family" So, remarks the
Youths Companion, deans and presi
dents and professors of women's col
leges may we'll take to heart the fact
that the world now, as in the past, is
more exacting as to a girls manners
than as to her requirements. Nothing
would prove greater obstacle to the
future spread of the higher education
of women than evidence that it is in
fullest sense of that noble word, gen
tlewomen.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

1t looks strange for New York to be
shipping buffaloes to Oklahoma to
stock reserve, but a careful estimate
of existing pure-blooded buffaloes in
1908 explains the necessity for it. At
the time the total of wild buffaloes in
the United States was "a, and in
Canada 600. The captive buffaloes
were, in the United States, 969; in
Canada, Al; in Europe, 100. And yet
40 years ago hundreds of thousands of
them roamed the west, and these were
but a remnant of the vast herds that
existed a century earlier. 1t is evil
dent that stringent precautions will be
needed to preserve enough of them
for the wild west shows of the next
generation.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19
By Sir HaHcj

ZAP on more vi od,-the wind
sEz.7zr nI IS e s5iI i, mn,.,I. a. !, will.
,olg1S1'Iz9 Wen keep Our Christmas
EsyglAs' merry still,
St-&6 Each age hast deemed the
~ newborn yearl
80 * The fittest timb for festal
cheer:
Even heather yet. the savage Dane
At Iol more deep the NEEDY did drain;
High on the beach his gallfys drew,
And Toasted all his pirate ctew;
Then in his low and pine-huilt hail.
Where shields and axes deck ed the wall.
They gorged upon the hal-drsssed steer;
Caroused in seas of sable beer;
While round. in brutal jest, were thrown
( the half-knawed rib and m; rrow-bone;
or listened all. in grim delight
/ While sCalds yelled out the Joys of fight
/ Then forth in frenzy would they HE.
! While wildly loose their red locks fly
/ And, dancing round the blazing pile,
/ They make such barbaroIs mirth the
while.
| As best might to the mini recall
/ The boisterous joys of Odin's hall.
/ And well our Christian sires of old
Loved when the year its course had
/ rolled
/ And brought blithe Christm IS back again
With all his hospitable train.
Domestic and religious ritz
/ Gave honor to the holy niaht:
/ on Christmas eve the bells were rung;
/ on Christmas eve the mass was sung;
/ That only night, in all the year,
| Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear
| The damsel donned her ldrtle sheen;
| The hall was dressed with holly Sreen;
/ Forth to the wood did merry-men go.
1 To gather in the miStletoe
| Then opened wide the baron's hall
! To vassal. tenant, serf, and all;
/ Power laid his rod of rule aside,
| nd ceremony DOTTED her pride.
| The heir. with roses i'll his shoes,
( That night might villege partner choose.
/ The lord underogating share
1 The vulgar game of fpost and pair"
! All hailed. with uncontrolled delight,
And general voice. the happy night
I That to the cottage. as the crown,
brought tidinSs of salvation down.
/ The fire, the well-dried logs supplied,
Went roaring up the chimney wide;
The huge hall-table's oaken face.
Scrubbed till it shone. the day to grace.
/ Bore then upon its massive board
No mark to part the squire and lord.
I Then was brought in the lusty Drawn.
/ BY old blue-ooated serving man;
! Then the grim boar'shead frowned on
high
/ Crested with bays and rosemary.
/ Well can the green-garbed ranger tell
/ How when, and where the monster fell;
| What dogs before his death he tore.
I And all the batting of the boar.
! The wassail round, in good brown bowls.
| Garnished with ribbons, blithely trowls.
There the huge sirloin reeked; hard by
! Plum-porridge stood. and Christmas pie:
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

MFRS. LIZZIE LOHR, 1155 w. 18th
1N1 St., Chicago, Ill, writes:
II take pleasure in writing you
these few lines, thinking there may be
other women suffering the same as die.
81 had my complaints for over year,
night Sweafs all winter and no appetite.
1 was rundown so far that l had to
sit down to do my cooking, l was SO
weak
Il tried many different medicines and
doctors also. Nothing seemed to do me
any good. The doctors wanted to oper-
ate on me.
''At last 1 wrote to DR.. Hartman.
told him just exactly how yvas, and he
told me what allied me and how should
take Perupa.
81 did as he told me for four months,
and now am all cured.
mo one can tell how thankful / am
to him, as ] had given up all hopes of
ever getting well again.
Il am a widow and the mother of six
small children who depend on my sup
port. l work all day and seldom get
tired.
81 took five bottles of Peruna in all.
"Any woman wishing to know more
about my case may write to me and I
will gladly tell all about it.
~ thank Dr. Hartman for what he
| has done for me-"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19
BEGAN YOUNG.
Had "coHee Nerves. from Youth.

when very young 1 began using
coffee and continued up to the past
six MONTHS" writes a Texas girl.
81 had been exceedingly nervous,
thin and very sallow. After quitting
coffee and drinking Postum Food Cof-
fee about month my nervousness
disappeared and has never returned
This is the more remarkable as am
a Primary teacher and have kept
right on with my work.
my complexion now is clear and
rosy, my skin soft and smooth. AS a
good complexion was something 1 had
greatly desired, feel amply repaid
even tho this were the only benefit
derived from drinking Postum
Before beginning its use I had
suffered greatly from indigestion and
headache; these troubles are now un-
known.
BEST Of all, changed from coffee
to Postum Without the slightest incon-
venience, did not even have a head
ache. Have known coffee drinkers
who were visiting me. to use Postum
week without being aware that they
were not drinking coffee.
Il have known several to begin the
use of Postum and drop it because
they did not boil it properly. After
explaining how it should be prepared
they have tried it again and pro-
nounced it delicious
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read the booklet "The
Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs. s-here's
q Reason"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

Nor failed old Scotland to produce
At such hiyh-tile. her savory goose.
Then came the merry maskers in,
And carols rocred with blithsome din:
If unmelOdious vas the song,
It was a hearty. note. and strong.
Who lists may in their mumming see
Traces of ancient mystery;
White skirts supplied the masquerade,
And smutted cheeks the visors made;
Bat. o. what masliers richly Digit
Can boast of bosoms half so light,
England was merry England. when
Old Christmas brought his sports again.
Twas Christmas preached the miGhties
ale:
Twas Christmas told the merriest tale
a Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor mans heart through half tht
wear.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19
Holtdau Cheer.

( See that your stockings are
, right side up; never turn the
5 hose on Santa Claus.
Z 4 K
; What would you like for
2 Christmas?" "A match and an
5 ash tray" But you don't
Z smoke" No, but think of the
; bills that will be coming in
Now, children" said the
! teacher of the juvenile Sunday
school class. can any one tell
:, me what man attained the great
) est age in the world?" Santa
2 Claus" promptly answered a
) small boy who had ideas of his
: own.
Z r &
: Tess-May is having her own
troubles worrying about Cholly
! Roxley Jess-Surely, she doesn't
! want to marry that simpleton.
: Tess-Of course not, but she's
z udNlHS lIOuDiC htSpluS MN On
5 the hooks till after Christmas.
! < & Z
Molly-Do you expect to have
( much fun at the Christmas mas
querade? Dolly-How can 1 help
) having it? My hat will be
trimmed with mistletoe.
Z Il ( L
Z While the kiss under the mis-
3 tletoe doesn't count, yet every
;, girl counts how many she gets.
( z 4 4
: Stella-Don't' you believe it is
; more blessed to give than to re-
( ceive? Bella-Yes, indeed. there
: is no tantalizing ignorance of
I how much the gift cost.
5 z K z
), Il won't be good" said Willy.
: Then Santa Claus won't bring
2 you any presents" Wasn't l
3 bad last year, and didn't get
Z more'n ever?"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19
One Waiter with Sense.

Man in restaurant, happening in
just as a new shift of walters came on.
And having eaten a very modest
luncheon this man laid down a mod
est tip, to be exact, five cents.
And did the waiter shy off or sniff
at this nickel? He did neither, but on
the contrary he seemed to regard it
as an augury of good fortune that his
first customer should have given him
something, and
Thank you," he said, politely, to
the customer, and as he turned away
he added to himself: That's a start
EN-. Y. Sun.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

Che sky is black, the earth is white.
Ring loy-bells in the frosty air!
Jesus is born: in deep delight :
HScVs Fin bends tie Uirsia fair.
no damash curtain richly CLEANS
CO guard the Infant from tbe cold;
Only among the blaekened beams
Che ecbwebs bang from rafters old.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19
HIS TURN TO cRITIcIsE.
Youngster Felt Called on to Manifest
Disapproval of Prayer.

Little John, who, at the mature age
of four, has learned the Lords Prayer,
is often criticised by his sister, two
years older, for slight mistakes which
he cannot always avoid in offering the
petition. A few Sundays ago he was
taken to church for the first time.
When the moment for the prayer ar
rived and the congregation bowed
their heads Johns mother took the
precaution to whisper to him that he
must be very quiet. Listen" she
said, land you will hear the minister
pray" This interested John at once,
and his little face took on look Of
serious attention, but his mother.
watching him covertly, saw his ex-
preston change presently to one of
surprise and disapproval. A few min
utes more, and he could stand it no
longer What could this man be say
ing? Not a word of the prayer did
he recognize as the only formula he
had ever heard called by that name.
"Why, mother" he exclaimed, in
tone audible over nearly half the
church, do you hear? He isn't say
ing it right at ALT"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19
Experiment on the Ear.

An investigation has recently beer
made to determine the absolute sen
sitiveness of the ear. By experiment.
with a telephone and alternating cur
rents of frequencies $50 and 500 a sec
ond Discriminate pressure variations
were produced at the ear The ex
periments lead to the conclusion tina
the normal ear can respond to pres
sure variation of about four-t6 t-miI
lions of millimeter of mercury.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

The alarm is given that the former
home of Francis Scott Key, author of
the ''Star-Spangled Banner" is in
danger The owners are about to tear
down the house and put up business
building unless funds are raised to
purchase the property, and the Fran
els Scott Key association is calling
for subscriptions to prevent the calam-
itv
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

Women farmers are said to be in
creasing rapidly in the New England
states. If the profits from farming
keep on growing at the present rate
says the Chicago Record-Herald, it
will not be long before titled foreign
ers will be coming over in droves' to
try their luck in New England.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

The early discoveries of this coun-
try multiply rapidly and leave poor
Columbus in the shade, though moth
ing is said of the first Indian who
came over to America by way of
Behring straits. Why not erect a
statue to him, as the great Unknown,
and give the sculptor chance to use
his Imagination?
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19
Money Scarce

in winter? Better turn your
extra time into cash. l pay
$500 fer day, in cash, for good
work, and supply all the CAPT
tai besides. Write for details
to-day. This offer will not APP
pear again.
ATKINSON, 1924 Race St, Philadelphia.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19
Strain the Milk.

Strain the milk through a flannel
cloth or through two or three thick
nesses of cheese cloth. AS soon as
strained cool at once to temperature
of so 70 So degrees. This may be done
by aerating if the air of the room is
perfectly pure and sweet The cooler
the milk is the longer 1t will keep
from souring.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19
A Real Schemer.

For six months she had been plead
ing with him to buy an automobile.
They are too expensive" he pro-
tested for the hundredth time. IF
bought an automobile l would have to
cut down our expenses"
What expenses?" she asked.
''Why, table expenses. For instance,
if had an automobile l couldn't afford
to have chicken every Sunday"
She laughed.
why, you goose! If you had an
automobile you could run down
enough fowls to have chicken every
day, to say nothing of big turkeys and
nice roasting pigs. Why is it men
haven't any brains?"
And the next day he hustled around
to the nearest dealer and ordered a
racing machine.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

DIR. Osler says he is the best doctor
who knows the "worthlessness of
most medicines" This idea is not new
1t was advanced by the late Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes long ago, and the
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table al
ways knew what he was talking about
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

Reused to envy by the fame of In
diana's pearl producing mussels, a
Pennsylvania woman processes to
have found diamond in an oyster
And she claims that it is cut ana
ready for setting
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

Willie did not want Consuelos pic
ture took and he smashed the in
trusive camera and paid for it like a
little man. Next time he will proba-
bly, say, do your prettiest!"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19
Feed and Exercise of Bull.

1t has been said that the dairy bull
should be fed like the work horse and
given nearly as much exercise. Usu
ally a large lot over which he can
rove at will is ample to furnish exe--
else. Do not attempt to keep hin
housed in close stall and expect him
to beget a race of healthy and repre-
sentative offspring. 1t is nearing the
usual breeding time and the bull
should have an abundance of exercise
for the next month or two at least
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

A financial crisis sometimes COM
pels magnates to be quite lively about
taking money out of one pocket and
putting it into another.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

Women rarely underestimate their
own worth. Proper dignity and self
respect command the admiration so
much desired by all women.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

Put the wood ashes in the orchard
Any place in the orchard is good
place, but if put around the trees
it will help to keep the borers out.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19
oon,t Hurt Your Farm.

Your farm is sensitive thing. If
you neglect it, it is hurt. Don't ne
glect anything is mighty good rule
even to a little recreation now and
then. Keep abreast of the times.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

If lawyers and doctors ever did get
to Heaven, they would be most terri
bly, bored Observation-Disclosures Tsle-
graph
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

An Australian physician announces
that sour milk is the elixir of life, but
he must be some fool bachelor
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

A man has to be mighty cookbook
ing to be as handsome as he thinks
he II.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

Bs fremblss in the manser straw,
Dear little Jesus, meek and mild!
CO warm Bin In the nigbt-air raw
Che cx and ass breathe on the Child.
Che sncw-eIad tbafeb is batbsd in light /;
Che bsavens are wide the news to tell,
Hind angel ehcirs all robsd in white
CO shepherds sing, "rcsIl ncell"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

Few men live NJ to their obituaries.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-19

Lack of haste sometimes meaneth
waste of a job.-Thomas Asparagus.