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The San Francisco call., 1907-06-23

Mccormick reapers; and the pearl
necklace found on the train; and a
pocket size gold brick; and "a
'That1l be enough says Andy.
Any one of the lot ought to land on
Ezra. And, say, Jeff, make that succo-
tash fancier give you nice, clean, new
bills. It's disgrace to our department
of agricultural, civil service and pure
food law the kind of stuff some of
these farmers hand out to us. I've
had to take rolls from EN- that looked
like bundles of microbe cultures cap
tured ont of Red Cross ambulance.
so, | goes to livery stable and
hires a buggy on my looks. | drove
out to the Plunkett farm and hitched.
There was a man sitting on the front
steps of the house He had on a
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High Grading at Goldfield

me he ain't got to polish no more drill
heads.
How much do I think they got away
with? Well. sir. I'm told by them as
knows that right here in Goldffeld over
two million dollars was taken out by
high graders, an one million O. that
from the Mohawk alone You see. the
leasers got eight or nine million out o.
the Mohawk an they say she's rich
mine yet.
But I knew she couldn't last. Men
amt a goin' to stand for that sort O
robbery always. an when the detec-
tives come in here an started nosin'
around, the high graders an the as
sayers begun to hunt their holes. They
sure changed things mighty quick
when they really got down to dealin'
the cards. One bunch o. Austrians was
caught with a ton o. the goods to the
tune Of $4,000. Had the stuff in their
trunks an under their cabin floors
waitin' for a chance to get it out. Got
to quarrelin' mongst themselves an
peached on each other Then the de-
tectives spotted bunch o. Mohawk ore
goin' out by express-caught it at
Reno. Several tons o. high grade in
sacks. Shipped out by prosperous as
say firm that couldn't account for It.
Over 100000 worth, an they're wrang-
lin in the courts about it now. Caught
some in Tonopah an way over in
Pueblo. Colorado. They tell me that
they've recovered about 100000 of the
stuff altogether an they Amt done yet.
Nope, don't think they'll ever get me !;
mines ali gone That? oh. YES, guess
| can stand another one; well--here's
how"
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closer Get his nose nearer the
transmitter There. Now wait.
No; don't want that horse.
What? No;l not at any price. He in
terferes; and he's windbroken Good
by
Now. Bunk, says the farmer, do
you begin to realize that agriculture
has had hair cut' You belong in a
bygone era. Why. Tom Lawson him
self knows better than to try to catch
an up to date agriculturist mapping
It's Saturday, the 18th. on the farm,
you bet. Now. look here, and see how
we keep up with the days doings.'
He shows me a machine on the
table with two things for your ears
like the penny in the slot affairs. l
puts it on and listens. A female voice
starts up reading headlines of MUIR
ders. accidents and other political
casualties.
What you hear says the farmer,
is a synopsis of today's news in the
New York. Chicago, ST. Louis and
San Francisco papers. 1t is wired in
TO our rural news bureau and served
hot to subscribers On this table you
see the principal dailies and weeklies
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Alaska diamond deal we failed to pull
off the day before over the Ken
lucky line.
When I woke UP l heard roosters
growing, and smelt something like
the fumes of nitro-muriatic acid, and
heard something heavy fall on the
floor below us, and man swearing.
"fChcer up, Andy says / Were
in a rural community. Somebody has
just tested gold brick downstairs.
Well go out and get what's coming
to US from a farmer; and then yoicks
and away
Farmers was always a kind of a
reserve fund to me- Whenever I was
in hard luck I'd go to the crossroads,
hook a finger in a farmers suspender,
recite the prospectus OF my swindle
in a mechanical kind OF a way, look
over what he had, give him back his
keys, milestone and papers that was
of no value except to owner, and
stroll away without asking any ques-
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That, says he, is the domicile
and the arboreal. terrestrial and hor-
ticultural accessories of Farmer Ezra
Plunkett, one Of our county's most
progressive citizens
After Breakfast me and Andy, with
8 cents capital left, casts the horo-
scope of the rural potentate.
LET me go alone, says I. Two
of US against one, farmer would look
as one-sided as Roosevelt using both
hands to kill a grizzly
"'AlI right, says Andy. i like to
be a true sport even when I'm only
collecting rebates from the rutabaga
raisers. What bait are you going to
use for this Era thing?' Andy asks
me
Oh says I, the first thing that
come to hand in the suit case.
reckon I'll take along some of the
new income tax receipts and the
recipe for making clover honey out
of clabber and apple peelings; and the
order blanks for the McGuffey's read
ers, which afterwards turn out to be
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THE GoGB NSIT4J5 WORTH MORE THAN THAT

"'I don't understand it, says r.,
humming sad and foolish little
song to cover my humiliation.
ANDY walks up and down the room
for a long time, biting the left end of
his mustache as he does when in the
act of thinking.
:" jeff says he, finally, I believe
your story of this expurgated rustic;
but am not convinced. 1t looks in
credulous to me that he could have
inoculated himself against all the pre-
ordained systems OF bucolic bunko.
Now. you never regarded me as a
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for his share was told TO go on top
mighty quick.
wasn't much trouble 10 get our
money for the stuff with all the assay
shops there was then. Soon's people
got wise to the fact that there was all
kinds o high grade could be bought
for bout half what it was worth, there
was bout forty assay shops started
up in all sorts o shacks an dobes
when the town wouldn't naturally
support more'n two or three. Long at
night wed take our stuff down TO some
feller we knew, or we'd hide it in the
dump an tell him where it was SOS he
assay. mostly in his favor, pay US
bout half the real value an take our
ore. grind it up an wait for a chance
TO ship it out to the smelters. Manys 5
the man that made fortune right here
in Goidfieid out o the assayin' bust
ness-an' lost it. too" he added, seem
ingly as an after thought.
well, John was pretty foxy old
man, as / remarked in the beginnin'
He had quit gamblin' an drinkin' an
now seemed clinched to the one no
tion to get rich an he done it. He
never had no dealin's with the assayers
cause he could afford to wait for his
money-he just hid his ore an shipped
it out himself, an he was so cunnin' he
never got caught. There was lots
more tried the same stunt, but they
stubbed their toe somehow an some o.
them are doin' time in Carson right
now. Yes, John made comfortable
little fortune for man of his age
he's got $4,000 in cash. an that's
more'n he'll spend before he dies. Told
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AGRICULTURE HAs.HADA.A .AAIR-cUT-

Henry Clays and sets out bottle of
green chartreuse, and goes over and
looks at the ticker tape.
Consolidated gas up two points,
says he oh, very WE'LL
Ever monkey with copper? 1
asks.
Stand backp says he, raising his
hand, or III call the dog. told you
not to waste wour time
After a while he says: Bunk, if
you don't mind my telling you, your
company begins to cloy slightly. I've
got to write an article on the Chimera
of Communism for a magazine and
attend meeting of the race track
association this afternoon. OF course
you understand by now that you can't
get my proxy for your remedy, what
ever it may be-
well, sir, all | could think of to
do was to go out and get III the
buggy. The horse turned round and
took me back to the hotel. l hitched
him and went To see Andy. In his
room l told him about this farmer,
word for word; and l sit picking at
the table cover like one bereft of
cot1sciertioi1SueSs
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Continued from Front Page)
many years he sez, an then he sizes
me up from head to foot, slow an care
fuL but by -. Bill he sez. this
here high gradln's got to stop or you
gets your time he sez. an started 20
Talk away grabbed him by the arm.
John I sez, you're a big fool Your
goin' TO try to stop this high gradin',
are you, because you want TO be a
honest man. You've been honest man
a long time, John. an you're gettin' old.
an you ain't got no money yet I sez.
Now. whatever is the use. / sez: YOU
can't stop this high gradn. an if you
wasn't such a wooden headed idiot
you'd be in here gettin' your share
while the game is on. Don't be fool
all your life. John. I sez. Get in an
grab a bunch an go away an settle
down an live like a white man John
looked kind o thoughtful. ar ] could
see he'd been doin' a lot Of thinkin'
along them same lines. Bill he sez,
slow an hesitatin'. ii has been hard
hghtin' this thing when I know every
son Of a goat in the camp is gettin'
away with good ore every day, IAN il
don't seems so I ever made anything
by bein' honest. ] could protect them
fellers an make 'eIn diyvy with kme.'
An John walked away lookin' as
though he'd decided TO go an bury his
mother in law
Yes, sir, that's where he fell 1-pm
grace. once he got a taste of itY he
got hungrier nor bear, an any fnan
that didn't loosen up good an pltnty
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Jeff PETERS must be reminded.
Whenever he is called upon,
~ pointedly, for story he viii
maintain that his life has been as
devoid OF incident as the longest OF
TroIlope's novels. But, lured, he will
divulge. Therefore 7 cast many and
divers flies upon the current Of his
thoughts before I feel a nibble.
q notice" said /, that the west
crn farmers, in spite OF their pros
perity, are running after their old
populistic idols again"
Its the running season" said Jeff,
"for farmers, shad, maple trees and
the Concmaugh river. know some
thing about farmers. I thought
struck one once that had got out OF
the rut; but Andy Tucker proved to
me was mistaken. Once a farmer,
always a sucker, said Andy He's
the mans that showed into the front
row among bullets, ballots and the
ballet He's the funny-bone and
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man of special religious proclivities,
did you, Jeff says Andy.
We'll" says l, No. But says I,
not to wound his feelings, L have
also observed many church members
whose said prpclivities were not so
outwardly developed that they would
show on white handkerchief If you
rubbed 'em with it,
"I have always been deep stu
dent of nature from creation down.
says Andy, and believe in an ulti-
matum design of ProvideAce. Farm
ers was made for purpose; and that
was to furnish livelihood to men
like me and you. Else why was he
given brains? 1t is my belief that
the mama that the Israeiites lived
on for forty years in the wilderness
was only a hgurative word for farm
ers; and they keep up the practice to
this day. And now. says Andy, I
am going to test my theory, "Once
a farmer, always a come on" in spite
of the veneering and the orihces that
a spurious civilization brought to
him
"'You'1l fail, same as did, says I.
This ones shook off the shackles of
the sheep fold He's intrenched be-
hind the advantages of electricity,
education, literature and intelligence
"Tn try says Andy There are
certain laws of nature that free rural
delivery can't overcome.
candy fumbles around awhile in the
closet and comes out dressed in a
suit with brown and yellow checks as
big as your hand His vest is red
with blue dots, and he wears a high
silk hat. 4 noticed he soaked his
sandy mustache in kind of blue ink
"'Great Barnumsp says I. You're
a ringer for circus thimberlig man..
Right says Andy. Is the buggy
outside? Wait here till 1 come back.
won't be long.
"fwo hours afterward Andy steps
in the room and lays a wad of money
on the table.
= Eight hundred and sixty dollars,
says he. Let me tell you He was
in. He looked me over and began
to guy me. l didn't say word, but
got out the walnut shells and began
to roll the little bali on the table. [
whistled tune or two, and then
started up the old formula.
"'Step up lively. gentlemen says I,
and watch the little bail. 1t costs
you nothing to look. There you see
it. and there you don't. Guess where
the little joker is. The quickness OF
the hand deceives the eye
"I steals look at the farmer man.
I see the sweat coming out on his
forehead. He goes over and closes
the front door and watches me some
more. Directly he says: I'll bet you
twenty can pick the shell the balls
under now"
Alter that goes on Andy, there
was nothing new to relate. He only
had $500 in cash in the house. When
| left he followed me to the gate
There was tears in his eyes when
he shook hands.
:, Bunk says he. thank you for
: the only real pleasure I've had in
years. 1t brings up happy old days
4 when | was only a farmer and nos
T an agriculturist- God bless you "
: Here Jeff Peters ceased. and in
ferred that his story was done.
E Then you think"-I began
/; Yes, said Jeff. Something like
: that You let the farmers go ahead
E and amuse themselves with politics
: Earnings a lonesome life; and
J. they've been against the. shell
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of the country. Also special service
of advance sfcets of the monthly
magazines
Il picks up one sheet and sees that
it's headed: Special Advance Proofs.
In July. 1909, the Century will say
and so forth.
"The farmer rings up somebody
his manager. / reckon-and tells him
to let that herd of Is jerseys go at
5000 head; and TO sow the 900 acre
field in wheat, and TO have 200 extra
cans ready at the station for the milk
trolley car. Then he passes the
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white flannel suit, a diamond ring,
golf cap and a pink ascot tie. Sum
mer boarder,' says / to myself.
I'D like to see Farmer Ezra
Plunkett.' says to him.
"'You see him. says he. What
seems to be on your mind"
L never answered word. I stood
still, repeating to myself the rollick-
ing lines of that merry jingle. The
Man with the Hoe When l looked
at this farmer, the little devices | had
in my pocket for bunkoing the
pushed back brows seemed as hope
less as trying to shake dov.l the beef
trust with mittimus and a parIor
rife
Well says he, looking at me
close. speak up. l sec the left pocket
of your coat sags a good deal Out
with the gold brick first I'm rather
more interested in the bricks than 1
am in the trick 90 day notes, and the
lost silver mine story
Il had kind of cerebral sensation
of foolishness in my ideas of ratio
cination; but / pulled out the little
brick and unwrapped my handkerchief
off it.
Conc dollar and eighty cents says
the farmer, netting it in his hand. Is
it a trade:'
The lead in it is worth more than
that, says |, dignihed | put it back
in my pocket.
All right says he But | sort ot
wanted it for the collection I'm start.
ing. l got a $1,000 one last week fol-
$40
'Just then a telephone bell rings
in the house.
"sCome in, Bunk says the farmer
and look at my place It's kind O
lonesome here sometimes. | thinl
that's New York calling
Eve went inside The room LOOKED
like Broadway stock brokers'
light oak desks, two phones, Spanisl
/. leather upholstered chairs ane
couches, oil paintings in gilt frames
foot deep and a ticker hitting of
the news in one corner.
Hello, hellof says this funn,
farmer. Is that the Regent theater
Yes; this is Plunkett, of Woodbin,
Center Reserve four orchestra seat
for Friday evening--lny usual ones
Yes; Friday-good by
: II run over to New York ever,
: two weeks to see show, says tn
t farmer, hanging up the receiver. 9
catch the 18 hour fier at Indianap
oils, spend 10 hours in the hcydey o
night on the Yappian way. and ge
home in time to see the chickens g,
to roost 48 hours later. Oh. tn
pristine Hubbard squasherino of TIL
J cave dwelling period is getting geare,
up some for the annual meeting o
, the don't blow out the gas associa
{ ton. don't you think. Mr., Bunk
i seem to perceive, says I, {
5 kind of hiatus in the agrarian tradi
tions in which, heretofore, have re
posed confidence
Sure, Bunk says he. The yellow
primrose on the rivers brim is gettin;
to look to us Rcubs like holiday edi
: ton de luxe of the language of flow
t ers with deckle edges and fronts
, piece
: "Just then the telephone calls hin
. again.
Hello, hellop says he. oh, that
Perkins, at Milldale. I told you $50,
/. was too much for that horse. Hav,
, you got him there? Good Let M
see him. Keep the receiver down
Now make him trot in circle
$ Faster. Yes, can hear him. Keel
$ on-faster yet. That'll do
Nrx.y Iead b,,,, IN ~ Al. .bor.
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gristlc Of the country said Andy,
and I don't know how we would do
within him.
"One morning me and Andy wakes
up with 68 cents between us in a
yellow pine hotel on the edge of the
predigested hoe-cake belt Of southern
Indiana. How we got off the train
there the night before I can't tell you;
for she went through the village so
fast that what looked like a saloon to
us through the car window turned out
70 be drug store and a water tank
two blocks apart Why we got off
at the first station we could, belongs
TO little oroide gold watch and
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GOD BLESS YOU

tons Farmers are not fair game TO
men as high up i'll our business as me
and Andy was; but there was times
when we found en- useful, just as
Wall street does the secretary OF the
treasury now and then.
when We went downstairs we saw
we was in the midst OF the finest
farming section we ever see. About
two miles away on hill was big
white house in grove surrounded
by widespread agricultural agglom-
Grafton OF fields and barns and pas
lures and outhouses.
Whose house is that.' we asked
the landlord
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-04-13
TALK OF THE TOWN.
A new department at Fits
Read the RrHan adv on page q.
Auction sale at the Pavilion tonight

Read the Bryan adv on page 4.
Auction sale at the Pavilion tonight.
spotless steam sponging done al Alb
bolts.
Postcards Of the recent snowstorm AZ
the Barre book store
]. Wheatley Of Brool<field was in the
Icity on business today
White India lawn for &c, Sc, Toe, 12c,
and 15c, at Veale Il knights.
Miss Loretta Miles went to Burling-
ton yesterday to visit relatives.
Deputy sheriff II. ]. Slayton went to
Burlington this morning on business.
Eugene Alexander OF Springfield,
Mass, is visiting friends in the city
Headquarters for all kinds Of optical
goods, y, 0. Holmes, jeweler and opti-
eian.
M w. Nelson went To st. Johnsbury
today for q few days visit with rela-
Etiyes.
DIR. w. D. Hutchinson Of Washington
called on friends in the city last even
ing
It will pay you TO inspect the line Of
fancy waistcoats at the Frank McWhor-
ter Go. store.
Former city Judge Alland @, Fay has
been engaged To give the address at
Newport on Memorial day.
The Queen Of Forest circle will hold
"a public dance in the Woodmen's hall
April 20. Watch for the notice.
John Angus went to Burlington this
morning to have an operation performed
on his throat at a hospital there.
| q. RI. Watt being absent from the
city, there win be no meeting in the
chapel at South Barre Sunday evening.
Mrs. L. G. Gould ard son, Stedman
Conner, of Worcester, Mass. are visit.
ing Mrs, Gculd's parents, Rev. and Mrs
lc. &, Conner
A number Of the ladies Of the Baptist
church have presented Mrs. Kinzie, wife
tof the pastor, dress suit case, to use
on her trip to Europe.
ANY lady wanting the finest fitting
and best wearing oxford obtainable
should step into the Peoples shoe store
and thy on one of those beautiful Queen
FRuHlltg klhu.
Edward Walsh. Fred Burnharn, jos
Fraser. Victor Brown and Henry Mute
went to Burlington this morning, where
they viii bowl candle pin team Of
that city this afternoon, and win bow
the Ethan Allen club team at big pin:
this evening.
The vesper services which were helG
last year after Easter in the Uniyersalisi
church, and which were very enjoyable
win be held again this year, the first
OF the series coming tomorrow evening
Music viii be special feature of them
land readings by good elocutionists q
the city.
The case of Mrs. Ethel Hunt, who wa,
arrested yesterday by the police foi
vagrancy, was brought up in the city
lcourt this morning and continued onj
week, and then viii probably be dropped
as her brother appeared IN court anC
agreed to take her to her home in Hard
wick, The woman is a widow with tws
children. Her husband shot himself
about four years ago, while they wer,
living in Orange.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-04-13

NotiziaFrank Broggini, del Is Foss
street. "a noto che a datare dal giorno
0 Aprile 1907 MALE ha piu che fare cola
administrations dell Cooperative di con-
sumo sta in Granite street, Socialist
block
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-04-13
Notice.

Frank Brogini OF 20 Foss street gives
notice that on the 9th of April, 1907,
be resigned his Office as administrator
Of the Cooperative store in the Socialist
block on Granite street.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-04-13
EAST BARRE.

After their regular meeting the ladies
Of Silver Leaf circle, no. s2s, will hold a
public box social, Tuesday evening. April
16. Every lady please bring box.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-04-13
THE BARRE DAILY TINES
weather Prediction.

Snow and slightly colder tonight San-
day fair and continued cold; fresh north
westerly winds.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-06-15
Las festaS en- MariCao
HoNRAxOo 4 SAN JUAN

La Comision de las festas patrona-
les que han de celebrarse er Mar icao
en- honor del glorioso patron San
juan Bautista, nos ha remitido un
programa invitandonos para los actos
que han de verihcarse en- ell EXPIRE sa
90 pueblo, en- los cfas del X al2l
del corriente mes.
FL programa es selecto v variado.
Los principales nlmeros son pasa-ca-
lie por la orquesta, juegos atleticos
adJudicandose premios a los vence-
dores, novenas, fuegos artihciales v
retreats en- Ia plaza. La Comision
tambien ha acordado dsr una serie de
bales en- Ell Centro Espaf1ol, en- eli
saicn de la Casa Consistorial Y en- Ia
Sociedad Obrera. Ell reverendo sa-
cerdote padre Sanchez pronunciara
|el panegirico del Santo.
De esperarse es que dichas 6estas
Sc vean muy concurridas por la va.
riedad con que Sc efectuan este sfio.
Agradecemos 4 la Comisi6n Ia
atencion que nos hace invitandonos &
dichos actos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1907-06-15

para nuestros tutores, el ha ST.
do el autor de ese centralismo
Official que todo 10 domino, que
todo 10 monopoliza y absorve.
Y ese hombre tan a proposito
para legislar para las tribus de
Abisinia 8 para las kabilas del
Mogreb, ese legislator que va
nos tiene dadas hartas pruebas
lamenta bles de 10 que es capaz
de hacer en- su calidad de pre-
cursor de uaa politica colonial
que a los super-hombres de ex-
portaci6n Sc les antojaria la
mas acabada conquista de la
Ciencia colonial, ese hombre
Cuando Sc 'encontrase converti-
do en- arbitro de nuestrOs desti-
nos, en- sefor de la 1sla, en- uni
ca autoridad suprema de la
colonia, de seguro escuCha
ria las protestas contra el regi-
men Y las reclamaciones de los
colonos como gritos inso!entes
de TN desagradecimiento ma
niflesto Y de una insensatez We
saniCa, no admitiendO que en-
las censuras y en- los juiCios Y en-
las crlticas contra Ell regimen
pudiesen tomar parte el buen
sentido nj Ia razon.
Seria indispensable perder to-
da esperanza de reforma 8 apla-
Zarla mucho, por 10 menos mien-
tras en- las esferas del poder
ademas de las preocupaciones
y los ego1smos que ahora pre-
valeCen, estuviese el inefa BILE
autor de esa ley organica con-
ira la cual Sc allan aqui tan
justos y generates clamores.