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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-18
How Lawson Fights.

Believing that Lamson was trying to
ruin him, Lawson set about to ruin the
Lowell inventor. This is Iawson's way
tooth Not very Christianlike, but a
part of the heart breaking, soul-destroy-
ing game Of dolIarsa game that has
been growing bigger ever since print
tive man set about to get his brothers
worldly goods by force. The modern
way Of sticking the knife into man is
to attack his property in the stock mar
ket, and undermine his credit. Lawson
went into the stock market and opened
his guns on Lamson Store Service shares.
They had been rising rapidly, touching
$62 ON the rumor that big melon was
to be cut for the shareholders. Their
par value was $50, and they were paying
ten per cent. dividends. This was early
in the winter Of 80. Disqmeting rumors
began to spread. To use LaWs0ns own
words, referring to later time, when
the shoe was on the other foot, and Law
son was defending another company from
lust such an attack, "from all the stock
market sub.eeliars and rat holes OF State
street crept those wriggling, Shiny
snakes Of bastard rumors which, seem.
inglv fatherless and motherless, have in
reality multi-parents who beget them
with deviltry Of intention Lawson
was the father OF the Lamson rumor.
stores we're told from mouth to mouth
how the insiders had MIXED the com.
pany by selling their own inventions to
L at their own prices. in much the same
manner as the Hartman high fnan
Tiers" last year fattened their purses by
selling ths;x Illinois Central ta the union
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-18
cRAzED BY LOSS OF MONEY.
Prof. Underwood Suicide After Attempt
ing to Kill Family.

Redding, Conn, Nov. 1s.-Crazed tenn
porarily al the result Of financial losss,
during the last month OF two, Lneian +
Underwood, professor-of botany at Col
umbia university, New York, Saturday
afternoon attempted to wipe out his en-
tire family, ended his own life, stabbinq
himself under the right ear.
Saturday afternoon while his wife and
daughter were in the dining room to-
gether, Underwood picked up a knife
from the table and rushed at his wife
He drew the weapon across her throat
and then ran over to where the daugh-
ter was. making an attack upon her.
Mrs Under wood struck the profess
sors arm as he was about TO stab his
daughter and the latter managed to
run from the house unframed.
Going to another room. the doctor cut
his throat and when pr Wright Of
Bethel and Dir Brownie Of Danbury ar
rived at the house he was dead.
Mrs. Underwood will recover
Professor Underwood had made mis-
home here for the past year and had
been connected with Columbia for eight
years. He was IS years old.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-18
J MAGAZINE REVIEW.


The Popular Science Monthly for No
fembcr, which printed three months ago
Dr. Francis Cations Romanccs lecture at
oxford university, now publishes the
Robert Boyle lecture by Professor Karl
Pearson, also given at oxford univer-
sily, his subject being eThe Scope and
Importance 70 the State OF the Science
Of National Eugenics." Next after Dr.
Gaiton, Professor Pearson is the leading
advocate 81 the scientific study Of the
conditions leading 20 efficiency Of the
individual and Of the nation. A genetic
laboratory has ben established At the
university OF London under Professor
pearson's direction. which is active in
research into sociological conditions BY
exact methods. In the present lecture
Professor Pearson gives an account OF
what has been accomplished and what he
hopes viii follow in the future for the
Improvement OF the race as a result OF
increased research. Professor Spencer
Trotter Of Swarthm0re college gives an
account of Peter Kalm's Travels in
North America, containing an account
Of its natural history and Of the country
generally. FIRST published in 1853 Mr..
L. 4 RAAAa+AH VI AHA AkEtAiAu aaH-tNnA
Of Natural History. describes a trip
around Iceland, with numerous illustra.
tions. The series OF articles BY Mr.
Fred DeTand on the development Of the
telephone service. which has given fun
and new information in regard to the
discovery OF the telephone thirty years
ago and its early development is con.
Guided in this number. Mr.. Edward f.
Williams Of Chicago gives an account
Of the Institute Of France and the learn
ed societies Of Paris DIR. Alexander f.
Chamberlain Of Clark university calls
attention TO recent views as to the ori
gin Of the Greek temple. Mr. Charles
Kassel of Fort Worth Tex, shows that
eminent men are likely to come from
large families, and Professor Charles s.
Minot Of the Harvard medical school
continues his important series Of articles
on the problems Of age growth and
death, discussing in the current number
the origin of death. There are shorter
articles discussing mortality statistics
and the state universities.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-18

The November American Magazine
contains q very important article By
Professor james OF Harvard on THE
Powers of Men, in which the author ex-
plains how certain ideas unlock hidden
energies and stir men TO achieve. DIR.
James says, IN part;
We are just now witnessing a very
eopions unlocking of energies by ideas
in the persons Of those converts TO New
Thought Christian Science 'Metaphy-
steal Healing or other forms OF spiritual
philosophy, who are 80 numerous among
Us today. The ideas here are healthy
minded and optimistic; and il Is quite
obvious that a wave Of religious activ-
ity, analogous in some respects 10 the
spread of early Christianity, Buddhism,
and Mohammedanisnr Is passing over our
American world. The common feature
Of these optimistic faiths is that they
all tend to the suppression Of what Mr..
Horace Fletcher calls 'earthoughti Fear
thought he defines as the 'self-suggestion
of inferiority'; so that one may say that
these systems all operate BY the sugges-
ton Of power. And the power, small or
great, comes in various shapes to the
individual-power, as he win tell You.
not 10 mind things that used to vex
him, power to concentrate his mind, good
cheer, good temper-in short, to put it
mildly, a frmer, more elastic moral
tone.
"The most genuinely sanity person
nave ever known is a friend OF mine now
suffering from cancer of the breast-I
hope that she may pardon my citing her
here as an example Of what ideas can
do. Her ideas have kept her a practical.
~ well woman for months after she
should have given up and gone to bed.
They have annulled all pain and weak.
ness and given her cheerful active life,
unusually beneficent to Others togwhon
she has afforded help. Her doctors, &C.
quiescing in results they could not un-
derstand, have had the good sense to let
her 20 her own way.
How far the mind-cure movement is
destined to extend its influence, or what
notifications it may yet I'M
dergo, no one man can foretell. IT is
essentially a religious movement, and to
nnrtured minds its utter
anees are tastelcss and often grotesqua
enough It also incurs the natural en-.
nifty of medical politicians. and Of the
whole trades union wing of that profess
sion. But no unprecedented observer can
fail to recognize its Importance ais So
sial phenomenon today and the higher
medical minds are already trying to in
terpret it fairly, and make It's power
AVAILABLE for their own therapeutic
ends"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-18
7be Times Daily Short Story.

! present As.. 81 s.. 3 ~ i ka-.e y.
hind which sat the president OF the
court.
There" said the accused. lis one
Of the shells with which we defended
ourselves IN the recent attack
Taking heavy artillery Eaber from
the sergeant. Hcrano raised II and held
II poised for moment above the she'll
The court. seeing his Intention 10 bring
the sword down on the explosive.
jumped from their seats. but too late.
The saber'e edge descended with ter
rife force on the shell
Was Herano so desperate as to COM
NIT suicide and XIII those who sat IN
judgment over him!
No. There was surprise 10 store
for those Wig looked on. with eyeballs
starting from their sockets The she'll
was split 10 two Ike wood-which II
was-and out poured heap OF saw
dust. while n red dust OF brick rose
from the parts.
Gentlemen said the captain, do
you wonder that we were beaten with
such means OF defensel You think we
should have died at our guns. Well.
suppose we bad, who would have
known Of the character OF this ammu-
nitionf"
Every shell proved the same, and
the court was convinced.
In a few days Tsusima was delight
Cd to hear OF her lovers acquittal and
reinstatement.
Two hours after the arrival Of tho
Eews it was announced that the officer
in charge Of m ammunition manufac-
tory had committed harakiri.
The government. having need OF an
officer 1t could trust TO Inspect all am
munition sent to the front promoted
Herano to be major and brought him
back to japan for the purpose. Thus
In less than year OF service he was
enabled TO marry his sweetheart and
live at home.
nnnrpus ~ ryrrrNfo
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-18
NOVEMBER AERoLIrEs.
Something About The Swarm Of MeteOrs
Due 70 Fan Next Month.

Twice year We pas through bolts
Of space in which swarms Of aerolitcs
arc apt to occur. In August We pass
through a shower Of mcteorites which
are termed andromiies, because Of their
origin i attributed 70 the constellation
Of Andromeda. where huge nebula Is
spinning and condensiug as II 70 form
another planet or sun for our celestial
system. Another belt Il usually passed
IN tho early part Of November. These
are termed leonids, because they are as
ISOLATED with the constellation Of Leo.
but the label on any and an i very
obscure and their origin is matter Of
ingenious reasoning aud much guess
work. Once in thirty.tnree years We
pass through the app6fent orbit oi
leonids where they move In thick
swarm. IN 1866. about 10000 Of these
were estimated to have passed through
our atmosphere IN a single night, max.
ing a grand display.
The orbit Of these particles l. retro.
grade, but in spite Of their bnck action,
they manage to hit up quite smart
gait. If an observer pulls his stop watch
to time one Of them for 100 yards, he
should begin early and not indulge in
any distfacting conversation for the mo.
ment, for their velocity ranges from
eighteen to thirty.six miles a second and
there Is no time for the timer to lose.
So fast i their movements that friction
with the atmosphere heats surfaces 10
the temperature Of boiling iron, and the
fused outside Is left behind in the form
d burning vapor. They rarely become
visible above an altitude of seventy five
miles, and most Of them are dissipated
il vapor before they reach the earth for
their fan Is almost invariably at a wide
angle 10 the earth and they often pass
through and continue their flight on be-
yond our atmosphere. The size Of the
largest specimens IS estimated at all the
way between diameter Of 500 feet to
q mile. Consequently il is no rare oc-
cufrence for a specimen to survive and
reach the earth with a solid nucleus
weighing anywhere from a pound to
10000 pounds.
They are comprised principally of iron
and nickel and so are quite heavy. In
traversing our atmosphere their lasting
powers are suggestive of the common
smile Of snowbalrs chance ia trayers
ing the internal regions. When such
mass, heated to perhaps 1000 degrees |
plunks into moist coil or a
body Of water the explosive consequence
is suggestive of a heavy charge Of dyna-
mite. We are all like soldiers under CON
slant fire, but in all modern history
there Is only record Of two fatalities
from meteorites and the victims had no
time to regret either occurrence. Detroit |
News.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-18
WILL TELL
WHOLE STORY
Mrs. Brady VIII Take Stand
In Own Behalf
IN BROWN MURDER TRIAL
Counsel Count on II Deemply ImpFessing
the Jury in Her Trial for Murder
Judge W. p Stafford Is
Presiding Judge.
IN BROWN MURDER TRIAL

Washington, .. q, Nov is.-AIrs. An.
ME n. bradley, on trial for the murder
Of ex-senator Arthur Brown Of Utah,
win sakc the stand "A her own behalf.
Her counsel some tlmc sga declared that
II she were allowed % teii her story,
no twelve meH could he found 10 convict
her.
James Rowan. formerly a waichmrn
AZ the Brown home In Ctan. who wa
the principal witness for ;ls moseen.
ton. was expected 20 give damaging
testimony against Mrs. bradley. Tier
counsel. however. believe IN hi1 state.
mcnt that Mrs. Bradley remaiac,l on the
premises one night last N0eetnbcr Tor
an hour and a half and threw stonrx
q Browns window for ten minutes. fay
Ing she wished 70 bother him and give
him good night, - strong evidence tia.
she was insane.
II y impossible 10 learn whether Mr..
Annie Adams. mother 81 Mtuds Adams.
VIII be brought 10 Washington 20 testify
IN rebuttal when the defense has ia
ishcd. There Is no doubt, however, that
the letters which Mrs Adams Il said
70 have written "a Brown snd wnirn
were taken from Mrs. Bradley al The
time Of her arrest. will figure ~ the
trial. II the prosecution does not o1er
them. the defense viii call f3r them.
When Mrs Bradley fakes tho stand
slN viii tell her entire life story. begin.
ming with her service as a cisfs In Tic
water works Of Salt Lake City, OF which
her uncle Nae mnnauer and tfhpra atn
met Brown. II promiys 10 be nara.
tive Of deep human Interest.
Since last Wednesday, he day on
which the trial really began. evcry conf
dor Of the court house has been ,ammei
with men and women anxious to gain
admission. Women have stool Tor hours
outside the court room door. but Gully a
limited number have been admitted
Judge Stafford gave orders IN open court
Saturday that any person observed max
ing the least sign OF approval or disap-
prevail would be Immediately elected.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-18


There Is a white hermit IN Colombian
wilds, with monkeys, parrots and sav'
ages for company, his dwelling but Of
bamboo poles thaiehed with COCOA leaves
on the lilo Magdalsnai hls food hanAna.
roots and raw sugar. his nbleet-~to get
orchids for the cIty's market. So wrltes
William g, fitzgerald in The Technical
World Magazine for November.
The man crosses mountains with HE
caravan Of loaded mules. and IL assalled
BY foods labors hip deep IN the mo-
rafs, whose feverish mists are food for
the glorious floral parasites high up on
the trunks OF forest trees.
But no hardship counts n the store
Of cattleyas and odonfogionsnmk grows
greats II the air.feeding plants are seen
IN plenty. lighting the Jungle gloom with
their superb floral spikes, II at the sea.
sons end he can despatch one hundred
and dfty cases Of the dried plant packed
in sphagnum moss down 10 Sasanilla,
there 10 catch the steamer north.
But the orchid hunter. after all 4 but
a free iance-a mere scout OF an army
5000 strong engaged In our harvest Of
flowers from ocean 20 ocean. aud 70 this
number We must add thousands Of extra
hands outside America. There i Der
muda, for instance. which lives largely
BY lllies-sl00O00 worth year grown for
the Atlantic states.
With this introduction, the author tells
tale OF the Harvest Of Flowers which
i surprising. Photographs Of various
scenes connected with this industry are
beautifully reproduced and the article IL
an unusually attractive feature Of this
ever attractive magazine.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-18
ROBERT @. GIDDIs,
BouNrY ON CROCODILE Eees.
Koch's Plan to Lessen Sleeping
Sickness.

Berlin, Nov. L. Professor Robert
Koch, upon whom Emperor William yes.
terday conferred the title Of exeellency
in recognition Of his services in discov.
ering the origin and treatment Of the
African disease known as sleeping
sickness has set forth in an official
report the details of his prolonged inyes-
| tigation in the Victoria Nyanza region.
He supplements the general results pre-.
yiously eabled By giving statistical
comparison showing that only about
eight per cent. Of the ~sleepsrsp treated
with an atoxyl injection died, whereas
the untreated "sieepers" who arrived al
tile mission stations mostly died The
professor has mad difficulty i'll making
exact comparisons, because he lacks ac-
curate figures. lne sufferers brought to
the missions were usually in the last
stages OF the disease. OF these far adj
vanced VINO were treated BY Professor
Koch 29is per cent. died Professor
koch's investigations showed that the
plossina palpalis ny which causes the
sleeping sickness subsists ON the blood
OF reptiles and animals and cannot live
without it Tor over three or four days.
The microscope showed that the blood
sucked by the flies was chiefly that Of
erocodiles' eggs. The professor there
fore recommends bounty on crocodiles'
eggs, in order to encourage the natives
to exterininate them. This, it IS said,
Viii be comparatively easy, since the
crocodiIes nave certain welI-markcd
breeding grounds in the Nyanza district
where eggs can be easily collected Pro
lessor Koch, also suggests clearing away
the timber around the watering places
near the forts and villages, where the
natives gather. because the flies cannot
endure sunlight aud seek the dark, damp
underground The Professor establish
ed two permanent stations for the treat
ment of sleeping sickness" each in
charge of one physician, and he has
sant third physician to Tanganyika.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-18
How One Young Lady Secured Her
Position.

Position.
During the last two years have been
writing either about the dead or those
/ sometimes wish were dead when q
mistake occurs in a news item which !
have written about them.
] am news editor on country weekly
that has a circulation of 1000. and Is
published in town Of about LOO in.
habtants. like my work, and only
now and then would rather be washing
dishes instead Of reading proofs.
didn't step right into the place. nor was
it thrust upon me. commenced work.
ing for it when | was in my early teens,
and after persistent diligence / climbed
TO the throne
When | was IN school, at the age Of
fifteen years, wrote every week society
personals for the Saturday supplement
OF The Louisville Times and The Conr.
ier-Journal. | did this nearly every week.
without fail, until / was graduated,
which was four years afterwrad.
My school commencement was two
years ago this last June, and the night
] was graduated | really felt il was the
commencement of my life. but ] did not
want to turn one stone. To be frank. /
was in love; ! was happy and content
to sit and look at the American Beauty
roses my lover sent me for my gradua.
tion present. But my roses faded and
my lover went away to seek his fortune.
So my mind did the practical thing and
turned my attention to work
II was on the sth day of August, two
months after my school closed in the
year of 1905, that got position in
the printig Office in my home town.
Taking orders for printing matter, writ
ing subscription letters, making out
newspaper bills, and helping with the
bookkeeping was the work required Of
me.
However, doing what was not required
of me is how | secured my position.
Every time / got a chance / wrote every
news item | heard and gave it to the
editor Sometimes he would use it and
sometimes he would not. When he did
/ was made glad and his reporter was
annoyed. Along with my other work, |
did all could to please others in every
way, for it did not take me long to see
that the secret of success in newspaper
work II to please the people even when
you are not pleasing yourself From
the Business Circle of The Circle for No
vember.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-18
INSANE MANS
WILL ALLOWED
Case without Parallel in Massachusetts
Court.

New Bedford. Nov. Without a
uarallel III the history Of Massachusetts
courts, the will of Robert FL Durham Of
Myricks, adjudged insane, was allowed
by the.superme court Saturday.
Dunhan had been discharged from the
army and hospital On the gerund Of in.
sanity caused BY fever" according TO
the testimony OF doctors who attended
him.
Durham WAS q ne'er dn-uell and mis-
father assisted him in securing S6.so0
back pay on his pension about Is years
ago. Then he was adjudged insane and
4 guardian appointed
Up 70 the present time only 500 Of
the Original amount secured from tae
government nad been expended by Dun
ham, and according to the viii the re-
mainder is equally divided among tne
member Of the family.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-18

Pacific At their own Inflated Yaiuailoni
how the directors, BY their mlsmanaee'
monf, had saddlsd a debt Of tsoolouo on
the company, and were going 10 bring
out mortgage Of n 200. 000i and how
the laws u the land had been broken
By l.amson aud bis agents Ia their nIil.
tai strife for a monopoly. tAmson stock
was sold heavily day after day, and ne
price melted away, In January the diti'
dends we're suspended. there Wa re-
neNed liquidation. aud the stockholders
began to get nervous. Lawson kept
right on selling Tho stock and keeping
tne rumor mill going Frank fayani IN
Success
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-18
Policing New York's s,oos Miles Of
Streets.

The problem OF safety in the city OF
New York, which is, broadly, the ade-
quate patrolling Of the city's 3,095 miles
Of streets, and the means to its solution,
is the subject of valuable article in
the current Harper's Weekly by General
Theodore Bingham, police commissioner
81 New York. General Bingham says
that. owing to the physical CONFORMATION
OF New York, the city is more difficult
to guard than are any of the other large