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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-04


and tussahs which are so much In
vogue at the present. moment. Jaunty,
coats In full and half lengths are shown
for summer wear in conjunction with
hats OF the came material,
The tailor rhndc woman win have 10
all her oxn way this suus,ner. Blouses
ard shirts on the most approved man
nish lines are to be prominent, and ,the
lingerie affairs OF past seasons are
again to become negiigse.
The handsome gown shown herewith
Is made OF pongee IN one OF the lovely
new apricot shades. 1t 10 trimmed
with soiifache braid applied over a
stamped design and Is worn with q
guimpe Of ecru lace.
JUDO cHoLLET.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-04

A London thief holds the record Cor
meanness he stole the purse Of
doctor who was trying to aid a man
that had been run over by heavy
cart anu lay dying ia the street
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-04
fienrv vllI. and Anne noIern.

When Henry VIII. was writing love
letters TO Anne Boleyn he declared,
THE longer the days the more distant
is the sun, and so 1t is with me and
my sum
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-04
rurkIsh Ediet.

A haiti sheriff is an edlct signed by
the sultan Of Turkey himself. 1t usual
" concludes with the words, let my
order be executed according to its
form and meaning"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-04

The sun if hollow would hold 100000
globes as large as the earth, and an
eye capable Of hourly viewing 10000
square miles would require 5000
years to see all its surface.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-04

Tbe farther ncttb the more injurious
to the human system is the use Of eof-
fee. Greenlandcrs have found It neces
sary to prohibIt It's use by the young.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-04
lnsans AsyIurs.

inoane Asyiums.
In 1896 William Tule, a Quaker,
opened the first national asylum for
the insane In York, England
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-04
AMUSEMENT NOTES.

Chas, H. Yale's Everlasting Devils
Auction" Company.
A party Of theatrical men who were
holding d round table talk in a Meriden
cafe one evening this week got 10 print
ing and the queer things each had seen
III the way of handbills. Smith Turner
who Ii business manager for Chas. III.
Yale's Everlasting Devils Auction
produced Il gem 1t was a copy 81 a
handful that was used to advertise q
horse race, which took place at Amheist5
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-21

laughed.
Pounds of 'em!' emphaticaIly.
May come over soon and get ac-
quainted?" he begged.
She looked at his well-cut features
and saw the frank admiration n his
eyes.
Il suppose it's proper-Mr. Drayton
you see 1 know your sister," q
Then I'm coming over this even
ing and sit on your front porch. II
you know my sister you'd be greatly
lacking in hospitality if you didn't let
me call"
"'I would hate to seem-inhospit-
able" there was a note of shyness In
her voice.
He reached over the hedge and put
the child in her mothers arms. She
put her plump little arms around his
neck in an overflow of affection.
"Goodby, favver," she said.
"Goodby, baby" he called after her.
and as the mother went toward the
house in the gathering twilight she
was suddenly conscious of the lowell
ness of the rose garden, and the scent
of the roses in the air, and that in her
heart there was a tiny new feeling
warm and tender.-(Copyrigh 1907
by G H. Sutcliffe.)
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Baseballese as it is writ: "Bracken
singled, Hunt got hit in the basement,
Springer walked and Snyder took one
in the slate. Russ hit was ticketed for
a slap against the fence when Dustnan
stabbed it with his left hand
A Chanute boy, who was bitten by
water mCccasion used salt, ice and
whisky freely, and got well. Why"
asks Bill Doolittle, did he waste the
salt and ice?'
What. we rise to inquire, is delaying
tie floods in the Marias des Cygnes
Don't the foods know the Ottawa
Chautauqua is in session?
Now, Wichita, if you will kindly lose
few more games, Topeka will step
into the rightful place.
over in Japan they have no bloody
shirt to wave, but we judge the jingoes
over there are waving the red kimona.
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lions from all over the state touching
the handling of the brewery cases and
the late sweeping decision of the su-
preme court which upholds him in
every contention. Jackson will soon
be in the same class with Hadley of
Missouri and other wide awake law
yers who do not shirk responsibility
but, reading the law, understand; I'M
derstanding the law, enforce it. The
same law, the same courts, the same
public pressure, the same chances for
reputation, the same rewards, the
same moral influences, were in force,
in effect, doing business the past four
years and five months when Messrs.
Coleman and Williams was an attor-
neys general"
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LAYHA WKER JOTS

Concordia also complains of reckless
auto driving.
Lincoln expects to vote bonds for a
new high school.
The Paola Chautauqua will vary the
usual Chautauqua programme by hav-
ing an athletic day with all sorts of
races and contests.
Cottonwood Falls has a bad attack of
lawn tennis fever. Every able-b bodied
person in the town who isn't fishing
in the Cottonwood is on the courts after
o'clock in the afternoons.
A Danville, ILL.,, editor went through
Abilene recently in a $4,000 touring car
en- route home from Wichita, where he
bought the automobile. IAN editor will
do most anything" remarks Charlie
Harger, ito avoid paying railroad fare.H
The Lawrence World thinks there is
something the matter with Topeka s
small boys. "Crawdads," it says,
have punched holes in the bottoms of
the lakes in the city park there and
let all the water out. Why haven't
the small boys caught all the craw-
dads, long ago?"
Here is skepticism for you: Conrad
Voelker, the cabbage king, says the
Atchison Globe, does not believe there
is such a thing as a cabbage snake
He believes those things people call
cabbage snakes are horse hairs which
get into the cabbage when the farmers
cultivate it with team cultivators.
When horse hair is put in water it
acts as though it were alive; when the
horse hair gets into the cabbage, the
moisture from the plant causes the
hair to become alive. We wonder if
President Roosevelt, who IS in the
habit of striking at naturalists, will
take up an argument with Mr.. Voelker
on the cabbage snake.
Troy Chief: Tom Lloyd who lives on
the south side of the square, has a
number of bull snakes which he has
made pets of. He handles them with
out fear and they seem to know him
and show no disposition to harm him.
Last Sunday he had one of them,
which was over five feet long, with
him on the street and gave several per-
sons quite a scare. No one objects to
Tom having as many pet snakes as he
wants, provided he keeps them where
they will not scare people who are not
partial to that kind of a pet. Ever
since a serpent got into the Garden of
Eden and raised cain, most men have
an antipathy to snakes of all kinds
and there is a general desire to destroy
them wherever found. If the marshal
had come along while Tom was exhib-
iting his ret, there would have been
a snake killing time right there. Tom
had better keep his snakes under his
belt, or in some other place of conceal
ment, hereafter, as several people who
are MORALLY afraid of them have regis
tered a kick
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SWOLLEN FORTUNES.

In response to letter from one of its
readers at Wamego, Kan, the Chicago
Inter-Ocean defends it's attack on
President Roosevelt's recommendation
! of an Inheritance tax as a means of
keeping down swollen fortunes.
What" it asks, docs Mr.. Roosevelt
mean by swollen fortunes? What for
tune is so swollen as to be a menace
to the state, demanding that special
measures be taken to seize it?" And
then it argues that Mr.. Roosevelt's for
tune appears as swollen to the poor man
as that of the multi-millionaire appears
to Mr.. Roosevelt.
1t is true that the "swollenness'' of
fortunes is relative. If everybody had
at least a million dollars a hundred
times that amount would not seem ex-
cessive. But when multitudes have
practically nothing, fortune of a hun
dren million in the possession of one in
dividual, to which millions more are
added every year, seems upjust. The
possessor of it cannot use tenth of it
for himself or his family, and too fire.
quently it's tremendous power is used
simply and solely to pile up other use
less millions, and for the oppression of
poorer people.
What is the use of allowing conditions
that encourage the accumulation of
such fortunes Why not remove the in
centive for the piling up Of excessive
wealth?
If the millionaire knew that the most
Of his gains above certain point would
revert to the people-through the gov
ernment-at his death, the human ma
ture in him would lead him to dissemin-
ate the excess according to his own
views as it accumulated. And even if he
were so foolish as to pile up such ire
mendous wealth as John D. Rockefeller
possesses, the excess would eventually
revert to the people, from whom it was
taken. Why would not that be just?
The power to define swollen fortune
rests in congress. Congress can fix the
lines at which inheritances may be tax
ed, and the percentages that they shall
be taxed. These lines might vary as the
years go by. A swollen fortune of fifty
years ago-or even thirty-would not be
considered excessive today.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
A boy is never uncomfortable If he
is riding or eating.
A vain woman is always willing to
admit that she isn't
1t is hard to beat a man who
smiles while he works.
1t is nearly always a good ball game
when the home team wins.
Your sons probably please you as
we'll as you pleased your father.
About all some men can see in
any undertaking is encouragement.
The average Free Thinker is a
thoughtless person who disagrees with
everyone else.
1t doesn't mean man is brave be-
cause he acts like a bear and fright
ems the children
Instead of running from a disagree
able argument most people will stand
and stir the kettle.
Laugh, and the world laughs with
you" doesn't apply to the man who
laughs at his own jokes.
Sifted right down to the wire, don't
you believe that all people who dis
agree with you are wrong?
1t always seems easier for the irrita-
BILE person to control his temper, If
the one who Anglers him is also some
thing of a fighter.
The town man who was raised on
a likes go OdCk OCCdSlOildlly
to observe that others are still work
ing as hard as he used to.
Men have done some big things, but
none of them ever produced a cannon
cracker as big as boy thinks he
would like to turn loose on a long
suffering public.
When a farmer comes to town these
days, he hurries back as soon as pos
sible; he doesn't stay away from his
farm much longer than a setting hen
stays away from her nest.
weary widower walked into this
office today, and wrote out an adver-
tisement for a servant girl. 81 sup
pose the only way to get one he said,
as he paid his quarter, sis to marry
one, and accept mother-in-law and
ALL"
What has become of the old-fash-
toned bride who would not appear in
public for two weeks prior to her
wedding day? Also what has become
of the fellow who went to see his girl
every other Tuesday night until they
were engaged, and then he went Reg
gularly Every Tuesday night?
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The Willy Arab of TripoIi.

Down the street the faint intermit-
tent tinkling of a bell was heard,
"Burr-ro!" Get outD in warning rasped
the high pitched voice of a camel-driv-
er. 1 lodged quickly into the shop of
a silversmith and watched four lumber
ing eane1s squdge softly by. To pre-
vent those behind the driver from be-
ing stolen, the halter rope of each is
tied to the tail Of the one ahead, and
on the tail of the last camel as he flips
and flaps it from side to side tinkles
bell.
A willy one of the Faithful, not being
rich in this worlds goods, turned CO.
vetous eyes on a nomadic brother who
passed through the town leading a
string of six camels. Allah! Allah
ursel Ell Allah! could not the brother
spare one of his jimal?'' (camels). So,
ing himself with his barracan he
stealthily followed. He was aware that
near the New Gate the street narrowed
and made a double turn. No sooner
had the driver and head camel rounded
the first corner than the willy one seized
the bell attached to the hindmost camel.
With a stroke of his knife he severed
it from the tail of the animal. and keep
ing it tinkling, he quickly fastened it
to the tail of the next, cut loose the
last beast and-'Allah wills"-made off
with his loOt.-C. W. Furlong, in Har-
perS for June.
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IF'rom the Philadelphia Record.1
A thing of duty is seldom a joy for
ever.
Poverty is no disgrace. even when
girls face is her fortune.
The principle of last but not least is
admirably illustrated by a mules hind
legs.
Lots of people who claim to weigh
measure.
Don't feel that the world is against
you just because you happen to stub
your toe.
Some people regard a first Marriage
merely as a trial trip on the sea of
matrimony.
An optirnist is a man who believes in
pure politics. A pessimist is man
who used to.
After girl has been disappointed in
love for the first time she feels that
she can stand anything.
A fellow sometimes feels that the
white mans burden is toss-up be-
tween taxes and life insurance.
That the average woman doesn't
know her own mind is shown by the
way it keeps her guessing.
Some people take so much interest in
other peoples affairs that they have
very little time for their own.
Blobbs-'1 can't possibly lose on the
races today" Slobbs-"Got sure
thing, eh?" Blobbs-'Yes; I'm not go
ing to make a bet
Nell-"They say her birth is shroud-
ed in mystery" BELIEVES; she was
born in a New York apartment house
where were rules against children
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.1
1t isn't easy to get a job on Easy
street.
The thoughts of a music composer
should be noteworthy.
When the quiet man does make a
noise in the world 1t counts.
The average mans politics was an
inheritance from his father.
1t takes as little to make some men
Our idea of a brave woman is one
who isn't afraid to talk back to the
cook.
It's easy for one man to get rich
quick if he meets a lot of others who
want to.
After one girl has broken a mans
heart some other girl comes along and
mends it.
wise man never makes a busineswl
Of writing poetry unless he can convert
it into money.
II there is one thing we dislike more
than another it is to hear a man boast
of what he is going to do.
It's as difficult to start a modest man
talking about himself as it is to stop
him after he once gets started.
If a theatrical performance doesn't
make a woman laugh or cry she thinks
she isn't getting her moneys worth.
When a man finally does graduate
from the school of experience the flow
ers he receives are hauled to their dee-
tination By the undertaken.
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FRON OTHER PENS
.ALARMIST HILL.

What terrific alarmist Mr.. ]. j.
Hill is, to be sure! His pessimistic
wall is equivalent to this: The gov
eminent has ruined the credit Of the
railroads, hence the railroads can not
obtain money to enlarge their facili-
ties, the country's products can not be
handled, the government may be COM
PEELED to advance money to the rail-
roads, this may lead to government
ownership, and. finally, government
ownership would mark the end of the
republic. In other words, unless the
railroads are allowed to run things in
their own way, everything must go to
smash. The government must con-
tinue to grant the right of eminent do
main to transportation companies. and
allow those companies to fleece the
people without restraint, else there
can be no extension of railroad facili-
ties. The railroads can not be con-
structed and operated on basis of
common equity-that equity that pro-
tects the right of both parties to
contract to have say in the terms OF
the contract. You can see the govern
ment rushing to the aid of railroads
while the railroads are paying divi-
dends on billions of watered stock
Kansas City Star.
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HUMOR OF THE Day

5Iommy-Ps, what is a come-down? Pa
auto show-Broadway Magazine.
The Magistrate-Are you guilty or not7
am, but I'd like to be tried to make sure.
Sketch.
The Stranger-Hi. mister! Look sharp
your lions been and broke loose! The
Lion Tamer-Oh, dearl He'll get himself
run over-Im sure he will! Run and drive
Up.
automobiie. That's what 1 call cruelty
to animals. remarked a mongrel of the
joy of fighting over a bone in his life. -
Philadelphia Ledger.
Mabel (aged 6)-Ain't you afraid of our
big dog? The Parson very thin)--No. my
dear; He would not make much of a
bones best.-Chicago Daily News.
His face was drawn" read the auI5
thor. Il think you'd better change that.
advised the publisher. We're going to
illustrate the book with haif-tones.' -
"A woman makes a great change in
deal of change out of it, too."-Columbus
Dispatch.
THAT politician declared he never said
anything he was sorry for" Yes. But
thing he ought to be sorry for.''-Wash-
ington Star.
Stella-A man hates to explain a ball
game to a girl. Bella-But he will spend
three hours explaining to his wife how
he didn't play poker-New York Sun.
Can that author show any results that
are amusing or instructive?" YES" an
swered Miss Cayenne some of the criti-
cisms of his work are very entertaining
Observation-Disclosures Star.
Frankie. dear, don't think you have
washed your face and hands, as 1 told
you to-" mo, ma; but I've busted them
very carefully. Punch.
City Boarder-When you exchanged
cattle with Farmer Smith, did you get
a quid pro quo? Farmer Jones-No,
Neighbor Smith didn't try no SIGH mean
tricks on me. We snapped fair and even.
Baltimore American.
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Fine.

A southern lawyer tells of a Judge
in Arkansas who had several ''tiffs''
with a lawyer retained by a woman
who had instituted a breach of-prom-
Use suit in the court presided over by
the judge in question.
After each exchange of repartee be-
tween his honor and the imprudent
counsel, the judge would say:
CLERK, just enter another fine of
$40 against Mr.. Mitchell for con-
tempt of court"
When this sort of thing had pro-
ceeded further than counsel wished,
he addressed his honor in this wise:
IF you honor please, I am good
citizen, and as such, intend to obey the
orders of the honorable court in this,
as in all other instances. Now, your
honor, it so happens that have not
about me the sum of $40, for which I
have been mulcted for contempt.
Therefore, I shall be compelled to
borrow such sum from some friend;
and see no one present whose friend
ship 1 have enjoyed SO much your
honor's. So I make no hesitation in
approaching your honor for loan to
square the fine assessed against me-
With just the faintest smile about
his lips, his honor looked first at
counsel and then at the clerk.
Clerk" said he at last, remit Mr..
Mitchell's fines. The state is better
able than to lose $30."-Harper'
Weekly.
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To Save Telegranhers, Nerves


although thousands of telegraph
operators have been forced out of the
profession through paralysis of their
hands and fingers in the manipulation
OF the Morse key, it is only within the
past two years that improvements in
this crude instrument have begun to
be made" So writes L. A Hoskins in
the Technical World Magazine for
July.
'Dynamos have been substituted in
place of the old chemical batteries in
the making of the teIegraphic currents,
and with the coming of dynamos
greater study of mechanics on the part
or telegrapherS who were ambitious to
become chiefs of staff.
With this study of mechanics came
a realization of the waste of energy in
the manipulation of the old fashioned
Morse lever key. It was found that
two motions of the hand were requir-
ed to make the single dot or the single
ing an average of four dot and dash
characters, required an average of
eight movements of the hand and arm
in their formation.
"A rapid sender-a sender who
could average as good as thirty words
per minute-it was found, was requir-
ed to move his army up and down at
the rate of 1900 to 1900 times per
minute Many men were compelled
to continue this rapid springlike move
ment for many hours at a stretch and
when the figures were considered,
electricians marvelled that the arms
of fine operators held out as long as
they did Many of the first class men
have been known to maintain speed
of fifty wordS<a minute for several
consecutive hours. This means that
they operated their arms like delicate
ly poised springs at the rate of be-
tween 2,2OO and $500 vibrations per
minute, or nearly forty strokes in
single second.
photographers throughout the coun-
try recognized the advantages of a de-
vice that eliminated the making of
dots by hand. The rise of automatic
sending machines was. therefore, rapid
and the result has been that dozens of
these inventions now are on the mar
ket, all utilizing the old mechanical
of a vibrator in some form
or another"
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the state "ourilaA
away during the summer may nave
the paper mailed regularly each day
T. any address at the rate OF ten cents
n week or thirty cents n T1onfh Try
mail only. Address changed as often
"a desired. While out of town The
state Journal will be to YOU like n
daily letter from home.
Advance payment IS requested ON
these short time subscriptions, TO save
bookkeeping expense
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WelIman's Scientific Village.

Let no one imagine it is a simple
thing to make an airship ready for
voyage to the North Pole. First, we
had to land three shiploads of ma
terial-for the "Frithjof" was imme-
diately sent south again for another
cargo which she had been formerly
unable to carry This was no small
task, as everything had to be taken
ashore by boats or improvised RATS
and in the earlier days, by using ice
foes as floats. And such a lot of stuff
we had to handle! There were 800 or
400 tons of timber and iron for the
great airship hall and other struct-
ures; 125 tons of sulphuric acid, sew
enty-five tons of scrap iron, and
thirty tons of apparatus and other
chemicals for the manufacture of the
hydrogen gas; half a shipload of pro-
visions; the aeronautic machine and
all it's appurtenanees: dog sledges,
motor sledges, a steam boiler and en-
CINE, tons of gasoline, tools, coal, iron
rods, bolts, nails, steel boats, and all
the paraphernalia of what a London
periodical aptly termed "Mr. Well
mans scientific village in the Arctics."
Waiter Wellman, in McClure's.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

IFrom the New York Press.l
Virtue is it's own reward because mol
body else will give any.
A womans idea of political ambition
is how you would have to dress for It.
Marrying a woman is a very useful
thing to teach you how you don't I'M
derstand her.
A man would have to have a lot of
brains not to try to make people think
he had more
1t takes a girl to pretend she thinks
you are saying your catechism when
you are kissing her.