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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-19
TRIAL OF C. F. KING
WAS MUCH DELAYED
After The Hearing Of Long Discussion
BY Lawyers The Testimony Was
Resumed.

Boston, Dec 19.-There was a long
delay in starting the trial Of Cardenc
+. King, charged with the larceny OF
$4,000 from thirty.one persons, in
the superior court yesterday, owing to
long discussion by the various eoun-
sci and Judge Scnofeld on certain evil
dencc and also on headings on the case
in certain newspapers.
II was nearly noon when i. +. Forbes
Of Alliston, one Of Kings customers
took the stand and told Of sending
money for stock and failing to receive
the certificates. Some months ne re-
oeiyed $40 on account. although he paid
King $3.50.
Edward Esson OF Dorchester ordered
and paid $3.50 for ten shares of Ameri-
can Woolen preferred and $71.25 in
commissions. Ha never received the
stock, but last fall he accepted a settle.
ment, taking III shares Of Alton cop
per company on a basis OF SIS share.
III. W. Carr OF Concord, Mass, ordered
and paid for sugar and smelling stock
last January and received the sugar
in November, but never received the
smelling.
+. A. Lewis Of Concord, VT, another
Of Kings customers, told Of buying ten
shares of Sugar, ten Of New York
Central and twenty of American
Woolen common, and sending three
checks, totaling $3.50. He then or
dered ten shares Of Great Northern
preferred, for which he sent King two
checks on for $500 and the otner for
s411.25. He also received letter
from King notifying him that King
had purchased for him ten shares Of
American smelling at s5. The witness
then sent King check for s65125.
Lewis said tnat ae complained because
King had not purchased the smelling
stock when the price was lower, thA
witness claiming that he ordered King
to purchase smelling at less than Ss5.
Lewis told the district attorney
that he had never received a single
share of all the stock that he had
bought and paid for.
Several other witnesses including
Robert j. Bennett Of Concord, VT,
Florence n. Adams OF Newburyport,
Mrs Emily NJ. Sylvester of Quincy,
Cyrenus Ellis of Chatham and Mrs.
Carrie r. Wilder of Ftchburg, testified
that they had sent King money to buy
stocks for them, but had received no
stock, and had been unable to get back
their money. In one or two instances,
however, where the amount Of the
money sent exceeded the market price
of the stocA purchased the customers
received checks for small balances.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-19
DEMANDS DIVORCE
IN PECULIAR CASE
Defendant in Proceedings Has Stead
fastly Denied That He Was Mar
ried to The Woman.

Rutland, Dec. 1o.--Deputy Sheriff 2.
S. Whitaker has returned from New
York, where he went carly In the week
to testify in the divorce proceedings
against Harry A. Ferguson Of Cottage
street brought by the woman former.
ly known In Rutland as Edna Temple,
who claims TO be his wife. The super
ior court docket was 20 full this week
that the case will not come up for trial
until next Wednesday. Sheriff Whitta-
ker, however, was permitted TO give his
testimony in chambers, 30 he will not
be obliged TO 20 TO New York again.
He testified simuly that he served the
divorce papers on Mr.. Ferguson in this
city.
The alleged Mrs. Ferguson came to
Rutland from New York May 8 last
and registered at q hotel as Mrs. II.
Bartlett, New York. She went to the
county clerks Office where che intro
duced herself as Mrs. Ferguson. She
said she understood that her husband
had married another woman and she
wanted to know IL he had ever secured
divorce from her When she was
Informed that he had not she said she
would prosecute him for bigamy She
left town a few days later and it was
announced that the matter had been
SETTLED.
A friend Of Miss Temple said yester-
day that Mr.. Ferguson promised last
May to pay all expenses II she would
get divorce. but that he has failed
"a rive her cent. There il no de-
mand for alimony in the petition for
divorce, which is asked for on statutory
grounds.
Mr.. Ferguson has always denied
that he was ever married to the Tenn
pie woman. He said last spring that
the whole proceedings was scheme to
extort money from him.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-19
THINK YOUTH INSANE
WHO KILLED GIRL
James Harmon Eats and Sleeps Well
and Apparently is Not Greatly
Disturbed Over His
Condition.

Boston, Dec 19.---Janes Harmon.
VINO killed Maud Hartley in Somer-
vile yesterday morning and who was
arrested shortly afterwards, is sleeping
and eating well at the East Cambridge
jail. His family and the mother Of
the girl say that he is insane. Alienists
will examine him this afternoon. The
girls burial win be held on Monday.
To the police the young man said
he knew nothing about the shooting
He said his mind had been blank
several days. He refused to give
motive for the crime.
Medical Examiner T. III. DureIl Of
Somerville and William d. Swan of
Cambridge, assisted by DR.. w. L. Bond
Of Somerville, performed an ausopsy
on the girls body yesterday afternoon
ut the rooms Of f. M. Wilson on Cross
street.
Harmon is is years old, the son of
Police Sergeant James NJ. Harmon. who
did street duty the last nalf of
Thursday night. The family lives on
Hancock street, within a stones throw
OF the Hartley home
In an interview last night, Sergt.
Harmon said:
~This is fearful blow to us. | am
positive that Jim is insane. Wife and
] have noticed something wrong about
him for several months. We know he
las an impulsive temper, but never md
reason to fear that he would do any.
thing like this. We have. however, mad
cause 70 fear thar he might do himself
harm. for he has brooded for months
over bis inability to secure employ.
msnt he often said he felt that he
was 9 burden at home and intimated
that be might do something rash if
As didn't get work soon.
For sometime, on this account l
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-19
VALLEY FAIR IN HOLE.
Ran Behind Last Fall About $500 It
Is Believed.

Brattleboro, Dec. 19.-The financial
statement of the Valley fair associa-
tion has not been issued but T. c.
Adams, treasurer, says the deficiency
from the last fair viii amount to about
$500. This is almost exactly the
amount spent in improving the grounds
the past season. james f. Hooker,
president, viii recommend to the an
nual meeting Of the directors that an
ether year the aumber Of cattle en-
tries Be limited to 500. that entrance
fee Be charged FOR poultry and that
special sdmissien fee Be charged for
the bench show.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-19
100000 LOSS
BY FLAMES
Large Building in Central Falls,
RI. Burned
OUTSIDE AID SUMMONED
The Jacques Cartier Building Goes UI
in Smoke---caused by Explosion Of
Chemicals in Basement Of a
Drug Store.

Pawtucket, r. l., Dec. l0.--A fire loss
OF 100000 was sustained this morning
in Central Falls, the Jacques Cartier
building in the center Of the place being
partially destroyed. The fire started In
the basement Of Laforce's drug store
and the cause assigned for it was the
explosion Of chemicals, although nothing
Is certain. The Are soon assumed such
alarming proportions that help was ask
ed from this city and from Valley Falls.
Both calls were responded to, and the
iremen aided materially in subduing the
flames. The Jacques Cartier block was
four stories in height and was used
largely for business purposes.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-19
GODDARD GRADUATES
TALK THINGS OVER
Largely Attended Banquet Was Held in
the Parker House in Boston
Last Night - The
Speakers.

Boston, Dec ls.--Fifty-fve graduates
of Goddard seminary, Barre, Vt, dinea
at the Parker House last evening and
talked over the good old times Of their
school days. The principal of the SCHOOL,
o. K. Hollister. gave home news to the
alumni who wers much interested in the
plans for a rev science building David
r. Montague presided and introduced
Charles Stone as toastmaster. Other
speakers were Principal A. w. Pierce OF
Dean academy, Prof David L. Maulsby
Of Tufts, Prentice Towsley, Miss Gene
We've Chensy. orren Smith and the Rev.
j. Harry Holden.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-19
WILL EXHUME BODY
OF LITTLE GIRL
TO Find Out ii There Are Grounds for
Suspicious Against Her Mother,
Mary Kelleher, Held as
Fire-bug.

Boston, Dec. Ig@-District Attorney
Higgins Of Middlesex county ordered to-
day the exhumation of the body Of Cath.
crime Kelleher, aged II years, in eonnec-
tion with the suspicious against Mary
Kelleher, her mother, who is held as a
fre-bug and in whose family six have
died strangely since 1905 The disinter-
ment Will probably take place to-mor-
row. The child died last July, suppos.
edly from ptomsine poisoning.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-19
SAD WORD RECEIVED.
Instead Of Visit From Son, They Were
Called to Mourn His Death.

John Dawson, the youngest son Of Mr..
and Mrs David Dawson, who has been
located in Peekskill, N. ", for the past
Ave years, sent word home short time
ago that he would make his parents a
visit &c about Christmas time, and they
we're preparing to give hm hearty
welcome. Last evening word came that
he was dead, that he had died very sud.
denly, and that his body was on its way
TO Barre.
John Dawson was 27 years of age. He
learned the trade OF tool sharpener in
Barre and he was well known here.
Five years ago he went 10 PeekskiI
N. Y. Because Of his health he gave up
tsol sharpening and learned the paint
.sr's trade, which he had since followed
The funeral viii be held here. but the
date is not yet Fixed. The interment
win be in the family lot in Elmwood.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-19
death Of NorthfeId Man.

Mortified, Dec. 1e.-AIbert jay, %
years cid, died Thursday afternoon af-
ter a brief illness with pneumonia. He
was the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
jay, who live on the Union Brook road,
stone cutter BY trade and member
Of Company +, wen known and re-
spected. His death adds another to
an unusually long list of late in town.
It is expected that Company F viii
attend the funeral in a body or be
represented by a special detail The
funeral viii pfobably be held Sunday
afternoen.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-19
NOTES AND COMMENT
ON THE LEGISLATURE

The last action taken by the House
before the recess was the ordering to
lie Of the bin establishing Duxanamaie
institutions for the teaching of duxa
namaie by deduction. One Of the
members Of tic committee stated that
they had tried to find out but were all
at sea and hsd reported the bin I'M
favorably. II was decided not TO kill
the bill outright as Mr.. sGoodell Of
Whitingham suggested that the mem
Der that was interested in the bill was
out being treated and so he suggested
tl,at they wait and see what Mr..
Bowles Of Woodford has to say Of the
new science.
In the debate on the resolution to
pay the widow of Mr.. Marsh Of Han
cock a sum Of money equal to that
which her husband would have received
as representative Of his town had he
lived Harry Daniels Of East Montpelier
suggested that perhaps he did as great
a service to tho state by not being
present at the deliberations Of the
House as some Of those who were on
the spot.
The House has new member, Mr..
Cavendish, so called by Mr.. Hinsdale Of
st. George. But everyone knew the
identity was Allen NJ. Fletcher.
Now and then member of the
House will let out an awful jar on
the English language. Whether the
chairman Of the committee on town
lines was confused or frustrated by
standing with pointer In hand before
the Starksboro-Monkton map or not is
not known but certain 1t is that in
the course of an explanation ne took
TO remark, II the members of
this House had been down there they
would have "did the same thing that
we done"
Tn the course of the debate Of the
Starksboro- Monkton tangle Mr., Lamb
of Monkton asked Clerk Plumley to
read letter from one OF his consti-
tuents opposing the proposed division
OF the towns. AS the clock came to
the latter end Of the letter he read
this P. S. "Be on your guard now and
use this letter only as you see fit"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-19
CAUGHT BY TRAIN.
Harold W. Hunter Killed by Train at
Roslindale, Mass.

Roslindale, Mass, Dec. 19.--Harold ".
Hunter was killed By The Needham ex-
press this morning, when he vas caught
between the train and fence rail. Pa
psrs found in bis pocket led te his iden-
tifcstion
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-19

W. ~ &kAAthf VI DN1tNA ID IN AHN
city visiting friends.
The case Of Angelo Diversi, who was
arrested Thursday, charged with permit.
ting minors to play pool in his pool room
viii Be heard in city court next Tuesday
morning.
Mrs. H. B. Tenney and Miss Merle
Gew, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James
Gov, went to South Roysltaa this after
noon for visit at Mrs. Tenney's fermer
hsme.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-19
TWO APPOINTMENTS
Of Cattle Commissioner and Printing
Commissioner, by Gov. PrOuty.
SAD Honse. Dee. %.

State House, Dec. 49,
Governor Prouty to-day made the fol-
lowing appointments;
For cattle commissioner for two years
from January l, 1909, Henry NJ Wilson
of Arlington trsappointment).
For state printing commissioner for
two years from January /, 1909, Frank
f. Langley Of Barre ,reappointmentl.
These appointments do not 60 before
the Senate for confirmation.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-19
IncesaAnt clgarette Smoker.

James was an ncessant cigarette
smoker, Notwithstanding the remon-
strances OF myself and wife. have
known Of mis- smoking 10 and 12 pack.
ages a day OF late he had been morose
and erratic; talked very little at homej
at times acted foolish.
"This condition has been especially
noticeable the past week. Tie told his
mother that his head troubled him. He
complained Of severe headaches and
said he was unable TO sleep. We begged
him TO quit cigarette smoking and
urged him to see doctor. He would
do neither. ..s..
Neither his mother nor / knew any.
thing about his alleged disagreement
with Miss Hartley He said nothing at
home. We knew the couple had been
friends several years, but James never
gave us reason TO suspect that ne had
serious intentions in thaet quarter.
Il attribute this trouble to a de-
ranged mind, of which there is abun-
dnnt evidence. visited the boy in jail
This afternoon, but he had little TO say
except 10 complain about his head.
When questioned about the shooting
he insisted that he remembered nothing
| shall, of course, engage counsel, who
undoubtedly will cause an examination
TO be made Of the boys s5nity.n
Sergt. Harmon is considered one Of
the most efficient members of the
police department, of which ne has
been member several years.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-19

have been IN the habit Of hiding my
revolver before retiring. Yesterday
morning / forgot to do so and il was
not until Lieut., Carter called to in-
form me Of the tragedy that We dis
covered il was missing from the hook
beside my belt and billy.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-19

oOatiAusa en- page six
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must be revised TO include a theory which makes
of the pressure Of light a force eo-equal in impOr-
lance with gravitation.
Just whether Arrhenius. Lebedev, Hull and
Nichols, whose names are associated with the re-
cent discoveries Of the cosEical significance Of
light pressure, have hit upon something as funds-
mental in the history Of science as Newtons dis
covery of the law Of gravitation it would be out Of
place 70 attempt to argue now. Enough that their
theories have proved 10 be immensely suggestive
that conservative astronomers like Prof. Edward
c. Pickering at Harvard. whose work has lain in
other than electro-chemicaI directions, are ex-
pressing themselves as intensely interesting in the
generaliEations from the light pressure doctrine,
that to most people the conception Of light as a
propulsive agent is still q new and even startling
one.
That a beam of light theoretically ought to
exert pressure upon whatever object it falls was
evident in the days when the Newtonian theory
Of emission OF luminous eOrpuseles was held by
scientists II q candle lame or a sun in burning
threw on minute particles Of material light clearly
the impact Of these travelling through space at a
rate OF Use. 900 miles a second should be eonsid-
cradle.
Had earlier physicists possessed the apparatus
to measure this force the oyerthroS OF Newtoa's
hypothesis might have been delayed. There Wss,
however. no tangible proof that lght Setvally do
exert a push. and when the newer eoneepuiou ~
sound, heat. light and electricity as ElUdgB o. mo-
ton became definitely accepted most scientists
forget that there ever had been q hypothesis OF
Light pressure.
Since lS45. when Faraday noticed that .
strong magnet exercises q peculiar action upon
polariEed light. the science of light and the science
Of eIsctEieity have gradually come to overlap until
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30
of Theories of What Constitutes Light

now it is hard TO say just where the one ends and
the other begins. Harz showed that electric
waves can be reflected. refraeted or polarized;
that in other words they have the characteristics
qualities of light waves. Clerk Maxwell. in de-
veloping his theory that light consists of electric
vibrations in the ether made som calculations as
TO the probable pressure eXeTted by rays Of light
Cumulative demonstration followed. The
scientific precision which has enabled the measur-
ing Of differences in light velocity amounting 70
not more than one-miilionth OF q second OF time
has not proved wanting in the measuring Of the
weight OF incident light. The Russian. Lebedev.
first proved -experimentally that light sxsrts pres
sure. Profs. Nichols and Hull. working at Dart
proved his methods
Meantime Svante Arrhenius Of the University
of Stockholm began drawing up statements OF
now that a new factor in the framework has been
demonstrated. A few Of the consequences Of the
acceptance OF the light pressure theory as seen By
this Swedish scientist may be set forth.
The sunlight perpetuaIly beating upon this
planet. exerts. according 10 the measurements Of
the Americans, a pressure Of about $4,000 tons
That is a merely negligible force as compared with
the pull OF grayitauon, which Is many times as
great
Out in the solar system. however, where there
exists no one knows how tenuous q condition Of
the material nEing in. the propulsiVe force exsEted
BY the light upon any little particle Of matter that
is flying about may be quite as potent as the power
Of gravitation that tends 10 draw all things To-
gether. Light pressure, in other words, appears
10 be a foil 20 the universal get-together tendency.
Just Why this force Is relatively more impOr-
tant when acting upon minute than upon large
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masses will be evident on a moments ecsSidera-
ton. Grayitation acts upon masses as a whole.
Light pressure is exerted only on surfaces.
The more closely a certain number ~ particles
Of matter are compacted the less the Surface that
is exposed to pressure. II the same a4ass is
spread out very thin by division and subdSviSieB
a condition obviously may be reached where the
light gets as much Of a purchase on the particles
as gravitation holds upon them In this neigh
borhood a particle that is one one-hundred-thou-
sandth OF an NTH in diameter will be exactly bal
sneed in space. pulled one way By sravitatio1
pushed in an opposite direction by the zunlIght
Now see what a reversal Of high school notions
regarding conditions in interstellar space Is in
volved on acceptance Of this principle. even II
nothing had become public earlier to disturb the
eheerfuIly simple belief that the earth's atmos-
phere somewhere comes 20 a stop-With a definite
wavy surface like that Of the ocean. we used TO be
taught-and that thereafter you encounter a vast
void Of ether. incredibly cold. until you arrive in
the atmosphere Of some other planet or in the veil
Of hot gases surrounding the sun. True, other
recent pronouneements OF the scientists have indi-
Gated that nothing much iz boxed OF in the uni
verse, that IL is hard 20 say just where either the
earth's atmosphere or the sun leaves on, that the
diffusion Of hydrogen out from the air is a curious,
not to say portentious. phenomenon-vould not
slew processes Of electrolys' account for the grad
uaI diminution OF the earth's water supply more
naturally than any sinking OF the ocean into
cracks Of the earth's crzst? II Is sugsestsd-nd
that with negatively electrified ions shooting all
over space there must be lively happenings on
there where We once pictured an imp0aderabIe.
unreasonable. mysterious calm. punctuated by
the occasional whtE Of a meteor or the ssmEoeca-
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Problems of Forestry

The forestry bureau has been up against It hard recently in the
disastrous forest fires in the northwest The overcoming CT these
fires is a problem yet in its incipency. Their prevention is the cas-
lest thing in the world but for the carelessness and indifference OF
hunters and campers. through whose criminal carelessness most OF
these fires originate. Spontaneous combustion is an occasional
cause, but it is $ rare Is to Be cassed as an actual cause. II has
been demonstrated time and again that the accumulation OF under
growth in the great forests is a fruitful danger in propogating the
spread Of forest fires. The forestry bureau is now considering the
most effective plans for getting rid Of this underground and 1t is
likely that a force OF men will be put to work In the forests cutting
out and destroying this tangle of underground wherever possible.
II is believed by Mr.. Pinchot and his assistants, and particularly by
Secretary Wilson. that the forest fire problem can be a s easily han
died a the prairie fire problem Of a few years ago. All that is
needed is the intelligent and careful cooperation Of people living in
the vicinity Of the forest reserves in watching for incipient fires. and
to make it a felony for hunters or tourists to permit their camp fires
to Inger after they have left their camps.
Since becoming a part of the Agricultural department in 1881,
when IT was transferred from the War department, the weather
bureau has developed into one Of the greatest bureaus of the depart
ment and one Of the most important. Under the intelligent manage
ment of Chief Willis L. Moore the weather bureau has rendered in
calculable service to the Agricultural department Its value is man
ifested in its forecasts, frost possibilities and warnings. Weather
stations have been established in every hamlet and village in the ag-
ricultural areas. Daily reports and warnings ar given, and with
the evolution of the telegraph, telephone and rural free delivery the
farming communities are put into instant communication with the
weather bureau with the same facility as in the commercial and trade
communities The approach Of cold or hot waves is announced with
the same care a in the commercial centers and the farmers are rap
idly availing of this valuable information. Secretary Wilson has
found an enthusiastic coadjutor in Chief Willis L. Moore AMI the
weather service is becoming daily more important to the farming
and stock-rsising communities. Its forecasts and warnings have
already saved millions of dollars to the farming and stOck-Taisng
interests and its work has only Just begun.