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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-02-26
TALK OF THE TOWN.

4
P. J. Blum went TO Burlington today
Oh business visit.
| All kinds Of lake FISH just arrived,
at City fish market
William J. Ross Of Hardwick Is visit
ing relatives in the city.
Joseph Dcnney Of Mortified was in
the city today on business.
Household furniture for sale. Mrs. /.
F. Wright, 80 Pearl street,
Household furniture for sale. Mrs. /.
=. Wright, 30 Pearl street,
J. Z. Bliss Of Putnamyille was bus
mess visitor in the city today.
There will be no meeting 81 Good VIII
emple, no. 40, tomorrow night.
Mrs James McCouacnie has moved
from Websteryille to Elm street.
George Dodge Of Waits River Is visit
ing at the home Of G. S. Wallace.
Dr. e. G. Sprague Is i'll with grippe
at his home on Merchant street.
Cyrus, Thomas and Richard Vennar
went to Boston last night TO work.
Charles Hixon Of Brookfeld il visit.
ing relatives in the city for a few days.
Another invoice Of that fresh-caught
fancy white halibut at City fish market.
A few suits at one half the regular
price at Moore Owens. Sizes 81 to
The quarry workers Of Mantle X. u.
have settled on bill Of prices for three
years.
Get one Of those large fresh haddoeIs
for baking. They are the best in town.
City fsh market.
The Over the Tea Cups club will meet
with Mrs. NJ Z Page Thursday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock
A regular meeting Of Hiawatna lodge,
/ O. O. F., will be held Thursday even
ing; work, first degree
Look for the menu OF the February
supper given by the young ladies Of
the uniYersalist church.
The Frank McWhorter company Is
showing the spring shapes in mems soft
hats; see their window.
The young ladies Of the UniversaIist
church will serve a February supper,
Thursday evening, February III
Henry Stetson returned to Goddard
seminary last night, after few days
visit with his parents in Lyme, n. II
There will be a Swedish prayer meet
ing at 1880 o'clock this evening. at, tile
home Of the Rev. August johnson, /
Webster street.
The D. A. Perry real estate agency
has sold for Louis Mayo his house and
five acres OF land on the East NIontpel-
iey road to A. 4. Sargent. Consideration
$780,
There will be an EPwoith league social
al Hcdding NJ. Il. church Wednesday
evening at 1880 o'clock. The Montpelier
league is expected to be present. A
program win be given and refreshments
served. All arc cordially invited
The water damage sale which Is being
launched on Friday morning By A. 4.
Smith q Brother should be largely at
tended as cutting the prices on the
entire stock will be inaugurated as web
as the goods which have been damaged
by water. Don't fail to bear in mind /
the opening day.
The following dispatch is going the 7
rounds Of the newspapers of the country: 4
Denver, Col, Feb %. -Chief-of Police
Delaney said TODAY that he had located
members OF the band Of anarchists with \
whom Ohio, the murderer of Father Leo.
was connected, in various parts Of the +
country. He said before coming to Amer
lea they worked in a stone quarry in
Italy. Several Of them, he said, are in
Barre. VI.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-02-26
GREAT SALE or FURS.
Which Had Been Struggled Across The
Border.

Burlington, Feb. %. The sale cf furs
lat the county court house yesterday af-
ternoon, under the direction Of United
States Marshal Horace ". Bailey, at.
tfacted a crowd Of men ana women
which completely iilled the court room.
The furs sold We're those seized bp the
customs authorities at Alhureh last De-
teher They were appraised at from
81 500 TO 81 500 The total receipts of
yesterdays sale were Sl.366.25. Deputy
United States Marshal Thomas Reeves
acted as auctioneer The smuggied furs
were on exhibition from ten O'Clock
yesterday morning until TIE time Of the
sale in the afternoon at two O'Clock. The
biading was - times spirited.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-02-26
KEEP ON THE sun
NY SIDE!"

Don't look down in the mouth.
The strike hasn't come yet, and
strike or no strike we're going to
keep right on selling Meats. Vege-
tables, ETC., for the same low prices
as we have since we started. Folks
who have bought goods here know
what that statement means, and
folks who haven't been here here
to-fore will know that it means
first class market products at lower
prices than elsewhere in town.
Some wonder how we do it.
We II tell them. We do business
on strictly cash basis, you pay
fair price for exactly what you get.
We have no bad bills to charge
in on your purchase. On that
principle we solicit your patronage
Prompt delivery, phone 1911,
The Central Market,
c. E. ingalls,. Mgr. ze No. Main st.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-02-26
"THE BISHOP WON.
In Straight Heats on Burlington Speed.
way Yesterday.

Burlington. Feb 26.-There was some.
thing doing yesterday afternoon on the
speedway. Six classified races were run
on and the crowd that coneregated aIona
North Willard street enjoyed the sport
greatly. Probably the fastest race was
the Class G contest when Tie Bishop.
owned BY g. E Whitney, and Quick
silver, owned BY J. A. Merrill, tried their
PAGES. the former horse winning IN
straight heats The weather vas ideal
and the different heats run of in grand
circuit fashion.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-02-26
The BARRE DAILY TIMES
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 9. lg0a.
weather Prediction.

Rain Or snow tonight; colder nj west
portion. Thursday fair in south, rain
or snow IN north; colder, brisk high to
east winds, becoming west By Thurs
day. southeast storm warnings contin.
ued
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-02-26

Troy, n. Y, Feb go. Edward Davis
OF Schenectady committed suicide in the
state armory at Hoosick Falls last even
ing BY firing bullet through mis- head.
He formerly lived at Hoosick Falls. He
was deputy sheriff Of Schenectady.
No cause for the deed is known He left
a letter for his daughter in Hoosick
Falls.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-02-26
GRANTTEvILLE.

Members Of Summit lodge, No. 207-
N. f. o. p, are requested to meet at
the residence OF WI II. Norris, at 1880
sharp, Thursday p. M, for the purpose
of attending, in a body, the funeral Of
our late sister, Ellen Pirie. Per order
warden.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-01
SERMONS ROLLED Down.


Sound doctrine does not cure d diseased
heart.
The richest gifts come out of the poorest
pockets
The life of service has few difficulties of
conduct.
The pursuit of truth is the secret of
eternal youth.
1t doesn't take much fortitude to bear
another's miSfortune.
A mans title to glory does not depend
on the glory of his title.
You never lose your own Joy by lending
an ear to another's woe
Happy is he who is too rich in faith to
worry over a fortune.
A square deal has something beside sharp
edges and angles to It.
The cross is irksome only when we try
to climb it as a pedestal.
Only the morally astigmatic see lying as
the only refuge in time Of trouble.
When a man tells the truth about him
self he Is anxious for some one to call him
liar.
He who believes nothing until he under
stands 1t fully must have a limited range
of knowledge.
Religion never makes a permanently pow
erful impression without steady practical
expression.-Chi Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-01

NEBRASKA ASSURED TO TAFT.
The primaries and conventions held
throughout this state during the last
week have assured the support of the
Nebraska delegation in the Chicago
convention to Mr.. Taft. Although
none OF the national delegates have
yet been formally commissioned, the
instructions voted by the rank and file
of the party upon the delegates to the
state and congressional conventions
make il certain that these delegates
when selected win go to Chicago COM
mitted to Mr. Taft's candidacy.
Nebraska republicans have a right
to be proud that they have been privi-
legged to lead in the movement to ele-
vate the great war secretary to the
presidency. The platform upon which
Nebraska was carried by increased re-
publican majorities last year was the
first state platform containing an out
spoken endorsement of Mr.. Taft as the
man pre-eminently qualified to succeed
President Roosevelt and to continue
the distinctive Roosevelt policies. The
election of the republican candidates
upon that platform constituted a presi-
Dental preference vote reflecting the
sentiments of the party in Nebraska as
much as could any direct primary bal
loting at this time. and its accuracy
is being verified now by the over
whelming Taft majorities disclosed in
the various preliminary caucuses and
conventions.
Should Mr.. Taft be nominated and
elected, and all present signs point to
his success. in convention and at the
polls, the material assistance given
him by Nebraska at the time when
this assistance is most helpful, should
be, and we are sure will be, remem-
bered and appreciated.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-01
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE; MARCH 1, 1908

Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire,
Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and
New York. It will be noticed that the
wording of Mr., Justice Brewers opin-
ion is very cautious in explaining that
II does not necessarily follow that a
law limiting the hours of labor OF men
would be sustained by the court IL
leaves the inference. however, that
the legislature may go far in the ex-
ercise Of police power for the general
welfare. The fact that Mr.. Justice
Brewer dissented from the opinion Of
the supreme court. which sustained
the Utah statute forbidding the em-
ployment of men for more than eight
hours in mines. leaves the conclusion
that, in his opinion, the states may in
sist upon regulations for the protec-
tion of women even when similar laws
applied to men could not be sustained.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-01
pROrEcr1oN ZOE WoMEM.

Enthusiastic advocates of equal suf-
frage may refuse to accept the decla-
ration of the United States supreme
court that women are not as physically
capable as men of performing labor,
but the general public will accept it
as a notable advance in the interpre-
tation of law and recognition by the
highest court that the interest of the
human race is above that of the indi-
vidual. Incidentally, it places a new
Interpretation upon the right of free
contract.
The case supporting this decision
was brought by Portland, Ore, laun-
dryman to test the validity of state
law forbidding the employment of
women in any mechanical establish
ment, factory or-laundry more than
ten hours a day. The law was at
tackled as an arbitrary interference
with the right of the woman worker
to contract freely TO sell her labor,
The much-abused fourteenth amend
ment to the federal constitution, guar
antying personal liberty, was urged
against the validity of the Oregon law,
In defense of the law it was argued
that this liberty was subject to such
reasonable restraint as the state might
determine necessary to protect health,
morals, safety and the general well
fare,
Mr. Justice Brewer, in upholding
the Oregon law, declares that the state
is justified in exercising paternal care
for the health and welfare of women
workers. On that point he says;
Differentiated by these matters from the
other sex she is probably placed in a class
by herself. and legislation designed for her
protection may be sustained. even when
like legislation Is not necessary for mer
and could not be sustained II is impossl-
BILE to close ones eyes to the fact that she
still looks 20 her brother and depends upor
him. Even though all restrictions on po-
litical, personal and contractual rights were
taken away, and she stood. so far as stat.
utes are concerned, upon absolutely equa
plane with him, It would still be true thai
she is so constituted that she viii rest upor
and look 70 him for protection; that hel
physical structure and proper discharg,
OF her maternal MISUNDERSTANDING in view
not merely her own health, but the we'll
being OF the race-justify legislation tC
protect her from the greed as wen as tn,
passion OF man.
The decision practically afirms ths
constitutional.ty OF all legally passed
state laws limiting the hours of labor
of women. Such laws have been en-
acted in Nebraska. Washington. Mas
sachusetts. Rhode Island. Louisiana
Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-01

Let us hope that the foreigners who
have been battling through the snow
drifts in their New York to Paris
automobile race will not judge Ameri-
cans by the samples furnished by the
farmers in northern Indiana. Accord
ing to the dispatches. the Hoosiers
along the line have been evincing great
interest ip the progress of the snow
floundering racers and exhibiting what
they may think brave show of their
patriotism by lending every possible
assistance to the American autoists
and refusing help to the drivers of
the foreign cars.
This is neither the farmer spirit nor
the American spirit. 1t is almost past
belief, although the reports all agree,
that any American farmer would find
any excuse sufficient to prevent him
going to the assistance of man lodged
in a snow drift and suffering from
cold, fatigue and hunger. He might
feel that the autoist should have known
better than to undertake such trip
at this season. but that should not
deter him from offering the necessary
relief.
The American love of fair play is
also outraged at this discrimination.
If those autoists ever get to Paris,
every true American will wish that
the American drivers should reach
there ahead of the procession, but none
will desire such a victory won by un-
fair tactics. If the best driver and the
best car cannot win on their merits,
let them lose gamely
Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-01
rHE REsu1r 1N kENruoKY.

Kentucky's place in the list of doubt
full states has been confirmed by the
action of the legislature in electing
former Governor W. o. Bradley, re-
publican, to the United States senate.
The result is body blow to the demo-
cratic state machine. built up by for
mer Governor w. G. ]. Beckham and
operated by him for personal political
advancement, in a manner that alien
ated much of the democratic following
and helped the republicans win their
uphill fight last November, resulting
in the election of an entire republican
state ticket and healthy majority of
the lower branch of the legislature.
Political conditions within the dem
ocratic party in Kentucky have been
so complicated that it we're perhaps
unsafe to discuss the merits of the
controversy between the Beckham
crowd and those opposed to him. But,
unquestionably, the sentiment of the
state is republican at present. Beck
ham would have been practically with
out following in the legislature had
it not been that many of the hold
over members of that body were
pledged to his support by primary
election in which he defeated Senator
McCreary. The complete smashing of
the Beckham machine in the last state
election showed too plainly the popular
revolt against misrule in state affairs
due to his management of the demo-
cratic party. The four democratic
members of the legislature who voted
for the republican candidate clearly
find warrant for their action in the
expressed sentiment of the voters
registered at the polls in November
last
The action of the Kentucky legis-
lature leaves Mr.. Bryan in a some
what embarrassing position. He vol
unteered his services in behalf of Gov
ernor Beckham and in an address to
the Legislature pleaded with the demo
cratic members TO vote for BecKham
because his defeat might cripple the
party in national affairs and have q
discouraging effect upon democratic
prospects in the national campaign
His statement now, that he cannot seS
how the election of Mr.. Bradley car
have an effect on national politics
fails to dovetail with his arguments
before the legislature. Mr.. Bryan
doubtless realizes. as well-informeC
politicians everywhere must, that Ken
lucky, like Missouri, has gotten out o
the ranks of solid democratic state
and is debatable ground on the poll
tical battlefield
Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-01
CAUSES OF STUDENT FAILURE.

The problem of eliminating the dis
qualified has not been completely
solved by insisting on the exhibition
of college diploma as a prerequisite
to admission of students to profess
sional schools. In Columbia univer-
sity, where the hard and fast line has
now been drawn for several years re-
quiring students in the law school to
be graduates of some recognized col
legiate institution, the confession is
made by the dean of the school in his
annual report that failure to graduate
is due almost entirely to deficiency of
preparation scholarship.
Dean Kirchwey quotes figures from
his records to show that of twenty-five
members of the first year class who
dropped out only three had passed all
their examinations. and that of the
twenty-one members of the second
year class who dropped out only six
had passed all their examinations
These figures" he says. ARE both re-
assuring and disquieting." He thinks
them reassuring insofar as they show
the hold which the school gains on the
better class of students and the insig.
nifcant influence of other causes, such
as competing schools or methods of in.
struction. and even the temptation tC
seek a short cut to professional life, il
drawing them away On the Other
hand, they are "disquieting in thar
they indicate the continued presenc,
Notwithstanding existing requirement.
for admission of considerable bod,
OF men who are wholly unfit for tn,
work and who by their presence lowe
the tone of the entire student body"
1t is fairly TO be presumed that thi
situation thus disclosed fnds coun
terpart in all the professional school
irrespective of whether they have pu
their admission requirements up TO tn,
top notch. II used TO be the habit o
every college professor TO declare tina
any boy who graduated from his in
stitution could take up theology, medI
cine or law. or other higher calling
with practical assurance OF success
Experience proves. however, that al
college graduates are not equally fitte'
10 take up specialized work.
! Dean Kirchwey advises the adoetiol
Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-01
WHERE AMrRlcAN MONEY GOES.


Some statisticians have been en-
gagged in the fascinating, If not profit
able, pastime of trying to figure out
how much good American money is
taken to Europe by tourists each year.
All kinds of guesses on this subject
have been made from time to time,
but by using the reports from steam
ship companies and data furnished by
foreigners who have direct dealings
with the tourists for estimates, which
probably are more accurate than those
usually given out. Charles f. Spear,
writing in the Review of Reviews,
places the total annual expenditures
OF Americans in Europe at something
less than 5000, 600, including the
amount used to purchase pictures and
other works of art. Mr., Spear figures
that the average individual tourist
spends about $500 on his trip abroad
and that an automobile trip costs abou,
$4,000. II is estimated that 5000
automobiles last year carried 10000
Americans over the highways of France
alone,
The London agent OF an American
express company says that this esti
mate is too high by $4,000, On ths
other hand, estimates by German
statisticians place the number of Amer
lean tourists in Europe at SOC, 600 and
their expenditures at s225. .00O. .OO1
annually. He says that American
women spend at least 10,0OO, 900 II
Paris on gowns and toilet articles
Even this is $4,000 below tn,
estimate by Consul General Mason q
Paris. who thinks that American
Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-01

The round figures in this table on
their face indicate that they are moth
ing but wild guesses and the flimsy
basis on which they rest is easily
gathered from the following further
explanations of the items as they relate
to Omaha:
In Omaha in the last four years there
have been twenty-one arrests for election
frauds, but there has never been con-
viction in the county in any such case. Six
teen of the twenty-one cases were against
election officers for Illegal practices and
juggling returns "a la New York;. Only
two of these cases went to trial, both result
ing in acquittal. Four cases are still desig-
mated as pending" The rest were dis
missed. At the nranicipal election of May,
1906 it was declared that more than one
fifth of the registrations were illegal. Two
hundred and seventy-fve warrants were
issued for illegal registrations in one ward.
A detective employed by the Civic fedora
ton showed where 80 men were fraudu-
lenty registered in the Third ward alone.
Net result: Twenty one arrests, no con-
victions.
The mere assertion that there were
2 1000 election crimes" in single city
election in Omaha is it's own refutation.
If there were 1000 election crimes in
Omaha at the last city election, one out
of every eight of our citizens would
have had to have been accessory to the
crime.
The advertisement which Omaha
gets as a sink-hole of corruption in
this widely circulated magazine comes
simply from the reckless elimination
made by irresponsible parties, which
when sifted down. prove in nine cases
foundation in fact, except in mistakes
of registrars in the spelling of names
or in writing down correct addresses.
The failure to convict in the few cases
where arrests were actually made ad-
mittedly resulted from lack of evidence
and not from refusal to prosecute.
The Bee does not hesitate to assert
that the laws under which elections are
held in Omaha provide against fraud
and corrupt manipulation at elections
as comprehensively as the laws govern
ing the elections in any other city in
the country, and that on the whole the
elections in Omaha are far freer from
illegal interference with the voter and
more truly register the real wishes Of
those who participate in them than the
elections in any other American city
as large or larger than Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-01

spend from 100000 to $4,000
600 year for toilet articles, furs,
iewelry and other luxuries, most of
which are bought in Paris.
These estimates, however nearly ac-
curate they may be. cover only the
expenses of the American pleasure
seekers abroad. The money drain
from this source is probably smalI,
compared with the amounts sent to
Europe annually by the thousands of
foreign-born who have been working
in this country and still continue to
contribute to the support of members
of their family in the old country The
figures prove only that the Americans
are liberal spenders, too liberal, per-
haps, for their own good.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-01

As for Mr. Foraker, he still has that
dark Brownsville taste In his mouth
Mrs Charles T. Yerkes intends to de-
vote a portion of her S1O.OOO,OOO estate to the
erection of a magnificent hospital in Chi
cago
Ex-senator Stewart Of Nevada, despite
his long white beard and his So years OF
life, Is still erect and a sturdy specimen of
manhood
Los Angeles never will forgive Admiral
Bob Evans If he doesn't recover from his
rheumatism when he begins to breathe the
air of that town.
Colonel Goethals says: "The Panama
canal will be completed and open for bus
mess on January 1, 1915" At last there Is
something definite
Governor Hughes ought to be able 70
extend a good deal Of sympathy to Presl-
dent Roosevelt Hughes knows what II is
TO have an unfriendly senate on his hands.
The "automobie disease" has been dis
covered by DR.. Henry Becker OF New York
After Studying the malady for a year he
says it affects the tissues OF the throat
and lungs, causing congestion and decay
Prof. Alexander Agassis. director and
curator OF the University museum at Har-
ward. president OF the Calumet & Heels
company and worldwide traveller. will
shortly start on an expedition to the lakes
and wiIdeTnesses OF Central Africa
Commander Peary is likely soon TO be
very rich man. he has quietly pur-
chased sixteen desirable Islands In Casco
bay, Maine, where he may build a biz
summer hotel and where be pfl raise Es,
quimaux dogs on large scale. Il is moi
likely he will begin the development OF the
property until after his next Polar trip.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-01

OF more stringent rules TO expel the
unfit at an early stage and a system of
tests which should weed out the indif-
ferent and incompetent by the middle
of the first year This would. doubt
less. help some, but the end would be
accomplished still faster II the string
ent rules were applied before gradua-
tion from the colleges so as to make a
college diploma better guaranty that
its holder can pursue professional
studies without being forced out by
failure to pass examinations.