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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29

with his scheme FOR making a mar.
ket Some Of the letters were covert
threats, but most of them indicated
anxiety in greater or less degree to
get copy of the novel
AT last ! made date OF publica-
ton. On the morning OF the day an
nounced an enormous crowd Of people
waited before the store TIL the doors
should open. / was obliged to push
my way through struggling mass Of
humanity to get into my own Office
The binders had disappointed me, and
| was unable to furnish the book. |
had a notice tackled up outside to that
effect and that 1t would be ready the
next day. How many people went
away on seeing the notice don't
sknow. From a window / saw a num-
Der of men approach, smile and leave,
but NEST of the women stayed till the
notice was put up. some muttering,
some melancholy. learned afterward
that the dealers all over the country
were besieged in a similar manner.
though the smaller the town the less
the demand.
Il hurried my binders, desiring TO
get the book out as soon as possible. /
expected every day to hear OF the au-
thor's arrest, and il he were arrested |
feared / would be enjoined by court
process from publishing the book. I
wouldn't have cared to be stopped
from issuing 1t had it not been for the
fact that there was now a small for
tune Ia it.
"Well, the next day got It out.
Clerks were kept busy all day selling
single copies over the counter besides
those shipped to the dealers. In three
days we had sold 100000 copies. Then
there was a lull, slight increase, and
the sales died down to nothing. But
they commenced again when it was
announced that "A Hand In the Dark
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29

taking Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound to see what IL would do,
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900, WillimRntic. Conn.
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Proof is abundant that IL has cured
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not cure your
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29
EVIDENCE sroLEN-s ARRESTED.
Another Sensation in the Frisco Graft
Cases.

San Francisco, CAL, March 20.--Fye
men were arrested Saturday afternoon
and locked in separate cells in the city
prison, accused of conspiring TO secure
confidential records and transcripts Of
evidence of value to the defense ia the
graft cases from the private offices of
, the district attorney.
The men arrested are Need NJ Ham,
lin, confidential employee of District At
torney Langdon and for two years pri-
vate secretary 10 Detective William J.
Burns; Al Mckinley, William Corbin,
f. A. Platt and Joseph Van Wormer.
After his arrested Hanlin broke down
and made a confession of his part in
the affair. He was the only man in the
district attorneys Office who possessed a
key to Burnss desk, and also the comb.
nation to the safe.
1t is alleged that Hamlin, for a consid.
Grafton Of $500 month, has been in tbs
habit of transeribing records and docu-
ments which he thought would be Of
Importance to the graft defense, and
turning them over to Mckinley, who is
declared to have acted as q go between.
About two months ago Burns became
suspicious of Hamlin, and since then he
has been allowed to handle nothing Of
Importance.
Platt is alleged to have sold reports
Of investigations Of members Of the
grand jury panels in the graft cases, and
the others are said to be implicated as
Intermediates in the matter.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29
TO SAVE OUR EYES

There is biblical injunction sgainst
hiding our Eight under blshel." Yet
nearly every one who has gas or elect
ricity for lighting win be literally COW
ering the source of light with metal
shade that looks very much like small
bushel measure. For several years, light
experts and more particularly special
lists in eye troubles have decried the
evil effects upon the eye of the direct
rays from our modern brilliant light
sources. This has been made more ev-
ident by the introduction and general use
Of the new high eandlepower metallic
flament incandesent lamps. There have,
therefore, been many attempts to de-
wise method of interior illumination
by which the rays reelected once at
least before reaching the eye.
There is considerable number of
installations in which this indirect ILL.,
animation" is applied in different ways,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29
Science SdtIngs.

In each 223 lunar months there are
twenty eclipses Of the neon and
torty-one of the sun.
Nine-tenths Of human energy ex.
pended In muscular movement goes
out as heat. hut one-tenth being util-
lied mechanically as work done.
According to two scientists OF the
Massachusetts, Institute Of Technology.
each human emotion creates in deli
cate machine which they have invent
ed a distinct electric force which it ID
possible to classify.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29

neither or us thought MS arrest would
be a very serious matter or injure the
sale of his novel; / took a week to
consider It, then told him that he
might 60 ahead, but my part would
depend upon whether he succeeded in
attracting the attention OF the public
to HIS book before 1t was issued. He
consented to this. and The deal was
made.
1T wasn't long before began to re-
ceiye orders from dealers In various
places for one or two copies each of q
novel was to issue called "A Hand In
the Dark | knew that this was the
name OF the. novel / had agreed to
publish, but had never seen the manu-
script. ] put the orders on file, pay
ing no more attention to them. Very
soon many OF them were increased,
new ones also coming in. began to
get letters from people-mostly wo-
men--asklng when "A Hand In the
Dark was to be published and a re-
quest to send copy as soon as 1t was
issued These orders also kept grow
ing till had received sufficient
number OF them to pay all the ex-
pense of publication.
II now began to think OF getting out
the book. Calling for the manuscript,
! read it and hadn't gone over fifty
pages before / regretted my contract.
couldn't back out, for the fellow had
fulfilled his only condition OF making
a market. The stuff was the worst I
ever read. delayed having the plates
made, hoping for some way out of the
trap. But the orders continued to
come in. noticed they were more
scattered than those pertaining TO any
book / had ever published. The in
dividual orders were enormous. But
saw at once that trouble was brewing
for me as well as for the author,
though ] had nothing whatever to do
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29

was best seller and, taking all the
sales together, both l and the author
made mighty good thing. Some dis
appointed persons threatened to prose
cute both me and him, but thought
better Of It before taking sction. The
scheme put me In bad odor with my
fellow customers for awhile, but I'd
added largely to my capital and went
into de luxe editions Of eminently re-
spectacle books
'The scheme? Oh, that was simple.
The author wrote several hundred
thousand letters. each with an iliegible
signature. limiting at some secret Of
the person addressed or some one near
and dear which was revealed In "A
Hand In the Dark"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29

the most successful heretofore hsing
tint in which the light IL hidden behind
brackets around the edge OF tina room
and reflected towards tho ceiling. II has
been very limited In application owing
10 tho loss, or absorption OF light b.
the rejecting surface, but where the
expense is not considered, very pleasing
results were produced. Recent develop
ments have been made that probably
mark an epoch in interior lighting and
will make indirect illumination very
general system. In order 10 make thia
method commercially available, that Is,
bring il within the reach OF the man OF
ordinary means, two things were nee
essary.--lFrom Covering Lights to Save
Eyes, in Technical World Magazine
for April.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29
A0KI IS MARRIED TO
MISS HELEN EMERY
The Girls Father Attends the Wedding
of His Daughter to the Japan
ese Man at Seattle,
Wash

Seattle, Wash, March 2o.-Miss Helen
Gladys Emery, daughter of Archdeacon
John Emery Of the Episcopal diocese Of
California, was married at Trinity church
Saturday to her japanese sweetheart.
Gunjiro AolSi, by the Rev. II. II. Cow
an.
They had travelled more than 1000
miles, from Corta MADEIRA, Cal, TO DO
married. The laws Of California prevent
such a union.
Archdeacon Emery, who at first strong
ly opposed the marriage Of his daughter
to the Japanese, and his wife and J. Sun
adai were the only witnesses to the
ceremony. The big granite church was
dimly lighted.
Archdeacon Emery, his wife and daugh-
ter arrived here Friday afternoon in COM
pany with the Japanese and made tho
arrangements for the wedding. Arch
deacon Emery was waiting for his wife
and daughter at the Savoy hotel and
greeted her affectionately. She threw
her arms about his neck and kissed
him.
Mr.. Emery regsted a. z. J. Abbott.
His wife and daughter went under the
name of Mrs. S. F. Wiseman and daugh-
ter. Aoki stopped at the home Of
fellow countryman.
Friday night the Japanese and his
prospective father-in-law spent several
hours investigating the law dealing with
Monaghan mixed marriages. They final
ly decided that il would be possible for
the pair to be married in the girls native
country, and Saturday Aoi got the
license in this city.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29
A Best Seller.

Copyright. 1899, by American Press Asso-
Did you ever hear asked the pub
fisher. 'how "A Hand In the Dark was
doomed? II was not only the best
selIer Of fits season, but it sold 300 per
cent better than any other novel pub
lished III five years.
II was just starting into the bust
ness then and mighty anxious to make
a strike that would put me well on
my feet, especially as to capital.
read a~hundred manuscript novels Sc
lected from thousand read by my
assistants and out Of the hundred Sc
lected three that l concluded to take
risk on. They were all dead failures.
They weren't high grade literary
works either. I knew enough not to
put out that kind of stuff to make
money on; but, even with stories on
the ground floor couldn't make 1t
90.
Zone day measly looking chap came
into my office and said he wished me
to 70 into scheme with him for pub
fishing a novel. told him that If he
had q manuscript to submit would
have 1t read.
You're beginning at the wrong
end. he said. The story isn't Of any
Importance. It's making market for
1t that counts. Make your market first
and you can select your novel with
your eyes shut
There was something SO brazen
about this that 1t attracted my atten-
tion. I called for his plan, and be gave
1t. He admitted that he ran a risk OF
arrest. and agreed with him. but
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29
Proverbs.

Actions are the raiment Of the man
--Greek proverb.
Associate with the lame and yea win
learn to limp. Latin Provarb.
The same fire purifies geld and con-
bumeS straw German Proverb.
The devil tempts all other men, but
idle men tempt the devil - '--'~
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29
That Dull PAIN in Pit Of your
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29

walk upstairs
without stopping
on the way. /
tried three differ
ent doctors and
each told me some
thing different. /
received no benefit
from any of them,
but seemed TO suf-
fer more. The last
doctor said moth
ing would restore
my health I bepan
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29

Behind DR. Piarce's Medicines
xxands the InvaIfds Hotel aad Sur
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Of ekfued Specialists to treat the
mere dfffcult cases OF Chronic
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29
AFTER
DOCTORS
FAILED
LydiaE. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound Cured Her.

Willimantic, Conn. For FIVE years
/ suffered untold agony from female
troubles, causing backache, Irregular
ties. dizziness and nervous prostra-
ton. It was impossible for me TO
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29

than his stomach Make strong you thereby
throat lung
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-29

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-28
Typographical Errors That
Have Caused Trouble

When leading London newspaper,
in noticing the floating of new com
mereial enterprise, spoke of the issuing
of 'Eone hundred thousand snares at
FL each,' a statement which, however
true, was hardly intentional, the
splendid fury of the promoters of that
enterprise was fully balanced by the
large satisfaction, not to say glee, of
its enemies, and no one stopped to
think that the innocent fact of the
close juxtaposition in which the letters
and n stand to each other on the
typewriters of today, or slip on the
part of the typesetter in the compos-
ing room fully accounted for the ger
ror. A typographical error may be
an evil thing; it is sometimes very
serious thing, but it never fails of be,
ing, from some point of view, funny
to the last degree.
The presence of the typewriter in the
newspaper offices of today has done
much to make easier the lives of the
author, the editor and the compositor,
but the typewriter with all it's advant-
ages has no automatic runctuating de-
vice, and the virtue of a comma is
amply illustrated by the story of the
Scotch divine, an extract from whose
sermon as it appeared in local paper,
read:
sfOnly last Sabbath, my friends, a
ID sh
suddenly, while I was endeavoring to
preach the word in state of beastly
intoxieation.
And over poem printed in a weekly
appeared the startling comment: "The
following verses were written more
than fifty years ago, by a gentleman
who has for fifteen years lain in his
grave for his own amusement
Unusual handwriting, however, has
more to answer for than the vagaries
of the typewriter. "The greater the
author, the greater the scrawler" is
only too frequently true, and it is not
always fair to put the blame for this
sort of blunder on the shoulders of the
eompositor. Carlyle and Balzac were
two whose copy few printers could read
anu HoHt NouIu HdHolo Aoi iIoA0 tnn =
an hour at a time. Victor Hugo and
Byron were impossibly bad penmen,
and Sydney Smith is quoted as frankly
saving. CT must decline reading my
own handwriting twenty four hours
after I have written it.
Easily king of wretehed penmen.
Horace Greeley stands out at the head
of the American journalistic line. The
Mortified cry of new eompositor when
first given some of the great editor s
copy, ssGood Godl IF Belshazzar la
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-28
A PERnoUs PREDIcAMENT.

Robert Herrick, the brilliant realistic
novelist, said at recent luncheon at
Chicago:
ssThere is type of American wife
who, in her greed for wealth and dis
play, brings unhappiness on herself.
She rather reminds me of the fat man
and the tabled 'hote dinner.
ssThis man entered q restaurant that
served a dinner at the fixed price of
seventy-fve cents. He knotted a nap
kin about his neck and fell to heavily.
So heavily, in fact, that the waiter,
after whispered conversation with the
proprietor, approached him and said:
Beg pardon, sir, but III have to
charge you quarter extra you eat so
much.
'fThe fat man, red and short of
breath from his excessive gorging, said
earnestly:
&c For goodness sake, don t do that,
I m nearly dead now from eating seven
ty-fve cents worth. IF you make me
eat another quarter III bust. New
York Times.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-28

seen this writing on the wall he would
have been more terrified than he was, :"
is still quoted in newspaper offices. A
man who could read Greeley's manu-.
script correctly at sight was looked on
as wonder among his kind.
The Illinois Press Association once
sent Mr.. Greeley an invitation asking
him to join them at convention about
to be held, and the editor was at last,
reluctantly, obliged to decline, in these
words:
81 have waited, till longer waiting
would be discourteous, only to find that
| cannot attend your press meeting next
June, as | would like to do. | find so
many cares and duties pressing me that
with weight of years I feel obliged to
decline any invitation that takes me
away days journey from home. -
The following translation was finally
arrived at by the committee which re-
ceived the note, after long and earnest
study:
81 have wondered all along whether
any squire had denied the story about
the President meeting James in the
woods Saturday. I have hominy, ear
rots and railroad ties more than I could
move with eight steers. If eels are
blighted dig them early. Any insinua-
ton that brick ovens are dangerous to
hams gives me the horrors.
Not all the errors that creep into
print find their places in the columns
of the rural papers or those of the small
Ter towns. A Chicago society leader
one morning had the pleasure of seeing
himself described in the morning paper
as Gone whose manners would alarm
drowning man. when investigation
revealed the fact that the copy bad
said they sfwould adorn drawing
room. And it was in Massachusetts,
shrine of the literary great, that an
ultra respectable newspaper once closed
an extended and highly eulogistie
obituary notice of a deceased lawyer
with the somewhat startling informa-
ton that fthe body was taken to He'll
for interment, where repose the remains
of the other members of the family. =
The explanation that "Hull was the
word intended did little TO allay the
trouble that followed.
In the issuing of the Congressional
, Record, the printing Office has taken
every precaution to prevent the posi-
bility of errors. Every line of proof
| and every page of copy is carefully
preserved in order to protect the office,
as it is no uncommon thing for errors
to be charged to stenographers, proof
readers and printers, and every care is
! taken to guard against such.
| The days, not so very long ago, when
all the copy for the Congressional Rec
F! ord came to the printing Office in the
| chirography of the author were days
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-28

of profanity and drink Among the
veterans of the office no end of print
ers yarns are yet extant in regard TO
the lawful fist written by some of
the men whose names adorn every his
tory.
Today the copy is sent to the office
in typewriter form, with only the cor
reetions and interpretations to bother
the printer and to show that the work
would be in the written hand of the
speaker.-Washingto Star
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-05-19

The more inclined II is to the be-
lief that the v. .. JOB would be good
one for Burke. He could rescue Il
from the political burying ground il
has long been supposed to be and make
Il regular Ialapaloosa.
or course there is one difficulty in
the way OF Burke landing that JOB
There would be no show for him
with Johnson Of Minnesota in hrst
place. Two men would never be Sc
Iected from adjoining states In the
northwest. To make this alleged
dream Of Burke come true It win be
necessary for the North Dakotan and
his friends to throw the harpoon into
the ambitious Minnesotan--and TO
pick some other man for first place.
The farther away the head OF the
ticket-the better Burke's chances.
Here's a good opportunity for North
Dakotans TO win glory for the state.
Boost for Burke for v. p.--and knock
Johnson for first place. Whoop her
up for John the First and embrace the
opportunity to win fame for the state
through the reflected glory from her
favorfte democratic son. .
Three cheers for Burke and the ".
presidency
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-05-19
PAINTING FARGO BLACK.

The morning paper proudly refers
to the record for battling the editor
gained at Lidgerwood before coming
to Fargo. He believes that he won
out down there and should have better
chances for success IN Fargo.
The Forum hopes he will be most
successful in Fargo and find at the
end of his self-fxed probationary per-
lod Of two months that he likes the
city and will remain.
But It suggests that he should not
daub the black paint onto Fargo as
he applied II in Lidgerwood. He gave
Lidgerwood the reputation Of being
one OF the toughest places in the
state. He may have been right-or
wrong.
The Forum knows that Fargo ia not
the sinkhole Lidgerwood was painted
and suggests that the ex-Broadaxer
exercise more care in his selections
Of color-should he attempt to achieve
fame and greatness in this city
through the same methods he used in
RichIand county.
Fargo does not deserve-nor is IT
looking for this kind of advertising
not just now.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-05-19
Cummings,

Cummings. n, D., May Ito The
Forum: Leo Henry, who has been
visiting his uncle, Clifford Henry, left
Monday evening for cass Lake, MINI.
s. p. Morton left last Wednesday
night for LakevilIe. Mimi, on a visit
70 his brothers, and will also spend a
day or two in Minneapolis before re-
turning home.
Jesse w. Smith arrived here Thurs
day after spending the winter In Far
go, N. d.
Harry johnson went to MARVEL, NJ.
d., last Thursday to see his father, who
is quite sick at present.
b. NJ. johnson is enjoying a visit
from his brother last week, who lives
near East Grand Forks, MINI.
Misses Nettie and Gena Nelson and
Josie Harstad OF HilIsboro, N. D., spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs c. G. Nell
son.
r. M. Whsle and c. q. Nelson, two
of our popular merchants, transacted
business in fIillsboro Tuesday.
Mrs. /. Mclaughlin Is suffering with
an attack of sore throat and la grippe
this week. Cor. c..