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Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-06

What sort Of a carpet bester is besta"i,
Mine is bald-headed and rather stoue
but / wouldn't go so far as to say he is
the best."-HOuston Post.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-06

WAS she hurt when she was thrown
from the automobile"
Nope. She landed on her head
without suffering any DAMAGE
well. It smashed a roll, a double row
Of puffs and seven rats!"-Clevelend Plain
Dealer.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-06
WHEN orr OLE TOWN.

WHEY oJrT OF TOWN.
subscribers leaving the city tenn
porartly should have The Dee
mailed TO them. Address will be
changed as often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-06
SMILING REMARKS.

Us Reginald as literary as he used "A
be-" said one young woman.
Yes" answered the other. Only his
tastes have changed Before we we're mar
ried he used to recite Omar RhByyam. Now
he recItes Poor Richards maxims Wash
inRton star.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-06

so she loved and lost?"
yes. lie spent all her money. New
York Times.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-06

Daily. average 4o,s4o
GEORGE 3. TzSCHUCK,
T9easu er.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this LIST day Of May. 1902
M. r. WALKER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-06

The precincts Of the senate were in
vaded Friday by two strangers. but the
grave old sticklers for the exclusiveness
of that chamber were not aware of the de-
secration until after the two men had de-
parted. A doorkeeper Is having nightmare
in fear of the wrath of Colonel Dan Rams
dell, sergeant-at-arms and guardian of
the sacred room. ,
The strangers were taking in the sights
of the capitol and, seeing the main door
of the senate invitingly open strolled into
the chamber. sat down on one OF the COM
Portable sofas in the rear of the senators
desks and listened to a prosy tariff dis
cussion for half an hour. firing of the
debate, they quietly took their departure.
A newspaper man having spied them, and
not recognizing them as members of either
house, or as distinguished personages en-
titled to the privileges of the floor, asked
the doorkeeper. as they passed out. who
they were.
They are members of the house, l
guess" answered that employee. The news
paper man then accosted the strangers and
asked II they were congressman.
Discovering that they were not, he
wanted to know how they happened TO get
on the floor Of the senate. a privilege ac-
corded TO only a few hundred OF the 90
OOO,0O OF American citizens. They said the
door was opened and they simply walked
In. The cozy sofa looked good to them,
and they concluded to stay a while. They
enjoyed the Joke with the newspaper man
and gave the latter their names as Rev.
]. NJ. Hartzell of Philadelphia and r. l..
Adams of Harrington. Del.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-06

do your constituents write TO you about
the TARIFF"
II should say So nswered Senator
Sorghum. And ] must say that II I were
as selfish In my politics as some of my
correspondents, I'd have been sent back
to private life lorg ago."-Washington Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-06

They had no suits bic gloves in the store
We went to. And that is 2 most extraordi-
nary proceeding"
why extraordinary"
Because In the nature of things, gloves
are something which should always he
found on and."-Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-06

Caller-What a pretty baby Have voI
named him yet?
Young Mother-Yes; we have had him
christened Montgomery Alfred Nathaniel
Caller-But he's such a little fellow.
Aren't you afraid a name like that will
stunt him?
Young Mother-On the contrary. We be
lieve 1t will have the effect Of making him
feel that he's Just got to grow up TO it.
Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-06

II the Brooklyn Eagle correspondent Is
to he believed, the maiden speech of Sena-
tor Martin n. Johnson Of North Dakota in
the senate last week. provoked q variety
Of dignificd emotions. Johnson had not
been talking more than three minutes when
he had everybody laughing Not that
Johnson was trying to be amusing. but
because he presented such a funny figure.
In the first place. ne resembles a mono
losue artist Of the vaudeville circuit, with
very little makeup. His hair is short and
irregularly distributed, his face is angular
and he wears steel bowed spectacles which
he is constantly putting on and taking off.
Johnson wears one of\ those big, shiny
Prince Alberts much affected by the song
and dance man.
When he began to speak 1t was with a
halting. apologize manner. fumblinE with
books and papers on his desk In the mean
time. He gradually wandered down the
row of seats until he brought up at a
desk about twenty feet from where he
started. During all this time he turned
his back on the vice president and talked
to the democrats on the back row OF seats
Johnson began talking with a ierky de-
livery, hardly Ineligible, the while rub
bling his nose, with the long finger OF his
right hand. He presented such a quaint,
unusual figure in the dignified senate that
there were broad smiles all over the cham
Der.
Everybody was surprised when the North
Dakota man began to talk about what
happened in the ways and means commit
tee when the Dingley bill was drafted. He
spoke as though he had been there all the
time, and gave away some OF the inside
committee room secrets. He seemed To
have such an accurate knowledge Of the
happenings connected with the drafting of
the Dingley law that a suspicion was
created that he might have been present.
on turning to the Congressional Directory,
II was found that Johnson had been a
member of the Fifty-fourth and Fifty
fifth congresses and was a member of the
ways and means committee when Dingley
was it's chairman. Nobody seemed to know
about It before johnson began to speak,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-06
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE

Entered at Omaha postoffrcs as second
class matter.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-04-26
THE MOUNTAIN LION
 lS LOOSE AGAIN
,. E. Cummins, Henry Slaughter, J. A. England, and Others, Seek Him This
 Morning, But All In Vain.

That mountain lion. wolf. big dog, or what not was the Sensa- ton again today About 6.3O O. clock this morning Jim Young a negro was run out of the pasture ol klrk Cummings by the animal and breathleSs. came to town with the news. The negro claims to have come upon the beast quite suddenly in a thicket in the pasture and that it was of large size, brown color and that 1t showed fight. Soon after the news reached town a posse, was formed and securing the dogs of Henry Slaughter, a rush was made for the scene and while the tracks of the animal were pain " visible the dogs refused to follow them. Their actions clear " indicated that wha tever it was they were afraid of it, and after bristling up barking a time or two they abandoned their hunt. The track was measured and revealed to be nearly five inches across and it is the Opin- ion of those who saw it that the beast is a big wolf.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-04-26
TWO SPECIAL MESSAGES
Special to the News.

Special to the News
 Little Rock, April 26.-2. go D, m.--Go>ernor Donaghey today sent message to the legislature asking that body to revise the revenue laws in order to save the state from a scrip basis, which is inevitable two years from now
 Also sent a special message ask ing an appropriation of S173,OOO for the purpose of providing pay ment to Caldwell X Drake for any sum the board of arbitra- tion might determine the state was due them for work, on the state capitol building. Governor Donaghey stated in his message that the contractors had agreed to abide by the decision provided the legislature made the approp- riation. The bill making the ap- prOprlation was introduced and read once in the senate. George w. Caldwell one of the emmbers Of the firm of contractors, made the statement this afternoon that he had made nd such prop position.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-04-26
ADJUDGED INSANE.

Sheriff Hood left this morn ing flor Little Rock with Mrs. Elm ma Wil,iford who had been ad- judged insane and who was be- ing taken to the Capital City for the purpose of being placed in the hospital for nervous diseases. Mrs Williford is an eldenly, lady and has a husband and several children, whom the community sympathizes with in the afflic- tion.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-04-26
GARLAND MONUMENT.

|Hon. T. C. McRae attended a |eetiug of the Garland Monu- aut Committee at Little Rock shrday of which he is a mem \ and arranged for the erec- |ou of the monument at an ear date The contract was a. landed to Ed. Monohan Of Lit e Rock and the shaft of the mon hent will be 27 feet high, and |iN cost S1200 The fund has
 en raised by the Little Rock hptte by popular subscription
 m after the monument is paid
 there will beabout S1OO left hhh will be used int improving
 grave and the lot in which
 is situated.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-04-26

pleasure and contendment for its inmates?
 As a wife and mother are you being as agreeable and amiab' e and companionable as you can be Are you making the home. the on earth for those who are en- trusted to your care?
 As a husband and father are you doing your best?
 Are you taking time foN pleas ant little journeys with your ing Of amusement where you make the woman you chose for your life companion fec that she is still the sweetheart of old.
 Or are you talking poverty and failure, and thinking continually of petty economies and putting off to some indefinite day, in the future the pleasures and recrea- tions which you night al, be en- toying now?
 Now is the anteroOm to heaven.
 If you are making it miserable dull or unhappy for those who be- long to you you are spelling heav en.
 And what will you get here or hereafter to recompense you?
 As you are you wila be.
 Make yourself worth whi,e now
The Prescott daily news., 1909-04-26
POLITENESS AT HOME.

Most or the unhappinesS in the world Is caused by the, lack of thought in the small things, of daily life among members Of families.
 No man is really happy, howev- CT successful he may be in busi- ness or in his ambitions for pow CT and place, unless he has peace comfort and love in his home.
 No woman is happy however popular she may be socially or in her church unless she receives the graceful attentions so dear to every Woman's heart from those nearest to her. There are many women in, our large cities who wear beauti- ful garments and priceless jew els yet who are more miserable than the hard-w shop girls because they receive noth- ing from the men whose names they bear but the material things of life.
 Their bills are paid and they are provided with servants and equipages but they do not know the meaning of the word com panionship
 Other wOmen's brothers, sons and husbands sometimes accom- pany them to theaters and op- eras; their husbands never.
 Other men pay them cOmpli.- ments; their own husbands new CT.
 And yet these husbands are thinking of themselves as good providers and kind, liberal and loyal partners. And they would consider the wel.-dressed wife with her servants and carriages most unreasonable if she failed to be satisfied.
 And yet if these men studied their own hearts honestly, they could find no absolute happiness therein.
 Unconsciously they have missed the best part Of life the habit of companionship with those Iltil tSl lutlii'
 Unless we keep c,ose to those we love to those who belong to us time will thrust his old face between and when we look for them they vii. be far away from us in thoughts and tastes and desires and habits, if not in per- son.
 The busy husband and father, the fussy, ailing or lazy wife and mother, alienate those who would naturally turn to them for com panionship and affection until the word love in the home, ceases to possess any vital mean ing.
 Tn how few homes ,dor we find a vital gflame of love burning how few husbands and wives or fathers and mothers form a, cir cle of sweet affection and aml- fable companionship; a center where every stranger entering for the first time feels the mag netic glow and is warmed by the vibrations of perfect understand ing and close sympathy.
 In such a vast majority of homes the best manners, the polite courtesies and the com pliments are kept for the visitor the casual caller; and the, irrit- able tone and the gruff word and the indifferent demeanOr go to those who are our very nearest by all ties human and divine.
 What are you doing to make your home a place Of peace and
The Prescott daily news., 1909-04-26

All south-bound through trains were seven hours late today cauS- ed by the failure of the draw bridge on White River at New port to work properly The draw was opened this morning to al low boats to pass and could not be closed only after hard seven hours effort.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-04-26
] MY FRIENDS

lhave purchased the Hit Grocery Co. stock |f goods, and would be glad toserve your wants n the grocery line.
 The stock will be kept |pp to its usual standard d excellence, and pains aklng attention will be gwen your orders.
 The stock embraces everything in fancy and Eamlly groceries and eed, and is frst-class every particular.
 Special attention to elephone orders, and fompt delivery assured.
 b. I. NICHOLS
 Phone 157.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-12
What Makes us Persons.

Things are not responsible, but per-
sons are. Every person, however in
significant he seems to be, entails re-
sponsibility in one way or another.
Thousands of poor immigrants are daily
landed on our shores, every one of whom
then looks insignificant enough. And
so their are quite forgotten until we End
that they have become voters and count
just the same as ourselves, so that we
pay heavily in taxes and disagreement
for our neglect of their education and
the failure to give them due consider
alton. No person could have appeared
more incignificant than the negro, bred
Scott, when he came before the Snprefn
Conrt Of the United States. But when
the court ruled that he should be rated
only as a thing or salable commodity,
and not as person, the most stable
government no jar when either of the
three of its beloved presidents was muir.
dred--the same government was shaken
to its very foundatinos. History knows
that the bred Scott decision had more
immediate effect in bringing on the ter
fible civil war which followed it than
any other Que event.-"As to Our
selves" by DR.. William Hanna Thorn
son, in the March Everybody's.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-12
DEATH OF MRS. o. M. STONE.
She Was Last Surviving Child of Gov.
Erastus Fairbanks.

ETaSluS faiTOanKS
st. Johnsbury, March 12.--Mrs. 0. M
Stone died at about six o'clock last
evening, aged n years. The funeral
will be held Monday afternoon. Sarah
Fairbanks Stone was the last of the
children of Gov. Erastus and Lois Cross
man Fairbanks and was born in this
town June 30, 1881. She was educated
at St. Johnsbury academy and was a
graduate from Mt. Holyoke seminary
in the class of 1851. After teaching
for a while at st. Johnsbury academy,
she married on May 4, 1888, Charles
Marshall Stone. He was editor Of the
st. Johnsbury CALIFORNIAN for over SIS
years and died March 10, 1890.
For nearly 60 years he had been a
member of the North Congregational
church and for many years she had been
a teacher in the Sunday school and for
25 the registrar of the church. The
daughter of one who was twice governor
OF Vermont, she took keen interest
in all public affairs and was woman
of rare conversational powers and un.
usual ability.
She leaves three children and four
grandchildren, the children being Mary
T.. Stone and Arthur f. Stone of st
Johrsbury and Philip Fl. Stone of Pasa-
dena, CAL For the past few years Mrs.
Stone had spent the winters with, her
youngest son in Pasadena, where sbc
had many friends.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-12
EAST CALAIS

d. D. Lamb was in PlainHeld Thurs
day.
Eden E. Elliott was in Montpelier OF
Thursday.
D. b. Dwinell was in Montpelier on
business Saturday.
Mrs. Austin Sanders IS reported quite
III with la grippe.
L. o. Leonard and wife visited in
Woodbury. Thursday.
Walter Eastman was business visitor
in Marshiield Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest Tebbctts OF Cabot
were in town Friday.
Otis Grey Is reported quite I'll with
congestion Of the brain.
Mrs. Ira Goodrich of East Woodbury.
was a visitor in town Friday.
Leon Ladeau and wife Of East Mont.
pelier were In town recently.
d. L. Scott and wife visited at j. b.
Pixies in Marshfeld recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Meader Of Marsh.
field visited at Glen Burnham's Friday.
B. Addison OF Plainield was in town
last week selling goods for A. G. Dut-
ton.
The penny social held Wednesday even.
ing by the Good Templars was a sue.
cess.
Levi Wheeler is moving his family onto
the Ed Burnham farm in East Wood.
bury.
Florence Tebbett of Cabot was in
town Friday and Saturday, calling on
old friends.
Miss Sadie Emery Of Barre is visit
ing her parents, John Emery and wife,
for few days.
Maynard King Of South Woodbury. was
in town Friday. Harry Daniels OF East
Montpelier was a business visitor in
town Friday,
The dramatic club held dramatic play
at the church Thursday and Friday even
ings. After all expenses were paid,
they found they had made $40.
J.. p. Burnham and wife and Miss Flor.
ence Tebbetts OF Cabot attended the
horse trot at North Montpelier satur.
day. Mr.. and Mrs. L. o. Leonard visit
ed in North Montpelier Saturday. NJ. D.
and Charles L.yanway attended
the horse trot at North Montpelier Sat-
urdsy.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-12
TALK OF THE TOWN

Cash paid for watches, diamonds, gold
and silver jewelry. Burr, the Jeweler.
Typewriting, copying, dietation, Mrs.
NJ. G. Nye, rooms 7 and s, Blanchard
block.
For sale, dining room table and six
chairs. Mrs. @. K. Wood, so Wellington
street.
Clairvoyant-Tuesday and Thursday,
2 p. m. TO Q p. m. Mrs. r. Z. Ellis, 20
Spaulding street. Tel. l56-2l.
The best farm trade ever offered by
the ID. A. Perry Real Estate agency Is
advertised in the for sale column. A
farm with an income Of $1,000 year.
DR.. Lamb wishes to announce that
his Office hours for electric treatments
are from 700 to $500 a. m, 1880 to
$3.50 and $500 to 500 p. m. These
treatments are good for neuralgia, rheu-
matism, female and lung diseases and
deformities.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-12
AMUSEMENT NOTES
"out in Idaho" at The Barre Opera
House Tomorrow Night.

Nothing 50 appeals 10 the modern
playgoer as good western drama. such
a piece as "0ut in Idaho" to be put on
at the opera house on Saturday, March
80. No period of American history is
so full of human interests, suffering and
haTdships, pith and pathos as the days
of tie '4sens. 1t has been the scene
Of the plot of many plays, but the good
ones might be numbered on the fingers
of one hand, Among these chosen few
is "0ut in Idaho" now enjoying its
third successful season. Written ~
ono who knows the west and played by
western talent it ranks as one of the
best productions ever sent ON the road
under the management Of Fred'k N.
Brush
With that fine adjustment of pathos.
tragedy and comedy so essential to the
perfect stage picture, the author Of
"Out in Idaho" has clothed the works
of his pen with naturalness of speech
and situation rarely witnessed. Here
ct last is the carly west in its true
light. Not strained line or mistlt
situation mars the thrilling story. The
company has a cast of recognized abiI-
ity who work with the advantages de-
rived from new and elaborate scenic
equipment and costumes.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-12
EAST MONTPELIER

M. E. Rowland was in Worcester last
Thursday to visit a relative.
Peter Papineau and family moved to
farm in Waterbury last Saturday.
Six couples from here went to Marsh
field to attend the Inauguration ball.
Chester Batchelder has been getting
out lumber to build barn this spring.
j. f. Robbins went to Maiden, Mass,
Wednesday to attend the funeral of has
uncle, Mr.. Lord
Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Clark were at
Calvin Parmenter's in Montpelier last
Thursday evening
The hall dining room has been newly
decorated and curtained recently and
looks very nice now.
Mr.. and Mrs. DIN L. Tillotson were
in Barre Wednesday 70 attend the flu
neral of Mrs. Thad Martin.
Hector Farnham has returned home
from q visit Of several days with his
grandmother in Wiliamstown.
Rev. Fred Daniels of Chelsea was
visitor in town the first of the week at
the home Of his brother Harry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Murray Clark were in
Barre Sunday at the home of Mrs. Cark's
brother, John Dix. Mr.. Clark has been
ill this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. r. Smith returned to
their home in Morrisville Wednesday,.
They were entertained while in town at
Fl. NJ. Farnham's.
Walter Curtis was called to his home
in Montpelier Tuesday by the serious
illness of his daughter. He was at work
for G. NJ. Hamblin.
Phil Batchelder and Volney Persons
returned home the last of last week from
Marshfield, where they have been at work
in their woodlot since late in the fall.
Orlando Martin, state commissioner Of
agriculture, came from Burlington Tues
day to attend the pomona grange ana
urged all presentsto attend the farmers
meetings in Burlington this week.
Lee Templeton, Russell Collins, Clar-
ence Templeton and their wives were in
Barre Wednesday to attend the funeral
of Mrs. Someryille who lived near them
in her girlhood. She was the daughter
of Enoch Vincent.
A play, evalley Farm" will be given
next week, Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings, by II of our young people, for
a hall benefit, and it is hoped it viii be
well attended, as it promises to be good.
The new scenery has come and viii be
used for the first time.
One evening recently while at work in
his barn, Nat Cutler saw a rat and set
a wire trap; in few minutes one rat
was caught. and when Mr. Cutler finished
milking there were two rats in the trap.
So he left it until morning, when he
found It full, with 10 rats inside.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-12
WILLIAMSBURG
Mrs. Martha Davis Abbott, Who Was
Highly Respected Resident, Dead.

Mrs. Martha Davis Abbott, widow OF
Deacon 0rcutt Abbott, who died in
Oneida, n. Y, recently, was formerly
a highly respected resident of this place,
where she spent most OF her life. Her
age was 95 years. For more than IS
years she had been a member OF and
an efficient worker in the Congregational
church of this town and had endeared
herself to host of friends by her affec-
tionste disposition, her loneliness Of char
acter and her strong personality. She
fitted well the poets description of
"A perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort and command"
and OF her it may well be said, None
knew her but to love her; none named
her but TO praise"
Besides her many friends, she has left
a son and three daughters to mourn her
loss, James Of Washington, d. c., Persis,
wife of DR.. James Bailey, of Ticonde-
roga, n. Y, Martha, wife Of DIR. Edward
Bailey of Oneida, N. y, and Miss Lucy,
who has given to her mother for long
time the most constant and devoted care.
The final interment will be in the fam.
lily lot in Williamstown.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-12
THE BARRE DAILY TIMES
FRIDAY, MARCH "a. 1909.
TRAVELLERS RAILWAY GUIDE.
Central Vermont RailwaY.


Trains leave barre for Waite River junction
ana b0aton. and war stations, alto windsor
ana Bellows Falls aud New York AZ blo and
LEO a M and il.o0 p, II. Also leave hArFe Tor
Waite River Junction, bellows Falls, SPRING
neld and New York az 5t5 p M.
Trains leave Barre fer Burlington, b. Al.
bAnh, MontfeA and way stations A. Al0 A. M,
400, 90 and AIS a. IN
Montpelier 4 Wells River Railroad
Trains leave Barre for wells River connect
ing AZ that point With trains going both north
ana south, az 100 a. no., i2.9O and 400 .. IN. The
lao train connects with train for Boston, ana
north Tor Lisbon, Littleton, Fabyans and lAn-
eArter, also with Montreal express, and tho ~
and 400 trains with st. Johnsbnry trains.
Trains Leave Barre for Montpelier at 40,
90 a. m, iaSo aoo. 40 and 690p. IA
Electric Street Railway.
Cars leave square IN Hare for Montpelier At
70 minutes Of and rs inmates past the hour.
Leave montpelier for Barre on the hour aud
hall hour until 10 p. m.