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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-06-10
number one.

why. you see, the New York wom-
an has impressed me 80 very much
more," was the unfiattering-er. most
complimentary - er, take-it-as-you-
please reply.
But they were truly flowers OF on
thusiasm that followed-at first.
Here are few epigramatic opinions
dictated by the great opera singer:
"The New York woman doesn't fall
down and worship this golden calf
si-e merely skins him."
There Is less individual liberty
here than In any place In civilized Eu.
rope"
"The best dressed man In the world
Is the English gentleman"
1.-THE New York man Is not a bore,
but he has not the little graces-the
lingerie Of life."
"The Latin gentlemen make love
perfectly - but they don't make
money"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-06-10
KING EDWARDS RAcEHoRsss
Only Two Have Been Winners 4
Great EnqIish Turf Evsrt.

Probably no owner ever had src,
a persistent run Of bad luck AZ A..
Majesty, King Edward. during ~,
early years of his racing c.6,er. A,
his first modest appearance on a r,c.
course. thirty-seven years ago. hi.
borae Champion had the misfortprs
to fall early In the race. and althory1
he made c game effort to recover ln,,
ground he could only finish second
Six years later-at his second q,
pearance at the Newmarket Ju'y
meeting. his horse Alep was bod,y
beaten by Lord Strathnairn's Avowai
and 1t was not until 1880 that LoonL
das H.. ridden by Capt. Wentwor,b
iiope-.lohnnstone, scored his first y,c
tory In the Aldershot cup.
Six years more elapsed, making ~.
teen years in all from his racing do
but. before the royal colors were car
ried TO victory for the first time in
Hat racing, when, amid scene or
great enthusiasm. Counterpart. sid
den by Archer. won maiden plate q,
Sandown.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-06-10
Notes and
Comment
or Interest to Women Readers
MARY GARDENS OPINIONS.
The New York Man Is q Golden Call
Whom Woman Skins.

The New York man is o golden calf;
the New York woman-well she does
not fall down and worship him-sho
merely skins him." quoth Miss Mary
Garden.
Miss Garden, prima donna, has dis
coursed many a time and oft on "Sa-
lone" and others. But opera is over
now. And so The other night 1t was
Just Miss Garden, woman o. the world,
who for one hour talked wisely, mer-
rily and with most exceeding frank
ness of New York and all they that
dwell therein. II can say what want
to now" she laughed, "for I'm going
away so soon and everybody will have
forgotten by the time | come back!"
Forthwith she proceeded to hand out
n swift succession of blows and bou-
quets-and the very first remark was
both.
what do you think Of the New
York MANI" happened to be query
number one.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-06-10
Thinks We Work Too Hard.

Lady Headfort during her Ameri-
can tour, said in New York that she
approved OF international marriages.
They correct us" she explained.
Our Englishmen work too little, your
American men work too hard, and the
international marriage tends to bring
about happy mean.
81 have an English friend who at
tended the funeral of one of your hard
est workers, multi-millonaire.
my friends wife said rather bit
torly to him at the funeral
"How you have missed your op-
portunities, my love. Place yourself
beside Mr.. Ritch there. You are both
of the same age. You both began life
together. Yet you are a poor man,
while he died multi-millionaire.'
Yes said the English husband.
There Ritch lies, dead of nervous
prostration, without one single penny
in his pocket. and here stand, hale
and hearty. with wallet in my coat
containing quite hundred dollars q"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-06-10
Big Tomatoes on a City Lot.

Kansas City, Kan.-E. M. Wiggin
manages to raise fine tomatoes on a
small plot Of ground in this bustling
city. The picture shows Mr.. Wiggin
and one Of his mammoth Amazon
vines which is IL feet, inches from
the ground to the extreme tip.
This vine was full of great toma-
toes and the top full of blossoms on
October 4th. 1908.
A large number of tomatoes on the
other side of the vine cannot be seen
in the picture. Mr.. Wiggin writes
that some Of these tomatoes measured
s 1-2 inches in diameter and 16 inches
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-06-10
IL Does Not Pal,

Quarrel not at all. No man who
resolves to maze the most of himself
can spare time for personal conten-
ton. Still less can he afford to take
all the consequences, including the
vltiating Of his temper and the loss
of self-control. Yield larger thing'
to which you can show no more than
equal right, and yield lesser ones
though clearly your own. Better give
your path to dos than be bitten by
him in contesting for the right Even
killing the dor would not cure the
bite"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-06-10
LOST BET ON HIS WIFE.
Richards Wagered She Wouldn't Meet
Another Man-She Did.

st. Louis, Mo.-John b. Richards
laid wager with friend that his
wife would not make an engagement
with the friend. The stake was a new
hat. He lost the hat. Now he's afraid
he will lose the wife.
divorce suit has been brought
against him by his wife in which she
accuses him of having man call her
up and represent himself to be a
friend of her brothers and ask her 20
meet him in East St. Louis in regard
to railroad transportation.
Mrs. Richards says she kept the
appointment, and while she was talk
ing to the man her husband appeared
and accused her of making dates"
with other men. Richards admits il
was a put up job and says he's sorry,
because he lost the hat.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-06-10
EyAsEYS MUT|NY At SEA
Gallant Six Hundred Pull Out the
Cooks Queue and Fight Excited
Sailors on the Tannenfcls.

COOKS Oueue ana right EXCITED
Sailors on the Tannenfcls.
Brooklyn, N. Y.-Capt Lubke and
the crew of the German freighter Tan.
nenfels. which docked at Bush's
Stores. few days ago, after having
discharged cargo of 800 monkeys at
Boston, declared that they would new
er sign again on a vessel, which feat
ured ring-tailed roarers an sich in It's
manifest.
It seems that while the Tannenfels
was in mid-ocean six chimpanzees mu-
tined and made a murderous attack
on Wing Flu, the cook.
"Them chims were the biggest OF
their breed | ever seen," said Engl-
bunch that had the build of Tom
Sharkey, and he was a terror AS fast
as we put in new bars in his cage he
tore them out. Every time chap
would go near his bunk he'd reach
out an grab him by the hair. pullin'
it out by the roots.
Gle pulled out Wing Fu's queue,
which got the chink sore, so one day
when the big chin wasn't lookin' the
cook dumped a bowl of hot soup on
him. Twas this that set the whole
bunch in mutiny. The big lad got out
of his cage an then pulled the bars
out of his friends cage, whereat they
all galloped up forward, pickin' up be-
layin' pins an marlin spikes, an max
ing for the cook.
Wing Flu saw 'em comm an bolt
ed with terrible scream. Then we
had the battle of our lives with them
monks. The leader of the gang busted
my wrist, and bruised me all over.
Then when got him cornered he
dives overheard, marlin spike an all.
His suicide sort of quieted the rest of
the bunch, and put an end to the mu-
tiny. But from then on all the mon
keys hollered murder from morning
till morning. They worked in relays.
maxim the dod-blamdest din that ever
was heard this side o. panjandrum."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-06-10

Front Vey Of Tomato" Vine.
in circumference, and many weighed
from two and a half to three pounds
each.
They were smooth, red, and with
out the hard, green core most large
tomatoes usually have. No special
cultivation was given the vines ex-
cept to make the ground very rich
Some of the shoots were pinched off in
the early growth of the plants.
The way Wigin explains his process
of giant-tomato culture follows: About
the middle of April he plants the seed
in holes is inches or two feet deep.
AS the plant grows he lamps earth
mixed with stable refuse about the
stalk until the hole is completely
filed.
The tomato, Wiggin explains, is the
product of South America, where it
grows to the height of 20 feet in the
damp and warm morasses along the
Amazon River. To accomplish the
best results, then, it would seem nec-
essary to have the temperature about
the plant evenly warm and moist. The
decaying manure furnishes the uni
form warmth and holds the moisture
Amy one can grow enormous toma-
toes" says Wiggin, 'if he will take
up the work and then try to initiate
the conditions the book says were en-
ioyed by the original plant. That was
the way | did, and these are the re-
suits"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-06-10
To Bar Christmas Solicitors.

Boston.-The Salvation Army las
sizes and Volunteers Of America san
ia Clauses" cannot hereafter solicit
funds on the street for Thanksgiving
and Christmas dinners for the poor
according to Police Commissioned
Stephen O'Meara. His report says
the custom has grown to such an ex'
tent that annually more than fifty diff
ferent organizations seek the privE
lege of soliciting aid.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-06-10
An Open Generalization.

W. S. Gilbert does not retain all of
his humor for use in his librettos.
In the early days of his success.
when Gilbert and Sullivan were con.
sidered by managers as the "sure win.
ners" in the comic-opera field, young
woman who was a member of one of
the 'Pinafore" companies wrote to
Gilbert telling him of her approaching
marriage with young man Of good
position and family.
Gilbert congratulated the young
woman, and expressed the hope that
her future might be prosperous and
happy.
only little more than a month
passed and another letter from the
same girl reached him, in which she
stated that her engagement with the
young man had been broken, and that
she had accepted another suitor.
he replied that he had every con.
hdence in her judgment, and again
expressed his hearty wishes for her
welfare.
1t was almost two months after that
Gilbert received third le,.e from
the same girl, who informed him
that young Lord had proposed and
tnat she had accepted him, after
breaking her engagement with No. 2
| Giiberts humor could no longer
Withstand the temptation, and he
wrote, II desire to congratulate yo,
on your approaching marriage with
Here he placed an asterisk, and in {
! footnote added. Here insert the nam,
2I sns happy man."-Tji-pits
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-06-10
Big Salaries for Women.

In six OF the largest Boston depart
ment stores there are now thirty-sev.
en- women occupying responsible exc.
cutive positions as buyers. floor man.
ayers, heads Of workrooms. and heads
or clerical departments, at salaries
ranging from $3.50 to $4,000 year. II
IS also pointed out that these success.
fpi women rose from the ranks and
that an emulation Of them implies a
start behind the counter at perhs ps
six dollars week.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-06-10
Mistake Mace by Many

"De smart m, H." said Uncle Eben,
rs likely to git along fus' rate until
he stahts in figgerin' 'roun' an tryin
70 make his brains lake de place OF
his conscience
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-06
SOUTH WOODBURY..

Mrs. r. NJ. Pray is suffering from
the grip.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. w. Haskell we're
in Cabot last week.
A. E. Lamberton of Marshfield
was lately in town on business.
Eva Angel and daughter Rena,
of Hardwick were in town on Sat
urday to attend the funeral of Her.
bert King.
Edgar ]. Banks took possession
May of his farm property pur-
chased of II. l.. Tebbetts, and has
began making repairs.
Herbert King died after a brief
illness of pnumonia last Thursday
night, aged 10 years. Funeral SER
vices took place at the house on
Saturday, Mrs. Even officiating
He leaves to mourn his loss a wild
owed mother, two brothers, May
nard and Archie and one sister, Mrs.
Jennie Hubbard Of Hardwick, to
whom the community extend their
heartfelt sympathy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-06
MORETOWN.

Earl Ayers of Berlin was in town
Sunday.
Mrs. w. R. Chase is visiting rel
atives in Essex this week.
Mrs. F. w. Somers and son Luke
were in Montpelier Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Blanchard
were in Montpelier Saturday.
Miss Lizzie Maxwell of Waitsfeld
is teaching school in Dictrict No. 8.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. R. Sloan Of
Mortified were visitors in town
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Chamber
lin of MiddleseX were visitors in
Sunday.
Mrs. Fred Somers of Montpelier
is stopping for few days with Mrs.
Frank Somers.
Mrs. Sarah Leonard and Mrs. d.
l. Thomas are stopping with her
sister, Mrs. II. o. Bronson for a
few days.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-06
MARSHFIELD.

Eula Bahanan is to work in the
telephone Office.
Schools in town all commenced
on Monday of last week.
Mrs. c. j. Preston came home
from Barre last Saturday.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Orthur Blake April 20.
Mabel Mears was home from
Montpelier Seminary over Sunday.
Miss Alice Clark began her school
ON New Discovery last week Mon
day.
The X. P.'s had SO couples at
their May Day ball last Friday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bassett of
Barre visited at Abel Beckley's oven
Sunday.
Mrs. Louise Sanborn went to the
White Mountains Monday to work
in hotel.
B. e. Bailey of Montpelier was in
town last week working on the tel
ephone line.
Burt Tucker of Montpelier is at
his fathers helping him as he is in
poor health.
Erwin Sparrow Of Montpelier and
a gentleman from Concord, N. H..
was in town last week looking after
horses.
Fred Prouty, wife and daughter
Helen Marie, went to Burlington
to their home Monday. Mrs. F. W.
Cole, Mrs. Prouty's mother accom-
| panied them.
The little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Merton Briggs is more favor
ed than most of children, having
two grand fathers and two grea
grand fathers.
Marshfleld will be pretty we'll sup
piled with meat this summer al
there are four meat carts in town
Leslie Newton, Howard Tanner
Lyle Tucker and Silas Unwin.
Mrs. Cora p. Preston, who ha
been away for the past two month
has returned and will now open he
millinery parlors and be pleased t
show goods this week as usual.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-06
BROOKFIELD.

Miss Ruth Hanks spent Saturday
and Sunday at her home in South
Royalton.
Mrs. E. H. Mason of Randolph
spent one day last week with Mr..
and Mrs. G. e. Mason.
Mrs. Edna Kempton, VINO spent
the winter with her sister, Mrs. A.
e. Sargent, went Saturday to Man
chester, N. H.
U. A. Clark set out last week on
his firm 1000 white pine seedlings
which were imported from Ger
man.. Eliot II. Frink and William
C. Clark are also setting out several
hundred on their farm.
Friday evening will be the regular
Grange meeting. After the meeting
therel will be box supper, social
and necktie party, every lady to put
= necktie in her box, the color to
0eorrespond with the aprons she
wears.
Mrs. e. l.. Wills and daughter,
Miss Lillian of Bethel Gilead came
Thursday and stayed until Sunday
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George E. Mason.
Mrs. ]. w. McDermont has not
been feeling as well the past week.
Much sympathy is expressed for her
in her long and tedious illness.
Misses Nellie Blake, Susie Will
Der and Mary Mudgett were sick
last week with grip and not able tc
attend school.
Don't forget the installation o.
the officers of the order of the East
ern Star next week Thursday even
ing. Public to the Masons ant
their families. Ladies are invited
to bring refreshments.
Marshal Edison of Bellows Falls
superintendent of schools, was d
town Friday to visit Miss Rut
Hanks school and was the CUES
for a short time Of Mr.. and Mrs
Terance Caligan.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-06
CABOT,

Hiram o. Stone, who died in
Hardwick April "a, aged nearly go,
lived for many years in this town,
although he had lived in Hardwick
some 60 years. During most of
his life he was the miller in both
villages, but was for a few years in
business in Hardwick' He was a
son of Joseph and Esther (Alden)
Stone and was the last but one of
a family of ten children. His sis
ter, Mrs. e. d. Putnam, still lives.
at the age of So, with her daughter,
Mrs. II. A. Phelps in Barre.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-06
WORCESTER,

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Poole were
in town one day last week.
A New England telephone was in
stalled in Mrs. Nettie Halls house
last week.
Mrs. Ann Kent, formerly of this
town, now of Montpelier, is visiting
friends in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Ellis and two
children visited at Mrs. G. l.. Darl-
ing's last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Harron Of
Montpelier visited at Howard
Dodge's last Friday.
Mrs. Thomas Symonds had the
misfortune to fall and break her
arm last Saturday morning.
Henry Jacobs of CalaiA has pu
chased Mrs. Ann Kents place AT me
Corner and his son, Irving, also of
Calais, is moving here.
A new flag which was purchased
with the proceeds of the entertain
ment given by the village schools
last fall, was hoisted on the school
building last week.
j. Edmund Badger of Hanover.
N. H., will occupy the pulpit at the
on. e. church next Sunday morn
ing, May 8. His subject will be
THE Passing of the Saloon"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-06

said to her cousin, "Gertie, you say
that, I can't"
Mrs. Alben Briggs died OF heart
disease at her home last Friday af-
ternoon at the age of upwards Of 80
years. Her funeral was held at the
house on Sunday afternoon, Rev.
W. N. Roberts officiating, and the
burial was in our village cemetery.
Mrs. Briggs was a daughter of the
late Riley and Mrs. Mabel Rood
Whitney, her mother having been
one of the eleven children Of the
late John Rood. She left three sons
and two daughters, all of whom,
California, are living in this town.
with the exception OF a son, now in
We had long known Mrs. Briggs and
such was our estimate of her mer-
it's and work that, as may be re-
called, we wrote not very long ago,
an extended appreciation of her in
one of our weekly news letters to
have had the pleasure of one or two
more calls on her, at her home. We
think her bodily and mental facul-
ties had held out quite well, until
of late she was victim Of the cpl
demic of influenza that has prevail
ed here, but she got better of it, and
r1n b.
another of our cold winter seasons.
But chronic heart trouble grew
worse and, although about her house
to some extent the very day she
died, death came at about 5 o'clock
last Friday afternoon.
One of our farmer friends here
has just told us story that we may
repeat, but without names, or any
clews Of them. One of the products
of his farm was luxury that most
folks enjoy, and is especially tempt
ing to some of thievish propensi-
ties. One day this farmer found
that he had been robbed of a part
of his product and then began the
study on his part as to who the thief
could or would likely be. He men,
toned one person to us of foreign
blood, that had been before that
quite neighborly and that he had
come to like very well, but we think
he could not come to the point of
harboring any lasting suspicion
against him, of having committed
the theft. Time went on, year
or two, and perhaps more, when one
day a young man was passing his
place and saw h i'm, and stopped,
and confessed the theft and proffer-
ed payment in full for what he had
taken. In answer to our question
ing we learned that the young fell
low, for such he was, was living in
town when he stole the goods and
the farmer knew him but had had
no thought of him as a person of
that kind. We had just one query
more to make of the farmer, and
that was "if the young man had be-
come a Christian between the time
of taking the goods and paying for
them" and he said he had done so.
A. D. McIver former resident,
was here recently fom his new home
53g acres with quite a good deal Of
timber on it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-06
WOODBURY..
Something's About Woodbury. and Its
Natural Resources.

Woodbury. is thriving little town
for the population of about 800 in
habitants as compared with other
towns of it's size. 1t has eight
schools, one graded school at the
Center, which has 70 pupils in both
departments, two churches, Meth
odist and Congregational, four
stores, one feed store, one hotel, two
boarding houses, two saw mills,
two smithies, two post offices and
two barber shops. 1t has about
thirty lakes and ponds, some of the
most noted lakes being, Sabin,
Greenwood, Valley and Buck lake
and some of these are adding new
cottages every summer. Landlord
Batcheldor does a thriving business
through the summer months by
feeding the multitudes of these
pleasure seekers, who go there for
few days outing and fishing trips,
also at Valley lake, where Otis
Wheeler furnishes hot meals and
boats for sporting parties, the VAL
ley lake and Greenwood running
south, furnishing the water to sup
ply the mills at South Woodbury. and
East Calais, and thence into Onion
river. The East Long pond and Mich
OILS Pond runs north, furnishing
most of the water that runs the
power for the electric plants at
Hardwick. Two other streams run
east into Cabot, one of them fur
nishing water for the Clark mills.
No brook of any size runs into Wood
bury lakes, ponds and brooks which
are we'll stocked with fish. Next
comes the wonderful mountain of
granite and scenery combined, 200
feet above sea level extending more
than five miles in length. The quar-
rymen's pay roll amounts to $1,000
a week. The most of the granite is
used in Hardwick for monumental
and building purposes to be shipped
all over the country. The stock that
| is quarried on the north end of the
mountain is estimated to be equal
to the dark fine stock in Barre.
Orlin Ainsworth and wife were in
Hardwick Saturday.
Weston Jackson lost valuable
COW last week.
Maud Batcheldor from Hardwick
visited her sister, Mrs. Henry Fri
EFT.
Mile George has moved from the
town farm to the Jacobs place near
the Brown school house.
Henry Friett and wife have moved
to the town farm for the coming
year where they have been engaged
The town congratulates itself in Sc
curing such good people, and nj
children.
Mrs. Allen Ainsworth is i'll will
lung trouble.
Herbert King, son Of Warner
King, was taken i'll Monday will
pneumonia. He was 10 years oil
and much respected. The funera
was held Saturday at his home.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-06
CALAIS.

The bodies will be removed from
the tomb May 5.
The funeral of Aaron Wheeler,
who died Saturday night was held
Tuesday at 2 p. M, at the home of
Martin Wheeler.
Mrs. Lucy Mills, wife of John
Mills, died at North Calais last Sat-
urday night The funeral was held
Tuesday at 1890. Mrs. Holt will
conduct the services.
Will Foster was in town Sunday.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-06

President Taft has sent to the
Senate the nomination of Cornelius
G. Billings of Vermont, to be as
sistant commissioner of patents.