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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-07-13

Now that the aldermen have decreed
that the Johnson.JetIries fight pictures
shall not be shown in Barre, viii they
establish censorship on al equally de-
basing pictures presented in our moving
picture showsl
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-07-13
Seeking information.

Miss Yankie- And what has Lord
Chichester done that you think so in.
teresung2 Lord Defendus He won a
Derby, y know. Miss Yankie-How
lovely! On an election bet?
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-07-13
80 - Grnndmnthar.

There is hardly anything that fat
tiers a grandmother more than telling
her you don't believe she is one.--Gal-
weston News.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-07-13
5,6O5

Twelve fatalities from aviation so far
this year. Flying may be sane sport,
but hardly safe.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-02-17
Her Explanation.

From Harper's Baxar.
Howard-Bridget. did my wife come
IN q few minutes ago7
Bridget-No, sir. That's the parrot
you heard a-hollerin'.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-02-17
"sPELLlNe BEES" IN INDIANA.
State Superintendent Plans Revival o.
oid-Time Matches Among School
Children.
From the Indianapolis Star.

From the indianapolis Star.
The old time spelling bee" is to be
revived in Indiana schools this year
with the hope that school children will
thereby attain that perfection Of SPELL
ing which Is boosted by the products
of the schools Of the good old days."
Furthermore, the .uncles and ,aunts and
h fathers and mothers Of the present
day pupils will be invited to spell down
the school children and determine II
they have a right to condemn present
systems OF teaching.
This is n OF the points brought out
In the new course of study which has
been prepared by r. ]. Alley, superin-
tendent OF public instruction, and which
will be distributed among the 10 thou
sand teachers OF the state BOON after
August 20.
''The charge is frequently made"
says DR.. Alley, perhaps with much
good reason, that pupils nowadays do
not spell as well as their fathers ana
mothers did in h good old days The
spelling school was an institution that
undoubtedly was an aid in gaining eff
fctency. A revival Of the old time
espalanga bee might. prove to be both
profitable and enjoyable. Why not call
IN the fathers and mothers, uncles and
cunts, and settle the question in In
diana whether our boys and girls r al
deficient In this important branch of
study as some would have us believe
they are? 1t would increase the COM
munity interest, aid in making the
school the social center and bring par
ents and teachers into closer relation
ship and help in making better smell.
erS."
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-02-17
WiTchcRAFT AND SUPER.
sTiTloNs WITH "soME.

W.
From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
When children sing "Eene menee
miny mo" they are practicing WITCH
form in which old spells were sung.
Spells used by wizards and witches
to raise h devil were made up in this
way Of syllables with no meaning in
them Often they, were mixed with
scraps of Latin.
In this country, the Indians used
including h charms sung by their
medicine men or wizards. You talk
when you sing" a western Indian said
not long ago to a musician who was
studying Indian music. The Indian did
not like h talk" He wanted only
the song: This shows the same habit in
our Indians now that our WI ances
tors had before they began talking
or using more or less sensible words
when they sang. We want words to
our songs with some sense In them.
They thought that syllables without
sense made a stronger spell or charm
for the song.
Felix Grendon has made a collection
OF b Oldest. English spell songs. It
is printed in the Journal of American
Folk Lore. Anyone who wishes to get
a complete education in w~itchcraft now
ought 10 De able to get 1t from them.
The collection Seems to be the most
nearly complete aver made. AS the
spells are In Anglo-Saxon. they may
not work we'll in modern English. Here
is one it was easy to modernize. It
ought to cure any sort of swelling, in
Guiding the worst boil on the back Of
the neck, if it works as old time witches
expected:
Node had nine sisters. The nine fell
to eight. And the eight fell TO sever
And the seven fell to six. And the six
fell to five. And the five fell to four.
And h four fell to three. And the
three fell to two. And the two fell
to one. And the one fell to none"
This counts the swelling out. When
it is n out to nothing, all it has
left to do is. to go down. While watt
ing. sing a hymn nine times.
This is superstition. All supersti-
tons have something in" them. 1t is
not what superstitious people think.
Witchcraft OF this kind might cure a
boil in h same way children's tooth
ache gets well" at the dentists when
they see him getting out his forceps.
Some dentists ose money by curing
toothache with this sort Of a "spell.'
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-02-17
RoosEvELT's SHELF OF BOOKS
The Piaskin Library Which He Took
to Africa.

W ~
From african Game Trails by Theodore
Roosevelt in Scribner's.
There was one other bit OF impedimenta,
almost as essential for real enjoyment
even on a hunting trip. if it is to be Of
any length. This was the ''pigskin Ii
b~raray," SO called because most of the
books were bound in pigskin. They were
carried In a light aluminium and oilcloth
case. which. with its contents, weighed q
little less than 60 pounds. making a load
for ono porter. Including a few volumes
carried I'm the various bags, SO that 1
might be sure always to have one with
me, and GregoroVius. read on the voyage
outward, the list wa as printed below. 1t
represents In part Kermit's taste, in part
mine; and. I need hardly say. 1t also
represents in. no way all the books We
most care for. but merely those which.
for one reason or another, we thought we
should like to take on this particular trip:
Bible.
Borrow-.Bible in spain." ..zinRa,i,,
"Lavengro," wild Wales "The Roaany
Rye"
shakespeare.
6penser-"Faerie Queen
Marlowe.
Mahan-.sea Power"
SSo - SSlAA
Honaer-"Iliad." :odyssey."
La Cilanson de Roland.
oNibelungenlied."
Carlyle-"Frederick the Great"
Shelaey-Poems.
Bacon-Essays. . ..
pers.'
Emersor,-Poems.
Longfellow. p
ennys 2"" ~
Poe-Tales and poems. .
Keats.
ID Oh"
Dante-"Inferno' (Carlyle's trans,ation.)
Holmes-"Autocrat' and over the Tea
cups"
Bret Harte..Poems; Tales of the Argo-
nauts." Luck of Roaring Camp"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Crothers-"Gentle Reader" =
Mark Observation-Disclosures Finn"
Ton Sawyer"
Bunyan's pilgrim Progress
Euripides (Murray's translation.) Hip
polNtus, "Bacchae."
The Federalist.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES"
scott-"Legend OF Montrose," Guy
Mannering." "Waverley,' Rob Roy
GooPer-:Pilot." and Two Admira,s."
Percy's Reliqnes.
Thackeray's Vanity Fair and "Pen-
Dennis"
Dtckens-"Mutual Friend" and "Pick-
wick"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-02-17
An ob.erv.nt Child.

oSSSS ANA06
Little Adelaide was inclined to be
cowarGly. Her father found that sym
pathy only increased this unfortunate
tendency, and decided to have asserious
talk with his little daughter on the
subject OF her foolish fears.
Papa" she ventured. at the close Of
the lecture, when vol see a COW, aren't
you afraid?"
Why, certainly not, Adelaide. Why
should I be?"
Well. when YOU see a dog. aren't
you afraid then?'
NO. indeed" with marked emphasis
on the no.
Aren't you afraid when it thunders.
papa?"
Why, no." and he laughed at the
thought and added, "Oh, you silly
child"
Papa" and ADELAIDE came closer
and looked into her parents eye, aren't
you afraid Of nothing in the world but
just mamma ~" :
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-02-17
The Unwritten Law of Diuorce

By Paul Thiennan In New York American.
The public statements OF q famous the
atricaa manager and his wife, who is an
actress OF star rank. hat they are to be
divorced by mutual consent; the biushing
admission by the lady that she may marry
again. but would choose a different type
OF man: the studied failure of the gentle
man mentioned as her ideal to deny that
he Is the chosen one; the comment of the
still husband that the other man would be
q wise selection and entirely satisfactory
to him-all this would cause many Judges
to ask q few leading. questions and throw
the divorce case OF the lady out of court.
Laws of various states differ widely In
the number and variety Of reasons for
divorce. but mutual consent is not recoR-
nized. Coliusion i%nvalidates the case.
Freedom can come only as a penalty
inflicted on the defendant. Thu an I'M
wSltten law of divorce has become an in
etttutiOn.
1t consists Of the husband being the de-
fendant, but not defending the case and
letting it 60 by default.
On the mans side 1t Ia a part OF re
code Of chivalry. 1t is based on the fun
damental rule of the behavior of the fight
ing sex toward the beautiful and nOn-com-
blatant sex that a man cannot he a gen.
tleman and knowingly ignore his wife's
Tevulsions.
may terribly wound his spirit, but her
love is inviolates to a man of honor with
out her consent.
The wife's attitude in itself is complete
ground for divorce according to law, but.
again, the rule of d~elicacy requires that
the husband shall let her be the plain
tiff.
This unwritten Law Of divorce has ex-
listed a long time. 1t is practised all the
time everywhere. h courts know 1t.
Everybody knows it.
There are thousands Of men who have
given their wives full permission to get
q divos ce whenever they wish. But the
custod: Of the children, the payment OF
alimony and the contrarieties OF human
nature tntervsne-chiefy the last.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-02-17
Fertilizer Of the Future.

LONDON Correspondence In New York Sun.
One OF the most interesting events
lists was Professor B%ernthsen's DEM
onstration OF Professor Otto Schon-
herr's new method of manufacturing
air saltpeter, the Of the future
foas food crops.
Professor Bernthsen said that Of all
the things which agr%iculturists supply
to the ground to stimulate the growth
of crops, what are called nitrates are
the O important. When nitrogen is
omitted the yield of oats falls by SO
per cent. The rotation Of crops sup.
plies some of the necessary nitrogen
to the soil, but much more is required.
and this is best supplied by Chile
saltpeter Sodium n~itrate). The worlds
store Of s%altpeter, 1t has been esti-
mated, at the present rate Of consump-
tion q not last longer than from 81
to ~ years. Sir William Crookes in
1899 said that the extraction of nitro
gen from the air sis n Qf.the greatest
chemists" 1t was this discovery which
Professor Bernthsen was describing.
Four-fifths Of the air we breathe IL
composed Of nitrogen, but the problem
Is to make it combine with oxygen to
form what are called nitric and nitrous
agency OF great temperatures. Pro-
lessor Bernthsen turned to his APP
paratus. which two German mechanics
and an engineer had erected.
1t consisted of q long narrow glass
tube with a copper spiral running up
it. At the sides smaller tubes carried
running water to cool the upper con-
nection Of the spiral. From the top Of
the tube ran an iron tube with a stop
cock to carry away the nitrogen oxides.
a current is sent through the glass
tube, and the compressed air which 10
sent in at the same time carries an arc
flame up through the spiral to the
other end Of the tube. The flame
makes the nitrogen and oxygen COM
bine and this is cooled down and car
ried away.
The current employed for the DEM
onstration was at a pressure of 5000
volts. and nearly 6-horse power of
electrical energy was used. The q
obtained is mixed with limestone.
when calcium nitrate, or air saltpeter.
is formed. A slightly different method
gives calcium nitrate. which, being
richer in nitrogen, may, said the pro-
fessor. become h artificial manure Of
the future.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-02-17

once let q woman realize that her nus.
band is willing to let her 70 in peace and
n Is likely to insist on staying until the
time when she can feel. that he hates t.
part with her
rms Is . quite usual picture: Husband
and wife about to separate by mutual con.
sent. The last day and last hour have
come.
Husband with a catch in his yo;ce,-
Well. dearie, l will call a cab nov and
make sure
Wife-AIake sure!
Husband (clumsily)-Yes. 80 WON'T, he
sure to catch the train, you know-rathe,
beastiy to miss a train under these cir.
cumstances.
WlHe-1ou want to make sure! You. don,
want me to miss the train! Oh, my God,
(Shakes with passionate sobs: tears
stream In spurts). o. very well! Tries to
laugh). 1 won't miss the t~rain-have M
fear. Breaks down..
Husband-Brace up. dearie. Remember
that you are leaving mel am NOT leav-
ing you.
Wffe-And you don't want me to go?
Husband with effort to hide emotion
Well-it's yours to %decide-of course
rather sad-yes-well-yes, it's-hell.
Wife dllu1nined n radiant)-You are
sorry-it hurts you.
Husband (face twisted)-Hurts? Hurts,
Y~es-yes-I wouldn't call it comfortable
Gle gives way. Takes her in his arms.
Presses her to his heart. Kisses her tear.
stained face. Kisses her lips. her ewes.
her towsled. damp hair).
Wife (eyes sparkling in tears)-You moor
boy-that's the way you used to hug me.
i did love you so much-ONCE! (Beeins
rapidly and deftly to fix her hair.
An hour later: Wife waves 2 sweet
farewell from the window of Pullman. She
is on her way at last to be free, free.
free!
And Jack did love her. He a onlv
acted as IL he didn't care. Oh; these men
such hypocrites!
She smiles over her recollection Of mo,
old Jacks twisted face.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-02-17

Some faces at the theater look a
fresh rs though they were just made,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-02-17
The Popular Music Bonanza.
From Van Norden Magazine.

You go to the theater, and in the
course of the performance you hear
some catchy song, and when you leave
you do SO caroling the tune with more
or less regard for the composers YER
sion of it. But you like the song, and.
liking It. you buy a copy NJ take it
home. Soon the house Is ringing with
the melody, Inc thus a songs popu-
ious. The real popular variety strikes
h whole country in the same way and
at the same time, and that is q "sonR
hit"
Millions of dollars are invested in the
popular music .enterprise.S AT least a
dozen large firms in New York and
Boston are interested heavily-a num-
Der Of them exclusively-in popular
songs. 1t Is necessary to mention only
q few OF the song hits that have u
throughout the country during the past
few years to understand the immense
profits to be derived from successful
popular music. even upon a scent per
copy royalty.
For instance. "Bedelia." Mr.. Dooley,"
Love Me and the World is Nine"
Under the Bamboo Tree" and h
Merry Widow songs, netted the pub
fishers approximately $4,000 apiece,
1000, 900 copies of each having been
sold. The sale OF "Hiawatha," "Tm
Afraid to Go Home in the Dark and
"Violets" ran above 500, 900 copies each.
returning to the publishers $4,000.
Most song-Writing houses maintain
their own star Of lyric writer's and
composers. and it is from these sources
that most successful songs
though not infrequently a hit will
IND birth outside the COMMON supply.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-02-17
AZ He Ground.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Tennyson had just begun to write the
charge Of the Light Brigade
Halt a league, half a league.
Half a league onward
Then he stopped.
Sounds a good deal like OF agin, on
agin, gone agin, Finnegan!'" he said,
knitting his brows.
But he went ahead with it, and the
Jingle made a decided hit.
COVE S,oa. e% ~ha %haaxn.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-02-17

The hard knocks which follow 10
defects ofsa college education.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1910-06-01
COLLEGE GIRLS
PICK IDEAL MAN
Must Have Brown Eyes Law
ender Tie, $4,000 a Year,
and Can Smoke Cigars


NEW YORK, June 1-"wanted. a
man: brown eyes, hairand neclStic Last
mentioned article may also be lavender
or turquois-blue. A six-footer May
smoke. may not smoke. may smoke
only pipe. Sense Of humor impera-
tive. Income Of $1,000 a year and
prospects. A perfect gentleman and
the owner of an auto No dentists,
professors or undertakers need apply
Nay, gentle reader. That is not an
ad. of Charles Dana Gibson for a sum-
mer man; nor the specifications for the
latest hero or victim i'm a Robert w.
Chambers novel. nor a managers pic
ture of a matinee idol. II is merely
the collective husband Of Barnard Col
lege girls. 1910 class.
IT guess girls are just girls. whether
they go to college or not" shifted the
maiden aunt from the country, when
she heard this paragon Of masculinity
solemnly proclaimed by Miss Grace
Reeder as the 1870 common ideal for a
soul-mate. It was at the class day
exercises of the "co-eds' yesterday
morning in the Columbia gymnasium.
But others sighed.
Those Barnard girls have spent four
years studying ethics and psychology
and logarithms and social reform"
moaned a specialized professor. Nov,
will YOU tell me how the harmony be-
tween mans eyes and tic affects his
understanding of the harmony between
Fpicurus and Walter Pater2" The pro-
fessor's eyes by way, were small and
pale blue, and his tie was black with
white spots.
Can't Find Any Link.
"And what has his devotion to nico-
tine to do with his devotion to Rants
A Critiaue of Pure Reason And
wherein does his possession Of the COM
plete works Of John Rusllin? And
then that supremely silly insistence on
the fact that he shall not be a high
priest in the Temple of knowledge,
a. professor Indignation choked him
there.
"And Just to think" came acidly from
a severe lady who wore a votes for
the women" button. 'there isn't a thing
in that description about the mans
being a aiffragistl And no girl ought
10 marry any man until he promises
he'll work for the cause"
Notwithstanding their adverse critics,
the young women in cap and gown
clapped vociferously at the public an
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1910-06-01

trained to do? Is it to "Turn the other
cheek?"
The remainder of the parade was in
tensely touching. and the tail end in
teresting-or at least It should be inter-
esting to not only the spectators. the men
and boys in the line Of march, but above
all, to the newspaper men who rode in
the carriages.
Indeed, the old veterans who fought a
manly fight mot for the preservation OF
the Union alone). valiantly. some hardly
able TO finish the line Of march while il
was imperative that others should ride in
comfortable vehicles, attracted consider
able attention. but none more so than
one old man, whose name did not learn,
who sat in an invalid chair drawn up at
the curb near the corner Of Adams street
and Delaware avenue.
The sight of those old vets was. inspir-
ing indeed, drawing sympathy even from
men who stood on the curb watching the
parade-men who do not believe in war
fare in the least-marred only by that
crafty old fox, the landlord Why is It
that such spectators cannot permit such
an occasion. as the memorial parade to
pass without taking advantage of the
crowd2
Yes, sir The end OF the parade
was composed Of the ever present adver-
tisement wagon announcing Lots Tor
sale" at some place or other. and it oc-
CURED to a friend Of mine, who stood by
my side. did the landlords, who were
taking advantage Of the parade, contrib
ute toward the payment Of the bands that
were in the parade. Perhaps they did.
but, presumably MT, since their greed
for gain appears to nu1ify all the good
that might arise up within them other
wise. For this. would advise the pub
lie to watch for the landlords advertise
ment on all such occasions and the truth
1 am telling will be demonstrated.
Sincerely.
William j. Hogan.
OH Lowering Ave. city.
MaysO. 1910
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1910-06-01

nouncement of the chosen charms Of
their hero, as previously obtained by
statistical count. And two-thirds of
them want him. by the way. They
say they "nnd in marriage their highest
vocation"
Here's the Composite charmer.
Maybe this undesirable He Of the
future would like to learn something of
he girl who desires him. Statistics
show the averaged" 1910 girl at Bar
nard is five feet four inches tail and
wears q four and half shoe and a
twelve and q half collar. She can eat
breakfast In ten minutes. she. has
brown hair and eyes. and she wears
fifty hairpins and eight combs in her
hair. She is not in favor of woman
suffrage In her class prophecy, Miss
Marion Weinstein pilloried the small
group Of ardent suifragists in the class
as the "suffragents" Of the future much
to the joy of the Columbia men who
were I'm the audience.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1910-06-01
DELAWARE COUNTY
FIREMEN TO PARADE

The Fourth annual convention of the
Delaware County Volunteer Firemens
Association will be held in Sharon Hill
on Friday and Saturday. June 10 and
II. The convention and election Of
officers for the ensuing year win be
held on the evening of che 10th i'm the
Sharon Hill Hall at $50 D. m. Various
topics Of interest to firemen will he
spoken upon by the following we'll
known men. Judge Johnson of Del
aver county. will speak upon the
Volunteer Fireman; w. c. II. Egln. of
the Philadelphia Electric Company,
upon Electricity and It's Dangers in
Fighting Fires; Erw. c. McCreary.
chief of Chester police; George H.
Mahon, of Chester Fire Department,
and William I. Shaffee, ex-district at
torney of Delaware county. The adj
dress Of welcome will be made by
Burgess William e. Wallace and Hon.
Thomas II. Carvin. president Of the
Sharon Hin Fire Company.
A new Office will be created at this
convention of a fire marshal and six
assistants, the county being divided
into six districts, to better facilitate
the lighting OF fires.
The membership of the association
consists of the following companies.
Clifton Heights Fire Protective AS
ISOLATION. Yeadon Fire Company, Col
lingdale Fire Company. Morton Fire
Company. Radnor Fire Company,
Darby Fire Company. Sharon Hill Fire
Company, Darby Township Fire Com
! pany, Glenolden Fire Company, Nor
wood Fire Company, Prospect Park
Fire Company. Ridley Park Fire Com
pany, Eddystone Fire Company, ]. F.
Dougherty Fire Company, Essington
Fire Company, Colwyn Fire Company
Rutledge Fire Company. Folsom Fire
/ Company, Lansdowne Fire Company
Swarthmore Fire Company. Milbourr
Fire Company. .-4
The greater portion of these com
panies expect to participate in the pa
rade on Saturday afternoon. June 18th
The parade will start at 3 o'clock anc
traverse the main streets of the Dor.
ough, after which the visiting firemer
will be rendered a banquet
In the evening a dance will be giver
TO the Ladies' Auxiliaries OF the vari.
Gus companies and visiting firemen
Many Wilmington firemen will attend
but no company Of this city will take
part as 81
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1910-06-01
Peoples Column
Decoration Day.

Editor of THE EVENING JOURNAL;
II went out this afternoon to see the
Grand ARMY parade. and much could be
said concerning il. Chief Of Police, George
Black. aud the accompanying squad put
up a fine appearance at least so far as
uniforms and discipline goes. and this win
be judged, 1 suppose, by those who re-
viewed the parade regardless of what the
writer thinks.
Then followed the Boys Brigade-a cry
ing shame to the civilized community that
encourages the idea.
Here were little tots who should have
been passing their time in more en-
joyable way. for it was easy to see, by
the~loolSs on their faces. that they wer
not In their natural element. Then be-
sides what are those little boys being