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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-07

Here is line OF Coats we carry in
cloths that are the best. When we sell
You Coat at $500 we give You a
coat that has the style and will wear
and keep the shape and style.
At $500 to $1,000 are some
very good values These are Coats
that run in sizes from to IA years.
and in variety of the very best
styles At $500 to $1,000
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-07

M manufacture has made all from three dollars each
II These garments and will not be advanced
All advanced paying but
advanced price Isn't good policy trade where the
tries protect you against high prces'
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-07

Muning and Bennington Underwear Ladies
and Flnne Dress
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-07
Ladies Separate Skirts

Ladies' Separate Skirts are more pop
ular this fall than for the last two sea
sons.
Cur full line is now in and is complete
in every quality The Panamas, which
are the best values for the money Of
range of styles IN black and colors,
prices from ~ S3.9S TO $1,000
AT 1918 is a special value in a fine
quality mixed cloth, is made in
one of the new est models. At 1878
Vols are as good If not better than
any previous reason, the new models
being extremely neat These are all
IN the Altman Vol and range in price
from $1,000 to s18.5O
At 1900 is special with a fine
taffeta drop.
There are things you cam
and Misses Sweaters. Black {
mings and Ladies Neckwea
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-07
A. P ABBOTT & co. A. P. ABBOTT & co.
THIS is
our HARVEST GATHERING

It's the time of the year that we provide for
large business The success of our many purchases,
the enlargement Of our store arrangements and
the condition of local business both the granite
and farming interests are such that we should pro-
vide for and expect big increase. Our last two
months business fully warrants these expectations.
We bought early at prices that are far beyond US
now. This applies particularly to purchase Of
all kinds of garments when the increased cost of
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-07
TALK OF THE TOWN.

Go to Heath's for your wall paper.
Talmar sweaters are found at The
Vaughan Store.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06
ADAM, BEDE'S NEW IDEA.
Society for the Suppression of CrIcI-
 ty to Soil Is Needed.

A Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Soil is advocated by J. Adam Bede. former congressman from Minnesota and humorist of national reputation. the St. Paul Dispatch says. society, but he says he expects to live long enough to see one organized un- der government supervision.
 Stuff, This thing of increased cost of living" MT. Bede said yester- day. Tt doesn't cost more unless you make it. If we'd live like our grand mothers did it wouldn't cost any more The trouble is. we're living too fast and too luxuriously. l worked my way through school. I'm paying the way of my children. Grandma did her own housewor1. We're hiring ours done. It's just that kind Of thing which causes us to spend money. And luxuries, Why. the farmers are getting so wealthy they want to ride in automobiles. Cows upstate are getting so they won't give down their milk unless you turn on the electric lights and have a Caruso to sing It's the rust. not the trusts, which is hurt ing us. Travelling down through Kansas a short time ago. I saw all kinds of farm machinery, wagons, buggies and implements standing out in the weather-rusting. We're too lazy to take care of the things we have. We're not making the ground produce as it should. We're neglect ing it. We have not learned to rotate the crops. We plant wheat and more wheat until we have 'wheated' the ground to death. That's why I want to see a Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Soil"
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06

turned to me, smiling pleasantly. as if cards.
 Well, let's be off on our way" he called cheerily, turning his horse to the right and taking the course we had agreed upon, and l followed will ingly. He was leading me into the heart of the desert.
 After riding for two hours, Daring ton pulled up. He had reached the top of one of the sand hills. As came up, he was gazing toward the horizon, again shading his eyes. He stood up in the stirrups and looked in every di- rectlon. I did not take the trouble to follow his example. When he had fin ished the circuit he turned to me. He looked at me coolly for few moments and perceived that he understood the predicament we were in. But there was no indication of fear in his blue eyes, only a grim resolution and deter imitation to play out the game and win. A sort of admiration sprang up within me for him, which was tenn
  break him, make him whine, sob, and beg, to have the satisfaction of seeing fear of death in his eyes, and heaS the cry on his lips for mercy. 1 recognized it was to be battle and also the like lihood of my own ruin, ill fact, the inn pending pro0a bility of such an end, for l was as much unacquainted with the waste as he. I began to grow very thirsty. with the strange burning des- ert thirst that craves water in large quantities. Examining my canteen. found it about three-quarters full.
 Every hour or two Darlington halted to survey and change the course I re- mained behind, allowing him to pilot our voyage upon this shifting, sandy ocean. He did not favor me with an- other look, but simply set the direction of our progress without any seeming care as to whether I followed; and he understood why I would follow.
 He would have perished rather than ask me to take the lead and bring him back to the land of life believe that he had an idea that I could find out the way and anticipated that I might try to desert him, and leave him to his destiny Nightfall came, and we al- most fell off our horses, and the ami mals themselves sank down upon the sand without moving from their tracks. I dozed off immediately, but awoke presently. I stirred and went over to my horse with the intention of taking the saddle from the poor beasts back, so that it might rest more easily. As I reached the animal, I ob- served Darlington raise his head and watch me began loosening the girtl. He was on his feet immediately, but ,ay down when he saw what l was about. l do not believe he slept at
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06
No Wordx Wasted.

Nora was treasure of a servant, whose habit of speech was often indi- rect, but was frequently picturesque and unexpectedly expressive. One even ing "the master" was sitting in the li- brary when the doorbell rang. Nora answered it, and on her return through the hall the master" inquired who it was.
 Tt was a young man, sor," replied Nora.
 Well, what did he want?" was the question.
 "Oh, he was just lookin' for the wrong number, sor." = Lippincott's Magazine.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06
Little Willie Knew.

Little Willie, the son of German town woman, was playing one day with the girl next door when the lat ter exclaimed:
 Don't you hear your mother calling you? That's three times she's done so. Aren't you going in?"
 Not yet" responded Willie imper. turbably.
 Wont she whip you?' demanded the little girl, awed.
 "Naw," exclaimed Willie in disgust. She ain't goin' to whip nobody She's got company. So. when I go in, she'll just say, The poor little man has been so deaf since he's had the measles.'" -Lippincott'S
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06
1 watching me. smiling interestedIy.

watching me, smiling interestedly. had no need to prompt him. He was coming. If my horse would only run three or four miles it would be easy to become perplexed, but I had no fear of that issue, my only hope being that the race would last
 Exhaustion was getting the better of pace break. I refined in sharply, and the horse answered obediently, com ing to full stop in a dozen paces. saw Darrington's dust-cloud bearing down upon us quarter mile away as l dismounted. 1 quickly loosened the girth and removed the saddle. Then 1 slipped the blanket from the poor beasts tortured back and began to pick out the burs. Darlington arrived as l was removing the last one, his horse equally blown.
 See, this is what caused all the rumpus. Very careless of me not to clean the blanket before saddling." cried, holding up the bur for his in spection.
 'Yes, very careless" he replied with his devilish smile. Strange" he add ed very thoughtfully, there were none in my blanket You must have found patch of them"
 l did not answer him and arranged the blanket, preparing to resaddle. When I had completed the task and turned to him again, he was looking about him over the unbroken stretch of sand. The prairie was gone. About us, pillow on pillow, stretched an end less sea of sand with the even swell of peaceful ocean. With his hand raised to shade his eyes, he was peering back in the direction from which he seemed to have come
 H of a fine place, this," he said. T can not exactly distinguish the course we followed, we made so many turns, and it all looks alike Strikes me we came in from about there. But we can get back all right"
 "Oh, sure, we didn't come very far We can get out easy enough. Right back there is where we started" point ing my hand in the direction he had referred to. 1 smiled I could not check it. And I anticipated, when he should turn again, to see his cheek pale a trife. to find his eyes filled with anxiety. But I was disappointed, he
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06
DANGEROUS THINGS TO HANDLE.
Articles of Daily Use Which May Be
 Q Peril to Human Life.

Peril to Human Life.
 Thousands of people are handling certain articles daily without any idea of their dangerous nature.
 The ordinary soda water siphon, for instance, is a bomb, and an exceeding ly powerful one to boot, charged, as it frequently is, up to a pressure of between 130 and 160 pounds. A child who dropped one of these dangerous contrivances in the street the other day was almost as shocking ly mangled by the resultant explosion as was M. von Plehve, the assassinated Russian Minister of the Interior, by the dynamite bomb thrown by the Anarchist Porzonef.
 The large ceiluioid combs, again, which ladies are so fond nowadays of wearing in their hair, will, if acci- dentally brought into contact with naked light, burst into flame of explo- sive violence.
 Nor is this to be greatly wondered at, seeing that one of the ingredients to celluloid is guncotton, while anoth- CT is camphor, than which is no more infiammable substance known to chemists
 Icdide of nitrogen, for instance, which is frequently prescribed in com bination with other drugs, is a highly explosive chemical. and accidents have happened over and over again through it's ineautious handling by persons ig- norant Of it's dangerous properties.
 Picture of iron and diluted aqua regia, again, q mixture often pre- scribed as a tonic, gives off an explo- sive gas wtich has been known to shaJter the strongest vessels.
 Chloride of potash lozenges are high ly dangerous if accidentally brought into contact with an unlighted phos- phorus match. Chloral hydrate and sal volatile, the favorite nerve tonic. become, under certain conditions, as deadly as dynamite.
 The spontaneous explosive combus- tion of a box of oxide of silver pills has ere now caused fatal injury to their unfortunate possessor. Bicar- bonate of potash, a common remedy for flatulence, will cause a dangerous explosion if accidentally mixed with subnitrate of bismuth.
 Ordinary spirits of wine is a sub stance possessing tremendous perils. A pint of it if suddenly ignited will produce the very same destructive ef- fleets as three or four pounds weight of gunpowder. This has been proved on many different occasions
 Once at the Royal Surrey County Hospital clergyman rashly threw a small quantity on to a ''snapdragon" dish, around which a number of choir boys were gathered. The resultant explosion killed one unfortunate lad and severely injured several others Pearson's Weekly.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06
The Story of n Turtles Meal.

A butterfly hunter tells the follow ing story of swamp life:
 "In the water right between my feet was a spotted turtle that had just cap tured an appetizing but by no means dainty morsel This was a terrapin- like bug that was more than mouth full. His body was already out of sight, but clawlike legs protruded from both sides of that isoceles triangle which turtles mouth makes when it is closed and waved a frantic fare well to the passing underwater world. The turtle was long time in masti- eating his terrapin, but it was happy time His whole body blinked con tentedly, and he waved his fore legs with a caressing outpush, motion ex- actly like that of a child at the breast. Then he wagged his head solemnly from side to side. as a wise turtle might who feels that such good lunch es are put up by fate only for the knowing ones of this watery world, and pushed himself halfway under ths roots of a tussock for a nap"
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06
CHANGES IN WOMEN.
Views of British Playwright on NeSa
 nnd Old Types of Femininity.

Views of British Playwright on NeS.
 nnd Old Types of Femininity.
 The changes that are taking place in the character of woman and hel attitude toward man formed the sub ject of an address delivered by Henry Arthur Jones, the dramatist, at the dinner of the Society of Women Jour nalists at the Waldorf hotel.
 Woman, like all other animals, he said, constantly changed in response to her environment, and certain en- vironment always produced type ex. actly fitted to it. In Morocco last spring he caught glimpses of the wom- en in the harem of native potentate -cusky, fattish faces, stea,thily and mischievously peering and grinnin2 from behind the blinds, ignorant, ani nal, sly, childish, inane, prematurely old. Granted the environment, that was the type of womanhood produced.
 Tt is a commonplace to say" MT. Jones proceeded, according to the Lon don Daily Mail, that cur civilization, that wholly new civilization inaugu. I railways and electricity. is fast pro. ducing a different type of man and woman from anything the world has ever known. If we ask in what chief particular the attitude of woman to- ward man is changing I think the re- ply would be that she is becoming more and more the intellectual com rade of man.
 "In the theater women are necessar- fly our companions and comrades. In journalism and in other intellectual professions women are every day more and more showing themselves cur sgo- cessful competitors and stanch and welcome comrades. In fiction they are proving themselves our equals in mat ter-superiors in number. Doubtless, in this particular art, the art of tie tion. they have always been our supe- riors, though their talent has generally been exercised rather in the practical concerns of life than in writing nov els"
 Some of the disappearing types of women might be regretted. Jane Aus tens women, Dickens Dora and Agnes. Thackeray's Ameli;. George Eliot's Mrs. Poyser and their counterparts iI real life were passing away. One type that specially won his admiration was the type of Portia, the wife of Brutus. He hoped nature would sit tight and keep on producing Portias.
 How far our swiftly. changing en- vironment may change our type of English womanhood we can hardly pretend to guess. In what direction l think we may roughly guess
 'I am prepared to allow that, grant ed woman could be placed in the exact granted we could govern and enforce those conditions, and granted an unlimited length of time am prepared to allow she might be developed into a creature as far su- perior to man as is that female spi@er, who. when the poor male spider cones timidly up to her to make love to her. if she doesn't like the lcok of him. simply eat him up then and there. I say such a development of woman is But am glad I shall not live to see it.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06
AMENDS TO NATURE.

[ have loved colors, and not flowers; Their motion, not the swallow
 wings;
 And wasted more than half my hours Without the comradeship of things. How is it now that I can see.
 With love and wonder and delight. The children of the hedge and tree, The little lords of day and night? How is it that I see the roads
 No longer with usurping eyes, A twilight meeting place for toads, A midday mart of butterflies? feel in every midge that huns,
 Life, fugitive and infinite, And suddenly the world becomes
 A part of me and I of it- Arthur Symons.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06
Keeping Cupid on the Job.

That widow is a good manager. isn't she?'
 Manager I should say so. She got that house of hers practically fixed up like new for nothing"
 How did she manage it?"
 "She was engaged to the carpenter till all the woodwork was finished, and then she broke it off and married the plumber" r."-Baltimore American.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06
Not Too Blind.

Angelina-Oh, dear! The diamond ill my engagement ring has got flaw in It.
 Edwin-Take no notice, darling Love should be blind, you know.
 Angelina-Yes, but it hasn't got to be stone blind.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06
The Brute.

'T think I'll sue. for divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty"
 What has your husband done?"
 Why, he wants me to wear my horse show gown to the automobile ex hibit. t."-Kansas City Journal
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06

Father, in his future, is always com ing home in new automobile. and mother, in her future, is always going over the hills to the pnor farm
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06

Once in very great while we meet girl who knows how to handle 9 man as well as young widow does.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06
Effects of Lightning.

Lightning kills one-half of those it strikes, while a few of the survivors are rendered blind, deaf, dumb or par tiaiIv naralyZ
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06
Fighters.

Yeast-Did you say the boy came from a fighting family?
 Crimsonbeak-Yes, his father was a colonel in the army, and his mother was a ragette.-Yonkers States man.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-06

A girl likes an honest young man If he isn't too honest to steal kiss
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-20
On coarse .ocrirn

small receptacle for ball of string to
sewing bag Qined, of course) there are
many intermediate steps. but all are OBJ
tanned by knotting strands over stick
A yardstick or one of less width
should be placed in a firm position
and strand OF raffia knotted around
IL quite close Repeat this for the
required length. Now. when the Sec
ond row of knots is made, forming
the beginning of mesh, there willsbe
a pairing of the strands, shown in the
detail Of the bag. When the correct
width is obtained, the material should
be slipped off the rod and doubled over
into the form OF a bag. The ends
should be knotted together, and as a
final decoration, a fringe of raffia tas-
sells can be attached.
Through the top loops (the first
ones that were made) cord of twist
ed or plated raffia will give the con-
venient drawing string. For the little
handbag a lining is necessary.
On coarse scrim there is a decorative
possibility that is almost unlimited.
For pillow cushions, borders on cur
tains. runners for the. porch tables
and every. kind Of the better conven-
tional furnishing raff1a Is being used
with wonderful results
The weave. Of the material forms the
guide lines. for squares, and any sim
pie design depends upon a grouping
OF these forms and a variety of colors.
Long stitches OF the raf1a can be
quickly made with a tapestry needle.
II Is always well to- carry out one de-
sign In the general decoration of
room and effect is gained best by
harmony Of colors in conventional de-
sign.
Durability. low cost and a wide
range of quality and tones are the
keynotes of this material that is being
recognized as a friend of great deco
rative and useful possibilities. Raffia
is decidedly here to stay.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-20
Easter Eggs With
out. Dyes

"HERE are various ways OF co2cr-
ing eggs IL you are far removed
- from the shops where dyes are to
be obtained
They come under the head OF things
primitive. but are for that reason most
desirable now. The quaint methods OF
our grandmothers are being revived an
der the present tendency toward the
simple life. Even our Easter eggs do
mand the old-time attention which was
given them before the days OF the hasty
dip IN dye.
The calico egg IS charming TO bdhoid,
although its coloring IS not an easy
process. They take considerable tims
in the first covering with calico. and
are at their best when done by grand
ma, who learned 1t In the days OF her
youth
The calico Is cut Ike the cover OF a
baseball and Is wrapped round the egg
In the same way. The right side OF the
material "a turned toward the egg and
the seams are turned upon the outside
so that smooth calico lies against tho
egg.
But here IS a point most noderns do
not rea1lz9. Ou4y LuOSo OAOWA -~~@~ -
calicos are chosen which do not fade'
but whose colors gradually transfer
their patterned surface to the egg.
when 1t is put. raw. into cold water
allowed to come slowly TO boil and
boiled slowly for half an hour or
longer.
Old-fashioned children valued the
calico egg more than all the others.
and great care was taken IN their
proper distribution among the larger
families of a generation or two ago.
Onion skins convey rich notified
brown or a paler tone. according 10
the time the eggs are boiled In them'
and they invariably produce a rern
pattern resembling the jungle on a frost-
touched window.
Artists in embryo have drawn won
derfuI pictures in lead pencil upon the
plain hard boiled eggs, and bronze
shoe polish has been called INTO reQuA-
sitinn more than once.
The red white and blue-palnteui
egg is not new, nor is the polka dot
ted made by dropping heated wax
from a colored candle upon IT at reg
ular distances.
Given a family Of children and
wear spent in the country away from
the modern extravagances for Whlcn
we waste our money. and necessity
will ever prove the mother OF 1nVen-
tion. ss &AEtA
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-20

uons for the tiny squares at one side
Of the card, with probably, the first
letter Of your message printed within
the drawn margin.
The Jonquils have the pale yellow
flowers. with blush green leaves. The
tulips are. best when painted in pale
pinks or yellows. and the narcissus
should have the central tube a deep
orange and the other petals a paler
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-20
.ZIw luAAu6 Nu1 1uum Aaym

ket large satin rose and bud are
used. The petals are made separately
of two pieces of silk. and stamens
give the attractive center. Large
leaves are placed between the silken
forms. The result is particularly
pleasing.
the effective use of a bow-not the
stiff large form that spells yards OF
expensive ribbon. but the soft French
bow. secured by twisting the ribbon
before tying. From this. a few satin
roses and green leaves follow the
weave up to the top.
For those who prefer the undeco-
rated form. a round basket filled with
fresh eggs contains no headaches for
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-20
In the Nursery

IF THE nursery window is not pro
tected by outside bars. hammer
i large screw or nail into the groove
of the lower sash, 50 that the window
cannot be raised more than SIX ihcues
Tf tha ton sash is drawn down, this iS
quite enough for ventilation; and no
matter how ingenious or venturesone
the little ones may be they cannot Wrls-
gle through the small lower opening
Provide each little one In the nursery
with It's own towel, sponge, hair ana
toothbrush, and teach the children that
1t is not right to use each otner tnlngs.
Hair brushes should be kept perfectly
clean and frequently washed In soda
water.
Sponges. too, should be treated In the
same way, and when they are greasy
and Shiny they should be cleanSed- by
placing them in boiling water in whicn
soda-twO ounces TO each quart OF
water-has been dissolved. and left for
twenty-four hours to soak. Afterward
rinse IN vinegar and water.