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

ans coarse voice ask for Mr. Trevor.
Then, without waiting to be announced.
the caller brushed past the maid and
into the sitting room.
Hello. Sam" she said.
Trevor put his hands to his face and
trembied. 1t was Madge Hopkins,
and, judging from her appearance. she
had been growing coarser with every
year.
Mrs. Trevor ran to her husband and
put her arms about him as If to
shield him from the blow.
"Y' needn't be afraid o me-" said
the woman. "if you1l give me some
thin 10 live on"
Why did | receive that notice OF
your death?" faltered Trevor.
Il amt got nothin' TO do with that
l mint got nothin' to live on. Send
them remittances that was dropped
and I'll let Y alone"
Mammal" cried the oldest daughter.
a girl Of ten. from above. whats the
matter"
Leave your address and go" said
Trevor, eager TO get the woman out
Of the house before the children should
learn who She was.
The address was given, and the wo-
man went away. Then after silence
Mr.. Trevor said:
Don't worry on my account, dearie.
My position is not pleasant, but what
Is it compared with the interest of
you and the children? Be comforted.
We win keep the secret. Send the re-
mittances regularly and no one will
be the wiser"
But Mrs. Trevor had no intention of
letting the matter rest where it was,
A shrewd woman. she believed that
there had been some weak spot in
Madge Hopkins record which was ac-
countable for the spurious death no
tice and the failure to claim the re-
mittances.
1t was but a week after this, when
Trevor came home one evening from
business, that his wife received him
with radiant countenance that BODIED
good news. Taking him to a room
where the children would not hear
and closing the door, she said.
tits all right ! put a detective on
her track. and he has been here this
afternoon to report. The woman has
never been Madge Hopkins since you
have known her She was secretly
married before you met her to lum.
Der shower whatever that Island, he
drifting away, she took you in. But
after you left he returned and claim
cd her. She lived with him: but. fear
ing II you appeared in their lives she
would be tried for blgamy. she sent
You the notice Of her death. which she
had inserted in a paper for the pur-
pose, and gave up the remittances.
Her husband has recently died. and
she came back on you for support"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-10
CHILD SHOOTS T0DDLER,
THEN CARRIES HER HOME
Il didn't Mean to Do It," Sobs Margaret
McGregor to Mother Of the In
jured Little Girl.

Hartford, Conn, Oct. l0.--While Mrs
IL. M. Naylor Of No. 26 Westland street
this city, was washing her dinner dishes
Saturday afternoon, year-old Mar
garet McGregor came sobbing into the
kitchen and told the woman she had
accidentally shot Mrs. MAYORS three
year-old child, Harriet.
Il was play with my brother Dams
rife" said little Margaret, "and / didn't
mean to, but it just went Off"
She had carried the little girl home
more than mile--and when Mrs. Nay
lor went out into the back yard there
was her child with blood flowing from
a wound in her breast just over her
heart.
The child did not seem to mind the
pain and wondered what all the fuss
was about.
Mrs. Naylor summoned the nearest
physician and, after an examination, he
said the little girl would recover. The
bullet was extracted.
The McGregor child couldn't be con-
soled and cried again and again, Il
didn't mean to do it."
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-10
CAMPAIGN REPORTS
PLEASE PRESIDENT
Situation Satisfactory in New York and
Ohio, He Is ToId-Sufers from
Injured Foot.

Beverly, Mass, Oct To- First.hand
reports on the progress of the campaigns
in New York and Ohio were received
Saturday by President Taft, and the
news was 30 good that it tempered some
what the pain from sore foot. which
prevented him from enjoying his usual
game of golf The New York news was
brought by Otto T. Barnard, who ar
rived Saturday for the week end at Bur
CESS point. His tidings were cheerful
to the extent of being more hopeful
perhaps than the president expected
The president was kept to the house
all day, his left foot swathed in BAN
dages TO relieve inflammation induced BY
a new shoe which bruised his instep
Although he expects to be out again
Monday, the enforced inactivity due to
the injury is the harder to bear because
the president is eager to spend Mt least
half of each day remaining of his vaea-
ton on the golf links.
Mr. Barnard came to Beverly to be in
a party with two Of Mrs. Taft's sisters,
Although bearing no political mission,
much of the time when he is alone with
the president VIII DC ueNOleU 10 pOiltical
subjects. He is credited with being the
successor of Lloyd c. Griscom as politl-
cal ambassador when subjects in which
Theodore Roosevelt and President Taft
are mutually interested are to be dis
cussed. II is Mr. Bannard's opinion that
in spite of the cross curreHts.whieh seem
to be rocking the Republican boat, es-
pecially III Wall street, there is a strong
undertow which will carry Stimson
through to victory
Carmi A. Thompson. secretary of state
of Ohio, and G. A. Mcclellan, an Ohio
editor, brought word that the campaign
in their state was hattering to the
chances of Harding, but that several
nationally prominent spellbinders were
needed to elinch the situation. Presi-
dent Taft will doubtless recommend that
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Ma
gel be sent with others TO Ohio.
John Mitchell and James Duncan CON
ferred with the president Saturday on
labor legislation to be introduced at the
approaching session of Congress- Al
most all of the talk had to do with
measures which the president suggested
in his last message,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-10

When your old dad was as little as You
Was he likely to do
What they wanted him TOT
Why, certainly &c And as quick rs a
wink
RE did as they bid him before you could
think,
Hey Hey!
What did you say2
What makes YOU keep winking and grin
ming that wayl
Your uncles been "tcllin' you sumthin Z
Dear, Gear.
You mustn't believe all the stories you
hear.
When dad and his playmates were nice
little boys
flie Glst Of theii Joys
Was giving their toys
70 poor little children, who needed taem
more.
Your dad was 50 good he gave all Of
his store.
Hey! Hey!
What do YOU say
You mother has some Of 'em now, put
swayi
Such nerve was unknown in my day -
1" be bound
You imps have been shopping and prying
around.
When daddy was young he was deaf,
dumb and blind
To pranks unrefned;
He'd serious mind.
He paid no attention to girls and their
looks,
But gave all mis- time to his tasks and
his books.
Hey Hey!
What do you say
Yes, mother was raised in the very same
way.
You found an old letter and read it,
NV Scat
We used to spank children for mischief
like that
-fiarper's Magazine.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-10
PAWNS WATCH TO Exc OUT
HIS CAMPAIGN FUND
At That, "Young Sam" Bowles Loses
Congressional Nomination by
Seven Votes.

Springfield, Mass, Oct. Defeated
by seven votes Saturday for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Congress in the
second district, Samuel Bowles, jr., son
Of the publisher Of the Springfield Repub-
liean, promises to conduct sensational
campaign as an independent candidate
against William G. McKechnie, his sue
eessful opponent, and Representative
Frederick II. Gillette, the Republican
nominee.
In urging the convention to nominate
young SAM ysho is barely % years old,
Mr.. Bowles' campaign manager declared
that, to bridge a financial chasm due to
the backwardness of those upon whom
Mr.. Bowles had relied, the candidates
friends "had dug down into their pockets
for him, had contributed dollar, half
dollar, or 9 quarter, and finally had
pawned the young mans watch for his
campaign fund"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-10
A Ring at
The Doorbell
BY LOUISE IDA ROSS
Copyright. 1910 by American Press
Association.
By LOUISE IDA ROSS

Mr.. and Mrs. Trevor were sitting one
October evening before blazing wood
ire--they had not yet lighted the fur
nace-and the room was aglow and
redolent with the pleasant odOr Of
burning wood The children had been
romplng, Mr. Trevor carrying Bonnie
pigaback and Willie ON all fours. bus
their mother had now taken them all,
including the girls. up TO bed, tucked
them in, kissed them good night and
had returned with her sewing, which
she was doing by the big lamp on the
table. while Mr. Trevor read a maya
zine.
There was ring at the bell.
Now, for many years there was some
thing In the ring Of his doorbell that
cast sober look over Samuel Trevor's
face But to explain the reason for
this it is necessary to go back to the
time when he was a very young man.
When he was but eighteen his fa-
Their who was lumber merchant.
sent his son to lumber camp that he
might learn the business which would
one day be his, from the beginning
There is danger to all persons Of that
age Of inexperience and recklessness
that they may make mesalliance. and
on that account it is bad plan to take
them away from young girls of their
own social circle and place them
among their interiors. And where
would a young man Of refinement find
people more his interiors than in a
lumber camp? Among the girls there
was Madge Hopkins. the daughter Of
a lumberman, several years older than
Trevor, who lured him into indiscre-
tions with her, then threatened him
with vengeance If he refused to marry
her. He did so, but Immediately left
the camp
An effort was made to annul the
marriage, but 1t was unsuccessful.
Then the woman offered to refrain
from troubling her husband if his IA
Their would support her. Remittances
were sent regularly for a season. when
suddenly a newspaper was received
containing a notice of her death. No
doubt was felt of the truth Of the no
tice when several years had passed
and, no remittances having been sent,
no demand was made for them.
Twelve years after the conclusion
of this episode Samuel Trevor married
Agatha Beach He told her all about
1t before being engaged to her, not ex-
pressing doubt that his first wife
was dead You may be sure of that"
said Agatha "or she would be draw
ing the lifeblood out Of you" Never
theless Trevor. having had nothing
but the death notice to prove to him
Madge Hopkins demise. never felt alb
solutely sure. And that was the rea-
son why a certain dread was con-
nected WITH the ringing Of his door.
bell
A maid in a neat uniform of black
and white went to the door. and
he wife aud husband heard a wom-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-10
MORGAN BUMPED BANKERS HEADS
King of Wall Street Plays Fair with
His Subjects-But Uses Force
When Necessary.

"Wall street never could have got to.
gether under Hartman or Rogers said
a very sstute broker to me- these men
never drew an unselfsh breath. Oh,
they did kindly little things, but they
never took a public view OF large pub
lie question. Morgan could he has done
il; he viii do it again. The rest OF us
play for ourselves OF for our crowd all
the time. Is there a panicf Good. We
60 short, drive prices down; spread the
alarm. help the panic along. OF course.
That's our business, and our business is
all we can see. We can't grasp an inter-
est bigger than a pool, and neither could
Hartman or Rogers; and neither can
William Rockefeller.
Morgan can, and that's why he DOM
mates. He may start break. He has
raised he'll. and he has done it for a
petty, particular. personal purpose, too.
But when the break becomes panic
and the thing has gone 50 far that he
and everybody else seems to be going
to smash. then j. p can rise above
himself and bis bank and his crowd
He can act for the common good"
"The common financial good cor
rected.
Certainly, the good IF Wall street:
the common interest of the financial
world. But that's all the world to him.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-10

Personal, passionate, domineering, brur
tai, he lives i'll world of his own,
but he cares for his world He may
abuse it himself; loving the game, lie
may let others abuse it, but he won't
permit it to be used up That's his dis
tinction among his peers. He sees that
we must not Kill the geese that lay
the golden eggs. Not much to see No,
but very few Of It's see that; very few;
and whenever he and the rest OF us have
nearly killed the birds; when we have
wrecked railroads, put the banks on the
run and carried panic to the verge
of universal disaster, Morgan calls IL
halt. And we halt He honestly, ably,
magnifcently applies all his moral power
and all his brute force to the tender task
of nursing the geese back to life, and
we-well, we carry bandages and wait
upon the nurse For when he does that,
we all know that he will not then do
anything or anybody else. We know it,
YOU understand. We have faith in him
then. There is no other man known to
US who might not, at the last moment,
cut the gizzard out OF the gander and
cook and eat the whole flock. But If
Morgan says he won't he won't So we
follow him. We do what he says. He
makes us. He is harsh, and it hurts.
During the last panic, we got ii straight
down here that Morgan took two trust
company presidents, and, in the privacy
of his famous library of rare books,
knocked their heads together Physical
ly, you understand"
That's denied" | objected.
ooh. yes, it's denied" he said "Sure.
Everything is denied down here. got
it from man who saw it, but what's
the difference? Figuratively, ii j. true.
And that's worse think no liar will
deny that fguratively he takes bank
presidents and railroad presidents and
kicks them as he wouldn't dare to kick
an office boy. And they let him We
all do Why? Because he's fair; fierce,
and brute, but square. And that's
why he can rule when he wants to; and
that's why | think nobody else ever can"
Lincoln Steffens in the October Every
body's.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-10
LEAVES MILLION AND
QUARTER TO SCHOOL
Death Of Mary Hunt LOOMS, Chicago
Society Woman and Civil War
Heroine.

Chicago, Oct, lo-Mrs Mary Hunt
LOOMS, Chicago soeietey woman and
heroine Of the Civil war, is dead, leav-
ing fortune of 81 100000 to the Loomis
Institute, an educational institution at
Windsor, Conn, founded eighteen years
ago BY Mrs. Loomis' husband and his
brothers and sister.
Mrs Loomis, who was the widow OF
Col. John Mason Loomis, was born at
Sherburne, \. Y, eighty-one years ago.
She was married to Col Loomis in New
York sixty years ago, coming to Chi
cago Immediately after the wedding At
the outbreak of the Civil war, she ac-
cnmpanied her husband TO the front on
the Union side and became head Of a
company of Red Cross nurses. Col.
Loomis died ten years ago,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-10
Ninety Rif!emen Win in Is
Hour Fight
MASTER OF CAMERON DAM
Wounded in the Hand and His Son, Les
lie, in the Hip, Causes Daughter
20 Hoist White Flag-0ne
Deputy Killed.

Winter, Wis, Oct. 100.--Jobn Dietz,
the outlaw OF Cameron Dam, surrendered
late Saturday Afternoon and was arrest
ed and handcuffed. Little Helen Dietz
appeared with a kag Of truce at $3.50 P.
N. She 'wailSed to tho edge of the clear
ing, met sheriff Michael Madden, weep
ing and ssid
Father was shot in the nand and will
surrender if guaranteed safe conduct TO
Jail with the family.
Deputy FrAd Thorbaha went TO the
cabin and put handouts on Dietz The
terrific gun battle began at a;45 Friday.
Every rife in the posse Of sixty men
surrounding the Dietz cabin, flashed Gre.
1t appears that John and Leslie Dietz
walked into she trap set by the deputies.
Leslie left the cabin to go to the far
side Of the clearing for COW, lie had
proceeded about $50 yards, when he was
fired upon Leslie jumped back and ran
along the crest Of tine Hill on which the
cabin stands, to get behind a lumber
pile. For a distance Of at least 200 feet,
lie was a fair target for the guns Of the
deputies.
John Dietz, when the shooting started,
was between the barn and the lumber
piles. Behind one of the piles of lumber
were a few deputies and he received
the full fire from these men. He sud-
denly pitched forward and down on his
knees, lay PROSTATE for moment,
scrambled ID his feet, made a run for
the cabin and darted inside the door.
Mrs Dietz was about 100 feet from the
door when the bullets began to fly. She
ran inside the house and apparently
vas not injured While these move
ments were taking place, the fusilade
was kept up from all sides of the clear
ing When they We're all within the
shack, five shots were fired back through
the windows. That was all the reply.
Deputy sheriff Oscar Harp, IS years old,
was killed by one Of these.
While outside of the cabin, neither
John nor his son Leslie, carried a rife.
Saturday night the outlaw and family
we're conveyed in automobiles to Hay
ward, the county seat Of Sawyer coun-
ty, and placed in jnil II Is understood,
however, that the wife and children are
being taken care OF outside of the Jail.
John Dietz was shot through the hand
and Leslie Detz was shot in the hip;
neither case is considered serious.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-10
PAUPERS REFUSE
OLD AGE PENSIONS
Danger of Legislating On Theory Is Ac.
eentuated by Experience In Eng
land

London, Oct, 10. The danger Of rush
ing into legislation on a theory without
aseertaining the facts is illustrated By
a human interest discovery which has
Just been made By the poor law adj
ministration. by last years old pen
sion act all weIl-conducted needy British
subjects over 20 became entitled 10 a
pension OF sl25 a week from the state.
An extension of the act comes into force
IN January next, whereby tae disabil-
ity OF paupers TO receive a pension is
removed.
Now the surprising fact has become
patent that the great majority Of the
workhouse inmates do not want their
pensions and would rather stay where
they are. One OF the reasons is that in
London il is quite impossible for old peo-
pie TO live on SI25 a week, and il Is
barely possible to do SO in the country.
There are cases Of old men who left
the workhouse TO live on pensions of SO
or $3.50 a week and returned after a
few weeks to the greater comfort OF the
workhouse.
The real problem lies in the atten.
ton which old people require more than
in the actual cost Of living. The diff
Guilty is partly solved when the old peo-
pie have relatives to whom they can 60.
But these relatives as a rule, have their
own battles to fight and viii seldom nave
the enduring patience to give the nee.
essary attention for SIPS a week. and
50 the outstanding feature about aged
manners IL their solitude
On an average barely II per cent Of
the almshouse inmates want to leave
Some English almhouses are better ap.
pointed than others, and in these not
a single application has been made for
independence and SIPS a week.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-10
| Visitor Tells Her of Plot to
| Kill President Taft
THREATENED HER LIFE
If She Told Story--Secret Service Men
Are Sent to Millbury to Pro-
tect the Presidents
Aunt

Millbury, Mass, Oct. lo--An alleged
scheme for the assassination Of Presi-
dent Taft was unfolded to Miss Della
C. Torrey, aunt OF the president, by a
stranger who called at her home in Mill
bury Saturday. The man, who refused
to give his name claimed to have over
heard the plotters while in Boston. As
he departed he threatened to return and
kill Miss Torrey if the matter got into
the newspapers. The man went away
from Millbury as suddenly and as mys-
teriously as he had come, and Saturday
night there was no clue to his where
abouts, although Miss Torrey immedi.
ately reported the facts to the Millbury
authorities, and they in turn asked the
assistance of the Worcester police The
matter has also been reported to the
secret service authorities, and they, too,
are expected to take hand in the
investigation.
II was learned that the man went to
Millbury from Worcester by electrics
and returned the same way to that city.
He left the car, according to the con-
ductor, in the center Of Worcester. and
there the trail ends. In telling OF the
mans visit, Miss Torrey said; "He told
men he had been in Boston and had
heard some men say they were going to
kill the president, and he thought
ought to know about it. He didn't tell
his name or leave his card, and altogeth-
er he was a queer.acting man, He said
he didn't want anything to get into the
papers about it, aud ii it did he would
come back aud kill me As soon as he
had gone | got word to the seleetmen,
for he was such a queer-acting man that
/ didn't know what might happen"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-10
HEALTHY MIDDLE WEST.
st. Paul, Cleveland and Columbus Have
Lowest Death Rates.

Washington. Oct. l0.-With ia
deaths to every 1000 inhabitants, st.
Paul in 1900 led the cities of the l0O,-
00o class in point Of low rate of NOR.
fatty; Cleveland had the second lowest
rate, with 1913; and Columbus, o.. the
third, with 1874, according to DR.. c. l..
Wilbur, the statistican of vital statis-
tics Of the United States census bureau,
II statement submitted Saturday to
census director Durand
The highest death rate in 1909 was re-
ported by New Orleans with 2O,2 per
1000 Fan River with l9.l was second I;
and Washington, d, G., with 10. third.
Other cities and their rate for 1909 fol-
low: New Haven, 1911; Chicago, LAG;
Providence, l6l. The general death rate
81 Is per 1000 in the registration area
in 1909 was the lowest on record.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-10
Force Of an Oil Wall.

Oil has been elected from the Baku
wells with such force and accompanied
with so much sand that steel blocks
twelve inches thick placed over the
mouth of the well to defect the dow
were perforated in a few hours and
had to be replaced. The casing with
which the wells were lined was often
torn TO shreds and eventually collaps-
ed. and hundreds of thousands of tons
Of sand which accumulated In the vi
entity necessitated the services OF large
bodies of workmen.-Loudo Mail.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-10
MAKES RECORD FLIGHT.
Hoxsey Flies 1o4 Miles at Altitude of
TOO Feet.

St. Louis, Mo, Oct. l0.-Arch Hoxsey,
in a Wright biplane, flew from Spring
field, ILL.,, to the country club grounds at
Clayton, St Louis county, Saturday, and
established an American sustained flight
record in an aeroplane by covering lo4
miles The distance was estimated BY
Hoxsey.
His objective landing place was the
aviation field at Kinlock park, but be-
cause Of failing TO find the grounds be
descended five miles away.
He alighted OH the aviation field at
9:27 p. m His time in the air was 3
hours and % minutes.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-10
THE LoRIMER INVESTIGATION.
Speaker Shurtleff Says He Wasn't Bribed
to Vote for the Senator.

Chicago, Oct. l0.-Edward /. Shurtleff,
speaker Of the Illinois House OF Repre-.
sentatives, and who is said by Lee o'Neil
Browne, TO have been the first to APP.
proach him with reference to securing
Democratic votes to elect William Lori
ner to the United States Senate, took
the witness stand before the senatorial
investigation committee at Chicago Sat
urday. Mr.. Shurtleif declared that no
one ever gave him any money or other
things Of value to secure his aid in elect
ing Senator Lorimer. He denied that
any money was paid by him to anyone
for voting for Mr. Lorimer, or any
promises Of reward made by or author.
lied by him to anyone who voted for
Lorimer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-10
Consider This Advice.

No woman should submit TO surgi-
cal operation. which may mean death,
until she has given Lydia L. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. made exclusives
ly from roots and herbs, a fair trial
This famous medicine for women
has for thirty years proved TO be the
most valuable tonic and invigorator of
the female organism. Women resid-
ing in almost every city and townin
the United States bear willing ties y
mony TO the wonderful virtue Of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
1t cures female ills. and creates radi-
ant. buoyant female health. If you
are i'll, for your own sake as well as
those you love. give it q trial
Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn. Mass.
invites all sick women 60 write
her for advice. Her advice is free,
and always helpful