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The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-03-18

were made: For the support of the
schools over the amount required by law,
$4l0O; for text books and supplies. $500;
for the teaching of music and drawing.
S425; salaries of officers, $205. The total
amount raised is about $500 more than was
appropriated last year.
Before the meeting adjourned Superin-
tendent Pratt was called upon to speak
upon the schools and his remarks were in
the same strain as at the previous even
ing. 1t is generally conceded that our
schools are in better condition than ever
before and that their welfare has an able
guardian in Superintendent Pratt.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-03-18
mans orchestra of this town furnished OK.
celient music. Refreshments of ice-cream
and cake were served during the evening.

}. Q. Bergeron is i'll with severe cold
Miss Pearl Higgin has been i'll this weel,
William Watson was in Holyoke Tines
day. '>e 'es
DR.. H. L. Brown was in Boston last
week. ''''
Miss Ina Doolittle has been i'll the past
week wy p's'
chester. ~ P" III
+, Z. Field was in Springfield two DAYS
last week. WV 'as
Mrs: Ora Holton is visiting in Spring.
field, Mass. III spring
W, H. Lyman was in Springfield ono
day last week. ''"' oiie
9 Joseph eli Bushey spent one day in Spring.
field this week. ing
, +. W. Iilden has been in Worcester and
Boston this week. 'e' anu
Rev. Father Cahill was in Kaene H.
first of the week. 'ne
~, MIS- Victor Cote of Greenfield snent
Thursday in town. spent
Dahlel conway visited in HYDE Park
lew days recently. 81 y
N A. blouin was at home from law.
renee over Sunday. i'0"' i-""-
Mrs. Octave Douza visited in Keeno Ct
urday and Sunday. >ee"e sat
:. thomas nom Smith of Yaleville, Conn. was
M Mrs. ): P; Felch spent Saturday with
relatives in Winchester. win
D. Miss Nellie Redding was at home from,
brattleboro over Sunday. Oe from
ing ne IT, a.. M; Bradley gave very interest.
'"s lecture last Sunday evening in the
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-03-18

Lynch of this town, and one daughter, Mrs.
John Conway of Winchester and u grand.
children.
They built their present home about Is
years ago and it is located in a slightly
place overlooking the Connecticut valley,
where Mr.. and Mrs Lynch are spending
their declining years in ease and happiness.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-03-18

couples in Hinsdale who have journeyed
along lifes pathway together for over
half century and they enter another year
with the good wishes of their innumerable
friends.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-03-18

The 5lst wedding anniversary of the mar
riage of Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Lynch
was quietly observed today in their pleas
ant home, Sunset View, on Tower Hill
Mr.. and Mrs. Lynch are one of the few
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One in Dublin Did Him a Favor Be
cause the Other Was His Fa-
vorite Waiter In New


In one of the chats l had with
ThurlOw Weed when that great pOliti-
cal figure of ante-bellum and wartimes
was living in the peaceful retirement
of old age, he told me the story of the
brothers Mccarthy.
"On the first excursion that l made
to Europe" said Mr.. Weed, Il went
with my daughter Harriet, and in our
party were Archbishop Hughes of
New York, a warm personal friend of
mine, and Archbishop John Baptist
Purchell of Cincinnati, both, at that
time, being bishops only. The captain
of the steamship on which we crossed
learned that we were going to Ireland
as soon as we had landed, so, doubt
less out Of respect for the two digni-
taries of the Catholic church, he vol
unteered to save us the trip to Liver
pool by putting us ashore in Ireland
in one of the ships boats. We gladly
accepted the invitation, were rowed
ashore off Queenstown and so reached
Dublin just in time to secure good
seats at an address delivered by Dan
lei O'Connell, the great Irish liberia
tor.
"Ah, that was oratory! l have heard
all of our great American speakers,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-23

cabin and slept the rest of the night
out. Only the next morning when he
failed to appear at breakfast was he
suspected and seized.
Whatever else this attempt at pl-
racy may have been it was above eV-
erything unique. Nothing Of its kind
has ever happened before, and it is
not likely that it will happen again.
If they had not shot down the captain
the daring of the pirates would have
compelled the respect that is always
accorded to those who take tremen-
dous risks, no matter how evil. The
only thing they did succeed in was in
showing what might be accomplished
by such daring and determined men
on a big steamer on the high seas.
Shows What Might Be Done.
About the only thing in the ancient
annals of piracy that comes anywhere
near the audacious achievement is
that of Richard Worley, who -four
ished in the eighteenth century. He
set out from New York with eight
men in an open boat captured two
armed sloops and square-rigged ship,
lodged a man-of-war and alarmed the
whole coast as far as Charleston be-
fore he was captured. But he had
eight men with him, and the total ton
mage of all the ships that he captured
would not anywhere near equal that of
the Alaska-Pacific liner that these two
men almost had at their mercy. The
exploit of West and Wise is unique in
the criminal history of the civilized
seas. Had they lived two centuries
ago they might have staggered with
the richest at Port Royal. the old pi-
rate stronghold, or haze grown to be
terrors of the seas in the same class
with Morgan and LATTE. But steam
navigation, with its bigger ships,
would have put the pirates out Of bust
ness if the nations had not declared
war without quarter on them.
Francis G. Bailey. another twenu-
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VIM Blaine Left Journalism

hundred dollars was a large sum Of
money down In Maine
We'll, Blaine thought the situation
over for some time, and finally came
to the conclusion that he was worth
fifteen hundred dollars year, If he
was worth cent, and that he did not
propose to hold down his editorial po-
sitiOn for less than what he was
worth. So, parting in a most friendly
spirit with his employer, Mr.. Blaine
returned to Augusta whittier he had
gone to Portland, and he had not been
there long when he was nominated
and elected a member Of the legis-
Of that body, and for two years he was
its speaker, and that before he had
finished his thirty-second year. In
that body he discovered wherein his
real ability lay; and so, say, had he
not returned to Augusta when he did,
and all because he could not get the
raise in salary that he wanted. his
great political career would undoubt-
eddy have been considerably delayed,
and maybe-whO can tell?-he might
have become a great newspaper edi-
tor instead Of a great statesman. l
have always believed that Mr.. Blaine
cherished at one time a strong secret
ambition to become the editor of a
great newspaper, and had he remained
in Portland with the Advertiser a Bos-
ton or New York newspaper might
have tempted him thither in time"
Copyright, 1910. by E J. EdwardsD
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-23
Wizard Quickly Told New York Com
mission Just How Electric Cur
rent Wires Could Be
Placed Underground.

When New York city, back In the
bate eighties, passed an ordinance for
bidding the stringing Of telegraph and
telephone wires overhead and order
ing the miles of wires already over
head to be placed underground COM
mission was appointed to take charge
Of the work of burying them. A mem
Der of this commission was the late
Jacob Hess, at one time very proml-
nent as a Republican organization
leader in New York, and one of the
group of very energetic young men
who were trained in politics by Ches-
ter A. Arthur when he was power
In New York city politics.
1.-The most impressive evidence l
ever had of Edison's genius | received
when | was member OF what be-
ueye was the first authoritative body
to deal with the problem of laying
city's wires underground" said Mr..
Hess to me few years before his
death. And. by the way, our work as
{ commission was closely followed by
municipal authorities throughout the
United States and also by some OF the
leading municipal experts of Europe.
well, when we started out we
knew that it wouldn't do just to place
the wires in trenches and let 1t go at
that; anybody knows that wires so
placed would not work and would
soon be destroyed So we had au-
Ihority to spend money to make eX-
'periments in order to get at least one
satisfactory system Of burying the
wires, and to enter into contracts with
inventors of satisfactory systems. One
. of our first moves, therefore, was to
advertise our needs.
"YOu can't imagine the number of
inventions that were brought to our
Rttention-they simply were legion, as
the saying is. Most of them were
. worthless on their face, and We were
. asked by their inventors all sorts Of
prices, ranging from a few dollars
away up. into the thousands. One of
the best Of the inventions, as we
thought; was so expensive that it's
cost alone made It's use prohibitive.
zone day, after we had been strug
Cling with the problem for weeks, and
were as far away from solving it ap-
parently as when we first tackled it,
1t was suggested that we call on Thorn
as A. Edison and ask him to invent
something that we could use, or, at
least give us a suggestion that we
could have worked out. We wrote
him, and he invited us to visit him at
his laboratory in New Jersey.
presenting ourselves before him at
the appointed time, we found him
wearing an old linen buster and a
much battered straw hat. AS we
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-23
Problem, Was Easy for Edison

stated the object of our call queer
little smile passed over his features.
Finally, he said: L suppose you have
had all sorts of inventions offered to
you?
I'VE nodded acquiescence.
WELL he said, chuck 'em all out.
Most Of them are no good, and, be-
sides, you don't need any invention
I'VE looked surprised and Edison
was clearly amused at our astonish-
ment. Then he proceeded to elucidate.
All you have to do, gentlemen, is to
insulate your wires, draw them
through the cheapest thing on earth,
lead pipes, run your pipes through
channels or galleries under the street,
and you've got the whole thing done.
There he was telling us in that
simple, off-hand way how to do the
thing we had spent the best part Of
year puZZling over; for none of US
doubted that he had solved the prob
lem, and afterward the experiments
which we conducted proved con-
clusively that he had.
Before we left Edison we asked
him what his bill was for the advice
he had given us.
mot a cent he replied. DO you
suppose I'd stick you for so simple a
thing as that
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-23
EQUINE Geourapher.

Here is a story of an equine geog-
rapher. who was the cause of saving
his master some distance In travelling
A gentleman in the habit OF riding a
good deal, found that whenever he ap-
preached a certain gully, his saga
cious horse invariably opposed his
wishes to cross at the particular spot
he had been accustomed to, always
endeavoring TO lead of to another
part of the gully. where no passage
was known to exist by his rider. Re
solving to see whittier the cunning
rogue would 60 he gave him the rein,
and soon found himself carried over
the gully by a route that he had never
before followed. Still, however, think
ing that the former way was the near
est. he was curious enough to have
both measured when he found the
horses Judgment correct, that way be-
ing the nearer by several hundred
yards.
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the vessel reprinted and her namo
changed to the Atalantida For
time he roamed the ocean aimlessly,
and then put into one of the chief
ports Of Honduras. Bailey knew. that
there was no eXtradition treaty be.
tween that country and the United
States.
Honduras Forced to Give Him Up.
Honduras refused to recognize the
request for Bailey's arrest, but
changed her mind when the United
States government announced that it
would send a man-of-war after the
GoldsbOro and the Baileys and take
them by force. Then there were
lot of complications in which England
took hand. A gunboat was sent,
however, finally, and the Baileys and
several others were placed in the
hands of Lieutenant Beery, from Null
berry street. Bailey jumped over
board in the harbor of Puerto Cortez
and escaped. His brother was brought
to New York, tried and sentenced to
prison
The next that was heard of Francis
Bailey was in British Columbia, where
he was living under the name of Col.
Kirkconnel on small ranch that he
had bought with some of the money
he had escaped with. He was found
through watching the mail that was
received by a young woman school
teacher in Brooklyn, friend of his.
A good share of the money that
Bailey got away with is unaccounted
for. 1t is supposed that he buried il on
the coast Of Honduras. If he did. he
has never told where. But for more
than a year. in these enlightened
times, Bailey held the attention OF
three countries with his pirate ship
and armed crew; baffled every effort
to apprehend him, and, as he says
himself, might be still doing so If no
had not grown weary and lonesome.
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Proprietor of Portland Advertiser
Would Not Raise His Salary,
=. So He Quit and Turned
to Politics.

. This story Of how refusal to raise
James G. Blaine's salary practically
opened up a political career before
him was told me by two competent
authorities, an editor Of Blaine's old
paper, the Portland (Me) Advertiser
during. the Maine state campaign of
1878, and, some years later, by Han
nibal Hamblin, LincOln's second vice
president and later senator from the
state of Maine.
Senator Hamblin," asked one day,
having recalled the story told me by
the Portland editor. did you ever
hear that Blaine's career might have
been entirely different had he been
granted the raise in salary that he de-
sired when he was editor of the Port
land Advertiser in 1852"
"Oh. yes, | know about that story,
and l know 1t to be true" responded
tho senator, and l am certain that
Blaine's career would at least have
been greatly delayed-to say nothing
of being different-had he remained
as editor of that paper.
Mr. Blaine" continued his sena-
torial coileague-bOth were in that
august body at the time-'was one of
the associate editors Of the Kennebec
Journal for two or three years after
he first went to Maine to live His
work in that position was so notice
able that the owner Of the Portland
Advertiser secured him as that pa
per's editor. The salary was twelve
hundred dollars year.
"As the end of the first year of Mr..
Biaine's service with the Advertiser
approached. he and its proprietor had
several conferences about re-engage-
ment. Mr.. Blaine thought that he
ought TO receive fifteen hundred dol
lars year. and he was willing to bind
himself for a number of years to the
Advertiser If he could get the desired
raise of three hundred dollars year.
The proprietor admitted that Mr..
blaine was perfectly justified in ask
ing the increase in salary, because he
was worth IL: but. added the owner,
frankly. he could not AFFORD TO pay so
r,ucb money. In those days, you
know-back in the late fifties-hfteen
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eth century pirate, who got away WIN
steamship laden with rich stores,
and defied two great powers, Is now
in Sing Sing for long term OF years
His story needs no fancy trimmings
to make it interesting. 1t tells ITSELF
and here 1t is:
Francis G. Bailey and his brother
Albert came to New York from Plus
burg In 1905. They secured financial
backing from some wealthy men Win
whom they became intimate, and or
ganized the Export Shipping company
Then they began a worldwide CAM
paign to make connections with nun
dreds of houses that sold their goods
in foreign countries. A large numDer
of export merchants began TO use
Bailey's company as channel through
which to send their goods abroad.
The warehouses of the Export SNIP
ping company were damned with cost
ly merchandise.
Bailey chartered the steamer Colds
boro-an old Clyde liner-and loaded
her with a cargo valued at S4OO,OOO.
He armed the ship with rifles and
small cannon. In his cabin SAFE was
$4,000 in currency.
This done, Bailey informed the De-
partment Of Commerce and Labor that
he was inaugurating a floating ex-
position of American manufactures TO
arouse interest in American Industry
in foreign lands A license was taken
out under the British flag and the
Goldsboro steamed away from New
York May 2, 1908.
Search for the Looters
Six days later receivers were APP
pointed for the Export Shipping COM
pany. It's warehouses had been loot
ed. No one knew exactly where the
Bailey brothers with their ship were
bound for. American consuls in all
the South American countries were
warned by cable to keep lookout for
the Goldsboro But this modern pi'
rate craft had disappeared, and 1t was
at first thought from wreckage that
was seen that she had been lost
with all on board. 1t was proved
afterward that Bailey had set the
wreckage afloat At sea Bailey hac
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-23
Weed and the Two McCarthys

from William Writ, who prosecuted
Aaron Burr, down to Roscoe Conkl1ng,
but I never heard by them such ora
tory as that which fell from O'Con-
nell's lips. Then it was that l under
stood for the first time what the
source of C'ConnelPs power over the
people of Ireland was.
After the meeting was over | said
to the two bishops: 1 will go to the
newspaper office and wait there until
| can get copies of the paper with the
speech in it, SO that | can send them
to the United States by the steamer
which sails tomorrow
ARRIVING at the newspaper office, l
heard the presses changing, but | could
see no light in the editorial rooms. l
raped at several doors, and at last
a porter came to one Of them.
81 am anxious to get few copies
of the paper said, and l don't find
anyone about the building who can
give them to me-
Faith, then, you'll have to wait
till the morning. was the porter's an
sWer.
But l can't wait l protested. If
| get the papers now, l can address
them and they will catch the early
morning mail for Queenstown and SO
get to the United States several days
earlier than they could in any other
way.
The porter pricked up his ears. DO
tot Of
American he asked.
Yes, and with me are two bishops
of the Catholic church, and we have
heard O'Connell speak tonight
Sure, then, if you're from Ameri-
ca,'-of course, the porter spoke with
delightfully."- broad brogue-'you will
know my brother
Very doubtful l replied. 'Ameri-
ca is a big country. What is your
brothers name?'
Its Mccarthy, sir
What does he do?'
Hes a waiter in an inn, sir
Whats the name of the tnn?'
Its the Astor Inn, on the Broad
way street in New York city, sir
What said. Your brother,
Mccarthy, is a waiter IN the Astor
House?'
Sure he replied.
Then said l, 1 have to tell you
that your brother stood behind my
chair attending to my wants during
the last meal I took in the United
States before l sailed. He's my friend,
Mccarthy, the waiter, is
The porter was Overjoyed, while l
was amazed, to think that in all the
vast number of immigrants in the Uni
ted States his brother should happen
to be my favorite waiter in the Astor
House. Then the porter ran to the
press room and returned with an arm
full of papers, and I got them on by
mail. And when | returned home
had his brother appointed to a good
paying clerkship in the New York
customs house"
Copyright. 1870 by E. J. Edwards)
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large calibre. Also there was plenty
of ammunition to feed the guns.
It is an axiom of lawyers and de-
tectives that the great criminal, no
matter how calculating and farseeing.
is tripped inevitably by some trifiing
thing, some insignificant trif1e that
he has overlooked in planning his
crime. Thus it was with these two
twentieth century pirates. They did
not know, or, knowing, deemed 1t or
no Importance, that in an out OF the
way place on the deck there was
bell. The captain of the Buchanan
dreaded a fire at sea above all else.
Usually the whistle calls the men to
quarters for fire drill, but this eau
tious skipper argued that if the whis-
tie should be disabled at some critical
moment when a fire was discovered
much time would be lost in summon
ing the men. Therefore he had a fire
bell installed and trained his men to
rush to their stations when it rang
1t was this fire bell that made the
plans Of these freebooters go awry
just at the time when their adventure
hung in the balance
Death for Steamers Captain.
The helmsman had been silenced
and had steered the ship due east for
an hour with pistol at his back. He
shuf1ed to and fro all he dared, and at
last awakened the captain, who was
sleeping in his cabin a few feet away
from the wheelhouse. The captain
stirred. His death was inevitable, &C
cording to the stern rules of piracy.
One of the robbers fired thrice and
killed him. The shots brought for
ward the crew and the officers who
were on watch. One of the robbers
herded these aft at his pistols point,
just as It had been planned The rest
OF the crew ard passengers were
sleeping. All would have gone we'll
with the robbers if the second officer
had not slipped over to the fire bell
and sounded the alarm. Then the
crew tumbled out and the situation
got beyond the control of the free
hooters. One jumped overheard when
he was cornered after a desperate
fight, the other calmly went to his
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-23
Pertinent Query,

The One Girl haven't seen you
for some time. Been away?
The Other Girl-Yes, just returned
from a two weeks soiourn at the sea
shore.
The One Girl-Have a good time?
The Other Girl-Well, rather, Had
several proposals while there.
The One Girl--Indeed' Why didn't
YOU accept him the first time he pro-
posed
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-23
Showing Himself Up.

Showing Himself Up.
"Unk" Russell, the local prize fight
er, is very fond of playing baseball
and when the Athletics are at home
he often goes out in the morning to
practise with them.
Apropos of this practise of "Unk's"
Eddie Collins tells the following story.
"Unk came to Shibe park early in
the season and made himself known
to us with the request that if it were
possible he would like to have little
practise with US, as it would aid in
his training.
Il told him we would be glad to
have him get in the game, and told
him to get in left field. He looked
around helplessly for a moment or
two, and then, coming close to me.
said, almost in whisper:
"'Say, which is left neld? l never
played on this diamond "-Philadelp-
phia Times.
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UP-TO-DATE
PIRACY

Nothing Done by the Buccaneers of
the Spanish Main More Daring
Than the Hold-Up of the Steam
ship Buchanan Off the Oregon
Coast by Two Deserters from
the Navy Who Planned to Loot
Her Treasure Chest of Klondyke
Gold, Rob All the Passengers,
Turn the Ship Inshore and Then
Flee with Their Plumber.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-23

The defender in that breach Of
promise case manages 10 be cheerful"
Yes" replied Miss Cayenne" he
has at least the satisfaction of know
ing that in his present position he at
tracts more attention than he would
have as a bridegroom"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-23

And yet" concluded Mr.. Hess. ''the
plan that Edison gave us off-hand and
free gratis for nothing is the one now
universally employed when wires are
to be placed underground"
Copyright, 1910. by e. ]. Edwards)
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-23
a Good Actor.

A Good Actor.
81 see you have an actor employed
on the farm"
Eyes, l put him on, He's a darn
good actor, too. l thought he was
working the first year he was here"