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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18
An Awakening state.

Within a days ride Of st Louis. New
Orleans and Kansas City, the principal
eenters of the Mississippi valley, lies
the Cinderella Of the state. While her
sisters have been 70 the ball while 9th.
cit states have been gathering il the
plaudits of the world and tie dollars Of
flie Young men and women marching
westward. Arkansas has remained at
home and unsunp. Unlike The tabled
Cinderella this modern buster Of the
hearth was not discovered and carried
away % the palace IN q golden coach BY
handsome prince to find her dainty
foot dtted 20 the magic crystal slipper
While tending to her work az home Ar
kansas found pearls and diamonds in
the ashes; found that her hills IN the
02afks would raise, under proper care
the most royal red apples that kings
have tasted; that her clay hills in the
hack yard could. hv the alchemy Of
trade, Be turned into pie plates. pin
trays, or the aluminium frame Of an
aeraplsne; that her already large crops
81 cotton could Be doubled ID quality
and quantity; that the erstwhile worth
less gumbo land in certain districts
could be made to produce year after
year with Increasing volume the finest
grade Of rice tile market has yet known,
From #Ihe Awakening Of Arkansas,
IN the February Technical World Maga
zine
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18
SLAYER Of Mlllbrook Nurse
Admits Crime
HE PLEADS INTOXICATlON
As Reason for the crime-Makes a
Clean Breast Of the Affair at the
Solicitation Of His Mother,
Signs Statement.

Poughkeepsie, n Y, Jan. ls--Fnnk
schermerhorn has confessed to the muir
der Of Miss Sarah Brymer, a nurse in
Barnes compton's house at Mlllbrook
early last Thursday. He made bis con.
fession yesterday afternoon 70 Sheriff
aiornbeck in yassar hospital IN the
presence Of his mother and sister, Scher.
merhorn, who VIVA Compton's coachman
has beou in the hospital under constant
guard since last Thursday night, when
he cut his throat, while the officers were
seeking him.
Yesterday was the first his mother has
visited him in the hospital, and scher-
merhorn greeted her afectionately She
bent over him and while the ofscerA
stood oil at some distance, his mother
counseled Frank to make full and free
confession He seemed reluctant for a
time 10 do 50. but finally, while his
mother spoke to him in low tones, he
blurted out, eOh, l did Il. win tellr
Mrs. schermerhorn swooned, falling To
THE floor Under-sheriif Hornbeck picked
her up and thcn, while the nurses cared
for her, Horubeck wrote down the pris.
oneTs statement, which Schermerhorn
signed. His sister Mrs. Kilmer. was
also present and showed great feeling,
The confession was given % District
Attorney Mock, who declined to permit
its publication in fun, but gave out it,
substance, as folIows;
Aschermerhorn pleaded intoxieation us
an excuse for his crime Some time after
nightfall, be remembered he went 10
tire mansion, which he entered through
TIE kitchen, the door Of which was
unlocked He made his way upstairs and
out upon the porch, where Mis- Bry1ner
and three yearold Polly Compton were
sleeping He bad no rmcmberance he
says, Of assauIting the nurse OF Of chok-
ing her, but he told Hornbeck that II it
was true that she had been assaulted.
then he must have done It FL declared.
however, that he had 10 intention Of
iniuing Miss Brymer when he entered
the house and only wenf b her room
to scare her
with regard % the siiverpare taken
from tile Compton house 70 the value Of
$500, Schermerhom says that he has ne
recollection Of removing it, but be does
remember putting it int the stove n
his house, and when the fire did MOI con-
sumo il, placing che charred and bent
pieces in the chimney fne.
He says he has no recollection ofI
blackening BE face before entering the
Compton house,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18
His Last Avenue of Escape
Closed
SUPREME COURT REFUSES
To Review His Case-Banlzer Must Serve
His Five Year Term--A Long and
Energetic Fight for Freedom
Now Ended.

Washington, Jan. 49,. The petition for
writ Of certiorari in tho case Of John
r. Walsh, former president Of tho CM-
cago National bank Of Chicago, under
sentence to five years imprisonment in
the federal prison at Leayenworth, Ks,
on the charge Of misepplying DE funds
Of the bank, was denied yesterday IS
the supreme court Of the United States.
The courts denial Of walsh's petition
IS TIE last chapter in the history Of
bis long fight for freedom. The one time
hank president and railroad fnancier,
who Is now seyenty-two years old. viii,
within few days, be convict in the
federal prison al Fort Leayenworth, Ks,
whore he viii begin tha sentence Of FIVE
years, imposed upon him hy United
States District Judge Anderson on March
3, 1908. After the United States cir
cnit court Of appeals had refused Mr..
Walsh rehenring and denied his petit
tion for a stay Of Judgment, BAH was
withdrawn, and at the request Of his
counsel the court placed NJ. Walsh in
the special custody Of United States
marshal. where he remained pending the
outcome Of his petition to the supreme
court Of the United states. This lenien-
~ was granted the former banker ii
order that be might arrange his personal
affairs preparatory 10 his possible i'm
prisonment at Fort Leavenworth
On January TO- zoos. Mr. Walsh was
found glilty Of misapplying the funds
Of the Chicago National bank, Of which
be was president, and on March 3 Of
the same year he was sentenced to FIVE
years imprisonment at Fort Leaven-
worth On the same day he was re-
leased on supersedeas and appealed bic
case. but the United States court Of APP
peals, after lapse 81 about fifteen
months, affirmed the sentence Of the
lower court. ON December Inst, the
same court denied Mr.. WaisRs petition
for a rehearing, ami Che ease ives finally
referred 70 the supreme court, which re.
fused 70 review IL
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18
STICK TO YOUR TRADE
By 3. cRITTENpgN LYrLg.
copyright, 1910. by American Press Assoc
clation.l

copyright, 1910. by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
We move in ruts Getting accustom-
ed to one kind OF work. we are united
for another. Let a husband ask bis
wife to buy him d few cigars and the
wrappers win likely be paper colored,
20 look like tobacco leaf Let a wife
ask her husband to hire a maid and.
though she may be comely, she win
have to be got rid Of instanter.
One would suppose that all soldier
ing Is alike Nothing Of the kind. An
infantryman knows nothing about can
non; an artileryman knows nothing
about the signal service.
These remarks are a preface to the
recital Of an attempt to make a fighter
out OF a musieian-an army musician.
Jacob Gobeler was a bugIer in one Of
the regular regiments, When the regi.
ment was preparing to 50 to Cuba at
the time Of the Spanish American war
be became ambitious to be real sol
der instead Of tooter. His sergeant
told him that he had better stick to his
bugle, but Jacob said that when q
bugler was killed IN battle there was
noglory in his death. lie preferred 70
die with weapons in his hands instead
Of d bugle.
SO Jacob became a soldier and was
IN the first battle fought after the
troops landed near Santiago. unfortu-
nately 1t was his first fight and he was
ratified, Men were being shot down
beside him by an enemy they could
not see. Some Of the corps were get
ting back; others were standing ia
cob got it into his head that he should
sound u retreat Putting his hand back
to grasp bis bugle, be found q revolver
instead Putting the muzzle into bis
mouth. be tried 10 Blow III his ex-
element be must have pulled the trig-
eer. for he was brought 70 his senses
by feeling something warm on his jaw
ana putting his hand there, he found
blood pouring from hole 10 bis cheek
The wonder was that the bullet had
not gone through the vertebrae AZ the
back Of his neck and killed him. He
must have blown through a corner OF
bis mouth.
Jacob was 10 a hospital till pretty
near the end Of the war It would
nave been better for him to return 60
ne duties OF a bugler but the hole
il his cheek didn't close up, and an
attempt to blow hugle would send
all the wind out at the side Of MIS-
face instead Of through bis bugle
When Jacob returned 70 duty be
found it impossible to explain to his
comrades how be came By che hole
II bis cheek. The story got out and
81 was laughed at This cred him
with a desire to redeem himself he.
loneed for an opportunity. and the
opportunity came There was no lack
81 fighting around Santiago True, the
Spanish and American forces were
standing Of from one another, but
there were sorties and charges. One
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18
DON'T INVITE
RHEUMATISM
By Allowing Your Blood to Be-
come Thin During Cold or
Damp Weather.

Every sufferer from rheumatism wants
70 be- cured and to stay cured.
The prospect Of the return Of the
same old rheumatism every year is not
attractive 70 anybody who has gone
through one siege Most treatments
aim simply TO keep down the rheu-
matio poisons in the blood. The tonic
treatment with DR. Williams Pink Pills
has proved by hundreds Of cures that it
builds up the blood to point that
enables it TO cast out these poisons
through the regular channels Of oxcre-
ton, the bowels, kidneys and the skin.
When this is done The rheumatism il per-
manently cured and "a longas the blood
is kept pure and rich the patient viii be
immune from attacks Of rheumatism.
Mr. Robert W. Shoemaker Of No.
5i39 Ludlow street, Philadelphia, Pa,
says
Some years ago / suffered from
very severe attack 81 rheumatism which
affected the knee joints, thigh and
shoulder Of my left aide. The pain was
Of a dull tlrobbing nature, much like
toothache. NY knee and shoulder would
swell and could not bear 10 have any.
one touch me 80 severe was the pain at
these points suffered for three or
four years, and st times was hardly able
10 attend 70 my work Ny doctor treat
ed me but without affofdinR relief. I
also used liniments Of all kinds Finally
ON the advice Of friend / began taking
Or. Williams Pink Pills.
IL was relieved after the first few
boxes, and after q few weeks treat
ment was cured Since that time have
never been troubled with rheumatism. .
Thin blood, besides inviting rheuma-
tisn, means starved nerves. weakened
digestion, functional disorders. head
aches, possibly neuralgia, sciatica and
even partial paralysis DR. Williams
Pink Pills build np the blood, repair
waste and prevent and check diseaso.
They are for men and women. young
and old They are sold BY an druggists,
or viii be sent, postpaid, on receipt 81
price, 80 cents per box; six boxes e. 90,
by the Or Williams Medicine Company,
Schenectady. n. Y. They are never
sold by the dozen or hundred
a. helpful booklet, Diseases Of the
Blood, giving more information about
the remedy viii be sent free on request.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18
photo-Era for January.

Every person using a camera. from
the mere snap-shotter To the profess
si0nal practitioner Of rank viii BE- In
terested Ii Photo Era Magazine. The
issue for January exemplifes unusually
high artistic and topographic excellence.
The front cover il embelhshed with a
superb and unique snow scene by a not
able pietorialist The issue is devoted
to a consideration Of the Smith Amer
lean Photographic Salon, By George ~
Steyens director Of The museum of art.
ait Toeldo, Ohio, and il Illustrated with
s number Of the foremost pictures Of
this notable annual display OF picto-
rial photography WiIFred A. French,
the editor, has q descriptive article on
Nuremberg. which he visited with bis
camera. last summer. Tie accompanying
Illustrations are interesting to high
degree and surpass the pictures familiar
to readers on this subject The Round
Robin Guild department always inter-
esting, features d number If very beau
tiful pictorial subjects The prfzewin-
ners of the monthly contest The chief
articles are "The Autochrome Plate"
by Fred D. Maiseh. and Protection Of
Opaque Objects BY G. j, Claudv The
CTucible IS filled with technical notes
Of value to the beginner and the ex-
pert Furthermore. the magazine has
been greatly improved III it's Topographic
cal appearance and viii continue In
ereasingly IN this direction from now on.
Those Interested may address The pub.
fishers, at 3s3 Boylston street, Boston,
U S. 4.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18
MAGAZINE REVIEW
A Little Learning.

Here are few history answers col
lected IN New York State Education de-
partment in the past year.
Modern eonveuiences. Ingubators and
fireless telegraphy.
The Republican party wss formerly
known as the Free Spoil
The president takes the yoke Of Office.
The salaries Of teachers are paid from
the dog-tax.
Lincoln had woman make him q
suit Of homespun from rails which be
had split They were hickory rails,
hence hickory shirts
fhe cause 81 the Revolution was that
the coionists wanted room to pasture
their cattle.
The spoils systems The place where
spoiled things and waste are kept The
board Of health has largely taken the
place of this
The differences between jackson and
Roosevelt rs that jackson has been dead
a long time and Roosevelt il in Africa
shooting lions. Woman's Home Com
panion for January.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18

day Jacob was in some very tnick
lighting. The colonel was racing about
with bis bugler at bis heels blowing
his orders when suddenly the bugle
dropped from his hand and be fell
from his horse. The colonel. seeing his
bugler knocked out looked about for
another. bat there was none At hand.
The captain OF Jacobs company, real
izing his predicament. cried out:
We've got q bugler here, colonel
Gobeler. get up there on that horseF'
Gobeler, obedient and forgetting that
be had been disqualified 70 blow or
ders BY bis wound picked up the
bugle, mounted the horse and placed
himself directly 10 the colonefs rear
The Spaniards were preparing to crush
the American troops on that part Of
the field. The colonel saw brigade
Of the enemy swinging round on his
right TO get ia his rear and gave Jacob
an order to signal change Of front
Jacob put his bugle to his lips and
blew, but there was no sound All the
wind was going out through the hole
iii bis cheek
The colonel looked at him In surprise
and anger. Jacob clapped his hand 70
bis cheek, but did not succeed In fore
ing The wind through the bugie. Shut
ting bis mouth. he put the hugle 70 the
hole ia his cheek. Since no wind could
get out through bis mouth 1t went
through bis cheek At any rate,
enough Of It got through the bugle to
family sound the colonel's order. But
Jacobs delay gave the enemy an adj
vantage that pretty nearly caused the
capture Of the regiment 1t was saved
only by support coming in the nick
Of time. When the fighting was over
the colonel called out 70 Jacobs cap
taln:
Keep that man IN the ranks, cap
tain. He's no good for a bugler."
"He was good bugler, colonel, but
he insisted Oh going into the ranks.
The FIRST thing he did was to try to
blow 4 signal on his pistol and shot
hole tn his cheek. Now he's no good
for either d soldier Or a bugler"
After this episode jacob was SO ridi-
euled by the men that he tried to Get
himself killed IN order to escape their
jokes. 10 make matters worse 1t seem.
Ell that all the buglers III the army
were getting shot, and the command
ing officers were always sending for
men who could sound the calls. 1t was
constantly say. Gobeler. you can
blow a bugle can't you3 Oh, ! forgot
You ruined your wind trying to blow
down the muzze Of a pistol" These
and other references to his misfortune
81 worked upon Jacob that he gave up
trying 10 be a hero and concluded to
sink into an inferior bugler. Going to
The hospital. he secured a hot water
bag and turned il into a wind bag,
making close connection with rubber
bands between its mouth and that Of
bis bugle. Then he offered himself to
his colonel 70 sound calls and, there
being 40 one else TO fil the place. ia.
cob was accepted AS soon as the war
was over he was discharged.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18
mrs. HARTMAN BUYS 4 BANK.
Acquires a Majority Of Stock Of the
Night and Day Bank.

AglAa a AAaJViAty VI Stvsh VI ANc
Night and Day Bank.
New York, Jan. Isl Mrs. r. H. Har-
riman has acquired stock majority
Of the Night and Day bank and win
interest herself in the conduct Of ita
affairs, becoming, 50 far az ia known,
the first woman Of this city personally
to own a financial Institution.
While Mrs. Hafriman's interest IN
the bank VIII not be active, it win not
necessarily result in the taking away
of alb discretion from the management.
The friends Of Mrs Hartman say that
the stories recounting hor Iaborious ap-
plication to and personal superintend
dent Of all details relating 70 the man
agement Of the Hartman estate, are ok
aggerated
when YOU read Of Afrs. Hartman
working with a telephone In one hand
and sandwich Ii the other" said one
of her friends yesterday, don't you be-
lieve II"
The Night and Day bank il the 6rst
Of its kind to run "a hours
a day. It is capitalized az 100000
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18
CURIOUS EPITAPHs.
HrevIsy on 3 Tomhstone--Douslas Jer-
rosd's Suggestion.

HrcvIty on = Tomhstone--Douslas Jer-
roAi's Suggestion.
Among the 1900 epitaphs collected
by Ernest r. suhiing in Epitaphia"
are many quaint aud curious speoi-
mems. Grimaldi on the stage was said
70 be d sufferer from melancholia. It
win be remembered that going 10
physician on one occasion, he deserib.
ed his case. when the worthy doctor
briskly told him to shake on the feel.
bag. CO and see Grimaldi, and II be
does not cure you your case Is indeed
hopeless Alas" said the poor suf
ferer Il am Grlmaldin Els epitaph
reads Here Am l."
A prize Of 300 IS said to have been
offered BY one Thorpe, who was de-
sirous Of being pefpetuated but briefly
Oh bis tombstone One competitor
sent IN There Lies Thorpp's Corpse
This was certainly brief enough bat
finally It was cut Is @Thorbe's Corpse
Many Of our readers know the
Douglas Jerrold and Charles Knight
story. They were dining together on
one occasion when the conversation
turned upon epltaphs Knight half 10
fest suggested that Jerrold should
write hts aSnights) epitaph. The sub.
ject dropped at the time; but, walking
home together il the evening. they
came 10 spot where each had to take
separate road. Jerrold, extending
bis hand to his friend. remarked. i've
thought De capital epitaph for you"
awhat IS itg said his friend, much M
terested "Oh, very brief and very
simple. Good Nightgh
There are many curious epitaphs on
wives. Here's one from INVERSION,
Lancashire;
Here lies my wife,
Here lies she,
HaiIeuiahl
Ballelu1eel
An inscription placed over the grave
OF d missionary who was accidentally
shot IN India read thus
Here lies the Rev. A. b.
For many years missionary in y district
He was accidentally shot by his native
servant.
swell done. thou good and faithful serq
ant"
At Chelmsford Essex, on a stone to
the memory Of MARY Blewitt Of the
Swan It Is stated that she was the
wife Of nine husbands successfully. but
the ninth outliyed her. 1t is added,
1.-THE Text to Her Funeral Sermon
Was, Last OF All, the Woman Died
Also Westminster Gazette
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18
Gettinn Used 70 iEnn.

q just have heard Of the arrival Of
The third child III the Jones family"
remarked the woman 'The announce
ment Of the tirstborn was made by
beautifully engraved cards tied with
tiny white ribbon. the second was by
telegraph, and this third one, though
much wished for boy, was made mere
ly by q postal card New York Press.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18

"Yassah. / suttingy would do dat
job for yo, colonel, and proud q de
chance to extngaish muhse'f. Would
horraw right In on 1t dis minute. sab,
If 'tWuzn't for one thing said GER
tain lopsided colored citizen who was
So unafraid Of manual labor that he
would often fall asleep In its presence,
and dat is, sab, dat never likes to
stigmatize muhse'f by working on q
hollerdayR
why, this is not holiday re-
turned the would be employer.
"Yassah! 'Tis wild me, IL youH dars
skuse me. sab. It's de university q de
day muh Oldest boy was done sent to
de penitenchy Puck
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18
Changing Her Mind.


By an unwntten law It Is held 10 be
the privilege Of woman to change her
mind, license Of which she rarely
falls TO avail herself. The German
proverb has It that women are varia-
bic as April weather According TO
an old English adage. "a woman's
mind the winter winds change oft"
Ia Spain It is much the same "Wo-
men. wind and fortune soon change.
and ste can laugh and cry both ia a
wind The old Latin poet Catullus
was Of opinion that what womaa
says t. her ardent lover ought to Be
written GA the winds or on rum &
water.# Even the gallant Sir Faiiip
Sidney wrote.
He water pIows and saweth in the sand
And hopes the hiekering wind with net 10
hold
who hath his hopes laid On wonan's
hand.
Kansas City Star.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18

II IS a remarkable fact that there
are always more wild animals about
than any but the expert has an idea Of.
For example. there are within twenty
miles Of New York city fully ffty diff
ferent kinds not counting birds, rep
tiles or fishes -one-quarter Of which
at least are abundant, or more partic-
ularly within the limits Of Greater
New York there are at least a dozen
species of wild beasts, half Of which
are quite common.-C Country Life In
America
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18

In India the women still 90 down to
the river banks and wash clothes BY rub
bing them over stones.
They are unprogressive, we say. But
they are no farther behind the times than
the American women who still boil clothes
and hard-rub them on a washboard. The
women Of India don't weaken their clothes
BY boiling, at least.
The truly modern way Of washing is
the Fels-Naptha way. No boiling 20
weaken the fibre; no hard-rubbing to wear
and tear. Work saved, time saved, fuel
saved; clothes cleaner.
Follow directions on the red and green
wrapper.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18
MILLS MONEY FOR TWO.
Large Estate Goes to Son, Ogden Mills,
and Ms. whItelaw Reid.

New York Jam Isl The viii Of the
late d. Ogden Mills Of New York. dis
poses of his large estate by division
equally between bis son and daughter,
Ogden Mills and Mrs Whitelaw Reid
wife Of the American ambassador to tile
annrt of ST. Janen.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18
HUGHES WILL RETIRE.
Tnder No Circumstances VIII He Again
be a Candidate.

pc Candidate.
New York, Jan 49, The New York
Tribune yesterday said
Governor Hughes viii not, under any
circumstances, be a candidate for re-
election. This the Tribune is able to
announce positively The governor is
determined to return to hts law prac.
tiees
Governor Hughes yesterday declined
to DISCUSS the report Of his refusal to
be a candidate for reelection, further
than to say THAT he had made no au-
thoritative announcement, but Colonel
Treadwell. his military aide said Just
before they left for the uniform leg
islation conference at WashinRton
II know chat the governor feels That
he has about discharged any duty he
owes the people ana that the riehtfnl
demands Of hs family and his private
affairs require that be return to his
law practice
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18
AMY Drudge On EarIy Risina.

Mrs Workhard winding alarm clock 1T always set the
alarm for o'clock on Monday morning so can
make an early start with my washing and get through
before dark"
Antg Drudge Nonsense. Just you sleep three hours
later, and then send to the grocer's for some
Fels-Naptha soap, and do your washing the
Fels-Naptha way. Your wash will be on the line
before noon cleaner and whittier than ever before
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-18

Cynicus-That girl never says much,
does shef silllcus Why she talks al
the time Cynicus That doesn't alter
my contention Philadelphia Record