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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-08

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ment in nOurish-
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-08
PLAINFIELD.

Public dance in Plainfeld hotel hall
Friday evening, Nov. 10.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
A Year Of Growth for Omaha.

Substantial gain along every i'm
portant line of urban growth and COM
mercial and industrial development
marked Omaha's experience in 1910.
The figures for the year just ended
are such as will content thoughtful
persons who contemplate the record,
and will afford encouragement for an
other year of concerted effort. The
bank clearings, which are in a large
measure the most important index of
the eity's activity in trade, have
mounted well up toward the billion
mark, showing a total for the year of
almost $3.50, 100000, an increase of
100000 for the twelve months
The output of the factories and the
total turnover of the jobbing trade
also show marked gains for the year,
while the other leading factors on
which evidence of growth is deter
mined are all of a satisfactory nature.
Not alone in a material way has
Omaha prospered. Its social growth
has been steady and encouraging. In
tellectual and spiritual forces alike
have worked for the betterment of the
city, and it's people have responded
readily to the forward impulse
Schools, churches and other institu-
lions of the social life of the commun-
ity have thrived and prospered, and a
healthy spirit of unrest has marked
the life of the community.
Greater growth awaits Omaha, for
its development is little more than
begun. The record of the old year
is cause for congratulation, in that it
shows progress and will serve as
stimulus for the effort that must be
made during the months ahead. The
empire for which Omaha is the gate
way and market town is growing and
the city must be alive to seize upon
it's opportunities, relinquishing moth
ing gained and holding it's every adj
vantage against ambitious rivals.
Omaha people may contemplate the
dead year with content and will look
forward to the new year with high
hope and courageous determination to
make it's record surpass that of 1910,
just as the record of 1910 has sur
passed that of any year gone before.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
OVERRIDING a Good Thing.

Some of our college and university
professors seem determined to make
the most of their positions, but IL they
do not make fewer freak prophesies
they will cease to be taken seriously in
anything they say. Isn't It about time
they were crediting the rest of the
world with little common sense,
anyway
Only a little while ago a professor
Of an eastern school made the absurd
statement that within a century or so
we would all be insane. AS II that
were not bad enough, now comes an
other learned jester with the predic-
ton that by 2O2O there will be no
children in the United States younger
than years OF age, and still another
one-this one is from Nebraska-pro-
posing an endowment of motherhood.
The prophet attempts TO fortify his as
sertion by saying that he has figured
the matter down to q mathematical
precision, assuming that past and
present conditions continue un-
changed.
Probably II sensatiOnaiists cared to
make the investigation they would
find at different periods Of the worlds
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01

history the tide Of the birth rate rising
and falling Nature operates pretty
much by her own laws, though grant
ing that mans influence, upon some Of
these laws is potent Things will
move along in the same old groove as
for ages they have been moving, and
there probably is about as much dan
ger of an extinction of babies in this
country as there is that the continent
will be swallowed up by an earthquake
between this and 202O At any rate
the actual statistics make the latter
contingency not the least bit alarming
But this prophecy is no more ludi-
crous than is the Nebraskan's demand
for a premium on every birth and
cash prize to every woman who be-
comes a mother II the race has
evolved so far without such incentive,
why is it required now? 1t would be
interesting to know this professors
ideas on the common cry that the race
is already sordidly stepped in CONNER
cialization.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
PERSONAL AVID OTHERWISE.

The sleigh now rivals the bicycle as the
has-been Of the whirling years.
All resolutions should be referred to APP
propriate committees to insure decent in
terment.
Statistics show that one New Yorker in
every 279 is insane. Still ali look alike to
the western visitor.
It is definitely settled that love alone
induced a manicure artist to elope with
a mere millionaire of Pittsburg.
Ben Pitman, the shorthand man, is dead
at Cincinnati. Few men in this progress
sive era caused more tracks" to be made
on the page Of time
one of the great achievements of New
York rightly credited to the past years,
is the Punishment of another section OF
the horse-car lines which have attracted
antiquarians from all parts OF the world.
The shameless expression that the new
governors-elect shun inaugural balls be-
cause they can't fit swell clothes to their
figures, hasn't nerve enough to cross the
Missouri river. Nebraska would quickly
go to the mat with it.
Go lick a cop and get a job" was the
advice needed by Joe Allegrath in New
York. When Joe woke up next morning
and felt the Jumps on his head his in
jured feelings were soothed by the court
which handed him a sixty-day Job.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
The New Year.

This Is the day OF the good resolu-
ton. Many people have waited for II
as they wait for the first of every year
to resolve that they will or will not dc
this or that. and then some, and be-
fore the first month, or week has past
break their pledges. Maybe they have
INDUCED some habit to excess just that
they might make their resolution the
more emphatic; running, as it were,
to get a good start for a long leap.
The trouble is the leap is often too
long. As a rule habits are not easily
broken off abruptly. That is why so
many New Year resolutions amount to
nothing and why so many serious
minded people, If they make them at
all, keep them to themselves.
1t is the good resolution made in the
secret of ones own counsel that us
ually counts the most But the prac-
tice, or as It may almost be termed,
the tradition, of making New Year
resolutions is not one that may be
safely discouraged. The redeeming
feature about it is that it indicates a
semblanfce Of desire for improvement,
and such an impulse, nebulous as it
may be. ought not to be derided. Per-
haps the habit of remaking the resolu-
ton and keeping it only a few weeks
may. after a while, lead to better re-
suits. OF course, the man who really
is determined TO effect an improve
ment, physical. moral or otherwise,
will not wait for January /, but will
as readily begin July 10, or OctoA
Der "a, since there is no special eff
cacy in the day. 1t takes a sober con-
seriousness of the need for improve
ment before much may be expected,
anyway.
The old year was one of such un-
broken progress as to inspire conf
dence for continued improvement all
along the line in this country. Omaha
and Nebraska are peculiarly subject
to this inspiration. They have
wrought great advancement and the
forces that make for moral and ma
terial progress are arrayed for even
greater strides in the year that
stretches out before them. The
printed record of what has been done
in this city and state is enough to key
hopes to the highest pitch Of ex-
pectancy for 1911 and, Of course, COM
paratively little of the total achieve
ment can be reduced to type. The
country at large is in the heyday of
prosperity and peace. The present
year, largely because of the splendor
of the last one, should be the best year
this nation yet has experienced. At
peace with the world, its prestige is
greater than ever and it's opportunities
larger.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
Be It Resolved
Baltimore American.


Resolved-That / will not air my troubles;
it only puffs them up and makes them
look bigger.
That will not say mean things-for the
person who says mean thing is ca
pable OF doing one
That will not complain that the world
is growing worse, when I am doing lit
tie or nothing to make It better.
That 1 will not borrow where I sec no
means Of repaying-for he who doeth
this fractureth the Eighth Command
ment
That will sit down on all my bad hab-
its-but not as though 1 suspected the
presence OF an inverted tack thereon.
That will not let the grass grow under
my feet-and. on the other hand Will
avoid that swiftness which causeth IL
to grow prematurely over ones head.
That will not criticise Others-for criti-
cism OF others Is only a negative form
OF self-conceit Instead, will cultivate
forbearance until my heart yieldeth a
rich crop thereof
That / will fasten down this new lear
with the strong clip OF Determination,
so that the winds of Weakness and
Temptation shall not blow It back
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
Financial Side of Peace

The ethics of world peace find q
splendid support in the economics of
war. Arbitration, after all, appeals to
the head before it reaches the heart.
The fact that mo nation is really the
gamer, but all must lose, financially,
as the result of hostile combat, Yields
far greater influence for interna-
tional amity than some propagandists
may admit. The material cost of war
is one Of its most deterrent factors.
Wars may not be as bloody today as
formerly, but they are far more costly
in dollars and cents, and, whether it
be a sad commentary or not on the mo-
tives of mankind, it is nevertheless a
fact that this element has a powerful
impelling force.
Tributes of war come not only from
the vanquished nation. The victor
shares in them, and so, often, do en-
tirely neutral nations. This expense
is wholly aside from the fearful de-
struction of property and the amazing
cost of the munitions of modern war
fare. 1t has been aptly said that we
fire gold from our cannon today. And
1t might be said that we make our
cannon and our vast ships of gold. No
nation, whether It can afford to pour
millions into powerful armies and
navies, can begin to afford the
destruction of these Investments. And
no nation but is thoroughly awake to
that fact.
The Russo-Japanese war may now
be regarded as one of the greatest
agencies for peace. The emaciated
condition Of resources in both cOun-
tries will for a long time stand as a
warning against war, not only to these
powers, but others as well. We are
likely to see philanthropic pleading for
world peace substantially buttressed
by economic argument more and more
from now on, and possibly in time to
come nations will learn how to avoid
shooting each others treasures full Of
holes.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

= You cannot sweeten the world with
picked piety.
The secret Of satisfaction is losing sight
of self.
Nothing helps one more than looking for
the helpless.
None is hopelessly poor until he has lost
all friends.
The only lonely people are those who
can find no one to help.
The best proof Of courage is taking your
own ills with cheer
Most Of us prefer describing the way to
heaven to walking in it.
Faith is manifest not in resignation to
fate, but in fidelity to-ideals.
Sentimental charity often flies out at the
window when practical ability comes in at
the door
The saint who says he cannot sin may be
an earnest man, but It is wisest 10 trust
some other man with the funds OF the
church.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
Mrs. Eddy's Manifestation.


The world is not likely to pay more
serious attention to Mrs. Augusta E.
Stetson's claims about Mrs. Eddy's i'm
mortality than it has paid to similar
declarations concerning leaders of
various other religious cults and isms
that have come and gone. AS to Mrs.
Stetson's remarkable utterance that
THE same situation exists today as
when Jesus OF Nazareth was buried, -
and that Mrs Eddy occupies in the
world of today the same position that
Jesus occupied in his day." it will be
received, outside of Christian Science
circles, with the varying shades of un-
belief into which other similar procla-
nations have fallen, and even Chris
tian Science spokesman has apparently
repudiated it.
Mrs. Stetson's prophecy of a new
revelation has a familiar ring to it.
Like other similar forewords, 1t has
ample latitude. 1t avoids the pitfall
of definiteness, both as to time and
persons. The manifestation" may
come tomorrow or it may not come for
years, and It will come to Mrs. Stetson
and others of the church and to the
outside world. There is plenty of
chance for others besides Mrs. Stetson
to set themselves up as the chosen
ones to receive this manifestation"
The circumstances are not wholly un-
like those following the death OF Prof.
James, whose spirit was to come back
and reveal for the first time some of
the mysteries of death. Fortunately,
however, for those who might grow
weary in watching, no exact time was
set for its coming. And so with Mrs.
Eddy's manifestation, the precise char
acter Of which is not made plain, it is
a matter of time and faith only.
Mrs. Eddy was unquestionably a re-
markable woman, If not the most re-
markable of her time. Much that she
taught is sensible and points mankind
upward, therefore commencing it to
thousands. But we do not under
stand that Mrs. Eddy laid claim to
being either divine, or infinite, or i'm
mortal, except as any human soul may
be immortal. Mrs Eddy counted on
death as surely as has every person
who has lived and died. She evidently
prepared her will and arranged all her
temporal affairs with as much DELHI
Grafton about death as If she had not
been a Christian Scientist. Final
judgment of what she taught will be
suspended until It has had time to
prove its lasting character. 1t must
pass through the same crucible of
criticism to which every other religion,
not excepting Christianity, that has
lived and grown universal, has had to
pass and by which many have been
destroyed
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.

Boston Transcript: We infer that mod
ern evangelists have been absolved from
the vow Of poverty when one Of them
writes to the vanished hoy broker" II
cannot pay more than $1,000 for the house
and garage"
Washington Herald: A New York min
lister has resigned his charge because IL
was said that he had referred to some OF
ms congregation as old hens" suppose
he had called them spirit chickens-wbat
would have happenedg
Springfield Republican: The archbishop,
OF Cape Town, discussing marriages be
tween whites and blacks, maintains thar
the church cannot refuse to sanction them.
Yet he advises the Parliament OF Soutb
Africa to make them Illegal on the ground
that they injure rather than help civiliza-
ton. II that be true. the archbishop places
his church in a singular position.
Leslie's Weekly: The most significant
movement Of the last few years in religions
circles has been the rise OF laymen in the
affairs Of the church. And the most stril,.
Ing single manifestation Of this interest
OF men i'm religion is the laymcn's mis-
sionary movement. During last winter II
carried on campaign in all parts Of the
United states, and. i'm a series Of mis-
9ioA"IS meetings. ana banquets in sixty or
more large centers, awakened the interest
ana support of at least 5000 men. Much
money was pledged for missions under the
spell of these gatherings. but few treasur-
les OF the varied denominatlo nal boards
nave as yet been burdened with greatly
increased gifts. The problem now is TO
make good. Raising the money already
pledged is the immediate work before the
laymen's movement. for unless this is done
the stirring conventions Of last winter
would have boon hetinr NOT hold
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRTEs.

Mrs. Tarr-Sistah Lobstock has just got
a div-ce fun her huban'.
Mrs. Wombat--Don't say? Hum much
ammonia did he cou't done grant her.
Puck.
Il suppose YOU had a lovely time on your
honeymoon trip?'
NO, II wasn't at all pleasant We met
three OF my former husbands and two of
Unel
Did you know that there are germs in
kisses2" ' ~
knowed there was somethin' in them
thQt made 'em taste mighty good. but I
didn't know that It was germs judge
II m afraid I spoke harshly to my wife %
said Mr.. Chuggins. "She insists on giving
the children those squeaky little tin horns
at Christmas 1t was especially Thoughts
less after her handsome and appropriate
present to me-"
What was that?'
she gave me a fine new automobile
shrieker that would scare a man a mile
away!'- Washington Star
4 suppose YOU consider my hauteur
mere affectation,' began Miss Parvenue
Not at all" Miss Bright FASTENED to
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
Two Discordant Notes.


A few months ago Prof. Edward A.
Ross of the University of Wisconsin
contributed an article to the Atlantic
Monthly deploring the frightful de-
cadence of the newspaper and it's per-
version by the suppression of impor-
tant news. In the December number Of
the Century magazine Champ Clark,
soon to be speaker of the national
house of representatives, contributes
an article deploring the decadence of
oratory in congress and proclaiming
oratory to be lost art.
When Prof Ross article appeared
we discussed it's overwrought and ex-
aggerated illusions and particularly
called attention to his mistaken con-
illusions as to the relation between
press and pulpit or rostrum. Accord
ing to Prof. Ross, because of news
paper suppression of important news,
1.-The spoken word is once more a
power" and so Unsuitable" is the de-
mand for lecturers and speakers that
1.-The platform bids fair to recover its
old prestige He told us that the
"smotherers" are "dismayed" by the
growth of the chautauqua circuits;
that congressional speeches now give
vent to "boycotted truth" to be
circulated widely under the frank
ing privilege; that clubs are
formed to listen to facts and ideas
'tabooed by the daily press;
that more is made of public hearings
before committees of councilmen or
legislators.
But here, almost on the heels of
Prof. Ross diatribe, comes the vera
cious Champ Clark declaring that with
William Bourke Cochran disappeared
from congress Its last great orator"
Though admitting that there are still
great speakers and great debaters in
both houses, the difference, we are adj
monished, must not be confused,
Champ Clark also tells us that there
are few orators left in the country
outside of congress-" being able to
mention but two or three names, and
the decline in oratory is almost
as noticeable in the pulpit and
the bar" But more to the point is the
assertion that 'the principal causes of
the decadence of oratory are the tele-
graph, the printing press, the tele-
phone, the steam engine and the cleo
trio car" What intelligent people
now want is lucid statement" and
information not word pictures and
fervid eloquence. In other words, the
advent of the modern newspaper,
brought within universal reach at a
trivial cost, has put the orator out of
business and made the speakers and
debaters adopt the editors methods Of
clear exposition and concise argument.
How witnesses could be more con-
Trajectory than are Prof. Ross and
Champ Clark is hard to imagine. Prof.
Ross insists that the decline of the
editor has forced the temperance of
the orator; Champ Clark declares that
the efficiency of the editor has made
the orator obsolete. For ourselves we
are not yet convinced either that the
day of the influential editor is
gone or that the great orator has for
aver passed into oblivion.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
Are Women Growing More Mannish


DR.. G. A. Sargent, director of gym
nastics at Harvard, asserts that the
physique of American women and girls
is changing so rapidly that within a
few years the feminine form will be
so manlike as to appear ridiculous in
woman's attire. The trouble all comes
from excessive indulgence in athletics
and out-of-door exercise. The doctor
modelled a figure from actual meas
urements" of more than 10000 women
to prove his claims.
OF course, there may be a tendency
of this kind where women and girls
are excessive in their athletic exer-
cises. That is evident from the fem
mime trapeze performer, or the aero
bat of any kind. Exercise of woman's
muscles tends to increase muscular
force in all parts of the body, just as
It does with. man. But the eonsoling
feature of the case for those who hope
to have the lines of symmetrical
womanhood preserved in their native
beauty is that the overwhelming ma
iority of women and girls bave not yet
taken up the excellent practice of ath-
letic exercise and but very few OF
those who have practice it excessively.
1t is not necessary to coincide with
the doctors view to appreciate some
absurdities of woman's attire today
and to discover about her outward ap-
pearance suggestions of Insecurity
but one would scarcely think OF laying
that TO misshapen feminine forms
Rather it seems to be more due to the
varying tendency OF style. This may
become thoroughly apparent with the
advent OF, pantaloon skirt In the
spring. AS a matter of fact woman
hood probably could afford TO keep up
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01

its physical culture fad, even at the
cost OF expanding muscular force, for
the practice is wholesome and already
has produced excellent results The
gymnasium as an adjunct Of many
schools and Young Women's Christian
associations is to be encouraged Il
helps many an otherwise frail or
poorly developed girl or young woman
to a larger sphere of usefulness by
making her better able to bear the
burdens of life It probably would
require generations to produce the
changes of which DR.. Sargent speaks,
so that the danger of it does not seem
to be imminent.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
KNELL OF DEPARTED YEAR.

George u. IrClNNC.
It's midnighrs holy hour-ond silence now
Is brooding like a gentle spirit DER
The still and pulseless world-Hark'on the
winds
The BELLS deep tones are swelling-'us the
OF the departed year. No funeral train
Is sweeping past; yet, ON the stream ANA
with melancholy light the moonbeams
Like pale spotless shroud; the air is
stirred
As by a mourners sigh. and on yon cloud
That floats SO sull and placidly through
heaven,
The spirits OF the seasons seem to stand
Young Spring. bright summer, Autumn's
And Winter with its aged locks-and
breathe,
InmourS>ui cadences that come abroad
Like the far wind-harp's Wild and touch
a melancholy dirgc DER the dead year,
Gone from the earth forever.
IT'S time
For memory and for tears Within the deep.
Stlll chambers OF the heart. a spectcr dim.
Whose tones are like the wizards voice Of
Heard from the tomb of ages points its
cold
And solemn finger to the beautiful
And holy visions that have passed away,
And left no shadows of their loneliness
On the dead waste Of life. That specteF
lifts
The coffin lid OF Hope and Joy and Love.
And bending mournfully above the pale,
Sweet forms that slumber there, scatters
dead flowers
Ger what has passed to nothingness.
REVOLUTIONS sweep
Ger earth like troubled visions Ger the
breast
OF dreaming sorrow; cities rise and sink
Like bubbles on the water; fiery isles
Spring blazing from the ocean, and go
back
To their mysterious caverns; mountains
rear
To heaven their bald and blackened cliffs.
and bow
Their tall heads to the plain new en-
pires rise,
Gathering the strength of hoary centuries.
And rush down like the Alpine avalanche
Startling the nation; and the very stars
Yon bright and burning blazonry of God
Glitter awhile in their eternal depths
AND, like the Pleads, loveliest OF their
train,
Shoot from their glorious spheres and pass
away
To darSe in the trackless void-yet Time
Time, the tomb builder, holds his fierce
career,
Dark. stern, all-pitiless, and pauses not
Amid the mighty wrecks that strew his
path
To sit and muse like other conuuerors
upon the fearful ruin he has wrought