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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05
The Man who Kicks.

Philosophers may tell you that an ever.
lasting smile
Is better than a mixture half-and-
half
OF smiles and frowHs used alternately
every little while,
And that the world viii love you II
you laugh.
But ] have often noticed that the man
who's always kind
And smiles no matter how hard he's
been hit
Gets what the kickers wouldn't take,
and you will always find
The man who kicks some gets the
best OF it.
I've seen ii in my daily walks through
life, and while ! know
That frowns bring favors sometimes
when smile
Would fail, | try to smile little every
where / go,
And often miss the best things by a
mile,
I've seen il in the hotels rs / waited
for my meals,
While kickers came and almost had a
fit
That made all hands step lively, and
it's so in other deals;
The man who kicks some gets the
best OF it.
The man who smiles continually and
never makes a kick
VIII be imposed upon and often sold
For merchants like to sell their goods
and always turn the trick
OF passing out what's damaged or is
old
To one who does not raise howl and
kick for something new.
Although the things they sell him
do not fit.
like the smiling method best; but
still | know It's true;
The man who kicks some gets the
best Of it,
Puck.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05
Annexation Boah Again.

Somebody signing himself "A Loyal
Canadian" and writing from Boston,
has sent letter to the editor OF the
Montreal Star in which he says among
other things;
CAS- loyal Canadian, living for the
present in the United States, ] have
been almost ashamed to see how
strangely green some of my fellow
countrymen are My profession brings
me in contact, in a private and unofti-
cial way, with many of the multi-mil-
lionaire class OF the eastern states. /
have discussed the reciprocity ques-
ton with them on every possible occa-
sion. and not once have | heard any
opinion other than that annexation
would follow reciprocity as matter of
course. once the lines of trade We're
firmly established north and south. The
Americans want Canada undoubtedly,
and nothing initiates an American more
than Canadian loyalty TO Great Britain,
il is simply idle TO pretend that annex
alton viii not follow reciprocity II
will lust as logically as day follows
night. and the Americans firmly intend
that it shall follow To anyone living
among the American people nothing IS
more plain"
Ii il incredible that any man in his
right mind should have sent such non
sense as this TO any paper on earth
We are pretty well in ttNch with most
OF the leading Canadian living here
We have conserved with q E9at many
of them from time to time some OF
whom are most firmly opposed to reei-
procity, but we have never heard them
report general belief in Boston or in
this section that reciprocity had any
connection with annexation whatever
Nor have we heard any American of
any consequence whatever hazard any
such belief as this II is incredible
that such an opinion should prevail
The United States does not wish TO
annex Canada, not one man out OF a
million ever thinks of il; there is the
best of feeling between the two conn-
tries 20 far as separate identity of
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05
MONTPELIER.
New Corporations File With Secretary
of State.

of State.
The Vermont Land Conservation com.
pany, with a capital stock of 100000
has filed articles Of association with the
secretary Of state The company will
purchase timber land, manufacture
lumber, start nurseries, improve fish
ponds and anything else that will aid
the conservation OF land in this state.
The signers of the papers are Charles
M Drummond, Josiah II Drummond
and G MA Horne, all of Portland, Me.
The Twitchell Lumber company Of
Lewiston, Me-, has been given permis-
sion to carry on its business in the
state; also the Cloverdale company Of
Boston, dealers in butter, eggs, teas,
eoffees, ETC., and the American Car
Sprinkler company Of Worcester, Mass.
The opening shoot of the Montpelier
Gun club viii take place tomorrow
afternoon at 1880, to contest for the
bronze cup, which is emblematic of the
championship of Washington county.
G. J Spaulding, who has been en-
ployed in the Cross bakery, has pur-
chased the Randolph bakery of X @.
Smith OF that town and has taken
possession Mrs Spaulding will assist
In the selling Of goods.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05
How Morrisyille Gained.

Morrisyile has secured the Union Gran
lite works of Hardwick as a new indus
try for its village and this win bring
at least 20 men with families to Nor
risyille for residence. This addition to
Morrisvilles business and residential in
terests has been secured by the cheap
and unfailing supply of power the VII.
lage itself was able to furnish. Norris
ville's great dam and water power is
proving a good investment and everyone
will rejoice in that villages prosperity.
II is not luck but good business fore
sight that is developing Morrisville.-
st. Johnshury Caledonian.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05

The large increase in applicants for
the right to do business in Vermont in
dicates that out.of-t he.state business
concerns deny the Rossiter story, which
gave the impression, on the whole that
Vermont was declnng state. II there
wasn't progress there wouldn't be de-
mand for business; hence the foreign
concerns wouldn't care to enter YER
mont, But they are coming in by droves,
which is proof that Vermont is not 60
ing backward.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05
Current Comment
Project Not Dead.

Oh, no, the Fifteen Miles Falls pro-
iect is not dead. 1t is backed by in-
terests that will not stop now they
have invested so much money in the pre-
liminary work. The company had to
get charter from New Hampshire and
had to wait for that. There is vast
amount OF other preliminary work to
be done and the promoters are doing it..
That immense water. power is coming
and the thing TO do is get into shape
to take advantage of il as soon as it
is for sale, st. Johnsbury CALIFORNIAN.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05

The Massachusetts Senate's vote on
the federal income tax measure hinged
on the vote of a man who, in changing
his vote from affirmative to negative
after all the Others had voted, declared
that he misunderstood the nature of the
proposition, thinking that it was state
income tax rather than national in
come tax, And yet they attempt to
ridicuIe Vermont legislatorsl
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05
Too Late to Protest.

If any Rutland citizens have any fault
to find with the curtailment Of the Sun
day postal service it is a little late in
the day to voice any complaint For
several weeks there was opportunity Civ
EN- the people to express their views
on the subject and, with one excep-
ton, as stated by Postmaster q. F,
Pease, no objection was voiced. 1t is in
good taste, therefore, to accept the cur
tailed service without complaint.-Rut-
land News
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05
COPYING AFTER MASSACHUSETTS

COPYING AFTER MASSACHUSETTS,
Various state exchanges have been
complimenting Barre and Montpelier on
their progressiveness in going to Mas
sachusetts for ideas as TO the best meth
DDS of road building so that the most
satisfactory results might be obtained
for the two municipalities. The desire
TO be progressive is very eommendable;
but one is apt to wonder sometimes why
Nermonters always 60 to Massachusetts
IN search OF the most advanced ideas
in road making, as well as legislation.
1t is perhaps because Massachusetts,
has the reputation Of having the best
In roads and in legislation that We Yer
monters are so prone to copy after them
we place too great reliance on the repu.
tstion and extend il to the belief that
nowhere outside OF Massachusetts, can
We find the best As matter Of
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05

The splendid fighting spirit shown by
the people of Bangor in the very hour
of depression following the destruction
of one-quarter of the city is followed
by burst of generosity for the poor
er sufferers to the extent OF $4,000 sub
scriptions less than week after the
catastrophe. To be sure, not all the
amount is subscribed by present resi-
dents of the city, but the movement
started inside the city and is largely
made up OF local subscriptions. Bangor
will do.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05
Jngles and tests
Early Energy.

~ intend to wake Congress up before
| get through" said the ne wmember,
My friend" replied Senator Sorg-
hum, don't stop with merely waking
Congress up See if you can't do some
thing to make the trainers Of the United
States constitution turn over In their
graves. Washington Star.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05

On May you should have had s3455,
to be even with your neighbors and
everyone else in the country; but that
doesn't mean that those who had $s4.56
were wealthy.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05

"This is delightful place for young
women to spend their vacation" says
an advertisement in Concord, n. H.,
paper for mems camp on lake Win
nipesaukee in New Hampshire. 1t might
be at that
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05

The vermont Land Conservation com.
pany" is the name of a new 100000
Vermont corporation, whose chief bus
mess is cutting timber. II the company
win cut the timber in reasonable man.
ner, it will be partially entitled to the
name; otherwise, it would be mis-
homer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05
said a Man TO One Of Our

agents, "When die, won't leave any
life insurance to help my widow get
another husband" which suggests the
query. "Would it not be better than to
force her to marry again by not leav-
ing life insurance."
National Life Insurance Co. Of Ver-
mont. S. S. Ballard, general agent, Law
renee building, Montpelier, Vt. (Mu-
tual.l
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05

Jacob Riis tells Yale men that there
is the greatest need of college men in
American journalism. Which may be
true; but he ought to have advised that
most of them come in overalls and car.
rying a broom.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05

While the statement by the Hardwick
Gazette that the recent labor suspen.
sion there was not serious injury
TO the place may cause some disagree
ment of opinion, there ought to be no
disagreement whatever over the call of
The Gazette for everybody in the town
TO get together now and work to wipe
out some of the detrimental features
OF the suspension, as the contemporary
calls them. The Gazette has set the
example of optimism by declaring its
belief that "the next five years will see
greater development of the business
than ever before Here's hoping for
Hardwickl
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05

If those New York editors wish to
show their full appreciation of the cour.
tesy of the Montpelier board of trade in
sending packages OF pure Vermont ma
pie sugar, they will please write some
thing about it in their papers. Mere
notes of acknowledgement and thanks
are good but not the best way to show
appreciation. When Editor ISL Jones
of the Weekly Chronicle" gets a peck
of turnips from weil-wisher he puts
a piece in the very next issue of the
"Chronicle" Will the New York editors
kindly take the tip therefrom?
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05

their governments is concerned. and the
only thing that can destroy this good
feeling is such silly talk as this, which
might result in the defeat of the
reciprocity pact Boston Transcript
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05
Novices.

Usher -Ladies, the audience wishes
you to keep still during this perform.
anee
Ladies~-Heayens Is it possible that
the audience hasn't heard this old opera
before Toledo Blade.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05
GRANITEvILLE.

The dancing school and dance for next
Saturday evening has been postponed
until Saturday evening, May b.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05

Those trees you set out to-day will
begin to look handsome ten years from
to-day.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05

Gov. Iveto Foss has turned in his
Path, and more coming.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05

Only three more days to buy muslin
underwear at TO per cent. discount at
Naughan's.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05

The yeggmen's trail leads from Chel'
sea to what placer You will hear short
~.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05

Theodore Roosevelt has elected hinl-
self the McNamaras' jury.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05
Who VIII Calm Them.

Letters mcalled for at the Barre
post Office for the week ending April
(, were as follows:
Mend H. Baker, Joseph Berard,
A Delano, George Durant, Mr. Gil
bert, William Goyette, Mike Hennessy,
Charles Lei. Luigi Maffei, Amede j.
Massey, John Rettie, Harry Snowe
Women: Miss Mautal Calsuge, Miss
Agnes Duval, Mrs John Neddo. Miss
Albinaz Piceichi, Mrs Agnes Perkins,
Maria Serafni, Mrs Mary Scott, Mrs
w. A Williams
Barre granite quarries with about $50
acres quarry land for sale. Worth in.
vestigating
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-05

copies, Che largest circulation OF any daily
paper in Vermont outside of Burlington.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30
The Talk Of New York.

George NJ. Conan. the yankee
Doodle comedian" as he is popularity
called. inherited his love for the dra-
ma from his father, the elder Conan,
and do not confuse the name with the
Jewish name Of Cohen, for George NJ.
Conan is an Irishman. a great many
people to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. Is an old time vaudeville artist,
the four Cohans being one Of the
feature vaudeville acts a few years
ago. Georges dancing soon became
a feature of the act and there was
such a demand for him that he pluns-
ed in musical comedy: then seeing
that his songs and ideas were always
the most popular with the audience,
ne began writing his plays. Per.
haps his greatest and o success
full hit was 1.-The Talk Of New York"
which is saying a great deal when you
stop to consider Little Johnny Jones'"
George Washington, Jr.." Running
for Office" "A Little Millionaire" etc.
At any rate from q musical point OF
view THE Talk Of New York" is con
ceded by all critics to be his master
piece. Although the play has never
a phenomenal run in New York and
soon everyone will be whistling the
catchy strains of Somebody's Got the
Dough-" Follow Your Uncle bud.
ley" Burning up the Boulevard"
Busy Little Broadway" when a
Fellow's on the Level with a Girl
That's on the Square" and the dozen
other big hits.
1.-The Talk Of New York" with the
New York production and by special
arrangements with George NJ. Conan,
will be seen for the first time in Grand
Forks at the Metropolitan theatre for
n night only, Thursday. January 4.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30

wal not until the end Of the Civil war
that they began to made in any guam
tity. The first that were sent north
found a ready sale at 5 cents each. and
then q northern capitalist, who was a
confirmed pipe smoker. discovered
that the clay pipes from Virginia we're
better than those from anywhere else.
He traced down a shipment and found
that it anne from the clay beds Of
Appomattox county. He straightway
purchased these deposits and put up
a big factory. which has been increas-
ed In size ever since.
An increasing number Of little briae
pipes that will hold only enough to.
bacco for three or four whiffs. are to
be found in the most fashionable to-
bacconists' shops in the large cities.
These are ladies' pipes. They are not
so labeled. but 1t Is the ladies who buy
them. Sometimes they are easing off
from the cigarette to the pipe under
the doctors orders, and sometimes
they really like to smoke the pipe bet
ter than anything else. They retail at
So apiece. There is really nothing re-
markable about women smoking pipes.
1t used to be quite the customary
thing in the days Of our grandmoth.
ers.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30
WILSON'S NATIvE STATE.

II there are any Democrats south
of Mason and Dixon's line who do not
know by this time hat DR.. Woodrow
Wilson was born in Virginia, it is not
because of any lack of diligence on
the part of his friends in spreading
the information.
One of the friends. DIR. r. Heath
Dabney. has the chair of history in
the University Of Virginia. Last weel,
he forwarded to the Richmond Times
Dispatch 81 letter written to him by
DIR. Wilson on November 16. 1t is
about the initiative, referendum and
recall; it has contemporaneous hu.
man Interest There is a reference in
n opening sentence to n personal
talk which the letters writer had had
with his dear Heath" The letter i.
supplementary to that conversation
The extracts here given will suffice tc
show Its tenor and drift:
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30
Newark call.)

\4NcWoAn Sob.(
Every %inveterate pipe smoker has a
collection of from three to a dozen
pipes that are as dear to him as a little
girls highly cherished family Of dolls.
When a visitor calls he is sur to *
pound the Joys Of pipe smoking and
take down from its rack and point out
with affection his favorite meer-
schaum. brier or clay as 1.-THE best one
he V e saw"
No actuarial statistics regarding the
life Of pipes have been compiled. II q
pipe fails to r out satisfactorily its
career is comparatively a brief one.
But II q pipe suits the smokers taste
1t becomes a cherished companion and
he is as happy over 1t as though he
had won a prize in a lottery. Getting
a good pipe is a sort Of lottery anyway.
have old veterans Of pipes in their
service. pipes that have burned day
after day for half a dozen years. There
is n man on record who has a mcer-
schaum that he has smoked steadily
for ~ years. The bowl IL an unusual
ly large one, without any carving of
any kind. is richly colored and shows
clearly h evidences of its age in the
ragged edge. where 1t has been grad
ually burned away by the thousands OF
fires that have smoldered within 1t.
Connoisseurs among pipe smokers say
that 1t would take a poet Of genius to
describe the remarkable sweetness OF
this pipes favor. 1t Is like rich old
wine. they say. SC smooth that its
strength Is not noticed.
Pipe smoking came into great favor
about the time the Civil war broke out.
Before that time practically tho only
pipes In m use were those Of
clay. lneerschaum or German porce-
lain. The soldiers found cigars too ex-
pensirc and too hard to carry and the
pipes OF that period too fragile for the
accidents of long marches. Wooden
pipes. therefore. came into &
among the hundreds Of thousauds Of
soldiers Of both armies. Today, per-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30
THE Ev,

Of the slang classic. THE @
Lady," will be shown at the Metro
tan on Friday, January S.
The play comes to us from long
runs In New York and Chicago. The
locale Of the play is Grand Crossing,
a middle western village. The story
opens on Christmas day. and in the
nrst act is shown the interior OF the
railway station. where Bob Blake, the
travelling salesman, and Beth Elliott,
the pretty ticket agent, meet and are
speedily attracted to each other.
Beth owns a plot Of seemingly
worthless land. that suddenly acquires
value because it is necessary to a
scheme Of improvement planned by
the railroad company. Blake's en-
ploSer becomes cognizant Of the cor
p%oration's plans through a leak" al
Headquarters. and attempts to defraud
the girl Of her property by a perver.
sion OF the laws governing the sale Of
lands for taxes . 1t is Blake's aim to
Illustrate his impetuous and misguid.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30
Corncob Real American Pipe
WHOLE ACRES IN MIDDLE STATES DEVOTED TO RAISING CORN
FOR SPECIAL PURPOSE OF MAKING THEM.

haps. twenty wooden pipes are sold to
one of any other material.
Brier pipes are of all prices, from
the cheapest imitation. at 10 or Is
cents. up to the gilt and gold affairs
that sell for $50. Experts say that as
fine q brier pipe as man need want to
smoke can be bought for about IS. The
Dublin. Those that are made in this
country, although we have the wood
and the amber, are not equal to the
imported product.
Two things have done much to dis
courage the meerschaum pipe indus.
try One of these is that II you let
a meerschaum fall 1t is likely to break
Into many pieces. The other is the
Jokes that the comic papers have made
abou 1t and the men who smoke
themselves black in the face trying to
color the meerschaum.
Many sorts OF new woods and other
materials appear and disappear every
year with the changing fashions in
pipes. With many people corncob and
the clay still hold their own. The corn.
cob is the real American pipe. Whole
acres In Ohio. Illinois. Missouri and
Nebraska are devoted to raising corn
TOT the special purpose OF producing
cobs suitable for fashioning into pine
bowls. The grain itself is marketed.
Of course. but the cob on which it
grows is the real harvest. This is cut
carefully into proper lengths. SMOOTH
ed and polished, the soft inner pulp
being gouged out by specially ION.
structed machinery. The corncob pine
Is exported to every country in the
world where men smoke. 1t is esDeci.
ally In favor in Australia and New
Zealand. where 1t is regarded as char.
ncteristically American. because II
suggests the idea OF Yankee ingenuity.
The clap pipe also has become a
noted national product Of the United
States. The largest clan piuc actor.
IN the world is In APPROXIMATION county.
Virginia. More than half n century,
ago 1t was known that the CLAY found
there wal particularly adapted TO the
manufacture Of tobacco pipes, but II
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30
X = 4 4 :: = + 4 4 q & *
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X X X x X X x *
The Deep Purple Coming.

With a company including Walter
Edwards. Anne Sutherland, Lyster
Chambers. Richard Garrick, Madeleine
Louis. Frank Currier. Edward Giles
PIE. Maggie Holloway Fisher and other
well known players, the big New York
and Chicago success, THE Deep Pur-
pie" Is scheduled to be at the Metro
politan tonight. The play is an en-
ample of the virile, sturdy type of
drama with which Paul Armstrong.
of the authors, and also writer OF
Alias Jimmy Valentine" "Salomy
Jane" and THE Heir to the Hoorah'
has been identified. 1t presents an
interesting phase of life, known to the
ordinary mortal by hearsay only, and,
though it invites the thrill, 1t is plaus,
ible and convincing.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30
<the comedy. which
humorous exposition
trlsttcs Of the present

TlM act which takes place
In Blake- Dom In tho Elite hotel.
is said to be as novel In its depletion
Of life on the road as was the Sec
ond act OF THE Chorus Lady" in H.
Illustrating life behind the scenes"
The story Is related by widely con-
trasting types of villagers and drum
mers. Without question 1.-THE Travel
ing Salesman" provides more hearty
laughs than any other comedy on the
stage at the present time.
Included in the company which will
appear here are many artists who are
we'll known to Dur playgoers. The
leading comedy role. Bob Blake. will
be interpreted by Don Macmillan. an
actor Of much ability and prominence
in light comedy characters. and the
leading lady is Dorothy Grey, a
charming and capable artist.
ing efforts, supplies the necessary dra-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30
Tho Travelling Salesman.

One of the most delightful plays
dealing with q phase of American
life and character. The Travelling
Salesman By James Forbes, author
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-30
SATURDAY. DEC. so, 1911.

.
j. There will be no edition OF the
I. Times on New Years. The paper =
i. greets each OF its readers and pa
j. irons with "A Happy New Years.
. and expresses tho hope that the
/. New Year may bring to each a
g rospel measure of success ana
4 happiness.