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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-23
TALK OF THE TOWN

Bargains in linens to-day at The
Vaughan Store.
Big display Of white Plymouth Rocks
at the poultry show next week.
Charles Webster leaves tonight for
Boston to pass Christmas with friends.
nice fur set for that Christmas gift
at Henry w. Knights, successor to Ycale
& knight.
Thurman w. Dix of Kerkimer, n. v,
is expected home tomorrow to spend the
holidays.
II will be worth a special trip to TIN,
poultry show next week just to see the
competition in Rhode Island Reds
X. L. Ellsworth left yesterday after
noon for his home in Cambridge, where
he viii enjoy two weeks vacation.
Miss Catherine Napier of Wendell
place, who attends school in Montreal,
+. O., arrived home yesterday for the
holidays.
Be sure to attend the NJ. W. of A.
dance at Rowland hall Saturday, Dec.
23, with Riley's singing orchestra. Cen
tlemen soc, ladies 10.
Dance social in Miles hall Saturday
evening. L. w. Bruce, leader, in at
tendance. so cents per couple, ladies
free, including refreshments.
The Altrurians will hold Christmas
social with Miss Velma Melcher, 20 Park
street, Wednesday, Dec. q. Let all I'M
sold pictures be brought in.
Mrs. George Miller left last night for
New York City, whence she will sail
within a few days for st. Augustine,
Fla to spend the remainder of the win
ter
Gold paint, bronze powder, bronze liq-
uid, aluminium, copper, silver and pale
gold bronzes dry PLAQUES, palettes, pail
cite knives, etc, at third less than
usual prices. Call on L. NJ. Averill.
The Christmas exercises at the Uni.
yersalist church win be held Tuesday.
The Christmas supper given to the Sum
day school will occur at ) o'clock, fol-
lowed by appropriate exercises and the
distribution of presents from the Christ
mas tree Let every member Of the
Sunday school be present and as many
as possible of the adults.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-14

X C Apple Dumplings
One and one-half cups sifted flour;
Ia teaspoonful salt; 3 level tea
spoonfuls X c Baking Powder; IL
cup shortening; about 1-2 cup
milk; apples.
Fill the cups of a buttered muf-
fin pan with pared and sliced APP
pies, sprinkle with salt and turn
1.-TWO or three tablespoonful of
water into each cup. Sift together,
three times, the flour, salt and
baking powder work in the short
ening, and mix to a soft dough
with the milk. Drop the dough
from spoon with apples in the
cups, giving 1t a smooth exterior.
Let bake about twenty-five min
utes. Invert the pan on a large
serving dish. Put a spoonful OF
hard sauce above the apple in each
dumping and finish with grating
of nutmeg.
4 This is only one of the many new
delicious and appetiZing recipes
Icontained in the X c Cooks Book
which may be obtained free BY
lsending the colored certificate pack.
ed in every 25-cent can of X {
i Baking Powder to the JAQ UEs
MFG. CO., Chicago. Be sure to gel
1.-The 25-cent size-smaller cans dc
mot contain Cocks Book certificates
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-14
State News
BY United Press Leased Wire. }

(By United Press Leased Wire
ABERDEEN, June 14.-When
the Southwestern Washington De-
velopment association meets in
October the thing that will be TAX
en- up will be the promotion of a
railway from Grays Harbor to
Port Townsend.
SEATTLE, June IA. = The
Washington Pioneer association
met here yesterday. Frank H.
Winslow was reelected president;
r. H. Denny, secretary; Edgar
Bryan, treasurer. There are 500
members now.
WAPATO, June 14.-Hay
promises to be good crop this
year, with prices about $40 and
$11 a ton. There are plenty of
men to harvest it.
VANCOUVER, June As. s..
Freeberg, a prominent farmer,
was convicted before a jury of six
men yesterday of calling Mrs.
Julie Bloom a vile name and was
fined IS and costs. He says he
will appeal to the higher court.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-14

NEW YORK, June IL
Polo bridge is the new soci-
ETY. fad following the victory
of the American over the
English team here for the
championship. 1t is like
progressive bridge, the OBJ
ject of the game being to
arrive most quickly at the
head table. The polo part
comes In when the guests
change tables. Each player
folds his-or, mayhap, her
feet under the chair and
hops along, the legs of the
chair touching the floor at
each hop.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-14
POINT
AGAINST COX

(By United Press Leased Wire
CINCINNATI, June IA. - The
prosecution of Boss Cox, foiled
for the time by Judge Dickson 8
action in quashing the indict-
ments against Cox without a
hearing, scored a point yesterday
when the circuit court issued a
writ of mandamus against Dick
son.
Prosecutor Hunt will carry the
case up to the supreme court.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-14
IL FROM TACOMA
AMONG GRADUATES

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
UNIVERSITY OF WASHING
TON, June 14.-Tacoma furnish
ed II of the 223 students who
receive degrees in the annual
graduation this year. Most of
them received special honors. The
Tacoma graduates are Lloyd l..
Small, Nathan d. Blair, Lillian
Clulow, Arthur A. Cook, Clarence
B. Eagan, Fay B. yesterday, Earl
l.. Packard, Roy D. Pinkerton,
Ralph Teats, Sylvia Void, Eric
Therkleson, Albert Thompson,
Stewart Perry, Charles Irle, Geo.
Hopkins, Alice Fraser, Eva Fras-
er, Mildred Massey.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-14
DON'T LIKE GOVERNOR

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
COLUMBIA, s. c., June A.
Gov. c. l.. Bleas did not present
diplomas at the Winthrop college
graduation this year, although 1t
is state institution for girls.
The students petitioned that some
one else present the sheepskins
because of Bleas' unpopularity
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-14
Lightning Kills Few

In 1906 lightning killed only
100 people in this whole country.
Ones chances of death by light
ming are less than two in n'.llion.
The chance of death from liver.
kidney or stomach trouble is vast
lily greater, but not IL Electric
Bitters lie used, as Robert Mad
sen, of West Burlington, Ia,
proved. Four doctors gave him w
after eight months Of suffering
from virulent liver trouble and
yellow jaundice. He was then
completely cured by Electric Bit
ters. They're the best stomach
liver, nerve and kidney remedy
and blood purifier on earth. Only
SOC at Ryner Malstrom Drug Co.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-14
Rastus Is Wrathy
CIV united Press Leased wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SEATTLE, June 14.-In filing
suit for 100000 libel damages
against the Times yesterday, the
Post-Intelligencer complained that
Blethen's paper called Erastus
Brainard, editor of the P.-I.,
such names as Jack ass" 'hire-
ling" barbarian ''leper"
"Reeking Rastus," "a living
STENCIL" and other such unpleas-
ant names.
The Times sued the Pr. for
100000 libel damages three
weeks ago.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-14
PROMOTION
FOR COOK

A. R. Cook, who has been the
local resident engineer for the N.
p, was yesterday promoted to be
assistant to w. L. Darling, chief
engineer of the system. Mr.. Cook
will have headquarters in Taco
ma and will have full charge of
the construction of the Point De-
fiance line.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-14
ENGLISH TO
HAVE FLOAT

The floats already being pre-
pared for the big carnival parade
July A promise to be the most ex-
tensive ever known in the North
west. Arrangements were made
yesterday by local Englishmen to
present a float, "The Seven Seas, -
showing the domination of the
blue waters by Britain. Other ma
tionalities are rapidly preparing
their exhibits.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-14
New Way to Make Apple
Dump1inps

Served With Hard Sauce or Cream
and Sugar.
by Mrs. Janet Mckenzie Hill, Ed
itor Boston Cooking School
Magazine.
Here is a new way to make APP
pie dumplings that will surely
please every housewife, for it is
not necessary to have whole apples,
and the Juice cannot run out and
burn as with apple dumplings
where the apple is placed in the
center and the dough turned up
around 1t. The biscuit part forms
a crispy shell that holds the apples
and juice. 81
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-14

Justice Forbes of Los Angeles
has ruled that wives have a per.
feet right to read their husbands
private letters. We found that
out long before Forbes.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-07
FLAG STARTS ROW
Frenchmen Hoist Tricolor Over Fort mt
AEadir.


Berlin. October Ga group OF
the fort at Agadir. Morocco. threaten
II was announced that France had pro-
French cruiser was en- route for Aga
dir
The French government Immediately
disavowed the action. and as it is not
represented at Agadir. instructed the
French consul at Mogador to ask the
Moroccan authorities to take meas
ures TO remove the flag and end the
Incident
According TO the latest advices the
Frenchmen were defying the local ca
ltph OF Agadir. who. on his own re-
sponsibilIty. had ordered the French
colors lowered. but 1t is expected that
tho Frenchmen will yield when they
learn that their government has dis
avowed their act
The -caliph appealed to the command
er Of German warship In the hnrbor,
but he refused To interfere. The French
nag was planted on an ancient bastion
dominating the town. and which the
overzealous French patriots had oc-
oupied in the absence OF the garrison.
They fired a salute and sent word to
the Germans to leave Agadir, which
they declared had become French
possession.
The incident, according. to dispatches
received here. created excitement in
Southern Morocco. but the German For
eign Office is satisfied with the counter
measures adopted by the French gov
eminent
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-07
BALLOONS SOON DOWN
Nncers Forced to Descend When They
Encounter tough Weather.

Kansas City. Mo-. October 6.-Rough
weather to-day drove to earth seven
OF the nine racing balloons that LEFT
mere yesterday In contests for the
James Gordon Bennett trophy, the
LahIn cup and tho altitude record. The
other two bags that sailed have not
been heard from. The missing bags
are the Condor. of France, and the
Berlin H.. of Germany.
No records were broken by any of
the balloons that are down. The es-
timnted distances ranged from ESQ to
AGO miles. Two fell in wisconsin, two
In Minnesota and three in Iowa.
Reports from tho landed balloons
bring stories of hard battles with a
snow. rain and wind storm that ragged
high over Northern Iowa. Minnesota
and Wisconsin last night and to-day
None of the niers was seriously In
1ured, but J. G. Hulburt. aide In the
america H.. sustained severe bruises
, when thhe bag was forced 10 descend.
pilot: j. c. HIrlbut. aide. Landed near
E I,,1,sa la. at 100 A NJ to-day;
r Hunnewell, aide. Landed near Buf-
faio Centre. Ia. s.2o a. NJ. estimated
di stance, 900 % miles nle s., 1,,o,. n,,o.
w, w. Webb. aide. Landed near Dun
nell. Mimi. $50 A. NJ; estimated dis
lance 325 miles.
tenant Martin schoeller. aide. Landed
near Austin. Mimi, at 10 A. NJ; esti-
mated distance 345 miles.
Buckeye, Lieutenant Frank c. Lohm.
pilot: j. c. Wade. Jr., aide. Landed near
La Crosse. Wiss.: estimated distance
365 miles
Kansas City H.. ]. C. Honeyw ell.
pilot: John Watts. aide landed near
KEENAN,, Via. at $50 A. M: estimated
distance $50 miles.
Million Population Club landed
Mason City. Ia. ut p. NJ
I
were flying only for the Inhm cup. and
they failed to lift IT.. The America IL.
and Buckeye also were entered in this
event The Lahm cup, held by Allen II.
Hawley. was not even Appropriated.
Foreign balloons cannot compete for
the Lahm cup.
The Pennsylvania was trying for the
altitude record. II is not known what
height the bag reached
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-07
Charges Conspiracy and
Seeks to Recover
Sc, 600, 900.
SEABOARD NAMED
AS A d. PENDANT
Florida Company Claims That
Attempt Was Made to Pre-
vent Delivery of Bonds
Which 1t Had Floated for
Extension of Line to
Atlantic Port.

Jacksonville, Fla, October 6.-Suit
for the recovery of S6.oo0.00o damages
was filed to-day in the United States
Court here by the Florida Railway
Company against tho Seab GARD Air
Line Railway. the Knickerbocker Trust
Company of New York, Charles II.
Keep. Francis Henderson. R v. Mat
thews, c. w. Lucas and Frank O..
Brown. OF New York. and H Reiman
Duyall. OF New Jersey
George NJ. Powell. a stakeholder In
the Florida Railway Company. instr
tuted the suit by fling praecipe. con-
spirncy being charged to the defen-
dants
This suit promises to attract ma
tional attention. the plaintiffs claim
Ing they will show violation Of the
Sherman law.
Several years ago the owners OF the
road. which was then operating boz
tween Live Oak. Fla. and Perry, Fla,
seeing that 1t was only feeder to the
Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard
Atlantic ports, Fernanddna and Jack
sonville.
Bonds Are F1oated.
The financial provisions for such an
extension were successfully concluded.
and the bonds for the extension were
tioated. the Carnegie Trust Company, of
New York. being selected to handle
the bonds. In January of the present
year the Carnegie Trust Company
failed, and the Florida Railway Com
pany was put to thesnecessity OF plac-
Ing the business in other hands. The
Knicis erbocker Trust Company later
was selected as trustee and agent for
the bonds, which had been sold to
French capitalists.
Later in the proce edings the pur-
chasers OF the bonds demanded their
delivery. which was delayed by the
Knickerbocker Trust Company. and de-
mands OF the Florida Railway Com
pany for the return OF the bonds. Il lis
alleged. were also met with refusal
Because OF the delay of the Knick-
erbocker Trust Company, the railway
directors commenced an investigation,
and ascertained. 1t is charged. that the
actions of the Knickerbocker Trust
Company were insugated by two d.
rectors OF that firm. swho. It is alleged.
were also directors OF the Seaboard
Air Line Railway.
La Toilette Takes Hand.
Senator La Toilette. of, wisconsin,
has started an Investigation in con-
nectton with the case, seeking to
prove whether or not the Sherman anti
trust law has been violated. The
French government. through the APP
pcals Of the purchasers of the bonds,
has also brought the matter to the
attention OF the government asking
that the purchasers be protected and
that the responsibility for loss to them
lie fixed.
1t is charged by the directors of the
Florida Railway Company that in the
alleged attempt to prevent the deliv-
cry Of the bonds and the completion Of
the work OF the Florida Railway Com
pany TO an Atlantic port, the Knick-
erbocker Trust Company and the Sea-
board Air Line Railway have entered
Into conspiracy to restrain trade
and commerce
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-07
CHARGED WITH FRAUD
Warrants Issued for City Officials of
Philadelphia.

Philadelphia. Pa. October 6.-War-
rants for the arrest of Director OF
Public Safety Henry Clay, city Archi-
tect Carl b. Zilengiger. John Il. Wig
gins, n contractor and builder, and
Treasurer Wall. of the latter's firm.
We're issued to-day on the amdavit OF
Logan NJ. Bullitt. chairman OF the tax
payers committee. The charges are
conspiracy to defraud the city, and are
an outcome of the investigation con-
Quoted by the Catlin senatorial com
mtttee. The men will not be taken
into custody. but will accept service
through their attorneys and appear for
II hearing. The taxpayers committee
during the past year has brought many
civil suits where 1t was alleged they
had made contracts without proper
advertisement. and also caused the ar
rest OF several minor officials. Wig
gins & Company were the contractors
for number of police and fire sta
lions, and at hearings of the Catiin
commission 1t was alleged they had
been given an unfair advantage over
other bidders for tho work, and had
been allowed to use less expensive ma :
terials than was called for in the orig
inal specifications.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-07
USED FOR ENTERTAINMENT
Senntor stepbenson'S Campaign Fund
Not Spent Illegally.

NOt spent
Milwaukee. Wis. october 6.-After
to individuals, who collectively receiv :
ed S1o7,ie3 for campaign expenses. the
senatorial committee which is invesu-
eating charges OF bribery in connec-
ton with the election of United States
Senator Isaac Stephenson. to-day heard
testimony that money was used for
entertainment" and not for any cor
rupt purpose.
No itemized accounts OF the expenses
were returned but Rodney Sackett, one
of the campaign managers. testified
he had been informed that the money
had been used largely for buying ct-
gars and beer. 1t was the custom in
Wisconsin during campaigns, Sackett
kegs Of beer to localities where ia
vorable political sentiment was to be
worked up. This was given by Sackett
Is explaining tho extent of Senator
Stephenson's expenditure for the nomi-
nation for Senator at the primary In
1908.
When Senator w. B. Hepburn. the
chairman, asked Snckctt whether Senn-
tor Stephenson had spent almost 81
for entertainment for each OF the &c.
900 votes he received, tho witness said
that that was one way OF reckoning It
How many votes do you think Sena-
tor Stephenson got in consequence of
his liberal spending?" Senator Hey
burn asked.
IT don't know that he got any on
that account" Sackett replied.
What, despite all that entertain
ment you don't know OF single vote
he got for it?"
Not any"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-07
LAW MADE PLAIN.
TRUSTS MUST GO
Prosecutions, Criminal
and Civil, Will Con-
tinue. Says Taft.
BUSINESS MUST
REFORM ITSELF
Calm Will Come When 1t Is
Submissive to Statutes-Pros-
perity Will Be Restored by
Competition, While State
Socialism Is Only
Alternative.
Trusts. Take Warning!

The rrosecutions muat 20 on. 1t
IN not for the executive to say he
cnn withhold criminal prosecutions
OF amy kind of prosecutions Just
10 help business.
Businesn munt reform itself, and
those executive duties must he
performed under the oath of office
thnt took and under the oath
thHt thonc under me took.
Hut when TINT part of the bust
news com minity TINT thought TINT
the nntitrnst Asntute did not mean
anything understands that II is to
be enforced. then we may reach n
solution thRt Will enable the bnsi-
ness community to aettie down on
a proper and legitimate bnsiH.
I believe we arc going on 10 "A
greater future. We must
get bnck to competition ms an ele-
menf in this country. II II II i'm
posatblc, then let us 20 TO socinI-
ism. I, for one, am not discour-
nEcd.-President Taft. at Pocatello.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-07
WAVES FLAG TILL SHE FALLS
Aged widow Grcets Veterans MS Did
the Girls of 'OI.

Aged Widow Grcets Veterans MS Did
the Girls of '61.
Hartford. Conn, October, 6.-At the
first reunion of Civil War veterans
Wednesday. the old soldiers "paraded"
in automobiles. for. however strong
is their patriotism. many of them are
so decrepit they cannot walk far.
AS the first motor car passed Mrs.
Ann Cummings's home in Maple Ave-
nue., she seized flag and waved 1t
vigorously from an upper window. The
aged woman. widow OF Major Patrick
Cummings, had not unfurled the flag
since the great battle flag day in 1879.
1t has been Il sacred treasure in the
household ever since the war. The in
spiration to loose it's dusty folds to
the breeze did not come TO Mrs. Cum
mings until she caught sight of the
veterans.
They cheered her as they passed and
pointed out to one another her gray
hair and the thin hands that grasped
the flag and kept 1t waving untiringly
They said: Just like the girls did
when we were going away"
The last auto in the long line pass
ed. The veterans did not know that
Mrs. Cummings. perhaps overcome by
her emotions, perhaps wearied by her
eNertions. had fallen back from the
window fainting. She was found on
the. the flag on her bosom--the same
flag that had been her husbands pail
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-07
NAVAL ESTIMATE COMPLETED
Low Water Mark Reached In Retrench-
mcnt Policy.

washington, October st will cost
in round numbers sl29. 00o, 900 to main
tain the United States Navy and pro-
vide for suitable increase during the
next fiscal year, according to the es-
Inmates Just completed by Secretary
Meyer. This includes n provision for
two superdreadnonghts. probably OF
about $4,000 tons. and n suitable num-
Der of auSiliaries. This figure marks
the low water mark in the retrench-
ment policy OF the administration so
far as the navy is concerned. The es-
Inmates are the same as the appro-
priations for the current fiscal year
These appropriations were $4,000 900
less than the estimates for the proceed
ing year. and these, In turn, were $40 :
100000 less than the estimates for tho
fiscal year 10000, which was the last
year of the Roosevelt administration
1t is believed by Secretary Meyer that
the present estimates therefore have
brought the expenditures on account Of
the navy down to the lowest point con-
sistent with Its healthy development
and maintenance.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-07
TO BLOCK OUTBREAK
Provisional President Ready to Quen
Followers or Reyes

Mexico City, October 6.-Upon appeal
oil Maderistas and their declaration that
plot mad been discovered whereby
supporters of General Bernardo Reyes
planned to begin revolution on DC.
tooer 10, Provisional President de la
Sara to-day ordered Federal troops
turbances.
according to the Madcristas, the re-
volt was to begin with the seizure OF
arms and ammunition near Oaxaca.
eral troops is pledged to aid Reves,a
followers to land in the Pacusha dis.
trict, and another high army officer
mas promised to deliver forty pieces
or artillery TO the rebels. and per
suade his command OF 5000 men 10
night against the government
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-07
SPLINTER OF GLASS IN BRAIN
ChiId's Death Result of Accident, Not
of MeninEftf4.

New York. October 6-An autopsy
performed by the Bronx coroner has
revealed that the death Wednesday OF
Edna Steurer. the little daughter OF
DR.. Clark Steurer, was cause not by
spinal meningitis. but by tiny
splinter of glass which had penetrated
the spinal cord and worked up into
the brain. The child received the in
jury In an apparently trivial accident
two weeks ago. when she struck her
head against n tumbler on the table.
me tiny particle OF glass entered
between the first vertebra OF the
spine and the base OF the skull, and
worked upward. as was disclosed by
the autopsy, until 1t went nearly to
the frontal hone. The wound at the
point of penetration was so small II
could hardly be detected