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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-09
NO THIRD TERM FOR ross.
Governor Announces Intended Refine
ment.

Boston, Nov o.--Governor Foss wants
no third term AT the State House yes
terday morning he announced positively
that at the end Of the coming year he
would retire absolutely from politics AMI
devote himself entirely to his private
business. The story said to Be sent
out from the governors office was:
Il shall retire from public life at the
end Of my second year as chief executive
OF the state. shall devote all my
time after that to my private business.
| DO not intend to be candidate Tor
the presidency of the United States.
United States Senate or the House Of
Representatives.
Governor Foss issued a denial of the
statement yesterday afternoon, saying
it was Unauthorized. Secretary Holman
said that while Governor Foss might not
try for third term. lie absolutely de-
MED that he was out OF politics, which
means that he may be a candidate for
United States senator, vice president or
president He thus leaves a loophole
open for change in his mind, although
il is unlikely that be will 60 so far IS
to try for third term as governor.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-09

wagon. To his establishment she sent
word asking to be excused. She was
busy sewing and would be thus EN-
ployed for some time to come. This
was the first time she had ever re-
fused to see him, II even for a few
minutes. There was something Jar
ring In the matter. Like other men, he
was controlled by habit. and his habit
was to see Virginia whenever he liked.
A whole afternoon was spoiled. He
drove the horse back to the barn. I'M
harnessed and-didn't know what to
do with himself. he sauntered in at
the store to buy a cigar
Reckon yer goin' to be married"
said the proprietor as Cy lighted his
cigar.
what makes you think that?"
''Waal, the gal y been keepin' com
pany with war in here today to buy
her weddin' outfit"
Cy took his cigar out of his mouth
and looked at the man aghast. So this
was the explanation Of the sewing.
what did she buyT he asked.
WAL. she bought twenty yards q
white satin"
Twenty yards! Does it take'as much
as that to make a dress?'
Reckon it do when they have
train to it."
what else did she buyf'
''Oh. bit o. lace for the bridal veil.
reckon"
Cy put his cigar back into his mouth,
gave a few quick puffs, threw 1t away
and hurried out Of the store Making
a bee line for Virginia's home, he sent
up word that he must see her immedi-
ately, If only for minute. Virginia
came down. Cy endeavored to discern
an emotion OF some sort in her face,
but her features were expressionless.
He began to upbraid her for what he
called throwing him over for some one
else. She asked him to explain. He
said that he had loved her a long
while and had been waiting only to
make some money to enable him to ask
her to be his wife. To this she re-
piled that they were rapidly growing
old and people who waited to get rich
to be married were like many others
who waited for the corn to ripen be-
fore harvesting the wheat. They usu-
ally died unmarried and childless. she
would rather marry him than any one
else but
That was as far as she went--as far
as she intended to go. Cy did the rest.
He begged her to throw over the other
fellow and marry him. She then told
him that there was no other fellow
and explained that, having considered
him an honorable man. she had con-
Guided that he would certainly ask her
to marry him. Presuming thus upon
his honor, she had begun preparations
for the wedding.
They were married on yirginia's
twentieth birthday.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-09
CALLS SHERMAN LAW
QUESTION OF POWER ONLY
Wickersham Says Conflict Is Between
the Country and Indi-
viduals

New York, Nov. 9.--Attorney- General
Wickersham has written a letter TO the
Jewish Morning Journal of New York,
acknowledging the receipt of an editorial
on the Sherman law, and giving mis-
views on that law, as follows:
81 think you make a very clear, tenn
perate presentation of the case. What
is, perhaps, not quite so clear is that,
after all, the underlying issue respect
ing the Sherman law is simply the ques-
tion Of power whether or not the gov
eminent or groups Of interested indiyid-
uals shall control the industries OF the
country. The Sherman law was enacted
for the purpose Of checking the growth
OF great monopolies and combinations.
But for 1t, the railroads of this country
to-day would be controlled by a small
group of men in New York The deci-
sion in the northern securities case put
an effective check upon the most ambi-
tious plans for railroad control by ire
sponsible individual power that ever
found Judgment in the mind of man.
and but for that decision, +. H. Harri-
man would have been the uncrowned
king of American railways.
in like manner, but for the Sher-
man law practically every small pro-
ducer Of modest business in the country
would be entirely at the mercy of
group OF individuals controlling great
organizations, in the earning of his daily
bread. These things should be made
clear to the people. Much Of the agi
tation which is going on now. and much
of the alleged uncertainty in the law,
is simply method TO discredit the law
adopted by those against whom the law
was peculiarly intended to operate be-
cause they find that they are at last
compelled to square themselves with the
law. There is, of course, an area Of
uncertainty in the application of the
law. II is not nearly so great as repre-
scented, and it applies far more to the
organization of new consultations and
combinations than it does to the disin-
tegration of existing ones.
But while the law is not perfect, and
while, like most human institutions, 4
is attended with some uncertainty, vet
1t has at last, after 20 years of judicial
interpretations, been found adequate to
check the growth of vast combinations
and to put a limit upon the exercise
of power by small number Of exceed
ingly rich men. This result. if nothing
more were accomplished, would vindicate
the wisdom of the trainers of the act,
and, in my Judgment, this fact viii pre-
vent tha American nponln from tolnrat-
ing any impairment of that law"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-09
MAGAZINE REVIEW
Soup Spoiled. Sister?

Soup Spoiled, Sister?
In the entertainment pages of the
November Woman's Home Companion,
appears the following menu for an So
supper, contributed by Mrs. B. c. Meaeh-
am:
Sumptuous Superb Satisfying
SubstantaIs.
Shiny Sliced Sandwiches, Stylishly
Shaped.
Selected Sea-Fruit, Somewhat Seasoned.
Sealloped Fruit.
Sayory Sage Seasoned Slices
Splendid Salmon Salad
Scrumptious Salad.
Small Sleek Sardines.
Square Saltines.
Sundries.
Spiced, Slender Sweet Pickles.
Sour, Singing, Stimulative Sauce.
Seraphic Sweet Cakes.
Silver. spiced. Sponge Snow.
Sweetmeats.
Small Succulent Saceharine Slices.
Sweetened, Solidifed, Strawberry
Syllabub.
Soft, Smooth, Snowy, Slippery Sherbet.
Sips,
Sisters Special STEPPED Sip.
Streaming, Soul Stirring Stimulant.
Sentiment Souvenirs, SUITABLY Selected.
Supper, six-Seven Sixty.
Several Sweet Sisters Sedulously Serving.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-09

Miss Virginia Stubs was a very
practical young woman. When she
was barely fourteen she laid out
course for herself and pursued 1t to
the letter She proposed to marry by
the time she was twenty and to have
her own farm From the time she
was seven she had eschewed candy,
dolls and toys, putting the money she
might have expended for such tritles
in an old wooden stocking. When she
was sixteen she heard her father say
that a farm in the neighborhood was
to be sold under foreclosure of mort
gage and if he had but $500 he would
buy it. Virginia told him she had
$50, which she would like to buy a
farm with, so he scraped together the
balance and bought the farm for
$500. making the first payment.
Within two years Virginia had paid
her father the money he had adj
vanced, and she owned the farm.
virginia's plans, of course, included
a husband, and the man she wished to
fill that position was Cyrus Barker.
Cyrus didn't have farm or money,
but he suited Virginia, and she set her
cap for him. Cyrus was rather indif-
ferent at first, but Virginia always
continued to make him feel at home,
and that's what most young men wish
for when they go to other peoples
houses. Then one evening when they
were sitting side by side looking over
some pictures their cheeks, being very
close together, somehow touched. Cy's
arm was resting on the back Of the
sofa on which they sat, and he let 1t
drop on Virginia's waist. Virginia
didn't make any objection to this, and,
their cheeks remaining contiguous, Cy
turned and kissed her.
Virginia, who had planned all this,
felt sure that it was the beginning of a
courtship that would end in marriage.
She was nineteen and a half years old
and, having planned to be married and
60 to live on her farm by the time she
was twenty, had six months in which
to snare the man for whom she had
laid her trap. She was making little
money here and there, with which she
was reducing the mortgage on her
farm, so that no great sum of interest
would stand in the way of her mar
rage.
While Cyrus Barker continued his
calls and his caresses-the latter only
when especially tempted-he got no
further In his courtship. A month
passed, then another and another, with
no progress toward matrimony. Vir-
ginia did not worry. She had made up
her mind to be married on or before
her twentieth birthday, and she never
for a moment doubted that the cere-
mony would be performed.
One afternoon Cy called to take Vir-
ginia out, to drive in a borrowed
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-09

negotiators Of the treaties realized that
il was almost a negligible possibility
that two of three American commission
ers would be elected TO decide that
question was arbitraI under the treaties
against the judgment Of the president
who had appointed them, and who had
declined to arbitrate upon that ground,
and how unlikely it would be that the
Senate would confirm the appointment
Of commissioners who entertained views
thought TO be perilous to their country's
welfare"
Secretary Knox concluded his address
by a quotation Of the words Of President
Mckinley, commenting the favorable
consideration of the Olney- Pauncefote
arbitration treaty
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-09
TURKEY STILL RESIsTs.
Reply to Italy's Proclamation of the
Annexation Of Tnpoli.

Constantinople Nov. 9.-The Porte has
despatched protest to the powers
against Italy's claim that she has an
nexed Tripol and Cyrenaica, setting
forth Turkeys determination to resist.
The Porte declares that the annexation
proclamation is void because of inter
national law, while Turkey and Italy
are still in state of war, and that
the Ottoman government is resolved to
preserve and defend by force of arms its
sovereign rights, Further, says the
Porte, the proclamation is in violation
of the engagements solemnly contracted
under treaties, especially those of Paris
and Berlin, as well BY Italy towards the
great powers as by the latter towards
the Ottoman government.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-09
MANY DEPREDATI0NS
BY CHINESE REBELS
Arms and Ammunition Seized at Several
Stations-Railway Employees Fled
to British Concession.

Hong Kong, China, Nov s.-Revolu-
tionists attacked Wong Ting.Fong, liz
long Pekuta and Sham-C hum. stations
on the Chinese section OF the Canton 6.
Chinese railway and seized arms and
ammunition to-day The employees Of
the railway company escaped to ths
British concession The foreigners are
unframed. The revolutionists also de-
moished the custom house at sham
Chum.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-09
BEATTIE ON WAY TO EXECUTION
Unless Court Intervenes He Will Go to
Murderers' Row.

Richmond, Va, Nov. O. Unless the
state supreme court of appeals grants a
new trial for Henry Clay Beattie, jr.,
before tonight, the young man convicted
Of the murder of his wife will be re-
moved from the Richmond city jail to
lnurderers' row in the state peniten-
tiary. According to law, man con
demned to execution must be lodged in
the penitentiary fifteen days before the
date set for his death.
The court, which has under advise
ment Beattie's petition for writ of
error, sits to-day, but may not give its
decision. If ii should not decide the ap-
peal before the date set for the execu-
tion that would act as stay.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-09
DERNA NOT OCCUPIED.
Turkish War Office, However, Claims a
Victory There.

Constantinople, Nov. 9--The war Office
does not claim that the Turkish troops
have reoccupied Derna, Tripoli. An Off
eial telegram from that quarter resorts,
however, that the Turks wen a big VIC
tory over the Italians, 500 Italians being
killed and eighteen guns and large guam
titles Of ammunition and provisions be-
ing captured.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-09
ITALY ADVANCES FROM TRIpoLI.
Hamedieh Fort Said to Have Been oc-
cupied.

Tripoli, Nov, DIT is announced that
the Italian advance began Tuesday. A
turning movement was executed and The
Hamedieh fort was occupied.
The Arabs with artillery. vigorously
attacked the fort, but were repulsed
after fight that lasted two hours
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16

this may be adapted to an infinite
number of designs, from flowing
sprays of flowers to conventional and
geometrical patterns. A pretty de-
sign is the one shown, which consists
entirely of butterflies. This is quite
easy to execute and may be carried
out in that variety of stitches which
Is comprised under the heading of
Mountmellick work. The bodies of the
butterflies should be embroidered in
satin-stitch, thickly padded, the
stitches going evenly across and
across. The wings are outlined with
satin-stitch and then filed in with any
stitch the worker pleases. A very
effective method of working them is
to cut large eyelet holes, the edges of
which are overcast and then button
holed bars worked across them. This
design is a very uncommon one, but
looks singularly pretty when carried
out with care and taste. The conven-
tional design given in No. 2 is par
ticularly well adapted for embroider-
ing on one of the kimono and Magyar
blouses, which are still enjoying a re-
markable run of popularity, and may
be carried out in white or in colors,
according to the blouse itself.
Another idea for Mountmellick
work is suggested in No. 8, the pea
cocks feather design, these feathers
being worked apparently at haphaz-
ard, scattered over the front, back and
sleeves of the blouse. Stem-stitch,
buttonhole-stitch and feather-stitch
are used in this design, while the eye
of the feather is embroidered in satin
stitch. A very striking and handsome
effect may be obtained by working
this eye in color, the rest Of the en-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
Black Chiffon Collars.

The idea of wearing shapely collars
of black hemstitched chiffon cloth is
attractive. The collars are put on
white blouses, on light colored mar
quisette gowns, on black frocks when
they are overlaid with shallow collar
of white Irish lace or white chiffon
cloth, also hemstitched
These collars are not always in
strict sailor shape. They vary con-
siderably. The points may run out to
the sleeves and the back and front,
cut off in straight lines. Again, the
collar may be as deep as bib in the
back and sharpened off to points in
front. One can buy them IN the shops.
but it is better to get the hemstitched
material by the yard and cut them ac'
cording to the desire Of the wearer.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16

the English naVy-the same ship
which more than a year before / had
seen at anchor off Montreali
News travels fast in wild countries,
and it took us little time to learn the
destination of the Modesto. She came
to anchor above Oregon City, and we'll
below Fort Vancouver. At once, of
course, her officers made formal calls
upon Dr. Mclaughlin, the factor at
Fort Vancouver, and accepted head of
the British elements Whereabouts. Two
weeks passed in rumors and counter
rumors, and a vastly dangerous ten
sion existed in all the American set
Elements, because word was spread
that England had sent ship to GUST
us. Then came to myself and certain
others at Oregon City messengers
from peace-loving DR.. Mclaughlin,
asking us to Join him in little cele-
bration in honor of the arrival of her
majesty's vessel.
Here at last was news; but it was
news not wholly to my liking which
soon unearthed. The Modesto was
but one ship of Is! A feet of Is yes
sells, 400 guns, then lay in Puget sound.
The watch-dogs of Great Britain were
at our doors. This question of mon
archy and the republic was not yet
settled, after all!
I pass the story of the banquet at
Fort Vancouver because it is I'M
pleasant to recite the difficulties of a
kindly host who finds himself with
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16

ing figure. which in some way seemed
to be different from the bIanket-cov-
cred squaws who stalked here and
there about the post grounds. She
passed steadily on toward a long and
low log cabin, located short dis
lance beyond the quarters which had
been assigned to me. l saw her step
up to the door and heard her knock;
then there came a food of light-more
light than was usual in the opening
door of frontier cabin. This dis
played the figure of the night walker,
showing her tall and gaunt and little
stopped; so that, after all, l took her
to be only one of our American from
tier women, being quite sure that she
was not Indian or half-breed
This emboldened me, on a mere
chance-.an act whose mental origin
could not have traced-to step up to
the door after it had been closed, and
myself to knock thereat
/ heard womens voices within, and
as I knocked the door opened just a
trifle on it's chain. l saw appear at
the crack the face of the woman
whom l had followed.
She was, as l had believed, old and
wrinkled, and her face now, seen
close, was as mysterious, dark and in
scrutable as that of any Indian
squaw. Her hair fell heavy and gray
across her forehead, and her eyes were
small and dark as those of native
woman. Yet, as she stood there with
the light streaming upon her, l saw
something in her face which made me
puzzle, ponder and start-and put my
foot within the crack of the door
"Threlka," l said quietly, tell
madam the baroness it is I, Mons,
Trist of Washington
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
CHAPTER XVI.
The Debated Country.

The Debated Country.
The world was sad, the garden was.
The man, the hermit, sighed-till woman
smiled! Campbell.
Our army of peaceful occupation
scattered along the more fertile parts
of the land, principally among the
valleys. OF course, it should not be
forgotten that what was then called
Oregon meant all of what now Is en-
braced in Oregon, Washington and
Idaho, with part of Wyoming as well.
1t extended south to the Mexican pos
sessions of California How far north
it was to run, it was my errand here
to learn.
I settled near the mouth of the VIII
lamette river, near Oregon City, and
not far from where the city of Port
land later was begun; and builded for
myself a little cabin of two rooms,
with a connecting roof This l fur
nished, as did my neighbors their
similar abode, with a table made of
hewed puncheons, chairs sawed from
blocks, a bed framed from poles, on
which lay a rude mattress of husks
and straw
From the eastern states l scarcely
could now hear in less than year,
for another wagon train could not
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
EnIlles of Investment.

The Worlds Work sets forth some
of the absurdities that people for
the most part intelligent will commit
when they have money to invest. II
a man is sick, he goes to a doctor;
if in row with his neighbors, he
goes to lawyer; if in spiritual trcu-
BILE. he consults a minister or priest;
if in business straits he calls upon
the banker If, however, he has
problem of investment on his hands,
he calls upon merchants, lawyers,
bankers, ministers and miscellaneous
people quite indiscriminately-
with about the same practical results
that he would get if he followed the
some method in sickness, in legal
trouble, in business trouble or in
spiritual woe.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16
CHAPTER XVII.
In the Cabit, of Madam.


Woman must not belong to herself; she
is bound to alien destinies.-Friedrich Won
Schiller.
With an exclamation of surprise, the
old woman departed from the door.
heard the rustic of a football l could
have told in advance what face would
now appear outlined in the candle
glow--with eyes wide and startled,
with lips half parted in query. 1t was
the face of Helena, Baroness Won
Ritz!
"Eh bien madam, why do you bar
me out?" l said, as though we had
parted but yesterday.
In her sheer establishment, l pre-
sumo, she let down the fastening
chain, and without her invitation
stepped within. l heard her startled
Mon Dieu!" then her more deliberate
exclamation of emotion MY God :"
she said. She stood, with her hands
caught at her throat, staring at me. /
laughed and held out hand.
Madam baroness" 1 said, how
glad l am! Come, has not fate been
kind to us again?"
l pushed shut the door behind me.
Still without a word, she stepped
deeper into the room and stood look
ing at me, her hands clasped now
loosely and awkwardly, as though she
were country girl surprised, and not
the Baroness Helena Won Ritz, toast
or talk of more than one capital Of
the world
(TO BE CONTINUEDO
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16

start west from the Missouri until the
following spring. We could only
guess how events were going forward
in our diplomacy.
The mild winter wore away, and
learned little. Spring came, and still
no word of any land expedition out of
Canada. We and the Hudson bay
folk still dwelt in peace. The flowers
began to bloom in the wild meads,
and the horses fattened on their ma
tive pastures.
Summer came on. The fields began
to whiten with the ripening grain. /
grew uneasy, feeling myself only an
idler in land so able to fend for
itself. l now was much disposed to
discuss means of getting back over
the long trail to the eastward, to
carry the news that Oregon was ours.
II was at this time that there occurred
q startling and decisive event.
was on my way on a canoe voy-
age up the wide Columbia, not far
above the point where it receives its
greatest lower tributary, the Will
lamette. when all at once | heard the
sound of cannon shot | turned to
see the cloud of blue smoke still hang
ing over the surface of the water.
Slowly there swung into view an
ocean-going vessel under steam and
auxiliary canvas. She made gal
liant spectacle. But whose ship was
she? I examined her colors apxiously
enough. I caught the import of her
ensign. She few the British Union
jack
England had won the race by sea!
Something of the ships outline
seemed to me familiar l knew the
set of her short masts, the pitch of
her smoke-stacks, the number of her
guns. Yes, she was the Modesto Of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-16

broidery being, of course, in white,
and rather deep shade of SAKE or
peacock blue will be found singularly
suitable. A perfectly plain muslin or
cotton blouse, which could be picked
up for next to nothing at the summer
sales which are with US now, could be
ornamented with this design, which
will be found perfectly simple to draw
out and particularly quickly and cas-
lily worked. For those who are afraid
of attempting a heavy pattern in sat
in-stitch there are variety of charm
ing and simple designs in stem-stitch
or chain-stitch, which may be carried
out by the merest beginner. Chain
stitch, worked in delicately colored
washing silk or filoselle, looks ex-
ceedingly pretty on a muslin blouse,
having a wonderfully light and grace
full effect