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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-24
Fighting Frost to Save Fruit.

II was in the nature of a revelation
when in 1908 some experimenting grow
ers in Colorado began what was char
acterized as theoretical attempt to
heat all out doors. There was much
testing and skepticism about the ridicu-
lous idea of warming up a whole or
chard with little irepots, but the ex-
perimenters were not to be discouraged.
The frost came. one of the worst in
the history of the state. and the only
crops produced were those on the small
expertimental areas that had been heat
ed There was an immediate rush to
get on the "smudging wagon" All
through the West. in Oregon, California,
Montana. Iowa. Missouri, and Florida,
heaters are being shipped as fast as
they can be manufactured. Frost fight
ing has been developed into a genuine
insurance. Heating a large part OF the
outdoors community has been proven
eminently practical. The advanced fruit
grower now knows that even heavy
freeze such as destroyed millions in fruit,
cotton, grain and other growing things
can be neutrahzed so as to insure prae'
tically full crops every year. The fruit
growers OF the Ufhnu hlNcl NdlleN
learned their lesson after the loss of
millions in successive frost attack, but
thew learned II we'll The twenty-five
hundred carloads of fruit that went out
of Mesa county alone last fall testify
TO the thoroughness with which they
operated in one Of the severest of late
springs. II is estimated by government
authorities that from ST5.OO0000 to
slO0. 900 900 has been lost annually to
the fruit growers by reason of frost and
freezing weather. Careful and method
ical orchard heating has saved large
per eentage of this in the fruit areas
where heating has been generally adopt
ed The orchard heating committee Of
Colorado fruit growers estimates that
81 .00C 600 was saved to the growers
of that state alone in 1909. For as
many as five years in succession in many
fruit growing communities the crop has
been either totally or partially de-
stroyed From "In the Tin Pan Tropics
from May Technical World Magazine.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-24
SCATTERING GOLF.
Links in Jungles, Chinese Graveyards,
and Earthquake-Shaken India.

As every one is we'll aware, the Briton
takes his sports with him wherever he
goes. In some out of -theway corner of
the globe you win see man arrayed
in sketchy costume laboriously pick
ing up stones from patch OF ground,
he fondly imagines he will make rick
ct pitch or a tennis court, and he will
enjoy the games played under such ad-
verse conditions even more than an ex-
citing match on the best of grounds at
home.
But golfers who indulge in their ia
yorite pastime at the uttermost ends
of the earth regard exciting interludes
as a part of the game. There are links
in the northern portion of South Africa,
where one eye has 10 be kept on the
bali while the other looks around for
any stray lion that may be about.
Deadly snakes are another form OF per-
il that some golfers have to face. A
player at Sydney once drove ball into
a hole. and when he tried TO pick it
out drew forth a snake instead, A por-
ton of the links at Tientsin are re-
ported to consist of Chinese graveyard,
although this is difficult to believe, as
the Chinese do not like foreigners to
interfere with their graves, and in any
case playing among tombs seems rather
gruesome pastime. In India earth
ouakes have to be reckoned with. Most
golfers have heard of the famous game
In which movement of the earth Sc
verely handicapped the player, who had
all but won a certain hole. He got
TO within foot of the hole, whereas
his opponent could get no nearer than
three yards The latter played first,
and, as he approached for putt, to his
astonishment the balls that had stopped
dead. began to move, his own kindly
rolling towards the hole and eventually
falling in. while the better placed ball
went in the opposite direction and did
not stop until it had rolled some four
yards away!--London Globe.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-24
CRITICISM
TURNS FRIENDS
Number OF Members OF Sen
ate for LOrimer
ARE READY TO DESERT HIM
Gamble of South Dakota Holly Assailed
for vote-Crane, Bailey, Paynter
Simons Among Those Hearing
from Their Constituents.
ARE READY TO DESERT HIM

Washington, April 24.Although a re-
opening of the Lorimer case is not ex-
pected for some time, or until the leg
islative investigation at Springfield ends,
it has become generally known that a
number of senators who voted for the
exoneration of Mr.. Lorimer would well
come reasonable opportunity for re-
versng their attitude, New evidence
and another inquiry would enable them
to change their position.
Many senators have received unmis-
taxable intimations that their constitu-
ents are much aroused because OF their
votes in favor of Mr.. Lorimer. The most
violent manifestations of hostility on
this account has come from South Da-
kota and is directed against MIR. Gamble,
who, as member of the committee on
privileges and elections, assisted in max
ing AN investigation of the charges OF
bribery and corruption i'll connection
with the election OF Mr. Lorimer. He
has been so bitterly assailed and his
return so imperilled that in self-defense,
it is understood, he would not object
to reversal of the verdict
The people of Massachusetts have
made it plain to Senator Crane that
they do not approve of his course in
voting for the exoneration OF Mr. Lori
mer. Formal complaints have been sent
TO him by some OF the religious organ
izations of the state. His reply in each
instance has been TO transmit copy
of the evidence taken, with a sugges-
ton that it be carefully read
Possible opposition in Texas does not
worry Senator Bailey in the least. He
has from the beginning declared that
no other verdict was admissible under
the law and precedents. He does not
seek an opportunity for changing his
4 vote.
Senator Paynter OF Kentucky is In a
rather awkward predicament. Much OPP
position already existed to his re-elec-
/ ton and it has been greatly intensified
4 by ant-Lorimer sentiment in his state
/ His defense will be justification under
the evidence.
| Senator Simmons is not Apprehensivt
of the consequences following his vote
for Lorimer. He viii fight criticism II
North Carolina on the ground that ne
other just course could have been TAX
en-.
Senator'S from other states declare
that the strength of public sentiment
against them because OF their Lorimel
votes cannot be accurately measured
here. They affect to believe that a
this distance from home it is vastl,
exaggerated and win soon disappear
They profess to not be uneasy over pos
sible retirement from public life.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-24

the motion was put and carried. The
merchant began marking up his goods
10 per cent. Various citizens who had
been holding the value Of their houses
and lots at $500 added on $500 and
walked around with serene counte-
nances. A site for the new depot was
selected, and 1t was generally conceded
that Squar' Latham would be selected
as boss of the new line. Butter went
UP 2 cents a pound at sunset, but the
boom was too sudden, and at midnight
there was drop back to old figures.
The price Of eggs also wabbled and
was unsettled.
For, a week the squar' canyassed.
He made no reports Of progress, but it
was generally understood that he was
being offered millions. 1t was a week
of tension. Even the ROSTERS Of Plum
Fill crowed softly. Then there was
another coming together of the patri-
OTIS, larger gathering than before.
Crow Valley was to be wiped Off the
map Of the United States. squar' La
than stood up at the proper moment,
and when the hush came he began:
"Feller citizens, was appointed to
fgger on the cost of this branch line"
Eyes! Yesr
II did figger."
"Bully for you"
81 fggered and figgered and figgered."
"Hurrah for the squar'"
81 figgered her at $4,000"
"Whoop"
"But got the DANCED thing wrong,
What she orter be and Is is 100000!
somehow dropped three ciphers"
Clasps of surprise.
"And / was app'inted to solicit sub
scriptions. I have solicited"
"And you got the three millions"
Gentlemen. the subscriptions amount
TO Jest 'leven dollars and half, and
| subscribed the 'leven! Has anybody
got a suggestion to maker"
Nobody had Plum Hill is still four
teen, miles from railroad, and Grow
! yeIley still has one store the most.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-24
MAKES ALLEGED CONFESSION.
One Man Tells of the Operations Of the
Alleged Dynamiters.

Chicago, April 24.-Captain Stephen
w. Wood, chief of the Chicago detective
bureau, said last night that full con
fession had been obtained from one Of
the men arrested in Detroit, in connec-
ton with the dynamiting of the Los
Angeles Times building
The alleged confession is said to GOV.
err 90 typewriter pages and to relate
to the movements of the men now I'M
der arrest and TO others sought by de-
tectives.
According to Captain Wood, it des-
cribes in detail the dynamiting Of build
ings. railroad trains and factories where
conflicts between union and non-mion
labor existed. The loss of many lives
and the destructics- of property valued
at almost 100000 are said to be de-
tailed.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-24
COLUMBUS DAY.

Thirteen States Now Honor the Dis
covsrer of America.
Those who enjoy rest on Oct. II
can thank the knights of Columbus
For 1t was through their unuring eff
forts that that date has now been made
a legal holiday In thirteen states of the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-24

Cured After Suffering for TWO Years.
Dear Doctors Daughter:
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others what your stomach Rite tablets
have done FOR me. 1 suffered with indt-
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kinds OF remedies, but nothing even re-
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can now eat anything l choose, enjoy it
and have no trouble. Very truly yours,
F. B. MEADE,
1872 Huntington Ave. Boston, Mass.
A Cure for All Forms OF Stomach
Trouble.
Dear Doctors Daughter:
We have used your Stomach-Rte IN
our familS for some time and ind IL
most valuable. not only as remedy but
as n cure for an forms OF stomach trou-
F. D. BURDiCK,
1875 Mauran Ave. East Providenee. r. l.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-24
A SULTAN IN AMERICA.
Hail Mohammed and Some Amusing
Incidents of His Tour.

The most talked of foreigner visiting
these shores at present is Hail Mo
BANNED Jamabul Hiram H., the sui
tan of Sulu, who, with party OF
Moros, is now touring America for
some modern ideas to introduce into
his country. HaJi Mohammed started
ont from his realm in the Philippines
TO sell several bushels of choice pearls.
Some OF them he intended to dispose
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-24
A Sad Prospset.

''They say there's no fool Ike an old
fool
''That makes me shudder for the ~.
ture. I've already been all the other
kinds. kansas City Journal.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-24

"The woman across the hall from
rs is dead
sHow did you find that OutT'
"why. l happened to see 1t In the
naper."-Llfe. .-------
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-24
e1yEts%o>pAD

q lmO. by American Press Association
SULTAN OF sULu AND HIS SIGNATURE
of in this country. But learning OF
our rigorous customs law in regard to
jewels-inspeet the schedules in that
respect Of the Payne-Aldrieh tariff
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-24

Men who are so afraid Of doing fool
ish things that they lack the courage
to attempt wise ones wiz never do
much.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-24
Gold Dust
Does more than clean

Your pots, pans, kettles,
dishes, knives, and other
utensils need more than mere
cleaning. Soap and water
simply clean the surface.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-24
Druggist

BURT H. WELLS.
100 No. Main Street, Barre, VT.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-24

GOLD DUST not only
cleanses but sterilizes - it
drives out every bit of dirt
or hidden germs which are
boundto lurkin oft-useduten-
sils. twill leave your kitchen
things not only clean, but
sanitarily safe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24
A NEEDED CIVIC REFORM.

One of the bills that will soon be
presented to the legislature should be
passed by the unanimous vote of both
branches as soon as the opportunities
are afforded. This measure seeks to
make it obligatory on the part of prop
erty owners to lay service pipes
from water and gas mains to the curb
line of their lots on such streets as
are about to be paved or repaved and
before this pavement is put down.
The bill is being prepared by Mr.. Raj
ston, Topeka's city attorney. on the
suggestion of the city commissioners
who are for it to a man. 1t might also
be well to insert a provision in it
which would compel the water and
gas companies to see that. their pipes
in such streets are put in a condition
before a new pavement is laid that will
not necessitate change in them for
the next few years unless an unusual
emergency should arise
If legislation of this sort is enacted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24
SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT.

The ambitious workman of the past
has sought to advance himself by at
tending night school, and in other
ways which are strain upon the time
which he requires for rest and recrea-
ton, writes W. D. circuit in Harper's
Magazine for February. Scientific
Management gives him this opportun-
ity under the most skilful instructors,
while actually employed in his days
labors fitting him, at the expense of
the concern which employs him, to be-
come qualified to earn higher wages
from the very source which gives him
his education.
when supported by practical applica-
tion Bricklaying, one of our oldest
trades, is today carried on, except
where Scientific Management has
transformed it, with the same mater
ials, implements. and methods which
were employed before the Christian
era. Science promptly inquiries why
an intelligent man should lower
hundred human pounds to elevate a
four-pound brick, and receiving no
satisfactory answer, supplies the brick
layer with simple scaffold which
keeps the pile of bricks always at the
proper height. The workman takes
the brick in his hand and losses it
twice or thrice, to find its best face;
science has the bricks laid upon the
scaffoId with the best face out. elim-
mating lost time and motion. The
workman uses mortar of varying con-
sistency, which requires tapping with
the edge of his trowel; science provides
for mortar always of the same consis-
tency, and does away with the tapping.
The workman assumes any position to
which he may accidentally become ac-
customed; science studies out the exact
position for each foot in relation to
the wall, the mortar-box, and the pile
of bricks, and teaches the workman to
pick up a brick in his left hand at the
same moment that he takes a trowel-
full of mortar in his right. The net
result of all this is that science re-
quires five motions to lay a brick,
where the workman averages eigh-
teen. and the educated bricklayer can
now lay $50 an hour, as against 100
for the workman who remains outside
the beneficial zone of Scientific Man
| agement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24

riedly opened by the major. No
poemi ,, ~,
Nellie, my hat and cane! ne
shouted "I'm going down there anu
call that editor a fool"
Away he went in spite OF protesl.a,
ton, and after he was OUTSIDE Inc
gate Miss Nellie said:
"Oh, I do SO hope he won't ma ing
editor I'M 1t was an awful fooilsn
thing to send such a poem as tna.:
Mr.. Thorpe, can't you help me get =.
back? I want to get it without 1alnei
knowing IT."
Mr. Thorpe promised to see wnal
could be done The major found tne
editor out, and that lie brought tne j.
office boy SO cents. The next Gay II
was so cents more, and the next anu
the next. Then the major gave up tne
quest His emotions over the death oA
Poll had begun to wane.
Every two or three days MI.
Thorpe occupied a seat on the We
randa for a time. and then he began
to be invited to dinner. The edltor
returned from California, but stu
Mr. Thorpe fingered. It was at tne
end of three months, with trip now
and then to the city, that the MAJOR
said to him:
Eyes. go in and win her II you can.
Hang you, you rascal. round out
that you suppressed that poem on me-
but haven't laid it up against you
copyrighted 1911 by Associated LII
erary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

lF'rom the Philadelphia RecordJ
1t does seem incongruous to select
a blank book in which to write ones
impressions.
The country is to be flooded with
cold storage eggs. That's bad news.
Break It gently.
Perhaps the reason marriage is so
often q failure is because the woman
never marries the best man.
when man refuses to give his
wife the last word" says the Cynical
Bachelor. The no longer loves her.
It seems strange that the fellow
who lives in an attic should be be-
meath the notice of those who really
live below him.
Many a fellow who never even tries
to sing finds himself very much off the
key when he tries to find the keyhole
after night at the club.
Tommy-''Pop, what is a scale of
prices?" Tommys Pop-"A scale of
prices, my son, is something that regis
tiers just about twice as much as the
scale of weighing
Mr.. Henpecke-"And SO. Miss
Strongmynd, you believe in the equal
ity of the sexes?" Miss Strongmynd-
Equality, Mr.. Henpecke? Not at all.
Mr.. Henpecke, not at ALL
Wigg-"Your friend the actor
seems rather eccentric" Wagg-..He,s
the personification of eccentricity-
Why. that man actually admits there
are other actors just as good as he is.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24
AN INrNIIGRATToN BUREAU.

All Kansans, who have given the
matter any attention, seem TO De
agreed that the state will be benefited
in many and material ways through
the establishment of an immigration
bureau. Certainly, there are few states
in the union which are in quite such
an advantageous position to care for a
largely increased population, both on
their farms and in their growing cities.
Nor are there many states which can
offer such unparalleled opportunities to
prospective settlers. And it would not
be difficult to get settlers of the best
and most desirable kind if reasonable
efforts were made. A state immigra-
ton bureau is the kind of an agency
that is needed to do this work.
Therefore, one ought to be created. If
one isn't, the present legislature VIII
not be deserving of much of reputa-
ton for far-sightedness or thoughtful
ness for the welfare of Kansas.
To put such a state department in
operation will cost money, to be sure,
but state funds could be spent to ND
better advantage. And If one plan is
followed that has been suggested, such
a bureau might be conducted at what
would be no actual expense to the peo-
pie of the state. generally. Favorable
action was taken by the real estate
dealers of the commonwealth at their
recent annual session held in this city
on a proposition which provides that
each real estate dealer in the state be
compelled to pay an annual state
license of $50. 1t was proposed that the
money raised in this fashion should be
devoted to the support of an immigra-
ton bureau. As the number OF real
estate dealers in Kansas is unusually
large enough money would undoubtedly
be received from such licenses to pay
the entire expense Of maintaining such
a bureau.
This was most generous move on
the part of the real estate men. They
will reap the first direct profits, to be
sure, if the immigration to this state is
Increased on a large scale. But that
doesn't rob their willingness to foot the
bills of the immigration bureau of the
aspect of generosity. 1t is more often
the case that men or classes of them
who are anxious for the state to engage
in this or that activity which will be
to their especial advantage are just as
insistant that the state shall bear al.
the expense. And surely the real estate
men of Kansas are to be congratulated
for the stand they have taken in this
matter.
All the advantages that will accrue
from an immigration bureau, if it be
properly conducted, will not go to the
real estate men by any manner OF
CD f. x1ri11 hn
benefited in a variety of ways by such
an institution. An increased population
means increased activity in every line
of business. And if there are any argu-
ments, valid or otherwise, against the
establishment of an immigration bu-
reau, they have been already kept in
hiding too long. They should be
brought from under cover forthwith.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24
HUNOR or THE Day

To Be Read Twice.-Two friends,
weaver and tailor, became in time enc
mics, SO much SO that the tailor Spoks .
though the weaver always spoke Wen OF
the tailor: Upon a lady asking the weaver
who spoke SO i'll of him, he replied:
Madam, we are both liars."-From the
Spanish.
Nell-Maud has had dreadful cold for
nearly two months. Belle-How DID she
Atlantic City and got her feet wet.-Phil-
adelphia Record.
st have declined marriage proposals
from five men, said the fair widow.
Have you?" her friend asked. II didn't
suppose your husband had been as heavily
insured as that"-Chicago Record-Herald-
"warson is the most reckless autono.
bilist ever saw" What does he do?"
He takes his car out for pleasure in the
coolest weather. buffalo Express.
Hes awfuIly touchy, isn't hep Il
should say he was. A man who had
grudge against him defied him to come out
low that he locked himself in his office
and stayed there two days."-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Hicks-Bluffer is talking of purchasing
an automobile. wicks-Bfufferl Why he
couldn't buy charge of ammunition for
an airgun.-Boston Transcript.
Natural RESPONSIBILITY is your boat
named the Hemp Because she has
matches and lays to"-Savannah News.
'"The tips you give me on the market
are always wrong, said Mr. lIamln.
well" remarked Mr. Chillinerve. ''If
you know they're wrong, why don't you
make a fortune playing the other way ~?
Washington Star.
First Sportsman wonder you ride a
brute like that at your time of life, Jack!
know. First Ditto-I1ilxely to prevent your
getting old. anyway.-Punch.