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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12
EDDYST0NE LIGHTHOUSE.
is Massive Vertical Base Checks the
Widest Seas.

The Eddystone rocks form a very
dangerous reef, lying in the English
channel about fourteen miles from
Plymouth. and here, in 1896. Henry
Winstanley built the first lighthouse,
which lasted but eight years
Winstanley's tower was swept away
by tremendous storm, and every one
IN It at the time, including the builder,
was drowned. Three years later Rud-
yerds tower was built, only to be de-
stroyed by fire in 1865, and then came
John Smeaton's.
Modern lighthouses really date from
1859. when this third one was com
pleted Smeaton's design was faulty,
but 1t served as a model for lighthouse
construction In masonry. which has
been followed in its general features
ever since. This lighthouse stood for
over a century, but II was not high
enough to keep the waves from dash
ing the lantern and so was removed
and the present one built in 1882 by
James Douglass
Al tiiF llAAlt VI AAtF NNAiliANLA'h ~ NtAN
new lighthouse two bells weighing two
tons each and struck by mechanical
power were installed for fog signal
ing purposes. Since that date an ex-
plosive guncotton fog signal has been
erected. the bells being removed Prob
ably the most interesting thing about
the lighthouse now on the Eddystone
IS its solid vertical base Heavy seas
striking the massive cylindrical struc-
ture are Immediately broken up and
rush around to the opposite side. spray
alone ascending to the height Of the
lantern gallery. On the other hand,
waves striking the old tower ut It's
foundation ran UP the surface, which
presented curved face to the waves,
and unimpeded by any projection un-
Ill arriving at the lantern gallery. were
partially broken up by the cornice and
then spent themselves In heavy spray
over the lantern The shock 70 which
the cornice OF the gallery was exposed
was SO great that stones were some
times lifted from their beds. Lookout.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12
A HARD WINTER.
When the Mercury Fell to Six Feet
Nine Inches Below Zero.

Nine Inches Below Zero.
They were talking about hard win
ters. The man on the cracker barrel
said he remembered winter when the
mercury fell to six feet nine inches be
low zero. and consequently he had new
er seen any weather since then that he
could call real cold.
"Oh. you pshawr' said the man with
the ginger whiskers "Six feet nine
inches! Oh. you pshawr'
Meaning that put you in mind of
AnaniasT' said the man on the cracker
barrel.
The man with the ginger whiskers
simply said: "Six feet nine inches! oh,
you pshaw.
Then listen," said the man on the
cracker barrel 1T was the winter
when no snow fell Nothing fell but
the thermometer that winter We kept
our thermometer hanging on a cherry
tre., in the yard to give 1t chance.
One morning the weather had been so
rold the mercury went down below zero
as far as II could and let the thermom-
eter have the credit of showing it. but
It couldn't do its duty by the weather
by pausing there. so it busted the bulb
at the bottom and kept on falling. The
thermometer was six feet above the
ground. We dug the mercury out in
the spring, nine inches below the sur
face. So until you can trot out some
weather that is six feet and nine inches
below. don't talk TO me about cold!"
The man on the cracker barrel lit his
pipe and went out. and the man with
the ginger whiskers just said. "Oh, he
pshaww-New York Press.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12
CAVITIES IN THE SKULL.
Room Enough Inside Ones Head TO
Hide Bulky Articles.

Every one is not aware that there is
space inside persons head for storing
away heavy and bulky foreign articles.
One man who had made a speciality of
burglary and Jail breaking now shows
how he was aided in his work by util-
izing this human attic storage room.
He concealed large skeleton key and
a saw twelve inches long, coiled like a
watch spring, in the cavity reached
through his nostrils. But in the Lon
don Lancet DR.. Rushton Parker relates
a more remarkable case of the carrying
of large foreign body in that space Of
the head, and that without the victim
knowing that his head was so filled up
and weighted down.
A young farmer consulted DR.. Par
lier at the Liverpool hospital for nasal
abscess that had troubled him some
time. Probing the nostril, the surgeon
found that loose mass, apparently of
behind the nose and above the roof OF
the mouth.
So large was this object that 1t was
removed with difficulty through the
side of the face. 1t proved to be gun
breech and an iron bolt. The breech
measured by 1la by l inches. The
bolt was three inches long. The weight
Of the two was quarter of pound.
This mass Of metal had been in the
mans head for FIVE years, though he
had not suspected its presence there.
A muzzle loading gun had exploded in
his hands and shattered his face. The
wound healed without leaving any out
ward deformity. His only affection
was symptoms Of nasal catarrh. The
young farmer made rapid recovery to
perfect health with the removal OF the
iron from his head.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12
nrators and stimulants.

1t is believed that no modern legis'
lators keep themselves up to the mark
in the same dangerous way ms some OF
their predecessors in the British par
lament "Huskisson told me- writes
Lord Broughton, that Lord Castle
reagh and Lord Liverpool both took
ether TO keep them going when speak
ing. He also told me that he once ask
ed Mr.. Wherefore what made his fin
gers so black. and Wherefore told
him that he was ia the habit Of taking
opium before long speech, and to
that said be. I owe all my success as
public speaker
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12
Who Enjoy the Choicest Products of the
Worlds Commerce.
knowledge of What is Best More Importan
Than Wealth Without It.

1t must be apparent to every one that qualities
of the highest order are necessary to enable the
best of the products of modern commerce to
attain to universal acceptance. However loudly
heraded, they may not hope for worldwide pre-
eminence unless they meet with the general
approval not of individuals only, but of the many
who have the happy faculty of selecting and en-
joying the choicest products. Their comnenda-
ton, consequently, becomes important to others,
since to meet the requirements of the well in
formed of all countries the methods of manu-
facture must be of the most perfect order and
the combination the most excellent of its kind.
After thirty years of general usage, Syrup of
Figs and Elixir of SIENNA is everywhere accepted
as the best of family laxatives. It's quality is
due not only to the excellence of the laxative
and carminative principles of plants known to
act most benefcially on the system, but also to
the method of manufacture of the California Fig
Syrup Co., which ensures that uniformity and
purity essential in a remedy intended for family
use. 1t cleanses and sweetens the system eff
fectually, when a laxative is needed, without
any unpleasant after effects. To get the bene-
fetal effects of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of
SIENNA, buy of your druggist the genuine only, the
full name of the Company California Fig Syrup
Co.-printed on the front of every package; one
size only, price, so cents per bottle.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12
NEW TRIAL DENIED
TEACHERS SLAYER
Exceptions Allowed in Spencer's Case
Will Be Passed Upon by the
Supreme Court

Springfield, Mass, March l2.-The mo-
ton for new trial by counsel for Ber-
tram G. Spencer, the convicted murderer
of Miss Martha b. Blackstone, the school
teacher OF this city. was denied yesler
day by Judge Crosby Of the superior
court Judge Crosby allowed exceptions
which viii be passed upon by the SUI
preme judicial court Of Massachusetts
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12

We have been in business in this town
for some time, and we are looking TO
build UP trade by always advising our
patrons right.
So when we tell you that we have
found the eczema remedy and that we
stand back of il with the manufacturer 5
iron clad guarantee, backed by ourselves
YOU can depend upon il that we give our
advice not in order 10 sell few bottles
of medicine to skin sufferers. but be-
cause we know how II WIN help our
business If we help our patrons.
We keep in stock and sell. all the well
known skin remedies. But we will say
this: If you are suffering from any
kind of skin trouble. eczema, psoriasis,
rash or letter. we want you to try full
size bottle of u. ID. d. Prescription.
And. If it does not do the work, this
Burt II. Wells, l60 No
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12
Back In the Good Old Bowl pays.

A man OF apparent means brought
two boys into barber shop for hair.
cut While waiting for the completion
of the job, he said
II never sat in BARRIERS chair when
| was kid My brother used to go
over to the engine house and borrow
the horse clippers. Then my mother
would put bowl on my head and cut
around It. Until was twelve years
old, | always looked Ike window
washers brush. Chicago Post.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12
rha De.d Rav;ved

In a scientific weekly we read the
headline, "Can the Dead BE RevivedT'
They are revived every performance AT
the Metropolitan Opera House. II is q
most encouraging symptom to see
corpses arise from the stage after the
curtain falls and bow their apprecia'
ton of the applause. Musical Courier.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12
Sarcastic.

Hawkshaw Holmes-I wish to be
vaccinated. Doctor-What's your bust.
ness? Hawkshaw Holmes-Tm a de.
tective. Doctor Stand out of line.
please, and give somebody else o
chance. There is no danger OF your
over catching anything. Boston Globe
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12
"Our Personal Guarantee
10 all Skin Sufferers"
BERT H. WELLS.
BERT H. WELLS.

bottle will cost you nothing, You alone
to judge,
Again and again we have seen now
few drops Of this simple wash applied
10 the skin. takes away the itch. in
stantly. And the cures all seem 10 be
permanent.
ID. d. ID. Prescription made by the
n d d. Laboratories of Chicago, is
conposed of thymol, glycerine, oil of
wintergreen and other healing. soothing,
cooling ingredients. And II y9u are are
sootbed and cooled, the itch absolutely
washed awayi the moment you applied
this d. D. d.
We have made fast friends of more
than one family by recommending this
remedy to a skin sufferer here and
there and we want you to try il now
on our positive no-pay guarantee.
h Main street. Barre. VT.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12

miss SoulSby has not a particle or
tact
what has she done now"
THE other evening when Mr.. Jag
giles. who is notorious for not paying
his debts. asked her TO sing she went
to the piano and sang Trust Him
r"-London Telegraph.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12
Advanoinn.

He only is advancing in life whose
heart is getting softer, whose blood
warmer, whose brain quicker. whose
spirit is entering into living peace
Ruskin
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12
A CARD

We, the undersigned, do hereby agree
10 refund the money on 50-eent bottle
of Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tar, if
IT fails to cure your cough or cold. We
also guarantee a ascent bottle to prove
satisfactory. OF money refunded.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12
YOu
Often Want

quick relief from biliousness-from
its headaches, its sour stomach,
hiccoughs, hatulence, unpleasant
breath and the general feeling of
good for-nothingness it causes.
Observation-Disclosures three gener-
ations and the wide world over
have found, as you viii find, that
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12
TESTIMONY
or FIVE WOMEN
Proves That Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Com
pound Is Reliable.

Reedville, Ore.-"I can truly recon-
mend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound to all women who are passing
through the Change of Life, as it made
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12

IT understand that your spilster
friend has gone into one of the profess
sionsT'
"Yes."
Indeed. And what "a her particular
pursuitT'
"Man."-Cleveland PLAN Dealer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-12

me a well woman after
suffering three years. +"
= Mrs. MARY BoGART,
Reedville, Oregon.
New Orleans, La. =
" When passing through
the Change of Life | was
troubled with hot flashes,
weak and dizzy spells and
backache. | was otht for
anything until ! took Ly-
dia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound which
proved worth its weight
in gold to me. - Mrs. GAS.
TON BLoNDEAU, 154l Po-
lymnia ST., New Orleans.
Mishawaka, Ind. :" Wo-
men passing through the
Change of Life can take
nothing better than Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. / am recon-
mendingitt oallmy friends
because of what it has
done for me. Mrs. CHAs.
BAUER, 523 E. Marion St.,
Mishawaka, Ind.
Alton Station, Ky.-"Fo
months | suffered from
troubles in consequence of
my age and thought /
could not live. Lydia E.
Pinkham's V ege ia BILE
Compound made me well
and | want other suffering
women to know about it. "
Mrs. EMMA BAILEY, Alton
Station, KY.
Oak. 81 was passing
&c of Life and felt very
not sleep and was very
a E. Pinkham's Vegetable
.ored me TO perfect health
OF be without it. Mrs.
Deisem, No. Oak.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-25
Can't Cure Catarrh Stomach Dosing. Sprays and
 Douches Have All Failed

There is only one way to cure ca tarrh.
 Reach the raw, tender, in5aped membrane that is infested with ca tarrh germs, and destroy the germs.
 You cant reach the hooks and crevices with liquid preparations there is only one way-breathe the an tiseptic germ killing air of HYOMEI (pronounce if High-o-me) directly over the infested parts
 HYOMEI contains no opium. CO., caine or other harmful drugs; 1t is made of Australian eucalyptus, thymol and other Historian antisepties. It is guaranteed to end the misery of ca tarrh, asthma, croup and bronchitiA or money back.
 Ask The Lee & Osgood Co. about the HYOMEI outfit today as they sell it for only s1.00 and guarantee it.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-25
PERSONAL

Frederick D. Mabrey of Portland is at his home in this city.
 Fred Brabston of New London vis- tied Norwich friends on Saturday.
 Irwin C. Elmer is at his home in Providence during the Easter vaaction.
 Miss Isabelle Douglas of Norwich visited Mrs Martha Brown at Mantle last week.
 Miss Maria Brock of Norwich has been visiting Miss Alice Crotty of Uncasyille.
 Mrs William H. Gallup of Wood stock is the guest of friends here for 6 short time
 Miss Cecilia Kohn of Yantic is vis- iting Mrs. Louis Schwartz of Wash ingtOn street, New London
 Miss Laura B. Woodworth of New London is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Charles D. Browning of Norwich.
 John C. Chapman, the popular man ager of the Norwich ball team at one time, has been spending a few days in town.
 Mss Susie Spieer has returned from a trip of several weeks to California having reached home Saturday eve ming,
 John H. Cassidy and Mrs. Mary Cas- sidy Cahill of Waterbury spent Sun day at their home on Washington street.
 Mrs. Lucretia Saxton and Mrs John Saxton of New London have returned from q few days spent with Mrs. Robinson of Norwich,
 Laurence A. Miner of the National Bank of Commerce, New London, has opened his summer home at Gales Ferry, Ruddygore, for the summer sea- son.
 Mrs. Frances SpaIding is again at her hoIne on Penobscot street, having returned from a featuring tour of nearly d year upon the Spiritualist platform
 Gu1Con Miller, who has been substi- tuting at the Central Vermont freight office here, has secured a position as yard clerk at Brattleboro with the railroad company.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-25
KlNEMAcoLoR PICTURES
Many Saw the Wonderful Views at the
 Olympic sHaIl.

Under the auspices of the Y. Nj. C. A. there was an exhibition of the kinema- color motion pictures Saturday after noon and evening at Olympic hall. In the afternoon. when a special price was made for school children, the seat ing capacity was seld out three-quar- ters of an hour before the show began and in the evening there was an audi ence of about 500
 The wonderful reproductions of col or especially in the flowers shown in the first films, were greatly admired. and the instructive and educational views of the coronation of the king and queen of England were likewise en- ioyed. although fin many instances the lecturers explanation about the Lon don fogs was accepted as the reason for a certain indistinctness about some of the details of the pictures.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-25
Incidents in Society

Frederick Fuller of Trenton. N. j., has been the guest of his aunt, Mrs. Henry Barrows of Sachem street.
 Mrs. Amanda E. Spaulding Of Wash ingtOn street has gone to Atlantic City, N. J., where she will spend sew eral days.
 Mrs William IT. Leonard and da1gh- ter, Beatrice, of Washington street, are the guests of Mir. and Mrs. Clapp Of Wilhmanttc.
 Miss Anna IT, Chase, who is al hlsa POrters school at Pennington, Coon. is spending the Easter recess at her home, on Broadway.
 Mrs. M. E. MofFttt, who has been spending several weeks with MT. and Mrs. A. N. Carpenter of Uncas street, has gone to New York city.
 Miss Nellie Young, who is taking a course in art at the Boston MtMRsum of Fine Arts, is spending the EsgteR vacation at her home on Lincoln avenue.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-25
SUDDEN DEATH OF
 THEODORE A. HEDGE
Had Gone to a Shed Where He Was Stricken with Cerebral Hemorrhage.


 The death of Theodore A. Hedge of No. 10 Hedge avenue, East Side, oc- cured suddenly on Sat friday after noon about 4.1J o'clock of 1ereb ,al hemorrhage He had left the house q few minutes before that time to go to a shed at the rear of the yard and when he did not return, members of the family went out to look for him, and found him dead upon the floor. Mir. Hedge had lately been in rather poor health and had complained of bad feelings in his head. Medical Examiner Kimball was called, pro- nOuncing cerebral hemOrrhage as the pro bal le cause of death,
 Mir. Hedge was in his 59th year. having been born October 6, 1888, in what Was then Preston, now the East Side, the son of Ir. and Mrs. William B. Hedge. All his life except the last two years had been spent in Norwich He was an engraved by trade and fol- lowed that calling, having a shop with the William H. Page Boiler company on Franklin street, until hhey re- moved from here after their plant had been destroyed by fire in January, 1903. Since then in the last two years Mr. Hedge had been employed in Ro- chester, N. r., Atlanta. Ga, and Mem phis, Tenn. He had recently returned here and his health had net been of the best lately.
 He is survived by his wife, who was Mss Margaret Douglass of CT eeneville, two daughters and a son, Mrs. Maud Mitchell and Miss Blanche Hedge, of this city, and Theodore D. Hedge of Rochester, N. Y. He also leaves two brothers, Blydon Hedge of this city, and Warrington B. Hetge of Fall River, Mass.
 The deceased was member of She tucket lodge, No. 27, l. o. O. F., and had the friendship and esteem of a wide circle of acquaintances. He was a skilled and faithful workman and iD his home life he was a kind and loving husband and father.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-25

an increase in wages for their em- pl0yes and by this advance about 1900 employees will be affected. Notices have been posted in the mills of the Falls company, and of the Shetucket com pany in this city that the pay of the employees will be advanced, becoming effective the first of April. There are about 1,C0O hands in these two mills.
 The Ashland Cotton company of JeWett City has posted a similar no tice. and at this mill about 300 hands are employed In none of the cases has the amount of the increase been decided said an official of the mills, but it will be decided upon and made l-nowE at later date.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-25
Wants Apvraisers Nswed,

Ths New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad has, through its at t0rney, Benjamin I. Sproek Of New Ha- ven, made application to Judge Mil ton M ShGJsway of the superior court to appoint appraisers to estimate all daB2aSEs to the parties interested in the land that the road recently acquir- ed near Midway through the recom- mendatiop of the public utility com mission, the land being obtained be- cause the railroad contended that it needed the tract for the improvement of tiS railroad business The appIica- tion also requests that date and AaaFjng also be named.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-25
More Norwich Mills Advance Wages
Employees Will Receive Increase Falls and Sheucke Mills
 While the Ashland Cotton Company at Jewett City Will Grant Raise.

The advance in wages to mill em- plcyes in this end of the state con- tinues to spread out and more mills are being added daily to the list where increases will be made the first of April. Many thousand in eastern Connecticut are to receive the benefit of the raise and get back te the posi- ton where they were few years ago. There is a general falling into line by the mills, and the next step, the declaration of the amount of increase, will be awaited with keen interest by the help. The advance, it IS under stood, will be general in all the mills.
 Two Norwich mills and one in Jew cit City are the latest to announce
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-25
Attractive Showinn.

In one of fife windows of Preston Bros store is an attractive motorcy % cyle display by Stebbns & Geynet uf the Flying Merkel machine of which they are agents. Three of the ma a- chimes ace shown. attracting admir- ing comment, and around them are arranged in the window numerous photcgIsI hs and pamphlets display ing the strong points and advantages cf he Nerkel. One of the machines shown is a twin 1-h.p which is sold Co @ Norwich man. and another of the machines is also sold and ready for dGiivery
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-25
Mr. Palmer WiIl Pay the Bill.

The expense incurred by the New London Municipal Art society for the drawing of plans for beautifying and improving New London by John No Ian, landscape artist, of Boston, will not have 10 be borne by the society. IL developed al the adjourned meet ing of the society held Friday after noon trat President George $. Palm eg has taken it upon himself to pay Mi. Noans bill. which will. according to contract, aggregate S2.Go0 Of this SUm $500 was paid a short time ago by MT. Palmer and at the meet ins Friday afternoon an additional sum of $1,0o0 was ordered paid, leaving d balance of $500 yet unpaid.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-25
Wrenohad His Ankle

Frank C. Ifarwooe. bookkeeper for a wholesale grocery firm on Water atrcet, had severe fall Friday, wreuchiug the fragments flom his Jeff ankle when he slipped and went to the ground on the sloping sidewalk on the Water street side of the Carroll building lie was able to get to his offi.e without help, but in extreme pain and since then he has been get
 1ag aTeuRd with the help Rf a -asRe,
Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-25
SPRING

Entered the arena in Winter Raiment clad. There is surely considerable cold weather still to come. March winds are mighty winds, and April days are not the rare and perfect days of "Sunkist' rose garlanded June.
 The price of coal is sailing to dizzy heights.
 Get a VULCAN" or "RIZNOR odor- less GAS RADIATOR. They turn cold to comfort, are reasonable in price, eco nomlcal in gas consumption You will proclaim it the wisest investment you ever made.
 Cranes Latest Gas Toaster, sta tite" Gas Tubing Rotary Tank Heat CTS the famous "Ruud' Instantaneous Water Heater and the latest models of 1912 Gas Ranges are among the good things we will gladly show you.