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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05
Reforms in Vermont.

The st. Johnsbury CALIFORNIAN notes
that the state press is giving much
space to the discussion of reforms need
cd in Vermont that shall apply to So
cial conditions and install more prac-
teal methods Of handling minor offend
ers, and it joins in this discussion by
an able presentation of some suggestions
upon the problem of dealing with habit
ual drunkards. The News claims to be
che of the Vermont papers that has
given among the most liberal of its
means and thought to keeping the va
Iious phases of the general theme con-
stantly before the public. While it
makes no claim of being the pioneer
on this line in Vermont, it knows that
it has printed great deal of pertinent
matter at times when its contemporaries
we're giving little sign of interest in the
same subject. That the reforms here
referred to are now commanding gen
eral attention from the state press is
eongratulatory and if the discussion is
kept UP, beneficial changes should en-
Rutland News.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05
New Years. Concert progrsm

Following is the program for the New
Years concert at Heddng Methodist
church Friday, Jan. 5, at s o'clock:
Professional March ..,,....... Blessner
Prof. W. A. Wheaton
Reading-"A Little Child Shall Lead
Them
Miss Allie f. Trow
Violin Solo ............... Selected
Prof. Edwin w. Bruce
Gal "Le Chant du Cigne". Blumenthal
(The Song of the Swami
(b) "1m Wade" lin the Forestl 49,.
......5. .-........ Lysberg
Mid all the blending harmonies which
rise
From natures myriad voices to the
skies,
The lonely Cuckoo, with persistent note
Pours strains of longing from its feath.
cred throat.
lei "Gavotte from Mignon" Thomas
(By requestl
Prof. w. A. Wheaton
Reading vanquished Spinster'
....-.. .................... Reed
Miss Allie E. Trow
Violin Solo NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Selected
Prof. Edwin w. Bruce
Wedding music from Shakespeare's
Midsummer Nights Dream" $3.50.
.................... Mendelssohn
Prof. w. A. Wheaton
Tickets now on sale at Hendricks
drug stare admission y eAAtAs
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05
TALK OF THE TOWN

Visit the big sale at Vapghans.
All silks in Abbott's clearance sale.
Sale at City Auction Rooms tonight
Harry Kendall is employed by the +.
ID. Ladd Co.
Josie Lougee, domestic nurse, Summer
street. Tel 4l2-4.
Prints, percales, ginghams, all in the
sale at Vaughan's.
Eighteen sweet oranges for 25 cents.
United Fruit Store.
Arthur Beor of Winooski was bust
ness visitor in the city to-day
Thomas Gall of Burlington was a
business visitor in the city to-day.
Public dance in the Plainfeld hotel
hall, Saturday evening. January 6.
Now is the time to buy that winter
coat and furs. Sale at Vaughan's.
George Bacon of Randolph was among
the business visitors in the city to.
day.
c. 4. Booth of Essex Junction arrived
in the city this afternoon on business
trip.
Clyde Perry returned to-day after
spending few days in Fairlee on busi-
ness.
Wallace Brewer of Bridgeport, Conn,
is spending few days in the city on
business.
John Crowley left last night for Fair
Haven, where he viii visit his daughter
for week.
Z. NJ Laws and Harry Kelly went
to Chelsea this morning on a few days
business trip.
George Gumlaw, who has been in Bur
lington over the holidays, returned to
this city last night.
Don't make any other engagement for
this evening, but go to the New Year
concert at the NJ. f. church.
Have you noticed our big special on
navel oranges at Is for 25 cents? Come
and get some at Diversi Fruit Co.'S.
Miss Gladys Carroll left this afternoon
for Randolph, where she viii be a guest
for a few days of Miss Edith Blanchard.
Lawrence Rising Of Jefferson street
was able to be out OF doors to-day, aft
er several days confinement ON ac-
count of illness.
Barrett Mckay. who accompanied the
body of his father, Andrew Mckay, to
this city for burial, leaves tonight for
his home in Clyde, o.
james n. Roberts OF Mount street is
confined to the house by dislocated
shoulder. which resulted from fall sus
tanned on the ice several days ago.
Headquarters for popular music, IS
cents a copy; also the Century edition,
regular l0.cent music, three copies for
rs cents Mrs. II. s. Miles, 70 No. Main
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Uugo Rossi and Olga
Ross, who lived in this city several
years ago, have returned from Quincy,
Mass, and will again take up their resi-
denee in Barre.
Members Of the Imperial orchestra will
90 tomorrow night to Graniteville,
where they viii furnish music for a
concert and dance to be held under the
auspices Of the Woodmen.
"Behind the Times" feature I. NJ. T.
picture at the Bijou and a pleasing story
with a moral that teaches us TO hold
fast to the things that have proved good.
A drama simple in theme and convincing
in its preachment
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05
WAS FOUND DEAD.
Mrs. Ellen Blanchard of Norwich, Who
Sustained a Shock.

Norwich, Jan Mrs. Ellen Sargent
Blanchard was found dead in her bed
Wednesday evening. She suffered a
shock ten days ago, but was able to
be about the house during the past
week. She lived with her granddaugh-
ter, Mrs. Daisy Lyman, and great
granddaughter, Mary Lyman. Mrs. Ly-
man went out to attend the grange
meeting and her daughter had retired
When Mrs. Lyman returned home she
found Mrs. Blanchard in bed dead. She
was 67 years old and leaves one sister,
Mrs. Ann Slack of Thetford; two broth
ers, George Sargent of Boston and Da-
Wis Sargent of this town, besides her
granddaughter. She was the widow Of
Thomas Blanchard, who has been dead
ten years. Mrs. Blanchard had always
lived in this town and about six years
in the home in the village in which
she died. The funeral will be held at
the home Saturday at 10 o'clock.
Charles \. Smith has been called to
Hanover by the death of his father,
Chandler Smith.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05
EXCESSIVE CHARGE
On Shipment of Granite To New York
From Barre Is Alleged.

Says the Monumental News; Benisch
brothers, of East New York City, N. ",
have filed complaint with the inter-
state commerce commission against the
Long Island Railway company against
excessive charges on is shipments Of
Barre granite from Barre, Vt, on which
they assessed a sum of 81 per car de-
murrage and 81 track storage. These
shipments consists of blocks weighing
from TO Is tons. At their plant they
have electric cranes for unloading, by
which they can unload truck in 3 or
4 minutes, while at the New York sta
ton they have only one 80 ton derrick
for the use of their patrons, and the re-
suit is that the cars cannot be unloaded
within the required demurrage time.
They therefore feel that they should not
be assessed for the time when it is
not their fault.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05
KENT HANGED FOR MURDER
Continued from first page

three inches long and an inch in diam
eter was driven into the skull.
Without assistance, Kent walked to
DIR. p. p. Whites office in Williamsville,
and the following day the doctors per-
formed an operation on the man, tre-
pinned the skull, took ont the piece Of
wood and 2A ounces Of brain matter,
afterwards packing piece OF gauze a
ward square into the opening. Tins
gauze was gradually removed as the
wound closed,
Kent's First Escape from Asylum.
1t was April of the following year,
1908, that Kent had recovered enough to
be sent to the state prison Tor two
years term for robbing his cousin.
While serving this term, he was adj
iudged insane and was sent to the IN
sane asylum at Waterbury. In August
of 1905, a fter unlocking three doors with
a piece of wire and piece of steel taken
from one of his shoes, Kent fled from
the asylum, wearing nothing but mis-
shirt After swimming the Winooski
river at Waterbury, he stole suit of
clothes and later found his way back
to Windham county.
Kent's crimes brought him to public
notice when on Sept. 30, 1905, he as
saulted Llewellyn Kent, a relative, on
the way from Rockingham to West
Townshend, stole his pocketbook and ran
away. At Hadden, Conn, some weeks
later, man broke into a house and
stole watch, two chains and revolver.
An arrest was made, and the man con
fessed that he had escaped from the asy-
lum in this state. Sheriff Tracy of
Washington county went to Connects
cut and brought Kent back in handouts,
en- route foiling an attempt of the pris-
oner to remove the handouts.
On being placed in the asylum again,
Kent was restrained there until July
IL, 1908, when he fed for the second
time and was later arrested for the MUIR
der of Miss Congdon, for which crime
he was executed to-day.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05
CASE is FINISHED.
Jury Got DR.. Theriault's Case Late Yes.
terday Afternoon

Woodstock. Jan. 5.--The trial of DIR,
J II. Theriault OF Claremont, n. H., on
an Indictment charging a criminal opera
ton and murder. was brought to a
close at 4;30 yesterday afternoon when
the case went to the jury.
Yesterday was taken up with the argu-
ments. Edward II. Buck, for the de-
Tense, made an argument lasting nearly
two hours. Attorney General Sargent,
for the state, argued for two hours, and
the charge to the jury occupied an hour
and a half.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05
NORWICH UNIVERSITY.
Many Cadet Officers Go to Burlington to
Attend Officers School.

The following cadet officers went to
Burlington Thursday afternoon TO at
tend the officers school of the V. n G.:
Cadet Major Phillip T. Lowell of Port
land, Me-. First Lieut. Eugene w Mag
nus OF Bethel; First Lieut.. Charles L.
Whipple of Springfield; Second Lieut..
Norman Jacobs of Berlin; Captain John
Il. Miles Of Graniteville; Captain Sam
uel c. Cannon of Middletown; Captain
Howard H. Reid of Barre; First. Lieut..
Warren Inglis of Middietown; Lieut..
Walter +. Adams of Bellows Falls First
Lieut.. Oscar w. Ray of Brattlcboro;
Second Lieut.. Herman c.. Kendall Of
Gardner Mass First Lieut.. John w.
Slattery of Bellows Falls, and Second
Lieut.. Carol f. Blanchard of Peaeham.
The rehearsals of the musical clubs
were resumed again yesterday after the
Christmas vacation. George f. McMas-
tiers of Montpelier was present to direct
the rehearsals.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05
VERMONT TAKEN ON
Cornell viii Play the University on Dia-
mond Next Spring

Ithaca, n. Y, 5.-The Cornell base
ball schedule for 1912 was announced
yesterday. 1t contains twenty-five
games, including home -and-home con-
tests with Yale, Princeton, Columbia,
Dartmouth. and Brown. Harvard, Mich
igan. Trinity and Bucknell are dropped
this year, and in their places, Brown,
Holy Cross, Colgate and Vermont are
taken on. The first game is on April
IS with Lehigh, and the last on June
10 with Pennsylvania at Philadelphia.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05
BARRE MEN APPOINTED OFFICERS
Of Barre aud Montpelier Branch Of Mas
ter Painters and Decorators Asso.

The Master Painters and Decorators
association of Barre and Montpelier held
its annual meeting in Montpelier last
Wednesday evening and elected officers
for the ensuing year as follows;
President, F. f. Wyman, Montpelier
vice president, F. Carleton, Barre; sec
rotary treasurer, Andrew Biorn, Barre
standing COMMITTEES for revision Of by
laws, etc, f. T. Wyman, G. A. Wilkin-
son and r. Carleton, Barre.
Three contractors applied for mem
tership; w. Packard, William Gabree
and Il. Whitcomb, all Of Montpelier.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05
The Power Behind the Gas Range.

"The cook is going to quit" said
young Mrs, Torkins.
Whats the matter?" asked her hus-
band Doesn't she like Us ?"
yes; she's perfectly satisfied But
her family doesn't approve of the quail
ity of what she brings home. Wash
ington Star
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05

mo to a statement made here to-day BY
Everett, Colby, a member of the state
progressive league. Colby said the
league would hold a meeting at an early
date to determine its choice for the pres
dency.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05
WITHOUT HIS PERMISSION
Progressive Republican Leaders in New
Jersey May Use Roosevelt's Name.

Newark, n. j., Jan. 5.-The progress
i've Republican leaders in New Jersey
win probably place Colonel Roosevelts
name on the presidential primary ballots
without asking his permission, accord
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05
TALK OF THE TOWN

Sale at City Auction Rooms tonight.
Eighteen sweet oranges for rs cents.
United Fruit Store.
Come and see the oranges we are Of
fering at IS for 25 cents. Diversi Fruit
Co.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05
EASY FOR B. A. C.
Took Three Strings from Montpelier
Team in Candlepin Match.

The B. A. C. candlepin team found an
easy victory against Montpelier on the
Buzzell alleys last night, winning three
strings. Mute of the locals was high
man with single OF IA and total of
pol. The scores were as follows:
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05
PLAINFIELD.

Public dance in the Plainfield hotel
hall. Saturday evening January &
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05
THE BARRE DAILY TIMES
FRIDAY, JANUARY S, 1912.
Weather Forecast.

Fair tonight and Saturday; cole
wave; high northwest winds.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05

FOR SALE - One pair OF seyen-year' OLD
Durham oxen. well mated and extra handy.
Weight 200 pounds. Price si6o or would
exchange for cows. Inquire of X. A. Coping
East Montpelier, VT Telephone call, Sa1-la,
Montpelier. s4st-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05

Tenement to Rent-Seven rooms on
Averill street. Apply toe. w. Averill.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-05
TOO LATE TO BE CLASSIFIED

FOR SALE Light brahma chickens. The
hnest in the world for roasting. A. W. Allen.
Telephone i4O 24st2
TO RENTAL No Forsyth Place A lower
hat of six rooms; will be vacant about January
i2th Key up stairs. Il. L. Smith, No. 81 West
Street Zssti
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-24
The slsspx sons.

A. soon as the fire burns red and
low,
And the house upstairs is still,
She sings me a queer little sleepy song
OF sheep that 80 over the hill.
-he good little sheep run quick and
soft,
Their colors are gray and white;
They follow their leader nose to tail,
For they must be home by night.
And one slips over, and one comes next
And one runs far behind:
The gray ones nose at the white one
tall.
The top OF the hill they find.
And when they get to the top OF the NIL
They quietly slip away.
But one runs over and one comes
next
Their coIors are white and gray.
And over they go. and over they 80.
And over the top Of the hill
The good little sheep run quick and SOFT
And the house upstairs is still.
And enc slips over and ore comes next,
The good little, gray little sheep!
/ watch how the nre burns red and low
And she says that fall asleep.
-Josephie Daskam Bacon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-24
Psrpetua tina Poverty.

BY infectious disease. insanitary
homes. industrial Gripping and injur-
les to health. child labor and physio-
logically injurious work Of women Ne
are creating year by year large class
of sub normal people; and these help
less, sub-normal people we are ex-
plotting for the profits Of manufactur.
ers, mine owners and merchants; IN
stead Of protecting them for their own
safety and for the welfare Of the race.
The means Of abolishing all that pow
erty which is due to the presence OF
handicapped and sub-normal people is
to stop creating the handicaps and to
stop increasing the number OF sub
normal. BY employing little children
for wages when they should be In the
fields and woods laying the foundation
for sound health and normal life; by
working women at night, near the time
of childbirth, and at the monthly pc
Rod, or at any time under physically
exhausting and destructive conditions;
by our inadequate housing laws and
regulations: by our failure to control
infectious disease and to prevent in
dustrial injuries, we are perpetuatins
poverty.-Edward T. Devine in The
Survey.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-24
! r See King at parade.

One OF the most interesting "
reunions is that pro.
vided by the visits of the Ancient anu
Honorable Artillery Company OF bos-
ton. This body dates from the tlme
that Boston was town Of the British
colony in North America. In 1888 q
deputation came from London wheli
they were greeted and entertained pS
their kinsmen, the Honorable Artil.
lery Company. A return visit was palo
In 1908 and since then visits have been
arranged.
The Bostonians this summer again
meet their friends and in connection
with the visit Lord Denbigh, COM
handing the Honorable Artillery
Company. issued the following regi-
mental order: His majesty the KING
has graeious1y announced his intention
OF inspecting the Honorable Artillery
Company Of Massachusetts,. U. 3. A.,
on foot. in the gardens Of Buckinsham
palace on July Is. This mark OF his
ma3esty,s Interest In the regiment II
greatly appreciated by all ranks, and
the commanding officer expects that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-24
IAN Acquaintance With Yuan shi ksi''
THE North American Rev;ew.)

Cine North American neV.sW.I
My first real intimacy with Yuan
began with daylight breakfast at his
camp, where l had spent the whole
night in giving surgical relief to MS
wounded. Hunger had q new mean
ing that cold December dawn, ana
coffee and bacon seemed the most de-
lectable things to be thought OF: IN
fact, the thought Of them was insist.
ent and compelling, and the call to eat
food" was obeyed with alacrtty.
What was my chagrin, however, on
seeing the table set with but six bowls
Of rice. three at each Of the two places,
and no prospect of anything further.
II seemed that L could devour the
whole six and still keep on thinking
Of coffee and bacon.
BEFORE had finished one bowl was
uncomfortably full and still hungry.
Yuan had In the mean time, with his
bowl to his lips and his chopsticks
keeping q steady stream into MS
mouth, emptied his three bowls, and'
seeing that I could eat no more, ne
took my portion and soon finished IL
II Il IL true that IAN army moves OF.
its stomach" Yuan should DO gooo
soldier.
yuan did not Impress me as an un-
kind man; In fact, later saw evi-
dences, In matters too intimate 1oi
narration, to indicate quite the con-
trary. Yet when he refused me per-
mission to amputate the arm Ok one
OF his soldiers with the amused re-
mark, "Of what good wopl6 bfa one.
armed soldier boz. be seemed cruei
especially AZ assured him tnet osner'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-24

llc9nn Always who may Oppose Z can
dtdatD, beouge 10 u nomtnAted who fall
In llhs koE the sake OF party regularity
aud Sutpo9G HIN after he y nominated.
II44 M afSt iowa convention opposed
MI. TAFT and the second one endorsed
him. that would have been tho natural
course to expect. Therefore the diff
ference In the conventions can not be
attributed to q change Of sentiment.
The sentiment Of Iowa republicans
was the same in April that It was In
July. The difference was wholly In the
difference Of method in selecting the
delegates to the state convention. l.i
April caucuses were held to select dele
gates for the July convention. dele
gates were chosen by q legal primary
election. For the first convention only
a few republicans participated In the
selection Of delegates; for the second
all republicans had a fair opportunity
to participate in the selection OF dele
gates In Page county last spring there
was . three hours primary because the
local committee ordered 1t, but in most
Iowa counties there was no primary. Up
ne-tenths Of the counties the method
OF procedure was about a. follows:
Call for caucus at certain hour,
say p. m. At the appointed time there
would be present the committeeman.
the postmaster, the editor. the aspirant
for Office. the man in office and a few
professional politicians. The postmas-
ter would rise and say, Il nominate
John Jones as chairman Of this eau
Gus" Carried. The editor would then
pull slip out Of his packet and say,
Il nominate William Smith, Henry
Brown, Samuel Mason and David Mil
Ter as delegates from this precinct to
the county convention" Carried. The
committeeman would then say, II move
we adjourn" Carried. Time consumed
for the caucus, i've minutes. While this
caucus was in progress the republi-
can merchant and republican clerk
were busy waiting on customers In
their store; the republican laboring
man was busy with his work in the
shop or in the field: the republican
farmer was busy with his work at
home. You say that everyone had the
opportunity to be present at the eau
Gus and if they were not there it was
their own fault. deny it. The profess
sional politician can plan to be at
certain place at certain moment. but
the average workingman, farmer or
business man can not. How many OF
the men in Lakes nursery or Ratekin's
seed house could have laid down their
tools and attended caucus In Shen-
andoah at exactly 8 D. M? How many
banks and stores would close their
doors 80 that all their voters could be
at a caucus at exactly 3 p. M? The
question is too absurd for seriou con-
sideration. The caucus Is designed to
permit the few to subvert the will OF
the many. BY the caucus system the
strongly progressive county Of Mont
gomery was permitted to select Taft
delegates last spring when everybody
knew that was not the sentiment Of the
county.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-24
Gardens and Gardens.

John D. Rockefeller has thirty acres
of wistaria pergolas and falling brooks
and Italian urns and tempted terraces
and Powered vistas and 400-year-o
imported orange trees on his estate
behind Tarrytown. Murray Guggen-
helm has a formal front door, before
his marble villa on the Atlantic coast
at Elberton, N. ia villa that cuts like
a gem against the blue set behind, and
looks down with. pardonable pride at
its own reflection in the great pool IN
front. At "BlSarsden." the estate Of
c. Ledyard BLAIR at Peapack, N. j.,
Carrere & Hastings have put up high
rooted eighteenth century French type
Of great house high on q hill. and flung
formal gardens down the slope to en-
vista it from below, or stretched out
water lagoons togehvista it as you APP
proach along the summit. till you
might be in the France OF the Louis.
And yet the difference between such
garden settings as these and garden
of a quarter acre around modest
wooden house, if7pIanned with skill and
tended with loving care. need be Diff
ference not so much Of kind as only
OF degree, reasonably remarks Walter
Eaton in Everybody's.
You and l have no millions at Our
command We can not import eighteen
ancient orange trees from an old cha
teau in France, like Mr.. Rockefeller
nor install electric lights behind our
waterfalls and fountains. But gar
den. after all, should scale to the
house we live in. 1t should be the
outdoor rooms OF the house. which set
it into its environment If the house
is small it should be small; but. nc
less than the interior Of our dwelling
should the exterior be beautiful, oul
own, expressive Of our tastes and af-
fections. If all OF us who have the
smallest plot Of ground have not made
1t so, that is because we have no,
known how. because we have not re-
allied, perhaps, that we can. We 90 OF
sticking out a few sweet peas to screeI
the ash barrel. and signing that some
day we hope to have garden OF oul
own.
Some Of the most beautiful. II not the
largest estates in America, are not OF
the estates OF the fabulously rich a
all. and are not the work Of profession
al architects nor landscape gardeners
They are the work-and the hard worl
of their owners. who hoped, like thu
rest of us. to have a garden. but set q
i once about making it--not some day,
| but now.