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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-07
American League Standing.
SPORTING NOTES.

Pres Navin of the Detroit American
league baseball club announced recently
that deal had been closed whereby
Bill Bailey long considered hoodoo to
the Tiger team. will be seen in the
future in Detroit uniform
Ed. Walsh. the mainstay Of the White
Sox. took part in three successive games
last week. All indications point to an
other successful year for the iron man.
ban has been placed on league base
ball at New Britain. Conn, on Sundays.
Last Sunday two deputies appeared on
the field and prevented the scheduled
game between New Britain and Hart
ford.
Malcolm, the premier pitcher at Yer
mont, has been tempted with several big
league offers. Big league scouts are on
his heels every time the Burlington team
essays out on trips According to re-
ports he viii finish his college course be-
fore contemplating organized ball.
The wonderful showing Of the Gin
cinnati Reds this year is attributed to
Hank ODay, the old National league
umpire, who is working wonders with
his new charge.
In the lineup of the Baltimore Orioles
this season appear the names of Fred
die Parent and Bob Unglaub, former
stars when playing with the Boston
Americans.
Gregg of Cleveland, who was one of
the leading twirlers in the American
league last year, is fast rounding into
shape, after a poor start.
The ignorant fans who think that
any sort of a smash that advances
runner is a sacrifice are still very nu-
merous. They are as thick as autumn
leaves right here in this city.
Bert Maxwell of the Highlanders has
been sold to the Toronto club of the
international league.
The Notre Dame baseball team is on
a trip through the east, which win last
two weeks. Vermont win tackle this
strong team at Burlington Nav %.
The headwork that allowed Neal Ball
to pull off triple play, unassisted, was
wanting when Ping Brodie of the White
SoX run home with the winning ruin
in the Clevelard-Chicago game at Chi
esgo Sunday.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-07
FIRE wARDENs DISCUSS SITUATION
State Forester HAYES Advocates Estab-
fishing Lookouts.

State Forester A. r. Halves of Burling-
ton met the fire wardens OF Washington
county yesterday at Montpelier for an
informal discussion of methods of fire
protection Ii was the unanimous opin-
ion that If early notice was given of
forest fires, such expense as $1,000 for
fighting the fire in Dummerston last
year might be avoided. Had that been
checked at the start the expense would
have been not over $40 and two hours
time would have sufficed.
Mr.. Halves expressed the opinion that
lookout stations should be located on
peaks, with telephone connection, so
that incipient fires may be located and
the fire warden of that section be no
titled. He urged that the cause of the
fire be ascertained in every instance
possible, and if the local FIRE warden
hesitated to prosecute the person found
guilty OF starting, the matter might
be referred to the department to act.
1t is his opinion that few prosecutions
will do considerable toward stopping
careless fires.
Mr.. Halves advised every town to keep
on hand shovels, pals and sacks for
fighting fire, as many times those who
come to aid are not provided with equip
ment. II was brought out during the
discussion that railroads are being more
and more made responsible for damage
wrought to the soil and growth of the
next crop by fires set by sparks from
the engines, as well as for the actual loss
of timber caused in this way. Courts
are beginning to allow damages on this
basis,
The wardens went over the situation
in their own towns and a profitable
meeting was held.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-07
CUTTING COST
OF LIVING
How 1t is Done Abroad by Co.
operation
PRESIDENT SUBMITS REPORT
France and Belgium Have Many Soci-
eties-The Prices Lower and Divi-
dends Are Made for
Consumers.
PRESIDENT SUBMITS REPORT

Washington, May Interesting in.
formation on the manner in which Eu'
ropean nations are combating the high
err cost OF living by organizing co-opera-
tive societies, We're given III consular
reports transmitted to Congress yester-
day by President Taft as the second
instalment of his former High Cost o.
Living message.
France and Belgium, the report says
have successful organizations among
workers, where relief funds are admin
istered and insurance against illness aud
forced non employment is supplied
Southern France has many cooperative
agricultural societies, which. aided by
the government, supply farmers with
machinery, either loaned gratuitously or
purchasable on small payments. The or
CARNATIONS also buy the crops.
The cooperative system in France has
also resulted in the ownership Of a
number of industrial plants by the work
ers themselves. The report cites cases
at Lyon, particularly.
The effect the French cooperative So
cieties have on prices OF foodstuifs, the
message says, il almost entirely in keep
ing them sIaDie ana AT iaif inquire,
seldom being below the prices Of the
stores. In Belgium, however, the co.
operative organizations sell lower than
the markets, allowing members only 10
purchase and distributing nominal prof
its.
Funds are set aside for insurance, pen
sions, strike relief, etc The movement
in Belgium, the report states, dates from
the growth Of the Socialist and Labor
parties.
Both the Netherlands and Denmark
contain many similar cooperative or
carnations.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-07

reaches him. Thoreau says, The better
part Of man is soon plowed into the soil
as compost; and | have known some
such lives. | knew a woman who put
her babies in barrel and left them
while she worked in the field with her
husband. Together they paid off tho
farm mortgage, and then bought more
farms and paid off more mortgages.
They never took vacations. Neither of
them ever saw train of cars until the
iron rails were laid through their own
lands, and when the first train passed
through the old lady was heard to say:
Well, have worked hard all of my life,
but now | shall have it easy. can just
sit and milk and see the cars go by
Another family OF my acquaintance,
living on a large farm, with fifty cows
to milk and care for, and five hundred
hens to look after, finds time every year
for an outing; rather they hire extra
help on the farm and take the time, and
they do not take the time grudgingly,
either They figure that what the outing
costs is the best investment of the whole
year. They have their own tent, and
camp for a week or more on a nearby
stream or lake, where fishing and boating
are good. A fairly good tent can be
bought for the price of weeks board at
q summer resort, and the tent will last
many years Vacation does not neces
sarily spell Nantucket. Distance some
times lends great deal Of enchantment.
We forget that the birds sing just as
sweetly in our own fields and groves as
they do in fields and groves hundreds of
roilas awaV Why should we remain
shut in during all the hot summer
months just because We cannot travel
far away? If we cannot afford to own
tent, there are even less expensive
ways of camping out"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-07
Great New York Preacher Talks About
the Next World.

Charles Z. Jefferson, pastor of Broad
way Tabernacle in New York City writes
in the April Woman's Home Companion
a wonderfully interesting article, in
which he says in part:
when one is tempted to complain
because God does not let us know in
this world what we are going to be and
do in the next, let him remember that
it is the nature of love to delight in
the giving and receiving of surprises.
Parents do not tell their children in ad-
vance what they are going to give them
for Christmas. By keeping their children
in suspense, they add to the measure of
their ehildren's joy. 1t is with ignorance
and knowledge intermingled that boys
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-07
WILL PROBABLY DIE.
Robert Marshall of Concord Struck by
Electric Car on Saturday.

Concord, N. H., May Robert Mar
shall, stone cutter, 43 years of age,
il lying at the point of death from in
juries received by being struck by an
electric car on North State street Satur-
day evening He had been to the bust
ness section OF the street to do some
shopping for Sunday and had nearly
reached his home opposite Calvary ceme-
terry on the return, when a forgotten
GRAND came to his mind and he started
back.
In crossing the street near the ward
Q house, he attempted to pass in front
OF an inbound electric which struck him,
irflicting injuries from which physicians
say he cannot recover. The injured man
was taken in the car to the hospital.
where it was stated at noon that he
was still living, but that his condition
was such as to offer little hope.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-07
BEEF TRUST TO DISSOLVE.
Reported Arrangement Made with Fed
eral Officials.

Chicago, May THE National Pack.
ing company, which figured largely in
the recent trial of the Chicago meat
packers, eontemplates an amicable dis
solution. according to report in the
federal building yesterday, following a
conference between Ralph Crews, chief
counsel for the company, and United
States District Attorney James H. VIII
.kerson. Neither Mr.. Crews nor the dis
trict attorney would discuss the confer
ence.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-07

Last Wednesday and Friday were sug-
ar days at the railroad station at Bris-
tol. The first day Hathorne & Boynton
took in maple syrup and sugar, paying
the farmers nearly $3.50 for their prod
uct. They received l02 barrels of syrup,
paying 10, IS and so cents per gallon, ac
cording to quality. Friday the local buy
ers for WEIGH brothers of Burlington
were there to receive that which they
had contracted for, and l94 barrels of
syrup and five tons of sugar was the to-
tai. Something over $4,000 was paid the
farmers by them. The crop this year
was only about two-thirds of an average
one.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-07
SLIGHTLY COLDER THIS WEEK.
in the West Will Reach At.
lantic Coast About Thursday.

Washington, May 7.--Temperatures
slightly below the seasonal averages will
prevail throughout the country during
the coming week and will be accom-
panied by normal amount of rainfall
according to the bulletin of the wealth
er bureau. A disturbance that now COW
ers the western districts, the bulletin
continues, will move slowly eastward
and reach the Atlantic states about
Thursday. 1t will be attended by To-
cal rains and thunderstorms in the first
part of the week in the great central
valleys and the eastern and southern
states. Considerably cooler weather will
appear in the northwestern states
Wednesday or Thursday.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-07

Many improvements in the new maya
zine Cartoons are to be seen in the May
number, especially in the presentation
of more full-page reproductions of re-
cent cartoons which are especially meri-
torious, the number of pages of the
magazine being increased to make up
the difference. Partisan and other Eu-
ropean caricature and art is given much
space to advantage. In the field of pol
itics alone, which is but part of the
magazine, Cartoons is collecting a won
derful record of the present great cam
paign. Portraits and biographical
sketches of Rogers, of the New York
Herald, and Fox, of the Chicago Post,
are other features.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-07
LIKE FINDING MONEY
D. F. Davis Offers Popular Medicine at
Half Price.

D. F. Davis, the popular druggist. is
making an offer that is Just like finding
money, for he is selling regular 50-cent
bottle of Dr. Howai1i's celebrated spe-
eific for the cure OF constipation and dys-
pepsia at half price. In addition to this
large discount, he agrees to return the
money to any purchaser whom the spe-
cific does not cure.
1t is quite unusual to be able to buy
fifty-cent pieces for quarter, but that
is what this offer really means, for it is
only recently through the solicitation of
Druggist ID. f. Davis that this medicine
could be bought for less than fifty cents.
He urged the proprietors to allow him
to sell it at this reduced price for a little
while, agreeing to sell certain amount
The result has justified his good judg-
ment, for the sale has been something
remarkable
Anyone who suffers with headache.
dyspepsia, dizziness, sour stomach, specks
before the eyes, or any liver trouble.
should take advantage of this oppor-
tunity, for DIR. Towards specific win cure
all these troubles. But if by any chance
II should not, d. F. Davis win return
your money.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-07
Vacations for Everybody.

In an article on vacations in the May
Woman's Home Companion, the author
says in part:
Horace Greeley said he had been
twenty years trying to find time to go
from overwork and anxiety. Many a
farmer lives all his life within sight OF
running streams, or within sound of bah
bling brooks, and the suggestion that he
hang up his hoe and go a.fshing never
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-07
Yesterdays National League Results.

AT Chicago Chicago 5, Boston 3. Bat
teries Cheney and Archer; Tyler, Me
Tighe, Brown and King.
AT st. Louis--New York 8, ST. Louis /.
Batteries Ames and Myers Sallee and
Wingo
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-07
National League Standing.

No Games in American League.
All games postponed on account o.
rain
The Washington times., 1912-01-14
Zoo Thermometer
Touched 21 Below
At an Early Hour

/ Twenty-one and a half degrees below
zero is how cold 1t was at the Zoo this
morning at 5:45 o'clock, according to the
. official thermometer on the reservation.
This placed the Geological grounds in
the lead as being the coolest spot in
Washington at that time. Not since
the disastrous blizzard Of February.
1899. when the entire country was in the
clutches OF a record-breaking blizzard,
has the mercury been SO low at that
place. ~,
AT midnight last night, when huh
dreds OF other thermometers did nd
register lower than and 5 degrees be-
M Quietly dSlo spped p Is e under md e that hat
point.
Z sAt 11:30 o'clock this morning 1t was
13 degrees below zero at the Zoo. Owing
to the high altitude o< the park and the
which might furnish some degree of
heat the cold, perhaps. is more no
ticeable there than elsewhere in the
4 The contractor who supplies the Zoo
with fuel is the happiest man in Wash
angtOn today. The furnaces In the ami
NAL houses have performed their duty
well. Firemen and engineers have
ho0sed animals from suffering, and they
have succeeded. In the lion house
everything is snug and warm.
The seals and polar bears are begin
ming to take new leases on life. Not for
thirteen years have they seen weather
and temperature that has looked so much
like that they left back home. Superin-
terdent Baker said he didn't know what
kind OF polar bears they have in New
York IL 1t has been found necessary to
put them in the steam heated section of
the Bronx Zoo during the present cold
spell. "a
.'The bears at the Zoo," he said, "are
the happiest set of animals we have
now. They have been padding about
over the cracked ice all morning."
The Washington times., 1912-01-14
Freakish Weather
In New York City
Causes Suffering

NEW YORK, Jan. 4-Freak weather,
dropping early this morning to l de-
gree above zero and fuctuating re-
markably between ) and o'clock caused
intense suffering this morning.
At the Weather Bureau the forecaster
was not ready to promise that the
warmer mildly tempering wave was due
here or would ever reach New York In
tact, but cheering rises of temperature
In several Central States, where the
mercury had sunk to great distances
below zero, gave hope for this city. !,
The lowest temperature recorded since
midnight was at 4:45 o'clock, when the
mercury reached degree above. As
1t had been IL above at 4 O'Clock. this
marked drop of II degrees in forty
ive1Gninutes. Fhe rebound was equal
ly freaky, going up to II degrees above
within seventy-five minutes, and then
within an hour dropping back to 2 de-
grees above zero at o'clock.
After o'clock the mercury seemed
to rise gradually with the sun The
wind, too, had dropped, so that the suf-
fering was not intense during the low
vitality hours before the dawn. The
bureau recorded that the wind at .
o'clock was twelve miles an hour, and
was Stacking.
Yesterday was the coolest day New
York has experienced since 1904. The
lowest mark touched by the thermom-
eter was 3 below zero.
The Washington times., 1912-01-14
Slight Relief Comes
To Chicago, But New
Storm Is on WAY

CHICAGO. Ill. Jan. H.-Relief from
the cold wave that for thirteen days
has held Chicago In its icy grip came
this morning with an appreciable rise In
temperature and an absence OF the cut
ting northwest wind. The milder tenn
peratures extend through the western
part Of the United States and up into
Canada.
But by tonight the weather prognos-
ticator predicts a new blast from the
Northwest will strike Chicago and again
cause the mercury to skid to the zero
mark. 1t will be a fitful wave, the
weather prophet says, with little SEM
blance to the champion just departed.
The deficiency OF temperature for the
fourteen days beginning with the ad-
vent of the storm king on January was
3O5 degrees, or nearly one-fourth as
much as the 1,276 degrees above normal
record during 1911. Chicagos record
breaking hot year.
The seventy-eight persons on board
the two ice-locked freighters. Kansas
and Indiana. began the fourth day Of
their imprisonment in the midst Of
The Washington times., 1912-01-14

finding great difficulty in keeping traffic
open. Passenger trains are running late
as a general rule, and freight and ex-
press is being moved spasmodically.
Washington merchants are Just be-
ginning to feel the effects Of this traffic
tie-up. Merchandise ordered from dis
tant points Is not coming in. Old rail-
way men say the weather is the worst
that has ever visited the country as
whole. The intense cold makes 1t DIFF
ficult to keep up the proper steam pres
sure on fast train locomotives, and pre-
cludes the rapid moving OF freight. This
condition is general throughout the
United States from Maine to California,
and as far south as the Panhandle OF
Texas, where the worst weather on
record is being experienced.
Mail trains are running from hfteen
minutes to three days late. Trains bound
to Washington from the far South are
running fairly we'll on schedule. But
North, East, and West conditions are
much worse. In the Pacific Northwest
and in the Rocky mountain region traf-
fic Is not moving at all in some sec
tons The mails due in Seattle on the
tenth OF the month have not yet ar
rived, according to wire dispatches to
railway mail headquarters.
The Washington times., 1912-01-14

the big Ice Zoe of Rogers Park this
morning, with the prospect OF being
able to reach shore as distant as 1t
ever has been since the ice first seized
and held them. In addition to those
two boats, four others are imprisoned
by Ice foes near Chicago, while six
freighters are held by ice outside Grand
Haven, Mich.
Danger Of coal famine still con-
fronts Chicago. Coal merchants declare
that unless the cold waves back re-
mains broken for a few days there will
be an alarming shortage The short
age has been felt in the neighboring
towns, factories in Elgtn, Aurora, Rock
ford and Joliet having been forced to
close. At Waukegan the big plant Of
the Corn Products Company is idle. In
mates Of the penitentiary at Joliet are
suffering because Of the shortage In
fuel.
The blockade OF mail trains by snow
has resulted in a famine in mail sacks
in Chicago. Postmaster Campbell says
he may have to resort to gunny sacks
to meet the emergency.
The Washington times., 1912-01-14
OVERHIEATED' PIPES
CAUSE FIRE LOSS
Alexandria Asked to Send A i'd in Saving Residence Of
I Joseph M. Pea Ike at Braddock,
81 Virginia.

the banquet the following officers were
elected for the year ensuing: c. e.
Micol, president; James i. Caton,
Charles Jesse, Thomas r. Keith. an,l
A. Sinclair, Vice presidents; ]. Randall
Cation. secretary. and Robley D. Brum-
4 paper entitled "Contributory Negll-
gence" was read by c. Vernon Ford, Of
AT business meeting of the Relief
Hook and Ladder Company the follow
ing officers were elected: John H. Trim
presdens pr A. smeot spks second ns' Vice
president; John Waddey, recording sec
retary; Frank Sem. secretary; e. Steu-
art Smith, treasurer; r. M. Latham.
captain; Charles F. De Mol, first lieu
Announcement Is made of the with
drawal of Maurice Wampler from the
firm of Moncure, Wampler & Goth,
attorneys, OF Alexandria county.
Officers for the ensuing year will be
elected at tomorrow nights meeting
of M. d. Corse Camp. Sons of Confed-
crate Veterans. Arrangements also will
r. Il. Lee Camp of Confederate Vet
Grams, to be held January 10, the ami
versary Of Lees birthday.
Rozier C. Carter and Miss Julia A.
McCuen were married last night by the
Rev. w. f. Watson in the parsonage
of the First Baptist Church
Holy communion was taken by MEM
vers of the local branch of the Holy
Name Society at the z o'clock mass of
st. Mary's Catholic Church this morn
ing.
A meeting of the members Of ''The
Men and Religion Forward Movement"
was held in the parish hall of Christ
p. z. Church this afternoon, at which
arrangements were made for the fur
therance Of the work Of the movement
In this city.
At the meeting Of Fitzgerald Council,
"Wednesday evening. the recently elect
ed officers will be Installed.
The Washington times., 1912-01-14
SIX ALARMS KEEP
THE FlREMEN BUSY
These Were Sounded in Four Hours and Half Period.
Fortunately All Were Small Blazes and Little
Damage Resulted.

Six hre alarms within four and half
hours and one second, by exact calcu-
lation Of Fire Chief Frank Wagner, this
morning called out eight downtown en-
sines. three trucks, a water tower, and
Two fuel wagons. Three uptown en-
gines and truck also went out with
In this period. This does not include a
second alaym for one of these fires, and
another alarm sounded just after IL
clock.
fortunately, all the fire were small
and easy to cope with, or there would
have been some genuine suffering among
Washlngton's fire-fghting men on this
coolest day in thirteen years As 1t
was, there were some frosted fingers
and ears. and considerable Difficulty
and discomfort but not single case Of
exhaustion was reported.
The First Call.
The first call came from the cellar
under the Barber & Ross hardware
store at Eleventh and @ streets. where
infiammable substance thrown aside had
set fire to kindling wood. 'The damage
was few dollars only, but because
of the central location Of the building
two alarms We're turned in, and half
a dozen engines had connected their
hose ready for fight with full sized
blaze. This occurred shortly after 9
o'clock when the thermometer register
ed 13 degrees below zero. When the
plugs were turned on the water trickled
out, and quick work was required to
keep II from freezing before attach
ments could be made. The stin hose.
icy and heavy, caused the firemen iii
sorts Of trouble.
.rhere was a Iull until 4 o'clock. when