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The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14
NORTH CAROLINA
By GEORGE FITCH.
Author OF "A Good Old Siwash."

North Carolina is located just
north of South Carolina and fits
over it like the cover of soup
tureen, 1t is 500 mile long, $50
miles wide and has 100000 in
habitants who are SO evenly dis
tributed over the soil that the
largest town in the state only has
$4,000 people.
North Carolina is protected
against commerce on the east by
Cape Hatteras and many miles OF
sand bars and on the Rest by
mountains aud railroads which use
yesterdays trains warmed over With
perfect content A great deal of the
eastern part of the state is so soft
thar the casual visitor is likely 10
sink into 1t up to his neck but whoa
al out 5000, coo acres of swamp land
are drained agriculture win receive
great boost and North Carolina
win begin to rival Illinois as pro-
Queer of corn,
North Carolina raises vast guam
titles of tobacco and cotton and also
supplies the peanut roasters Of the
world with fuel If it were not for
this state the elephants in hum
dred menageries would die of star
walton and baseball would lose half
its charm. North Carolina pre-
duces in one year enough peanuts
TO litter up street 10000 miles
long and 100 yards wide with shells.
North Carolina was settled $50
years ago and has remained calm
and placid ever since, not even GET
ting into the civil war to any ex-
tent II took prominent part in
the production of early patriots turn
irg out Andrew Jackson, Andrew
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14
ORIGIN OF FAMOUS PHRASE
Belief that Common Political Term
Sprans From a Horse Race Held
In Tennessee.

The political term dark horse" Is
thought to have had its origin In the
following circumstances:
In the last century there lived in
Tennessee a Character" named Flynn,
an elderly person who dealt in horses.
Flynn generally contrived to own q
sTeody nag or two for racing purposes
if he could arrange for "a good thing"
during his peregrinations throughout
the state.
The best of FlyAn's flyers was
Goa! black stallion named Dusky Pete,
almost thoroughbred and able to go
in the best Of company
One day Flynn visited a town where
a race meeting was In progress. He
entered Pete. The people. knowing
nothing of the horses antecedents and
not being over Impressed by his APP
pcarance. backed the local favorite
heavily against the stranger.
Just as the beasts were being sad
died for the race q certain Judge Nc
Mnamee, who was the "oracle" of
that part Of the state, arrived on the
course and was made one of the race
judges
"A he took his place on the stand he
was told of the folly of the owner of
the strange entry Running his eye
over the track the Judge instantly rec
oenized Pete. Gentlemen" said Nc
Miuamee, there's dark hopse in this
race. as you'll soon find out"
He was right, Pete. "the dark horse"
lay back until the threequarter pole
was reached. when he went to the
front with rush and won the race.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

telegraph instruments within the zone,
Just as the waves disturb chips on a
pool. Messages are sent and received
somewhat on the plan of ordinary
Morse code by wires. in that electrical
impulses are regulated so as to spell
words according to code.
To Marconi belongs the credit of
making a practical success Of the dis
coveries OF others, but to Hertz be-
longs the credit OF making the sys-
tenn possible.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

johnson aud James *. Polk. ITS
only feat in the last 100 years hoH-
ever has been the production Of
Uncle Joe Cannon, II is'a peaceful,
hook -wormy state whose only .di-
version is to send a Republican to
Congress now and then and 10 watch
Cornelius Vanderbilt try to farm
his patch OF ground at Fillmore with
a sold-mounted pillow and imported
horse flies.
North Carolina has been intro~
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14
New YORK reI.ee Mascot.

In addition t. It's official ''yaller dog"
mascot, Bum, the old Mulberry street
police station has acquired another
deg, known as Peg Post. He is also
OF an ochre tint and his mysterious
behavior has balled the wisest sleuths
in the station. When the men begin
their tours on the stationary or peg
posts at ten O'clock at night, the dog
comes trotting from somewhere and
t@kes up his ssatien with whichever
policeman ON duty in the precinct suits
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

his fancy for rhat particular night.
frequently he changes from one post
to another and remains on watch
until the stationary posts give way
to regular ratrol at six in the morn
ing. Then he trots away, and is not
seen until the naxt night Offers of
tidbits from tho mems lunches have
been repeatedly refused by Peg Post
ard his agility has thus far prevented
any one from learning the number of
the dog license he wears en- his collar.
New York Tribune
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

DID NOT have to obtain the Official
0. x. of the big interests before
ii public. The Republican
platform bears every indication OF
having been dictated by the same
group of trust magnates who have
made all upward tariff revisions
during the present administration.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14
Already ACCOMPLISHED.

A reader asked the sage for advice,
saying:
Il am engaged to Kate Murphy, but
my former f2ncee. Kate Dooley,
threatens to SIZE me for breach OK
promise. Can YOU advise me how to
eXuicate myself from tais diff
eulty?"
The reply OF the sage was short. 1t
ran:
MY dear reader, If l may say SO,
YOU aeem to have extra-kated your
self already"
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

President Taft's explanation that
the wool tariff bill which he has
just vetoed, would ruin American in
dustry is an attempt on the part OF
the president to pull the wool over
the peoples eyes. The only indus
try the wool bill would injure would
be those owned by the trusts and
it would not ruin them by any
means.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14
HUMOROUS QU|PS

"John, have you wound the clock?"
Yes"
Are you sure the dining room win
d0ws are locked?"
Il have attended to them"
I'm afraid the maid may not have
bolted the hack door"
Il bolted it myself"
Il think | smell gas Won't you
please see If the stove is leaking?
No use doing that"
Yes there is. I'm sure smell gas"
No you don't" ID
I'm positive do. Go and see If the
maid hasn't left one of the burners
of the stove partly turned on"
Il tell you it's no use. You don't
smell gas"
What Is 1t them"
ITS what | was thinking"
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14
Enjoying II.

How could you send Jane, who ia
monotonous and uninteresting in the
last degree, to read to that poor sick
woman?"
"She is just the reader for the sick
woman. The patient is suffering from
insomnia"
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

Representative Nicholas Long
worth, son-in-law of Col Theodore
Roosevelt, head Bull Moose, Is oppos.
ing Or, A. o. Eewick, Bull Moose
candidate for election 10 congress
from the First Ohio Congressional
District. Thus a house is divided
against itself.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

At this very moment hundreds of
Tatt-orbust editorial writers are
wondering how they can explain
why the cost of living has advanced
so rapidly in recent years and why
salaries have advanced SO slowly
during the same period
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14
Harmonious pronheev

she's the right kind to read your
hand"
''Why?"
Because she'll promise you palmy
future"
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

The scientists now say that fleas
carry disease. Are we to have a flea
swatting campaign? And. If so, who
is TO make the flea stay there while
he is being swatted2
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14
The Doctors Little Joke.

Parson A, noted for his long wind.
ed sermons, met DR.. B. and inquired
concerning the health OF a mutual
friend. Well" said the doctor. I'm
afraid he needs your help more than
he does mine"
Poor fellow" exclaimed the parson,
is it as bad as that?'
Yes; he Is suffering from In
Eomnia."
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14
Not Quite Clear.

Il can understand spreadeagle tao
tics, but here's something / can't UNI
derstand"
What's that?"
why should congressman argu
ing for an appropriation to dredge q
creek speak bitterly about the crown,
ed heads Of Europe?"
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

A Pennsylvania man started out
to do Europe on SIS 1t loooks as
If he would have to do Europe if he
gets around on that amount Of
money.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

when the attention of The Bul
letin is called to any misstatement
of fact or to any error concerning
any man or thing, corrections viii
cheerfully be made.)
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

They say mans wife often makes
him, but Bingle's wife will never be
a01e to put any push In that man"
Just you wait until she gets lawn.
mower in his hands"
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14
Hls Wisdom Accounted Eor.

Solomon. you know, was considered
tho wisest man on earth" ~
YES. His wives probably kept him
Informed concerning all that Eaa gos
Ing ON" Ras
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14
Relieved.

Editor--There Is sameness about
your poetry, l regret to say.
Magazine Poet thastily)--What?
Editor-A sameness.
Magazine Poet-Oh! That's better.
thought you said saneness Puck.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

The order has been reversed. 1t
is not the wild and woolly west any
more. Nearly all the gunner are
In New York.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS

!. If you fail to receive yonr :.
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telephone to The Bulletin Of
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one will be sent to you by
special messenger.
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TIA Distinction,

'How are you going to have your
new cottage built, Mrs. Comeup?"
Our architect thinks we ought to
have it In Looey Kansas style, with
Porto RIGA in front"
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

A jackass bit a girl in Philadel-
phia and fatal results followed but
ii was the jackass that died.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

duced to modern Americans chiefly
through Asheyille which sits up in
its western mountains and has eli
mate which can be breathed with
benefit by man with orM' half IA
lung Outside OF It's principal cities
the state has CHANGED little since
the war and after Gabriel has blown
everyone else into line on the last
roll call he win have to give three
special toost for North Carolina,
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14
A Broken Vow.

He swore that he would still be glad,
No matter what misfortunes came.
Alas, an umpire made him mad
The next day at a baseball game.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

William Jennings Bryan DID write
the Democratic platform, as stated
by The evening contemporary, but he
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14
Il Historic /
+" BlackguardSI=
!: By X:
Il Albert Pdyson Terhune \.
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Aaron Burr, the Man Who
Would Be King

gEsvtiE good PEG
N pie OF Jersey
II in 1878 were
Mortified by a
fall from grace
on the part OF one
OF their best loved,
most pro m | 5 ing
youths. The lad
was S e V e n ( e e Il
year-old A arc IL
Burr, son OF the
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14
Last Co-Eds All Take Honors.

The passing of co-education at Wes-
leyan University is made notable by
the fact that every young woman in
the graduating class this year, which
is to be the last class OF women to re-
cefve diplomas from the university,
has been awarded honorary member
ship In the high scholarship society of
Phi Beta Kappa Only small proper
ton of the men received this honor.
One of the arguments which the
men students have advanced against
co-education, which becomes extinct
at Wesleyan this year, is that the
young women have taken scholarship
honofs which otherwise would have
zone to men Washington Evening
Star.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

Copyright. 1912 by George Mathew Adams)
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

One Way Of Getting Rid Of Them.
what do you do with your old
magazines?"
Lend 'em to the neighbors and they
never come back" 3a
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-14

In the course of the next few years
hard luck came again. Old. intirm.
poor, Stunned by his former friends,
his family gone, Aaron Burr finally
became an object of charity and died
at Port Richmond, s. l., September IA,
1885.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-11

There will be special
~ communication Of Granite
" lodge. No. IS, z. and A. NJ.
WHAA this friday evening at 7
ESS% o'clock. Work, NJ. VI. degree.
Per order W. NJ.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-11
TALK OF THE TOWN
IIunsIng nnderwear AZ Abbott,s.

| Munsing underwear at Abbott's
Big sale umbrellas Friday, T5c, al
The Vaughan Store.
At I've per yard, "A sale of outing
flannel at Perry's on Friday.
Everything In new knit goods for in,
fants and children Henry w. Knight
o. C. Averill viii start class in dane,
ing in Miles hall Friday evening, octo.
Der IL.
Scotch dance, Worthen hall, Saturday
Oct. II, at p IN. Gents soc, ladies
free.
Miss Mary Nichols returned this morn.
ing TO her home in Easthnmpton, Mass,
after spending week with friends in
the city
Taft and Sherman supporters. BE
sure and be present at city court room
Friday evening to help organize cam
paign club.
Sheet music and all kinds of musical
goods at Bailey's Music Rooms, II Elm
strete, Barre, Vt. Phone 22-W. II. j..
LaRoe, local manager.
Automobile for hire, by the day or
hour; fine, new Buick car, can carry
five passengers; will go anywhere. Jones
& Nyes livery stable. Depot square.
Superintendent c. +. Soule returned
this morning to st. Adams, after passing
a few days in the city on business con.
nected with the Central Vermont Rail
road company's local interests.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-11
progressive.

II would be unfortunate for ST. Johns.
bury if the town were to be deprived
of representation in the Vermont legis.
lature, because st. Johnsbury is one OF
the largest towns in the state and has
as many and as varied interests to be
attended to as any community in the
state Therefore, If the legislature,
which IS the judge of its membership
can see its way clear to grant DR.. Al
drich his seat, the action would be for
the best interests of st. Johnsbury and
the state, for, as we understand the sit
uation, st. Johnsbury would not be en-
titled to any representative if DIR. Al
drich were TO be barred. In arriving at
8 decision, the legislature should over
look the question Of politics and the po-
ltical utilization of the person in the
case.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-11

We are sorry to note that Gov. Will
son showed no more originality than
to drive locomotive. There is only
one candidate who has a copyright on
that.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-11

ii the Vermont legislature really is
progressive without the capital Pl, it
will vote to substitute electrocuton for
hanging in capital punishment cases, ac.
cording to the bill of Senator McFeeters
yesterday. BY failing to make the sub
stitution, It would confess itself nom
progressive.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-11
When Men Talk of Safety,

they think of insurance. We offer the
kind Of insurance which gives the best
service under all conditions. National
Life Insurance Company of Vermont.
Mutual $. 5. Ballard, general agent,
Lawrence building, Montpelier, Vt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-11

Representative Brigham of Bradford
is to be commended Tor his bill to en-
force the carrying of lights at night on
road vehicles.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-11

The man who interrupted Roosevelt
at Houghton, Mich, wasn't called liar,
simply standing for lie" That may
be considered an improvement.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-11

Let's say nothing except that which
we know to be true, leaving the uncon-
tirmed rumor unsaid.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-11

but think of the numbers it is educating
on the deficit.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-11
THE BARRE DAILY TIMES
FRIDAY, OCTOBER II, 1912.

Published every weekday afternoon
Subscriptions: One year, $500; one
month, % cents; single copy, l cent.
Entered at the postoffice at Barre as
second class matter.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-11

The score in the Near East: Monte
negro /, Turkey 0, at end of the first
inning.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-11
Frank z. Langley, Publisher.

One thing was lacking in Vermont's
reception to President Tafta game of
golf.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-11

We hope for Prof. Stefanssons sake
that his blond Eskimo" story won't be
Cooked.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-11

Dartmouth college may have a deficit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

1 Speech, he frothed slightly at the | Mouth.
 He roared about the Wool Schedule just as if he knew what 1t meant.
 According to him, the Plain People were tied to the Stake with the Money Power sprinkling the Kerosene and the Trust Magnates getting ready to strike Match.
 No put his emphatic Nixey at the whole Line of Talk. He said the Tariff Law was no Geranium, but he would rather keep it than let go of every thing and start off Aeroplaning for two or three Years.
 He said there were too many Agita- tors raging up and down the Side Streets trying to WOO the Voters away from the Nickel Shows and get them all het up over Politics.
 So long as there was Uncertainty over Tariff Legislation, every poor Geezer with Stock of Goods or a little Manufacturing Plant would be lying across the Ropes with his Eyes rolled up, glassy-like.
 With Congress getting ready to have one of the regular Epileptic Spasms, no Merchant would dare to order more than two Bolts of Calico at Time, and every morning he would have to take new Pencil and begin remarking everything on the shelves. Since the Merchant had frightened up, the Manufacturer was playing safe, therefore the Children of the Artisan were living on Cereals and All-Day Suckers, the latter being durable Candy of Granite Forma- ton.
 No. 1 moved back the Dishes and began to lay down a few Eternal Principles. He said the American People were not seeking the Immedi- ate Mazuma. They wanted to settle for all time the vexed Question as to whether the Sovereign Voter shall be a Human Being or a Messenger Boy. He said the poor Dub who stood in Line for an Hour and then wore out his Intellect trying to get the right Marks on the Official Ballot usually found himself represented at the Ma tion's Capitol by a Trusted Employe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

could not fall out which. so far as I could tell seemed to be his chief ambi- tion in life. He wore a light blue suit
 and he had very yellow curls and bare
 legs, and as befitted his high station, his
 little hands were encased in white kid
 gloves. The nurse put a green silk cush-
 ion on a table which she placed before
 the window, but before Prince John could
 settle himself, another little prince, who
 was visiting at the palace. dressed in a
 white duck sailor suit, pushed his royal
 host away and appropriated the cushion
 for his own use. W'hereupon Prince John, with perhaps more spirit than hos
 pitality tumbled his royal visitor off the cushion and a fearful battle ensued.
 In the midst of the conflict a little prin- cess in a staff white dress and bare legs and a great bow of blue ribbon stuck in
 her blond curls, sat down on the green cushion, and Prince John and his antag-
 onist, with rare gallantry, broke away and
 contented themselves by sitting on either
 side of the princes and hanging on to the iron bars. The crowd in the stand, com pletey charmed, waved their greetings to Prince John, and he in turn beat his It. tie white gloved hands on the window pane and blew innumerable kisses to his devoted subjects. Whatever may have been his attitude toward King George up to that time, there was no question as to
 their affection for his youngest son.
 When we looked back we found the
 roadway before us had suddenly cleared,
 The kaleidoscope had resolved itself into
 long lines of rigid soldiers. From great distance we could hear the cheers for
 the new crowned King rolling across the park. The plaza about the Victoria me-
 morial was a great circle of scarlet and white uniforms, and back of these banks of blossoming plants and rows of hun dreds of nurses from the hospitals In their red and gray cloaks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

of some Billion Dollar Combination They had been Double-C Crossed once too often and now they were out danc- ing in the Moonlight and getting ready to nail few Scalps on every Trolley Pole from Providence, R. l., to Seattle, Wash.
 No. 2 said the Country could never get back to real Prosperity while all the Money-Getters were being adver- tised in the Penny Shriekers and the Muck-Raking Ten Centers as the Lineal Descendants of Capt. Kidd.
 He said it had got to be Crime for Man to have More than ST in his Clothes at one Time. In every Car toon, the Hero is broke.
 The designing Villain who erects a Building covering an entire Block and puts 1900 helpless Square Heads on the Pay Roo1 is denounced by the Union, investigated by the Woman's Club and sandbagged by the Farmers in the State Legislature.
 When a Railway President walks down the street, the little Daughter of the Magazine Writer runs home to the $30 Flat and hides under the Bed. .
 Lawyers representing large Corpor- ations have to travel Incog, and if it can be shown that Beef Packer has not Blown Up, he has to stand Trial for it.
 In the old-time Books circulated by the Sunday School Library, the Good Little Boy who never used Bad Lan- guage or kicked his Sister on. the Ankle grew up to be Successful Business Man with Side Whiskers who carried a gold-headed Cane and went about rebuking Evil and spilling Sunshine.
 In the revised Version, the Good Little Boy grows up to be a refined Pauper and the wicked Urchin, after accumulating $30, ,OO0,0 ,0O0, dies of Apo plexy while undergoing a Congress sional Investigation.
 No. 2 said it was Fine Business. Any Country that would knock a Hustler and try to sew him up in a Sack was due for long spell of Soup