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so head Of good sheep. II last ,
! spring lambs. 33 breeding Yews,
good milk COWS with calves.
: 8 head Of hogs. ! Buggy, / Sor-
ghum mill, collons cultivator,
: a harrow, Home Comfort Steel
Range stove. Corn shelter, / good
k grind stone, 22 head of large !
Geese, 2 doz. hens, good crown
organ as good as new, About 10 !
bu. Of Irish Potatoes, I Extention !
: table. l bedstead, 2 ssts springs !
E About 15 acres good corn in field
and Lots Of Other things to num-
nrnnS fO ~ a,oti0N
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
Tenaue Twisters.

Almost every boy and girl has heard
of the old tongue twister that begins
Peter Piper picked a peck of pepper,
but here is one that You can defy any
one to repeat after you if you have
learned it well enough TO say it pref
ty quickly yourself:
"How much wood would wood
chuck chuck if a woodchuck could
chuck wood? If a woodchuck could
chuck wood the wood that wood
chuck would chuck is the wood that
a woodchuck could chuck if the wood
chuck that could chuck wood would
chuck or a woodehuck could chuck
wood"
Here is short one, but rather con-
fusing to repeat after hearing it only
once: 81 know Emo; you know too. In
fact, we all three know. We know
Emo. He knows you. You know
know Emo"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
The Game Of Pairs.

Great fun may be got out OF the
game of pairs Each boy chooses a
partner for himself The host, who
pretends be is lawyer, walks up and
down the room in front of the pairs.
asking questions of any one he pleases.
The answers TO his questions must be
made not by the one addressed, but by
his partner. If the girl be addressed
the boy promptly answers. For in
stance. the lawyer says, what is your
favorite occupations" to the boy. His
partner answers, Dressing dolls" or
Making beds He may ask girl.
what do you like best to do?' and
the boy by her side answers. playing
leapfrog." or some other masculine
sport. If any one answers out of turn
he or she must pay a forfeit. The
saucier the answers the greater the
fun. 4-.sI
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
LITERARY FREAKS.
Curious Styles Of Composition That
Amused Old Time Writers.


Amused Old Time Writers.
With many writers. especially in
0lden times, various curious styles of
composition were much in favor. One
author, for example. would compose
verses with some particular letter
omitted from every stanza. Others
would write in such a way that the
line read the same backward and for
ward, and still others made anagrams.
1t was fashionable at one time to write
verses in fantastic shapes.
The form of bottle, glass or fan
was initiated, and this was done by
lengthening or shortening the lines as
required, though with sad detriment to
the verse. Where the design was
bottle a number of short lines would
go to form the neck; gradually length
ening, the shoulder would be formed
and then body.
There were also verses arranged in
the form of pair of gloves. pair of
spectacles, etc. Specimens Of this kind
of literary frivolity are to be found in
French, Spanish and English books OF
the sixteenth century.
Both in China and Japan such lit
erary feats are held in great esteem
even at the present day. In the lat
ter country the poet not infrequently
arranges his verses In the shape of a
mans head, thus perhaps giving ia.
sial outline of the subject of his verse,
and though the Chinese may not make
SO nice choice, choosing perhaps a
COW or other animal for the design,
they display greater ingenuity.
Among the most curious of all liter
airy freaks are the lipogrammatic
works composed by the old Greeks,
works in which one letter Of the al.
pha bet is osidtted. The Odyssey" Of
Tryphiodorus is composed in this way,
He had no alpha in his first book, no
beta In his second, and so on with the
subsequent letters one after another
This Odyssey" was an imitation of
the lipogrammatic "Iliad'' of Nestor
There was an ode by Pindar where
from he had purposely omitted the let
ter sigma. This ingenuity became a
literary fad. encouraged even by those
who, 1t might be thought, would be
the first to oppose such literary trihing-
In Latin there is work by Fugen-
titus divided into twenty-three chapters
according to the order of the twenty
three letters of the Latin alphabet.
From A to o are still extant. The first
chapter is without A, the second with.
out Il. and so on.
The Persians also appear to have
been given to this freakish work.
There is story to the effect that
poet read to the celebrated Jami
gael of his own composition which
Jami did not like.
The writer contended that it was a
very curious sonnet, for the letter alif
was not to be found In any one of the
words. To this Jami very appropri.
ately remarked:
You can do better thing yet-take
away all the letters from the words |
you have written."-New York Herald. (
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
Burninu a SNOWFALL.

Can you pick up handful of snow.
pack 1t into a good, solid. throwing"
SNOWFALL and then light it with a
match. If you can perform this trick
you are pretty sure to mystify the on
lockers. and the secret of 1t is simple
enough, explains the Youths Compan-
ion, once you know it.
The SNOWFALL can be rolled in full
view of the spectators. 1t can also be
passed round so that everybody may
have a chance to see that it is real
snow. What they do not see is that on
one side lump of camphor has been
inserted 1t is this that is lighted. It
will burn until nothing is left of the
ball but she'll When there is no snow
the same trick may be performed by
thrusting the camphor into the top of
a dish of cracked ice.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
TeakettIe Party.

A good game is teakettle party.
Two are sent from the room. and the
persons left must decide upon a word
10 call "teakettle." The word should
have different spellings and must have
different meanings. as fair, fare; hare.
hair; eve, you; do, due, dew, etc. The
two sent out may be called in and be-
gin by asking any person in the room
any question they wish. which must be
answered by using in the sentence the
word "teakettle'' instead Of the word
selected. The two must guess from
the meaning of the sentence what the
WORD is. Sometimes they cannot guess
and have 70 be told. Send any others
out you wish to next time.
& Here are some questions and an
swers: Q. do you intend to go home
tonightY A. Il teakettle dol" Q.
How much did this carpet COST" A.
"You win have to ask my teakettle
dear" O. "How far is it to T.?'' A.
well. If Won teakettle (fleel you will
get there soon.' O. Are you going to
Phoebe's party?" A. Eyes, if the wealth
er Is teakettle (faip."-Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
A Violet That Is a Lily.

yellow Adder's Tongue, or Dogs
tooth violet, is lily and not violet,
It springs from a corn or bulb. and the
shape of the pretty reAexed flower also
is that of lily. This dainty wild
flower mods its yellow head as it faces
the sun. with a charm of its own Two
light green, thick, smooth and shining
pointed and notified leaves support each
flower stem. The dog's-tooth violet fair
" carpets the low, warm, moist slopes
OF swampy borders adjacent to small
streams and spring ponds in the early
springtime. The bulbs of this little
plant were formerly roasted and eaten
by the Indians. who consider them as
delicaey. The bulbs yield an emetic
and together with the foliage are used
in medicines. The bell shaped, golden
flowers of this little lily are slightly
fragrant, and when full expanded on
bright, sunny days. they are very pleas.
ing and lovely. They close toward even
ing. and do not open on dull on rainy
days. 1.-The First Wild Flowers of
Spring" in the Magazine Flowers for
March.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
CASCARETS WORK
while YOU SLEEP
Salts, Calomel and Cathartic Pills Are
Violent-They Act on Bowels as
Pepper Acts in Nostrils.

Take a Cascaret tonight and thor
oughly cleanse your liver, stomach and
bowels, and you will surely feel great
by morning. You men and women who
have headache, coated tongue, can't sleep,
are bilious, nervous and upset, bothered
with a sick, gassy, disordered stomach,
or have backache and feel all worn out.
Are you keeping clean inside with Cas-
carets-or merely forcing passageway
every few days with salt, cathartic pills
or castor oil? This is important.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse and
regulate the stomach, remove the sour.
undigested and fermenting food and foul
gases; take the excess bile from the
liver and carry off the decomposed waste
matter and poison from the intestines
and bowels.
Remember, a Cascaret tonight wilt
straighten you out by morning. A 10
cent box from your druggist means
clear head and cheerfulness for months.
Don't forget the children.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
MAGAZINE REVIEW
What Tobacco Does to the Boy.

1t is generally admitted that in the
immature the moderate use of tobacco
stunts the normal growth Of the body
and mind, and causes various nervous
disturbances, especially of the heart !
disturbances whichflt causes in later llI&
only when smoking has become eXces
sive. That is to say, though DnysS
stomach grows tolerant of nicotine IA
the extent Of taking it without pro1
test. the rest OF the body keeps on
protesting.
Furthermore. all business men viii tell
YOU that tobacco damages a boys use
fulness in his work This is necessar-
liz so, since anything which lowers
vitality creates some kind of incompe-
tence For the same reason the boy
who smokes excessively not only is I'M
able to work vigorously, but he does
not wish to work at all. This result
apparent during growth, is only less
apparent after growth, when other
causes may step in to neutralize it.
Tobacco, in bringing about a deprecia-
ton of the nerve cells, brings, together
with physical results like insomnia, low
cred vitality. and rcstlessness, their NOR
al counterparts, like irritability, lack
OF concentration desire to avoid re-
sponsibiIity and to travel the road of
least resistance.
II there were some instrument to de-
tcfmine ii, IN my opinion there would
be seen a difference OF fifteen per cent.
in the general efficiency Of smokers and
The time is already at
hand when smokers will be barred out
OF positions which demand quick thought
and action Already tobacco is forbid
dco during working hours in the United
States Steel corporation. Charles B.
Tewns "The Injury of Tobacco" in
March Century.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
Her Report.

have been TO a suffragist meeting
And heard Mrs. Solomon speak.
She's a perfect delight.
And ! know that she's right:
Every word that she said bears repeating
There's dimple just here in her cheek.
She Is slender and fair and quite pretty
And not over thirty. / guess,
With a retrousse nose
And a wonderful pose
] am going 10 join her committee
She is surely an artist in dress.
The crowd? There was standing room
only.
They gave her unstinted applause.
She made quite hit
with her Logic and wit.
The only man there looked so lonelyl
Yes I'm a convert to the cause,
She wore a Partisan creation
She said I've forgotten all that,
But I'm sure II was true.
And the ballots our due.
It's deniars real deprivation
She wore such love Of hati
Chicago News.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
wee
Whu Stars TminLIn-

Who can tell why IL is that the stars
sometimes seem to twink and win
kle," as one small boy says, more than
at others? And why do they twinkle
anyway? The reason they twinkle is
that their light pierces through many
different heated and moving currents
of air, which makes the light reach
our eyes in crooked or twinkling line
instead Of straight and steady one.
Wise men tell us that much twinkling
toretells bad weather. because 1t shows
that the currents of air are much dis
turbed. :
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04

Who. was or is the greatest woman
in all history? Two hundred school
teachers answered the question, and
with enthtis iasm and unanimity the
judges awarded the prize to the one
who msde this reply: "The wife Of
the farmer of moderate means who
does her own cooking, washing, iron
ing. sewing, brings up a family Of
boys and girls to be useful members
of society and finds time for intel.
lectual improvement"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
TO PROSPECT IN A BALLOON.
Toronto Man Prepares to Fly to Ungava,
in Quebec.

Ottawa. March Al. f. Clarke of To-
ronto is preparing to make 50O-mile
dash by dirigible balloon from Cochrane
20 Ungava. the vast unexplored no-man's
land lying north of Quebec, west of
Labrador and east OF Hudson strait, in
search of gold.
He hopes to beat a party of II men
which New York and Toronto capitalists
are providing with money to go into
Ungava overland to confirm the stories
about gold fields. This party will sail
from st. Johns. Newfoundland, MAY Is,
with a years supply of provisions in a
schooner with motor auxiliary. They will
90 Thousand miles north and west
The stories Of gold there have been
brought overland To Porcupine and Co
bait.
The men say that 20 miles overland
from their destination they can wash
gold from the streams.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
Root and Herb Remedies

stand the test Of time because they pos.
sess merit, and though many years have
passed since our American grandmOth-
ers commenced to make their annual
collections of roots, herbs and barks,
from which to prepare medicine to relieve
different ailments. science has failed to
produce other remedies so dependable.
Many of these old recipes which our
ancestors found so reliable have devel-
oped into proprietary medicines of world
wide reputation, such as Lydia f. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound the most
successful remedy for woman's ills the
world has ever known, and tons OF roots
and herbs are used annually in max
ing it.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
FOR the CHILDREN
Manic Blocks.

There's magic in the letter blocks
When by simply changing places
The same ones make quite different words,
AS IL they'd many faces.
A mate is meat. and tame is team.
And bleat VIII change 10 table.
And stage is gates, and slate is steal
And cotton bales make sable.
An inch Of flesh will make a chin,
Fruit crates cut glass caster.
All tears will dry into a stare
And then become an aster.
Time is made of one small mite;
The north's a thorn, so singing:
The east seat, he west a stew,
The south a shout, outrlnging.
Adverb is braved, and calm is clam:
A stream becomes a master:
The small word more makes ancient Roms.
roast the richest Aston
But lest this hint Of play grow thin
To little folks, so clever,
I leave the harder words to find,
And here my verse makes sever.
Youths Companion.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
Skin Tortured Children.

The skin of infants is very liable to
irritation, Inflammation, chatting, crack
ing, roughness, priekly heat, rash, etc.
No matter what the cause may be, the
new remedy Cadum, gives immediate
relief in such troubles. 1t stops the ir-
ritation at once, allays the infiamma-
ton, gives the little sufferer ease and
comfort, and enables it to sleep in peace.
Cadum is soothing and healing wherever
the skin is inflamed or irritated, and
can be used on the tender skin of in
fsnts with safety. OF druggists, Zoe
and 25c per box.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
"Hughie" Fullerton Says the Best Meal
Is to Be Had at Hickman. Tenn.

q
In an article on Eating" by Hugh
Fullerton, the great baseball expert, in
the March American Magazine, appears
the following account of what Full
larton calls the best meal available
on the American continent:
"The best assembled dinner to be
found on the North American continent
is open to the public at the eating house
at Hickman, Tenn. The cost is seventy
five cents, special rates to travelling
men and railroaders. The place is con
ductive to appetite, and the air and
scenery there advertised for the first
time) would make a millionaire dys-
pc ptic relish pounded flank steak.
The house is of frame, colorful and
clean, and it sits perched right under
the caves of the mountain and almost
overhanging the broken rushing, sweet
waters Of Cancy Fork. 1t is a railway
eating house. but one need not hasten.
The trainmen are willing to remain as
long as the passengers so incline,
There are eight kinds of meat all
cooked. There is the kind of fried
chicken one reads of in the romances
OF the South chicken fried in butter
until one might wrap sizzling drum
stick in napkin and leave no speck
OF grease. There are five kinds of
out OF the little garden that
struggles back up the mountainside. and
cream gravy. Toured, and salt pork,
Dreaded in eornmeal and fried until
crisp, and seven kinds Of preserves and
three kinds of pickles Ia, oh well. what's
the use? 1t is the oasis in the desert,
one OF the few places where men still
eat. and where, if fellow renegs aft
err the third helping of anything. the
pretty mountain girl (who does not feel
that hashing' is anything detrimental
to her social standingl feels that you
do not appreciate her cooking"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
Nineteen Miles a Second

without a jar, shock or disturbance. is
the awful speed of our earth through
space. We wonder at such ease of ma
lures movement, and so do those who
take DIR. Kings New Life Pills. No
gripping, no distress, just thorough work
that brings good health and fine feelings.
25c at the Red Cross Pharmacy.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
A CARD.

All persons using DIR. Lawyers Lini-
ment for colds on the lungs, pains, rheu-
matism, etc, with no relief, will do the
manufacturer a kindness if they viii
return the bottle to the place purchased
and demand their money. No red tape
win be used whatever and their money
viii be returned as eheerfully as it was
taken.
Z. w. LAWYER, VS..
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
Again?

A young English attache of the 1ega.
ton In Washington remarked to an
American belle some yearsugo: 81 am
really sorry that the Boring sea affair
is not likely to be amicably adjusted.
for. of course, with our superior navy.
we could just wipe you of the face OF
the earth" %.-ssss-s,-
She replied with one word. "Againl I,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
The Ns,u snnIlinn.

What are these words containing
FIVE letters which can be EXPRESSED In
two:
A composition? "a.
Decrepitude? d K.
An English county? S *
To surpass? Y L.
A girls name? L N.
Another girls Christian namef b ~
Requires replenishingH NJ T.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04

E. W. LAWYER, V. S.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-11-02
To the ProhIbitionists of Idaho.

To the Star-Mirror readers in re.
gard to Mr.. Nichols withdrawing fom
the Prohibition ticket: Let no one be
disturbed in the least or fooled into
voting for Mr. Martin of any other
man. Vote for every prohibition can
didate on the ticket. We are not vo-
ting for men but for principle. 1t is
just another turn of the brewer to
keep he black pail of rum rue in Idaho
for two years.
We are CORY that the head of our
state ticket should turn turtle at the
las momen, blu it only shows he fear
full power he brewer has in the politics
of Idaho.
Every lover of righteousness and of
true progress should vote the prohibi
ton ticket next Tuesday as a rebuke to
cowardly, schemeing. dirty politics.
Yours for better day,
j. G. CARRICK,
County Chairman.
Also member of state committee and
nominee for representative in con-
gress.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-11-02
Injustice to Biau.Mass Company.

An injustice to the Bitu-Mass Paving
company was done In the Thursday is
sue of the Spokesman-Re which
said, referring to the bid of the Dowl-
ing concern: "On Bitu-Mass this COM
pany's bid was $3.50 per yard, which
is 20 cents per yard less than the price
submitted by the Spokane Bitu-Mass
company"
The Bowling bid was for btu
mass type" pavement, and not on a
concrete base.
The Spokane Bitu-Mass company's
bid was $1.44, or six cents lower than
the Bowling bid, on Bitu-Mass on a
BituMass base. while upon a con-
crete base it was for fiwe-inch con-
crete base and two inches BituMass
top, $1.79.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-11-02
FALSE AFFIDAyITS
CAUSE TROUBLE
Afidayits of Libelous Nature Lands
One in Jail.
AFFIDAyITS
CAUSE TROUBLE

One OF the most dastardly campaign
tricks ever perpetrated in Latah coun-
ty is that by which the enemies of c.
G. Brown are now seeking to prevent
THAT officers reelection They have
secured an affidavit from a notorious
"bootlegger, Bill Henry by name. that
one, H. L. Hardy also a bootleeger
paid Mr.. Brown SIS on condition that
he, Hardy, be not prosecuted for boot-
Logging. The upmost secrecy was At
tempted by the parties who secured
the affidavits and it was their plan
to circulate Immediately before cleo
ton, thinking that in this way Mr..
Brown would be unable to meet the
harges made against him. The scheme.
however, has been discovered and the
friends of Mr.. Brown are in possess
sion of the affidavits.
The statements made in these affi-
daylts are plain, unyarnished campaign
lies of the lowest type AS soon as
Mr.. Brown learned of the whereabouts
of Hardy who has been a fugitive
from justice, has caused his Arrest and
will prosecute him for bootlegging,
perjury and criminal libel. Sheriff
Brown arrived from Palouse with
Hardy Thursday night and now has
lin locked up In the county Jail await
ng trial.
While Mr.. Brown is loath to pay
my attention to so contemplate a
rick, yet some persons unacquainted
With him might be mislead, We deem
best to make this reply.
(Signed) A. S. LYONS,
Chairman Republican Committee.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-11-02
Aid for Orphanage.

special call comes from Mrs. En-
sign Rogers, who spoke here recently
regarding Salvation Army relief work,
that a consignment of second hand
clothing and shoes be sent soon that
it may reach them before Thanksgiv-
ing. Childrens clothing is especially
need to at them for school.
Send all contributions to 424 e. 18th
street, Tuesdays of each week. Mrs.
George l. Knapp.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-11-02

81 and Mrs. Berry forced him to hand
over a watch. When the collector
wanted the district attorney to issue a
warrant for the arrest of Mrs. Berry
ne was ordered out of the office
Warrants are out for the arrest of
to have operated in Portland, Ore, and
many other places, alleged as suit
club" swindlers.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-11-02
SHE THREATENS SUIT
CLUB MAN WITH GUN

SA NFRANCISCO, Nov. Backing
up her demand with gun Mrs. En-
ma Berry forced the agent of a suit
club" to return 81 she had given in a
payment of a suit She threatened the
collector with death if he did not re-
turn the money, when he called for
another payment.
The collector said he only had the
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-11-02
Pretty Afternoon Affair.

Mesdames w. E. Wallace and Glenn
Saunders were hostesses yesterday te
to company of about 100 ladies. Mrs
Wallace's home was darkened and
decorated with an effective use Of jack
olanterns and other Halloween SYM
bols Mesdames Harry Moore, Harry
Whittier and L. P. Parsons assisted
the hostesses.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-11-02

losing control. 1t was driven on the
rocks and smashed to pieces.
Alexander Leonard went to the
scene this morning in a row boat and
rescued Lionel Leduc, A. Gosslin, E. H.
Baillargeon and Felix Cousineau. The
names of those lost are unknown.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-11-02
Socialists Close Campaign.

CHICAGO, Nov. with monster
parade and mass meeting this after
noon and fireworks tonight the Dabs'
campaign closes. The candidate re-
turns tomorrow to his home in Terre
Haute, Ind