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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27
We Clean, Press and Repair Clothing
Fur Coats to Rent.
ia North Main Street, Barre, Vermont
The Big Store With Little Prices.

candidate for third term as president
OF the United States. 1t was to Be
taken rs matter OF course that the
New York Sun and the Springfield Re-
publican would oppose his position with
much bitterness; and such proved to be
the case. Then there comes a strong
journal Of the Independent type, the Ros-
ton Herald which voices its dissatisfae.
tion with the announcement; and after
that a newspaper of undoubted Republi-
can loyalty, the Boston Transcript, which
declares that Roosevelt has made great
mistake One portion Of the last-named
papers comment is here given, because
we believe it represents fairly the atti-
tude of great part of the Republican
party:
His letter contains no argument as
TO why he should be preferred to Presi.
dent Taft. He describes himself in ef-
feet as in receptive mood, whereas it
is very evident that he Is reaching out
to capture the nomination. He has be-
gun campaign which promises, if not
to rend the Republican party, to shake
it by the fierceness of the contentious Of
his partisans. Yet so far as present out
giving goes, there is no platform on
which he and his adherents stand. unless
it be found in his Columbus speech.
which is full of radieaIism and pro-
poses general overturning of the CON
stitution. If there is any reason in Mr.
Roosevelt's mind why Mr.. Taft should
not be renominated, why does he not
express it? Does Roosevelt think that
his wish for the nomination is sufficient
If he does, his temperament has reached
the dictatorial stage which his opponents
within the party have always declared
was the dangerous point in his consttu-
tional makeup. / want it, summaries
Roosevelts position to-day"
If Col. Roosevelt anticipated that there
would be great rush to his standard
following the announcement of his candi- |
dacy, he is destined to be disappointed |
But, of course, we must wait for the |
comment of the middle West before pass |
ing final judgment of the popular atti-
tude, for it is in the middle West that
he is the strongest.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27
Pumping Water BY Sun Power.

| The sandy and sun-baked wastes of
the Nile, the arid lands of the Texas
Panhandle, the nitrate fields of Chile, the
deserts of Africa, in short, those dried
out portions OF the earth which for CEN
lures have resisted the efforts of the
farmer, are to be reclaimed by the very
thing that has made them desolatethe
sun
There was shipped recently from Phil
adeIphia to Egypt the first section OF the
first sun power plant ever invented and
put TO practical use This is not the
experiment OF a dreamer, but the COM
pleted and tested work-after many
months OF practical use in Tacony, 4
suburb OF Philadelphia Frank Sh'i-
man of Tacony Nor is this wonderful
plant being sent to Egypt haphazard'
it is going to I'LL an order of the Egyp-
tian government, an order given after
board of expert commissioners had
spent months at the Tacony plant as
special investigators for the khedive. II
is backed by British capital, placed only
after the most exhaustive investigation
Of the practical use of the sunpower
plant.
The Egyptian order was the first but
not the only one which has been placed
in the past several months With the
assurance from the khedves commits
sioners and from the English fnaneiers,
orders have begun to pour in from every
section Of the globe, until Mr.. Shuman
has found it necessary to begin the cree
ton of a plant TO make sun-power
plants. The work on this plant is start
ing now in Philadelphia.
This, in brief, is the story of the
ultimate success of years OF effort, of
work and of testing, but it gives only a
slight idea of the great factor that has
entered agricultural and manufacturing |
development and what this wonderful |
sun-ray -harnessing machinery win do.
The main object of the Empower
plant is to produce practical power at the
least possible cost. The idea of "har-
Messing the sun has been the dream OF
inventors and the desire of the CONNER
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27
A Move imnsndinn.

It was after morning school, and tn,
teacher was in such a good temper
that little Tommy sided up to him tC
discuss decidedly personal matter.
please, teacher" the small boy be
gan, II fancy ! shall be leaving this
school soon"
The tutor looked interested and haZ.
arded n query as 10 the reason for
this parting of the ways.
We'll, sir" continued the pupil,
mothers burnt the door of the coal
house and the lid Of the copper. and
fathers started chopping down the
stairs"
Eyes, my boy" said the schoolmas-
ter kindly "But what makes you
imagine you'll be leaving the district"
"Well, you see. teacher" continued
the boy, ,'when we've burnt the stairs
we always move"-Answers
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27

Chinese people in the United States
are said to be sending large sums OF
money home to finance the revolutionary
movement there. 1t is barely possible
that Americans, realizing how free the
American Chinese are with their money
for this purpose, had that as an excuse
for not rallying more generously to the
Red Cross society's appeal for funds to
mid the sufferers in that country, think
ing that some of the suffering caused by
The warfare might be alleviated by the
contributions being regularly sent. II
does seem scarcely reasonable for the
United States to contribute money for
making suffering and then alternating it.
for it is doubtless true that much of
the suffering which it was hoped to allie
Fiate has been caused by warfare.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27
JNGLES And JESTS
Spring In Texas.

The winds are swingin' to the south, an
cattle shed their coats
An mockin' birds are hoppin' up an
clearin' of their throats,
An tunun' of EN- more an more as
days git warm an long,
An pretty soon they will tear loose
an wake the world with song;
An buds are swellin' on the trees an
soon will bust in leaves,
An sparrows are a-twitterin' an fussin'
in the caves;
An the nights has a smell that, mixed
with the moon up above,
Makes me most wish that | was young
with some one near to love.
The cannas are a-startin up, the hya-
cinth's in bloom
An folks just keep a-snifin', for they
sense the sweet perfume
OF comm spring, an kids are out an
ON their roller skates
Or smilin' at the passer-by, a-hangin'
over gates.
An just last night it Numbered an the
lightnin' lit the sky,
An the floodgates o heaven will be open
by an by,
An the world will be soaked with rain
an washed all sweet an clean
An iressed in all the latest an most
vivid shades o. green.
| know what the spring rains is for, |
think / ought to know.
They're made to fill the hollows up an
make the cutters flow
An make a place for kids to splash
harefooted in the sun
An sqush the mud up twixt their toes
an yell an laugh an run;
An the moons made for older ones that
walk beneath the trees
BY twos an close together, yieldin' to
loves sorceries;
When spring gifts in the air, an when the
moon Is up above,
swear | wish that / was young an
had some one to love!
Houston Post.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27
CURRENT COMMENT
Roosevelt.

II the majority of the voters of the
United States want Theodore Roosevelt
to be the next president, they can have
him. He is dangerous man-far more
dangerous than ever before i'm his public
life-but let the majority rule.
Mr.. Roosevelt is now an avowed and
aggressive candidate for the Republican
nomination. Il will accept" he an
nounees in his answer to the seven Re-
publican governors. That is to say, he
will fight for it. The question is thus
put squarely up to those voters who
maintain an allegiance to the Republ-
can party. Their decision will come first.
If they repudiate President Taft and his
administration and make Mr.. Roosevelt
their candidate, then the question will
be put before the entire electorate. II
is well to remember that the Republican
party is not the American people
Nor does Mr.. Roosevelt appeal to the
people regardless of party lines. His
decision to accept the nomination will
be adhered to, he says, until the CON
vention has expressed its preference;
and simultaneously comes the announce
ment from the Roosevelt headquarters
in Washington that, in case he should
be defeated in the Republican conven-
ton, he would refuse to head any indie
pendent ticket. 1t is, of course, impossi-
BILE to place any faith whatever in any
political promise he may make now or
in the future, in view of his reputation
of his anti-third-term pledge. LEST we
forget" here it is again--that memorable
pledge:
THE wise custom which limits the
president to two terms regards the sub
stance and not the form, and under no
will | be candidate for
or accept another nomination."
With that solemn pledge now cavalierly !
laughed aside as of no more consequence |
than refusal to accept coffee three
times at breakfast, how can we ever
trust his pledges again? If Mr.. Roose-
Walt should not be Nominated by the Re.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27

President Spooner is right: Norwich
university does need an endowment fund
1t needs the fund very much. Any col
lege or university in these latter days
is handicapped badly if it does not have
an adequate and constant source of in
come to enable it to pay reasonable sal
aries to professors and maintain good
equipment for the various laboratories
and classrooms. Therefore, the statement
which the president of the neighboring
university made at the meeting of the
alumni in Boston last week was timely
1t deserves serious consideration.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
DON'T BE HASTY
Urged By "Standpatter" In Connection
With Auto Fire Truck Purchase.

/ Otgeu by otdnuPdltei III SohheSllOh
With Auto Fire Truck Purchase.
Editor. Times: 1t seems to me that
the scheme before the city council to
purchase an auto fire truck at just this
time is preeipitate and unwise Why
make this purchase at its last regular
! meetingl What's the rush? The Snext
| city council must pay the bills. Why
should it not have something to say
about its purchase? What's up?
Is il because two petitions for the
purchase of the auto have been present
ed at this last momentY With all re-
spect to the petitioners, | submit that
their petitions should have little or no
weight One comes from the north, the
other from the south end Of the city.
The petitioners claim that their bus
mess. being farther from the central
fire station, needs special fire protec
ton.
But why did these men, in establish
ing their business, choose these local
itiesg Was it not because OF special
advantages in these localities? The land
and buildings cost less. The taxes are
less. The danger of fire is less. The
insurance is less Do not these advan-
tages more than outweigh any supposed
disadvantages of being farther from the
fire station?
All things considered, these petition
ers. it seems to me, are even better Off
where they are than they would be II
located in more central parts of the city.
Ii would also seem, therefore, that the
petitions from these parties could hard
~ have been voluntary. May we not
b. excused for suggesting that someone
personally interested in the purchase
OF the auto may have petitioned to these
petitioners to send in their petition?
Anyway, the parties most anxious to
buy extol our present fire department |
to the skies. II is equal, they claim, !
to the best in New England Is not |
tits good enough? win it not do. al I
least few days longer BY waiting I
little we may do much better. The |
auto fire truck is now in process of evo-
luton Purchase a machine this year |
and next year it may be like an old 1
ahnanac-out of date. Be patient, and /
ven get better machine at less cost.
Certainly, when we do purchase we
want the best machine that can be 4
made. machine that would do well /
in some places might not answer the
purpose at all in Barre. Our streets
are comparatively narrow, with many
high grades. Ii we have a machine at
all, we need one that can be run with
safety at high speed through our busy
streets and easily climb our highest
grades.
Under all the circumstances, therefore,
here is hoping that the city council to-
morrow evening will dismiss the reso-
luton to purchase.
Standpatter.
Feb. 26, 1912.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27
FIGHTING BOB" EVANS.
His Meeting With His Confederate
Brother and the Result,

DrotneF and the Result.
Tradition has it that after young
Robley ID. Evans went to Annapolis be
wasn't long In showing his mettle
The story of his first assertion of his
personality runs after this fashion;
When he left for the Naval academy
his mother gave him a framed copy OF
the Lords Prayer and instructed him
to hang 1t over his bed. He complied,
Notwithstanding the fact that the rules
Of the academy forbade the placing of
decorations In the rooms. An inspec-
tor demonstrated with him and ordered
him to remove the prayer. Evans
swore that he would smash the face of
the first man who touched 1t. The in
spector referred the act of insubordi-
nation to the commandant, who took it
up with the secretary of the navy.
Evans wrote home about the episode.
1t got into the papers. An indignation
meeting was held in bis home town
and protest made to the president
In the end special dispensation was
granted, allowing the cadet to keep his
decoration"
Being virginian, young Evans was
urged by his mother to throw in his lot
with the south when the civil war
came. This he declined to do. so 1t fell
out that he and his brother fought on
opposite sides during the civil war.
On one occasion Robley Evans entered
a restaurant in Washington and OBJ
served his brother eating.
IAN exchange of glances between us
was quite enough" said Evans after
ward. Not word was spoken by
either of us. He paid his bill and has
tily left the place, knowing very well
that 1 would report his presence in the
city, l ordered more oysters than
wanted and took plenty of time to eat
them. He had come across the Poto-
mac in skiff. was sure, and had tied
1T to an old sycamore tree near the
spot where we used to swim. ! want
ed to give him a brotherly chance to
get back to Virginia soil. He gained
his boat and escaped. though soldier
fired at him in the darkness. On leav-
ing the restaurant | met an officer of
the provost guard and informed him
that there was a Confederate soldier
in Washington.
allow do you known he asked.
THAT / replied. is none of your
business
Il was arrested and taken to the
provost marshal. who on hearing my
story. let me go."-Chicago Record
Herald ----
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27
Tho New and the Old.

Governor Foss of Massachusetts
tells of well known divine who was
visiting a state prison when he came
ncross a prisoner whose features were
familiar to him. What brought you
here, my poor fellow" he asked.
You married me to a woman a lit
tie while ago, sir" the prisoner re-
piled, with n sigh.
"Ah, see," said the parson. ''And
she was domlneerlng and extravagant,
and she drove you to desperate
courses, chr
mo" said the prisoner, my old wo-
man turned up"-Cosmopolltan Mage
zine.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27

It is unfortunate that citizens wait
until the end of the municipal year
before expressing their opinions pro and
con regarding some matter of public
policy. Doubtless the city council would
have appreciated the expression Of senti-
ment at intervals during the course Of
the year, so that they would have been
able to carry out the wishes of the citi-
zens, or having hit the popular chord,
might have received commentator for it.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27

Authorities do not raise objection when
"fresh air children" are sent from the
cities to the country in order to get bet
ter air and more healthful food in suf'i-
Gent quantities. To be consistent, they
cannot we'll object when the children OF
strikers are sent away from Lawrence,
provided of course, that the parents OF
the children are willing and are assured
of good treatment for the children.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27

Burlingtons winter carnival was not
much of success; but that was due
to an obstreperous weather man, rather
than to lack of effort by Max i. Powell.
Burlington has got the hotels and may
yet fill them in winter as Woodstock
does, as nearly everybody hopes.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27

has already turned out 5000 gallons of
water minute. throwing it to a height
of % feet In Egypt, it is expected to
treble, possibly quadruple, this capacity
From "Sun Power to Irrigate the Nile
Valley" in March Technical World Mag
azine.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27
Tough Beef.

Bacon-A machine which passes slice
OF meat between a roller and level
plate, both covered with corrugated steel,
to make it tender, is the invention of an
Oregon man.
Egbert- does it really make the
corrugated steel tender Yankee States
man.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27

Mrs. Jigsaw (of a literary turin
William, what is the feminine syn
Dnym for "fraternal?'
Bachelor Brother-I don't know of
one. Ginevra, that exactly fills the
bill. "Catty," though not really cog
nate, Is perhaps the only available
word you can use truthfully, = st.
Louis Times.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27

Roosevelt now says that he will not
bolt the Republican party il it doesn't
nominate him at the Chicago convention.
Some years ago he said thatA"under no
circumstances" would he be candidate
for president again; yet he is candi-
date.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27
THE NEWSPAPER ATTITUDE
TOWARD ROOSEVELT.

If Theodore Roosevelt enjoys reading
sontemporaneous literature, then he will
be greatly interested in going through
the press clippings from the newspapers
pf the country in relation to the an
aouneement of yesterday that he is
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27
All Amonq Women.

Suffragist You are stealing our
thunder
Antisuffragist-Ho is that?
uffragist-Aren't you saying that
you ere against it because?
Antisuffragist--Yes
Suffragist-well. that's our reason
81. Louis Dispatch.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27
Her Reason.

"Mabel proposed to me last night"
what did you say?"
Il asked her IL she was sure | am
the only man she ever loved"
did she say that you are2"
mot exactly. She said that I am
the only man she ever loved that she
thought she could manage. Detroit
Free Press.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27

Mrs. willis-There seems to be a big
crowd over at Mrs Wayupp's we'd
ding. Strange too! She has been mar
ried nine times already.
Mrs. Gillis-That's it! This is going
to be a grand souvenir performance
Puck.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27

There are great many friends OF Col.
Roosevelt who cannot yet bring them
selves to believe that the ex-president is
to be a candidate.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27

Those robins, those wild geese flying
north, those boys playing marbles on
the sidewalks, those loafers on the sunny
eorners--gone, all gonel
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27
Business Embarrassment.

"Miss Oldgirl has volunteered to sell
Kisses
''Welly'
you are appointed to persuade her
to sell fancy work instead We must
positively make some money out Of
this bazaar" -Philadelphia Telegraph
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27
His Immunity.

Towne-My wifes doing her own
cooking now
Browne-Well, you don't seem to
mind 1t.
Towne-No; I say she's doing her
own cooking. l get mine done at a
estaurant.-Catholic Standard and
Times.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27

IT'S the open season for presidential
candidates.. Next!
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27
$50

Meanwhile, Mr.. President, keep on do
ing your duty.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27

What shall we do with our ex-presl
dents when they won't stay putt
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-27

Wonder if the seven Republican gov
ernors" have come down to earth yet.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-11-26
- VICTIMS OF
RHEUMATISM
FOR TWENTY YEARS

1t doesn't matter how long you have
been tortured with rheumatism.
RHEUMA will start to drive the pois-
onous matter that causes it. from your
system the second days treatment.
1t acts quickly. does wonderful
RHEUMA. The uric acid begins to
leave your system through the kidneys
and bowels almost at once and the i'm
mediate relief is SO pronounced that
you won't guess you are getting rid of
Rheumatism; YOU'LL KNOW 1T.
RHEUMA is offered by Leo H. Fine
to the people of Richmond and vicinity
at only so cents a bottle, and he is au-
thorized to refund the purchase price
to any person not satisfied.
This means that any reader of the
Richmond Palladium suffering from
rheumatism, swollen, twisted joints,
Sciatica, Arthritis, Govt or Lumbago
can try RHEUMA on money-back plan.
1t acts on Kidneys, Stomach, Liver and
Bladder and when RHEUMA goes in.
Rheumatism goes out. That's why peo-
pie come for miles to get RHEUMA
from Leo II. Fihe.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-11-26

but when we can get in free-why
that's quite, quite another matter!
| The patent and unblushing hypoc-
ricy of this whole thing is only equal
led by its general humour.
| If there's a moral in. the thing-if
there is a moral point at issue-if,
says this column, and presumably
there is from the virtuous spasms the
good ones throw-why the moral is in
the attendance and not the gate re-
| ceipts, or lack of the latter.
| If a Sunday concert is wrong it's
just as wrong free as with an admis-
| sion.
| If things wrong, it's wrong.
! And the sublimated nerve of the god
! ly in punching the down and out man.
ager to the wall on the only day when
he might have taken in something, and
bullyragging him into giving two en-
tertainments, for which he has to pay
several hundred dollars, without mon
| ey and without price on the plea of
j the Sunday closing or Sunday opening
business-and then all attending his
make the gods grin.
! Now the DOGGY these wag whenever
Sunday concert is mentioned is the
general loosening up of everything.
If they were really sincere, however,
they'd go after the things that are
! open, and flagrantly SO.
The tobacco dispensaries where
I i
| their weekly allowances by the route
| of little pieces of paste-board and who
pay their losses or gains by signing
checks.
| Then there's the livery stables and
the drug-stores.
| Pshaw
This DOGGY is but a DOGGY made III
! of paper lantern and a one-cent can
die.
So far as the saloon-keepers are con
cerned they are their own censors
| Through the operations of their owr