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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-10-01
Rocks and Newspapers.

OWNS anu -
One can see something OF the lit
erarv tastes Of the Costa Eican by
A look at the book stores Of San Jose.
There are a number of excellent ores,
and in some you Will find 4 good sup
plv Of English, French and German
literature, including our best maya
zines and the New orleans and New
York daily papers As to the naive
press. there are q half dozen dallles
| published. but they are mainly folos,
, and look like postage stamps IN com
harrison with the blanke sheets Of
our Sunday journals.
The country has also ~~eeklies,
mon1hlies and ANIMALS. IN Limon
papers are published IN both English
and Spanish, and here at the capita
there is one journal which IS printed
for the most part in red type. The
advertising rates Of the dallIes are
something like So an inch a month
or l. cents per inch for each insar-
ton. The paper used is poor anc
the illustrations are atrocious.
Posts and ~TelegraphS.
Costa Rica has a good postal Sys-
TEN. There are about 200 postoffices
and the postal matter received IN ols-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
Ewes Get the Fir,. Attention.

There is no such disguise as that OF
the eyes. If we want to get an i'm
preston OF persons face we have TO
look at the eyes You will find this
in any railway carriage or public con-
veyance You are interested in a
face; you fix your eyes on the opposite
eyes. If the eyes meet both fall; the
eyes drop apologetically, for the in
quiry is too intimate. The two people
know well enough, though neither may
be an artist, that you cannot get an i'm
preston of the face by looking at the
chin or the forehead or the nose. You
must look straight at the eyes-the
window of the soul-and the face be-
comes a recognizable unit The best
disguise. as burglars and grownup chill
dren know, is the mask that covers the
eyes only.-London Standard.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
LOUIS NAPOLEOh,S ESCAPE.
Disguised as Workman He Fooled the
Ham Fortress Guard.

Disguised as Workman He Fooled the
Ham Fortress Guard.
From the researches made by NJ.
Thlrria come some interesting details
of the escape of Louis Napoleon from
the fortress of Ham, in northern
France, on May %, 1876,
1t seems that the sole credit for the
escape must lie with Louis Napoleon
himself. He made his valet, Thelin,
buy a black wig, some rouge, a cap
which was scrubbed with pumice
stone and pair of sabots. Then he
cut off his mustache, put on a blue
apron, a blue pair of trousers and a
close fitting shirt of coarse stuff
Some workmen were carrying out
some repairs to that part Of the fort
ress where the prince lodged, and this
gave color to his disguise, so much so
that the two watchmen entertained no
suspicious regarding the man who
walked past them and out at the great
gate, a pipe in his mouth and plank
on his shoulder. The sergeant on
duty at the drswbridge was reading a
letter as he passed and took no notice
of him 1t was then 8 o'clock in the
morning.
-Four times that day, the last time
at in the afternoon, did the governor,
Demarle, send for the prince. Each
time Or. Conneau replied that the
prisoner could not see anybody be-
cause he had taken medicine. When
at last the governor lost patience and
went himself to the princes room and
walked up TO the bed on which the
supposed invalid was lying he dlscov-
cred that very presentable dummy
had taken the place of Louis Napo-
leon. The discovery was made too
late. BY that time the fugitive was
over the Belgian frontier,-Parls Jour-
nal des Debates.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
COSTLY C0RSICAN VOTES.
The Islanders Give Warm Welcome
to Millionaire Candidates.

The island of Corsica, although a
part of the republic of France, is
quite different in its customs from the
republic and never ceases to furnish
reading matter out of the ordinary
for the Partisan journals. The Corsf-
cans have, it appears, decided pen
chant for millionaire candidates for
the chamber Of deputies and are al
ways on the lookout for this admira-
BILE material Yet there is between
them and the millionaires a singular
mlsapprehension. The islanders de
sire that millionaires be candidates
because of the mama that falls upon
their country during an electoral cam
paign, but they do not desire to elect
them>. As for the millonaires. they
are perfectly willing to spread the
mamma, but they also wish to be
elected
Recently" says a Paris journal,
"one of our most successful money
makers went to Corsica to visit his
future department At his debarka-
ton several dozens of Corsicans re-
,eived him with 'hourrahS,' and guns
we're fired, which down there is the
last word of enthusiasm. He under
took a tour of the country At each
village Corsicans, magnificent in local
color acclaimed him and Weakened the
echoes with gunpowder.
"At the third village. however, he
had something of sensation. He
had visit from a farmer, who said
10 him; We are four brothers, all
voters, ready to vote for you Buy
for me the meadow that is on the 9th
ar side OF the village and you have
our votes
"'How much is this Meadow
"A trlfe, 1900 francs
after a tour of eight days the mil
Ilonaire calculated that to pay for all
the votes that had been offered to
him would require 100000 or 6000,-
900 francs And even after that ex-
pendlture he would not be certain of
election.
He withdrew from the canvass,
but he had already expended some
thousand francs, of which
his enthusiastic welcomers had their
full share. They really would like to
have him come again. "-Indianapolis
News.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
HEARD A BIG CoMMoTIoN.
Two Boys Who Stumbled Upon One OF
the Great Scenes In History.

Two Boys Who Stumbled Upon One OF
the Great Scenes In History.
Ed Howe tells the following story in
ihe American Magazine:
$50 little that is really exciting or
worth while has happened in my life
that / am greatly interested in Jim and
Dan Ayers, who run a restaurant in the
town where | live. Something really
happened to them once upon time,
and when | go to their restaurant l en-.
joy hearing them tell about it.
when the5 were boys they lived or
a farm in Virginia. / have heard them
say their postofiice was Sudley Springs,
One Sunday morning their father start
ed them to Sunday school, and, after
they had loitered along the way mile
or two, Jim Ayers remarked a commo-
ton over beyond what they called the
Big Woods.
What's that?' Jim asked, stopping.
ut was getting late by this time, and
Dan replied:
81 don't know, but we'd better hur-
ry up and get to Sunday school or wen
get whipping
"Then they hurried on, but the COM
motion over beyond the Big Woods
broke out again family, but it was very
unusual, and Jim stopped and listened
He had never heard anything like it be.
fore, although he was a big boy twelve
years old, and, after listening awhile,
he said
" I'm going over there
"'Better not, Dan said. You know
father whips hard
but the strange commotion eontin-
ued, so Jim said he was going, whip
ping or no whipping. Dan followed,
but kept saying they would catch it
when they returned home,
They walked and walked and walk
ed All the time the commotion over
beyond the Big Woods became more
pronounced, but they couldn't tell what
il was. They forded streams and were
from 10 O'clock in the morning until 8
o'clock in the afternoon. They had
nothing to eat, and they didn't know
that they could ever find their way
back, because they were in a country
strange to them. But they kept on,
and little after o'clock, as a reward
for their perseverance, they walked
into the battle Of Bull Run. never
before heard of boys going anywhere
and finding anything as great as they
eyDectefi"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
Tomb OF Omar khayyam.

Omar khayyam's tomb ut Nishapuf
IS in one wing of the mosque erected
in memory of the Moslem saint Imam
zadah Mohammed Mahruk. Although
the poets prophecy concerning his
tomb-that it would be in place
where the north wind would scatter
roses over tits not literally true. the
garden of the mosque is so rich in
roses as almost ITO make one in love
with DEATH" There is no inscription
upon the tomb. a simple case made of
brick and cement, to tell the story. or
even the name, of its occupant. al
though it is well known to be Omar's
grave. "Vanda scribblers." Professor
Jackson. who lately visited the spot.
says. have desecrated it with random
scraw wis and have also scratched their
names upon the brown mortar of the
adjoining walls. disclosing the white
cement underneath A stick of wood.
a stone and some fragments of sbards
profaned the top of the sarcophagus
when we saw t. There was nothing
else. 1t is TO be regretted that some OF
Omar's admirers in the occident do not
provide suitable inscription on the
spot to show the renown he enjoys In
the west Argonaut
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
Abandoned mines.

Old worked out mines are often high
" dangerous. When they are almost
forgotten the ground above them will
sometimes cave in with disastrous re-
suits 1t is not an uncommon thing
in an old mining district to see a
house or even part of town that has
been wrecked by dropping into an I'M
suspected and long abandoned tunnel
beneath The ordinary preventive
method used in American mines is
more or less extensive timbering. A
method used in European and Austria
liam mining districts is the filling of
abandoned workings with sand This
is a somewhat expensive method to
start with, but once done no further
thought need be given to 1t. as the
abandoned mine has practically become
once more part of the solid crust Of
the earth.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
Java,s RoiIina Lake of Mud.

One of the greatest natural wonders
In Java, ''the fire island" large lake
Of boiling mud, is situated almost in
the center of the plains of Grobogana,
fifty paals" TO the northeast of Solo.
It is almost two miles in circumfer-
ence, and in the center immense coll
umns of soft, hot mud may be seen
continually rising and falling like great
black timbers thrust forth and then
suddenly withdrawn by giants hands.
Besides the phenomenon of the columns
there are two gigantic bubbles near the
western edge which fill up like huge
balloons and explode on an average
three times per minute.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
A REAL MAGIC CAP.
Curious Experience Of a German Or
ganist In St. Petersburg.

ganlst IN Of. Feterspurg'
Not very long ago a German organ.
list who went to st. Petersburg TO live
had there an experience with q new
cap that for time almost made him
believe in the magic OF the Teutonic
fairy tales.
The organist bought the cap during
his first day at the Russian capital and
wore 1t the next day when he went out
for walk On his return to his lodg
ings he was amazed to find two gold
purses in his pocket, one Of which con-
tanned a sum equivalent to $50
The next dag, after his usual walk,
he found four purses in his outside
pocket, a find that caused him TO doubt
Ms senses. A third day, with a SINH
lar profitable result, sent him to the
chief of police to tell his story.
The authorities detailed a detective
to go with the German to the tailor
who made the cap Investigation dis
closed the fact that it had been con
structed of an odd piece of English
cloth brought in by a stranger, From
it the tailor had made fifteen Identical
caps to order. Having a bit left, he
had constructed sixteenth cap, which
was the one sold TO the organist
The detective then followed the or
ganist through the streets of the city,
when the mystery was solved. The
cap, it appears, was the emblem of a
gang of pickpockets working cooper
ntively. The one who secured a purse
dropped it into the pocket OF the first
confederate he saw. The cap had iden-
tilted the German, and he had reaped
the reward
With this clew it was an easy matter
for the Russian authorities to catch
the whole gang Youths Companion.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
The Port Of Workless Men.

One morning we passed through a
square in Moscow containing moth
ing but men-wild eyed, long haired
long bearded men-men in rags, most
of them, and all Of them compelled TO
come there and wait TO be hired to
work. To that square must all work
ingmen go who seek work. The city
feeds them while they wait a single
small piece of black bread each day.
Some never leave that square, but wait
there their lifetime through. They
gazed upon our handsome landau with
hungry and wolfish eyes. | never be.
fore beheld so frightful, unkempt a
company of hopeless, hapless, hungry
human slaves as these Russian work
ingmen who waited for a job.-Wil-
liam Seymour Edwards in Through
Scandinavia to Moscow"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
Household Economy
How to Have the Best Cough
Syrup and Save 81, by
Making 1t Mt Home.

Cough medicines, as a rule, contain q
large quantity of plain syrup. If you
take one pint of granulated sugar, add
II pint of warm water and stir about
minutes, you have as good syrup as
money could buy.
If you will then put 21a ounces of
Pinex 90 cents WORTHY in a pint bottle,
and fill it up with the Sugar Syrup, you
will have as much cough syrup as you
could buy ready made for $3.50. 1t
keeps perfectly.
And you will find it the best cough
syrup you ever used-even in whooping
cough. You can feel it take hold-usu-
ally stops the most severe cough in "a
hours. 1t is just laxative enough has O.
good tonic effect, and taste is pleasant.
Take a teaspoonful every one, two or
three hours.
1t is splendid remedy, too, for
whooping cough, Group, hoarseness, asth-
ma, chest pains, etc.
Pinex is the most valuable concentra-
ted compound of Norway white. pine ex-
tract, rich in guaiacol and all the heal
ing pine elements. No other prepare
tion will work in this formula.
This recipe for making cough remedy
with Pinex and Sugar Syrup is now
used and priced in thousands of homes
in the United States and Canada. The
plan has often been initiated but never
successfully.
A guaranty of absolute satisfaction. or
money promptly refunded, goes with this
recipe. Your druggist has Pinex, or will
get it for YOU. If not, send to The
Pinex Co., TT. Wayne, Ind.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
Medical Students Turn On Lon.
don Suffragettes
AND WREAKED MUCH DAMAGE
Suffragettes Themselves Were on Ram
page at the Time, Having Attempted
to Hold a Meeting in Ira
falgar Square.

London, March 5.The suifragettes
attempted to have meeting last night
in Trafalgar square as protest aginst
the premier's refusal to receive a depu-
tation and succeeded in smashing a few
windows, but police prevented attempts
to do Widespread damage.
About 80 women were arrested. One
woman chained herself to tree, and
the police, unable to break the chain,
uprooted the tree and carried both
it and the suilragette to police sta
ton.
Meanwhile 20 medical students raid
ed the suflragettes premises in retalia-
tion for recent damage, smashing all
the windows and wrecking the fronts
of two suffrage buildings.
They We're cheered by delighted specta-
tors. The women have succeeded in ter
rorzing London and many shops were
closed and shutters drawn early yes
tcrday, while the British museum was
guarded to prevent the wreckage of the
art galleries
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
Because of Case of Smallpox
In the Passenger List
538 PEOPLE RESTRAINED
Cunard Steamship Ascania Arrived from
England and Dropped Its Other
Passengers at Portland,
Me, Saturday.

Boston. March 5.-More than five hum
bred steerage passengers were removed
from the Cumara line steamship Ascania
and placed in quarantine at Gallups is
land yesterday because of the presence
on board of Il case of smallpox, All
were vaccinated and carefully examined
by the port physicians. According to
DR.. Durgin, chairman Of the Boston
health board, it is expected that a good
number Of the immigrants will be de-
tanned at the station for fourteen days.
the requisite period of quarantine to
determine infection. However, in eases
where the authorities are satisfied ait
er careful examination. that there is
no danger Of infection, those person,
will be discharged as soon as possible.
The Ascania reached Portland, Me-,
Saturday, from England. The smallpox
victim is a young Scandinavian, in the
steerage. He was brought to Boston
First and second cabin passengers were
allowed TO land at Portland The quar-
aEtne facilities at Portland are made
quate for the care OF such large num-
Der OF persons. If the authorities there
were to handle the matter it would
mean that the steamer would be de-
tanned for at least fourteen days, for
the passengers would have to remain on
board Boston has first class facilities
for such contingencies and the steam
ship company asked that the steam
or be allowed TO come here and have
her passengers cared for. to thus obvi.
ate delay and the incidental loss A
IL is the pNDpnSp to thp (nnard conn
Pany viii be considerable for it will
have to pay for the keep Of the pas
sengers during their detention.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
NERVOUSNESS
This Man Given Up by Doctors
Took DR.. Williams Pink Pills
and Was Cured.

Mr.. Elmer +. Warwick, a foundry
man, of No. los Ash street, Albion,
Mich, says: l.s's-sss
81 had an attack of the grip which
left me in a very weakened condition.
Soon after my legs began to have numb
spells and darling pains went through
them. Little by little l lost the use of
both legs. had to lie in bed for four
or five weeks. For year | was out of
work because vas unable to get
around. had doctor from Detroit
look me over and he said there was no
show for Ee; another doctor said that
it was only question OF time when /
would die. kept running down. My
stomach and digestion seemed affected
by the paralysis. | could keep nothing
on my stomach except raw eggs. | was
extremely emaciated and a nervous
wreck. / read about Dr. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People in a paper
and took them for six months because
| saw that was improving after / had
used the first box. At the end of that
time was entirely cured of paralysis
and my general system was restored to
a healthy condition. Idon't know how
many boxes of the pills | used but
l do not begrudge the outlay as it
was much smaller than the other
treatments. have never had any re-
currence of the paralysis and am now
in good health. / owe my life and
health to the painstaking and long-con-
tinued use OF DIR. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People. | believe they are the
best remedy for paralysis.
There is absolutely no way of reach
ing the nerves with medicine except
through the blood. The nerves receive
all of their nourishr1ent and support
from the blood, which under healthful
conditions, carries the elements needed
to rebuild wasted nerve tissue.
Every person who Is interested in the
home treatment OF nervous disorders
should send for new edition of our
free booklet entitled, Diseases Of the
Nervous System"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain no
harmful or habit-forming drugs, and
the sufferer who gives them trial will
avoid the danger SO common in taking
drugs which only deaden pain.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
all druggists, or will be sent, postpaid,
on receipt OF price, so cents per box six
boxes for 81. so, by the Dr. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
Pleasant, Refreshing,bene6eial.

Syrup Of Figs and Elixir Of
SIENNA appeals to the cultured
and the well-informed and the
healthy because its component
parts are simple and whole
some and because it acts with
out disturbing the natural func-
lions, as it is wholly free from
every Objectionable quality or
substance. In its production a
pleasant and refreshing syrup
Of the Figs Of California is
united with the laxative and
carminative properties of certain
plants known TO act most bene-
6cially, on the human system,
when its gentle cleansing is
desired. To get its beneficial
effects, always buy the genuine,
for sale by all reputable drug
gists; one size only, price fifty
cents a bottle. The name of
the company = California Fig
Syrup Co. is always plainly
printed upon the front Of every
package Of the genuine.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
Sense Of Hunger and Thirst.

Whether the hunger sense has its seat
IN the stomach and thirst in the throa,
has been subject of much scientific
controversy. The Italian physician, Va
lent, puts the seat of both these emo
tons in the gullet He found that a
cocaine injection in the oesophagus (the
channel from the mouth to the stom-
ach) resulted in immediate suppress
sion of the feeling of both hunger and
thirst.
Savages have long known that the
chewing of coca leaves renders the Gull
let insensitive and destroys any desire
for food or drink Chicago Tribune.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
Green Granite.

peculiar characteristic of the New
England granite veins is the fact that
three distinct colors of granite are to
be found in as many states, pink in
Massachusetts, gray in Connecticut
and green in Vermont Green granite
is something Of curiosity because Of
its rarity. The largest columns of this
variety to be found anywhere are those
which support the dome in the library
Of Columbia university. Exchange
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
Inn Names In Germany.

Germany probably holds the record
for out of the way inn names. Berlin
alone can boast the Angry Louise, the
Comfortable Lamb, the Cold Frog, the
Dirty Parlor, the Bloody Bones, the
Boxers Den, the Four Hundred
weight Man and the Musical Cats,
while a suburban landlord, whose
house stands near a cemetery and is q
popular pull up for mOurners, has
dubbed it, very appropriately, the Last
Tear.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
rrouhla In Store For Him.

There is rough time in store for
the little boy whose antics have led
his distracted parents to thus appeal
for assistance through an advertise.
ment in an English paper:
Nurse. Wanted. a robust, God fear
ing Scotch nurse, who can teach the
shorter .catechism and has working
knowledge of the business side of q
slipper. to take charge of four year
old boy who has double dose OK
original SIM
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
Different Birds.

A western detective was congratu
lated by reporter on the arrest of a
notorious swindler,
With his absurd lottery scheme"
said the detective, "the man took In
500 day in money orders. Elijah"
lie continued, twas fed by ravens, and
nowadays if you will only turn crook
you'll be fed by gulls. Exchange.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
Wronu, but True.

"Now. Johnny" said the teacher aft
er she had explained the meaning of
the word, II wish you would write a
sentence containing defeat.
After struggle which lasted for
about twenty minutes Johnny an
nounced that he was ready TO be heard
"Please read your composition" the
teacher directed
when you git shoes dat's too tite, :"
Johnny read its hard on de feet
Chicago Record Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-05
Undecided.

what struck you most forcibly dur
ing your visit TO the city. Uncle Hi.
RAM" asked the village oracle.
WAL" ruminated Uncle Hiram,
when | cum to in the hospital I'll be
gosh dinged if could rec'lect whether
it was trolley car or one o. them
derned ottymobies. "-P Philadelphia Rec.
ord