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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
BISHOP RICE OPPOSES SALOON.
Caused Sensation by Announcement from
Pulpit.

Burlington, March 4, Right Rev. J. j.
Rice. bishop Of the Roman Catholic
church for Vermont, caused sensation
when he appeared at high mass in st.
Mary's cathedral yesterday morning and
spoke against the licensed saloon for
Burlington The same stand also was
taken by Rev. ]. F ellis, V. g.. at the
masses earlier in the day and likewise
by Mons. J. NJ Cloaree at st. Joseph's
church.
An eleventh hour fight in favor of no
license is being made here Last year
the city voted yves by III majority.
This year the voting list is smaller by
about 500 votes, and the no-license adj
vocates are more hopeful than at any
previous election.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
SUFFRAGETTES TRIED
TO BURN P0ST0FFICE
Smashed the Plate Glass Win
dows and Were Then
Arrested
4 Arrested.

London, March 4.-Suffragettes at
tempted to start fire in the London
general postoliice last night. They car
lied bundles Of paper and flimsy mate
rial soaked in paraffin, into the public
hall, and lighted it near the counter
Then they smashed the plate glass
windows and surrendered to the police.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
Merchants, Meeting Tonight.

A special meeting OF the Barre Retail
Merchants association will be held in the
room over Moore & Owens store at I
o'clock this evening, sharp. This is to
be an important meeting, and all mem
bers are requested TO be present Rusi-
ness to be transacted will take only
few minutes.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
DIED OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Frank Smith Had Txayelled In. aManzl6
Parts of KeTId lE -

The death of II
at the city farm nig
$50 o'clock. after TTHhgerinl
of tuberculosis. Mr.. Smith is Ff&42Vt8
by one sister, Mrs Bertha Bartlett4 Ifvl
ing in Boston. who. it is said, is too
ill to attend the funeral. He was mar
ried several years ago and one daugh-
ter lies buried in Hope cemetery
Mr. Smiths death closes an in
teresting career of man who has trav-
eled in every quarter Of the globe since
attaining his majority. While very
young man. Mr.. Smith joined the United
States navy and during his service he
travelled through or visited every coun-
try OF Importance on the map except
Italy. He seemed to be a sailor by ma
turc and his inherent loye of the sea
was responsible for the wander lust
which every now and then seized him
during his residence in Barre. Mr.. Smith
possessed a genial disposition and his
tales Of adventures encountered while
rowing always found a ready audience
of listeners
The deceased was born in Long Pine,
Ccdaryille. Me-. thirty-seyen years ago
last August Early in life, he accom-
panied his father veteran Of the Civil
war, whose death occurred several years
age 10 this city, where he had since
made his home.
The funeral win be held at the city
farm tomorrow forenoon, the hour hav-
lug as vet not been decided Burial win
axe place i'm Hope cemetery
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
MAINE ELECTIONS
WATCHED CL0STLY
Both Republicans and Democrats Hoped
To Find Some Encouraging Signs
In the Result

Portland, March 4 Municipal cleo
items in ten Maine cities and nearly
three hundred towns were watched with
great interest to-day BY both parties.
The Democrats were looking for some
thing to interpret as an endorsement Of
the administration Of Governor Plaistcd.
and the Republicans were anxious to
find indications that they might be able
to gain control of the state next fall.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
Many Casualties In New York Fire

New York, March 1.-Two persons
were killed, three were fatally injured
and a dozen Others were less seriously
hurt in a fire in a four story apartment
house on East sd street early to-day.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
D. B. |. Grant y Hped Out
steIy
=
AND MAY MOVE TO BARRE
Two Hydrants Were Found to Be Frozen
and Much Delay Was Thus Expert
enced-Fireman Carpenter of Barre
Was Hurt by Falling Bricks.

East Barres leading industry, the
ID. b. L. Granite Co.'s plant, was to-
tally destroyed and considerable sec
tion of the business part of the village
was threatened in fire which broke
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04
DISTURBANCE AT AN END.
Comes Message to Boston To-day from
Tien Tsin.

Boston, March disturbance at end.
Missionaries well and safe" This was
the text of cablegram received here
from Rev. Charles Ewing, missionary at
Tien Tsin, where rioting has been 60
ing on.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04

tomorrow morning, the same as last
year; and the ballot boxes will close on
everything at 3 in the afternoon.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04

r some time because the
nearest the scene were
frozen and much valuable
wasted before a stream
from a hydrant 800 feet
otal loss is estimated at
insurance of $1,000, car
!, q. Robinson agency OF
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-04

Continued on sixth page,l
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18
SCIENCE SCORES ON THIEVES
French inventor Has New Burgla,
Proof Plate Glass Transparent at
Thickness Of Inch.

And now 1t seems that the man
with the brick may have to turn his
attention to something else than the
jewelers. window If he's to make an
easy getaway with scme one else's
portable property.
Consul William Bardell has report.
ed from Rheims that a French in-
ventor has come out with a new burg
lar proof plate glass, absolutely trans
parent at thickness OF one inch and
yet which will resist a machinist'a
hammer long enough for a sleepy cop
per block away to run up and inter
fere. Jacketed revolver bullets may
be fired against the plate without
breaking through In one test heavy
piece of cast iron was hurled against
the glass, breaking through to the ex-
tent of only two or three square inch
es
That ordinary plate glass used in
many cities in the United States may
have three or four square feet smash
ed through with a common brick car
ried in handbag or wrapped up as a
paper parcel Practically the seven
eighths inch to one inch glass Is
burglar proof-untiI such time as the
enterprising felon discovers some eff
fective substitute for. the brick
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18
HOW SOME PEOPLE SLEEP

The Japanese stretches himself on
rush mat on the floor and puts a
hard square block of wood under his
head
Chinese beds are very low, scarce
ly rising from the floor, but are often
carved exquisitely of wood
The inhabitants of the tropics often
curl themselves up like monkeys at
the lower angle of suspended ham
mock and sleep very soundly that
way.
The Russian likes no sleeping place
so well as the top of the big soap
stone stove in his dwelling. Crawling
out of his blistering bed in the morn
ing, he delights in taking plunge in
cold stream, even If he has to break
through the ice to do So
In Lapland the native crawls, head
and all, into bag made of reindeer
skin and sleeps warm and comfort
able within 1t.
The East Indian, at the other end
of the world, also has a sleeping bag.
Its purpose is to keep out the mo-
squitoes rather than to keep its occu-
pant warm
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18

dust Of briarwood Is revoked for
some special uses. Lignum vitae is
put to some chemical uses.
The heaviest sawdust is that of
ebony, and this sawdust is black In
color, though even in the ebony saw
dust there are traces of tiny white
fbers. The ebony is not large tree
and its wood is not black through; fits
sapwood is white; 1t Is particles of
this sapwood that appear in the saw
dust, mingled in the saving But to
the eye except on close inspection
the ebony sawdust appears black
The whitest Of all sawdusts is that
OF holly, which is manufactured into
a very fine pulp form. This holly saw
dust is used for floor material and
also in the manufacture of some
grades of wall paper.
There is a manufactured sawdust
called lemon sawdust, which is not
made from the wood Of the lemon
tree, but which is in tint of clear,
bright lemon color, this lemon saw
dust being used for the same pur-
poses as satinwood.
Manufactured rosewood sawdust is
of limited use; various mahogany
sawdusts, including white, are used
more extensively for various pur-
poses; that of wood called vermil-
ion, which is bright red mahogany
from the East Indies, is used in max
ing composition floors, sometimes for
color squares, in cases where such
floors are not laid in a continuous,
unbroken piece.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18
DEGREES Worth While.

How the church dealt with drunk
ards in the third and fifth centuries
may be learned from the following
degrees: All Christians must guard
themselves by all means against the
great evil of drunkenness, from
which all vices eminate. Wherefore
we have decreed that he who should
refuse to avoid the evil must be ex-
communicated until he shall have
made satisfying amendment
Another decree reads thus: No
one can be competent master of his
body and soul who shows himself.
whilst in the captivity Of wine, a
stranger to all senses, and allows
himself to be led by the bent of his
passions whilst the mind is defective.
Such one generally runs the risk
of committing sin or crime before he
knows 1t, but this ignorance doei
not excuse from guilt"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18
MAKES HIS TONGUE WIGGLE
Young Man Given Ordinary Drink o.
Whisky Loses Control of Him
self and Talks Too Much.

Speaking at a temperance meeting
n England recently, DR.. w. A. Chap
pie, M P, said: Let us suppose a
strong, healthy young man were to
come into this room, and we were to
do what would be a wrong thing
give him an ordinary dose of whisky
what would happen? He would come
in, say, shy, diffident and reserved, as
became young man. First Of all we
would notice that he lost his shyness,
reserve and self-restraint, and per
haps begin to talk. He would want to
do all the talking. He would be talk
Ing all the time He would begin to
talk about subjects he would never
mention If something very strange
and disturbing had not occurred. He
Is, perhaps, bank clerk, and talks of
The private affairs of the bank. Why
does he talk? Because he has lost
his control over the layer Of brain
cells which preside over his self-re
straint"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18
PRODUCTION OF ARID DESERT
Extraction of Wax Found on Plants
Exposed to Excessive Heat Be-
coming Quite an Industry.

Vegetable wax appears to be a
product for which the arid desert is
specially adapted AS a protection
against excessive evaporation. the
plants exposed to dry heat develop a
waxy covering. and British consular
note states that in the western part of
Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, in Mexico.
the candelila weed yields two per
cent of wax, although In well wa
cred regions it contains little or none.
The extraction of this wax Is becom-
ng considerable industry. Several
extracting establishments have been
recently started, and one of them
now being enlarged-has capacity
of 25 tons Of wax per month. There
are certain possible by-products, such
as tannin, to which little attention has
been so far given. The wax product
Is exported to the United States, the
Briti-h Isles and Germany, and is in
demand for many purposes, such as
shoe polishes, floor wakes, phono-
graph records and electrical insula-
ton.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18
REMOVING BARS FROM BOATS
Managers OF Excursion Steamers or
Great Lakes BanlshIng Sale Of
intoxicating Liquor.

Excursion steamers on the Great
Lakes are banishing the sale of liquor.
Concerning the action of the man
ayers of these boat lines the Detroit
Journal says: zone company after an
other has removed the bars and has
adopted strict regulations against even
allowing intoxicated persons to board
the boats. This action means that
one old theory of the excursion bust
ness, that it must cater to the gay
crowds, has been exploded. The first
big boat that sailed without a bar
proved that while license and freedom
attracted few it repealed many. The
general public is temperate and order
ly by an overwhelming majority 1t
is good morality and good sense to
cater to this majority
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18
ALCOHOL IS BANEFUL POISON
While 1t Furnishes Temporary Heat
and Energy II Eats and Destroys
Tissues and Organs.

"A true food will yield heat and
energy without any harm to the or
gans and tissues of the body. Alcohol,
while 1t yields heat and energy, acts
at the same time as poison. This
may be illustrated as follows: 1t Is
well known that when sulphuric acid
and water are mixed together In
about equal parts, the mixture will be-
come very hot. This acid will also
corrode and eat up iron. Suppose,
now, that an engineer should adopt
the plan of mixing sulphuric acid with
the water in the boiler when he want
ed to get up steam. The water would
be rapidly heated, and, to an ignorant
person, this would seem to be good
plan. 1t would soon be found, how
ever, that the material of the engine
was being rapidly destroyed by the
acid,S and either this method of get
ting up energy would have to be dis
continued or the boiler would soon
need to go to the shop for repairs or
be abandoned altogether. DR.. Cutler.
Alcohol corrodes and 'eats up the
organs and tissues; 1t Injuries the deli
cate machinery of the body and finally
destroys 1t so that the body decays
and disintegrates.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18
BIGGEST OF THE MAMMoTHS

The skeleton of a mammoth just set
up at Stuttgart is the largest ever dis
covered Bones were found in the dilu-
vial deposits of the river MUIR, in
Swabia, and months of work since then
have been rewarded by the obtaining
and removal of a nearly complete skel-
eton. The great size is indicated by
the fact that the skull weighs nearly
three-fourths of ton, while the up
per foreleg Is four and one-hah feet
long. The specimen is remarkable for
the great length of the legs, the gen.
eral nghtness of frame, and for the
shortness Of the curved tusks-less
than eight feet long. 1t seems to rep
resent transition type between the
most ancient mammoth and the fleet
er and smaller modern elephant.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18

them. Some carpenters do this with
a hammer, but there is danger Of
breaking the teeth, and at best the
work can not be done with perfect &C
curacy. An Indiana man, however.
has designed an implement which
clamps to the edge of the work bench
in which the edge of the saw can be
thrust. A plunger operates in the
vice and as each alternate tooth
comes under the plunger the latter is
struck sharp blow with hammer.
thus setting each tooth at uniform
angle. When half the teeth have been
set the saw can be turned on the other
side and the remainder fixed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18
sow WITH FREAKlSH HOOPS

A. G. Davis of Dennysville, Me-,
owns the freak COW here pictured.
The animal has four hoofs, each one
of which is no less than twenty-five
inches in length, and so badly twist
ed and contorted that the animal can
only walk with difficulty. When a
calf she developed ungainly hoofs,
which grew as she became older; and,
though the horny growth was fire.
quently pared away, it returned again
and again, until at last the owner gave
up trying to effect any improvement
in the creatures anatomy, and began
to take her round to local fairs and
exhibit her as curiosity. The hoofs
are of deep green color, and closely
resemble lobster in conformation.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18
INDUSTRIAL
MECHANICAL,
10 NOTESeg

The steel rudder of the AQuitania
weighs 70 tons.
Melted shellac will mend broken
fountain pen barrels.
The chemistry of baking is taught
in the University of Pittsburg.
The boot and shoe trade ranks
ninth among the American industries.
According to recent estimates China
produces almost 100000 tons of coal
a year.
Three-quarters of the cotton prod
uct Of the world is contributed by the
United States.
| Germany's present Industrial gait
will soon place it In the lead for hus-
Ting qualities.
OF SPANS 4,130 coal mines only 6o1
are officially recorded as productive
yielding but about 100000 tons .
year.
Burdette Loomis, Hartford. Conn.,.
has discovered a method of making
paper pulp from grass and will erect
mills.
Arizona and Montana together pro-
duced more than half of the United
States record breaking copper output
last year.
Honduras is developing . valuable
industry from its hitherto ignored
guano palm trees, which yield lum
Der lighter than cork.
A machine has been invented II
England for turning the rims and Dor
ling and finishing hubs of wooden
wheels at the same time.
Silk manufacture has grown enor
mously in the United States in the last
ten years, and now this country leads
| the world in this industry.
Although Sweden long has been q
Heading country in the manufacture OF
matches, it's first toothpick factory
was opened only recently.
The manufacture of mattresses, pill
flows and cushions from scrap sponges
dried and sterilized. has become an
important business in Florida.
A new use for old newspapers has
appeared In China, which imported
millions of pounds of them last year
to cover the walls of native houses
| The Mexican maguey plant fur
nishes the national drink. valuable
medicine. 6ber for Discriminating ard
weaving aid takes the place OF thread
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18
UNIQUE PORTABLE COAL BIN
Consists of Larke Cylindrical Metal
Receptacle, Like Large Ash Can
on Three Legs,

Something unusual in the way of
portable coal bin has bAen patented
by an Illinois man. 1t consists of a
large cylindrical metal receptacle, like
a huge ash can, which rests on three
legs. 1t is filed from the top, which
has lid on it. Two inclined chutes
are pivoted to the bottom of the re-
ceptacle and swing up and down. At
the bottom Of the can itself Is an
opening which has a cutoff inside.
When 1t is desired to get the coal
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18
SOME USES FOR sAWDUsT

In its finer forms sawdust is made
of perhaps fifty different woods. and
In varying degrees of fineness, to be
used for wide variety of purposes.
But sawdust in all its forms, coarse
and fine, has many uses, and common
sawdust is sold in enormous Quanti-
ties
The sawdust familiar to everybody
lie that which is gathered from lum-
Der mills and mills in which lumber
is resawed in manufacturing. This
common sawdust Is used extensively
on floors to take up dampness in
sweeping, and it is used for packing
bottled goods and for bedding horses,
and in ice houses. Some sawdusts
are screened at the mills to remove
chips and sticks.
Sawdust combined with oil is put
up in packages for use in sweeping
carpets, in place of the old-time scat
tered tea leaves. Sawdust from vari-
GUS non-resinous woods is used in
great quantities in the smoking OF
meats, and sawdust in the form of
pulp is used in the manufacture of
dynamite
Sawdusts of various kinds and col
ors are now used. combined with ce-
ment, in making floors, especially In
hospitals. Such floors, made with the
material in a plastic condition, can
be laid in single piece, without
cracks or joints, and SO made germ
proof, and they are more silent and
easier to the tread than tile.
Among the better kinds of sawdust
some are used for curious common
purposes, as, for instance, one Of the
uses for Spanish cedar sawdust, which
is very light, Is for packing even
cheap chemicals contained in glass
shipped over long distances, and
where weight would count in the
freight cost.
Manufactured satinwood sawdust il
used in the preparation OF pastel
boards for drawing purposes. Saw
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18
I OUTOFThEORpINARI
T6l

Newport. in the same county. The tor
tor had walked to the outskirts of
Newport or nine miles-and
then had been picked up and carried
into the town. The age of the dukes
tortoise is given approximately" by
the forest rangers. but it has hiber-
mated under a particular rock In the
forest for thirty years, and its great
age is inferred from its size and
weight. 1t is eighteen inches long and
weighs ten pounds. There Is nothing
unusual in such longevity; patriarch
in the Zoo" known as Methuselah,
died three years ago at the reputed
age of two hundred and fifty.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18

lation of motorcycle as a power pro-
Queer is here illustrated, says the
Popular Mechanics The proprietor OF
a butcher shop iH Chicago has been
using his MOTORCYCLE for the past year
to operate a meat-chopping machine,
He also uses the motorcycle for bust
ness trips about the city and suburbs,
and finds that the arrangement cuts
down his operating expenses material
".
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18
Unusual Coal Bin.

from the bin the chutes are lowered
and the cutoff opened. The weight OK
the top coal then forces the bottom
coal out of the opening and the latter
literally spouts forth into the chute
and into whatever place-furnace or
stove-it is intended to CO. AS will be
understood, this bin can be used for
many other things besides coal.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18
An Election Day Hint.

Ten-year-old Dollie gives practical
suggestion for Christian voters who
have been praying Justify against the
saloon for 10! these many years." but
who never vote for the party which
purposes to smash the trap" because
they don't like to throw away their
vote"
20 Lord, do not let the birds get
into Robbie's trap-Ol know they
canst-Ameni"
Dolly said her mother, what
makes you so certain
@'Canse smashed the tran"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18

Nerves are undermined by alcohol
and endangered by the use of alcohol
from youth up.-Emperor William of
Germany.
Listen, boysl If you aspire to run
a motor car or an airship; II you
would be q captain of industry; If
you would make good in any business
or profession, train your nerves to be
strong, steady, and obedient.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18

The accompanying photograph, TAX.
en- In a churchyard in Essex, England.
shows novelty in the way of tomb
stones. Framed in the stone, 1t viii
be noticed, is photograph, repre-
sentation of the person buried in the
grave. The print, bromide appar-
emily, is we'll preserved, despite its
twenty years of exposure to the sun
light. 1t is closely sealed from the
weather, covered in front by glass and
framed round with border of slate.
The photograph bears the signature
of the occupant of the grave.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18

10 say, and tnen
say It. Say It In
the same tone In
which you would
speak of anything
ell Sc. 1t is a great
mistake to sup
pose that one
must lower his
voice, and look
solemn, the mo
ment he intro
duces the subject
Of religion. The
gospel is good
news. II you do
not think so, the
less you say about
1t the better, but
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18
AGED TORTOISE TAKES TRIP

At the age of two hundred, or there
abouts, tortoise belonging to the
duke of Beaufort decided this year to
take a summer holiday. 1t was missed
in July from the dukes Forest of
Wentworth, near Chepstow. Mon
mouthshire, and has been found at
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-10-18
NOVEL USE FOR MOTORCYCLE
Business Trips and for Operating
His Meat Chopper.

Motorcycles have often been har-
nessed to small machines in times of
emergency, such, for instance, as
when the electric power fails for a
few hours or days. and 1t is also quite
probable that they are sometimes
used as the regular power plant for
such machines. An instance Of regu-
lar instead Of just emergency install