The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-12

tered residence in England and stole a
bath, taking nothing else. The distinc-
tons between burglars and guests are
| growing slighter every day.
The day of hiding behind a womar1's
skirts has passed Macon Telegraph.
The biggest boy scout lives In Phil
adelphia, says an exchange, which con-
| tinues: He is 10 years old, six feet, seven
inches tall and weighs $50 pounds. The
| figure of still bigger boy scout comes
to mind-the one who "does not lie. steal
| nor pretend, the one who never takes
| tip" as the scout manual says.
A little query for to-day: What is an
articholxe!
Liberal Republieanism," said John A.
Peters, the successful candidate in the
third congressional district of Maine.
Liberal Republicanism, watch that
phrase.
Why is the Vermont Press associa-
ton f--Swanton Courier. "But is iti"
returns the Herald and News of Ran
dolph. Our weekly contemporaries ex-
hibit lively curiosity.
Says the Kansas City Star: The com.
ing winter, it is believed, will have no
terrors for the foremost lawyer in
Coaticook, Canada.
81 seem to be pursued by relentless
fate."--H X Tbaw. Says Emerson in
his Nemesis: "And every man, of his
fate is never wide"
Anyway, "Hetchy- Hetchy' sounds dis
organized; no wonder the bill was a long
time passing.
II. w. Aeker, grandson OF William Fl.
M. Gravel, who died recently in New
York. will receive S4s,306 by his gran.
fathers will if he never uses cigarettes.
News item. Better lose, unless the
markings" are excepted.
BY way of Pittsburg, fashions newest
edict calls for skirt slashed from the
hem TO the knee, latticed with brilliantly
hued ribbons that are aimed TO accentu-
ate fesh-colored hosiery.
Bombita, the king of Spanish bull
fighters, has retired after a career of Is
years, during which he has killed 1900
bulls and amassed a fortune of 5000 900.
The Ty Cobbian recommendations of base
ball look scant, indeed.
Another sreal som of the American
Revolution died when James M,inroe
Grant passed away in Hartford, Conn,
the other day.
"Dr." Ben Ridder, the millionaire
tramp, is operating down Springfield,
Mass, way. Interviewed by reporter,
the doctor sagely observed, "To be for.
ever young, quit eating meat and stick
to a pint of beans and potato every
night" A conservative diet, surely, and
one cannot forbear the wish that the
eminent Swede, who visited Barre not
long ago, would serve up his oratorical |
feasts in consistently temperate way.
The correspondent fom Patehogue, N. |
Y, can pen fantastic lines with the best |
of 'em. Here he is in his most chmeri- |
cal vein: Walking along the Water Is |
land Beach near here, Augustus Rhyler, !,
a local barber, picked up a clam and |
opened it. He found ring set with |
three large diamonds set within the
shell.
When j. B. McKillop, Goshen, n. Y,
barber, passed church near his home,
lightning jumped from the lightning rod |
on the steeple and struck him. There
are good many gentle souls who will
attach peculiar significance to the |
and the mans avoeation.
BY the way, what is the official lex-
cographer's pronunciation of Coaticook %
tStanstead county and Lake Me-
gantic folks eliminated from the guess
ing contest).
New York Is the first state to adopt
the double governor system.--Detroit
Free Press.
Why Is there such dearth of good
men in the trades, pertinently asks the
Orleans County Monitor, and it contin-
ues by deploring the scarcity of carpen-
ters, blacksmiths, harness makers, etc,
The fattering emoluments offered in the
field, we believe, is con-
tributing cause.
sIndivisibility is the noblest word in
the lexicon of American nationality"
saws Colonel Roosevelt. And of course
It remained for Texas newspaper to
note the fact that the word contains no
less than six is.
Doctors took a horrible toll from Fred
Maybury. Michigan man. In ten years
he underwent "a operations and lost a
eg, hand, eye and appendix, to say moth
ng of arm bones. There IL man in
our town who recently underwent his
,lst operation and is still physically in
,act.
Says the Bradford United Opinion:
The recent visit of the National Retail
Monument Dealers association to Yer h
mont is not alone benefit to Barre
md Montpelier, because it cannot fail
% bring increased business into the state
Ind that helps all the state.
How many of the older residents who q
ave followed the affairs at Washing Il
,on from the days of their coming to
mans estate can REMEMBER Turner, the
ce man." Perhaps the death of Charles