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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-05-26
ORANGE

There will be box social, promenade
md dance at Orange Center, Thursday,
May 90
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-05-26
TALK OF THE TOWN

Have you seen the rain coat values
at Abbott's?
Black Cat hose N gauze weights, al
Abbott's
L. l.. Savory returned this morning tc
Brattleboro, after few days visit Ia
the city.
O. r. Lawrence left the City hospital
Saturday, after being there ten days for
an operation.
Sidney Jarvis Of South Barre was OPP.
Grated on at the City hospital Saturday
for appendicitis, and the operation was
considered successful.
! May 81 is the last day for the verifi-
cation of savings bank pass books. Have
you had yours verified YETI II not, do
| II nowit is important.
| Miss Stella Goodrich, who has been
at the City hospital for two weeks, dur
| ing which time she sustained an opera
ton, has recovered sufficiently so that
she has gone home
Raymond Sherburne of st. Johnsbury,
who graduated from Goddard seminary
last spring. won third place in the ham
mer throw at the New England intercol-
legiate track meet at Cambridge Satur
day. Sherburne was representing Tufts
college and his throw fell foot short
of landing him second honors. Athletic
trainers in the vicinity of Boston com
mented fayorably on the work of Sher-
burne.
G. NJ. Tandy Of Albeline. Tex, arrived
in the city yesterday for a weeks visit.
Mr. Tandy is the owner of large cattle
ranch in Texas and will devote part Of
his visit in the city to cattle interests.
While in the city he will stop at the
City hotel.
The 1913 class of Goddard seminary
went to-day to berlin pond on their an
nual straw ride. The class was trans
ported to Berlin in three barges and
Sargent's automobile truck. John Kurtz
and Miss Mildred Holden, members of
the Goddard faculty, acted as escort to
the seminary seniors.
Manager Lawton Witt of Goddard
seminary's baseball team to-day circu-
lated posters for the annual People
academy baseball game. which will take
place on the campus Wednesday after
noon. Peoples academy comes to the
city with an enviable record. Ward, |
who won fame in interscholastic circles |
last spring, is again its reliable twirler.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-05-26

Notice TO the Public

am DESTROYS of informing the
public that / recently sold my
farm in East Calais and soon
shall advertise all of my person
al property, including household
goods, farming, harness, mason,
blacksmith, carpenter and me-
chanics tools, at auction sale. |
have a fancy pair of twin oxen,
seven years old and broken to
harness, and also a prize win
ming Morgan mare with foal
three years old at my former
home at East Calais that | would
like to sell before time of auction
sale. l am seeking the columns
of your valuable paper as a
means of conveying this infor-
nation to the public.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-05-26
TOO LATE TO BE CLASSIFIED

WANTED-A middle-aged woman for gem
eral homework in family of four adults
Inquire at 1853 Hill street. between the hours
of and in the evening, except Mondays
and Saturdays. stiff
70 RENT-'Tenement in the French block
Apply to Geo. A. Reed at city engineers Office
city nall. or at "a Orange street Cliff
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-05-26
SUMPTUoUS MoUNTINGS
SCENIC PRODUCTION
NOVEL ELECTRICAL EFFECTS

Primrose and Dockstader At Their FESTIVE
World-F amous Organizations Amalgsmated
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-07-05
TO USE GRAVES OVER AGAIN
After Twenty Years Provision of the
New German Law Govern
ing Cemeteries.

Statistics show that the
average grave in Berlin is cared for
by loving relatives for less than ten
years. consequently the term of occu-
pancy by the departed has been re-
duced in WilmersdOrf from thirty to
twenty years. Thus is provision made
to meet the increasing demand on
cemetery space in a large and grow
ing city. and a leeway Of eight years
still allowed for the protection OF the
feelings Of those who remain behind
This applies to adults The same
ruthless statistics show that the
graves of children are looked after for
a lesser period, and consequently they
may be occupied for twelve years
only.
One Of the largest graveyards Of
Berlin is at Wilmersdorf. The TWEEN
" and twelve year periods Of tenancy
already prevail in the Berlin munich
pal cemetery, the mounds then being
leveled on, any memorials removed
and the graves made ready for other
occupants
The authorities that unless some
such course as this is followed all the
land in Berlin available for burial pur-
poses would be exhausted in twelve
years. The tardy authorization by
parliament last year Of cremation may
check the demand for cemetery space,
but probably not to any great extent
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-07-05

treating back and then retire with an
air Of resignation.
But no one ever grudges the five
pfennigs unless he be extraordinarily
misery. The payment of a single
half-penny enables you to sit in COM
fort in the middle Of one Of the hand
soonest and liveliest streets in Europe,
and Berlin does its best TO provide
you with varied pageant.
Novel and varied indeed it is for
hundreds of actors and actresses play
their parts in the pageant OF the
street, where shops and an arcade and
a restaurant or two constitute the
back scene and where fercely solemn
policemen are the stage managers
Quantity dressed nurse girls from the
country, in their picturesque peasant
costumes, move easily and calmly
across the stage, pushing strangely in
artistic perambulators, in which placid
German babies sit and stare.
But the greatest figure on this Ger
man stage is coming. There is a sud
den cessation Of all sound: the traffic
is stopped and men and women stand
waiting in silence for his entry. There
is tense and mute excitement in the
air and from far away you can hear.
through the stiffness, the beating OF
horses hoofs and the murmur of the
shouting of distant people The sound
of the hoOfs grows louder and the
wave Of shouting sweeps along the
broad street-and everywhere the cry
is Der kaiser! Der kaiseri' And
you rise from your seat and turn to
see a beyy Of hoTsemen gaIlOping
down the riding path For only one
Of them have you any eyes-he who
rides ahead of his fellows, raising his
hand continually in response to the
greetings OF his subjects; he whose
kingliness is such that you dOff your
hat instinctively and stand in silence
as he rides by
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-07-05

In general, 1 can see very little JUS
LITIGATION for national aid for high
ways, except the following:
% 1t would encourage states that
have not heretofore taken part in the
movement to enter upon highway con-
struction.
(2) 1t would create a coherent sys-
tenn of through travelled roads, of in
terest not only to the states individ-
ual1y, but to adjoining states, and pos
sibly in some few cases, to several
states.
Cd 1t would distribute the cost
in such a way that construction might
be encouraged because the cost was
not all paid directly.
(4) 1t would standardize highway
construction if an efficient national
commission were formed, and would
lead to better and more uniform con-
StructiOn.
Too many persons favor national
aid because it seems to give some
thing for nothing, and not because
the scheme they suggest is equitable,
or because more economical results
will be obtained. 1t has seldom been
found that the expenditures of spe-
cial appropriations under government
auspices has been actually economical
or that their distribution has been
based on fairness OF equity.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-07-05
NATIONAL AID FOR THE PUBLIC HIGHWAYS


tie Highway Engineer.1
1 have no sympathy with the idea
Of national aid for highways in the
form of a Jackpot for political dis
tribution (such as the Rivers and Har-
bors and Public Buildings appropria-
tiOns), as it seemingly commonly de-
manded, and do not believe that the
cost of these highways will be any
less because the cost is collected in
directly by the general government.
1 feel that it is a sound principle that
those who get the benefits should pay
the larger share of the cost, and be-
lieve that any law formulated should
be along such lines as will give an
approximately fair distribution OF
cost between the units benefited.
The plea often made that automO-
biles from other states pass through
certain states to the detriment Of
their highways is not an effective
plea to the thinking man, since au-
tomobiIes passing through a state
leave much more money behind than
they destroy in the value of road sur
facings, and it is felt that each state,
as a general proposition, should be
willing to build its roads so that tour
list traffic would be encouraged. Ma
tional aid would, however, produce a
quickening of this construction on
the main lines, and without doubt
would be OF value in this regard.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-07-05
DANBURYS CHOICE
Bet All His Savings on Rank
Outsider With the Usual
Result.
Rx CLIFTON HALLIDAY

Danbury saw that the man was
lying in the middle of the road, in i'm
minent danger of being run down by
the Whirling automobiles that followed
each other in never-endfng stream.
He shook him, but the man did not
respond. Then, lifting him in his
arms, the young American carried him
to the side of the highway and laid
him down under a tree.
Automobiles and carriages streamed
past them, but no one stopped to no
tice the recumbent man. For this was
at Kempton Park, and one of the clas-
sic races of the year was to be run.
All the fashionable folk of England
had turned out for the racing, and all
the unfashionabIes of the district
afoot, on horseback, in pony carts and
behind donkeys, men, women and
babes, shouting, whooping mob.
The man had evidently tainted;
there was no smell of liquor upon his
breath. He was elderly, thin, gaunt,
Withholding. Leaving him there, Dan
bury ran to a public house near by
and bought a flask of brandy and some
sandwiches. Returning, he tried to
force the liquor between the mans
teeth, but he clinched his jaws.
No, no." he muttered, beginning to
revive. Il promised my dying mother
that would never touch liquor Food,
for heavens sake!"
He munched the sandwiches greed
lily, and presently seemed so far re
covered as to sit up. He stared at his
rescuer
Have they run the Victoria stakes
yet?" he implored.
Not, 1 believe, till three O'Clock"
Danbury answered.
Then help me to the course. It's
matter OF thousands" He looked at
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-07-05
AN OPIUM BONFIRE IN CHINA
ParaphernaIia Confiscated From
Smokers by Authorities Is Burned
Once Every Month.

A quantity OF opium pipes, lamps.
and parapheTnalia for the preparing
of the drug, to the total value of more
than 10000 taels, was publicly burned
in the presence OF Chinese officials
and a squad Of soldiers on the empty
space Of ground behind the British
concession in HakOw-
The goods represented the results
of a months raiding in and about the
city The opium. which was the ma
tive product, and the other articles
were piled in a heap opposite the
NingpO club and were thoroughly
soaked in kerosene and packed round
about with frewood-
This was set fire to, kerosene being
poured on the bonfire when the flames
showed signs Of dying down. Not
a clay vial was left. The burning is
carried out once a month, this being
the second time, and 4 different place
is selected for each fire. The opium
and utensils were wholly cOnhscated
from smokers. The smokers we're
fined or imprisoned
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-07-05

DO you want to come Ing" asked
the old fellow. stopping short. "A hum
dred pounds will net you four thou
sand. A thousand will net you forty
thousand. And nobody knows but U.s.
It's the chance of a Hfetime-but
there, I'm a fool to give it away"
Danbury had five hAndred-the bal
ance of ali he had put aside for his
European tour. Visions of wealth
flashed through his brain. Twenty
lars! What would not that mean
to him!
You're dead sure?' he queried. iii
III wager four hundred
And you'll never regret 1t, son. an
swered the old man, and dragged him
up to the bookmaker.
Last chance!" the latter yelled.
Five to one Blackberry; six to one
Aesop; ten to one Lauderdale. High
Hook, Whitefoot-"
What's the odds on Silver King?
queried the elder man.
Fifty to one" answered the book
maker briskly. Want to make a bet?
It's a sporting chance-there's worse
horses has won. Four hundred?" He
took the money and scrubbed memo
randum in his book, handing Danbury
the stub. Too late, gents! They're
off" he yelled to the surrounding
crowd.
Danbury turned, tense with excite
ment, to see the horses racing down
the field. Blackberry. the favorite,
was leading, but the rest were press
ing him hard. Silver King was trail
ing in the rear, but his shoulders
seemed to heave with energy. He was
biding his time, anyone could see that.
He's winning" yelled the old man
at Danbury's side. He'll lag behind
until they come up the home stretch,
and then-look-Iook
Blackberry had fallen back and Sill
yer King had passed three of his COM
petitors. Danbury had forgotten the
old man now 1t is the most fascinat-
ing thrill in the world to see your
horse race up the course toward the
winning post.
A roar went up. Blackberry was in
the lead again. And Silver King had
fallen to the rear. The horses quick
ened their stride. Blackberry was edg-
ing away from all. And poor old Sill
yer King fell further and further away.
He tailed away, his withers rocked
like a boat in storm, and as the yells
of thousands showed that Blackberry
had rOmped home Silver King came
toiling along, last of the field.
When Danbury, stunned by his loss,
turned round, the old fellow was no
longer at his side. The bookmaker
was also gone. A little mob CT win
ners was hunting for him with yells
Of rage. But Danbury never saw
either of them again.
Copyright. 1913. by w G. Chapman)
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-07-05

lege, remained alive during the win
ter and will continue their destruc-
tive work this summer. Unless some
steps are taken by farmers to safe
guard their crops, the loss will be
greater than it was last year, Pro
fessOr Dean says.
Several methods may be used sue
cessfully to arrest their migration.
These should be put into force be
fore the early crops have matured.
After the bugs have once entered the
small grain fields there is no way to
prevent injury, but it is entirely pos
sible to keep them from passing into
the corn, kafir and sorghum.
The dust barrier and the road-Oil
barrier are methods commonly used
to destroy the bugs. The first is use
full in dry weather and the latter
when the soil is wet. a dust barrier
is made by blowing a strip of ground
about ten feet wide between the in
tested and the non-infested fields and
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-07-05
NEW YORK A MILLIONAIRE
Value of Parks Of the Metropolis Soon
May Equal the City's Funded
Debt.

William A. Prendergast, comptroll-
er, submitted to the commissioners of
the sinking fund a schedule of $500
parcels of property owned by the city
Of New York, aggregating in value
81 800, 000,000 This schedule shows
that the corporation of the city of
New York is the wealthfest in the
country, and is the largest holder of
real estate within the limits of its
Jurisdiction.
That the city has been a shrewd or
fortunate Spectator in city properties
is proved by a number of interesting
facts of record. For instance, one
Peter eStuyvesant and his wife, in
1886, conveyed what is now Stuyves-
ant Park to the city for So. The pres
ent assessed valuation Of the property
is 1850, 900. Tompkins Park, now
assessed at So, 900, 900, was acquired by
the city in 1884 for $4,000 Mount
Morris Park, now valued at $500, 900
cost the city less than $4,000. Bow
ling Green, which was once rented for
two pepper corns a year, is now as
sessed at 81, 735, 900.
Considering the present extraordi-
nary value of Central Park, some Of
the adjacent property on Fifth ave
nue. being assessed at $4,000 a front
foot, and the constantly increasing
value of the 1900 acres of city parks
by reason of the city's growing popu-
lation, it is not improbable that with
in a few years the parks alone will
Offset in value the entire present
funded debt of the city
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-07-05
The Value of SiIage.

Silage has come into use largely
because of the fact that roughage
has increased so rapidly in value
siIage produces a larger yield of dry
matter TO the acre than any other
crop grown on the farm. It is sue
culent, palatabIe. and nutritious. The
only factors TO be taken into consid-
eration are. first, that it is a rough
age, and, second, that il is deficient in
protein With these two points kept
well in mind and silage used accord
ing1y, cattIemen are certain TO be
pleased with the results from its use.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-07-05
STOP THE CHINCH BUG DEVASTATION
BY HEADING OFF THEIR MIGRATION
How to Make the Dust and Roadoi Barriers Explained by
Agricultural College Experts-The Pest Cost the
Farmers of Kansas Seventeen Mil
lion Dollars in 1912

by listing a deep furroW and then
dragging with q heavy log. The bugs
fall into these burrows when they pass
from one field to another and may be
destroyed by a gasoline torch or by
dragging a log through the burrows.
The torch is more effective.
The road-oiI barrier is constructed
by blowing a sharp back furrow be-
tween the fields and working up a
ridge on this by dragging a trough
over it On the bottom of the trough
a pole is placed which will leave a
groove on top of the compact ridge.
No. : road-oil is placed in this groove
in sufficient quantity to make a line
One-half to three-fourths of an inch
wide. After the bugs have fallen into
the groove they may be destroyed by
the gasoline torch. Coal tar can be
substituted for road-oiI but it is more
expensive and must be renewed more
frequently. The road-oil barrier is
for use in wet weather when the dust
barrier is useless. 1t should be placed
between the dust barrier and the non
infested fields.
The migration of chinch bugs from
wheat to corn fields usually lasts from
one to two weeks, and during this
time should be stationed with
torches along the barriers at the time
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-07-05
UNTER DEN LINDEN IN BERLIN
For Five Pfennigs You Can Rent =
Chair on This Famous Ger
man Thoroughfare.

Berlin Benutzung, five pfs," is
the legend painted in plain black on
the backs Of the garden chairs. which
stand in two long rows on either side
Of the promenade in the Inter den
Linden, and il means that if you sit
down on one of those chairs a little
hard faced woman Will come and
stand before you, hold out her knot
ted hand and wait in silence until you
put your five pfennigs into it If you
Oblige by handing over the money
you may occupy that particular chair
for the rest OF the day If you have
nowhere else to go; if, on the con-
tTary, you are so mean as to rise
hurriedly and hasten from the spot on
becoming acquainted with the fat
that you are expected to pay for sit
ting down. she will scOwl at your re-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-07-05

Danbury thoughtfully. Help me there
and I'll show you what an old mans
gratitude means
Half an hour later they were seated
by the side as near the track as they
could get. 1t was fifteen minutes be-
fore the race. The horses had been
led out of their paddocks. The old
fellow stared at each as he went past.
"There!" he cried, as a poor-looking
animal went by. That's Silver King
He's being quoted at forty to one-a
rank outsider And he'll win-he's
mine"
THAT horse is yours?" calculated
Danbury.
Mine. every inch of him And now
I'm going to make your fortune" re-
piled the other. Listen!"
Ten years ago Silver King was a
Derby winner. Never mind what his
name was then. He was mine, and 1
won ninety thousand pounds on him
1t went in wine, women and song
sQuandered, sir, as easily as it came.
l lost everything; 1 lost Silver King.
He was sold to a millionaire. But his
jockey misused him and he wouldn't
run. At last he was sold again as
/ hackney, then he became a carriage
horse, and finally I lost sight OF him.
But 1 never ceased looking for Sill
! yer King, and at last I found him
! Three months ago, sir, l discovered
| him breaking his brave heart betw cen
| the shafts of a hanson cab. l bought
! him for ten guineas cash. I had just
| "a hundred pounds in the world.
rented a little cottage and barn in a
! wild part of Essex, and there l trained
| him. Twelve years old he is today,
/ and at first 1t was a heart-breaking
! task. But I knew that Silver King had
| been the feetest horse in England,
and though his heart had been broken
| by his indignittes his old master could
mend it.
Day by day I raced him until his
limbs had grown supple again. He
knew me from the first; we loved each
other as only a horse and a man can
| love, And he knew that 1 was trying
| to recoup my fortunes as we'll as to
regain his reputation. Often 1 thought
the task was impossible, but I Perse.
vered. And at last the day came when
1 knew that l had again one of the
swiftest steeds in this country
He amt much to look at, is he. sir
because his cartilage has mostly
turned to bone. But there's speed in
the slope of those shoulders. and
know him-why shouldn't l know
| him.
He glared defantly at Danbury, his
face all aquiver with eagerness.
'I hired Jockey and entered him
for the Victoria stakes. 1 had fifty
pounds left, and 1 borrowed two hun
dred more. l didn't spend anything or
food A loaf of bread is all I've had
the last five days. Because, you see
sir, two hundred and fifty pounds
placed on a forty-to-one shot mean:
ten thousand If he wins. A fortune
for me and a peaceful old age for Sill
yer King. And he can't lose. But Il
you hadn't saved me when 1 was lying
upon the road that rascally bookie whG
has my stake might have WEIGHED
Let's go over and keep an eye on him.
He started toward a tall man in {
white hat who, standing on a stool
! was shouting the odds. The horse.
were at the starting gate.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-07-05
Why Lawn Is Called Lawn.

Years ago the Dutch excelled all
other peoples in the bleached linens
they sent forth That was in a time,
of course, when bleached linen was
considered a luxury. The Dutch
gained their fame for this excellence
because they had a wonderful sys-
tenn of treating the muslin to make
it white To begin with, they treated
it to bleaches and acids of various
sorts, and then they placed it on
bleaching lawns, or green's, where it
lay at intervals from March to Sep
TENDER. The white material thus
produced took the name OF the lawns
whereon it was bleached- least so
goes the story.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-07-05
WARSHIP GUN cRUSHES MAN
Turret of the Battieship New York
in Brooklyn Navy Yard.

New York.-Imprisoned between the
platform and the flooring of a gun car
rage on the forward turret Of the bat
tleship New York in the Brooklyn
navy yard, Frank Duffy, a contract
workman. watched the breech end OF
q six-inch gun slowly descend upon
him, realizing that he was about TO
die
I4aborers did not hear Duny's muf-
fed cries IN time to operate the stop
ping lever from above, and his head
was crushed. instantly killing him He
had been adjusting machinery, and his
overalls caught on a projecting par
when he tried to squirm from beneath
the gun
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-07-05

An incubator should be thoroughly
disinfected with a three per cent solu-
ton of some coal-tar dip, W a. Lip
pincott, head of the poultry depart
ment, says, and then tested TO see if
it will hold a uniform temperature.
If it will hold a uniform temperature
of 1O2 degrees F. for twenty-four
hours, it is ready for the eggs. The
eggs are washed in ninety-five per
cent alcohol and then placed in the
machine.