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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-11

fixed incomes from their investments are
often disappointed and perhaps late IN
life. There is no variation in our an
nuity income. Send for descriptive cir
cular. National Life ms. Co.. OF Vt
(Mutual.) S. S. Ballard, general agent
Lawrence building, Montpelier, vt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-11

Foss' hating attitude in regard TO
running for fourth term as governor
Of Massachusetts is not calculated to
bring him big rush OF votes. The
voters want some definite stand on the
part OF candidates.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-11

Married. Oct. 10, 1918, the Atlantic
and the Pacific, Pres. Wilson officiating.
Bv the way, one of the most important
unions ever effected.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-11
BARRE DAILY TIMES
Published Every Weekday AINeo1
FRANK e. LANGLEY. Publisher
SATURDAY, OCTOBER II, 1913.

Whoever thought Judge Alton b. par-
tar could be so vinegaryf Probably
not Sulzer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-11

Do you know we have more positions than
we can fill with our combined course grad
yates?
There is a good position waiting for you.
1t will pay you to investigate. Send for
our catalogue.
CARNELL 6 HOLT, Efficiency Experts.
Albany, N. Y,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-11
Gan for One Dollar"

You work hard for your dollars; why
not make them work for you? You can
make them do double duty at The Da-
IL drug store Sec what 81 90 will do:
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-11
Women Who Must Have

All for sl.Oo. Davis Drug store.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
Commensurate Exactness.

Colonel Richardson would allow no
officer to be saluted on guard if out
of his uniform. One day the colonel
saw a young lieutenant in plain
clothes, and though be knew the young
officer intimately he called to the SEN
tinel to tnrn him out. A short time
afterward the colonel went visiting.
and returned late at night in the rain.
without the countersign and with a
borrowed raincoat. The sentinel called
the officer of the guard, who hap
pened to be the young lieutenant.
'Who are your" he asked, knowing
full we'll who he a
Colonel Richardson"
What! Without a uniform? Oh
no. You're not the colonel. You're an
impostor, and If the colonel knew this
he would break every bone in your
body"
There was nothing for him to do
but to return In the d%renching rain,
but the next morning ne called the
young lieutenant to him, and told
him he had done his duty with COM
mendable e~xactness."
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10

I step, d dread which, whenever she
strove to analyze 1t, ran from under
her Investigating touch, as little balls
OF quicksilver run from under the
pressure of a thumb.
She was never without the comforts
of life. welLfed, well-dressed, we'll
housed, and often her mother flung
her some jeweled trinket which (again
that sense of menace) she put away,
but never wore. The bright periods
were when they left her In the little
villa nea Mentone, with nc one but
her old and faithful nurse. There.
with her horse, her books and her
flowers, she was at peace. Week into
week and month into month she was
let be. Never a letter came, saw
from some former schoolmate who
was coming owe inc wanted letters
Of introduction to dukes and duchess
es. If she smiled over these letters
1t was with melancholy; for the dukes
and duchesses. who fell within her
singular orbit, were not the sort to
whom one rave letters of Introduction.
Where her mother went she never
had the least idea. She might be in
any of the great ports of the world.
anywhere between New York and
Port Said. The major generally dis
appeared at the same time. Then,
perhaps, she'd come back from a
pleasant tram-ride owe to Nice and
find them both at the villa, maid and
luggage. Mayhap a night or two, and
on they'd go again; never a word
about their former journey, uncom-
municative, rather quiet. These alb
sences, together with the undemon-
strative Temperatures, used to hurt
Fortune %dreadfully. 1t gave her a
clear proof Of where she stood, exactly
nowhere. The hurt had lessened with
the years, M now she didn't care
much. Like as not, they would drag
her out of Eden for a month or two,
for what true reason she never could
quite fathom, unless 1t was that at
times her mother liked to have the
daughter near her as a foil.
At rare intervals she saw steel-eyed.
grim-mouthed men wandering up N
down before the gates of the Villa
Fanny, but they eve rang the bell,
nor spoke to her when she passed
them on the street. If she talked of
these men. her mother and the major
would exchange amused glances. moth
ing more.
If, rightly or wrongly, she hated her
mother, she ~despised her uncle, who
was ever bringing to the villa men of
money, but of coarse fiber. ostensibly
with the view of marrying her off.
But Fortune had her dreams. and she
quite content to wait.
There was one man more persistent
than sthe others. Her mother called
him Horace. which the major mel
lowed into Hoddy. He was tall, blond.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10

the right sort of women from the
wrong sort, from which there is no APP
peal to a higher court. They could
well afford to admit of her beauty,
since the dancer was outside what is
called the social pale, for all that her
newest escort was a prince incognito.
They also discussed the play at bridge,
the dullness of this particular season,
the possibility of war between Eng
land and Germany. And some n
asked others who were the two we'll
gowned women down in front, sitting
on either side of the young chap in
pearl-grey. No one knew. Mother and
daughter, probably. Anyhow, they
knew something about good clothes.
George was happy. He was proud,
too. He saw the glances, the mods of
approval. He basked in a kind Of
sunshine that was new. What an ass
he had been all his life! To have
been afraid of women just because
he was Percival Algernon! What he
should nave done was to have gone
forth boldly, taken what pleasures he
found, INC laughed with the rest of
them.
There weren't two other women in
all Cairo to compare with these two.
The mother, shapely. elegant. with
the dark beauty Of a high-class Span.
lard, possessing humor, trenchant COM
ment. keen deduction and application:
worldly, cynical, high-bred. The stu
dent of nations might have tried in
vain to place her. She spoke the
French of the Parisians, the Italian
of the ~Florentines, the German Of the
Hanoverians, and her English was the
envy of Americans and the wonder of
the Londoners. The daughter fell be-
hind her but little. but she was more
reserved.
AS Fortune sat beside the young col
;ector that afternoon, she marveled
why they had given him Percival AL
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10

Fanny n Immediately vanished, who
returned again. And he. too, soon
grew to be a part of this unreal drama,
arriving mysteriously one day and de-
parting the next.
That a drama was being enacted I'M
der her eyes she no longer doubted;
but it was as though she had taken
her seat among the audience in the
middle of the second act. She could
make neither head nor tail to it.
Whenever she accompanied her
mother upon these impromptu jour
neys, her character, or rather her at
titude, underwent a change. She
swept aside her dreams; she accepted
the world as 1t was, saw things as
they were; laughed, but without merri-
ment; TESTED, but with the venomed
point. 1t was the reverse of her real
character to give hurt to any living
thing, but during these forced march
es, as the major humorously termed
them, and such they were in truth,
she could no more stand against Civ
ing the cruel stab than, when alone
in her garden, she could resist the
tender pleasure of succoring a fallen
ny Ole was OopSSini1y AaPPy
in finding weak spots in her mothers
armor. and she never denied herself
the thrust. Mrs. Chedsoye enjoyed
these sharp encounters, for it must
be added that she gave as good as
h took, and more often than not her
thrusts bit deeper and did not always
heal.
Fortune never asked questions ella
tive to the family finances. If she
harbored n doubts as to their origin,
to the source of their comparative lux
ury, she never put these into speech.
She had never seer her father. but
she had often heard him referred to
as that brute or that fool" or that
drunken imbecile." II a portrait Of
him existed. Fortune had not yet seen
it. She visited his lonely grave once
a year, in the Protestant cemetery,
and dreamily tried to c~onjure up what
manner of man he had been. One day
she piled her bic italian nurse with
questions.
Handsome? Yes, but it was all so
long ago. cara mia, that | can not
describe him to you"
Did he drink" Behind this ques-
ton there was no of moral
obloquy as applying to the dead.
"Sainted Mary! didn't all men drink
their very souls n purgatory those
un%religious days?"
Had he any relatives?"
81 never heard of any"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10

solved itself into a matter OF values
then. Had his surname been Mont
morency, Percival Algernon o
have fitted as a key to its lock. She
smiled. No one but a fond mother
would be guilty Of such a crime. Ana
if she ever grew to know him well
enough, she was going to ask him all
about this mother.
What interest had her own mother
in this harmless young man? oh,
some day she would burst through this
web, this jungle; some day h would
see beyond the second acti What
then? she never troubled to ask her
self; time enough when the moment
arrived.
81 had an interesting adventure
last night. a most interesting one"
began George, who was no longer the
shy, laundering recluse. They were
on the way back to town.
Tell it me-" said Mrs. C~hedsoye.
He leaned over from his seal beside
the chauffeur of the hired automobile.
(Hang the expense on a day k
this!) "A fellow brought me a rug
last night. one Of the rarest outside
the museums. How and where he got
it I'm not fully able to state. But
he had been in a violent struggle
somewhere, arms slashed, shins bat
tered. He admitted that he had gone
in where many shapes of death
lurked. 1t was a bit irregular. 1
bought the rug. however. Some one
else would have snatched it up If I
hadn't. l wanted him to recount the
adventure. but he smiled and refused.
I tell you what it is, these eastern
ports are great places"
How interesting!" Mrs. Chedsoye's
color was not up to the mark. He
vas not seriously wounded?"
"Oh, no. He looks like a tough in
dividual. / mean, a chap strong and
hardy enough to pull himself out Of
pretty bad holes. He needed the
money"
Did he give his name?" asked For
tune.
Yes; but no doubt it was assumed.
Ryanne, and he spelt it with an me-
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
Making Exceptions.

A story is told of Col. Sol Meredith
Of the Nineteenth Indiana. At the
Lewisville skirmish the colonel was
at the head of his men as they formed
in line Of battle under fire. The
shells were exploding over them, and
the boys would involuntarily duck
their heads. The colonel say it, and ex-
horted them as he rode along the
line to hold up their heads and act
like men. He turned to speak to one
of his officers. and at that moment a
large %18-pound she'll burst within a
few yards of him, scattering frag-
ments in all directions. Instinctively
he jerked his head almost to the sad
dle-bow, while his horse ~squatted
with fear.
Boys" said he, as he raised up and
reined his steed, you may dodge the
large ones"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10

Was he rich?'
No; but when the signora. you
mother. married him she thought he
was"
1t was not till later years that For
tune grasped the true significance Of
this statement. 1t illumined many
pages. She dropped all Investigations,
concluding wisely that her mother, if
she were minded to speak at all, could
supply only the Incidents, the details.
1t was warm, balmy, like May in the
northern attitudes. Women wore
white dresses and carried sunshades
over their shoulders. A good band
played airs from the new iight-operas,
and at one side of the grand-stand
were tea-tables under dazzling linen.
Fashion was out. Not all her votaries
enjoyed polo. but 1t was absolutely
necessary to pretend that they did.
When they talked they discussed the
Spanish dancer who paraded back
and forth across the tea-lawn. They
discussed her jewels, her clothes, her
escort, and quite frankly her morals,
which Of the four was by all odds the
most popular theme. All agreed that
she was handsome In Z bold way. This
medication Invariably aistlngu1shes
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
HAPTE vi.
Moonlight and Poetry.

A ball followed dinner that night,
Wednesday. The ample lounging-
room filled up rapidly after coffee;
officers in smart uniforms and spurs,
whose principal function in times Of
peace is to get in everybody's way,
rowel exposed ankles, and demolish
lace ruffles. Egyptians and Turks and
sleek Armenians in somber western
frock and scarlet eastern fez or tar
boosh, women of all colors (meaning,
as course, as applied) and shapes and
tastes, the lean and the fat, the tall
and short, such as Billy Taylor is said
to have kissed IN all the ports, and
tail-coats Of as many styles as Jo-
seph's had patches. George could dis
tinguish his c~ompatriots by the fit OF
the trousers round the instep; the
Englishman had his fitted at the
waist and trusted in Providence for
he hang Of the rest. This trifling de-
tective work rather pleased George.
The women, however, were all Ewes
to his eye; liberal expanses of beauti-
full white skin, the bare effect being
modified by a string of pearls or dia-
monds or emeralds, and hair which
might or might not have been wholly
their own. He waited ~restlessly for
the temperance Of Mrs. Chedsoye
and her daughter. All was right with
the world, except that he was to sail
altogether too soon. His loan had
been returned, and he knew that his
former suspicious had been most UNI
worthy. Mrs. Chedsoye had never
received his note.
(To BE coNTINUED.)
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
Mistaken Sense of What Is Dignified
Is a Common Fault of the
Times.

This is no an age in which clear dis
functions are made in the meaning OF
terms, Grotesque errors arise through
|haphazard conclusions drawn from
this loose method Of reasoning. One
of the popular misconceptions is that
the display of emotion on the part OF
men is belittling and indicates a weak
ness of character. disgraceful n
to the victim, says q writer
in the pittsburg Gazette Times. 1t
is claimed by some that the natural
processes of materialism and the hard
ening Of mems natures by the struggle
for success that the age demands has
brought about this contempt for any
thing like a display of emotion on the
part OF men. It may be questioned,
however: whether this explains the as
sumed respect for c~allousness that Is
20 marked . feature of the times.
There 10 4 false idea around as to
what emotion II, and . mistaken con-
csption q % its proper expression.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10

the sensation Of being astonished at
. something she had expected to hap
pen,
Just before going down to dinner
that night, Fortune turned to her
mother, her chin combative in It's
angle.
Il gave Mr.. Jones a hundred and
fifty pounds out of that money you
left in my care. Knowing how forget
full you are. | took the liberty OF at
tending to the affair myself
She expected a storm. but instead
her mother viewed her with apprais-
ing eyes, Suddenly she laughed mel
lowly. Her sense of humor was TOO
excitable TO resist so delectable a slt-
uation.
You told him, of course, that the
money came from me?' demanded
Mrs. Chedsoye. when she could con-
troll her voice.
Surely. since it did come from
you"
MY dear. my dear, you are to me
like the song in the Mikado;' and she
hummed lightly
ITO make the prisoner pent
Unwillingly represent
A source of innocent merriment.
OF innocent merriment!
Am I a prisoner, then?
Whatever you like; it can not be
said that l ever held you on the leash
taking a final look into the mirror.
What is the meaning of this rug7
You and know who stole it."
L have explicitly warned you, my
child, never to NEEDLE with affairs
that do not concern you"
Indirectly, some Of yours do. o
are in love with Ryanne, as he calls
himself"
MY dear, you do not usually stoop
to such vulgarity. And are you GER
tain that he has any other name?"
IF l were l should not tell you"
OH"
"A man will tell the woman he
loves many things he will not tell
the woman he admires."
LAS wise as the serpent bantered
the mother; but she looked again into
the mirror to see if her color was still
what it should be. And whom does
he admire?" the Mona Lisa smile how
ering at the of her lips.
YOU" evenly.
Mrs. Chedsoye thought for a mo-
ment, thought deeply and with new
insight. 1t was no longer a child but
a woman, and mayhap she had played
upon the taut strings of the young
lz.. 1,oo TOO ~ftar Gill chn was
unafraid.
And whom does he love?"
me. Shall 1 get you the rouge.
mother?"
Still with hal unchanging smile,
the woman received the stab. my
daughter" as if speculatively. you
will get on. You haven't been my pu-
pill all these years for nothing. Let
us go down to dinner"
Fortune, as she silently followed.
experienced a sense of disconcertion
rather than of citation.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
@6WAR
WfldlMScERNS}B5S
COST OF ARTIFICIAL LIMBS
United States Government Pays Out
100000 Annually to Fit Veter-
ans of Our Wars.

The government has been expanding
on the average about $4,000 0 every
year in providing artificial limbs to
soldier of the Civil and other wars,
but although $4,000 0 was ~appropriat-
ed and spent in that way in the past
year, the appropriation asked for next
years was only Sis, 600, and it has
been granted. The reason will appear.
remarks the Boston Advertisers
Washington correspondent. 1t has to.
for such is the law.
The amount of the appropriation
has been, in fact, dropping year by
year. In 1903, the first year of the
t%riennial period. the appropriation was
$4,000. In 1906, the appropriation
was $425,O0O in 1907, $1O5, 900, and in
1908, 100000. In 1911 it was $105,Oo0.
Every third year the appropriation is
always very large because the old sol
diers may renew their artificial limbs
every three years, and they always
take good care to do So. The total
number of DID soldiers provided with
artificial limbs, legs or arms or both,
is now 1882.
If the old soldier does not want an
arm, or a leg, or both, that he may
need, he can take money in lieu Of the
artificial limb. This is called 'commu-
tation."
Many Of them do So, whether they
really can use a limb or not. And
they are certain to make a requisitlon
every three years as the law permits,
and that Is what makes the appropria-
ton jump so high every three years.
The value Of the Communication Is
SIS for a leg, and from $35 to $75 for
an arm. How long such a limb ought
to last varies, 1t has been found. Some
times they last only a year, and some
times ten years. The benefciaries
make the artificial legs last about
seven years and an arm much longer,
but nevertheless they ask for "commu-
tation," taking the money and going
on with the old limb. The commute
TONERS number obout 1900. In 1909
the commissioners numbered 5,7lS;
in 1910, 2,117, and 1911, 1880.
The war department says that the
disabilities Of most of the beneficial
ries are of such a character that arti-
fetal limbs or apparatus render no re-
lief. The communication alone is of
value W lueul, LIZ lidI 10 thSii SNhi"
compensation for having rendered
service to their country.
The government also appropriates
every year 1000 to furnish artificial
eyes and ear drums to not only old
soldiers, but to any soldier disabled
in the military service of the country.
A great many such cases arise in the
artillery and naval branch of the mil
itary service because of the firing OF
large guns. The sum Of $4,000 a year
is also spent in providing trusses for
disabled soldiers.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10

gernon. Jones was all right, solid and
substantial, but the other two turned
it into ridicule. Still, what was the
matter with Percival A%lgernon? His
tory had given men of these names
mighty fine things to accomplish.
Then why ridicule? Was 1t due to the
perverted angle of vision created by
wits and humorists In the comic week
lies, who were e%ternally pillorying
these unhappy prefixes to ordinary
cognomens? And why this p~illorying?
She hadn't studied the subject suf-
fciently to realize that the business
of the humorist is not so much to
amuse as to warn persons against be-
coming ridiculous. And Percival Al
gernon Jones was all Of that. 1t re-
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
pependent On Wood pulp.

Mr.. Frank Lloyd, at the annual din.
ner of the British Wood Pulp associa-
ton, spoke of the serious effect upon
the industry of the drought in Scan
dinavia, and, referring to the rapid
development of the industry, pointed
out how dependent paper makers now
we're upon wood pulp. If they had to
rely on straw, etc. as was the case
only about twenty-five years ago, his
mill at S~ittingbourne would alone re-
quire a string of carts over four miles
long, and at least 1000, 900 gallons
OF water every twenty-four hours"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10

and humorously explained why he did
so.'
us he young. old. g~ood-looking. or
WHAT"
Mrs. Chedsoye eyed her offspring
through narrowed lids.
81 should say that he was about
thirty-five. tall, something of an ath-
lete; hi there remains some indica-
lions that in the flush of youth he was
handsome. Odd. He reminded me of
a young man who was on the varsity
Observation-Disclosures l entered
my freshman year. I didn't know him,
but l was a great admirer of his from
the grand-stand. Horace Wadsworth
was his name"
Horace Wadsworth. Fortune had
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
SYNOPSIS.

George Percival Algernon Jones. vice.
president of the Metropolitan Oriental
Rug company of New York, thirsting for
romance, is In Cairo on a business trip.
Horace Ryanne arrives at the hotel In
Cairo with a carefully guarded bundle.
Ryanne sells Jones the famous holy Yhi-
ordes rug which he admits having stolen
from a pasha at Bagdad. Jones meets
Major Callahan and later Is introduced to
Fortune Chedsoye by q woman to whom
he had loaned $50 pounds at Monte Carlo
some months previously, and who turns
out TO be Fortunes mother.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
How He Fixed the Data.

The lawyer was determined to dis
credit the witness.
You are positive this happened on
Wednesday," he demanded.
:" am"
Cant be mistaken"
No"
Why couldn't it have been Thurs
day or Tuesday? How is 1t that o
can fix this day so positively in your
mind?"
Because" answered the witness
with some spirit, I'VE had chicken
that day. Chicken day Il Wednesday
whore I board
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
Counts for NothIno.

An Irishman came onto the powder
wharf at City Point, seated himself,
lookout his pipe and put it in his
mouth.
you can't smoke here said the
guard. his hair o. end with excite
ment.
Il know, sorr; I'm not smoking
said the Irishman.
But you've got you pipe in you
mouth" continued the guard.
Yes" retorted the 1rishman: an.
I've got me feet in me boots, but I'm
not kickin'."
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
Fear to Display Emotion

Hysteria is one of our national dis
eases. The excuses into which it leads
men and women have become the SUBJ
1ect of widespread contempt, sensible
people, feeling an instructive aversion
for this sort of exaggerated feeling,
have fallen into the error of mistaking
ane human emotion for hysteria and
have gone to the extreme in their eff
fort to avoid any expression of feel
ing as 'womanish." puerile and un-
manly.