The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-09
SHIPS AND SEALING-WAX
The time has come" the Walrus said,
ITO talk of many things:
OF shoes and ships and sealing-wax.
And cabbages and kings"
The Wairus and the Carpenter

|
The Springfield Republican defines ii
status of the dollar diplomacy progral
pretty clearly when it declares that III
thanks desire to negotiate the loans wit
the provision that the government ACT
as collecting agent.
To all accounts, the prohibition LAY
| in Maine is Just as much OF dead let
| ter as was the old Vermont statute,
condition which seems to brand the re
moval of a Cumberland county sheriff
| from office as something of farce. H
was charged with being derelict to hi
duty in enforcing the prohibtory Law
and so the removal may have been rich
! " deserved. Yet one is inclined to al
| il the case now under consideration il
the first of its kind ever to come un
der official notice.
The Cleveland barber who has decided
to become a butcher has found his yo
cation it is to be hoped. His decision
is hereby commended to the thoughtful
consideration OF certain members of al
honorable profession.
Edouard Remenyi paid a tribute to
George w. Fisk Of Greeley, Col, when
he referred to him as the best violn
maker in the world and just lately Da-
vid c. Fisher and George Lehman, names
to be conjured with among musicians OF
the western world, have added their
H. g
Col, is a good ways away from Ben
nington, VT, but it was in Bennington
that George w. Fisk was born just sew
enty-five years ago. Little Vermont Is
modest enough in size, but she yields TO
none in the matter of producing famous
sons, whether they be fiddle makers,
statesmen or warriors.
He ran across the bridge into Bur
lington and disappeared in the woods.
Burlington Free Press.
Times must have changed since Bur
Ineton- Now In the Woods proclaimed
herself the Queen City of Vermont"
A new trial was granted in Phil
adelphia eiectment case when one juror
to be confused with the obstinate juror.
who is Usually furnished with long ears.
Why the Ball Curves Headline. The
eternal question OF the man at bat.
"To be driving along the principal
street, over which teams are constantly
having the horse suddenly drop
,ut of sight without warning, and hav-
ng the earth close over the animal.
eaving the carriage in the roadway and
/ bewildered young woman on the seat,
$ the beginning of story, said to have
lctually happened. which is going the
ounds of the state press. There's no
accounting for what may happen when
he roads are such a sight, tbs true
tut after giving the author of the lit
lie incident all due credit for his drs-
matte play on words wouldn't the story |
make an admirable entry Tor the Doctor
'ook sweepstakes
Canada's clamor for the parcel post |
indicates a reciprocity of thought along !
efined lines; now it remains for the (
dominion maleonteEts to revive the an /
exation bugbear from its two years of
ibernation.
With ll6 more indictments against
he Chicago arson trust, the metallic
ng of the 3se cuspidor that was pro-
scted from fire loss by $500 policy,
romises to outGistence the memorable
not heard 'round the world at Lexing
IN London and Berlin already are
'oking for trust hired firebugs.
Vassar college girls who watched two
itchen chefs in duel with carving
hives over who should pick a chicken,
-obably witnessed tactics that will help
rem in the household warfare of the
lture. Some day husband regulation
i'll findsits appointed place in the cur
culum of every woman's college in the
nd.
Vast erial preparations made by
anee and Germany plainly show that
'th nations are up in the air over their
pansion interests.
Mayor Gaynor's discovery that vice in
Nv i ofk CABARET SHOWS goes manu- W
nd. not with rum. but with tea. moves
e Boston Transcript to wonder if the
p that cheers must also 60 under the
else law.
A Chicago physician places the origins
rheumatism in the tonsils and de-
Tres in the sam9 statement that he
s discovered the germ Of the malady.
Henry told about a burglar and
siness man who sought the cure ami
md the germ. But it was the germ OF
cndship and the cure came Of its own
ord.
The Woodstock Spirit Of the Age al
Idy speaks Of the president as Neigh
+ Wilson Who dares say we Yer
nters are suspicious Of strangers!
Iew York Sun: The fancy prices al
ed to have been paid for all night d.
ses are not the ~eurfew tolls OF
ich the late Mr.. Gray wrote. II
The report that Henry W. LOngfel- :