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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18
FINANCIAL SUCCESSES IN YER
MONT BASEBALL.

The financial success of the league
baseball season at Bellows Falls has
been so marked that the association
there has been able to cancel about one
half Of the Indebtedness remaining from
the previous season. This has been done
on an average attendance of 597 people
at each of the games played in Bel
lows Falls and it speaks well for the
quality of the management back of the
team. Moreover, the results attained
should be an encouragement to the en-
thusiasts of Barre and Montpelier who
still wish for league baseball in spite
of disastrous financial experiences OF
some years back. In those days the
Barre-Montpeie team was drawing
crowds that ran many times we'll over
a thousand people and sometimes we'll
toward two thousand, so that the aver
age attendance must have been consid-
erably greater than that at Bellows
Falls during the past season. Thus, in
respect to attendance, the local :eam
probably had an advantage over Bel
lows Falls management; so that the lat :
ter's success with lesser receipts ought
to lend encouragement to the belief that
a league team can be successful operat-
ed in the twin cities of central Yer
mont provided a reasonable limit to ex-
penditures is placed and adhered to. The
main item of expense when Barre Mont
pelier went in the hole was that of play
ers, we understand, there being a wild
scramble in the old Northern league to
secure best obtainable talent outside of
the major leagues. If it were possible
to tone down the desire in this respect
and to be satisfied with triie less cost.
~ talent; Barre Montpelier and the 9th.
err cities of northern Vermont might be
able to carry through another league
with more success, financially, than at
tended their last efforts.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18
An Inconsistent Policy.

AT least one of the prediction prom
ises of the Democratic party with regard
to the high cost of living may be brand
ed for campaign purposes only" in
view OF Washington dispatches showing
that the provision in the tariff act inn
posing tax of Sll0 gallon on wine
spirits, used for the fertilization of
sweet wines, has been struck out by
the conferees, while the section taxing
bananas is still held for consideration.
Such action is difficult to understand.
1t is directly opposed to the principles
of the Baltimore platform.
The tax on wine spirits is obviously a
tax on luxury and would yield accord
ing to estimates, about Ss,000,000 BAN
anas, one of the cheap and wholesome
articles of food within the reach of the
poor. if taxed would yield less than a
fourth as much revenue as would the
wine spirits. The rich could stand the
tax on wine spirits, but the poor sure
fy deserve to have their condition made
easier rather than harder. But the con-
ferees appear TO have overlooked this
important contrast. Their probable ae-
ton clearly is inconsistent and contrary
TO the promises and professions of the
party in power. The program on these
items should be reversed. Boston
Globe,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18
WILLIAMSBURG.

Arrangements have been made for a
preaching service at the Universalist
church next Sunday, Sept. 2lst, at
o'clock p. m. All are cordially invited
to attend.
Mr.. Harold M. Tate of Salem, Mass,
| is spending few days in town visiting
relatives.
Supt. j. A. Hunter assumed his duties
as superintendent of the Northfeld
Union district the 18th. Mrs. Hunter
will remain in town for a short time and
is staying with Mrs. Laura d. Walker.
w. b. Robbins of Montpelier has rent
ed the tenement on Beckett street, be-
longing to Charles d. Brockway, lately
vacated by Joe p. DeCoteau. Mr.. Robins
will be employed by Jason L. Martin.
Miss Harriet Boyce of Fayston has
lately been visitor at John @. Bur-
nett's.
Jean Clogston returned the 18th to
the Rockland Military institution To-
Gated at West Lebanon, n. III.
Miss Alma F. Wheelock Of Worcester,
Mass, is visiting at Frank B. Hoyt's.
Mr.. Ora Poor and Miss Mabel Gorham
were married at the home of the bride
near Sherbrooke, p. O., on the evening
of the 18th inst. They are expected
home in day or two
Luther II. j. Merrill died at his home
on South Hill late in the afternoon of
the 18th inst. He had been seriously i'll
for several days and had seemed to be
somewhat better He was nearly 90
years old. He leaves wife and daugh-
ter, Mrs. Lucius Wright, of Brool1field
Further particulars later.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18

| den places. The rain came too late to
be of much service in the development
of products of the farm, inasmuch as II
followed two killing frosts which took
the life out of vines and plants, but il
will serve a good purpose in replenish-
ing springs and wells in the country
districts, where the shortage of water
has been very acute, great many farm
ers having been compelled to carry wa
ter long distances from brooks which
were themselves little more than rib
bons of water. The hardship and loss
of time incurred in that method of wa
tering stock have been seriously felt by
many farmers, and to them the rainfall
comes as a very welcome relief. To
those communities, too, whose municipal
water supplies have become lowered to
an alarming extent the signs of the
breaking of the drouth bring great
deal of relief, as each rainfall checks
to certain extent the steady drain on
reservoirs and streams supplying the wa
ter.
However, the worst is not over by any
means. The land will need copious
rains of days duration in order to be-
come sufficiently saturated ere the fall
of the blanket of snow and the springs,
wells and streams which furnish wa
ter for municipal supplies will require
steady downporings, not merely show
ers,. to put them in a position to furnish
water during the long winter months. A
prolonged rainy spell will be the only
salvation of a parched land. Meanwls--?,
as we continue in expectation of that
blessing, let us be as careful as pos
sible Of the water which has thus far
been doled out to us. The rainfall thus
far has done little more than to soak
the upper layer of the earth.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18

connection with the annual encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
comes so soon after the great reunion at
than it deserves. That was a great
struggle at Chickamauga in 1868, one OF
the really big battles of history, with
its 10000 men on the t!ring hne, OF
whom more than one in four was killed
or wounded.
1t was pretty much drawn battle for
the immediate results afforded little sat
isfaetion to either side and the one thing
that shines brightest on the page when
its story is told is the record OF Gen.
George II. Thomas, "the rock of Chicka-
mauga," whose heroic defence saved the
Union army and so prepared the way for
the later Union victories.
Gen. Thomas commanded only one
of the three Union corps, but he looms
up as the big figure Of those two bloody
days. No leader of the war on either
side was more uniformly successful than
he was. He never lost an engagement
that he directed, and several times he
saved an army in battle, though never
commander in chief. He was beloved
by his men, and had he. lived longer
when the years OF peace came he might
have had a distinguished career.
1t was coincidence of Chickamauga
that Thomas and Bragg, the southern
commander, had served together under
Taylor in Mexico, and both were natives
of the south. No adequate biography Of
Gen. Thomas has been written, but his
name will not fade from the roll of our
national heroes while that desperate
of the Georgia and Tennessee
mountains is remembered. Boston
Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18
Debate on the Granite Tariff.

The debate in the United States SEN
ate over the proposed reduction by one
half Of the duty on granite was lively
and interesting. The senators from YER
mont, and New Hampshire in particular,
stepped into the breach and acquitted
themselves with credit. 1t did no harm
that they understated, rather than over
stated their case. For instance, Sena-
tor Dillingham; said that probably 1000
persons are employed as cutters in this
industry" in Vermont, whereas there
are nearly that number in Barre alone,
and this is but one of the several gran
lite working centers in the state. The
same speaker endeayored to impress
upon the minds of its colleagues that
the granite quarrying industry of Yer
mont is by no means a trust; that it
really is well divided among many in
dividuals, partnerships and corporations
His statistics on that subject were
drawn from the census reports, show
ing that there are 81 qIiarries being OPP
Grated in Vermont, of which p are con-
trolled by individuals, II by partner
ships and Is by corporations. The ma
ture of the granite business is such that
it could never be controlled by a mo
nopoly. A reduction in the dirty on
granite would affect only one class Of
work, high priced monuments. There
can be no claim that there Is any gen
eral demand on the part If the public
for reduction of this duty. II would
have but little effect on the tombstones
that are purchased by the ordinary eiti-
zen, but might give the rich a. wider
range az chnicp in tho material for their
memorials.--From "Stone."
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18

value compared with 1911. Tennessee
furnished l42 per cent of the phos-
phate marketed in the United States in
1912, the total production of the state
being 423,33l long tons, valued at ST.,
640,476. In South Carolina l3l 400 long
tons was marketed, valued at S524 761
Ia considerable decline compared with
1911.
In the western states the production
of phosphate came from Idaho, Utah,
and Wyoming and amounted to ll,6l2
long tons, a gain of l05 per cent. COM
pared with 1911. The value of the pro-
duct increased considerably, the aver
age price per ton being greater in 1912
than in 1911.
The United States geological survey
has just published an advance chapter
from Mineral Resources, 1872 by w.
G.. Phalen, giving. besides statistics OF
production of phosphate rock for the
whole country, figures showing the pro-
duction of the individual states for the
last five years. Tables showing inn
ports and exports OF fertilizer materials
are also given, as well as the produc-
ton of phosphate rock in the principal
countries of the world. The phosphate
in the different states is briefly
and the author gives general
of interest to those engaged
in the phosphate trade.
The report may be procured without
cost by addressing the Director, u. S.
geological survey, Washington, d. c.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18
Immigrant Women in Canada.

1t is encouraging to the United States
that not all its women are removing to
Canada. To read ard Judge from occa-
sional official reports of the Canadian
immigration authorities, one might sup
pose that there was a steady stream of
families going across the border from
this country into Canada, and that the
little old United States was in imminent
danger of being depopulated by the SUI
perior attractions of the dominion. On
the face of those reports, it would seem
that young and old, married and single,
were pouring into Canada from this
country, and that the main problem was
to find room for them all north of the
international boundary.
1t appears, however, from Toronto
newspaper interview with j. Bruce
Walker, Canadian commissioner of inn
migration, that there is shortage of
women in the Dominion. Especially,
Mr. Walker tells the Toronto paper,
women from England are not coming
into Canada fast enough. BY far the
greater number of Canadian immigrants
are Scottish. The second largest supply
of single women for Canada comes from
England, and Ireland comes third,
though she sends very few through to
the west Most of the Irish women go
to the United States, according TO Mr..
Walker The commissioner Processes in
ability to understand the failure of En-
glish women to rush to Canada, as he
says they could get better wages there,
have better homes, and, owing to their
scarcity for domestic service, receive
more consideration than in the old eoun-
try
With Scotland first, England second,
and Ireland third in the supply Of single
women for Canada. it is plainly to be
seen that American single women at
least, are not foclxing across the border
in any such numbers as one might be led
to suppose from the immigration re-
ports. While those reports make no
specific claims as to single women, they
do convey or try TO convey, the impress
sion that the food OF immigration into
the Dominion from the United States
is general and tremendous. Possibly the
reluctance OF American single women to
migrate to Canada accounts in part for
the preponderanee Of women in the pop
ulation of such states as Massachusetts
and Texas Manchester Union.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18

Burlington's success in securing two
large national conventions during the
present year rs gratifying to the state,
as, besides being of direct benefit to
Burlington, such conventions do great
deal toward advertising Vermont
throughout the nation. The holding of
these conventions here brings hundreds
of people who, otherwise, would have no
personal knowledge of the attractions of
the Green Mountain state. Therefore,
we feel like congratulating Burlington
on its successful entertainment of these
conventions partly in a selfish spirit and
partly in spirit of friendly interest in
sister city of state. We trust that
Burlington, and other cities, too, will be
able to secure more of these national
conventions and gatherings of people
from wider circles than our own state
borders.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18
Wonderful.

mind reading! Nonsensel" said Haw-
kins contemporary. Nothing in i'll I'll
give you $40, immersion, if you'll read
my mind right now What am
thinkingY"
why, said immersion, ewing Haw-
kins keenly, "you are thinking that
mind reading is perfect nonsense, that
there is absolutely nothing in it, and
that therefore your $40 is perfectly safe
by Jove," cried Hawkins, paying up
like a gentleman. That's wonderful
Jimmersoni You got it exactly. How
the dickens do you do iti"-Judge.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18

American suffragettes are showing no
great concern over the proposal to stop
Mrs. Pankhurst from entering the United
States. 1t may or may not be
due to the fact that they look rather
asksnce at Mrs. Pankhurst and her
methods of getting the vote; then again
it may be due to the fact that they
think the United States will not do such
a thing, and hence that there is no need
for concern on their part. Suspicion is,
however, that Mrs. Pankhurst will not
be unanimously and at the same time
joyfully welcomed into the suffragette
circles of the United States.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18
CURRENT COMMENT
The Great Lesson.

Seldom, if ever, has so large a body OF
men identified with any representative
branch of trade and working under diff
ferent conditions, each with his own in
dividual IDEAS, met in convention where
such spirit of harmony and unison ex-
listed as that which was displayed by the
members of the n. r. NJ. d. A. of a.,
Inc, at their recent convention.
That such spirit prevailed was due
to the wise counsel of men who have
only the welfare and success.of the cor
porate body at heart, and the National
association is to be most heartily con-
graduated that it has amongst its ranks
such able men as those who have so sue
cessfully shaped its course. At no pre-
vious convention has so much great good
been accomplished where the resultant
effect will be in evidence for many
months to come.---From Granite, Mar
Bile and Bronco
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18
Some Real Hunting.

"Well, BILL" said Dawson, as he met
Holloway on the avenue, did you get
any good hunting up in MaineP
Fine" said Holloway.
"How did the new dog Wilkins gave
you work." asked Dawson
Splendid" said Holloway. Fact is
if it hadn't been for him we wouldn't
have had any hunting at all. He ran
away at the first shot, and we spent
four days looking for him. "-Harper's
Magazine.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18

1t is to be hoped that the 40 per cent
decline in passenger travel into Reno,
New, since the change Of the divorce
law requiring residence of one year in
stead of 80 days means at least 40 per
cent decline in divorce-seeking through
out this nation of ours. The reduction
of the quick divorce marts may cause
a decrease in the divorce impulses, who
knows?
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18
JINGLES AND JESTS
Ceres.

"And what did you learn at school to-
dayf"
"oh, about the myths and goddesses
and things"
And what about them"
Il forget them-all but Ceres"
"And who is shef"
ooh, she was the goddess of dress.
making"
why, how in the world"
"Well, teacher said she was the god
dess of ripping and sewing. Woman's
Home Companion.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18

Much Of the hostility Jerome has run
up against in Canada and New Hamp-
shire doubtless is due to a desire to put
him in his place" the desire being ac-
tuated in part by Jerome's attitude.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18
Ninety Per Cent. Fail.

Statistics show only ten per cent. of
business men escape insolvency during
twenty years. It is hard on the family
when death and insolvency come to-
gether. National Life ms, Co. of Vt
tMutuall S. $. Ballard, general agent,
Lawrence building, Montpelier, vt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18
These Flapping Brirn 5.

Seems delightful to see woman's
face once more"
Have you been in the wilds?"
NO; but the girls have been wearing
such large hats. Chicago Daily Jour
nal.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18

They are still attacking Gen. Harri-
son Gray Otis in a sort of bombastic
mode OF approach.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18
THE WELCOME RAIN.

The fall of rain, slight as it has been,
will, mean a tremendous amount OF
good TO Vermont and other drouth rid.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18

The trial of the primary law in New
York City was applauded with patter
of bullets.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18

The next booking" for the Thaw
troupe is uncertain, most any village
is likely to get it.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18
Paw Knows Everything.

Willie-Paw, what is the greatest com
mon divisor?
Paw-Divorce, my son.--Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1913.

For sale-one cracked drouth.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18

Lumber, both soft and hard wood,
rough and finished. At the c. L. Bug
bee mill.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18

If they take the odor out of the onion,
what good will the onion be?
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-18
At chickamauga.

The celebration OF the fftieth ami
yersary of Chickamauga this week, in
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-21
Chinese Want Naval College

(By United Press Associations
Shanghai, Nov. 21.-In preparation
for the arrival of Captain Harold
Christian, of the British navy, who has
been loaned to China for a period of
three years, Chinese government ex-
perts today are looking over Nimrod
Sound, near here, in search of a site
for new naval college. The govern
ment has training schools at Tientsin,
Marking, and Canton, established un-
der the monarchy, but the proposed
college will be much more comprehen-
sive and modern. The minister of the
navy hopes to develop it, with Captain
Christians aid, into a national insti-
.ution. The training schools at Nan.
king, Canton and Tientsin will not be
discontinued for the present, and they
nay be retained permanently as feed
ers to the proposed college. Correla.
tive with the naval college and the
training school course, will be actua
service at sea. A number of up-to,
date training ships for this purpose
will be added from time to time tt
hose now in use.
Captain Christian is one of the bes
known officers not of admiralty ranl
in the British navy. He is commands
Of the Hannibal He will be assisted
as director of the new naval colleg,
ty several instructors in various nava
tranches. They, too, will be drafted
from the British navy and are expect
d to leave shortly with Captain Chris
tian.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-21
The Feed and Fuel Yard

Buys and Sells
Baled Alfalfa and Barley Hay, Whole
and Rolled Barley, Head and Threshed
Milo Maize, Mesquite Wood in 4-foot
and Stove lengths, Stove Coal in
Sacks, Pine Kindling, White Pine
Sawdust.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-21
\ CHILD'S LAXATIVE
is SYRUP OF FIGS
They love to take it and it doesn't
harm the tender little stomach,
liver and bowels.

If your little ones tongue is coated
It is sure sign the stomach, liver and
bowels need a gentle, thorough cleans
ng at once. When your child is cross,
oeevish, listless, pale, doesn't sleep
Eat or act naturally; if breath is bad
stomach sour, system full of cold
throat sore, or if feverish, give a tea
spoonful of California Syrup of
Figs" and in few hours all the clog
ged-up, constipated waste, sour bile
and undigested food will gently move
out Of the bowels, and you have well
playful child again.
Sick children needn't be coaxed tc
take this harmless "fruit laxative
Millions Of mothers keep it handy be-
cause they know its action on the
stomach, liver and bowels is prompt
and sure. They also know little given
today saves sick child tomorrow.
Ask your druggist for 50-cent bot.
tie of California Syrup Of Figs
which contains directions for babies
children of ali ages and for grown
ups plainly on the bottle. Beware OF
counterfeits sold here. Get the genu-
inc, made by California Fig Syrup
Company" Cont be fooled!-Ady.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-21
The Press Guarantees Circulation Greater
than the Combined Circulation of any
Other Three Imperial Valley Papers
FOR A DRY STATE

AT convention antiquor forces held in Los Angeles
Wednesday, heated discussion it decided proceed with
the work of getting signatures initiative petition to secure at
the next election a statewide prohibition.
The temperance people divided the question OF
pedency submitting the question 1916 and the
date agreed upon 1t not probable that any of
the temperance people the will withhold their efforts to
bring about the election
happens that year the November election large
number of the liquor question: and was
argue California should the the time
would be possible for the liquor traffic of the nation
efforts here following its general policy
1t is favorable to the temperance that the women of
California the ballot but experience of the local
elections somewhat Disappointing and remains to be
seen thoroughly of California will line up against
the liquor traffic.
prohbitions will have fighting chance to put the
state dry believed undoubtedly that the sub
mission probable opponent of the liquor traffic will
get behind the work and help victory against booze
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-21
Advertised by
Exposition Train

There has come into Imperial coun-
ty, through the Grafton Publishing
Corporation of Los Angeles, publish
ers of the West Coast Magazine, a
plan for advertising California, gener-
ally, and each county separately, that
perhaps has never been equalled in
the annals Of advertising. That this
is possible is due to the fact that Cali
fornia enjoys many unique positions
not given to the good fortune of ether
states.
In the following outline CT the plan.
which has received commendation and
support Of our Board Of Supervisors,
and is being officially worked through
the Imperial Valley Chamber of Com
MERGE, in charge OF Secretary w. H.
Langsdaie, it may be easily seen how
Imperial county may measure up fully
to her good name and astonish the
world, as it were, with the products of
her unfathomed soil and industry Of
her people.
MIR. Grafton, who is personally in
the valley with Mr.. Seccombe, in