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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-01-17
A Card of Acknowledgement.

If it were possible, we should send a
personal letter of thanks to every one
of the kind friends who did so much to
gladden. our golden wedding anniversary
and who have been so kind to us in all
our misfortunes. Since we are not able
to do that, we ask them to accept this
assurance Of orr sincere gratitude and
friendship.
Mr.. and Mrs. Solomon Bartlett.
Plainfeld, VT.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-01-17
ToOLATE TO BE CLASSIFIED

LOST-A white pig with black spot on its
back long ears and curly tail answers to
the name Of Justina. Glenn Hatch, Lower
Cabot, Vt 259tl'
LOST-A sum of money between Quinen
block and Richardson road. Finder please
leave at Times office or at Jacks Lunch Room
and be rewarded. 25gtl
FOR sALE-20O cords nice dry hard slab
wood Ii and l6-inch at S3.O0 run delivered.
Telephone 3s7-l2. Inquire Dan w. Ladd.
259tl2'
STANDING WOOD AND LUMBER stump
age on about 25 to 80 within about =
miles Of Graniteville; good road estimated
$500 run block wood and in the vicinity 100
NJ feet lumber Inquire of the ID. A. Perry
Real Estate Agency, Barre, VT. 259tI
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-01-17

LADIES' COATS-Our line
of Ladies Cloth Coats at a
liberal discount. See the line
at .One-Half Price
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-01-17

DRESS SKIRTS-One spe-
cial lot of Ladies' All Wool
Skirts, new styles, our spe-
cial at 1898, now. =. .$2.9S
/ lot $500 Skirts, now. 1893
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-01-17

LADIES' SUITS-Our line
of Fall and Winter Suits to
close at. :. One Half Price
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-01-17

MESSALINE SILKS-Our
line of Colored Silks, SO
inches wide, exceptional
quality at $1.00 per yard,
Sale, per yard soc
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
WILSON WINS
OPENING FIGHT
The Majority is in His Favor in
Toll Battle.
cLoTuRE RULE ADOPTED.
Speaker Clark, Representative Under
wood and Others Voice Strong
Opinions on Repeal, But the
White House Is Victorious.

Washington, d. president Will
son won the opening skirmish of the
greatest legislative battle of his Ad-
ministration when the House, over bit
ter protests from the recognized Demo
cratic leaders and almost solid
minority opposition, adopted special
rule for the consideration of the bill
repeating the free tolls provision OF
the Panama Canal act.
Speaker Clark, Democratic Leader
Underwood, Republican Leader Mann
and Progressive Leader Murdoch were
at the head of those lined up against
the Administration, but the House re-
sponded to the Presidents personal
appeal for prompt consideration of
the repeal bill as means of support
ing his Administration foreign policy.
Two votes demonstrated the Presi-
dents commanding influence with his
party in Congress on the first test, a
motion to end debate and preclude
amendment on the rule, carried by a
vote of 207 to 176; the rule itself was
adopted by 200 to 172.
4NOIA1A6 W COIApd1C WALL tAC 6CCAO
had occurred in the House since the
famous Cannon rules fight four years
ago. In vain Representative Under
wood took the floor and urged his col
leagues to vote against the rule. The
rank and file Democrats, after listen
ing to three hours of passionate argu-
ment, swung into the Presidents col
umn, 1919 of them voting to prevent
the amendment of the special rule,
while only SIS followed the leader in
going with the minority in opposition.
Administration supporters consider
ed the crucial point passed, and jubi-
lantly predicted the passage of the re-
peal bill itself by a majority of more
than 100.
Following the announcement of
Speaker Clark against the rule, high
feeling had appeared on both sides of
the controversy and every influence
available was brought to bear on the
doubtful ones in the House.
AS a result, when the struggle be-
gan, both sides were keyed up to a
high pitch.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03

Trees furnish one Of the most strik-
ing and permanent forms of beauty.
What stately grace, what fine proper
tons, what variety of expression, ano
what unconscious dignity may be seen
in well-developed tree. How they
beautify and glorify every landscape.
Trees improve the climate and con-
serve soil.and water. Although the in
1uence of trees and forests on climate
is not definitely known, the effect of
an all too reckless destruction is be-
ginning to be felt. Springs and streams
are failing that never failed before;
soil droughts are more severe and pro-
tracted. Untimely frosts are more
ruinous to all the more delicate fruits.
and wind storms are more damaging
than in former years.
Trees furnish safe shelter and
natural resting places for birds. Birds
are the best allies we have in fighting
insects, but the removal of the forests
has greatly lessened the number of in
sect-eating birds. Trees furnish a
great variety of miscellaneous, useful
products, such as fruits, nuts, sugar,
honey, tannin, pitch. turpentine, dyes
and medicines.
AS the only source of wood supply,
trees touch the welfare Of every man,
woman and child. but their influence
goes much farther. It underlies the
great questions of soil preservation
and soil fertility; the use and control
of rivers and streams; the water sup
ply of towns and cities. In short, CIV
ilization and progress are based largely
on trees. There is no crime against
nature that draws down more certain
or severe punishment than that of
stripping the earth of all her trees
William R. Lazenby, Professor of For
estry, Ohio State University.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
WANT GUNNER
GIVEN REPR|EvE
Petition BY Ten Of Jurors Who
Convicted Them.
BASIS FOR THEIR REQUEST
Petition Says Would Be In the Inter
ests Of Justice To Stay the Death
Sentence Until After the Sec
ond Trial OF Becker.

New York.-Ten of the twelve trial
jurors who found the four gunner
guilty of murder of the gambler Her
man Rosenthal have signed petition
asking Governor Glynn to stay the
execution of death, set for next month,
until after the second trial of Charles
Becker, the former police lieutenant,
whose conviction was set aside last
month by the State Court of Appeals
The jurors petition is not signed by
two of their number; one of the two
was out of town when his signature
was sought and the other declined to
make known his attitude. The others
stated that their requests was sub
mitted without, on our part, desire to
impeach or impungn the verdict" they
rendered.
In view of the, new trial that has
been granted to Becker, the petition
sets forth, "the interests of justice
may require that the execution Of
Judgment of death pronounced upon
these defendants upon our verdict be
stayed until there be final determine
ton of the guilt or innocence of the
said Charles Becker, or other disposi-
ton of the case"
Every possibility of error should be
eliminated, the ten jurors pointed out;
hence their request for reprieve or a
stay ito the end that if anything here
after may occur or any information be
procured, or during the trial of Charles
Becker be brought to light which may
rebound to the benefit of the defend
ants, they may have an opportunity at
the proper time, to avail themselves of
such development or revelation"
H. Lionel Kringel, of counsel for
the gunner, will present the petition,
together with a statement making
references to the opinion of the Court
of Appeals in the Becker case and vari-
GUS petitions, among them one by the
gunner, Dago Frank Cirofici, Lefty
Louie Rosenberg, Harry Horowitz
(Gyp the Bloody, and Whitley Lewis
Jacob Seidensher).
The four request, first, that the
judgment of death be committed to
"such term of imprisonment as the
Governor may seem just and proper"
and second, that the execution of
Judgment be stayed and reprieves be
granted until after the final determi-
nation of the indictment" against
Becker.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
TEACHER SLAIN
BY FORMER PUPIL
Lad She Expelled Charged With
Want0n Crime.
TRIED TO REFORM HIM
Mutilated Body OF Lydia Beecher
Found In the Bushes At Poland,
N. Y.-She Had Gone Out At
Night To Mail Letter.

Little Falls, N. Y.-Eugene Gianini,
a 17-year-old boy. just out of pro-
tectory, confessed, the police assert,
that he was the murderer of Miss
Lydia Beecher, teacher in country
school at Poland, whose body was
found in a clump of woods in the out
skirts of that village
The boy, who had been expelled
from Miss Beecher's school some time
ago and had been pleading with her
for reinstatement, admitted, the police
say, that he struck the young woman
with a monkey wrench and then stab
bed her to death with a knife.
He told the authorities where the
weapons might be found. Only bare
outline of the confession was given
out by the police pending the putting
of his admissions into writing.
Miss Beecher, who was the daugh-
ter of the Reverend and Mrs. William
A. Beecher, of Sennett, near Auburn,
and who was only 20 years old, taught
Gianini was one of her most trouble
some pupils. On her complaint he
was expelled from the school last June
and sent to st. Vincent's Protectory,
in Utica, from which he was released a
month ago.
He sought out his former teacher
told her he intended to do better and
importuned her to visit his parents,
who are reputable and well-to-do peo-
pie in Poland, to explain how he might
be reinstated in the school.
Miss Beecher had been studying for
missionary work and it is believed that
in her desire to reform him she walked
with him and was killed. Charles
Gianini, father of the youthful prison
err, was furniture manufacturer of
New York, first coming to Poland to
spend summer and finally taking up
his home there, about five years ago.
He is an ornithologist of some note
and has contributed articles on that
science to magazines.
The PARENTS of the murdered girl ar
rived in Poland to take their daugh-
ter's body home. They had been ad-
vised that Miss Beecher was seriously
i'll, but were grief-stricken when on
passing through Syracuse on the way
to her they saw a newspaper telling
of the murder.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
TREES HAVE HUMAN TRAITS
They Possess Some of the Same Char
acterIstics That Belong to
People.

Trees have the power Of suggesting
thoughts and feelings. These thoughts
and feelings are attributes of people
In other words, trees are sometimes
thought Of as being possessed of some
of the same characteristics that belong
to people. The oak tree, because of its
size and shape OF limbs, suggests
strength. The elm tree symboiizes
grace and beauty. The birch is some
times called the Lady Of the Forest. !"
Some trees are weeping, some gay
some quiet and retiring. Some, such
as the sycamore. are ghostlike. Others
like the honey locust, because of the
great array of thorns, appear warlike
The Lombardy poplar, which grows so
tall. suggests precision. One of these
trees standing by itself like a lone sen,
tinel is one Of Natures most impress.
sive sights.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
IS NOT YET OUT
OF THE WOODS
British Premier StilIHas Serious
Obstacles Ahead.
ARMY SITUATION is CLOUDED
The AdjutantN General Has Also Quit,
Though 1t Is Stated That Both
Of Them Have Yielded To
Persuasion.

London.-The air. is full of ex-
travagant rumors, among the most
credible being the report that Colonel
Seeley is, after all, to quit the War
Office by an exchange of portfolios
with Lewis Harcourt, secretary for
the colonies.
The only new facts in the situation
were to be found in the resignation of
Field Marshal Sir John French, chief
of the Imperial General Staff, and Sir
John Spencer Ewart, adjutant gem
eral, from the Army Council. The
rumor persists that other members of
the Army Council have resigned, but
this cannot be confirmed.
Negotiations and conferences be-
tween Buckingham Palace, the War
Office and Downing street were car
ried on throughout the day, and it was
known that the strongest efforts were
being made to induce Field Marshal
French and Gen. Ewart to reconsider
their action. The Prime Minister call
ed hurried meeting of the cabinet at
his residence after it was decided to
POoSPOAC IAC StdI0lll0IlL 10 fdT1ldm0QL.
Later it was announced, with show
of authority, that both French and
Ewart had at last consented to with
draw their designations
In Ireland no change has occurred
Belfast remains quiet and, although it
is asserted that the officers at the
Curragh camp are determined to re-
sign because of the reputation Of
Colonel Seely's guarantee by the gov
eminent, on actual designations so far
as is known have occurred
According to the best information,
the conference at the War Office of all
the principal commanding generals Of
the army was called to enable Gem
erals French and Ewart I'd explain that
their resignation was personal mat
ter, arising solely from the fact that
they signed the Cough MEMORANDUM,
which the government had since repu-
dated, and they urged that all the
other officers should remain at their
posts.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03

gar0 them as or little use, If not
actual enemies. A little study will
reveal some of the things that trees
do. Animals grow and become larger.
This is due to the food they eat.
Trees also grow. but they use differ
ent food, and take it in quite a diff
ferent way. They live upon mineral
matter-that is, air, water and soil,
which they change into their own
substance By gradual addition of new
material, trees become larger and
larger each year, for growth is simply
the increase Of q living thing In size
and substance.
Trees help to keep the air pure for
man and the lower animals. How do
they do this? The element of the air
that makes it fit for breathing is a gas
called oxygen. About one-fifth of the
volume of the air is oxygen, and at
every breath animals take in some of
this oxygen and change it into carbonic
acid gas. In other words, the oxygen
is breathed in. combines with the car
bon in the blood and this makes car.
bonic gas, which is breathed out into
the air in place of the oxygen taken in.
There Is a small amount of carbonic
acid gas in the air everywhere, and at
all times; the usual amount is about
one part in every $500 parts of air.
This carbonic acid is unfit for the
breathing of animals, and wherever it
increases in the air, even to a slight
extent above the usual amount found,
animals cannot live. Trees and other
plants prevent the carbonic acid from
accommodating in dangerous quantities
In ordinary air. They do this by abb
sorbing this gas through their leaves.
1t is their principal food. 1t makes
trees grow, for little more than one
half Of the trunks and branches of
every tree is carbon, and this all comes
from the carbonic acid from the air.
Trees supply a large part of all the
fuel in the world. The real wood of
trees is of little or no use as food,
but it does largely serve to cook food
and serve as protection against cold.
Even the coal dug from the earth, as
well as the coal and gas now SO gen.
orally used for fuel, come from the
vegetable matter and are largely the
remains of trees in forests that flour
ished before man existed on earth.
Trees give US wood, and wood fur
nishes building material, furniture,
implements. utensils, tools and other
useful things in great variety. Wood
is one of the necessities of life. We
are rocked in cradles made Of wood;
when we sit down, it is in chairs or
benches of wood; every day we eat
from wooden tables; the papers and
books that we read and study are
printed on paper made from wood:
whenever we ride out it is in wagon,
carriage or car made largely of wood.
More than one-half of the houses in
the world are built of wood and the
other half use wood for doors, floors
and other interior parts; nearly all
barns are made Of wood. We ship our
fruits, vegetables and many other
products in baskets, barrels and crates
made of wood; we pack our butter
and pork. and buy our nails and salt in
iirkina, kegs or barrels made Of wood.
Wood is indispensable to our comfort,
convenience and happiness.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
WHAT DO WE PLANT?


What do we plant when we
plant the tree?
We plant the ship which will
cross the sea,
We plant the masts to carry the
sails,
We plant the plank to Withstand
the gales,
The keel, keelson and beam and
knee,
We plant the ship when we
plant the tree.
What do we plant when we
plant the tree?
We plant the houses for you
and me,
We plant the rafters. the shin
giles, the floor.
We plant the studding, the
laths. the door.
The beams and sidings, all parts
that be,
We plant the house when we
plant the tree.
What do we plant when we
plant the tree?
A thousand things that we daily
see.
We plant the spire that out
towers the crag,
We plant the star for our coun-
try's flag,
We plant the shade. from the
hot sun free,
We plant all these when we
plant the tree.
Henry Abbey.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
swlNDrER GETS FIVE YEARS.
kiger's Profits Said To Have Been
In Thousands.

Detroit, Mich.-E. r. Kiger. alias E.
r. Jordan, pleaded guilty in Federal
Court here to operating wholesale
mail-order swindling business at Tren-
ton. Detroit suburb. and was SEN
fenced to pay a fine of $1,000 and
spend five years in prison. Kiger ad-
vertised his goods for sale on an In
stalment basis. 1t was alleged that
the goods were never delivered. and
that Kiger's profits amounted to thou
sands of dollars.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
euNMAN STAYS sTEP-MprHE
Holds Mob At Bay With Revolver and
Escapes On Bicycle.

New York, N. EVERY policeman
in New York is on the lookout for
George Disma. gunman, who shot and
instantly killed his stepmother Mrs.
Ella Disma, in her home in Williams
burg because she refused his demand
for the whereabouts of the young
mans wife, VINO had fed to hiding in
fear of her life. After the shooting
young Disma fed before the crowd of
enraged neighbors, mounted a bicycle
standing on the street, distanced
pursuing police and vanished.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
TRAIN ROBBED BY LONE BANDIT
LoOts Express Safe Near Depot and
Escapes. a

Columbia, S. CA lone bandit
looted the express safe of the Seaboard
Air Line train No. 2, Tampa to New
York, here, taking one package, said
to be of small value, and jumping from
the train as 1t slowed for crossing.
The robber made his escape. The
mail and passenger coaches were not
disturbed. The robbery occurred just
as the train was pulling out of Co
lumbia and the robber forced the ex-
press messenger to open the strong
box by holding pistol to his head.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
GIRLS REBEL AT TUB PLAN.
Parents Aroused, Too. At Plea For
Bath In School.

New York, N. Y.-Great indignation
Is being expressed by Hoboken par
ents of girl students in Hoboken pre-
vocational schools because A. G..
Traua. the principal. has applied to
the Board of Trustees to place bath
tub in the building Professor Traua
asserts that some of the 800 or more
girl students are accustomed to year
ly baths. The students are indignant.
The trustees have not decided how to
act on the request
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
TO PROTECT CHESAPEAKE BAY.
Cape Henry Land Is Valued BY Jury
At $1so,1o4.

Norfolk, Va.-A jury in the Federal
Court here placed $3.50, 1O4 as the value
of land at Cape Henry needed for a
fort to protect the entrance to Chesa-
peake Bay. The original price asked
for the property was held to be too
high by the government and it was de-
cided to secure it by condemnation
proceedings. Congress appropriated
$150,000 to purchase the site.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
INTUITION woMAN's ASSET.
Valuable In Public Office, Says Mrs.
Hartman.

Washington, d. C.-Feminine intu-
ition is valuable asset in public
Office, according to Mrs. ]. Boardman
Hartman, who declared that we need
woman's aid in public affairs. 1.-THE
masculine and feminine minds are not
alike" said Mrs. Hartman "The man
is more judicial-the woman is in
tuitive. Intuition often goes more di-
rectly to the point than logic and
sometimes it grasps values that would
be overlooked by the deliberative
mind"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
SHE TRAlLED HIM 5000 MILES.
Wife Spent Year Before She Found
Deserving Husband.

Paterson, N. FOLLOWING her hus-
band more than 5000 miles after he
had deserted her, Mrs. Marie Cricia-
tino, a pretty young Italian woman.
caused his arrest in Clifton, N. j. She
had spent a year on his trail and
visited many of the principal cities in
Europe. Criciatino was arrested in
the company of wife No. 2 and held on
charge of bigamy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
QUEEN ELEANoRE SAILS MAY Fl
consort OF RuIgarIa's King Coming
To the United States.

Sofa.-Queen Eleanore of Bulgaria
announced that she will start on the
visit to America on May 81. sailing for
New York on board the steamer
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria from Ham
burg. King Ferdinand will also visit
America, but later if the present plans
hold good. He intends to go to the
San Francisco Exposition. Queen
Eleanore will be the first reigning
queen to visit the United States. She
intends to make a study of American
Institutions and people. in which she
has always been greatly Interested.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
1000 LOST JOBS BY NEW Law.
Effect OF Restricting Child Labor In
Massachusetts,.

Boston, Mass.-The new law pro-
hibiting the employment of children
between IA and 16 years of age more
than eight hours a day resulted in the
discharge during the first year of 1000
out of between $4,000 and 10000 en-
ployed, according to special report
filed with Governor Walsh by the La
Dor and Industrial Commission.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03

REEFS are among
the most common
things in nature.
They either cover
or have covered a
large part of the
Q art his surface
that is suitable
for human life.
They are the nat
ural friends of
man. yet we often
treat them with
s c mt courtesy,
and sometimes re-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
FORTUNE FOR a MISSING MAN.
Young Keith DaIrympIe Disappeared
Seven Years Ago.

Kane. PA fortune of $685.. 200
awaits Keith Dalrymple, aged %, of
Port Allegany, who disappeared from
home seven years ago. Relatives have
started countrywide search for the
young man. Nothing has been heard
of him since he disappeared. The for
tune was left him by his father, an oil
operator, who died recently.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
3. r. KEITH DROPS DEAD.
Vaudeville Masnate succumbs On goth
Anniversary OF Theatre.

Palm Beach. Fla.-B. F. Keith, who
established vaudeville in this country.
dropped dead of heart failure in the
Breakers Hotel. His death occurred
on the twentieth anniversary of the
opening of his Boston house. while the
anniYersary was being celebrated bril-
liantly there. He was IS years old.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
PRESIDENT uPHoLDs PAGE.
Says Ambassadors London Speech
Was "Perfectly Proper"

Washington, d. C.-Having received
complete copy of Ambassador Pages
recent speech in London to which SEN
ator Chamberlain and others took ex-
ception on account of references to
the Monroe Doctrine and the Panama
Canal. President Wilson told callers
ne thought the speech was perfectly
proper.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-03
MR.. MeADoo WILL NOT ACCEPT

AWpdSSduorsniP 10 france VT Else
where Not In His Line.
Washington, d. C.-Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo will not accept the
Enthusiastically to France or to any
other country. He did not admit that
the position had been rendered to him.
but emphatically said he would not
consider it if it were. "The duties of
an ambassador are not attractive to
me-" said Secretary McAdoo. II am
a business man and as such am inter
ested in things other than diplomatic
social glamour. The activity attached
to an Enthusiastically is not the kind
that appeals to me-"