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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-11-07
TALK OF THE TOWN

Blankets that are warm, from soc to
Ss.9s, az Fits.
See the special $3.50 Beacon blanket
robe at Abbott's.
To Rent-Oct !, tenement on Camp
street. Grown people preferred. w. +.
Richardson estate.
Special for Saturday az the Barre
Candy Kitchen; Chocolate and maple
walnut fudge l5c per NJ; old.fashioned
molasses candy, l5c per n; peach bios
SONS, Sc per n; chop suey, l5c per ID.
II. VI. Farnham's 10th combination
fuction sale Of horses and other property
az Montpelier yesterday was a grand
success. Thirty horses, several head of
Dung cattle / shoats, Cadillac automo-
bile farm tools, wagons, earriages sleds,
harnesses. blankets whips, etc, were
disposed Of 10 the satisfaction 81 a large
number OF ou ners mad purchasers. {. /.
smith, auetioneer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-11-07

between the ages of 10 and l6. 5:45
p, m, Y. p. s. c. L. p. m, worship
ard sermon; subject, Lessons from The
Chambered Nautilus" The midweek
meeting will be held on Friday even
ing, instead OF Thursday this week; top.
ic, What Jesus Thought Of Prayer"
The program Of music for the Sunday
morning service is: Organ, "Chsnt Pas
toral" Dubois; anthem, "Jubilate Dec in
~ (Geibeh; response Holy Ghost,
With Light Divine" (Gottschalkl; Of.
fertory, "Thou, 0 Lord, Art My Shield'
(stevensonl organ. "Postnde" Whit
ingl. In the evening; Organ, PRO
logue" tBohml "Serensde" (DEyryl;
"Sun OF My SOUP tChasel
response, Saviour, Again TO Thy Dear
Name We Raise" (IIopkns}; offertory,
God Is a Spirit" Grant
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-11-07
We Clean, Press and Repair Clothing
F. Fl. Rogers & Co.

number of non-voting citizens to a min
imum should be the effort of the au-
thortes as long as the present system
Of majority voting on the first three
ballots is maintained A few signals
on the fire alarm, sufficiently explained
short time prior to the election day,
viii serve effectively to this end. There
would be few people in any part of the
city who would fail to hear the warn
ing offered in such a manner The sug-
gestion is worth trying out on the next
occasion when majority election is de-
manded by law.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-11-07
GREAT BRITAIN,s SACRIFICE.

That Great Britain is giving some of
the flower of her youth to the great
war is revealed by the enrolment sta
tistics of the colleges and universities of
the land. For instance, there is Oxford
university, where the total registration
at the recent opening OF the institution
was only 2s0 undergraduates, as com.
pared with the average number of 5000
oxford has sent about ! 900 undergrad
yates to join the land forces of King
George and but remnant OF the great
student body remains, largely made up
of young men from the United States
and India, who are not eligible for sery-
leo in the British army. Without doubt,
too, the other universities and colleges
Of the British domain marked depletion
in students, although perhaps not all in
the same percentage as old Oxford. The
statistics reveal in a measure what sort
OF sacrifice Great Britain is making, be-
cause when the college and universities
are drained Of their youth it is reason,
ably certain that all other walks OF life
are likewise called upon for recruits.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-11-07

The assessment of $25 fine on a
Rutland county hunter for refusing to
show his hunters license on request of
a game warden should serve as a warn
ing to Others who may also resent such
request but who have no other re-
course under the reading of the law
Show up, or put up the gun.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-11-07
is A REPUBLICAN.
Representative-elect Bond OF North
Thetford Correets Mistake.

Barre Daily Times, Barre Vt.
Gentlcmen | notice in your paper that
yon report my election of representative
from the town of Thetford as O. ID.
Bond, Democrat This is incorrect, | am
a Republican and always have been.
Kindly have this mistake corrected.
Very truly yours,
O. d. Bond
North Thetford, Vt, Nov 5, 1914
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-11-07

Twas not a great victory for five
vastly superior warships to defeat four
cruisers, so the encounter off the coast
of Chile was not such a distinct triumph
for Germany at the expense Of Great
Britain as it seemed to be at first
thought.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-11-07

1t seems that a nation can be licking
another nation right out of its boots
and still not be at war, just because
the formal declaration has not been
made. Strange power of transformation
a few words have!
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-11-07

1t took the government investigators
a long time to conclude the Friedman
cure is far below what was claimed for
It; and they are very moderate in the
language of their condemnation. Pos
sibly calm consideration like that will
carry more weight than an imprisoned
attack.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-11-07

1t is quite sensible Thanksgiving day
proclamation which Governor Fletcher
puts out and, too, free from wearying
verbosity. For which we are thankful.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-11-07

Various politicians have been afflicted
with the foot-in.mouth disease during
the past few weeks, but the epidemic
has warn off rapidly since last Tuesday,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-11-07

Gates rides into the Vermont govern.
orship on good road.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-11-07

Let Princeton say whether the Har-
ward red flag shall wave tonight.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-11-07
WOOL DRESSES

Children's Wool Dresses, to IA years,
at .$1.9s, S2.25, s2.75, SOS
Cotton Serge Dresses at S1.00 and $1.25
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15

destruction, in which the German artillery marked
its zenith In no one section of the Ruins of Ber-
lin or Vienna are the raYases of French or Rus
sian artillery complete Inter den Linden, 1t
is to be noted crumbled as a only after the
great thaw of 1880
Eiffel Tower-Originally II stood upright Over
thrown in the first German Bombardment of 1914.
II is constructed entirely of steel, and contains
2,543 $50 separate pieces and 9,456S24 rivets. Be-
meath it flows the Seine, with the Trocadero
Marshes, inhabited by fishing tribes. 60 per cent
of whose catches claimed by the Republic.
(See Dried Fish,
Salmon began coming up the Seine in the year
1878 shad A. D. 2003. 1t feared at first that
they might, mutually and reciprocally, extermi-
nate each other, but the shoals of fish provad to
be of too high an order of intelligence to commit
such suicidal act.
SO run certain pages of the chapter Paris of
the Guide to the Ruins of Europe" which
prepared to warn the nations against the great
war It was not issued in time. The great war
broke out too soon. The brochure foresees a
time when gold itself will be worthless in Europe.
"AIl factories will be closed" its preface runs,
all railroads will STOP all commerce will be par
alyzed, and the countrysides ravaged by war and
neglect, will longer have food for their own
populations. In the cities piles of ruins decmat-
ed by bomba rdments, old men, women and chill
dren will riot in famine. All provisions will be
finally with the armies and the armies will CON
tinue fghting-to kill each other off and get pos
session OF the precious foodstuffs!
Such is the black picture of the brochure. 1t
quotes freely from The War in the Air" by H. G.
Wells, published as long ago 190S-9. In it the
English philosopher brings America into the uni
versal mixup, as result of which the fine order
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15

TURKISH ARMY RANKS NINETEENTH

Turkeys army and navy both ranked nine
teenth among the armies and navies of the world
the Boston Globe remarks. While her army is
fairly well organized and has war strength OF
100000 which is only 10000 behind that of Great
Britain, her fleet is practically non-existent. In
fact until 1910 the sultan had systematically dis
mantled the navy, for fear that it would turn
against him as 1t had turned against his predeces-
sor, AbdulAziZ
The peace strength of Turkeys army is 100000
men. She is able to draw upon 300 600 reserves,
bringing her war strength up to 100000 The
population of Turkey is a little more than $4,000
000 and of this number fully 100000 could be
drawn in of necessity.
Before the new regime was inaugurated in 1910,
military service had been obligatory all Mus
sulmans. Christians being excluded, but under
obligations to pay military exoneration tax OF
$3.50 for every 1856 males between the ages OF
fifteen and seyentyhve. Under the regime,
however, al "Ottomans' subject to military
service, although under certain conditions exemp-
ton is purchasable.
Active service in the Turkish army lasts nine
years OF this the soldiers are three or four
years with the colors and the rest OF the time
they reserves. In cases of necessity all males
up TO the age OF seventy be called upon to
join the colors
The navy has been on the decline ever since
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15

the catastrophe of Snope in 1858, when a Rus.
sian fleet practically annihilated the Turkish
wooden vessels. The sultan Abd-ul-AZiZ, with
the aid of British officers, succeeded in creating
an imposing feet of ironclads constructed in Eng
lish and French yards, but his successor, Abdul.
< Hamid, pursued a settled policy of reducing the
fleet to impotency Most of the ships that were
added were built in American, British or Italian
yards.
In 1910 II was voted to spend SIS. 900, 900 in
rehabilitating the navy. The result is that Tur-
key has two modern battleships of the first
class, the Reshad-i.Hamiss and the Reshad V,
both with a 23,000ton displacement Besides
these she also has battleship of the cruiser
type and three battleships of the older type. She
has two rst-class cruisers two secondclass cr1is1
ers and one thrd-class cruiser. The rest of the
fleet is made up by two gunboats, two monitors.
ten destroyers and eight torpedo boats.
The personnel of the navy was formerly drawn
from the army, from 1000 to 5000 joining the
navy each year. But under the present regime
during the reorganization and reconstruction of
the navy, the draft OF men Is made direct Brit
ish officers we're engaged to train the men and to
assist in the reorganization The naval force
numbers, officers and men, about thirty thousand.
While the navy is small, its potency is greatly
increased by the strategic position of Turkeys
naval base CoHstantinople.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15
CLAIM PRISONERS
BADLY NEGLECTED.
WoRKHoUsE CHARACTERIZED As.
UN-AMERICAN, WITHOUT ARE
DEFINING FEATURE.
CONDITIONS OEPLORABLE
Secretary Of State Board Of Charities
Report on Forty-four Counties.
Sanitary Conditions in the
Jsls Are Bad

Nashville.-Alleging that he could
not find one redeeming feature in
forty-four warehouses; in as many
counties visited. Secretary c. c Menu
Ter, of the state board of charities.
made report to the board in session
here. He also reported adversely on
most of the jails and county farms in
these counties. In fact, he reported
but fourteen out of the forty-four iails
visited as being in first-class condi-
ton.
As to the warehouses;, he stated
that they are un-American in their
very essence. The system is medieval
in it's principles, barbaric in it's appli-
cation" The housing OF the inmates,
he asserts. is of the very poorest, the
blacks and whites in many of them
are chained together from the moment
they arrive until they leave. The ulti-
mate purpose, the reformation of the
criminal whether petty or perpetual,
is lost sight of, and is, in fact, he
states. impossible, under the condi-
lions that Secretary Member reports
in all the counties inspected.
Speaking OF sanitary conditions, Mr..
Member reports that they are men
ace to the health of the inmates, many
OF them being cesspools of fifth Most
of the faults he reports would be rem
edied with a comparatively small ex-
penditure, is his belief.
Map1Iar sums I'm I1ia
port by stating that "the unfortunate
poor of the state of Tennessee are
woefully neglected
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15

and welfare of society crumpled like an exploded
bladder In five short years the world and the
scope of human life underwent a retrogresslve
change as great that between the age OF the
Antonines and the Europe Of the ninth century.
Wells remarkable book makes passlonateiy IN
teresting reading at this moment. II SHOWS now
up to the very beginning OF the great wal, me
,1o,o,,ort of tbe world seemed wholly beneficial
to mankind Sustaining and constructive forces
seemed to more than balance the malign drilt OF
chance and the natural ignorance OF prejudice
bind passion and wicked self-seeking OF manNihu
Men said indeed that moral organization was not
Keeping pace with physical progress out re" az
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15

bagga 2 -tru C k
near the iron
fence in the Ninth
and Broadway
streets station
Louisville. TIL e
train nearest me
eight electric
lighted palaces,
besides mail and
bagg a ge- c RS
drawn by a 100
ton racer-w a S
the one by which
| should depart.
I became aware
Of a small. gray
man sauntering
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15

Growth in their midst or eVll-
xAhA war nropaganda and propaganda Oh con-
No nrecedents of history were all one
S collapse of civilizations ana the uan
TcAe time were manifest.
SSoss Witness Of the collapse is represented as
u ghost terrible feature l,a
Trba older civilization rotted and crumbled
down hut this civilization of modern Europe was
as h were blown up Within the space OF hVe
yaars II was altogether disintegrated and de-
s3royad I'm TO the very eve of the explosion one
sees 4 spacious spectacle of incessant advance
a worldwide security, enormous areas OF hlghly-
organized industry and settled populations glgan-
tic cities spreading scientifically the seas ana
oceans dotted with shipping, the land netted WIN
rails and open ways Then, suddenly, the German
cannons are heard and are in the beginning
of the end!
Already the financial fabric staggered with
those first sounds. With the destruction OF the
American feet in the North sAtlantic and the
smashing conflict which ended the naval existence
of Germany in the North sea, with the burning
and wreckage of billions of pounds worth of prop
erty in the four cardinal cities OF Europe, the
hopeless costliness Of came home for the
first time to the consciousness of mankind Credit
went down in whirl of selling Money vanished
and at it's disappearance. trade and industry
came to an end The economic world fell dead
wherever there great populations, great
masses found themselves without work, without
money and unable to get food. Famine was in
every Working class quarter within three weeks
of the beginning of the war. Within a month
there was not city in which ordinary law and
social procedure had not been replaced by some
form OF emergency control And swiftly, the
famine spread to the rich
The great nations and empires became but
names.1
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15
Liquor Indictments Found.

Jacksonville grand jury of the
criminal court has returned a number
of indictments for receiving more than
one gallon of intoxicating liquor per
day. Judge s. ]. Everett, sitting in the
absence of Judge n. r. Barham, de-
clared that the indictments could not
be found since the supreme court had
declared the limited shipment law I'M
constitutional. .a
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15

tached any meaning W IhO
phrases. Few realized that
the accidental balance on the
side of progress was far
slighter and infinitely more
complex and delicate in It's
adjustments than the masses
suspected.
They say their armies
and navies grew larger and
more portentous; some OF
their ironclads, at the least
cost as much as their whole
annual expenditure upon ad-
vanced education. They &C
cumulated explosives ana
machinery of destruction;
they allowed their national
traditions and jealousles TO
pile up; they contemplated
steady enhancement OF
race hostility as the races
drew closer together without
concern or understanding,
and they permitted the
growth in their midst of evil
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15
EoBERT PETERS A SUICIDE.
Dependency over III Health Supposed
to Have Been Cause.

Jacksonville partially decomposed
body of Egbert Peters, who committed
suicide by drinking carbolic acid, was
found at his home, two and a half
miles south of Jackson, by his aged
mother, who lived with him. but had
been at the home of another son, while
she believed the deceased was in by
ersburg on business. Mrs. Peters had
gone to the place to get some vege-
tables when she made the grewsome
discovery.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15
Tannessean Found Dead.

Ripley.--R Leslie Neighbours was
found dead in his bed at the home of
his brother, Scion S. Neighbours. De-
ceased had been i'll for several days.
but his condition was not considered
serious. During the night members of
the family had ministered to his wants
and gave him medicine at proper in
terValS
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15

Knoxville-Jsmes Bsrthell Of Tai
bot, near Merrystown, was killed at
Southern railway crossing by fast
train, the Carolina Special. Mr.. Bar
thell was driving wagon drawn by
two mules, and either failed to observe
the approach of the train or thought
he could make the crossing ahead of IL.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15

Paris.-At the request of extensive
buyers OF horses. the Paris Business
Mems Club has issued call for 1000
head Of horses to he brought to the
public square In Paris for inspection
and sale.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15
DECREE IN CLOTH WILL,
Special Session of Supreme Court Is
Called

Jackson.--Chief Justice NJ. NJ. Nei!
has issued an order for a special SEES
sion of the supreme court to be held in
Jackson on Nov for the purpose of
disposing of the famous Cloth will
cases.
Reargument will he heard at Knox
Vile on Oct. a. The missing-page
will and the estoppel of heirs-at-law to
contest the Clarendon will are the
only questions before the court. -
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15

Nashville. custody of Sheriff
French of Obion county, Frank Dietzel,
recently convicted at Union City and
sentenced to death for the murder Of
George Wehman. was brought to Nash
Vile and lodged in the Davidson coun-
ty jail for safe-keeping. 1t was stated
that no mob violence was feared at
Union City but that the jail there was
not regarded as sufficiently secure.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15
Preak Association Meets.

Dyersburg. meeting of the West
Tennessee Press association has been
called by John G. Rogers, president of
the temporary organization, to meet at
Jackson Saturday, Oct "a. 1t is very
important that every editor In West
Tennessee attend this meeting.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15
sAsasHsHstsSsSsHsAsSsS
LEAP OF OLD 637
BY EMMETT F. HARTE.


Half an hour before train time. ]
passed through the gate and sat on a
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-10-15

- UST before the breaking OF the great war
| a brochure calling attention to its dan
| j gers to European civilization was on the
| point of appearing simultaneously IN all
I'll the capitals.
" y A wealthy peace society, which has the
The Washington times., 1914-04-26
Billy Powell to Ride
For NOrdica in France

Billy Powell, one OF the best-known
Jockeys in the country. after partial
retirement for four years, has got back
into the game. and left the Capital to-
day for Ney York, where he will re-
main till May Is. when he will sail
for France to ride the jumpers in the
stable of Nine. Nordica, the famous
opera singer Powell married a Wash
ington girl, and is known to wide
circle of friends in the Capital. many OF
whom were at the station when he left
today.
This will be Powelrs second trip to
France, for he has spent four years
riding the best horses to be found on
the other side. The veteran looks 10
be in grand condition. weighs l26 pounds.
and says that he ought to PILOT over
enough winners to suit his new man
ager, Nine. Nordica. His experience on
French tracks will stand him in good
stead. as he has taken mounts At
I.ongchamps. St. Cloud. and many othef
tracks of La Belle France. Once he
came in second in the Grand Prix.
Frances greatest horse race. He mas
ridden horses for Keene, Belmont, and
Maurice Rothscaild- and Is delighted
at the idea of getting back into ths
game again.
The Washington times., 1914-04-26
Oxford Wins Great Four-Mile
Relay When Jackson Passes
McCurdy at the Tape.

Penn, finished the first relay slightly
ahead of Sproule, oxford. and Langner,
Penn, had a full yard on Gaussen' oH-
ford. in the second relay
Tabor, former Brown University star,
ran the third re-ay for Oxford asalnss
Madeira. of Penn. and for three-d,laft-
ers they struggled marfully. iaoor
drew up ahead of Madeira and was
trying to shake him of when the
Quaker flashed to the front and toucheo
McCurdy with fifteen-yard lead on
the Oxonian. Then came the Srea!
struggle.
McCurdy got away with his long
lead, but \. y. s. Jackson. the Olympic
star, quickly made this up in one lap
Side by side these .wo athletes travel
ed around the muddy. water-soakej
track, without daylight showing oe-
tween them. II was pouring rain then.
Coming into the last hundred yards.
McCurdy spurted and tried To shake off
the Engiishman. 1t was unavailing,
jackson sticking like a leech to the
Quaker's elbow. As the runners came
down the stretch. stride for stride. the
excited crowd poured upon the track
and were driven back just in time to
keep from interfering with the athletes.
jackson and McCurdy flashed across
the line as one man and an excited
SPECTATOR wildly shouted that McCprdy
had been fouled. Referee Sullivan re-
fused to listen TO the complaint. how
ever, and ruled Jackson w.rner by
eight inches. ending the greatest re-
lay struggle ever seen.