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Evening star., 1914-07-18

Of times. I couldn't think of anything
but Jane. and how tired she looked I
want to make success Of my farm ex-
pertinent. and I am going to see it
through to the end, but there are some
successes which are entirely too costly
worked out a program during the day,
and when l got home that night I issued
my mandate.
Beginning Monday I am going to start
to take what is left Of my annual leave.
Coincidentally. Jane Is going to board a
boat and go by water to Baltimore, where
she has relatives who have been wanting
her to visit them. She will take Marg-
cry with her and will stay until she can
no longer endure the longing to get back
to Sunny Knoll. And when that time
comes, instead Of boarding a train and
getting back to Washington and out to
the farm in couple of hours. she will
again take the boat and spend a couple
OF days getting back.
To Keep Bachelorg Hall.
1t Is going to be more or less lone
some for Jim and Ned and l., but we'll
keep busy and manage to pull through
somehow. We are going to give the
girl vacation during James absence,
and the boys and will keep bachelors
hall. The boys are looking forward
eagerly to the experience, and reckon
can get something Of frolic out of 1T
myself. 1 can broil a steak and boil po-
tatoes and do other unornamental cook
ing In a fair sort Of way. and the boys
will have to wash the dishes. / never
tried frying chicken, but unless Jane
thinks to make count Of hers before
she goes hope to acquire reasonable
proficiency during her absence. On rainy
days well sweep and make the beds.
l also plan to pull off something dur
ing the absence of Jane and Margery
that seems rather onery. until all the
foct
the heifer calf
Originally our idea was to raise the
calf. but when we came to work out a
definite program for handling our eight
years. the calf project didn't flt in with
1t at ALL The mother is a good quality
grade Jersey and the calf is from a reg
| istered Jersey sire. 80 it undoubtedly
would pay to raise her If we had more
land. This is attested, think, by the fact
that neighbor who knows cows offered
| to pay us $25 for the calf the day she
was old enough to take from the mother.
We accepted the offer tentatively. but
when the project was mentioned at a
family gathering Margery began to weep
| and wall The calf was hers, she in
sisted. her particular pct: she loved II
better than any other animal on the
farm, and she didn't want US to sell It.
After that. at every mention Of selling
| the calf. Margery would almost kick q
hole In the sky. SO we had to call the
deal on for the time being.
| Constant In Affection.
We figured as the calf grew olde,
and less appealing and the novelty
wore of Margery would transfer her
affections to something else. Just as she
had with all the other beasts and birds
We have acquired. But her childish
| fickleness seemed all at once to have
| been put aside, and the calf continued
/ to hold first place. Continued, that is
happened that seemed to take the edge
Evening star., 1914-07-18
ASTRONOMER ON ALERT
AT PRESENT SEASON
Passing Phenomena of Celestial
Visitors Greatest During This
Time Of the Year.

From the middle Of July through the
midsummer nights the astronomer is or
the alert for the passing phenomena OF
mosphere.
The great perseid begins about this
time, and there are many minor streams
which apparently come into play at the
same period.
Speaking of this branch of Astronomical
work, w. F. Downing. the eminent Eng
l1sh astronomer, says:
Though much has been done in thi:
department; though many facts have
been cleaned and some important dis
coveries effected. yet we are only stand
ing on the borderland of a full knowledge
of meteoric showers that come into oul
atmosphere
1t seems that celestial photography al
yet Is found inapplicable to general me.
teoric work, hence the naked-eye methoG
OF observing meteors must still be de-
pended upon 1t is astonishing, however
how accurate the hurried eye estimates
may become after much practice, wher
radiant points can often be determined
within one degree of error.
Observers Enjoy Brilliant Display.
In the early morning hours Of this
meteoric season vigilant observers are
fully repaid with the brilliant display OF
radiants in Pices. Andromeda, Aries
Perseus and other consultations in the
same general region Of the sky. Some OF
these are directed from places south OF
the equator.
Perhaps the most wonderful Of all ce-
lesttal phenomena is the prominent aspect
Of the Milky Way on midsummer nights
1t stretches nearly over head and the
rich regions in Cassiopia, Cepheus and
Cygnus are beautifully displayed above
as millions of suns. This picture of sum-
mer nights Is beyond the ken of astro-
nomical concepton-a type of the in
finities yet unexplained and of the world
of nebula of which little Is known. The
splendor of this view Of the heavens may
be appreciated when one is told that each
one Of those stars is brilliant sun. There
are regions in the heavens visible at this
season of the year in which viewed from
a remote point in space would seem to be
but one Of the countless clusters of stars
All these stars are incomparabIy more
distant than the sun which they surround
30 1t Is evident that our sun and, OF
course, the system which attends it ac.
tually rotate inside the Milky Way.
Evening star., 1914-07-18
Liverpool Cotton.

LIVERPOOL. July 1s-Cotton Spot
steady; good middling. 100; middling,
1888; low middling, $50; sales, 5000
bales; speculation and export, 200; re-
ceipts, 5000. Futures quiet; July. 7.17;
July and August, 7.16h; September and
October. 6.17h; December and January.
6.59M; February and March, 6.61;
April and May, 6.63.
Evening star., 1914-07-18
Vicarious.

From the Detroit Free Press.
How pale and worried your mother
looks! Is she sick?"
mo. ma am: but pas got the grip
"And is she afraid that he won't get
well"
"Oh. no: but whenever pas sick he
worries her SO that she always looks az
though she had what was ailing HIM"
Evening star., 1914-07-18
Might Find the Nest.

From Pearson's Weekly.
Small Girl-Please. Mrs. Jones.
mother wants to know IL she can bor-
row a dozen eggs. She wants to put
them under q hen.
Mrs. Jones-So you have got a hen.
have you, my dear? didn't know your
mother kept hens.
Small Girl-No. she doesn't: but Mrs.
Smith is going to lend US a hen that is
going to sit. and mother thought II
you'd lend us the eggs we could nnd
the nest ourself
Evening star., 1914-07-18
Hands Across the Sea.

From London Punch.
Persons who are hesitating to visit
the Anglo American exposition may
like to know that the representation of
New York there is not SO realistic as
to be unpleasant.
Evening star., 1914-07-18

Whats the shape of the earth?"
asked the teacher. calling suddenly on
Willie.
Round" was the answer.
How do you know it is round?
"All right" said willie, Its square,
then. don't mean to argue about It,"
Christian Register.
Evening star., 1914-07-18
Makes the Garden Grow.

Continuance of the almost daily rains
involves more or less discomfort and is
open to some agricultural objections, but
things in my garden certainly are grow
ing. With plenty of milk, fresh eggs and
as many frying chickens as Jane can be
persuaded to part with, we have cut our
grocery bills down almost to the ire
ducible minimum. Flour, coffee and
tea. sugar. salt and pepper are about all
we buy. Twice a week l take fresh
meat out from the city. but 1 am selling
to the men in the office eggs and vege-
tables enough more than to pay for
everything we buy to eat.
Looks pretty soft. doesn't 1t? But don't
forget that our present opulence is the
very recently it was case of most
everything going out and hardly any
thing coming in. Not only have we used
up my salary to the last dollar since
March 1, but we have drawn pretty heav-
lily on the reserve fund. 1t is true that
q lot of our outlay this year has been in
the nature of more or less permanent in
vestment, such as the horse and COW,
wagon. implements and tools. poultry
equipment, fencing, etc. But 1t will re-
quire balancing of outgo and income
and an invoice Of our plant at the end
of the year to tell whether We have
broken even on the undertaking.
II we put any reasonable value on "ex-
perience" when we take that invoice, the
balance will be big on the credit side. 1
am confident that with what l have
learned this spring and summer 1 can
accomplish equal results next year with
about one-half the expenditure of labor
and cash. E. s. NJ.
Evening star., 1914-07-18

Fate is mastered by mans
control of himself. and for
tunes gifts come to him who
is strong-to the weakltng
and the quitter fortunes heart
is cold and bitter. As you de-
serve and do, fate decides
what your reward shall be.
But fate will always be
friendly to you and will be
fair in her gifts when you
wisely watch the Want Ad
pages OF The Star. Star Want
Ads are opportunities out Of
which your good fortune may
come. Star Want Ads take
care of the needs and wants of
hundreds Of people every day
(some OF these are your
neighbors). Why not use them
yourself?
Telephone your Want Ads to
The Star. Phone Main 244O.
Evening star., 1914-07-18
The MOTOR OMNIBUS.
By Frederic J. Haskin.

Is the trolley car doomed? Will the
motor omnibus, with its greater fexi-
bility. its independence Of tracks. its
ability to stop at the curb. and its other
conveniences, put the electric street cars
out of business?
This Is a question involving even great
er problems of financial and municipal
policy than were bound up with the
destruction Of the old cable car systems
py the Introduction Of electricity. The
caoie system was hardly more than start
ed before electricity came along. and the
Two Tor time competed against the
morse cars until electricity finally won the
Gay. Now. however. comes a question
that may involve the practical destruc-
ton OF the hundreds of millions Of dol
lars invested in electric trolley car sys-
TENS in this country.
The superiority Of the motor omnibus
Is not, however, demonstrated 1t merely
gives rise to the question. Against the
advantages of fiexibility and independ-
trolley car can boast of greater speed.
accommodation in one car for a greater
numoer OF people, and an ability to ex-
1eno urban into suburban and rural traf-
nc merely by an increase of speed, when
passing out of the city limits
4 y
In the United States the whole aues-
ton still remains an academic one
Motor omnibuses
In U. .. question have not been used
Is Academic One an az ss s4.snt t0ahstS thst no TO
introduced serious competition with the
street railways. In New York. where om-
niouses have been used for some years,
the rates Of fare have been higher, and
In other cities. such as Washington, the
omnibus routes have been short and their
service comparatively poor.
But in Europe the omnibus apparently
largest city in the world, but it has the
most extensive and most diversified sys-
tenn OF passenger traffic. The shallow
district railway. partly underground and
partly open. the deep-lying tubes, the
electric tranmcars and the Intricate sys-
tenn Of steam railway suburban traffic
have all been practically unchanged in
recent years. with the exception that ex-
tensions are constantly in progress. The
great change that has come over London
introduction Of the gasoline engine, or, as
the English say. the petrol engine
The horse-drawn omnibus was Lon
don's first effort to meet the traffic re-
quirements Of modern city life. These
omnibuses f1ourished long after the un-
derground railways were started. and
even held on to portion Of their
patronage after the electric tramways
were installed. This lease Of life for the
horse-drawn omnibuses probably was
due, however, to the fact that the mar
row thoroughfares of the heart of Lon
don have as yet never welcomed the
street car track.
About ten years ago experiments began
to be made with power-driven omnibuses.
Five years ago the gasoline omnibus had
almost driven the horse out Of the bust
ness. but as yet the old routes were OBJ
served.
Evening star., 1914-07-18
o
Drawn Omnibus w eric
Makes Its Last Trip. ~ 80 v o.

Makes Its Last Tip. che power of
gasoline was undisputed. There are still a
few hansoms and an occasional "growl-
err or four-wheeler. but petrol. through
the power-driven omnibus and the taxi
cab, has wellnigh ban'shed the horse
from the streets of London town.
With the improvement of the gasoline
engine and the consequent cheapening of
power. the motor omnibus business in
London underwent a great revolution, and
all Of a sudden the motor omnibus de-
cfded that not only London, but all Eng
land, was its province.
Where formerly one had to take the
tube and then a bus, and then the rail-
way train, and then another bus, to get
from ones hotel in London to st. AL
bans. say. now one merely gets on top of
bus and goes directly to his destina-
tlon-a journey of some twenty-five miles
in the open country-and all for eighteen
cents.
How the motor omnibus business has
grown is shown by the fact that last
year the buses of the London General
Omnibus Company about s5 or 90 per
cent Of all the London buses) carried
676.O0OIO0O people. This was an increase
Of 15O.OO0O00 over the year before, and
the records for 1914 indicate that a SINH
Lar Lar increase will be accorded this year.
entire population Of London 100 times in
year.
On Easter Monday of this year. the
first big bank holiday of the year a
car ful
Record Shows Omnibus watch h
Carries Greater Number. was Kept
bus. tram and Underground traffic of
London. The six underground railways
that day carried 1890 passengers The
three electric street railway companies
ran about even, the United Electric
trans carrying 10000: the Metropolitan
Electric carrying $4,000. and the London
County Council railways carrying $40. .OOO
passengers. This shows a total for the
day on the part Of the underground and
electric tram systems of 1888, 900 pas-
sengers.
Against this. the London General Omni-
bus Company had a record Of no less
than 2332.5 542 passengers. a greater total
than was recorded by all Of the other
This company operates more than 1000
motor omnibuses and employs more than
1900 men.
The rates of fare range from a half
up to a shilling, or Is cents. for, say,
q forty-mile Sunday ride into the coun-
try. The ordinary bus fare. however, is
1 penny. and more than two-thirds of
all the passengers carried pay to the
company l penny. or cents. for their
ride. The prices are practically the same
charged by the tramways and under
ground systems. SO that the great sue
cess Of the omnibuses is not to be credit
ed to a cheaper price.
AS they make more frequent stops and
are subject to the rules OF the road re-
garding other vehicular traffic, their sue
cess cannot be accounted to speed, for
they are really much slower than their
rivals Apparently their great success is
due to their greater convenience.
Evening star., 1914-07-18

The fact that the increase in the omni.
bus traffic Is really being taken away
from the
Success Is Due to other systems
crao+ar r,rv.~,;.,. of Transports
tion was 8
proved by the action taken by various
tramway companies in London to have
their assessments reduced on account Of
the fact that motor bus competition had
in large part decreased the value Of the
tramway property.
In passing it is perhaps worth while to
note that on the Easter Monday men
toned, when the London passenger trar-
hc systems carried more than 5000, 900
people, there was not a single hitch or
accident of any kind. The Underground
railways and the tramways reported alb
solutely no incident, and the omnibus
companies declared that they had ex-
perienced no accident nor received any
complaint from any passenger during the
day.
Evening star., 1914-07-18
FINANCIAL.
OPPQR TuNIIY

REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS OF EIGH-
TEEN YEARS EXPERIENCE OFFER YOU AN
OPPORTUNITY TO INVEST $1,000. SECURED
BY FIRST DEED OF TRUST OR MORT.
GAGE, INTEREST PER CENT AND LIB
ERAL PROFITS.
Address
]. Z. A.. Hotel Harrington"
nth and E Streets NV.
Telephone Main $500.
Evening star., 1914-07-18

MarEery came In fearful and indignant.
pigs bought from Mr. Brown had been
growing rapidly and promised to make a
lot of meat this winter. The thing that
gets to me is the helplessness of man
when he undertakes to get his living
through the direct processes of nature.
There has hardly been a day since we
came to the country that this fact has
not been impressed upon me.
Evening star., 1914-07-18

of her special fondness for calves. and
since then she has been petting old
Bill and the collie puppy and the rab-
bits.
The thing that happened was that
when Margery went out to tell 1t good
morning. to put her arms about Its neck
and whisper endearments In It's ear, the
calf forgot manners and gentle oreeoins
and butted its admirer over. Margery
came in fearful and indignant and since
then the calfs popularity has been IN
such slump that it has dropped PACK
into the second division OF animal pets.
We have been handling the situation
very carefully, however. and have re-
Trained from saying anything more about
selling the calf for fear Margery's in
dignation would be overwhelmed by
wave Of returning affection. But when
she returns from Baltimore and finds the
sale a fait accompli as the diplomats
say. I don't think she will make any
trouble. She will be full of her trip ana
the experiences Of the boat ride and, be-
sides, l plan to have something new for
her in the way of pets, possibly pair
Of guinea pigs. which she has been want
ing.
Pets All But the Bees.
pet calf when she is away from home.
but we can't have every animal on the
place tied up because Margery has made
a pet of it. Before coming to the country
she never had any pets except kitten
and a canary bird. The kitten ate the
canary, then Margery had no pets at alb
Jane attended to that Since coming to
the country she has petted everything
from a pigeon to the horse, the range in
cluding chickens, rabbits her puppy and
the pigs. There Is, in fact, only one OF
our animated possessions which Margery
has not at some time OF another taken to
her bosom. That Is a swarm OF bees
which we got about a week ago. The
bees she has given a wide berth. having
learned early In the season through pain
full experience that they do not make de-
sirable pets. She ran afoul Of the busi-
ness end Of one of the honey gatherers
when she tried to pick a flower, possession
of which 1t had pre-empted.
I don't know which was the worse
scared that day, Jane or Margery. We
were having a Sunday afternoon siesta
when Margery came running into the
house screaming that a flower had bitten
her It sounded to Jane as II she said
snake instead Of flower and there
were several minutes of very strenuous
excitement Examination Of the wounded
finger, however. disclosed the unmistak-
able sign of a bees sting. Margery had
not seen the bee and thought she had
found flower with red-hot teeth. There
followed a esson in beeology, to wit:
That she i.<.4sn't pick flower until max
ing sure that some one else had not a
prior claim to 1t. Margery never forgot
the experience and today she will walk
ten feet around to avoid interfering with
the business Of a bee.
Evening star., 1914-07-18

The fact that the increase in the omni.
bus traffic is really being taken away
Evening star., 1914-07-18

Two months ago, the last horse-drawn
omnibus in London made its last trip
Evening star., 1914-07-18

In the United States the who,a oues-
non still remains an academic one.
Motor omnibuses
In U. >. Question have not been used
Is Academic One m .nls country to
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-10-17
TALK OF THE TOWN

Visit Abbott's millinery department.
Extra votes Saturday, c. n, Kenyon
& Co.
Sadlier's for furniture, floor covering
clothing
AT $los, ladies' serge dresses al
Perry's.
Homer Holden of Brookfeld was a
visitor in the city yesterday,
You can save from 25c to $500 on
blankets at Perry's on Saturday
Fifty-six CUBIC feet OF chairwood for a
load, 1878. Arthur S. Martin. Phone
53.W.
Halloween seals, caps, witches, pump.
kins, witch place cards. Martins Book
store, Bolster block.
Frederick Milne of the Vermont Tire
& Rubber Co. left last night for few
days business visit in New York.
| Mr.. and Mrs. G. Pondghi of Berlin
street, who have been visiting for the
past few days with friends in Boston,
returned home yesterday.
The Hon Charles A. Prouty, independ-
ent candidate for United States senator,
will speak in Barre at the opera house
Monday evening, Oct. l9.-Adv.
You don't want to have another en-
gsgement when the ladies' quartet of
the Ithaca Conservatory of Music comes,
so watch out for the date and place.
Arden Goodale and daughter, Florence,
who have been visiting with friends in
the city for the past few days, returned
to their home in Brattleboro to-day.
Brotherhood evening at the Hedding
church next Sunday night. The men are
requested to sit together The pastor
will give an address on "Perils On, Below
and Above the Earth--Safety in Whom,
in What and How" The present wars
will be touched upon. All are welcome.
The forty sixth annual convention OF
the Vermont Sunday School association
to be held at Barre, October n, % and
49, will bring to our state group OF
men and women who have dome things
along various lines of religious educa-
ton, and whose messages will be well
worth while to every one who is inter
ested in the problems of the moral and
religious training OF the boys and girls |
and the men and women of Vermont.
Negotiations were completed day |
for the sale OF the Elliott place, So
called, near the Harlow bridge in Rox-
bury, owned by Charles Clark of North |
field, to Herbert and Mary Freeman of I
The price paid was $4,000 and
the transaction embraced the crops now
on the farm. Mr.. and Mrs Freeman are
already taking possession of the prop
erty and Mr.. Clark is moving his house
hold goods to Mortified village, where
he will make his home. The deal was
by G. A. Clark, the North
field agent for the D.. A. Perry Real
Estate agency.