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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-10-18
WATERBURY

Mrs. Richard Demeritt received the
message from Oakland Friday that her
brother law, Frank Harris, had passed
away. Mr.. Harris had three fingers
crushed so badly in an ensilage cutter
about a week ago that amputation was
necessary. Lockjaw followed and al
though everything was done, there was
no relief He was about IS years of
age and is survived by his wife. who
was Miss Emma Law, and six children,
Frances, Allan, Maurice, Helen. Muriel
and Mary. The eldest, Miss Frances, at
tended school here for two years. max
ing her home with her aunt, Mrs. De-
merritt.
Last week was one OF accidents at
the Vermont dairy farm, owned by Eu.
gene X. Towne. Tuesday a new corn
husker was installed which, as far as
known, is the first ono in town. Dor
othy. Their l5.year-old daughter was
pushing the corn with a stick when in
some way her hand became caught and
was badly mangled. Dr. @. S. Bidwell
was called and. assisted BY r. +. Steele.
ir., dressed the injured member. The
end Of the thumb had 60 be- amputated
and the first and second fingers were
badly crushed. IL is hoped, however
that the bones Of these are not injured,
80 that they can b. saved. They are
dressed every day. Miss Dorothy never
fools with any Of the farm machinery.
in fact. seems but little interested IN
the farm. Her accident seems mex
plicable. Thursday morning on the same
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~ Mr.. and Mrs. Towne. who had come
from Boston 10 assist his father. lost the
forefnger Of bic left hand and il AZ the
Heaton hospital Mr Towuc was feed
ing the machine and. a pierre not going
straight be pushed the same. caught his
glove and the finger Was drawn INTO the
With great presence % mind
be doubled be other fingers and. hfacing
himself against the machine. managed
- extricate himself minus part q the
inRer Amputation 81 this member was
necessary. The machine was working
Fcn saturday and vas huskinr corn az
rapid rate Mr. Toune las made CREST
idrnners this summer on bis farm 10
.as stocked with registered rnttle. built
mother s'io and bought a harvester and
Iusker. Ihese two accidents took much
4 TIE pleasure from the activity Of tire
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One Reasnn.

do you know why money Is 20 scarce
hrothers3" the soapbox orator demand.
ed. and fair sired section Of the back
bone Of the nation waited in leisurely
patience for the answer.
A tired looking woman had paused
for q moment on the edge oi the crowd,
She spoke shortly.
ITS because 30 many 81 you men
spend time telling each other why. stead
Of hustling b see that u aint"-ludre.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-10-18
GRANITEvILLE.

Public meeting to hear the report Of
the oanvassing committee in regard TO
starting oorporated store, Miles hall,
Graniteyille, Tuesday, oct. 10, at Z. p. m.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-10-18
wEBsTERvILLE.

Public meeting 10 hear the report Of
the canvassing committee in regard 70
starting a corporated store. Miles hail.
Graniteville, Tuesday, Oct. 10, az :. p. m.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-10-18

children are guests at b. c. Rogers.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. 7. Rogers are enjoy
ing a fortnight's vacation among their
children in eastern Massachusetts,.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-10-18
The Burning Question.

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oswald-Is that an invitation or are
you gathering statistics Widow.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-10-18

with occasional gripings and
pains about the navel, pale face
Of leaden tint. eyes heavy and
dull. twitehing eyelids. itching
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-10-18
CuredOf Worms

Deranged stomach. swollen upper lip. sour
stomach. offensive breath. hard and full belly
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-10-18

curing sleep. sloW fever. n your child shows
any 81 thsse symptoms. starr using Dr. Trues
EliHir. the Family laxative and Worm Ex-
peiier 81 onoe.
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think more ~ Dr.. Trees EHKir than al other
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-28
A Wholesome Lesson.

Sympathy for Edward NJ. GZoht and
il will not be lacking, cannot Obscure tse
fact that his conviction is a Thoroughly
wholesome lesson, made necessary by muah
in recent local history.
Mr.. Grout neither stole nor consplred
to help in stealing. But he did betray
trust. one of the highest trusts man
can undertake. His offence was not tech
nical in any real sense. He was too ex-
perienced a lawyer not to know the mean
ing of putting his name to false state
ment. The public Office he had held should
have taught him how great a value
attached to his signature and how much
public confidence it carried.
1t is a sad thing to see the former Con-
troller of this city sent to Sing Sing. 1t is
a disgrace in which the city has share.
Blu. the sentence is just and the lesson
Enthusiastically useful.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-28
Time To Be Armed and Ready

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I am glad to see that 20 per cent OF
the American people are supporting our
President in the stand he has taken toward
Germany with regard to submarine warfare.
He has stated our claims for freedom Of
the seas in a very plain manner, and has
not used any provocative language, either.
The Germans must admit that are en-
titled to follow our avocations with safety,
even on the high seas. If Germany will not
allow that which is lawful and right and
provokes us so that we must join the Allies,
we can have fine merchant marine by seiz-
ing the splendid ships lying in New York
Harbor and other points, and so have a big
share in the worlds carrying trade, with a
minimum of expense and trouble.
II is my opinion however, that Germany
will accede to our Presidents just demands,
and so not make it necessary for us TO enter
into the conflict. | would, however, be in
favor of getting our navy in good shape,
building submarines and having an army Of
at least one-half a million soldiers, as we
may have TO fight in the near future, even
il we do not engage in the present trouble.
W. II. B.
Asbury Park, n. j., July %, 1915
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-28
Macaulay and 1915.

A friend of The Tribune has called at
tention to the concluding page of Volume
II of Macaulay's History of England
descriptive of the character of the Revolu.
tim which placed William and Mary on
the throne. 1t reads:
All around us the world is convulsed by
TIE agonies Of great nations. Governments
which lately seemed likely to stand during
ages have been on sudden shaken and over
thrown. The proudest capitals of Western
Europe have streamed with blood. All evil
passions, the thirst of gain and the thirst
Il vengeance the antipathy of class TO class,
tho antipathy of race to race, have broken
loose from the control of divine and human
iars. Fear and anxiety have clouded the
faces and depressed the hearts Of millions.
Trade has been suspended and industry para
lyzed. The rich have become poor; and the
POOR have become poorer. Doctrines hostile
to all sciences, to all arts, to all industry, to
ELL domestic charities, doctrines which, If car
ried into effect would in thirty years undo
all that thirty centuries have done for man
kind and would make the fairest provinces
If France and Germany as savage as Congo
and Patagonia, have been avowed from the
tribune and defended by the sword. Europe
has been threatened with subiuFation by bar
bsrians compared with whom the barbarians
who marched under Attila and Albon were
enlightened and humane. The truest friends
of the people have with deep sorrow owned
that interests more precious than any politi-
cal privileges were in jeopardy, and that it
might be necessary to sacrifice even liberty
in order to save civilization.
How few would be the changes necessary
to make this wholly accurate description
Of the events of the last twelve months
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-28
How and Why the War Should End

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue OF to-day attention Is
called to a circular emanatng from Ger
man source, the alleged purpose OF which Is
humanely to promote a speedy termination OF
the war by rousing public sentiment against
the expectation of arms from this country.
The termination of the war is an end with
which every true American is in sympathy.
But no sincere lover of liberty wish that
the war shall be terminated by an anphila-
ton of all the independent governments OF
the earth and by the substitution of German
despotism in their place. conflict between
criminal aggression on the one side and in
nocence struggling in defence of its rights
on the other should be terminated not by
depriving innocence of its just weapons OF
defence, but by terrifying and irresistbly
reinforcing its resources and by sternly
Withholding from the aggressor every sue
cor and support.
End the war, say we all. But end it not
by placing in bondage a liberty-loving world
but by strengthening the hands of the enc
mics Of German usurpation, so that swiftly
and forever the sinister purposes Of every
Hohenzolern conspirator may be swept from
the earth. 5. GROSS HORWlIZ.
New York. July %, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-28
All England's Fault.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter of Mr.. Scheer H. to-day's
Tribune is about the best have read in
reference to neutrality. | must say, although
you may show bias in some things, you
certainly are impartial as to correspondence
| would like to ask a pertinent question
Do you really believe that Vanderbilt, Froh-
man and the others, all men of more than
ordinary intelligence. would have sailed il
they had not expected protection from
England? No; they had implicit confidence
in Englands boast that she was ruler OF
the sea"
say that IL you call Germany the
murderer" then England is the accessory,
and more to blame in this case. Why was
the Lusitania slowed down in the very zone
where she should have made top speed
Perhaps Englands ministers can answer this
question of SLOWING down" Who issued
orders to the captain?
What did England care for a thousand
lives if the killing gained her purpose
England expected a declaration OF war upon
Germany from this country, but it did not
materialize.
As Mr.. Scheer says, let Americans keep
off English vessels and not give any cause
for us going to war There are American
boats leaving for England; let those who
are crazy for the "other side" take passage
on them. r. J. COLE.
New York, July 81, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-28
Display the Flag.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: beg to express my hearty apprecia-
ton OF your splendid editorial in to-day's
paper reviewing the United States govern
ments note to Germany, which is one of the
grandest state papers ever written.
The die is now cast, and every American
should stand by the President regardless OF
party. II it becomes necessary for him TO
take drastic action for the protection OF
American rights, the measure Of popular sup
port accorded him could be ascertained il he
would call upon every loyal American to dis
play the Stars and Stripes from his home
and place of business till the crisis is over.
The universal display Of our national en-
blem would prove silent but irresistible
force as an expression of patriotic solidar-
ity.
II Germany has any doubt concerning the
sentiment of the American people that doubt
could be removed by invoking such public
expression of patriotism now.
JUDSON G. WALL.
Brooklyn, July "a, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-28
The Loganberry Menace.

OF course man has a right to change
his tipple, and so he has to harvest his
whiskers or grow beard. But when from
long association he has become identified
in the public mind with one thing or an
other of this sort he is really under some
obligation to remain constant to early
choice. Otherwise the anguish caused car
toonists and headline writers and the utter
havoc wrought in the popular vocabulary
hopelessly outweigh the slight advantage
to him in convenience or comfort which the
change brings.
For this reason his countrymen will
hope that Mr.. Bryan's taste for the juice
of the Loganberry will only temporarily
eclipse his passion for the juice Of the
grape Aside from the widespread mental
reimbursement which such fickleness on his
part threatens, the Loganberry is by no
means as well known a fruit as the grape
and it has far too many sylables. To have
our former Secretary of State return from
the Pacific Coast wearing a Van Dyck
beard would be less of a catastrophe.
Some few months before the European
war broke out last year, it was reported
from Vienna that the Emperor Franz
Josef had scandalized the court barber by
suggesting one morning that in the near
future he shave off the royal side whiskers.
The barber pleaded with him in vain
against such sacrlege, and then appealed
to the members Of the royal family, who,
in CONSERVATION. called a family council
Together they finally persuaded the aged
monarch to forget his mad fancy, but not
until it had been explained to him that all
the coins would have to be restamped, and
new plates made for all the stamps and
paper currency; that old portraits of the
Emperor would have to be recalled and new
ones distributed broadcast at great cost,
and all kinds and conditions of insignia
altered-the whole not improbably result
ing in a revolution which would shake his
throne to its foundations.
The case Of Mr.. Bryan and his grape
juice differs in degree only, not in kind.
With our foreign relations in such deli
cate state, has he not already caused do
nestle disturbance enough?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-28
Light on the Battle Of Chill.

The belated report of Admiral Won Spec
adds nothing of Importance to what was
already known of the naval action Of No
vember l off the coast of Chilli. Captain
Luce's concise account of the engagement,
supplemented by an excellent narrative
compiled from official documents by an
officer of the Gillian navy, gave us all
the essential facts more than eight months
ago.
The circumstances that need to be ex-
planned are circumstances concerning
which the late gallant commander Of the
German squadron was ignorant. The
British Admiralty alone can account for
the apparent want of foresight which left
the ill-fated Cradock with a force so OBJ
viously inferior to that which he might
be and was, in fact, obliged to encounter /;
which left to Sturdee the task which
might have been achieved as well, and at
little or no cost, five weeks before.
Admiral Won Specs thoroughly bust
nesslike story repeats with unimportant
variations what has already been told.
lie met the inferior force and defeated it
with singular ease. In every way Cradock
was outmatched-he had neither the ships
nor the guns to enable him to resist the
attack, nor had he the speed, if he had the
will, to get away. The German admiral
remarks that apparently the heavy sea
was more troublesome to the British gun
ners than to his own. SO it must have
been, not only because of the relative con-
struction of the ships on either side but
because of the inferiority of the British
gunners. For some incomprehensibler ea-
son Cradock's ships were manned in the
main by men modified from the reserves.
In personnel as well as in armament
Cradock was hopelessly outclassed.
The delayed report now published Is
valuable as correcting some minor points
in the earlier reports. What we want to
understand is how it was possible for the
brave British admiral to be left in the
plight limited at in one Of his last letters
when he wrote eve feel that the Ad-
miralty ought to have better force here
and take a larger advantage of our three
to two superiority. But we will fight
cheerfully whatever odds we may have to
face" They did; but at how needless a
cost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-28
INSANITY CASES AND JURIES.
Comment on Recent Incidents in
the Thaw Case.
To tho Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir. While much that Is said by you In
your editorial Of to-day In regard to the re-
marks and incidentally the action of Judge
Hendricks in the Thaw case Is doubtless lit
orally true, there is much that should still
be said, both by way of explanation and
approval.
Issues Of fact are always for the determi-
nation Of jury, and the question of sanity or
insanity has been regarded as one peculiarly
in the province of jury wherever our sys-
tenn of Jurisprudence prevails. In all cases
but this trial of the question by jury is ex-
pressly provided by statute, and practically
all the writers and decisions hold that even
in habeas corpus proceeding it is in the
| discretion of the court, bu. the only case
where the Court of Appeals has unqualified
| ly approved such hearing prior to this is
that of the People agt. Burns, which Judge
Hendricks relied upon for authority here.
II is true that a number OF judges had
denied Thaw a trial by jury, but none Of
them had the Burns case before them; other
wise their determination would most likely
have been different. II this seems strange
il mus. be remembered that there are over a
thousand volumes of New York Reports, and
over a hundred cases in each volume. Law
yers must therefore rely upon dgests and
citations, and this case was overlooked. For
about eight years lawyers have been search
ing for such a case without success.
During the three years Mr.. Thaws case
was in charge of Judge Shearn the writer
was associated with him and assisted in the
preparation of 1t. Notwithstanding the most
industrious and careful search, the Burns
case was not found and was only found by
him after it was too late TO be used by Judge
Shearn, and then only by the merest chance
or accident when the writer was investigat-
ing an entirely foreign question. There is
no qualification in a judge more essential
than that of fearessness in the discharge
Of duty, which Judge Hendrick has displayed
in this case.
FRANKLIN A. MCONAUGHY.
Brooklyn, July II, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-28
American Ammunition in Crimea
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: While the debate was on in the House
during the hot night Of July l. 1868, over
the question Of voting S7,20O,OOO in coin 20
carry out the provisions of the treaty made
with Russia for the acquisition of Russian
America. General Benjamin F. Butler, of
Lowell, Mass, Joined the forces of the OPP
position in a vigorous speech. To make
the matter of securing a favorable vote more
embarrassing for General y. p. Banks, the
chairman Of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs, in support OF the measure, General
Butler at the close of his speech moved an
amendment 70 withhold 100000 OF the
stipulated price 20 be paid to Russia until
claims Of American citizens for ammunition
furnished Russia during the Crimean War
were passed upon and settled. General
Garfield was in the chair and ruled him out
Of order.
Can you enlighten your readers on this
subject Of Americans having furnished
ammunition to Russia during the Crimesn
War? To what extent was it carried on, and
were the claims of Americans finally paid?
SKOoKUM BOB.
New York, July 90. 1915
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-28
The End of a Delusion.

Hoke Smith and the other Southern
Senators and Representatives who have
complained that the American cotton ex-
port trade has been ruined through the
restrictions put upon it by the British
Orders in Council are the victims Of over
confidence in the value Of priori reason
ing. Logic Of the a priori order is all right
until it comes up head on against stats
ties. Mr.. Smith and his fellow pessimists
overlooked the fact that they would event
ually have to square their predictions Of
calamity with the governments export
trade figures.
1t was easy to assume that if the ports
of Germany and Austria-Hungary were
closed to foreign commerce the American
cotton producers would lose the trade
which they had carried on with those two
countries-a trade amounting in 1924
to 2,S87O06 bales, valued at SlSS.63l COZ.
Germany and Austria Hungary took about
30 per cent of the cotton shipped from
the United States in 1913-'14. The COM
plete sealing Of their market would IN
doubtedly have been a terrible blow TO
the leading industry of the Gulf States.
But the trade returns for 1914-'l5 show
that the Observation-Disclosures mar
ket has not been sealed. Some cotton
has gone direct to Bremen, but much more
has gone into Germany and Austria-Hun-
gary through other countries. In the first
eleven months of 1914-I5 direct exports
to the two Teutonic powers fell from
z, 500, 900 bales to 2S4, 402. But the cot
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-28
Restrict immigration!

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Are we to be cowed and shaken by
he aliens we have admitted into cur midst? ?"
is the question which "F. f." asks in The
Tribune Of July %, referring to the efforts
of certain foreigners who are shouting for
peace at any price, while stirring up riots
and strikes among alien laborers.
AS an answer let me suggest that if we
suffer from such foes it is our own fault; we
are getting just what is coming to US. For
over twenty years a small body of citizens
have been laboring to arouse public senti-
ment to the need Of closing the gates on the
unfit and unassimilative But the public
would neither support our plans nor suggest
better ones.
In his veto Of the last bill TO restrict i'm
migration President Wilson stated that the
public did not seem to be very heartily in
favor of such legislation. But in view of
what is now taking place in various parts Of
the country the public will undoubtedly show
more interest in the next bill to restrict
immigration. And the time to begin the
citation for such bill is now.
W. II. ALLEN.
Brookyn July "a 1915