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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-30

FOR QUICK SALE, CHEAP-Restaurant
on main street in thriving town of about 1000
population net income exceeds $4,000 weekly :
everything modern and up-to-date inquire if
interested of NJ. A. Hoadley g. Sons, Mont
peier, VT. 158tl2
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-30

THE D. A. PERRY REAL ESTATE AeENc,
BARRE. VERMONT
Rooms 2 and .. Hs-isnd-Csve Blds.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-30

FOR SALE--A 5-passenger touring car
with removable tonneau, truck body that can
be attached in few minutes, all in good run
ming order and tires good goes for $500 if
taken at once. Apply after 4 p. M to J. A.
Field. ia Washington street 166t6
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19
Paving BridNeH Prisoners.
(ChicagO Tribune.)

True and sensible reforms make
 their way slowly but surely. A few
 years ago, if memory serves New
 Jersey set the example-and how
 bold it seemed then.-Of paying
 prisoners. The question tenta-
 lively discussed at conferences of
 criminologists and prison Wardens,
 and while the principle involved ap-
 peared clear enough. the practical difficulties of any "paying prisoners" plan were so many and so formidable
 that few ventured to hope for rapid
 progress.
 But progress there has been. The
 finance committee of our own city council has appropriated a small sum
 of money for the purpose of testing,
 in modest way, the idea of paying
 bridwell inmates for their work; the
 wages either to go toward the support
 Of the unfortunate and often desti-
 ute families of these prisoners or else
 tc be saved for the benefit of the
 prisoner himself at the expiration of
 his term of incarceration.
 It is earnestly hoped that this ap-
 propriation will not be disturbed. Su-
 perintendent Whitman may be trusted to work and think out a suitable plan or payment ana even to make IL felOT- nlatOry and corrective in it's effects. It hardly needs saying that efficiency and strict honesty at every stage of the process will be the essential con- dition of success in any general "pay of prisoners plan.' In the hands of incompetent or spells Wardens Or su DC erintendents the plan will spell graft and waste and faVOritism. However, when we are certain the principle
 is sound the thing to do is to adopt it and then see to it that the right men and the right m cans are employed to carry it out. Pay to prisoners means less pauperisn less pressure
 or public and private charity and more incentive for reclamation and return to the path of industry and rectitude.
 Our present system often punishes the families of offenders more severely than the offenders themselves. It is a system that breeds poverty, despair. and crime. A rational community would put all prisoners to work, make l them productive and useful and pay them Or their families. Gradually we are learning to treat our social de- linquents and their family victims with reason and moral profit to all concerned.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19
AiaSka's Railroad Terminal.
Seattle Post-IntelligencerD

An early announcement of the choice of the federal government for l a railroad terminal in Alaska, may | be expected, according to Washing | ton dispatches. It is stated that within a short time the government 1 authorities will name the fortunate 1 location of government activities, where millions of dollars will be ex- pended within the next few years. Secretary Lane has had conferences with the full mem bership of the Alaska engineering party, and it is probable that a tentative selection of route for the governm ent railway has already been made. Anticipatory of the decision, enterprising business men and Alaska sourdOughs have scattered about the various suggest ed termini, and there will be fortu nate investors on the ground floor" wherever the final choice should fall. Authoritative announcement of site
 and route will be followed by the investment of large sums of money
 and imm ediate construction a large scale.
 Here is an element of Seattle's coming prosperity that will likely be felt very soon. Not only is Seattle
 money invested in large sums at every possible terminus, but Seattle men are on the ground, prepared to take up the burdens of pioneering.
 With Seattle money, Seattle men and Seattle port as the distributing point for the northern work it does not require a high quality of provision to be able to discern prosperity for the home city.
 Within a few weeks this commit nifty should experience a commercial awakening nearly equal in importance to the stirring rush of the gold seekers of '98 and '99. What. this will mean to this city may be best appreciated by those who were here in those golden days. Tn active public and private construction work s50.00O, 900 will be expended in Alaska within the next three years.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19
Public Spirit.
Rockville Leader)

The New Britain Herald" discus sing a tendency of the times in mum icipal government, says: Reducing the membership of the COmmon council and then providing a salary for the members is a new idea. It is in line, however, with the sentiment of the times. The day when the cit izens was willing to help his com munity in a public way for the honor and the good he might do has passed" We beg to differ. It has not entirely passed. There are any num- Der of men in all communities, who give freely of tn cir time and services for the benefit of the comm unity. Public spirit thrives today, and we venture to say that New Britain has numerous public spirited citizens, boosting often and working hard, without money and without price. The whole idea of municipal gov ernment today is to get as few men as possible to do the work, let them give their entire time to the munici- pality and then pay them what they are worth. If they don't make good, fire them. It's a business proposi- ton. It is not impossible to get any thing worth while in municipal ser vice for nothing. but it is becoming extremely difficult.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19
DISSATISFIED WITH RESULT OF
 CLEARLY TRIAL.

The indications are that there vii be some trouble for District Attorney Gagan of Rockland county, New York, for alleged neglect in the pros- ecution of William V. Cleary. acquit- ted of the crime of murdering Eu- gene Newman, his son-in-law. Tho accuser in the case is the father of the dead man and Governor Whit charges in writing and if they are backed up by evidence he says he will have the matter investigated. The claim is being made that the district attorney neglected to use all the evidence at his command, the inference being that Cleary, who is a politician, was favored in the trial and as a result the accused was &C., quilted.
 The acquittal of Cleary caused g great deal of unfavorable comment because he killed his son-in-law in cold blood. He set up the unwril- ten law as a defense and this was supposed to have been the real cause for his being allowed to go free. The nature of the evidence which it is all legged was suppressed has not been made known and until it is it's value cannot be estimated because it is well known that lawyers have de- clined to call witnesses on the ground that their evidence would be of a. cumulative character. It may have been so in this case, but Governor Whitman, himself a noted criminal ous one and if the proper foundation is laid he will have the whole affair investigated.
 It is well known that there is q great deal of resentment in the vicin- ity of the home of the murdered man against the district attorney and 8 corresponding amount of i'll feelins against Cleary, whom they think should have been convicted He however, cannot be placed on trial again no matter what may be the outcome of the case against the dis trict attorney. His case was settled when the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19

ters, and to complete leadership is added complete responsibility. Under our own system we have isolation plus nsibility-isolation and there- fore responsibility"
 In talicizing the world therefore "~ < MT. Wilson indicates plainly enough his own preference. In q score of ways he has shown, as president the desire to establish with congress a re- lation somewhat approximating to that of the prime minister of England with parliament. It is not a far fetched conjecture that even his adop- ticn of the method of personal ad--- dress, instead of written messages, for communicating with congress, has been a manifestation of this same general purpose And it is an inter- esting coincidence that on the very day on which MT Borah was attack ing the Indianapolis speech in the senate, a member of the house took occasion to inquire of the speaker whether it would be proper to put questions to the president upon the occasions of his addressing congress. The speaker replied in the affirma- tive.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19
MT. Wilson's Team Work"
(New York Evening Post. }

Senator BOrah seizing upon a cer- tain sentence in MT. Wilson's speech, affected to regard his position as in distinguishable from that of boss like Taggart in Indiana or Murphy in New York. We do not believe that the president would in cold blood stand by the extreme language of that particular sentence, which would make the breaking of party solidarity for any purpose or from any motive" gl ound for bitter condemnation. But the sentence quoted at the beginning of this article is, we believe. Q de- liberate expression of the presidents permanent state of mind; and it is so because it is bound up with an ideal of our political structure toward the realization of which Mir. Wilson seems to be constantly endeaVorinE to con- tribute to the utmost of his oppor- tunities. He desires, so far as it is possible under tho constitution to CO., ordinate legislative and executive activities as they are co-ordinated under the British system
 In that system, the highest execu- tive official is at the same time, the acknowledged head of the majority party and the acknowledged arbiter of legislative policy. The machinery through which all this is effected is the machinery of the team; so far as the ministry is concerned team work is required to be perfect; and in the body of the party, under ordinary circumstances, there is a close ap- proXlmat1on to such perfection. The
 nefhciency and cross purposes to which the conduct of affairs in our own country is subject, owing to the ab- SenCe of any such unfcation of the executive and legislative powers, have always gone against the grain with MT. Wilson. "In England" he says, for instance, in his book on The State," I've have complete leadership in legislation intrusted to the minis
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19

indeed, that can glisten in their true glory without the warmth of the hand, very few of them can reflect every ray of light. And even these are dull creatures in the dark. Very few are also the human emeralds rubies and pearls that shine without the aid of the human hand. As com pared with these, numberless arc the human opals, big and little, who need only the press of the hand, a gentle look, or a kindly word to become gilt terinE gems capable of doing the best that is in them-oh, it costs so little to ignite that divine spark of i'm mense possibilities! How priceless it is to the recipient and yet how few of us do it. The cause of it is large iy thoughlessness. Eliminate the cause!
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19
Warmth of the Hand,
(Richard MarloWe in Elmira Adver-
 tiSer)

tiSer)
 Tn the Umpire, a paper published hy the Eastern Pcnitentiary of Penn sylvania, appears the following beau tiful little story of delicate touch, told by Mrs. Ballington Booth:
 "A gentleman who was a collector of precious gems stood one day in his little strong room showing his jewels to a friend. He opened drawer after drawer, showing the emeralds, diamonds and pearls, and laid his hand upon one drawer and said: Tn this are my most beautiful and most treasured gems. They are opals of such value and such priceless worth that they are to me more than the rest and he pulled drawer out and the litle piece of velvet on which they lay, and the friend looked at them in surprise. They looked so dull.
 He expressed his disappointment and then turned to the other again, but as he turned, the owner took from the velvet that little pile of jewels, put them in his hand, and closed his hand upon them. He showed ali the others ne had to show and then in a few moments turned again and called his friends atten- ton to his opened hand and it was full of sparkling, glittcring glory gems that showed at a glance their priceless worth.
 "His friend stood back in aston ishment and said, What has made the change? It is the warmth of the hand. that is what they needed.
 The warmth of the human hand, How often it is needed to brighten an apparently dull nature and to bring out the real human of us all The heart that seems dull and unin- teresting; the life that to all outward intent is doomed to failure, will bub- ble up with enthusiasm and glitter with success at the touch of the hand that is warm This warmth of the human hand will thaw out the most cold and distant of us. Men and women who seem to take no interest in tne world and the life that goes around them, are only chilled into such attitude by the lack of just such a hand. low easily it may be given and how little the cost and yet how often beerudged, Sttngy is the man or the woman indeed who will re. fuse it. It seems inConCeivable that any one should refuse such a trifie-- a trif1e for him that gives ii, but thing of vast importance to him that receives. All human troubles vanish into thin air at the warm handgrasp Children thrive on this 'warmth of the hand" How many children are losing the best of what might Inc thnirs and at tho same time with holding from us the best that is in them, because this warmth of the human hand Is lacking in our treat ment of them,
 Very few arc the human diamonds,
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19

ly more annoying now is that it is felt the tax rate.
 The natural increase in the grand list of Berlin is small because there are no great building booms going on there and the increase in the grand list therefore comes from an increase iii assessments. Berlin people ought to be able to understand the situation without any difficulty. For instance the town is said to be behind in it's finances and it must be plain to every one that if it is unable to make the desired progress with it's present tax rate it must have more money, that there is only one way to get it and that Is by taxation. The annual re- pert suggests economy in manage ment and we do not know that there is any question on that point, but there is a disposition to criticise the as- sessors because of the increases in as st ssment and yet there is not sufficient revenue to meet the demands of the town in the manner desired. This is the same complaint as comes from every town when there is a change in the manner of assessment. People c"hpla1n about the grand list but in each case 1t Is noticed that the tax rate is never any higher than Is necessary to meet the expenses of the community. If these are reduced then the tax rate can be reduced or if new buildings are constructed the revenue can be increased but not otherwise, unless a boost is given the rate of taxation. The whole matter is one Of meeting the expenditures of the town and there has been nothing ever gained by complaining. That doesn't get anything.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19
Wage Workers Earnings.
(Churchman.)

The wage problem in New York is again being investigated. According to the preliminary report, there is lit
 tie change As 8, matter of fact, the familiar conditions could hardly be- come worse even under the stress of bad times. The report shows that large classes of wage-earners are no better and also no worse than they were q year ago or, for that matter, ten years ago. Half the wage-earners investigated get less than SS a week. But of a total of 104, ,000 persons, one- eigth earn less han S5, one-third less than S7, two-thirds receive S10 or less, and only one-sixth made SIS or more. These figures were gathered by examining the payrolls of 5S0 stores, shirt, paper box and candy fac tories. The majority of employees in the lines studied are women. It IS difficult to see how a girl manages to live on $6 or $7 a week. The ir- reducible minimum still exists for some thirteen thousand wage earners actually investigated and probably typical of a good many thousands more who were not actually investi- gated. The maximum has not ex- tended itself to any appreciable ex- tent. This year, to lend a little va rfety, the investigators say that some of the girls examined spend more on their clothes than they spend on their food. They seem to be surprised by this. It strikes them as an expres- sion of vanity, and they are half in clined to deplore it accordingly. Not many of us,' the Providence Journal remarks, twill see anything in this that is peculiar to the working girl alone. It will appeal to most of us, no doubt, simply as feminine. When a girl wavers between spending S1.5O a week on cloth and SIPS on food, and the alternative of spending s1.25 on cloth and S1.50 on food we feel no inclination whatever to censure her if the twenty-five cents in con- trOversy is laid on the wardrobe pile
 It is merely the triumph of the aesthetic over the physical senses"
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19
EnaCing Time.
Des Moines Register and Leader.)
 Rather a striking quotation from 1,+z J~l, AT,,;, 4l--

(Des Moines Register and Leader) ] Rather a striking quotation from l the late John Muir was made at the l burial of this author and naturalist who died in California the day before Christmas. Longest is the life that contains the largest amount of time effacing enjoymen of work that is a steady delight" is the remark which
 was made by John Muir and quoted
 by his friend.
 It suggests a point of view that with all our strenuous interest in life we are likely to miss. Time need not worry us when we are absorbed with the joy which makes Us forget time. We become unmindfuI either of it's
 dragging or of its flying when we concern ourselves with work that is a
 steady delight. Every new year, while it lasts, ought to be just as good as eternity for us. We can only live in the present anyway.
 But we have formed habit of looking ahead and anticipating the end of our day or our week or our year, and of looking back and regret ting the beginning. And we lose a good deal of the pa sing moments in this rather futile occupation. So far as we know it might turn out that time is only an illusion anyhow, in vented by mortals who are signing for eternity The wisest course seems to be to grasp the little section of eX- istence before us that the philosophers have such difficulty in defining and 1.-Two it to the best of our ability for "steadv delight" This would really end a lot of our dismay about the flight and passing of time.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19
CASCARETS FOR
 COSTIVE BOWELS,
 HEADACHE, COLDS
Tonight! Clean your bowels aud sto headache. colds, sour
 Stpu1ufl1
Get A 10-cent box now.


 Get a 1O-cent box now.
 Turn the rascals out--the headache. biliousness, indigestion, the sick, sour stomach and bad coids-turn them out tonight and keep them out with Cas- carcts.
 Millions of men and women take a CasCaret now and then and never know the misery caused by & lazy liver, cloggcd bowels, or an upset stom- ach.
 Don't put in another day of distress Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach: remove the sour, form enting food; take the excess bile from your liver and carry out all the constipated waste matter and poison in the bowels. Then you will feel great.
 A Cascaret tonight straichtens you out by morning. They work while you sleep. A 10-cent box from any drug store means a clear head, sweet stomach and clean, healthy liver anG bowel action for months. Children love Csscarets because they never gripe or sicken.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19

Opinions appear to differ as to whether the Hartford jail is in sani- tary or unsanitary condition. A spec ia1 commission appointed by the last Der of the state prison commission, who certainly ought to know some thing about such things, has report ed that conditions are "very unsani- tary.' The county commissioners and the county sheriff, in whose custody the county jail is, contend that con dltlons are not unsanitary and the Hartford city health board superin- tcndent appears to agree with them, although he admits that conditions which exists in the jail would not be tolerated in a Hartford manufactur- ing establishment-Har Post.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19

Who says that the church is losing ground? It certainly cannot be said of the Rev. M. J. O'Connor's partsh- St. James--in Stratford. Here is a small parish in a small town, yet in 1914, supposedly a lean year, it's re- ceipts totalled s20,35S.72, of which more than half came in the form of voluntary donations To furnish the new church building alone cost more than $15, ,000, yet the parish has the furnishings practically all paid for, and money in the treasury besides. When Father O'Connor came to Strat- ford from New Britain seven years ago there was not a cent in the church treasury, the church was little wooden affair, and the rectOry was an old dilapidated house. hardly fit to live in. Now there is fine new church a pretentious brick rectory, and the parish owns enough real estate in town to pay off the entire funded in debtedness of the parish, when con- verted into cash.-Bridgeport Tele- gram,
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19

ments are under criticism, attention may we'll be paid to the great loss both these branches of the service sustain year by year through the re- trement of able and still efficient men. New York has been glad to avail itself of the service of Gen Woth- erspoon, who is counted too old to do further service in the army. He is paid his pension, but New York thinks him valuable enough to receive large salary for doing an important work.-Norwich Record
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19

The report of Governor Walsh of Massachusetts, explaining the reasons for the pardon extended to John A. Hall. the bank embezzler of South bridge. does not sound logical to one who is considering the case from a practical, just, non sentimental stand point Hall was released, according to the chief executive, because his health was seriously impaired and the fact that he has been operated upon for appendicitis since he was released is given as evidence of the geniune need of the pardon. The facts about Halls ill health may all be true but the same claims could be justly urged for scores of other prisoners who have no power behind the throne to secure the desire imm munity. It is because of just such happenings as this that there are feelings among the rank and file that there is one law for the rich and influential and another for the poor and inconsequential.-- .--Meriden Record.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19
COMMUNICATED.
Births in White House Are Inquired
 About.

Editor Herald-To settle an argu- ment. kindly publish in this evenings Herald if Baby Ruth Cleveland was born in the White House, and was she President Cleveland's oldest daughter. A READER.
 Baby Ruth was the presidents oldest daughter, but she was not born in the White House.-(Ed.)
New Britain herald., 1915-01-19
HADLEY SUCCEEDS RIoRDAN.
Directors Elected at Annual Meeting
 of Burr-it Savings Bank

R. w Hadley was elected to sue ceed the late Denis Riordan as direct or of the Burritt Savings bank a the annual meeting of the incorporators yesterday afternoon.
 The following directors were elect ed: L. Hoyt pease, ". l.. Damon. W. E. Atwood, r. C. Nibbcrts, w. F.. Latham, Ira F.. Hicks, Charles J. White, James S. North, A. Howard Abbe, James E. Cooper and R. ". Hadley.
 Tue directors chose these officers. President l.. JIoyt Pesse; vice presi- dent, William l.. Damon; treasurer, William E. Atwood; secretary, Frank c. Nibbcrts.