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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-09
Some of the New Things Just Received

Many Suit and Coat models the makes of garments that
built for and style Many of these the PrnzBedeman
and Wooltex models This Coat Suit that shaped and built
right garments that will keep their shape them
LADIES SEPARATE SKIRTS
large showing of the things in separate Skirts This
dced The
qualities exceptionally good Special Silk Skirts $3.50
$1,000 Black and colors
LADIES SILK DRESSES
We much pleased with collection of Silk Dresses The
qualities good and little advanced other
Special Silk $1,000 $1,000 These
Dresses that will well and have lots of style
In the better Dresses plain taeas combination
and pad will find values that will than please when
consider the price See line $12 so to $3.50
NEW NECKWEAR
We have exceptional things Ogande and
Flet Lace Collars and be
with the Many things in Windsor ties Plum
and Polkadots.
NEW SPRING HOSE
The Niagara Maid Glove Silk Hosiery extra fine quality of
Silk Elastic Hose Comes all coors and Black New things the
Gordon and Black Cat Hosiery in silk, Isle and
CHILDREN RoMPERs
full line of Children Bingham Rompers
quality of gngham plain colors checks See this line of
Romper
SPRING LINE READY-MADE HATS
showing
individual models will
to match yours o one o
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left his business in Chicago and came
to Washington, accompanied by his
family.
Now. day after day. from early in the
morning until late in the afternoon. he
is bargaining for the leather. cloth and
duck-many millions of pounds and
many millions of yards-required by
the American armies at home and in
France. Specifically. such is his task.
In general, he shares in the work OF
the war council as a body.
Men who know say that Mr.. Rosen-
wald is as shrewd buyer for the gov
ernment as he has been on his own ac-
count Once when John D. Rockefeller
wanted six ore vessels he asked for
bids from six shipbuilders. each of
whom supposed that he was competing
for a single vessel against all the rest.
Prices were cut to the bone. And the
next year the six humilfated shipbuild-
ers combined. A SIMILAR campaign in
leather was recently carried through
by Mr.. Rosenwald.
Middling as to height and weight.
with friendly eyes of brown. blended
with gray, and black and white mus
tache. clipped close to his lip. Mr.. Ro-
senwald has an assuring and not an
awesome personality. Arrogance is not
one of his infirmities. Success with
money. he argues, is no cause for van
ity. Be humble. thou millionaire, he
practically says. because your gardener
might have been rich also; your neigh
Dor. perhaps, and your associate.
In practice. however, the Rosenwald
doctrine. as applied to himself. does
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Near the house was an orchard Of apple
trees. with few pear, ouinoe. plum
and peach trees, and very close to the
house, perhaps extending from the din
ing room to tho detached kitchen. was
grape arbor.
quality" there was probably double
row Of old cherry trees before the
house, and this was called cherry
walk" There was a rail fenoe. not
picket fence. about the garden OF tho
house to keep the stock from straying
in. Within that fence were box bushes:
lilac bushes, "snow ball" and bridal
wreath"-forms of spfrea-and there
was nearly always q golden glow OF
jonquils in the early spring. OF course.
the moss rose, the fragrant pink and
crinkly fundred-leaf rose and q waxy-
white climbing rose. tho name of which
has gone from the Rambler's memory.
were in that garden. There was also
there one or more arbor vitae trees or
tfncense cedars," which, among most of
the old Catholic families of this part
of the world, were called, and to some
extent are still called blessed palm"
and many of these little fiat and
pungent smelling branches have been
thrown into tho big deep blazing fire.
places when wind, thunder and light
ming made an uproar.
The great majority of the families
that were settled on these lands be-
fore tho capital builders came were
Catholics, as a large part of the people
of the District are today. In many Of
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not work out. Pinned down to the
facts. he admits he began looking
around for money while a small boy.
"The nimble sixpence." he told the
writer. had to travel pretty fast to
get away from me while was young
ster."
The Rosenwalds lived in Springfield,
Ill. Samuel, the father. was a merchant
Nevertheless the son carried the satch-
els Of travelling statesmen, peddled chro-
Abraham Lincoln's monument, in which
adventure he made $3.50. One summer
he clerked in a store and the money he
earned was spent for set Of dishes,
which he gave to his mother on her
wedding anniversary.
-
At the age Of sixteen. he went to
New York. He heard manufacturer of
summer clothing say that he had sixty
moro orders by mail and telegraph than
he could fill that day. Julius Rosen-
waId was then twenty-five years old,
His mind caught the significance Of the
manufacturers words. Three months
later julius Rosenwald. supplied with
capital by his father. and with a cousin,
Well by name. as . partner, was max
ing thin clothing for men in Chicago.
It was a new industry in that city. That
Is the reason 1t was established there.
"An opportunity opened before my
eyes,. Julius Rosenwald said in telling
of his entrance into the manufacturing
business. II didn't create it." :
but you saw it," the interviewer. still
unconvinced, replied, "and vision il one
OF the manifestations Of genius
3 Not when 1t occurs by accident" !" NJ
Rossnwald answered. Il just happened
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The Kaiser's Morals.
R LILY SUNDAY was condemning Ger
~ man kultur

R LILY SUNDAY was condemnins Ger
~ man kultur.
"Kaiser Wilhelm with his kultur 10 >
no further advanced" he said. than
tho savage cannibal Of the tropfc.
swamps and forests. Yes. the kaiser
is an exact counterpart Of Chief wawa,
"a missionary penetrated into the
kingdom Of wawa, the canniba1 chief.
and tried to convert him, but. Of course,
1t was no go.
"Do you know the difference be-
tween right and wrongr the mission
ary asked in the course of the arRd-
ment ,-.r.-
81 do that says wawA
well, then. what is rightr says
the missionary.
Its right says wawa, when I raid
that village across tho river steal all
the girls and cattle and kill all the
men,
"And what is wrongr said the mis-
sionary.
Chief Wawa put on a look of pious
horror and turned up tho whites of his
eyes, Just like the kaiser does, and
then he answered, in a snuffiing voice: -
at would be wrong for that VIII
lage to do the same to u.s."
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Lafayette's boy Up he grew info-a.
great. strapping youth. and then. Hast:
August, he marched away with tnS'
other soldiers. And now. when the
weather is nice.' mother comes most
every day and again sits at the bare.
of the monument, and cries and tells zMs,.
that her Lafayette boy has gone over
there to help pay Lafayette the debt.
We owe him and his"
The Little Lady withdrew. and hes.
friends, seeing that the Observer wns.
out of peanuts perhaps, prepared TO
fly away. All save Roughhouse Milee--
Say he said. what's this I hear
about the suffs getting away wfthm
up on the MIL .ex.es.4e.
"It looks as though they had won..''--
the Observer said. Wont you mfsy-
them?'
Not on your life.' Mike said with
scornful look.
"And why not?" the Observer replied
Il thought you and the militants were-
neighbors."
I'VE was" Mike, said, but them poli-
ticianers don't share no peanuts with
nobody THE OBSERVER =
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Writes Street When Was Wilderness and Then Part of Bes Levels

haps. II is an indistinct one. Of tho
landscape which q man would look. on
as he Travelled along the limo OF b street
before the birth of the city of Washing
ton.
streets began to build up with homes
and little shops. taverns and hotel be.
fore there was much building on Penn
sylvania avenue. That is the opinSoR
of the Rambler, not only from memory,
in the archives of the city and from old
narratives in the Washington Public
Library and in that magnificent ware.
house for the storage of books, the .Lirs
brary of Congress He hopes In future
narratives to trace the upbuilding Of r
street and to reyive the names of early
property holders md dwellers on that
great highway.
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that found their way to the Potomac.
the Eastern branch or Rock creek. BY
the banks and margins OF those brooks
grew alder bushes and birch trees and
a bit of witch hazel. Tho greenery in
winter was furnished by ferns and
moss In spring the chickweed. the
garlic and the plantain came, and soon
the banksides Of those branches that
have passed from earth or forever shut
off from the sunlight they so well
loved, flow through sewers deep beneath
the city.
After the chickweed and the garlic
the bluets, dog-tooth violets, blue vio
lets and pink spring beauties came.
and when all the other little wild flow-
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ers whose descendants still speak to US
in the fields and woods about the city.
Along some Of the fences were rows
of cedar trees punctured here and there
by persimmon, a saSsafras or wild
cherry tree, Just as one may see these
things far out in the country today. Then.
between the open fields. were stretches OF
wooded land, some of them small and
some of considerable extent, which
served the farmers with firewood and
fencing and to a large extent with tim
ber and lumber. II q farmer, or as he
was generally called. planter" need
ed timber for sills and framing for
new barn, house or corncrib. he would
hew 1t out of his own trees in his own
woods. If he needed planking he would
chop down some trees out of those
woodlands and with a poke of steers
and a high-wheeler cart he would haul
saw mill on Rock creek or Northwest
branch and bring back his load of
planks, leaving a certain proportion of
them as payment for the miller.
In this rustic scene there were farm
homes that for the most part were un-
pretentious. These houses were of
wood, each with cluster of farm build
ings at the rear. There was stable,
a smokehouse. an icehouse sunk deep in
the ground with a steep-pitched shingle
roof above tho pit, corncrtb. chicken
house and a cabin, or few cabins,
which were called quarters" for the
slaves, If that particular farmer owned
any slaves. A number Of the planters
whose lands or parts Of whose lands fell
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The Frank Butler.

Wv Francisco. who recently rebuilA ~
war-wrecked French village at his own
expense, tells. apropos Of the wfnS-
shortage, an amusing story.
"a friend Of mine." SO the story runs.
sis remarkable for the bad wines he
keeps. Ny friend, entertaining some
rather important guests one evening, !,
turned to his new butler and said:
Higgs. is this the best claretT
".No. sir said Higgs solemnly, .5ia
amt, but it's the best you've Rot.es 80
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Georges Trousseau.

MAJ. FREDERICK PALMER, once Z
As0 war correspondent, said. on his res
cent return from Paris: -sa~~--
They are stripping bare to winsson
the other side. No Iuxuries, no efe.
gance any more It's the simple .iffU
with a vengeance. -
Its a life as bare as that of ffiX
woman whose son was to be married.
where's GeorgeT a neighbor asked
her --~S-
Hes getting married this affers
noon, his mother answered, and ~rea0
upstairs in bed now while 1 crease ms
trousseau for him." -
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fighting the Huns with zeal and energy
and all Of his ability.
'I am still for peace" he said, but
the only way that we can get peace is
to whip the Emperor of Germany"
Three months after Robert s. Brook
ings baptism of powder and lead at the
Baltimore bridge. Samuel Morse FELTON,
tlefield Of Bull Run. The boy Brook
ings was eleven years old. The boy
FELTON, was eight.
wv H1LE Mr.. Brookings is bargaining
wv for finished products, Mr.. FELTON,,
as director general of railways, is su-
pervising the movement of troops and
their supplies by land in this country
and in France. AS a private citizen.
Mr.. FELTON, is president of the Chicago
Great Western railroad. incidentally,
he is the diagnostician who is called
upon whe-' any of the railway compa-
MES in the United States go lame or
get sick.
And" he said to the writer. "I have
been handed some pretty hard cases."
1t was reported when Mr.. Lincoln left
would be kidnapped or killed during his
journey through Maryland. The Sam
uel Morse FELTON, of those days, father
Of the Samuel Morse FELTON, of these
days. was president of the Philadelphia,
Washington and Baltimore railroad.
He was the man who planned and SUI
perintended the secret passage of Mr..
Lincoln from Harrisburg to the capital.
On the day after the collision between
Federa1s and Confederates at Bull Run,
the elder FELTON,. accompanied by his
son and party of friends and officials,
visited the battlefield. On their return
to Washington, some twenty-five miles
distant. the locomotive that was pull
ing their special train stopped at a
small station for water.
The tracks," said the son to the writ
er. ran through the only street of the
town. We had no more than come to a
standstill when we saw a company of
Confederate cavalry galloping down the
street In our direction. They knew of
our presence. we learned afterward, and
meant to capture US. The conductor
pulled the bell-rope so violently that
the engineer sprang back upon his seat
ana gave the engine a full head of
steam. Before the Confederates could
realize what was happening we were
carbines."
When Pershing was ON the Mexican
border and 1t was believed that the
whole American Army would have to
'cross the Rio Grande and march south
ward, Mr.. FELTON, was asked to solve
the transportation problems Of the pro-
posed invasion.
The railroads Of Mexico were broken
down and would have to be repaired II
: re AMERICAN .lAr7ry entered the cou7t-
Try NeW railroads, it was thou.iit,
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BY JAMES B. MORROW.

F1HE mathematics in the case
III show that Julius Rosenwald's
III investment of s35,ooo, plus his
& energy and skill, has returned
him a dividend, in cash and property.
of AT least sl25.o0o month for
period of twenty-five years. (
In 1895 Julius Rosenwald and his
brether-in-law bought a half interest
in the business of Richard ". Sears.
Chicago merchant. Mr.. Rosenwald was
then engaged in manufacturing sum-
mer clothing for men-alpaca coats.
duck vests, seersucker suits and 50 on.
He was thirty-three years old. The
factory was in loft and was prosper
GUS, although its output was limited.
Sears. young man himself, had been
selling watches and jewelry to farm
e-s. and Villagers. When he added cloth
ing to his stock. Julius Rosenwald
made his acquaintance and learned
about his original methods of doing
retail business.
Mr.. Rosenwald says that there are
hundreds of thousands of men in the
country, now poor, who would have
been millionaires had oportunity ever
knocked audibly at their doors. In his
matter of chance.
Il never would have gone into part
nership with Mr.. Sears had not my
brother-in-law desired an opening for
himself" he said to the writer. Wish
ing to help my relative. canvassed In
my mind the business enterprises with
which I was familiar. And SO 1 thought
of. Mr.. Sears.
I'VE went to see him. A bargain was
soon made. He said that his stock and
good will had a value of $4,000. The
figures, you understand, were his own.
On his offering to sell us a half inter-
est lin his business for $4,000. we ac-
cepted his terms and prica. Each of us.
my brother-in-law and myself, paid
him $4,000. And that was all the
money we ever invested in the en-
terprise. Expansion was met from time
to time with profits. The partnership
.soon became corporation"
The shares of the corporation now
have a market value of s125. 200, 900. At
least S25, 900 has been taken out of
the business in the form of dividends.
The sales in 1895 totaled 100000. They
were SITS. .000, 900 in 1917.
In the war against the Huns several
hundred of the greatest business men
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Willie and the Goat.

ssVE7 HEN the Germans reproach TkS
W Belgians," said Col. House, as-x-
luncheon in New York. when the Ger
mans talk about guarantees agafhsk
Belgian aggression. am strongly rSs :
minded Of little Willie.
Little Willie ran bowling with fSGSx
to his mamma.
THE goat butted mer he roared. TB&s
bad goat butted me in the stomach -. =
"'Are you sure you weren't teasing
itT his mamma asked.
'csSo, no! walled Willie. What w&936
tease 1t for? ] was only just cArvfns i
my name on its back with my new peHx
knifol.s 2;.-fs & Ss5s3S
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Her Remedy.

NHIss MARY GARRETT HAY, chAIs-
AVA man of the New York woman su<s
frage party. was talking about TIM
movement to educate woman voters. =
I'VE want to get rid" she said, "ot
women of the fluffy type-women like
the one whose husband growled:
your monthly dress bill equals TIM
salary Of my bookkeeper. That's mora
than 7 can afford ----
She kissed him on his bald spot @.-.>
"'Well. then. George. discharge &6UE
bookkeeper.' she said" - -
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The Observer Talks With Pigeons About the War

and women and kids taking the sun.
They didn't have a thing to do but feed
us and wait for the dinner horn at their
own houses, and the way they stocked
US up was crime and shame.
Peanuts then? Oh, boy! Peanuts
were plebeian stuff. used to take them
on once in q while, when there was
was hard on my digestive apparatus. I
had an. almond and shelled English
walnut appetite in those days. But
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to see in some of them traces Of the:
loafers of long ago. But they surely
cannot be the same for they seem to
realize that there is something else to
do except linger about park. =
still, we Nave one friend left. Mother
still comes to see US. We don't know
who she is, but. she has been coming
here for years, ever since her boy was
just little shaver. She used to sit AZ
the base Of the Lafayette monument 10.
often that some Of the folks called him
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now life is just ono old peanut after
another. and the only change we ever
get is corn"
The rough party withdrew, and the
Little Lady, a smooth. slate bird with
just trace Of fantail about her. STEP
ped out.
IN general" she said, ''Roughhouse
Mike has summed up the situation we'll
for you, but 1 just want you to know
that some of us have noticed other
changes than that our food supply has
been cut down by the war. Many of
US miss our old friends. So many Of
them have gone.
'It is the major. perhaps, that we
miss most of all. He was a shaggy
bearded old man about seventy five
years old. He used to come to the park
every day with a great many bundles
wrapped in newspapers under his arm.
In one of them he carried food-bread
mostly-and in another he had his in
ventior. 1t was a great invention, a
gun, he said but nobody would buy it
because they didn't think at the War
Department there ever would be any
more wars. He used to tell us about
it, saying they were all wrong and that
the biggest war of all was coming.
After a while we missed the maj jor
and his invention and the crumbs that
dropped from his lunch. Then, one
day, when some of US were at the curb.
on the Pennsylvania avenue side. the
major, all dressed up fit to kill, went
riding by in a big touring car. He had
found market for his gun.
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The Trouble With Failures.

esE EAnUREs.- said, Secretary McAdoo
U in a success talk, may be divided
into a minority and majority class.
'rFhe minority come TO grief and the
majority wait for 1t to ,overtake them."
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in the United States are serving the
government without compensation.
They are living at hotels or in rented
housesk kand are paying their own ex-
pensess Mr.. Rosenwald was early chos-
en- by the President for membership on
TIE Council Of National Defense. He
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"The boy and the girl don't come any
more, either She used to work in one
of the departments. and he didn't work
at all, guess At noon she'd bring her
lunch out here and he'd appear and eat
half of it, Then she would cry. and
he'd tell her to wait till his ship came
in and then he'd be all right. Finally
it did come in. guess. for one day he
appeared here in a sailors suit with
u. s. S. Nebraska on the cap. and she
cried and he tried to cheer her up and
then they both went away and never
came back.
Again" we miss the crowd of young
fellows who just seemed to do nothing
but sit in the park and wait for some-
thing to turn up. When finally 1t did
turn-the draft law-they left. They
grumbled q lot at frst and talked
about going to South America to es-
cape it. but after they marched in the
preparedness parade up PENNSYLVANIA
to brace up. and forget t.. And now.
when once in great while some of
the straight -shouidered Young fellows
come over from Camp Asadasf ws-ssem
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''In the old days before the war
started this park was the biggest cinch
in the world. It was the bread line do
luxe for us, that's what 1t was. The
place was choked with 1oafers from
I::,oraif;s until night. Not buns. alto
lgether, understand me. but just men
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-10
RIVERS /. BUFORO
SPENDS DAY HERE

Rivers II. Buford spent yesterday
in Pensacola in the interest OF his
candidacy for Supreme Govt Justice
in the coming primary.
Mr.. Buford. who is prominent in
local circles throughout the state, is
a native Of Calhoun county. He was
prosecuting attorney for Gadsden
County from 1909 to 1911 and has been
the states attorney for the 9Th and
II circuits since 1912.
He seeks to succeed Judge James B.
Whitfield and has just completed a
tour of the entire state. He will re-
turn to his home in Mariana for the
coming term of court and at its con-
clusion will make another trip to the
West Coast.
Mr.. Buford is very Popular and gen.
orally we'll liked throughout the state
and is confident that he will be sue
cessful in the primary.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-10
|P. /. s. TEAM WINS WEEK ENDPROGRAM
FROM TORRE T|GERsIFOR SERVICE MEN

In seven-inning game played on the
East Hill Fairgrounds yesterday after
noon, the crack Pensacola High School
team defeated the hardy Tigers Of the
Tore school, in a score of to /, the
losers putting three men across in the
sixth inning when Al Sanchez, with
two men on base, lined out three
Dagger, saving threatened white
wash for the Tigers. The latter about
this inning seemed to solve McVoy's
offerings, for four hits were tailed.
If they had r played nine innings,
we'dr won," was the way one of the
Tigers put it.
The game was witnessed by a large
number, as much interest was mani
tested. The Tigers won three games
last Sunday, and in the first of a
series Of three games, with the P. H. S.
as competitors, they won. Thus each
team has a game to their respective
credit, and it is possible will be play
ed one day next week, possibly on Fri
day afternoon.