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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-04-21

David Conant of the law firm of
Shields and Conant of st. Johnsbury
was a business visitor in town yester
day.
J. T. Fellows, who recently sold his
place to Ray Keenan,, Is moving to the
home of Washington Orr in Westville.
Rev. Stead Thornton was in Woods
vile, n H., Tuesday Of last week,
where he gave an address at meet
ing of the Woman's Reading club.
Miss Katherine Russell has finished
work as compositor in the Groton
Times office, and gone to her home in
Woodsville.
Mrs. William RI, Jeffrey Of Mont
pelier is passing few days with Dr.
II. /. Tillotson, her brother.
Mrs. Helen Kicker went Friday to
Barre to visit her sister, Mrs. John
Ingram. Mr.. and Mrs. b. e. Smith
went the same day to Montpelier to
visit relatives.
Charles II. Heath has purchased the
residence Of Alex q. WEIGH and pos
session win be given about May |. Mr..
Wclch intends to move his family to
Canada
Mr.. and Mrs Carroll Kicker and son,
Edmund. and Miss Riberts Brock of
st. Johnsbury were over-Sunday visit
ors in town.
The reading club, and ladies' aid Of
the Methodist church met Tuesday aft
ernoon at the home of Mrs. Cleon
and proved very enjoyable
occasion to the large number present
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-04-21
Able TO DO
HER WORK
After Long Suffering Mrs. Siefert
Was Restored TO Health by
Lydia E. Pinl;tlan's Vegetable
Compound
Pottsville, Pa. II suffered with
female trouble for four or five years

and was very lr-
regular. / was not
fit to do my work
at times and took
medicine from a
doctor and got no
benefit. / saw
Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound adyer-
tised in the news
papers and took
it and got alright.
7 uaipad tvuautu
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-04-21

Miss Jean McGregor Turnbull, who
was sent to Turkey as a missionary Of
the First Congregational church In
Pittsfeld, Mass, and has spent a year
at Harpoot, was married in the Pitts
field church Tuesday to Rev. George B.
Marsh of Guildhall. Rev. and Mrs
Marsh will reside in Guildhall.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-04-21

The Jorne Elwyn Stock Co. re-
turns to Barre after a few sea
sons absence, in which time Mr..
Elwyn has played all the prinei.
pal cities in the West. The thea.
TRIGGERS Of Barre will remember
Mr. Elwyn for the splendid COM
pany that be always brought
here, and his many friends Of tho
past viii b. glad to know that he
i 20 make Barre one Of his stops
during his annual tour. The com
panv this season surpasses any Of
Mr Elwyns previous ventures.
carrying with il special scenery
and effects. also a repertoire Of
high-ciass royalty plays and fea-
ture vaudeville between the acts.
Mr.. Ewyu on Monday eveuiu.
viii give any patron buying enc
ticket anofhcr one free, With the
compliments % the Isorue Elwyn
Co.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-06-24

quiet, breaking out once, in the meat
course, to tell me that he'd just had
forwarded telegram from an old friend
of his that would stop us off for a
day or two in Portal City, the head
quarters of the Pioneer Short Line
Farther along, pretty well into the ice
cream and black coffee, he came to life
again to ask me if had noticed the
young lady and the girl in the Pull
man section next to ours.
/ told him had, and then, because
I had never known him to bother his
head for two minutes in succession
about any woman, he gave me
shock; said they were ticketed to
Portal City-and to find that out he
must have asked the train conductor
adding that when we reached Portal
it would be the neighborly thing for
me to do to help them off with their
handbags and see that they got cab
if they wanted one.
"Sure WILL" says I. "That is, If
the lady's husband isn't there to meet
them. Her suit case has her name,
Mrs. Sheila Macrae,' on it."
The boss has way of making two
up-and-down wrinkles and a little
curved horseshoe line come between
his eyes when he is going to reach
for you.
''There are times. Jimmie, when you
see altogether too MUCH" he said,
sort of gruff.
Macrae,' you say: that is Scotch
And so is .Sheila.' Most likely the
names, both of them, are only hand
downs. She looks straight American
to me-"
"She is pretty enough to look any
thing" / threw in, just to see how he
would take it.
Right you are, Jimmie" he agreed.
"Ive been looking at the back of her
neck all day. There are SO many
women VINO don't measure up to the
promises they make when you see 'em
from behind. You catch a glimpse of
a pretty neck, and when you get
around to the face you find out that
the neck was only a bit of bluff"
If l had been eating anything in the
world but ice cream / believe it would
have choked me. What he said led
up to the admission that he had been
making these face-and-neck compari-
sons for goodness knows how long,
and / couldn't surround that, all at
once. You see, he was such picture
of mans man in every sense of the
word; fighter and hard-hitter,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-06-24
CHAPTER II
Mr.. chadwick's Special

Of course, as soon as the skip-out
of the four hold-up men gave us
free hand we knew it was up to US to
get busy and do something. 1t was
safe bet that the Alexa was carrying
her owner, and in that case Mr.. John
Chadwick and his train crew were
somewhere back in the hills, without
an engine, and with a good prospect
of staying ''put" until somebody should
go and hunt them up.
We've got to find out what they've
done with Mr.. Chadwick" Mr.. Nor
cross broke out. And then: 1T can't
be very far to where they have left
the engine, and II they haven't Grip
pied it" he stopped short and slung
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-06-24

right from the jump. And TO man
of that sort women are usually no
more than fluffy little side-issues, as
Eve said when they told her she was
made out of Adams rib.
That ended the dining-car part Of
it. The sure-enough, Knockout round
was fought at the rear end of our
Pullman. which happened to be the
last car in the train. AS we walked
back after dinner Mr.. Norcross gave
me a cigar and said we'd go out to
the observation platform to smoke.
When we reached the door we found
the young lady and the girl standing
at the rear railing to watch the track
unroll itself under the trucks. The
young lady was wearing q coat with
q storm collar. but the girl had . fur
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-06-24

lucky things this side of Mesopota.
mial How the dev-how in thunder
did you manage to turn up here?" And
all that, you know.
The explanations. such as they were.
came later. AS a matter of course,
the talk jumped first to the mysterious
hold-up and kidnapping and the reason
why. There had been no violence.
the pistol shots had been merely
meant TO scare the trainmen-and
there had been no attempt at robbery !;
for that matter. Mr.. Chadwick hadn't
even seen the kidnapers, and had>~
known what was going on until after
it was all over.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-06-24
BY
FRANCIS
LYNDE

a question at the two women: "Wil
you two stay here with Jimmie while
I go and see what / can find In that
gulch?"
They both paid me the compliment
of saying that they'd stay with me.
but the young woman suggested that
it might be just as well If we should
all go up the gulch together. So we
piked out in the dark, the boss help
ing Mrs Sheila to hobo along over
the cross-ties of the spur, and the lit
tie girl stumbling en- behind with me.
We had followed the spur track up
the gulch for maybe a short quarter
of q mile when we came to the en-
CINE. AS we had feared it might be,
the big machine was crippled. There
was key gone out of one of the con-
necting-rod crank-pin straps; one
miserable little piece of steel, maybe
eight inches long and tapering one
way, and half an inch or so thick the
other; but that was a-plenty. We
couldn't make a move without 1t.
! thought we were done for, but Mr..
Norcloss chased me up into the cab
for a lantern. With the light we be-
gan to hunt around in the short grass.
/ had been sensible enough to show
the little girl the other connecting-rod
key, so she knew exactly what to look
for, and it did me heap of good
when it turned out that she was the
one who found the lost bit Of steel.
'.Tve got tive got it" she cried;
and sure enough she had. The hold-up
people had merely taken 1t out and
thrown it aside on the extremely prob
able chance that nobody would be-
foolish enough to look for 1t so near
at hand, or. looking, would be able TO
find it in the dark.
1t didn't take more than minute
or two, with wrench from the en-
gineer's box, to put the key back In
place. Then, with one to boost AMI
the other to pull, we got our two
passengers up into the high cab.
threw a few shovel-fus of coal into
the firebox and put the blower on;
and when we were all set, the boss
opened the throttle and we went care
fully nosing ahead over the old track,
feeling our way up the gulch and keep
ing a sharp lookout for the Alexa as
we ground and squealed around the
curves.
1t must have been four or five miles
back in the hills to the place where
we found the private car, pushed in
on an old mine-loading track at the
end of the spur. The other members
of the crew were off and waiting for
us; and standing out on the back plat
form, in the full glare Of the hend-
light as we nosed up for a coupling,
there was a big, gray-haired man,
bareheaded and dressed in rough-look-
ing old clothes like a mining pros
pector.
The big man was "Uncle John"
Chadwick, and If he was properly
astonished at seeing us turn up with
his lost engine, he didn't let 1t inter-
fere with our welcome. Mr.. Chadwick
seemed to know Mrs. Sheila; at any
rate, he shook hands with her and
called her by name. Then he grabbed
for the boss and fairly shouted at
him: swell, well. Graham !-of all the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-06-24

We trailed off together up the track,
two and two. the boss walking with
the young woman. After we'd counted
a few of the cross-ties, the girl said !:
"Is your name Jimmie Dodds?" And
when / admitted it: "Mine is Maisie
Ann. I'm Sheila's cousin on her moth
er's side. / think this is a great lark ;
don't you?"
II can tell better after it's over" /
said. Maybe we'll have to stay here
all night"
81 shouldn't mind" she came back
airily. II haven't been up all night
since / was little kiddie and our
house burned down."
We reached the big water tank, and
the boss picked out one of the square
footing timbers for a seat. 1t seemed
as if he were finding it a good bit
harder to get acquainted with his half
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-06-24

of the combination than / was with
mine, but after little the young wo-
man thawed out bit and made him
talk-to help pass away the time, |
took it-and the little girl and l sat
and listened. When the young woman
finally got him started, the boss told
her all about himself, how he'd been
railroading ever since he left college,
and lot of things that I'd never even
dreamed of. It's curious how pref
ty woman can make man turn him.
self inside out that way. just for her
amusement.
The boss asked her If she were
warm enough, saying that if she were
not, he and / would scrape up some
sage-brush or something and make a
fire. She replied that she didn't care
for a fire, that the night wasn't at
all cold-which it wasn't. Then she
showed that she was human, clear
down to the tips of her pretty fingers.
"You may smoke if you want to-"
she told the boss. 81 sha'n't mind it
in the least"
'The boss lighted his cigar. Then
there was more talk, in which it
turned out that the young woman and
her cousin were to have been met at
Portal City by somebody she called
cousin BASIL" but there wouldn't be
any scare, because she had written
ahead to say that possibly they might
stop over with some friends in one OF
the apple towns.
Then Mr. Norcross said he wouldn't
miss anything by the drop-out but an
appointment he had with an old
friend, and he guessed that could wait.
I listened, thinking maybe he would
mention the name of the friend, and
after while he did. The forwarded
Portal City telegram the boss had got
ten just before we went to dinner in
the dining-car was from "Uncle John"
Chadwick, the Chicago wheat king,
and that left me wondering what the
mischief Mr.. Chadwick was doing
away out in the wild and woolly west
ern country where they raise more
apples than they do wheat, and more
mining stock schemes than they do
either.
We had been marooned for nearly
an hour when l struck match and
looked at my watch. Mr.. Norcross
was doing his best to kill time for the
young woman, and he was just in the
exciting part of railroad story, telling
about a right-of-way fight on the Mid
land, when the little girl grabbed my
arm and said: 'Listenr
l did, and broke in promptly. TX
cuse me-" called to the other two,
"but | think there's a train coming"
The boss cut his story short and
we all listened. 1t seemed that | was
wrong. The noise we heard was more
like an auto running with the cut-out
open than a train rumbling.
what do you make 1t, Jimlnie?'
came from the boss end of the tim
Der.
Motor car" I said, pointing In the
darkness toward the east.
My guess was right. n less than
a minute we saw the lights Of the car.
1t stopped little way below the water
tank and about hundred yards north
of the track, or maybe less, and four
men came tumbling out Of 1t. II
had been alone on the job / should
probably have called to the men as
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-06-24
THE WREcKING OF THE WRECKERs

"She is married nou, and her husband is still living"
For little couldn't do anything but cape like chicken NTH
the pip 1t simply frcei knew, weU knew anything
that the boss gone Mrs Shea that he had fallen IN love-
first with the back of her neck and then Nth her pretty face and
then h all of her; and that the big why he had let
r Chadwick prsuade him to stag Portal City the fact that
he had wanted to be her and to o her ow he could make
perfectly good spoon of the spoiled horn of the Pioneer Short
Line
in a nutsh ailroad by
Francis The Boss
a which
Wall
secretary and handyman.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1921-06-24
"I've changed my mind, Un-
Gle John-I'll take the job"
Gro BE coNTINUED.)

A genuine friend VIII indorse a
least nine out Of ten Of youx boastE
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-02-17
TO WALK ACROSS COUNTRY
Exhaustive Study Of Men and
Conditions In America.

DIR. Maxine Leuret, the Swiss globe-
trotting walker, recently arrived in
this country. DR.. Leuret, a graduate
In medicine Of the University of Berne,
has trod the humble path of the pedes-
TRAN through some 81,0O0 miles in.
Europe and the two Americas, OBJ
serves the Boston Transcript. Since
he started his walking campaign In
1914 he has worn out over 100 stout
and well-made pairs of shoes-1O2, to
be exact.
Seeking new worlds to conquer DR..
Leuret now proposes to walk across
the continent from New York to San
Francisco. Moreover, it is a "pay-as-
you-go' affair with the distinguished
Swiss pedestrian. Spurning a walk
ing trip with all expenses paid, he Is
determined to earn the expenses Of
his transcontinental venture by such
occasional and temporary Jobs as may
happen to turn up.
DR.. Leuret will meet and study in
their homes and villages all the types
that make up the great American
family. He will learn by actual con-
tact, and not by reading a geography,
the country's Typographical features.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-02-17
WOULD SELL AT THAT PRICE
Broker Declined to Wait for Any
Further Advance In Quotations
on Prepared Foods.

A prominent curb broker, wishing
to make his lunch period as brief as
possible, forsook his accustomed res
taurant, a very exclusive place, for
a trust system" buffet.
CHANGING up at the price board, he
noted "Pot Roast Beef with Corn
Mullins, 80 cents" which he ordered.
AS he "self-served" himself to a vacant
place at one of the tables, he again
turned his gaze to the board, where
he noticed an attendant was now do
ing some Straightforward work.
With much establishment he beheld
the 80, denoting the price Of Up. R. B.
with G. M. common" dexterousiy
changed to a 80. When he had sufi-
GENTLY recovered from the shock, with
plate of victuals in hand, he ap-
preached the food trader, and indig-
nantly inquired as to the cause of the
sudden change in price.
"Why, I bought this hardly three
minutes ago." he protested, "when it
was quoted 80"
swered, II know, but the asked price
is now 49,"
"Well," shot back the broker, II sup
pose there's every indication of a>fur-
Their rise, but I guess I'll get out now.
You can sell this for me at that price
and keep your commission out Of the
proceeds."-Wall Street Journal.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-02-17
DOGS ONCE CALLED VERMIN
Only In Comparatively Recent Years
Have They Received Recognition
Under English Laws.

Our laws regarding dog bites, which
Judge Cluer declares to be full of
anomalies, are all Of modern date,
says T1t-Bits.
There seems to be no reference to
dogs In any law passed before the
accession Of Queen Victoria. In a case
heard by Mr.. Justice Eliot in 1886 it
was ruled that dogs vermin, and
for that reason the church would not
degrade itself by taking tithes Of
them. Nor was a dog the subject of
larceny at common law, the ruling be-
ing that "a man shall not hang for a
dog"
Parliament first began to notice dogs
In 1888, by passing a statute incrsas-
Ing 1.-THE resources Of civilization"
against the lawless doings of Irish
ours.
Ten years later, DOG fighting, bull
batting and bear batting were prohib-
tied by parliament. Between 1854 and
1882 no fewer than eight statutes were
passed regulating the condition and
social status Of the dog, one Of which
placed him in a position of a tax
payer. In addition to these which
applied throughout the United King
dom-a special act was framed to
curb the sheep-worrying ~propensities
of dogs in Scotland.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-02-17

Cannot Tell How Much He 10 Max
ing and on What Crops.
corn for the silo, three man days and
five and. a half days for a horse;
onions, sold In lunches, require about
SO days of man work to only ten for
the horse ; dairy cows take 18 days Of
man time every year and two days
Of horse time-so on through a list
that includes about every item of farm
effort. This informations is valuable
both in securing a balanced business
and in assisting the farmer to esti-
mate his labor needs for the coming
year. It is contained in a new publ
cation OF the department of agricul-
ture, bulletin 1889, "A Method of An
alyzing the Farm Business"
Advice Of Experts Available.
With the bulletin 60 blank forms
for the purpose Of preparing the an
alysis. Upon these blanks the farmer
can inventory his business and, then,
II he feels unqualified 10 abide by his
own Judgment upon the results shown,
he may secure, the advice Of experts
By submitting the data gathered to
his county agent, or to his state agri-
cultural college, or he may send It d.
rectly to the department Of agriculture
to have the analysis made.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-02-17
FARM WOODLAND CAN
Be MADE PROFITABLE
Erroneous for Farmers to Saw
. Up Choice Timber.
Many Valuable Logs Go into Cross Ties
When They Would Bring Much
More Money II Sold as Saw
Loos-Other Hints,

It Is q mistake to saw up choice
logs Of white oak, ash, cherry and vel
low poplar for rough uses at home or
to use clear black walnut for gate
boards or split up white oak butts for
fence posts. This fact is emphasized
In many ways in a new publication,
Forestry and the Farm Income" is-
sued BY the forest service, United
States department Of agriculture.
Farmers are told that many valuable
logs go into o ties when they would
bring. the owner much more If sold as
saw logs. Likewise, large numbers
OF rapid growing trees are cut which
produce only, n small tie,- whereas,
II left to grow for from three to Ave
years, they would yield more than
double the profit. To avoid making
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-02-17
OF
FARMER VARIES
Some Are Able to Detect and
Eliminate the owl aging
or Losing Enterprises.
OTHERS SHOULD MAKE MORE
Information Obtained in Keeping Rec
ords Is Valuable in Assisting
Farmer to Secure a Balanced
Business for Next Year.

Farmers, just like other business
men, vary widely in the degree of eff
cheney displayed in running their bust
ness. Some are able to analyze the
farm business and thus to detect and
eliminate the low-paying or losing en-
terprfses. Others, lacking the knowl-
edge Of how to- make a systematic
analysis Of the business. 90 q whole,
know that their profits are nst what
they ought to be, without knowing
how to go about it to increase them.
They may be able to find and correct
the obvious errors in the %small-sized
farm business, but in handling q bust
ness Of considerable size they often
fail to spot the enterprises that are
losing money for them. Such men
may or may not make money, but ut
best they fall short of making as
much as they might. A farmer may
be making a large net profit On his
potatoes and losing it all by keeping
low-producing cows. Similarly a man
may be making money on his cows and
iOoAA6 pau vi IAC plO1I Ou duOtAiCA
enterprise. Hence the paramount i'm
portance Of records to the farmer.
Farm Returns Studied.
Careful studies made upon a large
number Of farms enable the Office Of
farm management Of the United States
department Of agriculture to make
some interesting statements in this
regard. For instance, they find that
only 10 per cent-usually less-of the
farms studied r managed SO as to Sc
cure better-than-average returns from
all four factors-size. of business,
yield of crops, live stock, and labor
while from 20 to 80 per cent of the
farms considered have only one factor
better than the average. 1t must be
understood that no one of these fac
tors will determine success. ~
> The figures given which relate to the
labor income will prove most interest
ing to farm employers. The analysis
has reduced the labor cost. Of farm
work to figures. An acre of hay, on
an average farm, costs the labor of
one man and one horse for q ten-hour
day to cut, cure, and harvest it; oats,
wheat, and barley, n and a half
days Of man labor and three, Of horse :
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-02-17
"Gone Are the Old Dayas

We are all slaves. Wrists were u,edo
for manacles. One day back at the
desk after a vacation and we are
going through all the old motions with
as much facility as If there never had
been a lapse into Elysium. Yea, the
pen Is mightier than the mashie, the
typewriter more potent than the rae.
quet, and as for. the "call Of the
Wild" It's urge is not comparable
with the information that "the boss
wants. to see YOU" It was all very
fine while 1t lasted. But its purpose
was to make the harness feel a bit
lighter. And unless you had a voca-
ton, there could not be such thing as
vacation.-Cincinnati Times-Star.