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Barnes had beautiful luck as a rancher. Almost his first nice experience was while ridingabout the prairie, watching the cattle one day, to draw a bead with his Winchester on a prairiehen. The report of his gun startled the horse, who threw Barnes off his back and started off. Tosee a man walking over the prairie was a new sight to the cattle and they crowded from all sidesaround Barnes and it was only by the hardest work that he escaped being trampled to death bythem.Seeing no prospective profit in cattle raising, he conceived the idea of a geese farm and laidout $150 in procuring a fine flock. The first night the geese were on the ranch the wolves madea descent on them and carried off all but two. Determined to get even with the wolves hesprinkled meat with poison and scattered it in their way. Two of his best dogs, valued at $75each found it before the wolves did, and promptly turned up their toes.Finally Barnes got sick, very sick, and had the closest kind of a call to sit somewhere on theedge of a damp cloud and twang a harp by moonlight. When he was able to sit up he had to getover into the health-restoring atmosphere of San Antonio and stay for several months and giveup all ideas of cattle raising.Then he wandered from Dan to Beersheba through the western country, his Yankeeingenuity being taxed to its utmost by having to turn his hand to many occupations. We find hima teamster in St. Louis, a roustabout on a Mississippi steamboat, a lumberman in Minnesota, aminer and a homesteader at Bismarck in Dakota, an assistant in the government survey of theBad Lands, a farm hand and a railroad brakeman, in Illinois, a contractor in an Ohio factory, andfinally back again in New Britain in the Stanley Works. All this teeth-sharpening experiencedone Barnes good and laid the foundation for his present magnificent success as the "WoodMan".It is only a year ago in July that he bought out the wood business carried on for twenty yearsby Uncle Horace Booth in Lafayette street. He has extended the business and sells about tentimes as much wood as Mr. Booth ever did. Few people suspect the amount of wood hehandles. Just at present he has over 600 cords stored in three different places in New Britain.He buys much of his father, who owns a saw mill and 10,000 cords of standing wood in Hartfordcounty.Barnes has added to the wood business he bought of Booth several kinds of kindlings, coal,charcoal, baled hay and straw and in all of these lines is gaining every day. The public is findingout that Barnes deals on the square and gives full measure, full weight of all he sells.Our advice to readers who do not know Barnes is to scrape acquaintance with him bypatronizing him. Burial in Center Cemetery, Burlington, CT.BARNES, CHARLES LINDSAY, 67, of 100 Wooster Street, Barnesdale, one of the mostprominent business men in this city, died 11-20-1926. (born 4-13-1859) He was a native ofBurlington and had lived in this city more than 40 years. Coming to New Britain, he went into thecoal and wood business and continued in this line until 1912, when he entered the real estatebusiness. He bought the Cornelius Andrews farm on the western outskirts of the city and starteda land development there which today forms one of the most important sections of this city andis known as Barnsdale. He leaves his wife Lucia (Bunnell) Barnes; three sons, Warren L., ofLong Beach. CA Raymond Kenneth, an electrician on the U.S.S. New Mexico, and Paul B. ofBarnesdale; three daughters, Mrs. Millicent B. Peer of Winsted; Mrs. Esther B. Smith ofBarnesdale and Miss Gertrude U.Barnes, a teacher at the state normal school in this city; hismother, Mrs. Nellie Barnes of Barnesdale; a sister, Mrs. Kate Banning of Bristol and threebrothers, Amzi of Cleveland, OH, Clifford S. of Bristol, CT, and Luther M. of New Britain. Burialin Center Cemetery, Burlington CT.BARNES, ELBERT O. died 9-26-1864, only son of Stephen Barnes, was engaged in digginga well near his father's house. While he was in the well, those engaged in drawing up the dirt ina tub carelessly allowed the tub to strike the bank at the side causing a large amount of dirt tocave of, completely covering up Mr. Barnes in the well. None of the assistants dared go down torelieve him and his father was called from a great distance and hurried home to help him. When10