The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-07-31


to give bond and will be allowed a
commission Of three per cent on all
tickets sold by them. These agents
may appoint pedIers OF vendors. This
is where the scheme Is unlike that
which prevailed III the colonial period
Of bloody memory. Cuba Is a FREQ and
enlightened country, and nowadays it's
different. The hawkers and vendors
will not be allowed to shout their
wares. Under THE colonial regime they
made a dreadful noise in the streets
but modernized Cuba cannot stand for
that sort Of thing The lottery bust
ness must be conducted quietly and SCI
dately.
The government Of Cuba believes
that there Is money in the lottery. It
expects 10 make two millions year
net, an estimate baAed on the old col
onial lottery. It viii probably be larg-
er, a. the former lottery belonged to
period which was still under the shad-
ow Of the middle ages, when they did
things badly, Then, too, there wasn't
much money lying around loose those
days. Now the people have plenty to
spend for such landable enterprises, to
make themselves richer and help keep
the ship Of state afloat.
II the net proceeds to the government
should reach the three million mark, u
would mean that the people would be
spending about Si0OO0,O00 annually to
support this patriotic enterprise. The
ticket vendors who might otherwise be
Obliged to hoe sugar cane will have a
respectable occupation. Senior Morua
Delgado win have a fat berth Clerks
and printers will be employed getting
out pr0spectuses and tickets. And even
the little children Of the Foundlings'
Home and the Orphan asylum win have
a grand fiesta every three months when
they pick up the little balls that roll
out Of the big glass globes,
Fourteen enlisted soldiers in Uncle
Sans standing army have just been
awarded certificates o. merit ii official
recognition 81 deeds Of bravery and dar-
ing wherein the hero risked his life sim
ply because he believed 1t his duty TO
do 20.
No more thrilling stories have ever
been told than the exploits Of these he
roes Of the time Of peace. OF the four
teen, four rescued comrades or civilians
from drowning, two arrested an armed
murderer, and five gained official COM
incubation for distinguished service in
the Philippines.
While the story behind every one Of
the certificates bristles with more thrills
than the average tale Of adventure, that
which led to the award made to Cor
poral Roy Fl. Cox Of the signal corps Il
undoubtedly the most remarkable and
entailed The greatest and most long con-
tinind suffering
Cox Travelled o5 miles through an
Alaskan blizzard with the mercury thir-
" degrees below zero to bring to the
army hospital trapper whose feet were
frozen. and who would undoubtedly have
died but for that heroic trip. Corporal
Cox was the signal corps operator IN
charge Of the Mimic station, Is miles
from Fort Cdhbon. Alaska. On the night
Of February %. 1903, he received word
that trapper named Monte faced death
IN a lonely cabin on the shore Of Lake
Mimic, with both feet frozen and no
medical assistance at hand. Cox Oh.
tanned reluctant permission from Cap
tain Clifton, bis commanding officer. Ia
70 to Monies aid his captain thinking
the rescue an imposaihilfy, and being
unwilling 10 let Cox face the deadly
cold and Show alone.
1t took Cox one whole day "a make
HE trip of thirty miles overland to
reach Monte Once there be gave the
trapper mMphine. Sc that he had his
fit IS hours Early the next
mo Soldier started out with
the - on sled and mushed"
is ~ the binding snow and
bitter roadhouse where he
had how'd to mage connections with a
dog train and send Monte on into Fair
baks The weather was too bad for
the dogs to travel. however. and Cox,
nothing daunted. Immediately started
out for Fairbanks, forty.seyen miles
distant pulling Monte On lis sled.
Late IN the evening the soldier reach.
"a Fairbanks and brought the man into
the hospital Monte lost both his feet,
but his life was saved.
Cox returned To his station at once,
and merely reported that be had FOUND
bis man and taken hfm 10 hospital.
The real facts IN biz heroic journey did