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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-01
Resignation Accepted.

At the South church on Oct. %
the resignation of Rev. S. G. Barnes
was accepted and the church adopted
the following resolution:
Whereas our pastor, DR.. Barnes,
has felt constrained by the condition
of his health to resign from the pas
torate of our church, and,
Whereas we feel that we have no
right to ask him to withdraw that
resignation and remain at the cost
of his health,
Resolved that the church accepts
his resignation.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-01
To Remove Tar.

To remove tar from clothes rub but
ter or lard over the tar spots, then
wash with soap and water. Apply oil
of turpentine and let remain for one
hour, then wash again and the tar
will be removed. To remove tar from
the hands rub with outside of fresh
orange or lemon peel and wipe dry
Immediately.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-01
NORTH DANVILLE.

The Stanton and village schools
united on Thursday night for an
evening grammar school. A program
was given consisting of music and
recitations. Each teacher conduct
ed a class in grammar and super
intendent Burbank gave an interest
ing talk ON the value of grammar.
There was a good attendance of the
townspeople at the gathering.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-01
START NURSES HOME.
The Foundation to be Put in This
Fall for q Building 4OXSO Feet.

All IOF q buHUHHg 4UA0U Fe0U'
A start has been made on the
nurses home for Brightlook Hospi-
tai and the foundation for a build
ing 40x80 feet in dimensions will be
put in this fall and the ground
graded about it. The work is being
done this fall because it can be done
more cheaply in connection with the
grading of grounds in front of the
hospital by the Cummings Construc-
ton company.
The plans for the building are not
complete but it will be a two story
building on the brow of the hill
south of the hospital building. Mrs.
Rebecca Fairbanks has given $4,000
and the will of Carrie Underwood
provided for another $4,000 for the
construction of the building.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-01
Why Father Coca to Lodge.

Father sometimes goes to the
lodge" Ewing Herbert explains, DE
cause he is a good deal more impor-
tant there than he can ever hope to
be at home"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25

tain the desired result are (1) a tax or
license for all dogs. 4withFa fee Of 81
for males and S. for females and the
destruction Of homeless or vagrant
dogs; (2) restraint of all dogs which
appear In public places, either by the
use Of q leash or an efficient muzzle.
The bulletin reviews the fatalities
resulting from rabies, estimating that
only fifteen per cent of the persons
bitten by dogs contract rabies, due to
the good work done in the Pasteur in
stitutes, where 1000 persons bitten by
rabid animals were treated last year.
The percentage Of fatalities Is shown
to be higher in animals, ranging from
thirty-flve to forty-flve per cent OF the
dogs. forty per cent Of the horses.
thirty-six per cent of the hogs and
from twenty-five to thirty per cent Of
the cattle bitten by rabid animals.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25
SHORT MEN AND LONG MEN.

The London Mirror has been con-
Quoting a more or less learned dis
cussion on the relative. merits of the
long man and the short man. It.quotes
q doctor who has darefully studied
the question of size in relation to
success as saying:
when the big man succeeds he sue
ceeds In spite of his inches, not be-
cause Of them"
.Tt must, have struck many people
that the big men of the world have
been-and often are-small men. Ma
poleon, Nelson and Lord Roberts are
the names of three short men which
occur to one at once.
.'Now there is a perfectly sound med
ical. explanation of this. .
"For all practical purposes, the small
man has the same sized heart, lungs
and Train as the big man, or at least
to speak more accurately, the vital or
GINS. although they are actually larger
in the larger body. do not increase in
size in anything like proportion.
"For instance, five-foot-high man
has q heart weighing about 10s
ounces, whereas in proportion it
should weigh something over 121a
E
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25
ounces. Proportionately the

ounces Proportionately the taller
man has less heart power.
'.Yet his heart has to do the harder
work. It has to raise the blood higher.
'The result of this is frequently seen
in everyday life. Tasks that tire out
big man and leave him limp are less
likely to have the same effect upon q
small man. The latter has greater
capacity for sustained energy be-
cause he has proportionately greater
heart power.
1T should also be remembered that
the little man scores in having less
bulk to carry about That is why
short men so frequently excel in ath-
letics"
The doctor does not give the reason
for the short mans activity, however.
Any man who measured a few inches
around s. feet 6 knows what it Is If he
has had to hustle any. He knows
that the big man who puts up a good
'front.' has his battle half won before
he starts He cuts such an imposing
figure that his bluff carries him
through. The small man, on the
|other hand, can't put up a successful
bluff and get away with it. He has
to deliver the goods, and to do this. he
has to get in and dig all the way. II
he scores any measure OF success 1T
is because he went so fast to get out
of the way of the big men that he
couldn't avoid stepping on the heels
of Old Man Opportunity.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25
THE:wAY,To NAVIGATE.

There have been columns IN the
Courier in recent months regarulns
the plans for the revival OF franc oh
the Mississippi river, but none so CIV.
nuent as a little notice appearing III
fha paper last evening under New
Orleans. date. It said:
New orleans, La, May 22.-Carrylng
several carloads OF freight consigned
to Kansas City merchants the s.eainel
chester will leave here today LOT inc
Missouri city. It Is intended as r.
yiyal Of river traffic between New VI.
leans and Kansas. City. The trade was
4 abandoned twenty years ago. Mer-
chants of the two cities believe the IN
auguration Of river traffic VIII make
for an advancement of disputed fre1gn!
rates between the two points
In the Courier this evening there IS
another article concerning second
venture in this field. It says:
New orleans, La, May 23.-Another
sfen in reviving traffic on the Miss1s-
ainni river will be taken next week
with the inauguration Of 15-day serv-
Ice between Cairo, st. Louis, Memphis
and New Orleans, with feet OF MOD
ern steel barges. The first barge Will
reach New Orleans next Saturday and
will return north with a cargo OF sugar,
molasses, rice, canned goods and oil.
The barge rates are so much less
than railroad rates that the promoters
believe more tonnage will be offered
than can be readily cared for. A week
" service will be tinaugurated as soon
as other barges are added.
The promoters of the these two ven
t,,res believe that the way to navigate
the river is to navigate it. If their
nlans succeed their efforts should do
more to revive interest in water
transportation than all the newspaper
campaigns that might be launched.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25
PULASKI.

i Mrs. Libbie Trader and children Of
Colorado are here visiting her mother
Mrs. Margaret Pearson and sister
Addie.
f The schools closed here Friday. Tho
sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grad 80
and drove to Fox for a picnic.
The graduating exercises which
were to have been held Friday night
were postponed on account OF tho
measles.
William 8. Allen died at his home
in this city Thursday evening May
18 at the age OF ~ years, s months and
his life, yet always OF q bright, sunny
disposition and always, industrious.
He was editor OF the Pulaski paper Cor
the past two years. His death came aS
a shock to the community. having
been sick but q few days with the
held at the home Of ]. b. Allen with
whom he had made his home since
living In the city, Friday at p. m,
conducted by Rev. w. e. Overturf,
after which the body was laid to rest
In the K. Of p. cemetery.
Andy George was passenger to
Ottumwa Monday, where he will visit
his daughter Mrs. Frank Hendricks.
Shell Hayes is building G. w.
Matthews new residence.
Dan Gingrich left Wednesday even-
ing for Illinois where he will. visit his
father, sister and other relatives and
get his two children Easkel and Helen
who have been making their home
with their grandfather and aunt the
past three months.
VIVA Blake returned home from
Des Moines Friday evening: being
called home by the illness Of her
little daughter Helen, who is Ill with
the measles.
! Mrs. Elizabeth Short Of Unionville,
Mo-. arrived Thursday evening for an
extended visit with her mother Mrs.
| A. f. Werideth.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25
STORY OF sAccHARlN.

Louisville Courier-J Journal: The story
Of saccharin is one of striking facts.
II ia 200 times as sweet as sugar, and
one part in 10000 parts OF water VIII
sweeten the mass The very man who
discovered it is the same who per-
suaded the government to condemn
it's use in food, and upset thirty diff
ferent branches of industry. 1t began
with an unpronounceable name, made
colossal fortune for the chemist who
exploited it, passed rapidly into va
rious trades having to do with food
stuffs, and is now publicly guillotined.
not only as innutritious, but positively
INJURIOUS to health. 1t Is one Of the al
most endless coal tar derivatives-that
magician's bag out OF which SO many
wonderful things have come.
Saccharin was discovered In 1879
by DR.. Fahlberg, German chemist,
working under the direction of DR. Ira
Remsen, president of Johns Hopkins
university at Baltimore. The fortune
resulting from it's manufacture and
sale at high price went to DR.. FAIL
berg. though history will no doubt ac-
cord to DR.. Remsen the credit OF the
discovery. They called it>at first IAN
Observation-Disclosures benzoic acid, =
which name was mercifully shortened
into saccharin.
Food prepared with this chemical to
take the place of sugar, was tried on
."poison squads OF students, OF whom
so much has been heard, and 1t was
found that the daily consumption OF
this substance impairs the digestion
while 1t has no food value whatever.
The government has ordered, under
the pure food and drug law, that after
July no more saccharin can be used
in articles intended for human con
SUMPTION severe blow to many lines
OF manufacture and many branches Of
trade. 1t is one of the most radical de
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25
A VERSATILE GOVERNOR.

IS o. + = .td b
This is how Governor sHarmontma
more votes in a single day than he
had ever won before In his life. He
had just finished long impromptu
speech to his friends, the farmers,
and when he finished they gave him
q hearty vote of thanks.
"Then was expected to reply. the,
governor says, "and got up again.
and began:
"I don't know what to say, This
is too much
'Then someone way back In the
crowd called out: Don't say any
thing Lead US in q hymn. Let's sing
"Blest Be the Tie That Binds.
well tell you was rather. stun.
ned at that, but only for moment. I
did happen to know that hymn, and so
! just screwed up my courage it
takes lot more courage to raise a
hymn than 1t does even to make a
speech--and hummed around 1t to get
the key and started her Oft. Luckily I
didn't have to carry 1t very, far, for.
5000 throats took 1t up and a tre-
mendous burst of melody went up
from that grove that day that must
have been like an old fashioned camp
meeting at its loudest and best:
'Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship OF kindred minds
Is like to that above.
At the election which followed the
vote given Harmon was astonishing.
Men who had sung "Blest Be the Tie
That Binds" with man, are not going
to vote against him.-William Bayard
Hale in the Worlds Work for June.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25

An Iowa exchange recently con-
tanned two advertisements. One Of
fered $55 per month for man that
knew how to feed cattle and hogs, the
other, an offer OF $40 per month by a
school board for a capable school
teacher. Here is something that
needs fixing, says the Waterloo Re-
porter. When a man Is offered a
larger salary to feed the stomach Of q
hog than school board is willing
to pay for the feeding of the brain OF
our children, 1t is time to, at least, in.
vestigate.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25
THE DANGER or RABIES.

Two eminent authorities on diseases
of animals, DR.. A.. D. Melvin, chief OF
the federal bureau of animal in
dustry, and DR.. John R. Mohler,
chief Of the pathological division OF
this bureau, give some valuable infor-
nation regarding rabies in bulletin
just published by the department OF
agriculture. Rabies is one of the
most easily eradicated Of contagious
diseases" says DR.. Melvin, las all that
is required is the muzzling of all dogs
for sufficient time" He adds, how
ever, that the undertaking is beset
with difficulties as it can be accom-
plished only by the cooperation Of fed
eral, state and municipal governments
and the people. at large. He adds:
Although some skepticfsm as to this
disease persists and is industriously
fostered by the publication of errone-
GUS views, the reality and the infec-
tious nature Of the malady, have been
abundantly established and confirmed
by the work of numerous competent
scientific observers, and there Is no
more reason for doubling the existence
Of rabies than for questing the actual
ity of any other specific and well rec
ognized disease.
Rabies is prevalent among dogs in
various parts of the United States,
and the presence Of infected animals
is constant menace to human life.
Under this condition the relative IN
frequency of deaths among people
who have been bitten by rabid dogs
is due to the protection afforded by
the Pasteur treatment"
DR.. Mohler calls attention to the
"many fallacies and superstition"
that have arisen regarding it. One
Of the most common of these, he says,
is that il persons or animals are bit
ten by dog they are liable to become
rabid II the dog should contract the
disease at any future time. or this
DR.. Mohler says: "All experience,
both practical and scientific, goes to
show that rabies is transmitted only
by animals that are actually diseased
at the time the bite is inflicted. The
old idea of spontaneous generation OF
the malady is absolutely fallacious."
DR.. Mohler has this to say as to the
prevention and eradication of rabies:
There is no communicable disease
which is more easily prevented or
eradicated than rabies. Since the In
lection is practically always transmit
ted by bite, since the animal which
does the biting is almost always a dog,
all sanitary measures must be directed
to control of these animals for suf-
ficient time to cover the incubation
period of the disease. 1t seems In
excusable, therefore, to allow this con-
tagion to be propagated indefinitely
causing untold suffering to the affected
animals and menacing the lives of per-
sons, particularly children, who go up
on the streets.
The only measures necessary 70 OBJ
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25

cisions handed down since the pure
food movement began. The govern
ment based It's decision ION the and
ings of what is known as the Remsen
board. This board is composed Of five
eminent specialists In food chemistry,
and Is named for It's president, DR..
Remsen OF Johns Hopkins. All Ques-
tions OF this sort the government sub.
,mits to the Remsen board. At times the
board and the government experts
have differed, as, for instance. with re-
gard to the preservative benzoato Of
soda. But In this important step the
two agree-the Remsen board stanch-
ly unfolding the government conten-
ton that saccharin is prejudical to the
public health.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25
Father and mother said-said

Look here. you two" Interrupt
ted Miss Susie as she came up
switching a branch OF the blossom.
you want to cut pa and ma out OF
this thing and get down to business
Ronald, did you swear at Kitty?"
mo, not her. I'd been to the
Doctors, and he had told me tnat
the itching, aching thing on my
neck would probably develop into 9
carbuncle. 1t was the doctor was
swearing att"
But you kicked a footstool."
THAT was because there was no dog
to kick"
"But you said you wished you
had never married" 9
Because knew that carbuncle
on my neck, would make me cranky
for q month, and / pitied Kitty"
"But you didn't come and say
you was sorry."
II was just on my way today"
There you are sister Kitty, and
there you are" said Miss Susie. 1t
was a case Of misunderstanding all
the way through. Ronald, II you. ever
swear at doctors In her hearing again.
she can smash dishes, can't she?"
ITO be sure"
"And Kitty"
Miss Susie had turned her back to
the pair. She heard suspicious sounds
behind her, but she held her position
for two minutes. Then she faced them
and said:
"You two go home in the auto, and
I'll Job back with the pony. Pa and
ma will want to know all about 1t,
and I'll just say that If there are any
more idiots In our family they sit at
the head and foot Of the table at meal
times!"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25
EFFECT Or THE DECISION.

Minneapolis Journal.--As for the Of
feet OF the decision on the Standard
Oil trust, we may expect that It will al
ter the form, but not the actual mo-
nopoly of that giant organization. The
Northern Securities decision dissolved
the railroad merger, but did not alter
the ownership of the two roads. The
New Jersey holding corporation of the
Standard Oil must be dissolved, and
the constituent companies must pay
their dividends direct to their stock
holders. But how can they be forced
to compete IL they don't want to? The
chief result, SO far as the public Is con-
cerned, may be an advance in the price
of oil. predicated on the increased cost
of management involved In the disso-
luton of the holding company and the I
abolition OF the economies OF manage
ment 1t was able to effect.
Louisville Courier-J Journal. - Com
corning the effect OF the decision on
the affairs Of the Standard OH com.
pany, neither the friends nor the foes
Of that organization need be the least
flurried. u has been declared bad
trust, but little thing like that won't
hurt anybody. It has six months In
which to repent and reform, and 80
able an aggregation Of talent, not to
say genius, can dos "a little stunt like
that in much less time. We shall
continue to buy our oil and gasoline
from the Standard: the Standard will
continue to pay fat dividends to its
fortunate stockholders, and within six
months we can pass the plate to
Brother Rockefeller and take his well
come contributions without the dis
comfort of defending ourselves against
the imputation OF gathering in tainted
money" g
New York Evening Post-The Inn
mediate results OF the Standard Oil
decision, so far az concerns the COM
munity.s general attitude, are that We
shall hear on the one hand much less
OF random talk that our government II
assuming reactionary attitude In Its
policy OF restraining powerful capital
istic combinations, and, on the other
hand, little of that, frothy and futile
assertion that restrictive laws are
bound to tear down the foundations OF
the country's Industrial structure.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25

In order to realize the beneflcent
features Of the recall system it is only
necessary to turn to Tacoma. That
city has had five recall elections with
in ten weeks, and it hasn't had the re-
call long enough to get real used to it,
After Tacoma gets it down pat they
ought to be able to pull off an election
a week
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25
GRAY MEN OF BATTLE,

GhAY ME ~ Of "a IIEs
Blow a note on the bugle,
Wake a throb Of the drum.
AS down the Springtime highways
The old. gray soldiers come;
Bugle and drum to thrill them,
And quicken the step that lags-
Bugle and drum and old, gray men,
And the folds of tattered flags.
Room for the war-worn column
That waivers along the street.
Room for the crutch and empty sleeve.
And the slow, uncertain feet;
A hush on the shout and clamor,
AS they pass with faltering tread 4
The gray men of the battles
Who pass to seek their dead.
Room for the men of Antietam.
Where charged their battered lines;
Room for the lions Of Malvern Hill
And the eagles Of Seven Pines;
Room for the clanking saber.
And the foot that once swung free
Through Shenandoah with Sheridan.
And with Sherman to the sea.
Old and bent in the highways,
Their tattered flags on the breeze,
Never leaped at the jaws of death
Such fighting men as these;
Never saw flame of rampant,
w HSIl UtItlc tlIcS oil leu,
The like of these old, gray soldiers
Who seek today their dead.
These are the men Of Shiloh.
Who pass with footstep slow,
The steeled brigades that stormed the
clouds
OF Lookout with Fighting Joe.
These are the stubborn legions
That on Chickamauga hung,
When the bugles sang of slaughter,
And the old, gray men were young.
% lingering note Of the bugle.
Throb of the muffled drum.
AS down the Springtime highways
The old, gray soldiers come!
Only a few more twilights
On the wavering ranks and thin,
Then night and folded banners.
And the sabers gathered In.
The West Coast Magazine, Los
Angeles, Calf.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25

A parlor trolley car is to make Its
appearance on an Illinois interurban
road, the first of it's kind for the use
Of the general public. This same com.
pany operates a regular line of sleep
ing cars for night passengers.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25

without wishing to be pessimistic,
says the Chicago Record-Herald, we
find it necessary to remind you that 1t
will be useless for you to think OF
using the money you are saving on
coal to pay the expenses Of your vaca-
ton trip this summer. The ice COM
panies are going to get it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25
Exactlx-Whx2.

Buffalo News Strangely enough"
says the Baltimore News, speaking
Of playwright and his wife, the
wife is the biggest part Of this nupt1al
union" Why, strangely enough
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25
EXPLAINED.

Buffalo News-A Savannah exchange
says there are more crooks in Wash
ington than in any other city in Ameri-
ca. Well, there's bigger legislature
there.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25
Now He Collects En-.

Chicago Tribune-Further honors
have been heaped on a member of the
Academy of Immortals. Hon. MIC
Knaack has been appointed city scav-
enger of Moline.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25

Is there no escape for the innocent
bystander? asks a contemporary. Even
the aeroplane has become menace to
him.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25

That's What He Does It For.
Atlanta Constitution-The minute
man boards special train and makes
a speech or two at stop-over stations.
somebody dominates him for presi-
dent.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25
rhav All Do-constantIv

They All Do-ConstantIy.
Chicago Tribune-It is Incompetent
sible that Gov. Woodrow Wilson has
not thought about the presidency"
Even Mr.. Bryan thinks Of it OCCASION
ally
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25

The next extension of government
control should take in some of the ma
tional politicians.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25

Which They Wouldn't Be II Actors.
Chicago Evening Post-Illinois chill
dren now denied the right of becoming
actors, can grow up to be dramatic
critics.