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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-05-04

Mr.. Editor: AS the windows Of
Heaven have once more been opened
and all the fields flooded so that can
not plow, will once more ask you for
space to reply to some remarks OF the
would-be philosophers taking the re.
ligious side In your public forum. Mr..
Maloney makes the assertion that If
the teaching of the Bible was dis
carded that civilization could not be
maintained. Let me ask Mr.. Maloney
II such is the case why has the u. s..
government been so successful and
why did the British government abolish
the Bible from their public schools
about forty years ago, and as far as
we can see and read the condition Of
the people of England, Ireland. Scot
land and Wales is better today than
when the Bible was the chief book of
instruction. mention the British
government because ever since the
resolution we have had no religion
connected with our government and
the rights Of property are as secure
today am sure and the liberties of the
people more secure than in the days
OF Cotton Mather The free govern
ment OF the United States free from
religious interference mean) has not
only greatly advanced our own peo-
pile but has had great tendency to
advance and enlighten the entire
world. Mr.. MaIoneys assertion that
certain ideas are innate or born with
the individual, would never be made
by any one that had read up on philo-
sophie subjects, Up unit the eigh.
teenth century 1t was believed that
ideas We're born with the individual,
but David Hume the greatest mind of
the eighteenth century, even with the
great name of Kant included estab-
lished the fact to the satisfaction of
all thinking men that there was no
such thing as innate or born ideas, that
all knowledge is experience of facts
acquired by the senses No writer or
noted thinker unless Herbert Spencer,
one Of the greatest minds of the last
century has ever successfully contra
dicted or amended, Humes assertion
and what Spencer said ON the snbjeet
was that while there was no such
thing as innate ideas. or ideaR hosn
with the child yet through The long
ages past the brain Of the child Of civil
lied parents has become so much bet
ter adapted to receive Impressions
and retain them that Ideas will form
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-05-04
PIGEONS FALL FROM GRACE
Drunken Orgy Of Feathered Tribe Re-
suits From Accident to
keg OF Rum.

A heavy truck loaded with kegs OF
liquor was jolting across line Of car
tracks when one of the kegs toppled
and fell from the top Of the pile into
the street 1t was thoroughly smash
ed, SO the truckman whipped up his
team and went his way with stopping.
The rum flowed out over the street
one,little dent In the paving collecting
. visible puddle of 1t.
In a few minutes pigeon came
futtering down to drink at the pool
thus fortunately provided for thirsty
birds. The initial taste was a sur
prise. but second and third soon
followed and soon the pigeon tottered
fiuttering away, too overcome to fly.
Other birds, seeing him there and anx.
ious to wet their parching throats.
followed their brother in his path of
wicked intemperance
Five minutes later passerby was
astonished to see dozen pigeons IN
the gutter of the otherwise deserted
street. some dancing drunkenly. 9th
ers already sound asleep. A few feet
away a hound of disreputable APP
pearance was creeping up, slowly and
a trife unsteady, on his unsuspecting
and bibulous quarry. As he was al
most among the birds his feet went
suddenly in several direction and he
lay In the gutter among the pigeons,
growing sleepily to himself, for he,
too, was drunk.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-05-04
Snakes In plaster.

In a small part of a South Carolina
swamp represented on the second
tiocs Of the American Museum OF Nat
ural History Is included a snake
group among the logs. vines and wa
ter hyaeinths. The group shows side
BY side poisonous snakes. the water
moccasin. and the non-poisopous, the
brown water snake.
An example of the deadly moccasin
water snake OF the south is made
from a wax cast by James G. Bell.
with color work BY Frederick H. Stoll.
1t il extremely lifelike and realistic.
quite enough to give the visitor an
acquaintance with the species.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-05-04

played rule BrittanIa and whether as
Capt White says. those men had for
gotten God OF not. it seems any Of
them proved by their conduct that they
had not forgotten how to conduct them
selves in the face Of death. Some cap
tains have forgotten every principle
of manhood under less trying circum-
stances. JOHN RATCLIFF.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-05-04

The chieftain has always insisted
and still insists that concrete bridges
and cuIyerts only should be built. They
will last forever and are consequently
the cheapest.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-05-04

TO all those who ask whom the
Chieftain is supporting for Office in
Craig county we will state that the
entire democratic ticket nominated at
the August primaries may count on
the support OF this paper.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-05-04
Perfect ANALOGY.

shortleigh MY Uncle Frank is :
veritahle KlondIke.
Longlelgh Why. how's that7
shortleigh Plenty OF wealth. bot
cold and distant Smart Set.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-14
SOUTH RYEGATE.

DR.. G. w. Darling recently purchased
Ford automobile.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Simpson spent
Sunday with her parents in Topsham.
Miss Emma Eliason and Brock Roben
were home from st. Johnsbury academy
over Sunday.
Frank Rosa has purchased the Ira
WcIeh house and will move there soon.
G. p. Sanderson has purchased Maur.
ice Browns farm and will take posses.
sion about July |.
Mrs. Emma Taisey is caring for Miss
Matte Park. Mrs. Reed, who has been
caring for her, has returned to her
home in Newbury.
Mrs. Luella Irwin has moved to the
tenement on Pleasant street recently va
Gated by Baynard Jacobs.
Harry Sanderson of Woodsville, \. H.,
visited his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. P.
Sanderson, over Sunday.
A number from this place attended the
Holbrook Grocery Co.'S banquet at
Woodsville. n. H., Friday evening. All
report fine time.
Mrs George Grow, who had been i'll
with pneumonia only few days, died
Friday forenoon. Funeral services were
held at her late home Monday afternoon
at 2 o'clock.
Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Bailey started
Wednesday afternoon, May 5, for the
Northwest, where they are to make their
future home. They expected to arrive
in Calgary the following Sunday. Their
many friends wish them success in their
new venture.
The ninth grade of the village school
will present the two-act comedy en-
titled, "A Millionaire Janitor," at Glib
sons hall Monday evening, May 20. Ad.
mission, Is and 10 cents.
The ladies' aid of the First Presby-
terrain church will meet with Mrs. Emma
Starr Thursday afternoon, May 10. A
full attendance is desired.
The fine entertainment given at the
y. p. church short time ago win be
repeated Friday evening, May IL.
Dewey Darling has been home from
his school in Barre, suffering from an
abscess on his foot.
The Baraca class Of the u. p. ehnrch
will hold business meeting Tuesday
evening, May H. All members are re-
quested to be present.
c. J. Cooper. "the worlds wonder"
and said to be a nephew of Weston, the
famous walker, passed through this
place about o'clock Sunday afternoon.
He started from Bangor, Me, seven days
ago to travel a distance of 1926 miles
in ll6 days. He has now Travelled 254
miles. Before he left Bangor, his watch
and money were taken from him and
he must neither beg borrow nor steal,
When he left here he had So cents in his
pocket.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-14
RANDOLPH.

George Fifield has come from Pitts
field to work for the Brigham Cream
cry company and will board with his
sister, Mrs. James 0ney.
The grange meeting held on Satur-
day night was well attended and COOL
program was given The entertainment
was in charge of Mr.. and Mrs. N G.
Buck, who gave the May pole dance,
with the assistance of sixteen young
ladies, who with their queen, did cred
table work. Miss Dorothy Buck and
Miss Eliza Goodheart gave a duet which
was much enjoyed and piano solo by
Miss Beatrice Pinney added to the pleas
ure of the evening.
Miss Jennie ID. Carruthers, a former
teacher here, who lives in Burlington,
where she is teacher in the Edmunds
high school, passed Saturday and Sun
day with Miss Olive Moulton.
William Booth, who is 81 years of
age, after making his garden last week,
went to Newport, n. H.. to remain for
an indefinite time with his children, who
reside there.
Miss Alice Herrick went to Boston last
week for several weeks stay with rela-
tives and may decide to remain perma-
nently.
Benjamin Sargent. who has been ia
the sanatorium for two weeks for sur
gical treatment, was able to 90 to his
home on Weston street Saturday after
noon and is thought to be making a good
recovery.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-14
WILLIAMSBURG.

Mrs. Goldie Pettis. who has been in
| Brattleboro for several months, has re-
turned to town and is at her fathers, on
south hill.
The high school boys were defeated
at Chelsea Saturday by a score of to Q.
Neither side was able to score after
the first inning.
After an auction sale lasting through
last Saturday afternoon and evening, the
most valuable of the goods in che VIII
liam 0. Martin store remain on hand,
Mrs. win Martins condition has been
improving slowly since last week and
is now favorable for recovery. Her moth
er and sister, Mrs. Julia Kavanagh and
Mrs. John Salisbury of Lockport, \. Y,
are with her for a time.
The sixteen -month-old son, Elon p.
Williams. of Theron and Ethel Williams,
died Sunday noon after an illness of
three weeks with cholera morbus, fol-
lowed by bronchitis. Funeral at the
house to-day Tuesday at one o'clock,
Rev. J. O. Angel officiating.
Pleney II. Wilfore went to Montpelier
yesterday to get the lighter parts of
i. II. Calls Lane sawmill. The heavy
parts were sent by train.
Ernest Riddel of Baptist street is Sc
riously i'll with pneumonia.
Joseph DeCoteau, sr., has engaged to
work for George w. Lynde and viii move
his family the last of this week.
II. d. Staples has gone to Barre and
is at work for n. NJ Nelson.
Elgin Martin is at work in C. NJ. Ed
sons livery stable.
George E. WILDER has the agency for
liver johnson bicycles and will be pleased
to show samples aud quote prices.
Special communication of Summit
lodge. No. l04, f. and A. NJ, Thurs
day, May III, at S o'clock p. m; work,
third degree. All members are requested
TO be present. Refreshments will be
served after the work.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-14
AMUSEMENT NOTES.
"The Chocolate Soldier" Brightest and
Best of All Operas, Wednesday Night.

! Brightest and best OF all light operas
| that have filled the American and Eu-
ropean continents with their tuneful
echoes since the days Of Gilbert and
Sullivan in THE Chocolate Soldier" the
well known work of Oscar Straus. lead
! er of Niennas musical circles, who has
contrived to embody the spirit of the
romantic comedy satire, Arms and the
Man" OF George Bernard Shaw in mel
odies that are yet on the lips OF mill
lions.
Still on the pinnacle of its popular
ity under the finished presentation Of
the Whitney Opera company, "The Chloe
olate Soldier is marching into town to
be reviewed by the theatregoers of this
city at the opera house on Wednesday
night, May l5 At the time of the ar
rival of 1.-THE Chocolate Soldier" on these
shores three seasons ago the American
light operate field was so over.run with
weeds in the shape of tenth-rate musi
cal shows furnished with shabby music
and paltry plots, that the flower of
Niennese opera might have been expect
ed to droop and wither before audiences
that were fatty preiudiced against any
thing in an operate guise. A less cour-
ageous manager might have hesitated.
The result more than justified his Yea
ture. New York's most conservative and
skeptieal critics WED with each other in
doing honor to the lyric fertility of
Straus' genius. The night before the
first American performance of "The
Chocolate Soldier" comic opera was re-
garded as a dead issue. The morning
after, every lay and professional de-
voice of the theatre saw the dawn of
a new era for light opera on the horizon.
Mr.. Whitney and 'The Chocolate Sol
der had won the battle. The oppor-
tunities for manager to distinguish
himself in presenting the strange for
eign beauties of Bulgarian landscapes
and interiors to New York audience
are unlimited. and in staging The Choc-
olate Soldier" Mr.. Whitney is conceded
to have reached new high-water mark
for richness and faithfulness of scenic
equipment. The Whitney Opera com
pany is one fully capable of meeting
both the dramatic and operate demands
made upon them by the lively, comedy
laden libretta taken from Shaw's play
and all the various moods. gay and
grave. satiric and sentimental, in which
Oscar Straus eoucbed his irresistible
melodies Prominent in the cast are:
Alice Yor>e. Juanita Fletcher, Mildred
Rogers, Charles Purcell. Francis Boyle,
blanche Chase. George O'Donnell, Bessie
Lyons and George Tallman.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-14
BARRING the Evil Spirits.

The Chinese believe that evil spirits
are able to move only in straight lines
and that they cannot penetrate through
solid matter; therefore the problem Of
keeping them out OF dwelling or a
garden seems to them a simple matter.
On passing through the entrance of the
ordinary middle class home In China it
is necessary TO turn to the right or left
because of a fixed screen. the purpose
of which. according to Popular Me
chanics. is TO keep evil spirits out
Likewise just at the back of the en-
trance to a walled garden may some
times be found another wall erected
for the same purpose.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-14
NoRTHFIELD.

c. A. Tilden of Roxbury was visit
or in town Monday.
George James of Hardwiek spent Sun.
day with his family at Mrs. II. f. Reeds
| Mrs. Matte Parker has returned from
! Woodsvile, " H.. where she spent the
winter, and will open her home here for
| the summer.
Mrs. Fay H. G. Graves and son OF
| Springfield, Mass, are guests OF her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Richmond.
Rev. Walter Dole of Enfield, \. H.,
who has been spending few days with
relatives here, returned to his home on
Monday.
Captain and Mrs Fred T. Austin, who
are spending month in town, have re
turned from a trip TO Rochester and
are again at the Mortified house.
Rev. H. C. Ledyard Of Canton, n y,
was in town over Sunday and conduct.
ed morning and evening services at the
Uniyersalist church.
L. c. Smith is in Boston on a bus
mess trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. d. Roys. who have
been spending the past week in New
York, arrived home yesterday.
Miss Florence Ranger OF st. Adams
is the guest OF her grandfather, William
Cotter.
Prof. Charles c. Brill Of Illion. \. Y,
was a recent guest of friends in town.
Mrs. II. p. Hall was in Montpelier
Sunday to see Mr.. Halls father, who
is very III of Bright's disease at Heat
on hospital.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-14
KOREANS ARE CAUTIONS.
Always Ready to Eat and Always
Gorge Themselves When They Can.

| The Koreans appear to be the great
est eaters in the world To this the
/ Japanese, French. English, Dutch and
! Chinese all bear witness. All reports
/ concerning the Korean capacity for
| food seem to agree. In this respect
| there is not the least difference be-
/ tween the rich and the poor. the noble
md the plebeian. To eat much is an
honor In Korea, and the merit Of a
feast. it would seem, consists not so
much In the quality as In the quantity
Of the food served Little conversation
occurs during the Korean meal, for
each sentence might lose a mouthful.
A Korean is always ready to eat. He
attacks whatever he meets with and
rarely cries Enough Even between
meals he will help himself to anything
ediole that is offered.
The ordinary portion of laborer Is
about quart of rice, which when
cooked makes n good bulk. This, how
ever. is no serious hindrance to his de-
vourlng double or treble the quantity
when he can get it. Eating matches
are common. When an OK is slaught-
cred and the beef is served up heap
ing bowl of the steaming mess does
not alarm any guest. When fruits,
such as peaches or small melons. are
served it is said that they are devoured
without peellng. Twenty or thirty
peaches are deemed an ordinary allow
ance per person and rapidly disappear.
Such prodigality in food is. however,
not common. and for one feast there
are many Hastings. The Koreans are
neither fastidious in their eating nor
painstaking in their cooking. Nothing
goes to waste. All Is grist that comes
TO the mill in their mouths.-New York
Press.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-14

cause the glycer1n in it has started to
run or because fragment OF it has
been crystallized. there will be an ex-
plosion. The chances are that not one
of the group of men sitting around will
escape injury.
Another frequent cause of acct.
dents is that sometimes when the dy-
Mantle explodes aud tears out the rock
a small quantity of it will be left in
the bottom Of the drill hole. unaffected
by the shock. If the drill hole that re-
mains happens to be pointed in the
right direction a lazy drill runner Is
likely to take advantage of 1t and start
his new hole In the old one in order to
make record or save time. The in.
slant his drill commences to thud on
the unexploded dynamite it goes off.
The steel is driven back through the
barrel of the machine. wrecking it and
usually killing the drill runner. This
explains many mysterious deaths that
have been attributed to missed Shots"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-14
TANGlER ISLAND.
Where the People Do Without Jails.
Lawyers, Horses and Cows.

lawyers rIoFscS anu Vows
There Is a little island in Chesapeake
bay. 125 miles south of Baltimore,
where the world has stood still for
more than hundred years. Tangier
island is five miles long and much less
than a mile wide. but more than 1900
people live on il. There is only one
street. nine feet wide, without side
walks, and the houses are all built
along this street with narrow canals OF
the deep water OF the bay between
each two houses. There is only one
church, presided over by a Methodist
minister. and only one doctor. and
there is no cemetery, the dead of each
family being buried in the yard. There
is no newspaper. no Jail. no lookup and
no lawyers nor any need for them.
Everybody is deeply religious. and pro-
family is punished with a fine imposed
by the deacon of the church.
The men go fishing and grabbing in
sailboats early on Monday mornings
aud do not come home until Saturdays.
when they have marketed their sea
harvests in towns on the mainland
There are no gardens. no horses or
cows. but plenty OF chickens are rails
ed. Fuel is supplied TO the islanders
by sIoops, which come very month or
so loaded with wood and anchor of
Tangier. sending small boats piled With
cordwood and kindlings to every house
by means of the little canals. The wo-
men wear sunbonnets and so barefoot
ed. and there is an organ in nearly
every home. Tangier was first settled
by white people in 1866 and before
that time was occupied by the Indians.
Exchange.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-14
CHURCH STEEPLEs.
And the Ancient Mountain Peak
Shrnes of the Storm God.

Shrines of the Storm God.
There is a theory which finds the
spire OF the New England meeting
bia.
Tracing back the process of eyolu-
ton. we come first to London, where
the clean sweep of the great fire gave
Sir Christopher Wren his opportunity
TO experiment in steeples. and then
Venice, where the campanile is shin
ing example of tower beside a
church. but separate from it, and then
TO Alexandria. where the famous light
house on the isle of Pharos contribut-
ed to the religion Of Mohammed both
the form and the name of the minaret,
and then to the tower of Babel at
Borsippa and the zikkurats OF the
temples of Babylonia and Assyria. A
zikkurat is huge quadrangular mass
of brick. rising in diminishing stories
as a child places big block on the
floor and puts smaller one on it and
on that a smaller stil-and assembled
by a winding balustrated stair to
shrine on top.
This. according to the theory, was
the ritual equivalent OF a mountain.
Into the fat lands between the Tigris
and Euphrates came the ancestors of
the Babylonians and Assyrians out of
the mountains of Arabia. There they
had worshipped the storm god. who
dwelt upon the heights among the
clouds. with whom they communed.
like Moses. by climbing up and making
their offerings and saying their pray
ers upon the summit. And because
there were no mountains in their new
country they erected beside every tenn
pie a little mountain in the yard.
Thus the zikkurat, and then the min
aret. and then the campanile and then
the steeple of the parish church.
George Hodges In Atlantic Magazine.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-14
BETHEL.

| A daughter was born May 10 to Mr.
and Mrs. Clayton H. Wight.
Mr.. and Mrs George Rowe returned
Saturday from stay of a month ID
| Enosburg Falls with their daughter.
Rama, daughter of w. l.. Parsons and
Eta, the daughter Of +. A. Parsons, are
both Ill with pneumonia.
The present high school teachers have
been engaged for the next year: Prin
Edward j. Lockwood; first assistant, Miss
Josephine Dana; second assistant, Miss
May Campbell Miss Gladys Buck, who
graduates this year from the Bridge
water, Mass, normal school, will teach
in the grommar school; Miss Jessie
Spanlding, grades three and four; Miss
Helen Brooks grade one.
The body Of Mabel Davis, who died
last week at the Brattleboro retreat,
was brought here and inferred in Fair,
view cemetery.
Mrs. Mary kellogg has rented both
tenements of her Pleasant street home
and may decide to return to her home in
Laconia to remain permanently.
Rollin ellison has returned from trip
to Panama and is now with his mother
at her home here.
Captain Fred T. Austin, Z. S. A..
with Mrs Austin. was here Friday on
their way TO Virginia to call on Mr.. and
Mrs. Wallace Batchelder. Captain Aus
tin and Mr.. Batchclder were fellow officers
and fought side by side in the Philip.
pines, Captain Austin, in command Of
A company and Mr. Batchelder in COM
mand Of b company in the doth United
States infantry. Captain Austin is now
in command Of battery L, third fell
artillery and stationed at Fort Myer,
near Washington, d. c.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-14
BERLIN.

Mr.. and Mrs. 0. A. Sawyer and Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Bird were in Middle
sex one day the past week to attend the
funeral OF Mrs. Sawyer's father, Mr.
Hill
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Congo, jr.. ex.
pect to move to Barre to live, this week
i. L. Davis and family moved Ia
Montpelier last week Tuesday. VIII
Reed moved onto the farm recently pur.
chased Of Mr.. Davis the same day.
Mrs. Harrison Turner has been cor.
fined to the bed with bronchitis the pas.
week
Will Turner has so far recovered from
his recent accident as to be about his
work, with the aid of smoked glasses.
Regular grange meeting this week
Friday evening. Special music and qucs-
ton box, also annual grange paper will
appear.
Next Sunday morning at the Congre-
gational church the pastors topic win
be, David, the Sweet Singer" There
viii be special music by the choir.
Choir rehearsal at the church next
Saturday evening at 1880.
Miss Eva Morton is caring for Mrs.
Daniel Martin, who is i'll.
Miss Mildred Reed and Ben Reed were
home over Sunday.
J. A. Lucas OF Montpelier was a bus
mess visitor in town Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Dillingham; Of
Mortified visited at William McCarthy's
Sunday.
Glib. Andrews has moved from North
field onto the farm which he recently
purchased of A. +. Covell Mr. Coyell
has moved his family to Northfield. He
is running min in Roxbury, which
he purchased from Mr.. Andrews.
Carl Poor, one time Berlin boy, is
working for his cousin, A. E. Covell, in
Roxbury.