The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-02-12
SHIPS AND SEALING-WAX
The time has come" the walrus said.
ITO talk of many things
OF shoes and ships and sealing-wax.
And cabbages and kings"
The Walrus and the Carpenter.

| anu chppaRen anu
The Walrus and the Carpenter.
The lyric man on the Cincinnati En-
quirer submits the following in tn
Balkan war song prize competition;
Hurrah, hurrah, well sing the iubile,
Hurrah, hurrah, the flag that sets u
free;
So we'll sing the chorus from Zxchonk
qvipf TO the sea,
While we 90 marching through Skyl
Observation-Disclosures.
While visiting Ellis Island with
party of friends the other day, Andrew
Carnegie varied the monotony of Civ
ing away Libraries by presenting 81 +,
little Paddy Rooney, an Irish immi
grant. The wonder is that Paddy wal
not put to the task Of raising soc. be
fore he could claim the Skibo laird.
gift.
Now that United States immigration
authorities have refused to allow Peter
| Veregin, the Canadian Doukhobor lead
er, to enter this country, the triangle
is complete Castro, Myths and Douk-
hobor Pete.
General" Coxey--Jacob s. Coxey OF
Ohio--comes into his own at last. A
contemporary credits the "army" leader
with the honor of first advocating the
initiative and the referendum, along
with government ownership OF railroads,
Also General Rosalie Jones is dispos-
sessed of her honor. Coxey origii-t-
ed the idea of walking to a place in
order to get what he wanted
The irresponsible punster Is still at
large, if the following may be quoted
from the Washington Post; Wicker
sham has dropped his suit against the
coffee trust, as he has found out there
were no grounds"
The Order of Gideons will distribute
five thousand bibles in seventy-eight
Washington hotels during the week be-
fore Inauguration, and the boarding
houses viii be cared for later. The spr
itual welfare of visitors as well as their
temporal needs will be. thus assured.
Off-handed, one would be tempted to
ascribe the name, Arsene p. Pujo, to
the hero's berth in French detective
novel. To a large number of financiers
in the public eye at this moment, how
ever, Arsene 7. Pujo, as the man who
leads the money trust investigators, is
almost anything but fictitious per-
son.
Sherman L. Whipple, the noted Bos
ton lawyer, says that lawyers and lt
giants should be compelled to disclose
their cases before going to trial. He
believes if each side should give to the
other the names OF its witnesses and
the evidence it possesses, the whole
truth would be made known and that
not more than one case in ten would be |
tried. Back in 1900, in the famous case |
IF the United States VS.. James T. Cal |
ender, that old judicial tyrant, Samuel
chase, probably had the same idea when |
ne insisted that the defense submit it's
evidence to the state before trial. In |
,identally, it might be mentioned that |
the case was really fight for the free.
loin of .he press and that Judge Chase
was afterwards impeached for his un-
lair conduct.
Citing that men accused in the de
IKE edition swindle have been indicted,
he Madison wisconsin, State Journal
believes the bookworm has turned,
Writing to Haverhill, Mass, news.
,aper, member of the Peoples Meth
dist church in Bradford says; Lest
here be a miseonception of this little
hurch in the minds of the public in
eneral, / will say that as financial
it is struggling, As an imita
ion theatre it is fiat failure But
s an institution appointed of God to
reach salvation to all men 1t is a grand
uecess." 1t is gratifying to observe
hat the Peoples Methodist church us u
heatre has been unsuccessful, In pull
it circles, the parson who breaches
picy sermons of Sunday evening has
ad meteoric rise. Success, We're it
Expressed in the terms of widespread no.
oriety, would belong to that kind of !
preacher, But it is short-lived meth !
d Of gospel propagation and nothing /
nat pulpit speakers of this type can Of 9
n will survive long enough to displace
vii for good.
Dartmouth college students enrolled in
he new volunteer FIRE fighting corps
light find it profitable to stroll over 20
he Junction some night next spring I
nd watch the town department prac- {
ce. But there are Dartmouth men who i
ave already seen the White River nozzle n
am in action. Iii
The mention of Clifford Pinchot's name, I
not the occasion of his first visit to n
ARE, will recall to many the famous D
Pinchot controversy and the r
.-forester's break with President Taft. n
the light of what is generally sup q
'sed to have precipitated the clash, c
Tvs despatch from the coast is of pc b
liar interest at this time. L. r. CLAWS, a
e man whose summary dismissal from
G government service for cause is be- s
wed to have been a pretext for the II
each of friendship between Taft and +
nehot, has resigned on the request OF il
,vernor Hiram johnson from con h
rvation post in California. CLAWS, I,
on after dismissal from the govern 3,