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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
A FINE TYPE OF AMERICAN
PEOPLE.

The late Harlan Page Amen, princi-
pal of Philips Exeter academy for near
ly score of years, was an example OF
the sturdy, rugged American class, ris-
ing by his own efforts largely from the
position of farmers boy to the head
OF one of the largest institutions of its
kind in the United States and by great
administrative ability bringing that in
stitution to place far above that which
il occupied when he was called to its
leadership. He was trained for that
work only after considerable hardship on
his part, coming to Exeter academy
when young man of 10 years, an age
much above the average of those now
adays graduating from the school, and
he put himself through the academy by
working at odd times as his lessons and
study periods would permit. On leav-
ing Exeter and entering Harvard uni
versity, it was the same story over
again, the story of a poor boy deter
mined to equip himself for life's work
with a good education and being forced
to work for living while trying for a
degree. Yet his perseverance pulled him
through, and he was equipped with that
training which made him successful
teacher and then principal, as proven by
the remarkable strides which Philips Ex-
eter academy made during the period
from 1895, when he became the head of
the school, the attendance increasing
from about $50 to nearly 600, the school
plant being greatly added to and the
teaching force being augmented in pro-
portion to the gain in students, while at
the same time the spirit of the school
was being maintained. All this was
done by Principal Amen, whose career
was brought to such unexpected termi-
nation last Saturday. The academy and
students will have occasion to remember
him with gratitude for his work; and
those who are looking for examples OF
Americans of high type will surely find
such in Harlan p. Amen.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
CONVENTION OPENS WEDNESDAY.
Woman's Home Missionary Society Of
M. Z. Conference in Barre.

Beginning Wednesday afternoon at
2:30, the Goth annual meeting Of the
Woman's Home Missionary society OF
the Vermont Methodist conference Will
be held at the Hedding church in Barre
and will continue through Thursday.
The program for the two days is as fol-
lows:
Wednesday Afternoon.
;30--Meeting of executive board and
Vermont conference Woman's Home Mis-
sionary Society corporation
Wednesday Evening.
7:30-Song service, led by Mrs. l.. ID.
Martin.
7:45-Scripture reading and prayer,
Rev. Il. Il. Newell Of Barre; music;
greetings, Mrs. +. R. Northrop; response,
Mrs. A. Fl. Webb Of Mortified; music;
review of the year, l5-minute reports of
the Washington meeting, Mrs. Y. A.
Irish of Enosburg Falls, Miss Mabel Sill
yer of Brownsville, Mrs. A. i. Celley or
Fairlee; offering; hymn; benediction.
Thursday Morning.
9:00-Devotions led by Miss Ellen
Mead of Mortified.
9l5-Business session. appointment
of committees; roll call of auxiliaries,
circles, and bands, responded to by Civ
ing number of members, number OF sub
scribers to home missions, and amount
of money raised during the year. Re
ports: Corresponding secretary, Mrs. ".
A. Irish; treasurer, Mrs. A. w. Gates OF
Barre; supplies, Mrs. Il. A. Barrett OF
Bradford; mite boxes, Mrs. Mary g..
Sherburne of Montpelier; young peoples
work, Mrs. Il. j.. Baker of Bellows Falls;
literature, Miss Fannie Smith OF West
Enosburg; temperance, Mrs. E. Carson
Mason of Bellows Falls; systematic be-
nefcence, Mrs. l.. A. Powers of Water
bury; pledge making; election of Off
GERS; noontide prayer.
Thursday Afternoon.
:45-Conseeration meeting, Mrs. L. A.
Powers.
300 Papers, "The Year OF Jubilee"
Mrs. Guy +. Crawford of Randolph;
Mountain Folk Mrs. A. w. Hewitt Of
Plainiield; "Orientals in America" Mrs
Fl. A. Stevenson OF Groton; music, ''Ver-
mont's Opportunities and Needsg" Miss
Grace Bayne, superintendent of North
Barre work; symposium, Some Ways
of Promoting Interest in the Woman's
Home Missionary Society."
Thursday Evening.
7:30-Devotional service, DR.. ]. w.
Hatch of Montpelier; music; address,
Mrs. Amanda G. Clark, superintendent
immigrant home, East Boston; offering;
HYMN. beuedietion
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11

law does not conflict with rulings deny
ing to states an interference with IN
terstate commerce.
Massachusetts, for reasons creditable
to its successive generations OF inven-
tive, acquisitive and enterprising citi-
zens, has accumulated reserves of cap
ital and purchasing power which make
it state in which foreign corpora
tions like to do business. The income
which it now bids fair to gain from
this new source Of taxation, consequent
ly may be larger than would fall to
most states were they to enact similar
laws. Such legislation is likely to fol-
low. for usually states find it expedient
to multiply sources of income II there
by the Unsuitable demand for increase
of expenditure may be met.
Resort to this form of taxation, if it
gecomes general, will add another by
no means small item of expense to the
budgets of corporations catering TO the
purchasing public of all sections OF the
-Brattleboro Reformer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
HAD INQUEST ON SHOOTING.
West Haven Affair Is Being Investigated
by States Attorney B. L. Stafford.

Rutland, Nov. ia criminal inquest
was conducted yesterday at West Haven
by States Attorney b. l.. Stafford OF this
city before Judge Horace M. Redfield OF
Hubbardton to gather evidence relative
to the fatal shooting Sunday morning
in West Haven of Charles Gordon,
trapper, living in New York state, by
William Koch, farmer and one OF the
largest land owners in western Vermont.
Mr.. Koch, who is confined at the house
of correction awaiting preliminary
hearing, has engaged Ernest H. O'Brien
of this city as counsel. He is 80 years
of age and unmarried.
1t is probable that the special grand
jury which indicted Dewitt Ballard of
Castleton for manslaughter in causing
the death on Halloween night of Thomas
+. Leahey of West Rutland will be re-
called to consider the Koch case. This
case will make the third homicide to
come before the present term OF Rutland
county court.
1t is said that i'll feeling had existed
for some time between Koch and Cor
don because the former was at one time
a fish and game warden and was respon-
sible for several prosecutions for viola
tons of the fishing and hunting laws.
Koch has been shot at on one or two oc-
casions by some unknown person. Al
though Gordon lives on the New York
state side of Lake Champlain he had
traps set for fur bearing animals on
Koch's property on the Vermont side.
While he was looking at his traps soon
after o'clock Sunday morning he was
seen by Koch who accused him of tres
passing and ordered him off No one
knows exactly what was said by the
two men but Koch does not deny the
shooting although he says that his 49,
calibre revolver was accidentally dis
charged as he was drawing it from his
pocket when Gordon threatened him
with a club.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
F. H. Rogers & Co.

portant post but without having been
forced to meet any of the great prob
lens which come up in diplomatic rela-
tions between two countries like the
United States and Russia. The letter
is couched in SO puerile terms and with
such manifest appeal to the vanities
OF Editor Pindell that it is almost to be
discredited; and Editor Pindell does deny
having received it. Had he been infus
enced by such Establishments as Senator
Lewis is alleged to have used in offering
him the ambassadorship for single
year tit being stipulated that he resign
on Oct. /. 1914, then it would have
been made out Editor Pindell queer
person to send to St. Petersburg. In
deed, the language of the whole letter
as published seems to convey the i'm.
preston that the appointee for year
is to be nothing but figurehead, TO en-
10Y all the social doings in the Russian
capital, to give his little daughter the
benefits of foreign residence for a year,
to swell around in the glory Of being an
ambassador to such great power as
Russia and, then, the year of direct tri-
umph passed, to return to Peoria to
bask in the slightly less glowing renown
of having represented the United States
in an important ambassadorship. 1t is
ridiculous. The United States wants
diplomats in the great foreign capitals
who go there for business, not for so
cial ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 1t wants men there
who will be prepared to grapple with the
problems which are likely to arise at any
time. 1t can make social lions of men
at home without sending them abroad.
The st. Petersburg post is important;
it deserves very capable man. Editor
Pindell may be that capable man, who
knows? But if he is, the nation would
like to send him there under different
auspices than appear in the letter alleged
to have been written him by Senator
Lewis.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
PLAN TO HOLD RALLIES.
Progressive Party Intend to Have Them
Educational in Nature.

Barre Daily Times, Barre, Vt.
Gentlemen: Vermont holds as you
know q referendum vote on March 4,
1914. in accordance with the bill passed
through the last legislature, for the
people to vote as to whether they prefer
direct primary, preferential primary,
or the present election system now in
vogue in the state. The Progressive
party plans to hold a series of meetings
to be educational in character, and as
nearly non partisan as possible for a
political party to have under their aus
piees.. The first of these win be held
at Barton, Friday evening, November,
Ia. at Seaver's Hall, at p. m. and at
'Imnenburg, Saturday afternoon at two
O'Clock, November Is, and at Island
Pond, Saturday evening November 10, at
eight o'clock The speakers at these
meetings viii be Hon. cambridge Colby
of New York City, Fraser Metzger of
Randolph, Il. w. Gibson of Brattleboro,
and C. H. Thompson of Montpelier A
cordial invitation is extended to any
member of the Republican or Democratic
parties, wishing to take the negative side
against the direct primary, to so notify
the Progressive headquarters at Mont
pelier, and we win gladly give them
twenty-five minutes for their side of
the question at any or all of these meet
ings.
Yours very truly,
Charles II. Thompson,
Chairman exec. committee Progressive
party of Vermont.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
CURRENT COMMENT
New State Income Source.

There will be national interest in the
federal supreme courts decision sustain
ing the constitutionality of the tax on
foreign corporations imposed by the
state of Massachusetts, in 1909. Litiga-
ton following enactment of this law
and an attempt to collect the tax arose
more from dissent from the principle
involved than from the burden of ex-
penditure, which was based on the rate
OF one-fiftieth of one per cent of the
authorized stock of the corporation. The
court now rules that the tax is not to
be taken as an impost on property be-
yond the states borders but rather an
assessment or rental charge, as it were,
for doing business within the state.
Thus defined, the new source of income
is legitimately collectible, and the new
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
Not a Safe Guide.

The Springfield Republican in discuss
ing the disposition of the United States
Senate to consider the central bank plan
offered by Banker Vanderbilt of New
York calls attention to the fact that
over 100000 voters in the Progressive
and Democratic parties voted for men
who stood on platforms declaring Tor
government controlled banks and a cur
rency independent of private control 1t
argues that with such a strong majority
for banks of this nature the senate
should give no attention to other pro
posals as the people have expressed
themselves so clearly on this matter
We cannot quite agree with even such
a well informed and independent au-
thority as the Republican in this matter.
Probably half of the men who voted for
Roosevelt and Wilson in 1912 had never
read the currency planks in the Progress
sive and Democratic platforms. A much
larger per cent. probably was controlled
by the man rather than any currency
principles And furthermore it is not
probable over ten per cent. OF the Pro-
gressive and Democratic voters, or any
other party for that matter, could in
telligently decide banking and currency
questions should they attempt to do so.
For these reasons we feel that the popu-
lar vote for president should not CON
troll in currency and banking legisla-
ton.
To our mind it is the duty of senators
to study as thoroughly as possible all
branches OF the currency and banking
question, in other words make them
selves much better informed authority
on the subject than a popular majority
could ever become, and when they have
fully informed themselves act on their
own Judgment. This is the most inn
portant work of the representative gov
eminent, through intelligent and I'M
preiudiced investigation to find what is
right and safe and then act the law for
the people. There would be little hope
of true progress in this or any other
matter If the country proceeded only
as fast as the popular mind became com
petent to decide questions so complicated
and difficult as the currency question:
ST. Johnsbury Caledonian.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
SOCIAL LIONS ABROAD.

Officialdom in Russia must have been
greatly startled on learning of the al
legged negotiations leading up to the Sc
lection OF Editor Pindell of the Peoria
(Ill.) Journal as ambassador to Russia.
Surely the American people are very
much mortified over the revelations both
as to the alleged bartering of such po-
sition as the ambassadorship to Russia
and over the seemingly low plane of d.
plomacy in the United States if any Gre
dence is to be given to the letter which
Senator j. Hamilton Lewis is alleged to
have written to Editor Pindell in urg
ing him to take the appointment just
for year, after which he might re-
tire on the laurels of having held an inn
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
WILLIAMSBURG.

The Home Study club is to meet with
Mrs. Walter f. Granger on the after
noon of Thursday, the 18th, at the usual
hour. Topic, Early Settlements and
Colonies in South America"
Charles ID. Brockway of route No. /
is away on a hunting trip and his route
is covered by temporary carrier Walter
NJ Williams. All rural patrons are re-
minded that carriers are not required to
lift loose pennies from the boxes, but
that mail should be stamped whenever
possible. Pennies if used should be
placed in an envelope or coin cup.
Word is received from BurNgton that
Mrs. Maggie Griffin, now in the Mary
Fletcher hospital IN that city, is making
some improvement, but that progress is
very slow.
Union Superintendent Leonard ID.
Smith will hold examinations for teach
ers in the room in the town hall occu-
pied by the high school on Thursday and
Friday, Nov. 10 and ID.
All roads lead to Manchester, N. H.,
this week, where the National grange IS
holding its annual meeting. Those going
from this town are George t. Colby,
master of the Central Vermont Pomona
grange who will be accompanied by
Mrs. Colby; District Deputy Mrs. Ida M.
Whitcomb; Mrs Martha Wales, ex-sec-
rotary of the local grange; Mr.. and Mrs.
Matt w. HyIand of the state grange;
Mrs. Eugene Reynolds, an active worker
in the local grange.
John G. Lane left town the 10th for
Jacksonville, Fla, where he is engaged
as chauffeur for man for whom he has
previously run an auto truck between
Hardwick and Montpelier. Mr.. Lane
expects to be absent for the winter.
Mrs. Diantha B. Sanders is housekeep-
er at G. T. Colby's during the absence of
Mr.. and Mrs. Colby at Manchester, \. H..
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
ST. ALBANS MAN HURT.
John Bird Thrown Out of Wagon at
Palmer. Mass.

Palmer, Mass, Nov. ll.--William
Goodreau and his cousin, John Bird OF
st. Adams, VT, were driving up Thorn
dixie street Sunday evening, and when
near the residence of Samuel Barker the
horse took fright and ran onto the street
railway tracks. The wheels of the wag-
on caught in the rails, and the young
men were thrown out They were placed
aboard passing car and removed to the
street railway waiting room at Palmer
where DIR. II. G. Cheney was called. He
found that Goodreau was not seriously
hurt, but Bird was unconscious and APP
parently suffering from fractured skull.
He was at once taken to the Hampden
hospital in Springfield.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
'TwouId Be Awful.

A man was being shown over a trout
farm.
"Ahi" he said thoughtfully. "Provi-
dence knew what it was doing when 1t
made fishes yoiceless."
"How do you meant" he was asked.
"Well. ] understand that fishes lay
millions of eggs every year. What If
they csckled like hens over every egg
they laid f"-Life.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
Different.

II sometimes wonder if my life is
worth living"
$50 do !.
"Ah, then you have found your life
disappointment"
Not at all; it is your life we were
speaking OF. Houston Post.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
What Is II.

What's that which all love more than
life?
Fear more than death or mortal STRIFE
That which eOntented men desire,
The poor possess, the rich requirey
The miser spends. the spendthrift saves,
And all men carry to their gravesf
The answer MISUNDERSTANDING
Leader
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11

1t is the year for young men in New
York official position. Note the young
faces appearing in the newspapers with
the announcements of elections or ap-
continents to the various positions.
There is scarcely an old face in the list.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11

After all the experts have spent pages
In summing up the causes OF Princeton's
defeat by Harvard Saturday, about their
only conclusion is that Harvard won.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
Bud Not on a Hunting Trip.

IT is the Portland Press which sug-
gests that whiskey bottle is 2 good
thing to leave at home when starting on
a hunting trip.-Concord Evening Mon
itor.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
Saw It to Her Face.

"You know there's more in this world
than money"
81 don't know. II there is my wife
hasn't thought of it."-Detroit Free
Press.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
JINGLES AND JESTS
Doing Him Justice.

"When you proposed TO me you said
You were not worthy of me"
"Well, what of that's"
Nothing; only | will say for you that
whatever else you were you were no
liar" Houston Post.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
owe Have What We Need,

when we need it, by providing for it be-
fore we need it," Apply for insurance
while insurable. National Life ms. Co.,
of vt. (Mutual) S. S. Ballard, gen
eral agent, Lawrence building, Mont
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11

Get him a good one
and he'll take good care
of tit pays.
All ours are in the
good class, as the cheap
stuff for boys is a poor
investment all round.
For boys from s to 16
years here is a coat at
$40 that will do credit to
all Of us. Brown or
gray shade, convertible
collar, all wool.
Others from S. to SIS.
1t will be a pleasure
for us to show you the
new styles. Everything
for boys from three
years up.
A few odd patterns to
close. Ask to see them.
We Clean, Press and Repair Clothing
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11

Each Sunday morning, it might be the
prayer in Vermont pulpits to spare US
this week our usual homicide.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11

Sewing machine needles for any make
of machine at Hooker's. Didn't know
that, did you?
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
TAXIDERMY

Thirty-fve years experience mas
taught me the best possible method for
mounting game heads. Send for our L.
page catalogue. II will show new styles
for mounting deer heads.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11
Specials this Week

Come to this store for your Winter Goods, where
you of buying good merchandise at the right
prices. Visit our second floor and you will not be
disappointed Winter Underwear, Flannelette Goods,
Blankets, Comfortabes, Knit Goods, Sweaters.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11

c. S. PHILLIPS. Ta1idermist, Glover. vt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-11

Ladies', Misses and Children's Coats. You sure
ly here from $1.OO to $500 your La Vogue
Coats and have large assortment to select FROM
Come here and let us show you before you buy.
The Winslow mail., 1913-04-19
$497,91l.27

tate of izona,C County of Navajo
named solemnly
R. 9. KAUFMAN, Cashier.
this 18th day of April 1918
A. FL. HANSEN Justice Of tbe
Correct
BURBAGE
IA GREAVES,
o. B SUTTON. Directors.
The Winslow mail., 1913-04-19
= ~ tAf r ~. ~
Look to Your Plumbing.

You know what happens in a
house in which the plum bing is
in poor condition-everybody in
the bouse is liza bic to contract ty-
phoid or some other fever. The
digestive organs perform the
same functionsin the human bo-
dy as the plumbing does, for the
house, ard they should be kept
IN first-class condition all the
time. If you have any trouble
with your digestion take Cham
5erlain's Tablets aud you are
certain to get quick relief. For
sale by all dealers. .f !
BORN: To DR.. and MRS. P. D.
Sprankle, a baby boy, Monday ev-
ening at 10 O'Clock.
The Winslow mail., 1913-04-19

The Cemetery Fund deposited
in the Navajo Apache Trust Co..
Bank the amount of $123. OF
which will continue on deposit
until the necessary fund to pipe
water to the cemetery will be ac-
quired. o1
CEMETERY FUND COMMITTEE.
Mrs. A. E. Gillard will enter
tain Wednesday afternoon in
honor of Mrs. J. Krentz of Doug
las, Arizona.
The Boosters" evening Five
Hundred Club met with Mrs. ]
E. Foley as hostess, on last Satur-
day evening, and the occasion
was a very enjoyable one. After
the usual number of games had
been played, adainty three course
luncheon was served. The club
meets this evening with Mrs.
Chesebro.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Kleindienst
entertained at dinner Saturday.
Messrs. Williams, Gardner and
Hookway of Holbrook.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christy, parents
of Mr.. w. G. Hunter of this city
arrived in town yesterday from
Phoenix where they had been
spending the winter and after a
brief stay here will leave for
their former home in Missouri.
Mrs. Hathaway mother of DIR.
C. L. Hathaway of this city ar
rived here Thursday morning
from Los Angeles where she had
been for the last few months.
She will visit here indefinitely.
County Assessor w. F. Will
ans has been busy here this week
distributing county tax blanks
among our citizens to fill out and
give the valuation of their pro-
perty, preparatory to making out
the county tax roll for this year.
BoRN:To Mr.. and Mrs. Balm,
Of this city, a baby boy, Tuesday
afternoon at A o'clock.