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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-05

II any Of the present neutral nation.
has real reason for entering the war i
Is Norway, whose shipping has been
greatly reduced by reason OF submarine
attacks over long period Of time Next
70 Great Britain, Norway i perhaps the
greatest loser in this respect and a. vet
Norway has bad very little 10 say IN
protest. At least very little Of her pro-
tests has come 20 the notiee 81 the world
How long Norway can stand the iestrue-
tion Of her commerce boats and not enter
urgent protest j. matter for consider
able speculation among the other neutral
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-05

That factory building in Brattleboro
which is to be vacated because of the
liquidation of the affairs Of the Carpenter
Organ company ought not to remain idle
long if Brattleboro's public-spirited peo-
pie earnestly take up the trail of new
industries. Brattleboro people are com
mendably energetic and public spirited
and they will probably find new con
Germ to occupy the organ making plant.
The passing of the Carpenter company
after 60 years of activity is sincerely to
be regretted, but its stockholders are
guided in their present action by knowl-
edge Of conditions throughout the coun-
try and not by theories. Organ manu-
featuring is not the field of such large
possibilities as it was few decades back,
or before bor-saving musical devices
came into popular use.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-05

edral, Burlington, was in town Tuesday
evening and preached Lenten sermon
at st. Norbert's church.
Principal and Mrs. English Of Stowe
passed several days last week as the
guests of Mrs. English's sister, Mrs. Carl
Warren.
Miss Marion Sullivan of Newport was
in town over Sunday
Leo johnson is in St. Adams on BUSH
ness.
Miss Dorothy Davis, who taught the
kindergarten here last year, is visiting
at H. R. Kimballs.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-05

The long service which the late James
b. Angel rendered as president of the
University of Michigan was almost
equalled by that of the late Matthew
Henry Buckham, who succeeded Presi-
dent Angel OF the University of Yer
mont when the latter individual resigned
at Burlington to go to Michigan. Their
services at their respective universities
commenced in the same year, 1871, and
that of President Buckham was conclud-
ed only upon his death in 1910, while
that of President Angel was ended a few
years later when he retired and became
president emeritus President Buckham
was president of the University Of Yer.
mont for approximately 80 years; Presi-
dent Angel was at the head of the Uni
versity Of Michigan for 43 years. Added
to the latter's record are his FIVE years as
president at the University of Vermont,
giving him AS years in such a position
Both had distinguished records, as well
as long.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-05
PROTECT BARRE'S GRANITE
PLANTSi

1t is apparent that Barre as a munich
patty has not done what it should tx
protect all its manufacturing plants from
fire. This failure to give adequate pro
lection has not been due to wilful neg.
lect. It has been due to lack of knowl-
edge of the real conditions OF the water
pressure in some sections OF the city
which are served by branches of the
water system. For instance, no one
knew that hydrant near Barclay Bros.
plant on Batchelder's meadow would not
throw three streams of water to the
caves of the low structure, or even
across a three-rod street No one had
any idea that granite plants in the north
end of the city were not adequately pro-
tected as far as water pressure was con-
cerned. We have been accustomed to
watch the powerful streams of water
shooting to the tops of the highest build
ings on Main street and to consider that
similar conditions would obtain were the
fire located ON Batchelder's meadow, the
Smith meadow or in the extreme end of
the city limits, where the great pl%nt of
Jones Bros Co. is located. But through
the agency of the test made by the Bos-
ton insurance exchange, at the instance
of the granite manufacturers who were
seeking reduction of high rates of insur-
ance, it came out yesterday while fire
department, water department, aldermen
and granite manufacturers were astound-
ed spectators. With fairly adequate
equipment, with alert firemen and even
with plenty of hydrants it would not
have been possible to stay the progress
of the flames in those sections once fire |
had secured good start One stream
of water cannot stop a confagration;
and one stream, and that extremely /
weak, was all that could be produced,
To remove that state of inefiiciency is,
therefore, the first duty of the munich
pality. The duty goes ahead of every
other consideration except the conduct of
municipal affairs along the regular chan
nels. We must protect the granite
plants, which are the life of the commu-
nifty. Adequate protection will not be
supplied until the present small branch
water mains are replaced by pipes that
are double the size now in the ground.
Be it said to the credit of the city coun-
ell that tentative plans were already un.
der consideration for improving condi-
tions in some sections of the city. Those
plans will have to be amplifed to meet
the needs which have been revealed at
this time, and the plans should be devel-
oped along lines prepared by careful cal t
culation and thorough understanding. c
Let this work take paramount position t
in the minds of the city council and let ;
it be prosecuted to satisfactory culmina !
ton even though some other projected
plans have to be set aside for the time d
being. The granite plants must be given y
adequate protection.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-05
Rogers Walk
Over Boot Shop

nations of the world. The United States
has far less grievance in this respect than
has Norway; indeed, great deal of the
grievance of the United States during
the past year has been because of blow
to her dignity and to her position as an
upholder of international law rather than
because of actual damage to her material
things or even loss of American lives.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-05

With a decrease Of % per cent in the
number of establishments and decrease
Of 3.5 per cent in the number Of persons
engaged in manufacture, Vermont was
nevertheless able to show an increase Of
l2.4 per cent in value OF outputs from
1909 to 1914 That might be called
triumph for efficiency.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-05
An Office Where They Don't Sleep.

There's no more sleeping overtime in
the office of Secretary of State Bailey
since the primary law went into effect,
says the Poultney Journal. There never
was any sleeping over time or any other
time in Secretary Bailey's oflice.-St.
Republican.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-05

If the United States should be called
upon to protect its frontier as Holland is
doing, how much Of our two frontiers
would the thin blue line cover? It
wouldn't cover much. Indeed, it would
be so attenuated as to become almost in
visible
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-05

The Bennington public school exhibit
of Thursday and Friday OF last week
was such success that it has been de-
cded to retain the function as an an
nual exhibition. The taxpayers were
relieved when told that no appropria.
ton had been made but that the exhibit
had paid for itself. No admission was
charged but collection was taken.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-05
Let the Good Work Go On.

Following the announcement of the
publicity campaign for Vermont slate
comes the publicity campaign for Yer
mont granite. Let the work 20 on Fol
low it with publicity for Vermont maple
sugar the most healthful and toothsome
sweet made-Barton Monitor.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-05

Rutland will have to hurry up and
write few more Brattleboro
has gone ahead OF her in postal receipts,
being now second only to Burlington.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-05
CURRENT COMMENT
Quincy's Dollar Day.

Quincy will have dollar day next Fri
day. Among other things granite monu-
ments will be marked down to living
prices Boston Traveller
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-05

The Dutch are apparently on their way
but don't know where they're going to
fight.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-05

If Villa was wounded at all, it must
have been in his pride.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-05

Even if we have plenty of water, it
wouldn't do any good if we couldn't
throw it on a fire.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-05

Is this a fight or frolic down in Mex.
leo?
The Huttig news., 1916-01-15

CHAPTER H-Walter sandry introduces himself to John Daily, foreman. as the Dillingworth Lumber Co. or most of it'
The Huttig news., 1916-01-15

He turned presently to the girl. busy in the lampiight, her black head shining a shadow over her eyes
 By the way" he said, If you care to you may ride Black Bolt whenever you wish. He needs exercise and 1 cannot use him enough. Would you care to ride him?"
 She nodded quietly. without a flicker of the pleased excitement he had ex- pected in the light of her seeming pas siCnate love Of the animal. but slow, dull flush spread upward in her dark face and her fingers trembled bit, ne fancied, on the reeds.
 They trembled i'll all surety the next morning, when with bridle of colored and woven horsehair over her arm she entered the lean-to
 Black Bolt was a gentleman born. Though he was wild as the girl for the free air, the green slopes and the yielding sod under his feet. ha stood still while she came up lightly as a cat springs with little soft aighting, and they were gone, down over the smooth slope of the valley toward the lower rollway.
 There were two interested specta- tors to that splendid hight--Ma Daily from the cook-shack porch, who wlped her eyes bit and sad aloud Bless the chFdl Wild wild, But it's nat uraI," and Walter SandTy standing at the south window Of the office
 Black Bolt, sick of the lmprsoning shed, fled like buck fuIl-fred with spring. his feet skimming the wet green of the grass. Beside them ran Coosnah, low to the ground, long ears Tapping, keeping the pace. Siletz, ore braid half whipped loose in the wsad her bare face wet, was flushed all through her dark checks, and her eyes wore like all opium smokers. content with all the world
 'D:d you like lt2" sandry asked her amusedly that evening as he passed through the eating room.
 Yes said Siletz with her belylng quietness.
 .I believe I've found a study he said to himself as he went on, worthy study in human nature
 And Siletz had found a new heaven and new earth Something wild with ii her that had ever moved restlessly broke forth a glorious flower of ec stasy. Day by day thereafter sue Ioosed Black Belt and sped into fields of Elysium. lost to earth. intoxicated mad with the rush Of wind ard ran Always when she came back there was the dusky flush In her lace. the sleepy look Of intoxication 1n her eycs
 Thus winter closed in on the lonely camp in the mountains. blue-hlack and gray With mist and ram amt vlvld green with the new grass ot the coast country.
The Huttig news., 1916-01-15
CHAPTER Vii.
Nioht Wind.

From that time forth Sandry began to take keener interest in Siletz. For cne thing, he noticed that everyone called her S1etz, with soft slurring of the first syllable, and he found him. self using the name which he thought particularly beautiful. 1t WAS the pahe of the reservation to the north and of small part of the odds ard ends of tribes thrown in there by beneficent government. What was her other name? He had always thought of her as Ma Dailys daughter: and yet. now that he came to think of it. she had never seemed akin to the easy going, open-minded foreman who was so like the old woman. She was alien to both with her silences, her whiIasi- cal speech and her look of hidden fire.
 One day in the late fall, when the white mist and the evergreen of the forest had got on his nerves unbear- ably Sandry left the office and went to the shed for Black Bolt, only to find him gone. He had meant to ride of the fit of blues. Failing that. he deeid- ed to walk it off, and struck up the wet green valley to the north.
 Almost immediately the tumbling hills closed in upon him and he found himself in a wilderness of towering
 frs, of dripping vine naples and mys-
 terious paths lost in the crowding
 ferns. He was standing at rest in a
 small glade carpeted with pine nee 1 dies and surrounded with ferns. when l he caught the sound of voices. They l cane from the dense wall of the woods at his right and unconsciously he lis tened. tipping bis head and straining his ears. Presently a look of blank ness spread upon his face.
 One of the voices was familiar. soft and sliding with minors, the voice cf the girl Siletz. and she was speaking jargon.
 Even as this amazing knowledge was borne in upon him the tangle parted and she stepped out before him. A SiletZ squaw followed her. short brown creature of comedy features. clad in brilliant flannel. a towering pyramid of baskets slung to one shoul- der. Nosing eagerly at the girls el- bow stepped Black Bolt. while Coos nah brought up the rear. They per ceived him instantly and the Indian woman turned away with a few gut turals which Siletz answered gently. But in the moment that she had con- fronted him, Sandry had seen her face and received a shock
 Beginning just under the lower lip and running downward to the base of the chin there stood out three blue bars. each composed of minutely tat tooed designs. Unconsciously his star tied eyes flew to the dark face of the girl. There, on her lighter skin, tell
The Huttig news., 1916-01-15

CHAPTER III-Sandry makes acquant- ance With the camp and the work he has come from the East to superintend and make successful
The Huttig news., 1916-01-15

great affection, that it did not sound like mans, a sons to a father rather like daughters to an ailing mother, signed, sealed and stamped it, and sat for many minutes holding it in his hand, staring hard with drawn brows at the yellow pine of the new walls. Again the faint shadow of sad ness, of regret, fiickered from the past across his features. Then he sighed, rose with his graceful quickness and strengthened his shoulders. As he closed the desk and stepped from the office he felt that he had gathered up the reins of the new life.
The Huttig news., 1916-01-15

sociate outside the camp? Think"
 Suddenly there passed over her fea- lures a quick change. He could liken it to nothing but wind on the surface of water, just a breath of change.
 "Only the Preacher she said with swift slurring of softness in her voice.
 The Preacher"
 You don't know him. He only comes sometimes. He was here just before you came"
 Who Is he?" asked Sandry curious ly.
 "I dent know. Nobody knows. But love him."
 The Preacher" he said to himself little later in the bare south room un- der the dripping caves. "H'm, The Bible-of course"
 With new interest he picked up the quaint old beck of Holy Writ and let it fall open in his hands as it had a way of doing.
 Out from that marvellous song of an inspired soul. the Psalms, there looked his answer, as he was to know in an- other day, the truest answer that could have been given to his question:
 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands and pure heart: who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity. nor sworn deceitfully.
 With an odd feeling of truth struck from the page he closed the book and laid it gently down on the white cloth.
The Huttig news., 1916-01-15
CHAPTER V.
Wild Blood and Horseflesh.

The fall drew on apace. Sometimes the austere gloom of the mighty coun- try thrilled Sandry with strange compelling; oftener it held him at a dripping window with a load of lead on his heart. He had no companions. John Daily, easy, simple, suggesting tried force, was his only comfort. In him he found something vaguely fine, as the plain little stone at the bottom of clear waters takes on certain simple beauty. They spent an occa- office, talking of the work. and the new owner asked and learned mapy things.
The Huttig news., 1916-01-15
CHAPTER VI.
Trouble Win the YeIIcw Pines.
country.


 Walter Sandry sat ip the office at the slough's edge, busy with file and i ledger. Two months had passed ant l something had lifted from him il l these two months; weight had light ened. Where had been huge dis gust, almost intolerable in it's in- tensity, for this rain-soaked land. there had crept in an insidieus admiration. Often now he looked down the green little valley sharply deGned between it's binding hills and felt the subtle charm Of the intimate shadows, the near white dusk and the great trees under whose dropping feathery boughs there lay silence and. sense of ref uge.
 Suddenly there came to him clam or of voices, oaths and the throaty tones of strong men in anger. Up from the lower rollway a group of loggers came stalking in their spiked boots. Behind them Murphy rocked excitedly along in the tiny locomotive.
 Sandry shut his ledger and stepped outdoors.
 What's the matter, Collins?" he asked of huge man in the lead, perfect type of the logger of the great Northwest, sun-browned, hard-mus- cled, wiry of figure and with the en- durance and power of a bull elephant.
 Matter enough. Them damned Yella Pines's sawed five piles in tn rollway an tore up two lengths of track
 Sandry went ahead down the track and found a state of things sufficient to raise the ire of any rivermar or timberjael
 Where the track approached the roll way it had been torn up bodily. the ties and rails thrown into the narrow slough, as evidenced by few pro jecting ends. and the roliway itself, a slanting floor of logs some two feet thick supported on a group of gradu- ated piles, sagged in the center where two piles had been cut and pried side wise The lower edge also dropped for the same reason. It had been the work of pure malice, that he saw at glance.
 Collins" he said as the men came up in sullen group, get to work and see if you can raise those sawed sup ports and pry them back on their bases
 The gang went slowly down the sharp bank of the tidewater slough.
 "Johnny Eastern" said one softly, "all right, all right. Prize up a roll way, My Aunt Maria,"
 Sandry stood near, realizing his lim- itations and raging helplessly watch ing them lazily testing and pushing here and there
 Hadn't we better just spike 'em on to the sides?" asked Collins, with a droll upward glance.
 Sandry was about to reply when John Daily slipped down from the track beside him under the lee of the aam- aged roilway.
 Collins" he said sternly, you get back te camp and bring tools-peavies. hooks, couple Of chains and some picks Bring a couple of axes, too. What do you mean by such business?'
 ''Orders," said Collins with grin.
 You see. MT Sandry." said Daily apologetieally. there's no lxln' such
The Huttig news., 1916-01-15
 cOoN2lGHT 9Y pODl HEAD AAp con0qNY

power in the hills save his own. no supervision excepting the annual visits of some member of the firm who went over things, nodded, estimated, took figures and went away. He had car ried on his camp himself, fought sincs be could remember with the Yellow Pines company, whose holdings were vast as those of the Dillingworth, and had not thought of change.
 When Walter Sandry settled quietly down with no voice in the doings of the camp, Daily drew a good breath and went ahead once more.
 As for the new timber magnate, he sat down at the new desk on the first day of his occupancy of the little office on the slough's edge and wrote his first letter.
 It was on a printed letterhead:
The Huttig news., 1916-01-15
was on a printed letterhead
Dillingworth Lumber Company.
 Toledo. Oreran.

Toledo, Ofegon. Dear Dad: Exeelsiorl I fancy I'm or top of the world Wish you could step i here for an hours chat. The countr, would amaze you as it has me with Is mighty bigness You feel like an ator' crawling on the seas fiaor-too small t. count. The hills are like our beloved catski1ls, only they are their wild cousin from the wilderness. unkempt and savage .. There is wealth here, Dad. untold wealth and I intend to get handful O it. The timber is unsounded. It reaches away to the Sfletz reservation on thr north--and on beyond. These Indians come into camp once in awhile witt baskets, a ttmid sort of people, fishers not fighters. The stumpage is magnifi. cent. We are the company though we have a rival d formidable one, the Yellow Pines which operates to the south of Us 1 have met none of their people as yet but my foreman tells me there is, and always has been. bad blood between Us. Well. dear old chap. I must not weary Xou. Write me all the happenings thai concern you there Tell Higgns if he negleets enc thing about you 1 will skin him alive when I come home for f1Yina trip.
 l hope sir vou are feeling comfortable and will gn into the winter ln good shape When the spr IF comes on 1 believe we
 
 Pullman srrssfee Is smooth as glass across continent And l know the trip would benefit you.
 As he wrote these words the young mans bright blue eyes softened like a womans and a grim line settled about his lips. He knew, on the word of the greatest specialist of two cent- nents. that the dignified old gentleman to whom they were addressed. a white haired gentleman with the finest bear ing and the gentlest heart. tied frrevo- cab1y to an invalid chair had at the most but a seant year to live. Yet he wrote of hope and travel and return ing health, wrote determinedly with 2 force that must communicate some thing of it's light to the lonely wreck left by the tide of life stranded at the edge of that mighty, flowing stream the metropolis.
 He finished the letter with a com mendation so tender, so indicative of
The Huttig news., 1916-01-15
Choir and Cuirc

The word "quire, as ap9lieti chorus of singers is rare. The rr word Is choir.
The Huttig news., 1916-01-15
SYNOP SIS.

CHAPTER I-Siletz of Daily's lumber camp watches stranger mishandle his horse in climbing the ridge and directs him to the camp.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-26

Williams Root Beer 1; Ex; s-
 / DOtCleS AOc Grape Juice, quart bottle
 ...... 3Sc; S4.25 dog. pint bottle 22c; $2.50 dog. Roses or Stones Lime
 Juice, large bottles 45c Larqe Queen Olives 2Oc bot. Stuffed Olives, large jars
 ..i. ....... 23c