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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-15
MAY TIGHTEN
BLOCKADE
Great Britain Is Likely to
Make 1t More Eff
fective
SOME TRADE
STILL ESCAPES
The Aim Is the Destruction
of Germany's Com
merce

London, Jan. l5.--The attitude of the
British foreign office respecting the
blockade of Germany is summed up as
follows in the White Paper on Jan, 4:
"The actions of the German govern
ment led to the adoption of more ex-
tended powers of ntercepting German
commerce in March. 1915. The allied
governments then decided to stop all
goods which could be proved to be going
to or coming from Germany.
"The state of things produced is in
effect a blockade adapted to the condi-
tions of modern war and commerce, the
only difference in the operations being
that the goods seized are not necessarily
coniscated."
With reference to the blockade ques-
ton, The Times believes that the gov
eminent is paying very serious attention
to the rising tide of criticism of the
weakness of Great Britain's blockade
policy, and adds:
cover and above the palpable loop
holes in the various commercial agree
ments with neutral traders, there is
reason to think that in one instance the
generosity of neutral nation is being
abused and that the American arrange
ments for feeding Belgium are being
twisted to the advantage of the German
occupants, Lord Lansdowne's speech is |
taken as a forecast Of stronger policy /
for which the public has been waiting"
The Morning Post says:
"There are at last hopeful signs that /
Parliament Is recovering from the men,
tai catalepsy which was one result Of
the formation of the coalition ministry"
1t blames the foreign Office for making
useless agreements with neutral traders,
and adds:
1--WE can only repeat that so long as
the foreign office usurps the proper bust.
ness of the admiralty, so long will the
war continue"
In the House of Lords Thursday Bar
on Sydenham called attention to the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-15
Wilson Will Not Use Force
to Bring Order in
Mexico
CARRANZA TO BE
DEPENDED UPON
He Will Be Trusted to Run
Down Murderers Of
Americans

Washington, Jan. l5.-Oficial an
nouncement was made at the Whit
House yesterday afternoon that thu
American government will take no ag
gressive action in Mexico.
The statement was made following
the cabinet meeting that the president
had decided to give Carranza full oppor
tunity to handle the situation without
interference from this government
While the storm of indignation over
the massacre of Americans in Mexico
continued yesterday to sweep through
Congress and while the British embassy
was preparing to ask the state depart
ment what course this government in
tends to pursue to get protection for
foreigners, the administration rigidly
'stood pat"
Stirring arguments favoring the send
ing of the armed forces of the United
States into Mexico resounded in the SEN
ate chamber.
Agitation over the possible fate of
British subjects across the Rio Grande
was responsible for frank expressions
from the British embassy concerning the
lack of any responsible authority in Mex
leo City to which Great Britain could
appeal.
At the White House the president
with Senator Stone. chairman
Of the Senate foreign relations commit
tee, and with his cabinet. his aim be.
ing to buttress the administration in its
determination to do nothing aggressive
and to rely on Carranza.
Among his close advisers, the president
made Roadway. Senator Stone emerged
rom the conference to throw cold water
IN air talk of intervention and to plead
hat more time be allowed Carranza.
The cabinet members who would talk
eft the White House saying that all the
members of that body were prepared to
tand by the president. Some there
we're who looked grave and refused to |
ak.
Carranza himself sent a personal tele.
ram to Secretary Of State Lansing in |
esponse to the American note demand |
ng the capture and punishment of those
Who murdered the IL Americans at San.
a Ysabel. He will, he said, mete out
condign punishment"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-15
TO MAKE DANDRUFF
QUICKLY VANISH
Try This Simple. inexpensive Home
Treatment

No one likes dandruff, but TO get rid
Of il You must do more than wash your
hair The cause OF dandruff lies not In
the hair, but on the scalp and in the hair
roots, and just as twice daily you use a
germicidal tooth powder or cream TO
cleanse your teeth Of germs, so you
should use Partisan Sage twice daily to
drive dandruT from your scalp, prevent
its return, protect your hair from fall
ing out and nourish its proper growth.
Dsndruff makes your hair fall out. Pa
risian Sage makes dandrud fall out
and your hair stay in.
A delightfully."- perfumed hair and scalp
treatment easily applied at home, very
inexpensive and obtainable from the Red
Cross Pharmacy or any drug or toilet
counter-Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-15
BRAZIL REDUCES TARIFF.
Imports Duty on Number of North Amer
lean Products Decreased.

Rio Janeiro, Jan. l5.-The president
has signed a decree reducing the imports
duty on number Of North American
products. The new duties, which are in
effect as from Jan /, Of the present
year, show the following reductions from
the tariffs now in force:
Thirty per cent on wheat -four; 20
per cent on condensed milk. articles OF
rubber included in article 1893 OF the tar
if laws, clocks and watches, inks (arti-
Gle l73 of the tariff law except writing
inks, varnishes, typewriters, ice boxes,
pianos, scales, windmills, cements, cor
sets, dried fruits and school furniture.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-15
RUB RHEUMATISM
PAIN FROM SORE,
ACHING JOINTS
Rub Pain Away with Small Trial
Bottle of Old "St Jacobs
Oiln

What's rheumatism? Pain only.
Stop drugging! Not one case in fifty
requires internal treatment. Rub 10th
ing, penetrating "St. Jacobs Oil" direct
ly upon the ''tender spot" and relief
comes instantly. "St. Jacobs Oil" is a
harmless rheumatism and sciatica lini-
ment, which never disappoints and can
not burn the skin.
Timber up Quit complaining Get a
small trial bottle from your druggist,
and in Just moment you'll be free
from rheumatic and sciatie pain, sore
ness, stiffness and swelling. Don't suf-
ferl Relief awaits you. Old, honest "St.
Jacobs Oil'' has cured millions Of rheu-
matism sufferers in the last half cen
fury. and is just as good for sciatica,
neuralgia, lumbago, backache, sprains
and swellings.--Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-15
CATARRH LEADS
TO CONSUMPTION

Catarrh is as much a blood disease M
scrofula or rheumatism. IL may be re-
lieved, but IL cannot be removed by
simply local treatment. II causes head
ache and dizziness, impairs the taste
smell and hearing, affects the voice, de-
ranges the digestion, and breaks down
the general health. IL weakens the deli.
cate lung tissues and leads to consump'
ton.
Hoods Sarsaparilla goes to the seat
of the trouble, purifies the blood, and is
so successful that it is known as the
best remedy for catarrh.
Hoods Sarsaparilla strengthens and
tones the whole system. IL builds up
Ask your druggist for Hoods, and insist
on having IT, There is no real substi'
tute.--Adv. Y
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-15
INDICT WEBER IN
A plot" TO SEND
RUBBER TO GERMANY
He Is Charged with Conspiracy to Ship
Contraband Against Custom
Laws

New York. Jan. l5.--An Indictment
charging Edward Weber, relative OF
Albert Weber. a local official Of the
Deutsehes Bank of Berlin, with partici-
patton in an alleged conspiracy to ship
contraband rubber to the German gov
eminent in violation of the customs
laws, was returned yesterday by the fed.
eral grand jury.
Four other persons Paul Schmidt,
Max Yanger, Mrs. Annie Dekkera and
Richard Wohlberg and the Rubber y
Guayule Agency, Inc, were also indicted,
The defendants viii be arTaigned for
pleading before Federal Judge Clayton
on Monday next.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-15
Park Theatre.

Tonight the World Firm corporation
presents Holbrook Blinn in, "A Butterfly
on the Wheel the story Of a man who
neglects his wife for business and allows
her time for the attentions 81 others A
most wonderful story. which We know
viii please ell. Special matinee for chill
dren at Gals. Plenty OF comedy films
besides the feature play An children Sc.
-adr.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-15
BIG PEARL ma oUAHoG.
Stone Found By a Cook in Westerly
R.I-It Is Valued at 1000.

Westerly. r. T.. Jan. ia white pearl
was discovered yesterday in a quahog
By Louis Hsntfefes. a cook The stone
vas valued al 81 90 b. 3 Local iewelef.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-15
BANK ROBBERS GET $4,000.
BlOOdhOunds Aiding Posse to Run Down
Bandits.

Clayton; Ala. Jan. l5.-The safe OF
the Bank Of Clayton was cracked early
yesterday and $4,000 stolen. A posse
with bloodhounds was organized to run
down the robbers.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-15
To Prevent the Grip

Colds cause grip--Laxative Bromo Quin.
inc removes the cause. There Is only
one "Bromo Quinine." =. w GROVES
signature on box. 25c-Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-15
ST. MONICA DEBT
WAS WIPED OUT
IN TWO MONTHS

Continued from first page.l
Evening star., 1916-08-20
By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD
illustration by Wladyslaw 7. Benda


Michael
ably disappointed his reply that he She the train later
Roland David make him visit that night they the
girl bathing pool
being peril and he resolves to find her Next day he with Father Roland
Gods Lake Half way they to visit lavish who Father Roland tells David
When they Tavihs
the girl lavish
miioners follow
influence Father Ronds life
clothes
table high
Father
Evening star., 1916-08-20

look upon all this? A lump rose sud-
denly in his throat. He had made mis-
take He felt like one who had broken
into the sanctity of sacred place. The
missioner had not dropped the key pur-
5posely. 1t must have been an accident.
sAnd he-David-wa guilty of a great
sblunder.
He withdrew from the room, and locked
sthe door. He dropped the key where he
ahad found it on the floor, and sat down
gagain with his book. He did not read.
He scarcely saw the lines of the printed
page. He had not been in his chair more
than ten minutes when he heard quick
Footsteps, followed by a hand at the door,
and Father Roland came in. He was
svisib!y excited, and his glance shot at once
ito the room from which David had just
come. Then his eyes scanned the floor.
THE key was cleaning where it had fallen,
and, with an exclamation of relief, the
Anissioner snatched it up.
II thought l had lost my key" he
laughed, a bit nervously. Then he added,
with deep breath: "It's showing to-
might. A heavy snow, and there will be
good sledging for a few days. God
knows, don't want you toleave me; but
/. if it must be, we should take advantage
of this snow; it will be the last. Mukoki
and l will go with you as far as the Rein
deer Lake country, two hundred miles
north and west. David-must you go?"
"Yes, must co. answered David al
have quite made up my mind to that.
l must 60"
TEN days after that night David and
Father Roland clasped hands in final
farewell at White Porcupine House, on
4 the Cochrane River two hundred and
seventy miles from Gods Lake. 1t was
something more than handshake. The
missioner made no effort to speak in these
last moments. His team was ready for
& the return drive, and he had drawn his
* travelling hood close about his face. In
his heart he believed that David would
never return. He would go back to civil
S ization, probably next autumn, and in
i time he would forget. AS he said on their
f last day before reaching the Cochrane,
4 Davids going was like taking part of
X his heart away. He blinked now as he
f dropped David's hand-blinked and
\ turned his eyes. And David's voice had
an odd break in it, He knew what the
h missioner was thinking.
"I'll come back, mon PEREZ" he called
after him. as Father Roland broke away
S and went toward Mukoki and the dogs.
K an come back next year.
s Father Roland did not look back until
/ they were started. Then he turned and
waved mittened hand. Mukoki heard
\ the sob in his throat. David tried to call
last word to him, but his voice choked.
R He too waved hand. He had not known
that there We're friendships like this be-
tween men, and as the missioner trailed
steadily away from him, growing smaller
4 and smaller against the dark rim of the
4 distant forest, he felt sudden fear and a
great loneliness-a fear that, in spite of
himself, they would not meet again, and
loneliness that comes to man when he
sees a world widening between himself
\ and the one friend he has on earth.
The man had saved him from himself,
had pointed out the way for him, had
made him fight. More than friend-a
father. He did not stop the broken sound
that came to his lips. A low whine an
Evening star., 1916-08-20

curious style hang on the wall A table
chair for a child. On another table, unC
lighted, is the most astonishing thing of all
A distance from him the Indian who
was to take him over to Fond du Lac, on
Lake Athabasca, was waiting with his
dogs and sledge. He was Sarcee, one of
the last of an almost extinct tribe, so old
that his hair was of a shaggy white, and
so thin that he looked like famine
stricken Hindu. "He has lived so long
that no one knows his age, Father Roland
had said, "and he is the best trailer be-
tween Hudson's Bay and the Peace His
name was Upso-Gee, the Snow Fox, and
the missioner had bargained with him
for hundred dollars to take David from
White Porcupine House to Fond du Lac,
three hundred miles farther north and
west. And he was ready. He cracked his
long caribou-gut whip to remind David
of that. David had said good-by to the
factor and the clerk at the Company
store and there was no longer an excuse
to detain him.
They struck out across small lake.
Five minutes later he looked back. Father
Roland, not much more than speck on
the white plain now, was about to disap-
pear in the forest. 1t seemed to David that
he had stopped, and again he waved his
hand, though human eyes could not have
seen the movement over that distance.
NOT until that night, when David sat
alone beside his campfire, did he
begin to realize fully the vastness of this
adventure into which he had plunged.
The Snow Fox was dead asleep and it was
horribly lonely. 1t was dark night, too,
with that shivering wailing of restless
wind in the tree-tOps-the sort of night
that makes loneliness grow until it is like
some kind of monster inside choking off
ones breath. On Upso-Gee's tepee, with
the freight dancing on it, there was
painted in red grotesque fiend with
horns-a medicine-man, or devil-chaser;
and this devil-chaser grinned in blood
thirsty manner at David as he sat near
the fire, as if gloating over some dreadful
fate that awaited him. 1t was lonely.
Even Baree seemed to sense his masters
oppression, for he laid his head between
David's feet and was as still as if asleep.
A long way off David heard the bowling
of wolf, and it reminded him shiveringly
of the lead-dog's howl that night before
Tavsh's cabin. 1t was like the death-cry
that comes from dogs throat; and
where the forest-gloom mingled with the
freight he saw phantom shadow-in
the morning he found that it was spruce
bough broken and hanging down-that
made him think again of lavish swinging
in the moonlight. His thoughts bore upon
him deeply and with foreboding. He
asked himself questions questions that
We're not new, but that came to him to-
night with new and deeper significance.
He believed that Father Roland would
Evening star., 1916-08-20

wanted to go west. They started two
days later with sledge heavily laden with
supplies. The runners sank deep in the
increasing slush, but under them was al
ways the thick ice of Lake Athabasca, and
going was not bad, except that David's
feet were always wet. He was surprised
that he did not take "cold."
"A cold-what is that?" asked Bouvais,
who had lived along the Barrens all his
life.
David described typical case Of
SMILES, with running at eyes and nose,
and Bouvais laughed "The only cold we
have up here is when the lungs get touched
by FROST" he said; "and then you die
the following spring. Always then. The
lungs slough away And then he asked:
"Why are you going west?"
David found himself face to face with
the question, and had to answer. "Just
to tougher up Bit" he replied. "Wan-
dering. Nothing else to do" And after
all, he thought later, wasn't that pretty
near the truth? He tried to convince
himself that it was. But his hand touched
the picture of the girl in his breast pocket.
He seemed to feel her throbbing against
it. A preposterous imagination! But it
was pleasing. 1t warmed his blood.
FOR a week David and Baree remained
at Horseshoe Bay with the Frenchman.
Then they went on around the end of the
lake toward Fort Chippewyan. Bouvais
accompanied them, out of friendship
purely, and they travelled afoot with fifty
pound packs on their shoulders, for in the
big sunlit reaches the ground was already
growing bare of snow.
Bouvais turned back when they were
ten miles from Fort Chippewyan, explain
ing that it was nasty matter to have
knocked two teeth down a factors throat,
and particularly down the throat of the
head factor of the Chippewyan and Atha-
basca district @And they went down."
assured Bouvais. "He tried to spit them
out, and couldn't
A few hours later David met the factor,
and observed that Bouvais had spoken
the truth; at least, there were two teeth
missing quite conspicuously. Hatchett
was his name. He looked it: tall, thin,
sinewy, with birdlike eyes that were shift
ing this way and that at all times, as if
he were constantly on the alert for an am
bush, or feared thieves. He was suspi-
cious of David, coming in alone in this
norman 's-land with pack on his back
white man, too, which made it all the
more suspicious. Perhaps possible free
trader looking for location. Or, worse
STILL spy of the company's hated COM
petitors, the Reveillon Brothers. 1t took
some time for Father Roland's letter to
convince him that David was harmless.
And then, all at once, he warmed up like
birch bark taking fire, and shook David's
hand three times in five minutes, he was
so hungry for white mans companion
ship-an honest white mans, mind you,
and not scoundrelly competitors!
He opened four cans of lobster left over
from Christmas for their first meal, and
that night beat David seven games Of
cribbage in a row. He wasn't married, he
said; didn't even have an Indian woman.
Hated women. If it wasn't for breeding
afuture generation of trappers he wouldn't
care if they all died. No good. Positively
no good. Always making trouble, more
or less. That's why, a long time ago, there
was fort at Chippewyan-a sort of
Evening star., 1916-08-20

the owners absence, and he enters. 1t is
IN earlier period. A wOman's clothes of a
Ter a lamp which Father Roland has left
"a long, thick, dark tress of woman's hair.
have gasped in amazement and that he
would have held up his hands in incredu-
lity had he known the truth of this as
tonishing adventure of his. An astonish-
ing adventure, nothing less. To find a
girl-a girl he had never seen, and who
might be in another part of the world
when he got to the end of his journey-or
married. And if he found her, what would
he say? What would he do? Why did he
want to find her? "God alone knows
he said aloud, borne down under his
gloom, and went to bed.
SMALL things, as Father Roland fire.
quently said, decide great events. The
next morning came with glorious sun;
the world again was white and wonderful;
and David found swift answers for the
questions he had asked himself few
hours before. Each day thereafter the
sun was warmer, and with its increasing
promise of the final breakup" and slush
SHOWS Upso-Gee's taciturnity and anx-
iety grew apace. He was little more talk
ative than the painted devil-chaser on the
blackened canvas of his tepee; but he
gave David to understand that he would
have a hard time getting back with his
dogs and sledge from Fond du Lac if the
thaw came earlier than he anticipated.
David marveled at the old warriors en-
durance especially when they crossed the
forty miles of ice on Wollaston Lake be-
tween dawn and darkness. At high noon
the snow was beginning to soften on the
sunny slopes even then, and by the time
they reached the Porcupine, Snow Fox
was chanting his despairing prayer nightly
before that grinning thing on his tepee.
"Swas-tao [the thawl she kan dam
queek,' he said to David, grimacing his
old face to express other things that he
could not say in English. And it did.
Four days later, when they reached Fond
du Lac, there was water underfoot in
places, and Upso-Gee turned back on the
home trail within an hour.
This was in April, and the post re-
minded David of great hive to which the
forest people were swarming like treasure
laden bees. On the last snow they We're
coming in with their furs from hundred
trap-lines. Luck was with David. On
this first day Baree fought with huge
malamute and almost killed it; and David,
in separating the dogs, was slightly bitten
by the malamute. A friendship sprang up
instantly between the two masters. Bou-
vais was a Frenchman from Horseshoe
Bay, fifty miles from Fort Chippewyan,
and a hundred and fifty straight west Of
Fond du Lac. He was fox-hunter.
81 bring my furs over here, m 'sieu, he
explained, "because had a fight with the
factor at Fort Chippewyan and broke out
two of his teeth.
Which was sufficient explanation. He
Evening star., 1916-08-20
k
The Girl Beyond the Trail

h AVID drew slowly back toward
the door, stirred all at once by
great doubt. Had Father
Roland meant that he should
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-20
THANKSGIVING.

Thoushtless and busy as most of US
are the presidents Thanksgiving proc
lamation sets all of us thinking. Even
the most careless thinks of causes for
thankfulness, if not actively then sub
consciously. Perhaps few of us recall
the history OF the day or give thought
to the thankfulness that Toasted when
the shadow Of famine had been with
drawn; but none fails to pause for the
moment at least to consider the
mercies OF Providence bestowed upon
set Thanksgiving day.
Thanksgiving day is bred into us.
So are the causes and reasons for It.
Whether or not we demonstrate the
fact and even when we do not realize
it, tho we celebrate the day perfunctor-
lily and merely as feast day we are
thankful and it is an expression of in
dividual and national thankfulness.
Families reunite. neighbors get to-
gether, friends renew friendships kind
ness reigns, and all these are express
sions of thankfulness. All thankful
ness is not said or sung or written.
But it is well to take stock of thank
fulness, make an inventory Of mercies
vouchsafed. There is always much to
show on the credit side of the balance
sheet. There is no such thing is
bankruptcy in an inventory of the
mercies of God Ii much has been
taken much has been brought. What
ever has gone has always left hope be-
hind. II we have lost we have gained.
The inclination is to magnify losses
and fail to note gains. We incline to
consider our gains as our desert and
cur losses as undeserved penalties. The
tendency is to mourn over loss rather
than to rejoice over mercies, to credit
ourselves with the good that has ar
rived and lay all loss on the shoulders
of fate and i'll luck. 1t Is worth while
10 go over lue pOchS d. ISdSl oihSS q
year.
Let each then go over the past year
in all sincerity balancing for himself
the causes he has for thankfulness
Rest assured he will find many. In
diridually and nationally we may
watch the morning Of Thanksgiving
day break with each and ali with single
and collective thankful of heart.
Count the mercies one by one, the in
stances wherein the goodness OF God
has been manifest in home and nation.
Mingle reverence with joy, acknowl-
edgethe gifts of the long year and the
promise that lies ahead. So shall
day be worthily cele-
brated about the hearths Of a people
Of 1oO, o0o, 900 prosperous and at peace.