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The Wrangell sentinel., 1917-03-15
Secret Societies,

Secret societies are so ancient that their origin is lost in the 1nists of the past. They existed in Egypt, Persia, India. at the earliest times with which history or legend gives us any insight. It seems to be nat ural for men to organize such soci- cities for both good and evil pur- poses. Nearly all the ancient reli- gions were of a two faced character, popular and secret. or, as they are called, "esoteric" and "exotrrjy," the first for the few, the initiated, the second for the rank and file. The philosophers would teach one thing to the masses of the people and another to the select few who made up the ''inner circle" Cicero tells us that the wise men of Rome and Greece believed quite different ly from the common run of Greeks and Romans.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1917-03-15
USE OF BANK CHECKS.
The Part They Perform In the Pay.
 nnsnt of . Debt.


 A young man had kept in his pos- session for several days @ check from his uncle. His uncle hed, and he hastened to the bank to cash the check. When he found the bank would not pay the check until it had orders from the heirs or from the courts he was surprised and ob- served to his father that he thought of a check as being so much money if the signature was good.
 As matter of fact, however, @ check is merely an order from A. to B., who holds some of As money, to pay a certain amount thereof to c. It is not money, even if the names on the check are good and well known and the bank is solid as the government. Although cheeks are given in payment of debt and receipt usually is signed on the spot, yet the passing of check does not constitute payment of indebtedness until It Is pald by the bank.
 Nor will the concurrent receipt ing of the debt for which it is given change this. If the check is not paid on presentation to the bank the original claim stands against the drawer or givcr of the check. But a certified check constitutes payment on the part of the person who draws 1t.
 Checks may be antedated or post dated-that is, dated before or after the date of delivery. If postdated checks are paid before the day speci- fled the drawer can recover the money, for the bank has acted not in accordance with any order from him, but on its own responsibility.
 If blank is left for the date the holder is authorized to insert the true date of delivery, but no other date. The insertion of any other date or changing the date without the consent of the drawer makes the check void.-EXchange.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1917-03-15
Election Notice

A municipai election will be helt in the town hall of the Town ot Wranrell on Tuesday, April 5. 1917. tor the election of a mayor to serve one year, three councilmen to serve two years, and three council. men to serve one year, and one school trustee to serve two years.
 JoHN w. STEpMAN,
 Town Clerl.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1917-03-15
Jasmine Wreaths.

In Tuscany brides wear jasmine wreaths, and there is a legend that a once reigning grand duke, who at great expense procured this flower for his own particular garden, gave orders to his gardener not to part with any flowers or clippings; but the gardener, who was in love, took a sprig to his sweetheart as a gift. She, being shrcwd, planted it and raised from it several small plants, which she sold to the dukes env:ous neighbors at a great price. In a short time she had saved sufficient money to enable her lover and her self to marry and start housckeep- ing, and so the Tuscans have say ing that "the girl worthy of wearing the jasmine wreath is rich enough to make her husband happy"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1917-03-15

The Alaska legislature is prob- ably the only one in the United States which does not publish an official daily record of it's pro- caedings. The expense of pub- ..shing a daily house journal would be nominal, and the people of Alaska would be more interest ed in reading it than the Con- gressional Record which is so liberally distributed from the national capital.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1917-03-15
Tho Word "Ca!ico."

The word calico" had a queer origin. Many centuries ago the first monarch of the provine of Malahar, in Hindustan, gave to one of his chiefs as a reward for distin- guished services his sword and all the land within the limit of which a cock crowirg at d certain temple could be heard. From this circum- stance the little town which grew up in the center of this territory was called Calicoda, or "the cock growing" Afterward it was called Calicut, and from this place the first cotton goods were imported into England bearing the word 'cal- ico."
The Wrangell sentinel., 1917-03-15
Americans Die Young Because They Live on
 Borrowed Time By Dr. WILLIAM LEE HOWARD.
 Boston Physician
.~HE trouble with most of us ir

s>HE trouble with most of us in
 { America is that we live on
 borrowed years. The majori- tv of Americans live short lives be- G lse they rush along upon borrow ed years under the fatuous idea tha, or, can somehow find unused ener- g.. and growth to repay the bor- ro red and spent time.
 Rushing, pushing your work into Il SC hours which should be given to rest and recreation. eating d h. ivy meal with the brain full of b cd from mental labor. forcing a ja'ed appetite with stimulants. T. KING DnTGS AND MEDI- GIVES TO SPUR A TIRED SYS- TN. ARE SOME OF TIFF. NJ TT H CT DS OF BORROWING VARS.
 Ten and women are breaking dc~n before their bodies register ff'v years of life. The vital parts Of the machines are the ones we fl irreparahly injured.
 HE HUMAN MACHINE IN A N: 7MAL CONDITION GAN DO ecoD WORK AT SsVENTY-FIvE YEARS OF AGE AND ENJOY THE R! CULTS AT EIGHTY FIVE.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1917-03-15
Mere Gossip.

q suppose, Ei,cen," she remark ed to the new girl, who fcigned in difference, "that you overheard my husuand and me conversing rather earnestly this morning. l hope, however, that you did not think anything unusual was going on."
 "Niver bit, mum. Oi wanst had d husband meself, an niver day passed that tn neighbors didn't be- lave one or the other uv us would be kilt entoirely." - Pittsb burgh Chronicle Telegraph.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1917-03-15
Hardly.

"The old. old story" exclaimed the husband, with a long drawn sigh, as he laid down his paper. ~Another man committed suicide because hls home was unhappy"
 "And did that make his home any happier" asked his wife, Cor doesn't the paper sav?"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1917-03-15
MINING APPLICATION
No. oS55S United States Land Office, Juneau, Alaska.

February ,, 1917.
 Notice is hereby given, that the Alaska Marble Company, g co-por- ation, duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Maine, and qualified to do and do- ing business as corporation in Alaska, by William s. Bayless, its agent and attorney in fact. has made application for patent for the No. 2I Prince of Wales Group, marble placer claim, Survey No. 1o5o, situated on the east shore of Shakan Strait, on what is local ly known as Marble Creek Bay, on Prince of Wales Island, near Cal der, and about I-4 miles north of Shakan post office, Alaskas in Ton gass National Forest, and tied to U. $. L. NJ. No. ,, which is a pos, 6 inches square 6 feet above ground surrounded by a mound of stone, situated on small island in Sha- kan Strait, which is connected with kosciusko Island at low water and is referred to on U. s. C. and G. $. Charts as "Astronomical Sta tion,' winch Said property is more particularly described as follows:
 Beginning at corner No. I.
 on line of mean high water ot
 Shakan Strait, in locally des- ignated Marble Creek Bay,
 whence U. s. L. NJ. No. ; bears s. 6 deg. o3 min. 50 sec.
 E. 1o176. 50 feet distant; thence $. & deg. o7 min. w. 62o.S So feet to corner No. ?; thence N. 27 deg. 52 min. w. 2I6. 40 feet to corner No. 3; thence N. 10 deg o5 min. E. 1o7. 90
 feet to corner No. 4: thence N.
 40 deg. IL min. E. 54.oo feet
 to corner No. ;; thence S.
 So deg. 3o min. E. $500 feet
 to corner No. 0; thence N. B
 deg. 47 min. E. 2oo. 40 feet to corner No. /; thence N. , deg.
 $ min. w. 2o+. 10 feet to cor ner No. s; thence N. ST deg.
 2o min. w. s4o feet to corner No. 9; thence N. $50. % feet to corner No. 10; thehce E.
 822. SO feet to corner No. IT; thence 5. 735. 30 feet to corner No. .I2; thence $. O deg. 26 min.
 E. 27o.6o feet to corner No.
 E; thence s. 5 deg. o7 min.
 w. 335. 30 feet to corner No. I,
 the place of beginning. Con- taining an area of 1o.S55 acres. Mag. Var. 30 deg.
 30 min. E.
 The names of the adjoining clai'rs are Claim No. I placer, patented, survey No. 524. and Prince of Wales No. 22 placer, unsurveved, both belonging to the applicant company.
 The location notice of the No. 2l Prince of Wales Group Marble placer claim is recorded in Volume 10 of Mines at page 50 of the rec ords of the ketchikan Recording District No. s, Alaska.
 This notice was posted on the ground the 10th day of February, 1917. C. B. WAIKER,
 Register.
 First publication March
 Last publication May }
The Wrangell sentinel., 1917-03-15

Our school teachers are mar rying entirely too much,' says a Michigan paper. Sounds as if Michigan had gone in for polyga- nv,
The Wrangell sentinel., 1917-03-15

New York's new Hell Gate bridge cost 530, 900, but u ere are many cheaper entrances to the internal regions.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1917-03-15

The advancing price for pota- toes shows no sign of turning up it's toes. Nashville Banner.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1917-03-15
Workmen' s Compensation Laws Just to Laborer
 and Employer ry EDISON s. LOTT, President of United States Casualty Company

CONVERSATION for indus \l trial accidents is modern
 substitution for an ancient legal right to collect damages for injuries arising from such accidents.
 WORK M EMS COMPENSATION LAYS ARE BETTER FOR EVERY. so2Y THAN THE LAWS WHICH THEY DISPLACED.
 \.orkmen's compensation laws arr working out all right for every bo,,v interested. All workmen so covered are compensated if the in jury results in disability lasting lon 'cr than two weeks. There is little litigation.
 The compensation payments in most states pay as large d propor- tion of the loss in wages resulting frosa accidents as is practicable and just. and an injured workman gets the compensation to which he is en- tit.el IMMEDIATELY AT THE THE HE AND HIS FAMILY NEED TT MOST.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-04-03
STATE CALLS UPON
BENNINGTON FOR
ENLISTMfNTS
First Vermont Infantry Called
Monday Evening
COMPANY IS WANTED HERE
Young Men of Bennington Have
Chance to Show Their Patrio-
tsm by Enlistine.
COMPANY IS WANTED HERE

With the ending of armed neutrality
and the call for 100000 volunteers
should begin BenningtoI's active par.
ticipation in the problems which are
now confronting the country Dur
ing the recent Mexican situation and
since the situation in the European
war has become so acute, the young
men here have been particularly
slow in offering themselves to the
country. The recruiting station placed
here last summer was a fiat failure
and the young men absolutely refused
to enlist
The First Vermont Infantry was
called Monday evening and is today
mobilizing in various parts of the
state. The number of Bennington
men in this unit can be counted on
the fingers and is far from compli.
mentary to one of the livest towns in
the state.
Monday evening Capt. j. b. Harmon
was in communication with Adjt. Gen.
eral l.. S. Tillotson and was ordered
to get as many signatures as possible
of men that win enlist in U. S. SER
vice during the present war. The men
are to be recruited from Bennington
and the surrounding towns. Arrange.
ments will be Immediately made for
the opening of recruiting station
in Bennington which will be open all
day and most of the night for the en-
listment of men.
During the past two years. Benning.
ton young men have been accused of
being slackers the present opportuni
ty is chance for redemption. 1t has
been the experience of those who have
tried to recruit men in Bennington to
meet with this question, What am /
going TO get out of it?"
1t is time that men became awake
to the fact that enllsting is not prop.
osition of getting; it is a question of
giving. The government of the Uni
ted States is facing the most critical
condition that it has ever been obliged
to cope with since the Civil war and if
there is patriotism left among the
Green Mountains it is time to show it
with an enthusiastic backing of the
administration even though it necessi-
tates little self-sacrifice
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-04-03

4 property for the return of this sum
| contingent upon the event that tht
| Retreat should cease to be a charit
able institution. The growth and de
| development of the Retreat is, there
fore, the result of private benefac
tions and great ability and foresight
| in management.
Your committee upon being ap
pointed Immediately proceeded tC
Brattleboro and made careful in
spection of the buildings of the Re
teat the condition of the rooms; the
kitchen and dining room arrangement,
laundry, heating and ventilating sys-
tens, fire escapes and fire protection
equipment; the condition of the pa
tients as to being clothed and the IA
cilities for proper treatment and care
of the patients and the quantity and
quality of the food
Our inspection Of the rooms on the
eighteen wards included each room
on each ward. On the whole we find
these rooms clean, The mattresses
of the beds on the whole are poor.
The bedding, except upon the back
halls, where the more disturbed class
of patients are kept was clean. Each
ward is supplied with proper toilet
and bath arrangements with sanitary
plumbing.
The recently installed heating and
ventilating system are considered en-.
tirely adequate and satisfactory.
Our examination CT the Kitchen,
bakery, cold storage and food lappiies
on hand, together with invoices OF
supplies bought by the instiCuJon and
allteyidence introduced upon this sub
ject show the food purchased to be of
good quality and sufficient in qlanti-
ty. n e-1e hi39fT 5l % FDl'n'
: The food is well cooked consider
ing therquantity necessarily consumed
and the same is served in as good con-
dition as can be expected with the
present facilities, construct,un of the
buildings and the distance OF the ward
dining rooms from the kitchen, which
dining room and kitchen arrange
ments, in the opinion of your commit
tee, make it impossible to sastifactor-
lily serve food and is the direct cause
for the complaints of poor food. The
dining rooms are poorly ventilated
and unattractive.
We find the number and location of
the fire escapes. particularly on the
main buildings, to be inadequate and
in case of fire serious loss of life
might result. We recommend that this
matter be taken mp with the Stata
Board of Health and that the institu-
tipn conform to the requirements of
such board.
Charges that the institution is in
tested with yermin were made before
this committee and we find respecting
these charges that these conditions
exist to some extent, due TO the age
OF some of the buildings and the ma
ture of the institution These pests
are constantly combatted by the man.
agement.
Your committee, after completing
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-04-03

to lead this great peaceful people, in
to war, into the most terrible and dis
astrous Of all wars, civilization itself
seeming to be in the balance.
But the right is more precious than
peace, and we shall fight for the
things which we have always carried
nearest our hearts-for democracy,
for the right of those who submit to
authority to have a voice in their
own governments, for the rights and
liberties of small nations, for a uni
versal dominion of right by such a
concert of free peoples as shall bring
peace and safety to all nations and
make the world itself at last free.
ITO such a task we can dedicate our
lives and our fortunes, everything that
we are and everything that we have,
with the pride of those who know that
the day has come when America is
privileged to spend her blood and her
might for the principles that gave he
birth and happiness and the peace
which she has treasured
God helping her, she can do no
other
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-04-03
EVERY COMPANY IN FIRST
VERMONT REGIMENT
CALLED OUT
State Troops Ordered to Mobilize at
Home Stations-No information Re-
gardng Nature of Service

Montpelier, April 2.-Acting on an
order received early this evening
from Secretary of War Baker request
ing that every company of the list
Vermont regiment be called out
Governor Graham and Adjutant-Gener
al Tillotson Immediately transmitted
the order to the captains of the var
ious units of the regiment, using the
telephone to reach the company
heads. The different companies are
to be modified at their home station.
The message from Secretary Baker
failed to contain anything which
would tend TO indicate when the SER
vices of the regiment would be requir-
er or what kind of duty the guards
men will be called upon to perform.
The order was similar to that re-
ceived a week ago Sunday when Com
pany b of St Adams WIS ordered to
mobilize at the armory
Barre, April 2.-F c. Dunham, band
leader of the First Infantry, V. n. G.,
issued call this evening for musici-
ans. The following are needed: One
piccolo player, E-flat clarinet. two D.
fiat clarinet players, one double.bass,
one E-fiat bass, three slide trombones
one trap drummer one soprano saxa-
phone one alto saxaphone. Appli-
cants should write Mr.. Dunham at
Barre.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-04-03

their examination at Brattleboro, pro
ceeded to hear the evidence present.
ed before it, Seventy-nine witnesses
appeared and testified before the
committee Your committee have
given all persons having complaint to
make respecting the MANAGEMENT OF
the institution or the treatment of
patients therein an opportunity to he
heard. and have required all wit
nesses TO appear and testify who had
any information or knowledge con
cerning the subject matter OF the in
vestigation The Retreat has been
represented by competent counsel
The Board of Trustees has been rep
resented at all the hearings and the
institution given full opportunity to
be heard
Among the witnesses appearing be-
fore the committee were the trustees,
superintendent, assistant physician,
nurses, attendants and employees of
the institution. former nurses and at
tendants, discharged patients, men,
bers of the State Board of Supervis-
ors of the Insane, physicians connect
ed with other institutions and others
interested in the welfare of patients
confined at the Retreat. One thous-
and twenty one typewriter pages of
testimony were, taken.
Your committee find that there is
an insufficient number of attendants
employed by the institution; that
they are in some instances untruthful
and unreliable; that there is lack
OF supervision of their work, and no
attempt to improve the efficiency of
attendants by any method 'of syste-
matte instruction; that the standard
of wages offered for attendants is so
low and the work is of such nature
that few trustworthy persons are at
tracted from other occupations TO be-
come permanently identified with the
institution, which Is a measure ac-
counts for the constantly changing
employed We find that for a period
of three years past the average num-
Der of attendants in both the mems
and women's wards has been but Go
per cent. the requisite number as
shown by the testimony of the officers
of the institution.
Various complaints of general i'll
treatment of patients by attendants
were laid before your committee, and
these were thoroughly investigated
by us. Your committee find that pa
tents have been i'll treated by attend
ants and the evidence tended to show
that in some cases patients have been
knocked down and otherwise abused
by attendants, but without the know
ledge of those in charge of the insti-
tuition. We find that such abuses
would not be tolerated if known to the
of the institution, and in all
such cases coming to the knowledge
Continued on Page Three.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-04-03

Continued on Page Three.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-04-03

Patients have been abused at the
Brattleboro retreat but not as badly
as told in the stories printed is the
finding of the legislative committee
which has been at work for six weeks
investigating the retreat.
The ill-treatment accorded, also
says the committee, was not with the
knowledge and consent of the man
agement of the institution and EN-
ployes guilty were promptly fired as
soon as found out.
Mrs. Guilford was mistaken in most
of her charges according to the com
mittee. The asylum did not have
help enough and the wages paid are
too low to attract first class attend
ants.
The state has 300 patients there
and does not pay enough to cover the
expenses of caring for them and as a
result the asylum has been running
behind in it's efforts to perform its
functions The report of the COM
mittee was filed with the clerk of the
House and secretary of the Senate to-
day.
The report of the joint special com
mittee appointed under point resolu-
tion to investigate the Brattleboro Re-
treat at Brattleboro is as follows:
To the Honorable Senate and House
of Representatives:
The Special Joint Committee APP
pointed to visit the Brottloborc Re-
treat at Brsttieboro, to take into CON
sideration. ihyestigste and report up
on, the management OF said Institution
and the care and treatment, of'persons
who have been or are nowon confined
thereins and as to the honest and faith
full performance of all the duties of
the officers thereof, reports as sfol-
lows t1abies7f ait sfcl.sTag ts lih
The, committee are disposed, by
way of preface. to offer the lbriefest
possible outline of the foundation of
the Retreat f3tgoa
In 1884 a ten thousand dollar be-
quest created a trust for the purpose
of providing a suitable place for the
proper care and treatment of insane
persons, and thus was founded Brat
tleboro Retreat. The trust provided
trustees. In the same year the trust
or trustees were Incorporated by an
act OF the General Assembly of the
State of Vermont and the act of in
corporation was made subject to
amendment by any future legislature
so far as to provide for the more
perfect and effectua accomplishment
of the objects of this act" 1855
From this small beginning the Re
treat has grown to its present large
proportions. consisting of some twen-
ty-fve hundred acres Of land and num-
erous expensive buildings, including
the so-called Retreat, Lawton Hall
and Linden Lorke. At different peri
ods between 1884 and 1912 the State
has contributed to the repairs and inn
provements of the buildings, ali told,
the sum of thirty-seven thousand dol
lars and has an equitable lien on the
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-04-03
q. H. S. PATRIOTIC ASSEMBLY
superintendent Varney Addresse.
Meeting of Hiqh School.

Superintendent Varney Addresses
Meeting of High School.
At an assembly of the pupils of the
high school, the eighth grade and
Miss Carpenters school, in the high
school auditorium Monday afternoon
the following patriotic exercises took
place:
Song-"America"
Gettysburg Speech
Norman Greenslet
Summary of Recent Events
Harriet Burt
Song-"Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Lay of the Last Minstrel
Paul Howe
Address,
Superintendent A. w. Varney
Rupert Brooks THE Soldier"
Cordes Armstrong
Song-"Star Spangled Banner"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-04-03

DISTRICT COURT BILL
Debate Consumes Time of Senate
During Two Sessions.

Montpelier, April 3.-The senate for
two hours this forenoon debated the
governors district court bill and the
discussion continued during larger
portion of the afternoon.
The house this morning adopted the
report of the Brattleboro retreat in
vestigating committee.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-04-03
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

FOR SALE-Two or three loads of
manure at reasonable price. Am pre-
pared to take out ashes or do any odd
Jobs Saturday afternoons. Clarence
Surdam, Mckinley street. 55t6
-Washings and ironings.
Mrs. Herbert Allen, Ill Park street
55t6*
FOR SALE-25 tons of first class
hay. Phone B. Jennings, Old Ben
nington, 55t6-