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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-12-27
KILL THE CUR. SAVE THE SHEEP


1t was long held that the only good
Indian was a dead Indian. 1t would be
great5thing for Vermonts sheep industry,
IL we could all act on the theory that the
only good dog is a dead dog. An "open
season" for dogs, might become as at
tractive for hunters among sheep breed
ers as an open season for deer is for the
average nimrod.
Woolgrowing improvement and anti
cur sentiment go strictly together in this
country. and all publicity which will ex-
plain the situation to the public is a ma
tional service. The best grades of wool
are raised in average farm fiocks where
sheep can be properly cared for and clip
ped. Even in Australia. which Vermont
did so much to stock with sheep a few
decades ago. the best grades come from
hocks of moderate size. The tendency
there. where woolgrowing has been car
ried to az high a stage of development as
that shown in any country, is toward the
farm fiocks rather than the large sheep
ranches. The greatest obstacle to wool
growing in this country has been the
roaming cur protected by the humane
sentiment Of city people who believe that
In reasonable restrictive laws for the safe
guarding of sheep some injury is done
to the dog as they know him. The kind
Of dog that works damage to flock Of
sheep is the common underfed cur.
A dog breeder says heavy tax should
be paid on mongrel dogs. especially ours
kept by farmers themselves. who underfeed
them. give them no training. and allow
them to roam at large. This breeder be-
lieves that the situation calls for an i'm
"rOvement In dogs II people buy we'll
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-12-27
]. H. KINGsBURY ORDAINED.

An ecclesiastical council comprising the
Congregational Churches of Rutland
county, together with the churches of
Orwell. Shoreham and Whiting. convened
at the Sudbury church Thursday to ordain
the pastor of the church, j. II. Kings
bury,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-12-27
PASTOR DECLINES CALL,

State Superintendent George r. Fortier
of st. Adams. head of the Universalst
churches of Vermont and Quebec, an
nounces that the Rev. Robert NJ. Keller
man of Waterville, Me-, has declined the
call to the Rutland Universalist Church.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-12-27
THIS AND THAT.

| The Brattleboro Unversalist and Uni
tartan Churches are to unite 10 save coal.
| All the Bellows Falls lawyers have
volunteered to help registrants to fill out
missionaries.
| Hugh d. Lalor of Rutland. member of
the FIRST Vermont. who broke his hip at
Camp Greene, Charlotte. n. c., is recover
ing.
The Connecticut Valley Poultry associa-
ton is to have its eighth annual show at
Bellows Falls January l. . and 3.
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RED CROSS SERVICE.

The women Of Burlington have long
been doing a noble work for the soldiers
Of this war, both in providing comforts
with which to overcome handicaps in the
field in health, and to aid our soldier boys
when sick or wounded. Knowing all this
and having direct evidence of the way
In which this worthy organization helps
keep up the morale of our forces in France
as well as at home, the people of Bur-
lington should aid in its growth and SER
vice in every possible way. 1t is not all
to become mere members of this great Or
ganization.
Never in history has such suffering been
caused by war as at the present day.
Millions Of men have been killed or
wounded and millions in one form or an
other crippled for life. The progress that
had been made towards the elimination
Of tuberculosis has been checked and the
white plague is adding its hundreds of
thousands Of victims to the numbers Of
the slain Millions of innocent, helpless
suffered and multitudes of them have
died in massacres or from famine and
disease. To all this physical suffering
must be added the mental anxiety and
distress Of hundreds Of millions of peo-
pies whose nations are engaged in this
fearful strife. The sum total of human
misery. death, destruction and devasta-
ton Is beyond all Imagination.
To help ameliorate this awful condition
is the duty and privilege Of every man,
woman and child in America.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-12-27

No one can question the statement that
n country worth fighting for is worth saw
ing for.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-12-27

II goes without saying that the WILDCAT
proposal for republic in the Province OF
Quebec will be repudiated The French
Canadians are a thoroughly loyal people.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-12-27

It il we'll declared that to save money
$or the support of our American boys In
this war is to save life.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-12-27
BRoOKLINE MAN LOSES LICEN!

Charles Barnes of Brookline has lost
his hunting and fishing license. and can
not take out another within one year.
having recently been found guilty Of hav-
ing several skunk skins In his possess
sion illegally. He was fined $35 and costs.
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EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY.

She-"I thought prize-fghting was ex-
citing"
He-"lt is
She-"Well. l heard my brother talking
about fight. and he said one of the
lighters was soon put to slecp."-Balti-
more American.
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vERMONTER KILLED IN FRANCE.
In the Canadian casualty list issued
Saturday appeared the name of NJ. S.
Aldrich of Derby Line, as being killed
in action.
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BURLINGTON, DECEMBER 27, 1917.
WANTED.

wSen You want anything advertise N tne
nav sncciei column Of this paper. Some
bargains offered there this week ~ wn t1xa
rsbis papcr has more than $4,000 readers
every week and one cent word Will reach
Them NIL,
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The New Year

Begin the new year by paying all
your bills by check. 1t is the safe way
and then you'n know where your mon
ey goes Our commercial department
is at your service.
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THE DIFFERENCE.

what you are about. "-Washington Star.
DIFFERENCE DEFINED.
Whats the difference between IA drama
and melodrama?" well. in a drama
the heroine merely throws the villain over
In the melodrama she throws him over a
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Evening star., 1917-06-03
THE GOD OF THE INVINCIBLY STRONG ARMS

Master. you ask what they were
doing. / ask-what are they guard
! ing?"
"GuardingT
Yes. For can there be safer guard
in all the world than leprosy? 1t is the
one thing you dread and fear you men
of America and Europe. But they. the
men Of Asia, they do not fear it, You
know that"
We were silent. I thought deeply,
and as I thought I looked about me.
The walls of the cave in which we
We're were painted with a typical scene
OF Buddhist iconography. On the left
was Lord Gautama standing, dressed
in simple robe of that dark red-brown
color which Indian tradition since an
cient times prescribes for ascetics and
sanity preachers of all sects.
The halo and the characteristic top
knot made it certain to me that the
teacher was meant for Buddha. 1
walked up to the wall and studied the
hgure of the Buddha himself And then
noticed something strange. For while
the right hand of the teacher was
raised in the correct traditional pose.
known as that of Abhaya or protection,
the left, which should have been hang
ing fiat against the side. was lifted in
a pointing attitude.
lnstinctively my eyes followed the
direction In which the hand was point
ing.
There was small opening in the
wall. / motioned to Mascasenhas to
follow me, and stepped through the
opening.
i found myself in a still larger and
higher cave But there were no paint
lnss covering the walls. Instead there
We're tiers and tiers of boxes, thou
sands and thousands of them. I walk
ed up and examined them. And l jump
ed back with a cry of fear and sur
prise.
The boxes were plainly labeled in
Chinese and English. They contained
dynamite and powder and cordite and
picric acid. They contained every dew
ilish explosive and material for the
manufacture Of poison gas and bombs
which Europe and America have ever
thought of or have ever invented. They
contained enough death-givins quail
lands into final oblivion.
Suddenly I understood the whole in
ferna1. damnable riddle.
Here was the chief armory, the chief
depot OF the yellow man. And he
guarded 1t carefully. He had buried it
in deserted ruin. and he had brought
lepers from all over Asia to guard the
death-dealing treasure.
l understood the meaning Of the
wagon and motor truck ruts had seen
two days ago when we were crossing
the basalt lands. I understood the fe-
verish speed with which the lepers back
yonder were working. understood
bundles which they were lifting and
trundling in their wheelbarrows.
turned to Mascasenhas.
Come, Mascasenhas. We must go
away-auick. quick-back to the coast
Ito Macao-to Hongkong."
/ stopped short. For suddenly from
nowhere in particular came again that
Evening star., 1917-06-03

jail. Point, Herman. Each and all OF
you will have a chance to see. Poin'
again, Herman. This is the only gen.
uine one-fingered tattooed wild man.
Last on the program, en-til-mun and
lay-deeze, we have Verman, the savage
tattooed wild boy. that can't speak only
the native foreign languages. Talk
some, erman.
taneous hit. He was encored raptur-
ously, again and again: and. thrilling
with the unique pleasure of being ap-
preciated and misunderstood at the
same time. would have talked all day
but too gladly. Sam Williams, however
with a true showman's foresight, whis-
pered to Penrod, who rang down on the
monologue.
ti1-mun and lay-deeze. this
closes our pufformance. Pray pass out
quietly and with as little jostling as
possible AS soon as you are all out
there's goin' to be a new pufformance
and each and all are welcome at the
same price of admission. Re-mem-bur
the price Is only cent, the tenth part
of dime. of twenty pins: no bent ones
taken Pray pass out quietly and with
as little jostling as possible. The Scho.
field and Williams Military Band will
play before each performance, and each
and all are welcome for the same and
simple price of admission"
All of the first audience returned
most of them having occupied the in
terval in hasty excursions for more
pins. And the third performance found
all Of the same inveterate patrons once
more crowding the auditorium, and
seven recruits added.
From the first. there was no question
which feature of the entertainment was
the attraction extraordinary; Verman-
Verman. the savage tattooed wild boy
speaking only his native foreign Ian
guages-Verman was a triumph! Beam
ing wreathed in smiles. melodious, in
credibly fluent, he had but to open his
lips and dead hush fell upon the au-
dience. Breathless, they leaned for
ward. hanging upon his every semisyl-
liable. and. when Penrod checked the
flow, burst into thunders of applause
which Verman received with happy
laughter.
The climax of his popularity came
during the fifth overture of the Scho-
field and Williams Military Band, when
Evening star., 1917-06-03

1ority. the bear constitutes a check
upon undue imitation of prices.
As an illustration of the operation OF
short selling. 1t may be assumed that
an operator" or a dealer in stocks,
believes that particular stock is SELL
ing too high. 1t has been established
and that at times they sell too low.
The operator for lower prices. called In
the terminology of the market place q
bear" begins to sell that particular
that stock. but he sells it just the
same.
AS the stock must be delivered to tho
purchaser on the day after the sale,
stock for him from another broker who
deals principally. perhaps exclusively.
in lending stocks. The seller makes
delivery of the borrowed stock to the
purchased If the seller has guessed
right and the stock has gone sufficient
ly below the price at which he sold it
he directs his broker to buy the stock
in for him to make a settlement with
the broker from whom he borrowed the
stock for delivery to the purchaser,
and his profit is the difference between
the price of his sale and his purchase.
minus his commission to the broker for
executing the orders and a certain
amount of interest about which 1t Is
not now necessary to inquire In order to
understand the outline of the short
sale" transaction.
II the price of the stock had gone
up instead of down, the bear" would
have had sooner or later to purchase
the stock at a loss to him. 1t is
wrongly assumed that when stock
has gone down 5 points" the bear
makes that profit. In trying to buy In
the stock to cover his short sale hS
often forces the price up in the Same
way he forced it down when he sold
stock that he borrowed.
1t is rare that outsiders" or the
public" make short sales. Generally
this class will have nothing to do with
stocks or the stock market unless they
believe that the price of stocks will
go higher, and then they buy eitherl
for speculation or for investment, and
the line between speculation" and '1n.
vestment" is sometimes very thin and
vague AS a general rule. it Is only
the professional operator who will 0ell
stocks Short" hoping to buy themA1{
and cover his sale at lower price.
Evening star., 1917-06-03
by wind and water.

by wind and water.
We walked on.
Instinctively I bent down and looked,
and instinctive1y gave an exclamation
Of surprise.
'Mascasenhas." / cried.
I handed him the thing I had found.
It was the red clay bowl OF a Chinese
pipe, recently used. Mascasenhas exam
ined 1t, shifted 1t, then tossed 1t among
the basalt rocks with light laugh.
Some nomad Msngol shepherd may
have passed through here with his ami
mails. You see, there are grazing lands
to the west of here. No. no, master. We
are safe"
OF course. the man was right. I was
seeing specters In broad daylight, and
the next moment l laughed at my own
silly apprehensions. We walked steadily.
on. still in a southerly direction, and
stopped in front of mawlike opening
among the ruins. Mascasenhas pointed
down.
1--WE have arrived, Mr.. Vandewater.
Yuan Kee will never find us here. And
my cousin will send us provisions from
time to time. In week. or a 1nonth,
the Manchu win give up the search. he
will think that our sampan overturned
in the narrows. and that we were drown
ed. And then-presently@
He talked on. But I was not listening.
l hesitated at the entrapce to the cave,
and had all / could do to keep myself
from crying out. For again the fetid.
acrid, odor assailed and choked me- and
this time 1t came from below my feet,
from the very cave into which the nall
caste was leading me.
The caves were in several rows, piled
on top of each other.
We approached the upper row by a
rough staircase cut from the living rock.
Then. crossing deep fissure OF the rock
by rickety, time-worn rope bridge. We
arrived at a series OF cave temples COM
municating with each other.
l was IL prey to enormous, voiceless ex-
citement. Yet my excitement was not
tainted by the vicious tang OF fear; hard
~ of nervousness. 1t was not located in
my blood or my brain or my heart, but
was spread thinly over my entire psychic
being.
We walked on
Mascasenhas knew his way perfectly.
He swung sharply to THE left. entered
another larger temple cave. and then
and I could feel him tremble.
What is it, Mascasenhas" MY voice
sounded hollow and unreal. He did not
answer a word, but pointed shaky
finger.
looked ! shivered a little.
Dead ahead. from crack In the wall
came a light-a light which spoke OF
lamps and torches moving about.
AT the same instant my senses regis
seemed to connect with each other. One
was again the oppressive. fetid odor which
l had smelled first. when / was within
sight of the ruins: the other was sound
"a series Of sounds.
1t was a shifting. twirling babel Of
many tongues. echoed from rock to
rock. listened more tntently.
Evening star., 1917-06-03

saucer. we descended into a steaming
valley, through which we paced for five
We stopped to eat and rest. and I
smoked my last cigar with lingering
regret. Then we were Off again
Once / thought that, little TO the
west and leading In the same direction
which we were taking. could see
deep ruts such as are made by heavy
WAGONS and huge caterpillar-wheeled
sort to the half-caste.
But he smiled and forged on without
turning his head.
"Just a shadow. master of mine. Per-
haps the mark of a dried river bed. But
there can be no wagon ruts here Why
there's been nobody here since the days
when Kublai Khan and his Tartars rode
their horses into the ships to subjugate
the Shoguns of Japan: except. perhaps,
once in a while Buddhist abbot sage
searching for the buried shrines of his
faith"
We made camp on a small hill shaded
by enormous. gnarled thorn trees. Mas
casenhas pointed south.
See, over yonder," he said I'VE are
nearly at the place of our destination.
BY tomorrow night we shall be there
rose and looked over the scene. Be
fore me stretched a huge. gray fiat
with long lines of basalt here and there
scanning the surface.
A cold wind set in from the south. I
opened my lungs wide to drink in the
air. And then / gasped and shuddered
little. For on the wings of the even
Ing wind came strange. acrid. fetid
odor. Somehow very vaguely and quite
fne1plicably 1t reminded me of a day.
years ago, which / had spent with a
friend Of mine. British army surgeon,
on duty in a cholera camp in India, be-
yond Rawalpindi
I spoke of it to the half-caste But
again he smiled. He shook his head
Nobody lives here except the dead,
master. Nobody will ever live here No
body will ever restore it. 1t is but the
smell of the sun steaming up decayed
plants. Once they grew rice and gin
eeng and oil beans In this valley, be
fore the great river burst its bed and
swept north into the Yellow sea. Their
roots may be left. and now their smell
Is in the air-like corpses"
Late the next day we reached the
farther ridge. The smell had become in
creasingly fetid and hot but I accept
ed the half-caste's explanation. He knew
the land.
Mascasenhas led the way with the
quick, swinging step of the Jungle
born. and followed him painfully. We
climbed steadily for about two hours;
then we descended. And suddenly, hid
den away in a curious. baylike depres-
sion between steep, red dunes. the ruins
came into sight.
AT first they were absolutely unin-
habitable. There was neither cave MOI
shelter. Then we came upon a bit OF
land where I could still trace the
ground plan, marked by the remains OF
walls made of plastered reed mating
But-au was half petrtded. eroded away
Evening star., 1917-06-03

into Sans hand with a careless-nay, a
contemptuous-gesture
At sight Of Marjorie. Penrod Schofield
flushed under his new mustache (re-
painted since noon) and lectured as he
had never lectured before A new grace
invested his every gesture; a new sonor-
BUSINESS rang in his voice; simple and
manly pomposity marked his very walk
when he fearlessly handled the box of
rats and hammered upon it with cool in
souciance, he beheld-for the first time
in his life-a purl Of admiration eddy
softening Of that eye. And then verman
spake-and Penrod was forgotten. Mar
jorie's eye rested upon him no more.
A heavily equipped chauffeur ascended
Mrs. Levy awaited her son and Miss
Jones' Thereupon. having devoured the
last sound permitted (by the managers)
to issue from Vernhan. Mr.. Levy and
Miss Jones departed to a real matinee
at a real theater. the limpid eyes of Mar
jorie looking back softly over her shoulder
but only at the tattooed wild boy.
> After this. perhaps because of stated
curiosity. perhaps on account of a pin
famine, the attendance began to Ian
guish. Then followed an interval
when the band played in vain.
About o'clock Schofield and Will
liams were gloomi1y discussing various
unpromising devices for startling the
public into a renewal of interest, when
another patron unexpectedly appeared
and paid cent for his admission
News of the big show and museum OF
curiosities he'd at last penetrated the
far cold spaces of interstellar niceness;
for this new patron consisted of no
less than Roderick Magsworth Bits.
jr., escaped in a white sailor suit
from the Manor during a period of Sc
we're maternal and tutorial preoccupa-
tion.
He seated himself without par1ey, and
the pufformance was offered for his en-
tertainment with admirable conscien-
tfousness. True to the Lady Clara
caste and training. Roderick's pale, fat
face expressed nothing except an i'm
pervious superiority. and, as he sat.
cold and unimpressed, upon the front
bench like large. white lump. it must
be said that he made a discouraging
audience ito play to-" He was not. how