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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-10-02
" A P6REECTIT COMFORTABCE be

great. The peuitentes are more
sincere and take puuishment
better.
The penitents rites are truly I'M
pTessiVe things to witness. What goes
on inside the mOrada or chapter
house IS supposed never TO be seensby
outsiders. but II Is known that there
the initiate receives the seal Of the
order, which consists OF three cuts
with a sharp flint down the length
OF his back and clear through the
skin The procession to the cross
starts early in the morning, and OF
this we have been a witness.
The Whipping Ceremony.
Picture a little village OF adobe
huts in a mountain canyon. bleak and
sterile. spotted with the melting
SHOWS OF spring and swept by q keen
March wind Daylight has just come
and the village IS just stirring; a
shiverlng boy drives 2 flock OF goats
up the mountain. g black shaWled
woman goes TO the creek for water;
blue smoke curls from half q dozen
chimneys On a hilltop Is gathered a
little knot OF watchers.
From around a bend IN the canyon
comes q monotonous. lugubrious
chant and the crazy screening music
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-10-02

Of a sort Of fife. Then the process
sion Of the psnitsntes comes into
sight Perhaps there are 30 OF them
Each Is naked save for pair OF white
cotton drawers and a black bandage
about his eyes. The foremost i'm
personates Christ and drags a huge
wooden cross perhaps 10 feet high
Each OF the penitentes has his back
covered with blood. which has run
down to his heels. making long
parallel stripes on his breeches-
Puni1hment FOR An.
Some Of them beat themselves and
others beat those who walk in front
Of them The whip Is a huge, flat
two handed affair made by plating
strands OF the amole weed or Spanish
bayonet The blows resOund like the
noise made by slapplng a man with
a wet towel, for each OF the whips Is
wet with blood.
The procession slowly takes It's way
70 a high and lonely hilltop, where
he honored one who has been elected
20 act the part OF Christ is fastened
upon the cross. Formerly he was
nailed, and often he died Now he is
generally fastened with ropes. when
Is bad enough, since be often turns
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-10-02
Husbands cuisines"
Leads TO a DiUorce

Nuskogee. Okla. Oct. Twenty
four years ago Alex Bell. then a
young farmer near here. told HIS wife
he would be away on business for a
few days. He kissed his wife and
three children goodbye and has never
returned.
Vow. with all the children married,
Mrs. Bell fears he viii never return
that he hasn't yet completed his
business"
But IL he does he viii not find her
at home. She has filed suit for =
divorce.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-10-02
ByBr4ggs

purple from arrested circulation OF
the blood.
Thus does the penitents. IN the
medieval simplicity OF his faith. eI-
press his belief in the potency OF
Christs sacrifice II Jesus bled 70
atone for the sins OF men. why should
not the penitente bleed for his own
sins2
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-09
Town Grand Lists Need Revising.
fRutland Herald. ]

The result of the West Rutland trial
in which William K. Dwyer, lister, was
acquitted of malfeasance in office, was
not wholly unexpected. Juries are very
loath to pin" anything on town officials
who fail to do their duty, especially in
relation to taxation, because probably
every town is guilty of not doing its
strict duty in assessing property for
taxation under the law
The facts in the case are, however, UNI
disputed. A very large quantity of
marble blocks, carried in the list of West
Rutland for the past number of years at
$4,000 or less, are clearly worth ten
times as much, but, according to estab-
lished usage, were listed in the Vermont
Marble eompany's inventory at a nominal
figure and that figure accepted by the
listers.
So long as the town alone was con
cerned, this was nobody's business except
the towns, but with large state and
county tax involved, it became matter
in which the whole state was interested.
Hence the prosecution.
Clearly the situation calls for some
further state authority in correcting
grand lists which are manifestly unjust
and equitable. West Rutland will prob
ably not regret the aequittal of Mr..
Dwyer, but West Rutland should see to
it that its grand list is honestly made
out hereafter, and this applies to nine
tenths of the other towns in Vermont.
The action of the West Rutland listers
is not unique. 1t is not essentially differ
ent from that of almost every other town
in the state. The difference is merely in
egree, but certainly the need of an equal
ization board, to pass finally on town
grand lists, is fairly evident from the
facts developed in the recent trial
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-09
Primary Reform.
Burlington Free Press

In commenting on the declaration of
the Free Press that ''but for the direct
primary you would not have the present
sort of campaign for governor which
forces candidates to appeal directly to
the people," the Bellows Falls Times
says.
Reference is to the great campaign of
education into which the gubernatorial
contest has developed. Here the primary
scores. 1t forces candidates into the open
where the voters can not only see them,
but get their views on public matters
at first hand and affords an opportunity
to ask all the questions that come to
mind"
The Free Press has championed the di-
rect nomination system as one bringing
the people directly into control of their
own government. As in the case of the
Australian secret ballot system when
first adopted in Vermont, the present di-
rect primary law has a few structural
defects, which do not at all involve the
fundamental principle on which the sys-
tenn Is based.
We have said before and we say again
that Burlington, for example, should have
only its fair share of representation in
the Vermont senate, with the north side
and the south side of the Winooski in
Chittenden county adequately REPRE-
scented. Nor should Brattleboro oSMont-
pelier or Rutland or any other large CEN
ter monopolize legislative or other
offices.
The remedy for this particular situa-
tion is very simple and effective. Yer
mont should be divided into senatorial
districts the same as are New York and
various other states. Chittenden county
should be divided into three senatorial
districts, the north district, Burlington
and the south district Addison county
should be divided into the north and
south districts, and so on throughout the
state. Every section would thus be as
sured its fair representation in the sen
ate. There is really no argument against
the senatorial district system, except
that the opponents of direct nomination
by the people want to continue this pres
ent possibility of injustice in order to hit
real government of the people.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-09
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1920.
THE COUNTY TICKET.

Interest in the Republican county
ticket to be voted on in next Tuesday 5
primary election will center about the
'offfces of senator and state s attorney.
Two senatorial nominees will be chosen
from a field of six aspirants: George
L. Dunham and Merrill Stark of Brat
tleboro, w. C. Belknap and DR.. F. L.
Osgood of Rockingham, E. w. Aiken
of Putney and Adm F. Miller of Dunn
merston. There seems to be little
doubt that Mr.. Durham viii be one
of the nominees, for in addition to the
strength which will come to him from
the votes of Brattleboro men and wo-
men he is certain of considerable sup
port from other parts of the county
throughout which he is known as a man
of substantial character and sound
business Judgment as well as a legis-
lator of experience and ability.
As to the other senatorial nominee,
however there is much doubt. On the
vote in Rockingham, where both Mr..
Belknap and DR.. Osgood are we'll and
favorably known, depends in large
measure the chances of. these two, al
though the fact that Mr.. BeIknap has
been making an appeal to the voters
through a series of political advertis-
ing is likely to give him an advantage
outside his home town. Messrs. Aiken
and Miller are likely to be handicapped
by reason of their inability to draw
much Brattleboro or Rockingham
strength, while Mr.. Stark is compare
lively little known outside his home
town and has no claim to previous leg
islative experience.
In the states attorney contest Har-
old f. Whitney, the only Brattleboro
candidate, will have the decided ad-
vantage of practically the solid sup
port of Brattleboro, while F. B. Pin
gree and r. R. Twitchen may be ex-
pected to split the Rockingham vote
and neither has the compensating ad-
vantage of being well known at this
end of the county. Edward s. Jones of
Wilmington, the fourth candidate, is
likely to get more votes from here than
either Rockingham attorney but there
is little chance of his finishing better
than second in the contest. There are
numerous reasons why the work of the
state s attorneys Office can be handled
more efficiently in Brattleboro than
elsewhere in the county, and with Mr..
Whitney's qualifications for the posi-
ton his nomination seems as desirable
as it is probable.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-09
FEELS LIKE A YOUNG
WOMAN AT SIXTY-T

unable to sleep more than two or three
hours a night and / would wake up in the
gia. was very nervous and was often
and | suffered a great deal from neural
morning without bit of energy and feel
ing completely tired out. 81
"But Tanlac began building me up
right away. BY the time had finished
the first bottle / felt a wonderful inn
provement, and am now SO much stronger
that if it were necessary / could easily
do all the homework for our large family
easily. My appetite is SO good snow,
can hardly eat enough to satisfy me, and
nothing ever hurts me.
Il am not constipated like / WAS and
no longer suffer from dizziness, head
aches, neuralgia or pains in the back. I.
sleep as soundly as a healthy child all
through the night and get up in the MORN
ing rested and refreshed. | think so Well
of Tanlac that have recommended it to
my son and son-in law, and they are
both taking it with excellent results"
Tanlac is sold in Brattleboro by the
Brattleboro Drug Co., in South London
derry by George G.. Smith, in Jamaica
by r. j. Daggett, in Townshend by Car
roll c. Robinson, and in West Townshend
by GrOut & Dean.-Adv.s
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-09
Legs Insured For $500 Each.

If dancing increases the beauty of the
legs what increases their value?
No, that is not the conundrum
Dancing some MORE" is the answer
and it's fact.
Miss Helen Shea is dancer in one OF
the leading shows of New York, and she
has just had her legs, which are reputed
to be the most beautiful in the world,
insured for $500 apiece.
1t all happened this way: One day when
Helen was tripping the light fantastic
across the boards behind the footlights
something was left on the floor. A little
piece of wax did it all.s Her dainty little
foot came down on the wax and threw
her out of balance. With supreme eff
fort she saved herself.
but she had to pay for the effort with
badly wrenehed ankle. So for many
days she could not dance. Hence the
insurance.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-09
CLASS IN GEOGRAPHY.

The 1920 census furnishes some new
lessons for those people making a spe-
cialty of geography. The three largest
cities of the country are the same as
before, New York with population of
5,62l,151, Chicago nearly half as large
with 2,701,7O5 and Philadelphia about
a third as large with 1,s23,15S. Ma
other city has a million inhabitants.
There are 6s cities located in 80
states and the District of Columbia
that have over 100000 population each
These 6S cities contain over a quarter
of the population of the whole country
Massachusetts and Ohio are tied for
first place in the number of cities with
more than 100000, each having seven
New York comes next with six New
Jersey has five, Pennsylvania and
Texas four each, California and 0pn-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-09
Should Keep Vail School.
tNewport Express and Standard

Newport Express and Standard.
The action of the state board of edll.
cation in voting to give up the Vail
school at Lyndon is, we believe, all
wrong. 1t was by far the best equipped
agricultural and vocational school in the
state under Mr.. Vail and his generous
donation to the state should not be
thrown away. There has been small
attendance for the past few years, but
this has been almost wholly due to the
war. A large attendance is sure to be
had if the state follows out the plan of
Mr.. Vail
The advisers gathered at the board
meeting at Lyndon at which the decision
was made to turn over the school to the
Lyndon institute did not fairly represent
the farming interest of Vermont. The
plea that the school does not pay is not
just reason for throwing it up, for if
that We're the basis for continuing schools
all state and public schools would have
to be given up. We believe the Vail
school to be one of the greatest helps to
Vermont boys the state has or can have,
and the action of the state board is a
step backward in the agricultural and
vocational education offered boys in this
state.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-09
Today's Anniversaries.

I828-Count Leo Tolstoi, one of the
greatest of Russian philosophers
and writers, born. Died Nov. 20
1910.
1s39-A large part of the city of Mo.
bile was destroyed by fire.
1916 New York and Albany were
connected by telegraph.
187O-Mrs. Cady Brownell, who served
as a soldier in the Civil war, was
admitted to membership in the
G. A. R. at Bridgeport CT.
1S91-Jules Grevy, former president OF
the French Republic, died. Born
Aug. Is, 1907.
1S93-Mr. Gladstone Is second Irish
home rule bill was defeated in
the house of lords.
1909-Edward II. Hartman, railroad
magnate, died at Arden, n. Y
Born at Hampstead, L. l., Feb
%, 1S4S.
19lS-Miss Lillian G. Jones became the
first woman bank cashier in New
York city.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-09
Stomach Trouble, Nervous
ness and Dizzy Spells
Lave 1een Completely
rc..cved by Tanlac,
States Mrs. Burnes ~

81 am getting up in years, but declare
since taking Tanlac | feel as strong and
well as when l was a young woman,
said Mrs. James Burnes, a highly es-
teemed resident of Fair Haven, VT, in a
recent statement.
Before / began taking Tanlac ! had
been in badly rundown condition for
several years, and year or two ago my
condition became great deal worse.
got so weak | was not able to do bit
of my homework and | had dull, tired
feeling all the time.
MY appetite was very poor and was
often almost deathly sick after eating.
was badly constipated and subject to ter
rible headaches, and was so dizzy at
times | had to sit down or catch hold
of something to keep from falling. Ny
back hurt me so 1 could hardly stand it
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-09
INDIANS AT WORSHIP.
Quapaws Have Church Where They
Greet Great Spirit" in Silence.

In the vicinity of Devil s Hollow, sew.
eral miles east of Quapaw, Okla, there
is wlgwam- shaped church building To-
Gated miles from any white mans hab-
itatlon and a long distance from the
nearest Indian domicile, where the Qua
paw full blooded Indians congregate
regularly to worship the great spirit
in silence. They sit about tiny fire
that has been built on stone base in
the middle of the dirt floor, from Sat
urday night at shutdown till Sunday
noon, fasting and praying, but never
speaking a word.
feature of their church meetings is
the feast that follows the fast and re-
liglous rites The meal is served in "a
little mess house nearby and when the
services are over the squaws who have
slipped out a few hours before the
time to close are ready for the dinner
and all sit down to partake of the food
that is always part of the program.
The church was built many years ago
so that the residents might have a
place of worship, custom still kept up
regardless of the fact that there is no
preacher, no choir, nothing to call them
but the religious spirit of the Indian.
Chief Quapaw owns nearly 1000 acres
of land in this region, but when he was
offered $4,000 for a few acres of il
that lay in the city of Quapaw, which
was named after him, he refused be-
cause, he said, he knew the white man
would try to get the money but could
not get the land away from him-De-
troit News.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-09
Summer Vacation Opportunities in Yer
BARRE Times.)


A Philadelphia man who recently
passed through Vermont in the return
trip to his home from Maine discovered
something during his brief stay-house
rent for IS month in a seven room,
two-story house, with large garden, a
trout brook less than 100 yards away,
a lake full of bass and pickerel 200 yards
away; also farms which could be rented
for 500 year and upward. All this in
a town in northern Vermont. This Phila
delphia man wonders why people go to
the shore" year after year when they
can have such accommodations and such
attractions in a region where "the seen
cry is among the finest to be found in
New England, with magnificent views of
the Green mountains and with glimpses
of numerous lakes and trout streams"
This is a question which we have often
asked and have never found the answer.
1t is inexplicable that people will 90 to
resorts and be gouged numerically by
the landlord sharks when they could buy
a little place in Vermont for the same
money and have splendid place for sum-
mer recreation purposes without many of
the drawbacks of hotel life in cluttered
beach resort. 1t is inexplicable unless it
De CudJ people ike TO DE nulcJeu OF their
coin and because they love the hurly.
burly life, the tinsel and the artificial
when they could just as well save a
small fortune and live natural life,
close to nature and under healthful con.
ditions. There are plenty of nice little
places in Vermont's hills and valleys
which could be bought for the price which
many families spend for short seasons
stay at some summer resort; and those
who are seeking for them can find them
If they apply to the secretary of state
for some of the publicity matter which
that office has put out from time to time.
They may not be all of the type de-
scribed by the Philadelphian in his letter
to the Philadelphia Ledger, as mentioned
above, but they all have something to
commend them and many of them have
decided attractions. While Vermont
would prefer to have all the year tenants
for these places, the state would never
theless be glad to have the places oeeu-
pied during only part of the year-the
summer season.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-09
Rabbit or Agan?
Burlington News. }


The contest for the gubernatorial
race rests between Frederick H. Bah
bitt of Bellows Falls and Frank w.
Agan of Ludlow. If one gets away
from the partisans of all the candi-
dates and gets the unbiased opinion of
a community this is the only coneIu-
sion which can be drawn. In the in
terests of majority rule-for it is gem
orally conceded that were any one Of
the other candidates to run against
him Mr.. Babbitt would swamp him
Mr.. Hardness and Mr.. Emery ought to
withdraw in order that Mr.. Agan and
his minority issue may be defeated.
While they are both high-minded gen
tlemen the only purpose they are now
serving is to make more easily possible
the election of Mr.. Agan and the de-
feat of Mr.. Babbitt.
Despite the fact that, as good party
men, they should leave the field free
to the two principal contenders in or
der not to detract from the strength of
Agan s strongest opponent, Babbitt, it
is not expected that they will. Mr..
Emery feels confident that the ring of
men expecting jobs can swing votes
enough to put him over a winner, and
NJ iidi1hCoS II Ju5b 40 sur tA"S -
extravagant and unparalleled use of
money and on elaborate pamphleteering
campaign of the state can bring him
first to the tape. Unprecedented observ-
ers, however, do not agree with these
two candidates. They believe that it
is Rabbit or Agan and the problem
confronting the Vermont voters, less
than two weeks hence, is:
Do you want Rabbit or Agan to be
the Republican standard bearerP
An overwhelming majority, we be-
lieve, approves Babbitt-with his con-
struetive policies, his proven worth and
the leader of both houses of the 1egis-
lature, and his record of success in the
administration of his own affairs-4to
Agan-placed in nomination by the
Clement element, with only the dead
liquor issue, the proposition to raise
taxes on all and one or two planks pur-
Joined from the Babbitt platform for
arguments for his election.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-09
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE.

. | went in the house this AFTERNOON
and some lady was in the parler tawk-
ing to ma, me thinking, Heck, company.
And ma called me in, saying, Benny,
this lady was your nurse wen you. were
"a little baby. You don't remember her,
do you?
No mann, / sed. WITCH / dident Be-
ing a exter fat lady, saying, So this is
deer little Benny, my sweet baby And
wat did she do but quick leen over and
give me fearse kiss rite in the face
before / could dodge. Me 'wiping it off
with my hand thinking Heck, darn it.
Well, well, my darling little baby,
and how is the adorable little dimple
rite in the middle of your back that
use to love to kisss sed the fat lady
Me jest standing there feeling
shocked, and the fat lady sed, o, don't
tell me it izzent there eny moresS
| bleeve he still has it, sed ma, and
the fat lady sed, o, / shall never die
happy till / kiss that dimple once agen.
WITCH | started to feel nerviss as eny-
thing, thinking, Heck, jimminy criekits,
good mite.
Well maybe Benny will be kind enuff
to let you kiss it jest for old time
sake, will you, Bennys sed ma.
No sir, no mann, / will not, no sir,
watts You think l am, should say not,
q. WIZ, heck, / sed.
Benny, is that gentlemanlyf sed ma.
Suteh an outbrake, sed the fat lady.
Well holey smoaks, gosh, 1 sed. And
| went out agen quick so she wouldent
get chance to try to do it by force.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-09
In the DAYS News. -

Signor Tommaso Tittoni, who has
been appointed one of Italy s repre-
sentatives in the league of nations
council, is the president of the Italian
senate and one of the best known of
all Italian statesmen and diplomatists
He was born at Rome in 1854 and has
ifieen in political life since he was 81
years old. Early in his career he was
elected to the chamber of deputies, and
in 1900 he was appointed project of the
province of Naples. He has been twice
minister for foreign affairs. He was
ambassador in London from 1905 to
1906, and served in the same capacity
in Paris during the early period of the
World war. One of Signor Tittoni 8
greatest achievements was the lead
ing part he played in establishing
the. friendship between Italy and
France,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-09
Today's Birthdays.

Victor f. Lawson well known Chica-
go newspaper publisher, born in Chica-
go, 20 years ago today.
Marguerite Enow widely celebrated
as motion picture actress, born at Sa-
vannah, Ga, 2S years ago today.
DR. James n. Kirkland, chancellor
of Vanderbilt university, born at Spar
tanburg, S. c., 81 years ago today.
Charles Edward Locke, one of the
new bishops of the Methodist Episco-
pal church, born in Pittsburgh, 60
years ago today