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band resemble nothing SO much as the racket
which explorers tell us the wild, half-naked
savages make when they get together with
their tomtonas, cymbals and crude wind in
struments to celebrate some bloody victory over
an enemy tribe. Africa has been exonesated
by some very interesting discoveries which
archeologists have recently made in Peru and
which seem to prove that jazz is child of
the ancient Peruvans.
5 Jazz was known and widely practiced in
that country many hundreds of years ago
1t reached its high development there not
among savage tribes but among the famous
i lncas, people whose degree of civilization
is believed to have compared quite favorably
with our own.
Among the Incas, in the prosperous DAYS
before their Spanish conquerors came, iazz was
tremendously popular; more, perhaps, than it
is with US to-day. 1t seems quite probable that
if the reincarnation of some Inca. chieftain of
that prehistoric time were suddenly to appear
on earth he would find himself nowhere more
entirely at home than in one of our jazz dance
halls.
The syncopated braying, blaring and thump-
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ing of the orchestra would be familiar music
to his ears; and his muscles would find it easy
to keep time with those of some modern girl
in furious fox trot or shiyery shimmy. His
complaint would doubtless be that our Jazz is
not quite boisterous enough.
That the Indians of prehistoric Peru knew
the art--or should we say science?-of jazz
is apparent from the decorations, representing
orchestras and dancers, found on the ancient
pottery and metal objects of the region. Further
evidence is furnished by accounts of early
writer's, and most convincing, by numbers of
the musical instruments, which have been re-
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identical in kind with the drums used to-day
IN several parts of Peru. They were made
of skin stretched over hoop of wood or over
one end of short section of tree trunk
followed out to thin cylinder
Small drums seem to have been the rule
The drumheads were usually made of the
skins of deer and other animals common to
this country But, something's, as among the
Huancas, the skins of captured enemies we're
used, in the belief that the sound of such drums
would strike terror into the hearts of living
enemies
The bells of the Peruvian jazz orchestra
were of copper, with pebbles for clappers.
There were rattles, made of small shells, nuts,
Seeds etc, and these were welded not only
by the orchestra but by the dancers, who wore
them attached to their wrists, ankles and other
parts of the body in dancing. Dancers and
players also employed gourds filled with peb-
bles as hand-rattles and great shells which
they struck together like cymbals
II jazz is noisy nowadays, what indescrib-
able pandemonium it must have involved in
ancient Peru, where both the players in the
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Cabaret. band of Inca days; Peruuien pottery

Department of Anthropology, has revealed
some interesting facts about the development
of jazz among the Incas
According to Mr.. Mead, no drums have been
found in ancient Peruvian graves This may
be for the reason, he believes, that the drums
of the time, being made of perishable ma
terials, have all disintegrated or because of
some superstition it was not customary to
bury drums with the dead.
Drums, however, were pictured by the native
artists of the time and described by early
writer's, the evidence showing that they were
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F. SIGNOR PUG
OF NEW YORK
Continued from page sir)

81 can't tell you how relieved l am. When I
got word from your father that you were
coming down shook in my boots"
He fixed his very round, bright eyes on the
dripping and ecstatic Pug. "Do you know who
aboard the Liberia, young man? Gonelli,
the national fire eater, the most talented little
trouble maker in Magella! He was bringing
$4,000 rifles and 2,500,0o0 rounds of ammuni-
tion." The Consul threw out his arms in
wide gesture of despair. rifles and ammuni-
tion to arm the Nationalists, Mr.. Fairchild.
A Nationalist is the Yankees hereditary
enemy. Good Lord! And you got into nest
of them"
Pug was not listening. He stared beyond
the excited Consul at the little city the Rich
ard Harding Davis place of his dreams. 1t
rushed toward them, distinct, unreal as gaudy
and theatrical as stage scenery. Pug could see
the white custom house, the row of clipped
trees on the Esplanade, the 7at-roofed houses
piled up along the waterfront and dwindling
into wooded suburbs beyond the narrow city
limits. Behind Magella The Santa Christina
Mountains lowered against the sky. wrapped
in heat fumes, opalescent, mysterious, like
prodigious clouds of vapor. Pug's heart con-
tracted. IL was all so familiar If only his
dad could see it! 1t was the sort of country,
the sort of sunlight, the sort of air that gets
into your blood. PUG liked it, Here was a
dream worth fighting for.
(Furthcr adventures Of Pug IN Mdgellu scII
appear in neat Sundays Tribune.)
ecopsrshs Z odd Mead & co1
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: Il \ r K
BY PIERRE MILE
Translated by William L. Mcpherson
Copyright, 1921. New York Tribune Inc

and taciturn-as, in fact, most of them are
rose to the surface one day little earlier than
he was expected. The second, his younger
brother was engaged at the moment in cleaning
some fish which he had caught with line from
the deck, They took off the older mans he'll
met and relieved him of his apparel-the
cuirass of bronze and leather, and the rest of
the suit, all impermeable, ending in The shoes
with soles of lead.
Come, hurry upn said the captain to the
younger man, pointing to the armor.
The little Jap knew that Europeans are al
ways nervous and in hurry. Time is money.
especially when a minute may represent two or
three thousand francs. The substitute wiped
his hands on his linen drawers and started to
ind a basin in which to wash them.
Come! Hurry apt the captain repeated.
$50 he let himself be ncased in the machine
and went down.
He hadn't been scratching the coral with
his fiat knife for more than ten minutes when
he saw gray shadow playing about his head.
lt grew bigger and became more precise. 1t
was shark, an enormous shark. The diver
was very much astonshed. He had never had
such an experience before. The sharks of each
country have their own habits and customs.
Those of the Australian coast rarely attack
man. The sea is very full of fish, and there is
much easier prey than this big, dangerous
monkey, who fights back, makes a noise and
strikes with pointed thing which he holds in
his fingers.
"The little Jap believed that the sharks
presence was due to chance He didn't sus-
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tory of instrumental music was the mechanl-
cal production of musical scale. This came
with the pipes.
In Peru, evidence has been found of the
frst two types-instruments of percussion and
wind instrunents-but so far nothing has been
found to indicate that the prehistoric Indians
of the regions knew how to make music from
the vibrations of strings
In the American Museum of Natural History
there is large collection of prehistoric musi-
cal instruments of Peru, and study of them
by Charles w. Mead, assistant curator of the
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inca sosophone--a
real Peruuicn bark

parently meant
to be closed by the thumb They are very
primitive instruments, not producing true
or complete scale.
That the Peruvians were able to realize
their shortcomings, at least to some extent,
appears in the fact that in some instruments
attempts to correct the scale have been made.
The vents have been plugged with bits Of
gourd and substituted by other holes.
Ancient Peruvian whistles were usually
made Of terra Gotta or wood, and produced, as
a rule, only one or two tones. They, too,
were carved in the likeness of human beings
or well known animals or birds. In most
cases, the grotesque elements predominated in
such representations.
The famous double whistling jars of Peru
are we'll represented in the Museums coll
lection. These consist of two pottery vessels
connected near the bottom so that the water
passes freely from one to the other. Near
the top of the first jar CASUALLY surmounted
by human or animal figure) is the opening
of the whistle. When the jars have been part
ly filled and are swung backward and forward,
series of whistling sounds is produced, the
rush of the water inside forcing the air out
through the vent.
The trumpet, which was in almost universal
use in prehistoric times, was known in Peru
IN two forms-the conch-shell and the manu.
factured trumpet of terra Gotta or of wood.
There is still used by number of tribes
in the Amazon region piece of cane from
two to five feet long, with one end closed by
some gummy substance, through which il
passed q split quill forming "reed'' This
is, Of course, forbear of the oboe 1t was
undoubtedly this type Of instrument which
constituted the 'cornets" said to have been
used by the Inca army at the siege of Cuzco
No record has yet been found of the effect of
these barbaric oboes on Pizarro. But doubt
less it was similar to that of the "devilish
music" that Cortez heard after his first re-
pulse before Mexico-weird strains repeated
over and over again all night long until they
curdled his blood with horror. AS he later
learned, this music marked the sacrifice of
his captured companions to Huitzlipochtli, the
Aztec god
What effect did jazz have on the ancient
Incas? Was its influence as corruptine as
some modern moralists would have US be-
leve? Did it undermine the nations morals
and start the decadence of Peru's wonderful
civilization?
When the archeologists and historians sue
ceed in finding the answers to these questions,
they will quite probably be able to throw
some helpful new light the problem which
chat wicked jazz" presents to u.s.
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orcher+sa asl the dancers were equipped with
noise-making devices!
Our fondness for the ukuleie found it's
counterpart among the Peruvians IN their de-
light in performing on the huayra puhura, or
bell pipes. The pipes were both open and
closed and made of bone or cane and, in one
known instance, of stone.
Musical pipes are still very popular with
the Peruvian Indians. Couriers use them to
announce their arrival and departure, much
as the post horn was used by the driver or
guard of English mailcoach days.
Flutes of cane, of bone and of gourd were
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4 Restless Research, Never Content With Letting
Well Enough Alone, Finds Evidence of Wild
Dance and Wilder Music Among Ancient Incas

covered from the graves and ruins by archao-
logists.
These instruments include drums, bells, Gym
balls, rattles, pipes, flutes, whistles, trumpets
and an unmistakabe ancestor of the oboe If
the activities of an energetic Indian orchestra
equipped with some or all of these instruments
did not produce something akin to present-day
jazz, then it is folly for archeologists to make
any further attempt to reconstruct the past
for us.
Undoubtedly, early man sang and danced be-
fore he produced instrumental music. As the
most important element of the song and dance
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" N THE effort
4 70 find out
IL the reasons
for the sur
prising c h a n & e
which has come
over the manners
and morals of the
present genera
ton the finger of
suspicion is being
pointed with ever
increasing fire.
quency at what
has come to be
t er m e d "that
w i c k e d jazz"
81 azz is an
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also popular.
T h ey wer e
carved in q va
riety Of fan
tastic shapes.
A number Of
the bone flutes
W h j C h have
been { o u II d
h a v e stop
holes on the
under side, ap-
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1921-10-11
Sudden Death of
f. C.. Owens

I. C. Owens, practically a life
long resident of st. Johnsbury
died very suddenly on Sunday at
the home of his daughter, Mrs
William Sargent in Waterford
Had he lived until next February
Mr.. Owens would have been 86
years of age. With the exception
. fthree years spent in Lisbon, N.
H., and the past few months with
his daughter in Waterford, Mr..
Owens had always lived in St.
Johnsbury. He was apparentl-- in
his usual health and the end came
most unexpectedly.
Funeral services will be held at
Grace Methodist church Wednc,-
day afternoon at 2 O'Clock with
DR.. George W. Hylton ofiiciatinr
and burial will he in Mt. Pleasant
cemetery.
Mrs. Owens who was Miss Han
nah Kasson, died five years ago.
OF their family of eight children
six survive: William Owens of s..
Johnsbury, George Owens of Low
elltown, Me; Mrs. Hattie Down
ing Of Lisbon, N. H; Mrs. VIII
Lam Sargent Of Waterford Mrs
Edison Moffett Of st. Johnsbury
and Mrs. Stephen Richardson of
Worcester, this state. Mr.. Owens
is the last of his family and is
survived only by his children,
grandchildren and great grand
children.
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Lyndon Inst. Beats
Newport by so to 0 Score

In q muddy battle at Newport
on Saturday afternoon the New
port High football team was de-
feated by the heavier and speediel
Lyndon Institute eleven by the
score of 80 to 0. W. Has, the
speedy left half back for the
Institute, was injured in the third
quarter and may be out OF the
game for some time. In the
"Battle of the Mud" as the game
might be called, Bassett the Lyn-
don star, scored "a points.
There was drilling rain
throughout the game. This made
the handling of the ball very dit
fcult. However, Lyndon fumbled
the ball but four times to IA
fumbles made by Newport. The
fumbles by Newport were costly
as eight of the II times Lyndon
man was found IN possession of
the pig skin. Newport made first
down but twice during the game.
The score against Newport was
similar to that made by the insti-
tute against Spaulding High of
Barre, st. Johnsbury high and
st. Adams high.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1921-10-11
TOM MEIGHAN PLEASES
IN UNUSUAL ROLF

Thomas Meighan, whose acting
is equally popular with men and
women moving picture fans, mas
been called unon by Cecille De-
Mile to portray an unusual role
in Conrad in Quest of his Youth,
which played to a good sized audi
ence at the Please-U theatre Mon
day evening. But Meighan proves
himself equal to the occasion and
makes intensely interesting what
might otherwise develop into a
rather dull picture.
The story of the photoplay is
built around the lonesome life OF
a middle-aged bachelor, who upon
his return from a long war cam
paign in India, finds the scenes of
his younger days greatly changed
and many of his friends of years
before gone. He seeks to renew
the acquaintance of folme" sweet
hearts but is disappointed in every
instance. Finally he meets Lady
Darlington, the youno and attrac-
tive widow of an English lord. It
is a case of love at first sight on
the mart Of both OF them. Thus
we have happy ending to this I'M
usual picture. There is little ques-
ton but what you will thoroughly
enjoy this very unique production.
See it tonight.
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CARD OE THANKS

We wish to thank the friends
and neighbors here and in Bur
llngton for their kindness to our
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A, daughter to Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Richardson, granddaughter to MI.
and Mrs. A. N. Drew of St. Johns
bury and to Mrs. Julia Jones of
Stowe. AS Miss Winifped Drew,
Mrs. Richardson is pleasantly re-
membered in st. Johnsbury. She
was a teacher in the public school
for a number of years.
Miss Margaret Gotta has gone to
Boston to attend the wedding of
her brother, John Gotta. On her
way home she will visit in Man
chester and Laconia.
The College Club will meet
with Mrs. David S. Conant on
Wednesday afternoon at 8 o'clock.
Miss Agnes Walbridge who
teaches at the Plymouth Normal
school spent the week end with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. l..
Walbridge.
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ST. JOHNSBURY
Local News

Colds in the head made Nazo
Observation-Disclosures.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. S. Carter O.
Littleon, N. H, visited their chill
dren, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Carter ant
infant son over the week end
Carter was here to see also hel
brother, Nathan Dunbar Of
Marshfeld, who is a patient al
Brightlook, recuperating from ar
operation.
The American Liver Tablets
made the quarter famous.-Adver-
,tisement.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Sargent ano
Miss Margaret ROBBIE returned
Monday to their home in Rutland
after passing a few days at st
Johnsbury. While here Mr.. ano
Mrs. Sargent sold their home or
Spring street to Mr.. and Mrs. }
c. Amey, who have occupied II
since the Sargent family removed
to Rutland
When you sneeze-buy Nazol
Advertisement.
Miss Ada Burns is in Beverly,
Mass, where on Wednesday she
will act as bridesmaid at the wed
ding of Miss Rita Drown ana
Leonard Pope, both formerly OF
st. Johnsbury and both pleasant
" known here. Mr.. Pope is en-
ployed in Lebanon and he and his
bride will make their home in that
place.
Mrs, Scott Harris was in Little
ton the last fthe week, called
there by the serious illness of her
mother.
The American Throat Tablets
made themselves famous.-Adver-
tisement.
Rev. F. w. Knapp, rector of tire
Episcopal church of Montpelier
ofliciated at St. Andrews church
Sunday, preaching eloquent SER
mons both morning and evening.
Mr.. Knapp also took the service at
Concord in the afternoon exchang-
ing with DR.. A. P. Grint who took
Mr.. Knapp's services in Mont
pelier.
Born at Pittsburg, Penn, Oct.
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ST. JOHNSBURY
Local News

Major and Mrs. Joseph Briet-
ling and son, who have been sta
toned at Fort Sam Houston, San
Antonio, Texas, are on their way
to Manila where they are to be
stationed. Thew sailed from San
Francisco Oct. 5 for the Phillip
pines.
The American Throat Tablets
made themselves famous.-Adver-
tisement.
F. G. Bronson, the manager Of
the F. w. Woolworth store, has
been transferred to the 26th ST.
and Broadway store, New York
city. F. Z. Deahna, manager OF
the Woolworth store in Montpel-
Ter, succeeds Mr.. Bronson in st.
Johnsbury. Mr.. and Mrs. Deahna
arrived in town last week.
When you sneeze-buy Nazol.
Advertisement.
Mrs. Alexander McCarte who
has spent the summer. with MIR.
McCarte in st. Johnsburv re-
turns Wednesday to her home in
Newark, N. J.
Miss Heather NJ. Smith of the
Fairbanks vocational school spent
the week end at her home in Rut-
land.
The American Liver Tablets
made the quarter famous.-Adver-
tisement.
Colds in the head made Nazol
Observation-Disclosures.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Spaulding
and daughter, Lois, of Randolph,
have been spending a few days
with Mr.. Spaulding's son, Lyle
Spaulding.
Formula of Nazol, so good its
no secret; boric acid, Sodium Chic
ride oil of Eucalyptus and Men
thol.-Advertisement.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Mont
gomery left Monday for Pasadena,
Calf, where they will spend the
winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wilkic and
Mr.. and Mrs. Alphonso White
are taking motor trip to Canadi-
an points. Mr.. and Mrs. Wilkie
returned Friday from a week
trip to Boston.
Clyde Brigham Of Montpelier,
Allie Brigham of Manchester-by-
the Sea, Mass, Bert Brigham Of
Newport and Mrs Della Cook OF
Boston are at the home of their
sister, Mrs. George Blakely, called
here by the serious illness of their
mother, Mrs. Hannah Brigham. d,
Formula of Nazol, so good its
no secret; boric acid, Sodium Chic
ride oil of Eucalyptus and Men
thol.-Advertisement.
The resignation of M. D. Chit
tenden as superintendent of the
Burlington public schools has
brought out nearly dozen can
didates for this position. At the
meeting of the school committee
when his resignation was accepted
the chairman announced among
the candidates E. A. Hamilton Of
Newport, superintendent of the
Orleans north district, and Clar-
ence C. Hitchcock, superintendent
of the st. Johnsbury schools.
r. E. Davis of st. Johnsbury
has been appointed inspector in
weights and measures department
of the state of Vermont to fill q
vacancy. Mr.. Davis has been act
ing as special inspector for sever
al months.
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their St. Johnsbury friends Tues
day and are spending a few days
at Judge Howes newly purchased
home in Lyndon. They will return
to Charlotte next week, close up
the house and start for California
where they expect to spend the
winter.
Miss Sadie Lemere was the
guest Of relatives in Montpelier
over Sunday
Arsene Cyr, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Cyr, and Celia Higgins,
only daughter of Albert J. Higgins
We're married IN White River
Junction Thursday. The bride has
been visiting relatives in Enfield,
n. H., for the past few weeks.
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CAPACITY HOUSE SEES
JACKIE COOGAN

Tonight will bring to close
the engagement of that wonderful
photoplav "Peck's Bad Boy with
Jackie Coogan as the star. A ca
pacity house saw the show Mon
day night and all were delighted
with the unusual production. The
acting of Jackie Coogan, the six
year old marvel of the screen, and
his wonderful trained dog, "Tar
Baby, delighted the audience.
The picture has almost unending
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ST. JOHNSBURY
Local News

Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Ball reached
home Monday night after q
weeks buying trip in New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Tinker and
Miss Gertrude Tinker returned
Friday from a weeks visit in
Montclair, N. J. Mrs. c. T. O.
Tinker who accompanied them re-
manned for a few weeks with ner
son, Rev. Wellington Tinker.
Maj. and Mrs. William Melrose,
who have spent the summer at
their farm in Charlotte, called on
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dear one during her long lines
and for the sympathy shown u
in so many ways. We also wish t
express cur thanks for the beauti
full flowers, especially to the "
r. c., the Baptist church an
Apollo Lodge, K. of P, st. Johns
bury.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Whiting
Mr.. and Mrs. C. B. Foster,
Mr. and Mrs. l.. H. White.
st. JohnsbuTy, VT.
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GRACE METHODIST CHURCH

wednesday night at 7.3U theTe
is to be a membership and friend
rally and roll call. All members
and friends are urged to attend
this rally. A fellowship and good
time program has been planned.
The church roll will be called and
the pastor will give in detail the
program of the church for the cur
rent year as approved by the ON
cial board.
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PASSUMPSIC LODGE

Regular Communication Thurs
day evening, Nov. 3, at $50 o'clock
for the dispatch Of business.
Called Communication Thursday
evening, Oct. -. Work E. A. de-
gree. Visiting brothers welcome.
Arthur NJ. Lang, w. M
Fred H Dolloff, Sec.
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comedy and several spectacular
situations which supply real
thrills. The train collision: the
escape of a lion into the circus
crowd and best of all the ant bri-
gade. The music is in the same
lively vein as the production.