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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-25

NJ. J. Hapgood, veteran legislator
from Peru, thinks that Vermont should
not try to have short sessions of the
legislature because of the fact that so
many of the legislators are inexpe.
rienced men and must take time 70
get accustomed to the business of law.
making. If they were all like Mr..
Hapgood they wouldn't go home till
the Fourth of July.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-25

None are the fears of an ice short
age, Ice is about the chief crop that
is being harvested" in Vermont these
DAYS.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-25

You are cordially invited to a ghost
social under the auspices of the grange
at the home of Mr., and Mrs. Theron
Williams next Friday evening. Ladies
bring box with lunch for two. Every.
body invited to come and have the
time of your life
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-25
His Mistake.

Tom-I tried to open my heart to
her but she stopped me eoldly.
Ned-No wonder; she's an anti
vivisectionist. Boston Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-25

The White House gives forth the
strange silence which comes from the
sick room.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-25

"Maud says her face is her fortune.
Indeed! | thought It was the com
plexion specialists - Boston Tran
script.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

about ten million women, the mothers,
wives. sisters and daughters of for
mer service men of the World war.
The delegates at the Minnesota con-
ference represented about 5000 tlem-
bers of the 113 units of the auxiliary
Ia that state.
The convention adopted state con-
stitution modelled after the tentative
constitution previously used by auxil-
larry units, and voted to dedicate
themselves to the cardinal principles
Of the Legion"
officers elected were: DIR. Helen
Hielscher, president; Mrs. E. A. Lew
Is, first vice president, Mrs. Myrtle
Getz, second vice president; Mrs. O.
3. De Laurier, historian; Mrs. George
a. Barber, representative on the ma
ional executive committee.
Miss Pauline Curnick, representing
the organization division Of national
headquarters, addressed the conven-
ion, outlining the plans and aims Of
the organization.
Kansas members of the women's
auxiliary will hold their state conven-
ton January 10 and II, and other
states are expected to take similar
action in the near future.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05
WARSAW, POLAND, HAS POST
All Members Are Ex-Service Men Now
on Duty With the American
Red Cross.

A post Of the American Legion with
40 members has been formed in War
saw, Poland. All the members are ex-
service men who are now on duty with
the American Red Cross. The post
was organized by Charles Phillips of
New Richmond, Wis, head of the pub
Iicity department of the Red Cross in
Warsaw, and has the following Off
GERS: Ell. Ell. Hall of Mcdonald, Pa,
commander; Lee d. Rowe of McAllesl,
Tex, adjutant; Frank r, McKennay
Of Richmond, Me-, treasurer.
Commander Hall, who served In
France with the Three Hundred and
Seventh supply train, is chief Of stores
for the Red Cross in Poland. Rowe,
who was In the medical detachment
Of medical supply train No. 412 in
France went to Poland year ago with
the United States army typhus expedi-
ton.
Posts of the Legion also are now
being formed In Jerusalem, Palestine
and In Picking, China.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

| Dams appetite was not as rule par
| ticularly good. But evidently the long
ride had affected him. He simply
| didn't have the moral courage to re-
| fuse whun the elder Lennox heaped
| his plate.
Good heavens, can't eat all that, "
he said, as 1t was passed to him. But
the others laughed and told him to
take heart.
He took heart. II was a singular
thing, but at that first bite his sudden
confidence In his gustatory ability al
most overwhelmed him. SO he cut
himself bite of the tender steak
fully half as generous as the bites that
Bill was consuming across the table.
And it's first flavor simply filled him
with delight.
"What is this meat?" he asked.
1--WE certainly tasted 1t before"
"I'll bet few dollars that you
haven't, II you've lived all your life
In the Middle West" Lennox an
swered. maybe you've got what the
scientists call an inherited memory of
1t. It's the kind Of meat your grand
father used to live on-yenison."
Soon after dinner Lennox led him
out of the house for his first glimpse
of the hills in the darkness.
They walked together out TO the
gate, across the first of the wide pas
lures where. at certain seasons Len
nox kept his cattle; and at last they
came out upon the tree-coyered ridge.
The moon was just rising. They could
see 1t casting a curious CLINT over the
very tips Of the pines But 1t couldn't
get down between them. They stood
too close, too tall and thick for that.
And for moment, Dams only sensa-
ton was one of silence.
"You have 10 stand still moment,
to really know anything" Lennox told
him.
They both stood still. Dan was as
motionless as that day in the park,
long weeks before when the squirrel
had climbed on his shoulder The first
effect was a sensation that the silence
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05
NO TIME FOR BLUE LAWS"
Indications Are That Legion National
Officers Will Not Take "Posl-
tive Stand"

blue law" agitation is apparently
obnoxious to a large number of men,
bers of the American Legion, accord
Ing to expressions of opinion received
In letters at national headquarters.
National officers have been called upon
to take positive stand" particularly
against those who would do away with
the cigarette.
las individual citizens and voters
our membership can support or oppose
what 1t sees fit" said one national Of
fcer of the Legion, $50 long as they
conform to our national constitution.
| think the veteran, however, is against
intolerance. The national organization
Of the Legion has no time for this con-
troversy, however. We have our hands
full In our effort to make life what II
should be fer the disabled"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

was deepening around them. 1t wasn't
really true. 1t was simply that he
had become aware of the little CON
tinuous sounds of which usually he
was unconscious, and they tended to
accentuate the hush of the night. He
knew, Just as all mountaineers know.
that the wilderness about him was
stirring and pulsng with life. Some
of the sounds were quite clear-an
occasional stir of pebble or the crack
of twig, and some, like the faintest
twitching of leaves in the brush not
ten feet distant, could only be guessed
at.
"What is making the sounds?" he
asked.
He didn't know 1t, at the time, bur
Lennox turned quickly toward him. It
wasn't that the question had surprised
the mountaineer. Rather II was the
tone in which Dan had spoken. 1t was
perfectly cool perfectly self-con-
tanned.
'The one right close is a chlpmunk
don't know what the others are no
one ever does know. Perhaps ground
squirrels, or rabbits, or birds, and
maybe one Of those harmless old black
bears who Is curious about the house
And tell me--can you smell any
thing"
Good Lord, Lennox can smell all
kinds of things
I'm glad. Some men can't. No one
can enjoy the woods If he can't smell
Part of the smells are of flowers. and
part Of balsam, and God only knows
what the others are. They are lust
the wilderme ~"
Dan cou'd aot olly perceive the
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

SYNOPSIS.

Warned by his physician that he
has not more than six months to
live, Failing sits despondently on a
park bench. wondering where he
should spend those six months. A
friendly squirrel practically decides
the matter for him. His blood Is
pioneer blood, and he decides to
end his days In the forests of Ore
gon. Memories of his grandfather
and deep love for all things of
the wild help him In reaching a
decision. In a large southern
Oregon city he meets people who
had known and loved his grand
father, famous frontiersman. He
makes his home with Silas Lennox,
a typical westerner. The only 9TH
err members of the household are
Lennox'a son, BILL" and daugh-
ter, "Snowbird." Their abode Is
many miles from civilization" In
the Umpqua divide, and there
Failing plans to live out the short
span OF life which he has been
told Is his. His extreme weakness
in tho face of even slight exer-
ton convinces him that the doctor
had made correct diagnosis of
his case. From the first Failing's
health shows marked improve
ment, and in the companionship of
Lennox and his son and daughter
he fits into the woods life as IL he
had been born to It. By quick
thinking and remarkable display
of nerve" no saves Lennox's life
and his own when they are at
tackled by mad coyote. Lennox
declares he Is reincarnation of
his grandfather, Dan Failing I,
whose fame as a woodsman is a
household word.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05
CHAPTER discontinued.

"Of eourse-but sit down now, any,
way. I'm sorry that Snowblrd isn't
here"
"Snowbrd is"
my daughter. My boy, she can
make n biscuit That's not her name,
of course, but we've always called her
that. She got tired of keeping house
and is working this summer. Poor
Bill has to keep house for her, and
no wonder he's eager to take the stock
down to the lower levels. / only wish
he hadn't brought 'em up this spring
at all; I've lost dozens from the
coyotes"
"But coyote can't kill cattle"
ut can IL 1t has hydrophobia, com.
mon thing in the varmints this time Of
year. But as I say, Bill will take the
stock down next season, and then
Snowbird's work will be through, and
she'll come back here"
'Then she's down In the valley?"
"Far from 1t. She's q mountain
girl If one ever lived Perhaps you
don't know the recent policy of the
forest service to hire women when
they can be obtained. 1t was a policy
started In war times and kept up now
because 1t is economical and efficient.
She and girl from college have a
cabin not five miles from here on old
Bald mountain, and they're doing look
out duty"
Dan wondered intensely what look
cut duty might be. "You see, Dan,"
Lennox said In explanation, "the gov
eminent loses thousands of dollars
every year by forest fire. A fire can
be stopped easily If 1t is seen soon
after 1t starts. But let 1t burn awhile,
in this dry season, and it's terror--a
wall of flame that races through the
forests and can hardly be stopped.
And maybe you don't realize how
enormous this region is-literally hun
dreds of miles across. We're the last
outpost-there are four cabins, If you
can find them, In the first seventy
miles back to town. So they have to
put lookouts on the high points, and
now they're coming to the use Of air
planes so they can keep even better
watch. Snowbird and girl friend
from college got jobs this summer as
lo0kouts--all through the forest serv-
ice they are hiring women for the
work. They are more vigilant than
men, less inclined to take chances,
and work cheaper. These two girls
have a cabin near spring. and they
cook their own food, and are making
what Is big wages In the mountains.
I'm rather hoping she'll drop over for
few minutes tonight"
"Good Lord-does she travel over
these hills In the darkness?"
The mountaineer laughed-a de-
lighted sound that came somewhat
curiously from the bearded lips of the
stern. dark man. dan, I'll swear she's
afraid of nothing that walks the face
of the earth--and 1t isn't because she
hasn't had experience either. She's
dead shot with pistol for one thing.
She's physically strong, and every
muscle is hard as nails. She used to
have Shag too--the best dog In all
these mountains. She's a mountain
girl, tell you; whoever wins her has
got to be able to tame her" The
mountaineer laughed again.
The call to supper came then, and
Dan goi mis- first sight of mountain
food. There were potatoes, newly
dug, mountain vegetables that were
crisp and cola steak Of peculiar
shape. and . great bowl OF purple ber-
rtes to he -aien with sugar ond crealh.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

before motion picture camera.
You can starve man; you car
wound him with bullets" said Colonel
Whittlesey during a recent visit to a
Hollywood movie studio with the port.
ly comedian, "but you can't dim his
love for the movies. Just few hours
after my boys of the Three Hundred
and Eighth infantry had landed in q
safe billeting area on being relieved
from their perilous position, the whole
bunch were in ~ hut watching
five-reel comedy"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05
In These Days.

who's the boss here?" asked a
travelling salesman as he stopped ut
farm with set Of the Worlds Rest
Literature in IL volumes.
He Is" replied the man at the door
YEARLY, pointing to the hired man
ioafing hard in a field. "I'm only bis
employer. "-A,ner'ean Legion woSk,u
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

tended the first
state convention
of the women's
auxiliary of the
American Legion
In Minneapolis.
r he n e e t | n 6
marked the begin
ming of the ma
tional organiza-
ton of the auxil-
larry, which is ex-
pected ultimately
to bind together
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05
The next installment of
"The Voice of the Pack" im-
parts to Dan Failing the exist
enee Of an organized band of
outlaws.
(To BE CONTINuED.)
Different Kinds of Hickory.

Twelve kinds of hickory are found
in the world, eleven of them indigo
nous TO the United States east of the
Rocky mountains. and one Mexican
species. Previous to the Ice age, ex-
tensive forests of hickory existed In
Greenland.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

81 am very fond of peanut butter
and eat it daily" says ii man, writing
to a syndicate doctor. That is the
proper way to do it; when consulting
a physician confess everything.-Ia as
Vegas (Ney.) Review.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05
WOULD STEER SHY or CAMERA
Colonel Whittlesey, Leader of Lost
Battalion" Backs Off From Mo-
ton Picture Machine.
Although Colonel Whittlesey, an ac
tive member of the American Legion,

led the famous
"lost battalion"
through the Ar
come and was
one of the Sd
Americans W h 0
won the blue ro-
settle of the con
gressional medal
Of honor, he told
FATTY" Arbuckle
that he would
be scared to
death" If pl,s,'ed
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

If one tried to mix religion, prohibit
ton, the league of nations, and party
politics, a spontaneous combustion of
the brain would result.-Carson (Ney)
News.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

What is more needed in the daily
press of today Is clean, helpful, con-
structive thought, the kind that will
inspire us to better work, instead of
criticism and overdrawn pictures Of
suffering and remorse, drawn by over
enthusiastic persons who have not the
feast knowledge of what they are talk
ing about-who have learned their
chatter, in other words, from writer's
as ignorant as theyselves.- Winna
mueca (Nev) Silver State.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05


girl In q contest
held during a
weeks carnival of
Windsor Terrace
post of the Amer
lean Legion. The
popularity con
test, which is be-
coming a favor
lite pastime among
Eastern posts of
the American Lee
glon, has been the
means of boost
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

BY the bye, did you notice that the
congressman most outspoke in his ad.
yocacy of freedom for the Philippines
is Frear? Wen beat the pert
photographers to this: Frear wants
freer Filipinos.-Nampa Qdaho) Free
Press.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

1t is quite true that woman has
greater influence over man than has
money, especially if she is his affinity.
Price (Utah) Sun.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

Some Winnemucca men seem to 80
IN the theory that it doesn't matter
how they dress when away from home
nobody knows them; and that it
makes no difference how they dress at
apme-everybody knows ttem. Win
,gmucca (Nev.) Silver State
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

"F. o. b." now has a new slgnif.
canoe. 1t is tackled onto invitations
in high society and means fetch your
,wn booze.'-St George (Utah) News.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

Dispt tches from Europe state that
IN attempt is being made to smuggle
large numbers of Russian red agita-
tors through Holland into the United
States, and reports of our immigra-
zion officials confirm the statement.
Here is where somebody should get
busy Such crazied, half-savages should
never be allowed to set foot in
Imerica.-Brigham City (Utah) Jour.
nal
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

Our idea of an Ignoramus in the
'ield of economics is a man who tries
70 show variations in the cost of liv.
NJ by quoting wholesale prices. Con
sumers, who pay the cost of living,
do not buy at wholesale.-Perk City
(Utah) Record.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

No woman ever loved a men so
much that she didn't try TO find OUT
how much the engagement ring cost
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

Next time Jimmy Cox runs for pres-
dent he ought to hire Constantine to
manage his campaign. Any man who
can get himself elected king of Greece
while he lives in Switzerland surely
plust know something about politics.
Roise Udaho) Statesman.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05
C1o
AMERICAN
0L.I::Gk)ll0!
Copy for This Department Supplied by
the American Legion News Seryice1
HONOR TO MINNESOTA WOMAN
Or. Helen Hughes Hielscher Is Chosen
State President of Women's
Auxiliary of Legion.

Approximately four hundred dele
gates fr~sn all parts Of Minnesota at
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

Legislation is being blamed nova
lays for almost everything you can
-hink of. When prices were high we
blamed the government, and now that
hey are coming down we are in
clined to blame the government for
that, too. But the government just
can't make the people be good, and the
champions Of virtue by legislation
ought to realize it.-Kemmerer (Wyo)
Camera.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

Ing the financial standing of several
posts as well as affording amusement
for tha members and their friends.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05
MOST POPULAR AT CARNIVAL
Marie BaIzarini Carries off Honors at
Contest Conducted by Windsor
Terrace Post Brooklyn.

Miss Marie Balzarini of Brooklyn,
N. Y, was voted the most popular
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

Next to the duty of the individual
man, woman and child to save land
accumulate is the duty of lawmakers
to stop the ascending scale of public
expenditure, curb the demands of self
expanding officialism, and reduce the
fixed charges Of government which
have become exorbitant and indus
trially paralyzing and prohibitory.--
3urtey (Idaho) Bulletin.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

Never before has there been such an
influx of immigration ready to pour
into this country from Europe, nor a
time when America is so i'll prepared
to receive and assimiliate it. To stem
the tide is one of the pressing problems
facing congress. Nevada and other
states have vast domains to be set
tied, but should be open to Americans
first Virginia City (Nev) Chronicle.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

We have read so much about the
prices coming down, and have waited
SO patiently for the effect to reach
Sparks, and have never noticed any
effect yet, that we are beginning to
think these news stories are simply
extracts from the Arabian Nights
Sparks (Ne@.) Tribune.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

Men and women are perverse and
Inconsistent anyway. A man would
not walk on the street with woman
who had cigar suck in her mouth
or who was squirting tobacco juice
into the gutter, and woman would
not walk down the street with a man
whose outside clothing allowed his
underclothes to show through
nett Qdaho) Examiner.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-05

The strike agitator has not been agi-
tating much lately, not that anybody
has heard Of. The fellow who has a
good paying job is so well pleased with
it that ne is keeping the matter as
quiet as possible and if he is discon-
tented he is not advertising the fact
70 the rorld.-Jerome Idaho) News.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-01
DELAWARE SOLON
HELD FOR TRIAL

WILMINGTON, Del, Dec. 31.-On
a charge of attempt to extort money
by threats, Robert W. Kramer, pres
ident of the Central Labor Union;
business manager OF the Plumbers
Union, and Democratic Representa-
tive elect, was held in $500 bail for
court today.
Acting in the capacity of business
manager of the Plumbers Union,
Kramer is alleged to have demanded
81 a week from John A. Walsh so
the latter might be permitted to
work with union men. Walsh is
only a plumbers helper and ineligi-
BILE to membership in the union, but
to be allowed to work with union
plumbers, he was required, he says,
to pay the weekly sum into the union
for permit"
The January term of the Court of
General Sessions, for which Kramer
was held, opens on Monday, and
Tuesday the session of the State
legislature to which he was elected
a member at the last election con-
venes.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-01
Old Glory Flies Over Virgin Isles
But Volstead Is Unknown; Rum so
Cents Gallon, Senate Members Told

fore the committee in response to
a request for a report on present
conditions. Jackson is a law stu
dent. He was familiar with condi-
tions. The Senators sat back to
hear his description of the work
of Uncle Sam, reformer. He was
quite frank. He revealed conditions
as he saw them.
He said the Eighteenth Amend
ment was in effect, but the VOL
stead act was not. Rum, he addee,
is being manufactured faster than
the drinking element can consume
it. The law of supply and capacity
being in full operation, the price
has declined, until today the best
grade Of rum is selling for $50 a
puncheon.
And what is a puncheon?" he
was asked.
"One hundred and twenty gall
Ions, Danish standard" he replied.
When Senators calculated that
his figures meant so cents a gallon.
they were rather shocked, but the
witness gave them further cause
for alarm by adding that the rum
was obtainable at that price on al
most any street corner.
Jackson described the native state
of morality. His report was scarce
ly more f1attering than it had been
with respect to prohibition.