Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-22
RUSSIA'S LITTLE BILL.

! Russia's neglect to enforce the pay
| ment by Turkey of arrears of a war
] indemnity due since 1873 is a part or
her far sighted policy which aims at
| the control of the Turkish empire by
| means that VIII not awaken the hos
tility of other powers. That her moral
support of Turkey in the troubles over
Armenia and Crete was not inspired
by any increased friendliness toward
the government of the sultan or sin
cere desire to strengthen it was prov
ed last summer, when hint from the
Gar led Turkey to give. up the idea of
imposing its own terms upon Greece
regardless of the attitude of the pow
ers, and has just received a fresh il
lustration.
The Turkish navy, (which at the time
of the Cretan rebellion thirty years
ago was capable of blockading the is
land, was so utterly inefficient at the
outbreak of war with Greece that no
attempt was made to contest Greek
control of the neighboring seas, and
the work of preventing aid from the
insurgents in Crete was left to the
warships of Christian Europe. Since
Turkeys magnificent fighting power
on land gave her the victory over
Greece, she has planned to use the
Greek war indemnity to re-habilitate
her once formidable navy. A veto
has been put upon this scheme of
naval re organization by Russia, who
announces that if Turkey spends her
newly acquired money on ornaments
she will present her little bill. Russia
has no idea of allowing Turkey to en-
gage in rivalry for the control of
the Black sea like that which ended at
Sinope.
AS club to hold over the head of
the Turk, the unpaid indem unity is
worth more to Russia than the money
would be in her Golfers It is need
less to point out that nation which
submits by such dictation in a matter
SO important to her proper defense
against foreign foes is no longer truly
independent. We fail to see what the
other powers have to gain by the con-
tinuance of state of things by which
Russia imposes her will upon Turkey
to her own advantage and the latter's
Generalization. While at the same
tt me Moslem tyranny is permitted
to Cypress and misgovern Christian
populations in countries whose natu
raj resources remain undeVelOped un-
der the rule of alien cOnquerOrS.-Re
porter.
Cotton seed waste, which a genera,
tion ago accumulated at the ginhouses
filed up the streams, rotted in the fields
and became an irritating nuisance, is
now worth about $50, 600, 600 a year, :
writes William George Jordan on
Wonders of the Worlds Waste in
The Ladies' Home Journal Every
bale of cotton leaves legacy of half
tone Of seed, which, it is said, brings
the planter nearly as much as his cot
ton The oil is used for finer grades of
soap, as substitute for lard and is so
near olive oil that an expert can hardly
detect the difference. The hulls are fed
to cattle, make an excellent fuel, are
valuable as paper stock, and when burn
ed the ashes make fertilizer which is
most efficacioUs 1t has recently been
discovered that cottonseed oil, with the
addition of Is per cent of crude india
rubber, makes an imitation which can
not be distinguished from genuine rub
Der .
The old proofreader was holding forth
upon the question Of typographical err
rors and their occasional influence on
posterity 1.-THE word 'hoodlum' is an
instance Of this, . he said as he knocked
the ashes out of his pipe. '.Out in San
Francisco % years ago there was a no.
torious character named Muldoon, who
was the leader of gang of young ruff
fans They were a terror to the COM
munity and about as tough lot of citi-
zens as you could find on the coast. A
reporter who had been assigned to a
story in which they had figured under
took to coin word designating the
gang. He reversed the name of the lead
er and referred to them as sNoodlums.
The compositor mistoolz the for an b,
and as hoodlums the word passed the
proofreader, and now 'hoodlum' is a
recognized word and will probably sur
viye. -Philadelphia Record.