Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-01-03

The marriage of Alfred G.. Vanderbilt
and Miss Elsie French is to take place at
Newport, January IA. Only $50 invita-
tons have been issued to the wedding and
breakfast, which would indicate that the
cream of society is to be skinned for the
| occasion
The wedding of Miss Alta Rockefeller
| and e, Parmalee Prentice will be January
| II and will without doubt be as brilliant
a social event as standard oil can make it.
Queen Wilhelmina's marriage day has
been set for February Z, but is of no espe
cial interest as compared with the other
two.
Passing from the 10Th to the goth cen
fury was accomplished without a jar
though it was made an occasion for more
than the usual amount of New Year mora :
izing.
| A few poetic and enthusiastic souls sat
up until after midnight to see the Old Year
out and the New Year in by staring at the
face of an old clock that possibly needed
regulating, but the great majority were
satisfied to catch their first glimpse of the
New Year and the New Century shortly
before the whistles blew in the morning
The attempted assassination of Chief of
Police Brown of Barre by Italian anarchists
makes the thriving Granite city feel as
large and important as Chicago There
is nothing doing in Montpelier like it
At first there was considerable loud talk
about lynching bee by excitable citi-
zens-most of whom, if the truth were
known, would probably be in Jail them
selves for more or less serious offenses-
but it was finally decided that the "plot"
was all the city pride could safely stand
for the time being, and the lynching
scheme was given up.
According to press dispatch, the an
archists, confined at Montpelier, take the
situation calmly and pass the time in either
pacing up and down the prison or in look
ing over the illustrated magazines "pro-
vided for them"
1t would almost seem as though, for the
benefit of persons without sufficient moral
sense to keep out of Jail, reading matter
not quite so amusing but more edifying
than illustrated magazines might be pro-
vided as prison literature.
Secretary c. j. Bell of the Vermont
board of agriculture states that there is
a great scarcity of farm laborers in all
parts of the state, and that the situation is
growing more serious every year.
There appears to be a decided disinclina-
ton among young men to do farm work,
even for the princely remuneration of 500
month and board throughout the year.
They prefer to seek employment in
the larger villages where the roads and
sidewalks are broken out for them in
winter by corporation snow pillow, and
where in summer the heftiest part of the
haying is done with lawn mowers.
These misguided young men would
rather 60 to work at o'clock in the morn
ing and be shut up ten hours day in
stuffy factory than to rise at 4 in order
to breathe the fresh air, hear the birds
sing and milk a lot of cows. They care
more for the opportunity to put in an
evening at minstrel show at the opera
house, or to join the crowd around the
stand of street takir, than for all the
mild diversions of the brief period of
recreation which follows when the chores
are done
A great deal has been written about the
glamour of farm life by gifted literary
beings who never moved away der the
caves or trudged hundred miles in the
wake of an old pillow; but who, stretched
at ease :" meath spreading oas, with the
'song" of the moving machine softened
by distance, have felt their minds filed to
overlooking with flood of poetcal
thoughts which would probably never have
occurred to them in a rolling mill
If young men of the laboring class
could only see farm life through literary
eyes the ranks of the hired men would
speedily be recruited, and at 500 month
and found, Eben Holdens, with bags of
gold and bank notes, to bestow upon their
employers children, would not be SO rare.