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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-06-29
Vermont Crops


Gu. Bell, OF Walden, secretary of
the state board of agriculture, mas
given some useful information on
subjects with which his official posi-
ton makes him thoroughly con-
yersant. In discussing the state of
crops in Vermont Mr.. Bell said that
Notwithstanding that week of rain
has followed the disheartenipe
drouth of April, May, and early June,
the general OUTLOOK Tor crops is any
thing but bright. Concerning the
hay crop, he says that on valley and
level farms where the land is in a
good stats of cultivation, the pros
pect is fair, but on the hill lands and
poorly cultivated ground iU Is ex-
tremeiy doubtful If the yield amounts
to ANYTHING. The outlook TOR clover.
too. is poor. In sections visited by
the severe frosus of a few weeks ago.
the clover crop Is lost, but he believes
the second growth may prove all
RIGHT. MIR, Bell called attention 10
one blessing Of the season that has
been overlooked, namely, the absence
of grasshoppers. He stated that he
had seen none whatever, and that
INQUIRY in various sections of the
state brought like information.
| Concerning corn, ne said that seed
planted late was coming on satisfac-
torily, but where il was planted about
Nav Is or earlier, the chance of a crop
is very uncertain. The potato crop,
also. is uncertain, and much of the
| land devoted TO potatoes will have to
| be repla nted or seeded to some other
| crop. In the matter of pasturage,
Mr.. Bell thinks there will be a short
age all summer, as most of them
cannot possibly recover from the
effects of the cry season.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-06-29

Rule lodge and Grand Lodge officers.
The Rink opera house was crowded
to OVERT JwiDg in the afternoon by a
representative audience which lis
tened attentively to the many adj
dresses and manifested its interest in
the proceedings by staying through to
the close. The following program
was rendered:
1850 p NJ. Public Meeting at the Rink Opera
House. N Thompson, chairman.
Selection By the Lyndol vile Band.
2 Address of Chairman.
3 Citizens Welcome by Hon. M. +. Hackett,
Mayor OF Stanstead Plan.
Song by Mr.. Eugene Cowies.
Presentation of Medal to Mt. Wor. Bro.
j. Is. Tresidder, Grana Master OF Que
bee, by the Chairman and address by
the grand Masters
Presentation Of Medal to Mt. Wor Bro.
o. w. DAILY, Grand Master of Vermont,
byJ. b. KestIng, and address by the
Grand Master.
8 ADDRESS by Col. +. w. Hale, U {. VICE
Consul az Coaticook.
Address by Rt. Wor. Bro. David Manson,
ID. q. Master OF Quebec.
10 Presentation OF Medal to Bro. Il b. Gus
tin, senior Past commander OF Golden
Rue Lodge, by Mt. wor. Bro. j. B
1residder.
IL Song by Mr.. Eugene Cowles.
IL Presentation of Medal to Bro. 8. w.
Foster by Rt. Wor. Bro. Will II. Whyte.
l3 Remarks by Rev. A. ii. Moore, Rev. u.
ElleIy Reed.
Ia National Anthem.
The various speakers of the day
placed the high ideals of tho order
before the people and gave many
illustrations showing what the society
has done to help bring about the
brotherly feeling which now exists
between the two great English speak
ing nations. They also expressed the
hope that the British and American
flags might ever fly side by side as
their respective countries advanced
in their unison of civilization through
out the world.
The reception and dance at the
Rink opera house in the evening was
a very brilliant affair. At the open
ing several short speeches weI q made
by prominent Masons. Mr.. Eugene
Gov sang the "Anvil Song" from
Robin Hood and received most en-
thusiastic encore. Dancing followed
At 1920 Thursday a number of the
craft and their friends left for the Lake
trip. They assembled the mountain
where the third degree was exempli
fed. For over forty years Colder
Rule Lodge has had charter per
hitting the holding of meetings on tht
mountain top. So far as is known
this is distinction possessed by M
other lodge in the world.
The meeting was very successful
full one in every way. The attendance
was much larger than was expected
but the society aided by the people o
Three Villages entertained the visitor
in royal manner. The interest takel
by the people was shown by the man
ner in which the houses were deco
rated, the British and American flag
being shown together. The guest
were given the freedom of the tire
villages, which We'd with each othe
in honoring the visiting brethren.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-06-29
STATE NEWS.
Miss Lou Northrop Takes Fatal Dose of
Laudanum.

Miss Lou Northrop Takes Fatal Dose of
Laudanum.
Lou Northrop, daughter of Clark
Northrop, of Marshfield, committed
suicide Monday evening by taking
laudanun. She attem pied in the af-
ternoon to drown herself in the river
but was prevented. She was II years
old and had been subject to severe
attacks of illness.
Farmers National Bank Teller Are sted.
Howard j. Hill, former teller of the
defunct Farmers National bank of
Vergennes, was arrested at Bristol
Tuesday by Deputy United States
Marshal Frank Chapman on a charge
of abstracting funds from the bank.
Hills bail was fixed at $40, 900, which
was furnished by his father.
yermonter Consul-GeneraI.
John Gilman Foster, who becomes
Consul-General OF the United States
in Canada, was born at Derby Line,
| Vermont, March 9, 1859, of Puritan
stock, a llneal descendant of Eldel
Brewster and Stephen Hopkins, who
came over in the May flower. His an
cestor, Thomas Foster, came to Amer
lea in the ship Hercules, in 1854. He
is a son of Austin T. Foster ana Sarat
III. Gilman. He graduated in 1880
and was admitted 10 the bar in 1881
From 1884 to 1898 he served as a direc
tor of the Eastern Townships Bank a
Sherbrooke, Quebec, being the frs
American to become a director of {
Canadian bank. Mr.. Foster was
member of the Vermont Legislature
from 1892 to 1894, and served on tn,
staff of Cover nor Levi K. Fuller o
Vermont, 1892 to 1894. Mr.. Foste
married Miss Clara Merriman of ST
Louis. He was appointed Unitet
States Consul at Halifax in June 1897
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-06-29
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION GOLDEN
RULE LODGE.

We are indebted to Editor Holland
of the Stanstead Journal for many of |
the facts in the following report. A |
part of the report is copied from the |
Journal.
The celebration of the one hundredth |
anniversary of the institution of Free |
Masonry at Stanstead Plain, Que, was
the greatest event in the history of |
these border villages. Lively Stone
lodge, which has been called the
mother of Golden Rule lodge, was
instituted in 1903 and for many years
held its meetings in the told Eastman
house" located directly on the inter-
national boundary line. The historic
old structure was demolished only a
few years ago to make room for the
modern building erected.
The centennial celebration began
on Sunday evening, when the mem
bers of the lodge met at the Congre-
gational church for worship. Masonic
visitors from various parts of Quebec
and New England began to arrive
Tuesday. Wednesday morning hun
dreds of the craft were brought in on
special trains. At $50 the local lodge
was opened for the reception of the
Grand Lodge officers and other
Masonic guests.
The great street parade was mag
nihcent spectacular event. Two
handsome arches had been erected at
Stanstead Plain, one at Rock Island
and one at Derby Line, while nearly
all public buildings and many private
residences were gaily attired in red,
white aud blue. Flags were every
where. The Union Jack and Stars
and Stripes flew peacefully together
from one cord directly over the inter-
national boundary line near the site
of the historic old lodge room sym
bolizing the peace and harmony
existing between the two politica
divisions of the Anglo Saxon people
To many this parade was the most
impressive part of the celebration
The procession was nearly a mile Ions
and the handsome uniforms of the
visiting Knights, the dazzling display
of medals aud brilliant array of lodge
jewels created an impression which
will never be forgotten.
The parade was made up as follows
Military OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Nor
rill of @ Squadron 9th Hussars. FRS
Division-53 Battalion Band, Sher
brooke; Sussex Preceptory No. 9, K
T., Sherbrooke; st. Johnsbury Corne
Band, Palestine Commandery, No. s
X. T., st. yohnsbury; Royal Scot
Pipe Band, Montreal; Malta Com
mandery, No. 10, K. T., Newport
Second Division-Royal Arch Masons
Third Division-Barton Cornet Band
Orleans lodge No. So, Barton; othe
Blue lodge Masons, including repre-
sentatives from Barton Landing, Iras
burg, Craftsbury, Newport, Mort
Troy, Island Pond, Sherbrooke, Coat
cook, Cookshire, Magog, Georgevill
and other lodges. Fourth Division
Lyrdonville Military Band; Code
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A SERIOUS MISTAKE.

E. c. Dewitt & Co. is the name of the firm
who make the genuine Witch Hazel Salve
DeWitt's is the Witch Hazel Salve that heals
without leaving a scar. 1t is a serious mis-
take to use sny other. DewTtt's Witch Hazel
Salve cures blind, bleeding, itching and pro-
truding piles, burns. bruises eczema and all
skin diseases. Sold by Fl. c. Pierce.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-06-29

DIR. E. ALMON LEONARD,
nENTIST, GLOVER, VT. OFFICE AT
~ the residence of Chaplin Leonard.
Peoples telephone.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-06-29

DIR. A. e. PARLIN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. RARToN
4 LANDING. Special attention Civ en- to
stomach Diseases. w
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PROBATE COURTS.

TIM E Bile.
B. 8 M. r.. Room. & Pass Div
In effect June aa, 1908.
Trains Leave
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m. SoU1E-7 o3t M, So, = a m; I2:55+ p M
400. m; 7:lO* m; s.OsT m; 1I:25+ p m
11:35t m.
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m; B6:10t m; 6:Ul* p m; 9:12* n
SoUTH-7:2o+ IN; $685. a m, 4:z2- p m; 7:4d
pm; 11:54f p m.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS q m; 4:25 m; 7:4d
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Stops only for passengers to or fro|
| CO nnecting roads or divisions.
Stops only for passengers from Concoj
| or below.
Daily, except Sunday and Monday.
stops to leave passengers, or, wnen 81
| nailed, to take passengers.
| daily. *Daily. except Sunday. tDa{
except Monday. fDaily, except Saturday.
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st. j. & L.. G. R. R.

st. j. q L.. G. R. R.
In effect June 22, 1903
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-11

no more English than a pounded drum is
an orchestra. If Tennyson had done this,
we should have treated him as Tom
Thumbs wife did her husband when she
put him in a pint pot and there she let
him drum Unhappily, our wives, friends
and neighbors can't do this with us.
Therefore ought we to feel for them.
With bowels Of compassion should we
commiserate their I'd fate, till pity shall
make us set resolulely to work to- learn
to talk English. It is practice alone, such
practice as Tennyson and Phillips Brooks
SO sedulously employed, that will help us
here
These facile speakers and writer's Of
the noble English tongue studied sedu-
lously its wondrous accommodations of &C.
curate and appropriate expression. They
effected the most forceful, as well as
graceful and harmonious combinations Of
living words. They knew the value and
force Of every word they studied and mas
tered. The mastery use of any language
does not come by intuition. It comes by
earnest study. He who really learns to
talk English always has a large advan-
tage over the man who falters or grasps
for words. The latter may fill his mind
with. knowledge, but without facility ot
expression in speaking or writing, he Is
badly, handicapped. His education is fal
from being finished. Nobody's education
is ever finished It is rank folly to at.
firm that it is.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-11
"A Fixed Farm Labor Day.

The demand that a definite number of
hours shall constitute a days labor Is now
voiced by the farm hands. In the irri-
gated valleys OF Montana they are insist
ing that nine hours shall constitute q
days labor, and in Minnesota there is
more or less insistence by individual farm
laborers when making contracts that their
day shall not exceed ten hours.
A rigid working day seems to be about
as difficult to establish on the farm as in
the kitchen. There are times on the farm
when the farmer and his help must work
as many hours a day as their endurance
will permit And this overwork does not
profit the farmer anythngit merely pro-
tects him against loss. When a factory
runs longer hours than usual, the pro-
prietor is making money at each addi-
tional minute, and can afford to pay for
the additional work, but when the farm
runs overtime it Is merely o1assnresthe
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-11

The Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce
has just published a very neat and well
prepared souvenir of its removal from
1.-THE old house into the new The
booklet is prepared by Horace B. Hudson,
which Of itself is an assurance that the
work has been well done. It is hand
somely illustrated and tells the story of
the grain and milling development Of Min
neapolis from the beginning to the pres
ent time. 1t is an interesting story, this
narrative Of this great industry at the
most important milling center and the
largest primary wheat market ia the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-11

Clcveland,s so-called 'declination' Of
an honor that has not yet been. offered
mage he has publicly given to his friends.
In answer to a point-blank ques-
ton as to the possibility Of his con-
senting to be candidate he
only says: II can say no more than to
assure you that at no time since the close
Of my last administration, have I been
desirious of carrying the democratic BAN
| ner for the fourth time ina presidential
contest" But he doesn't say that he will
| not.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-11
AT THE THEATERS
|ou-"Janice Meredith.

~ +
6tlou-"Janice Meredith,
a much better play than usual Is pro-
vided this week at the Bijou in the first
popular priced production of Paul Leices-
ter Ford's revolutionary romance. That
the play like the novel. Is still close to
American hearts was manifested no less
ennphatically than when Mistress Janice
first churned her milkless churn in Min
neapolis.
For this Is a dramatized novel that does
not disappoint the reader OF the book. The
plot demands no mental foot notes-"See
pages 9e-146; Referring to the incident
described in Chapter VIII The interest
is cohesive.
The rocket of emotion is not allowed to
tall ingloriously and sizzle on the ground
turnout the closing act. The patriotic
sentiments so vital are utilized to their
full value. but are held in due subordin-
alton. These characteristics are clear in
the memory Of a public that has hereto
fore enjoyed the play. Lesser disappoint-
ments are forgotten. Only school chill
dren may be reminded that New Jersey
farmers in 1775 did not talk like British
yeomanry; that the Leicester Ford dialect
with Nays enough to satisfy a horse
show, vibrates most unexpectedly between
the seventeenth and the eighteenth CEN
turtles.
But the performance OF an excellent
play was far from satisfactory. 1t was a
noisy production, it was incoherent, it sci
aside the simplest maxims of the stage
The faults, moreover, could find no JUS
LITIGATION on the ground Of constrained
economy It surely costs no more to con.
duct drama as a drama than to rattle
1t along IKE a vaudeville turn in ''musica
/ comedy. Actors can be made to tall
with understandable deliveration withou
laying extra burdens upon the week.,
| ghost No money Is saved by com
polling actresses to converse vivaciousl.
4 with their backs to the audience. Ever
| a popular-priced hero might keep hi
eyes upon the girl he's making love to
4 Nor should financial reasons require tn
public to believe that Washington crosse,
the Delaware and entered the headquart
4 ers of the Hessian commander withou
i hearing one volley Of musketry.
Miss Rose Stahl, the Janice, shakes he
own hand frequently. But despite thi
Standardization, she would better ex
change places with the more vivaciou
Tabitha, Miss Inez Plummer. Still NOR
lethargic than the heroine is Williar
{ Bonelli, the bond1nan8 Charles His voic
Is excellent, his figure Of requisite mas
cultnity. His, face is handsome, tho hi
i mole-like eyes yearn sadly for NOR
makeup.
The scenery and the costumes are sui
ficiently realistic to allure both Daughter
OF the Revolution. III. B. Curry.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-11
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
Bridge Square Improvement.

6fiQ9e square improvements.
70 the Editor Of The Journal
am astounded at the criticisms on
improving the triangle near Bridge square.
I hope they will not be sufficient to pre-
vent the carrying out OF the magnificent
program that had been outlined by the
willing donors Of the statue.
When a generous citizen quietly and
unostentatiousy offered to aid in de-
fraying the expense Of fitting up the old
city hall with free baths, directors and
critics were ready to condemn the plan,
and almost everyone was too busy or for
got to commend the noble spirit mani
tested in the kindly proposition.
The critics had their way-the 'afore-
said citizen has his money, and the free
baths are not provided for anywhere by
any one.
Is presented when philanthropic citizens
tender the council a beautiful statue to
grace the green grass. which they sug-
gest take the place Of the ungainly build
| ing now there.
! Whoever originated the idea deserves
commendation-for it is noble thing to
conceive any scheme that tends to uplift
humanity and inspires to loftier ideals.
But the men who plan to furnish the
funds to place the statue there-we ought
to rejoice that we have such broad minded
men. The city ought to rise as one man
and say heartily, Thank you. It is
noble in you to give it. We accept it
gratefully and gladly appreciate the SPLEEN
did spirit which prompts you to make
such gift
It is easy to criticize-there will always
be some who will not appreciate the beau
tiful either in nature or In art, but dc
not let a few critics turn aside the donors
from giving the statue, or the council
4 from accepting it, and carrying out the
most appropriate plan yet presented fol
beautifying and improving that now for
i bidding spot.
Such gift, graciously accepted and ap.
preciated by the city, will be the fore.
runner Of other noble gifts and mark thu
beginning of a new era in this city.
win stimulate others to think how the.
| can beautify and improve the city.
Il Reject the gift, keep on criticising. an,
who will care to offer anything here
after?
Let us not be ungracious and short
, sighted in the treatment Of this nobl
& and wise offer Ea&-4y--A Eis}ness Man
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-11
Booker Washington Defended.

While as a rule Booker Washington's
work is appreciated thruout the south, an
unkind fling is sometimes taken at him
in some newspapers Lately the Charles
ton News and Courier and the Macon Tel
egraph have referred to Mr.. Washington's
efforts to raise a, 100000 endowment
fund for Tuskegee as evidence OF the
negro's ability ito pull a white mans leg.
But washingtons newspaper friends are
quick to come to his support. The Mobile
Record says in reply to such criticism that
with but few exceptions the Tuskegee.
graduates are good, Industrious and use
full men, and a credit to Tuskegee and
their race; in a word they really work
a statement that is substantiated by other
evidence than that afforded by the
school,
And the Birmingham Age-Herald says:
Booker Washington should go straight
on regardless of the alleged wits OF the
Macon Telegraph and gather in $2,O0O,0O0
as an endowment fund, or more II he can
get 1.-THE more the better. An institu-
ton that is filling the state with better
farmers and better workers of all other
sorts, cannot have too large an endow-
| ment. Neither the Macon Telegraph nor
| the Charleston News and Courier need be
considered in this connection. Tuskegee
is largely an Alabama affair, and neither
of the two papers will be asked, let us
hope, to chip in. Booker T. Washington
is understood and appreciated in Alabama
even if he be misunderstood and depre.
ciated In Macon and Charleston.
From these remarks it is not too much
to infer that when Tuskegee and similar
graduates become more common in the
south the race problem, so far as it mean:
the peaceful getting along together O
/ the two races will be partly solved. TIL,
1 Tuskegee graduate, we take it, is not {
sassy niger, He understands the con
ditions that confront him, and is NOR
intent on good work than idle talk abou
his rights. Moreover work will both es
tablish and realize those rights 1nucl
quicker than talk.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-11

It is easy to understand now why Lieu
tenant Governor Lee Of Missouri was
threatened with nervous prostration.
Most any man with a. trace of feeling left
would be decidedly nervous when threat
ened with the discovery Of the acceptance
of a bribe of $4,000 And now Lee has
confessed that he took the money and
turned $500 of it over to seven sena-
tors Think Of the lieutenant governor OF
a, great state allowing himself to descend
to such depths!