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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-07-13


riding down to Greenwich and sending
back a messenger. So, light hearted
enough at the prospect 1 soon Joined
the girls, and we cantered briskly
home.
After waiting a reasonable time for
Mary to see the king sought her
again to learn where and from whom
/ should receive the order for Bran
don's release and when 1 should go to
London to bring him.
What was my surprise and disgust
when Mary told me she had not yet
seen the king; that she had waited to
eat and battle and dress and that
"a few moments more or less could
make no difference"
My God, your highness! Did I not
tell you that the man who saved your
life and honor, who is covered with
wounds received in your defense and
almost dead from loss of blood. spilled
that you might be saved from worse
than death, is now lying in a rayless
dungeon. place OF frightful filth. such
as you would not walk across for all
the wealth Of London bridge; is sur
rounded by loathsome, creeping things
that would sicken you but to think Of:
Is resting under a charge whose penal
" Is that he be hanged, drawn and
CHARTERED? And yet you stop to eat
and battle and dress! In Gods name,
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the enactment of the laws. On London
walls were written the words Bread
or Blood" bread STEPPED In blood was
set in Carlton house occupied by the
prince regent) and the mob attacked
the houses of some OF the unpopular
advocates of the new bill. The mill
tary was called out, the house Of parlia-
ment kept guarded by soldiers, n the
whole of London was in q state OF re-
volt. ID
In the provisional towns. too, upris-
ings we're numerous, and throughout
the land there were evidences of dis
affection. But the government insist
ed on strict observance of the laws up
to 1928, when an amended law adjust
ed the duties by a sliding scale, where
after the duties were to be governed
by the average price of the English
market: When the average price Of
wheat was Sc shillings the duty was
Sos, eight pence per quarter; when 46s.
the duty was 40S., Sd. per quarter; when
56s., it was 30s., Sd. per quarter; when
62s., it was GAS, Sd. per quarter; when
72s., it vas Is. Sd. per quarter; and
when TBS, it was Is. per quarter" AS
can readily be seen, the amended law
did not favor the importation Of cheap
grain to much more extent than the
original measure.
The suffering amongst the poor ON
tinued and the provision laws also bore
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companions. His favorite antagonists
are Commissioner Garfield and Com
missioner Cooley, the young New
Yorker, who has just taken a place on
the civil service commission. Both of
them are fine players, Garfield espe-
ciaily, and they go at it with a vim.
The president generally picks one Of
them for a partner and the two play
against the other. Occasionally the
president takes one side of the net by
himself. He is not up on the fine
points of the game as the others are
and he is a little heavier on his pins.
but he plays powerfully and plays to
win.
1t is one of the most interesting
sights in Washington to see this ten
mis- game going on in the afternoon be-
tween four ana five o'clock after the
grist Of visitors has been ground out.
Tennis is not so popular among pub
lie men in Washington as it was a few
years before the lazier game of golf
came into vogue, but it is growing
again in esteem. When Olney was Sec
rotary of state under Cleveland he was
regarded as the pest player in Wash
ington and it was the only form of ex-
ercise he took. Senator Lodge is also
a fine player, though he seldom gets a
chance. Ever since he was old enough
to straddle a horse he has been addicted
to riding, and he has the best seat of
any public man in Washington.
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE.
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HER TARIFF PROBLEM
Legislation in That Direction Al
ways Unpopular in England.
A GLANCE AT THE PAST
Brilliant Men Have Fallen Over This
Political Stumbling Block-Tbe
"Corn Laws" ind Their Re-
sult-Bfts of History.

Some m has well said that the pres
ent crisis In England regarding a pro-
tective tariff is not a government cri-
sis, but a national one, that il the
changes advocated by Mr.. Chamberlain
are effected they will reverse tradi-
tions and discard principles of politi-
cal economy hat are Unborn in the
British people,"
1t is prophesied that next spring a
parliament will be elected that will
upset the nations free trade policy, but
1t goes without saying that in the
meanwhile three different factions of
the public will be toiling strenuously
IN the cause individually espoused. The
factions are as follows-those who
stand boldly for free trade; those who
stand for a protective tariff, and mid
way between these a conservative ele-
ment with Mr.. Balfour at the head, a
body that believes reforms are needed
to relieve the industrial situation, but
is averse to hasty, radical action.
A protective tariff is bound at first
to be immensely unpopular with the
mass of the English people, who for so
long has held as gospel buying in the
cheapest market and selling in the
dearest" A little review of English
history gives us some idea of the Brit
ish temper on the delicate question of
taxation of food stuffs. Though per-
haps a little vague about it, still all
have heard something of the excite
ment caused on the enactment of the
corr laws, and the state of feeling that
forced their repeal a few years later.
In the light of impending events it
may be of interest to go into detail
concerning past legislation on the mat
ter of abolition of free trade.
The corn laws Of English history
were a series of laws enacted at differ
ent times through various centuries
(from 1436 to 1S42) and until their re-
peal the home and foreign grain trade
continued subject of elaborate egisla-
ton. The laws, during this long period
dealt with the levying of protective
duties, in imposing restrictions
amounting to prohibition, and in grant
ing bounties for the encouragement of
expectation. Space permits considers
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IN the least worthy. That seems {
hard thing to say. but 1t Is true never.
theless. 1t has got to be SO that the
most m~eritorious claims are those
which can command the least iniuen.
tial support. Seediness and merit toe
often go together. The cases that ct
through are those which are cham.
pioned by prosperous attorneys who
have a close acquaintance with the men
who control legislation.
Not long g a noted lobbyist dice
in Washington. He had no occupation
except the railroading of bills through
congress. He was a coarse, ignorant
vulgar creature, whose principal char
acteristics were a capacity for making
money and a genius for displaying 1t.
Yet this man had among his close CON-
panions all but a few Of the most con-
spicuous members of the lower house,
He had weekly dinners at his house,
which contained n of the finest din
ing rooms in the city. At these dinners
a certain group of representatives were
always present. They came early and
stayed late, When Tom Reed left con
gress and it was time to choose a suc-
cessor it was found that every man
who was in the list of those mentioned
was among the lobbyists most con
slant guests. He never lost one of his
cases.
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TUE PH|LO 5. Ben
| NETT Will Case
Decision Rendered by Judge Cleave-
land In the Probate Court at
New Haven, Conn.
The COURT FINDS that THE WILL
WAS EXECUTED IN. PROPER FORM.
The Sealed Letter, However,, About
Which There Has Been So Much
Contention, 1t il Found WINS Not
Incorporated In the WilI-Mr.
Bryan May Appeal.

New Haven, Conn, Nov. 6.-Decision
in the Philo s. Bennett will case, in
which VIM. ]. Bryan appears both as
an executor under the will and a bene-
fciary, was made by Judge Cleave-
land in probate court Friday. The
form of the decree will be announced
Saturday, when Mr.. Bryan will be
present.
The court finds that the sealed letter,
aboutV (which there has been contest,
providing for a gift of 5000 to MIR.
Bryan and family, was not i%ncorporat-
ed in the will.
Copies of the decree were handed to
attorneys representing Mrs. Bennett,
the widow, and Mr.. Bryan.
When Judge Cleaveland took his seat
on the bench an inquiry was made as
to Mr.. Bryan's whereabouts, and when
it was stated that he would be here in
the afternoon, the judge said he would
adjourn court until Saturday, SO that
the form of the decree could be an
nounced in Mr.. Bryan's presence. At
torneys for Mr.. Bryan said they were
ready for the decree at this time, but
the Judge thought an opportunity
should be given for further discussion
OF the case if desired. He then said:
II find that the question of whether
the will was properly executed was
not raised. l find that it was properly
executed, and l find that the testator
had sufficient testamentary capacity.
81 find that there was no unde infiu-
ence by Mr.. Bryan over MI. Bennett.
1t was claimed that the sealed letter
should be incorporated in the will. I
find that reference in the will was suf-
fcient as to the sealed letter, yet the
language in the document itself plain
ly indicated that the will was executed
before that letter was written. There
was in existence before the will was
executed a duplicate of the sealed let
ter. That is considered in support Of
the contention that the paper was a
part of the will. The sealed letter was
found with the will. l find that there
was no undue influence, but that the
sealed letter was not incorporated in
the will"
The court further said that he ex-
pressed no opinion as to whether the
sealed letter, which gives $50, 900 to
Mr.. Bryan and his family, can be in
corporated in the will.
at may be urged" he continued,
that it a be used, but as to that the
court has no opinion to express"
Attorneys Immediately asked the
court if a construction has been placed
upon the bequest, and the court called
their attention to the text of the de-
cision.
Newton, Church & Hewitt, counsel
for Mr.. Bryan in this city, said in re-
ply to a question, that, although Mr..
Bryan had not yet been informed Of
the decision, he would undoubtedly de-
eide to enter an appeal from it.
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was angry, and he did as he had done
in days when she was younger. He
turned her over his knee and spanked
her soundly.
Now this is sufficiently humiliating
to a single girl, and what must it be to
a wife? The bride of a few days ran
to her husbandweepingfor consolation
He was properly and sufficiently
angry, and swore out a warrant charg-
ing the father with assault and battery
upon his wife. Then for the first time
became known to the parents the fact
that the two were married.
Two sides have been formed in the
village. The young people say that
the spanking was an outrage, and that
no father has the right to inflict such
punishment upon a girl. Old married
people, on the other hand. say that the
young man should have been spanked
as well as the girl
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N rtop'lS'oi with a farmhouse;
there are no neighbors within five
miles and the land is worth less than
$40 an acre.
He bought the place so as to be out
of the world for a little while every
summer, but he has had the liveliest
kind of a time denying the rumors that
have gone out about it. In the first
place it vas announced that he had
bought the entire town, which would
have made him a landed proprietor
with $50, 900 acres in his possession.
Then it was declared that he was going
to establish a game preserve, and he
received letters from all over the
United States, at the rate of half a
dozen a day. offering him all sorts of
animals and birds to stock his place
with and making all sorts of offers.
The thing got to be a nuisance.
AS a matter of fact the senator's es-
tate is about as modest an affair a.
anybody could ask for. His live stock
consists of two COWS and one horse and
he keeps a hired man. When he looks
out of his window just after the first
frosts come in early September he sees
miles and miles of the most beautiful
forest colors to be found in the world,
and in the midst of such delights he
loafs and invites his soul.
The senator has one of the most
beautiful places imaginable at Madison,
Wis. If it were only a little farther
out of the world he would never think
of living anywhere else even for a few
weeks in the summer.
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ton only of the corn laws of the last
century, those in existence from 1915
to 1876.
Immediately after the Napoleonic
war in Europe, there was almost a
famine in Great Britain, there being
poor harvests at home and supplies
from abroad being cut off by Napo-
Icons continental SYSTEM" devised
to destroy English power and COM
merce. The laboring classes and trades
men suffered severely, the agricultural
folk, landlords and farmers, alone en-
joying prosperity. But when presently
the war was over and ports open, for
eign grain came pouring in and prices
fell rapidly. The landlords became
alarmed and craftily spoke, in their
appeals for reforms, of the distress Of
the English farmer. They asked par
lament to resist the importation Of for
eign grain, and insisted that, as the
cost of cultivation was higher in Eng
land than in the foreign lands from
which the grain was arriving. the Eng
lish farmer be protected. In 1915, a
parliament, consisting almost wholly of
landlords, enacted the corn laws, ex-
Guiding foreign wheat except at high
rates of duty, until the market price
should reach sos per quarter; and put
ting a like restriction on the importa-
ton of other grains.
Though considerable sympathy was
aroused by oratorical flights in behalf
of the agriculturist, the law was looked
upon by many of the people as afro
cious. Students averred that the indus
trial situation might have been other
wise relieved than by such a radical
Measure as raising the price Of common
food %stuffs; that rents might have been
lowered, improved methods of culti-
walton adopted; that the corr laws
were passed by the landlords in order
to maintain high rents and keep out
foreign grain. The masses, as was to
be expected, did not confne their ex-
pressions of displeasure to verbal crit
icisAa, riots and law1essness followed
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DEATH IN BURNING MINE
Seven Known Dead and Perhaps
Many More Lives Lost.
Victims of n Fire In the Kearsarge
Mine at Summit, Eight Miles
From Butte, Mont.

Butte, Mont, Nov. CA dispatch to
the Inter-Mountain from Virginia City,
Mont, says:
Seven are dead, a number more
burned and perhaps scores lost in the
underground workings in a fire which
started in the Kearsarge mine, situated
at Summit, eight miles from there, Fri
day morning. The known dead are
Superintendent r. B. Turner, a miner
named Tobin and five other miners, too
badly burned to be identified, have
been recovered.
From so to Is men are still down in
the mine and may have persisted from
flame or smoke. The plant employed
200 men. 1t is the property of United
States Senator Willard, of Nebraska
and was valued at about 81, 000, 900.
There is no way to estimate the loss at
present. The fire, which started at
seven o'clock Friday morning, as the
shifts were being changed, still RACES
fiercely and the rescuers, hundreds of
whom have gone from Virginia City,
will be hampered, as there is no appa-
ratus at the mine. 1t is not known
how the fire started.
Superintendent Turner gave his life
| for his men. He was at breakfast and
partially dressed when the alarm came
Dashing into the house in his shirt
sleeves, with another minor whose
name has not been learned, Turner
made his way into the main tunnel
Here they found everything ablaze.
They CROPPED their way down and
dragged out five bodies, including To-
bins. In a second attempt they did not
come out and were later brought forth
dead by the rescuers, the man who sc
heroically aided Turner, perishing
with him. Turner was acknowledged
as the leading miner of the west.
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heavily upon them. These laws COM
pleted the agricultural protection af-
forded by the corn laws. strictly pro-
hibiting the importation of foreign
cattle and foreign meats. Butter and
lard could be imported, but they were
not to be used as food. the custom
house men being ordered to spoil them
by smearing with a tarred stick, 70 de-
stroy their value as a food and make
them fit only as grease for wheels or
to be used for smearing sheep. With
bread purposely made dear. the import
of cattle and of flesh meat prohibited,
and with lard and butter wilfully re-
duced from articles of food t. grease
for wheels, there is no difficulty in ac-
counting for the frequent murmurs Of
discomfort, and for the starvation
of the kingdom"
Now arose in earnest IN anti-corn-law
agitation. In 1888, a small company Of
men met at Manchester and formed a
new anti-corn association. Others
joined with these men, Golden among
SAASAhJ ohN ~ LA VI JcihihS
Golden took a leaders part in the
work. He presented to his associates
a petition asking for the repeal of all
the laws relating to the importation
of grain; active work was carried on by
him and other supporters of free trade,
and ere long the anti-corn league be-
came a power to be considered. And
not a few landlords began to rank
themselves with those standing for a
repeal of the oppressive laws. 1t be-
came more and more a question of the
good of the many.
In 1S41, when Sir Robert Peel re-
turned to power it was as a protec-
ZIONIST, put the great statesman soon
saw fit to change his mind in regard
to high tariff; and. though bitterly OPP
posed by members of his party.
brought about notifications of the
corn laws, and tariff reduction-the
first great step toward free trade. From
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GUSTAvE BERGER'S CRIMES.
He Has Now Been Unidentified As the
Man Who Shot a Chicago &
Northwestern Fireman.

Chicago, Nov. 6.-Gustave Berger,
who was arrested, Monday, with his
brother and sister, charged with a
number of crimes, is said by the police
to have been identified as the man,
who, last week, shot Locomotive Fire
mon Ernest, of the Chicago & North
western railway. Ernest was a fireman
on the st. Paul limited, and was shot
while working in the cab not far from
Chicago. Next morning a number Of
sticks of dynamite were found along
the track where the shooting occurred.
1t was believed that ar attempt was
made to hold up the train.
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AS TO SPANKING A BRIDE.

Has a father the right to spank his
married daughter. eve though she is
but Is and he does not know that she is
married, and would the fact of his
knowing it make any difference in
his right to inf1ict corporal punish
ment?
These are the questions at present
interesting the people of Nicholson. in
Wyoming county, Pa, and the court
has been called upon to decide them.
Briefly, the facts are these:
Margaret Matilda Smith, aged Is.
and Albert Ellis Cisco ran away from
Nicholson on September IA, went to
Washington, N. j., and there were
married by a justice of the peace.
They returned home that evening.
A few days later the girls father
learned that she had gone away with
out her mothers consent. He did not
know that she had been married. He
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man carrying it as a watch by day, set
ting it and winding 1t as an alarm, and
placing 1t perhaps on a chair at his bed
side or under his pillow at night. 1t is
carried by travellers as an ordinary
watch, to be used, besides, as an alarm
clock to wake them UP to catch trains;
and it may be used as a reminder Of an
engagement by day.
They are not expensive, these alarm
watches, a stemwinder In a gun metal
case costing eight dollars.
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THE WARM BAD MASSACRE.
The Massacre of the German Garri-
son ut Wnrmbad. DeImaraland,
Fully Confirmed.

Cape Town, Cape Colony, Nov. G.
Official advices received here fully
confirm the massacre at Warmbad,
Damaraland, German Southwest Afri-
ca, by the Bondelzwar tribesmen. The
Germans CALAMITY fought to the end,
but were overwhelmed. 1t is believed
that none of them escaped. Warmbad
was burned.
Reports of isolated murders of Ger
man traders are also coming in.
The rebellion in Damaraland is Off
cially attributed to distress caused by
the drought.
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1S45 to 1916, the newspaper writer's and
orators labored strenuously for the re-
peal of the laws, and Sir Robert be-
came less and less of a protectionist
1t was under his leadership that a
Measure was at last put through that
proved practically the repeal of the
corr laws. A biographer thus speaks
of the statesman's change of views:
Peel had returned to power the cham
pion of protection. His first great
achievement was the extension of the
freedom of trade"
KATHERINE POPE.
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The newest thing in alarm timepices
is an alarm watch, say the New York
Sun. 1t looks like an ordinary watch,
but has a gong in its interior.
You set it at the hour you want tito
90 off, and wind it just as o would
an alarm clock, and it goes off AT the
lime set with a clatter of astonishing
vigor and volume of sound, when the
size of the mechanism is considered.
The alarm watch may be used to serve
the usual purpose of az alarm clock. the
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A LITTLE VARIETY.

A single modern rail, 60 feet, 100
pounds to the yard, weighs just one ton.
Jessie, youngest of the erstwhile IA
nous Cherry sisters, died at her home in
Cedar Rapids, Ia, recently.
Lady Herbert Naylor Leyland, n Of
the wealthiest Of American-born women
in England. finds herself in more affiu-
emit circumstances by the death of her
mother-in-law, Mrs. Naylor Leyland.
Her palatial home is n of the show
places of London, and requires an in
come of nearly 100000 a year to keep
up.
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WERE GUESTS OF THE KING.
Ambassador Meyer and Family the
Guests of the King of Italy ut
His Hunting Lodge.

Rome, Nov. 6.-King Victor En-
manuel, hearing that United States
Ambassador Meyer had arrived at Pisa
in a motor car, sent his aide-de-camp,
Gen. Brusait, to invite the ambassador
and his family to the royal shooting
lodge at San Rosore, where Mr.. Meyer
Went Friday morning for a day. Dur
ing the forenoon the ambassador rode
on horseback with the king and queen,
and lunched at the castle. He then
participated in a hunting party.
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A woman's favorite word is always
the last ne.
Gen. Charles A. Whittier, of Boston,
who has just returned from a tour of the
world, travelled over the Trans-Siberian
railroad, a distance of 5000, in IA days,
which is about 430 miles a day.
A Norwegian schooner has arrived
at Bergen from ~Spitzbergen with near
ly 300 tons of good steam coal on
board. The coal was found near the
shore. Further prospecting has been
arranged.
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laid out which is
one of the finest to
be found any
where. The ground
is as hard and
smooth as a floor
and it is enclosed
with a high wire
netting, h i C b,
however, does not
conceal the court
from the street.
Here three or
four days in the
week the president
plays tennis with
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Pertinent Inquiry.

Il never use any of the butter sold
in th2 markets on my table," remarked
the landlady of a Cumminsville hash
factory. This butter came from my
uncle's dairy in Michigan.
"That reminds me-" Joined the irrel-
evant boarder, that physical exercise
is a great thing. l suppose this butter
acquired it's wonderful strength by
walking all the way, did it not?"-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
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British Cruisers In a Race.

Gibraltar, Nov. 6.-The British third
class cruisers Medusa and Medea, sis
ter ships of $500 IONS displacement
sailed for Portsmouth from Gibraltar
Friday, in a race home at full speed,
to test their boilers and coal consump-
ton,
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breasts of the
army of hangers
on about the capt.
tol who live from,
year to year in the
never-dying expec-
tation that some
time or other they
are going to have
the rights which
they have claimed.
There is nothing
more pathetic any
where, wrecks of
manhood W h O
haunt the corri-