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Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01
They Respect Their State.
[Barre Times.l

The Rutland Evening News refers
to the fact that many of the newspa-
pers of Vermont had knowledge of
the revelations In connection with the
latest state prison scandal as brought
out In secret session. and that they
withheld the publishing of them until
the proper time, or until they were
revealed in public session. 1t Is an
other illustration that the newspapers
of Vermont are TO be trusted. Here
was story which was startling In
the extreme and whose news value at
once was apparent. Many of the news
papers were acquainted with the facts
with the request that the publishing
of them be withheld until the sitting
of the commission at Bellows Fails
should bring them out. In not single
instance was the confidence violated
When the formal revelation came out
the facts We're printed. but until then
not line which would give an ink
ling of what was to follow was thrown
out
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01

The real question is to what extent
of moral accountability for her acts
we should hold degenerate crea-
ture whose mental and physical i'm
pulses from the beginning have been
simply british and sodden. We are
to take into account all predisposing
causes. such as inherited tendencies.
environment at birth and in the\ for
native period of youth, power of con-
troll Of abnormal physical and nervous
organization.-St. Adams Messenger.
The omniscient and merciful God, we
hope and believe. draws this fine line
for all of His sinful children. but no
human mind can do it. We can rec
ognize extreme cases of responsible
ity safely enough, but as rule we
have to enforce our legal penalties
according to what criminals do and
not according to what we imagine they
could have restrained themselves from
doing.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01
MATTERS OF OPINION.
Selected from the Editorial Columns
Of Our Esteemed Contemporaries.
Miqht Do Both.

A commission has been appointed TO
examine the eyes of school children
to detect. defective eye sight. II this
commission would change It's plan ana
do something to prevent school boards
and teachers from destroying pupils
eye sight II would be far preferable.
The modern fad of compelling pu-
pills to study lessons from the black
board, instead of the printed book, Is
running the eyes of our pupils. NO
possible good comes of II but a vast
amount of harm is resulting. We trust
that our school board will have the
good common sense to stop this per-
nicious custom.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01

Super intendent Lowell and Sheriff
Peck have not only failed in their
evidently disciples of Ananias. OPP
portunity will soon be offered for
honest, virile men to engage in i'm
portant service for their state. Yer
mont needs a liberal infusion Of man
hood in many and varying capacities
i'm the care of its criminal wards,
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01
Vermont Newspapers All Discreet
Wilmington Times.l


Since when, pray, has the state
prison commission or Attorney-Gen-
eral Fits been better qualified to pose
as guardian of public purity than
the newspapers? Is the press OF YER
mont incapable OF deciding justly as
to what should and what should not
be printed? Or for that matter when
were either of these parties endowed
by law with the quality OF public CEN
sor? The second excuse given Is
rubbshy evasion and the latter Is or
no force whatever because II the
young woman In question were inno-
cent of any disgraceful connection
with the scandal her skirts could be
much more effectively cleared In the
light of day than through hole-and-
corner proceedings. This paper has it.
Grated and reiterated its belief that the
state of Vermont-which means all
the people Of the state--is n good deal
bigger than any of its servants. sing
~ or collectively considered. There is
nothing not one last little detail In
the conduct of state affairs. which the
people are not absolutely entitled to
know all about II they please. Any at
titude antagonistic to this principle,
Is not only a manifestation of unjusti-
fable arrogance but an insult to the
state and Its people.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01

Country residents who have suf-
fered from the automobile may
find a suggestion of solace in the
fact that the ruthless. time -and-dis-
lance smashing machine is driving
lots of rich city people out into coun-
magazine says so. Some of the ag-
grieved may surely profit by the work
of the erstwhile destroyer.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01

A Yale professor who has studied
in Germany and Greece and received
the degree of Phi. d. from Yale last
June is coming to Vermont to teach
Greek in the university. What can
Yale be thinking of to let her good
men go to Vermont? What short
sightedness-or is it parsimony?
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01

It is not so long ago that Mrs, Blick-
ensderfer was pleading for Mary Rog-
ers's life on the ground that she was
different, now" Well. she Is diff
ferent from what she was when she
murdered her husband-several de-
grees more degraded. Alas, for the
life Imprisonment theory!
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01
No Longer a Pastime.

When regular army officer COM
pliments Col. Estey as the best mil
itia colonel in the United States II
indicates that there has been vast
improvement in the National guard OF
Vermont since the Spanish war. AS
matter Of fact there has been almost
complete revolution and the men VINO
look on the work of the soldier as
something of serious responsibility are
in the majority.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01

If justice is only melted out TO Hoch
the wife murderer. In connection witt
the crime of which he has been con-
victed. ii will not matter if care
less states attorney has allowed the
bigamy charges against him to be-
come void, as is reported from Chi
cago But in these days of legal eva
sions there are too many chances that
the scoundrel will escape the penalty
already imposed. to allow such news
to become unimportant to society.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01
All Settled.
burlington Clipper.

This paper has contended right
along that GOV. Bell was after Con-
gresham Haskins's place and that
nothing could stop him. The east side
papers have at last woke up to the
situation.
Gov. Bell will be the next congress-
man from the second district. Put
that in your hat and refer to II later
What the (Northfield) News says
about the gubernatorial campaign IS
true.
No one will get in the way of the
marble train from Proctor
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01

The North Bennington octogenariap
may need a guardian. but it is not
surprising or unnatural that he should
prefer to make his own selection. If
she is good young woman the stern
relatives should forbear, notwith-
standing the old mans money which
may be disappointment diverted.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01

A terrific cloudburst near Rhode
canyon. in Colorado. Thursday night.
August "a. converted the canyon into
a torrent which swept through the
towns of Berwind and Tobasco.
wrecking everything in its path and
drowning at least nine persons. The
property loss is estimated at hum
dreds of thousands of dollars. suf
fered mostly by the Colorado fuel and
iron company and the Colorado and
Southern railway company. Eighteen
houses are said to have been swept
away and their occupants thrown
into the roaring waters. The inhabi-
tants had absolutely no warning of
their danger.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01

1t is expected that between 200 and
800 Vermonters will attend the annual
encampment of the G. A. r. to be
held in Denver. Col. in September.
The Vermont party will leave tomor-
row evening and. by way of the
Grand Trunk railroad. will go to Chi
caeo, after which the party will trav-
81 over the Burlington & Quincy road
The Vermont train will consist of a
Pullman and five or six tourist
coaches. besides baggage cars. Az
ter leaving St Adams the train will
make a through trip. The party will
be personally conducted by Mr. WILL
EFT of St Adams. Tickets will be
good from September to October Z.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01

The Japanese yellow peril, pos
sibly from the white mans view
have shown themselves as magnani-
nous and yielding in victory as they
are brave and unfaltering i'm the fight.
They may well be satisfied to give the
Russians diplomatic triumph"
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01
Compound Interest.

Hartford, conn.,, CouraHl'I
The country's debt to the capable
but sadly unorthodox Vermonter who
took Ticonderoga has been increased
in the last half dozen years. The
country is indebted to him for Ethan
Allen Hitchcock, whom thieves love
as rats love the terrier.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01

Splendid" cries Mr. Roosevelt,
when he hears the good news from
Portsmouth. And the American peo-
Pile, reviewing with pride the presi-
dents part in bringing about this
world desired peace echo Splendid
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01

Sheriff Peck whom the Mortified
News alluded to short time ago as
nov too small to be seem" Is again
visible to the naked eye. Let us hope
been reached.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01

cess and II the management keeps up
to the times and its opportunities VIII
mingtons population should be doubt
ed In five years. sticking In old ruts IL
what a!ls scores of Vermont enter
prises,
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01
Fraction Better than No Husband?

Judging from the reluctance oil
Vermonts young men to marry even
one wife. there is small ground fol
worry over Mormon PROSECUTING mere
so far as the men are concerned-bu'
now about the girls.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01
Must Take a New Track.
Wilmington Times.l

The new factory will start small
but there are no limits to its posi-
bilities. Conditions are ideal for sue
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-09-01
0lindham Gountp 8rfo;mer
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The Washington times., 1905-11-19
Loue at First Siqht

1t was almost a case of love at
first sight The prince fell head
over heels In love with her. though
1t is hard TO conceive of George as
really in love with anyone. but so
far as he was capable of caring for
anyone he certainly cared for Maria
Fitzherbert. It was an inausp.cious
time for him to fall in love. He was
very much at outs with his father.
King George III. He had rebelled
against the strict formality of the
old kings domestic circle. He found
home life exceedingly uninteresting.
One can hardly blame him. He as
siduously cultivated all his fathers
pet aversions, sought out Sheridan
and Fox. his fathers Whig oppen-
ents, and by them was initiated into
the brilliancy and vice of the fash
ionable life of the day. There prob
ably never was a day when society
in England was more brilliant. there
certainly never was when it was
more licentious.
It suited Prince George of Wales
down TO the ground He had not the
wit that would have made him well
The Washington times., 1905-11-19
THE WASHINGTON TIMES SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1905

he told the late Father Matthews ne
was going to write to Lady Fitz-
herbert, his mother, ard also de-
elares that Father Matthews, who
was acquainted with the facts. help
ed him to write this letter, which
was directed to Lady Fitzherbert
and inclosed in a letter to Aaron
Vail. charge d'affaires of the Ameri-
can legation at the Court of St.
James in 1886. Father Matthews
was for years pastor at st. Patrick's
Church and was nephew of Leon
ard Neale. a Marylander, who was
president of Georgetown College
while the boy was a pupil there in
1900
The record says that Lady Fitz-
herbert no doubt received this letter
from the youth supposed to be her
son, and then goes on to say that
Father Matthews, in 1852, then in
his eighty-second year, made a state
ment under oath in writing to the
late Gen. Edward o. c. Ord, of Mary
land. who was the son of James Ord,
of what he (Father Matthews) had
learned confidentially from the late
Captain Ord, the so-called uncle.
This statement was to the effect that
"the child called James Ord and his
nephew was not his nephew, but Of
royal parentage. the son of one of
the royal family of England" This
statement OF Father Matthews is
now in the possession of surviving
relatives of the late General Ord.
The archives of the college show
that in November. 1884, Father
Healy, who was formerly a president
of Georgetown College. furnished a
member of the Ord family with in
formation to the effect that James
Ord was a son of George " and Lady
FitzherbeTt, and referred that mem
Der of the family to the Rev. James
Curley, who was for many years at
The Washington times., 1905-11-19

time, handing their knowledge down
in the form of records of one kind
or another
James Ord. the young man who
was supposed to have been the son
of George ", was brought to Amer
lea during the latter part of the
eighteenth century and taken TO Nor
folk by Capt. James Ord, a master
mechanic, who was first employed in
the Norfolk navy yard, and after
ward came to the Washington navy
yard, bringing the boy to this city
with him. This youth, who bore the
same name as Capt. James Ord. his
so-called uncle, was entered at
Georgetown College on April "a, 1900,
by the Rev. Motley Young, a famous
Maryland priest, who, according to
some Of the records at Georgetown
University, is supposed to have acted
as agent to have the youth educated.
Before the boy left Georgetown Col
lege James Ord, his so-calIed uncle,
died, leaving viii, dated October
II. 1901. now on file at the City Hall
in Washington. leaving $500 TO the
Rev Francis Neale, of Georgetown
College, and the balance of his es-
tate ito my beloved nephew. James
The Washington times., 1905-11-19
X =:
ReUer ReIinquished Claim

So long as the marriage remained
In doubt-or, rather, so long as It
lacked legal proof-the American
Ords have held their peace and nurs-
ed their family tradition-never for
a moment relinquishing their claim
that they were descendants of the
last Of the Georges and Mrs. Fitz-
herbert-but deciding, apparently.
that there was nothing TO be gained
by troubling deaf heaven with their
bootless cries, until they could prove
the marriage. What the world has
for a century been morally sure of.
it has within the past ten days be-
come legally sure of-and the pres
ent generation of Ords. notably
James L. Ord, assistant superintend-
ent of construction for the Western
Union Telegraph Company, in Chi
cago. proposes TO push it's claim to
> share Of the great fortune involved.
History has long ago decided that
the fact Of such a marriage was es-
tablished beyond reasonable doubt
but, reasonable or unreasonable,
lacking proof, the doubt remained.
Also il has long been known that
all the papers relating to George I!
and Mrs Fitzherbert were in the
sealed packet, which the committee
of three noblemen to whom Il had
been entrusted had deposited for
safe keeping in the Coutts Bank.
The trust had been handed down
from father TO son. The papers were
not TO be opened until the three
agreed that the time had come when
they should be opened. And the
three never have agreed, until ten
days ago by the Kings order the
package was opened and the doubt
set at rest.
The Washington times., 1905-11-19

herbert, his lawful wife" to quote
the words Of the old record.
According to tradition the original
James Ord was not brought 10 this
country until 1910, but the archives
of Georgetown college, and of ,Loyola
college in Baltimore, and the records
of the Office of Register of Wills of
the District of Columbia, which
threw considerable light on the
claim of royal birth, place the date
of his arrival considerably earlier. z
From these it would appear that
the youth, who. according to tradi-
tions in the Ord family, which has
been prominent in American military
circles for three-quarters of a CEN
tury. was the son of King George "
through his marriage with Lady
F4tzherbert, was a student at George
town College, in this city, from 1900
until 1911 during his boyhood. The
tradition that this young man was
the son of George " and Lady Fitz-
herbert is an old one at Georgetown,
and some of the most famous Of the
old priests there were familiar with
the surroundings of the case in their
The Washington times., 1905-11-19
Took Guardian, s Name

It is believed to have been at The
instance Of the Duke Of Wellington
that the boy was placed under ths
control of George James Ord,
naval constructor, who won renowr
as a naval engineer in both Spair
and England The boy took the
name of his guardian, and it is bis
great-grandson who fell at Santiago
and another great-grandson who IL
preparing to assert his rights Is
the vast English estates which ara
his by right OF descent.
At least this is the Ord version os
me story. But on the other hand
Lord Stourton. Mrs. Fitzherbert's
cousin and confidant. TO whom she
left all her papers and a commis-
sion to write her vindication. tesu-
fed in a court of law that no child
was ever born to Mrs. Fitzherbert.
Lord Stourton swore further that,
in 1887. he and the Duke Of Yelling
ton were appealed to by an impost-
er, who claimed to be an issue Of
the marriage between Mrs. Fitz-
herbert and her royal husband.
4 did not trouble myself 10
notice this claim" Lord Stourton
testified.
The Washington times., 1905-11-19

Ord, of Georgetown College. to whom
also l give all debts due me.
The archives of Georgetown Uni
versity show the date of the boys
admission into the school, and the
archives of Loyola College contain a
statement in writing which he made
after he became an old man, giving
all he knew concerning the mystery
of his lineage This statement was
sent to Loyola College because that
was then the residence of the pro-
vincial of the Society of Jesuits in
the eastern part of the United States,
all important archives of the prov
ince being preserved in that resi-
dence. It is understood that this
statement of the supposed original
heir himself is regarded as a conf
Dental document.
The Washington times., 1905-11-19

As to the Ord family-it has been
we'll and favorably known in Ameri-
ca for century, and is undoubtedly
descended from a youth known as
James Ord, brought over to this
country by an older James Ora
whose nephew he was supposed to
be This real James Ord left a will
and confession setting forth tha.
the lad, James Ord, supposed to be
his nephew, was in reality a son of
George " of England and Mrs.
Maria Smyth Fitzherbert.
The Washington times., 1905-11-19

was known as the beautiful widow
of Brighton, and had been twice
widowed when she met the young
Prince of Wales at one of the royal
operas AT that time she was thirty
years old and one of the most beau
tiful women in the realm. Her
maiden name was Maria Annie
Smyth. Her first husband was Ed
ward Weld. a squire of moderate
means.
Thomas Fitzherbert, her second
husband, was a aeosrtier of some pre-
tensions to gentle birth, who died
before his wife was twenty-five
years old.
The Washington times., 1905-11-19
Georgetown College Records

The tradition respecting the
parentage of young Ord is mention
ed in the history of Georgetown Col
lege, written by DR.. John G. Shea,
a painstaldng historian. who de-
clares in that volume: teThe college
was not without pupils from the
best of the old Catholic families
from Maryland in 1889 and had some
on its rolls of whom she might feel
proud. James Ord, son of George
" and his lawful wife, Mrs. Fitz-
herbert, was enrolled among the
students the next year"
According to the records preserv,
ed among the archives of George
town College, James Ord while
mere youth read a book treating the
life of Lady Fitzherbert and men
tioning the supposed child, and ask
ed, Am I this child?" Later, while
looking over some papers and letters
left him by his so-called uncle, Cap
tain Ord, who brought him to
The Washington times., 1905-11-19

come TO the brilliant coterie, but
even that brilliant coterie was not
above the snobbishness which made
the Prince of Wales more than well
come. And in the vices of the day
he certainly could lead them all. He
lived in a whirl Of unusual excite
ment, his time was passed in the
grossest profiigracy. His royal word
was no more to be trusted than his
royal bond. He does not seem
throughout his career to have had
a decent, manly. generous impulse.
If he had he stifled it before it could
make him do anything that could in
terfere with his own selfish pleasure.
And yet he loved Maria Fitzher-
bert. There seems to be no doubt OF
that And she loved him. There
must have been something in him
worth while, since she did love him.
And there seems equally no doubt
of that. He was young then-not
quite the animal he subsequently be-
perhaps. with some of the
glory and the graciousness of youth
still on him But she would not be
his mistress She would marry him
that or nothing.
Nay, it could not have been ambi-
tiCn. She knew that marriage with
him would never make her Queen of
England. She was a Roman Catho-
lie, and even had she been Of royal
blood, by the Act of Settlement the
heir to the crown forfeited his sue
cession by marriage with a Catholic.
Nor by the royal marriage act could
ne legally contract marriage with
eat his fathers consent, unless at