Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-03-20

Ing current event. The history, "Causes
Which Led to the Civil War;" was read oy
Mrs. Blake; papers were prepared ana
read on "Anti Slavery Agitators," by MIS-.
Pierce on "John Brown Mrs. Aldricn on
"W. L. Garrison" and Mrs. Webster on
"The Life and Work of Wendell Phillips,
which were listened to with much inter-
est. One of Whittier's beautiful poems,
"The Yankee Girl" was read by Mrs
Flanders. Conversation on the authors
who Influenced the anti-slavery move
ment in which Mrs. Stowe, Julia Ward
Howe, Whittier, Lowell and others were
mentioned, closed with an instructive pro-
nouncing contest.
This community was saddened to learn
of the death of Mrs. Lydia s. Drew last
Thursday morning. She had been IN
apparent good health until about four
weeks ago when she had some trouble with
g tooth which later developed blood poison
and caused her death. Mrs. Drew was the
daughter of Emory and Joanna Mason ana
was born June r7tb, 1851, in Albany, where
she spent much of her life. On March ~,
town, and lived on the Drew farm from
that time until her death. She was very
active member of the Methodist church
here and has done much by her presence
and benevolence to support the church'
and help every good cause which 1t repre-
sents. She possessed beautiful character,
was large hearted, industrious, kind to the
n fo w n needed
help, cheerful, exhibiting splendid type
of Christian womanhood. She had no
enemies, but large circle OF friends both
in the church and community. She always
greeted her friends with smile, and had
the faculty of making others happy in her
presence. During her sickness she was
great sufferer but bore her aff1iction with
Christian fortitude. She leaves to mourn
her loss her husband, her brother, Roswell
Mason OF Glover, a sister living in the west,
the members of her husbands family, and
many more distant relatives and friends.
The funeral was attended at the house on
Saturday at one o'cIocl3&n the afternoon,
Rev. w. c, johnson officiating. Interment
in the village cemetery.
The following is taken from the Boston
Globe Of March 16 and shows something of
how horsemen look at ''Ecstatic" and her
driver:
audubon Boy" 2:O3f, and ''Ecstatic"
2-054, respectively, the fastest stallion and
mare owned in New England, will meet in
a dual race over the New England breeders
track iu Readville, Thursday, Aug. "a, the
fourth day of Boston's grand circuit meet
ing. The match is for $4,000, $4,000 side,
and is the result of the sweeping challenge
which was published In the Globe last
Monday. James GatcOmb, the owner OF
Audubon Boy" and John Dorey, repre-
senting the owner of "Ecstatic," met at
the Globe office yesterday and in very
few minutes the match was arranged
''Ecstatic" made q splendid campaign last
year, losing only one race, her first start at
Worcester. Her racing was over mile and
half mile tracks in the west and east. Hel
record of 2:05i was made at Hamline
Mimi, over q track considered slow, ano
she was timed in 2:034 from wire to wire
At the fall meeting at Readville she won G
| race which stamped her one of the very
| greatest of pacing mares, the time being
2:O64, 2:065, 2:06t, and fast as they were
| she reeled off the miles with ease. She i
six years old and has always been driver
| and trained by Frank Lang, the cleve
| Vermont reinsmsn, who will fit and handl
| her in her coming match. She is oWnet
| and raced by Roaring Brook stable, Barton
VT. The best of judges speak OF her as
| sure two minute PAGER, as they do aIso o
| the great horse she is matched against
| Both owners have un bounded faith in the1
| horses, and until they meet at Readv1l
| next August each man will be happy In tn
belief that he owns the fastest harnes
racehorse in the world.
The lecture delivered by Hon. Chas. L
Littlefeld last Tuesday evening closed tn
| lectures of the course for the season. Tn
lectures and concerts of the course hav
been patronized as fully as they deserved
The lecture of Tuesday evening rank
well up with those of the season. In som
respects it was the most instructive of an
one given during the winter. 1t wa
specially adapted to interest a class c
people who are trying to solve the nation
al problems and are looking to the law
makers at Washington to formulat
means to give suffrage rights to a larg
class of citizens who have been disfran
chised by several southern states. Nj
Littledeld opened his lecture by maxim
the statement that there could be no civ
ilization without education, but thei
could be education without civilization
In order to reach high state of civiliz
tion there must have preceded it educG
ton, evolution and development for Ion
periods OF time. This alone accounted fc
the production of men of remarkab
genius who seemed to absorb all know
edge, from past generations and preser
Developments. This was true also in ar
imal development. Back of Lou Dillo
was long li4e of speedy ancestors.
required many generations to produce
horse that could trot mile in one minU
J and fifty eight and one-h half second
"The education of the boy should beg
with his grandfat her''-he illustrated
referring to Shakespeare, Mozart, Nap'
/ leon, Michel Angelo, Ralph Waldo Eme
son, Lincoln and other men of renown
! products of the high civilization OF. Il
{ nations. He discussed the race profile
to considerable extent and showed t
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