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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-06-11

Mrs. Alice Davis is visiting her parents
in Guildhall.
Fred Chappell has returned to his homo
in West Burke.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Gifin were in
Sherbrooke last week.
The NJ. w. A. went to Lyndon Thurs
day evening where they held a meeting.
The Ladies Aid society held a sociable
at the town hall Friday. Ice cream and
cake were served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Kenaston have gone
to Lyndon and st. Johnsbury where they
will visit relatives for few days.
Mrs. Hannah Sydney of Greenfield,
Mass, is passing several weeks with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs Wells Gray.a
Rev. b. p. Parker and family were In
town Thursday on their way from New
port Center to their home in North Dan
willie
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-06-11

Ionnie Roberts is in town from Water
bury.
George Dwyer has returned to Lexing-
Apn, Mass.
DR.. S. A. Jones is building piazza on
Dis house. y
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-06-11
LOCAL NEWS.
CONTINUED FROM FIFTH PAGE.


Mr.. and Mrs. w. g. Anger, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Anger spent Sunday in Luz
nenburg.
DIR. w. r. Noyes' barn caught fire in the
hay loft last Thursday and burned the
root nearly of.
Mrs. Flora Densmore of Lyndonville has
come to live with and care for her sister,
Mrs. Ada Silsby.
Mrs. Flora Watson Of Lyndon visited at
J.F. Ruggles' last week and seems i'm
proved IN health.
w. w. Coe bad great success fishing in
willoughby the past week, He caught
thirteen last Wednesday.
Mrs. A. +. Cole and little daughter OF
West Stewartstown, n. H., have been visit
ing her sister, Mrs. II. w. Cobleigh.
Mrs. Perley Smith Of Lisbon, n. a.,
Hattie Smith Of this place. arrived We'd
nesday and Is stopping at Harley Lucia's.
The three commissioners Ia the Univer-
salist church case have reported TO the
court that the association shall not be dis
solved nor property divided.
Mrs. A. r. Hickie, Miss Olivia Etrathern,
Mrs. Ada Silsby and Mrs. Flora DeDsmOre
went to Boston Saturday TO attend an i'm
portant Christian Science meeting.
There will be a special meeting OF Gale
donna Lodge, No. 9S, f. and A. M, We'd
nosdsy evening, June goth. Work in the
f. G. degree, and good attendance is de-
stree.
The Silsby Brothers have purchased a
tract OF timber land In Canada containing
twelve thousand acres, paying 100000 for
1t. They will commence to build mill on
It at once.
Mr.. Amidon of East Haven and Mr..
Lampher of Sutton have bought the small
buildings of w. w. Coe near the G. A. r..
hall, and will start meat mar <et in the
near future.
SUTTON.
Charles Aldrich Is moving from Barton
to his place here.
Miss Cora Curtis of Lyndonville visited
her parents last week.
Herbert Burnham read for concert of
the graduating class at Concord last week.
Mrs. Byron Bundy was called to Fairlee
lhsL week OJ InS berlOuS ulues5 Vi H6T
father.
Charles Bundy is spending few days
win ais daughter, Mrs. Enoch Smith of
Lyndpnville.
Owen Phifeld has purchased his fathers
farmland is moving there. The latter has
purchased Harvey ButterfeId's place.
Dr. Burke expects to move to West Burke
SOON All will regret his leaving town,
but arc glad he will go no farther away.
Rev and Mrs. Franklin Blake, Mrs
Geo. Gordon and David Chapman at
tenGed the quarterly meeting at Newport
GeIter last week.
M SHEFFIELD.
Homie Roberts is in town from Water
bnry.
George Dwyer has returned to Lexing-
Npn, Mass.
DR. S. A. Jones is building a piazza on
bis house.
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

to do. "to care for him who has borns
the battle and for his widow and or
phans." Every dollar that they pay for
Post dues is the worthiest of charities,
for it is certain to go where it will do
great good.
The Grand Army Of the Republic is
not organized for elf-advancement, but
for absolutely needful work of the high
est patriotism and truest philanthropy.
Every ex-soldier and sailor owes it to
himself, his war service and the COM
rades who stood by him then to do his
share in that work and help bear its
expenses.
The time has come also when every
Grand Army Post should have a
vigorous, active Relief Corps to assist
it in its great work of alleviating the
condition of needy comrades and those
dependent upon them. The Relief
Corps has been a tremendous aid to the
Grand Army, and as the years pile up
over the heads of those who fought for
Old Glory, they need more than ever
the aid and assistance of the Womans
Relief Corps.
The National tribune., 1906-10-04
RHODE ISLAND rnL1r1cs.

Rhode Island would seem to have on
hand political battle entirely too big
for the States small area. The Sena-
torship is the principal cause of con-
tention, but incidentally there is a State
ticket, including the Legislature. A
successor is to be elected to George
Peabody Wetmore. and beside him
there are two other candidates-Col.
Robert Hale Ives Goddard. who has re-
ceived the nomination at primary
convention, the first in the history of
the State, as an Independent candidate.
and Col. Samuel Pomeroy Colt. Presi-
dent of the United States Rubber Co,
popularity known as the Rubber Trust.
Col Goddard makes his campaign upon
the issue that there is nothing to be
hoped for from the Republican Party
under its present leadership. They must
be everthrown and the control of the
people substituted. He announces him
self in favor OF protection. but an i'm
mediate revision of the tariff schedules
in accordance with the Massachusetts
idea is demanded. Mr.. Wetmore de-
pends for reelection upon the party
machine, of which Senator Aldrich is
the official head and Gen. Charles r.
Brayton is the active boss Some call
him a despot. 1t is claimed in Rhode
Island that Senator Wetmore is merely
the subordinate and agent of AIdrich,
and some have gone so far as to call
him "Aldrich's Rubber Stamp" All the
| candidates are quite wealthy men, but
used beyond few dollars for the le-
gitimate expenses of literary bureau
and stump speakers. There are other
| candidates watching the situation eag-
er4y and ready to take advantage of any
contingency which may come when the
haustion. Among these are Gov Ut
| ter, an admittedly honest and very
popular man, but who Is accused o;
! lacking force and courage to oppose the
Republican machine. Another is Judge
| LIE Baron Bradford Colt, of the United
States Circuit Court, and another is
| Marsden j. Perry, "the man who owns
Providence" The Lincoln Party, which
name has been assumed by Col. God
dard's faction, was the first in the field
and is doing quite active work They
believe that they will get much hell
from the Democrats, who are badly
split up into factions, but may b,
brought to the support of Goddard b,
their opposition to the Republican ring
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

"a prominent Boston physician" is
reporting a new cure for nervous pros
tration. He makes his patients use the
typewriter, which he claims brings
about such a concentration of the mind
and physical forces as soothes and reg
ulates the nerves. The Boston physi-
clan probably has not as intimate an
acquaintance with the typewriter as
some of the rest of us. and is probably
not dependent upon it for his daily
bread We mean the machine, not the
charming being who wears No. 2's and
operates it. The total deprayity Of in
animate things can be never better il
Illustrated than by a typewriter tagain
we mean the machine) when one is In
a hurry. 1t has more quips and cranks
and more spells than the most hysteri-
cal woman, and its fits are past al
surgery even by an expert. II people
who have to earn their living had time
for nervous prostration, like the wo'
men who do nothing but loll around
the typewriter would be more RESPONSE
BILE for that disease than any othel
human device.
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

The number of pensioners residing in
foreign countries is 5.26S. of which the
most are in Canada, 1851. Next comes
Germany, with 602; ireland, 495; Eng
land, 391.
Every item in the report shows the
highest business ability in the conduct
of the work, with conscientious regard
for the interests of the Government, a
scrupulous attention to the spirit of the
laws. and justice and mercy to the men
and women whom the laws are intend
ed to benefit. The administration of
Commissioner Warner has been highly
commendable, and what he says in re-
gard to the Department of the Interior
applies with most force and exactness
to his own management of his great
trust
"It is gratifying to state that the con-
| struction Of the pension laws by the
Department has been characterized by
the same spirit of liberality that
prompted their enactment, and the de-
cisions handed down by the Department
have been promptly carried out by the
Bureau"
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

The WIlder's Brigade survivors and
their comrade guests to the number Of
about 5000 held great Reunion on
the Chickamauga battlefield on the an
niversary of the great battle. They
held a reception for the Blue and the
GRAY in the Auditorium at Chattanooga,
which was presided over by Capt. A. j.
Gahagan very happily. The Mayor of
Chattanooga welcomed the Blue and
the Gray and Gen. Wilder, who had
risen from a sick-bed to be present,
received an ovation. A number OF
prominent Confederates were present
and made good speeches. On Sept. 20
Camp Joe Mcconnell, United Confed-
crate Veterans, of Ringgold. Ga, held
a Reunion and basket picnic at tht
Georgia monuments. at which all tbs
veterans were present and music wa.
furnished by the band Of the l2th U
a1st ILL.,, which was formerly command.
ed by Gen.. Grant. Among other no
table guests were six survivors of tht
Andrews Engine Thieves, and three o.
the pursuing party. Gen. Whitaker
Brigade held a Reunion on Snodgrasl
Hill, where the brigade did its most H.
lustrious service, and there were 10t
survivors of the 115th and seth III.
S4th Ind. 40th and s1st Ohio and 22G
Mich, which composed the brigade.
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

One cigaret fiend has received an ad-
moHition as to the etiquet of the nau-
seous little things that will probably
last him his short and not very useful
life. With the usual Indifference of his
class to the fitness of things. he strolled
aboard the battleship Texas, cisaret in
mouth, while the crew was busily en-
gagged in taking on powder. Nobody
noticed the idiot for some minutes un-
til he fell under the eagle eye of de-
tectiye attached to the ship, who made
a Jump for him. snatched away the
cigaret, flung it over the side into the
water. and taking the vacant-eyed of.
fender by the collar, yanked him Ut
before Executive Officer Wadhams. who
said heaps to him that he will never
forget. 1t is a pity that the Executive
Officer could not have had more cigaret
culprits to listen to his heated lecture
The National tribune., 1906-10-04


At the close of the fiscal year Of 1895
there were 220,S22 claims pending,
which number was decreased during the
year by 3S,369 cases adjudicated, leav-
ing 1S2,453 claims still pending. This
makes the adjudication of claims prac-
tically current, and the cases on file can
be settled as soon as the necessary tes-
timony is furnished, especially in the
claims for original pension. The Com
missioner hopes to greatly reduce the
number of pending claims during the
present year.
Under Order IS and the Act Of April
"a. 1906. making the age OF Sc and
over a permanent, specific disability.
there were 2s,S2S allowances. of which
$3.50 were at IS a month, 762 at 50 q
month, 255 at $40 month and 4Ss at
$12 month. These were all originals.
Beside these were 1881 increases,
7,44s being from $40 to 112 a month.
During the year S. military bounty
land warrants were issued. grantins
$3.50 acres Of land.
There were 898 pension attorneys
gained by enrolment during the year
and IL by restoration. There wers 1ok
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

President Estrada Palma is described
by those who have known him all his
life as entirely unfit for coping with
revolutions. He is a gentle idealist. a
man of broad intelligence and high
probity, of retiring manners and dimin-
utive physique. He showed much cour-
age in the 10-years war, and was cap-
tured and held prisoner by the Span
iards. After being released at the close
of the war he went to New York and
kept a very excellent school in the viii
lage of Central Valley. Orange County.
He served out his first term as Presi-
dent with credit. and his measures for
restoring peace and improving the fin
ances of Cuba were wise and well taken.
He did everything possible to satisfy
the people, but he should have known
that his distribution of money to the
so-called veterans of the Cuban war
would breed endless discomfort and
make trouble instead of avoiding it. He
was so convinced of his own right in
tentions and the satisfaction that should
have been felt at his measures that he
disregarded the first mutterings of rev.
olutien instead Of suppressing them
with a heavy hand, as more expert
enced Spanish politician would have
done. He allowed the revolutionary
movement to go on, and it finally at
tanned dimensions that at once threw
him from his condition of serene self
satisfaction into one of unreasonins
panic. A man of his experience should
have known that what President Roose-
welt calls "the insurrectionary habit in
Spanish-American countries is thing
that must not be disregarded. but be
met at once with roughly repressive
measures. He has great deal of quiet
obstinacy, coupled with a wonderful
lack of tact and a number of rather
trivial prejudices. He succeeded by
these in alternating everybody of infiu-
ence in the island, so that he had no
supporters when the crisis came.
The National tribune., 1906-10-04
PARTY LINES IN CUBA.

Atherton Brownell in the October
number of the American Monthly Re-
view Of Reviews gives the following po-5
litical cleavage in Cuba. Mr.. Brownell
is unusually we'll informed as to Cuban
affairs, and his classifics ton may be re-
lied on.
''The habitual political attitude of the
people of Cuba may roughly be divided
into five classes. as follows: ca small
portion taking an interest in politics for
profit only, and who are in favor with
the existing Government. (B) Another
small portion who take an interest in
politics for the same reason, who are
out with the existing Government and
are consequently affiliated with the op-
position party, the Liberals. Co A
very large. ignorant population, COM
posed of the field iaborers and small
farmers, mostly native Cuban, of partly
African descent. who care little for pub
lie questions and policies and who, in
the last political division. We're attract
ed more to Gomez than to Palma. CD
A very considerable number of small
merchants. tradesmen and regular en-
plOyes. who favor annexation to the
United States from the rather indefin-
ite belief that their material advantages
would be increased, and who. probably,
voted largely for the Moderate ticket as
being the more conservative. (E) The
heavy Cuban commercial interests, real
ly pro-Ameriean in sentiment, for eco
nomic reasons, but taking little or no
active interest in the politics of the
island. 1t is among this class that the
ablest men of Cuba are to be found,
and it is from this class that President
Palma desired to draw his Cabinet. The
unwillingness of the representatives of
this class, as a rule, to annoy them
selves with the somewhat hectic atti-
tude of the politicians is responsible for
the low quality of the Cabinet officers
of the Palma Administration. To this
there have been exceptions. but they
are few"
Mr.. Brownell says that previous to
the war with Spain the total amount of
American capital invested in the island
was estimated at about $50, 100000.
Since then this has been increased 70
about s165, 100000 OF this $40, 100000
is in sugar plantations: s45,00O,000 in
tobacco lands and factories; $4,000, 900
in fruit lands: s5.OOO,000 in mining
properties; s39,OOO,oO0 in street and
steam railroads; s9,5O0.900 in real es-
tate and banking, and s30,000,000 in
cattle.
The intelligent classes are all deeid-
edly in favor of American annexation
| because the main product of the island
| is sugar, and as an independent Re-
public there would be little show for
| this product in competition with the
sugar industries fostered by such great
nations as Germany and France. They
| would be run over and trampled upon
| in commercial treaties and otherwise
and their business greatly diminished if
not extinguished.
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

iOtai. 3,5o {
OF the above. S53 were granted to
persons who had never been on the
pension roll, the remainder (3.154) be-
ing granted to recipients of smaller PEN
sions.
The annual value of said special acts
is s1,003,596, and the amount of in
crease in payments of pension due to
such acts is S526,728.
The paragraph in the Commissioner
report relating to the criminal prosecu-
tions is of especial and very gratifying
interest, as it shows a marked decrease
in the number of offenses against the
pension laws, and very few of these
were committed by ex-soldiers and sail
ors. The Commissioner says:
''The number Of new prosecutions on
account of offenses against the pension
laws shows a gratifying decrease. OF
127 convictions secured only IA persons
are known to nave had any military or
naval service, showing that the old de-
tenders of the Government are not often
offenders against the pension laws.
THE following statement shows the
result of the efforts made by the Bureau
to protect the integrity of the pension
roll
New cases presented for prosecu-
ton. 176; indictments found, 1874; con-
victiOns secured, 127; sentences i'm
posed. 113; acquttals. Is; cases dis
missed, 23; civil suits instituted, 8;
money recovered. $9.S45.'
The Board ot Review, which has
charge of cases arising under the act
of Dec. 81. 1898, requiring a notice OF
80 days to be given pensioners who are
about to be dropt or reduced, dropt 424
pensioner for various causes, and re-
duced the pensions of Isl.
The act of March 3. 1899, provides
for the dividing of the pension of vet
Grams who shall desert their wives and
minor children or who are inmates OF
National or State Soldiers Homes. Un-
der this act 4.S1S claims have been al
lowed, leaving 100 pending.
Classified in States, the largest mum.
ber of pensioners are in Pennsylvania
9S.829; Ohio the next, with SO, 564; New
York third, with S9,240; Illinois fourth
with 69,704, and Indiana fifth, with 61,.
440.
The number of pensions in the South.
|
The National tribune., 1906-10-04
FATAL THIS YEAR.

The nomination of Hearst fatally
Democrats--the men educated
in the school of Seymour, Tilden, Whit
ney and Cleveland--will not and cannot
abide the Yellow Journal chief. They
will vote for anybody else in preference
He commits them to doctrines which
they loathe and associations which they
despise. His success in getting the
nomination was due to a combination
between the Tammany professional
grafters and the Socialists who have
fled hither from Germany. Russia and
Hungary. During the past 20 years
there has been an overwhelming immi-
grafton into New York City of the least
desirable peoples Of Europe-Russian
Jews, Hungarian Jews. the down-trod-
den Siavs of Hungary and the Danubian
Principalities. Sicilians. Greeks, -Sy-
rians-the raoble that make the squali,1
sections of Vienna, Buda Pesth, Rome,
Naples. Constantinople, Smyrna, Alex
andria and Cairo so 1lideous. These
have herded in the lower part of New
York. have been railroaded into citi.
zenship before they knew the first let
ters OF tho alphabet Of Americanism
They are handled In droves at the pri.
msries and the polls by sharpers, who
get few cents . head for their yotes
The iBtslligent, thinking Democrats o,
the up State" who are Democrati
from principle and are proud Of thsi,
consistency to their convictions nat,lr.
ally resent bitterly the efforts to pui
their nsclks under the yoke Of this mon.
grel hSEd. They will not vote for Mr.
Nearst. but win vote for anybody to
beat him.
No Democratic Party IN New York
thil yeAS.
NA2bs some other yAaEs
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

'The whirligig of time brings strange
revenges." Only few years ago Gen.
Funston was smuggled out of Cuba,
badly wounded, penniless, ragged and
the battered relic of an apparently lost
cause He now goes back clad in rich
raiment and fine linen with the commits
sion of a Brigadier-Generalo of the Unit
ed States, the entire confidence of the
American people and wide warrant Of
action from the President of the United
States. 1t is not often in any mans
life that such Kaleidoscope changes OK
fortune occur within few years
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

We have received pamphlet en-
titled Some Reasons for National
Military Park at Atlanta" The Wirz
monument is likely to furnish conclu-
siye reasons why Atlanta should not
have the park.
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

lifting the race many years. and undo
a vast amount of the excellent work of
the schools and churches to lead the
negroes to higher plane of manhood
and womanhood.
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

Unfortunately. alcohol undergoes no
manner of denaturizing when made into
"bitters.'' "tonics'' and other patent
nostrums 1t is the same wicked old
devil, in a more seductive disguise.
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

In advocating the restoration of the
Army canteen Senator Srnoot makes a
flank movement on the w. c. 7. T. and
gives tn something else to think
about than his position. in the Mormon
Church
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

The reporter that cannot fasten some
sort of a scrape on to Theodore Roose-
welt, Jr., is not onto his job. Wher-
ever lot of lively boys get into trou-
BILE the reporters try their best to lug
young Roosevelt in in some way.
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

Six hours from court to penitentiary
Is ex-Banker Stensland's record-break-
ing performance. He slipt thru the
prison doors with the same swift ease
of a workingman's deposit into the
yawning Jaws of losing speculation.
The National tribune., 1906-10-04
REMOVAL.
The National Tribune ONCE In Ne"
Quarters.

The National Tribune Office has beeh
removed from 339 Pa. Ave, in which II
has been for seven years. and is no"
established at 519 18th ST.. where 1t is
In a commedious and comfortable 1oca-
ton and in the heart of the business
section of Washington. All the leading
hotels are in the immediate neighher-
hood, and the Treasury, White House
and State, War and Navy Departments
within few blocks.
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

This is a time in politics when no
man knows what a day may bring forth.
Mayor Dunno, of Chicago, who has
been much coddled by Hearst's papers
and was at one time invited to New
York for inspection as a Presidential
possibility, has cut absolutely loose from
Hearst and all his belonging. In OPEN
ing the campaign of the Democratic
Party of Chicago and Cook County last
Saturday evening the Mayor arraigned
the Hearst crowd as merely disgruntled
ones, who sought the disruption of the
Democratic Party and its destruction.
The crowd was in entire sympathy with
the Mayor, and aDplauded his utter
ances to the echo.
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

In spite of the troubles which one
would think would divert their atten-
ton, the army circles in Russia are still
after Lieut-Gen. Stoessel, and he has
resigned his position to avoid inquiry
into the many rotten things that would
have been developed by court-martial
as to the defense of Port Arthur. 1t is
said, however, that this resignation will
not stop the investigation. 1t will be
remembered that the commission ap-
pointed to investigate the surrender rec
commended that Stoessel be dismissed
from the army and shot.
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

OF course, Gompers says that money
beat him. No one expected him to say
anything else.
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

The more Taft heard from the Cuban
Chin-laborers, the more marines ne
thought he needed.
The National tribune., 1906-10-04

died and 80 disbarred, leaving the num-
Der of attorneys on the roll 2s,S15.
During the first session of the seth#
Congress 1907 special acts were passed
granting pensions as follows: