Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-07-08

Quite likely the rest of us could pat
tern to some extent without so much
loss as we imagine, and with a big gain
in comfort, if we only thought Sc.
Some day We'll be dead, and all tie
fun lost, for whoever saw a picture of
a he-angel with a quill over his ear or
scissors in his hand? And the paper
will be printed on just the same after
we're gone.
l worshipped Sunday, but not in
church. l worshipped in Gods temple
outside. We took a fifty-mile auto run
from Newport toLake Willoughby, and
then across to Derby Line and back to
the starting point 1t was most de-
lightful. To begin with, we never
punctured a tire nor lost a minute by
accident on the way. This was condu-
Give to a spirit of contentment with
God and We could appreciate
the beauties about US with no distract
ing emotion. Our route lay by Derby
Center and up the Clyde river several
AAOo fooS pOlluS GIldG WOuIO
be called watering places in dry Orange
or Windsor counties, through Charles
ton and over the divide to the most
charming bit of blue water that YER
mont knows. Willoughby has wide re-
pute, and justly. 1t lies in a cup
shaped valley, which it almost com
pletely fills to the foot of high hills
and steep precipices that surround it.
A road follows down one side only,
with barely room to pass under the
browning mountains. The whole scene
has a touch of grandeur and majesty
that %captivates the beholder. See
W~llloughby, then-see it again. l
mean to-.
We passed out through Browning
ton, noting the old stone schoolhouse
built years ago by it's master, named
Twilight, who must have worked sew
eral years later than that to erect it.
as he did, at spare time from school
hours. A very billy road brought US
to Derby, which has without doubt the
finest highways of any town in Yer
mont. The five-mile strip between the
Center and Derby Line is a real boule-
ward, and we covered it about as fast
as the law allows. Derby Line, on the
Vermont side, Rock Island and STAN
stead, T. O., are virtually one and the
same town, with nice buildings and
homes. The river gives splendid water
power here, and manufacture flourish
es. Some of the factories lie right
across the line, and / wondered if the
raw materials passing from one room
to another always paid duty. At STAN
stead there is a large Catholic college,
also a Methodist college, we'll patron
lied by students from both sides of
the line.
On u way back to Newport, we ran
trough Beebe Plain and saw the cele-
brated post office with a boundary line
post Offices in the same building, one
labelled'Beebe Plain, VT" the other.
.'Beebe Plain. P. O." If a resident
on the Vermont side should drop a let
ter there to his next-door neighor on
the Canadian side, it would have to go
around by Newport, ~Sherbrooke and
Montreal before it reached the post
Office a few feet away, ready for deliv-
cry. Its all very odd and interesting
up here.
There is but one drawback to this
section that / have discovered thus far.
That is the mosquitoes, which this
year flourish more abundantly than ev-
r before. Everybody switches hands,
hats or handkerchiefs constantly, and
at that everyone wears a bored -
look and an eruption of flesh wounds
that look like a mild run of smallpox.
Later in the season. they tell me, the
pests disappear, gorged, probably, like
boa constructors, and the natives accu-
mulate blood for next years ravages.
Viewpoints beauties must then be much
more beautiful than now.
LUTHER B. JOHNSON,
in Randolph Herald.