Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-03-03

The Boston & Maine is the first rail- l.
road company Il America to adopt
cooperative scheme, in accordance
with which the railroad and its en-
Qloyees will be associated together in .
the accumulation of fund to be used |
10 provide pensions, or more properly !
ssnnuities, for members who shall De
retired on account Of age. At the !
same time the plan will operate to
help and encourage employees to
make q saving from their earnings,
not exceeding five per cent OF the
same, which will be available when
they leave the service of the road,
even if that service has been short.
Bach will receive back what he has
Lg9aid in, with accrued interest, how
ever brief his connection with the
road may be. This of itself would be
q valuable feature in many cases,
even If there were no other consider
stions.-Burlington News.
i>etiye public schools now fur
uish teachers with volumes OF What
are called supplementary readlng
,This consists of fables, poems, stories,
history, biography, BOOKS on tFaVei
and nature. Many of these are taReh
from classic authors. many are VIII
sen for young people by literary men
4nf the first ability. These oooKs are
ansed as readers In the scnools. W."
eddi,ion to this good work, IL
--h;ch the Library can help the school
r,or,aa fine work OF the Library, which
~ co~oneration with principals, teach
.ars and sunerintendents brings to tn
ottention of the children interesting
and helpful books adapted to 1hei
ryesrective ages. In hundreds or town
an this country, the teacher IN Amos
nvarv school has a collection OIL oooR
nm her dask taken from the puol1
T;hrerv. They are sent to her room
Ihe encourages the children 10 fea
sham. She permits the cni!QTen
coke the boots homo to be read ther
w to take them home for their P
vents TO read.-Woodstock Spirit
che Age.
Trial by Jury reaches its acme OF
surdity in the case OF the muruert
of Senator Carmack, now pending
N,ahville. Ai0er more than car
rrgealys of elimination of the lnle
zqent. Jury was found on Stature
wbich contains four absolute Hit
ates. two others who can barely re
TUhile all II swear that they have
read a newspaper since tie snootl
some adding, with fine superior
Fike that of Mr.. Balfour, that they
not read a paper for ten years.
much for the ridiculous laws 10 A
lea ostensibly aiming to secure lmE
tiality in jury, but really ootaiI
stupidity. Better openly ill the
from the idiot asylums and the ia
ST xsae defective. We sincerely b
that the Nashville jury will be cap
of following the evidence and o.
its duty; cut certainly the law or !
nessee has done its best, not onl.
prove that it is an ass, but TO MAKE
chat the really competent men
Sna haired from trying an issue,
~1Y,,u of life and death, but of civi
zion itself. Perhaps we needed
q chastity exhibition in order to IN
gowvers and Judges to set abou'
9onS. DELAYED reform of our jury
New York Evening Post.
A Chicago clergyman visitln
xoston1 Rev. B, M. Brown, deve
70 Hnb reporter plan for evi
aizino America by advertising II
newspapers.
aI,et the newspapers, he said,
uounce that the committee tina
neen in charge of the Chapman
oaign will receive contribution
money to advertise church
Then let the committee get in
1xi,S the advertising men on the
papers and find how much it will
to run a page, say, of church a
Using matter each week. Va
sInds of commodities are adve
heavily If men are told about
IN the same way many will be
Then after the press has create