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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-30
Newport News Page
Important Happenings and Local
Notes from the County Seat.
L. WELLMAN, Local Editor
L. B. WELLMAN, Local Editor

condition of the hose house. a sum
equal to ten per cent of the grand list
was voted for the purpose of provid-
ing necessary amount of new hose,
remodeling and repairing the hose
house and the purchase of necessary
ladders and truck, the amount to be
expended by the officers of the hose
company in conjunction with the viii
lage trustees. The matter of the
identifying Of the lake front on Cow
entry road was left Jointly with the
Park commission and trustees. The
usual method of collection of taxes
through the treasurer with allow
ance of discounts as provided by law.
was adopted. The meeting was in
teresting and fairly harmon ious
throughout.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-30
A Night Alarm

Worst then an alarm of fire at night 8
theirs keep Foley's Honey and Tar in tie
house and give it at the first sign of da :
ger. Foley's Honey and Tar has vasd
many little lives. No opiates. Sold by IL
druggists.
Pneumonia follows cold but never fol-
lows the use of Foley's Honey and Tar
which stops the cough. heals the lungs
and expels the cold from the system.
Sold by all druggists.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-30
DERBY.

DR.. Aldrich has been on the sick
list the past week.
Charles Taylor is at home sick.
Miss Lua Richard of Derby Line
was the guest of Mrs. George Blancb-
ard last week.
N. Powell of Fairlee was business
visitor here last week.
Rev. Anderson's condition is SO
much improved that the trained nurse
was dismissed.
Miss Vivian Laughton, teacher of
elocution with four years. experience
is the addition to D. A. faculty.
Much interest is felt in that depart
| ment of the school work.
Several Woodmen from this place
attended the meeting at West Charles.
ton Saturday evening.
Rev. and Mrs. Milo Eddy of Groton
are spending a few days at A. P.
| Niles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Badger for
merly of this place are visiting rela-
tives here and at Charleston.
Mrs. w. ]. Kidder has been spend
ing the past two weeks In Enosburg
called there by the illnesssof an aunt.
Mrs. Martha Correll Of Newport
Center is visiting her. sister-in-law
Mrs. Mary Donaldson.
Capt. and Mrs. Will Hosbrook have
returned from their trip 90 Florida.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-30
The Impossible

1t is impossible for any drug to digest food
wi bout the aid of the stomach. Nan cannot
concern claiming that they have q remedy
that will digest food without the aid of the
stomach thereby allowing the stomach to lay
All remedies for stomach troubles should be
given with the sole purpose of aiding ma
ture and ensbling the stomach to do its own
work. Rydale's Stomach Tablets, th= pre-
seription of one of the best Stomach Special
lists in this u S. enables the stomach to do its
own work. Two sizes, 25c. and SOC. T the m.
F. D. Pierce, Barton; F.J Kinney, Orleans,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-30
Stewards Plaid.

OF course everybody knows the pop
ular black and white check patterned
cloth "Sheppard's plaid but ninety
nine people of every hundred ascribe
the origin of this cognomen to some
connection with the pastoral parsonage
which is apparently indicated. Indeed,
the description is generally written err
roneously by tailors as shepherds
plaid" Sheppard was the manufac-
turer who first introduced this fabric.
and he exhibited his invention at
the great exhibition of 1S5L-London
Scraps.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-30

Miss elena Tracy. who has been
spending the winter with relatives in
Massachusetts, has returned home.
Miss Hazel Marvin of st. Adams is
visiting her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. S. Robbins.
The seniors of D. A. and their
friends had very enjoyable time at
their masquerade promenade Friday
evening. The majority of those in at
tendance were masked and there were
many striking costumes.
Mrs. William Buckland is reported
quite i'll.
Wilbur Webb's little son has been
very i'll the past week with tonsilitis.
WEST DERBY.
Mrs. Newell Gould is quite sick.
Rev. Charles Mcclure preached in
Holland Sunday.
Mrs. Erwin Cousens of Knowlton,
Que, spent few days in town re-
Gently.
Fl. Ellis has hired to George Stod-
dard to drive his bakers cart this
summer.
Companion Court Clyde, l. o. F..
has purchased of C. H. McCauley q
secondhand piano for their hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Murray Fuller spent
few DAYS recently with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Allen at Antrim
| George FarQuharson, Sr. srgot his
head quite badly hurt at the stone
quarry one day last week by a crap.
pie hitting him.
Mrs. Simon Moranville visited he,
husband in the hospital at Montreal
Saturday; He is gaining and will
soon be able to come home.
/ The Easter concert AT the Ranr;s
church Sunday evening was YER,
good and surely Mrs. C. f. Cousen,
deserves much credit for the pain,
taking training of the children.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-25
MERCIFUL CAESAR.
A Story Of the Great Roman and .
Band ct Pirates.

A Story Of the Great Roman and a
Band CT Pirates.
Caesar travelled with the retinue Of a
man of rank, and on his way to
Rhodes he fell in with an adventure
which may be something more than
legend. When he was crossing the
Aegean, his vessel is said to have been
taken by pirates. They carried him
to Pharmacusa, an island off the Ca
rian coast, which was then in their
possession. and there he was detained
for six weeks with three Of his attend
ants, while the rest of his servants
were sent to the nearest Roman sta
ton to raise his ransom.
The pirates treated him with polite
ness. He joined in their sports, played
games with them, looked into their
habits and amused himself with them
as we'll as he could. frankly telling
them at the same time that they would
be hanged.
The ransom, a very large one, about
100000, was brought and paid, Caesar
was set upon the mainland. near Mi
letus, where. without a moments
delay, he collected some armed vessels,
returned to the island. seized the
whole crew while they were dividing
their plumber and took them away to
Pergamus, the seat of government in
the Asiatic province, where they were
convicted and crucifed. Clemency was
not a Roman characteristic. 1t was
therefore noted with some surprise
that Caesar interceded to mitigate the
severity of the punishment The poor
Wretches were strangled before they
were stretched on the crosses and
were spared the prolongation Of their
torture.-James Anthony Froude.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-25
CoIors of the Stars.

Although there is no relation ap.
parent between the two phenomena, yet
1t is interesting to recall the fact that
among the stars certain colors ap.
pear to characterize different stages of
change. or evolution. Red stars. &C.
cording to the testimony of the spec
troscope, differ widely in their consti-
tuition from white or yellow ones. and
1t has been thought that varying col
ors may give clew to progressive
changes in the heavenly bodies. Sirius.
for instance, is said to have changed
from red to white. and some have sus-
pected that Arcturus is fading from
red toward yellow.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-25

SAo' AAAS.-A STRONG PERCHERON HEAD.
sure to result in decreased size, vigor
ana breeding powers. The safest plan
Tor the ordinary breeder to follow is
to let it alone
The surest method of improving the
pure bred herd is by line breeding.
This, in it's simplest form, is the use
OF line Of sires of similar type and
breeding on the females of the herd
Line breeding results in rapid improve
ment and the production of uniform
lot Of offspring.
Some Mistaken Ideas.
There are number of mistaken
ideas in regard to breeding which are
more or less widely believed. One IF
the most common of these is the be-
lief in telegony. or the influence of a
particular sire on subsequent offspring
from another sire. A study of the
scientific side of breeding shows that
this cannot be so, as it is impossible
for any particular male so to affect
the female that future offspring By an:
other sire will be affected
THE END.
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THE STEEPLE JACK.
He Must Conquer Many Difficulties In
His Dangerous Work.

- "0os SOHquoTt WSny 0InGUlt10o n
His Dangerous Work.
The successful steeple jack mus,
possess determination, perseverance
and ingenuity. He must solve many
a practical problem in hosting great
bodies aloft. He must know how to
fasten hook over the summit Of q
skyscraping chimney. He must have
the nerve to paint steeple that sways
like pendulum at the slender top. He
must be able to tear down, build up,
gid. paint, place electric wires and do
many another task that would be
difficult enough on the solid earth.
There are many ways Of getting up
on a steeple, and when all Others fail
the man will tie a rope around it and
then, with coil on his back, walk
round and round it until the entire
steeple is covered with rope. and in
such case he has probably been round
it fully 300 times.
But steeple is not the most diff
cult height to climb. Straight, tall
chimneys are the hardest of all. There
a man has to work with might and
main to lift himself inch by inch from
the ground to the top. Sometimes the
top is 300 feet high. When it is reach
ed hook is placed over the edge, a
pulley is made fast, the swinging chair
is hauled up and work begins.
When the chair is near the top it is
easier to work, because the ropes are
Short but when they lengthen as the
ground is approached there is ten
dency to swing, and the wind gives
impetus.
The steeple jacks safety depends
upon the hook, and until he has raised
himself almost to the top it is impos-
sible for him to see whether or not the
hook has been properly adjusted.
More than once a steeple climber has
seen when within ten feet Of the top
that corrosion of the iron and the col
lection of SCOT have so thickened the
wall that the hook is merely balancing
on the top, so that the slightest pull
in the wrong direction would drag it
off. Again. the bricks are often loose
at the top, and the hook is likely to
tear them away
One Of the natural difficulties to con-
quer is the swaying of all high stee-
pies and chimneys. In gale steeple
point will sway a foot and half.
Usually it sways from seven to nine
inches. Painting it means reaching
for spot on the right side, and find
ing it on the left. and, when making
dive for it on the left, to see it sway
back to the right. Yet in spite Of the
constant danger born steeple jack ex.
ults in his work and is at home, like
the ironworker on the skyscraper, only
when high above the world. He can
stand triumphantly at any height, If
he can have two and one-half square
inches to bear his weight.-Harper's
Weekly.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-25
Home Course
In Live Stock
Farming
XVIII. Principles Of
Breeding.
By C. v. GREGORY.
Author of Home Course In Modern
Agriculture" Making Money on
the Farm" Etc.
copyright. 1909. by American Press
Association.

~ NE of the most important prin-
ciples of breeding is the law
~ that like produces like. This
means that, other things be-
ing equal, an animal will tend to pro-
duce offspring like ITSELF Coupled
with this is the law of variation,
which means the tendency Of animals
to differ from each other and from
their parents. No two animals are
alike, and it is good thing that this
is so, since otherwise there could be
no improvement.
Like Produces Like.
Keeping these two laws in mind, the
chief means Of improving live stock
must be by selection. The variation
in the young animals gives the basis
for this selection The progeny of
two parents will differ both ways
from the parents-that is, some will
be poorer and some better. In gen.
eral, the number Of poorer ones will
be about equal to the number of the
better ones. Thus in nature little
improvement is made, as both the
poorer and better animals are used for
breeders. With domestic animals
man steps in and eliminates the poor
er half or more, allowing only a few
OF the best to reproduce themselves.
According to the law Of like produces
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-25
The SC0LD'S Birdie.
Brutal Punishment to Which Women
Were Once Subjected.


Were Once Subjected.
The Drank, or scold's bride, or Cos
sips bride, was neither more nor less
than muzzle. It was in general use
In Great Britain from the sixteenth to
the eighteenth century, and in Scot
land as well women were muzzled for
certain offenses, some at least Of them,
more imaginary than real. The instru-
ment of torture, even a dogs leather
muzzle, is uncomfortable. How much
more the scold's muzzle! It consisted,
according to high authority, Mr.. w.
levitt, of a kind Of crown or frame
work Of iron, which was locked upon
the head, and it was armed in front
With gag, plate or a sharp cutting
knife or point. which was placed in the
poor woman's mouth so as to prevent
her moving her tongue, or it was so
tempt to speak it was cut in a most
frightful manner. With this cage up
on her head and with the gag firmly
pressed and locked against her tongue
the miserable creature, whose sole Of
Tending perhaps was that she raised
her voice in defense of her social
rights against brutal and besotted
husband or had spoken honest truth Of
some one high in Office in her town,
was paraded through the streets, led
by a chain by the hand of a bellman,
the beadle or the constable or chained
to the pillory, the whipping post or
market cross, to be subjected to every
conceivable insult and degradation,
without even the power left her of
asking for mercy or Of promising
amendment for the future, and when
the punishment was over she was
turned out from the town hall or the
place where the brutal punishment
had been inflicted, MANNED, disfgured,
bleeding, faint and degraded, to be the
subject Of comment and jeering among
her efghbors.-London Family Her
aid
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-25
A QUEER '.. UNIVERSITY \ i
Cairo Has the Worlds Oldest Educa-
$ional Ii ~ i$,,$:ov VIE

Cairo Has the Worlds Oldest Educa-
tionaI Institution.
When we think Of Harvard or Yale,
the former dating from 1888 and the
latter from 17O1. we think Of them as
old universities says a writer In the
American Educational Review; ''but
when we pass to the other side Of the
world we discover that even the oldest
American universities are in reality
very young institutions.
1The Oldest educational institution in
the world is the University of Ell
.Ashar, Cairo, founded in the year 9SS
BY the great Saladin. It is the central
seat Of learning for the whole Mo-
hammedan world. as we'll as a foun-
tain Of spiritual life. It occupies an
ancient mosque in the Arab quarter of
Cairo, surrounded by a confusing maze
OF narrow streets where the population
Is made up Of representative Of every
race that follows the prophet.
"The old mosque covers several acres
and consists Of series Of courts sur
rounded by long cloisters with low
roofs supported by forests Of columns.
The floors Of red tiles are covered daily
by multitude Of men and boys, squat
ting in semicircles around their teach
ers, who sit with their backs to the
columns lecturing in monotones.
"The chancellor Of the university is
always a descendant Of the prophet
and is usually man of ability and
learning. He occupies apartments in
Ell Ashar and is not only the supreme
educational but the ecclesiastical head
OF the church Of Egypt.
There is no organization similar to
that in modern universities Any rep
utable man who desires to teach can
obtain the privilege by application and
is assigned column where he may sit
and tmpart the truth as he thinks
proper. His fame or ability will at
tract more or less students and dis
ciples, who pay him fees according to
their means"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-25
A Fairly Good Appetite.

Kafirs, North American Indians and
the fat boy in "Pickwick" may well
be quoted as fearful examples of 70.
racity, but even their grastronomic
feats are exceeded by the full grown
Eskimo, who will daily eat twenty
pounds of flesh and oil If he has the
chance, while on the authority Of Ad-
miral Saritcheff Yakut of Siberia has
been known to consume in twenty-four
hours ''the hind quarter Of large OK,
twenty pounds Of fat and a quantity
Of melted butter for his drink"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-25

FIG. xxxV.-BREED1NG PRODUCES UNI
FORMITY.
like, the offspring will tend to be like
these good parents. But here the law
of variation comes in again, causing
some of the offspring to be better and
some poorer than the parents. In this
case, however, the poorer animals will
be considerably better than the poor
ones of the preceding generation and
the good ones will be better than the
best of the previous year. Again the
poorer animals are discarded and the
better ones saved. In this way the
standard of excellence is improved
from year to year.
10 accomplish much, improvement
by selection must be guided by a man
who has definite ideal in mind. He
must know exactly the kind of ami
NAL he is working for and should Sc
lect his breeding stock with this type
in mind. In this way is developed
strain of animals that are very
much alike in all their characteristics.
Though they still tend to vary, these
variations are not so marked as for
merly, and a more uniform lot of ami
mails results. This uniformity is due
in large part to the fact that each
parent has behind it long line of an
cestors of similar type. An animal
does not get all it's characteristics
from its parents. Part of them come
from the grandparents, part from the
great-grandparents and part from more
remote ancestors. Clearly, then. the
more nearly all these ancestors resem-
BILE certain fixed type the more uni
form the offspring will be. 1t is large
~ by continued selection that all the
improved breeds of domestic animals
have been developed. 1t is this ability
to produce uniformly good offspring
that makes pure breds so much more
valuable than animals of common
breeding.
The tendency of an animal to resem-
BILE some of its remote ancestors more
closely than its immediate parents is
called reversion or atavism. Thus. oc-
casionally a calf Of hornless breed
will show horns. or pig of certain
breed will show color, that is not
found in the breed today. Reversion
cannot be guarded against. The best
that can be done is to prevent the use
Of reverted animals as breeders.
Mutations.
Any race of living things, whether it
be animals or plants, will occasionally
produce mutation, or, as it is COM
monty called, a sport" This is an in
dividual differing to a marked extent
from the general type of the race or
breed. If it is true sport. it will
produce its own characteristics in it's
offspring, and thus a new strain or
breed is developed.
This new strain is distinctly differ
ent from the type from which it came,
and its offspring show little tendency
to revert to that type. The hornless
breeds Of cattle were developed from
sports. The nectarine is sport from
the peach, and the weeping willow is
a sport from the ordinary willow.
Sports. when of the right kind. are of
great value in originating new types
and breeds, but they are seldom of
any particular value to the ordinary
breeder.
Latent Characters.
A point that is of much value in
practical breeding operations is the
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-25
Makind Il Plain.

Pepper" said little Willie Billups,
what does the paper mean when it
says that when it comes to getting
next to the people, Colonel Blinks has
all the other candidates dashed to the
mast?''
THAT is the slang way Of saying, my
son." returned Billups, that for keep
ing his eye peeled old man Blinks has
his opponents skinned a mile.
There are people in this world for
whom the English language is not
good enough when they come to the
expression of what few ideas they
have in their mental garages."-Har-
per's Weekly.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-25

Enbreeding and Line Breeding.
1nbreeding means the mating Of
brother and sister. sire and daughter
or son and mother. Close breeding
means the mating OF relatives Il degree
further removed. Inbreeding has been
used to great advantage in developing
the modern breeds of domestic ami
mails. In the hands OF other than a
master breeder, however, inbrcedinc is
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-25
Highly EMcaciou..

George is not naturally hasty
man. and as his position requires great
patience and capacity for waiting, he
took regular training course in
BOTH
''How did he do it?''
He always went with his wife shop
ping to match things Baltimore
American.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-25
To Be Avoided.

There's Wilson! Let US turn back.
I've no desire to meet that fellow
again! Last week asked him to lend
me five pounds"
well. he certainly might have done
so; he has plenty Of money
Yes. l know-and-he did lend me
the fiverw-London Mail.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-25
The Rolling Ocean.

She Shall have your lunch brought
up to you here. dear? He feebly)-No.
love; have it thrown straight over
board It will save t1me and trouble
London Sketch.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-08-25
A Strateqist,

THAT fellow is greater strategist
than Napoleon ever was
AS to how?'' n
He got q two dollar raise Of salary
year ago and hasn't told his wife
about It yet "-Pittsburg Post.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-18
INVESTIGATING
ALLEGED TRUST

Washington, Jan. 1S.-An alleged
magazine trust" which is declared
to control the prices and distribution
of large number of popular publ
cations, is now under investigation
by the government.
The attention of the officials of the
department of justice has been d.
rected to the matter by the district
attorneys office in Cleveland, Ohio,
and they have read the communica-
ton with good deal of interest The
letter contains information furnished
by w. H. Brett, public librarian of
that city, who, it is said. was unable
to obtain discounts on a large order
for magazines, having been told that
a periodical clearing house controlled
prices.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-18
Efficient Government.

There is no political government
on earth so efficient as the govern
ment of the United States Steel Cor
poration from purely business
standpoint. Every step it takes is
in obedience to a master mind. But
it may safely be said that no one
would be willing to have our govern
ment thus managed, however much
national wealth might be augmented
each year.
I'VE are ambitious, it is true, for
wealth and the comfort it brings,
but we have not yet lost our faith in
the proposition that the object of
government is the greatest good to
the greatest number. It is desirable
therefore now, as it was in the be-
ginning, that We should endure a
less efficient government in order to
avoid the greater evils which would
otherwise arise
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-18
Public Complaint.

''The public complaint for the pres
ent is more generally that the states
have been lax in the enforcement OF
law, with most disastrous consequent
ces. The charge of neglect must be
admitted by all who appreciate that
every one of the corporations now
struggling for life was created in the
face of the law under which they are
now prosecuted, law which by reas-
on of it's deliberate non-enforcement
was assumed by the corporation
founders to be more honored in the
breach than in the observance"
This is not the time to consider
whether the one government or the
other is the more responsible for
this condition. For the claim is that
in any event efficiency is sacrificed
in the dual form of government, and
that in the interest of business pros
perity efficiency is of greater i'm
portance than all else.