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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18

A repetition of two questions the
Monitor asked the Mortified News on
October 81, 1909. A few weeks later
the Monitor called the attention of the
News to the fact it had not answered,
and the News, though having a larger
number of editorial comments on the
gubernatorial situation than any other
paper in the state, has entirely ignored
both questions ever since:
Does the News really believe Mr.
'Fleetwood's six years as secretary of
state, better qualities him for chief
executive than DR.. Mead's term in the
house, one term in the senate as a
member, and two years as lieutenant
governor and president of the senate,
mayor of Rutland, and his great bust
ness experience of lifetime as presi-
dent and manager of the Howe Scale
works?
Does the News claim it's statement
that DR.. Mead has never been identi-
fed with the promotion of any pro-
gressive measure further than possibly
voting for it in some instances, to be a
fact?
The News appears to be DESTROYS OF
having its questions answered by
Eyes" or mo-. The Monitor is also
DESTROYS of the same thing, and will
govern itself by these rules as closely
as does the News.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18
ALFALFA A PAYING CROP.

CThe following article recently ap-
peared in the Sherbrooke Daily Record,
but conditions are not vastly different
in that vicinity from those in Vermont
A few days ago there appeared in the
Record an item from K irkdale telling
of the success a farmer in that vicin-
ity had with alfalfa, and advising
others to go in for it. The following
taken from the News, Toronto, and by
Mr.. j. Locke Wilson, will be of
interest.
Ontario farmers who have gone into
alfalfa experimentally have proved
beyond a shadow of doubt that this is
the best paying fodder crop that an
agriculturalist can grow. Alfalfa has
been known since 400 B. C. and was
successfully grown in Greece and Rome
nearly $500 years ago. In the State
of Kansas there were in 1891, 80, OOC
acres grown, while last year nearly a
million acres of alfalfa were under
crop, resulting in untold financial bene.
fit to the farmers of this state. Lane
that before was drug on the market
at $40 has sold since for 500 an acre
There are five different varie ties, viz
American, Arabian, Turkestan, Peru
Wan and German, but for Ontario the
American variety is the best suited.
ENRICHES THE SOIL.
Alfalfa, unlike many other crops
enriches the soil rather thean impover
fishes it. The roots extend into the
earth from five to twelve feet, reach
ing down and bringing tt
the surface nitrogen anC
other valuable mineral plant food.
has been grown continuously on farm
in one of the counties of this PROVING,
for nearly thirty years without break
ing up or re-seeding, and still produce;
good crops. 1t can be grown success
fully on sandy, heavy clay loan, or OF
nearly any variety of soil properly
drained. Successful experiments will
it have been conducted on limited
scale in nearly every part of Ontario
both with and without a nursing crop
Spring sowing has given best results
If sown with nursing crop, barley a
the rate of one bushel per acre is al
excellent one for this purpose. Eight
cen or twenty pounds per acre O
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18

To those papers politically ridiculing
DR.. Mead because, he being candidate
for governor, accepted an invitation to
speak before a religious body on the
Holy Land, which he has personally
visited, we only wish to remark that
the Monitor might have lowered itself
to the point of poking fun at Mr..
Fleetwood, who recently gave reli-
gious address before a religious body
in this vicinity, but we considered it
beneath the dignity of self-respecting
journalism, and the subject entirely
separate from gubernatorial politics.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18

Foley's Kidney PILLS are antiseptic, tonic
aud restorative and a prompt corrective OF
all urinary Irregularities. Refuse substi-
tutes. Sold by all druggists.
There is more Catarrh in t'is sec ion of til G
country than al other diseases put TO ethe,
and until the last few years WAS Supposed 10
be incurable. For great many ears doct ors
pronou need it local disease a1d prescribe }
local remedies, and by constantly fai ing TIC
cure with Icc Ca lrv atment, pronounced 1t in
durable. science has proven catarrh 10 be 4
const tutional disease ard therefore re
qulTes constitutional treatment. Halls Ca
JArrh Cure, suanufactured by +. j. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, Chic, is the only constitutional
cure on he market. 1t is taken internally in
doses from 10 drops to a teaspooutul. 1t acts
directly on the bloc and mucou, surfaces Ct
the system. They offer one hund1e ed dollars
for any case il fails to cure. Send for circu
lars and testimonials.
Addres S: F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio
Sold oy Drug ist-, 7Ac.
Take HALLS Family Pills for constipation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18
A CARD

We, the Undersigned, do hereby a'rfe to re-
'und the money on a 50-cent bot lie of
1Grsene's Warranted Syrup of Tar if i, fails
to cure your cough or cold. We also guarsn
tses 2E-cent bottle to prove satisfactory or
money refunded.
Fred D. Plerce, Barton
A. o. Austin, Orleans
r. M. Cowles, Albany
E. w. Barron Co., Barton
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18
TERMS
is A NEW ERA AT HAND?

Candidates for town representative
better begin to find out where they
stand on some of the important ques-
tions coming before the Legislature
another fall. 1t would be just like
someone to ask them where they stood
on primary election, uniform town
accounting and the proposed constitu-
tional amendments. Barton Monitor.
Here is little hint that may we'll
be passed around the state. We shall
not be likely to have so much trouble
about carrying out the Republican
party's platform pledges in the legisla-
ture next fall if this canvass of public
sentiment and fixing of prospective
official opinion are done early enough
not only to make some impression upon
the voters at large but to commit
would-be public servants to the policies
the public desires to see expressed in
law.
Of course, the contemporary has men
toned but few of the matters that
are likely to engage the attention of
the general assembly. Trunk line high
ways and conservation of forests will
certainly be two more very important
issues to be passed upon. 1t is time
to whip out something like tangible
public policy in regard to these matters.
Let us talk about the platform. st.
Adams Messenger.
The Monitor ventures the statement
that not one candidate for town req
resentative in 100 in Vermont today
is appealing to the voters of his town
for their support on the strength of
his belief in some principle of govern
ment. Individual candidates may
believe in this thing or that thing, and
go to the legislature with an avowed
purpose to support, aid and vote fol
certain measures, but if the man exists
in Vermont today who is making his
canvass on the strength of his Greco
for better government, the Monitor has
yet to hear of him.
1t is a peculiar thing thai
as a rule candidates for any
kind of legislative office in this state
are not called upon to declare them
selves in the slightest degree, while
there is a growing tendency to demand
exacting declarations from executive
officials. The reverse should, it seem
to the Monitor, be the case, and judg
ing from recent elections in Massachu
sets and New York, where candi
dates for legislative offices have strong
ly declared their belief on pub
lie questions, a new political era
at hand. Even in Vermont today tn
Monitor believes that the candidat
for town representative who woul
publicly decare a staunch stand O
some half dozen serious questions sur,
to come before our legislature ar
other fall would reap a harvest of vote
from the thinking suffrage population
of his town the like of which he ha
not dreamed.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18

patch to the Burlington Free Press
says there is the possibility of another
entrance also. Presumably the deci-
sion of Newport itself will carry con-
siderable weight with the rest Of the
county, and the voice of the bar will
also be listened for with interest.
The three-cornered sheriff fight
continues to keep warm with Wakefield
a possible length ahead.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18

There is about as much truth in the
other bogies the anti-Mead people are
throwing up to the public as there was
in the Slack-Mead combine, so thorough
ly exploded by the st. Johnsbury
Caledonian, an anti-Mead paper, last
week.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18

The Monitor invites the special atten-
ton of the farmers to an article in
this paper headed alfalfa a Paying
Crop" This article was clipped from
the Sherbrooke Daily Record by Ver-
mont friend who endorses the whole
of it by saying, 1T is just as good for
Vermont. 1t will pay our farmer
readers to peruse it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18
No String on Slack.

The comments of the papers on the
candidacy of L. P. Slack of this place
for lieutenant governorship show that
it is being very favorably received
throughout the state. Some of the
papers have seen in the st. Johnsbury
Republican a Mead paper, hearty
endorsement of Mr.. Slack an attempt
to strengthen the candidacy of DR..
Mead. We can state they are entirely
wrong in making such conclusion. Mr..
Slack's candidacy is not an attempt to
help DR.. Mead or any other candidate
for the governorship. The Caledonian,
which is for F. G. fleetwood for
governor, is just as enthusiastic in it's
support as any Mead paper. It sup
ports Mr.. Slack because he is a
Caledonia county man, because he is
we'll qualified to perform the duties of
the office and because it believes he is
depending upon his own qualifications
and standing independently before the
state as a candidate for lieutenant
governor. This independence has
already drawn for him the strongest
showing of any candidate yet men,
toned and we believe it will carry him
on to victory.-St. Johnsbury Caledo-
MAN.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18
What Everybody Wants

Everybody desirss good health which is
Impossible unless the k1dueys are sound
ana healthy. Foiey's Kidney Remedy
should be taken at the first indication of
any 1rregularity, and serious illness may
be averted. Foiey's Kidney Remedy viii
restore your kidneys and bladder to their
normal state and activity. Sod by all
druggists.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18

Interest in the centennial celebration
of the remarkable event of Runaway
Pond" to be held in Glover in June,
grows apace. 1t is a worthy object for
the Orleans County Historical society
to commemorate.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18
STATE NEWS
Vast Lumber Operations.

The Van Dyke Lumber company's
Connecticut river log drive has nearly
reached Barnet. About 60, 600, 900 feet
are in this years drive and 500 men are
on the payroll.
Vermont Will Help Costa RIGA People.
Governor Prouty has notified H. S.
Howard, treasurer of the Vermont
Red Cross, that an appeal would be
made to Vermonters for a relief fund
for the Costa RIGA earthquake sufferers.
Governor Prouty sent the first sub
scription.
Yeggmen Blow Starksboro Post-office
The safe of the Starksboro postoffice
was blown open Tuesday night, May
10. No money was found as Post
master L. G. Ferguson had the funds
with him. 1t is likely that the work
was done by professionals as nitro
glycerine was used. There was no dis
turbance and no clue has been found.
Apple Orchards Popular.
According to a Brattleboro dispatch
in a recent issue of the Boston Globe,
there will be large increase in the
orchard acreage this year. Henry r.
Brown, who has farm in Halifax, has
set out 600 trees. E. L. Hildreth and
O. l.. French will add each 200 trees to
their already large orchards. William
Houghton will probably set out abou
500 trees, while F. d. E. Stowe will
add 100 trees to his orchard and Charles
A. Richardson and John Clark will
each set out about 400. In 1909 more
trees were set out in that vicinity than
ever before. Some farms are being
taken up with the view of apple cul-
ture.
Insurance on Granite Shed Fire.
The insurance on the sheds, machin-
cry, and stock of the National Granite
company, Montpelier, was $15,0 and
the loss will be in the vicinity of $780,
600. In addition to the financial loss
all the books and papers of the firm
were burned. which will necessitate
securing duplicates of plans and con-
tracts from the jobbers and whole
salers for whom they were doing work.
The police department has investigat-
ed thoroughly the origin of the fire
but nothing definite has been dis
covered. 1t is thought probable the
alcohol gang that frequents that neigh
borhood at night might have been in
the sheds smoking and caused the fire.
Dynamited Building.
A quantity of dynamite was exploded
early Thursday morning by an un-
known person under the saloon of Mrs.
Continued on page five.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18

It's legitimate to lay everything to
the comet. Some claim nothing in
gubernatorial campaigns has equalled
the present one for peculiarities
since 1885 when Halley's comet was
last around.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18

When will Barton, Glover, Browning
ton and Westmore organize a school
supervision district? Orleans county
is pretty we'll organized now, but this
district does not materialize.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18

County politics is not dead. Frank
E. Miles of Newport has announced
his candidacy for probate Judge of this
county and F. E. Alfred the present
incumbent, seeks reelection. A dis
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18

Thirty-three divorces granted by the
Washington county court so far this
term Think of it What is the trouble
with the marriage law of Vermont
st. Adams Messenger.
This is a refreshing and progressive
inquiry. what is the trouble with the
marriage laws of Vermont" Usually
comments on the divorces granted at a
term of court in any one of the several
counties in the state winds up with the
conclusion that something is wrong
with the divorce laws. Undoubtedly the
divorce laws have some weaknesses
but the first trouble is with the mar
riage laws. AS long as secret and
hasty marriages are tolerated; as
long as the laws make it possible to
treat the sacredness Of marriage as a
| joke, just so long is the easy divorce
proposition to be expected, and even
desirable from humane standpoint. Let
the state amend it's marriage laws so
that things now possible and even
common, will be utterly impossible, and
! then it will be time to cut out the
! loopholes in the divorce laws. Some
time we may become civilized enough to
take hold of this matter and fully recog-
niZe by statute the sacredness of the
marriage ties.-Northfeld News.
BatcheIder's Candidacy.
James K. Batchelder of Arlington
announced last week that he is candi-
date for the republican nomination for
governor. He also MADE a lengthy
statement of his attitude toward some
of the issues which are now being
earnestly discussed by progressive Yer
monters. He believes in the proposed
amendments to the state constitution
with the exception of the third, which
would change freemen's meetings from
September to November, favors {
general corporation law, favors GOOD
schools has good word to say for agri
culture and forestry, thinks court ex
penses should be reduced, would have
legislative appropriations scrutinizec
carefully, favors trunk line highways
but not in bonding the state, woulC
have the rules of the senate and house
changed and is willing to publish {
statement of campaign expenses. Or
, all these points Mr.. Batchelder care
fully avoids being specific. His candi
dacy will not be taken seriously out
side of Bennington county and even his
own county will not go delirious. H
may also have some delegates from thu
southern end of Windham county. A
deadlock in the convention is the only
condition that can land Batchelder. =
Bellows Falls Times.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
w. r AI.DRIcu

W.. ALDRICH
| awyer. Pra ctice in State and U. s. court
New England and Peoples Telephones
Orleans, VT.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Guess Again.

They say, Senator Lewis motor
struck an upgrade in his own bailiwick,
Orleans county, when he went back
home recently to look over the Mead
situation, that it is stalled and will
have to be drawn in.-Randolph
HorolJ
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18
The Independent Candidate.

If nominated and elected governor,
and we believe he will be, John A
Mead will be the real governor Of the
state, not controlled by gang OF poll
ticians. That's the kind of man needed
for governor. 1t is time for the ma
chine politicians to take rear seats. -
Bristol Herald
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18

alfalfa is the proper quantity of seed.
From three to four crops can be har-
vested In one season. The average
height of plant runs from fourteen
TO twenty inches
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-18

Barton
Orleans
Albany
Barton
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-26
Gipsy Countess Sells Estate and Now
Sues to Regain 1t.

three days she was very depressed, but
kept her promise. Then came the last
day of the fair The gipsies were to
leave that night. They passed outside
the counts park. singing and playing.
Seized with n sudden fear that Mana
would run after them, the count rushed
into her room. She was so sound
asleep that she did not move when he
burst open the door. The gipsies noise
was quite faint and far away. He went
over to, the bed to kiss her. thankful
that she would have no more tempta-
ton to run after her own people. AS he
leant over the bed, he saw a stream
of blood. Rather than break her
promise to him. she had killed herself.
Count Vokousky Is an old man now
and takes his daughter into society.
People wonder why he Will never 60
into a restaurant or a theater where
there are gIpsles.
& WON WIFE AT CARDS.
Thore are ambitious gipsies, too.
There is Countess Vera, once married
to tho painter Vereschagln who lost
her at cards. to General Chertkoff, who
, was afterwards viceroy OF Poland.
magnif1cently and intrigued as though
to the manner born. When her hus-
band died she went to live in ST. Pc
tersburg, where she holds her own lit
tie court and Is known by all the best
people. She is a handsome old lady.
with very dark. bright eyes, and an
aquiline nose and perfectly white hair
but for some reason or other she ob-
jects to having her portrait taken,
so l have had to be content with one
OF her late husband, the viceroy. 1t
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Won His Wife at Cards ID [

you're a worthless scamp for my own
husband died last week and I've no.
body to manage the orchestra for me-
Tho prince got his thousand guldens
for he married the gypsy, who was old
enough to be his mother. His old
friends cut him and as he always is
hard UP, he and his wife take the or
chestra about the different towns and
exc out living that way. She keeps
him in very good order, too
The members OF the gypsy choruses
are looked after very strictly No
champagne suppers are allowed and
they must all lead as regular lives as
Is possible under the circumstances. No
matter whether they happen to b.
singing or not they must turn UP al
the restaurant they are engaged 10
every night while their contract lasts
and sit there until tho end of the per-
formance. When some man falls in
love with one of the women. he must
pay large sum to the owner ot
the chorus before she Is allowed TO
leave. AS long as they are In II. no
favors are to be shown. Last winter in
st. Petersburg the son of the COVER
nor of the Baltic provinces wanted to
give an astrachan Jacket to ors OF the
girls In a gypsy chorus. The owner
said he might on the condition that aN
the others had one. The, young man
hesitated, because aStrachan coats are
expenslve; but the girl. whom he much
admired, was very anxious for a fur
coat, so ho gave them each one. But
hers was the best
ANNE MASON TREVOR
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their country houses. The women are
rarely very beautiful rs their features
are coarse, noses fiat and mouths large
and by the time they are 30 they are
old women, but they have magnificent
eyes and a fearless manner. The women
In gipsy household have plenty of
work to do as the men are lazy, but
they have a good deal more liberty
than their Weather sisters. When
they marry, the bridegroom pays a GER
tain sum for them. The first five years
are looked on as a trial. and after that.
iE things go we'll, the couple go to
church. II not, they ask their '1dng."
who Is Judge as well, to be freed.
When gipsies marry outside their race
they generally. go of at the end OF a
xeap er Eo-TS,ThoS nongipsy element
rs sho cKed; but those who know tho
Tzigane's ways understand 1t,
MET WIFE IN RESTAURANT.
A Count vokousky who lives In tho
province of Bessarabia, in southern
Russia, has large estates. He met a
gypsy girl in one of the restaurant
choruses at Odessa, fell in love with
her, and married her. They went to
his beautiful homo and for three years
she seemed perfectly happy. Then one
day there was fair in the village and
some gipsles came to tell fortunes and
sing. The husband. afraid that the
old longing for a rowing life would
como upon her. made excuses for not
taking her to the fair.
Don't be afraid" she said. II shall
not want to lead that wandering.
squalid life again, 1 have had enough
of poverty"
Surprised that she should have guess
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4Aag9i9psy6ouotsss

did not pay their rents and, in very
short time, It was almost impossible to
pay the interest on tho loans. There
seems to have been nobody at all to
help them Tho counts family held
aloof and the countess had long since
lost sight of her glpsy relatives-who
would have been no use even had she
known them. Still, a good manager
could have made 1t pay, for there are
several good mineral springs on tho
estates. which only needed exploitation
to bring in q large income,
WENT WITH SINGING TROUPE.
In 1886, Countess Haller met an old
money lender. who had had business
with her husband. He offered to give
her $50 and free her of the estate. She
agreed, and signed the paper, In which
she resigned all further claims on the
property, at Old roplicza- Just as she
got the $50 a PARTY of gipsles went
through the village and the two count
esses Joined them and eked out beg
carly existence by playing and singing,
in small restaurants When the mothcri
grew too old to sing she gathered medic
inal plants and herbs. The daughter
remained in the troupe and married
a gipsy. One day last year the old
countess told her story to n man she
met While picking herbs. He happened
to remember hor husband and ar
ranged for her to bring the suit against
the moncylender. The whole story will
be told In the Austrian courts this
year.
In Russia, Hungary and Roumelia
gipsies play a great role in the life of
the people. In Hungary there are
whole villages inhabited solely by these
people. In the summer. they break
stones In the roads, and play in restau-
rants. Most of them are good musicians
and many are poets and eXtcmporlze
beautiful verses which they set to
music. Many rich men patronizc them
and some even keep a band OF them In