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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-11-05
NEWPORT
Carl A. White is confined to the
house on account of Illness

Carl A. White is confined to the
house on account Of illness.
Mrs. Geo. Goodnough. who has been
so critically i'll, is slowly gaining.
C. J. Oben has purchased the VIM.
Hight property on Prospect street.
The account of the fatal accident is
given on another page Of this paper.
Elmer Jenne is at Derby caring for
F. S. Holt, VINO suffered shock few
days ago.
T. G. Camp and E. c.. Blanchard
have purchased the Robbins property
on Second street.
Mr. and Mr.. E. c.. Blanchard, who
have been visiting in Boston for a few
days, have returned.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. M. Bugbee, who
have been passing several days in
Boston. have returned
Ex-Gov. and Mrs. Geo. H. Prouty
returned Sunday from their European
trip and report the best of times.
The Woman's Missionary Union of
the Congregational church will meet
with Mrs. w. W. True on Friday at 3
p. m.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-11-05

The Ladies' Guild of ST. Mark S
church will meet with Mrs. Kirkpat-
rick Thursday, Nov. 6.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. P. Wilder are the
parents of a daughter, Elizabeth
Houston. born Oct. 20.
Sam Williams has moved into the
house recently purchased of Erastus
Buck on Prospect street.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A Davis, who have
been on trip to Niagara Falls and
Chicago, returned Thursday.
Mrs. Geo. w. Smith expects to leave
soon for Texas where she will pass
the winter with her son, Noel
Mr. and Mrs. C. A Tarlton and
Mrs. S. B. Horton, who have been
passing several weeks in Springfield,
have returned.
Prof. J. D. McFayden of Staustead
college supplied at the Congregational
church Sunday morning. The evening
service was cancelled.
Miss Nedelka Simeonova, the ten.
year old violinist of Bulgaria will play
the offertory at the Congregational
church Sunday morning Miss Sine
onova is pronounced wonder by
students and teachers everywhere.
See whati is said of her elsewhere in
this paDer
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-11-05

Ma4cted.
Isslsas- Norway has midnight SUN
n;sss,s '1ih,t's nothing. Sc have L.
kss:sa i4sass.a American.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
MASTER sHERwooD's TAX ADVICE

J. Arthur Sherwood, master of the State Grange
sounds note of warning against the existing unfair sys
tenn of taxation In his annual address to the grange he
shows that the larger forms of property failing
to pay fair share to the support of the stat with the
consequent result that homes and farms pay more than
their share.
'The united powers of the corporations he says
must be met by the united influence of the farmers
He is right It is full time that the farmers opened
their to the tax robbery praetced by law against
them and by law which they largely instrumental in
making.
Had the representatives in the General Assembly
from the small towns had in the past the benefit of the far
sighted advice given by the master of the grange there
would be nothing to remedy. In the taxation Of rail
roads, troeys manufacturing corporations water gas
and electric light monopoes the law pronounces the
amount that shall be taken The law made by men
from the small towns. The law is larcenous it
should be changed, done and moulded into some
sembance of equity.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
THE AUDITORS REPORT

City Auditor Heating makes clear, brief and con
vlncng justification of his annual report to the Board of
Apportionment and Taxation. He says simply that it is
his duty to recommend such tax rate will enable the
city government to be carried It is not his fault If
the budget unnecessary have been added
to crafty the whin improve the political prospects Of
the and certain of his Democratic allies who,
mores the pity prefer the banner of public service
opoly and the mastershP of water and electric light
to the public pledges of their party.
IF Mayor Wilson desires legitimate reduction in the
tax rate will be much the point if he shall
the police ordinances to be rescinded
City Auditor Heating has power to rescind the
police extravaganza And he would not refuse appro
priation to schools if he had the power.
We may add that the city auditor is in way re-
sponsibe for any comments made upon his report by this
newspaper and that any comments that made
political in their nature and not personal They for
the instruction Of the citizens and directed impartial
" at those of either, any political party who prefer
jobbery and pap trading to honest government
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31

Lower Egypt. The month of May
brings the wheat crop to fruitfon in
China, Japan, Central Asia, northern
Africa and southern Texas. June is
wheat harvest month throughout the
southern part of the United States,
along the Pacific coast and in Spain.
Greece, Turkey, Italy, Portugal and
the south of France. In July and
August the harvest hands work their
way northward through the central
states to the waving fields of Mime
sofa, the Dakotas, Manitoba, Alberta,
Saskatchewan and British CoIun bia,
and these months also bring the .har-
vest to the Balkan States, Austria
Hungary, Germany, England, Switzer-
land, Russia, Denmark and Poland.
Northern Russia, Scandinavia and
Scotland harvest their wheat in Sep
TENDER and October. Novem Der finds
the harvest in full blast in South Afri-
ca, and in Peru and other parts of
South America, while Burmah har-
vests its wheat in December.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
HIT BY PARCEL POST
Adams Express Business Falls OFF in
New Haven.

New Haven, Jan. SLIT has been re-
ported that the Adams Express Co.
had laid off a large number of men
as the result of the cutting of the
Express Co.'S business by the parcel
post.
According to the report, 18 men had
been dropped from the auto truck ser
vice, and about thirty from the rout-
ing branch at the Union station.
It was also said that the number
of parcels delivered in New Haven one
day this week was 100, while on the
corresponding day last year it had to-
tailed 1900.
In a, statement by Charles P. schenk.
the route agent of the company at the
railroad station, the action of laying
off some OF the men was said to be
am annual occurrence, resulting from
hiring extra men to help out during
the holiday rush. Mr.. Schenk said
that only IL men have been dropped
since january 1. The agent admit
ted that there had been a decrease
in small parcel traffic since the par
eel post was started, but said no fig
ures showing the decrease have been
tabuFated- 1t is not possible ITO OBJ
tain the correct totals. About 169 men
are employed ON the working force of
the local Adams agency.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
PENSION Bill
FOR TEACHERS


The Connecticut State Teachers As
ISOLATION and the Connecticut Teach
ers' League, representing over 5000
teachers, are pushing state teach
ers' pension bill for the Legislature.
The bill calls for:
IAN annuity of 40 per cent. con-
tractual salary for last five years of
teaching. payable at the end of thir-
ty years of service.
2-An increase of 2 per cent. for
each year of teaching over thirty
years until so per cent. is reached; so
per cent. for thirty-five years of SER
vice.
"a minimum of $500; maximum
of $500.
"A disability pension calling for
a. .proportionate amount of the thirty
year pension, based on the number of
years taught. The applicant must
have taught not less than twenty
years: the last fifteen years in this
state. Incapactty must be certified
to in a stated way.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
BICENTENARY OF BENEZET
QUAKER

Few men. SINCE the days of the
apostles, ever lived a more disinterest-
ed Iife"
TImseis the tribute of DR.. Rush to
A%rh1nyz Benezet, the Erench-Ameri-
ezn philanthropist, the bicentenary of
whose birth Will bezebserved to-day
In his native Picardy and. in Phila-
delphia, where he spent his mature
years: : Benezefs phHanthropy was
very sd1fferant ifronn thAtbIbf5 Carnegie,
Rockefeller and other phiIanthroptsts
of to-day, for he was never wealthy,
and often poor. He was among the
first to preach and practice vegetar-
h--~A--A- anA tina 1h1sicians who at
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
PERKINS, 81 TO-DAY, DENIES
ExTsTEN GEL OF afMONEY TRUST

George WaIbridge Perkins, multi
millionaire and former partner of j.
Pierpont Morgan, who recently de-
MED the existence of a money dew
IL in his testimony before the PuJo
probers at Washington. will celebrate
his hfty1frst sl3(rthoay to-day. Mr..
Perkins has become an international
figure in the last few years, owing
TO his financial operations and his
position of leadership in the Progress
sfxe- Presidential. campaign of Col.
Roosevelt. Student of econ onics' was
the. description of himself supplied
by Mr.. Perkins to the money trust
Investigators.
The eminent fnancier was born IN
Chicago and had only a common
school education. He started BUSH
ness. life as an office boy in the Chi
cagD office of the N. Y Life Insurance
C6aapany, and was promoted to book
keeper and cashier.9 -Four years
from entering the office. the nineteen
year-oId budding financial genius was
made inspector of agencies. At
twenty-seven he was the superinten-
dent of the western department, and
at thirty was given the post of third
f6fc41fwfta14- headduartepsT in New
York. A few years later HE was sec
ond VieS-pF ssident, next chairman Of
the finance committee. and ten years
ago ne became V1ce-preSfdenrs
In the meantime the young 1nan-
cter. always good MIXER had
been making ffiends in nigh places,
and -ines19 94zahas5T .aAmttted as a
Palmer in the banking firm associate
he concerneds himse1f principally in
the organization of Industrial corpora
tons Among the great corporations
in which he has been director or Of
fetal are the steel trust, the harvester
trust. the, North ernz Securities Com
papy.elthAs sQn6alIsd 6stfamshiRs trust;
thA Northern Pacific, Pere Marquette,
Chicago, Hamilton & Dayton and
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail-
ways, the National City Bank, and
various other powerful industrial. H.
nanciaI and transportation concerns
The former office boy probably
doesn't know just how many millions
he is worth to-day but he probably
ISN'T losing any sleep over the posi-
bff1ty of going to the poor house.
.Natfonafization' is the economic
god of the Perkins ido1atry. While
denying the existence of a money
trust. he has admitted that the New
York Stock Exchange as at present
conducted, admits of abuses, and ad-
vocates its Incorporation under Fed
eral law. ~ g.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
! RTfiGEPORT'S NEW
DOUBLE MACHINE

whenever politicians of the greedier
5oSE@are able to form sufficiently
ztEbgI alliances they construct what
Is NrtnSnonly called a double machine.
srch a machine works best under the
so-called bipartisan system, which
prevails in Bridgeport.
TE.e bipartisan system means that
ali aBpointmentsg TO g-the principal
t[vS;sn !DernocratsA- and 8~~Repubqicahs
Under this plan a double machine has
an abundance of patronage with
which to care for the. demands of that
poktaon Of itself temperA<Ily out of
dfMk.l
sch a dodDIgs faIcHlI11e IS rap1dly
5uilddng now. Under the; very noses
of the citizens. The Republican
group in power months since arrang-
ed working pRaegstanESdinaE with GER
tain pseudo Dem f5ats, who have re-
ce1ved da1arge quota OF jobs and priv
fleges of various kinds. Backed by
the influence conferred by an alliance
with the administration and the pub
lie service corporations, these pre-
tended Democrats are urged by their
Republican allies to seek to control the
Democratic nomination for mayor
next fall. If this could be accom-
pIished it would make little difference
To the double machine and its monop-
oIistfc allies who should. win. But
the city would be sure to lose.
THE 5doubles machine can be sue
cessfully resisted only in party pri-
n1aries. The control of nomination is
the control of elections. The voter
who is not registered and voting in
primaries is mot exercising adeuuate-
" his power as a freeman. The dou-
bic machine cannot exist in any com
rnurfty in which the voters realize the
Importance of the primary election
and do their duty therein.
<
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
DOCUMENT
FOR POSTERTTY.

New Canaan is building a new IL
brary. When the corner stone was
laid last week as is usual in such
cases q number of documents were
eft of the generation to come when
the library shall be torn down. AMONG
these documents. probably for the first
laying there were statements from
both the suffrage and the anti-suf-
frage organizations of the town of
the position of the woman Suffrage
movement in January, 1913. The Suf-
frage statement ran as follows:
For the instruction. and entertain
ment of those who may open this box,
a. statement to the movement for
woman suffrage in 1913 in the town of
New Canaan is herewith given. The
New Canaan Equal Franchise League
has a membership of thirty women,
the total population of the town be-
ing 1867 in 1910. Unbelievable as it
may seem ITO you, there is an active
opposition to the. granting OF the suf-
frage to women. not alone ON the part
of a portion of the male population,
but by many of the best women of
the town
Union have attained to full suffrage
and in this State the Legislature has
I'D to the present time refused to pass
the resolution which IS the first step
amendment comforting full suffrage,
although Connecticut women have
enjoyed school and library suffrage
for several years.
Our local organization is one of
twelve in the county and forty in the
State Our work consists of the ed
ucation of women to demand, and of
men to grant the suffrage to women.
The work takes various forms, but
mainly of individual argument and
public addresses and a, very large pro
portion of those reached readily indi-
cate their acceptance of the justice
of our demand. It seems at this time
that public opinion is forming SO rap
idly that the present condition of the
denial of the suffrage to women can
not long endure.
1T is very unlikely that New Ca
until long after women all over the
United States have become part of
the body polite, and until all Ques-
ton as ito whether or not women
should have the vote has been for
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
APPEAL NOW IN
HATTERS' CASE
GRANTS WRIT OF ERROR
ASKED BY DEFENDANTS.

Hartford, Jan 31-An appeal of the
famous Danbury hatters' case to the
United States circuit court of appeals
is made sure by Judge James L. Mar
tin of the United States district court,
who has granted the writ of error
prayed for by the defendants. Martin
Lawlor and 1873 other members of the
United Hatters of North America,
against whom D. E. Loewe & Co., of
Danbury, obtained a verdict and judg-
ment of $250,OO0 for damages by boy
cotting. Attorneys for the plaintiffs
have filed notice of acceptance of ci-
tatfon and the appeal is returnab1e to
the United States circuit court of ap-
peaIS in New York city, Feb. 81.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
HEREDITY AND THE EYES.
Blue or Gray Eyed Parents Cannot
Have Brown Eyed Children.

Since blue and probably gray eyed
parents have no brown pigment in the
transmit brown to that portion of.
their children's eyes. This absent
characteristic may be one that has
been lost of it may never have been
acquired. It is. known in heredity
language as a. recessiye. Hence to
repeat, two recassiVes produce in their
offspring only their reeessive condi-
The hereditary behavior of brown
eye color, however, is very different.
In brown eyes actual pigment occurs
communicated to hand on down to
subsequent generations. The amount
that can be transmitted, however, de-
ponds on ones own hereditary history
as well as that of ones consort. If
both of Smiths parents belong to
brown eyed strains, then Smith can
Smith has been given, as it were a
double dose of brown his eyes will be
dark brown.
Smith will have, in his turn, only
brown eyed children. whatever may be
the color Of his wife's eyes In the
language of hereditary, Smiths brown
When Smiths brown eye color has
been derived from one parent only
then his own eyes will tend to be
lighter in color and only half o. his
germ cells will have the potentiaIitS
for making brown eyes. Hence if he
narries a blue or graz eyed wife, only
half of his "hildrCo Will have brown
eyes, and a light brown, too, because
of two geneT 'i)ns of dIIuti0n. IN
case Smiths wlfe ALSO has brown e: g
derived from one of her parents. on y
then three odt Of four of their cI,iI-.
dren will have brown eyes. hut o7iy
one of the tn ZEE Wi get n double
dose of brown; herIcs Smiths or. q i:
eyed children will not all transmit
brown in the same degree
Thus it is possible for brown eyed
parent to have one-half or one-quar-
ter OF mis- children blue or gray eyed.
But it is never possible to have brown
eyed chiIdren.-Independe
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
A GOOD STORY.
Prasidnnt-elent Wilsnn urac ta1L

President-ele Wilson was talking
at Princeton tea about giving out
political offices, the one presidential
task that he finds hateful.
ST suppose he said, +fthat L shall
have to get some one ito handle my
office seekers as the Chinaman han
died the tTamps.
"a Chinese cook in Princeton had
one invariable way of treating tramps
Thus a knock would come at the kit
chen door, and John would appear
smiling blandly.
-" Say kin We gimme SlIthin ter
lily.
sc Like f1sh?' John would ask.
sc Sure, sure, I like fish,
Es Call F3riday' -
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
SOME BIG BARGAINS


At 15c-Ladies' Pattern Skirts.
At 2Oc-Extra quality Two-Clasp
Cashmere Gloves
AT 1Oc-Corset Cover Embroidery,
worth Csc.
AT 5c-Full piece Torchon Lace, col
ored.
At 15c-Infants' Bearslzin Caps. Less
than half price.
AT 15c-Ladies' F1annelette Short XII
moTias.
At 15c-Junabo box Writing Paper.
At 2c-Bott1e Silver Paint.
At 2c-Ink Well with stand.
At 2c-Spectacle Cases
At 3c-Triplicate Mirrors.
At sc-Ten Cent Photograph Frames,
At soc, S2c and S4c only-Men's Dol
lar Glastonbury Drawers.
At 25c-Lot Boys Heavy Oxford
Sweaters.
At R5c-Boys' and Mems Negligee
Shirts in sizes IL. 12A. 15h, 49,
161k, II.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
JUDGE JAMES p. PLATT.
CHartford Post.)


One trait above all others that stood
out in the character of the late Judge
James p. PIatt was his broad human
ity His decisions were notable doc
urnents perhaps not so much for their
display of profound knowledge in the
discussion of knotty and abstruse le-
gal problems as for their straight to
the mark comments on the points IN
volved.
If he found revealed in a case tried
before him trickery or fraud, Judge
Platt attacked it with vigorous
straight from the shoulder English.
Newspaper men liked to get hold or
Judge Platt's decisions. They were
never merely dry legal documents
Judge Platt could call a spade spade
without quoting Blackstone and ne
never hesitated to do it. The rights
of the people to him never was merely
a formula of words; he had con-
crete idea of these rights as very tan
gibIe properties and his endeavor was
to see that these rights were guarded
SO far as lay in his power Sham
and fraud he pilloried without mercy,
for misfortune he had sympathy; err
rors he could excuse.
When he went on the bench, Judge
PIatt did not forget that he was still
a man. and just as vitality interested in
the every day things of life as his
hunabIest fellow man. His equal in
legal learning may be found, but his
successor can have no broader nu-
man sympathies nor better ability to
apply them to causes tried before him
The state has lost a man.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
KILL THE 1000, 600 GRAB

The million dollar appropriation for terminal i'm
provements in the harbor of New London, which was
Three commissioners appointed to carrts provisions
into effect but the project not to have commended
itself to them upon due investigation, and money
speak Of has been actually expended. The resolution
pealing the bill should be passed The state will escape
easily from what promised be unnecessary exrava-
CANT and unustiable expenditure of public money if this
is done.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
WHEAT HARVEST BEGINS.

The first wheat harvests of 1913 are
being reaped in Argentina, Chile, Aus
tralia and New Zealand. In February
and March the golden grain will fall
before the reaper in India and Upper
Egypt, while in April the gathering Of
the wheat crop will be on in Cuba,
Mexico, Persia, Asia Minor, Syria and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31

Card Index System-'tWlho's on the
'phone?"
Your wife, answered the office boy
Wants to know if you really love
her.
TELL her yes,'' directed the groom,
'but explain that I'm busy and refer
her to the file of letters in the upper
drawer OF her writing DESK
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31

Members of the larson. trust OBJ
ject to being tried by Judge Golf.
Umph! If there were more COTS
there'd we less arson and other
Grim s.-New York Telegram.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
BILL TO PREVENT WHITES
WEDDING CHINKS OR NEGROES

Denver, Jan. 31--The Jack Johnson
Lucille Cameron marriage is the cause
of a, bill introduced in the Legisla-
ture, preventing marriages of whites
with Mongolians on negroes. It also
prevents marriage of criminals, drug
rfiendS or habituaI druIlkardS.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31

ever settled. 1t may well be imagined
that our descendants, when they take
out and read this document will have
a. hearty laugh over the ant1quapeo
state of affairs when women were
thought incapable to exercise the suf-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31

The turkey trot and bunny hug may
pass muster, but when it comes to the
rhinoceros romp, it is carrying things
almost too far.-Hartford Post.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31

William Finn of Pittsburgh is off
for Florida, taking his halo with
him. He spoke so often and 80
loudly for the Colonel that the doc
tors tell him he's in danger of losing
his Voice.-Hartford Courant.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31

The Judson vs. O'Connor scrap
promises to bring no particular good
to anyone, but away down underneath
a public interest is inVolved.-Anso-
MIA Sentinel
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
CULLED FROM THE COLUMNS |

Governor Wilson had his teeth fixed.
Probably went to a Prestdentist.-New
York Telegraph.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31

Senator McNeil's proposed marriage
bill appears to be a desirable one for
passage.-EGockViIIe Leader.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31

A Wise Plan.-''Tlhe French have the
right idea. They protect the woman
E"How2''
'sDraw lid a marriage contract
1sI see Fix the alimony while the
groom is still in love-"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31

Knicker-Did he burn his bridge
behind him2
Bocker-Yes, but he knew there was
a tube.-New York Sun
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31

You are Interested in the conser-
walton of your energy. You can save
a lot of argument by conceding tina
the whale swallowed Jonah.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31
GREAT SALE TOMORROW, SATURDAY

AT 5c-The yard lot Co1ored Mercer
lied Perca1ines; former price 1z55e
to 15c.
At 7Kc-Lot short ends of. very hns
40 inch White Lawn; worth 1z5zo
up.
At 41zc-Good Shaker FLANNEL.
SPECIAL SALE
BETWEEN AND 10 A. NJ ONLY
At 3Ac-Yard Wide Cheese cloth
At 3%c-Best Merrimac Light Prints-
At 494c-Best Dark Prints,
At 6alc-Amoskeag Apron Ginshams-
AT 3c-Twenty-hve Cent Nail Clippers
or Scissors.
At Sc-"Catch-'em- Alive Mouse
Traps.
AT 2c-Three-BIaded Manicure Knives
ALL DAY BARGAINS
At 1c-Many articles that have been
five to ten cents See them on
counters and tables.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-31

If your job is big enough the news
papers will say you resigned. But if
you a SIS week man they will tell
the truth about it.