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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-12-17
BUY GRASS AND CLOVER SEED
EARLY

II means much TO the farmer u
get good clean pure seed. In order
to get a good stand of grass and clo-
yer, the seed must be good; free
from noXlOus weeds. Farmers have
not paid enough attention TO the Sc
curing Of good seed in the past, with
the result that they have lost many
dollars and their farms have become
infested with troublesome species OF
weeds. II is possible 10 get clean
seed. Poor seed is expensive al
any price, even as a gift. Buy
your grass and clover seed early,
from reliable companies and
thereby save the advance price on
seeds later. In buying now you are
more liable to get better seed than
later. Do not wait until the last
moment and take the poorest seed,
that everyone else has refused. Re-
member how rye advanced from 20
cents to SIPS. Save the difference
by buying early.
NOTES
Cooperation among farmers in
gathering and marketing their pro-
ducts will enable them TO secure
better prices.
Have you the hen house finished?
n not hurry and do so. It's too
cold for chickens TO roost in trees
such weather as this.
Eggs are now going up-have you
any to sell for the price9 Feed the
hens and shelter them and you'll
have eggs to sell.
Sprinkle lime around and in the
hog pen, also where you keep the
cattle.
Keep the children in school and
save fuel at home.
Win your chum by showing him
the Christmas spirit.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-12-17
NOTES

Cooperation among farmers in
gathering and marketing their pro-
ducts will enable them TO secure
better prices.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-08-05
BEAUTIFUL WILLOUCHBY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE FIVE


Court by the commissioners appointed
laid out the road and assessed some of
the towns north and south to help the
town of Westmore build it. Peter Gill
man took the contract to build and COM
pleted the same in 1852. The opening of
the road made new inducements. The
same year Alonzo Bemis of Lyndon and
a company built Fan elegant and COM
modious public house at the end of the
lake. known as the Wj]loughby House. +"
In 1852 then Willoughby became sum-
mer house place. and the Gilman Tav-
ern was built within the next few
years, near Mill-brook.
Descriptive eulogies on this most
wonderful of lakes have been so ably
written that it is better to quote from
them, than to attempt to improve them
in later day parlance, therefore we
quote from letter written by Dr.
Hiram Cutting in 1852 being an &C.
count Of his wonderful trip from Burke
to the south end of Willoughby and
then over the new road just completed
and through to Bloomington.
''Reader are you a friend of noun
tain scenery? Do you love to stand
beneath rock that measures thou
sand feet perpendicular and gaze up its
awful steep. Or view beautiful lake
beautiful from height of two thou
sand feet above its surface?-I had Wis
tied other mountains in the state and
expected the same scenes which
had witnessed elsewhere. Mountains
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-08-05

ars. The next moment litter ran
through the crowd as pumpkin in a
rear seat called out:
"The dudes eyes amt mates!''
Chester. Kent, already conspicuous
in his spotless white fannels, had
made himself doubly so by drawing
out monocle and deftly fixing it in
his right eye. He leaned over the
body to look into the face. and his
head jerked back the merest trifie.
Bending lower. he scrutinized the I'M
manacled wrist. When he passed on
his lips were pursed in the manner Of
one who whistles noiselessly.
He resumed his seat beside Sedg-
wick. CHANGING to look down at the
mOnOcle. SedgWick started and stared
Kent's knuckle, as seen through The
glass, stood forth, mOnStrous and dis
torted, every line of the bronzed skin
showing like a furrow.
The monocle was a powerful mag
nifying lens.
The sheriff's heavy voice rose. "Any
one here present recognize or identify
the deceased" he droned, and, with
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-08-05
ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR WEDNESDAY AUGUST s. 1914

northern end of the lake and the peo-
pie from Barton and vicinity on the
west side OF the lake. although there
are scattered about the lake cottages
OF Orleans people and few from Bar
ton are to be found on the east side.
The lake, however. and more especial
ly the northern end, has become more
and more resort of Orleans people
and there are more than twenty
Orleans-owned camps about the lake.
four or five of them being on the west
side. several in both Foster and
Lyons grove and still others about two
miles from the north end near the Gil
man tavern. To be sure there is lit
tie village at Mill brook, but the town
is distinctly summer resort and it's
population must multiply several times
during the summer season. There are
some very large and very attractive
cottages at the lake among them being
Harris. E. E. Mathews, Frank Hall.
E. J. Winslow. Mrs. A. d. Chandler,
the E. c. Skinner, the c. S. Skinner.
the DR.. Stevens cottage and others
from Orleans On the west side too is
found one of the finest small bathing
beaches Of any of our many beautiful
lakes in New England, and it is much
patronized by campers from all parts
of the resort. After the death of Cap
tain Averill, who for years run the
summer boat on the lake, commencing
over twenty-five years ago. with the
old Ben-Hur and later running the lar
ger boat keewaydin, there had been no
regular boat until again this season,
when the Keewaydin which was pur-
chased two years ago and is again m ak
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-08-05

ing regular trips around the lake.
Through the influence and support of
Orleans people two regattas have been
held at Willoughby' which have been
well attended and which really should
become annual events and probably
will, because the automobile has made
lt.a very easy matter for people living
in Orleans to reach their camps for
weekend stays and even to attend to
their business and make daily trips to
and from the lake when they DESIRE
The improvements on the road from
Orleans to WilIoughby, especially now
that for distance of over a mile and
half a state road is being put down,
over what was originally the worst
part of that road, and it is matter of
very short time when a state road
the entire distance from Orleans to and
connecting with the improved road
on the east side of the lake will be
fact.
From the first of our article on Will
loughby it will be seen that the road
around the east side of the lake was
put through andssit states completed"
in 1852. but this first road was surely
most perilOus route and there were
many places where it would be abso-
lutely impossible for two teams or au-
tomobiles to meet. This road is now,
however, being widened and a very
great improvement has already been
made this season, and more will be
done in August. but it is expected that
it will take at least two years after
this to entirely complete it. Once
completed. however, there is little
question that it will be the most beau
tiful drive in all New England and will
become the automobile route to the
north.
At the south end of the lake this
season very attractive Tea House has
been installed by ladies from Lyndon
vile and run by the V. 1. S. of that
village. 1t is called the ''Boulders"
and certainly from it's location directly
/: under the towering cliff of Pisgah it is
appropriately named. About half way
up the east side of the lake, at Rock
Maple cottage too, one can secure ice
cream and cake and the Misses Will
Jams and FulliEgton report a very good
trade. These tea houses are a new
thing on the lake.
Three are several cottages owned
and occupied by city people who have
learned of Willoughby and having spent
one season there cannot be induced to
go elsewhere. Among them is DR..
Smith of New York and Prof. Hawkes.
Of Yale who have both built very attrac-
tive summer homes. Of course the
more palatial residence is Fox Hall
the summer, home of Mrs. Peene of
Yonkers. N. Y, but there are other
well-located situations which some day
will boast their summer homes Uncle
| Joe Hyde who has always kept pretty
close tabs on Westmore as summer re-
sort, now has letters from parties who
desire to build or buy summer homes
at this most beautiful lake. and when
state road which is to be 81 feet wide
and will cost over $15.0 900 is completed,
then will Willoughby lake at last come
into its own and become the most pop
ular summer resort of Northern New
] England.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-08-05
Vermont Notes.

The Hewill and Wright wood turning
factory at Bristol burned July 80. The
loss is SIS, 900; insurance $1,000. The
cause is not known The factory prob
ably will not be rebuilt.
The Vermont Anti-Saloon League
has asked all Vermont Sunday schools
studying the temperance lesson, Au-
gust 9, to consider especially the evil
influence of liquor advertising in news
papers and magazines. and to make
protest against it.
Five checks, one forgery, and all
worthless. aggregating $56. have been
uttered in Burlington within two weeks
by man and woman whom the police
are tracking. The checks were drawn
on the Chittenden County Trust COM
pany in favor of fictitious persons. one
was signed E. j. Booth. a leading lum-
herman, and was forgery.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-08-05

enough but not lough water to make
it pleasant, but this time was happily
disappointed-The last mile of my
journey from Burke was enough to give
a foretaste of what was coming. | had
beheld the lofty jagged summit of Pts
gah, towering it seemed almost over my
head, had occasionally seen the blue
summit for miles of the journey but |
now first realized its grandeur and be-
fore my first amazement had subsidized
we had arrived at the Lake house and
tina wonderful view of the rightly and
ar-famed Wllloughby burst on my
view. Have you ever stood in the Notch
at the White mountains and gaZed up
at the perpendicular walls rising about
you? If so just imagine lake placed
in the gorge and you have Willoughby
lake. Under the direction of an &C
commodating guide passed out upon
the waters of the lake, it's purity so
great that at depth of many feet the
bottom was clearly visible. After
ride of somewhat over mile we ar
rived at the DEVILS den. a mighty
mass of granite rock partially rent
asunder by some great convulsion. at a
short distance from the shore on the
waters side it presents an en-
trance which cannot fall behind the
most enchanted conception. I then
landed and we commenced the steep
ascent of the mountain, visiting the
Garden of Eden on the ascent and
counted more than twenty varieties of
flowers, but at the top, that most Won
derful of views we'll paid me for the
arduous climb, upon the southwest the
view is only broken by the lofty chain
of White mountains. while north the
view extends far into Canada and in
retrospect the village of Stanstead and
Lake Memphremagog. Sunset still
found me upon the mountain and | can
say that the sunset scene at Willough-
by lake ,surpasses all things in grand
eur that I have ever seen. and IT de-
scribed by a graphic writer it would
be as far-famed- as the sunsets of Italy
or any land of genius and fine arts"
What has has been written ty DR..
Cutting of Willoughby over sixty years
is as true today as then, and famous
traveller stopping for time at Will
loughby named it the Lucerne of
America. Only the fact that this IA
nous beauty spot is not we'll enough
known to our own people and that hotel
accommodations. never of the very
best, have since the burning of the
Lake House been wholly inadequate.
has kept it from becoming one of New
England's famed resorts. Changes of
course have occurred in the sixty years
since the road was built around the
lake and changes for the better are
still occurring, but no concentrated
effort has ever been made to boom Lake
Willoughby and its natural advan-
tage of being away from the railway
has in measure reacted against its
becoming well known.
The natural location of the lake
or rather it's geographical location
divided it's campers into three distinct
groups, those coming from the south,
Burke and Lyndon. naturally build
ingscottages at the head or south end
and along the east shore, those from
the north, Orleans, grouping about
Lyons and Fosters groves near the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-08-05

out waiting for reply, set the lid in
place and signaled to the medical Of
icer.
''Feller citizens" began the still
shaking physician. 1--WE don't need any
jury to find that this unknown drown
ed woman
'NThe deceased was not drowned"
Emerging from his reverie, Chester
Kent had leisurely risen in his place
and made his statement.
"N-n-not drowned!' gasped the medi-
cal man.
Certainly not. AS you must know,
if you made an autopsy"
''No autopsy was necessary" replied
the other quickly. There's plenty Of
testimony without that. We've heard
the witnesses that saw the drowned
body on the grating it washed ashore
on"
'oThe body never washed ashore on
that grating"
A murmur ran through the crowd.
''HOW do you figure that?" called a
voice.
ION the under side of the grating
found cocoon Of a common moth.
Half an hour in the water would have
soaked the cocoon through and killed
the insect inhabitant. The insect was
alive
How'd the grating get there, then?"
Dragged down from the high water
mark on the beach. 1t was an old
half rotted affair such as no ship
would carry. Ask Sailor Smith"
''That's true" said the old seaman,
with conviction.
you're an expert, Mr.. Smith. Now,
was that grating large enough to float
a full grown human bodyT'
"Why, as to that, a body amt but
mite heavier than the water. I should
say it'd just barely float it, maybe"
Exactly, but plus several pounds of
clothing and some dead metal extra?"
mo"
1.-THE clothes would have been soak
ed and handouts weigh something"
said Kent calmly.
There might have been extra spars
under the grating that got pounded
loose on the beach and washed away"
propounded the medical officer des-
perately.
Look at the face" said Kent, with
finality. This is bad coast Most
Of you have seen drowned bodies. Did
any one ever see an expression Of such
terror and agony on the face Of one
who came to death by drowning?"
mo, by thunderr' shouted somebody.
Hes right"
Others took up the cry. Clamor rose
and spread in the room. The sheriff
silenced it with a stentorian voice.
what are you trying to get at?"' he
demanded, facing Kent.
1.-THE truth. What are your
Schlager's eyelids fickered, but be
ignored the commensurate. Look out
it don't lead you where you won't want
: to follow" he returned. with a signif
cant look at Sedgwick.
'sThis is as far as it has led me-
said Kent in his clear, even voice. 1.-The
body, already dead, was dragged dow1
and soaked in the sea and then dashed
to the grating by man who probably
is or has been sailor"
"Then the deceased met death or
:. Shore. and presumably by violence
said Lawyer Balm.
'Tt's murder!'' cried woman
shrilly. "Bloody murder! That's wha
r it ISL
!. MURDER echoed voice from th,
D doorway. Gansett Jim, his half Indian
half negro face alight with fury, stood
: there pointing with stiffened hand a
Sedgwick "Dah de murderer
Ito be Continued)
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-08-05

And You Got Taken In
what is this kleptomania read
about in the papers. Is it catching?"
"No; it is taking" Transcript
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-11

the awful white light of the European
war. But for that struggle We
might not have been aroused at this
time to our actual situation. We
might have continued our longtime
policy OF allowing men trained for
politics to override the Judgment of
men trained for war in matters
respecting war. We have been skimp-
ing the navy for years, although
the skeleton organization we have is
a marked credit to those who have
had it In charge.
But as suddenly as a thundercap
the war in Europe came; and it has
changed the face of everything, there
and here. We see now as never be-
fore our needs az a power of the first
class ambitious to remain in that
class.
Opponents Of preparedness would
have as stand pat on our unprepared-
ness. Why spend money for such
purposes at this time? The war will
exhaust Europe. Even the victors
will emerge in a condition anything
but menacing TO us or to any other
power. Because of the numbers en-
gagged and the colossal losses inevita-
Bile, they urge. this will be the last
war. Peace, at last, will come into
her own.
However we'll intended this is a
dope, dangerous in every ingredient
Let us not swallow 1t, but put II
aside politely but firmly. Those who
offer II are moonlighters. and subsist
on dreams. They are not safe guides
in rough world inhabited by fight
ing human creatures
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-11
GERMANY ON THE OCEAN.

It must be remembered that Germany is new
naval power and was untried the ocean until the
present great war She has had to contend with the
nayles of England. France Russia and Japan, while
she has practically had help from Austria and can
have little or none the small Turkish navy AS
England's naval power, compared with Germany's.
as two to one the latter would be oyermaehed by
England if that power had allies
But Germany, with this great handicap, has per-
formed wonders and admiration even from Eng
sh naval experts The performances of the German
submarines on the North Sea showed daring, as
we'll as skill. that foe compelled to admire In
the battle off the coast of Chile there was little
difference in the respective strength of the ships en-
gagged and the defeat of the British fleet was over
whelmng. In the later engagement in South Atlantic
waters. in which four German ships we're sunk, we
know the strength of the Germans England does not
tell what her feet consisted Of but it is known that
at least battle cruisers which means battle
ships far outclassing the German ships
There is glory in defeat by far superior force
when inferior ships engage in battle and heroicaly
go down under their longer range guns and heavier
metal. The story of the engagement in the South
Atlantic is yet to be told, but not by the German
admiral. He went down with his ship.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-11
NEW, NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Two Anecdotes of the Late William M. Eyarts

Mr.. Evarts was retained to pass
upon a certain pr 3sition. There was
no mention of fe, The clients were
men Of wealth and of high character.
In due time Mr.. Evarts completed the
service for which he had been re-
tained, but he sent no bill. Weeks
passed and at last someone of this
group Of capitalists suggested at a
meeting of the directors of the COM
pany that Mr.. Evarts ought to be paid
for his services.
But we have received no bill from
him." suggested one OF the other d.
rectors. Shall we write to him to
ask him to send us a bill''
After some discussion IL was de-
cided that Mr.. Evarts' service was
worth at least $4,000 to the corpora
tion, and the directors voted unani-
mously TO send him n check for that
amount saying that IL it were not
satisfactory they would be glad to
send him any additional amount
which he might suggest.
After a week or two, letter was
received from Mr. Evarts. 1t in
closed a check for $4,000 and it
stated that the payment OF $4,000,
in view Of the kind of service that
he had given, was excessive and un-
justified He felt that $1,000 was suf-
ficient recompense. lie therefore en-
closed his own check for $4,000, at
the same time cordially thanking his
clients for the magnificent payment
which they proposed to make to him.
When spoken to afterward about
this, Mr.. Evarts said that the labor
entalled by the proposition lasted
only one or two moments and was
covered by one or two references to
statutes and judicial decisions.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-11

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
My Dear Sir-My attention has
been called to your comment Of a
few days ago relating to an alleged
throwing away of $4,000 relating to
Franklin turnpike and that state
Commissioner Stevens said that our
county engineer deceived him.
My friendship for The Star and
acquaintance with its owners and
managers and the well-known spirit
Of fairness that pervades its colum rs
in all its criticism of public officials
leads me to ask for space to cor
rect what may be unintentionally a
very hurtful criticism. Bergen coun-
ty citizens shudder at the prevail
ing attempt to create public
scandal sensation by the publication
Of exaggerated statements sent for
ward in the form of electrotyped
press reports, having the sole pur-
pose of promoting the political for
tunes OF a gentleman who surely has
no good reason to expect any favors
Of The Star.
Bergen is still law abiding COM
munity with all it's machinery of
justice in full operation. Its grand
jury charged by a distinguished and
upright Judge, its criminal courts
presided over by an intelligent, care
full and honest triol judge, with
prosecutor and assistant both con-
scientious and painstalIing, the high
character of its citizens constituting
its grand and petit turies, and the
sterling public sentiment, forbid that
If there is wrong-doing it cannot be
detected, punished and prevented.
Bergen county with its unblemished
reputation is not proud Of the out
rageous attacks made upon 1t and
regrets that it has to be held up
to public shame that an ambitious
politician may pose as public
savior and thus advertise himself.
Mr. Ralph ID. Earle, jr., our coun-
ty engineer, did not deceive Mr..
Stevens nor do l think Mr.. Stevens
meant to say so.
Mr.. Earle is distinguished and
capable engineer both by education
an1 accomplishment. His work in
this county has been of the very
best.
Our extensive road system is sec
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-11

Doing Belated Justice 20 the American
Indian.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
OF the subjects treated by Seere-
tary of the Interior Lane, in his annual
report, none is more interesting than
he Indian, whose affairs have been
fer many years eonspieuonsiy mis-
managed, and who has been the VIC
tim OF q system OF sordid exploita-
ton which has been disgraeeful TO tho
Federal government. Whether the
ask OF freeing the Indians from the
Grasp of q selfish bureaucracy Is go
ing 20 prove beyond the powers OF
Secretary Lane. as 1t has in the case
of some of his well-intentioned prede-
cessors, il is yet too early TO deter
mine. But Mr.. Lane reveals in his
report, condensed In our news col
ufflns, a genuine interest in the
wards of the nation" and an appre-
citation of some OF the causes at the
root OF deplorable failure in deal
ing Justly with them. He definitely
condemns the "almshouse policy" and
the ',orphan- asylum idea" advocates
their gradual liberation from con
troll which pauperizes and degrades
when Il does not despoil, and defines
what he considers the best way out.
"C1ur goal is the free Indian, Is the
wny he puts IL, and the nation VIII
cordially support him in any policy
which will tend toward making the
Indians really part of the nation.
None more perfectly than Mr.. Lane
recognizes the Importance OF continu-
ity or policy in dealing with aucn q