Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-09-09
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Handy.

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Handy.
When revenues, under miserable
pretense of Democratic tariff, are
fast failing, how handy it is to resort
to an internal revenue tax and lay it to
European war!
Both in Orleans County.
The Herald, in long distance effort
to interview Messrs. Fleetwood and
Powell, found that the former was
attending an auction in Jay and the
latter a grange meeting in Orleans
county somewhere. Strenuous cam
European Capitals Change.
Eighth graders to the front in geog-
raphy. What are the capitals of
Russia, Belgium and France? Did you
say ST. Petersburg. Brussels and Paris?
That was all right when school closed.
werp and Bordeaux. -Brattleboro Re-
former.
Do You Think So?
The Barton Monitor refers to the
combination of Dillingham; for senator.
Clement for governor and Dunnett for
| congressman as the triple alliance. It
is pretty strong combination and is in
accord with the present day tendencies
of the Republican party. The Monitor
does not like it but it will probably go
on and support it in the same old way.
burlington Clipper.
Vermont and Education.
| Vermont has everything to be
thankful for with few conditions to re-
greet. materially. socially and tradition.
ally. Her record of noble men from
Ethan Allen to George Dewey. from
Howe to Fairbanks, Stevens and Nor.
rill to Edmunds and Proctor, shows
more men of large achievement in
commerce and industry, in invention
and promotion. in law and medicine
in literature and oratory, in peace ano
war, than any other state in the union
two to one. And she never held hel
place more securely than she holds il
today.
Vermont is looking upward, mo-
downward, forward, not backward
from the humblest farmyard to the vas
estates that adorn her valleys. from
the smallest schoolhouse to the college
Vermont's glory is to be in her grand
children and not in her grandfathers
She has boys looking toward Burling
ton, Norwich and Mddlebury will
higher aspirations than did thei
fathers.
Vermont is as secure in the Christian
character and holy zeal of her children
as in the deeds enshrined in history
To doubt Vermont's nobility of purpos,
and conservation of aim would be t.
believe that personality has lost it
prestige. of Education TO
August 20.
One on Senator Page.
The gallantry of the United State
senators has been feature of Wash
ington's social gatherings. A story i
told of Senator Page of Vermont tina
J reveals how strong is the feeling o
state pride. despite the tendency tow
ards the Capitalization of Federal au
l thority. and how it appears in chival
} rous conversation.
Y The senator, at dinner one evening
was asked by lady at his right, WHOM
he did not recognize, as to the nam
of one of the diners who sat opposite
The senator answered and supposin
that the lady was at least semi
stranger there, proceeded to say tina
the gentleman sitting next to the on
2 inquired about was Congressman Nc
Call, adding, land l regard him as on
: of the ablest men in Congress. Con
tinuing, the senator said, "The con
: CHEESEMAN'S wife is one of the mos
charming women in the congressiona
set," and then proceeding to enthusi
astically describe the charms of Mrs
Mccall. he added. with real Greer
Mountain enthusiasm, "Mrs. Mccall
was born in Vermont and that explain
a good deal, as / am Vermonter.
The senator noticed that his compan
ion seemed peculiarly interested an
: possibly slightly uncomfortable as tn
, conversation proceeded but did nc
dream of the real facts in the cas-
until Mrs. Mccall turned around to hir
r and remarked, ''Senator. perhaps 20
4 do not know who | am?'
r Now the facts are the senator di
know Mrs. Mccall, but his partner O
the left had absorbed his attention t
e such an extent that he had not discoy
, cred her identity until the question wa
asked, when, turning around and fo
the first time looking her squarely
: the face, he took in the situation
e There was spoon dropped in the sou
= SO deftly that there was not splas
= of soup or break in the chat. but tn
= courteous senator from Hyde Parl
Vermont, was equal to the emergency
It The National Magazine.