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The Spectator., 1915-11-23
CHAPTER X.

For few moments Bad Anse Havey did not speak, and Juanita dropped all most Imply into the chair he had pushed forward. Havey paced the mar row length of the room pausing once to gaze down at the rigid body of the dead man. At last he came and took his place squarely before her by the hearth. both hands thrust deep into his coat-pockets. A long black lock fell over his forehead and he impa- tiently shook 1t back.
 Tn the first place." he began in his deliberate voice. we've said some ! things thet l doubt not ye believe to be true, but they're most all of 'em lies"
 He flung back his head and looked sQuarely down at her, his eyes mar row and snapping, but with his voice pitched to low cadence. We've said 1 things that. since ye're a woman. l ain't got any way of answerin'. The only thing l asks is thet ye harken to what l want to say"
 Co on; I'm listening with humble attention"
 We've called me a murderer an a hirer of murderers. That's lie I've never killed no man that didn't have his face t'ords me. nor one that wasn't armed. I've never hired any man killed
 We've likened me to Milt McBriar. | Thet was lie. too. We've said some right bitter things. an cant answer ye. If ye was a man I could"
 And if l were a man, what would you say to me-" she inquired
 "l reckon"-his words came with an icy coldness-"Id be pretty liable to tell ye to eternally go to hell"
 And if were man." she promptly retorted, I'd endeavor with every ounce of manhood l had in me to see that you and the others like you did go there. I'd try to see that you went the appropriate way-through the trap of the gallows,"
 She saw his attitude stiffen and his face flush brickred to the cheek bones But after few seconds she heard him speak with fair counterfeit of amuse ment.
 Wall. it pears like we've both got to be right smart disappointed-on ac- count of your bein' woman"
 And this time it was she who flushed.
 "I don't hardly know why I'm talk in the trouble to male any statement to ye," Havey went on, Tt ain't hard ly worth while. Ye came up here with your mind fixed. We've read lot of hearsay stuff in newspapers, an facts aint hardly apt to count for much. reckon afore ye decides to hang me yell let me have my day in court. won't ye?"
 Before your own judge and your own jury" she naively asked him. That's the way you usually have your day in court. isn't it, Mir. Havey?"
 Its you that's settin' as the court just now he reminded her "I reck- on ye can judge for yerself how much l owns ye."
 In spite of herself she smiled.
 Il rather think I can." she admit ted. Approximately. at least"
 'I think l understand ye better than ye do me" he went on slowly. "I think ye're plumb honest in all the notions ye fetched up here. despite the fact that most of 'em are wrong. We've done come with heap of money to teach folks what you low they'd
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SYNOPSIS.

Juanita Holland. a Philadelphia young woman of wealth, on her journey with her guide, Good Anse Talbott. into the heart of the Cumberlands to become d teacher of the mountain children, faints at the door of Fletch McNash's cabin. While resting there she overhears a talk between Bad Anse Havey, chief of his clan, and one of his henchmen that ac- quaints her with the Havey- Me Briar feud Juanita has an unproftable talk with Bad AnSe and they become antagonists. Cal Douglas of the Havey clan is on trial in Peril, for the murder of Noah Wyatt, a McBriar. In the night Juanita hears feudsts ride past the MeNash cabin. Juanta and Dawn McNash become friends. Cal Douglas is acquitted Nash Wyatt attempts to kill him but is him self killed by the Haveys. Juanita goes to live with the Widow EversOn, whose boys are outside the feud Milt McBriar. head of his clan. meets Bad Anse there and disclaims responsibility for Wyatt's attempt to kill Douglas. They declare a truce, under pressure from Good Anse Talbott. Juanita thinks she finds that Bad Anse is opposing her efforts to buy land and build a school
The Spectator., 1915-11-23

ye're plumb everlastingly sartain who got your pa, ye won't raise your gun against any man"
 The boy sank down into his chair and bowed his head in his hands, while his finger-nails bit into his tenn ples. Even Juanita Holland had felt the effect of Havey's wonderfully quieting voice Finally Jeb McNash raised his face
 An will ye give me yore hand. Anse Havey, thet if ye finds hit out afore l do. yell tell me thet man s name?"
 "I ain't never turned my back on a kinsman yet, Jeb," said Anse grave ly.
 The boy nodded his acquiescence and hurriedly left the room. Juas eta gently lifted Dawn's head from her lap and went forward to the hearth
 She had listened in silence, out ragged at this callous talk and this private usurpaton of powers of life and death Now it seemed to her that to remain silent longer was al most to become an accomplice.
 Something in her grew rigid. She l saw the bent and lethargic figure of the bereaved wife and the stark. sheet | ed body of the feuds last victim Be- | fore her stood the man more than anyone else responsible for such con ditions.
 MT Havey," she said, as her voice grew coldly purposeful with the ring of challenge, T have been told that you did not mean to let me stay here: that you did not intend to give these poor children the chance to grow straight and decent"
 She paused, because so much was struggling indignantly for utterance that she found composure very diff. cult. And as she paused she heard him inquire Tn an ironically quiet voice: 'Who told ye that?"
 Never mind who told me. l haven't come here to answer your questions came too these feud-cursed hills to fight conditions for which you stand as sponsor and patron saint l came here to try to give the children re- lease from ignorance because ig- norance makes them easy tools and dupes for murder lords-like you" Again her tumult of spirit halted her and she heard Dawn sobbing with grief and fright on the bed
 Are ye through" inquired Anse Havey. His voice had the flinty quiet of cruelty repressed passion. and has | face had whitened, but he had net moved.
 No. I'm not through" she went on with rising vehemence. "l came here seeking to interfere with no mans af. wishing only to give your peo, pie, without price. what they are en- titled to-the light that all the rest of the world enjoys l found the com munity bound hand and foot in slavery to two men of like stripe l found their hirelings murdering each other from ambush. I'm only wom- an. but l carry the credentials of de- cency and civilization. You two men have everything else-evtrything ex. ttpi ucNfiSg anu NiNlllAdttOu. I Ou and Milt McBriar,"
 He had listened while the muscles of his jaws stood out in cramped ten sity and the vesns began to cord them. selves on his temples. Now he said in low voice. between his teeth: By heaven, don't liken me to Milt Me. Briari"
 The girl laughed little hysterically and wildly, then swept on:
The Spectator., 1915-11-23

grudge-nursin' an hate. Ye couldn't wasn't matched in barnyard to peca at corncobs an berries, but in an eagles nest--that he's bird of prey. Ye couldn't consider the fact that the killin' instinct runs in the current of his blood an was drunk in at his moth. lessons to young eagles. an that's why ye might as we'll go home
 cTO BE coNTINuED.)
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CRAFTSBURY

Rev. C. d, Pierce went to Johnson
Monday.
Charles Thayer returned from ST.
Johnsbury Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Spring moved
Saturday to Stannard.
P. w. Dawson left Tuesday with a
large drove of cattle for Connecticut.
Mr. and Mrs. C. l. Cowles visited
friends in Barton Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Kaiser were
business visitors in Hardwick Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amory Dawson moved
Saturday into an upper tenement in
the Keir block.
Arba Clark broke his elbow by fall
ing from lumber wagon one day the
last of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Basil Boardman left
Monday for Massachusetts, where they
have city farm position.
Many from this town attended "The
Birth of Nation" in Hardwick Mon.
day, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mrs. E. N. Nelson received news
Saturday of the sudden death of her
sister, Mrs. Robinson. of New York.
Mrs. Jessie Anderson left Monday
and after spending, a few days in
Greensboro and Hardwick will return
TO her home in Burlington.
Mrs. Charles Thayer was taken to
St Johnsbury Wednesday and under
went a serious operation at Brightlook
hospital Thursday afternoon.
Among those who attended the
funeral of Mrs. Lydia Patterson in
Barton Saturday were Mr. and Mrs.
Percy Keir. Mr.. and Mrs. Alex
Buchanan and j. N. Patterson.
Mrs. Lu Their, who was stopping with
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bailey, suffered a
severe hemorrhage at the nose Tues
day morning and was taken to her
home in Wolcott Wednesday of last
week.
1.-The Rambler" in the Rutland Her
aid says: 1.-THE other day an Orleans
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Commissioners Notice
Estate of AsaheI r. Cowles

The Undersigned, having been appointed
by the Honorable Probate Court for the
District of Orleans, DOM MISSIONERS, TO
receive, examine, and adjust the claims ana
demands of all persons against the estate OF
Asahel r. Cowles, late of Barton IN
said district. deceased, and all claims exhib-
tied in OFFSET thereto. hereby give notlce
that we will meet for the purpose afore said,
at the town clerks office in the village
of Barton, in said District on the 3Ot n
day of November and Goth day of March
next, from O'Clock p. M, until O'CLOCK
p. IN. on each of said days, and that SIX
months from the 24th day of September,A. II;
1915 is the time limited by said court for SAID
creditors to present their claims to us Tor
examination and allowance.
Dated at Barton, W.T. this 9th day OF
November, A. ID. 1915.
I E.W. BARRON
F.W. COMSTOCk
45-47 commissioners.
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GLOVER GLEANTNGS
GLOVER
Mrs. William Buel is quite sick.
n. H. Wilson is building garage.

Mrs. William Buel is quite sick.
n. H. Wilson is building garage.
Mrs. Lillian Mcqueen was in New
port day recently.
Wales Walton has moved TO Orleans.
where he has work
Mrs. Clara Fuller visited in Eden
several days last week.
Mrs IT, E. Clark was quite i'll
several days last week.
George Colby goes Friday to Lennox-
vile for a few days stay.
Grin Miles and Melvin Gray were in
Morrisville Monday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mcclellan of
Lyndon visited in town recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hoyt of Lyn-
don visited at E, H. Nse's recently.
Mrs. A. P. Bean returned Monday
from her visit to Springfield, Mass.
Mrs. Elma Martin fell down stairs
recently and badly famed her hand and
side.
The Misses McDuffee have gone to
housekeeping in S. E. Kings new
house.
Thomas Marnock and Mrs. Betsey
Drew were married Monday. Congrat-
ulations.
Remember the chicken pie dinner by
the Woman's Union Friday and be sure
to attend. -
Mrs Henry Stones grandmother
Mrs. Willis, of Hardwick has beer
1 visiting her. ..-s.. -.
Mrs. Flanders of Albany spent few
days recently with her daughter, Mrs
Henry Stone.
Mr.. Jewell has moved his famil.
into, the upper tenement of JOIN
Arthur's house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lutte Uttin of Yves
Burke were guests at Glover Inn tn
first of the week.
Guy Aldricb is making repairs o
his home. Ed. and Irwin Walker ar
plastering there.
See the advertisement of c. L. & T
IL Hutchins, the new Barton JeWelr
store, on page three.
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THE THREE CRAFTSBURYS

county woman was discussing woman's
suffrage with the Rambler and during
the conversation remarked that she
wished that every to would seno to
Montpelier the sort OF representative
that Craftsbury has in the Assembly.
When asked why she selected nj. z.
Thompson as white hope for the
suffrage cause the Maid of Orleans
turned the talk upon the weather.
NORTH CRAFTSBuRY
Mrs. Sadie Cowles was home from
Barton Friday. =
Mrs. Rowley, who has been i'll for
some weeks, is much better
Mrs. II, R. Cowles has gone to
Lunenburg for few weeks.
Oney Hawkins of Morrisville was a
guest at o. C.. Crowley's Thursday.
N. B. Williams was business visitor
in st. Johnsbury the last of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. James McCaffrey of
Irasburg visited at M. B. Johnson's
Sunday.
Mrs Ollie Richardson of Worcester
came Sunday, called here by the seri-
GUS illness of her father.
Rev. Flagg was in West Glover
luGSldy " dItCuU tu6 h6oClnQ or
Congregational ministers.
Daniel Hodgdon, an old resident.
who has been i'll for some time, died
Sunday night at II o'clock.
Many from here were in Hardwick
the first of the week to see "The
Birth of Nation" All felt well
paid.
Quite number from here went to
Adams Wednesday evening to attend
reception given Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin
Davis.
Frank Garfield was in st. Johnsbury
the first of last week to attend the
funeral of his nephew, Harry Garfield,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Garfield. =
A reception was given Mr.. and Mrs.
r Bliss Farrar in academy hall Fri.
day evening. About 80 friends were
present. games were played and the
company returned to their homes,
leaving slight gifts, and wishing the
young couple much happiness.
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NORTH TROY

For some time the erection Of Cath
olic church in North Troy in the near
future has been in contemplation. and
some substantial action has been take
relative to site and raising of funds.
what, and the prospect is excellent
that before long it will be accom-
plished. y.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Be thankful for plenty of
work, heart to work, strength
for work and fellowship in work.
Those who will find it most diff
cult to be thankful are those
who do not know the luxury Of
work.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-11-10

H. A. & G. O. Bartlett. Newport Center
Twombly & Cotton, Orleans
A. d. Thurber, Coventry
The K. W. Barron Co.. Barton
w. M. Taylor & Co., Derby
Stephen S. Dole, No. CraftSbury
Chas. n. Moulton, e. Charleston
Roy T.. Davis, Glover =.
James G. Martin, So. A1bany
Holton & Weymouth, w. Charleston
Lewis Bros, Morgan
VIM Davies. Bloomington
S. J. MarOney d Son. Island Pond
]. 6. Eaton & Company, Lyndonville
J. A. GendrOn. Newport
New-York tribune., 1915-03-14
,o,,o.,or Malone's scheme for pre-

Collector Malone's scheme for pre-
serving an exceedingly strict neutrality
in this port went off yesterday with a
hang that was heard round the ISL
and. In fact, it was three bangs, which
resulted in victory for the collector s
vigilance and a defeat for the Stand
ard Oil Company.
The noise started about 4:30 o'clock
p. m. when the Standard on steam
ship John d. Archbold, one Of the Big
cest tankers in service, started out for
Baton Rouge without stopping for in
spection. She went down the Narrows
al about ten knots, with no signal n.y.
ing TO denote her identity, so the coast
guard cutter Mohawk decided to halt
her.
Captain Garden. in command of the
cutter. signaled the outbound vessel
TO heave TO. as he wished to board
her. but il made no impression On the
tanker's bridge. She continued on her
wav, neither increasing her speed nor
diminishing it.
II looked as If she might get away.
SO Captain Garden ordered blank shot
fred from one of the cutters six
Founders. The spray from the Arch-
bold's bow dashed of as usual 'he
blank shot being apparently Ipnored.
Once again blank shot startled the
folk on the shores of the NaTrows, but
it did not disturb those on poard the
tank shin. Captain Garden then came
to the conclusion that with signal
New-York tribune., 1915-03-14
Mary Roberts Rnehart Visits King Albert and Queen
Elizabeth, Is Under Bomb Fire and Man Is
Killed Near Her in Trenches.

Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart, the
writer, who went to Belgium to write
her impressions of the war, returned
Yesterday on the White Star liner
Arabic, from Liverpool.
Soon after her arrival in Belgium
she met King Albert, had talk with
him for an hour and obtained permis-
sion through him to visit the trenches.
She also had an audience with Queen
Elizabeth at her temporary home in
Lipin.
Mrs. Rinehart crossed the English
Channel between France and Belgium
four times, and was under fire from
aeroplanes while in Dunkirk.
." shall never forget my meeting
with the King Of the Belgians' said
the writer. He has q dominant and I'M
pressive personality. l found him ex-
ceedingly gracious. but greatly sad
denpd by the misfortune that mas
fallen upon his country. Inc ohIy
preparation | made to visit royalty was
to purchase new pair OF whlte gio..St:
king Albert is the guiding spllt ..
a heartbroken country, and MS spilI'
is wonderfully brave. lie Is an eN,
ceedincly busy man, but was kihu
enough to talk with me for about an
hour" r;;,
Mrs. Rinehart told of her trip to Llpin'
New-York tribune., 1915-03-14

where she was received by Queen Eliz-
abeth, who was a Bavarian princess.
| Out of respect to her the town Is
spared b0mbardment by the Germans.
Mrs. Rinehart, who was one of the
few women to get to the firing line,
said that her visit to the trenches left
an impression of intense gloom upon
her.
The night | selected to go out 10
the firing line" she said, "was a moon
light one. IL was a CHASTITY sight. The
moon rose upon a scene of horror and
desolatiOn. The great stretch of land
that lay between the trenches of the
enemy and the place where | stood was
q barren lake of death, where bodies of
men and horses foated and the limbs
of dead trees arose from the spectral
waters.
But, with all its gloom, the soldiers
were not affected by the surroundings.
They were not particularly happy, to
be sure, but they seemed content, and
INDUCED in little jokes, one of which
was the cause of my being under fire.
Mrs. Rinehart said she met at the
front Lady Dorothy Fielding, daughter
of Lord Denby; Miss Chisholm and
Mrs. Knocker, society leaders of Lon
don, who were acting as Red Cross
nurses.
The author said that General Fochs,
of the French army, showed her place
at Ypres where $4,000 Frenchmen fell.
The French troops, she said, were hol d.
ing 400 miles of the battle line and the
British were holding forty miles.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-14
SOLID SHOT ACROSS BOW
ENDS SHIP CHASE IN BAY
Mohawk on Coast Guard to Protect Neutrality rfS' fires
Two Blanks at Big Oil Tanker John D. Arch
bold-IIad No. Signal Flag

and two shots unheeded il would be a
wise thing to show that he meant busi-
ness, so he sent a solid shot whizzing
across the vessels bow.
This did the trick Foam few up at
her stern and the wave at the bow dis
appeared. The big John D. Archbold
had stopped. Captain Lingo knew then
that he was involved in Mr.. Malone's
scheme, and patiently awaited the out
come. Within ten minutes the navy
tug Pentucket came alongside and a
boarding officer went aboard. Captain
Lingo explained that he did not know
the signals and shots had been in
tended for him, but got the notion
that he was wanted when the solid
shot went across his bow. He said the
Archbold was an American vessel. fly-
ing the American flag and bound from
New York TO Baton Rouge. and he did
not know that he had to stop for in
spection.
Later the tug put back to the Mo-
hawk, and when Captain Garden had
heard the Shippers explanation a sig
nal was hoisted on the cutter permit
ting the Archbold TO proceed.
Collector Malone denied yesterday a
report that Mr.. Peters, an Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, had come
10 this city from Washington TO con-
fer with him on this ports neutrality.
The Collector also said that the neu-
trality situation here was not serious,
and had not been so represented Dy
him to the President on his visit TO
Washington on Thursday.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-14
COhSTOCK'S BAN
BRINGS ART BUYER
Diner in "Polly's" Quickly
Purchases Pictures He Said
Must Go.

Somebody who was neither cubist,
futurist nor any other kind of an "ist,
unless, perhaps. modest. got into
"Polly's" a while ago. OF course, he
was shocked. And of course he wrote
to Anthony. So yesterday Mr.. Com
stock himself dropped in. 1t was a
surprise all around. When Mr.. Com
stock recovered he declared that three
pictures positively must go. They
went-bought up on the pot by one
of the diners.
"Polly's" is q restaurant. 1t is at
70 Washington Place, handy TO Wash
ington News and Macdougal Alley, and
is patronized accordingly. It's proprie-
tor, Mrs. Paula Holiday, named it
Greenwich Inn" But nobody in Wash
ington News or Macdougal Alley
thinks of it so formally. To them it
is "Polly's." They lend their pictures
to polly" and she hangs them on the
wall.
Those to which Mr.. Comstock OBJ
jected were by Clara Tie. She is al
pressionist-very, very, so critics
say. Mr.. Comstock himself said so.
and he is a critic Of critics. They i'm
pressed him. those pictures OF Clara
Tice did-oh. very much so! They
might be aesthetic. he admitted, but
So down came the pictures, and be-
fore the news had made the complete
round of the tables the pictures had
been bought IL was said that Allen
No.ten. who writes sonnets and mag .
zines. bough. them, and that the price
went UP with Mr.. Comstock's criticism.
New-York tribune., 1915-03-14
BRITISH COLLIER
TORPEDOED, SINKS
The Invergyle, 1,14l Tons,
LOSt-Seventh Vessel
Attacked in 3 Days.

London, March 13-The Admiralty
announced tonight that the British
collier Invergyle 1,141 tons) was tor
pedoed to-day off Cresswell, England,
and sunk. All the crew was saved.
The Admiralty announcement says
that since March 10 seven British mer-
chant steamers have been torpedoed by
submarines. Two of these, it is stated,
were sunk, and of two others it is said
that "thc sinking is not confirmed"
Three were not sunk.
The two steamers officially reported
sunk are the lnvergyle and the Indian
City, which was torpedoed off the Scilly
Islands on March II. The crew of the
Indian City was reported rescued.
The two steamers whose reported
sinking is not yet officially confirmed
are the FloraZan, which was torpedoed
at the mouth of the Bristol Channel on
March II, all of her crew being landed
at Milford Haven. with the exception
Of one fireman, and the Andalusian,
which was attacked off the Scilly ISL
ands on March u. The crew of the
latter vessel is reported as rescued.
The Andalusian was torpedoed in the
English Channel on March II, and has
since been towed into Cherbourg. Her
ere was landed al BrlSham. Inc
steamer Headlands was torpedoed on
March -, off the Scilly Islands. II is
reported that her crew was saved. The
steamer Hartdale was torpedoed on
March 10, off South Rock. in the Irish
Channel. Twenty-nine of her crew
were picked up and two were lost.
Penzance (via London, March 10
The British steamers Indian City,
Headlands and Andalusian were tor
pedoed off the Sclly Islands Friday
morning by the German submarine
U-29. The Indian City was sunk. but
no lives were lost.
In describing his experiences, Cap
tain Williams Of the Indian City, who
has arrived here, said: "At 1880 a. m.
on Friday, when nine miles south Of
st. Mary's Island, ! sighted what |
thought was the periscope of sub
marine 800 yards away. The subma-
rine d;ved and came up astern.
81 kept the steamer going, but the
submarine kept up with it, and
through the megaphone the COM
mander told me to put my flag up. |
hoisted the German ensign. The COM
mander then told us to get into the
boats, which we did. He then blew up
the steamer"
New-York tribune., 1915-03-14
OSBORNE TO STAY
ON JOB AS WARDEN
Nose Trouble No Obstacle 10
Sing Sing Work,
He Says.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune.l

Albany, March 13.-Thomas Mott
Osborne, warden of Sing Sing prison,
who is recovering from an operation
on his nose at the Homeopathic Hos
pital here, denied tonight that he had
been advised by physicians to resign
from the wardenship OF Sing Sing
prison to save his health.
81 am sure | do not know how such
a report came to be circulated, unless
some one wants 70 offer his services
to the state in my place" he said.
"Mv nerves are as good as ever, but
7 do,'t know that I can say the same
for my nerve. l don't approach an
operating IA BILE with the same pleasure
! once did. IT,,
81 don't want my friends to thinK
am a gutter, or that ! will have TO
quit. | will be back and hard at work
again Wednesday"