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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-17
Then He Drifted.

Miss Uppson-Mildred.' said the
poor but otherwise honest and ambi-
tious young man. Il have padded my
own canoe for years and feel sure I
can support you. Will you be my
wife?''
Nothing doing in the canoe line, -
replied the naughty maid. eff you
had sailed your own yacht for years
might have considered your proposal"
Chicago News.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-17
Commissioners Notice
Estate of Emma ]. King

The Undersigned having been appointed
by the Honorable Probate Court for the Dis
trict of Orleans, COMMISSIONERS, to re-
ceive, examine and adjust the claims and
demands of all persons against the estate of
Emma J. King late of Barton in said
District, deceased, and all claims exhibited
in offset thereto hereby give notice that we
will meet for the purpose aforesaid at the
store of F. r. Nelson in the town of Barton
in said district on the goth day of jan
uary and 23d day of June next, from
l O'Clock, p. M, until 3 O'Clock, p. m.
each of said days and that six months
from the 9th day of December A. d. 1916, is
the time limited by said Court for said
creditors to present their claims to for
examination and allowance.
Dated at Barton this lst day of January,
A. ID. 1917
F. E. NELSON
O. e. HAMBLET
Ia commissioners
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-17
How to Sew on Buttons SO That The,

Will Stay.
Take a small stitch, bringing the
knot on the right side. Run up
through one hole of the button and
draw it down just over the knot. Lay
a pin across the button and work the
stitches over the pin. When the but
ton is firmly sewed on remove the pin.
Pull the button out from the mate
rial and wind the thread around the
threads between the button and cloth
several times to form a shank. Pass
the needle through to the wrong side
and fasten the thread with several
small stitches.
The shank formed makes buttoning
easier and lessons the strain on the
cloth. The knot is brought up on the
right side and under the button to
keep it from being worn off.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-17
Anxious to Save Him,

What are you doing there?''
Figuring on the upkeep Of an auto
mobile"
you can't afford to buy an automo-
bile
Il know it. I'm just getting up some
data with which to convince a friend
of mine that he can't afford to buy one
either. Birmingham Age-Herald.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-17
He KNEW A GOOD PLAY.

The Sagacious Canine Didn't Even
Have to Read X.
One day | brought to my rooms in
Twenty-third street box of old man
uscripts. Death and Trap. bulldog
and fox terrier. stood by and looked
on idly while l as idly looked over the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-17
Too Lonq.

Edith-Haven't you and Jack been
engaged long enough to get married?
Ethel-Too long! He hasn't got a
cent left.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-17
ADVERTISING

Cards of thanks, Soc. Resolutions,
$l.00 Reading notices, 1Oc per line
per insertion. classified advertising
terms at top of column one, page one.
Display advertising rates upon ap-
pl1cation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-17
Doubts Heredi+v

"Do you believe in heredity?"
mo-
"Why not?'
"Look at the cheap skates that had
great ancestors ''-DetrOit Free Press.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-17
SUBSCRIPTIONS

One year $1.5O. Six months, 75c.
Eight months, 81. Four months SOC.
Invariably in advance.
When your subscription expires the
paper stops.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-17
CORONACH.
He is gone on the mountain.

CORONACH.
He is gone on the mountain.
He is lost TO the forest,
Like a summer dried fountain,
When our need was the sorest.
The font reappearing.
From the raindrops shall Dor
But to us comes no cheering.
To Duncan no morrow!
The hand of the reaper
Takes the ears that are hoary.
But the voice of the weeper
Walls manhood in glory.
The autumn winds rushing
Watt the leaves that are scar
est,
But our flower was in flushing
When the blighting was nearest
Fleet foot on the cOrrei.
Sage counsel in cumber.
Red hand in the fOray.
How sound is thy slumber!
Like the dew on the mountain.
Like the foam on the river.
Like the bubble on the fountain.
Thou art gone. and forever.
Walter Scott
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-05-26

In that presence the clustering, val
stature, that of "A rowdyish braggart,
not lacking in courage and initiative,
conspicuously deficient in education,
wisdom, judgment.
Only less dwarfed was the repre-
sentative of the Carranza interests,
General Torreon, a trim and intelli-
gent Mexican, well grounded in the
fundamentals of his trade-which was
simply and exclusively war.
Baron Huroki alone seemed able to
address Nogi in terms of equality-if
without once suggesting any reluc-
lance to accord the commander in
chief the Difference that was his due.
This, perhaps, was quite natural, in
view of the authority with which
Baron Huroki had been clothed by the
imperial government at Tokyo-an al
thority only second to that of General
Nogi, who was Huroki's only ranking
officer in the allied camp.
The occasion which had brought
about this conference was the failure
of the Mexican system of espionage
to secure any accurate information as
to conditions Immediately north of the
border.
This was due TO the uncommonly
thoroughgoing and t~ireless system Of
patrols organized by Donald Parr and
maintained by Patria and her neigh
bors.
For several weeks spy after spy had
sought to penetrate the lines-and in
variably had been obliged to give up
the attempt. No less than three,
through unchronicled m~ischance, had
vanished utterly and inexplicably. And
no information of any real value had
been reported back to headquarters by
those who, acting under instruction,
had confined their efforts to long-dis-
lance observation with the aid of
powerful binoculars. They saw Pa
trials biplanes hanging in the skies or
swiftly coursing through them; but
that was all.
And hour by hour it was believed by
all those present at this conference,
the moment drew nearer when the
word to advance would be given out by
Tokyo.
SIT is not only humiliating," HUI
roki was declaring, "it is madness,
downright madness, to contemplate a
movement in force without first-hand
information as to what this accursed
girl is up to. 1t is insensate folly to
underestimate her ability and anxiety
to hinder and embarrass us. 1t is all
very well for you conference.-the adj
dressed himself specifically to Ze-
laya and Torreon-"to point to our
forces and say the United States can
muster nothing to withstand it. That
is true-as far as we know. But you
make the mistake of thinking you
have only the regular army and the
National Guard to reckon with. You
have something else-this puny slip
of a girl, this insignificant Patria
Claiming. l know her, as you do not;
and l tell you she is like a living
flame of patriotism; she is intelligent,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-05-26

reSourceful, unafraid, and she controls
rs per cent of the arms and ammuni-
ton industries of the United States.
In addition, she has at her command
this immense treasure, this hundred
million-dollar trust, which she inherit
ed and declares she will spend it for
the sole purpose of defeating u
plans . . since, as it appears, her
country is too %niggardly and short
sighted to spend a dollar in its own
defense!
sand we sit here in ignorance of
her plans We must know them, and
we must know them without more de-
lay-or we risk a setback that ex-
plodes our entire scheme Of invasion !"
"How can that be-" Torreon in
quired.
With a grunt of Impotence Huroki
pointed to a great typographical map
spread out on the table between them.
"Have you forgotten that our chosen
line Of march strikes directly through
the Claiming ranch property? And
what are we going to find there? What
10 Lulo gil uOluS lnClS, al ILLS lAilC
while we sit here twiddling our
thumbs? She isn't idle-I promise you
that. She Can purchase, If need be,
the best military intelligence in the
United States. Is it sensible to sup
pose that her advisers have overlooked
the fact that via the Claiming ranch
is the shortest and quickest route
toward our goal?-that, If we strike at
all from this quarter, it will naturally
and surely be along that line? And,
such being the probable case, is it wise
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-05-26

calls. Then he retired to ~well-earned
rest.
In the gray dusk of the next darwin
twenty mounted and armed Mexicans
~rendezvoused with the Killer at a
point some two miles south of the
boundary line of the Claiming ranch,
and about twenty miles from it's ha-
cienda.
He was well-informed as to the hab-
it's of the patrol-both that maintained
by the United States government and
that which Patria Claiming had Or
ganized. Since it was the custom for
raiding parties to cross the border by
night or in earliest dawn, Gomez re-
Trained from doing anything as com
monplace. He recognized no necessity
for a clash with the patrols when it
could be avoided by the exercise of a
little patience.
Conducting his command to a point
where they could skulk under cover of
wooded ground, secure from spying
eyes, he secuted on afoot to a spot
whence, lying at length on the crest
of a little hill, he could spy through
the underground that concealed him.
Below him, just beyond a shallow
arroyo, lay the Morgan homestead.
1t was a Sunday morning, very quiet
aud warm. The peace of unaccus-
toned Incidence enveloped the home
stead. By convention it was a morn
ing for a late breakfast-late, that is,
in the esteem of folk in the habit of
rising with the sun. So it was all
of two hours after sun-up when the
smoke began to ascend from the Chin
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-05-26
southwark toward those far purple

southwark toward those far purple
hills.
Behind it the Morgan homestead
roared with flames, a funeral pyre for
the body of the murdered mother.
The girl would not let herself think
of that. She understood now that she
had been taken alive for a purpose.
She must defeat that purpose, either
by escaping or by bringing her W
death about in attempting to escape.
She dared not think Of the horror that
lay behind, lest 1t unnerve her and
make her fail.
Leaving the open country, the raid
ers took to the highroad. If they had
eluded the patrols, they did not hope
for long to go unpursued. Their safest
course lay in open flight by the fastest
practicable route to the hills. They
spared neither their horses nor them
selves.
1t so happened that the animal rid
den by Bess Morgan was one of the
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-05-26

to imagine she Is taking no steps to
prepare a trap for us? l tell
you, we must know Your spies have
thus far failed; we can employ none
of ours, for 1t would be fatal to have
a Japanese caught in an act of es-
pionage."
"What would you suggest, then?'
Torreon asked thoughtfully.
Find some way to stimulate the eff
f~iciency of your system. Get us some
trustworthy information-no matter
how"
IF l may make a suggestion" Ze-
laya ventured. At a nod from Nogi
he proceeded, pulling at his mustache
to mask the smile of relish with which
he anticipated permission to commit
yet another atrOcity ON American soil.
"It is a long time since we have
broken the peace of the border here
abouts. And these Americans have
short memories. Let me send a few
a mere handful-of my men to exc
cute a flying raid on the Claiming
ranch. I will guarantee results"
hoW 81! 1NOSi ueIldllucu.
.Zelaya bent over the map and with
the blunt end of a greasy forefinger in
dicated a certain point.
"Here is a house fully twenty miles
from the hacienda" he said. sit is the
home of the man named Morgan,
ranch foreman. He lives there with
his son, his sister and his mother-his
wife is dead. Both Morgan and his
sister are deep in the confidence of the
Senorita Claiming. Let my men
bring in either of these . /"
He paused and showed his teeth in
l will promise to induce him-or her
to tell us everything we want to
know"
Eagerly Huroki's eyes sought the
face of his commander in chief. 1t
told him, however, nothing. Impas-
sively General Nogi deliberated; it
was nearly two minutes later when he
delivered his verdict.
"Let this thing be DONE" he said I;
and rose. ending the conference.
"PEAcE WITH HONOR"
Gomez was the name of the man
chosen by Zelaya to do the work he
had suggested-"Gomez the Killer"
was the sobriquet by which he was
known to his fellows; a quiet-man-
nered, sad-faced Mexican of something
a little under the average build of his
breed.
Listening gravely to the instructions
of his superior, he nodded gentle COM
prehension, and sailed forth to exc
cute Zelaya's will with no more COM
passion in his heart than he would
have felt if ordered to exterminate
all but one or two of a nest of rattle
snakes.
He %journeyed northward that night
by motorcycle, and spent the following
day in what appeared to be desultory
riding about the country just south of
the border, pausing at the dwelling of
his friend and that to pass the time of
day.
In all he made just twenty such
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-05-26

poorest of the lot. 1t Jagged. They
who rode beside her were constantly
drawing ahead, and then with curses
refining back. Deceived by her apparent
resignation, they gave her more room.
Ahead of them, when they had rid
den for about twenty minutes, the road
swung round a h~igh-banked bend. Out
of the slope a tree thrust a branch
over the road. Bess saw, and took her
one chance.
A furtive twitch at the reins caused
her horse to lag still more decidedly.
The others won to a full length ahead
as they swept round the curve.
Raising both arms, the girl caught
the Overhanging branch and lifted her
self bodily from the saddle. The horse
rocketed on, relieved of it's burden, at
somewhat faster pace.
But the efforts she made to swing
up on the limb of the tree and by that
route gain the top of the bank was
hopeless. She had put too great stress
upon her strength in her struggle; it
failed her now. She dangled helpless
ly for a moment or two, then dropped
to the roadway.
AS soon as that happened, terror
lent her new strength. She turned and
ran wildly back along the road, SEEK
ing some place where she might find
temporary cover by the roadside.
That refuge was denied her. On the
one hand was open country, destitute
of anything considerable enough to
hide behind; on the other, the concave
wall of the bluff.
And already her escape was discov-
cred. She could hear the thunder of
returning hoofs. Still she held on, run
ming as she had never dreamed she
would be able to run, despite her
straining lungs and aching muscles.
The hoofs were very close behind
her now. She put forth one last en-
d~eavor-which failed in it's inception.
Overtaking her, the Mexicans rode
up on either side. AS she an, the
riders swung down from their saddles,
caught her arms, lifting her fairly
off her feet and holding her so while
they wheeled their horses and dashed
back.
Il y y
Searching heat helped Bud Morgan's
return to consciousness. He reused
slowly, rolled over to get farther
away from the flames that were de-
vouring his home, and sat up with a
splitting pain in his head.
The hand that he instinctively lifted
to his temple came away dripping with
blood. Yet he was not sefioasly
wounded. The bullet had cut a deep
furrow in the side of his head, but
had failed to penetrate the skull. To
the temporary Inconsistencies that
followed the wound, he owed his pres
ent liberty and his escape from a tor
tured death somewhere in those hills
to the south.
Yet life was bitter to SAVIOR anew.s
AS he staggered away from the burn
ing house that entombed his mother,
he came upon the riddled body of his
son.
What his subsequent actions were
he never knew. 1t was late afternoon
when he rode up to the Claiming ha-
cienda, more mad than sane, on the
back of a horse without saddle or
bride.
1t was an hour later before he re-
covered sufficiently to gasp out his
tale of horror to Patria and Donald
Parr in the library.
When he had finished, the man
bowed his head on his folded arms,
- ...k .aaI-0I xr,ikh Ir.xt onnuy1Icsxyo
sobs.
On either side Of him Patria and
Donald sought, then avoided, each
others eyes.
(TO BE CONTINUED.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-05-26
THE CAST.
SYNOPSIS.

Baron Huroki of Tokyo, conspiring to
embroil the United States and Mexico in
order to pave the way for the Japanese
INVASION of the Pacific coast, is hunted
from the country by Patria Claiming,
sole executrix of the 100000, 900 trust Sc
cretly created by patriotic pr%ogenitors to
combat the national perils inherent in
".unpreparedness." Establishing himself
Just across the Mexican border, Huroki
schemes to be revenged upon Patria, who
owns vast properties just north of the
border,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-07
FEARS OF AMERICA.

German military sentiment, which
finds its focus in the Kaiser himself,
is represented as fearfa! to the last
degree of the effects of the United
States participation i'll the war
upon the basis Of the full magnitude
of its preparations. As contem-
porary suggests even German efiIc-
iency has been vastly outmatcied
and abashed IN the presence OF
republic having 70 dictatorfal voice
within the space OF three months
amassing several billions Of dollars
for a war loan, registering ten mil
lions Of men IN their military priae
sending an arm Of twenty thousand
across seas. together with & naval
force and hospital units. 1t has
been amazed to find the United
States rapidly placing itself upon
q war footing ana making prepare
t,ors so stupendous rs to shatter
the most optimistic hopes for
German victory should the war con-
tinue until the United States Is
ready TO bring its full weight TO
bear.
Hence the demand that is beng
made for super!ative effort ny
the German armies to break through
the Allies line and to beat them
outrigh; upon the field. But with
Russia now recaperated, with Ru-
mania ready wit ha new army. with
Greece and its army available. and
with seven hundred thousand re-
.cruits from the United States upon
the point of selection and training
and embarkatipn, the hope of a
German success by supreme move
is slight indeed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-07

cubus Of an arrogant militarist clique
and organized in democratic re-
public, they would at once be In a
position to conclude that honorable
and stable peace for which they are
yearning."
The Richmond Virginian says that
whatever may he the intentions o.
the European leaders, some OF when
are quoted as favoring a dismember-
ment Of the German empire before
concluding peace, the American peo-
pie and the people OF the allied ma
lions would not consent to a break
ing up of free Germany. No calam-
ity would be quite so serious to the
German people themselves as victory
in this war as the letters OF auto
cracy would thereby be bound all the
tighter upon them.
According to the "Friends OF the
German Republic" the republican
movement is spreading rapidly and
the number of arrests for "subver-
sive propaganda" have greatly IN
creased throughout the empire.
The American people will be de-
lighted to do I'll in their power to
help break the bonds of kaiserism and
miitarism.
Every American is really an hon
orarv member Of this society. we
bear no hate fo- the people. OF Ger
many. We would do them good. II
they will but help themselves we will
stand by them valiantly both to Tree
them from the laiser's grip ano
10 secure a peace that will be alike
satisfactory to-. :ilem and honora bic
TO our allies.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-07
EFFECTS OF WAX.

In uhe little German city OF H'UI'"
the city council has admonlsi1ed '"'
n,oulation to go barefoated, because
there soon will he no leather from
which to manufacture shoes; III
Dpesscldorf. Stet;in, GleiwltZ, ana
other towns food riots are multiply
ing. newspapers are flying rom
ono extreme to the other. frantlcaiiE
calling for support Of the govern
mcnt one day" and relapsing into
morbid forebodings of the future on
the next.
Dispatches from certain section
If Russia tell of men who nave re-
solved to go in puris natura!lbuS I III
= state of nature) until conditions
change. Their clothing has worn
completely out and they have no
money with which to purchase new
apparel.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-07

of this State, and the sergeant haT-
ing made return upon the original
process or summons issued herein
that the defendant is a nonresident
of his bailiwick, and application hav-
ing been duly made according to law
for an order OF publication against
the said defendant to appear and
answer bill in Chancery fled by the
complainant against the defendant
for an absolute divorce on the
grounds of wilful and voluntary de-
sertion and abandonment for more
than three years prior to the m
stitution of this suit, and said -+dcr
of publication having been duly
granted. it is therefore ordered that
said defendant do appear here with
in fifteen days after due publication
hereof to answer the suit OF the com
plainant against the defendant for
an absolute divorce on the grOunGs
of wilful and voluntary desertion
and abandonment for more chan
, three years prior to the fling of this
suit and do what is necessary To
protect his interest. And it is further
ordered that copy Of this ortTer be
published once week for Tour sue
cessive weeks in the Alexandria Ca
| zette, a newspaper published in The
| City Of Alexandria, Virginia. and
that copy of said order be sent by
registered mail by the Clerk of this
| Court to the last known place of al
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-07
sTRANGE SIGHTS IN SKY

While the 's"rnlan submarine
scare was still The tops: OF ronFcr-
sation among some persons III IaleA-
.andria early las: nigEI, slim streaEs
of what appeared to be sno&e were
seen TO rise in the northern heavens,
and after having remained in per-
nendicular position, undisturbed by
the fresh southeast wind wE!lh WAS
prevailing at the time, would part
into a number Of prongs ant Dfanch
cut toward every point OF the COM
mass. While people on the streets at
the time were pCering towards the
quarters Of the aurora boreall5. II
was noticed that similar pheno-
menon appeared in the southern
heavens.
People familiar with the adventure
of Don Quixote were reminded u the
huge aerial serpcnts which were pic
tured in books in the Don's library.
while others, realizing the terrible
war now in progress, and the as
surance in the Bible that fearful
sights in the heavens will be the
accompaniments or the perlio"s
times which are 10 wind up this dis
pensation, shivered as they looked
skyward.
A number of persons Ventureo eE-
plantations, of thu strange sights they
we're witnessing. Some were positive
they were signals being carried on
by government officials with others
farther south on the river. AS the
phenomena began shortly after The
steamer Southland left Alexandria
for Norfolk. it was thought by others
that communication was berg kept
up with the beat by naval officials.
What puzzled most spectators was
the fact that smoke from the cleo
tric light works and other places
was waited ny the. slim dark columns
without disturbing the latter.