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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-06-06

THE presidents definite and emf
phatic stand for new tax bill be-
fore adjournment of congress shows
that he is today where he was year
ago on the question of adequate war
taxation There must be higher taxes
because there is to be greater war
expense, and the greater charges can
not properly be put off on the future
by bond issues. Taxes should be on
Injuries, and also and chiefly on in
comes and profits. The country stands
with the president on this proposition
beyond any question and he would
have failed to represent public senti-
ment if he had taken any other posi-
ton or been any less positive ir his
influence in behalf of greater war tax
es. In many ways we are to feel the
war as never before, and are now
getting into it, as our boys are get
ting into it at the actual front. Pas
senger fares are to go up to 3 cents
a mile. Freight rates are advanced
% per cent, which will be added to the
prices of every kind of necessaries.
This money raised by the railroads will
go to pay higher wages and what is
profit will go to the government, not
to railroad stockholders, beyond the
guaranteed dividends under the plan
agreed upon when the government
took charge of the railroads. The
country has not complained and will
not complain when asked to shoulder
heavy burdens for the war; provided
the weight is fairly adjusted, so that
it rests on all according to ability,
and that is the case in well planned
income and excess profits taxes.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-06-06

THERE are sometimes very humor-
4 Gus things in religious matters. For
instance, the Methodist church, South,
held convention recently and gravely
debated the question as to whether or
not laity rights should be given to the
women members. The women of ev-
cry church do the work. They get up
the socials, they furnish the eats, they
get out and hustle whenever there is
anything to do. They finish raising
the preachers salary and they keep
the men folks in line for church going
when the men would sneak if they
could. And now the men are solemnly
trying to figure out whether the wom-
en- have any "rights" in the church
management or not in that church or
ganization. After much elaboration
and many wise sayings the men down
there decided that the women had mo
rights"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-06-06
TALES OF TOWN
AWAKENING OF THAD BROWN

| War didn't interest Thaddeus Brown
The LATEST man in lazy mans town
The only ambition astir in his breas
Was "big chaw o twist" and plac,
to rest.
The latter he found at the village store
Where along with some others-a doz
en- or more
Discussing the war-all but Thaddeus
mind,
Who to purpose was dumb and to JUS
tice was blind,
And, when asked how he stood in these
matters of state,
He'd drawl his reply as verdict of
weight,
And a final decree of the daily debate,
mighty foolish"
The seasons passed on with their It'd
ings of woe,
Good men and brave were at grips
with the foe.
Yet, Thaddeus sat in the shade by the
store
Along with couple of others-not
more,
For the old crowd had dwindled, some
wearing the brown,
Had honored the flag with the troops
from the town,
Like barnacle glued to an old rotten
pier,
Spraying the flies with flood of am
bier,
Thaddeus grunted to all who would
hear,
mighty foolish"
At last came the edict which fell like
a flash,
And its horrors hit Thaddeus Brown
with crash.
For Crowder had said-and Crowder
was right
That if man would not work, man
must go out and fight.
And Thaddeus heard, when the grim
warning fell,
Like the saddening tones of funeral
bell
.What think you now, Brown" said
his host with frown
To the LATEST man in lazy mans
town,
And Thaddeus groaned as he shifted
his chair
And nervously fondled lock of his
hair
And croaked like a drowning man
grasping for air,
"Mighty ser'yus."
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-06-06

IN putting out their platforms men
intending to run for congress this
year will do well to say where they
stand on the question of increasing war
taxes so that the 'pay as we go" policy
can be carried out as far as possible.
The people who do the voting and
paying are interested in this matter
beyond most other things. And as
men are now going in for election to
congress are perhaps likely to be still
in office when war ends, they would
do well to say where they stand on
making income taxation high after the
war until the war debt is brought
down to low figures.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-06-06
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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-06-06

Ter than things heard, and the Little
Man and Tennyson are both right.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-06-06
Uncle Eben.

Some men tries to make deirse'fs
disagreeable," said Uncle Eben; IAN
some don't have to try"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-06-06

NAPOLEON couldn't whip a COM
bined Europe and the kaiser will
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-06-06

not be able to defeat combined
world. 1t took Europe 20 years to
conquer Napoleon, but it will not take
the world that long to put the kaiser
in chains. The road to the defeat Of
Napoleon was rough and bloody one
for Europe, but the Corsican's dream
of world power ended suddenly with
the smash at Waterloo The dream of
the world power today is not the
dream of the real Germany, but the
air castles of bloody and murderous
bunch of four hundred thousand jun
kers under the lead of the kaiser. They
may prolong the struggle, but they
can never win the contest.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-06-06

There are a number of chores to do
but only one job to perform. Get OF
with the war.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-06-06

You may be in no position to lick
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-06-06

NJ HEN you read the story or now
the American forces held Can
tigny, didn't your heart thrill with
pride as you read of their bravery
and devotion to duty? Here's the
story as told in the dispatches, and it
will do you good to read it again and
again:
Under fire that prevented carrying
up rations owing to the lack of trench
es, subsisting on hard tack and raw
bacon, fighting, digging day and night.
That is how the Americans held Can
tigny for three days. For the first
few days, as fast as the boys dug
trenches, they were blown up by the
Boche artillery. Then came repeated |
counter attacks. Communication |
trenches were dug, but were blown up.
Rations and ammunition began to run
low. Machine guns and rifles captured
from the Huns were used. In the
three platoons traversed a
German barrage to the rear and car
ried up ammunition on their backs
through the shell fire. There was no
chance to sleep, day or night. The en-
envy bombardment was constant, but
not single man fiinched. Lieutenant
Watson Of North Carolina stood on
,arapet during the hottest lombard
nent, encouraging his men and yell
ng, "Stick to it, boys, give EN- hell.
They can't drive you out. No Boche /;
ived who could lick an American" !
he boys stuck. Any Boche who got
eyond the American counter barrage
vas shot down by rifle or machine gun
re. The new No Mans land, beyond 9
he lines outside of Cantigny, was lit q
cred with German dead. G
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-04

Luke. 2Ist chapter. Ist. End and 3rd verses.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-10
Son-in law Abdicates

London, Nov. "a tele-
gram received at Copenha-
gen from Brunswick, via
Berlin asserts that Emper-
or's. son-in-law, the Duke Of
Brunswick and his successor
have abdicated.
Another dispatch from
Amsterdam says the Berlin
banks have stopped pay
ments.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-10
COURIER HELD Up
/. ON GERMAN 4
FRONT
FEARED BLOWING UP OF GER
MAN AMMUNITION DUNES
Curier Was Delayed

Amsterdam, Nov. The Ger
man courier bearing Foch's terms
had difficulty in. crossing the Gar
man lines. He was led to believe
through the blowing up of ammu,
milton dumps that the Germans
had not ceased firing bue eh was
intol ned OF the cause o. the ex-
pIosions by wireless ard instruct
ed to pass the German lines with
out delay.
The terms are expected to reach
Berlin momentariIy.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-10
LAST ARTERY IS
BROKEN BY
BRITISH Z
AMERICANS HAVE ADVANCED 80
MILES IN 8 DAYS

Paris, Nov. 9. (6:15 p. m.)
The abdication of Emperor
William is officially announ-
ced from Berlin, according
to a Havas dispatch from
Basel.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-10
Crown Princes Palace is
Center of Berlin Attack
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

London Nov. 10-Severe fighting occurred in
Berlin between six and eight o'clock last night
- andViolent eannonade was heard from the heart
Of the city, The revolution is in full swing in Ber-
lin and Red forces occupy the greater part of
the city, to Copenhagen dispatch to the EX-
change Telegraph Company, quoting Berlin adj
vices.
Many persons were killed and wounded before
the officers surrendered The Red forces in con-
troll have restored order and strong guards are
marching through the streets.
The Grown Princes palace was seized by the
revOlutionists and the people are shouting,
Long live the Republic, and singing the Mar
settles.
Revolutionary soldiers sheeIed one building
from which shots were fired. The people
thought the Reichsbank was being bombed and
the crowds rushed toward the Grown Princes
palace but it was found that other buildings
were being shelled
DEMOBILIZING GERMAN ARMY
Copenhagen, Nov 1O-Friedrich Ebert, So
cialist leader, has been appointed Imperial Chan
cellOr.
He issued proclamation saying he plans to
form peoples government which will endeav-
or to bring about speedy peace.
The war ministry was placed at his disposal
to provision the army and to assist in demobili-
alton.
CAME TOO LATE
Copenhagen Nov 1O-News of Emperor VIII
am's abdication was received Saturday after
noon at Berlin with general rejoicing, but it was
tempered b ythe fear that it came too late.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-10
British Enter City of Mons
In Great Allied Advance
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
SWEEPING ALLIED ADVANCES

SWEEPING ALLIED ADVANCES
London Nov. 10-In a sweeping advance to-
day the British armies have captured Journal
and Antoing Haig reports.
Tonight the Second British army is approach
ing Renair, which is about II miles northeast Of
of Journal
Onthe whole British front our troops are NOV
ing forward rapidly and the enemy is retreating
rapidly before them Haig adds.
BRITISH ENTER MONS
London, Nov. 10.-Itis officially announced that
the British are closely following the retreating
Germans on the entire Flanders front
British have entered the outskirts of Mons.
RETREAT PRECIPITATE
Paris, Nov 10-The French today resumed
pursuit of the Germans whose retreat is becom-
ing more percptate and who are abandoning
PRINCESS IS SHOT
Copenhagen, Nov. l0-AccOrding to frontier
message Princess HEINRICH wife of the granson
of Ludwig the Third of Barvaria was wounded
in the arm by shot while fleeing from Munich :
She and her husband are hiding in the Southern
Bavaria, with Princess Adelbert, wife of the Kali
serS third SOnd
NEWS BUREAU TAKEN
Copenhagen, Nov 10.-The Wolff Bureau, the
semi-official news agency of Germany, announc-
ed it has been taken over by the Soldiers and
WOrkmenS Council
REVOLT SPREADING
Amsterdam, Nov 10-The latest advices re-
ceived here confirm the reports taht the revolu-
tionary movement at Cologne is gradually
spreading throughout the entire western part
of Germany Thus far the revolt is ORDERLY.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-10
LAST SHOT FIRED
AT GERMAN SUBS
STOP PLACING GUNS ABOARD
VESSELS

Quebec, Nov 9.-Instructions have
been received from Ottawa to stop
The work of fitting uns on board the
ships.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-16
DADUSEVENDN
AIRY TALL = =
~ MARY GRAHAM BONNER
THE SPORT FISHES

"Along the seashore,'' said Daddy,
twas row Of very queer-looking OBJ
jects.
'They were sport fish, not real, alive
fish, but sport fish, made out of rub
Der and covered with Oil cloth. Their
faces were painted with eyes like the
fish have. They had painted fins and
painted bodies. In fact they were very
gay In color and were all ready to go
in the water.
"T say remarked one sport fish,
painted mostly in red, what do you
think We'll do today?'
"'Have you never been here be-
fOreY asked the sport fish painted blue
and yellow.
"'Never,' said the red sport fish.
"Ah, you see,' said the blue and vel
low sport fish, we are blown up like
tires of automobiles
"'Oh DEAR said the red sport fish,
when is that going to happen? I'd
hate to be blown up. It sounds quite
too awful for words. Quite too awful.
I'm dreadfully afraid. Oh, why did
you tell me this? Was it to warn me
IildI udASSI uSCI Will IL AdppCh
today? When will it happen? Oh, l
am so frightened!'
"My dear sport fish, calm yourself,
calm YOURSELF
"It's all very well for you to talk
about calming myself. It's very fine
thing to be calm when another creature
is going to be blown up. Very fine in
deed!
"'But If you think am looking for
ward to being blown up, you're very
much mistaken, very much mistaken.
In fact am dreading it with every bit
of my queer-shaped body. It makes
me sad, it makes me mad!'
"'You made a rhyme there said the
blue and yellow sport fish, 'and that
shows you're not SO unhappy. We don't
make rhymes when we are sad you
know
"T didn't mean to make q rhyme
said the red sport fish. You shouldn't
tease me so. I didn't really and truly
mean to make that rhyme. It just
came out Of it's own accord
"'Then,' said the blue and yellow
sport fish, 4 admire you all the more.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-16
CRAFTSBURY
H. 0. Bartlett returned from Gard.
ner, Mass, Saturday evening.

H. O. Bartlett returned from Gard
ner, Mass, Saturday evening.
Craftsbury went over the top with
their Fourth Liberty Loan quota
$4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs Roy returned from
Orleans Saturday, Mrs. Roy being
quite i'll.
Aunt Minda Chamberlin, who has
been quite i'll for several days, is i'm
proving.
Mrs. Ethel Green, who has been i'll
with pneumonia for several days, is
reported as improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Gilbert were
called to Greensboro Thursday by
the death Of his son-in-law, Mr.. King.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tony Roy spent last
week in Orleans. Mr.. Roy purchased
the barber shop and took possession.
A telegram came Sunday to Will
Farr, announcing the death of his
son, Robert, killed in action in France
Oscar Bliss returned from Canada
Friday, where he was called early in
the week by the death of his mother.
E. E. Gilbert moved his daughter,
Mrs. Blanche King, who is very ILL.,,
from her home in Greensboro to his
home here.
There is much sickness in town,
there being several severe cases of
Spanish influenza. No fatal cases
have been reported.
Harris Gage, who accompanied the
remains of a comrade from Camp
Colt, Pa, to Barton, has been con-
fined to his home here with Spanish
influenza for several days.
Among the pleasant events of last
week was the marriage of Miss Eta
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-16

You are a real poet. Rhymes just
drop from you, or fall from you,
whichever you prefer
"T don't prefer either way said the
red fish, without thinking much just
what he was saying. I'm nervous.
that's all know
"'YOu shouldn't be nervous when you
are such a poet said the blue and yell
low sport fish.
"T don't care about being a poet
said the red sport fish.
""Then you have no right to make
rhymes without thinking or even with
thinking. For you must be a poet if
you do that. And if you don't wish to
be poet it is particularly unfortu-
nate when I consider how quickly and
without even thought you can make
up rhyme.
There are many, many poets who
sit before their desks, as you sit before
your desk, the ocean. They bite the
ends of their pens or pencils-you
can't do that because you haven't any
pens or pencils-and they talk about
a great idea which is coming to them
and they wait and wait for that idea.
And what do you think? The idea
doesn't come at all, or when it does
come it's been such long time COM
ing that it's pretty we'll worn out when
1t gets there. And an idea for a poet
means rhyme. So you're a poet with
out any effort and that is very fine.'
10
going to be blown up
"'You are already blown up
"'I'm blown up now, without know
ing it? asked the red sport fish.
"'Of course said the blue and yell
low sport fish, but you wouldn't give
me a chance to tell you so. You be-
came so excited. We're made for the
amusement of the swimmers and also
for those who can't swim, for we stay
on top Of the water. We're like life
savers tOOp
ooh, then I'm glad Tn sport fish,
And all the sport fishes on the beach
looked at each other out Of their paint
ed eyes and said, We're going to have
such fun riding over the breakers
with the people on our backs. Well
jump them and ride them, and the
breakers will laugh, and the people
will laugh too. Oh, what fun it is to
be a sport fish,
"T'm glad I'm a sport fish, said the
red sport fish q few minutes later
when it had been taken for a wonder
full ride over the breakers by a mod
ern mermaid i'm a beautiful Durnle
bathing suit"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-16
ONE U.BOAT CAPTAIN
IS REALLY HUMAN
Submarine Commander Did Aid
Wounded, So Survivors Of
British Ship Say.

One instance in which an enemy sub
marine commander, after sinking a
British vessel, amazed the survivors
by giving them bandages and liniment
for their wounds, stands out in sharp
contrast with the brutality or indiffer-
ence to suffering practiced by the Ger
man sea pirates. Nevertheless, the
survivors tell a story of extreme hard
ship endured in small boats for six
days and nights. Seventeen are MISS
ing of the ships company Of 90.
Five hundred miles from the Irish
coast large British steamer, outward
bound in ballast, got a torpedo death
blow. No time was lost by the ships
company in getting away from the
sinking vessel.
Many Of the crew had been wound
ed, especially among the engine room
force. With difficulty the injured were
placed in the boats.
The submarine suddenly appeared
near by and the commander came on
deck. He noticed the wounded, and
calling the boats alongside his craft,
he went inside, returning with band
ages and liniment, which he handed to
the surprised officers in charge of the
boat. This act of kindness saved sew
eral lives.
A steamers smoke was seen on the
horizon and the U-boat made off rap
idly. The small boats shaped a course
toward land, but the wind was light
and unfaVOrable.
Only a small store Of biscuits was
carried. There was water enough for
q very limited ration and in the days
that followed the suns heat was al
most int0lerable. Wounded succumbed
one after another and were consigned
to the sea.
Torture reached it's limits. Previous
ly the officers had resOrted to physical
force to prevent the Lascars from
drinking the salt water. Now moth
ing could restrain them and they
eagerly drank the brine. Soon after
ward two died Of their sufferings.
Hope had almost died when late
that evening vessel sighted and
picked them up. They were landed in
Ireland.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-16
HE THREE GRAF

Smith of this town and Ralph E. Mer-
chant Of Elmore. The marriage took
place October 8 in the Congregational
parsonage at Hyde Park, Rev. Ar
thur MERCER officiating. Mrs. Mer-
chant is a teacher in the Morrisville
graded school. Mr.. Merchant expects
to leave October Is for Pottsdam, N.
Y, where he will enter the Clarkson
Technical college. Congratulations
and best wishes.
NORTH CRAFTSBURY
Miss Anna Root is working for
Mrs. RoWley.
The many who. have been i'll with
the grip are better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bliss Farrar visited
friends in Elmore last week.
Miss McGovern has gone to Hard
wick to help in the hospital.
r. G Perry is driving stage until
George Bailey is able to work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Estelle visited friends
in Newport Center over Sunday.
Gilman Hodgden has gone to the
Mary Fletcher hospital, Burlington
for treatment.
Miss Maude Davis, who went to
care for the sick at Burleson's, is very
i'll at R. Anderson's.
Dana Childs, a former Craftsbury
boy, was killed in his steam mill at
Hyde Park Friday.
Sam Emery, who has been a black
smith for many years in Eden, has
bought the Douglass shop here and is
ready to do work.
The sad news has reached here that
Robert Farr, who enlisted with the
Canadian army, was killed in action
in France Sept. 27. Much sympathy
is felt for his friends.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-16

Woman Says Huns Cut Off Right Arms
of Bows,

Germans are amputating the right
arms of every youth over ten years
of age who falls into their hands, ac-
cording to Mrs. Eugene Guenier of
BesancOn, France.
AS q result Of war conditions she
has lost q of her immediate relatives
She said that in Besancon there is not
youth over ten years of age who has
not his right arm off at the elbow.
Her grandmother, eighty-nine years
old, was found dead with seven bayO-
net wounds, and two girl cousins, six
teen and eighteen years old, were at
tackled by the Huns, she said.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-16
FINDS VOLUNTEER WHEAT
Farmer Declares 1t Was Growing in
Crop of Alfalfa.

fersonville, Ind, has seven acres of
alfalfa and On 16 acres he is grazing
with it, but in the same field there is
growing a fine stand of volunteer
wheat. 1t is better in condition and
appearance than many fields Of wheat
which were sown last year, but failed
to produce good crops. Mr.. Kranz
says he would have two good crops if
he could separate them. Near by,
James 3. Green has "a acres in alfalfa
and on 16 acres he is grazing 23O
hogs which are unable to keep down
the growth. He has cut two tons Of
hay from this field as well.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-16
Antisnv LAW in Force.

Publication of any news of the move
ments of merchantmen is prohibited liz
Spain. This is the first application
of the new antispy law.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-16
Plants That Have Emiurated.

Neither the laburnum nor the COM
mon lilac is indigenous to this country,
the former having been introduced
from the Alpine region of Europe and
the latter from Persia, where ''lilacs"
or "lilag" is the name given to it's
flowers. The horse chestnut was orig
inally a native Of Asia, probably of
northern India, whence it was intro
duced into Europe in about the middle
of the sixteenth century.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-16
Youno European Capital.

Helsingfors, the capital Of Finland,
Is among the youngest Of the Euro
pean capitals, for it is but little over
a hundred years since Gar Alexander
I, shortly after the annexation of the
grand duchy by Russia, transferred
the capital thither from Abo, which was,
in his opinion, too near Sweden.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-16
Fossil Ivory in the Arctic.

What is perhaps the most amazing
Of all the Arctic bonanzas is that con-
tanned in the Liakhov islands and New
Siberia. These lie in the midst of al
most eternal ice in the north of ST.
IBERIA itself, and the soil is full CT
tusks Of the now extinct mammoth.
During the last century shiploads Of
this fossil ivory have been brought
out and sold at very high prices.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-16
Tact.

Tact is not merely shown in saying
the right thing at the right time to the
right people: it is shown quite as much
in the many things that are left unsaid
and apparently unnOticed or are only
slightly and evasively touched.