Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-29
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Mr.. CaIkins' Dog Bill.


aIty for dogs founa worrying sheep,
| domestic animals, deer or fowls, but
/ provides for shooting the "runagate
cur" on sight after due notice has
/ been given the owner. One thing IS
certain, if the bill were passed and
| enforced it would settle the dog ques-
tion.-Rutland Herald.
A Costly Cigarette Fire
A cigarette stub carelessly snap
ped away by someone who attended
a basket ball game in St. Johnsbury
one evening recently resulted IN the
/ burning out of the interior Of the
| building and the loss of several
| thousands of dollars The person
who did the piece of carelessness
ought to be held in bond until he
earns enough money to make good
every cent of the loss. Nothing short
of that drastic handling will grind in
/ to his brain the necessity OF using
more care Incidentally the punish
ment might tend to teach other boys
and men the danger of swapping
away lighted cigarettes with the
reckless abandon of a movie film he
70" who takes a Whit or two and
losses the cigarette hither and yon.
There is too much aping OF these
'sheroes" of the films; and there is
too much general carelessness in this
day and generation.-Barre Times.
Home Breweries.
Men who suddenly find their occu-
patton gone. naturally feel that the
world is going to the bowwows. VIM.
H Hirst, counsel for the United
States Brewers association, whose
name has a Teutonic suggestion, pre-
diets trouble ahead for the national
prohibition system. He says home
made wines and other Intoxicating
drinks will be the last resort of
drinkers. They can be made from
devices already on the market for
making alcoholic beverages in the
home"
The salary Mr.. Hirst receives
/ ought to indicate him to be good
enough lawyer to know that the pro-
hibition of manufacture of intoxicat-
| ing drinks for beverage purposes
does not apply to the brewers or dis
tiIlers alone. 1t applies to every
person who starts out to make intox-
icants for beverage purposes. 1t fol-
lows that the manufacture of lntoX-
icants in the home is as much pro-
hibited as the manufacture of lntOxl-
cants by a distillery or by the mem
bers of the United States Brewers
association. 1t is one thing to make
Intoxicating liquors for legitimate
purposes. 1t is altogether another
thing to make intOxicants for bever-
age purposes. in the distillery or in
the home. The i'll public effects of
an Intoxicating beverage come from
the thing itself and not from the
place where it is made. Drunken
ness is the thing we all recognize as
the evil we are seeking to guard
against Free Press.
Our Legislature.
It's our legislature.
Praise the Lord
1t may display some fearful and
/ wonderful hair cuts. Its clothes may
smell of the cow barn. There may be
tobacco juice running down inside
its whiskers and its trousers may
bag at the knees. 1t may say, oval,
/ swami" have dandruff on its collar,
a burr in its speech and several teeth
missing in the orchestra. But you
can't buy it and you can't rush 1t.
You can't bulldoze II or you can't
buffalo it. You can't borrow it, steal
t, excite IL, trip II up or make 1t
stampede.
There's not another legislature like
( II III Lle country
It's 100 per cent American!
It's our Legislature.
TWENTY-FIVE months out of the
twenty-four it sets hens, haws the off
horse, and pulls cows teats for a lIv-
/ ing 1t spends it's summer evenings
fishing for bull pout down by the dam
or sitting with a neighbor in the
dusky shadows of the front piazza
splitting with long syruppy swishes
into the lilac bushes. 1t spends its
winter evenings mending the harness
or feeding green birch wood into the
kitchen stove, while 1t reads the
county weekly with its shoes off. 1t
makes last years suit do for another
season so that Ruth, the eldest
daughter, can blossom forth in white
muslin and few do-dabs for the an
lual Home Coming dance down to
the Center, and it drives to meeting
Sunday morning and looks more
kindly on the crime of rape than upon
the crime of not paying its bills. 1t
doesn't dicker nor spar for the price
Of its immortal soul and it gives its
boys cheerfully to the flag when the
/ need arises.
It's a legislature to be proud of
1t doesn't stand for monkeydoodle
and clap-trap. 1t comes through
cleanI
The bright city boys who want
things, breeze in occasionally. cast an
antiseptic eye over 1t and kid them
| selves that they can run off with the
state house doors
! The oily corporation boys sluice
/ and sitter around and hand out
pleasant hints and bum cigars that
/ Our Legislature takes in fingers like
/ hams and smokes at weird angles.
/ A certain percentage of the ladies
God Bless 'Eml-loOk on and get
/ disappointed, and feel certain-posi-
i've that the country is going to the
/ DOGS.
But the Bright City Chaps and the
Oily Corporation BOYS and even tbe
laoles-God Bless 'Em-go home af-
/ ter while sure they know rrhat i