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BENSON

Kenneth Walker and his mother of Ga
Woodstock avenue, Rutland, were here
Wednesday calling on friends.-Mr. and
Mrs. Romeo Arthur of Hortonville were
in town Thursday.-W. r. Bush is in New
York on account of his brothers sick
ness.-Miss Mary Bruce of Port Henry,
N. Y, is in town, calling on friends.
The installation of the officers
of Aracia Lodge, No 81. F. 4
A. NJ, took place Wednesday night with
numerous non-members, mostly ladies,
present. Past Master p. r. Wilcox acted
as installing officer.-Mr. and Mrs. Avery
b. Brown of Fair Haven were in town
Sunday calling at S. w. Browns-Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Hanson and children,
also Mary and Anna Ryan of Fair Haven
were here Sunday calling on James A..
Goodrich and family at the upper end of
the street.-Miss Elizabeth Ferbish, who
has kept house for Judson Stickney the
past six months, goes to Rutland this
week.-Justice George Deyette and Mrs.
Deyette, who have been in Poultney five
weeks visiting their son. David. returned
Saturday night. Mr.. Deyette is judge Of
the municipal court.-Rev. James A.
Manning of the Methodist Church was
too ill to preach last Sunday and the
Methodist people joined with the Con-
gregational people in worship at the
chapel.-Mss Huldah Belden, who has
been in st. Petersburg, Fla, is in town.
guest at James Richards. Miss Belden
formerly lived here and is a daughter Of
the late d. S. Belden. in his day we'll
known breeder of Shropshire cheep.-Mr
and Mrs. Charles Smith, Mr. and Mrs.
Milo Evans and son, Norman, all of Fort
Ann. are at Foster Belden's called there
by the serious illness of their daughter,
Gladys.-Joseph Levery and family have
moved from this village to Parsons
Mills.
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MAY GO TO DEVENS
SIX Weeks summer Camp to Begin
there June ~

The commandant of the University of
Vermont has received word from the war
department that a summer camp for
II. O. T. C. infantry units Is to be held
at Camp Devens beginning Saturday.
June q, and lasting six weeks. All menu
bers of the II. O. T. c. who at the end
OF the present school year have had not
less than two years training IN the r. o.
T. c. are eligible to attend. Mileage at
the rate of three and one-half cents a
mile will be allowed from school to camp
and from camp to school. and subsistence
while at camp. All schools that have r.
o. T. C. units In New England and in
the States on the Atlantic seaboard will
send their quotas to Camp Devens.
1t is probable that several thousand
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held until he received his discharge a
few months ago. Sergeant and Mrs.
Cruickshank went to Boston, where he
participated in the parade of the Goth
Division.--Thc Rev. G. II. Bingham. who
went to Boston with the Vermont dcIc-
CATION to meet the boys Of the 26th Divi-
sion and attend the celebration, has re-
turned home and reports the BOYS well
and happy. The local boys, about IS,
members of the Ammunition Train, are
expected home this week.-Miss Florence
Doyle, who has been spending a few DAYS
in Boston, has returned home. She was
accompanied by her mother. Mrs John
Doyle, who has been spending the win
ter in Boston with her daughters
George f. Murray has returned from
Boston, where he went to meet his two
brothers. who are members of the 26th
Division.--The Rev i. b. Sargent of the
Y. NJ c. A., who recently returned from
overseas, conducted services in the Fed
Grated Church Sunday. Mr. Sargent is
pastor. of the Congregational Church.
The funeral of Mrs. A. c. Bullock,
whose death occurred at the home of
her daughter. Mrs. NJ. =. Blake, in Hart
ford Conn, was held from the home of
her daughter. Mrs. w. H. Hardin The
Rev. ]. b. Reardon of Barre ofiiciated.
Mrs. Bullock is survived by three sons,
j. NJ Bullock and l.. A. Bullock of
Mortified and II. V. Bullock of Spring
field, Mass, and two daughters, Mrs.
NJ. p. Blake of Hartford, Conn, and
Mrs. w. H. Hardin of Mortified. Mrs.
Bullock, whose maiden name was Maria
Emerson, was born in Montpelier and
had spent her life in this vicinity.-Pvt.
Leland f. Batchelder a member of the
1O1st Ammunition Train. Goth Division,
who received his discharge a few weeks
ago. went to Boston to meet his division
and participate in the parade.
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Tho tr,nnos. ;s tho eecret service da
hartman, ~ tha nou,trv y,rd
Canonizinp nroner,v dome navs a nicv
rroe, and 60 n no recommended ,vber.
ever nracticahIe one NJ the CREATES
le,Ls in tho nou,trv game has been cana
cd nv tho sale of surplus cockere,s. eitn.
err at a loss to the poultryman or at +,
little more than the mere cost of produc
ton.
ing chickens for eggs half of the fowl
reared devotion into cockerels. of which
onl, n small nercent,qe arc required 70,
breeding nurposes. Thus. each yea,
about half of the stock raised ia sacri.
Aced nj low nrioas unless snacial attain
,ion &C. gi,,op 10 ,hi. ord ~ Tho busi.
moss
The roasons for low nr;cos on This
sort of poultrv are easily understood
| The form Glow" is used relatively. OF
late all sorts of noultrv have com
manded increased nrices In the frst
Mace cockerels roach hroiler sze in
from, .igh+ IN +u,o,,,o ,,oo,,s and ore
then dumned IN tho mar,,a, in vas,
Quantities all ovor tho country at viz
tualIv tho Same time which naturally
denresses nricas The SUNNY 10 greater
than tho demand
There is NOR. mr. lose oe , limit I'd
demand for broi,ors n. best Rut ~ tbe
SUNNY could ha distrihuted THROUGHOUT
the antiro ve,r instead ~ , corrio 81
! ,,o,,h, ,r;aa, ,a,,,, ,.,t O., 20
! noniz,ng serves IN st,h,,izo tho hro,,e,
market ip.smuch .s II holds tha yo,r,
stock for onothar CIV r,nn,hs or 1orrar
CAPONlIlNG CHANGES MALES M
TuRE
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tions of 200 ,na .h.n r,or,,a. ,han,
hecauso Tho ohorc.s .r. thov will ha
! iudg.d nc ola roostars ora ,o, nr,oa
onered
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MORETOWN

Mr.. and Mrs. +. A. Slayton are guests
of their daughter, Mrs. w. l.. Wilcox
The Sunday school netted about eleven
dollars from the supper last week.-The
little son of Mr.. and Mrs Bart Sher-
man of South Duxbury has been named
Howard Ezra.-The Woman's Foreign
Missionary society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church met Wednesday after
noon with Mrs. Il. S. Ward. Members of
the losing side in last years mystery
box contest served supper to the society.
C. w. Ward returned Tuesday from a
several days stay in Boston-Mr. and
Mrs. b. f. Griffith were in Montpelier
Thursday.-Mr. and Mrs. J. w. Bates,
Miss Edna Waldo and Miss Cora
Chamberlain were in Montpelier Satur-
day. Miss Chamberlain has returned to
her studies at Montpelier Seminary after
supplying in the grammar school dur
ing the past two weeks.-Harlow and
Irene Pickett were i'll last week.-Mr. and
Mrs. b. S. Ward were in Montpelier Mon
day.-Mr. and Mrs. Otto Bates of Mont
pelier spent the weekend with Mrs.
Bates parents, Mr.. and Mrs. f. r.. john
son.-Mr. and Mrs. Il. Il. Griffith and
Mr.. and Mrs w. A. kingsbury were in
Montpelier Saturday evening.-The first
entertainment under the auspices of
the Woman's Community Social club
was given before a large and apprecia-
tive audience Friday vening. The Rev.
A. X. Kirkness Of Waitsfield and the
kingsbury quartet assisted the local
talent. Much credit is due Mrs A. II.
Booth, chairman of the entertainment
committee, who had charge of the af-
fair.-L. Wilcox sold his stock at public
auction on Wednesday afternoon
Carlyle Child and Miss Angie Child of
Waterbury visited at NJ. r. Child's Sun
day.--Mrs. +. p. Battles, who has been
i'll with iniiammatory rheumatism for
several weeks. is able to be up.-ltichard
Shepard has enlisted in the l.. S. navy
The local drive for the centenary fund
is being made thsi week.-Mrs.. william
Shepard visited in Waitsfield last week.
F. NJ. Goss and NJ. Il. Child We're in
Montpelier Tuesday.-Albert Goldsmith is
working in Burlington.
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VERMONT CASUALTIES

KILLED IN ACTION, PREVIOUSLY
REPORTED MISSING
Pvt. william }. F'redette. West Rut-
land.
DIED. PREVIOUSLY REPORTED
MISSING IN ACTION
scrgt. Harry II. Hobart. Ludlow.
WOUNDED SLIGHTLY.
Pvt. walter &. Hall, Ludlow.
pvt. Leslie E. Hoffman. South Darre.
PVT, Raymond =. Church. south
SALISBURY.
Pvt, Francis Il. Deyo. Brattleboro.
earn. Hurry q. Remington, Benning-
ton.
Pvt. Warren w. FarvSeii. burlington.
pvt. Ray Hurlburt. Waterbury.
Corn. walter a. knutson, Bnrre.
pvt, Leon G. Genette, st. Adams.
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WATERBURY CENTER.

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Poole, DR.. and
Mrs. L. A. Newcomb and Martha and
Ralph Hutchins were at Mrs. r.. A.
Newcombs Sunday,--Mrs. Louise
Gauthier is at George Twins for n
time-Mr. and Mrs. Ravelin were at
Mrs. Joseph Tait's Sunday.--Mrs. l.. II.
Bryan who has been visiting relatives
IN montpelier, came home Monday
George Bond and George Bragg of War
rem We're in the place Tuesday
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FOR ten months.-Mrs. Elizabeth Came
ron of Depot street has received word
of the arrival in Boston from overseas
of her son, Corp. Howard Cameron. who
has been q months in France with the
18th Regiment Engineers
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Copyright 1919 by Public Ledger Coz
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

or brown rurls carefully parted or enlivcncd
with red, green or yellow ribbons; legion
Of little shoes which grind into the pebbles
and little knees which are never still, wrig-
Cling and frisking about
"But of the children enter the
school yard solemnly and sedately as
though they were distinguished pcrsonages
What stories they have to tell! Those who
spent their long vacation in the colonies
will never tire Of telling of the woods and
fields; one young budding artist has even
brought back little landscape which he
has drawn all by himself with colored cray
ons But those proud patricians who stayed
the whole time in Paris sniff With scorn at
this marvellous sketch. The trecs look
great deal like feathers, it must be admit
ted and for d novice in one could hardly
expect the houses to be very straight
If that's the way your country looks,
Bennie, say these critics with Partisan airs,
we'd rather have the Bois de Boulognc any
day,
"But here is a little gir. who has Just re-
turned from invaded district, released
al ias1 by the Boches and coming all the
way home through Switzerland She has
seen 40 many hcssible things that she hard
u dares tell Of them, however fearful she
may be.
"one tall boy, too, announces that at
home ne has heard hs people say that there
IL no need Of studying geography just now,
eInce everything e going TO be changed He
pokes no end Of fun at the little chap whose
parents have made him write ATLAS on the
cover Of the notebook that thew hive fnndc
ouf o' their sugar and meat cards
"Hut in the m dat Of all this uproar one
little girl, who tcndcrly trcasurcr in her
grammar lock Of hair from the tousled
mead of little peasant boy living up In
the hills where she spent the Inst dozen
months, may be heard TO remark wistfully:
DO you s'pore we'll ever have another
vacation like this p"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

town which did not have in it's church
some sample OF an old masters work
at is typical OF the Italian people that
in spite of the horror and panic attending
the invasion OF the barba Gus Hun they
turned their attention at once to organized
efforts for the saving Of these treasures
AS soon as it became evident that the
Italian line was wavering, Arduino Cola
senti. at the request of the Director Gen
eral of Finance, was placed in charge OF
this work b. the Minister Of Public IN
struction. The threatened region was d.
vided into three zones-that Of Carnia
that of Friuli and chat Of Val Camonica
The supreme commander of the army
placed at Colasentis disposal trucks, nee
ossary timber and men to carry on the
work. On October % he was ordered to
proceed. There time for delibera-
ton. His instructions were to keep In
contact with the enemy and remove art
objects only when it became evident that
q town was to fall. He was, therefore,
obliged to keep watch on 400 miles of front
and rush his trucks at a moments notice
to yielding point.
"The plan in most places worked to per
fecton. In the of the Udine Museum
failure to rescue everything was due to
the reluctance Of the inhabitants to have
the collection broken up before thew were
sure that it was necessary. When they
saw their mistake it was too date to save
all the collection.
at the front, it proceeding at the same
time in the cities between the Pave and
the Adige, q region whose fate was uncer-
tain From Padua there were removed
large works like the painting by Veronese
in the Church of Santa Gustina, an altar
by Donatello and a statue Of Gattamelata,
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
How Italy Saved Her Art Treasures
From the Invader

this latter requiring four and half days
to remove. The entire collection in the
Museum of Padua was taken away.
'As Venice was nsidered to be in grave
danger, all the collections in her museums
still remaining were removed. There
arose the question as to what should be
done with the huge statue Of Colleoni. II
was at last decided to move this also. and
it proved tremendous task. In building
the scatfolding necessary to the raising of
the monument the calculations had been
made on the basis of the weight OF the
Gattamelata Monument in Padua and thai
Of Marcus Aurelius in Rome. After raising
the rider from the saddle, however, there
in the saddle a hole which re-
vealed the unusual thickness of bronze,
between 4 and IA inches, and conse-
quent great weight 1t was found, too,
that the lower part of the legs OF
solid metal
'The cranes with which they had ex-
pected to raise the monument were capa-
Bile of holding only four tons, more than a
ton less than they discovered the weight
Of the horse to be. larger crane had 20
be procured and the scaFolding they had
prepared doubled in strength. Finally
after much delay the horse was raised
without incident. tied movable plat
form and lowered gradually on an inclined
plane almost to the end of the square,
from which point it was raised again, also
along an inclined plane, to the deck of a
barge. All this done by hand For
the last effort the number of men engaged
was not sufficient. The man in charge OF
the operation then turned to the crowd
which was watching proceedings and
shouted: "All to the ropes 1t was an
unforgettable sight. Even the children
grabbed the ropes and pulled with all their
force"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
CThe day has risen
" ith their ringing feet

" ilh tncIr ringing feet
near the stccds stamp through the street)
rive minutes mad hardly passed before
ne" company cam along. From this mo-
mcnt ON it was impossible for me 20 close
my eyes. Il WAS a steady succession Of
cur. commands end the roll OF 70, hoofa
ON me pavement. The men marched With
marvellous ensemble; their knees rose and
iei "s though obcyne the signals Of nm
orchestra leader. decided to 20 to the
mnno"uvres, dressed in haste. and set forth
Ut seemed to me that had passed into
" vast lntrcnchcd camp. The ancient cjtv
which yesterday had worn a cordial and
cVon dcbonar asncct, sita rs houses and
piN,rrcaQuc siHnboaIOa, hno vanished unlo~
lormldab'" military dress; the stream of
pointed hc'Wots, rcGuA capa e1A et.y frou.
s"rs bad swept AL that away. As one con-
t"mp'"tcd thia spectacle one felt an in-
hnitely painful sensation of oppression and
afflIctlon. could have wished to tear NV.
self sway to be off from the town on the
instant However, an invncble curiosity
acid me there. Spying an empty cab I
hailed the driver and asked him to take me
to some Of the interesting points of the
city
Al right, come along, said he
ain 'hcsc fcW words he threN a ioyful and
familiar intonation which struck me as SIN
gular.
- looked at him. He was sixty years old
or thcrcnbouts, and his face betokcncd II
KINDLY disposition. During my drive he did
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
Shall We Give the Kaiser Byron's
lode on Napoleon'?

respect of the rights of others, and if they
will only remember that disorder is the
vilest tyranny and order the truest freedom,
they may yet show that history will not
will not have 10 endure another shedder
OF innocent blood, such as the man who
orce the German Emperor but is now
covering and helpless fugitive
So It's done-but yesterday King
And armed with Kings to strive
And thou art a nameless thing:
SO abject-yet alive.
Is this the man of thousand thrones
Who strewed our earth with hostile bones.
And can he thus survive?
Since he miscaled the Morning Star
Nor man nor tiend hath falln SO far
"Tll-minded man, Why scourge thy kind
Who bowed so low the knee?
By gazing on thyself. grown Blind
Thou taught'st the rest to see.
With might unquestoned- to save
Thine only gift hath been the grave
To those that worshipped thee;
Nor till thy fell could mortas guess
Ambitions less than littlenessl
"'Thanks for that lesson--it viii teach
To after warriors more
Than high philosophy can preach,
And vainly preached before.
That spell upon the minds of men
Breaks never to unite again
That led them to adore
Those Pagod things. Of sabre-sway
With fronts of brass and feet of clay
"'The triumph, and the vanity,
The rapture of the strife
The earthquake voice of Victory,
To thee the breath of life;
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

XK 7E ARE saying that there will
w never be another sue. war, .s,
but they were saying the
same thing one hundred and
four years ago, as The Spectator" of
London, demonstrates by reference to
Byron's lode on Napoleon,' which "an-
ticipates so exactly what the world feels
to-day as it views the Kaisers downfall
that we need make no apology for quot
ing so large a part of the poem Says
The Spectator
Byron believed, as did many OF his
contemporaries at that hour, that the men
eff blood and iron had received so stern a
lesson that no one would ever again at
tempt to play the role Of soldier tryant
Yet in hundred years the world forgot all
it had learned. Have we any security that
another hundred years will not see another
Kaiser William ovcrvhelm Europe with a
flood Of crime and misery? Our hope, the
only possible hope, is that the spread of
true democracy may I've foundation for
peace, liberty and righteousness such as it
has never been given before. 1t is only a
question of Will power. The German En-
peror and his advisers taught Germany and
her satellites that the will to power, the
will to win, would make them masters Of
the world if only it were invoked with
enough thoroughncss and enough persist
ence. If the peoples of the Old World and the
New only have the will to freedom, to the
preservation Of their own rights and to the
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

HE intellectual DEVELOPMENT Of
the modern world is pretty much
II bound up in the treasures of art
that are stored for the most part
IN Italy and France. The German plum
derer always followed systematic cam
paign to rob neghboring nations of their
art treasures. as a part of the plan to
despoil them Of their memories and ira
ditions How Italy saved her art treas
ures is related in bulletin issued by
the Italian Bureau Of Public Informa-
ton
"The German government boasted
Gently thas i, had on exhibition in Berlin
a valuable collection of Italian paintings
and sculpture captured by the Teutonic
armies in their drive into Northern Italy
last fall THIS boas, afforded greaS amuse-
ment TO the ltalian people. 1t was a char
acterstic German bluff 1t was bluff
thai could not have been safely tried
among population whose art sense was
developed 30 any extent Il is quite pos
sible that the stold and materialstic Prus-
san O, Berlin was deceived by the very
limited and mediocre collection presented,
and 1t may be that even the officials them
selves though. chat they had obtained
plumber of real value.
"Actually with the exception of small
portion OF tho Museum Of Udinc, the only
art objects Of merit that fell into tho
HANDS OF the invaders were triptych at
tribused 10 Titan, taken from Castel Ro-
ganziol, q painting however, whose gcnu-
ineness has never been proven; work by
Poraenone and a small picture Of the
School of Belini taken from village near
the piave. And yet the invaded region
whom the drive began was full of priceless
old arr objects. Hardly a little mountain
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
Byron's s

The sword, the sceptre, and that SWAY
Which man seemed made bat to obey
Wherewith renown was rife
All quelled.-Dark Spirit What must bo
The madness of thy memory
1.-The Desolator desolate,
The Victor overthrown,
The Arbiter of others fate
A Suppiant for his own
Is it some yet imperial hope
That with such change can calmly cope
Or dread of death alone?
To die prince-or live slave
Thy choice is most ignobly brave,
"'He who of old would rcnd the OAK.
Dreamed not OF the rebound:
Chained by the trunk he vainly broke
Alone-how looked he round
Thou. in the sternness OF thy strenst5
An equal deed hast done at length.
And darker fate hast found;
He fell. the forest prowlers prey:
But thou must eat thy heart away.
"'But thou from thy reluctant hand
The thuhderbolt is wrung
Too late thou leav'st the high command
To which thy weakness chung
All Evil Spirit as thou art
1t is enough to grieve the heart
To see thine own unstrung;
To think that Gods fair world hath been
The footstool Of thing so mean,
"'The Earth hath split her blooa for him.
Who thus can hoard his own
And monarchs bowed the trembling limb.
And thanked him for a throne
Fair Freedom. We may hold thee dear.
When thus thy mightiest foes their fear
In humblest guise have shown
Oh. ne'er may tyrant leave behind
A brighter name to lure mankind!'"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

not behave toward me as the ordinary Jehu.
but as guide a counsellor and friend.
stopping on occasion, lavishing his valuable
information on ne. telling over anecdotes
and riskng himself in the field Of statistics
"Ah. monsicur Our poor country has
been robbed OF all its spenlor. As the mil
itary population increases thc civil poriila-
ton grove fewer and fewer In ten years
we have lost 10000 Of our people. Life is
no, pleasant here YOU sce!
He drove mo to the cemetery, where rose
the monumcnt dedicated TO the French sol
diecs who had died during the siege While
| was reading the inscription volcy of
musketry crashed cu' IL the Yicinitv. The
troops of the garrison were at target prac-
tice. Between the murdcrous whine of the
bullets and the stiffness o. de li,:le yued
ct peace before ne there was Il contrast
that quite overwhelmed my feelings NV
cahman mus, have observed the emotion
which douNtlcss depicted on my fee.-
urea. for he had the wisdom to trouble me
no more with his remarks When we re-
turned to our point Of departure gave him
his fare. Then he murmurcd:
"'Would you be willing to do me a great
favor?'
" by. most certainly, my good fellow
- would like to shake hands with YOU
And then. as if to excuse his bodncas.
he add
In 1870 | fought right by your side
lou may believe me or not you please.
but suddenly felt tear tremble on my