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PAGE SIX THE MONITOR, JULY 5, 1922 FIT MATE FOR DARING OUTLAW L!ald Mkriofr by No' Mean the Least Valued Member of Robin Hood's Brave Band. - : ; Belonging o that, shadowy, band of characters who hover somewhere , In the borderland between faet and fic tion. Maid Marlon and Robin Hood, whimsical, charming, picturesque peo pie of medieval England, deserve a chapter in the history of happy lovers. Marlon was a beautiful, graceful lit tle maid, loving the erranf Robin with all her youthful heart. . She helped him In his self-appointed task of rob bing the rich to aid the poor, and was a thorough little out-of-doors creature. No forest hardships were too much for her. She excelled In archery, was a fleet runner and, In fact, was splen did in every form of sport. But Marlon's family, so the story goes, objected to her, union with the country-wide reprobate, an,d every ef fort was made to force her to wed a middle-aged, man whom she did not love. However, the Jolly band of Robin's followers, by employing their ever ready wits, succeeded In foiling pa rental plans. Robin Hood and maid Marlon lived together in the woods many happy years, known always as the enemies of the rich and selfish anu the friends of the poor and needy. BRINGING BOARDERS TO TIME Woman Employs Gossip as a Medium 1 for Getting Delinquents to Set !; tie Their Bills. 1 . Many and various are tie schemes employed by boarding house keepers to spur collections from delinquent board ers. The latest Is to take .gossiping, the boarders' own jnost popular indoor sport, and use it against them. "Easiest thing in the world," de clared an exponent of tlie new system. "All you have to do Is spread the news, You Just weave ft Into the con versation off-hand like that ain't it a shame poor Mr. Brown is having such hard luck and his wife so brave, too. r "'He owes me for three weeks now,' you say. 'Not that I'd press him for It. But he must be kind of hard put to be, hanging up a poor widow like me.' "That's enough. Whoever I tell tells It to some one else. She tells some one else. Soon It's all over the house, and In time It gets back to Brown. That usually brings him around. Few persons can stand it to be talked about." New York Sun. , Improbable Story Beginnings. Vladamintch noticed the excellent diction of the street car conductors in announcing the stations. When Shamalback pulled up at, the garage he found the prices had not been arbitrarily raised because he was a tourist. The maid opened the door and Cora lia entered with the umbrella she had borrowed the week before. Before Ann Chovie left for Holly wood to take1 up film work she openly admitted she was not as good as some of the stars and therefore, never ex-" pected to reach stardom. - Our hero fhad sent . a copy of the latest book of his favorite author to the writer himself, asking that it, be autographed. The simple request was complied with and the book promptly returned. New York Sun. Webster's Lost Opportunity. Daniel Webster, expounder of the Constitution, great senator and. elo quent orator, had set his heart on be coming chief magistrate of the Ameri can republic. All efforts to secure the presidential nomination proved abortive. He could have had the nomination for the vice presidency in 1840 by simply indicating his willing ness to accept. Disdainfully he brushed the suggestion aside. He considered himself above playing second fiddle with William Henry Harrison. Had he been equipped with more self-abnegation than haughtiness he would have accepted, and had he done so he would have become President April 8, 1841, an even month after the inauguration of Tippecanoe and Tyler, too, "as a result of Harrison's death. Animals Blush. Poets have for ages regarded the blush as a thing of beauty in the gentle sex; but, after all, it Is only a rush of blood to the face, caused by modesty or some other emotion. An imals blush, too, we are told, but through fear. Horses blush In their ears, especially the left one. When a horse is frightened his left ear will be found to be" very much swollen. This Is also the case with rabbits. Cows and similar animals blush Just above the hoof while the dog uses his tail for this purpose. When a dog is frightened his tall hangs limp, as he has lost all control over it. Even in sects are said to blush. They do It in their antennae, or feelers. When Lincoln Practiced Law. Once in the old courthouse at Meta mora, 111., a prominent citizen of the town sought Lincoln's advice because a neighbors pigs were in his cornfield. Then no one had fences, . and pigs were privileged property. After lis tening to the man's grievance, Lincoln said : "Well, you will have to civilize both the man and his pigs." Another leading resident of those early" days waited until Lincoln was through speaking to Inquire what he had bet ter do ' about a. bad debt. Lincoln asked how much money was at stake, and upon finding that the sum was $50 remarked : "Wc Jl. Just throw it at him. A man can't go through court tor $50." f .. . Idea of Canai is Oio ' The project of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama Is about four bun dred years old. Balboa and other Spanish explorers urged such construc tion before the emperor of Spain, and male surveys In search of a feasible line as early as 1525. China Has Largest Hospital. The Tung Wan is probably the lar est hospital In the world. It is J at Hong Kong and is supported by tbe local residents. WHY HER WATCH GOES WRONG Various Causes .Given for Undoubted Fact That Woman's Timepiece Is ' .. . ... Generally , Incorrsct. ; j .; u ; Punctuality, Is said to be the virtue 'of kings, "but not of women. The lat ter will not, however, admit their lack of k. But when a . lady, has kept a mere man waiting , for her, lmdefi nltely long time her excuse, cynics de clare, Is really at hand : " "My watch must be wrong." 'And, strange to say, this reason, given, as an excuse, differ ent from other. ejKuses, is almost al ways valid. The watches of women are ; much less exact than those of men. ::';' ''. ' . '. ; An Englishman, Herbert Duke,; who occupied himself with this problem in profound speculations, thinks he has traced It to its source. He has ob served ' that the same watch, when worn by his wife, runs; very Irregu larly, whereas when worn by him it is perfectly correct. "Now, how Is it," he asks, "that so many women have such : a baleful influence on watches?".- t,-,yv -,. r - .-.-.- ; Certainly much is due to the fact that to women the "watch is a less necessary tool of life than a beautiful adornment; that they care more for its looking elegant on the wrist than for its being right;, that they handle carelessly and inconsiderately this deli cate apparatus - - But there must be another more po tent cause. It has been observed that the electricity contained in the human body exerts a direct influence ' on the delicate mechanism of the watch. It may be that the small form of a wom an's watch renders it' very sensitive to the electro-magnetic influence that emanates from the body. SNAKES HAVE LARGE 'UTTERS' Boa Constrictor in Captivity, Gave Birth to 'Sixty-Four Living Young Others Prolific., The sixteen-foot Trinidad anaconda, or water boa, at the London Zoologic al'gardens, not long ago gave birth to twenty-four young pnes. The new born snakes were twenty-six inches long and about an inch in diameter at the thickest part .of the body. In color and marking they resembled the adults that is, they , were of a dark greenish hue with black spots. That number of young had been ex ceeded by a seventeen-foot snake at the New York Zoological park, which produced thirty-four young. Still an other anaconda has been known ; to produce thirty-seven at a birth, and a large specimen of boa constrictor gave Uirth to sixty-four living young. The pythons differ from the boas In that they lay eggs and coil around a heap of them until they hatch. An official of the New York Zoo says that vthe pythons produce from fifty to a hun dred eggs at a time, and a specimen of python reticulatus deposited sixty eggs, about which she coiled, and from which she fought off all intruders, but her efforts proved of no avail, for the eggs were infertile. " . - . Roosevelt a Bird Lover. Roosevelt's first appearance in the editorial columns of a New York news paper was probably that in the" Eve ning Post of. February 25, 1878. Roose velt was then a jsophomore at Har vard, eighteen years old. The Evening Post devoted a long editorial to the question whether the English sparrow had been a benefit or a pest. It men tioned a recent discussion of the sub ject at an ornithological club in Cam bridge, Mass., saying: "Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., of this city, gave the birds credit for doing some good, but thou eh t that thev often ate the buds of fruit trees, and he says that in I j " a y m ' iiigypt mey are wasierui aevourers oi grain." In Roosevelt's "An Autobiog raphy" a good deal Is noted of his ornithological interests during these years ; these Interests, of course, per sisted throughout his life. Diamond Rivers. .The geological; formation of the fa mous diamond region in the state of Bahia, Brazil, shows , that at some time In the history Of the world the mountains there were thrown up by a hot mass and the carbon in the stone crystallzed into gems. It was, in ef fect, an electric furnace-on a gigantic scale. In Brazilian diamond mining natural water courses play an impor tant part. JSVater and the weather gradually disintegrate the rocks, and the diamonds are washed down into gullies and the beds of rivers, whence they are recovered by the miners. In some places divers are employed to work at the bottom of the rivers, fill ing sacks with silt that contains the diamonds. The river beds are rich in precious stones which cannot be ex tracted advantageously, if. at all, by the methods now In vogue. Exercise for Blood Pressure. Certain vigorous exercises are dis tinctly, beneficial in most cases of too high blood pressure. At ' a recent meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine Dr. C. Ward Crampton de scribed his favorite treatment of this trouble, which Included regular exer cise. - ' In the earlier stages the following program was advised : 1. Morning ex ercise, 12 minutes ; 2. Walk three quarters of an hour; 3. Vigorous ex ercise .with sweating three times a week; 4. In the open half a day. In advanced cases the exercise should be milder." Of course, exercise Is only a part of the general treat ment, and there are many cases, in which it should not be given, especial ly those in which the heart and kid neys are seriously involved. V ' Which is th Highest Mountain? It ik generally thought-Mount Ever L with Its 39.400 feet, is the world's highest peak, but some authorities As sert that Tprarn Kangri, Kara Korams, Casfmjfre. has tin altitude of nearly "Accolade. - An accolade ts literally an embrace. The term is generally applied to a ceremony or salutation which marks the conferring of a knighthood or sim ilar distinction. Old Schuyler r- ytfrp m Mansion Having risen out of the ashes of Its predecessor, and the predecessor in turn having risen out of the ashes of the original Schuyler mansion, the Revolutionary home of Gen. Philip, Schuyler stands today at Schuylerville, N. Y., Just about the ; same as when the finishing - touches , were placed upon It by the Continental soldie in 1177. .. . '' v. ' The old mansion is maintained as it was when Washington was a . guest there, when Lafayette toasted the la dies,; leaning one elbow on the won derful mahogany sideboard, whn, the gracious lady of General Sohuyler used to dispense hospitality to all' I The Schuyler Home. $ comers, when this place was still Sar atoga and the springs eleven miles to the west had not appropriated ,the name, when there was no railroad and the old road up the Hudson was still the natural highway of trade, when wheat was still taken to Albany on batteaux. There is no region in New York state where the spirit of the past is maintained as around old Saratoga, where every turn in the road has its story, where every old tree is a land mark, where almost every mound of ground was once an earthwork, where the ' magnificent battle monument pierces the ; sky, where the veriest school boy can show you the battle ground where one of the fifteen de cisive battles of history was fought, a battle which practically settled the destiny of the United States. The region about this lovely Revo lutionary elm-shaded mansion is rich In legend. You may . browse around here and live over the days of two past centuries, and recreate the wars of the Indian and redcoat days. You may see here the skull of the British spy, Lovelass, with a patriot bullet hole still in it, where it was dug out of a gravel bank; you may see the wine cellar whence Burgoyne drew his cheer; you may drink from the same spring where the soldiers of the Revo lution slaked their thirst while the battle raged about them; .you may walk the streets beneath theiwhisper iner elms, the streets that are still Ueneral Schuyler's Tomb. , peopled with the shades of the fleeing army in red, the streets that still echo with the drumbeat of war, the street through which for more than two cen turies the tide of American life has passed to and fro. If you will take time you may get all this at Schuy lerville, for the mansion of the Schuy lers has been a little off the beaten high-way of traffic all these years, and legend and story linger under these elms. . , ' Independence, . ' "Should a physician give his wealtny patients harmless powders when they insist on being treated, although he knows they are quite well, or should he tell them frankly there is nothing the -matter with them?" asked the young, doctor. . " . ; - "That depends on the financial status of the physician," said the el derly doctor. "If he has an income sufficient for his needs and is not de pendent oh his practice for a living he should not only tell such patients there is nothing the matter with them, but If he feels in a tacetious mood he can even afford : to pooh-pooh their most cherished symptoms." Birming ham Age-Herald. DEER SMASHES WINDOWS . IN PENNSYLVANIA CITY Scranton, Pa. A fuli grown antlered deer bolted through some, miles of Scranton's streets leaving a trail of shattered win dows and scattered provisions. Where the animal came from no one knows, and has apparently. .returned to the same place. In its flight through the city the deer Jumped through a large : plate glass window in a grocery, scattering provisions right and left and making its exit through a door in the rear. .- When last seen it was heading , toward the mountains. There is such a nilng as noble re gret, 4 and there is one which is Jgnc ble. for there may be virtue and vice even in a memory. Beware of "chew ing the cud" of part wrong doing. Darnton. v A Big, New Lemea. A new lemon called th Ponderosa. ts now. being cultivated, tit grows to the size of grapefruit - and, although Its flavor Is rather mil d, may be used in evry way in which ordinary lem ons HTf -mL . ' . 1 LOWELL Mrs. John Ricker, is ' improving from her. recent' illness. . . . . Mrs. E. S. Murphy and children is visiting relatives in Craftsbury. Marshall Benware lost a valuable horse the past week, from lock-jaw. Harvey Rossier and wife of Sutton, visited A. T. Deblois and wife recent ly, v.,' . .. , "... ' A. P. -Sweet has returned home from Burlington, much improved in health. ... ; V Mr. and Mrs. Ara Livingston of Newport, were callers. at S. B. Gelo's Sunday. , . . r E'. S. Murphy and B. S. Hoadley were business callers in North Troy, Monday. ! Mrs. Florence Johnson of Woods yille is visiting relatives . and friends in town. . . . . ... , Mr. and Mrs. Guy Harrington, vis ited his aunt Mrs. W. J. Collins the past week. . f Mr. and Mrs. Julius Deblois of Sut ton, visited his brother, Ar T. Deblois over Sunday. Win. Barrett and family have re turned home from b week's visiting trip with relatives. J - . Rev. L. H. Juay has returned home from Lewis, P. Q., where he visited his sister .who is ill. . The Aldrich bridge that was wash ed out during the storm, June 22, has been rebuilt and is ready for the traf fic. ." ". : '. ' . . Miss Helen Stephenson of Concord, N. H., is home for a short visit she is planning to attend summer school at Burlington. . Marion and Sanford Stephenson, were called home from Washington, D. C. and Boston on account of the serious illness of their father, Irvin Stephenson. R. ,W. Preston, has gone to Man chester, N. H for a few days; he will be accompanied home by his brother, Edgar Preston and family. , Leo Shufelt received some very se vere bruises last Tuesday, by being thrown from his wagon and dragged along the road for some distance; the horses ran for quite a distance but were not injured. Mr. Shufelt is re covering and will soon be able to work. ' Peter Green son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Green was taken ill Sunday and grew rapidly worse; Tuesday af ternoon Dr. Young was called and pronounced it a very serious case of appendicitis. He was taken to .the Mary Fletcher hospital Wednesday morning' and underwent an operation Wednesday afternoon, but they were unable to save his life; he passed away about three o'clock Thursday, June 29th and was brought to his home in Lowell, Friday. Funeral ser vices and burial Saturday. - . JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT CLUBS Eligible to Exhibit at Springfield, Mass., Sept. 17-23 The first' announcement of the sea son pertaining to th e boys' and girls' department of the Eastern States Exposition to 'be held in Springfield, Mass., September 17 to 23, 1922 is being made this week bv the management of the Exposition in cooperation with the - Junior Achievement Bureau of the . Eastern States League. A complete list of twenty-four classes of exhibits under which Junior Achievement clubs of the Eastern States League are eligi ble to compete, are included in a cir-H cular. . '-, Announcement is made that any community having" at least three reg larly organized 1 active" Junior Achievement clubs may send a dem onstralon team selected : through community competition, of not less than , two or more than three mem bers, accompanied by a leader, to rep resent the community during the en tire week of the Exposition. The ex penses of such a team will be borne by the management tof the . Exposi tion and by the Junior Achievement Bureau of the Eastern States League. Each community , is invited to send at its own expense a second demonstra tion team also selected through the. local competition and from regularly organized Junior Achievement clubs. The twenty-four classes under which Achievement clubs may exhib it at the Eastern States Exposition include millinery, dolls,' garment making, art and homecraft work, cane work, electrical and radio, rubber, basketry, chair seating and leather and leather-craft work, pa per, food, confections, lettering, printing, tin, gardens, poultry and rabbit raising, bird houses, textile exhibits, .marble and photography. All Achievement club members who are eligible to spend the week at the Exposition will live in the Junior Achievement camp which will be erected on the exposition grounds. Camp will be opened and ready to re ceive " members Saturday, September 16th and will be closed on Saturday, September 23rd. Prometneus. The word PrometheuSj the name of a character in Grecian, mythology, means forethought, and forethought Is the father of invention. According to the Grecian tradition, Prometheus taught man the use of fire, and in structed him in architecture, astron omy, mathematics, writing, rearing cattle, navigation, .medicine, the art of prophecy, working metal, and, in deed, every art known to man. The tale is that he made man of clay, and, in order to endow ' his clay with j life, stole fire from heaven and brought it to earth through a hollow tube. Zeus, who in Grecian mythol ogy, corresponded to Jupiter In the Roman mythology, In punishing Pro metheus, chained him to a rock, and sent an eagle to consume his liver daily. During the night it grew again, and thus the torment of "Prometheus was ceaseless, until Hercules "shot the eagle, and unchained the captive. What a Boy Thinks of You. A boy's sheepishness is by no means a sign of over-mastering reverence: and, while you are making encourag ing advances to him under the idea that he is overwhelmed by a sense of your age and wisdom, ten to one he Is thinking you extremely queer. The only consolation I ' can, suggest to you is that the Greek boys thought the same of Aristotle. It Is only when you have mastered ' a restive horse, or thrashed a drayman, or hnve got a gun In your band, that these shy Juniors feel you to be a truly admir able and enviable character. Ex- IN OLD GRAVEYARD Tenements Surround Burial Vault, of Gouverneur Morris New York Has Encroached en Resting Place of Famous Soldier, Statee- man and Diplomat. . For more than a century the burial vault of Gouverneur Morris, In the yard of St; Ann's; church of Morrisa nia, has . remained unchanged except for: the debris which has collected along, the entrance, the rust on the Iron pickets and the hinges of the door and the climbing roses which in sea son will bloom across the grave of the famous old soldier, statesman and diplomat ,. :. " Gouverneur .'.Morris is credited with writing the. final draft of the 'Consti tution of the United States, the docu ment which has been . amended 18 times since Morris, as secretary of the Constitutional Convention, dried s hia quill and called it a good day's work. The Bronx has grown up about St. Ann's church, with row after, row of flve-story tenements, ..until the little church . and its yard seem . all but crowded out. The most depressing sight in New York Is the rear of a flat, and on three sides of the church Morris Home at the Time of the Revo- lutlen. i . v : . yard the dingy walls hate backed up 'against the iron fence. They, wave the weekly wash In derision of the .efforts of the past to hold onto this last piece of the old manor of Mor- risanla. Sleeping Sickness. Medical experts disagree In their conclusions as to the exact nature of sleeping sickness. Some forms of "sleeping sickness" are' not unlike brain fever, while others Indicate symptoms much similar to spinal meningitis. Physicians advise caution against undue exposure to the disease until more . exact knowledge of Its cause Is ascertained. Horse Owners, Attention , . Imperial Steam Cooked , HorseFeed is' made of whole corn and oats,- steam cooked and kiln dried. Most horsemen are convinced of three things before they begin to use Imperial Steam Cooked Horse Feed, its SAFETY, HIGH NUTRITIVE VALUE and its HIGH DIGES TIBILITY., It is very high in DIGESTIBLE NUTRIMENTS and is surely PRODUCTIVE of: ENERGY and MUS CLE. INDIGESTION and COLIC are unknown troubles when your -horses are fed on this diet.,- Water less than eight per cent, fibre less than four per cent, carbohydrates seventy-two per cent. It takes about 2,300 pounds of raw grains to make a ton of Imperial Steam Cooked Feed which is put up in one hundred pound sacks, running about ore hundred quarts to the bag. It takes three bags to a horse to give it a fair trial and watch the results. For sale by Orleans County Farmers Cooperative Exchange FRED MAY, Agent, Barton,! Vt. "E. S. KElLLEY, Agent, Orleans, Vt. On Sale everywhere fromNoi with many improvements JwMmh V 3(G) x JJfell ' : ill? . ' v tm ml ' V WW S r 7 V WhereYou Can Buy U. S.Tires: TEN THOUSAND RAIL SHOP MEN QUIT WORK More than 10,000 railway shopmen left their jobs on New England rail roads Saturday,- according to statis tic compiled at the offices of the roads Subsequent reports, will probably swell this total. ' "( . It is announced that five' thousand men walked out on, the Boston end Maine system. Three hundred Cent ral Vermont employes left -their jobs at St. Albans and fifteen of the Rut land railroad men walked out at Bur lington. In this city it is stated that 21 out of 23 men employed under x"VV. H. MacFherson as car repairers walked out on schedule time. Also 13 me chanists and boiler makers ? at the Tound house, and the two electricians. It is rumored that the railroad com pany are to send in men to fill the vacancies but as yet only a few men are doing the work of the nearly 40 who went out. THIRTY-SIXTH REUNION Company E, of Ninth-Vermont Holds Annual Gathering The 36th Annual Reunion of Co. E. 9th Vermont Regiment Volunteers was held at the I. O. O. F. - hall, Thursday, June 29th, with represent atives from Vermont, New Hamp shire and Massachusetts. In spite of the bad weather several members of the Company gathered to again renew old acquaintances and shake the hand of brother comrades. At 10 o'clock in the forenoon the an nual business meeting1, was held and Asa C. Sleeper of Newport was re- Victory The U. S. Treasury Department has indicated its intention of calling these bonds for payment Dec. 15, 1922 at 100. and interest. ; ' At their present market value 100.64 these bonds yield only 3.45 per cent if redeemed Dec. 15, 1922. , Why Not Deposit Them With The Richford Savings Bank and Trust Company -0 - - - - -'; - - - 'At the Market Value With Accrued Interest and Get 4f9& ON THE PROCEEDS A?fo II. C. COMINGS, President l lie price remains the same for the 3 K 3 : greater" v States tires United States Rubber Company BARTON AUTO EXCHANGE, Barton, Vt. C M. HITCHCOCK, Albany, Vt. TWOMBLY & COLTON, Orleans, Vt. elected Commander Anrl Tvftuarrl A Lund of Orleans, succeeded J. G. Gor ham of Barton as vice commander, at t T -mm- . . vi van j. momu. was re-elected sec retary and treasurer. During the noon hour the party r... I J.-. 41 C A. m T M dinner which consisted of creamed po-. tato, cold boiled ham, gTaham rolls,, tea, coffee and strawberry short cake, which was much enjoyed. The after noon .was .spent in a social way dur ing which many of the old time war; scenes were rehearsed. Those present at the reunion were:. Mrs. Alice Moranville, Asa. Sleeper, Alvah J. Morrill of Newport: Leon- ""ni nctuwi fc vcuc( nenry war KoVS "Willi a motYTOTl HYaoa A Dwyer, Manchester, N. IL, and Joel - mm Yr,v w A 4Av5 next v reunion will be held with Asa. 1923 The Beauty of Lichens. The famous "Crimsen Cliffs" f Greenland, which extend fer miles, de rive their splendid color from redi lichen. They rise 2,000 feet from the water's edge. The Golden Gate in tho Yellowstone owes its name to the yel low lichen of its lofty walls. Ran on rts Reputation. A San Francisco man went to sleep In his automobile early one morning recently and when he woke up hi machine had gone two miles from the last landmark which he remembered. The machine stuck to the road and behaved . very properly during the chaufEeur's nap. 434 Bonds S. CARL CARPENTER, Treasurer i A A HEN "USCO- announced its new low price of $10.90 last Fall, the makers were already busy developing a still won Usco" value. The new and better "Usco" as you see it today with no change in price and tax absorbed by the manufacturer, , You'll note in the new and better "Usco"- these features Thicker tread, giving greater non-skid protection. Stouter side walls. Altogether a handsomer tire that will take longer wear both inside and out. The greatest money's worth of fabric tire in the history of pneu matics. ' - A A 1 A A