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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

TEMPERANCE WITH A CRANK.

Virginia beats Maine and Massachu-
sets in the temperance reform. leaving
those States out of sight in the race.
They have a machine which goes with a
crank and sounds gong which is made
to kill two birds with one stone. In
the first place it is to promote temper
ance, and in the second place it is to
pay the State debt. All this is to be
done by the simple turn of a crank at
every saloon, bar room, and drinking
place of every denomination in the old
Commonwealth. The inventor is DIR.
Moffett, and the invention is a crank
which is turned by the bartender every
time he sells drink, the turn of the
crank sounds gong, SO that everybody
about is to know, and each turn regis
tiers another to the drinks already sold,
like gas meter of the number of cubic
feet of gas consumed and the tax gath
erer comes around once q month and
receives two cents and half for every
glass of ale or lager beer. This tax is
doubled for the consumer, who not only
helps pay the state debt, but pays a
tax equal in amount to the bar-keeper.
The law is strictly enforced, and that
it is temperance measure is sufficient
ly certain from the fact that all liquor
dealers bitterly denounce it.
A remarkable thing about this ar
rangement is that everybody can know
the extent of the business done by every
one of the tipping shops and hotels and
saloon bars, and very easily can see by
comparison of the books of the Collector
of Internal Revenue with the record Of
DR.. Mofett's crank arrangement, wheth-
er the rumseller extends his liquor with
water or other fluids. The name OF
Moffett is not so popular in bar-rooms
although it is at the State Treasury,
where it is estimated that his contriv-
ance will grind out and wiring out $780,.
900 year. Another curious result Of
this new invention is that the bar-keep.
er can not "knock down" on the profits
of the proprietor. There is the registered
number of sales, and he can have nc
profit but his pay. Public sentiment is
in favor of the law, it is said, although
not the public sentiment of bar-rooms
1t does not seem actually to lessen thu
amount of drinking, especially by the
regular old customers. 1t would be ;
remarkable result if we should get ou
great lesson in temperance legislation
not from Maine or Massachusetts,, bu
from Virginia; not from license or pro
hibition, but from the turn of a crank
-Erchdnqe.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29


POULTRY Gull out undesirable fowls,
and keep only good ones. Pure bred
fowls are as profitable, in their way, as
other pure bred stock. Feed young
pullets with boiled potatoes, mashed in
the water they have been cooked in, and
mixed while hot, with corn meal and
cracked wheat. Feed this warm, and
every week give some of the Imperial
Egg Food, with some Of Bo"ker & Co.'S
meat and bone -four along with the
food. This will give eggs all through
the winter. The culled fowls may be
cooped and fed on scalded skinned milk
with corn and oatmeal. for three weeks,
when they will be as fat as they can be
made; to feed any longer is waste of
food. This food makes sweet and white
flesh and fat. When fed for market,
give only corn which makes the yellow
fat so much desired by the poultry
dealers.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

benumbs all the glorious faculties of the
human mind, and has the power to
draw down many an imperial intellect
to condition of debased and degrad-
ed idiocy. But train children, further,
and especially. to understand that these
evils, dreadful as they are, are yet but
trihing when compared to the influence
of intemperance upon mans moral ma
ture. Let them see that it destroys the
soul-that it burns out all the beautiful
affections, and brushes out all elevated
and noble principles. and tends to re-
duce man to fend lncarnate, so that
he is in a condition for any and every
evil work-to rush madly upon the
transgression of every law of God and
man, being ever ready to lie, gamble.
profane the sacred name, quarrel, riot,
plunge into all wicked debauchery, MUIR
der his dearest friends and kindred,
and in general to make himself the
worst creature in all Gods vast uni
verse.
In their training let children see
this dreadful picture in all its hideous
deformity and horror; also let there be
unfolded to them some of the sad con-
comitants of these evils-such as broken
hearts, crushed hopes, wives worse than
widows, children worse than orphans,
squalid poverty, degraded beggery,
murdered reputation, the Jail, the
penitentiary, the scaffold. Yes, instruct
the children, instruct them faithfully
and well. Uncover before their eyes
this pit of destruction, and let them
look down and take warning. Nor in
juvenile instruction and training, relat-
ing to this great subject, should the
opposite picture of perfectly temperate
life be hidden from the eyes of the
children. Let them be shown that the
fruits of temperance are precisely the
reverse of those of intemperance that
its results are health, strength, spright-
illness.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29
REST IN CHRIST.

Men are so made that they need God
as much as the babe needs the mothers
breast. They need faith in Being in
whom is concentrated all wisdom, all
goodness, all gertrude of knowledge, all
sympathy, and all nursing care; and
that is Jesus Christ to me. And when
he says, "Come unto me, and learn of
me" stop running after your own fears,
stop seeking happiness in just the one
narrow path, teach your nature to the
unfolding of Gods DEGREES, "They are
planned of God, therefore they are the
best, and l rejoice in them" do these
things, and if the fruits of righteous
ness and joy in the Holy Ghost do not
abound in your soul then convict me as
false witness. But no soul ever went
to the living Saviour with the conscious
ness of its need, and said, "Guide my
erring steps, strengthen my weakness,
accept my feeble love-" and was willing
to be led by him, that Gods soul did
flow in cleansing tides into him, and
that he did not rejoice and say, 81 can
do all things through him that strength
ems me, and without him nothing" Oh,
that could give this to others as it
comes to me! l have often wished that
l could make people look upon nature
as / do, it is so beautiful and so COM
forting to me. l can take few precious
stones, and 60 into my study, and lay
them on the table, and have them ex-
hale something that quiets me; and 1
wish l could make other people as hap
Ply as am in those things. But oh
above all gems, above the walls of
precious stones. through and behind the
gate of pearl, higher than the river Of
life or the golden streets, sits One upon
whose brow is no wrinkle, whose face is
fairer than the sun, and in whose eyes
is unfathomable sweetness, who says,
"Come unto me and l will give you
rest "-Beecher.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

CARE OF HARNEss.-The practice of
washing harness with warm water and
soap is very damaging unless coat of
oil is applied Immediately after. No har-
ness is ever so soiled that damp sponge
will not remove the dirt yet even when
the sponge is applied, it is impor-
tant to apply a slight coat of oil
by the use of a second sponge. All
varnishes, and all backing that con-
tains the properties of varnish. should
be avoided. When a harness loses its
lustre and turns brown and it be given
a new coat of grain black, first wash
the grain surface thoroughly with
potash water to kill the grease, and
after the application of the grain black,
apply oil and tallow to the surface. This
will fasten the color and make the leath-
er flexible. Neatsfoot oil only should
be used on harness, and no more should
be applied to the leather than it will
readily absorb. A superabundance
works out to the surface in hot weather,
catching dirt, and in short time look
ing very mean.-AmerIcan Stock Jour
nal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

CHINESE CooKERY.-Americans who
dine with the Chinese are surprised at
the perfection to which they have car
ried their cooking. During a recent
Chinese banquet at San Francisco, an
orange was laid at the plate of each
guest. The orange itself seemed like
any other orange, but on being cut open
was found to contain within five kinds
Of delicate jellies. One was at first puz-
zled to explain how the jellies got in,
and giving up that chain of reflection,
was in worse quandary to know how
the pulpy part of the orange got out.
COlored eggs were also served in the in
side Of which were found nuts, jellies,
meats and confectionery. When one Of
the Americans present asked the inter-
prefer to explain this legerdemain of
cookery, he expanded his mouth in a
hearty laugh, and shook his head and
said Mexican man heap smart, why
he not dndee out
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29
Saddles Column.
THE FASHIONS.


Velvet bonnet to match the dress will
be fashionable this winter.
In demi-season bonnets the newest
are capotes, and they are very pretty.
Feathers are cheaper than they have
been, and will be much used for bands.
They are more durable than formerly,
and do not soon get out of curl.
Among the new knick-knacks which
lie on boudoir tables are beautiful pho
tOgraph stands Of velvet, with porcelain
wreaths around the portrait.
Aprons have come into fashion again
and are made principally of silk the col
or known as pigeons throat, and trim
med with ruches of either valenciennes
or mechlin lace.
0verskirts are now quite overshaded
by draperies. When used they are most
ly of the diagonal shapes at the front,
with extremely simple arrangements of
the back breadths, showing square and
irregular outlines above the train.
1t has always been a waste of time
for women to make up so much clothing.
They were out of fashion before they
were half worn.
Women have heretofore worn more
clothing about their waists than any
other part Of their bodies; henceforth
this will not be the case.
Antique laces pale before the new i'm
portations Of modern laces and the fan
cy kinds, such as point RagOnse, which
is combination of several varieties of
stitches, TOrchon and Irish point.
A decided increase Of trimming is
seen on new costumes of the princess Or
der this fall in fact an extravagant
amount of trimming characterizes all
styles Of dresses and wraps. 1t is moi
so much the color. the shape or the ma
terial as the quantity and quality of the
trimming.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29
CHILDREN AND TEMPERANCE.

What measures should be taken with
children to establish them in habits of
temperance? To this great question, In
spiration responds, "Train up child in
the way he should go and when he is
old, he will not depart from it." This
training, in relation to temperance, in
wolves to large extent appropriate iu-
struction. There is much to teach chill
dren on this great subject, and much,
too, that they are capable of understand
ing. They should, of course, be early
and thoroughly instructed as to the d.
versi6ed and terrible evils of intemper-
ance. This melancholy picture cannot
be too fully and faithfully presented
before the minds of the young. They
should be taught that the major portion
of the evils that afiict society has its
origin in intemperance. These evils
should be opened out before the young
mind in detail, and as extensively and
as clearly as possible. Children should
be made to understand, for example
that intemperance Injuries, prOstrates
and destroys the physical system, that
it is fruitful source of disease, while
at the same time it aggravates almost
every disease to which humanity is
subject, and if persisted in is sure to
end in premature death.
Let children understand, also, tn;
sad influence of intemperance on the
! intellect as well as the bOdy-that il
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

How TO Cook 0ATMEAL.-Very often
this nutritious article of diet is objec-
tiOnable because not properly prepared.
When it is to be made as food, select
the coarse, recently ground meal. To a
cOffeecupful add quart Of cold water
and mix in tin vessel holding at least
two quarts The vessel should then be
placed in boiler containing water and
put upon the fire to cook, stirring fire.
quently and boiled until dry enough to
eat as mush, or the meal is we'll done.
1t may then be eaten with butter, mo-
lasses, milk, cream and sugar, or any
other dressing that may be preferred.
When thus prepared it will not have
that sticky, salvy consisteRce that makes
it Objectionable, and people who could
not eat it before will now take it with a
relish. The finer quality of meal is best
adapted to making Cruel for acute dis
eases. People suffering from habitual
constipation will find oatmeal once or
twice day valuable adjunct to other
treatment and far preferable to Graham
Medical Monthiy.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29
agricultural department.
MORE KNOWLEDGE WANTED.

DIR. Hoskins of the Vermont Watch
man pleads for more light among farmers
generally. We make a brief extract
from his able editorial on >this subject
in recent issue:
''No man in his senses will claim that
farmers, as rule. are inferior in nat
ural ability and intellect to those en-
gagged in other pursuits. The contrary
would be more nearly true. But every
one knows, and the farmers best of all.
that until recently it has been supposed
that, while an education was needed for
the successful prosecution of every
avocatlon, the farmer needed little or
none. 1t is the farmers themselves
that are crying out against this doctrine.
1t is the farmers who demand an in
crease of knowledge, both for their
children and for themselves. Whether
in comparison they know more or less
than their neighbors, is not the question.
The question is, do they know enough
to do this business to the best advan-
tage? If not, then they have need to
know more.
We have heard of young man of
energy and enterprise, reared upon a
Vermont farm, but apprenticed to mer-
camille business in his youth, who was
SO deeply impressed with the ignorance
of his neighbors at home as to their
true interests in the matter of dairy
stock that he expended five hundred
dollars from his earnings to introduce
there some choice Jersey blood. This
young man, now older grown, has re-
turned to the old homestead and the
farmers trade, and we looked upon
specimens from his Jersey herd at the
last state fair with delight. More than
this, in his neighborhood. and in part
at least from his example, the improve
ment in dairy stock has been so great
that yearly average of two hundred
pounds of butter is looked upon with
contempt, and three hundred pounds
each for whole herd is sometimes re-
ported.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

A good receipt for making the COM
plexiOn soft and fine is as follows: Make
linen bag large enough to hold quart
Of bran, put it in vessel and pour two
quarts of boiling water on it; let it
stand all day, and at night on going to
bed take the bag out and wash the face
with the bran water; in the morning
wash it of entirely with distilled rain
water. In very short time it will
make coarse skin feel like velvet.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

BIRD's Wines FOR BoNNErs.-As
soon as they have been removed from
the bird, rub plenty of salt on the joint
or pulverized bOrax is better-pin
them firmly on a board, spread out as
desired, place heavy weight on and
leave them 50 for day or two then re-
move the weight, rub the joint with Boz
rax, and place it in cool. shady place
until they become dry and are in shape.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29
gstiginlas department.
For the Monitor.
PETER.

Peter who was first, or chief of the
apostles, was the son of Jonas, of the
city of Bethsaida in Galilee. When
Jesus was betrayed, Peter displayed
great courage. 1t was Peter who drew
his sword, and smote the high priests
servant: but when he saw that Jesus
was detained as malefactor, his cour-
age failed and he denied him. Peter at
that time was not converted. Jesus
said to him the same night He was be-
trayed, "when thou art converted
strengthen thy brethren" If he had
been converted, no fear of men would
have made him deny his Lord. But
from the day of Pentecost, when he was
truly converted, he seems to have felt
no WEAKNESS, and feared no danger. By
the preaching of Peter at that time
about three thousand were led to inquire
of Peter, and the rest of the apostles,
"What shall we do 2" the answer he
made them, was to "Repent and be bap-
tized, every one of you for the remission
of sins and ye shall receive the gift of
the Holy Ghost /; for the promise is
unto you, and to your children, and to
all that afar off. even as many as the
Lord our God shall CALL" How well
come must have been the words of
Peter to those convicted Jews, and how
joyfully they received his words, and
were baptized This may be considered
as the organization of the Christian
Church. Soon after this by the cure of
lame man, and another of Peters
sermons, five thousand were CONVEX
ted. At one time when Peter was
in prison he was liberated by an angel
of the Lord and went forth to preach
the gospel out of Judea. Peter was one of
the victims of Nero's cruelty; he was put
to death A. d. SO or GA, by being cruel
fed with his head downward, kind of
death which he desired, from an un-
feigned humility, that he might not die
in the same manner as his Lord had
done. L. d. A.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

For discoloration on infants teeth,
clean them every day with bOrax if a
brush is too severe, try a soft cloth Dip
ped in bOrax, either dissolved in warm
water or pulVeriEed; If the gums are
tender the borax will heal and harden
them.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

PLAIN SUGAR CAKEs.-0ne cupful SUI
gar and tablespoonful butter rubbed TO-
gether, one well-beaten egg, one cupful
sweet milk, one and half cupfuls sift-
ed -four, a little salt, One-half teaspoon
ful soda, and one teaspOOnful cream of
tartar sifted in with the -four; season
with nutmeg; bake in small tins.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

The lady who wishes to gain strength
and reduce stOutness, must eat meat and
beef tea, no hOminy, greats, or cream.
She can drink claret, but not ale or beer,
and if she can take exercise enough to
digest her food, she may hope to gain
strength and reduce the flesh.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

Gen. LeDuc, the commissioner of ag-
riculture, estimates that this country
could save $6O,0O0,OOO year by pro-
ducing all the sugar it consumes.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29
& FOREIGN PATENTS.

GILMORE & CO., Successors to CHAPMAN.
HOSMER q CO., Solicitors. Patents procured IN all
countries. NO FEES IN ADVANCE. No charge
unless the patent is granted. No tees for making pre-
lmnary examinations. No additional fees for obtain
ing and conducting rehearng. BY recent decision
of the Commissioners ALL rejected applications may
cases before the Patent Office, Extensions before Con
gress, Infringement Suits in different states, and all
litigation appertaining to Inventions Patents
Send stamp to Gilmore & Co. for pamphlet
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

Although girl may be as proud as
Lucifer, it doesn't always follow that
she makes a good match.
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LAND CASES, LAND WARRANTS
ANN ScRlp

Contested Land Gases prosecuted before the u 8.
General Land Office and Department of the Interior.
Private Land Claims MINING and PIlE-ENIP-
TION Claims, and HOMESTEAD Cases attended
Land Scrip in 40 So and $50 pieces for SALE
This Scrip is assgnable, and be located in the
name of the purchaser upon any Government land
equal value with Bounty Land Warrants. Send
stamp to Gilmore IL Co. for pamphlet of In.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29

LEAVES FOR BARNARD AND STABLE.
Forest leaves are excellent to supply
the stableyards. and where straw is
scarce also the cow-stables and hog pens.
They can be most conveniently gathered
soon after falling, or after the first snow,
or at least before the wintry blasts have
scattered them. They can lay compact
ly, and being moist can be handled with
greater facility. A cart with few
standards stuck in the sides will hold a
considerable quantity; and the best
thing to gather them or load them with
is a wooden mandrake a wooden four
tined strawfork is also very handy when
the leaves are moist. Leaves absorb
large quantities of the liquid manure
and are an excellent fertilizer in the
spring. They can be gathered, too,
when other labor about the farm is
Germantown Telegraph.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29


1.-THE best butter COW of which we
have reliable account was bought by
o farmer by the name of Oaks, out of a
drove on its way from Maine to Brigh-
ton about the year 1913. Her butter
making capacity coming to the knowledge
of the Massachusetts Agricultural Socie-
ty, one of the trustees visited Mr.. Cakes
and engaged him to put her on trial and
report the result. This trial took place
in 1916 and from May II to December
20 of that year the COW made on the
average fraction over sixteen pounds
of butter per week besides furnishing a
quart of milk day to Mr.. Cakes fam
lily. Her feed consisted of grass and a
bushel of meal per week. which was
given her stirred into her own milk
after it was skinned. Mirror and
Farmer.
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MOTT ICE

have left my accounts with G. II. BLAKE for set
Element. and those owing requested call and
settle with him at once. A. B. BLAKE.
Barton June 18th.
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ARREARS 0E PAY AND bounty.

OFFICERS, SOLDIERS, and SAILORS Of
the late war; or their heirs in many entitled
to money from the Government of which they have
knowledge. Write full history of service, and state
amount of pay and bounty received Enclose stamp
to GILMORE & CO., and full reply, after exam
inaton, will be given you free.
PENSIONS.
All OFFICERS, SOLDIERS, and SAILORS
wounded, ruptured injured in the late war, howev
er slightly, can obtain pension by addressing GIL
MORE d co.
Cases prosecuted by GIMORE 4 co. before the SUI
preme Court of the United States and Court of Claims
and the Southern Claims Commission.
Each department Of our business is conducted in
separate bureau. under charge Of the experience
cd parties employed by the old frm Prompt attention
to all business entrusted to GILMORE co. is thus
secured. We desire to win success by deserv.
ing it. Address,
GILMORE co., 629 st., Washington, D. c.
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S. S. BLANCHARD

Has Hams, Lard, Nice Salt Pork. all backs for sale
at Is cents pound Also, Old Soap at IL l-2 cents
per gallon.
Glover. VT, April 9. 1877.