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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-04
RAH /,

Because the FREE TRADER last week com
mended the proposed democratic county con
vention as a good movement in the direction
of party organization our esteemed cotempo-
rary OF the Ottawa Republican gets up on his
ear and cries, There! See what these demo
Gratis are at! They want sam Raymond to be
considered no.party candidate, but they IN
tend to claim his election as victory to count
next year"
keep up their Observation-Disclosures or re.
publcans-but the idea that the reelection or
defeat of Mr.. Raymond this yearwill have any
influence on the presidential vote of this coun
ty, or anywhere, next year, is ridiculous bosh.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-10-04
p. D. CRIMMINs, Secretary.

By order Of central committee.
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-24

A MORTGAGE In the whole range
ofsacred and profane literature, per-
haps. there is nothing recorded which
has such staying qualities as a good
healthy mortgage. a mortgage can be
depended upon 10 stick closer than ;
brother. II has q mission 10 perform
which never lets up. Day after day It
is right there, nor does the slightest
tendency to slumber impair its yigor In
the night. Night and day, on the Sab
bath, aud at holiday times. without
moments time for rest and recreation,
the bitter offspring of It's existencs,
interest, goes on. The seasons may
change, days run into weeks, weeks IN
to months, aud months may be swsl'
lowed up into the gray mist OF adysne'
ing years, but that mortgage stands UP
in sleepless vigilance, with the interest,
a perennial stream, a ceaseless slum'
berer, the unpaid mortgage rears up iu
gauut front in perpetual tormen! to the
miserable wight who is held 10 its pitt
less clutch. 1t holds to poor victims
with the relentness grasp Of @ giant;
not one hour OF recreation, not . NC
ments evasion Of its hideous presence,
A genial savage Of modifying aspect
while the interest is paid, very devil
of hopeless destruction when the pay
nlent fails.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-24
Tile MILE AND THE SMALL Boy.

THE MULE AND THE SMALL Boy
A boy, apparently very much sgltated,
rushed into house yesterday and said
to the lady, 4 don't want ter alarm
yer, but I've got big news. The man
from the livery stable sent me up to
tell yer.
Good hcaveno, what is il"
why, you know yer little boy Alsck,
what the man can't keep outer tie
livery stable round the corner"
Yes, well?'
L told Aleck just now not to go 10.
ter the stable among the horses, but he
wouldn't mind me- 4.
oh dear! What has happenedT
He SAID he wanted ter see what Q
mule 'ui do when yer tickled its heel
with straw
oh. heavensn gasped the lady, and
clung to the mantle for support.
We'll, sir, yer boy Aleck got straw
snuck up behla' sorrel mule, tickIed
him on the heels, an
The lady started for the door.
AN the blamed critter never lilted
a hoof,' called tho boy. Never as
much as switched Its cussed tail. It's a
mighty good thing for Aleck that he
didn't, too; an | thought I'd come up
an tell YER Aud he lodged out al
the side entrance.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-24
IxoERss1L or Lsvs.-Rsbert In.
yersoll has a great amount Of poetry Ia
=. .ounos;,iop and utters gems OF

lNGERb6l.L OS LoFn.-R~SSs' A.
gersoll has great amount OF poetry IN
his composition, and utters gems OF
thought as beautiful as any sverspoken.
Here arc few from recent lecture:
And then do you know, / like to
think that love is eternal; that ifyou
really love the woman 70. her sake,
you will love her no matter what she
may do that ifshc really loves you Tor
your sake, the same; that love does
not look at alterations through the
alterations of time. through the mask OF
years If you really love her. you will
always see the face you loved and won.
And | like TO think OF it. Ifa man
loves a woman, she does not eyer grow
ol.l to him, and the woman who really
loves man does not see that he grows
Old. He is no decreplt to her. He 10
not tsemulous. He is not old. He IS
not bowed. She always.sees the same
gallant fellow that won her hand and
heart. 4 IKE to think Of It In that way,
and as Shakespeare says, Let time
reach with his sickle as far as be can
although he caa reach ruddy cheeks and
ripe lips and flashing eyes, be cannot
quite reach love-
like to think q it. We will 20
down the hill OF life together and enter
the shadow one with the other, as We
90 down we may hear the ripple Of tho
laughter OF our grand children. and the
birds and spring and youth, and love
will sing once more upon the lcafless
branches of the tree Of age. love to
think Of in that way absolute equals
happy. and free. all our own.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-24

An asylum for aged domestlcated
animal, has just been opened by an
inhsbltant of Goncss IN France. II
already contains COW 36 years of age.
a pig aged 25, and an ls.year-old geat.
The senior member Of this happy family
is, however, a mule. He is 40 years oil
ace. Next comes q sparrow, whose
summers number 81; 2S years OF Life
have been granted to gold.fnsh; and
a guinea fowl and goose have respec-
tiyely reached the ages Of IL aud 81
wears.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-24

Now isn't he an angelo? said the fond
mother as she seated the little fellow W
his hlgh chair at the table for the INST
time. "A sort of destroying angel
remarked the cynical father IS he saw
the Eve dollar caster go spinning 70 the
door with crash. --.l, -'-'~-
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-24

A Michigan lady wants to know
whether or not II is honorable forayoung
man 10 stand idly by and watch young
girl to pass out of her teens into the
twenties and so on down to the shady
side OF forty still bearing her maiden
name.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-24

DR.. Bellows said recently: i never
knew one man or woman who steadily
evaded the house OF prayer and pubic
worship on tue Lords day-who
habitually neglectedit, and had theory
on which it was neslectsd--that did not
come to grief and bring other people
to grief
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-24

A deaf gentleman Of Washington has
invented an instrument he calls Aud,
phone, by which deaf peraous can hear
perfectly. 1t is made Of vulcsnlzed
rubber, and Is placed agaInstthe teeth,
thus communicating sound TO the
auditory nerve. 1---''''
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-24

I'D stay an old maid till got black
IN tho face before I'd marry o man who
chews tobacco And she took a ,wad
of gum out of her mouth and stuck it on
the under side oft seat et bar chair
for safe keeping whils sue Was eating
her dinner. ...l 49, ...
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-24

A newly-marrisd lady was telling IN.
other how nicely her husband could
write. oh, you should just see some
of his lovs-letters = Yes, know
was the freezing reply; I've got .
bushel Of them at homo iu my truaE.'
Tableau.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-24
NOTARIEs PUBLIC.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

DAVIS DIST DIR. G. A. Brown, Obed Funk and
sToNrwAIL.-J. H. Grabil, Eli Cofeli, snowden
Whitaker.
JOHNSTON j II. Rodefer, Martin StFckler,
Levi II. Cutler.
MADlsoS.-samuel c. Campbell James J.
Cofman, Samuel Rinker.
AsHpY -Sami Hamman, Samuel Kingree, Jacob
LEE.-Chri.tian Shirley, D. P. zirkle, John NJ.
Pence
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-24

No matter how bad and destructive
a boy may be, he never becomes -
degraded or loses his relf.respect ssd'ei'
emily to throw mud on circus poster.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-24

Husband Sorry (hic J I'm 80 late.
Some fellows detained me- Wife-'I
should have retired, but was detained
The same way
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-24

The most bash!ul girl we ever heard
of was the yovog lady who blushed
when she was as xcd il she had not been
courting sleep.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-24

There is nothing, says the Philadel-
phia Times, like the cheerful boom oil
business. Every day now there Is an
announcement that another furnace has
started up, and in little while every
such esta blishment in the Lehigh and
schuylkill valleys will again be In oper-
alton. There is much more fun in this
than there is in Preslden tial campaign.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-24
SHENANDOAH HERALD
Advertising Rates.

Advertisements win be inssrtsx - oas solsss
per quars Of ten lines, or less, for hs Art LASER
ton, and 50 cents for each subssqusnt insertion
Unisss tho number of insertions BE- married. spss
the manuscript, II viii b. Published sata fsrsA
and charged sccordirRly.
Notioss In the local column viii be inserted -
tea cents per line, each inssftion.
Advertisements for three nontas o. ies sss "a
be inserted at lower rates. --.Ii
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29

A CHEERFUL HoME.-A single, bitter
word may disquiet an entire family for
whole day. One surly glance casts a
gloom over the household, whilst smile,
like CLEAN of sunshine, may light up
the darkest and weariest hours. Like
unexpected flowers which spring up
along our path, full of freshness, fra
GRANGE and beauty, do kind words and
gentle acts and sweet dispositions. make
glad the home where peace and blessings
dwell. No matter how humble the
abode. If it is thus garnished with
grace and sweetened with kindness and
smiles, the heart will turn lovingly
toward it from all the tumult of the
world. will be the dearest spot beneath
the circuit of the sun. And the influen.
ces of home perpetuate themselves.
The gentle grace of the mother lives in
the daughter long after her head is
pillowed in the dust of death and the
fatherly kindness finds its echo in the
nobility, and courtesy of sons, who come
to wear his mantle and fill his place,
while on the other hand, from an
unhappy, misgoverned and disordered
home, 60 forth persons who shall make
other homes miserable, and perpetuate
the sourness and sadness, the conten.
tions and strifes and ratings which
have made their own early lives SC
wretched and distorted.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC IN
NEW YORK.

The liquor traffic costs the state of
New York more than 100000, 900 year
ly, and we pay more for tobacco than
we pay for bread.
Men and women of empire state, look
at this Your yearly property and
money taxes and costs are, for state gov
eminent and war debt, $4O,O00,00O; to
spread poverty, disease, and crime,
$170,00O,OO0. And the result is, we
have hundreds of thousands upon the
down grade without break, whose doom
is inevitable, and whose future seems to
be sure.
A Paci6c-coast stage-driver as he lay
dying, spasmOdically moved his limbs
up and down, and when inquired of as
to the cause, he replied: 81 am on the
down grade and can not reach the brake"
So this vast army of drunkards and
tipplers are on the down grade and many
of them can not now reach the brake,
though they may take spasmodic efforts
to reach it. This is true of every old
sot who has signed the pledge and can't
keep it, and of every young drunkard
who is slave to his appetite and to his
drink, who says: 81 have tried but
can't break off; have struggled with the
tempter, only to be mastered; there is
no hope for me-" Liquor drinking is a
down grade, even though you drink but
moderately. Gambling is down grade
so is lying and dishonesty; SO is Sab
bath-b breaking. Every temptation to evil
is down grade. The tempted imagine
there will be no difficulty in checking
their speed on this grade at any moment
when they choose though every one be.
fore them had the greatest difficulty,
and many were wrecked.
"I'll drink only once more" says the
young man, who fears the consequences
of his habits. "l'll play only this one
game more, and this shall be the last. y
says the one who is aware of his grow
ing passion for games. an 60 only
this time, mother" says the confident
and innocent daughter.
Neither of them seems to be aware Of
the fact that the one more indulgence
may so increase their momentum on the
down grade that the brake will be beyond
their reach, and useless. Take care
young man.
1t is dreadful to be upon this dowI
grade with no brake, especially whel
everything is at stake for time and eter
nifty. And the only safe course is t
apply the brake at once.-Rev. W. II
WaLdron.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29
Temperance.
TOWN LIQUOR AGENCIES.


The laws of the state provide that
every town shall furnish place where
alcoholic liquors may be obtained for
mechanical and medicinal purposes. In
the absence of such place in every
large town, the druggists are expected
to keep and sell all liquors required for
these purposes. They have no legal
right to do it, and are liable to prosecu-
ton for it under the prohibitory law,
yet temperance men, as we'll as others,
go to the druggists whenever they need
any liquors for medicinal purposes in
their families, and would be greatly dis
appointed if they could not obtain any.
They therefore countenance the violation
of the law. In fact, they may be said
to be partakers in the crime of violating
the law. Here is condition of things
which should be avoided. There is no
consistency in refusing to provide place
for the legal sale of alcohol, and then
prosecuting the druggists for selling to
those who will make no bad use of it.
The difficulties in the way of keeping
up liquor agency we consider to be
these. In community where the pro-
hibitory law is not enforced, druggists
are not always careful to enquire what
use q man intends to make of liquors
which he purchases. and people often
find it more convenient to get whatever
liquors they need for medicinal purposes
of the druggists than of the agent. The
latter, therefore, has but little trade,
and the competition is SO great that the
business does not pay expenses. But II
is mistake to abandon the attempt to
keep up an agency for such reasons
Conformity to the law with reference tt
an agency is the first step in the right
direction. The next step is to require
conformity to the law of druggists, hote
keepers, and all other citizens. If they
refuse to obey the law, they have NJ
good reason for expecting to escape pun
ishment. But when town gives up it
liquor agency, or refuses to establish one
the authorities stand in the position o
granting full permission to druggists t
sell all liquors required for necessar
purposes. The selectmen. to whose hand
such matters entrusted, countenance tn
illegal sale of alcohol, and ought to b
held responsible for plain neglect {
duty. The only right and reasonabl
: way out of these difficulties, in our vieV
y is to maintain town agency in ever
= town of sufficient size to require it, an
= then expect of druggists and all Othe
y to do legal business or suffer the col
" sequences, like all other vlolators of LAY
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29
9aaies' Column.
WHAT is In THE BEDROOM.

If two persons are to occupy bed
room during night, let them step upon
weighing scales as they retire and then
again in the morning. and they will find
their actual weight is at least pound
less in the morning. Frequently there
will be loss of two or more pounds,
and the average loss throughout the year
will be more than one pound-that is,
during the night there is loss of a
pound of matter which has gone off from
their bodies, partly from the lungs and
partly through the pores of the skin.
The escaped material is carbonic acid
and decayed animal matter of poisonous
exhalations. This is diffused through
the air in part, and in part absorbed BY
the bed clothes. If single ounce of
wool or Gotten be burned in a room, it
will so completely saturate the air with
smoke that one can hardly breathe.
though there can only be an ounce of
foreign matter in the air. If an ounce
of cotton be burned every half hour
during the night, the air will be kept
continually saturated with the smoke
unless there be an open door or window
for it to escape. Now the sixteen oun-
ces of smoke thus formed is far less
poisonous than the sixteen ounces of
exhalation from the lungs and bodies of
the two persons who have lost a pound
in weight during the eight hours Of
sleeping, for while the dry smoke is
mainly taken into the lungs, the damp
oders from the body are absorbed into
the lungs and into the pores of the
whole body. Need more be said tc
show the Importance of having bed
rooms we'll ventilated, and thoroughly
airing the sheets, coverlets and mattress
es in the morning. before packing then
up in the form of a neatly made bed.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29
An Important Geological Fact.

Geology has shown us that nature ac-
complishes her greatest revolutions in
the earth's surface conformation slowly.
Every year the river makes its channel
deeper. the glacier wears a deeper gorge
in the Alpine rock, and the ocean tide
deposits the sand it has crumbled from
the rocks upon which it breaks. We
note the earthquake and the devastating
hurricane but these changes are so
gradual man seldom observes them until
the channel has become overhanging
cliffs. or a mountain has disappeared
before the icy stream. or the ocean has
given us Florida. Thus it is in disease.
Our attention is attracted by acute dis
eases, as fevers, cholera, etc., while
chronic diseases (often the most danger
Gus in result), being slow in their devel-
opment, are seldom noticed until they
have made an almost inefaceable impress
sion upon the system. Persons believing
themselves comparatively healthful are
ofttimes the victims of these diseases,
and only become aware of their presence
when relief is almost impossible. Dis
eases of the liver and stomach are the
commonest of these chronic affections.
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
and Pleasant Purgative Pellets are never
failing remedies for these diseases. They
produce healthful secretion of the bile,
prevent indigestion by regulating the
| bowels, and impart a vigorous tone tn
the whole system.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29
HOW TO TREAT HOUSE PLANTS

A lady correspondent of the Fruit
Recorder gives her way of managing
house plants in the Winter:
Every gardener and florist knows the
value of what is called bottom heat.
A warm atmosphere-especialy if dry
one-ls often sufficient to bring about
healthy growth, and is sometimes injuri-
Gus. What is wanted for many kinds of
plants is most heat at the roots and fbers
where growth early starts, and from
which the stimulus is conveyed to every
other part of the plant. A thrifty
growth below the ground is sure to be
followed by fruit and flowers above.
81 accomplish this by filling the saucers
of the fower-pots a0ith hot s0ater. This
is absorbed and carried up by the roots
and fbers, giving the required bottom
heat. Unthrifty plants place over the
kitchen range; keeping them, of coarse,
well watered. 1t supplies heat where
it is most wanted-at the roots-and
the benefit is marked. In warm rooms
higher temperature is at the top, and
the coolest near the floor, where the pots
are. This reverses the proper order,
giving the roots of a plant the coolest
place.
"Another important matter in house
plants Is to give them the morning sun
Windows, where flowers are kept
should therefore face the East. The
reasons are not known perhaps, but the
fact is patent to all whose business it is
to develop healthy growth in plants and
flowers, that an hour of morning sun il
worth three hours of afternoon sun
Every one observes this. and it may
be owing to some increased electrical
action at that time"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29

SOMETHING LIKE IT.-Rev. T. J.
Wheat, pastor at Mexico, Mo-, writes as
follows: Mexico has the largest and
most enthusiastic temperance meeting it
has been our privilege to attend. The
meetings are held weekly on Monday
evenings. The Opera hall is used as
the place of meeting, and although it
seats comfortably 1000 persons, it is
not uncommon to see the seating capacity
overreached by the anxious listeners.
The meetings are conducted according
to the Murphy plan; the membership
has reached near 5000. This effort
which has continued for two years has
created a public sentiment that frowns
out of existence saloon keeping. The
last saloon was closed two weeks ago,
and all the drug men except one, signed
pledge not to sell liquor as beverage.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29

A sad instance of inherited love for
strong drink was given at New York a
few days ago, where little girl only
five years old was taken in hospital by
the police, SO intoxicated as to be quite
helpless. The parents, who are both
drinkers, went away leaving her alone
with pint bottle full of whiskey. During
their absence the child-apparently with
out any any of that aversion for liquor
which children usually show-drank the
entire contents of the bottle.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29
AMERICAN g. EnREIGN PATENTS.

GILMORE 81 CO., Successors to CHIPMANs
HOSMER CO., Solicitor Patents procured IN all
countries. NO FEES IN ADVANCE. No charge
unless the patent is granted No ices for making pre-
lminary examinations No additional fees for obtain
ing and conducting reheaIing BY recent decision
of the Commissioners ALL rejected applications may
be revived Special attention gwen to Interference
before the Patent Office, Extensions before Con-
gress infringement Suits in different states, and all
litigation appertainng to Inventions or PATENTS
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29
THIRD DAY--RACES.
PREMIUMS, 1925

$50 A. M.-PURSE No. 2. SlO0-FOR HORSES TIL
never trotted better than minutes. $40
first, $50 to second. SIS to third. $40 to fourth
1880 A. M.-PURSE No. 8, Sl50-F0R HOSSl
that never trotted better than 23S. $75 to fH
$40 to second, $50 to third SIS to fourth.
$50 P. M.-PURSE No. 4. $125-FOR HORSES TIL
never trotted better than $50. $50 to first, !
to second. $40 to third. SIS to fourth.
$50 P. M.-PURsE No. 5, S2o0-oPEN TO al
horses. $50 to first, $50 to second, $35 to th1
$50 to fourth.
CONDITIONS.-These races to be mile heats, b
three in five to harness, and will be governed by
revised Rules and Regulations adopted and in usel
the National Trotting Association. Entrance fee Of
per cent, which must accompany the NOMINATION.
all cases. Four to enter. three to start ANY NO
distancing the field is entitled to first money Of
barring weight and distance. All entries must
made to d. McDOUGALL, on or before SeptemI
81, 1879, at o'clock. p. m.
OFFICERS OF FAIR GROUND COMPANY.
JP. Baldwin, President; D. McDougall. Vice III
dent; E. H. Dutton, Treasurer; ]. W. Hall. CID
Directors-J P. Baldwin, E. Z. Dutton, d. McDous 4
BENJAMIN Mossman, j. w. Hall.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29

- a "a WEEK in your own town. and no capital
&CC risked. You give the business trial
~ ~ without expense The best opportunity
ever offered for those willing to work. You
should try nothing else until you for yourself what
you DO at the business we offer. No room to ex-
plain here. You devote all your time only your
spare time to the business and make great pay for
every hour you work. Women make much as men.
Send for special private terms and particulars which
we mail free. S. outfit free Don't complain Of hard
times while you have such a chance. Address H.
HALLET & CO., Portland, Maine. OBJ
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-29
A MORBID SWELLING.
Price. 25 Cents:

Re careful to.call fopCoLLINS' voLTAIC PLAS.
TER lest you get some worthless imitation. Sold
by all Wholesale and Retail DRUGGISTS tnropglh0ut
tile United States and CanadaS, and by WEEKS q
POTTER, Proprictors, Boston, Mass.