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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-31
WORTH THINKING ABOUT.

One of the most effectual ways of
pleasing and of making oneself loved is to
be cheerful; JOY sOftens more hearts
than tears.
Our customs and habits are like the
ruts in roads; the wheels of life settling
into them, and We jog along through the
mire because it is too much trouble to
get out of it.
To him who thinks thing is sinful
it is sinful, though it may not be sinful
to his neighbor. Many man is doing
right, and is SHINING in doing it, because
he is violating his own conscience-not
any natural law or custom, shut simply
going against his own conscience.
A wealthy man one day displaying
his jewels to philosopher the latter
said, Thank you, sir. for being willing
TO share such magnificent jewels with
me-" "Share them with you, sir ?" ex-
claimed the man. "What do you mean ?"
"Why. you allow me to look at them;
and what more can you do with them
yourself?" replied the philosopher.
Only sensitive and sympathetic ma
ture can tell just where intrusiveness be
gins. so as to avoid its first approach.
We can all, however, improve in this re-
spect by cultivating our perceptions and
sympathies 50 as to enter somewhat into
the consciousness of other people. No
one deliberately intends to become an
intruder or bore, but many actually
do so from selfish and careless disregard
of the feelings of others and an utter
ignorance of the way in which their con-
duct affects those who view it from an
outside standpoint.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-31
STRANGE STORY OF AN OLD
MURDER,

A strange story in connection with
murder committed sixteen years ago is
contained in letter from Batesville,
Ark. James Baxter and his wife were
emlgrating to Louisiana in 1865, and
fell IN with man calling himself Isaac
Young, when near the Louisiana bound
ary line. They encamped one night at
the head of lonely glen, when both
the men disappeared. The deserted
wife, knowing that her husband had
$1,000 IN gold upon his person. was con-
vinced that he had been murdered by
Young, but all her efforts to trace him
or her husband failed. She settled her,
self in little hut close to the scene of
her husbands disappearance, and has
lived there ever since, waiting for ti-
dings. Recently she received letter
dated Melbourne, Australia, from a
stranger. stating that man had died
there who passed by the name of San
ders, but papers he had left behind
showed that he was Isaac Young, an
American. The papers included con-
fession of the murder of Baxter, and
pointed out the place where his body
could be found. He further stated that
he had gone to New Orleans and taken
passage to Australia, where he speeu-
lated with great success. At his death
he was quite wealthy, and he directed
that Mrs. Baxter should be searched for
and, if living. paid $4,000. with interest
from the date of the murder. He also
begged forgiveness for his crime. An
investigation proved that the informa'
ton was correct as to the murder, fol
the remains of Baxter were found in the
glen, and deeently buried. Mrs. Baxter
has declined to accept the money. but
she may yet conclude to accept it if the
murderer is actually dead, which many
people doubt.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-31

like-oh, so very much Ito keep this
same gold. Will you lay it aside for
three months, when | may redeem it?
I do not know that | can, but | will
save every penny earn. if you will but
do this for me-.
1.-The man smiled and consented.
''He marked the gold in my sight,
and laid it away. Within the time |
had regained possession of it. 1t is
here, Miss Laurence. It seems tri-
fling sum now to both of US, but remem-
Der it has made me all that | am. Yet
its payment does not pay my debt.
You said perhaps l might play at your
wedding. Command me, and | obey,
even though l thus fOrswear my second
debt to the boy who. second time. in
my manhood, causes me the deepest
misery my life has known"
He paused, and held outstretched to-
ward her the open purse. His face was
like marble; his eyes shone with won
derful fire.
"Of what are you speaking" she said
gently. Whom am | to marry 2"
"Last night he told me you were his
betrothed"
|
HE? Who?"
"Fairfax Farley"
at is not true. He has wished it So,
but l did not know my own heart, and
asked that he should wait. | know it
now. l know that it can never be.
Carl, you spoke of gulf between US.
Is it one that love will not bridge ?"
The next night, Fairfax Farley and
Herr Seiberg met.
"You have decided ?" asked the for
mer.
at is impossible, Carl replied; "but
since you so kindly have asked me to
play at your wedding, may | not ask
you to dance at mine ?"
"Ah. you are betrothed then ?"
"Yes."
Sand to whom 2"
"Miss Laurence" )" the young musician
answered, proudly.
Two little words-a name soon to be
merged into another identity; but theil
momentary utterauce had cancelled his
twofold debt-redeemed his boyhood'
VOW.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-31
IN HOLLAND.

The seas of wheat, the fiaxields green.
The willow fringe along the sky,
The clustering spires, in distance dim.
The red-tiled hamlets, clear and trim,
The chateaux with their tourelles high,
That over russell woods are SEEN
SINK In the southern clouds which lean
Upon the brown lands level line,
Or castled mountains of the Rhine.
And norward on the horizon loom
The sandhills with their windmills gray,
Twinkling like midges in the glow
Ofthe long, level sea-light low
Where Amsterdam, Bergen-op-zoom,
And Hollands pastures spread through day,
With many branching waterway;
To where the white surge curlingly
Rolls from the azure Zuyder Zee.
More red-tiled towns in trees embowered,
CathedraIs which museums are;
Great picture galleries where bloom
The hues of Rubens rich. and gloom.
Scenes that in Rembrandt's brow have lowered
scenes which appear as though they were
Painted by Nights hand and STAR
And Potters landscape sweet with kline,
And feeling for dumb life, divine.
Interiors by Jen steen, with dame
And Flemish cavalier, where glow
Cioaks crimson mid the sheen of steel,
And petticoats like lemon peel,
And robes that shift in silver fame
OF satin stiff and glossy white,
And crisped laces in the light;
And IN the shadow. china sets,
And nut-brown carved cabinets.
There, too, the gray-green swinging seas
of Vandervelde, with his sea-fghts
The curling smoke of broadsides-red
Flame jets-confusions, drownings dread.
And shattered masts, sails dropping dead;
UT nigh popped stately argosies
Returning after voyage-flghts,
Deep-weghed with China's silks and tea
Or Ceylon's spice and ivory.
from pictures past to present time,
From city sights to rural scene
We turn, and docks with bale and wine,
And fat, fresh fields of quiet kine
There shaded hamlets. quaint and clean !;
And Hollands race, bluff and sublime.
Whose industry and force, ween,
Have conquered ocean to mountain
home beneath, as on the main.
IT C. LrWir,, in Irish Time
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-31

WoMANLY ECoNoMY.-There is much
talk of the extravaganza of woman,
and there is no doubt that when wom-
an puts her hand to the spending Of
money she can do it with perfect loose
ness. Women are naturally extremists,
and do whatever they do and think
whatever they they think with all their
might. But to this question of spend
ing money there are two sides. and the
balance inclines toward saving rather
than spending. Women are naturally
economists. They have twice the skill
eff saving that men have. Think of the
"auld clothes made to look amaist as
we'll as new," think of the old bonnets
retrimmed and brought out in the latest
style; think of the twisting and turning
the contriving and saving to which
many woman resorts to keep her fam
lily looking respectable. while her hus-
band never thinks of stinting himself In
cigars or liquor. Many man is kept
from pauperism by the contrivings of
his wife; many family owes the COM
Portable house they inhabit more to the
economy of the mother than the savings
of the father. Before men talk of the
extravaganza of a woman, they should
strive to learn lesson from their econ
| omy.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-31

1.-The first professor said," she ex-
planned to Mr.. T., on her return, "that
Elmira sings too much with her borax.
If she keeps on, she will have digestion
on the lungs. He said she ought to try
abominable breathing and practise SOL
fuegery. Then the next teacher told me
she ought to sing more from her dia-
gram and not smother her voice in the
sarcophagus. Then the next he poked
lOOking-glass down her thaOat, and
said that the phalanx was too small and
the typhoid bone and the polyglottis
were in bad way and | never knew
Elmira had SO many things down her
throat. and I'm afraid to let the poor
girl sing any more for fear it will kill
her,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-31
REMEMBER, CHILD, RE-
MEMBER.

That tail hold is better than no hold;
and if you can't get good solid grab on
the nose of circumstances, fasten on to
the tail and make her draw you. 1t
may not be pleasant, but it will beat
standing still with your right fOre6nger
in the northwest angle of your mouth.
Remember that everybody can't be
lawyers and preachers and doctors and
merchants.
Strange as it may seem. everybody
can't be editors. Now and then there
must be a farmer and mechanic.
Remember that a man is not fool
simply because he is a mechanic, and
works for living. If you think SO,
just jump out of the senior class of an
eastern college and try to shoe horse,
and set up and space line of nOnpareil
type.
Remember that it is better to cure
yourself of one bad habit than to warn
friend of two. The world would not
be half so bad if every individual in it
would brace up and stop his internal
meaUness.
Remember if you are paragrapher
that somebody will remember your old
borrowed jokes. Don't tell US that the
boy who crawled into the empty molas-
ses barrel wished for thousand tongues;
for that boys great-grand-children died
before we were born, and we are a thou
sand years old.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-31

Always pay as you CO." said an old
Aberdonian to his nephew. 'sBut, Uncle,
suppose haven't anything to pay with?"
''''Then don't go.''
Henderson says he has lots of snare
time on his hands since he began to at
tend to his own business. Formerly he
was the hardest worked man in Boston.
1t is the easiest thing in the world to
write fun. All you've got to do is to sit
down and think of it and then write it.
We could write columns of tiff we could
think of it.
The remark made by st. Louis Girl
when she first saw Forepaugh's beauty
was: swell, if couldn't peel the socks
off'n her in good-lookiness I'd sell out an
go to Chicago"
Spoony dry goods clerk to smart miss
trying on hat before the glass-sDon't
l wish I was a looking glass" Smart
miss-s'Yes, perhaps you'd get more girls
to look at you then"
One can't be too careful of firearms. A
boy carried pistol in his pocket, and one
day while he was in swimming the pistol
unexpectedly went off, He has no suspi-
cions as to who took it,
Austin, Tex, has female deputy sher-
if, and when she tells man she has an
! attachment for him he don't know wheth-
er to blush and try to look sweet or to
light out for the woods.
Scene: Bridal reception. Several of
the guests, after shaking hands with the
bride, and all speaking at the same time /:
''Where is the groom?" Bride, naively,
ooh, he's up stairs, watching the wedding
presents"
A lady, regular shopper, who had made
an unfortunate clerk tumble over all the
stockings in the store, objected that none
of them were long enough. ''I want, :"
she said, ''the longest hose that are made, -
"Then madam" was the reply, ''you had
better apply at the next engine house."
There has been a family jar. s'Come,
mother, come," says the son-in-law to the
old lady, in obedience to the pitiful re-
quest of his wife not to be disagreeable,
''let US make it up. 1 said there was no
woman in the world SO unbearable as you
are-didn't I?-at which you felt hurt.
Well, take it back-there are Others"
The symptoms of itching piles are mois-
ture, like perspiration, intense itching,
most at night, seems as if pin worms were
/ crawling in or about the rectum. The
more you scratch the worse they itch
very distressing. The private parts are
often affected. DIR. SwAYNE's OINTMENT
is the most effective remedy extant for this
tormenting complaint. Gives rest al
night without that desire to scratch. Also
has no equal in quickly eradicating letter
itch, salt rheum, erysipelas, BARRIERS itch
pimples, all scaly, crusty, itching ski
eruptions. Here is the proof: 'Certainly
the best remedy ever used in my practice
DR.. Cotton, Woodstock, VT" ''Troublet
with itching piles for over twenty years
it cured me completely, L. S. Messer, En-
field, Me. Sent for 80 cts, in 8 ct. stamps
3 boxes, $i.25, by DR.. Swayne & Son
Philadelphia, Pa. Sold by all druggists
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-31

''THANK GOD FOR COMPOUND OXYGEN! ~
This is the grateful Inference of the
wife of a clergyman. Her letter, dated
New City, Rockland County, New York,
June II, 1880, thus states the condition of
her husband when he began the Oxygen
Treatment: ''Rev. A. j. Conklin, pastor
New City and Centennial churches, New
ark conference, was run down with over
work voice injured, memory impaired,
so that he could scarcely follow up gener-
al reading, much less study; throat affect
ed, and the whole system in bad state.
He would have had to stop preaching had
he not found help. asked him this morn
ing what should say in reporting prog
ress to you for him. co. he says, tell
them I am well. Never felt better in my
lifep This, on the minister's Blue Mon
day, after preaching three times on very
hot day, administering the sacrament and
baptismal service, and walking three miles
afterward! And now he is at work in
his garden. Thank God for Compound
Oxygen!' Our treatise on Compound
Oxygen, which gives full information
about this remarkable remedy for chronic
diseases, is sent free. Address Drs. Star
key & Palen, 1l09 and I'LL Girard street,
| Philadelphia, Pa.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-31
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LYDIA 9. PRNKHAM'S
VEGETABLE EoMP0TfND
Is a Positive Cure


for oil those Painful Complaints and Weaknesses
r common to our best female population.
1t will entirely the worst form of Female Com
plnints all ovarian troubles Inflammation and Ulcera
don, Falling and Displacements, and the consequent
Spinal Weakness and is particularly adapted to the
Change of Life.
It will dissolve and expe tumors from the uterus In
an early stage of development The tendency to
humors thereis checked speedily by its use
1t removes fantness fatuency, destroys all craving
for stmulants, and relieves weakness of the stomach
1t cures Bloating Headaches, Nervous Prostretion,
General Debility, Seeplessness, Depression and Ind
gest1on.
That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weight
and backache, is always permanently cured by its use
1t will at all times and under all circumstances act in
harmony with the laws that govern tho female system
For the of Kidney Complaints of either this
Compound is unsurpassed.
LYDIA E. PINKTAM'S VEGETABLE COM
POUNDis is prepared at 23S and 23j Western Avenue
Lynn, Mass Price 81. Six bottlesfor S. Sent by NAL
In the form of pills, also in the form Of lozcnges,
receipt of price, 81 per box for either Mrs Pinkha
freely all letters of inquiry. Send for panph-
let. Address above. Mention this Paper.
No family should be without LYDIA Z. PINKHAMS
LIVER PILLS They constipation, biliousnese
and torpidity of the liver. 25 cents per box.
Rg Sold by all Druggists. -SA
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-31

AN OLD woMAN's ADvIcE.-Aunt Rachel, writing to
the Cincinnati Enquirer. says: "when you feel un-
well and think you must take medicine, for goodness
sake get the best If you need remedy that will
make you regular in your habits. give you good nat
ural appetite make your skin clear and smooth and
remove all spots and blemIshes that indicate H.
health IL you wish to be free from mental depression.
retfulness peevishness wakefulness and other dsor
ders, use Browns Iron Bitters."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-31

RHEUMATIC DIsRAsEs.-These ailments follow from
torpid liver and cOstive bowels; the skin. bowels and
kidneys falling in their proper work. an acrd poison
is formed the blood which is the occasion Of these
diseases. KidneywOrt produces healthy action
of all secretive organs and throws Off the rheumatic
| poison. Equally efficient liquid or dry fOrm.-
| Inter Ocean.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-31

The selfish mans heart, like mans
coffin, is just his own measure, being long
enough and broad enough to hold himself,
with room for no one else.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-31
0rleana County Munitur,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
GEO. H. BLAKE,
BARTON VT.

Enthusiastically in ddUance, lis per annum. If
n OF paid in advance S200 year. Subscribers
outside of Orleans County must remit 10 cents extra
or postage. For convenience in remitting, we will
give credit for year and four months for So 90 to
subscribers in the county, and year three
lS2.OO TO subscribers withoutthecounty when sent
strictly in ddUdnce.
RATES OF ADVERTISING madeknown ona pplication
Remit by P. o. Money Order, Registered Letter or
Draft. Watch the label on your paper and notice
when your subscription expires and that your
payments are keptin advance. When money is sent
we shall give you the credit the label at once
If the label is notadvanced within two weeks notify
ms by pOstalcard.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-31

Always pay as you CO." said an old
Aberdonian to his nephew ''But, Uncle,
suppose | haven't anything to pay with?''
''Then don't CO."
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-16
THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE 1881

close the market was somewhat steadier and
prices showed fractional recovery. Oregon
Navigation rose So per cent. and reacted per
cent. A wholesale coffee house, in a circular
letter to Wall street brokers, calls attention to
the Burcept coffee market and the opportuni-
ties now presented for obtaining for consump-
ton choice portion of the prime Java coffee
held by the City Bank.
The transactions aggregated 462, 600 shares,
of which 5000 were Alton Il Terre Haute;
1000 Chicago, Columbus & Indiana Central
5000 Canada Southern; 1000 Central Pacific;
1000 Chesapeake & Ohio; 1000 Chicago, st.
Louis & New Orleans; 1900 Delaware, Lacka-
wanna 81 Western; 5000 Delaware Il Hudson;
IA, 900 Erie; 5000 Hannibal d st. Joe; $4,000
st. Louis IL Iron Mountain; 5000 Illinois
Central; 5000 Missouri, Kansas 81 Texas;
81, 600 Lake Shore; 5000 Lake Erie & West
ern; 1000 Louisville & Nashville; 5000
Michigan Central 81, COO Manhattan Elevated;
5000 Metropolitan Elevated 10000 Chicago
& Northwestern; 5000 New Jersey Central;
10000 New York Central $4,000 Nashville,
Chattanooga & st. Louis; 1000 Northern Pa
cifc; 1000 Ohio & Mississippi; $4,000 Ontario
& Western; 1900 Ohio Central; $4,000 Pacific
Mail; $4,000 Peoria, Decatur & Evansville;
II 900 Philadelphia e Reading; $4,000 Chi
cago, Milwaukee 81 St. Paul; 1900 st. Paul
& Omaha; 1000 Texas Pacific 1900 Union
Pacific; 5000 Wabash, st. Louis 81 Pacific;
81 900 Denver & Rio Grande; 5000 Little Pitts
burgh; 5000 Sutro Tunnel and 5000 Western
Union Telegraph.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-16
Eastern and European Markets,

New York, Feb. 15.-Money fairly active,
closing at sac per cent Prime mercantile
paper 445 per cent. Sterling exchange,
bankers bills, 60 days, strong at s4.S6X.
Sight exchange on New York, on demand, at
S4.SGI.
Produce exports for the week, S7,200, COO.
Governments quiet and firm.
Eond5-In the railroad bond market to-day
thu features were Texas & Pacific income land
grant sevens, which advanced to S6H from
S4l<; Missouri, Kansas & Texas second con-
sol5 10 S451{ from $50; Wabash, st. Louis &
Pacific equipment seyens to So from 53: Kansas
Pacific first consols to 106 from 1043E; Indiana,
Bloomington & Western seconds to 7S14 from
~; Union Pacific sinking fund Fights 10
12415 from 1887 Mobile & Ohio second de-
bentures declined to 50 from $50; Denver &
Rio Grande first consols to 1873 from li4s4,
and Houston & Texas Central main line frsts
to 110I from 11155.
State securities moderately active.
Stocks-The stock market opened nominally
strong and higher but speculation was some
what irregular in the early dealings At the
FIRST board the dealings became strong in tone
and the market continued to advance through
out the afternoon until after the second board,
the improvement in prices ranging from A@4
per cent, Texas Pacific, Nashville, Chatta-
nooga & st. Louis, Denver & Rio Grande and
St Louis & Iron Mountain leading in the up
ward movement. In the late transactions
there was reaction of 4@34 per cent, in
which Nashville, Chattanooga Il st. Louis,
Elevated railroad shares, coal stocks and New
York Central were most prominent. At the
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-16
INCORPORATION NOTICE.
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE
Stewart River Improvement COMFY
Incorporation NOTICE.

Know all men by these presents: That Simon b.
Page. John A. Paige, +. 8. Hammond, A. M. MOTT
SON j. B. Scovell, 3. Phillips have agreed 10 asro-
cjate themselves and become incorporated unoer ..e
provisions Of title p chapter 81 OF ae ~. ss, forh
and to that end do hereby adopt and Sign lne IoAo"
ing articles of incorporation, to-wit:
ARTICLE ONE.
Tho name Of the corporation shali be the Stewart
River Improvement Company. The genera nalui i
Of ifs business il the improvement OF ina s'fean ~
lake county, Mime sofa, known and calied ote"ars
river from tts intersection WIN Inc not'n nie Va
section thirty-four $50, township hfsy-iouI So4l,
north of range eleven (t) west to The moulin OF SAID
rivar at Lake SuueIior such improvement to con
sist in constructing Dams and clearing the Dea oi
said river in order to facilitate the runng 81 ,oss
betweea the points aforesaid. Jhs prncipat page
of taps acting such business shall De ~ Duiu'n,
Minnesota.
ARTICLE TWO.
Tha time of the commencement OF said corpora
ton shall be February 18th, A. d 1881, ana the
period of Its continuance shall be thirty (So years
ARTICLE THREE.
The amount of capital stock shall be twenty-five
thousand (25CO dollars. and shall be paid In as re-
ired by the Board OF Directors
ARTICLE FOUR.
The highest amount OF InQ6OteOuoSs or uooiueJ W
which sa corporation she at any time DO suoJect Is
nve thousand $1,000 dollars.
ARTICLE FIVE.
The names and places of residence of the persons
formis this association for incorporation are: 81.
mon B. Iaige, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin; John A.
Paige of Oshkosh, Wisconsin: E. 8. Hammond, OF
Duluth, Minnesota; A. NJ Morrison, OF Duluth,
MINNESOTA; j. B. Scovel B. Phillips, Of Minneapo-
Lis, Minnesota.
ARTICLE SIX.
The names of the first Board OF Directors, are:'
Simon B. Page, John A. Paige e. Hammond.
A., N. Morrison. B. Phillips.
The government of the corporation and the man.
az ent of its affairs shall be vested In Board OF
Directors consisting of three 81 persons, who shall
be elected annual the second Tuesday OF April.
ARTICLE SEVEN.
The number OF shares IN the capital stock Of said
corporation shall be i've hundred (50O). and the
amount thereof shall be fifty (50) dollars each
In witness whereof. The said parties hereunto set
tn cir hands this Ioth day OF February, a. u. 1851
SIMONB. PAIGE.
JOHN A. PAIGE.
f. 8. HAMMOND.
a. M. MORRISON.
j. B. SCOVELL.
ls4a B. PHILLIPS.