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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04
THE STRONGEST DRINK.

Water is the strongest drink. 1t drives
mills; it's the drink of lions and horses,
and Sampson never drank anything else.
Let young men be teetotalers if only for
economys sake. The beer money will
soon build house. If what goes into
the mash-tub went into the kneading
trough, families would be better fed and
better taught. If what is spent in waste
were only saved against rainy day, work
houses would never be built. The man
who spends his money with the publican,
and thinks the landlords bow and ''How
do We do, my good fellow?" mean true
respect, is a perfect simpleton. We
don't light fires for the behring's comfort,
but to roast him. Men do not keep pot
houses for laborers' good; if they do,
they certainly miss their aim. Why then,
should people drink ''for the good of the
house?" If spend money for the good
of any house, let it be my own, and not
the landlords. 1t is bad well into
which you must put water; and the beer
house is bad friend, because it takes
your all and leaves you nothing but head
aches.
! He who calls those his friends who lei
| him sit ahd drink by the hour together is
! ignorant-yery ignorant. Why, red lions
and tigers, and eagles, and vultures arc
all creatures of prey, and why do sc
many put themselves Within the power o.
their jaws and talons? Such as drinl
and live riotously, and wonder why thei
faces are so blotchy and their pockets 81
bare, would leave off wondering if the,
had two grains of wisdom. They Nigh
as well ask an elm tree for pears as lool
to loose habits for health and wealth
Those who go to the public house 70
happiness climb tree to find ish.-Rer
! DIR. Sturgeon.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04
IN OUR HOMES.

As we listen to the thrilling words of
Cough or Murphy, the great apostles of
temperance, and our hearts are stirred
within US, do we not feel ready to put
forth every effort, to make any sacrifice,
if we can but aid in the work of drawing
men out of the power of the tempter? As
we read, only too often, Of some terrible
disaster caused by excessive indulgence
horror and exclaim, How long can such
things be? Or again as we read some
page of statistics, and realize that figures
cannot lie, are we not ready to ask, ''Who
is sufficient for these things?" What can
I do to lessen all the evil in the world?
Yet do not some of us forget so to order
our daily lives that they shall protect
against the sin of intemperance? Does
not wine sometimes find it's way into our
homes? Are we as careful as we should
be to abstain from its use in preparing
the food for our babies? Are we not
sometimes found quite too ready to build
up the broken constitution of those dear
est to US with stimulants, forgetting that
the strength gained is, in many cases,
not real but fictitious? Are we not
often found lacking the moral courage to
speak out boldly on this subject in our
family circle? Is it not easier for some of
us to attend temperance prayer-meeting,
than to bring the spirit Of the meeting to
our homes? How can we help being WELL
nigh overwhelmed by a sense of the re-
sponsibility resting upon US mothers, Sis
| tiers and friends, in this matter? We know
that often where we lead, others very
! dear to US, and most intimately connect
ed with US, will follow with implicit con-
tidence in our judgment and example.
And is it not true, that the purer the
woman the more dangerous her example
if she swerve but one hairs breadth from
the straight line Of duty? We may inter
cede with those in power to prohibit the
sale of intoxicating drinks; we may null
tiply christian temperance unions al
|
closing many a drinking saloons we may
hold out an encouraging hand to every
tempted one we meet, still it is possible
for US to undo it all in our homes, where
our influence should be all-powerful, and
unthinkingly, make drunkards of those tx
whom saloon would have no attractions
had not the taste for strong drink beer
formed at home. God forbid that such
charge should be brought against any o
US. Let our prayer be, that he will gran
to all American women an enlightened
conscience, and make them all true tx
this and every other good cause: tru
above all in the home, and it shall surel.
follow that they will be true in all the re
lations of life.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04

In regard to potato culture, q prom
inent granger in Maine says: 81 believe
from many years of experience that the
surest method by which to secure fair
yield of sound tubers is to plant dry,
gravelly pasture land without barn ma
nure, put handful of ashes and a spoon
full of plaster in the hill, plant pretty deep
in a deep furrow-seed light, hill up pref
ty heavy; when eight inches high sprink-
lie with one barrel of plaster and one
pound of Paris green to the acre. Dig
as soon as the tops begin to die. Put in
the cellar at once. Be sure to have the
pile level or little lowest in the center.
Cover with cedar boughs pretty thick and
but very little loss from rot will ensue.
have $50 bushels of Early Rose dug be-
fore the middle of September, and put in
pile more than four feet deep in square
pen and covered as soon as housed, and
would not give five bushels TO have then
insured against rot till next June"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04
temperance.
THE WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN
TEMPERANCE UNION.

Mrs. Frances E. Willard, the we'll
al Christian Temperance Union, eloquent
ly speaks of that wide-reaching organic
alton as follows; ''More than any other
society ever formed, ours is the exponent
of what is best in this latter day civiliza-
ton. Its scope is the broadcast, its aims
the kindest, its history the most heroic.
yield to none in admiration of woman's
splendid achievements in church-work
and in the Foreign Missionary Society,
for it was in the church that was train
ed for what was my first love as philan-
thropist, but in both instances the denom-
national character of that work inter
feres with its unity and breadth. The
same is true of woman's educational I'M
dertakings, glorious as they are. Her
rescue-work, many-sided charities, homes
for the orphaned and the INDECENT, hospi-
tails for the sick and asylums for the old,
are the admiration of all generous hearts !;
but these are local in their interests and
result from their loving labors of isolated
groups. The same is true of womens
pris ons and industrial schools which are
now multiplying with such benefcent
rapidity. Nor do l forget the sanitary
work of women, which cleaned like a
rainbow on the horrid front of war; but
noble men shared the labor as they did
the honor on that memorial field Mel
Their am unmiudful Of the Woman's Chris
tian Association, strongly intrenched in
most Of our great cities and doing valiant
battle for the Prince of Peace, but it adj
bers of the churches known as 'Evangel-
ical. Far be it from me to seem indiffer-
ent to that electric intellectual movement
from which have resulted the societies,
literary and aesthetic, in which women
have combined to study classic history,
philosophy and art, but these have no
national unity; nor do l forget the con
gress' with its annual meeting and wide
outlook, but lack of local auxiliaries; or
the Exchange where women, too poor
or proud to bring their wares before the
public, are helped to put money in their
purse, but which lack cohesion; or the
state or association charities, where Wom-
en- do much of the work and men all the
superintendent. But when all is said,
the Woman's Christian Temperance I'm
ion, local, state, and national in the or
der of it's growth, with its unique and
heavenly origin, it's steady march, its
multiplied auxiliaries, its blessed out
reaching to the generous south and the
far frontier, its broad sympathies and its
abundant entrance ministered to all true
women who are willing to clasp hands in
one common effort to protect their homes
and loved ones from the ravages of drink,
is an organization without a pattern,
save that seen in heavenly vision upon
| the mount of faith, and without a peer
among the sisterhoods themselves around
the Cross of Christ.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04

If insects attack young plants wash off
the little pests. Fumigating with tobac-
co smoke will kill aphides, but so far as
window plants are concerned, fumigation,
most impracticable. Dip the tops of the
plants in warm water, say at tempera-
ture of 1909 or 125 80, little more or
less, according to the toughness Of the
plant operated on; then with a sponge
you can easily remove any depredators
that still stick to their prey. Scales,
thrips and spiders have to be washed off
and mealy bugs brushed off.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04

TRAINING Vicious HORSES very
simple method and an improvement upon
the Rarey system of training vicious
horses was exhibited at West Philadel-
phia recentiy-and the manner in which
some of the widest horses were subdued
was astonishing. The first trial was that
of kicking or ''balking'' mare, which
her owner said had allowed no rider on
her back for a period Of at least five
years. She became tame in about as
many minutes, and allowed herself to be
ridden about without sign of her former
wildness. The means by which the re-
suit was accomplished was piece Of
light rope, which was passed around the
front jaw of the mare just above the up
per teeth crossed in her mouth thence Sc
cured back of her neck. 1t is claimed
that no horse will kick or jump when
thus secured, and that horse after re-
ceiving the treatment few times, will
abandon his vicious ways forever. A
very simple method was also shown by
which kicking horse could be shod 1t
consisted in connecting the animals head
and tail by means of rope fastened to
the tail and then to the bit, and then
drawn tightly enough to incline the ami
mails head to one side. This it is claim
ed, makes it absolutely impossible for a
horse to kick on the side of the rope. AT
the same exhibition q horse, which for
many years had to be bound on the ground
to be shod, suffered the blacksmith to op-
crate ON him without attempting to kick
while secured in the manner described
Indiana Farmer
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04

A correspondent Of the Germantown
Telegraph says: Fresh, clean hogs lard
rubbed three or four times on any kind of
warts on horses or cattle will remove
them on three or four applications. I
and have never been able to find the Wart
for the fourth application.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04

HINTS ABOUT BUTTER.-Butter made in
May and June can be kept sweet and good
until the ensuing fall and Writer, if one
has cool place for storage; otherwise
it is somewhat difficult. Roll butter may
be packed in tight casks or tubs, and COW
cred with strong brine. This will ex-
clude the air and keep the butter sweet in
a cool room or cellar. Orange county
dairymen use the following mixture in
preparing butter which is to be kept for
some time: To ten ounces of fine salt add
two ounces of brown sugar. The different
ingredients are mixed together, and an
ounce of this mixture is well worked into
every pound of this butter. Willard, in
his Clutter Book" says that butter SO
treated, if closely packed and stored in
a cool place, win keep sound for several
years.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04
Songs Never Sung.
"How does that verse rune Something like this.
There are who touch the magic string,
And noisy fame is proud to win them;
Alasi for those who never sing,
Rnt die with all their nausic in Them ~

There are who touch the magic string,
And noisy fame is proud to win them;
Alasi for those who never sing,
But die with all their music in them"
Eyes, that's beautiful pathetic and true said your
representative 1.-The poet audes to people who are
somehow suppressed and never get their full allow
ance of joy and air. Which reminds me of a letter
shown me the other day by HIsoox Co. of New
York, signed by Mr.. E. G. Williams Of Chapman,
Snyder Co.. Pa, prominent business man of that
place. He writes
81 have suffered with asthma for over forty years,
and had terrible attack in December and January,
1882. 1 hardly know what prompted me to take
PARKER's Tonic. l did so, and the first day took
four Doses The effect astonished me. That night
slept as if nothing was the matter with me- and have
My breathing perfect if had never known
tell him in my that PARKERs Tonic will cure it
even after forty years." There was man who es-
capped the fate of those whom the poet laments.
This preparation, which has heretofore been known
as PARKER's GINGER Tonic, viii hereafter be adver-
tised and sold under the name of PARKER's TONIC.
Inasmuch ginger is really unimportant ngredi-
emit, and unprinclped dealers are constantly deceving
their by substituting inferior preparations
under the name of ginger, we drop the misleading
word.
There is no change, however, in the preparation
ITSELF and all bottles remaining in the hands of deal
ers, wrapped under the name of PARKERs GINGER
Tonic contains the genuine medicine if the fac-simile
signature of HIsCox Co. is at the bottom OF the out
side wrapper
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04
Impairment
HOW BUTTER MAY BE
SPOILED.

Good butter may be spoiled in churn-
ing. Over-churning ruins the texture
and changes the proper Weakness to dis
agreeable, sickly greasiness. This is the
more easily done in churn with dashes,
which will press the butter against the
sides of the chun and squeeze and rub it
until it is spoiled. Too long churning
spoils the quality by the oxidation of the
butter and the premature formation of
strong favored acids in it, the full pres
ence of which we call rancidity. 1t may
be spoiled at too high temperature, by
which it is made soft and oily, and of
greasy texture and flavor. No subse-
uuent treatment can remedy this error.
1t may be spoiled before the cream reach
es the churn by keeping it too long, or
what is practically the same, by keeping
it in too warm a place; fifty degrees is
about the right temperature if the cream
is kept a week; if it is kept at 62 degrees
three days is long enough. White specks
are produced in butter by over-churning
or by having the cream too sour Either
of the faults produce curd in the milk.
and the small flakes of this cannot be
washed out of the butter. Milk from a
COW in ill-health and that is acid when
drawn, will produce specky butter So
will the use of salt containing specks of
lime, which unite with the butter and
form insoluble lime soap. White specks
are covered up to large extent by using
good coloring, which is made of oil as a
solvent. But this use of coloring being
used to disguise fault and to add an I'M
disguised virtue, is worthy of denuncia-
tion.-Americdn Ddirymdn.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04
It is the Best Plow made in
the United States,

the United States,
FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS:
1. 1t is the simplest pillow made for the amount and
kind of work it will do.
2. 1t has no Parts that will get out of order, any
more than a common side-h pillow.
8. 1t has no more pieces than common pillow.
4. The plow can be landed when in use as well as
when not in use
5. Do not have to leave the handles all to change
the amount that it will run to land.
6. Do not have to use the wrench or any tool to
set, or change the width of fumow.
I. Can be changed instantly. to cut any width of
furrow
s. Can be set instantly to cut any width of furrow.
8. Can be on to the land more or less running
either way while in motion. IAN farmers know that
it is great point to be able to cut the width of
furow running both ways without regard to the
crowding off or in the furrow, and the Hubbell Plow
will do it every time; and this cannot be done with
any other plow)
IL. 1t has a movable cutter attached in such
manner that by merely drawing the pillow back it will
free itself from sticks and 1t also keeps the
pillow getting of the ground by getting
cutter will fly up and free itself and not throw the
pillow out of the ground
r. 1t is the easiest draft blow made
l3 1t leaves the soil in the very best of shape to
harrow in, namely, pulverized and light.
IA. 1t holds easier than any other side-hill pillow.
Is. Points chilled the whole length of the cut.
l6. 1t has a shoe or bottom that can be replaced
when worn by any farmer.
II. All plows are ground smooth and are ready
to work when they leave the shop.
More than one hundred of these plows have beer
sent from the shop within the last year and We have
never heard word Of complaint about of them
but have lots of the best testimonials in their favor.
We also manufacture other plows. both swivel ant
land will be by the following list, that have
given general satisfaction:
Murkland side-HlT Pow, No. l. sl2 O
No.2, IL Oh
Hubbell, Nos. 5 and 6, 10 o.
Wooley Land Pillow, No. premium, Is o.
No. II, IL o.
No.2 IL O
Cultiyators, S. 90 and O
Spade Cultivators, O
The Wooley Plow made by u.s. is made by MI
Wooley, not the improved (Which every one says wa
not an Improvement, but the old pillow just as h
made it, only we makeit better by grinding the mol
boards smooth.
100 Kinds of Plow Points con
stantly on hand!
Send for circulars of Stoves. Stove Backs, Fronts
Pillow Points, Cast Iron Sugar Arches Flows. &C., az
Photographs of Arches application.
J.W. MURKLAND
Founder and Machinist,
Barton, VT
: 0Trn DIT TnEC
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04
Terrible Suffering.
Kidney and Bladder Complaints of Many
Years DIratiOn-His Word Good as
Gold-Case of City Assessor Fran
els Gomard, SO SIMMER
ST., Lowell. Mass

His word is as good a bank note at any bank in
Lowell and know it" was the opinion of well known
citizen speaking of City Assessor Francis Gomard
Your reporter found Mr. Gomard at his pleasant home,
which, with many others. adorns Sumner street and
fronts the charming park Of South Common. Mr.. Go
mard said II had been, many of my friends in
Lowell know great sufferer from kidney and urinary
troubles for long time. Ny physician said it the
result of diseased kidneys and enlargement of the pros
tate gland. had suffered terribly, and although my
Doctors treatment had been the best which this city
afforded got no better. said finally Doctor. it's
You have done all that is in your power to do.
l know that; but l must get help from some other
source die Finally was induced to try DR.. Ken
nedy's FAVORITE REMEDY, medicine which had
been recommended very highly for kidney diseases. 1
received help at 1t has acted like charm with
me. Why so? DR.. Kennedys FAVORITE REMEDY
is an honest preparation and know it. Ididnt think
anything would help but this has given better
health than any medicine prescribed for me. I
have recommended it to many of my friends in
the city of Lowell and with the result. They
think there is nothing like DIR. Kennedy's FAVORITE
REMEDY"
What Mr. Gomard says can be depended upon, as
any one acquainted with the gentleman knows
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04

BUGS AND WORMS.-By the first week
in June, the creeping things of the earth
will have commenced their work of de-
struction in good earnest, and unless the
farmer is both watchful and dilligent, his
share of the harvest will not only be
small but of inferior quality. BY the
tenth of the month the currant worm will
put in an appearance; at first he will be
found hid away in the centre of the BUSH
es near the ground; part the bushes and
dress with hellebore; this, if well done,
will prove so destructive that few will
escape to make a second crop. Closely
following the currant worm will be the
tent caterpillar, which is so easily de-
stroyed with a brush moistened in kero-
sene oil, that there is no excuse for hav-
ing trees injured by the pest. The cut
worm, that gray worm which cuts down
so many bean, cucumber, beet and other
plants, must be looked for early in the
morning, when he will be found near the
surface by the side of the plant he has
cut off; to dig him out and kill him is the
remedy. The small fly that makes such
destructive work with the turnip, cab
bage, and beet plants should be attended
to; slight sprinkling of wood ashes Oh
the plant will drive them away.-Ndss
PlOugbmdn.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04

There is no reason why farmers should
not have fresh meat all the year round.
There is certainly no sense in stuffing
yourself full of salt meat every morning,
and making a well or cistern of your
stomach for the rest of the day. Every
farmer should have an ice house. Upon
or near every farm is some stream from
which plenty Of ice can be obtained and
the long summer days made delightful.
DR.. Draper, one of the worlds greatest
scientists, says that ice water is healthy
and that it has done away with many of
the low forms of fevers in the great cit
les. Ice has become one of the necessa-
ries of civilized life, and without it there
is very little comfort.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04

TURKEY BREEDING.-In the hands of
careful persons breeding turkeys is very
profitable, but it absolutely essential to
success that they have plenty Of range
Unlike other poultry, turkeys require per-
feet liberty, and cannot brook contine-
ment. On grass and grain farms raising
cannot help but be profitable, for they
have plenty Of ground to stroll over, and
there is but little they can injure, while
they help materially IN keeping down
countless numbers Of injurious insects.
On fruit farm, where grapes, strawber-
ries, etc, are grown, turkeys, ducks,
geese and chickens are all destructive to
fruit, unless kept within prescribed linn
it's Many farmers wife and daughters,
too, know that most of their Christmas
money depends on rearing large flock
of turkeys, and there are many others
who raise a flock each year. In COM
mencing, get pair or trio of the best,
irrespective Of breed, though the bronze
breed seems to be the leading and most
popular one, and deservedly so, for they
are hardy, grow to large size, and inva-
riably command paying prices. Young
turkeys are very hardy after they get a
full dress of feathers, but are very frail
and tender before that time, requiring
great care in feeding and housing, damp
ness being fatal to them then.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04

VALUE OF THE Agricul-
turists claim it is the best egg producing
food known for poultry, keeping them in
thriving condition and largely increas-
ing the production of eggs. Every poul-
try raiser who tries it will find that this
seed is the best food known for CLOSING
the plumage of fowls, and is almost in
dispensable to those who want to fit their
birds for exhibition to the best advan-
tage. The Russian sunfower is easily
raised, requires very little care, can be
grown in fence corners, or other places
difficult to cultivate. Its production of
seed is immense, yielding often at the
rate of one hundred bushels to the acre.
1t should be planted in hills four feet
apart, any time from the 10th of May to
the 1st of July. Three quarts of seed
will plant an acre.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-04
Baxter & Grow.

Lessons on Piano or Organ.
Mrs. D. D. Bean win attend to giving instruction on
Piano and Organ at all times. Terms reasonable