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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-08
A WORD FOR THE CRANKS.

Cranks, nay son? The world is full of
| them. What would we do were it not for
the cranks? How slowly the tired old
world would move did not the cranks keep
it rushing along Columbus was crank on
the subject of American discovery and
circumnavigation, and at last met the fate
of most cranks, was thrown into prison and
died in poverty and disgrace. Greatly
venerated now? Oh, yes, Telemachus, we
usually esteem crank most profoundly
after we starve him to death. Harvey was
crank on the subject of the circulation of
the blood. Gallileo was an Astronomical
crank Fulton was crank on the subject
of steam navigation Morse was a tele-
graph crank all the old abolitionists Were
cranks. The Pilgrim fathers were cranks :;
John Bunyan was a crank. any man who
does not think as you do, my son, is a
crank. And by and by, the crank you
despise will have his name in every mans
mouth, and half completed monument to
his memory crumbling down in a dozen
cities, while nobody out of your native
village will know that YOU ever lived.
Deal gently with the crank, my boy OF
course some cranks are crankier than
others, but do you be very slow to sneer at
a man because he knows only one thing
and you can't understand him. A crank,
Telemachus, is thing that turns some
thing, it makes the wheels go round, it
insures progress. True. it turns the same
wheel all the time, and it can't do anything
else but that's what keeps the ship going
ahead The thing that goes in for variety,
versatility, changes its position hundred
times a day, that is no crank that is the
weathervane, my son. What? You never
theless thank heaven you are not crank?
Don't do that, my son. Maybe You couldn't
be crank if you would. Heaven is not
very particular when it wants weather.
vane; almost any man will do for that.
But when it wants a crank, my boy, it
looks about carefully for the BEST man in
the community. Before you thank heaven
that you are not crank. examine yourself
carefully and see what is the great deficiency
that debars you from such an election.
Burlington H@keye.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-08

The woman who adopts the idea that fit
ting a number eight foot to a number three
shoe is the proper thing to do labors under
serious mistake. 1t is nothing of the
kind. On the contrary, it should not be
entertained if she desires to be either fash
ionable or comfortable. For some years
past common sense has had a hard strug-
gle to convince thoughtless young people
that they were wronging health and only
torturing themselves by wearing shoes that
deformed the feet and gave the wearers con
stan pain. But the day of triumph has
come at last, and common seuse has pre-
vailed. Women are beginning to wear
shoes with broad soles and low heels. As
a consequence, those who have adopted
the waukenphast shoes have become not
only healthier and more graceful in their
movements, but more genial in their ways
and therefore the more charming No
woman, however beautiful, can manage
to make herself agreeable for an hour at a
time when suffering the torture inseparable
from an unduly tight shoe. To the wearing
ofsuch foot-dressings are due great many of
the diseases to which the young women Of the
age are subject--dseases almost unknown
in the day when their mothers were sweet
sixteen or thereabouts This may seem
absurd to some, but every good physician
will tell you that it is the truth
Girls wear broad soled, -heeled shoes,
and you will not only spare yourselves tor
ture of the feet, but other ailments ola still
more serious character.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-08

No family, no community and no coin-
try can prosper where the women become
degraded. The higher the standard of
virtue and education of women are held, so
much higher will the family and commu-
nifty advance in the scale of civilization and
genuine happiness.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26
But the bull was not vet dead.

But the bull was not yet dead. The
hemorrhage was internal and slow, so the
same man, the cachetero, who had given
the coup de grace to the horses stole in
behind the bull and struck him in the
spinal cord at the base of the brain. A
quick shiver of a convulsion, a stretch
ing to rigidity of the legs, sudden re-
taxation of the whole body, and now the
deed is done.
The band struck p9an in celebration
of the great victory which had been won,
and the great deed that had been done,
while the harnessed teams drive in at full
speed, bells around the necks Of the hor-
SEES, to drag off first the bull. then the
poor horses, one by one. The sand
sprinklers jump into the ring with scrap
ers to cover up the blood and effacc every
sign of the struggle, and we arise to leave,
thinking the show is over, when we no.
tice that no one else arises, and suddenly
right in front of us, without any other
interlude or preparation, a new bull has
been led into the ring, and there he
stands, shifting the air and dashing his
tail in bold defiance to the scene.
But had had enough. One bull fight
will suffice for the lifetime of an average
Anglo Saxon, and my curiosity was stated
to the core. This show introduced three
bulls, which were all killed, of course,
but not until after they had killed eight
horses. Three bulls killed; eight horses
killed; one man wounded; and all to
make a Spanish hol iday.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26
An Arctic Execution.

The execution of private Henry, of the
Greedy expedition, is described as fol
lows by one of the survivors, Sergeant
Fredericks:
Theft of food supplies was proven
against Henry in several instances, and
four or five times he promised to reform.
We demanded his life of Greedy, but
Geeely was chicken hearted or rather too
big-hearted and begged him off. All the
time Henry kept in good physical condi-
ton, coming out in the spring as sleek
as he was in winter. One day | saw him
take food from man without arms OF
legs, and from another who was drawing
his last breath. upbraided him for his
conduct, but he was indifferent and af-
terward boosted that he was able to
take care of himself. The party became
uuit against him and demanded that
Greedy should issue a death warrant or
allow it to proceed without. Greedy
finally consented and the order was Sc
cretly issued Now, mind you, Henry
was as supple as ever and if he had
known that an order for his death had
been issued he would have killed us all,
for we were so weak that we could not
defend ourselves and could scarcely
walk with gun.
"Three guns were loaded can't tell
who loaded them-two of them with
balls, the other with blank cartridge.
The three were placed on the ground and
an equal number of men detailed to take
them up for the execution"
"Who were the three menu"
'Brainerd, Long and myself were the
three. We did not know who loaded
the gun with blank cartridge. No
body knows except the man who loaded
the gun. We were then ordered to pro-
coed to the execution. We found Henry
down on the coast and alone, about one
hundred and fifty yards away, in the very
act of collecting sealskins which were de
signed for the subsistence of the entire
party. Henry did not know that we
were about to kill, but he knew that he
had been warned time and again that he
would be killed if he persisted in appro-
priating the food of the party. We
walked to within twenty yards Of him,
and the ranking man said Henry, we
are now compelled to carry out our or
ders.' The order to fire was given and
the man dropped dead. There was no
missing him at that range and the aim
from each of the two men, whoever they
were. who carried bullets in their guns
was fatal. Henry did not say a word be,
fore or after we shot"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26

A correspondent of the st. Paul Pioneer
Press writes from Ashton, Dakota: "Yes-
terday, in company with General W. II.
BeGdle, your correspondent visited the
famous Indian council stone, few miles
south of this city. This spot is where
the various Indian tribes of Southeastern
Dakota met annually or oftener and held
their councils of war and peace, and
therefore may properly be termed the In
dian capital of South Dakota. 1t is prob
able that the location was chosen on ac-
count of its accessibility, scenery, and
other natural advantages, and to the OBJ
serving traveller it is evident they could
have made no better selection. The ia
nous council stone is smooth ovate-
shaped black boulder, about six inches in
diameter one way and eleven inches long,
and stands in the center of the council
chamber The council chamber consists
of stones placed around circle about fif-
teen feet in diameter, the ground being
scooped out so that the Indians could
sit around the circle with their feet in
clined toward the center. This cham
Der is capable of seating some
twelve councillors, seven of whom
NONlu NC ma JOIlIN. AS there
were many different tribes in the
valley at the time when those legisla-
lures met, it is probable that each tribe
had but one representative in the coun.
Gil. The scenery around the old coun-
ell stone is unequaled in the James River
Valley. Standing on the left bank of
the river. where the river makes a curve
tie the southeast, upon high bluff is
this famous council stone. For miles
up and down the valley the view is I'M
INSTRUCTED, and the many windings of
James river with the trees along its
banks the large fields of ripening grain,
and several towns in the north and
south and the Washington hills to the
westward all visible, it presents a pic
ture beyond description. To the east
short distance are the Diet lodges, once
the homes of the tribe of Indians bear
ing that name. 1t was just opposite this
council stone that General Beadle and
his party of survivors so narrowly es.
capped being massacred by the Indians
in June, 1878, and yesterday was the
first time that he had visited the spot
since. Until the last two years the In
dians have returned once a year and re-
moved the weeds and grass from around
the council stone. Since then it has been
neglected, and in few years more the
Indian capital of Dakota will be known
only in history"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26
SELECT SIFTINGS.

The first attempts to introduce gas as
an illumination in the United States were
made in Baltimore, between 1916 and
1920. They failed, but it was success
fully introduced into Boston in 1922.
The Giants Castle is famous struct-
ure on the summit of a mountain near
Cassel, Germany. On the top of the
castle is a pyramid ninety six feet high,
supporting a statue of Hercules "a copy
of the Farnese) thirty one feet in height.
This castle includes system of water
works connected with the grounds OF
Wilhelmshohe, which is, perhaps, I'M
equaled. The fountain supplied by
these water works rises in column
twelve inches in diameter to the height
of 100 feet.
The har'1onica is the name of musi-
cal instrument, invented by Benjamin
Franklin. There are but very few PEG.
pie who know that Franklin ever in
vented musical instrument, but such is
a fact. 1t consisted of number of
globular glasses set in a revolving mo-
ton on their center, and while they
were in motion their rims were touched
with the operators finger, when a soft
and beautiful sound was produced. A
young lady by the name of Miss Davis
became a perfect performer on the har-
monica, and appeared in Europe and
throughout America in 1865. No i'm
provement has ever been made on the
harmonica, and it has sunk into oblivion,
while the mouth organ has robbed it Of
its name.
All the care of the Dutch has not pre-
served the islands of iceland. Three
centuries ago Schouwen was entirely
submerged, and every living creature
was drowned. Soon after, Noordt Be-
veland was submerged and remained for
several years entirely under water, only
the points of the church spires being Wis
ible. Zuid Beveland had been sub
merged in the fourteenth century. Wal
cheren was submerged as late as 1903,
and Tholen even in 1926 1t has been
aptly asserted that the sea to the inhab-
itants of Holland is what the Vesuvius is
to Tore del Greco. De Amicis says that
the Dutch have three enemies-the sea,
the lakes, and the rivers; they repel the
sea, they dry the lakes, and they impris-
on the rivers; but with the sea it is a
combat which never ceases.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26
THE BEST SHIP AFLOAT.

OF all the ships afloat
On Atlantic or Pacific,
Or far within the tropics
On the Indian oceans breast,
With white sails all a-gleaming,
With brilliant colors streaming,
There's no ship
Like Friendship,
The stauncEesS and the bestl
When the tempeets hover nigh,
And the sea is dashed to fury,
When loudly roar the breakers;
And above the sea-gulls swarm;
When the skies are overloaded,
And the sunshine is enshrouded,
There's no ship
Like Friendship,
To battle with the storm!
4 welcome sight is she
Whenever we may meet her,
With canvas spread out finely,
With pennon bright and blue;
To none she is stranger,
And in the hour of danger
There's no ship
Like Friendship
To bear us safely through
From port to port she sails,
The bearer of dispatches
From Love, the mighty monarch,
Her outfit all complete;-
And though little skiff or clipper
May in race outstrip her,
There's no ship
Like Friendship
In all the royal f1eetl
OF all the ships afloat
On Atlantic or Pacific,
Or far within the tropics
On the Indian oceans breast,
With white sails all a-gleaming,
With brilliant colors streaming,
There's no ship
Like Friendship
The staunchest and the bestl
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26
Marshall.

THE NOLTAlC BELT Co., of Marshall
Mich, offer to send their celebrated ELECTRO
NoLTAIC BELT and other ELECTRIC APPLI-
ANCEs on trial for thirty days, to men young
or Old afflicted with nervous debility, loss of
vitality and manhood and all kindred troubles
Also for rheumatism, neuralgia, paralysis and
many other diseases. Complete restoration
to health, vigor and manhood guaranteed. No
risk is incurred as thirty days trial is allowed
free
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26

About thirty years ago, a prominent
physician by the name of DIR. William Hail.
discovered, or produced after long expert.
mental research, remedy for diseases of tie
throat, chest and lungs, which was of such
wonderful efficacy that it soon gained wide
reputation in this country. The name of the
medicine is DR.. VIM. Halls Basam for the
Lungs, and may be safely relied on as a
speedy AM positive cure for coughs, colds
sore throat ETC.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26

and everything in the nature Of eruptions,
blotches, pimples, ulcers, scrofulous humors,
and incipient consumption, which is nothing
more nor less than scrofula of the lungs, com
pletely out of the system. 1t stimulates and
invigorates the liver, tones up the stomach.
regulates the bowels, purifies the blood, and
builds up the weak places of the body. 1t is a
purely vegetable compound, and will do more
than is claimed for it, We refer to DR.. Perces
Golden Medical Discovery
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26

are the words used by lady, who was at one
time given up by the most eminent physicians,
and left to die. Reduced to mere skeleton,
pale and haggard, not able to leave her bed,
from all those distressing diseases peculiar to
suffering females such as displacements, leu.
corrhpa, inflammation, etc, etc She began
taking DIR. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription
and also using the local treatments recon.
mended by him, and is now, she says, las
good as new.n Price reduced to one dollar.
By druggists.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26

The great unanimity with which dairymen of
high reputation have adopted, in preference
to anything else, the Improved Butter Color
made by Wells, Richardson a. Co., of Burling
ton, Vt, is remarkable 1t shows that the
claims of initiative colors are baseless; wise
dairymen will Use no other
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
is to be had at the nearest drug store for dol.
lar. 1t is not claimed that this remedy will
cure every disease under the sun, but that it
does all that it claims to do, thousands Of
good women know and declare.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26

when our new method is guaranteed to per
manently cure the worst cases of rupture
without the use of knife Send two letter
stamps for pamphlet and references. World'i
Dispensary Medical Association, 663 MAR
street, Buffalo, n. Y.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26
"ROugh on Pain.''
Young Men.-Read This.

Cures collie, cramps, diarrhpa; externally
for aches, pains, sprams, headache, neuralgia,
rheumatism. For man or beast. % and SOC.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26
Throw AMnN Trms.es

NITRE beds are being found in Nevada
rivaling i'll productiveness those of Peru.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26

lJT1IH us man or woman, if you
OnJU cln, anlictt d with tOothache.
earachr, headache, backache. any ache
tina. has sought relief in DR.. Thomas
Eclectrio Oil to no advantage, and in re-
turn we will refer you to thousands
similarly affected whom this medicine
hls restore and cured CONF letely.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26

Porous and strengthening, improved, the
matism, neuralgia. 25c. Druggists or mail
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26

THE New York horse cars last year killed
twenty-four persons and injured eighty-nine.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26

Kentucky, with voting population
of 376, 231, has 4S,177 colored vo-
tiers.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26
An Undoubted Blessing.

THE electric light on Washington monu
ment can be seen seventeen miles away.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26

III 1ItN IIII ny
and delicate, use wells Health REVIEWER
Hay-Fever is a type of catarrh having pc
culiar symptoms. 1t is attended by AN in
famed condition of the lining membrane Of
the nostrlls, tear-ducts and throat, affecting
the lungs An acrid mucus is secreted, the
discharge is accompanied with burning SON
sation. There are severe spasms of sneeZing,
frequent attacks of headache, watery and in
famed eyes. Ely's Cream Balm is remedy
founded on a correct diagnosis of this disease,
and can be depended upon. 80 cts. at drug
gists; 90 cts. by mail. Sample bottle by mail
so cts. Ely Bros, Druggists, Owego, n. Y.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26
WATCH
The Kidneys.

AAO N1O11CyS.
They are the most important
secratory organs. Into and through
The Kidneys flow the waste fluids Of
The body, containing poisonous mat.
ter taken out Of the system. II the
Kidneys do not act properly his
matter is retained, the whole sys.
tenn becomes disordered and the
following symptoms will follow
Headache, weakness, pain In the
small Of back and Ioins, flushas Of
heat, chiIls, with dlsordersd stom.
ach and bowels. You can thor.
oughIy protect the Kidneys by BUR-
DOCK BLOOD RITTERs, and when
any OF these symptoms manifest
themselves you can quickly rid
Yourself Of them by this best Of all
medicines for the Kidneys. BUR.
DOCK BLOOD RITTERS are scId
everywhere al 81 per botiia, and one
bottle will prove their efficacy.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26

% Cents

Headache, fever, chills, malaria, dyspepsia,
cured by "Wells' Health REVIEWER 81.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26

A baldheaded man, who has heard that the
hairs of a mans head are numbered, wants TO
know if there is not some place where he can
obtain the back numbers. Carboline will
sunDly the demand
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26

VIII buy TREATISE on THE HORSE AND HIS
DISEASES Book Of 100 pages, valuable to
every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken.
Sentpostpaid. New YORK HORSE Book Co.,
1874 Leonard Street. New York city.
Beware of the incipient stages of consump-
ton. Take Piso's Cure in time.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-26

GERMANY expends $50, 1000 annually for the
of experimental forest stations.
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The Hope orthe Nation.

Children, slow III development, puny ,scrawn
and delicate, use ''Wells' Health Renewer.n