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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14
Since its Organization in Oc-
tober, 1865.
Important to Housekeepers.

Bernard's Challenge Labor Saving Laund|
Soap money, time, labor, clothing, and is Il
Best Soap they ever used. This generation hi
now arrived at the period, when one good particI
lar result, is worth more than thousand schemd
The people are earnestly seeking for improvement
and especially for methods for cheapening all tho
great staple articles which enter into the necessit
of our every day life. This article has been imprd
ed upon, has been tested by chemists al
others, and has triumphly passed the sever}
ordeal of learned serunity and is now broue
before the public with this claim.
For washing clothes it is superior and preferat
to all other kinds of soap or compound manufact
ed. 1t is the cheapest for all purposes is cas-
made and costs two cents per pound to make
Instead OF having boiling water ON the stove
three or four hours, you simply scald the clothes
few minutes, thereby saving nearly fourffths
fuel and the dsagreeableness of fire, suds and ste
Two or three cents worth is all that is required I'd
family of six or eight persons, and the clothes I
look whittier than if washed by the old process VI
the best of soaps. 1t will save SO worth of |
and fuel in the year. 1t is also excellent for WOO
goods and fannels. The main cause of wear
tear of clothes is rubbing them on board. To
pense with the rubbing is to save the clothes A
few times washing with the "Challenge Sol
| clothing will become whittier than ever.
! For House Cleaning.-This is where our sc
| lenge Soap appeals to the real lady-like no (
| keeper. Use it for scrubbing and cleaning. /
| wonderful in its effects, it makes an excellent
| and housekeeping be done with one-fourth E
usual labor, without injury TO the paint or varr
| 1t viii leave the paint as bright and clean as
| Use it for washing paints, windows and miro
you dare not attempt to wash these with soft soa
For Laundry and Kitchen Use.-Just think:
boiling, and washing and scalding and putE
| through two waters.
For Horses, Carriages, Harnesses, etc.-l&
vastly superior to CASTLE soap for washing no 8
names, ETC., while for washing sores, gals, scrs
es, ETC., it is Indispensable. For harness it is
than harness soap, thoroughly and quickly rel
ing the grease from the leather, cleansing it. rel
ing soft and pliable, while for cleansing the run
gear and bodies of fine carriages it is without
This soap has been used in Orleans County, a
large number oftestimonials have been written
| alive to its value.
Mr.. II. NJ. Horne is agent for this county and
sell the-rght to manufacture to any party for q
As it can be made for cents pound, it is a
cheap as well as valuable article,
Il. b. Stevenson, Clarenceville, P. O., is
agent for Dominion of Canada, Northern New
and nearly all Vermont. Men and women wal
employment, send s1.Oo for Fright and tern
+. B. Stevenson, Clarenceville, P. @.
Rights to manufacture and recipe sent to
party in the county for S1.oo. Address II
Horne, Mrs. j. II. Brown, Mrs. D. W. Hiit
Mrs. j. W. Fletcher, s. r. jenkins, Barton
ing, VT
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14
CHICKEN CHOLERAs
SPRING WITHOUT BLOSSOMS
Late in Life to Look for Joy-Yei New
ertoo Ilnte TO fIend.

Readers of Hawthorne's blouse of Seven Ga
bles' will recall the pathos with which poor Clifford
Pyncheon, who had been unjustly imprisoned since
his early manhood, said, after his release 'sy life
is gone, but where is my happiness? Oh. give me
my happiness" But that could be done only in
part, as CLEANS of warm sunshine occasionally fall
across the gloom of a New England autumn day.
In a letter to Messrs. Hiscox & Co., Mr.. L. H.
Titus of Pennington, n j., says: 81 have suffered
untold misery from childhood from chronic disease
of the bowels and diarrhoea, accompanied by great
pain sought relief at the hands of physicians of
every school and used every patent and domestic
remedy under the sun. / have at last found in
PARKER'S TONIC a complete specific preventive
and cure. AS our invaluable medicine which did
for what nothing else could do is entitled the
credit of my getting back my happy days, I cheer
fully and gratefully acknowledge the fact"
Mr.. E. S. Wells, who needs no Introduction to the
people of Jersey City, ADDS: 'sThe testimonial 81
Mr.. Titus Is genuine and voluntary; only he does
not adequately portray the suffering he has endured
for many years. He is my brother-in-law, and
know the case well. He is now perfectly free from
his old troubles, and enjoys health and life, ascrb
ing it all to PARKER'S TONIC.
Unequalled as an invigorant; stimulates all the
organs; cures ailments of the liver, kidneys, anC
all diseases of the blood
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14
agricultural department.
HOW TO TRAIN A COLT TO
HARNESS.

Put on HIM an easy collar, having
pair of reins attached, or add two
pieces to lengthen the traces, and let
a strong man walk behind him, hold
ing these. After few minutes the
leader may order the man to pull the
traces very gently, so as to press the
collar but slightly at first. In little
time he may pull tighter, while the
leader keeps his eye on the colt, and
if he shows any signs of fllnching,
let him order the traces to be slack
ened, and then gradually draw again
until the colt is seen to learn into his
collar, when the man who holds the
traces may use his whole force for
short time only. The traces must
now be slackened, and the same
course gone over with repeatedly, but
stopping the colt occasionally to
soothe him, taking care, however, to
slack the traces just as he stops, and
to turn little to one side when start
ing each time, while the man pulls
the opposite trace. After this exer-
else let him be taken to the cart or
other vehicle for which he is intend
ed !; allow him to smell and examine
it; then push it away and draw it up
to him several times, raising and low
ering the shafts until he takes notice
of its noise, or of the different APP
pearance when raised and lowered.
| Next turn him around and put him
between the shafts, rub them against
his side, push back and draw up the
cart, drawing him behind and on the
sides with it, until he allows himself
to be "knocked about by it, SO to
speak. This will do for one days
lesson. Next day let all his harness
be put on him, leaving the chains OIL
straps to hang and strike against him,
while the whole of the previous days
lesson is gone through step by step.
Same on the third and fourth days.
He may then be yoked or hitched to
the cart, and should have at least one
hours exercise in going up and down
hill, turning, etc. First start on lev
ell ground. If these directions are
carried out, the colt learns that the
cart he draws is not meant to harm
him, and he will never try to kick il
away or run off from it. Rules fol
training; Never try to beat colt in.
to doing thing, for, if nervous hi
may turn out vicious horse, and i
stupid he may become stubborn. Re
member that by patience and gentle
ness he can be got to do anything
that will not hurt him. When tn
horse shows signs of shying at an OBJ
ject, do not beat him, but lead hin
up to it, allowing him to stand an,
look, as he comes closer; and afte
he examines it a few minutes he wi
not fear anything of the kind again
In passing by hedges with col
throw in stones and stop him till h
takes no notice of the noise. Befor
putting on any article of harness, lie
your colt smell it, and then rub
against his head, neck and body
, Always start a horse with the voice
: not with cut of the whip. In star
ing turn little to one side, and
stopping when going up hill, do I'll
same.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14
FIRST BIBLE PRINTED IN
AMERICA.

The first Bible printed in English
in America is a rare book, much
sought by photographers. The Brit
ish Museum recently offered $500 for
a copy, and finally succeeded in OBJ
tanning one. This old book is print
ed in BREWER type, is contained in
two small duodecimo volumes, bound
in calf, and bears the imprint of 1882.
There is not a trace of John Bull
about it. The title-page bears the
coat-of-arms of Pennsylvania, and at
the foot of the page the reader is in
formed that it was ssPrinted and sold
by R. Aitken, at Pope's Head, three
doors above the Coffee House, in
Market Street, 1892" This intro
duction to the book contains brief
history of the publication. 1t was
first suggested by Aitken in memo
rial by him to Congress, dated Jan.
p, 1881. The memorial was referred
TO a committee, of which James Duane
was chairman. In 1882, the commit
tee reported, saying that Mr.. Aitken
had, at great ''expence," now finish
ed an American edition of the Holy
Scriptures in English, and they COM
mended it to the attention of the two
chaplains in Congress, Rev. DR..
White and Rev. Mr.. Duffield. Upon
examination, the chaplains reported
that, having "selected and examined
a variety of passages throughout the
work, we are of the opinion that it is
executed with great accuracy as to the
sense, and with as few grammatical
and typographical errors as could be
expected in an undertaking of such
magnitude" They expressed the
hope that the publication would
"prove as advantageous as it is hon
orable to the gentleman who has ex-
erted himself at the evident risque
| of private fortune" In consequence
of this fattering estimate, Congress
passed resolution approving the
pious and laudable undertaking of
MI. Aitken, and recommending the
edition to the inhabitants of the Unit
ed States. The publication was no
a pecuniary success.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14
SUCCESSFUL PREACHING I'm
INDIA.

A Brahman clerk told the following
story to the English Judge, when
questioned about his interest in Chris
tianity, after saying that he had new
er been interested but once in the
preaching of the missionaries. He
began, Il was yesterday at R.
How different the people there are
from you! The temples found in
good order, and there were many do
ing pooia (worship), and every one
had his religious marks on his fore
head, and seemed to think of his God
and lead religious life. But here !!
Look at the temples they are out of
repair, and the floors dirty, and the
shrines neglected. There are no
worshippers, and you seem to live as
if there were no God and no life but
the present one. Can this be right
1 come to remind you that there is a
God and that He requires from you
worship; and / bring to you, from
Him books, that you may know wha
you are to do to be good and happy
and have happiness in the life t.
come. Now, when you do pray, hov
do you pray? | expect you just kne
down and say Ram ! Ram Ram J /
this praying? Suppose you had poo
crop and spent all you had saved
and wanted the landlord to take O
some of the rent, would you 60
him and just say, "Babul Babu
Babu!' and nothing else? No; yo
would say, "Babu, the crop has fai
ed; you are rich and generous an
noble; have pity on me and forgi,
me my rent this time, and will BILE
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14

Noah G.. Mclean of the Society
of Friends, has been engaged in a
series of meetings in the city of Adj
rian, Mich, for nearly three months,
during which time many souls have
been brought to Christ. The unabat-
ed interest in the meetings during the
whole time has been something mar
vellous, and the attendance has been
large.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14


Pound butter prints can be kept
good while in safety in brine in this
way: Make saturated brine of the
purest salt, using pound of saltpeter
to about twenty pounds of salt.
Bring it to boiling heat. The casks
should also be carefully prepared.
Skim and apply when sufficiently cool.
The gum and sap in the wood may be
removed by thorough steaming with
high pressure, or by soaking in brine
until the wood is saturated and then
filling the cask with boiling brine and
letting it stand until cold. By keep
ing the ca k in a cool place and the
butter under brine the butter will
keep safely.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14
SAVING MANURE.

The Mi7ro1 and Farmer gives the
following synopsis of tie system of
manure saving, to which very sue
cessful New England farmer ascribes
his success. He keeps II COWS and
a horse, breeds of pigs and poultry,
ON less than nine acres of land.
"Fowls are kept for their eggs and
meat are kept in confinement, and
are made to pay part of their eX
penses in composing and finding the
horse manure; thus they get the ex-
ercise they need, and the horse ma
nure is improved. The droppings
from the roost room are husbanded
and saved in barrels and sold or used
on the land. The stable manure and
all waste goes into the cellar and COW
cred swine pens, where it is well
worked by the pigs. Absorbents
are used wherever needed, and thus
all liquids are saved. The pigs are
made great helpers in the manufac-
ture and manipulation of manure.
The COWS kept are selected solely for
their milking qualities. The owner
believes in good feed, and grain is
purchased and literally fed. The
COWS get generous rations of hay, and
yield large quantities of milk. If a
COW does not come up to the standard
at the pail she is fatted, sold to the
butcher, and replaced by another
purchase. The COWS are not forced
it their utmost limit, but are so fed
that they will do we'll at the pail fol
a term of years. Grass and roots
are the principal crops grown.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14
"True belief and true repentance,
Every grace that brings us nigh,
Without money


If your Saviour himself is willing
to show you the way to be saved,
surely the best way is to 60 and get
Him to show you. And if the asking
must be long, if He sees it best for
you to be kept painfully waiting, at
least stay yourself on the certainty
that his ear never grows heavy that
it cannot hear, nor His hand shorten
ed that it cannot save. Be the diff
culties great and tangible, or he they
of that vague kind which threaten
even more surely to clog your ener-
gies, and steal away your chance OF
Heaven, be they new every morning
and renewed every evening, He is
still the able and willing Deliverer, who
said not unto the seed of Jacob
"Seek We me in vain" Though ii
tarry, wait for it; because it viii
surely come
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14

A UNIVERSAL INsECTICIDE.-To
bacco is universal insecticide. 1t
kills ticks upon sheep; the trouble
some scab insect its related species
which produces mango and itch; lice,
fieas, and all other insect parasites
which infest and annoy animals; and
root-lice, leaf-lice and all other pest
which injure plants. just at this
season an application of fine tobacco
dust or snuff may be used effectively
to relieve calves and fowls from the
vermin which keeps them poor and
wretched, and decoction of tobacco,
applied to house or greenhouse plants
with brush, will destroy the pestif-
erous green fly and all other insects
which infest them. The same LIQUID
may also be poured around the roots
of house plants that are infested with
the small white worms, which are the
lava of small black fly that may be
found in the pots and upon the sol
in them.-Ney York Times.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14
Continued from last ageek.)
How Watch Cases are Made.

In 1876, thirteen men comprised the
entire working force used in the manu-
facture of the James Boss Gold Watch Case.
Now over fUe hundred are employed, and the
number is constantly increasing. Therea-
son of this increase is this: In the james
Boss Gold Watch Case all the metal in sight
and subject to wear is solid gold, while there-
mainder, which only lends strength to the
case, is of stronger metal than gold,
giving gold where gold is needed, and
strong, elastic metal where strength and
elasticity are needed, combination pro-
ducing watch case better than solid gold
and at oNE-HALF the cost. n.sv
Over 200, 900 of these cases : q
have been sold, and every jeweler in the
country can testify to their quality and
merit. , 49, 1000
w Marsh OF the Democrat bought jas ia Boss
short time ago, when purchased 1t, and sold 1t to
customer. The showed signs of wear, except
that natural to any case, and am satisfied can be
safely guaranteed for at least ten years more have
sold the James Boss Gold Watch Case for many years,
and the parties who bought the first ones carry
ing them to-day, well satisfied as though they had
regard them the only cases of this kind jeweler
should sell who desires to give his customers the
worth of their money values his reputation.
WIN. j. CUsHwAY, JetceleT.
Send stamp Keystone Watch Case Factories, Pila-
drpha Pa Illustrated Pamphlet showing how
James Boss and Keystone Watch Gases made.
ITO be Continuedl S
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-14

At the Methodist Church at Homer,
Ill.,, Rev. w. D. HI. Young, pastor,
there have been 147 conversions and
1879 accessions to the membership
during the past winter.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-02-28
The Future Of Our Earth.

If the force at the back of all growth,
all completely ard all change on earth
is that which the sun has steadily sup
piled to it through countless ages, and
still supplies, it is plain that when this
force fails, as fail it one day must, there
will be steadily declining develop
ment and rapidly increasing oegener-
alton of things, an undoing by regres-
sive decompositions of what has Teen
done by progressive combinations
through the succe ssion of the ages.
The disintegrating process may be ex-
pected to take effect first upon the high
est products of evolution. and to reach
in deepening succession the low. lower
and lowest organizations and organic
compounds. The nations that have
risen high in completely of development
will deteriorate and be broken up, to
have their places taken by less complex
associations of inferior individuals;
these in turn will yield place to simpler
and feebler unions of still more degrad-
ed beings; species after species of ami
mails and plants will first degenerate
and then become extinct as the worsen-
ing conditions of life render it impOssi-
BILE for them to continue the struggle
for existence; few scattered families
of degraded human beings, living, per-
haps, in snow huts near the equator
very much as Esquimaux live now near
the pole viii represent the last wave Of
the receding tide of human existence
before its final extinction; until at last
a frozen earth, incapable Of cultivation.
is left without energy to produce living
particle of any sort, and so death itse1
is dead. "-Body and WI.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-02-28

them q hacking cough and hectic
flush. The blood purifier circular
fiushes them with eczema. So it goes
through the list of chronic and acute
ills that flesh is heir to. They will buy
anything from beef and bark to steam
atomizer to doctor sprained foot. All
of these people at one time or another
write to some advertising doctor or
vender of the elixir of life. l buy the
names of the advertiser, classify them
according to the number of times the
names have been used by medical men
and the last diseases that afflicted the
writer's. and sell them over and over
again. Sometimes I sell the original
letters outright. The careful advertiser
sometimes 7:aries the character of the
circulars sent according to the charac-
teristics of the letter-writer, even writ
ing a personal letter in some cases."
'.What other classes have yOu?"
1.-TWO general classes. One for the
sharpers and one for the general adver-
tiser The latter class is cosmopolitan.
1t includes all others. really, but it is
made up mostly OF farmers For in
stance, in New York, Rochester and
Detroit are several firms OF dealers in
garden and farm seeds. They get hun
dreds of thousands Of letters every
year. To those addresses circulars OF
all kinds of farm and household goods,
books, iewelry. anything that man
or woman doesn't need but is sure to
want, can be sent with great profit.
The names for the use of sharpers are
the most profitable of all, and yield the
largest returns of all concerned, except
the ones addressed. Once we get name
on that list we know it will pan out till
the man dies. The addresses of all the
people who buy tickets in lotteries,
who write to dealers in fac-simile green
backs, and who write to other adver-
tiserS that offer to give something for
nothing, are very carefully arranged by
themselves. They are usually very
smart in their own conceit, but they
nibble at bare hook
"What prices do these names bring?"
II have got as high as twenty-five
dollars a thousand for names for sharp
ers' use. Good lists of habitual invalids
are worth all the way from ten dollars
to twenty dollars a thousand. Agents
are so easily obtained that ten dollars
is big price; from three dollars to five
dollars is ordinary. General-use lists
copied of the letters bring from three
dollars to five dollars where they have
not been mailed to more than twice
When mailed to oitener, and where q
year or two old, they get down to one
dollar q thousand
care many in this business Of
yours?'
Not continually. They drop in, make
good thing, and straightway begin
mailing circulars on their own account.
The number of actual addresses ham
died by me in one year has never ex-
ceeded one million, but it has crowded
that figure closely. IN. Y. Sun.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-02-28
Getting Mt the Exact Truth.

AS a matter of fact, nobody even
makes larger allowances for other peo-
pie, in the estimate of their veracity,
than the scientific inquirer. Knowing
himself. by painful experience, how ex-
tremely difficult matter it is to make
perfectly sure you have observed any.
thing on earth quite correctly, and have
eliminated all possible chances of error,
he acquires the fixed habit of doubling
about one-half of what his fellOw-cfeat-
ures tel him in ordinary conversation,
without for a single moment venturing
to suspect them of deliberate untruth-
fulness. Children and servants, if they
find anything they have been told is
erroneous. Immediately jump at the con-
clusion that the person who told them
meant deliberately to deceive them; in
their own simple and categorical fash
ion they answer Plumply: "That's a
lie.'' But the man of science is only
too well acquainted in his own person
with the exceeding difficulty of ever
getting at the exact truth. He has
spent hours of toll, himself, in watch
ing and observing the behavior Of some
plant, or animal, or gas, or metal; and
after repeated experiments, carefully
designed to exclude all possibility of
mistake, so far as he can foresee it,
he at last believes he has really settled
some moot point. and triumphantly
publishes his final conclusions in a sci
entific journal. Ten to one, the very
next number of that same journal con-
tains dozen supercilious letters from
a dozen learned and high-salaried pro-
fessors, each pointing out dozen dis
tinct and separate precautions which
the painstaking observer neglected to
take. and any one of which would be
quite sufficient to vitiate the whole
body of his observations. There might
have been germs in the tube in which
he boiled the water (germs are very
fashionable just at presently, or some
of the germs might have survived and
rather enjoyed the boiling; or they
might have adhered to the under sur
face of the cork; or the mixture might
have been tempered with during the
experimental temporary absence by
his son, aged ten years (scientif ic OBJ
servers have no right, apparently, to
have sons of ten years old, except per
haps or purposes of psychological re-
search); and SO forth, ad infinitum.
And the worst of it all is that the I'M
happy experimental is bound himself to
admit that every one of the objections
is perfectly valid, and that he very like
ly never really saw what with perfect
confidence he thought and said he had
seen.-C0r,shiU Magazine.