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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-09-04

II am sure l-or Mrs. Alexander
will be much obliged for your-your
unexpected consideration, Miss Ben
nett answered, as she took up her skirts
and prepared 10 beat a dignifed retreat.
There was no use of hurrying; she
was sure to be caught in the storm now,
and so she turned and swept Mr.. Hale a
profound reverence, whose disdain he
could not understand. But there was a
dimness in her eyes as she raised them
to his.
After all, she was only a child, and
so far the world had smiled into her
pretty face and treated her indulgently.
That was not Mr.. Hale's attitude; but
as she walked away, something-per-
haps the pride of self-assertion over
this intruding governess, perhaps the
thought of those eyes-made him re-
lent. In five minutes it would be pour
ing and he was not quite a brute. He
stepped forward and called, MADAM y
Miss Bennett heard, hurried her steps
an instant, and then stopped. She
would like to be proud to the bitter end
and anyway she could not go back till
she was told.
Mr.. Hale had to take half dozen
more steps before he was near enough
to say, Gas it is raining, miss, if it will
shorten your walk, have no objection
for this once"
20 I shall not do it again." Ruth
cried; I'D sooner go through wilder
ness"
"But that is not the shortest way" he
went on; 1T is much nearer by the
ch-house. Here-let me show you. "
"Oh, I couldn't think of troubling
you. Thank you, but you'll get wet
yourself,
"Since I have undertaken it," an
swered Mr.. Hale, As if apologizing to
himself for his concession; and with the
words he spread his neat umbrella and
walked with her. 1t was only two min
utes. The path he took was shorter,
and Miss Bennett hurried all she could.
She spoke no word till she reached the
Alexander hedge; then she said Is hasti-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-11-03
DIR. sCHENCK'S
H-aE RI1IS

Do not produce sickness at the stomach nausea o.
gripping. On the contrary they are SO i9 , ,lS
agreeable in their action that person suffering VIII
Sick Headache. Sour Stomach or Pain III the loves
Is speedily relieved of these distressing sypiSSi cS
when in healthy condition, pnrihes the biood ioi
the whole body. ,,,. ,-hor
In ali cases Of Liver Complaint or DYSPEPSIA w,leI
there is great weakness debility. lef.
Seaweed Tonic should be used III conlselol
wi fhaen pills
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-11-03
WINTERING PLANTS IN
CELLARS,

Many plants, such as agaves (Centu-
ry plants), oleanders, large cactuses,
etc., that have grown too large to be
accommodated in the sitting-room or
conservatory, can be successfully
wintered in any moderately dry, frost
proof cellar. After placing these
large plants in the cellar it will not
be necessary to give them any water.
the object being to keep them dor
mant all winter, which can be done by
keeping the soil as dry as possible,
but not so dry as to allow the plant
to become withered. Large plants
of the kind mentioned often form de-
sirable ornaments during the summer
time. 1t is impracticable in most
cases, to bring them into the house
in winter, but they can be kept for
years by cellaring through the winter
as stated. Large geranium, saliva,
and heliotrope roots, and even tea
roses and carnations, can be kept
moderately well in the cellar by
trenching in dry or moderately moist
sand. Thus may choice specimens
of these plants that we are 10th to
pull up and throw away when winter
approaches, can be successfully kept
up until next season. 1t is needless
expense to buy a stock of new plants
for the garden every year, when we
can winter many of the old ones in
this simple and inexpensive way.
The leaves of all deciduous plants
should be removed before they are
put away in this manner. The foil
age should remain on the oleanders
and carnations through the winter
american Agricultu1ist.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-11-03
SOMETHING WORTH REMEM-
BERING.

Fruit stains may be removed by
freezing.
Save your cold tea; it is excellent
for cleaning grained wood.
If your fat irons are rough, rub
them with fine salt t; it will rake them
smooth.
Mildew may be removed by dip
ping the stained parts in buttermilll
and putting thefn in the sun.
Table mats made of seine Irvine
are exceedingly durable. They will
wash we'll, and two sets of them will
last almost life time.
Common wheat flour made into
paste with cold water, applied dry,
will take out grease spots without IN
juring the most delicate fabric.
A strong solution of carbolic aciC
and water, poured into holes, kills al
the ants it touches, and the survivors
Immediately take themselves off.
If you cut the back legs of you
chair two inches shorter than tn,
front ones, the fatigue of sitting viii
be greatly relieved, and the spin,
placed in better position.
Whole cloves are now used to ex
terminate the merciless and industri
Gus moth. 1t is said they are NOR
effectual as destroying agent thai
either tobacco, camphor, or ceda
shavings.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-11-03
gaflies' Gola,ls,,.
SENSIBLE HOUSEKEEPERS OF
THE FUTURE.

| wish it was in my power to per-
suade young girls who wonder what
they shall do to earn their living, that
it is really better to choose some bus
mess that is in the line of woman's
natural work. There is great re-
pugnance at the thought of being
servant, but q girl is no less a servant
to the man who owns the shop where
she stands behind the counter, than
she is where she waits upon the table,
or cooks the dinner in a pleasant
house; and to my mind there would
not be a moment question between
the two ways of going out to service.
The wages are better, the freedom
and liberty are double in one to what
they are in the other. If, instead of
the sham service that is given by ig-
uorant and really overpaid servants
to-day, sensible girls who are anxious
to be taking care of themselves and
earn good wages, would fit them
selves at the cooking schools, or III
any way they found available, they
would not wait long for employment,
and they would be valued immensely
by their employers.
When one realizes how hard it is
to find good women for every kind of
work in our houses, and what prices
many rich people are more than will
ing to pay if they can be well suited,
it is Il wonder more girls are not ready
to seize the chances. 1t is because
such work has been almost, always SO
badly done that it has fallen into dis
repute, and the doors of it have taken
such a low rank. Nobody takes the
trouble to fit herself properly, but the
women trust to being taught and find
ing out their duties after they assume
such positions-not before.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-11-03
seidlitz powder, takes more carbonic
acid gas than could be taken in ten
barrels of any we'll water.
TREES AND PLANTS AS
PURIFIERS.

80 ---
The beneficial effects which plants
and trees may produce on dwelling
sites and on the air of habitations
have been made the subject of pa
per by DR.. James Evans before the
South Carolina Medical association.
The network of fine fibrous roots of
trees and plants, traversing the soil
in every direction, feeds on organic
matter which would otherwise under
go decomposition, polluting the soil,
air and surface water. The vegeta-
ton also absorbs excess of moisture
and drains the soil. The moisture is
afterward exhaled from the leaves,
and there is no doubt that the plants
also exhale, with the moisture, some
of their active and peculiar prin-
ciples. The scent of mint and thyme
is due to nlepthol and thymol, anti
septics of the highest value, and 1t is
not improbable that their exhalations
have the same property. The euca-
lyptus is remarkable as prophylac-
tic against malaria. It's leaves i'm
mersed in hot water, are said to be an
efficient disinfectant in a sick room.
BY virtue of their power to generate
ozone and to split up carbonic acid,
absorbing the carbon and setting free
the oxygen, plants remedy to some
extent the evils of bad ventilation.
In Pasteur's virus culture expert
ments he had found that, when they
were conducted under a diminished
supply of oxygen the germs retained
their primary virulence but, on the
contrary, when they had access to
oxygen the virus became weaker. 1t
has been known for long time that
marsh miasm is intercepted by for
est, and that persons living IN locali-
ties so screened are exempt from at
tacks of malarial fever. The expla-
nation of this is probably to be found
in this discovery of Pasteur. When
cloud of malarial germs are waited
from a marsh to neighboring forest,
they encounter continuous stream
of oxygen pouring forth from every
leaf alternating the virus and render
inc it inocuous.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-11-03
WATER SUPPLY OF FARMS.

An agricultural Engineer" writes
to the Country Gentlemen During
the past year, 1 have taken pains to
note the situation of more than a
hundred farm wells and cisterns, and
more than half of them are In dan
gerous proximity to cesspools, some
of which have been in use for scores
of years most of them, however.
have been emptied every spring for
the manure in them; but this, even,
has little effect in preventing the in
evitable pollution of the water supply.
A large proportion of the farms have
wells quite close to the manure yards
and stables. In one of these home
steads, of a family of seven, but one
survived 10 thirty years of age, and
the survivor came very near dying of
an abscess of the liver, no doubt SUI
perinduced by the unwholesome wa
ter supply. 1t is to be hoped that
these facts will give rise to investi-
cations in such cases as may present
suspicious circumstances, and in all
cases comparison with the follow
ing points and the condition of the wa
ter supply may be useful:
There is no we'll safe that is moi
perfectly weH-protected from surface
water and the entrance of worms
frogs, toads and small insects anC
vermin. The well should be cnrbet
up above the surface with bricks O
stone, laid in cement, or well plaster
ed outside with lime mortar, so tha
the ground slopes in all directions
and prevents any pools of surfac
water within 20 feet of the we'll.
1t is common but mistaken be
lief that q well should be open to til
air for ventilation. The reason Civ
en- is that carbonic acid or foul al
gatherfin the well. No doubt q
times this gas gathers in wells. BIT
in every case it is in wells that al
open TO the air, and are fouled wit
decomposing organic matter. Th
purest water comes from drive vel
and artesian wells, to which the on
er air cannot gain access. Carbon
acid gas, too, is only dangerous whe
breathed. Its presence in water grea
~ improves 1T, and . person wi
drinks one glass Of soda water, or
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-11-03
Loss and Gain.
CHAPTER 1.
ST was taken sick year ago


81 was taken sick year ago
With bilious fever"
My doctor pronounced me cured, but
l got sick again, with terrible pains in my
back and sides, and got SO bad /
Could not move!
/ shrunk!
From 22S lbs. to 120! l had been doc
toring for my liver, but it did me no good
did not expect to live more than three
months. l began to use Hop Bitters.
Directly my appetite returned, my pains
left me, my entire system seemed renew
ed as if by magic, and after using several
bottles, 1 am not only as sound as a SOW
ereign, but weigh more than did before.
To Hop Bitters l owe my life.
Dublin, June 6, 81. r. Fitzpatrick.
CHAPTER II.
Maiden, Mass, Feb. l. $780, Gentlemen
| suffered with attacks of sick headache.
Neuralgia, female trouble, for years in
the most terrible and excruciating manner.
No medicine or doctor could give me
relief or cure, until | used Hop Bitters.
''The first bottle
Nearly cured me;''
The second made me well and strong
as when a child,
''And l have been so to this day."
My husband was an invalid for twenty
years with a serious
''Kidney, liver and urinary complaint,
pronounced by Boston's best physi-
clans
''Incurabe!"
Seven bottles of your Bitters cured
him and / know Of the
olives of eight persons
In my neighborhood that have been
saved by your bitters,
And many more are using them with
great benefit.
''They almost
Do miracles" Mrs. E. d. Slack.
| How TO Get Sick. Expose yourself day and night
eat too much without exercise: work too hard with
out rest doctor all the time take all the vile
trums advertised, and then you will want to know
how to get well, which is answered in three words
| Take Hop Bitters!
rs None genuine without bunch of green Hops
on the white label. Shun all the vile, poisonous
stuff with ''Hop' or 'Hops in their name.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-11-03

There is no disputing the fact that
next to thorough draining the great
lack in American farming is a proper
economy and application of manures
and fertilizers. No farmer should
buy any fertilizers until he saves and
applies his manures. From extern
sive observation we conclude that
not one farmer in one hundred makes
the most of his manures. The urine
of animals is as valuable as their
dung and not one farmer in one hun
dred saves it. Such waste of valua-
bic food for crops should not be al
lowed. The barnyard must always
be the farmers main source Of sup
ply for manures and the almost uni
versal mistake in the waste of urine,
the liquid manure which is usually al
lowed to 60 on, and more than this
allowed to carry away with it many
elements of fertility from the solit
manure, cannot be too thoroughly
condemned. We protest, in thu
name of the hungry lands, agains
this waste of vegetable food of thu
best quality.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-11-03

The farmer should select his own
seed corn himself, and not trust to
hired help. By a rigid course of Sc
lection, with certain points in view,
it is easy to make visible gains on the
quality and yield of ones crops with
passing years. The best time to
make selections of seed ears is while
the corn is standing, but if it was
then neglected, it may still be well
done at husking time. Most men
would agree that the main points to
be observed are earliness of maturity,
number and size of ears, the filling
out of the grain on the cob, the size
of the stalk and amount of leaf.
Leave the husks on the selected ears,
to serve for braiding them together
and hanging them up to dry. They
should be hung in dry loft, or the
peak of corn crib out of the way of
rats and mice to dry. By suspending
the braided ears from stretched wires
these pests, where present, will be
prevented from reaching them.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-11-03
RECIPES.

Boiled apple dumplings are novel
ty, and are delicious. Peel and chop
fine some tart apples make Il rich
crust as for biscuit, roll it half an
inch thick, spread it thickly with APP
pie, sprinkle fine sugar and powdered
cinnamon over it, then cut it in strips
two inches wide; roll it up just as
you do jelly roll +; put a little lump Of
butter on each roll after it is put in
the tin or dripping-pan; little juice
will drain from the apples if they are
good ones; keep this to put into the
sauce. Make a plain. sour pudding
sauce.
/ When eggs are scarce and high, ]
can recommend the following as one
of the most economical sponge cakes.
Pour one cup of boiling water over
two cups of sugar. Separate the yolks
and whites of four eggs and beat we'll
th e whites to stiff froth; add the
/ yolks to the sugar and hot water
beating quickly, then two cups Of
flour in which one7and-one-half tea
spoonfuls of good baking powder has
been well mixed. 1t requires two
full cups OF -four measured befor,
sitting. Add small pinch of sal
and teaspoonful of lemon extract O
any favoring one prefers. Lastly
add the whites of the eggs, mixing
4these as quickly and as lightly a
possible, and bake at once in quicI
oven. The above makes quite a larg
] cake.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-11-03

When We!I-Known People
write such Letters as these, who
can doubt the efficacy of DR..
Schenck's Great Fhedicines2
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-11-03
STATEMENT OF MRS. ELLEN E. BUTLER.
CHARLESTOWN. MASS

Eighteen years ago was so sick with what my
physicians pronounced Consumption, that neiiner
my friends nor myself thought that it was possible
for me to recover. had a terrible cough, with
great loss of flesh, night-sweats, and had quite
severe hernorrhages as often as once week.
Seeing that was getting worse every day, from
the treatment of my physician, l was induced to
call on Dr. Schenck one of his visits TO Boston.
After examining my lungs, he SAID that they were
sound and that my trouble came from the liver,
which was so badly swollen and infamed as to
press on the lungs, causing the cough and hemor-
Images He prescribed his PuImonic Syrup, Seaweed
Tonic and Mandrake Pills, which soon gave. me
great relief, and by their use, for a few weeks,
was entirely cured. have since advised their use
in a great many cases of lung disease, and they
have always done all you claimed for them:
MRS ELLEN Z. BUTLER,
80 Elm Street, Charlestown, Mass
Mnrch IL 1881
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-10
NEWS BY IE%CAlB]BjL,EIl,.. /,
TIE noEns IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
Enernaching 1 on Hritish Iatercsts-rha Lion
Laaaing Its Tail-prosrsss In tho Frame o.
Chinese Wharf.-The Great, Cyclone
N. In Sicily-War In the Sou,ian.

LONDON, October D.-The Times under.
stands that the English Cabinet council
on Monday concluded to adopt measures
forthwith to adopttte audacious cncroacl-,
ments OF the Beers in Africa. This deci-
sion, the Times says, will be received With
satisfaction blythe people Of England, who
Watched with growing iinpatience the in
suits :, that have been heaped upon tho Eng
ilsn hag by people whose insignihcance
Is lheir best protection. ;. !! !Frgl5}
Inc Right lion. W. f.. Foster presided
,t conference held ut Westminster, Hall
to-day In the alarming state OF atsairs in
Bechuana Land, and tho actionsrof1n
strong pnr.y Of maraudiny Boers, who re-
Gently invaded Stella Land and, SIN the
interests Of humanity" hauled down the
British flag and drove the British rcpre.
sentative from Vryburg. II. N. Stanley,
the African explorer, %as ptesent. alt tie
speakers made tellicose addresses. MIR. Fot-
ter asserted that England had humored
the Beers and had HH given In ITO
them in almost every way, In oraer!Ito
avoid war, but that the limit to concess-
ion. had now been reached and that the
po'lcy OF non.intervention pursued by the
Government must come to m end, fand
British supremacy in South Africa upheld, I
AZ tile conclusion Of the speeches rcsol,,-S
IONS were passed demanding that the
Government protect Montsioa and other
british allies in South Africa from en-
croachments OF the Beers, and compel the
Beers to keep to the terms OF tie now \
Transvaal conventions. 90, NJ Il 81
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-10
BLAINE'S RECORD
In Regard to Imported Lnbnr-Somethfnc
-T'r for WOrkincmen,

for WorkinSmen.
WASHINGTON, D. c., October 9.-The
Critic has this word to workingmcn: !:
Many people, and especially those who
earn their bread by the sweat OF their
brow, should look up Mr.. Blaine's record
on the question OF importation OF cheap
labor. into this country. They will find
that he has been sturdy and consistent
opponent Of the importation OF cheap, or
''mortgaged labor rs he terms it, into this
country from any source whatever. When
the Chinese question was under discussion
in the United States Senate few years
ago, Mr.. Blaine took IN active and proni-
nent part in the discussion, and pro-
nounced himself rs unalterably opposed
to the importation OF cheap or norttayed
laborers into this country from China,
Italy, or wherever men can be induced, by
contracts previously made, to leave their
own country to come to this country to
work temporarily. II the labor sorcaniza-
tons Of the Union will look up Mr.. Dlaine's
speeches on the Chinese question, they
will find that he not only discusses the
question as regards the Chinese, but he
speaks fundamentally; he takes ground
against the principle us well as the prac.
tee. He, in other words, is, from princi-
pie, opposed to the importation OF cheap
labor from any source whatever to COM
pete with and depreciate the wages Of
American laborers. His speeches on the
question ought to be scattered all over
the country" .-- X llsl ~
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-10
POSTMASTER MISSING.
THE STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE
OF Postmaster wyiic, of Washington, Pm.
The Town Excited over tho a tialr-shock.
ting Case Of Cruelty at Pittsburgh.
Scheme of Unnatural Parents. fr,#,

WASHINGTON, Pa, October 0.-The
rumors that Postmaster ". G. Wylie had
disappeared became rife ut late hour this
morning, and spread like wild fire. A call
upon the family confirmed the report.
One week ago to-day Wylic went to the
office and got oil tho o o'clock mail.
About he returned for his breakfast, and
started back to the Office at 5. His vile
noticed he put on his worst coat, and ask.
cd him why he wore that coat. He.replied
thas 1t was dusty In the office aud he did
not want to spoil good coat. One OF the
clerks states that he came into the office
and did up few letters and that he then
left. He Is known to have boarded the 0
o'clock train for Pittsburgh, since when
the family has received no word of him,
Ills wife is prostrated by the blow, all hope
OF his return being abandoned bv her.
This morning the affairs OF the postoiIice
were not known to be In bad shapc, and
what makes the disappearance more mvs-
terious is the fact that Wylie has been n
strictly temperate man in every respect
and not given to extravaganza. This
makes the theories that he has abscondcd
or wandered off in fit OF temporary in.
sanity seems less probable. The town is
getting terribly worked up over the affair.
At present it is impossible to learn further
49, 5r | - - - =, II
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Fighting In Chinu.

Paris, October 9.-General Brierc De
Lls!e has tclegrapheI the Government con-
hrmias the report announced from Hanoi
yesterday Of the engagement between the
tsench ana Chinese in the valley Of the
Loo Chuan river. The Tonauin enconn-
ter took place on Monday. The Chinese
were attempting TO execute IN offensive
movement on the Upper Loo Chuan river.
They lost one Thousand men, Can't. Dew
net, Of the French Foreign Legion, was
killed. Lieut.. Bartclle was wounded:
General Negries's column has gone up the
Phu!ong river TO cut OF the retreat. Of the
Chinese. tEIN -
SHANGHAI, October 9.-The French fleet
has ceased bombarling Tamsim, -havin.
completely RACED ,lll the forts and cartli-
works in the vicinity. i5-l1 VI a. s