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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
THE DANGERS OF BEER
DRINKING.

Beer drinking is not alone danger
GUS and to be avoided as tending to
induce an abormal appetite for the
stronger alcoholic liquors, but it is
perilOus to health. The chemist of
the Brooklyn health department, who
is also a physician, has lately made
a report, in reference to complaints
concerning the condition of the fau-
Gets through which the beer is drawn
in that city, that he finds that most
of them are of brass and become
corroded, so that copper and zinc
are found in the beer drawn through
them. He says: eff beer-drinkers
were drinking only one or two
glasses day the above quantities
would hardly be worth the mention,
but when the customary daily guam
tity becomes thirty glasses. or even
more, the small quantity becomes
matter of Importance and may prove
to be injurious. AS it is an unneces-
sary addition to the beverage, and
may be injurious, it would be advls-
able to change the faucets SO as to
prevent the contamination" The
beer-drinkers who, as the report
says, are accustomed to drink "thir-
ty or forty, or even more, glasses
of beer daily, or a much smaller
quantity, are, irrespective of the
copper and zine they may consume,
be it more or less, simply preparing
themselves for a sudden taking off
by kidney disease, cholera or some
other form of disease, Life insur-
ance, from purely business experi-
ence, has found beer-drinkers to be
most Improbable risks. 1t is better
to let the beer alone.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09


A SHORT LIFE AND A MERRY ONE.
Some persons seem to be willing to
suffer indigestion, with it's innumer-
able tOrments. for the momentary
pleasure of slipping down their
throats something which tastes good.
Is 1t not funny to see a dyspeptic
whose whole life is failure both as
to enjoyment and usefulness, and
who, when you point out the con-
nection between the table habits and
sufferings, exclaims
"Oh. l suppose so; but then | 60
for a short life and merry one?"
That's grim joke Merry? Why, a
temperate man who eats and drinks
what he needs has more happiness in
one day than one of these sholt-life
and merry people in year. The
temperate mans life is a constant
flow of enjoyment. He is conscious
of usefulness and of filling a place in
the world, while this short life and
merry gormandizer feels that his life
is a failure. What the dyspeptlc
means by a short-life and merry
one is the momentary tickling of his
palate with plum-pudding, followed
by hours of belching and groaning.
-DiO LeaUis.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

TEMPER AT HOME.-I have peeped
into quiet s'parlors, where the car
pet is clean and not old, and the fur
niture polished and bright; into
'srooms' where the chairs are neat
and the floor carpetless into ''kitch-
ems" where the family live and the
meals are cooked and eaten, and
the boys and the girls are as blithe
as sparrows in the thatch overhead,
and | see that it is not so much
wealth and learning, nor clothing,
nor servants, nor toll, nor idleness,
nor town, nor country, nor station,
as tone and temper that render
homes happy or wretched. And ]
see, too, that in town or country
good sense and Gods grace make
life what no teachers OF accomplish
ments, or means, or society car
make 1.-THE opening stave of al
everlasting psalm; the fair begin
ming of an endless existence the
goodly, modest, we'll proportional
vestibule to a temple of Gods build
ING that shall never decay, wax old
or vanish away.-Dr. John Hall.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
BkEInS|,sS:N SIS,

Bilious symptoms invariably
arise from indigestion, such as
furped tongue, vomiting Of bile,
giddiness, sick headache, ir-
regular bowels. The liver Sc
cretes the bile and acts like q
filter Or sieve, TO cleanse impu-
rites OF the blood. By irpegu-
larity in its action or suspen-
sions Of it's functions, the bile
is liable to overflow into the
blood, causing aundice, salloW
complexion, yellow eyes, bill
ious diarrh1a, q languid,
weary feeling and many other
distressing symptoms. Bilious
ness may be properly termed
an affection Of the liver, and
can be thoroughly cured by the
grand regulator Of the liver
and hillary organs, BURDOCK
BLOOD BITTERS. It acts upon the
stomach bowels and liver,
making healthy bile and pure
blood, and opens the culverts
and sideways for the outlet
Of disease. Sold everywhere
and guaranteed to cure.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
"FATHER'S OLD BOOTS ARE
THERE

Many picture of moving pathos
appears in the dark gallery of drunk
enness. We have seen but few more
touching ones than this, from the
pen of Mrs. M. A. Kinder. She de-
scribes little Benny, the son of a
drunken father, sitting in room with
his mother and little sister. By look
ing at this sad and thoughtful face
one would have taken him to be ten
years of age, yet he was but six. No
wonder. For four years this almost
baby had been used to seeing a
drunken father go in and out of the
cottage. He scarcely remembers
anything from him but cruelty and
abuse, especially toward his kind
and loving mother. But now he was
dead The green sod had lain on his
grave week OF so, but the terrible
effects of his conduct were not buried
with him. The poor little children
would start with shudder at every
hesitating hand upon the latch. On
the day mentioned above, Benny
mother was getting dinner.
"Will my little son 60 to the
wood-shed and get mother a few
sticks to finish boiling the kettle =
81 don't like to 60 to the wood-shed,
mama," said Benny, looking down.
"Why, my SOM" because there is
a pair of fathers old boots on the
beam out there, and / don't like to
see them" "Why do you mind the
old boots, Benny, any more than you
do your fathers old coat and hat up
stairs ?'' because, said Benny, the
tears filling his blue eyes, "they look
as if they wanted to kick me-" U
the dreadful after-infuence of q
drunken father to innocent children
what an awful memory to bear
through life !-RichmOnd AdUOcdte.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

The CONFESSION OF A SMoKER.-
Yes it is a terrible bondage. 1t is a
slavery. Yes | inhale the smoke,
and then blow it out again. 1t is
very silly, is it not? 1 do the same
thing with my breath. Away with
this useless breath. Some breaths
are much pleasanter far away. Why
do / smoke cigars? Because l am
the biggest, and therefore the cigar
cannot help itself. 1t is an econom-
ical habit the smoke of the cigar
keeps the moths out of my hair.
Then use tobacco to preserve hu-
man life. Science tells me that
three drops of the oil of tobacco
placed upon the tongue of rattle
snake or dog will kill either or
both in minute. / tremble to
think how many times | walked in
the very shadow of death before |
began to carry plug of tobacco
around with me. Now when 1 meet
a mad dog, am secure. He may
bite me, but | will kill him. The
cannibal who eats me will dream
that night that he got hold of the
wrong prescr1ption.-Bob Burdette.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
Telnperanee.
CANON FARRAR ON TOTAL
ABSTINENCE.

81 have no doubt some of us have
become total abstainers because we
believe that course to be best for
ourselves; others to avoid tempta-
ton and others because in this age
of luxery, they think it desirable to
introduce some slmplification into
the luxurious elements of life. But
the real reason, which. like the rod
of Aaron, swallows up all the rest is
this that we have become abstain
ers out of a sense of shame and a
feeling of pity. We have felt a
sense of shame to think that man
kind by hundreds and thousands are
making of life one continuous degre-
dalton, and one slow approach of
disease and death. We say out of
pity because we see women who are
pouring vltriol into the roses of their
womanhood but also because of
those still more miserable, who be-
come the slaves of the brutality of
husbands and of sons whom drink has
maddened into fiends; and also out
of a pity to the children, whose lives
are sacrificed in hundreds to this
awful Moloch, and who, to use the
language of a former canon of
Westminster, more than one hundred
years ago, are mot so much born
into the world as damned into the
world It is out OF pity for men,
women, and children and also out of
pity for our country, which for more
than two hundred years has been
writing in the folds of this hell-born
dragon of drunkenness, and also
out of pity for the whole race of men
which goes on, generation after gen.
Grafton, cherishing in it's bosom that
which blights so many careers, blasts
so much happiness, and which of all
human evils is the most easily and
most absolutely preventable. These
are grounds on which we are total
abstainers. "-iSelected.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
LIQUOR IN OLD TIMES.

Accurate comparisons of the
amount of liquor used at the pres
ent day with tie consumption one or
two generations ago, are impossible,
by reason of the absence of complete
statistics in the earlier period. But
a flood of light is thrown upon the
drinking habits of New Englanders
at the beginning of the present cep=
tury by some facts recently brought
out IN a Connecticut paper. About
the year 1900 the returns from the
Hartford customs-house show the
receipt at the port of over forty-four
thousand five hundred gallons of i'm
ported rum in single quarter, while
dlstllleries were as frequent as COM
mon schools are now throughout the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

state. About the same time the i'm
ports at the port of Fairfield, on the
Sound, were over twelve thousand
gallons in a quarter, while there were
fifteen distllleries at work in this one
county making the home article, al
though the population of the county
at that time probably did not reach
forty thousand. The octogenarans
who lament the prevalence of drunk
enness at the present day have evil
IDENTIFY forgotten the state of things
when they were young.-Eoening
Doef
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

Recent experiments at the New
York agricultural station have shown
that the smallest tubers, from the
most productive hills, yield more and
better potatoes than larger tubers
from less productive hills, thus indi-
catiRg very clearly that in order to
increase the yield of potatoes it is
only necessary in digging to expose
the bids separately and then &C
Through and select seed from those
hills wlldcii show the most abundant
crop.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

Mayor Hardy of Lincoln, Nebras-
ka, is reported by correspondent
of the Christian Cynosure as saying,
recently, concerning "high license"
in that state, that Gas a means of
lessenlng the horrors of the drink
curse it is failure, and worse than
a failure. There is no less drinking
under 1t than there was before. There
are no fewer poor, miserable drunk
ards wives or worse than fatherless
children. Before it Lincoln had
twenty-five licensed saloons. The
first year after it had five licensed
saloons, the next it had twenty-four.
After it no drinking man had to go
thirsty, and there were no fewer
criminals and paupers to care for"
Hale's Honey the great Cough cure, 25c. soc 81 IS
GIenn's sulphur Soap heals and beauties, 25c
German Corn Remover kills corns and Bunions
Hills Hair and whisker Dye-Black and Brown, scots
Pixies TOOthache Drops cure in Minute, 25c
Deans Rheumatic Pills are a sure cure,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

A successful feeder of animals is
not one who throws food before
them OF sets down the pail of milk,
Indifferent as to whether they eat or
drink. A skillful feeder watches the
peculiarities of each individual. and
sees to it that the tyrants do not
rob the weaker ones. We have
learned that stock thrives best when
they only feel the weight of the mas
ter's hand in kindness. Cows that
calve in the fall will, if properly fed
as they ought to have been, be in
good order to withstand this trial,
but are likely to lose flesh if not gen.
erously cared for. Timely attention
now will keep them hearty and well
prepared to do good service in theil
winter quarters.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

A sound head, an honest heart.
and an humble spirit, are the three
best guides, through time and to
eternity.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

had spells Of neuralgia and suffered so that
EDany times ] have wished death would end my
agony. i employed doctors but could get no
benefit from them Since taking Athlophoros
have had only two spells in oyer a year. Mrs. C..
N Paige. Boltonyine, VI,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
Aqritnltnral department.
WEAVING COLTS.

From four to six months is the
age that most farmers wean their
foals. When it is necessary to use
the mare much either for farm work
or road purposes it is better for both
to wean the foal at four months.
WEAVING as formerly practiced, was
rather a critical period in the young
ster's life, especially when the latter
had neither been halter broken nor
taught to eat grain, roots, apples or
anything of the kind. Before wean-
inc. halter break the foal, using
strong, pliable, we'll fitted head hal
ter. 1t should also be taught to eat
gram, roots and apples while running
with it's dam. This can be accom-
plished in few days by feeding the
mare in a trough large enough to
permit the colt to get its moose in
easily by the side of that of its dam.
The potatoes, apples or carrots
should be sliced. If it does not eat
them readily cut them into small
pieces and mix them with oats. 1t is
much better for the dam that the
weaving process be gradual. Proba-
bly, the best method is to hitch the
mare and foal IN a wide, double stall
fastening the foal on one side and
mare on The other, SO that each can
see the other. Care should be used
not to hitch with so short a halter
that the foal cannot reach the mare.
For two or three days the foal should
be allowed to suck three times a day
giving him less each time. After
that lot him with his dam only morn
ing and night, diminishing the
amount gradually each meal for a
few days, and at the end of a week
let him suck only at night for two OF
three days. AT the end of this time
if the mare has been kept on hay
without grain, she will be nearly dry,
and the foal can be taken off. Watch
the mare few days, and milk her If
necessary. Feed the foal on bright,
early cut hay-rowen is better-and
keep a pail of fresh water within his
reach. Feed oats and wheat bran,
beginning with pint each night and
morning, and increase gradually to
one quart of each twice day. Some
prefer to have the oats bruised, that
is, ground coarse. If the foal lacks
thrift nothing will start him quicker
than cows milk. That which has
been skinned will cause as rapid
growth as the new milk. 1t is some
times desirable to wean colts at three
or even younger.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

TTHT nfor working people. Send sH3cts postage,
n and we viii mail free, a royal, valuable
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way ofmaking more money in few days than you
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who are not well satisfied we will send 81 to
pay for The trouble Of writing Full particulars,
directions &C.. sent free. Immense pay for all who
start at once. tdelay Address Stinson & Co.,
Portland Maine. l4-e15-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
PLANTING ORCHARDS.

Orchards. may be planted in the
fall. There are some situations
whehe it might be advisable to defer
the planting until spring; but on any
land suitable for an orchard no in
jury need result from fall planting.
In heavy, wet, retentive soil, such
an one as no intelligent planter
would occupy with trees, it would
sometimes prove destructive to trees
because of an undue quantity of wa
ter about the roots; but death to
trees in such soil will result in no
loss, for if they lived they would
never prove productive. Fall plant
ing, then, with proper protection,
may be regarded as best. Then farm
ers have more time to do the work
well, and this is a kind of planting
that cannot be sighted without Sc
nous, permanent loss.
An orchard should be planted well
or not planted at all. The ground
should be dry naturally or it should
be underdrained but q high, dry,
north hillside, that requires no arti-
fetal draining, should, if possible,
be selected and it would be we'll if
the land had been occupied the sea-
son previous with some we'll hoed
crop that has killed out the grass
and weeds. Nothing is more impor-
tant i'll preparing a situation for an
orchard than deep blowing or trench
ing. In order to have a permanent
fruitful orchard strong and vigorous
trees must be grown. A tree that
grows but slowly and barely lives
cannot produce = crop of good fruit.
The time was, when the country was
new, that fruit could be grown with
but little care; but from some cause
times have changed. Trees do not
grow as we'll and are subject to q
variety of accidents. So good ones
should be set out. Avoid by all
means the travelling agents of dis
tant nurseries, with the colored pic.
Nine times out of ten the money
paid them might as well be thrown
into the fire, and it is far better tC
purchase at some neighboring nurs.
cry, where the proprietor is known
to you as an honest man.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09

EFFECT OF JONAH S PREACHING. Jonah
8 LILO
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-09
DOCTOR.

Of all the different schools in the country, have
thousands die every year of Brights disease of the
Kidneys, who could be living to-day if they had
used Sulphur Bitters. They are unequalled in the
world for all diseases of the kidneys.-New Haven
Union.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-09-12
OPELOUsAs, La, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER H. 1885
what is a Democrat! and what
is a Republican!
New York Sun.

But, asks our correspondent, what is
a Democrat and what is Republican ?
and we will answer him in a general
way. A Democrat IS one who believes
in the elevation of the individual citi-
zen, in the independent self-govern-
ment, SO far as the Constitution allows,
of the town, the comfy, and the State,
and in the diminution of the power OF
the Federal Government; and Re-
publican is one who believes in magni-
flying the power of the Federal Govern
ment and in subjecting the individual
citizen, the township and the State to
the interference and control OF Federal
authority. A Democrat is one who
believes that railroads and telegraphs
should be regulated and controlled by
the operation of free competition, with
as little interference as possible on the
part of the Federal Legislature and the
Executive. And a Republican is one
who believes that telegraphs should be-
long to the FEEDER Government, and
should be managed by it, and that
thousands of additional government
agents and Office holders should be
employed for the purpose. Some Re-
publicans also believe that railroads
should likewise belong to the govern
ment, aed conducted by it; but these
are very advanced Republicans, and
yet the great body of that party have
not yet adopted that opinion.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-09-12

The Marksville Review is asking
some hard questions of the Marksville
Bulletin. We quote:
We ask our neighbor to answer the
question, whether the element of the
party shat opposed Gov. McEnery for
the nomination and afterward gave
him its cordial and undivided support
has ever been recognized as compo-
nent factor Of the grand Democratic
army. If not, what has been the rea-
son2 Has it been that said persons as
freemen and as Democrats, opposed the
nomination of Gov. McEnery? +? Was
not their right a right ever accorded
them when the fight is made within the
party2 Is an element of the Demo-
cratic party to be ignored and persist
emily sat down upon, because its mem
bers have the honesty and manhood to
assert and maintain their own opinions !?
Are they to be considered as enemies
and aliens because they do not bow
down to any golden calf that may be
set up for their worship by those to
chance to hold the reins of the party ?
May the good of country and the main
tenance of Democratic principles pre-
vent such a result y
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-09-12

The Baton Rouge Weekly Truth be-
gins an elegant article on the Presi-
dents policy as follows:
Democratic blundering was at one
time a phrase which the Republicans
always held up as a banner-cry for
cheering their discontented and defeat-
ed cohorts. 1t was adopted as settled
conclusion that, whatever may be the
force of popular 0utburst of indigna-
tion against Republican excesses, how
ever great might be the victory achieved
by the Democrats in the Congressional
elections, they would inevitably ruin
their chances of permanent control by
reactiOnary measures, and by a Bourbon
policy, which would offend the progress
sive sentiment of the country. The
expectation was abundantly realized in
of 1874 was annulled by short sighted
resistance to an Overpowering public
opiuion, and in 1880 the tottering as
tendency of the Republican party was
righted again by the same incapacity to
yield to great national aspirations.
This has been fully recognized by a
certain element in the Democratic
party, who have realized in all its height
and width and depth, the obvious
truth, that parties must keep abreast
with the times, and submit to a great
dominant feeling. President Cleveland
is the representative of this element.
With rare sagacity he has gauged the
feelings of the conservative masses,
the workers and the capitalists, and he
has been successful in conforming the
policy of his party to the behests of
popular opinion. As result the Demo
cratic party has never stood so high in
the estimation of the thinking classes
as it does to-day. The odium of its
CORNER mistakes has been almost entire
" removed, and it has been put in such
position before the public that it bids
fair to enter on career of permanent
ascendency."
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-09-12

Another good man gone wrong, and
this time it is y. S. District Judge Alex.
Boarman, of Shreveport, who was ar
rested in Chicago on the 35th of August,
on charge of adultry, made by D. P.
Negley, who alleges improper intimacy
between Boarman and Mrs. Negley.
The woman formerly lived in New Or
leans, where she became acquainted
with J. r.. Alcee Gauthreaux, the de-
faulting Civil Sheriff Of that parish,
and on his fleeing the country she fol-
lowed and married him in Canada, but
on learning that Gauthreaux was al
ready married man, secured a divorce,
and a few months afterwards married
Negley, who it appears was an intimate
friend of the defaulting Sheriff. The
Judge denies that his connection with
the woman has been improper, and
SAYS he simply advised her legally, she
having appealed to him for counsel as
an old friend. Lake Charles Echo.