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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29
JAPANESE PILGRIMAGES.

In the villages, which are almost
continuous along the road, there are
numerous hotels where the pleasure
seeking pilgrims get their dusty feet
bathed on arrival, bath before re-
tirino, two meals and bed for ten
or fifteen cents for eachperson. Forty
miles east of Yeddo are the temples
of Narrita, situated in a picturesque
spur of the great central mountain
range. The road leading there is one
long avenue of trees planted 800 years
ago. 1t runs through green fertile
fields with the Bay of Yeddo, dotted
with countless white sails on the one
hand and great mountains on the 9TH
er. During half the year this broad
road is lined with parties of pilgrims
on their way to or from these tenn
pies. Every mile or two has its
village of hotels for the entertain
ment of people. Some these cara
vansaries accommodate 600 people.
The number of people visiting these
shrines annually will reach more than
100000. In the spring when the rice
has been planted, the national rice
festival takes place. This festival
continues for SIX days. The people
60 out into the fields, into the val
leys, or On to the terraced hill and
mountain sides to the shrines of the
patron saint of agriculture and there
give thanks for the sun and rain that
have given such promise of an abun-
dant harvest. AT night every town is
brilliantly lighted, and rejoicing with
music and dancing is heard till long
into the night. San Francisco Chron-
icle.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29
FRETTING OVER THE PAST.

The tongue has its uses and it's
abuses, and one of the latter is in
complaining about things that are
done and gone past remedy. 1t is
waste of time and nerve, and a
disturber of the peace of so much of
the ocean of life as lies within its ra-
dius. If bad job can be bettered,
or if good plain talk about the
evils of it can bring about an i'm
provement, or even impress upon
others a needed lesson which will be
needed, why, then attack it with the
tongue. But even then do not put
venom into it, or complaint. Talk
it over calmly, kindly and gently.
Much of the fretfulness in which the
tongue is employed has, however,
to do with mistakes and faults that
cannot be helped. Over these keep
the mouth shut or use the tongue In
singing songs of hope and JOY; or
put on the hat and call on some wea-
ry, troubled soul, and pour into the
listening ear words of love and con-
ISOLATION tell TO some unsaved soul
the story of Salvation, use this ready
member to make the world better
and happier, rather than employ it
in the worse than useless business of
fretting over things that are past
help.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29
NO COMEDY FOR HER.

The church which Mr.. and Mrs.
Toopnoody attend is getting up an en-
tertainment to raise needed funds,
and Topnoody was on the committee
of arrangements. The committee met
last night, and when he came home
his wife was anxious to know what
had been done.
''Well, "said she, ''did you do any,
thing?'
so, yes, my dear, we outlined pro-
gramme," he said with en- air of bus
mess.
"What's it like ?"
"Well, the chief feature is to be a
play
"What play?"
''Just the thing for amateurs, my
dear, the pretty little three-act comedy,
Married Life. -
ga comedy, Topnoody?'
"Of course, and you are to be Mrs
Samuel Coddle, my DEAR"
''No, 1 amt, Topnoody," she said,
firing up till her cheeks looked like a
pair of autumn leaves. "Amateur
theatricals are bad enough any way
you fix them, but when amateurs
are so raw that they call married life a
comedy, you may count me out. am
professional in married life bus
mess, and | think [ know tragedy
from comedy when the curtains up.
You hear my orchestra, Topnoody,
and your committee may scratch my
name off the list. A comedys And
with my experienced Great Heavss
ems !''
Topnoody went to bed without CIV
ing further details of the committees S
work,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29

GREAT THOUGHTS. Great thoughts
which, whosoever may utter them,
potent to build up noble lives, and to
inspire heroic deeds are the most pre-
cious treasures of time. These are
the silent sculptors which work not
on stones that perish, but on human
spirits, which will endure when our
world Is cold and dead. and tenant
less as the pallid moon. True are
the words of Daniel Webster, where
he says: ''If We work upon marble,
it will perish. If we work upon
brass, time will efface it. If we rear
temples, they will crumble 10 dust.
But if we work upon immortal minds,
if we imbue them with high princi-
Piles, with the just fear of God, and
love Of their fellowmen, we engrave
on those tablets something which no
time can efface, but which will
brighten and brighten to all eternity.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29
THE FIRST BRIDGE.

. When was the first bridge con-
structed? and what was it made Of?
/ am not able to answer the first
question very definitely, but think
/ know what the first bridge was
made of. 1t was not of wood, nor
of stone, nor of brick, nor of iron,
nor of rope. 1t was made entirely
of monkeys-live monkeys. A troop
of these animals in South Ameri-
can forest came one day to stream
which was too wide for them to leap
across. They climbed high tree,
where the first monkey selected a
suitable branch, wound his long,
powerful tail about it, and let him.
self hang head downward. The Sec
ond monkey, running down the body
of the first, wound his tail about it's
neck and shoulders, ana let himself
hang head downward. A third and
"a fourth added themselves in success
sion, and others after them, till the
chain reached the ground. Then the
lowest monkey by striking his hands
on the earth, set the living pendulum
in motion, and increased this motion
by striking again at each oscillation,
till it swung SO far across the stream
that he was able to seize a branch of
tree on the other side. The line of
monkeys now constituted a bridge,
by which the remainder of the troop
quickly crossed over. Then the
monkey which had been the first vol
unteer in this engineer corps, un-
wound his tail from the branch and
let go. What had before been the
top of the pendulum was now the
bottom; it swung across the stream,
and dissolved into its original ele-
ments, and the whole troop went
chattering on their way. This took
place before the appearance of man
upon the earth, and the longtailed
monkeys have been building such
bridges ever since.
Between that primitive bridge of
monkeys and the last and greatest
of all bridges ever undertaken-the
suspension bridge over East river,
connecting New York and Brooklyn
there is apparently wide discrep-
ancy; yet the two are constructed
on the same principle.
The first bridge recorded in histo-
~ was built over the Euphrates al
Babylon, in the reign of Queen Nito.
cris. The course of the river was
turned, and its bed laid dry, till the
foundations were built. The arches
were of immense hewn stones, clamp
ed together with iron, and the whole
bridge was rooted over. 1t was thir
ty feet wide, and over SIX hundred
feet long. No remnant of this grea
bridge has been discovered in mod
ern times Vide AaCdke.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29
THE EARTH A GREAT
MAGNET.

Everything on the earth and in
the air above is permeated with the
earth's magnetic force-it goes
through your clothes, it penetrates
your bodies, it saturates your brains,
it is part of life itself. Gaus, the
illnsIrious German astronomer has
computed (taking as unit of his
measure a magnet fourteen inches
long, one inch wide, one-fourth inch
thick, weighing one pound made of
the hardest steel and of the strongest
magnetic force possible) the earth's
magnetic force as equal to S,464,-
900, O,000.0 900, 900, 100000 such mag
nets. The attracting or lifting pow
er of such a magnet is about ten
pounds, which would make the at
tractive power of the earth 42,310,-
600, 900, 200, 100000 tons. If this
magnetism were equally distributed
throughout the mass of the earth, the
magnetic intensity of each cubic
yard would be equal to six of these
magnets, or about sixty pounds of
attractive force.-Prof. Mayer has
shown that this magnetic influence,
this invisible force is power filling
space to an unknown distance and
radiating in the lines of magnetic
force very much as the rays of the
sunlight, the lines of the earth's
magnetic force being from south to
north, as indicated by the compass
needle,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29

"You are mistaken, sir,' answer
ed Mr.. Cotton. "An explanation in
this case is very easily made. l am
a member of an amateur theatrical
club, and / wrote out my part at Mr..
Downs one evening, copying out of
a book of his. Mrs. Downs gave
me an envelope from one of her let
ters that lay on the table to put the
manuscript in, and / unfortunately
lost it ou my way home. | will now
read the lines, if Mr.. Cowles will
look over the printed pages and see
if read them correctly"
Shamefaced Mr.. Cowles looked
on while Mr.. Cotton read, with much
dramatic effect:
My angel fly with me!
Afar in other lands beyond the sea
Wen build home sacred to love and
thee.
Scorn the base wretch who in your
humble home
Profanes the name of love-ah, be my
own!
And heaven is not so high, nor earth so
vast,
But thatits treasures at thy feet I'll cast.
''There is a full page of it, with
my name signed at the bottom, but
this will suffice / think" and Mr..
Cotton coolly sat down, while look
of CONSERVATION went round the
room.
Mrs. Downs went up to Helen
Grant and kissed her.
"Thank you, dear, for your faith
in me. heard about it, and I'll never
forget it as long as | live."
She looked so gentle and girlish in
her dainty white draperies, with that
look of childish gratitude in her blue
eyes, that kind-hearted Mrs. Jeffrey
went up and put her motherly arms
around her, and said, with tears il
her eyes: ''Forgive me-fo1give us
all, won't your"
Jack answered for her: "She for
gives you, we both forgive you
neighbors and friends; but it any
man repeats such stuff again, abou
my wife or any other woman, give
him warning here and low that i
will give me infinite pleasure to give
him sound thrashing.'
And that was the last of the grea
scandal at Pine Falls.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29
NORWEGIAN HOSPITALITY


open-handed and more unaffected
than in Norway, and though these
features are naturally becoming
blunted along the beaten lines of
travel, the genuine goodness of
heart, fine "gentIemanly' feeling,
and entire absence of that sordidness
which is so often seen even in prima-
tive regions, cannot fail to strike
the unprejudiced observer. Nor is
etiquette ignored by even the rudest
of the people. In the cities the
stranger is apt to make many blum
ders. In the country, however, this
is not less marked, though perhaps
the visitor will be less conscious of
its presence. One of the peculiari-
ties of the Norwegian farmer is that,
when visiting friend, he must ig-
more all the preparations made for
his entertainment. He will see the
coffee roasted, and the cups set out,
and then, just when the good wife is
about to offer him her hospitality, he
gets up, bids the family good-by, and
is only persuaded to remain after
some resistance. Every cup must be
filled to overfowing. otherwise the
host would be thought stingy. When
milk, brandy or beer is offered, the
guest invariably begs that it will not
''be wasted on him." and then, after
emptying the cup, declares that sit is
too much"-going through the same
formalities, it may be, three or four
times. In the farmhouses, or up
land "saeters,'' the guest is left to
eat alone, silver forks and spoons
being often substituted for the carved
wooden ones used by the family,
and fine white cloth for the bare
boards which serves well enough on
ordinary occasions, To a punctll-
ious guest this may not be draw
back, for at the family table, as, in
deed, among the peasants in Scandi-
navia everywhere, the different indi-
viduals dip their spoons into the
same dishes of agrod" and sour
milk; but for any one desirous of
studying people load of foreign
prejudice is grievous burden to
carry about. When a child is born
the wife of every neighbor cooks a
dish of "flodegrod" (porridge made
with cream instead of milky, and
brings it to the convalescent, there
being good deal of rivalry among
the matrons to outdo each other in
the quality and size of the dish.
When any one has taken food in a
Scandinavian house he shakes hands
with the host and hostess in rising
from the table, and says: "Tak for
mad," (sThanks for food"l, to
which they reply: 'sVell hekomme,"
("May it agree with your. In
many parts of Scandinavia all the
guests shake hands with each other
and repeat the latter formula; and in
Norway, al least, 1t is the fashion
for a guest to call on the hostess
few days later, and when she appears
to gravely say: "Tak for sldst,"
("Thanks for last time"), great
gravity on this formal visit being
mark of good breeding.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29
AN ANSWER WANTED.

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Complaint that Electric Btters will not speedily
cure? We say they can not as thousands of cases
already permanently cured and who are daily rec
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Born TO MARRY AND KEEP House.

Born TO MARRY AND KEEP House.
The end of woman is to marry and
raise up a family. She starts out
in this direction when she carries
doll in childhood. Your girl who
leaves home and goes out for herself
does so because she has failed to find
the man she wants to marry. By
and by she does find him, and when
she does she drops everything and
goes with him. She stops short in
her music, her acting, her art,
her literature. or whatever it is be-
cause after all her instinct tells her
to marry and she follows her IN
stinct instead of her reason. A man
can marry and 60 ahead in the par
ticular pursuit or profession he has
chosen, but the woman stops and
subjects everything to one duty of
wifehood.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29
ESTATE OF FRANK LARGIS.
COpnmiSIO Notice

The undersigned having been appointed by the
Hon. Probate Court for the District of Orleans,
Commissioners, to receive, examine, and adjust
all claims and demands of all persons against the
estate of Frank Largs, late of Barton, in said Dis
trict deceased, and all claims exhibited in offset
thereto, hereby give notice that viii meet for
the purposes aforesaid at the yffice of. N. Web
ster, in Barton, on the 11th day of December, 1886,
and 2nd day of May, next, from ] o'clock, p m.
antil o'clock p. M, each of said days. and that
six months from the LIST day of November, A D.
1889, is the time limited by said Court for said
creditors to present their claims to for examna-
tion and allowance.
Dated at Barton this 18th day of Nov. A. D. 1856.
GEO. w. JENNESS,
j. n. WEBSTER. Commissioners.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29
AN ENrERpRIsINe, RELIAsLE HOUSE

II, C. Pierce can always be relied upon. not only
to carry in stock the best of everything, but to
cure the Agency for such articles as have well.
known merit, and popular with the people,
thereby sustaining the reputation of being always
terprsing, and ever reliable. Having secured the
Agency for the celebrated DR.. Kings New Discov
cry for Consumption, will sell on positive guar
antee. 1t will surely any and every affection
of Throat, Lungs, and Chest, and to show our conf
dence we invite you to call and get Trial Bottle
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29

Always safe and reliable, DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup.
1t never disappoints Give it trial. Price 25 cts.
Do not procastiuate.-Save time and trouble by
taking DIR. Bulls Baltimore Pills before cosiveness
becomes constipation. They are purely vegetable.
The natural tendency of swine to take on flesh is
increased by Days Horse Powder. Get the best.
Always travel with Drexers Bell Cologne
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29
ORLEANS County Munitor,
PUBLISHED wEEKLYBY
GEO. HI. BLAKE,
BARTON, VT.

TERMS.-TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR
Strictlyin aduance $I.5O. Subscribers living out
side of Orleans County remit TO cents extra for
postage. For convenience in remitting, we will
give credit for year and four months for
subscribers in the county, and one year and three
or $500 to subscribers without the county, when
sent strictly in adudnce.
Rates of Advert sing made known on apphca-
ton. Ali cuts must have metal body.
Remit by p o. Money Order, Registered Letter, or
Draft. Watch the label on your paper and NOTICE
Ohen your subscription expires and see that yor pay
ments are kept in adpdnce. When money is sent us
zoe shall giue uou the credit the label at once if III
label is not aduanced Oitin soo aoeeks notify by
postal card.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29
ESTATE OF JOSEPH COLLEY.
STATE OF VERMONT J

In Probate Court, held at Barton Landing in
szid Ditrict, on the 18th day of Now, A. D. 1885.
j. C.. Chapman Executor of the will of
Joseph Collcy, late of Barton in said dis
trict deceased presents his administration account
for examination and allowance, and makes appli-
catiou for decree of distribution and partition of
the estate Of said deceased
Whereupon it is ordered by said Court, that said
account and said application be referred to a sess.
ion thereof, be held al the Probate Office in said
Barton Landing, on the 9th day of December,
A. ID. 1885, for hearing and decision thereon And,
IT is further ordered that notice hereof be given
all persons interested, by publication of the same
three weeks successfully in the Monitor, news
paper published at Barton, previous to said time
appointed for hearing that they may appear at said
time and place, and show cause, if any they may
have, why said account should not be allowed, and
euch decree made.
E.4e c.H.JoNEs Register
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1T Saved NV Life"

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from those who have realized, by per-
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HemOrrhage of the Lungs, brought on
by distressing Cough, which deprived
me of sleep and rest. 1 had used vari-
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without obtaining relief. A friend adj
vised me to try
Ayers Cherry PectoraI.
I did so, and am happy to say that it
helped me at once. BY continued use
this medicine cured my cough, and, [
am satisfied, saved my lfe.-Mrs. e.
Coburn, Is Second ST., Lowell, Mass.
I have used Ayers Cherry Pectoral
for over year, and sincerely believe /
should have been in my grave, had it
not been for this medicine. 1t has cured
me of a dangerous affection of the lungs,
for which had almost despaired of ever
finding a remedy.-D. A. McMullen,
Windsor, Province of Ontario.
aver 5 Cnerry IeCGoTdl SdVeu my Iue.
Two years ago L took very severe Cold
which settled on my lungs. 1 consulted
physicians, and took the remedies they
prescribed, but failed to obtain relief
until I began using Ayers Cherry Pee
toral. Two bottles of this medicine
completely restored my health. Lizzie
M. Allen, West Lancaster. Ohio. tt
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Sold by all Druggists. Price 81; six bottles, SIS.
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The Time honored Notre Dame, Baltimore. Md.
We have had ample opportunity to convince our
selves of the efficacy of Salvation Oil. We cheer
fully submit our names to the public reference.
Respectfully, Sisters of Notre Dame.
Aisquith & Eager Sts., Baltimore, Nd.
No wonder people have confidence when the best
physicians are prescribing DIR, Bnlls Cough Syrup.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29
RULES

1or the care of the sick. How to cure isease its
symptoms and causes, aud OF er Information of
great value viii be found in old pr. KaefmappS
great book; 100 pages, fine colored plates. Send
three cent stamps to pay postage to a. P. Ordway
& Co., Boston, and receive copy free.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29
ESTATE OF ALBERT LELAND.
SrATE OF VERMONT

In Probate Court held at Barton Landing, in said
District, the 18th day of November, A. d. 1886.
II. A. Stewart, Administrator, with the will
annexed. of the estate of Albert Leland,
late of Barton, ia said District deceased, pre-
sents his administration account for examination
of distribution and partition of the estate of
said deceased.
Whereupon it is ordered by said Court that
said account and said application be referred a
session thereof to be held at the Probate Office in
Barton Landing, the Sth day of Dec, A. D. 1886,
for hearing and decision thereon. And, it
il further ordered, that notice hereof be
given all persons interested, by publication of
the same three weeks successively in the Orleans
County Monitor, a newspaper published at Barton,
previous to said time appointed for hearing, that
they may appear at said time and place, and show
cause, if any they may have, why said account
should not be allowed, and such decree made.
By the Court-Attest
47-49 c. III. JONES, Register.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29

Scrofala, salt TheaN, all hapors, beils, pinPles
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sia, biliouspess, sick headache, kidney and liver
complaints, catarrh and rheumatism, cured by
Hoods Sarsaparilla. Take it now 100 doses One
Dollar.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29
ESTATE OF JESSE WIGGINS
Com nniSSiOnerSs n Office
ESTATE OF EDWIN NELSON.
lmiSSiOnerSs Notice.

The undersigned, having been appointed by Hon.
Probate Court for the District of Orleans, Commis-
sioners, to receive, examine and adjust all claims
and demands of all persons against the estate of
Edwin Nelson, late of Craftsbury in said District
deceased and all claims exhibited in offset thereto,
hereby give notice that will meet for the purpos-
es aforesaid, at the dwelling house ST Mrs. Mary
Nelson the 2lst day of Dec, 1885, and Sd day of
May,next from O'Clock, IA. m, until O'Clock, p.
m, each of said days, and that six mos from the I'd
day of Nov, A ID. 1885, is the time limited by said
Court for said creditors present their claims to us
for examination and allowance.
Dated at Craftsbury this 10th day of Nov,
A. d. 1886.
f. S. STRATTON, lCor,r,;ss;ou.
46-4S w. S. TILLOTSON. COMMISSIONER
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P. SHIELDS.

CHARLES GRAVES, Special Agent for Con
Y Onecticut General Life Insurance Co., Barton,Vt
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-29

DARToN NATIONAL BANK. BUSINESS
DHours from 9, a. M, to II, m. From to 4, p.
m. AMoRY DAWSON, Pres't, H X. DEWEY,
Cashier.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

F. w. BALDWIN.
A TTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN
AChancery, Barton, VT
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L. SHlELDO.
CARPENTER AND JOINER, BARTON, VT
dissatisfaction guaranteed in every respect. 10 3
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A. G.. PARKER.
A TPOST- OFFICE, BARTON LANDING,V VT
IA Fire and Accident Insurance Agent.