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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-12
Short Stops.

The last snow is the best bed for
grass seed.
Any fool can farm-so long as
his money and credit last.
Water is often mistaken for dis
ease among the new filters.
The crop that makes the profit is
the crop that beats the average.
Thing has doubled some men s
farms-not broader, but twice as
deep.
Straight rows are more pleasing
to the eye and less tiresome to the
hand.
The oldest resident can't remem-
Der when a green fodder crop came
amiss.
Jack Frost about stakes and posts
is making work for the maui on top
of them.
Foresight is so much more valua-
BILE than hindsight because it is SO
much scarcer.
Wind, rot, and a breachy animal,
like the measles, always find the
weakest spot.
Better begin the spring with only
one pair of trousers than without a
grlndstone.
While condemning that which de-
serves it, don't forget to commend
work well done.
The man who leans upon novel
ties is apt to fall into very old
thing-a paupers grave.
The doctor who rejoices at clean
premises and good gardens loves his
neighbor as himself.
Last years corn stalk will be a
troublesome neighbor to the roots of
this years corn plants.
Work is hard to drive, but if you
will put yourself ahead of it, it will
follow without trouble.
A day gained in the spring will
be of more value than the ideas
caught floating around the stove in
the village store.
"Steady pulling doesn't bear on
CALLED shoulders and chaffed sides, :"
thought The horse while the unoiIed
harness was buckled on.
Ii the horses are frisky do not
turn them in the lot together while
they are fresh shod. They are apt
to injure each other with the sharp
calks.
Calls are rarely seen on the hors-
es' shoulders bathed night and morn
ing with strong salt water, begin
ming month before the spring plow-
ing. In warm weather use sweat
pads under the collars. -Anae11cd11
AgricultuTist.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-12
Look Before You Leap.

Most troubles comes from not
thinking first. 1t is hard for little
folks to learn to think. A friend OF
mine and friend of yours has found
little story in German, which has
been put into English. Did you
ever hear a little German boy talk?
GREGORY THE APPLE THIEF.
One morning little Gregory look
ed from his window and saw, in the
orchard of neighbor, quantity of
beautiful red apples lying about in
the grass, which storm during the
night had shaken from the trees.
Without stopping to think, Gregory
ran hastily down the steps, crawled
through gap in the fence into the
garden, and filled his pockets with
the apples. Suddenly the neighbor
appeared with a cane in his hand.
Gregory saw him coming and ran
as quickly as he could to the broken
paling, in order to creep through
again.
But, alas /! on account of his stuff
fed pockets, the young theft stuck
in the narrow opening. The owner
of the fruit pulled him out, and
Gregory had to turn out his pock-
cts, and, empty-handed and ashamed
to 90 back to his home.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-12
temperance.
The Saloon and the Supreme
Court.

The saloon reels under the terrific
blow dealt by the Supreme Court of
| the United States in the sKansas cas-
es. 1t reels to and fro and staggers
like drunken man, and is at it's wit s
end. It's swagger is for the moment
gone. It's loud, boastful tones have
fallen into hoarse whisper, and its
impertinent challenge to the American
people has lost it's defiant ring. The
power and majesty of law which it
has so often scorned, inspire it with
an awe it never felt before. 1t has
made its final appeal and has found
that there is no way of escape for it
from the mighty grip of law. Any
state may now declare it a nuisance
and proceed to abate it, and it has no
remedy except in rebellion. Every
phase of the saloon-the brewery,
the distillery, the GROCERY, is subject
to the exercise of this sovereign pow
er; and the manufacture and the
wholesale and the retail of intoxicants
may be as Vigorously suppressed as
any other form of nuisance deemed
detrimental to health or morals.
The decision of the Supreme Court
declares that compensation for dam
age to property cannot be exacted
from the state when the manufacture
and sale of intoxicants is prohibited.
This is the great point decided. Ev-
cry man, henceforth, who enters into,
or continues in, the making or selling
intoXicants in any state, does SO at
his own risk. His business may at
any time, either by Legislative enact
ment or constitutional provision, be
declared a nuisance and be suppress
ed as in Kansas, or be prohibited as
in Maine and other states. 1t is in
effect notice to every brewer and
distiller and dealer that he must be
prepared to give up this business
whenever his state commands him to.
Formal action by the popular voice or
by legislative process outlaws his bus
mess, and turns the criminal machin-
cry of the state against him. The
moral force of this fact is irresistible.
1t Will crush the saloon as slavery
was crushed. The supreme interpre-
ter of our supreme law has given us
this mighty weapon of warfare. Let
us WELD it with all our power.
The lessons for temperance men
are these: 1st. Be of good cheer.
Let this victory inspire you with larg-
er hope and with greater courage.
Make the most of it, both for the help
of your own cause and the hindrance
of that of the saloon. I'd. Do all
that is possible to educate and
strengthen public sentiment against
the saloon. This extremely impor-
tant work may be pushed by mani
fold processes. Sd. Combine wher-
ever you can and as far as you can
for the good of the cause. Combine
to cripple as we'll as to destroy, COM
bine in ward and village and town,
as well as in county and state. Com
bine in legal action, in Legislative
effort, in political endeavor, in social
work, and in religious and other Or
ganized movements intended to re-
strict and save from the curse. 4th.
Do not drive those who do not agree
with you in methods into the ranks of
the enemy. 9th. Shut up a saloon
wherever you can. Bring every pro-
vision of existing laws to bear against
the business.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-12
Comforts of the Farm.

An article with this heading is GO
ing the rounds the present time,
credited to the Lowell Journal, which
aims to point out the many things
which the farmer and his family can
have because they produce them.
The facts stated in the article are
what every one knows, and the in
ferences drawn are very misleading
to those who have not seen both
sides of the case and disquieting to
those who have. The delicacies
which are mentioned as if they came
to the farmer without cost, would
swallow twice the income of an av
erage farm. When a writer gets
started on brilliant string of gen
eralties and mentions among the
perquisites of farm life, cream, but
ter, eggs, strawberries, raspberries,
currants, grapes, cherries, pears,
ducks, geese, chickens, turkeys,
lamb, veal and host of other things
he does not consider for the reason
that he is usually ignorant of the
fact that each and every one of these
articles takes time, patience, study
experience and that the cost of pro-
ducing any of these on a small scale
is more than their usual price in the
market. The ideas expressed by
this class of writer's reminds one of
the intelligence and understanding
shown by tribe of Indians when
they visit a camp of surveyors or
lumbermen and see the stores and
supplies which to them seem mex
haustable and wonder that men will
work when they have enough to eat
and to wear. Farmers have to pay
taxes and other bills, and money
must be raised from the farm crops,
and business must be planned with
an eve TO this condition of things.
If farmer had no expense regular
or contingent to meet, and his sole
business was to produce just what
he wanted to eat, and lie in the
shade when he felt like it, the sug-
gestions of these self-appointed teach
ers might be of some service. 1t is
true that many farmers follow GER
tain routine which might be greatly
improved upon, but these sweeping
conclusions are so unfair as it would
be to suppose that a merchants chill
dren could have as many clothes as
they saw fit, because their father
had large stock of clothing on
bond - Efo.cb0n01
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-12
Agriealtnral department.
Feeding Horses too Much.

Idle horses in winter, as they are
too often fed in farm practice, eat
a great deal and grow constantly
Doorer. A horse with rack full
of hay will pick at it all the time,
and this has as bad an effect on his
digestion as the like practice has
with human beings. The rule should
be to give at once only what will be
eaten clean, adding the grain OIL
meal ration after, and then allowing
time to digest the food before the
animal is fed again. Keeping the
rack empty most of the time may
seem to the inexperienced very like
starving the horse; but the good
feeder knows about how much hay
will be eaten clean. More than this
is an injury, as it will become foul
in the manger from the breathing on
it of the horse, which will soon de-
stroy his appetite.
Where clover hay is given good
Judgment is required to put before
the horse no more than is good for
him. Horses are excessively fond
of clover and it is excellent if fed
with discretion. Mr.. /. B. Terry
of Ohio feeds clover hay without
grain to horses at work on his farm
and claims that they will do more
work and will not wear out so quick
" as if given grain. The trouble
with clover is that, though nutri-
tious, it is not enough so to maintain
a working horse in good condition
without filling him too much for easy
and rapid work. 1t is feed better
adapted to the pillow than to the
road, and for heavy work generally
rather than that requiring speed.
Its bulk expands the stomach. press
ing against the lungs, and If the
horse is driven rapidly while thus
filled with clover, his wind is likely
to be injured. In very bad cases of
heaves clover hay is necessarily for
hidden, as even little is sure to
cause a revival of the trouble. The
only way to feed clover to horses
with broken wind is to cut and mOis-
ten it. This prevents the dry dust
with which most clover hay is filled
from being inhaled into the horses
lungs.
1t is a great mistake to overfeed
a poor horse just before hard days
work. Food even of the most nutri-
tious kind does not furnish strength
until it has been digested and assm-
Hated. A sudden change from poor
and insufficient food to good is in
furious to any animal. 1t overtaxes
the digestive organs, and if this treat
ment is given to horses at the begin
ming of extra hard work their feed
is really an injury, as the animals
strength is thus diverted from diges-
ton, and the food remains as loss,
to be only got rid of by severe and
injurious diarrhea. This is more
common with horses in warm weather
taken from grass and set at hard
work but thin, poorly fed horse,
given dry feed in winter, will have
an attack of scours if high feeding
and hard work are begun together
One, two or three weeks of good
feed with only moderate exercise are
needed to fit for work a horse that
has been run down from poor feed
ing.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-12
kenevvs Her Youth.

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Clay Co., Iowa, tells the
GLOWING remarkable story, the truth Of which is
vouched for by the residents of the "I am 10
years old, have been troubled with kidney COM
plant and lameness for many years; conld dress
myself without help. Now l am free from all pain
and soreness, and able to do all my homework.
owe my thanks to Electric Bitters for having re-
newed my youth, and removed completely all dis
and pan.'' Try bottle, only soc, at II. C.
Pierce's Drug Store.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-12

Four sheep, a hog and ten bushels
of wheat settled breach of promise
suit where s25, 200 damages were de-
manded.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-12

THE WRETCHED BRoNCHos.
broncho horses have proved unsatis-
factory, it appears, in other states
as well as in Vermont. We find the
following in the Maine Farmer:
The loss of SO many of the bron-
chos brought into the state and
picked up SO eagerly by all classes,
leads the Commercial to suggest that
a new phosphate factory may be
necessary in order to take care of
the carcasses. 1t is question if
the lesson ia treasured as it should
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-12
White Swelling.

Mr. NJ s. Hamlin, nnf of he best known
Insurance men III North Carolina. writes
from Winston, AZ follows +" Ever since 1
was seven years of age have had what
the doctors call hip disease, and which l
call white swelling My hip was drawn
out of place There WAS swelling at the
knee-loint. where there is profuse run
ming, which has been there for years OF
course this has greatly depleted my sYs-
tem, together with surgical operation on
the leg bone / tried every known blood
purifier to bnild mp my system. bnt none
did good until took > s | nse it
every spring 1t always builds me up.
giving me appetite and digestion, and ena-
bles me to stand the long, trying. eper-
waiting, hot summer days. To me there Is
no such medicine for purifying the blood
and building up the wasted system as
s 5 S On using IT | soon became strong
of body and easy of mind. My color
changed from pale, worn look to
healthy, robust complexion
Mr. Il y Frlzzel, of Farmersville,
Texas. writes About August list, 1863,
al eruption appeared on my arms aud
legs. which panied much and seemed
To attest my physical condition generally.
On thu. advice of physical at tins place.
] finally commenced using Swift Specific
1 an glad to say that after using three
large bnitles the sores have all healed
TreatIss. on Rlloh and Skin Diseases
mailed tree. The SWIFT SPECIFIC Go /.
Drawer 3. Atlanta. I}s
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-12
ALL SORTS .
Red clouds at sunrise indicate storm.
Foxes barking at night Indicate storm.

Foxes barking night indicate storm.
Take Ayers Sarsaparila in the spring of the year
to purify the blood, invlgorate the system excite
the liver TO action, and restore healthy tone and
vigor to the whole physical mechanism. kemem-
that quality, quantity, constitutes the value
OF medicine.
The aurora, when very bright, indicates storm.
The weather usually moaerates before a storm.
TRUE BALsAM.-Dr Wistar's Balsam OF Wild
Cherry is truly balsam. 1t contains the balsamlc
principle OF the wild cherry, The balsamic proper
ties OF and of pine. Its ingredients all bal
samlc. Coughs, colds, throats, bronchitis and
consumption speedily disappear under balsamic
influence,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-12
Does it Pay +?

Does 1t pay TO nave nIGy WORKING
men poor and ragged in order to have
one saloon keeper dressed in broad
cloth, and flush of money?
Does it pay to have one citizens in
the county Jail because another sells
him liquor?
Does it pay to hang one citizen be-
cause another got him drunk?
Does it pay to have a dozen intelli
gent young men turned into thieves
and vagabonds, that one may get
living by selling rum?
Does it pay to receive $500 for a
license and then pay several Thousand
for trying a man for murder, induced
by the rum sold him?
Does it pay to have hundred
homes blasted, ruined, defiled, turned
into hell Of misery, strife and want,
that some wholesale rumseller may
build up large fortune?
LUIS IL pay W nav oWShcJ AAoo1SiD
and their children dress in rags, live
IN novels, daily famish, that one rum
sellers wife and children may live in
ease and effiuence?
Does it pay to have hundreds of
thosands Of men and women in the
almshouses, penitentiaries and hospi-
tails and thousands more in the asy-
lums for the idiotic and insane, that
a few capitalists of the whiskey ring
may profit by such atrocity?
Does it pay to tolerate traffic
which breeds crime, poverty, idleness,
shame and death, whenever it is
allowed?
The liquor traffic does no good.
When you say that think what an in
dictment you are bringing you
are singing out a business for a re-
proach that no one would think of
making against any other business
that the public patronizes. The man
who makes boots, the woman who
makes bonnets, each is doing good to
his fellow beings and rendering soci-
ETY. service which gives him right
to expect support. You go to the
poor fellow who sweeps the mud off
the street crossings and ask him what
conceivable use he is to society, and
he very properly answers that he is
giving value received. You hail the
scavenger as he passes through the
streets at midnight and ask him
"What are you good for?' He
straightens up with the dignity of a
man and says that he performs very
necessary duty, removing articles
whose presence would affect the
health and comfort of the community.
Go to all these, and you will get
satisfactory response to your inquiry
about their right to be. But 60 to
the saloon-keeper and ask him why
the State ought not to suppress his
business, and there is no cause that
he dares show.-Erchange.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-12
slo,ss2 90
$4,s49 30

For the benefit of those whose attention has not
been attracted to the Mutual Life the following In
formation is published 1T is the oldest Company
in the United States. 1t is the largest Company In
the world, its assets amounting to more than one
hundred and fifteen millions. Il is the most profit
able Company, having paid in dividends alone over
seventy-two millions Its total payments 70 policy
holders since organization aggregate over two
hundred and forty millions of dollars, or
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-12
Four Hundred Tons Of Gold

Watch this column for Scraps from the Current
History of the Mutual Life Insurance Company OF
New York"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-12
Sounds travelling far and wide
a STORMY Gay Will hetide.

For 80 years have been troubled with catarrh-
tried a number OF remedies without relief A drug
glst here recommended Elys Cream Balm. L have
used only one bottle anu L can say feel like
Aly catarrh was chronic and very bad.
make this voluntary statement that others may
know Of the bAIm.-J. W. Mathewson, (awy err ,
Pawtucket, Il. L.
Two bottles of Ely's Cream Balm cured the wife
of a weI-known U. ). a. General aud also two
army officers in Arizona of catarrh. Prise 90
Pleasant to
North and south the sign of "a drouth,
East and west the sign OF a blast.
The extraordinary popularity of Ayers Cherry
Pectora is the natural result OF by all classes
of people for forty years 1t has proven itself
the very best specific Colds coughs, and pulmo-
nary complaints.
Fire always burns brighter and throws more
heat just before storm, and is hotter during a
storm.
Only remedy is known to medical science that
will prevent sudden death. We every day
reading or hearing OF some one who mas suddenly
died from heart disease OF apopleXy. DO not delay
il you sutier from headacne or pressure III top OIL
head, numuness or prIckIy sensation OF limbs, pam
around or papltaIon OF the healt spots before the
eyes, dIzZlness especially on suddenly changing The
position. You have warning ss mptOns that should
not be neglected Buy and take, as directed, d
bottle OF Anti ApoplecUIne, the only apopeXy pre-
Ventiye anu paraly SIS cure. Send TO Dr. r. D.
HUTCHINSON q Co., knosDurgh FANS, VT, tor clrcu-
lars and testimonials.
When heavy cloud comes up in the southwest
and to settle back again look out for storm.
A strange Freak.
The wife of our esteemed citizen, Mr. John Row
ELL while suffering under severe attack of the
blues, tried commit the crime of infanticide, but
prevented ~ the oppOrtune arrival of neigh
Dor. Her has been considered by the best
doctors incurable, but her husband highly
pleased, after using course of Sulphur Bitters, TO
find that she was entirely cured.-Kingston Herald
Goals becoming alternately bright and dim indi-
cate approaching storms.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-12
:: WONDERS In FINANCE =

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Semi-Annualy.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-21
PROPOSALS

FOR FURNISHING SCHOOL BOOKS FOR THE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY.
nUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
I by the County Board of Education OF
Los Angeles County, this First day OF April,
1888, that it is proposed to adopt text books
upon the following subjects for use in the
Public Schools of Los Angeles county, from
July 1, 1885, to July l, 1892, unless text
books upon said subjects or any part thereon
are provided by the State OF California be-
fore the latter date. In case of such pro-
vision by the State. the book or books SO
provided will be introduced at the begin
ming of the school year next succeeding
this publication:
Writing,
Drawing,
Bookkeeping,
Practical Entomology,
Music,
Word Analysis,
Algebra,
Geometry, Elementary,
Geometry, Plane,
Rhetoric,
Chemistry,
Latin Introductory,
Civil Government
II is also proposed to adopt a book for
supplementary Reading and School Die
tionary for Pupils.
Sealed bids or proposals win be received
| by the Board for furnishing books Separ-
| ate bids or proposals Tor supplying any part
| OF this list will be received.
Said bids or proposals must be accom-
panied with sample copies OF the books
proposed to be furnished, together with a
statement of the wholesale and retail price
at which the publisher agrees to furnish
each book within this county during the
full time for which said books are to be
adopted.
Said sealed bids will be opened at the
office of the County Superintendent o'
schools, in the City of Los Angeles. the
county seat of Los Angeles county, at II
O'Clock A. NJ, Friday, June 8. 1883.
The Board reserves the right to reject any
and all bids or proposals or any portion of i
bid or proposal.
The publisher or publishers whose propo
sails shall be accepted must enter into
written contract with the Board OF Educa
ton, and shall give good and sulficien
! bond in q sum fixed by this Bosrd for tn
!, faithful performance thereof.
BY order Of the Board of Education Q
: Los Angeles County.
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