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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-10-07
Carlo in Tears.

'sHe had been owned by Rev. B. C.
Phelps, a Methodist preacher, sta
toned at Danielsonvllle, Conn.," re-
sponded the Major, who does not
hesitate having told a story twenty
times to tell it twenty-one times.
'When Mr.. Phelps was removed to
another charge he made me present
of him. The dog took kindly enough to
me, as yellow dogs always do to small
boys, and we struck up great friend
ship, and had glorious old times
hunting woodchucks and rabbits. 1t
was hunting without gum but with
Carlos help l captured lots of game,
such as it was. The dog had not ap-
peared to mind parting from his own
er, and as time went by | took it for
granted that he had forgotten that he
ever owned any other master than
myself. One day, it must have been
year afterward, we had been out ON
hard campaign against the wood
chucks, and / reached home just at
shutdown. AS | went into the house
by one door Mr.. Phelps entered by
another; he had been an intimate
friend of my fathers, and now walked
right in without ceremony. After
greetings by my father and mother,
and just as Mr.. Phelps was seating
himself, Carlo came running in, with
out noticing that he was there. why,
Carlo !! said Mr. Phelps. The dog
stopped, looked, and with a bound
was in his old masters lap, and lay
across his knees motionless, with his
head hanging down, while tears rolled
down from his eyes and dropped on
the floor. Well, sir, at seeing the
dog weep, Phelps himself choked,
and the tears came into his ewes
Father he followed suit, aud / heard
something that sounded like a sob
from mother. Forrest and Stream.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-10-07
geligiol1s Department.
A Miracle.

Two men were talking of miracles
"Well, you may say what you
please" said one; 81, for my part
cannot believe that God would first
! impose laws on nature and then go
on to violate his own laws. What
would be the use of making them if
they are to be so easily set aside?''
81 dinna ken, sir, what God may
do, or what he Wilma do, said the
Scot, very reverently. "But l don't
regard miracle to be violation O.
the law O. nature there is nae viola
ton O the laws O. nature, or rather
the laws O. God, that l ken, save the
wicked actions O. wicked men,"
"What then," asked he, 'sdo you
make a miracle to be?'
81 regard it to be merely such an
interference wi the established canse
O. things as infallibly shows us the
prefence and the action O supernat-
ural power. What o'clock is it wi
you, sir, if you please ?''
SIT is half-past twelve exactly,
Greenwich time" replied he.
"Weel, sir" said the Scot, pulling
huge old timepiece from his pocket,
''it is ane o'clock WI me. I general
ly have a specsal reason the moo for
setting my watch by the railways,
and so We see I'm turning the hands
O it round. Moo wad We say that /
haze violated the laws O the watch?
True, [ haze done what watchdom- wi
a its laws could not haze done for it.
self, but haze done violence to name
O its laws. My action is only the
interference O a superior intelligence
for a suitable end. But | haze sus-
pended nae law, violated nae law.
Weel, then, instead O. the watch, say
the universe instead o. moving the
hands, say God acting worthily o
himself, and We haze a that contend
ed for in a miracle-that is, the I'M
questionable presence O a mighty
hand working the divine will. And
if he sees fit to work miracles who
can hinder him? What can hinder
him? He has done it oftener than
once or twice already, and who dares
say that he'll no get leave to do it
again %
Is there better illustration of a
miracle than this of the old Scotch
mans ?-Home Words.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-10-07

10 ignore the warning of approaching disease is
neither cautious nor safe. Prudence would suggest
the immediate use of good preventive remedy,
such as Laxador, which eradicates at once all
symptoms of bilious diseases Price 25 cents.
All the world over, baby governs. Yet often dis
ease will overcome the baby and then it is that Dr.
Bulls Baby Syrup proves its worth by conquering
the disease. Price 25 cents bottle.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-10-07

Therefore, come what may, hold
fast to love. Though men should rend
your heart, let them not embitter or
harden it. We win by tenderness !;
we conquer by forgiveness. Oh,
strive to enter into something of that
large, celestial charity which is meek,
enduring unretaliating, and which
even the overbearing world cannot
withstand forever-F. ". Robertson,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-10-07
What is Scrofula

1t is that impurity in the blood, which, accumu-
Iating in the glands of the neck, produces un-
slightly Jumps or swellings; which causes painful
running sores the arms, legs, or feet; which
developes ulcers in the eyes, ears, nose, often
causing blindness deafness; which IS the origin
of pimples, cancerous growths, or many other
manifestations usually ascribed to humors
1t is a more formidable enemy than consumption
or cancer alone, for serofula combines the worst
possible features of both. Being the most ancient
1t is the most general of all diseases or affections
for very few persons entirely free from it.
How can it be cured BY taking Hoods Sarsa-
oarilla which, by the cures it has accomplished,
often when other medicines have failed has
proven itself to be potent and peculiar medicine
for this disease. For all affections of the blood
Hoods SarsapariIla is unequalled, and some of the
cures it has effected are really wonderful Ii you
suffer from scrofula in any of its various forms,
be sure to give Hoods Sarsaparilla trial.
Hoods SarSaparilla
Sold by all druggists. 81 six for IS. Preparedonly
3yC. /. HOOD s. CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass
100 Doses One Dollar
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-10-07

However hopeful one may be,
whether one laughs or weeps, none
can make the -speak, none can open
thy hand before the time, oh, mute
phantom, our shadow! Spectre al
ways masked, even at our side, called
tomorrow u Victor HuQo.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-10-07

They get at the real value of COW
in Sussex county, n. j., by selling
her at SO much quart. Thus if the
cow gives twenty quarts of milk dali
ly, she is worth $3.50 quart, or $50.
The purchaser keeps the cow on trial
for few days.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-10-07
Catarrh

S blood disease. Until the poison is
expelled from the system, there can
be no cure for this loathsome and
dangerous malady. Therefore, the only
effective treatment is a thorough course
of Ayers SarsaparilIa- the best of all
blood purifiers. The sooner you begin
the better delay is dangerous.
81 was troubled with catarrh for over
two years. 1 tried various remedies,
and was treated by number of physi-
clans, but received no benefit until I
began to take Ayers Sarsaparilla. A
few bottles of this medicine cured me of
this troublesome complaint and COM
pletely restored my health. Jesse M.
Boggs, Holman's Mills, n. G..
"when Ayers Sarsaparilla was rec
commended to me for catarrh, was in
clined to doubt its efficacy Having
tried so many remedies, with little ben
eft, had no faith that anything would
cure me- became emaciated from loss
of appetite and impaired digestion. /
had nearly lost the sense of smell, and
nv system was badly deranged. was
about discouraged, when friend urged
me to try Ayers Sarsaparilla, and re-
ferred me to persons whom it had cured
of catarrh After taking half a dozen
bottles of this medicine, am convinced
that the only sure way of treating this
obstinate disease is through the Blood
Charles H. Maloney, 113 River St.
oyUall Mass.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-10-07
C.. VIZ. PRESTON,
Dwinell's Block. Barton. VT.

Also dealer in f;rorrrics. Stationery. ?, 10 and
Csc gonds Come in aud ret glass Of Saratoga
Water. and at the same time ~ pound of NV best
Jap Tea at soc. Very best Black Tea for 00c Very
best Coffee for soc.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-10-07

Having purchased ri. am AMI Lamoille Counties
for above, vii " out t"vrs aud give de- Il for
same at reasonable ticr. Ttrc is clnncc for
live men make money aud b1Bde an article that
every family prcs, an III price j. ia the reach OF
all Cnrresnnnhcnct : tIieifcl.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-10-07

Worlds DispsISaEY hsal. al association,
663 Ezain St, BUFFALO, N. Y
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Barton Landing, No., september. 49,. ls'..
Iron County register., 1889-01-03
AN OLD ORGANIZATION.

IsrLef History of the Foundation of the
Society of the Cincinnati.
A short time before the disbanding
Of the Continental army. in 1888, an
association called the Society of the
Cincinnati was formed among the Off
GERS of the troops stationed at New
burg, n. Y General Knox was the
one who first suggested the society, the
object of which was to be the promo
ton of friendship among the officers of
the army and the assistance of such of
its members as might need help.
Washington was chosen the first presi-
dent of the society, and remained pres
ident-general until his death. General
Knox was the first secretary-gehera
subsequently State societies were
formed. auxiliary to the general soci-
ETY.. In order that the society should
not pass away with the generation
that formed it, it's constitution pro-
vided that the eldest masculine
descendant of an original mem
ber should be entitled to wear the
order and enjoy the privileges of the
society, if accounted worthy of these
by the other members. There was so
much popular prejudice excited by
what was considered to be the germ
of an hereditary aristocracy." that the
right OF succession was thus n1ade sub
Ject TO the vote of the society on the
worthy character of the eldest male
descendant. A number of French Of
ticers were made honorary life mem
bers of the society. Washington was
reelected tri-ennially to the office of
president general as hong as he lived.
He was succeeded by Hamilton and the
Pinckneys. and the society was in all
its vigor in 1s24-5. when Lafayette,
then the only surviving Major-General
of the revolution, visited this country.
The Connecticut society was dissolved
Iron County register., 1889-01-03

In 1904. At near the same time the
societies of New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, Delaware and Georgia were
discontinued. Robert Burnet. of New
York, who died in 1854, was
the last survivor of the original
members of the association. The
general Society of the Cincinnati is still
in existence, and also State branches
in Massachusetts, Maryland, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and South
Carolina The State societies have an
nual meetings; the general society
meets tri-ennially. The order, or badge,
worn by members, consists OF a golden
eagle, suspended by a ribbon of blue
and white. On the breast of the eagle
is a medallion, on which is repre-
sentatiOn of Cincinnatus at his plow,
receiving the Roman Senators, who
offer him the office of chief magistrate
of Rome. The order worn by the pres
ident general is adorned with jewels,
and was presented to General Wash
ington by the French officers. The
President General of the Society of the
Cincinnati in 1880 was Hamilton Fish,
then Secretary of State, son of Colonel
Nicholas Fish, one of the original
members, who still, we think, fills this
office. Chicago Inter- Ocean,.
Iron County register., 1889-01-03
ZONE AND EARN.

Frozen Lemonade: To one quart or
rich lemonade add the whites of six
| eggs beaten stiff; mix well and freeze.
-Muiching greatly assists in protect
| ing strawberry plants during the win
! ter, and leaves should be collected for
mulching purposes.
| "A man who would kick COW has
! disposition. which if cultivated. would
| induce him to cuff his wife-if circum-
| stances favored.
| Horses and oxen should be fed
upon a fair maintenance and not al
! lowed to run down. Those which are
| quite idle will do well on hay alone,
but all animals kept at work should
have moderate feeds of grain.
can L4gricultu"tst.
Barley Cruel: Wash two ounces
of pearl barley well in cold water,
changing the water two or three times.
Cover it with a quart of cold water and
boil it until it is reduced to pint.
Strain and flavor with lemon Juice, and
sweeten to taste.
Chocolate Pie: One coffee cup of
III 1hs WV SpooAioAS 81 uICo llloC-
late, three-fourths cup sugar, yelks of
three eggs. Heat the chocolate and
milk together, add the sugar and yelks
beaten to a cream. Flavor with va
nilla. Bake with under-crust- Take
the whites to frost the tOp.-Albany
journal. sAs-~
Lemon Drops: Strain the juice of
three or four large lemons into a bowl,
then mix pulverized sugar in with it
until quite thick. Put into an earthen
pan, and let it boil for few minutes,
stirring it constantly. Drop it from
the end of spoon upon writing pa
per, and when hardened. keep the
drops in tin canisters until wanted.
-White-meated game should be
cooked well done; dark-meated rare.
Larding game renders it more juicy,
but destroys some of the natural
flavor. Some cooks, on this account,
prefer tying strip of bacon on the
breast. If the wild flavor of game is
disllked, soaking over night in salt
and water or two or three hours in
strong soda water will remove it.
Vanilla Custard: Boil one pint Of
cream with four ounces of sugar for
one-fourth of an hour; then strain
through muslin. Beat well yelks of
six eggs and pour milk over them into
bowl. placing bowl over pan of boil
ing water, and stirring rapidly till it
thickens. Let it cool gradually; add
one teaspoonful of vanilla to suit taste,
and stir continually. When cold
serve in dish covered with whipped
whites of eggs sifted over with sugar.
If more care We're given to seed
ing down and getting a good stand of
grass, no better means could becde-
vised to insure improved methods of
farming. With well-seeded fields there
need be less blowing, and that might
properly be limited to the area that
can be thoroughly manured and cul-
tivated. A really good grass Or clover
crop will pay better average profits
than those requiring much more labor
N. Y. Witness.
Iron County register., 1889-01-03

thrilled the observers will, anxiety
lest Her Grace be led astray by the
example of her husband, whose s.fad'
1t was to mingle with the populace on
exciting occasions, such as midnight
fires and riots like that of HYDE
Park, some twenty years ago.
ridiculous as it may seem to
republican readers, the Duchess was
severely criticised for her habit of
walking forth alone from her somber
mansion and calling cab when in a
hurry, instead of letting half hour
go to waste while the cumbersome
vehicle appropriate to her station
should be made ready. The entire
precinct was once thrown into a flutter
by the report, doubtless correct. that
she had personally entered the little
bakery in St. James street, in which
postal agency was established, and had
there purchased stamps and affixed
them to her letters. precisely as one of
the untitled multitude might have
done.
In the winter of 1869 the sentinel
who mounts guard over the palace
wall of Cleveland Row had the op-
portunity of relieving his dreary
routine by saving child from being
run Over-a radical cab-horse from
Pail Mall having so forgotten the pro-
prleties as to break loose and endanger
human life, as well as the drowsy tram
guilty of that solemn region. A day
or two LATER the DucheSS was Seap to
stop and speak to the guardsman, who
was so overcome by agitation that he
could hardly hold his rife steady. H
would have faced the cannon's mouth
with less trepidation than exchange
ten words with the exalted peeress.
The presumption was that Her Grace
desired simply to say kind word in
commendation of the mans behavior;
but the proceeding was regarded with
any thing but approval by the resident
spectators. The verdict of the austere
middle class, throughout the neighbor-
hood, was that the Duchess had been
reprehensibly unmindful of the dignity
of her position, and that she would
have done better to send the soldier half
a crown by her fOOtman. For this and
similar reasons she was not admired
by the bOurgeOisie of London. And
yet there are people on both sides of
the Atlantic who profess to wonder
that the social sensibllities OF Amer
leans and Englishnen can not at all
points be brought into sympathetic and
symmetrical accord.-N. J. Tribune.
Iron County register., 1889-01-03
ANCIENT WATER WORKS.
Great Engineering Feats Performed Many
Centuries Ago.

Great Engineering Feats Performed Many
Centuries Ago.
Tho very first thing done by every
community, savage or civilized, is to
provide for water supply. Savages
simplify matters by placing their tene-
ments within easy reach of river or
lake. Civilized people have their
water brought to them. This is not of
easy accomplishment, and some of the
greatest feats of engineering have been
performed in supplying water to
ancient and modern cities.
When the British captured India,
they found. in all parts of the country,
tanks and reservoirs on an enormous
scale, and some of them a thousand
years old.
The water works of Peru were even
older. The Incas built aqueducts from
the slope of the Andes, for distance
of more than one hundred miles. to the
capital. The water was carried part
ly through tunnels cut in the rocks and
partly on arcades on supporting pillars
of mason work to span valleys, the
channels being composed of cut stone
without cement. From these great
aqueducts a number of branch canals
and conduits were laid laterally for
irrigation purposes.
The ancient water works at Jerusa
lem consisted first of wells in the lime
stone ridges on which the city was
built; but as the population increased,
tanks and cisterns for rain water were
placed ia secure Enclosures and within
the walls of the temple. An aqueduct
of stone laid in cement was construct
ed to bring water from the pools of
Bethlehem, about six miles distant
Strabo mentions that it was a very rare
occurrence for Jerusalem to suffer from
water famine
About the year 600 B. c., Polycrates,
King of Samos, built an aqueduct to
supply his capital, bringing water
through a tunnel cut through limestone
rock for a distance of six thousand
yards. About the same time, the peo-
pie of Lycia, in Asia Minor, carried
water across the vale of Petrea through
a stone syphon
Carthage brought water from the hill
ranges on the south, over seventy miles
distant. and the ruins of an ancient
aqueduct may still be seen.
The water works of Athens were be-
gun about $50 b c., and consisted of
stone aqueducts lined with baked clay,
and carried alsnost wholly on the sur
face of the ground
The ancient city of Mexico was sup
piled with water through a wooden
aqueduct, built by Montezuma. carried
across a causeway. In Egypt and
China, gigantic works for conveying
water have been in existence from re-
mote antiquity. Taken all in all, the
efforts of the mcderns are yet insignifi-
cant compared with those of the
ancients.-G0lden DaVs.
Iron County register., 1889-01-03
COBBLE PICKERS.
Poor Wretches Who Pick Up a Living
Around Iron Mills.

| Poor wretches Who Pick Up a Living
Around Iron Mills.
A peculiar and not altogether pleas
ing sight about the iron and steel
| works in this city is the groups of men,
! women and children that are con-
stantly prodding and digging in the
cinder dumps, and are known as "cob-
BILE pickers." The men are always
old and frequently weak and tottering.
The mark of poverty is on all women,
and the children, who are in the ma
jority, are abject-looking creatures,
| and range from the age of eight to
sixteen. Cobbles are the bits of iron
| and steel that remain among the
| cinders from the furnaces and are
dumped with them on the cinder-
piles. On the gathering of these bits
of metal the small army of toilers re-
| ferred to depend for their living. With
hoes and rakes they dig in the cinders
as they are dumped. and struggle and
push and wrangle for the possession of
the metal as it is uncovered
Each picker has basket in which is
placed the result of the pickings.
Over two hundred persons daily delve
on the grimy dump for cObbles. While
they will use all manner of means to
secure possession of lucky find in the
dumps, after a picker has filled his
basket and emptied it on his pile" a
few feet away, there is not one among
the curious and by no means scrupu-
lous pickers who would touch one of
the cobbles in it. Each picker has his
or her pile of cobbles. and the iron
companys teams come around at inter-
walls. The driver weighs each pile,
gives the owner voucher for it, and
takes the accumulated metal to the
scrap heaps to be melted again.
The earnings of the cobble-pickers
range from $40 to $40 a month, and
there are women who have been on
the dumps for years. The case of one
woman and her twelve-year-old daugh-
ter is notorious, because they earn not
only their own living. but enough to
feed and clothe the husband and father,
who is an employe OF the iron-works,
and gets 800 a month, which he
squanders in drink and riotous living
as soon as he is paid. One old man on
the cobble dumps, who is barely able
to save enough to keep him from starv-
ing, was once a prominent business
man worth at least so, 900.
The work of cobble- picking is one of
the lowest forms of human occupation.
and its degrading effect on the young
girls and boys engaged in it is only too
apparent. Many efforts have been
made by church and other societies in
Johnstown to suppress eobble-pieking
among the children, but with indiffer-
ent success. pa Special.
Iron County register., 1889-01-03
ELECTRICAL LIGHT.

How 1t Affects Flowers, Vegetables and
Other Plants.
From time to time, of late years, ex-
periments have been made of the effect
of the electrical light ON flowers and
plants, with results seemingly the
same, to wit, feeble efforts of some
plants to prolong their periods of
bloom into the night and then pre-
mature decay. One has only to study
their actions, as observed, to conclude
that even plants need rest, Or, to be
more precise, they seem to thrive best
under the conditions which nature has
imposed-the period of darkness and
the period of the light, which is
heat as well; Or else that the
family of plants, as now they are,
sprung from these exact con-
ditions, and will not thrive without
them. 1t is the nature of some flowers,
as every one knows. to open at one
period of light and close at another; of
Others to open only at night and close
before or at the moment when the orb
of day tops the horizon. So strictly
do some of these follow their unwritten
laws that floral clocks have been con-
structed, so that one may step out into
his garden. of a bright day or clear
night, and learn the time by the con-
ditien of bloom on the floral dial.
Prot Wollney, of Munich, satisfied
by experiment that electrical light will
not advance or improve plant growth,
recently tried the effect upon them of
the current itself. We quote the fol-
lowing, being the means employed and
its result:
He took patches of ground twelve
Or thirteen feet square, separated by
boards penetrating the earth to the
depth of foot. In one case he APP
piled two earth plates and interposed
FIVE earth cells; in another he inserted
an induction apparatus; and in a third,
plate of copper at one side and
plate of zinc at the other side to form
q natural battery. Peas. potatoes, car
rots. etc. We're planted on these and
other patches, but the electricity.
whether of high or low potential.
seemed to have either no influence or
a bad one upon their growth"
Plants being full of sap, and sap a
fairly good conductor, every fiber must
have been reached, and, Sc far as the
Professor was enabled to perceive, the
only effect of the current was to pro-
woke perturbation on the protoplasm.
Scientific 44naerican.