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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16
What A Cracker" Is.

The race that tends the spindles OF
the cotton growing States is alto
gether unique. To describe it, geo
graphical boundaries must be effaced
and national peculiarities ignored
for the blood of the followers of
cavaliers in Maryland, noblemen in
Virginia, Swiss and palatines in
North Carolina, and Huguenots in
the Palmetto State blends with that
of the impecunious gentlemen brought
by Oglethorpe to Georgia, and every
where crops out in one quaint, baffi-
ing, original, Interchangeable type.
Even our nomenclature fails under
the strain of classification so diff
cult. A name must be coined to
specify this strange, homely, uEgain-
cotton, and corn, distil whisky in the
mountains, and spin or weave in vii
lagos and towns. Crackers in every
mood and tense, past, present, and
future they are; "crackers" in dia-
lect, feature, cloring, dress, manner,
doings, land characteristics. In their
native habitat the term is not a re-
proach but scientific distinction,
expressing undisguisable, stubbon,
ineradicable qualities, which isolate
that large portion of the community
whom the epithet embraces hun
dreds of thousands of non slavehold-
ing whites in ante-bellum days and
their present descendants.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16
Cheap Money.

The people who would benefit at
first by change to cheap money are
farmers and others who have proper
ty which is heavily mortgaged, and
who would be thus relieved of por-
ton of their debt. The case of the
farmer who has been forced to mort
gage his farm is a peculiarly hard
one. His condition has been grow
ing worse and worse yearly,f for many
reasons, but chiefly because most of
the things he has had to buy have
been taxed, while the chief products
of his farm have not. He has been
forced to buy at the higher prices of
a restricted home market, and to sell
at the prices set in the unrestricted
market of the world. A change to a
cheaper form of money would give
him relief, provided he were able 10
pay off his debt at once, but other
wise his gain would be only in his
ability to pay his interest money in a
cheaper currency. He would suffer,
in common with all others of the
Woodworking class, from the inevita-
BILE evils attendant upon cheap mon
ey, with the dear goods which such
money always brings in its train.
Then, too, he would discover, in case
he wished to procure further loans,
that he must obtain them on a gold
basis, for the mere hint of the COM
ing of a cheaper currency is suffici-
ent always to force capitalists into
the defensive position of loaning
large amounts on that basis alone.
In the end the farmer would find that
his every effort to gain relief through
legislation which promised TO make
"money plenty had the same result,
namely, to put him more helplessly
in the power of men whose chief bus
mess is to speculate in money.-Cen-
tury.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

A log church still standing in En-
gland is surely a noteworthy relic.
Such a church there is, according to
The BuiIder-a little church at Green
sted, Essex, over thousand years
old and still in constant use, the nave
of which is formed of plank, almost
logs, about 51a feet by to 3 wide.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16
A Texas merchant, who writes

A Texas merchant, who writes a
VIGOROUSLY bad hand, employed a
young man to act as copying clerk.
The first letter the merchant gave the
clerk to copy was so utterly illegible
that he could not decipher it.
"Why any fool can read that It's
as plain as day to me"
He made several attempts to read
his own writing, but failed, whereup-
on he said:
81 didn't write that letter to read
it myself. l wrote it for you to
copy, and if you haven't got sense
enough to do it I'll hire somebody
who has
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

Women are no longer expected to
be wholly absorbed in their home du-
ties, any more than they are expected
to 90 yelled in the street. Indeed, a
larger part of those home duties have
been taken from them; they are not
expected to do any more spinning or
weaving, for instance, and the time
which that once cost, if il is not to be
wholly wasted, may as well go to
the cultivation of their own minds
and the healing of the worlds sor-
rows. They have ceased to be mere
dependents or appendages, and there
is nothing left for them but to go on
and be individuals.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

THE ADVANTAGE OF THIs-We do not as a rule
praise physician above another, but since the
famous DR.. Greene of 81 Temule Place, Boston,
Mass, well known through his wonderful dis
covery, DR.. Greene's Nervura, and who is the most
successful specialist in the of nervous and
chronic diseases, announces that he will give free
consultation and advice to all those who write him
about their cases. it should be made known IN or
der that the thousands of sufferers from these long
standing diseases may take advantage of the free
consultation.
Write him about your case in full, all you suffer
ers, send for his symptom blank to fill out, and
he will return a carefully considered answer, fully
explaining your disease and giving you perfect
understanding of all its symptoms free of expense.
His experience is vast his practice enormous,
and his vegetable remedies of so marvellous pow
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

Temperance principles are reported
to be spreading rapidly among En-
glish railway men. Their temperance
society now numbers more than 10,-
900 members. The Bishop of Lon
don has given the temperance move
ment his powerful advocacy. In a
recent speech he said the cause was
making great progress, for they had
now millions of temperance men and
women where there were only tens a
few years ago.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

Heaven begun is the living proof
that makes the heaven to come credi
BILE. "Christ in you is the hope of
glory" 1t is the eagle eye of faith
which penetrates the grave and sees
far into the tranquil things of death.
He alone can believe in Immortality
who feels the resurrection in him al
ready.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

Brandy in its action on the nerves
is like bill of exchange drawn on
the laborers, which for lack of cash
to pay it, must be constantly renew
ed. The workman consumes his
principle instead of interest, hence,
the inevitable bankruptcy of the
body.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

The production of paper in the en-
tire world is estimated to be 3,000,-
100000 pounds per year. There are
884 paper-mills and JOG paper-ma-
chimes in this country. Germany has
800 mills and 891 machines France,
APO mills and 525 machines En-
gland, 361 mills and al machines !;
Scotland 50 mills and 90 machines ::
Ireland, Is mills and Is machines !;
Russia, 1873 mills and 1877 machines,
and Austria, 220 mills and 270 ma
chimes.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

Will the county Unions please re
port their annual meetings and cleo
ton of officers directly to the w. c..
I. Z. column, instead of having them
placed among the locals? This is the
place to look for items in regard to
our work. A. b. 0.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

1t is laced in the back, cut Vchape
at the throat back and front, and
edged Wild the fashionable ostrich
band which is so becoming to all ages
and complexious.
A very handsome waist is slightly
double breasted. The arrangement
differs from the ordinary double
breasted front in having the wide
portion Tapped under, instead of over,
and fastened with hooks and eyes, or
buttons, which are not visible. The
overlapping edge, which is the mar
row side, has bias band of cloth or
velvet in contrasting color. This
band is about two and half inches
wide. narrowing to the waist-line.
The edge of the waist back of this
fold is thickly set with small buttons.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

Mr.. James Lambert, of New Brunswick, ILL.,,
says: 81 was badly afflicted with rheumatism in
the hips and legs, when 1 bought bottle of c ham
berlain's Pain Balm. 1t cured me in three days
all right to-day and would insist on every one,
who is afflicted with terrible disease, to Cham
berlain's Balm and get well at once" For sale by
Il. c.. Pierce drnpgist
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

The following item has been going the rounds
of the press, and as our druggist, II. e. Pierce,
handles the goods it may interest our readers:
Having had occasion to use Chamberlains Cough
Remedy, it gives me pleasure to state that found
it to be the best medicine for a cough ever used
in fact it cured me of cough that had bafiled
eral other cough medicines.-N. r. Burnett, Atal-
issa, Iowa.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

At the close of the fiscal year 1890
Ohio had 57,087 pensioners; New
York, so, 206; Pennsylvania, 40, 578 ;
Indiana, 47,798; Illinois, 38,943 ;
Michigan, 26,853; Missouri. %. 749 ;
Iowa, 3,189; Kansas,23, 1921; Mas
sachuetts, 1897; Kentucky, 49,
900. The number in none of the
rest of the States comes up to the
five figures.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

"Perched upon a bust of Pallas." or better yet,
on some handy Shelf the sensible housekeeper has
her bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, and when
the child has distressing congh or touch OF
Group see the little one in no time.
''What de preecher talk bout to-day, brudder
Julius?" "Oh he teled bout Samson beat dem
Phistincs, en-, you know l NOSE cry to tink dem
poor creeters couldn't get no Salvation OIL"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

1t is not too much to say that the
work would be one-third better done,
and more swiftly done, and the en-
joyment of life increased one half, if
no one took drop of alcohol.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

A Congo chief. lately tried, con-
victed and executed for assassination,
was asked just before his death if he
would like anything, and said, "Ye s,
GIN he drank half bottle, and
was then shot.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

A BABY SAvED.-Since birth my baby had running
all his head, and the doctors said that he
must die, for they could not heal them l used
everything had ever heard of, but it was no good
He got so bad that he would not nurse. My hus-
bands sister told to try Sulphur Bitters as she
had great faith in them. 1 used bottle and the
sores commenced to heal. After using two bottles
more, the sores all healed and I considered my
baby saved.-Mother, Concord ". H,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16
in four days

That old established cough remedy, Downs ELK
ir, still than holds its in the public esti-
nation, despite sharp and active competition 1t
is "home remedy and in this locality needs,
words of praise from US, so well and fAvorably
known is it. 1t is the standard remedy for coughs
colds and all throat troubles, with great numbers
of our people, and their continued use and unsoc
tied recommendation of it speaks volumes in its ia
gor.-Burtington, IT.. Free Press, January 20,
1882
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

1t is said that the doctors partly
attributed the malady from which
the late king of Portugal suffered to
his excessive smoking. 1t was no
uncommon thing for him to smoke a
hundred large green Havana cigars
in four DAYS.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

Chow To CURE ALL SKIN DISEASES. Simply
apply "Swayne's Ointment No internal medicine
required. Cures letter, eczema, itch, all erup-
tons the face, hands, nose, &c. leaving the SKIN
clear, white and healthy. Its great healing and
curative powers possessed by other remedy.
Ask your druggist for Swaynes Ointment.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

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, 1891-03-16
TINS of their own frailty.

In a teetotal hospital at Leeds,
England, of 800 patients who took
not drop of alcohol, all recovered.
1t is said that in a certain insane
asylum the incoming patients were
tested by being set to bale out a
trough into which water was running.
If they did not use reason enough to
turn off the tap they were considered
incurable. Has not our action in
missionary work been largely like
that of these poor unreasoning ones !?
We are trying to cleanse and purify
the great sea of heathenism and bar
barism by a few missionaries and
teachers here and there, and mean
while from thousands of sources are
pouring in the black streams of an
infamy and degradation thousand
fold worse. Is it not time that we
endeavored to turn off the tap and
cut off the supply?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

BRIGHT's DISEASE LOST It's VICTIM.-Mrs. Lau
A. Kempton, of West Rutland. VT, writes ''We
certain that only for DR.. David Kennedy's Fa-
vorite Remedy, of Rondout, n. Y, our little ten
year-old daughter would have been dead from
bright's disease We had tried in vain other means,
but the Favorite Remedy came just in time save
her life.''
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16
PaRTIaL Paralysis
AND THE
Demon Neuralgia
YANQUISHED!
PORTLAND, Me, Nov. !, 1890.

PORTLAND, Me-, Nov. !, 1890.
D. S. Co.
NesSrS.-For some six years have been afflicted
with spells of numbness, sezing me in my limbs
and at times affecting my power of articulation SO
i could not speak. This would be followed
by hOt-fushes, leaving me very weak and
nervous.
Neuralgia also claimed me for its victim, and
beset me for 1Ceeks at time eCith its D1dddeniRg
pain. 1 grew very irritable. MY BRAIN FELT
TIRED. Spells of dependency became more
frequent, and it seemed to me sometimes that
REASON WOULD BE DETHRONED.
Last March your advertising team passed our
house, and as a boy came running up the steps, |
met him at the door, and took the paper he handed
me- In the quiet of my chamber l read it through
and through sent boy to III I'll. Rickers for bot
tie of DANA'S SARSAPARILLA. 1t helped me
from the first. am now taking my seventh bottle,
and have not had NUMB SPELL FOR OVER THREE
MONTHS. My LAST ATTACK OF NEURALGIA WAS
OVER FOUR MONTHS AGO. My nerves feel strong,
and am WELL, at least very it. / have
a good appetite, and have gained nineteen and
one-half pounds in weight. L never expected to
feel as / do now. Ny gratitude is unbounded. |
hope that all afflicted / was will try the reno
waiting powers of DANA'S SARSAPARILLA.
Sincerely yours,
CLARA E. BLACKBURN.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16
w, G. T. U. COLUMN.

MoTTo :-"God and Home, and
Native Land"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

He-Shall we take the elevated
cars or the underground, dear?
She lovingly and confidingly)-
The tunnel love.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16

Try Gold Medal Sarsapanlla Combined with red
clover,) the popular remedy.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16
Ann Smiths Estate.

SSTATE OF VERMONT, ORLEANS DISTRICT, -.
y In Probate Court held at Barton Landing, In
said District on the 2sth day of Feb, a. d. 1871
b. b. Albce, administrator of the estate Of Ann
Smith latc of Holland, In said district de-
ceased, makes application for license % sell
follows, to wit
The south halfof Lot No. in 7th Range in said
Holland, representing that sale thereof is neces-
sary to pay a mortgage debt on said premises.
Whcreupon II is ordered by said court that said
application be referred to a session thereof 90 be
held at the Probate Office in said Barton Landing,
on the oath day of March, A. ID. 1891, for hear
ing and decision thereon. And it is further ordered
that notice hereof be given to all persons interested
by publication of the same three weeks successfully
in the Monitor, n newspaper published at Barton,
previous to said time appointed for hearing, that
they may appear at said time and place and show
cause, ifany they may have, why said license
should not be granted. BY tie Court-Auest,
1912 @. IL. AUSTIN, Judge.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16
Improve the Poor's Condition.

In the large cities saloons are al
ways thickest where the people are
poorest, and in other places the ma
jority of those who frequent them are
of the poorer classes. The support
they get, therefore,is from those who
are least able to afford it and who
are most severely injured both by the
drink and outlay. We have frequent
statements of the relations of poverty
to crime, but not many showing its
connection with drink, except that
we are told of the way in which drink
produces it. 1t seems to be the fact :,
however, that in proportion as people
are poor they take to drinking, the
reason probably being that they lack
self-respect, wish to drown their
cares in intoXicatiOn, and have a
thirst produced by a craving that
comes from insufficient food. An i'm
porlant thing to do, therefore, is to
seek to improve the condition of the
poor, not simply by taking liquor
away from them, but by giving them
more physical aud moral strength.
If it be agreed that getting them free
from the curse of rum is the first
thing, it must be remembered it is
not all. land they can not be kept from
drunkenness so long as they remain
degraded and continue to be the vic
tims of their own frailtV
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-16
Dress Notes.

For rheumatism lumbago, neuralgia, cramp and
collie there is remedy superior to the genuine
DIR. Thomas Electric Oil.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-11-26
CYCLONE AT WASHINGTON.

The National Capital visited by De-
structive Storm.
WASHINGTON, Nov. PA cyclone
struck Washington at 1890 p. m. and
lasted about ten minutes. II was ac-
companied by driving rain with vivid
lightning flashes. To add to the con-
fusion, fire bells were rung occasioned
by buildings in various parts of the city
being blown down. The worst of the
storm visited the corner of Twelfth and
F streets, and wrecked the entire cor
ner. A building in the course CT cree
ton and which had attained height of
four stories was blown in on the back
of several adjoining buildings. A num-
Der of people were employed on these
buildings and upon the building in
course of construction q number of
brick layers We're at work. The work
men narrowly escaped death, but in an
extension of one of the buildings
crushed Mr.. White, a tailor, was in
stantly killed, being crushed and
mangled almost beyond recognition.
Several other employees in his estab-
lishment were seriously injured. At
the White House about two tons of stone
coping on the top of the mansion was
blown down on the porch on the east
side crushing it in. A window in the
east room was blown in. The flagstaff
on top of the White House was snapped
off as if it was glass. a
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-11-26
BALTIMORE GETS 1T.
A Fifty Mile an Hour Breeze Sails
Through the Monumental City.

A Fifty Mile an Hour Breeze Sails
Through the Monumental City.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 24.-This city was
visited by a furious gale during the
afternoon, the wind blowing at the
rate of fifty miles an hour
and signs, chimneys and everything
movable was sent flying. Advices from
neighboring cities show that the hurri-
cane is. general in this section,
being accompanied in many
instances by furious rain
storms amounting almost to cloudbursts.
1t will be some little time before COM
munication can be established with
Washington, and then it will have to be
by railroad, as it will be almost an inn
possibility to get the wires into shape in
a day. Floods have resulted from the
heavy rains in Maryland and Southeast
ern Pennsylvania, and it is believed that
reports of great damage and perhaps loss
of life will be received as soon as any
means can be had Of conveying intelli-
gence. The gale on Chesapeake bay is
one of the hardest known for years. The
oyster smacks have run for shelter when
possible, but it is not deemed proB4ble
fhet ell hove oSoonad Et.E-f .-.-t-s.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-11-26
1891. NOVEMBER. 1891.
IS 10 IL 10 10 20 q
THE REWARD.

Who. looking backward from his manhood's
prime,
Sees not the specter of his misspent time,
And through the shade
OF funeral cypress, planted thick behind,
Hears no reproachful whisper on the wind,
From his loved dead9
Who bears no trace of PASSIONS evil forcel
Who shuns thy sting, o terrible Remorse!
Who would not cast
Half Of its future from him, but to win
Wakeless oblivion for the wrong and sin
OF the sealed past?
Alasi the evil, which we fain would shun,
We do and leave the wished for good undone;
Our strength today
Il but tomorrow's weakness, prone to fali
Poor, blind, Improbable servants all
Are we alway.
Yet who, thus looking backward DER his years.
Feels not his eyelids wet with graceful tears,
II he hath been
Permitted, weak and sinful as he was,
To cheer and aid, in some ennobling cause,
His fellow men2
II he hath hidden the outcast, or let in
A ray Of sunshine to the cell Of sin; -,
II he hath lent
Strength to the weak, and In an hour Of need,
Over the suffering, needless of his creed
Or hue, hath bent
He hath not lived in vain; and, while he gives
The praise to Him In whom he moves and lives
With thankful heart
he gazes backward, and with hope before,
Knowing that from his works he nevermore
Can henceforth part.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-11-26

How Diamond Smuggling Is Prevented.
Most of the diamonds that are now
annually added to the worlds stock Of
precious stones come from the South
African fields, and great sums of money
are invested in the industry. Expert
miners can tell instantly the good from
the bad stones, and many of them
make desperate efforts to smuggle the
precious gems out of the mines. To
prevent such robbery every miner is
compelled to strip and put on different
clothing before going into the mines,
and then at night time he is examined
and washed all over before he is al
lowed to leave the place.
For long time they struggled the
diamonds out of the mines by hiding
them in their ears, hair and mouth,
and some of them even ventured to
swallow the more precious ones. But
such perfect system of vigilance is
now kept up that this work is generally
a failure.-George E. Walsh in New
York Epoch.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-11-26
Pie Eating.

The amount Of food consumed in
some of the down town lunch rooms
every day is something enormous It
seems all the more incredible from the
fact that it goes up in small lunches.
One place consumes on an average for
the midday lunch to business men 1 800
sandwiches, 10 cans of milk, 40 dozen
pastry OF various kinds, IS pies and
1,5O0 to 1000 oysters served in every
style. Besides these some 500 persons
get hot dishes OF almost every descrip-
ton at the lunch counter. Gracious
heavens! Eighty five pies represent
$40 pie'eaters in one resort among hun
dreds OF the lind T'lis is rot 49,
ddei a. at lac TO- pies shel
Jew orl ser |.